The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 173 (Best of 4/26/21-4/30/21)

Episode Date: May 2, 2021

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Starting point is 00:02:03 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. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the very face of Mount Zeitmore. She is the brilliant, the hilarious, the talented Jamie Loftus! A.K.A. straight out of Brockton. I'm an ice resurfacing Zami.
Starting point is 00:02:46 Can't make an emoji so people call me Yammy. Never called soft. That's not my dentist cough. My mouth was open and she sneezed with her mask off. Mask off. That's from Uncle Brew. Shout out Brockton Mass every day, all the time. I was just, I'm not joking.
Starting point is 00:03:06 I just watched a little poopy again over the weekend. Brockton legend. I know. How's he doing? It was an old video. I was telling, I didn't tell something. I thought of something that I, you ever do this where you were going to offer something in a conversation and then you don't say it? And then you think of it later, like, wait, I want to explore that curiosity on my own that i didn't have the courage to say out loud and then
Starting point is 00:03:29 i just watched the first little poopy video i'm like yeah he had something going little poopy little poopy was such a yeah that was that was a big local moment everyone was so excited there's like one exciting thing happens in brockton every six to seven years what's the what was what's been since little poopy and he was on the rap life with jermaine dupri the most the most recent thing that's happened in brockton that everyone i know from high school was really on top of was that they filmed a couple scenes from uh the new adam mckay movie about climate change in brockton okay and uh jennifer lawrence and timothy chalamet were making out in brockton hey that was pretty exciting for us it's kind of fucked up because
Starting point is 00:04:11 brockton is used in movies every once in a while but it's only used to be like hey isn't this a fucked up looking place like it's like the the apocalypse yeah, Brockton appears in the movie Detroit as Detroit. Oh, wow. A broccolips. Yes, it's a broccolips now. But Brockton's misunderstood. It's the greatest place in the world. And you know that because Timothy Chalamet was kissing there.
Starting point is 00:04:41 Would he kiss just anywhere? I don't think so. No, definitely not. was kissing there exactly kiss just anywhere i don't think no definitely not uh i i missed little poopy but uh he's is he still out here what's i mean i don't know about little poopy in a while and now he's like adult poopy yeah now he's like big poopy yeah he's compacted shit in the colon like i don't know what he is now but he's he's mr shit yeah mr mr feces to you jb we like to ask our guests what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are what you're up to uh that sort of thing you know i've been
Starting point is 00:05:20 doing i got these two two big-ass dogs man, you know, watching a big ass dog is a chore. You know what I mean? Yeah. I'm telling you, man. How big are we talking? I got two Gordon Setters, man. They're both two year old siblings. See, here's the thing that they have not developed yet is maybe it's out there.
Starting point is 00:05:41 I've been Googling and see if they have a power washer for a fucking dog. You know what I'm saying? You know what I mean? Something that can get down, not hurt them, but get into the fur and clean it real good from their skin outward
Starting point is 00:05:57 and pull all the grime and dirt because these dogs run around and fight all goddamn day. Got slobber all over their goddamn neck. Like anything you think of, these dogs wrestle wrestle they fucking dive in the pool sometimes i got time to get the fuck out the pool you know what i'm saying right right so and they go behind my trees i got a i got a row of trees privacy trees they go behind the trees and run between the trees and the fence they squeeze behind there they hunt for lizards all day they love it right they know they love fucking lizards man they love them like i love candy fish they
Starting point is 00:06:32 like fucking lizards they fucking love them and they just chase lizards all day anything that moves every morning these fucking ducks these fucking crazy ducks land in my pool every morning and every morning i open my eyes because i have my little patio door open. I can see the pool when I get up. And the fucking ducks, two or three ducks, there's a family of them. How many times I say, get the fuck out of my pool,
Starting point is 00:06:56 they come back every morning. Ducks don't understand profanity or English at all. Yeah, they don't respond well to aggression. You figure by now, they would know get the fuck out of my pool because I say it enough times and I'm sure I'm not the only one in the neighborhood where these fucking
Starting point is 00:07:12 dudes are using a landing pad into my damn pool every morning and my dogs love to chase them. So every morning, I open the door, let the dogs chase them away. It's a game now. Animals play games with each other. You know that? Right. The ducks are fucking with the dog. The squirrels it's a game now right animals play games with each other you know right the ducks are
Starting point is 00:07:26 fucking with the dog the squirrels are fucking with the dogs the squirrels sit on top of the fence knowing the dogs can't reach them and their tail
Starting point is 00:07:33 and their tail is just fucking moving like like a like they're just waving their tail you mad you mad
Starting point is 00:07:37 you can't get this baby you know what I'm saying unless you got a fucking ladder a doggy ladder but I was searching to see if there's
Starting point is 00:07:44 any way I can get down without having to scrub saying unless you got a fucking ladder a doggy ladder but i was searching to see if there's any way i can get down without having to scrub i spent an hour a piece on these dogs washing them you know so i was looking for this mobile uh several mobile doggy groomers right they got a van it's equipped with all the shit they need you know you got the water built in already and they wash your dog for you right wash your dog then they do something where for no charge no extra charge they do the anal glands or some shit like that i said what the first i said what the fuck is that right yeah you feel me what the fuck is that and why is it free for you hey the way i see it if they offer it free for you? Yeah, what do you think?
Starting point is 00:08:25 Hey, the way I see it, if they offer it, it must be something that I'm supposed to be doing when I'm washing my dog. You know what I'm saying? Right. And I'm not qualified
Starting point is 00:08:33 to do no anal probing and shit. Right. I'm not qualified for that shit. It's supposed to be just legendary stink coming out of those things. Now, that's my second search.
Starting point is 00:08:42 So, I was like, am I supposed, so I searched Google, am i supposed to check my dog's anal glands right just to make sure you know is it something i'm supposed to do while i'm washing them you know what the fuck what is my responsibility to the to the anal glands right as an owner right as an owner so but they they provide that service for you they threw that in there so i'm guessing that's what they do when it comes to mobile groomer comps.
Starting point is 00:09:08 It's funny that you brought up the pressure washer because I was just reading a story about the, there was a, like a car, like a self car wash place where the owners are getting mad because someone keeps bringing their horses there. Oh, and they're just hitting their horses with their car wash. And then just getting out real quick. If you're far enough back and it's not, you know, the closer you get, that's going to hurt them. If you get far back, it's going to spread out. It's going to spread and get nice. No, that was the idea. I think the same owner was like, yeah, this distance, I can get all my horses done in about 15 minutes. Wait, one of those like sponge cave things?
Starting point is 00:09:42 They were just riding their horse through that? Yeah, like, no, no, no. You know how like some of them, like you see them in LA, like it'll be like a concrete stall. Right. Okay. Yeah. You just go. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:50 Self-washing. Yeah. Self-car wash. Yeah, yeah. Not a drive-through. No, not like a ride-through. I was picturing a drive-through. Hey, not a bad fucking idea though.
