The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 155 (Best of 12/7/20-12/11/20)

Episode Date: December 13, 2020

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Yeah. So without further ado, here is The Weekly Zeitgeist. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the very faces on mount zeitmore she is the hilarious she is the talented she is the legendary lacey mosley what's popping wait i want to see if i can do it you're on mute oh am i on mute damn you can i'm getting'm getting recorded, but y'all can't hear me. I was saying, wait, can I do it? Or do you not think so far ahead?

It's higher than that, isn't it? Or do you not think so far ahead? Wow, there it is. Yes, I can still do it. Ever. Ooh. It's that ooh that you got to, that's where the stain is. You got to hit on the oohs and the oohs.

You put your own stamp on that. That is a Lacey Mosley interpretation. She's finding the gaps in the melody. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. That's how it works. That's how you make it your own. Beauty. But also, I realized I was a soprano very late in life.

Oh, God. I hate when I hear that. I've sang Elton when I was trying to- All those lost years. Where I could have been howling at the girls in the beats. No, because I've always sang Elton. I don't know i just thought is this racism why is my whole life rooted in racism i just thought because i was black i was supposed to sing alto that's where all the black people were that's where the fun was in the choir

you said it was when you're criticizing that little girl's name when you're helping your cousin grade papers. But it was when you said, wait, am I a soprano? I wasn't even the one who got me woke. It was a wonderful white man who we were doing Sweeney Todd. And if you know Sweeney Todd, you know the top line of Sweeney Todd. The opening number is like a B-flat. It's really, really high. And he was like, okay, girls, who's going to sing that? And we was all like, no, we out toes. And he was like, well, he said, come, really high. And he was like, okay, girls, who's going to sing that? And we was all like, no, we out toes.

And he was like, well, he said, come to the piano. And I was like, okay. And he just started playing the scales higher and higher and higher. And I can sing Loving You by Minnie Riperton. It's like my sex song that I bring out at karaoke parties. Wow. So I had to learn that I was like, oh, I can shriek very high. Shout out to Maya Rudolph's mom.

Yes, Minnie Riperton. I didn't realize. I think like Maya Rudolph, I remember she did this like Japanese character on SNL that was really good and it was fucking me up. I was like, what is going on? I think her stepmother is like Japanese too. She's got a, she's been, she's seen it all and heard it all. Maya Rudolph is one of them people miles you might be too when i was like in 2039 nobody will have a race anymore

that's right exactly yeah all stock photos are just me or maya rudolph of generic human. Oh, shit. Yeah, I thought that was going to happen within the next decade for some reason. I was just told. Takes a little bit of time. Takes a little bit of time. I was promised pan-racial world

when I lived in Kentucky. Jack, you are. You're contributing, though. I was promised a post-racial world in 2009 january of 2009 the 90s i was like yeah no that's where it's headed we're racism it's all gonna be over just you wait by the time i'm an adult blake oh yes something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Thank you for using my God's given name.

Your confirmation name. Blakel, of course. I'm going to go with, can you get poison ivy from dead leaves is the most recent search that I had. What's the answer to that? Stay tuned. No, what if that was my idea for a tease? Guys, listen, I don't want to do your job for you, but they will hang around for the answer to that question.

Stay tuned. In Act 3. In Act 3. We're waiting to act. No, Act 2. I like to put it right in the middle. Oh, that's a test. Wow. It is a test. I don't know how Robert McKee will feel about that, but go on. If there's anything I do, it's test the patience of those who hear my voice smoking out loud in 10 years that's for all the starbucks screenwriter crowd fucking reading story by robert mckee um but blake okay so what

happened you saw a pile of leaves and knowing you i know what you like to do you always you can't resist jumping into a dead pile of leaves with your naked body. So what happened? Is that what happened? Well, let's just say I went out wearing nothing but a rake and I saw a pile of dead leaves. And so I was wondering, cause like I picked them up and cause I was moving them out of my way.

And I'm like, Oh, they looks like poison Ivy. And apparently five days after poison Ivy's dead, it still has, it's the oil on poison ivy that that gets you and the oil is still um a threat during that time period i was fine you know i'm sorry i have to just to back up i made a joke and then you said something that actually struck me as even more odd is that you had to move them out of your way what are you talking

what what was what are you talking you were yes you just like beating up a leaf pile or some shit you'd like get back leaf pile fucking coming to like what what it was eminent domain actually i invoked eminent domain uh they were evident in my domain so i moved them no i've as you know i've been into a par three golf recently in los files and it was in the way of my ball. And I moved them out of the way with my hands and didn't make a difference because I don't know how to play golf yet. But yeah, those leaves are gone and they were dead. Dead as a doornail. And that's a term I made up.

