The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 153 (Best of 11/23/20-11/25/20)

Episode Date: November 29, 2020

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah. So without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. further ado here is the weekly zeitgeist well we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious the talented the great bridget oh i love the air horns thank you for that introduction i i always feel i can like hear the air horns even when you're not actually doing them so i appreciate it how are you yeah how have you been things are good uh i feel like how are you is almost like a triggering question these days like what are you what is that supposed to mean how am i

um you are in dc i am in dc coming at you from Columbia Heights. Columbia Heights. And is there, because that city changes based on like the administration, right? Absolutely. Yeah. I moved, I lived in D.C. for a really long time. I moved here at the tail end of the Bush administration. I was here for both Obama administrations and the Trump administration. So I'm definitely, the city definitely changes based on the current administration i can tell you that in uh when i was here for the bush administration you would see dudes walking around with like um cowboy boots and

like cowboy hats and like um what do you call those bolo ties yeah bolo ties like there was a real like weird texas vibe because of George Bush. The city definitely changes based on who is in office and what kind of people are moving to the city for what kind of administration. Oh my God, that's brutal. I wonder what Biden boys are going to look like washing your body. A lot of people with really tight faces. Maybe the veneer movement is finally gonna down in dc i can see it yeah i has the changeover happened yet like have uh the mega folks vacated

people are just jubilant like i think it is you know when you live in dc it's like you see these assholes around like i saw ivanka trump outside of a soul cycle once you know when you live in DC it's like you see these assholes around like I saw Ivanka Trump outside of a soul cycle once you know you see these people like I don't imagine that me and a lot of Trump administration officials were going to the same places but every now and then you'll see them if you go to like a fancy restaurant or something you'll see officials like all my friends have planned out like what would you say if you saw you know Jared Kushner out on the street what would you do like would you. Like, what would you say if you saw, you know, Jared Kushner out on the street? What would you do?

Like, would you yell at him? What would you do? But the vibe in D.C. is pure jubilant. I'm talking people spraying champagne on the streets, people hanging out of cars, screaming. We cannot wait to be rid of this motherfucker and all of his croonies. So we're just so happy. Yes. and all of his croonies.

So we're just so happy. Yes. Were you in D.C. on election, or not election day, but the day they called it? I was in D.C. the day it was called. It was, so I think, wait a minute. I think I came a day later. The vibe was still very jubilant. And honestly, all my friends who were in D.C.

when it was called, the images they showed me, the like videos they showed me. People stood out on their balconies and banged pots and pans and celebration. The only thing that I could even compare it to is I happen to be in Paris when France won the World Cup. That's the only thing I can compare it to. It was like that level of of collective joy like strangers high-fiving in the streets. The banging pots and pans is my favorite because it's just like so just infantile. Just like, I'm happy. It's such a like infantile expression of happiness where you're like, I just got to make this loud noise.

That rules. Steve, we like to ask our guests, what's something from your search history? This is a little crazy, but I looked up, I tweeted this late last night. The mega church that I used to work at that I grew up with this, I guess this has happened in the past couple of years. I just wasn't paying attention but the senior pastor who is brilliant who's a brilliant preacher and stuff like that uh kind of stepped aside so his son that i grew up with could take over and uh his son is one of the worst

preachers i've ever seen in my life i i knew he was bad i know he was bad 20 years ago. He's a year older than me. I grew up with this guy. And the same draft class, basically. I mean, I know this guy. I know his ex-wife now. And then my first girlfriend was the sister, his sister, too. I know this family so well. But I found out that and I started watching his clips on YouTube.

And you guys, I tweeted it it but i'm like for real gonna tag you guys in a clip uh because it's the worst preacher i've ever seen in my life it makes zero sense if you know preaching you can tell you all the reasons i could tell you all the reasons about why it's bad too but if you know preaching it's even worse but any layman could look at it and say this guy's out of control. And what I actually, the search history was, I looked up his new wife, and I found out that she's a member of this weird other megachurch family from back east called the Munsees. So this is Faith Community Church.