Starting point is 00:09:56 Not a bad idea. A horse is a fucking vehicle. So you can't sit there and say a horse is not a vehicle. A horse classifies, that's classifies that is someone's car. That horse is someone's transportation in their fucking car. So you can't exclude a horse from the equation.
Starting point is 00:10:13 And we measure all vehicles in horsepower. They're the original vehicle. Don't hate on a horse. This is a landmark lawsuit. Hell yeah, man. Landmark. What is something you think is overrated, Kate? Okay.
Starting point is 00:10:31 The number 420. Okay. Okay. It's kind of a hot take, but it ties into what I think is underrated, which is the number 69. Yeah. I think we talk about 420 a lot listen i love weed i smoke it pretty much every day in some form but you know i think in in terms of like funny numbers and
Starting point is 00:10:55 like good numbers i think 69 is way better yeah way better 420 like no one can get a straight story on what it even means like is it like the police code for weed like or is it something else old friends from the northwest who started it that group of friends like who cares like no one knows it's not a clear backstory it's like confusing it's i'm like 69 is so you get exactly what you're looking at. Yeah. 69 is funny. Like it's one of those things where like I'll be on Reddit and upvote. I'll be I'll see something at 68 and I'll be like, ah, maybe I'm gonna get that to 69.
Starting point is 00:11:40 And then 420, you just kind of see you like and then you keep moving. Like there's a little more mischief involved with 69 than 420. This is coming from somebody who, again, you heard my AKA. I love the weed. I have a fucking podcast called 420 Day Fiance. But it's not because I think this shit is like the funniest thing. It's just like shorthand for weed. But whenever I see the two. Show your 420 chest piece, Miles.
Starting point is 00:11:59 Show it. Oh, I'm actually getting it lasered off. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's a whole story. It's becoming like beer o'clock, right? I think I was saying Joel Kim Booster, I think, posted something about how 420, especially like the holiday, because we just had the quote unquote holiday or whatever, the day 420 feels like very specifically millennial and will probably end with us because like now that we're in a world where there's recreational legal weed right it's not as counter culturey and i even find myself like having i did so much work on ford i've never worked harder on 420 in my life this last year oh yeah i'm like
Starting point is 00:12:38 i was on like 900 live streams because i've distilled my whole identity to weed and like you gotta come here smoke this this, and talk about this. It's like you were doing a 24-hour phone marathon. Like Le Mans of weed smoking. It was just too much. But I think it does feel like now that it's gone, it's not like, yo, we can get kicked out of fucking everywhere for this shit. Now it's just like, can you smoke weed over there?
Starting point is 00:13:01 It's the same thing. I think there was a time when 420 like had a lot of magic to it, especially like when we were younger, you know, I was like, when I found out about 420, I was like, Oh my God,
Starting point is 00:13:13 like that's a funny number. Let's say it all the time. Let's put it in our aim screen names, you know, like, but now, now as I mature and weed is legal, yeah,
Starting point is 00:13:23 it's, it's lost some of the magic. And I'm way more into 69 these days. Yeah. Yeah. 69 is way funnier. 666, where would you put that on the- Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:13:34 666 might be number two behind 69. Yeah, I think so. 666 is great. 66.6, like any variation of 666. Yeah, yeah. Now that I think about what your take is, it's really about the offense that it great. 66.6, like any variation of 666. Now that I think about what your take is, it's really about the offense that it causes.
Starting point is 00:13:49 Right. Because we live in a very puritanical society. The idea of 69ing can cause an older person to be, oh, 69. And 666, we got the whole satanic panic. But again, weed, it's just not, it's lost. Weeds lost that sort of ability to to access people's pearl clutching reflex yeah the edge isn't there the edge isn't there sorry grandma 69 is happening whether you like it or not yeah so is do people like make a big deal of june 9th like does that come into play that's why i wanted to bring
Starting point is 00:14:26 this up because i wanted to like soft pitch this to you guys like what if we did make june 9th like 69 day and we like kind of like started it could start right here on this podcast episode right maybe a campaign to get everyone 69ing on 69. Or just celebrating 69 culture, which is, you know, mutually beneficial joy. Yeah. And, you know, cum. Sexual liberation. Cum. It's all about dual cum.
Starting point is 00:14:55 Dual power. Yeah. And now, you know, fuck D-Day. Who gives a shit about June 6th? You know what I mean? Yeah. June 9th. Oh, my bad.
Starting point is 00:15:03 June 9th. I'm thinking of June 6th. June 9th. Wait. 6, 9. See, I'm so bad with numbers. June 9th. You know what I mean? June 9th. Oh, my bad. June 9th. I'm thinking of June 6th. Wait, 6, 9. See, I'm so bad with numbers. June 9th. What happened? Anything good? I just want to make sure we're not... I don't want to step on another. The Athenian coup of 411 B.C. and Nero took his own life
Starting point is 00:15:18 in A.D. 68. I do celebrate the Athenian coup. Isn't 420 also like Hitler's birthday? Yeah. I guess we need something to overshadow that a little bit but yeah the the nazis already fuck with 420 i'm not saying like end 420 the holiday i'm just saying like let's build up june yeah i'm kind of i'm kind of for ending 420 as a whole it's because it's not a it's not really a holiday you know what i mean it's and plus i holiday. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:15:45 Plus, I'm at this point, most of us now who used to be like, yeah, man, 420. We're smoking weed to fucking get by. It's not the same shit where it's like... Times are hard. We need it now. I think 420 is great and we should continue
Starting point is 00:16:01 to take it back from the Nazis, but I do like this idea of number ranks. Yeah, it's plummeting in terms of value. Yes. May 4th being bringing up the rear, I'm assuming. May the 4th be with you. Yeah, that's
Starting point is 00:16:17 fine. Yeah. I can go die somewhere. I mean, I don't celebrate that one because I'm not a Star Wars fan. Right. I celebrate that one by 69ing. That's kind of a weird thing. You can celebrate any holiday by 69ing.
Starting point is 00:16:33 That's the beauty of 69. But I think it needs its own day, you know? I mean, it's right there in the numbers. Six, nine. right there in the in the numbers six nine and yeah june 9th is is lacking yeah in terms of uh like what actually you know like there's not something huge happening there's like a lot of historical things happening around that date but nothing where you're like all right six nine right so it's like we need a we need a holiday at that time like. Like a month before like 4th of July-ish. Let's have a holiday
Starting point is 00:17:08 on June 9th. It's a good time for it. Yeah. And it is like kind of the beginning of horny season, the beginning of summer. Horny summer.
Starting point is 00:17:17 Horny summer vibes. Let's have a horny... We have no horny holidays. I guess Valentine's Day... Yeah, what's the horny holiday? Valentine's Day is like the only horny holiday we have. And I don't consider it. And that's laborious.