Have either of you ever had a poison oak or ivy experience? Ever? No. Apparently? No? Yeah, I never had that either. Never got that. Never been stung by a bee lived a very sheltered what interesting never been stung never been stung the new rom-com about it oh from the people who brought you b movie which is a horny i watched

that movie for the first time last week it was like genuinely more horny than I was prepared for it to be. Bee movie is horny? Yeah. Jerry Seinfeld Bee falls in love with Renee Zellweger Wine Mom. Oh, fuck yes. Like in the first couple of scenes. And he's like, I think I'm going to fuck this human woman. I'm going to fuck a human.

And she clearly, for me, it was very clear that she only views this as a friendship with with jerry seinfeld but he is really like b seinfeld she's like clearly needs someone in her life and so she says like oh yeah i'll hang out oh yeah i'll hang out with oh yeah you sure but then jerry seinfeld b kind of reads into it and thinks that you know it's a tale as old as time yeah the B Jerry Seinfeld B

is getting friend zoned big time he doesn't even realize uh oh it's awful and I think the most tragic part about B's

is that their bodies have horizontal stripes instead of vertical stripes with those big fat tummies they have and if they got a little bit of a slimming action with those

those stripes aren't doing them any favors. As they call them in the UK, hoops. Hoops aren't very slimming, you know. But it is what it is. It is what it is. All right, Lacey, what is something from your search history? Something from my search history. I am actually going to look at the things that I prepared.

Ooh, okay. okay so search history black wellness holiday guide what's in there so my cousin uh teaches yoga and he's black which like there's very few black yoga instructors so shout out to black mat yoga. But he got me on this whole thing of like, I need to find small businesses to send my Christmas gifts from, and I would prefer them to be black owned. So now I'm like on a full hunt to find like black owned businesses that I can send gifts from. Oh, that's dope.

Nice. How's the, how's the hunt going? And do you, do you have without uh giving anything away do you have you had success what are we looking at for christmas gifts we're finding some cute places we're finding some candles we're finding some soaps the issue is is that amazon gets things to the girls in two days like that's like you know jeff bezos murdering ass is gonna have your gifts on time so i'm like okay i think like with smaller businesses especially during a pandemic

especially when the usps has you know been so severely damaged by the underfunding i'm like okay how far ahead do i need to order right now so that they arrive yeah so that's where i'm at and i'm like oh panic because i need to order like 40 gifts now so um yeah that's the only issue but it's still going good but i'm trying to buy small i hope people are buying small this year especially because god damn this is a hard year for small businesses oh yeah i think the other yeah the thing with amazon too is half the time if you just figure out what the product is, just go to the website of the manufacturer, and chances are they're already having some kind of deal because they're getting undercut by Amazon. So if you want some, just get it from the brand. You know, there's a way around it.

And you know what? Maybe you have to wait three days, four days. Remember that? Remember the days we used to wait weeks for our Delia's orders to arrive? Come on, Delia's. Come on now. Why did Cody Ziegler, I know y'all know him. He tweeted me a couple days ago and was like, I just remembered going through my emails.

At least he had three different Facebook accounts. And I did with three different photos. I still do. And I think I might have four now but the reason was because I was shopping at Toby and Delia's and they'd be like 50% off if you give us your Facebook girl right so I put on my ski mask and was like here's my new Facebook Laysay Laysay this is Lays This is Laissez. That was completely different. I feel like based on the, as I keep reminding our listeners, I'm watching The Crown.

I'm four, five, six episodes in. I'm in The Crown. And I think the way that we're going to get out of this Amazon thing is a Amazon truck needs to hit and kill somebody uh who the president or jeff bezos cares about uh because that's that's the only way london got out of their uh deadly fog was because like some pretty young girl who worked for winston churchill uh spoiler alert got you know that was made up right that was one of the few things that was made up. Because that episode was so boring,

they had to make something up. Exactly. Yo. That's the episode that almost made me give up on the show. Yeah. Yeah, they do a lot of stuff to make Winston Churchill and the conservatives seem okay. I'm not

totally feeling that. The politics of the crown. I am back on board for watching it, but the politics are bad. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious, the talented Allison Stevenson! Hi, hello.