I looked into this, too, also. I posted this clip on Twitter. It's kind of blowing up. And I guess this church that bought their property in West Covina for $4 million about 25 million years ago is selling it now for $30 million. And I don't know what they're going to do with that money. So I'm like the combination of looking into his preaching and me knowing this family and knowing like the kind of shady ways they're doing. I'm pretty sure I'm going to do like a limited series podcast on it and

because i know this family and they're going to try to run away with this 30 million and all i have to do is post pictures of this guy's preaching and you'll understand what a fucking joke this is and this is in west covina this is in la county so i don't want you know people think of mega churches it's happening in the south and shit this is a half an hour from us guys so i want to shout out west covina you know shout out the ikea west covina shout out eric he used to hook me up with quarter pounds of cush on west covina great town great town so i looked up this guy's wife and so yeah that's that was my last internet search i'm looking at your twitter page right now it's because i was like because i grew up in churches going to you

know k through 12th grade was either Lutheran or Catholic school. So I'm, I've been around the word of Christ and looking at this clip, I have, I'm just watching it on mute and hearing you. I'm like, oh yeah, this dude is full of shit. But I just, just to indulge us, I'm just going to play a bit of a soundbite of it just so we can get an idea. I just love the way it captures it here. Verse one says, the Lord is. How do you start? This is how it starts. The Lord is.

We talk with people and people, we start our sentences with the world is. The world is falling apart. You talk with some people and you're like, well, the government, the government is. Okay, I have to stop there because I'm not. Yeah, you're right that is that's failing to connect on the most basic level i gotta keep watching i just don't want to put people through this yeah i absolutely don't want to um yeah i was gonna actually play the clip i had the idea to have it and bring it but you have to watch it i don't want to put anyone through

that i'm so mad because his dad really is brilliant he made me fall in love with the bible and the word of god and the fact that he just passed it on to this piece of shit who's a he's a legit bad person and he looks so much older than you he like he hasn't read his bible i know the bible and i know his dad's preaching and i've I've been watching hours of this guy's preaching, guys. It's available on YouTube, Dan Reeve, Faith Community Church. And go check it out. And I know his dad's preaching. And he's basically ripped off a ton of his dad's preaching, too.

So I'm like, I'm pissed. He's like, let me just freestyle off the top, y'all, something I was writing for my sermon. How about this? Love is patient. Love is kind. Love does not envy or boast. Wait, you said what? This is Corinthians? Get the fuck out of my face. something i was writing for my sermon how about this uh love is patient uh love is kind love does not envy or boast wait you said what this is corinthian get the fuck out of my face america american nepotism is just so they're about to come up on 30 million yes and it's you know

churches are non-profits i know this church i'm telling you i haven't been this excited for a project because i've people started messaging me that used to go to the church. A lot of former pastors, they've always come to me because I used to work here, and they've been messaging me things. And I don't know what they're- It should have been you, bro. It's a nonprofit, so they can't steal the money. But I know what that family does a lot of times is they hire every member of the family. And because it's a church,

it's tax free. So everyone gets like a hundred grand to do a different job or you do a different bunch of different jobs. I know his dad, this is a West Covina church. They started 40 years ago. The dad lives in Newport beach and they used to just come into West Covina and preach and go back to Newport beach.

Some, some Devin Nunes shit. Oh yeah. From here, bro. Tons of, they started doing tons, getting tons of plastic surgery.

It's a whole thing. I know. I mean, I, the reason why I'm so hype about it is just, I'm so mad. They gave it to Dan. Yeah.

I was going to let it go. And this $30 million seems so fishy to me. They're going to break apart the mega church. And they said, they're going to start a bunch of smaller churches, but i just don't see them doing it so i want to look energy i love this energy it's like it's the kind it reminds me of when i used to be on facebook and i would see some shit about somebody like i kind of halfway fucked with but then you see some up there like this motherfucker are you fucking and then i would be like hold on come

here sir let me tell you about this person right here on my laptop and they're like i don't know Are you fucking? And then I would be like, hold on. Come here, sir. Let me tell you about this person right here on my laptop. And they're like, I don't know them. I'm like, yeah, but wait till I tell you about that. I love it. I love it. Yeah. Fuck that guy.