Starting point is 00:17:30 If that's the horniest we have, we can do better. You know what? This is perfect because the solstice this year is June 20th. And you need like 11 days just to warm your body up for official horny season. So 6-9, you 6-9. Get ready for June 20th. Longest day. Yeah. I mean, the longest day to 69.
Starting point is 00:17:52 Yeah. Let's have some babies born nine months. Actually, I guess not. I don't know. Yeah. You can't have a baby from 6-9. That's why it's also great. It's great about it. Why do you want to have one of those". That's why it's also... That's also what's great about it. It's what's great about it. There you go.
Starting point is 00:18:06 Why do you want to have one of those? Yeah. Let's keep it mouth baby only. Yeah. That sounds like a Yahoo answers question. Get pregnant from 69? Yes. What is... I mean, I don't think I have to ask
Starting point is 00:18:21 what's something that's underrated. I think we just already... That was it. That was it. It's a relation between 420 and 69. 69. Damn. I've been thinking about this a lot.
Starting point is 00:18:29 Like, I'm very passionate about it. Yeah. It's been on my mind. Yeah. They make, look, they are numbers that make you laugh, but in terms of raw power, like you could power a car off of 69, not off of 420. I mean, 69, it transcends even being a number. Like,
Starting point is 00:18:46 it is a picture. It's a painting. Yeah. Yeah. Because I think of like the first time my friend Ty, he was like a few years older than me. He told me,
Starting point is 00:18:55 he's like, you know what 69 is? I was like, what? You know what I mean? Because this is how you learn about shit when you're a kid. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:01 And I was like, what's that? And he goes, it's a, so he's like, he's like, okay, so here's a six and a nine. And I was like what what's that he goes it's a so he's like he's like okay so here's the six and the nine and i was like all right and then he like but then he took them
Starting point is 00:19:10 and he like tried to manipulate them so the the tail of the six and the nine they like went into each other he's like and then that's like when you both do that stuff i'm like okay but what is what is head right this is very early on in my life I was like okay got that part but I don't know what these other things so she like blows on it a blowjob like so there's honey it's so crazy
Starting point is 00:19:34 when you're like a kid and you find out what blowjobs are I remember being just like that's not real like that's a joke that's stupid that's where the pee pee goes. Yeah. I was like, so blown away.
Starting point is 00:19:50 And yeah, you know, it's, it's, it's forever funny. It's forever funny. It is. It's a fun,
Starting point is 00:19:57 like, uh, catching your parents having sex, gross, catching your parents. 60. There's not like, that's funny. You you can't you gotta just
Starting point is 00:20:06 wait would you rather catch your parents 69 or having sex i mean i want them under the covers but no you gotta see you gotta you gotta you gotta fucking take this in with your eyes yeah what will cause less trauma you think 69 would 69 would cause less trauma. Because you'd have a laugh about it. You'd have a laugh. You can't not laugh. Yo! What are you guys doing? Wait, Josh! Okay!
Starting point is 00:20:30 I'm just like, what are they... Because someone will have to say something, and they're going to have genitals in their mouth. Yeah, yeah. When they're like... Yeah, yeah. Get out! Get out!
Starting point is 00:20:39 Like, if the birds and the bees talk was just about 69ing and not about anything else, actually, that'd be like way less pressure. Yeah. That would be a great psychological experiment to do where somebody just explains that as the only sex act and see how the person grows up. You know, like there are those psychologists who like raise their kids not knowing, like never describing a color or something like that. Or pain or using the word pain and using things like sensations. That's a thing people try and do with language. One guy raised his kid full Klingon to see how that turned out.
Starting point is 00:21:19 I mean, that would I think that would create better outcomes, equitable outcomes for people to know that it's about mutual satisfaction. Right. You know, 16, 19, I think by saying that you're already establishing the relationship of this synergistic sex act where one and the two people have to supply each other with the pleasure rather than like fucking. Yeah. Because then you'll go down some thing, just search a weird porno, and you'll be like, just pump away, and that's it.
Starting point is 00:21:48 Exactly. Rather than getting in that good 69 literature. And it transcends like sexuality, gender, like anyone can 69 anyone. Like you don't have to presume your kids are going to be like doing, you know,
Starting point is 00:22:00 straight, straight sex. Yeah. Right. It keeps it vague. Keep it vague. No genital descriptions. Yo, your mouth on what they got, their mouth on what straight sex. Right. It keeps it vague. No general descriptions. Yo, your mouth on what they got,
Starting point is 00:22:08 their mouth on what you got. That's it. That's all you need to know. Get it popping, baby. And they're like, Mr. Gray, we've had a lot of complaints for whatever you're teaching when you're substituting in the math class. What's numbers, ain't it?
Starting point is 00:22:22 Oh, I got some math for you. Okay, six plus some math for you. Yeah. Okay. Six plus nine equals satisfied partner. Okay. Okay. What are we learning about? Oh, you're only doing division yet?
Starting point is 00:22:35 Okay. I forgot. Sorry, kids. I was just thinking the two things we've projected is a world where the Titanic doesn't sink
Starting point is 00:22:43 and a world where 69ing is the basis for explaining all sex to people. Yeah, let's do it. Incredible. Better world. Chills. What is something you think is underrated?
Starting point is 00:23:00 Underrated, and if any of you listeners follow my Twitter, you've seen me talking about this a lot recently, is this artist named Swarty.arty and i texted miles about this yesterday swarty is this artist who was formerly of the group the m machine and has struck out on their own solo i used to i mean struck out is it i feel like it's the wrong phrase because it means to go out on your own but it also has the obligation of like failing because you strike out but like they've gone out on their own to home run on their own exactly home run on their own right as this as this odd yes in my personal opinion as this artist extra base hit i don't know what that means but um it's just you know in this time of everybody
Starting point is 00:23:40 doing all of these like internet-based live sets like as music has tried to continue on in the world of places like twitch and youtube and live stream format, you see a lot of people doing performances where it's like their band or their DJ set either in front of a green screen or in their garage or something. And it's like, that's really all people have right now. It's like, I don't expect everyone to be performing on a fake huge stage or even a real stage of any kind. But when someone takes the medium of like a film performance of some kind and really goes all out with it, I just have an extra appreciation for that.
Starting point is 00:24:10 And this set from this festival called Secret Sky, hosted by Porter Robinson, this artist Swarty did probably my favorite performance I've seen in the last year. I could not recommend it enough. 35 minutes long, beginning to end, so well produced, directed by this master puppeteer,
Starting point is 00:24:30 has all of this awesome music and awesome performance. I really can't recommend it enough. So if you get an opportunity, go look up Swarty Secret Sky set on YouTube and you will not be disappointed. Now we're going to need a spelling on that because when I Google Swarty, the first thing that comes up is Urban Dictionary, a game played by homosexuals in which
Starting point is 00:24:47 they use their penises in the place of swords replicating the popular sport of fencing. It is not that. Maybe it's Swarty, but it's S-W-A-R-D-Y. What is that Urban Dictionary fucking intro?