Welcome back. how are you doing yeah yeah i'm good perpetually evolving i feel like it's you should you're not allowed to say that you're good even if it's like the standard thing you have to say i feel like in 2020 you're just not allowed to be like yeah sort of my god i'm good. And it was supposed to set off our electric shock callers for asking, how are you? What's new? Anything new? Anything good on TV? Well, I told you earlier,

but I did just come back from the hospital a few days ago. Right, yes. I was there for fun. Just chilling. Just get some stuff rearranged get biologically organic organ wise like what if my heart was like on this side yeah what do you think doc no i had to get my gallbladder removed oh shit yep yep

it's uh and i i the like even in your description, I went to the ER and they were like, nah, you're good. Go home. Which is like, you know, I've unfortunately had friends have told that to them and shit went horribly south when they went home. And I'm just so glad that despite that happening and you going back and another doctor like, okay, we've got to get your gallbladder out. That you're okay. Thank the Lord. Thank my Lord. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I find that gallbladder removal is rarely an elective surgery. It's usually things are going bad at that point. We all know I need to lose weight. I was like, what if I just lose like four ounces? Right from the gallbladder region. four ounces right from the gallbladder the morbid idiot side of me is do you can you ask for your extracted biological organs after the fact i did go back uh-huh i asked and they said i couldn't what oh fuck you i know right oh fuck you you take you know i don't want to get into the

financials of it but i'd imagine you imagine that they're going to charge insurance whoever, if you or whoever is footing the bill. That's a lot of money. That should come with the free trash part that comes with it. I shouldn't be able to get my gallbladder in a jar or some shit. Would you save it, though? I mean, I know we asked those questions, and even if they said, yeah, you want it, you'd be like, no, I'm just curious. I would 100%. I would have saved

it and the little gallstones is it small apparently yeah it's like a teeny little they like took it out of my belly button oh wow that's pretty cool i am so ignorant about most things medical and i'm like you know i hear anything that's inside your body like so that's the size of a volleyball you know that i? That I actually don't know the answer. So I'm picturing this. It came out of my belly button, so I'm just imagining it the size of a quarter. I think that mentally that's what I need it to be. Or at most the thing Agent Smith puts on Neo's belly button in the Matrix.

I was going to say, I have to imagine that was exactly how your procedure went in the back of a speeding cab. Yeah, with some weird laser gun, like, hold on, I've got it, I'm tracking it. We're locked on! Wow, that sounds like a lot, especially the way I'm imagining it. So we're very happy and thankful to have you back here. Resilient guests. People, post-op guests who are coming out of medical procedures, people who are battling COVID. So we appreciate you taking the time to even come on right now.

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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 let's talk about um some ideas for police reform that are being put forward in california there's a bill being discussed uh that is a kind of incrementalist uh in the way that basically all of the ideas for police reform that are endorsed by uh the police are tend to be but uh yeah this one is basically saying that becoming a cop should require you to have a bachelor's degree and be 25 years old just based on statistics about what police officers with those attributes how violent they are versus otherwise yeah the legislator who's putting it uh who's who wrote the bill uh is referring to like this study in 2010 that that basically says that uh college

educated officers typically typically right typically use less force often and fewer complaints filed against them now okay that's a good thing to identify that group of people um but this is you know like we're saying this is incremental change when we know what the real issues are uh but you know this isn't the issue here and like the reason this bill is coming out isn't because we have a problem with you know not enough cops who studied abroad in barcelona you know we have fucking real issues here this is an issue within policing that is anti-black anti-poor anti-fucking everything uh and they are protected by powerful unions uh that can keep any kind of real meaningful

like legal repercussions from ever you know getting close to them as well as like the financial consequences uh via these like ridiculous retirement plans. A lot of these people have where it's like, dude, you get fired and then you're fucking set. Like no matter what, even if you straight up murder somebody twice. Uh, and this is just, you know, these are the kinds of things that you'd wish the legislators were actually looking at, because this is a good way of a legislator being like, well, this is an improvement. Yes, that would be great because right now you just need to be, I think like 18

or have a equivalent, like 18 with an equivalent in a high school diploma to begin your training. And it can be, I think 20, if you're in the California highway patrol, but yes, this is, that's a good way to try and weed out other people, but it's really a disingenuous attempt at real reform. And we just need to look at how much money is going to these departments and actually just having this conversation about reinvesting in communities. Because the perception in law enforcement in this country is, well, people commit crime because they're black. Right. Rather than seeing the full picture of how black and brown Americans have been abandoned. And we're merely just branding this failure of governance