What's something you think is underrated, Lacey? I'm in a big Netflix wave right now. So you're going to get a lot of Netflix takes. It's catching on now and it's getting popping. But Queen's Gambit. Yeah. Yes, I almost didn't watch it because I was like, oh, more white lady TV. But then I was like, I love chess.

I haven't played in years, but when I was a kid, I would play with my dad. And as I grew up, someone said this on Twitter, and I was like, damn, maybe my dad did scam me. Because my dad taught me how to play chess. And then we would play against each other. And he'd always be like, want to bet? And I'd be like, yeah, I bet $20. He's like, I bet you watch my golf clubs. And I always had to watch his golf clubs.

I was bad at chess. Yeah, wait, Lacey, I played with you. I don't know if you were playing the same. Because I remember the way you were moving the rook around the board. I was like, that's. Oh, no, the rook can do everything. The rook can do everything. You ain't know that?

That's a grandmaster. That's a whole grandmaster new rule that people don't know about, but the rook can do anything. Oh, which grandmaster did you study under? Grandmaster Flash? Flex. Fab Five Freddy? They taught me everything I know about chess. You don't even need a king, for real.

Like, if that nigga go down, you can keep playing. I don't know who said that. He's still got pieces left. He's still got pieces left. I hate playing with her. Okay. Yeah, they basically just created a rock star chess expert. That's sort of the idea behind the show but i love it because

it it is does give me second wave feminism vibes but it is like there's a moment in the show where the girl is signing up for her first competition and the men are like oh uh you're not ready for that what's your rating blah blah blah she's like i want to be in that tournament they're like but nobody ever does that they're just like is it against the rules and they were like no yeah put me in there bitch anyways i'm gonna go take my drugs so that's the one thing if you're in recovery or yeah trying to get sober is very triggering because she takes drugs that make her better at chess oh come on man drugs and i won the tournament yes also like when she gets clean it's not realistic because it's like, come on, man. She's like, stress drugs, and I won the tournament. Also, like, when she gets clean, it's not realistic. Because it's like she goes on a full fucking bender for, like, what seems to be a month.

And then she just gets clean. And it's like she would have had withdrawal. There would have been a bad period of, like, feeling horrible. So, like, if you're dealing with substance abuse issues or just not even issues, but, like, you know, the challenge of the quarantine is pushing everybody hard right now. So maybe don't watch Queen's Game because that shit makes drugs look fun. I was like, a chess board on the ceiling?

Yeah. Where do the queens live? Yeah. Like, that's the way to play. Yeah. Although there is somebody who dies of alcoholism or like dies of,

what's the disease that turns your eyes yellow? hepatitis hepatitis yeah yeah you're right dies of hepatitis from alcoholism but they don't like dwell on it they're just like ah shit and then just like move right they're like oops well uh yep but jack that did make me think of the episode that we had where we talked about people randomly dying um in the dominican republic because it was like they were on vacation so they kind of made it like that vacation death we talked about where it's like oh you have lots of fun and then you die so y'all watch out if you're doing thanksgiving don't go too hard on the right they were in mexico right and that when she passes away

i would i would now that i know what I know, aka now that I read one book about the history of the CIA, I would assume that she was murdered by the CIA. They have a heart attack gun. Yeah, they were just like, she's too powerful. We have to take

somebody she loves out. The tertiary option? You gotta do it undercover, you send in the jackals. I can't. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come right back. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that.

I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session. 24 hours. BPM 110. 120. She's terrified.

Should we wake her up? Absolutely not. What was that? You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it. That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this?

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Well, I don't know that I would say it's embarrassing. It doesn't either. Something that I have dedicated a lot of time to researching and reading every single comment about is Janet Huber, the original Aunt Viv on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. They just had a reunion on, I think, HBO Max. And I remember thinking, like, oh, my God, are they going to bring out Janet Huber? I don't know if y'all watched it, but Janet Huber and Will Smith finally buried the hatchet. And so I have been doing some deep Googling. I need to know every detail of this feud to, like, remind myself.