Starting point is 00:25:03 Mitch McConnell? Urban Dictionary is what we have now that Yahoo Answers is gone. There you go. But yeah, Swarty Secret Sky. S-W-A-R-D-Y. Secret Sky set on YouTube. You just sit back, relax, and enjoy 35 minutes of really enjoyable vibes and masterful puppetry. Very cool. Very cool.
Starting point is 00:25:27 Oh, by the way, two things that have been recently, or I guess Ana was saying, Chad, is something worth checking out while we're talking about underrated shit. I wanted to shout out shows on Amazon Prime. I'm on my second Amazon
Starting point is 00:25:43 Prime streaming show that has no coverage. They don't even have reviews for the second and third season. Goliath with Billy Bob Thornton. It's fucking good, man. Netflix gets all the attention because everyone has it. Nobody really pays attention. I watched Patriot before.
Starting point is 00:26:03 That show's fucking good. You can't find very many people there's just like a small subreddit talking about it yeah it took somebody to tell me to watch it yeah for me to watch it that's the one where the dude is like the cia spook but he does like folk music yeah yeah right and yeah it's good like it's i don't know if it if it was on netflix people would be uh talking a lot about but instead it's on earth fucker bezos channel right so i just want a bad press i feel like he gets too much bad press and i just want to shout him out uh is his brand toxic but like for these people who are making good shows that are just getting buried on his shitty platform like getting to see
Starting point is 00:26:45 billy bob thornton be a dirtbag lawyer uh is is fun anyways uh let's take a quick break and we'll be right back how do you feel about this kids hi i'm ak 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? The Boone County Rebels will stay the Boone County Rebels with the image of the biscuits. It's right here in black and white in the prints of a lion. An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch.
Starting point is 00:27:33 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. 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.
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Starting point is 00:30:38 have to listen to us. I mean, you can still watch us, but you got to listen. 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 just you know what? Listen to the Amber and Lacey Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back and let's talk about just vaccines in general uh and how the republicans are handling the whole situation on like you know what the fact that there is clear science saying this is good for the country yeah what so where are we at imagine telling your child sex is missionary style their whole lives and then you introduce someone called 69 and you're like what the hell i thought it was it was just straight boring
Starting point is 00:31:38 missionary what is this 69 thing i don't know i don't like that this is kind of where republicans are at with screaming at their base about how no one knows what's going on with COVID. Not even science. Not even the doctors. Not even the experts. So why are they making us do this stuff? They don't even know.
Starting point is 00:31:52 If you remember, that has been like the rhetorical thrust of their entire fucking everything they've been saying this last year. Nobody know who gives nobody knows anything. So there's a real problem now because on top of that they also had you know trump who almost died from the fucking virus and then refused to let people see that he got vaccinated even though he told people he did he's like i don't want them to see my upper cover of night can you put an up jewel sheet over the my arm when the injection is given sort of feels like what his vibes may have been but i would have now to see that just
Starting point is 00:32:25 to him in like a sleeveless going in for the jack for the backs we've been through enough man we don't need to see him but just now but if you're looking at the numbers like clearly we're the numbers are falling off in terms of inoculations and like the people who want them seem to have be in the process of getting them which leaves a huge chunk of people who are like not fucking with it at all. And when you look at who is not getting the vaccine, if you're a vaccine skeptic, you might be a Republican because and male essentially more than anything. And when you look at how herd immunity is absolutely what we need for any semblance of the olden days to come back, none of that's going to happen. We have millions of these assholes who are treating the vaccine like the last chance saloon for their toxic egos to put up a fight, to be like, no, I'm not giving in to this. This is the last thing I'll do.
Starting point is 00:33:19 So now there's a thing called the Republican Doctors caucus where they're members of congress who are also doctors physicians eugenicists and they are here to give a stern talking to to the republican voters that are passing like i'm good i'm not getting that 5g shot and i want to play this commercial for you because it's so fucking creepy that i'm already becoming a vaccine skeptic based on all these republicans being like man, you should get the shot. So here is the message from the concerned physicians of the Republican Party. You today, not only as a United States senator, but as a physician concerned for the health and safety of our nation. And today I want to talk with you about getting your COVID vaccine.
Starting point is 00:34:02 Last year, the entire world was forced to face the COVID-19 pandemic head on. And now we, the American people, have the opportunity to achieve peace of mind. And live life as free as before by choosing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Okay. Everybody had to wear their fucking doctor's coat to remind you. It's like, I'm not just a racist on TV. I'm a doctor on the side, too. I'm also racist on TV. I'm a doctor on the side, too. I'm also a sous chef.
Starting point is 00:34:27 I mean, doctor on the side. You can tell. They all, like, have the same face. Yeah. Yeah. Do I have face blindness? Or do they all have the exact same face? No, no.
Starting point is 00:34:35 They all look exactly alike. It's wild. Like, I could have drawn all these guys before this video started. And I've never seen them before in my life. And for people who have not seen this, you can catch catch you can see the link in the footnotes but it has like it feels like a sketch where you're in a dystopian world where like you're like wait y'all are believing these fucking people because like i'm already suspect of them like just even though they're saying shit i'm like that's right people should uh you know think about their futures and being
Starting point is 00:35:03 healthy uh this thing is two minutes long, but I just want to go. They start going on by talking about how we will get our freedoms back, and they start using this freedom pitch. So I just want to play you the last 30 seconds. The freedom to do whatever Bill Gates tells me. Yeah, exactly. Where this angry man in a lab coat tries to just softly encourage you to get your vaccination.
Starting point is 00:35:24 And over 90% of doctors in the united states have already chosen to get vaccinated i look forward to the freedom that i along with my loved ones will regain once the vast majority of americans are vaccinated if everyone does their part in the coming weeks we will once again be able to worship together as a congregation gather Gather with extended family. Okay, so there you go. They're on the freedom train. We'll have freedom. And 90% of doctors have been vaccinated.
Starting point is 00:35:54 I don't know if that is going to necessarily convince those people. They're not very charismatic, should we say? The backdrop is also a giant syringe, which I don't think is the thing that you want to put forward like at the front of your message to these people who are just clearly very scared of needles and don't like ouchies and are trying to incorporate that into their uh into like some brave political belief yeah what they need to put in the background is like a brett michaels concert right yeah yeah it's almost like whoever made the video just searched covid clip art yeah because yeah it's
Starting point is 00:36:34 so like just fucking archaic looking but i just want to say this remember the guy who just we saw in the lab coat who was like 90 of doctors blah blah blah his name is senator roger marshall uh-huh and he also for some reason put out an op-ed uh in the kansas city paper today kind of going against everything he just said in that video which he's towing this weird fucking line where he's just like i don't know if you guys know what the heck's going on because like he had to pivot to biden bad or everything bad. I just want to read you some excerpts from this. He says, he talks on talking about why,
Starting point is 00:37:10 why are vaccination rates so low in Kansas? What's going on? He says, in fact, almost half of Kansas, Kansas adults are uncertain about getting vaccinated. Why? Because like with most information surrounding the virus, politicians and bureaucrats in Washington, DC have not been transparent or consistent as they share the science surrounding the vaccine.