as crime. It's not, oh, it's crime. It's not, we failed these people. They have no recourse. They're so desperate that they commit crime. People commit crimes out of desperation, nine times out of 10. There are some people who just do it for the jollies, but let's be real. A lot of this is about survival. You deal drugs, not because you get a times out of 10, there are some people who just do it for the jollies, but let's be real. Like a lot of this is about survival. Like you deal drugs, not because you get a kick out of dealing drugs. You do it because that's the only employment available to you that has the kind of income that you're looking for, unfortunately, or things, other things like that gang, people don't want to be in gangs. Like this is all, these are all, you know, fact, these are all byproducts of this failure um and i just want to also point

out that this study that the legislator uh is using to say like oh yeah look check this out like you know people who have been to france in college you know murder less uh it was done by the national police foundation which i just want to point out that they love community policing like solutions and they love putting forward the broken window policing strategy which is totally fucked up and completely wrong and backwards and biased uh so it's already like you know it's we have an imperfect thing drawing from an imperfect place trying to you know be presented as you know meaningful change. So it's just, I think, just, we will continue to see things like this that look good and are good, but I think are

avoiding what all the outcries were from the public over this last year over what is necessary to change the relationship between the community and law enforcement. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, you know, I grew up in, the city of chicago uh what's chicago public schools uh very diverse schools and all that and i i i can't tell you enough i mean there are people who i've met and who i've known a little and they're like oh i'm becoming a cop and in my head i'm like they're letting you become a cop right they're they're allowing i'm like i'm like what and so i don't It's like there's so much about character and personality that matters, I think, with becoming a cop that I don't know what kind of thing you could create to figure that out of how you get the best character and personality to become a cop. Because it's it's it's it's a humanity job. It's dealing with people. It's having empathy for people like you need to have empathy for people you need to want to work for people i think even to your point about like the character

that of you know of the kinds of officers that need to be out there on the street it is i think you start that by just having like reinforcing the fucking rules uh so the ones who don't act with humanity in mind are quickly just booted the fuck out. Gone. And it's made known to people. It's like, yo, yo, this isn't the place. Like, if you want to fuck around and do that, go to Florida or whatever fucking other, you know, police department. But I think for police departments, this whole idea of like, well, a couple of bad apples or whatever.

It's like, well, then toss out all the fucking bad apples then. Yeah, immediately. And then see what you're left with and then toss out all the fucking bad apples then yeah immediately and then see what you're left with and then figure out what the real problem is but they're like there's no even sort of the energy for that isn't even there so we get all these sort of like half measures that have the like on paper are police reforms but we are we are well and we are way past the time for these small things like Like those things should happen 60 years ago. If you want to like start that little incremental process, but now we're looking at the situation and we need,

you know, we need to extinguish. Yeah. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. Yeah. I mean, the more you know about history,

like that's, that seems to be something that like the, like, it's not just that black communities are abandoned. It's that they're actively imprisoned through redlining in communities where the, you know, official government policy is to deprive them of resources and then their only interaction with the state like that 10 year old who's riding by on his bike his only interaction with the state is violent racist police like it's it's not a problem that can be addressed through incremental change what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I recently Googled if hamsters can chew on Palo Santo. Like for them to, if it's safe for them to gnaw on a piece of Palo Santo. If it's safe for them as a chew toy, yeah.

That is the most like Silver Lake Google thing I've ever heard in my life. I think if you don't know what Palo Santo is, wherever you are in the country, if you have some crunchy friends who are seemingly just lighting a shard of wood on fire and being like, the vibe in here is so great. Super producer Nick Stumpf famously kept his control room just

piping with the Palo Santo smoke. Is it safe though? There's negative energy. Apparently Palo Santo is cancelled though it safe though? There's negative energy. Apparently Palo Santo is cancelled though is what I've heard. Palo Santo is cancelled? Like Saint Palo?

The person themselves? I think like white people like myself who are like can I hamster chew on it? Have fun with you. I feel like you're taking it back. I've ruined it. Right, be like, you're all, take it back. I've ruined it. Take it back.

Don't let them have it. We're taking it back. Nuh-uh. What does it smell like when it's burning? Like, is it patchoulish? What are we looking at here? I would say it smells pretty damn good. I think it smells better than sage.