She has held a grudge against him since the 90s. This beef has really aged. I didn't realize that was still an active beef. Well, they buried the hatchet just this week. But it's been like if this beef was a child, it would be like 20 years old. It would be old. Yeah. I wonder if Will Smith is in the reconciling mood

because of his journey at the Red Table. Oh, God, remember that? Just like, just drag me, you guys. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. The clip that I saw, she really was open about, she was like, you said I was difficult and that really damaged my career

like that's not a thing that somebody a star can say about a woman of color and not have it like really damage her career and like the fact like that's kind of i don't know that that's the sort of reconciliation that you don't usually get. Usually it's just them being like, yeah, but we're past it. And not actually bringing the actual damage to the foreground. I don't know. I'm really excited to watch the reunion now. Yeah, you should definitely watch it.

It is, I mean, I'm not going to lie, I cried. It was. And also it's like quarantine vibe. So like everything is like hitting at least me. Everything is hitting me emotionally in ways that it maybe wouldn't before. But I think you're right. I think I was happy to see the conversation. Take that turn of like, well, what does it mean when you call a black woman difficult in Hollywood?

It actually it means a lot. You're not just casually doing that um but then also it really got me thinking like I a lot of us myself included like grew up on Fresh Prince like they kind of weirdly even though it's a television show and they're fictional they felt like family to me in a lot of ways and watching them reunite now and then talk about um uncle phil who passed away like you really see like oh wow this is like i feel like i grew up with them in a kind of way i know this is very cheesy but it was just really hitting me and all the emotions that's i didn't realize that that was the grounds that their feud had been on i just knew that they didn't like each

other for some reason i have to watch this yeah you should definitely watch it yeah yeah i didn't realize that either and i i applaud uh her for like coming out and you know be like saying that to like one of the biggest most powerful stars in hollywood and also him like leaving that in because it is like yeah i think people realized a little bit more like the depth of of what happened there yeah i didn't realize, this is all just from the trailer, but that Uncle Phil was like a Shakespearean actor and after the scene where Will was like, why doesn't he love me?

And Uncle Phil hugs him, he said into his ear, now that's acting. I was like, that was. It gives me chills. That's awesome. That was acting. That was so good.

Now that you say he was a Shakespearean actor, everything about his voice, the way he carries himself, you're like, oh, that is Shakespearean actor energy. He's knocking down that back wall with that voice. And he had such gravitas, right? He really had a presence. And then Carlton, when he did the Carlton dance, he walked up to her and said, that's dancing.

That's not true. A couple of scams I wanted to get your thoughts on. Lacey, Scam Goddess. So there's a new scam where it's kind of a two-sided scam, a mutually beneficial scam, where small countries like Cyprus are offering something called citizenship by investment, which is where rich people donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to the country and can then become citizens of that country. Basically, citizenship becomes something you can buy

as opposed to something that has to do with where you were born. The idea is this used to be a big deal for countries like, you know, Pakistan, where that might be on like a travel advisory list or some shit like that. And now that the U.S. is crumbling, rich people in the U.S. are starting to buy this shit up to so that they feel like, first of all, they can flee if the taxes get too much, but also they can flee once we come for them. Wow. Okay, cool. Yeah, I'm going to start selling passports as well to places like Honda. Yeah, they're like, try and find it.

It's not on any of these lists, so you can go anywhere you want with that. That's what you want is something that's not on the map. Oh, yeah, and it's made of vibranium so be careful with that the other thing i mean they have this in the u.s too right like because you know i think a lot of countries like it's like like you spend like two million dollars or some shit and then it's like all right we'll we'll relax our immigration laws but it's interesting like in the context especially of the u.s passport being like a fucking scarlet letter in terms of trying to travel around the world.

I'm like, fuck, bro. I'll drop fucking three million for a Cyprus passport just so I can go to fucking, you know, Argentina, wherever the fuck people go on these whimsical jet-setter vacations. And then one other scam that I hadn't really thought about, but people, somebody who's like a political historian for NBC tweeted the question of like, where will President Donald Trump's presidential library be located?