Starting point is 00:37:30 Oh, man, you were just trying to tell people easy, nicey, nicey. Get the vaccine. Get the vaccine. Then you put out your op and be like, man, these people don't the fuck they're doing. They have they have these people on such off footing constantly. He then says federal bureaucrats have changed directions with no meaningful explanation, no end game in sight and no consistency. And blaming Anthony Fauci. It's like, were y'all do you not forget you? You were the problem. You were everything you just described. You were the virus with the politicians not being transparent or consistent.
Starting point is 00:38:08 are consistent yeah i mean it does make me feel good that like all the times that their central message is just incompatible with survival like it's just they can't they can't coexist like that ideology and then just like anything about a healthy community like they just can't do it and right so he has to completely contradict himself to to get out there like that's got to be killing them a little bit right like just slowly on the inside no like doesn't that give you cancer if you're like going out there being like and i am a doctor also so i know that this is where cancer comes from going out there saying the medical truth in like a poorly produced video and then screaming at the top of your lungs,
Starting point is 00:38:48 they're lying to you! At a certain level, your soul dies a little bit. You have to imply that they had a soul to begin with. I feel like for the most part, people like that don't have an inner world.
Starting point is 00:39:03 I don't think that they give a fuck. They're just lizards out in the sun. They are. They're lizards out in the sun baking in the hot LA weather. Right. And then, hey, with a high of 84 and a low of 60. Yeah. But it really, like, I think with...
Starting point is 00:39:20 Sorry, I don't know why I took it back to a place of local weather but i had i don't know we had to yeah we had just called genius comedy it's a callback and with and these republican doctors i think because more than anything they when you're a republican doctor you don't take you don't take the hippocratic oath you take the hypocritical motherfucker oath where you will constantly contradict yourself and not say anything consistent and he goes on to just saying bureaucrats can't keep us from worshiping, gathering with extended family, traveling near and far with friends,
Starting point is 00:39:49 enjoying life mask free. I hope you'll join me in choosing to receive the vaccine. Wait, which one is it? You're mad at them. You're being like, yo, they fucked up.
Starting point is 00:40:02 It's like they're, cause they're trying to keep the energy up that Bideniden bad still but also like let's be real all the business owners that donate to me they know people need to get vaccinated for their businesses to actually pick back up because the science will prevent that from happening so i don't know they're i think this is the other thing too is they don't realize or, is they don't realize or rather. Yeah, they don't realize we've constantly talked about how the Republicans whole sort of platform of just untethering their supporters from reality is just a weird game to play, because if you really need to explain something to them, they're not going to understand. Like, because the whole platform has been off. No, that ain't shit. That ain't real.
Starting point is 00:40:41 Nothing's real. And you went from, OK, well, actually, we need y'all to get the vaccine, please. Actually, that was just a lot of nonsense. Or, you know what? Actually, the election wasn't stolen. It was just a lot of fuck. All right, too late, huh? Like, I don't know how you come back.
Starting point is 00:40:58 It's, yeah. They're completely fucked in terms of, like, internal cohesion and internal, like, integrity of any sort of message. I mean, I think it's like they can have the worst PR plan of all time that completely just eats its own ass. And still, as long as everyone just hates the same thing enough, they'll just be fine. Because it's all just based on hating the same list of like they'll just be fine because it's like all just based on like hating the same like list of things like really hardcore well yeah it's just truly all they can do now is
Starting point is 00:41:31 just try and create hatred because yeah they can't do policy they can't do anything else they really can't do anything else you know it's like fuck it we need to put hate towards trans people fuck it we need to put hate towards the scientific community or vaccines because they don't have the wherewithal anymore to actually like they're not they're not fiscal conservatives or balancing them they're not any of that shit anymore and it's so no it's just it's just like let's all hate the same let's all just be like incredibly hateful and like ride the hate wave like the player haters ball let's talk Tucker
Starting point is 00:42:08 Tucker Carlson what's he reaching for these days I mean just again there's so many real things to talk about but right now Republicans have to find anything but the actual things to talk about so right now because our president joey badass is
Starting point is 00:42:27 out here saying like we're relaxing the mask uh fucking protocols you don't have to wear it if you're vaxxed and outdoors unless you're in a crowd and all this stuff because that's been a huge thing of being like where are we at with masks outdoors what are you saying to do what are you saying not to do so tucker carlson spent so much time about this idea of masks as a few different things first he was likening it to child abuse where he is like as for forcing children to wear masks outside that should be illegal because he's going on this whole thing about how it's like part of your mental obedience to like the party so it's like wearing a Kim Jong-un pin or something in North Korea.