I prefer it over sage, for sure. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, any, like, place where they're selling crystals is, like, patchouli gave way to sage, Any place where they're selling crystals is like Puculli gave way to Sage which gave way to Palo Santo right now. Got it.

Go to your local crystal shop if you don't know. It probably smells like Palo Santo in there. Okay. I will do that the second. I'm going to make a beeline for that the second this lockdown is lifted. Musicians especially love it. I think that's why Nick had it too, because I've never been with vibey musicians who,

if you were playing with them or in a session or a rehearsal, where they were just like, let me just get the Palo going a little bit. Just vibe it out. That's why it's such a Silver Lake thing in my mind, because so many rehearsal spaces just smelled like weed, like P paps and you know palo santo allison how are you uh enjoying your palo santo are you like lighting a is it just like a stick that you light always it's literally it's like do i have it on me no it's literally just like a stick. Yeah. Yeah. It's the most uninteresting thing to see. Smoke comes out.

You know, it's very basic. It smells really good. Clears negative energy if you're into that stuff. But I have a pet hamster and he needed a new chew toy. And I was like, I'm, you know, post-recovery surgery mode. And I'm like, well, I have Palo Santo. Like, can I give him that? take that leave me alone yeah like give you something to entertain yourself with but I ultimately decided not to even though I couldn't find a straight answer on Palo Santo specifically

it seemed like it might be too risky of a wood for a hamster. What'd you pivot to? I ended up just waiting and I, I ended up just waiting and asked my sister to go to Petco for me. And she got pencil shaped wood shoe things. Ah, yeah. Should have experimented with the Palo Santo. Maybe it would have changed the whole vibe of the hamster. So our hamster chew toys,

just, just wood. Is whole vibe of the hamster so our hamster chew toys just just would is that kind of the fancy idea i could talk about hamsters forever so don't get me started but it's they are very finicky fragile creatures and i don't understand why we sell them to like five-year-olds like that's right that's not okay they are actually very high maintenance animals and even like the type of wood they chew is important because some wood is poisonous to them another wood isn't like i think like pine is bad for them like stuff like that yeah they choke on some and not on others or like some are like poison i don't know basically so yeah it matters what kind of

wood do they chew for the record you know allison is on her stenographer's keyboard right now just taking all that typing you hear is that transcribing everything the minutes of this episode finally i want to talk about a story that would have i don't know it's it seems like it's way too important to cover in three minutes which we're gonna try and do but uh the former head of israel's uh what's his official title he ran i mean he ran his space program yeah he was the head of their space program like there's no he's not some guy with a cool twitter handle uh that you know bb net and yahoo like fucks with it's like you know he's he's i think he was running it from like the 80s to like 2010 or something yeah and yeah but for context he's saying if i had come

up with what i'm saying today five years ago and we'll get to what he's saying i would have been hospitalized wherever i've gone with this in academia they've said the man has lost his mind with what I'm saying today, five years ago, and we'll get to what he's saying, I would have been hospitalized. Wherever I've gone with this in academia, they've said the man has lost his mind. Today, they're already talking differently. I have nothing to lose. I've received my degrees and awards. I'm respected in universities abroad

where the trend is also changing. That trend, he says that we have made alien contact, the US government and Israel in particular, that we are in communication and in fact in a legal contract with the extraterrestrials. his quotes i'm glad that the the aliens respect contract law that's a good sign he said quote there's an agreement between the u.s government and the aliens they signed a contract with us to do experiments here they too are researching and trying to understand the whole fabric of the universe and they want us as helpers um yeah i i just the signed a contract is where it goes a little too far i was on board agreement maybe you know contract were they were they redlining did they get the lawyers involved are the are the aliens their own legal counsel they're like sorry this this is actually a poison pill in this deal. We will not do it if it's contained in the contract language.