And obviously, there's a whole host of responses. created a fake website that had stuff like the alt-right auditorium and just very detailed layout of what his Oh, shit. All the renderings are amazing. Yeah, the renderings are pretty detailed. And like a COVID-19

victim reflection pond where you can reflect on all the victims of that disease. It's just a mirror where it has an outline of Trump's hair. So when you look at it, you can just kind of frame your face with Trump's hair. Yeah.

Yeah. He would really have that in his library though. The victim reflection pond is a mirror for him. It's not a fucking anything. Can I say that his library would probably be the most fun of all the presidential libraries? Cause I bet you there'd be like a bar in that bitch. You could probably score some Adderall get anything over there yeah so that is so that's

something like i had always heard of presidential libraries i knew they were a thing i didn't realize they just happened like starting in the 20th century because fdr like they needed to store his presidential papers like all the papers he left behind and so they were like yeah we'll do a library where you can like look through all of his shit and like from there it ballooned into this thing where now it's just like a propaganda it's like a disney attraction that is a propaganda wing for like how that president wanted to view their own presidency like richard richard nixon uh up until uh a few years ago had like his account of the watergate scandal was a coup perpetrated by his rivals um at the nixon library um you can visit like the

hater section it's just like all the cia yeah exactly it's kind of a great scam that you just like get to create an entire like physical location that is just a propaganda like disney attraction like reagan has a whole air hangar with like his air force one have you been like a bunch of the helicopter no i haven't it's like a trip you take i remember i think when i was like seven or some shit or some sometime in the 90s i was like what is this fucking thing california right yeah they're so dangerous it's just that's a huge issue with american history is we love some propaganda in america like i've said it a million times. We rewrite history all the time.

And it does have an effect on what people see and what people think of this country. So it's not great. Donald Trump's presidential library will probably paint a huge difference. I bet you there's no acknowledgement to COVID. I bet you it just didn't happen. It's like...

Yeah. No, that'll be... Because it already is way more of a donald trump style like bullshit machine than i had realized like with the like they even took a irish pub that ronald and nancy reagan had like stopped in and had a beer and they took that and like just cart like broke it down broke the irish pub down in ireland put it in boxes sent it to california and rebuilt the pub and then like put the glasses that they drank out of like under like museum glass so you can't touch it you can just like see it it's very strange it's like a did the pub want that what if you were a pub owner and one day

they just came and was like look we actually need this for the presidential library so y'all ain't got a pub no more i'm like you need it for what the president's this is my fucking pub what the fuck are you talking about look there's a bartender still in there like what the fuck is happening invisible counter it's not there anymore. It's just force of habit. Remember when you served that Heineken to that old white man? Yeah, so now we need your business. What? Who was that guy?

He did a really offensive Irish accent when he was in here, too. Nah, come on. That guy, great actor. He would nail an Irish accent, right? But that's also a flex when you could like brute force be like i want that thing here now right i don't care like break the fucking pub down and crate it and ship it here and then rebuild it in simi fucking valley now that we have what is undoubtedly going to be our worst ex-president in the history of the presidency like it the idea that ex-presidents

get to be like the kid from the toy where he's just like give me that person bring them here now uh is pretty wild like that and probably going to backfire uh in the way that everything about this dude's presidency has like shown the has shown America's ass to the world. He's going to be like, I want an animatronic section. Like Chuck E. Cheese. So I want a big version of me, and I'm fucking ripping Hillary's head off, and I'm punching it into the sea.

Like literally. In the 2016 election. Would that surprise you? Would that surprise you at all? No. then we'll have another section with robert muller where i pants him and you can see how weird his butt is and everyone laughs and then that'll be the russia investigation it's like i feel like he would go that far to just completely just wholesale be like that was the russian investigation

you pantsing robert muller and laughing at his weird butt it's on a plaque the hall of presidents is just him like 20 different times taking credit for uh ending slavery and like everything other presidents did just in different ways you know barack is not gonna be in there either no no no it's trump in blackface yeah yeah that's being the barack obama you know he's been dying to do that. Look at me. Oh, Jesus. All right. Let's take a quick break, and we'll come back and talk about the true meaning of Christmas. I've been thinking about you.