Starting point is 00:43:07 That's what you do to wear your mask to show fealty, to demonstrate fealty. And so he's just talking about like, if you see someone like a child wearing a mask, like it should be no different than what your response would be. If you see someone beating a child in a Walmart, call the police is what he says. How is it hurting the child? Does he have a
Starting point is 00:43:27 read on that? Well, what you're looking at is abuse. It's child abuse, and you are morally obligated to attempt to prevent it. If it's your own children being abused, then act accordingly, which I will play you this clip because he starts talking about what to do if, again, if let's say it was your kid and you are morally obligated to attempt to prevent it if it's your own children being abused then act accordingly let's say your kid's school emailed you to announce that every day after lunch your sixth grader was going to get punched in the face by a teacher how would you respond to that that's precisely how you should respond when they tell you that
Starting point is 00:44:05 your kids have to wear masks on the soccer field that is unacceptable dangerous and we should act like it because it is dangerous because he says like they're zealots only zealots wear masks then he had this other thing he's like 64 of white liberals have been diagnosed with some kind of mental health issue and so that's why they were called them neurotics yeah neurotics wear them uh it's like this whole it's just so all over the place it's truly you're like i don't even know like that's a jump right to say yeah they're punching your kid in the face every every time tucker carlson speaks it's like when somebody like you know in in like your class in high school when you were like assigned what side you have to be on for a topic and it's like when somebody like you know in in like your class in high school when you were
Starting point is 00:44:45 like assigned what side you have to be on for a topic and it's just like he like didn't do the work he's just like really trying to like hustle on this side that like doesn't make any sense and he just is like saying insane shit like he was talking earlier i watched the clip that you guys had in this in this doc about like he's like if you see someone wearing a mask stop them and say please take off your mask you're making me uncomfortable so is your maga hat yeah let's just be on our way huh you're a piece of shit and i believe in science all right see you later it's like yeah you're making me uncomfortable as well. What? Again, it's just all this weird way to try and he's trying to create more outrage among the base to be more confrontational in public. It's so transparently clear that this is meant to whip them into a friend. Just get everybody so excited about this idea of masks that all he can do is be like they're punching your kids in the face
Starting point is 00:45:45 they're zealots what's going on you better tell them to not wear a mask like it the outrage is really it's wearing thin and you know what's wild it got fucking weirder in the episode in terms of what he's likening to mask wearing he had look i'm just he had a guest on and i don't know it was oh actually it's actually fucking matt walsh and they were talking about like cb yeah matt washington he's the big one of the four he's out here uh but again talking about what it means to be a man wearing a mask uh-huh oh you know i had the same experience you're talking about i was in austin uh a few days ago and i'm walking outside without a mask on and people are staring at me like I'm the crazy one for not having a mask on. Meanwhile, if you're if you're walking outside
Starting point is 00:46:33 with a mask on, I should be looking at you. And I do look at you like like I would look at a grown man hugging a teddy bear and having a pacifier in his mouth while he's walking down the street. This is your security blanket. There's no reason for you to have it on. You're just afraid. You're afraid of fresh air. That's what's happening. People are afraid to breathe air. And we're making it so that kids are afraid of air, too. And that's insane to me. I agree with you completely. I would even actually up the analogy and say a vaccinated person with antibodies wearing a mask outside is like watching Grumman expose himself in public. That's disgusting. Put it away, please.
Starting point is 00:47:08 Okay. What the fuck are you talking about? What does that even mean? What? I don't again, this is like the same shit as like, this has nothing to do with you. This has actually nothing to do with you. If you want to be the freaky piece of shit who alienates themselves
Starting point is 00:47:24 because they don't want to wear a mask to consider others then so be it but someone else wearing it has a fuck all to do with these people but like that's why it's so bizarre that like tucker's like yeah i mean you're basically like you're you're gay if you wear a mask dude like you're what are you gonna be like a fucking little boy with a baby fucking like what are you gonna do take your penis out but he's like his sense of the world is so like just dominated by misogyny and white supremacy like because because uh guys running around exposing themselves as a crime that is like only perpetuated by like middle-aged white guys like him he is like he's like that that i feel like he can't think of that as being a like that bad a thing so he's like i mean it's the same thing basically
Starting point is 00:48:12 because i personally think it's weird and so that's anything i think is weird is the same across the board same as uh sexual assault basically it's like hanging brain in public it's also like were people looking at you or were you like mad dogging people who were wearing masks and then they look back at you like why are you looking at me yes these people yeah that's exactly gives this shit about you yeah so thirsty to be able to turn your fucking cell phone on and record your stupid rhetorical martyrdom video where you're like and i i actually i'm wearing it because i believe in science actually it's all of you all in here who are afraid of air no one fucking said i just want to say i am afraid of air though just to be
Starting point is 00:48:56 clear i'm scared and i am a neurotic and i am neurotic neurotic to the bone no doubt about it you know what i mean i sometimes I do give myself the creeps. Just continuing the lyrics. Sometimes I like to kiss Fauci. That was the only thing in that video. The only safe person to kiss, by the way. He calls him Tony. He's like Tony Fauci.
Starting point is 00:49:20 It's like, you don't know him. I'll call him Tony. It's like when he talks it talks about his friend antonio bandera says tony flags we're close so uh all right let's talk about marco rubio the other we we might as well just get through all of the shit that is happening in the soul. Mental inversions. The tortured soul of the Republicans right now. So Marco Rubio is pissed at corporations. To the point that he's basically threatening to become a socialist. Is that basically where we're at?
Starting point is 00:50:02 Based Rubio. Dude, Comrade Rubio. Hold it down down fucking throw down the gauntlet for these corporations please vis-a-vis your op-ed that you wrote he's got this whole thing in the new york post where all my favorite op-eds are yeah exactly that's when you know it's some real next level analysis coming through from a racist and they can't believe like his whole thing is like these corporate monsters we fed for so long. Why are they going to pivot to like woke stuff and do things like act in their own self-interest because they're reading the tone of society?
Starting point is 00:50:37 What's happening? So this is what he says. He run this op-ed in the beginning. This is just like sort of in the middle. He said, said quote to help our corporations fulfill their patriotic role the gop especially enacted business-friendly policies we kept tax rates low slashed red tape where appropriate and limited the reach of labor unions but wow but somewhere along the line corporations began prioritizing short-term financial windfalls and ruthless offshoring yeah wow okay that's true and you did do all that you have been limiting the ability of labor to organize go on sir he says quote corporate america began to view these good jobs families communities and even the nation as an afterthought american workers of all backgrounds suffered as a result corporate greed annihilated an entire way
Starting point is 00:51:23 of life yep yeah, so you were aware of all that? And you were still doing this shit? The quid pro quo that he outlines here is way too honest. He's like, no, we were helping y'all out so you would keep us in power
Starting point is 00:51:40 and you were annihilating the American families and we were fucking cool with that. But now it's gone too be on now you're gonna be on fucking megan markle's side like it's so dumb because it's all just about the fact that they don't that because anyway let's keep going because he's like because i'll do something about it yeah this is what he's gonna do quote cutting corporate taxes and especially investment taxes makes sense if U.S. companies are going to invest in American industry. But if they're instead prioritizing offshoring operations or simply returning windfalls to shareholders, then policymakers are going to start being more careful in how we structure tax cuts. Oh, what?
Starting point is 00:52:22 Go on. structure tax cuts oh what go on like i'm gonna tell the fucking truth if you don't start uh backing us in these fucking political you better defend de facto white supremacy you fucks so then he goes on so first he's saying i'll get rid of your tax cuts next employer-friendly labor laws make sense in a world where corporate ceos feel an obligation to their fellow countrymen and workers but the logic of resisting labor representation on behalf of corporate management falls apart if an american worker is no different to the corporation than any other input wow yeah you will cut these tax breaks and make it easier for labor to get organized thank you marco what what does he start talking about the wokeness like is that the beginning of the article or where where does this come from i mean this is yeah in the beginning he's just sort of talking about all the things that's happening with georgia
Starting point is 00:53:17 and like companies just starting to like speak up about societal issues when they're like you guys used to do this like what, what is this now? Right. And it's just, it's, and I think this is the problem they're finding themselves in. They're so confused and they don't realize the absurdity of their ideology, which is so,
Starting point is 00:53:34 it's so regressive that you're not going to go anywhere except backwards and eventually hit a wall because you've, you're burning up any chance you have of any kind of forward movement. So yeah, you're someone like Marco Rubio. You're like, you have to be against all this wokeness from these companies. But since you've been on the side of corporate profiteering, your only pivot can only lead to progressive policy. Like that's the only thing.