I don't – but they're saying one of the first hubs of cooperation is a base on Mars where, by the way, astronauts have already set foot, American astronauts. And the base is underground. That's why you can't see it. I love aliens. i love aliens i love aliens my uncle has a ten thousand dollar telescope in new hampshire and he was showing me jupiter up close i've i've said this before i'll say it again if i have a family six kids i need to be there for my family and aliens come to me and say hey we'll take you with us you can never come back here see anybody again but you'll get to see the galaxy for what it is i'd be like let's go you're right i would go okay i want to prologue with that but

i will say this guy lost me when he plugged his book he's got a book coming out he's got a book coming out that's where he lost me you know oh yeah i mean i know it's and even in a way though it's like you don't want this guy's book though you know even like as a thing if like if he was talking that real shit he's like you know it's so complex like to say it use the word agreement would completely betray the forms of communication these life forms use i would be like whoa okay but when you're treating it like a fucking like just you know a funny comedy film where they was like hey let's collab on some research fam like okay and and then even like his his explanation it's like what where y'all been where the aliens

been what's going on he mentioned trump in there too yeah he did say that uh trump was on the verge of revealing all of this but the aliens in the Galactic Federation which I think is literally a term from Star Trek but maybe not. Aliens in the Galactic Federation are saying wait let everyone calm down first. They don't want to start mass hysteria. They want to first make us sane and understanding.

So here's why like obviously I want to believe and I'm going to always err on the side of, yeah, this could be possible. The thing about the contract. So one of my theories on aliens is that they might end up being a lot more similar to us

than we expect them to be because of parallel evolution. And the fact that, like, when you look in Australia at, like, the wildlife that like when you look in australia at like the wildlife that evolved there and it like looks almost identical to wildlife that evolved independently in the u.s it's like there when you have the conditions of life in two different seemingly different places like they do end up cohering similarly so i don't know like maybe maybe that is something that eventually always comes up and when there's a civilization that has evolved to a certain point maybe they're like well you gotta have contracts man i mean yeah other one then nothing separates us from the single-celled organisms please i didn't come all this way to not have the legal paperwork and to protect

my interests in this agreement earthling but i also just like picturing the process of getting from respected in academic circles has this hugely powerful, uh, career. And now what makes like just selling books, just being like, yeah, like it just seems, I don't know. I have,

I have a hard time imagining that, uh, evolution, like unless he was always all along, like had some suspicion that there was alien contact like he's just keeping his mouth shut because it was gonna cost him his job all the time they're like dude you gotta knock that shit off like like we have serious scientists here and he's just using like the same shit that ufo heads in the u.s use right like i'm just saying roswell though

dog what look at this viral video. Dude, what about that beam of light above Tel Aviv that just shot up in the sky? What was that? They have it from multiple angles. It's like, that was doctored. We already talked about this, doctor. All right. They did a great job on it.

Yeah. No, I mean, it looks legit. It looked cool. I wonder if too, like, yeah, like at a certain point, you know, this is like his like Breaking Bad, like kind of thing was like, fuck it. I got nothing. I'm going to go all in on this alien shit and get a book deal and get my little check so I can, you know, just buy my retirement cabin and live life comfortably because my government pension is running out. So I got to exploit that position to say some wild alien shit. I don't know.

That would be a smart move, though, because instantly. Right. wild alien shit i don't know that would be a smart move though because instantly right like it's a it's this has been a global headline because of because of the position he held the pedigree so it's like just if so if you just have that former title to give you any authority keep in mind anybody in any position with authority you can do this come out with some outlandish shit that will just be like upend the general accepted knowledge of your industry and people like what the former head of what said what but this huh and then people will laugh you out but you'll get your little shine yeah so you're you're officially on uh this guy's uh lost it or is just trying to sell books shit miles i don't know i mean

i like the energy i love it i love the energy of someone who's gonna like completely change the game on us like this and be like no y'all not listening they have signed fucking contracts okay and trump almost fucked it all up and then the the aliens were like nah fam just dead that for a second because the people are not ready for us to do our grand reveal. So if you could just sit on that, we would appreciate that. And Donald Trump was like, bet. And, you know, that's basically who our president is. He respects the agency of these aliens to reveal themselves.

I just love all of it. It's like it's also tough, though, too, because we're like having this conversation in society right now about believing the scientists and buying into these people i'm like this guy is an academic super respected he ran their space program so this is somebody who we should buy into right like we should say like yeah he's probably well i need like for something like this it's like yo you need i need you to bring another a few friends with you the ratios aren't good here for a thing like this yeah I need better ratios. I need like five other people who like, y'all can actually be like, yo,

yo, okay, we're not going to tell y'all, but that one mission, look into that. And then I would be like, uh-oh, uh-oh,

but what can I do? I mean, if the aliens are out there trying to get us to be more reasonable, you know, I'm just saying, where did this vaccine come from? It's all of a sudden we got a vaccine that's 90 accurate or effective come on dude you think the aliens didn't give that to us what the fuck did you think i was talking about when i said operation warp speed

i was on the fucking uss enterprise motherfucker securing the vaccine there's no way he would i thought i was in the hospital with covid i was doing deals in fucking zebulon 369-z there's no way he'd be able to uh not brag about that shit i know actually brokering this deal right god because he's gonna do we've heard about his negotiating tactics he's gonna be in there's like nice to meet you, alien people. I'm surprisingly calm in this negotiation, but I just want to start off by saying, fuck you. And he walks out. That's right.