I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you. Come want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session. 24 hours. BPM 110. 120. She's terrified. Should we wake her up?

Absolutely not. What was that? You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it. That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year

ago. We're not hurting people. There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. you feel about biscuits hi i'm akilah hughes and i'm so excited about my new podcast rebel spirit where i head back to my hometown in kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot the rebels into something everyone in the south loves the biscuits i was a lady rebel like what does that even mean i mean the boone county rebels will stay the boone county rebels with the image it's right here in black and white in the prints. A lion.

An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I'd just take all the other stuff out of it. On segregation academies, when civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools, these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot. You have to be ready for serious backlash. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It was December 2019 when the story blew up. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, former Packers star Kabir Bajabiamila

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Like, if you're watching us, you have to tell us. Like, if you're out the window, you have to say, hey, I'm watching you outside of the window. Just, you know what? Listen to the amber and lacy lacy and amber show on will ferrell's big money players network on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and the rockefeller christmas tree i think we all can agree the most important symbol the seasons are changing yo it's actually like kind of a wholesome origin story that like during the depression while the construction workers were like building 30 Rock, like the construction workers themselves decided to buy a giant ass Christmas tree

with their own construction worker money and like put it up as a symbol of hope for the city during the Great Depression. Like when nobody had any money, they were just like, nah, fuck it, let's chip in. We'll decorate it with our own like Christmas tree decorations from home um so this has been going on for for close to a decade or close to a century and it started like with uh

the actual people as opposed to like some corporate sponsor that is like the first national bank lighting ceremony or whatever the fuck is well that's america you know it starts off with like a sincere gesture from normal human beings and then a corporate is like get out of my way we're gonna brand it fuck you this is a new thing here's the doll buy it for this christmas for your kids um but anyways our writer jm i i talked shit about the appearance of the uh this year's rockefeller christmas tree uh i got, yeah, this is so appropriate for 2020, bro. Look at this piece of shit Christmas tree. Because it did look like shit in the pictures people were posting.

It just looked like the Charlie Brown Christmas tree, like a giant version of the Charlie Brown Christmas tree with just a couple branches, a couple pine needles. But that was about it. But apparently that's what it always looks like after it's been transported for two days and is just like all bundled up and shit. So it looks like vacation weed. I'm like, are you sure? What the fuck is this?

But yeah, I guess. I mean, if you look at the one from 2010 like it looks like shit can we get some arborists on to tell us if our tree shit talking is on point or are we missing some nuances you're like i don't know man check out that branch those branch clusters looking pretty good yeah but i don't know i guess one way to interpret it is that like we just don't usually look at the tree right when it's hauled out like without any decorations on it for like a sign of the year to be like ah see the whole year is fucked look at that thing look at that tree that was all wrapped up in shit on the back of my bed. Exactly right, for 2020. I would never look like that if I was bound and laid on a truck for two days.

Are you going to get a tree this year, Jack? Yeah. Yeah, we're going to. Probably this weekend. That's usually when we do it. I got my shit up last night. What? Is that real?

Yeah, I bought a fake one for the first time because I was like, I love a tree, you know, because I love this scent. That's really the only reason I get it is just to basically have a big ass potpourri dish in my home that smells like, you know, like a fir tree or whatever that is, that pine scent. But then, like, when the needles start coming off and I got pets, so that shit just like start scattering everywhere and then the pets want to drink from the little bowl where the fucking tree

water is at and i'm like it just i'm like fuck it let me just get the the cheap 60 joint that i just have to put in a box every year and bring that i'm actually liking it it was it was nice it has the nice shape because like to your point when you buy them and like you get them at a tree lot and you're not getting the one that's like they're all sort of already on stands and stuff they're like okay yeah let me pull a six footer from you that's already wrapped up you're like fuck is this gonna look good right and then you actually can't know yeah and you gotta like work the branches and shit to try and get them like be even it's much easier on your hand and then like papers are sticking to that for like three weeks.