Starting point is 00:54:01 So you know what? Congratulations. You won an iPod. Wow. Wow. the only thing you so you know what congratulations wow wow i have a headache from this essay by by marco like they don't i don't know it's just so many different directions yeah blunt to them for being like blunt to the court companies like we'll get rid of your tax breaks and we'll let people get you want you want organized labor it's's like, yeah, the people do. Actually, it shows that people have better outcomes when they're when they're unionized in every industry. But the stuff he's like saying, if you do this, that's stuff they've already been doing for 20 years that you're talking about, like offshoring all your profits and treating the workers like shit.
Starting point is 00:54:46 like offshoring all your profits and treating the workers like shit like what the only like it has nothing to do with whatever fucking wokeness he's objecting to so he's just basically describing like the state of the american worker and i'm like corporate america and then being like, and that's, well, I'll describe it out loud again if you keep criticizing us. Yeah, even the company's like, yo, shut up, dude. Right. I mean, like, we get what you're saying, but like, do you hear yourself? I feel like this started as an email, a private email. And he's like, you know what? This makes a lot of sense.
Starting point is 00:55:20 I'm going to turn it into an op-ed. of sense i'm gonna turn it into an op-ed because yeah the shit he's saying like that logic works in an email where it's like between donors and politicians who are like look we let you fuck people over and in return you do the you fuck people over in the specific way we're describing but yeah that's that's wild man yeah there you love to see it this has been another segment of uh you hate to see it uh where we check in with the republicans with the based republican yeah all right let's take a another quick break and we'll be right back. Hello, everyone. I am Lacey Lamar.
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Starting point is 01:00:02 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. And we're back. So there's a couple that were planning their dream wedding in Florida. They had the venue picked out. They did not let the fact that they had no access to that venue stop them from literally planning their wedding and going there on the day of. They did everything. They set up a wedding website. They got motherfucking vendors to set up for this wedding.
Starting point is 01:00:34 Everything. Invitations, all this happening, where they said, inviting friends and family to celebrate at their dream home and estate. And you look at the photos, like, this shit is gigantic. It has a tennis court and bar and pool, all that shit. But unfortunately, even though they did say in their wedding website, they actually said that God had intervened to reunite them after 30 years for Courtney and Shanita to get married at this estate. Except the problem was on wedding day,
Starting point is 01:01:06 the owner of the house just saw a bunch of people setting up. And I just want to take it from this call where he calls the police so confused because there's a bunch of vendors and shit trying to set up a wedding at his property. When the wedding party showed up Saturday morning to set up, the homeowner called 911. I have people trespassing on my property and they keep harassing me, calling me. And they say they're having a wedding here and it's God's message. Perturbed and so they kept telling him.
Starting point is 01:01:36 The whole thing was this old man had put this house on the market a few months ago. And this dude came through through saw the house and was like hey i think we might be i think we could have a wedding here and nobody would fucking figure it out hey man i say this fucking genius if the shit had worked yeah right if the shit had worked execution execution if this shit had worked this would, this is a story you tell to your motherfucking kids. Let me tell you what we did for our wedding. This is a story of a lifetime
Starting point is 01:02:12 if this shit worked. If that motherfucker didn't come back in town and he wasn't there, let me tell you something. And this shit got executed and you made it, you made it to your motherfucking honeymoon and that's a story that people talk about how amazing your fucking wedding was.
Starting point is 01:02:28 Yo, you are legendary. You are fucking legends. Your wedding goes down as wow, that's the best wedding I've ever been to in my life. Right? But in your story, you know what fucking you know that shit ain't yours. Hey, this shit
Starting point is 01:02:44 trumps. This shit just trumps going to someone's motherfucking barbecue and you riding down the street, you see a dope ass cookout and you say, shit, I'm about to pull over,
Starting point is 01:02:55 park this motherfucking car, put these fucking flip flops on and I'm going to blend the fuck in. I got a case of beer in the trunk. I'm going to carry this case of beer. I'm going to carry this fucking case of beer in this motherfucking backyard.
Starting point is 01:03:08 Put this bitch down. Open it up. So I put these motherfuckers in the cooler. And no one's going to know the difference. See, now this shit right here, it's a lot more moving parts. See, the more moving parts you have, the harder it is to get this shit executed. This is not like going to a motherfucking cookout. I promise you.
Starting point is 01:03:28 No. There's levels to this shit. But if this fucking dude wasn't home, if he wasn't home, let me tell you something. This shit would have been down in history. Now, what do you think they told their guests, though? Because that's the second part.
Starting point is 01:03:43 Because at a certain point, they'd be like, wait, what happened to the wedding? it's like ah shit if i was if i was my if that was my wedding invitation i say look i would write down and find print at the bottom of that hey don't ask me a motherfucking thing i would have that right there in tiny writing don't ask me a motherfucking thing enjoy Enjoy yourself and mind your motherfucking business. Right there. Right at the base. Right at the bottom of that fucking invite.
Starting point is 01:04:11 Shut the fuck up and enjoy yourself. It's wild too because like, and they were cool about it. Once the cops came, they're like, do you own this place? They're like, nah, but God has willed us to be married here. And they're like, nah, you don't own this. So God ain't doing shit. That's your go-to. That's your go-to. That's your go-to.
Starting point is 01:04:25 You go to that, that becomes your alibi and your excuse. You know how people use God as an alibi? Right. God is everybody's alibi. You know what I'm saying? You throw that in there, you're hoping that this cop is religious and he understands that sometimes you're calling, you get a call in sometimes and you got to do what you got to do.
Starting point is 01:04:44 Right. You know what I mean? Like, hey, I hear you. This falls under the category that I call when you want to make something happen and you're at the threshold of trying to make something happen. You are subject to what a lot of people in prison are subject to, the fuck it syndrome. Fuck it. fuck it syndrome. When you are past logical thinking and you
Starting point is 01:05:06 enter the realm of fuck it, a lot of people are in jail because of fuck it. They were at a threshold and they said, fuck man, I'm fucking broke. I need to hit this bank, man. I got this fucking mask. I'm going to this fucking bank and make it happen.
Starting point is 01:05:22 You have officially crossed the fuck it, the fuck it line. Fuck it. I got nothing to go on this fucking bank and make it happen. You have officially crossed the fuck it, the fuck it line. Fuck it. I ain't got nothing to lose. Fuck it. These people had nothing to lose. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:32 If this shit work, this shit work. If this shit don't work, fuck it, man. All you're going to do is say, get the fuck out of here. Get the fuck off my property. And they did. And it was all good. That's it. No citations, nothing.