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to a new location inside Harrods in London. And what's on the menu? A $106 burger. Oh. And I'm like, yo, read the room, Ramsey. I make that in a week. Yeah, seriously. Dude, Ramsey. I make that in a week. Yeah, seriously. We're not...

I mean, look, from our point of view in the United States, it seems absolutely ridiculous. I know in the UK, too, things aren't that great. And last I checked, Harrods is not open. So I don't know when you are going to even go into this restaurant to eat this burger. But just to let you know how you get to $106,

the extravagant patty is a wagyu burger apparently featuring apparently okay interesting that is weird yeah why is that word in i don't know that's that was in the release we can't commit so i'm told uh wait hold on this is a scam then it can't be apparent it needs to be $100 burger. This shit needs to be unequivocal. It undeniably has to be this. 100% UK heritage beef patty, seared Wagyu sirloin, fresh black truffles, and truffle pecorino cheese. I can see they're like $40. I don't know why they even put a press release out. It's going to anger people. You want to talk about your luxury burger in the time of the global depression?

But he did read the room on the other side because he's entering the seltzer game also. And it's called, wait for it, Hell's Seltzer. Isn't White Claw just Hell's Seltzer? Yeah. I mean, the seltzer game is getting crowded. I seltzer yeah i mean into the seltzer seltzer game is getting crowded i'll tell you that it's getting crowded at this point you need a good name you know it is coming down to because they all cost about the same they all basically taste like shit yeah so it's really coming down to a name game for me what's the deal with hell seltzer oh well the website that it apparently

like you know they're doing apparently uh that isn't that that kid wasn't that that meme the kid who said apparently all on that oh yeah he's like and apparently well you know come down and apparently that it's like okay i just learned a new word also um the website that's like doing the press release says that ramsay's quote discerning palate is behind the seltzer's four unapologetically bold flavors. Like what? They're all inspired by the popular menu items from his Hell's Kitchen restaurant. I'm like, so what? Beef Wellington?

Yeah, that's gross. Lobster risotto? I worked on the Hell's Kitchen show, so I know what else we're talking about. Is it the, I mean, Beef Wellington seltzer sounds like it's worth a punt. It does. And I hear the ingredients, by the way, are seltzer, natural flavors, and hate. For the three. They meant hate in there.

Yeah. And you idiot. Right. The other, his like, his cheesy ass, like, you you know puff promo talk is amazing too quote this is gordon ramsey quote yes even i enjoy a hard seltzer after a long day so i decided to toss the devil horns into the ring and heat things up hell's kitchen will never freeze over but a cold hell's seltzer is a great start. I'm in. Oh, wow.

And you know those rewards directly from him. He's lying through his fucking teeth. He would not take a sip. You think Gordon Ramsay would drink hard seltzer? Why would he lie? Did you hear what he said, Jamie? He said, yes, even I. He's acknowledging that it would be strange.

This is real. He said even he would, after a hard, long day, he's going to kick back with a Helzer? Helzer Skelzer? Helzer Skelzer. I'm going to drink this damn Beef Wellington Helzer Skelzer. That's great. Yeah.

Beef Wellington Helzer Skelzer. You'll be like, I think we need to speak with them. Are they okay? They're drinking beef-flavored alcohol. It's 81% alcohol. Also, with the seltzer, got you gotta it's all it all of it is like low though and it hurts you but somehow my thing with seltzer is like you drink one the alcohol content is very low but and yet you're still like getting hung over in real time and you're like how is this possible i'm not drunk and yet and i'm already hung over what's your favorite flavor i like i do like a mango white claw i'll i'll i like the main white cleezy

too i was gonna say that too i'll play around with a little black cherry uh from time to time yeah sometimes i add vodka there well is that a weird move you can't live like that you can't live your life in that way. That's fine. That's what I tell Her Majesty. I say, yo, give me that mango cleezy, but boost it. Boost it. Boost it.