Yeah, exactly. And then you're disbarred because the judge is saying you're making specious legal arguments. It's all it's all bullshit. I think I think I don't normally like to get. I don't have kids. If I have kids, then I'm doing all this shit right away. But I don't normally like to buy one.

But I think I'll buy one this year. Just because I just want I like the real one. I even like to think one but i think i'll buy one this year just because uh i i just want i like the real one i even like to think about death okay yeah yeah so when it's dying i want to think about that plus you know you guys see my instagram you know i got to take a picture of my girl by a tree she'll love that shit oh yeah yeah right yeah but um yeah i think i'll buy one this year just because we have there's there's like we're going to have nothing. It's going to be like, yeah, like Charlie, Charlie, Willy Wonka in the check. When he gets the loaf of bread, we're going to have just the fucking tree loaf.

Yeah, just that loaf. But but I'm I'm excited. I love the holidays. I didn't used to because I came out of the church and there's a strong streak of like oh this is such a bullshit holiday but the older you get the more anytime you get time off of work anytime you can see your loved ones or just like take time to think about what's good about life like i'll fucking take that shit now any way it comes i love the state sanctioned eating yeah the secular side of it that like you know we've been celebrating this before christ, just as the day that the earth is trying to kill you the most, and we all get inside and get drunk and eat a lot of food.

And it's actually humanity's mating season when you look at how the birthdays line up. This is the time when most babies are conceived. I like that. I like that side of it. Just people fucking in a hot cave. Exactly. Fucking with some whiskey milk.

To me, that's like the greatest. You know, we have all these dating rituals now, but back then it used to be villages, and you just grab the closest person. Like, that's to me. Like, yeah, we're just animals, baby baby i know we've created all of this but give me that fucking uh you know you know but with the lights off you know you don't want to be a swingers party and the lights still respect this maybe a small fire flickering in the corner but yeah i would say you know like

to your point steve of like you know we're not gonna get the same activities that we normally do like i would love to hit a christmas market for some shit shout out to the vancouver christmas market i love that one but there's like shit that you do that's out and about and you're like oh let's go look at this since i can't do that i am fully just trying to transform like my living room into like a hallmark channel fucking like fever dream because i put a i got a wreath i put a wreath on my wall inside the fucking house like i'm i'm honestly i will be trust me on fucking december 25th i will be karen gray uh i am a you know 49 year old white woman from the san fernando valley who does not fuck around

with the holidays like i'm i'm trying to get new candles and shit i'm fully invested on like getting my senses as immersed in that just to make up for like the other shit yes people can't see it but like you spent the you know you took a few days off and came back with an amazing blowout that thank you so much yeah Yeah, it looks great. Very chunky. Full disclosure, yeah, I got the hair transplant because I didn't want to wear a wig. I was telling y'all, it just doesn't feel the same.

So I want to get the transplant. I got the, you know, can I speak with your manager, Kate Gosselin, edge cut, like the edgiest woman in Yuma, Arizona. And, yeah, I'm just feeling good, you know? Yeah. And then there's also the fact that they found this really cute tiny owl in the Christmas tree

that they named Rockefeller. This year? Yeah, this year. This year's Ken Bone? Yeah, that's right. This year's Ken Bone is tiny owl, the Rockefeller, the tiny owl, and was, I don't know, transported from wherever the tree grew.

They had to put it in an animal sanctuary because it was dehydrated and malnourished. And so they gave it a bunch of water and mice. This thing is a killer. Don't ever forget it. Owls are like the greatest hunters have you ever seen those videos where like they show all the different animals like flying and like how much sound they make and then an owl goes and yeah complete silence

anyways this tiny cute little owl still eats red-blooded uh animals what were those like scandinavian pilot women oh the uh yeah the um night witches right because when they kill the engines and just start the engine glide over and just drop bombs like wow you know shout out shout out to the owls throughout history when you come through silent and you just fuck the whole thing up just like drop bombs with their hands out of airplanes hey hey give me another one yeah yeah eat that one motherfucker yeah have another one all right that's gonna do it for this week's weekly zeitgeist please like and review the show if you like the show uh means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a great weekend, and I will talk to you Monday. Bye. Thank you. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years.

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