Starting point is 01:05:42 That's it. Of course. We tried. You took a swing at it. You took a swing at it. You took a swing at life. And shit didn't work. It was almost like, yeah. It didn't fucking work.
Starting point is 01:05:50 It's like that Embiid half court shot that almost went in the other day. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Full court. Or full court, yeah. Exactly. You're like, fuck, it almost went in. It was so close.
Starting point is 01:06:01 Almost had the wedding. But hit what they should have done. The only person they should have let in on everything would have been the officiant or the pastor or whoever they got running things. Make it the religion of the homeowner. Exactly. You say, look, man, we had to make this shit happen. I love this woman. She loves me.
Starting point is 01:06:23 We need to make this shit happen today. So I need you to be on the same page as my wife, my future wife, and myself. If you see anybody, if you hear police cars,
Starting point is 01:06:33 if you see fucking cars rolling up, if you see motherfuckers walking into the backyard four or five deep in uniforms, or if you see a homeowner
Starting point is 01:06:42 come out that fucking back door, you rush that shit as fast as you can back door, you rush that shit fast as you can and say, you may kiss the bride, motherfucker. Just get it done. You feel me? Just get that shit. Speed the fuck, man. You speed the fuck up, man. Because we're taillights in about
Starting point is 01:06:55 five minutes. We're taillights. You speed that shit the fuck up and say, everybody enjoy yourselves. And you say, I want you to say this. I want you to say this too. Say, hey. You say, I do. May kiss the bride. Everybody, we're going to meet at Buffalo Wild Wings or wherever. Or wherever you want to fucking meet.
Starting point is 01:07:15 You yell out something so everybody know where the after party is going to be at. After party, you know, at our real house or whatever. At our real house over on Culver Drive. Shit. It feels like something. Y'all know where I live something y'all know where i live y'all know my other house is that you know that's where we're gonna cook out at my other house yeah actually or my mama's house whichever one whoever gets there first it feels like one of those things too yeah where you like you heard about this happen generations ago we're like you know my uncle did this in the 70s where he saw a house
Starting point is 01:07:46 and it feels like that idea tried to be done in 2021 and you're like, yo, technology is so far gone. There's no way you can just pull up to a big ass mansion like that and just make this thing work. But it feels like it was inspired by a true, like they got this idea
Starting point is 01:08:02 from somebody. This is going to be a good rom-com for sure oh yeah you got oh yeah yeah a stressful people have this has worked people have had full ass parties right in these fucking mansions in beverly hills they have gotten away with this shit i'm telling you you can do it the person you gotta research the person make sure they're out of the country or somewhere right and you know but and you gotta you can do it. The person, you got to research the person, make sure they're out of the country or somewhere. Right. And, you know, but, and you got to, you know,
Starting point is 01:08:28 but also everybody's fucking alarm system is hooked to their phone, all their cameras and shit. They can see everything going on through their fucking phone at their house. You got to find some way to conceal that motherfucker. Yeah. Got to have a loop. You got to do the camera that's in the back
Starting point is 01:08:43 that's aiming towards the yard. You got to get like a fake ass bird or some shit that motherfucking thing that's a fucking bird in front of the camera I hate those fucking birds you'll never think
Starting point is 01:08:54 you won't think twice fucking bird you'll turn your phone off and continue your motherfucking vacation out of town meanwhile that bird is concealing that full ass wetting
Starting point is 01:09:04 in that backyard. Right. Ooh, that fake-ass bird. That's all you fucking need. Fake-ass bird. Just off the strength of this episode, right now we have
Starting point is 01:09:11 a vegan cooking show with you, JB, and also JB Wedding Planner. Wedding Planner show, too. I like Wedding Impossible. Wedding Impossible. I was going to say that. Wedding Impossible.
Starting point is 01:09:21 Oh, shit. That's the name of the movie right there. This is about love. This is about fucking love right now. I'm trying to unite people and shit. These people want to be together by any means necessary. They're going to be together. I'm going to make that
Starting point is 01:09:34 shit happen. I'm going to make that shit happen. I'm just thinking of how you... So you have them win a fake contest for like a cruise and then you just pay for their cruise maybe? But it's a shitty cruise. So there's a little money spent up front to get the owners out of the house yeah to get the owners out they win they fucking win something yeah yeah yeah exactly you gotta get them a fuck out of there get the fuck out of there yeah yeah another great thing is this you hire a fake ass uh what do you
Starting point is 01:10:00 call those guys uh exterminators and shit yes this fucking house this fucking yeah this is i'm telling you you tell them that several homeowners in the area it's an infestation of fucking termites right fucking bugs and they're all inside your fucking walls you wouldn't see them they're in your walls just eating your fucking house away so what should i do right what do you what do you suggest well you what? Here's what we have, a special sale going on at our company. We are, what we're doing is this, you know, for your business and for your referrals to your other friends
Starting point is 01:10:31 and anyone who has any problems with insects, we're giving away a free cruise to the Bahamas. Wow. To the Bahamas. Exterminator cruise. But it's worth it because, it's fucking worth it because what does it cost? A wedding costs way more than that? Yeah you can invest to take a portion of your budget and put that shit towards that trip all expense paid yeah take care you don't worry about it you
Starting point is 01:10:55 gotta drink tickets you get all that shit enjoy yourself enjoy yourself you come back you're gonna have a fucking a fucking uh a home that's safe and fucking insect free. Boom. Shit. Find out what washed 90s band they're a fan of. Oh, man. Yo, it's the 311 crew. Oh, right, right.
Starting point is 01:11:12 Enjoy themselves. Enjoy yourself. I don't remember entering this contest. I don't remember doing this. They're like, Poison is doing a cruise. Do you want to go see that? What? I love Poison.
Starting point is 01:11:24 Yeah, great, great, man. Here, we got your van right here. Take you to Fort Lauderdale so you can bomb voyage it. You know what would be a dope-ass cruise? The Wu-Tang Cruise. That should be dope. That would be dope. Woo!
Starting point is 01:11:35 The Wu-Tang Cruise? The 36 Chambers? Like, I mean, whoa. What do you call that? The whole thing is themed out. Oh, my God. I would go on that shit. Woo!
Starting point is 01:11:44 I mean, woo! Call that shit. Woo. I mean. Woo. Woo. Call that shit Woo Cruise. Okay. Woo. Come on, man. Damn.
Starting point is 01:11:51 Woo Cruise. We need that. That shit kind of dope. That's dope. I need that shit in my life. The Woo Cruise. Woo. Woo.
Starting point is 01:11:57 But can they get all nine members to show up at the same time? That's the hard part. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. If you do that shit in advance and let people know what's coming up I just don't want Capadonna to step in for somebody
Starting point is 01:12:10 who's not there I'm like Capadonna where's you God where's you God I don't see golden arms up here this is a fucking tragedy and I want my money back alright that's gonna do it for this week's and I want my money back. 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.
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