Hey, you just set the thing up a little bit. What do you think? Hey, Her Majesty, let me get a mangleezy, but don't trim the claws. Actually, put some claw extensions on. Sharpen those claws for me, please. Sharpen that claw, Her her majesty one time for your boy so he can so he can fall over picking up dog shit in the yard uh that's just an insight into my sunday mornings um and just uh one last treat i want to go out on actually is just jamie and i

we were talking about what it was like to work at playboy back in the day and i don't know if this was on mic we did this but we we worked at playboy we actually worked at the same time and weren't even friends it's a shame although i didn't i knew of you because everyone was saying she's a comedian and i was like what there's someone funny here get away from me matt shirley no one talked to me yeah we should have been friends at playboy no one talked to me well you were in a weird part of the office. It was a weird time. The company was having a bit of trouble figuring out their toxic identity. The non-nude age.

Yeah. Were you guys at Hefner's house? We got to go to the mansion for a staff party once. You got to go? I didn't go. Oh, you didn't go? I got terribly drunk and walked into a glass wall my sister snuck into uh hugh hefner's house on um valentine's day yeah and met his son

and they were just hanging out connor um what was that guy's name the dude who's like running it yeah if it wasn't connor he's like roughly yeah yeah he's the one running it now he's on he was the guy that stole my cake when he was on a segue it was like the day that i got laid off and my boss was like here's a cake because i got laid off on my birthday and they got me a birthday slash goodbye cake that was really depressing and then hugh hefner's son rolled in on his segue obviously like i had no idea who he was and he was just like hey what's the whose birthday is it can i have a piece of cake and he just rolled away and then he fell so it's good taking off with your cake and your health insurance uh but yeah there so the reason

i bring it up is because every like six three to six months the online store the playboy magazine online store would just have a free-for-all of shit nobody wanted and the staff could go and like pick from the bones of like the online store and get like a t-shirt or beer cozies or high-heeled sneakers in jamie's case that she so lovingly took um but i just want to just i would just point this out because the state department had a holiday party uh on tuesday or super spreader event whatever the fuck you want to call it but i just want to point out what the gift bags were at this state department holiday party quote this is from the washington post reporting of this

state department party amid the poinsettias chandeliers and meticulously decorated christmas trees children on tuesday night received Be Best branded swag, such as backpacks, frisbees, and water bottles from First Lady Melania Trump's signature anti-bullying and wellness initiative. The State Department has a stockpile of Be Best merchandise that is often handed out when the First Lady travels abroad. In the absence of a second Trump term, officials need to find a home for the surplus gear, one official said. The official said, quote, it's time to get rid of the leftovers. That does sound like a Playboy giveaway.

Yeah, it was. You're like, well, this is the worst. This was a bad idea. Come and get it. We got it here. Oh, what a treat. My friend was asking me if I had any tattoos and i was like i changed my mind so often i was like i'd be one of those people that would get a playboy

like tattoo and regret it and when i said that her boyfriend pulled up his sleeve and he had a bit playboy tattoo and i was like i'm sure yours is great i mean it's uh it's the most recognized logo on earth it's the most recognized logo on Earth. It's the most recognized logo on Earth. So no matter where you go. When someone has an embarrassing tattoo that is also very large, there's almost nothing funnier in the world. I ran into my high school boyfriend. This sounds fake, but it was real.

I ran into my first high school boyfriend a couple years after he had dumped me for the saxophone. Sounds like Whiplash, that movie. Sounds like that movie This Christmas. He left you for his music career? He did leave me for jazz. Was he Quentin Senior? Okay. It was Quentin Senior.

He left me for jazz. But then I saw him a couple years later, and he had a huge tattoo of foghorn leghorn on his bicep. And he was like, my uncle got it too. It was a little thing me and my uncle did. He had a huge cartoon monster. I said, I said, I said, I said, what the fuck? You got a foghorn leghorn tattoo?

Yes, I swear to God. He had a huge foghorn leghorn tattoo. And then it was like, it was great for me. Because I was like, well, this breakup actually was perfect. Yeah, like validation, validation. Yeah. But yeah, a huge fog, like just someone that- Just out of nostalgia?

You put your mouth on this person and then now they have a foghorn leghorn tattoo. I don't know. It haunts me. I just Googled foghorn leghorn. Now I get the joke. Yeah. It's not okay. It's the odd one.

Yeah. Anyway. Well, what can you do? All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show. Means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks.

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