The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 219 (Best of 3/28/22-4/1/22)

Episode Date: April 3, 2022

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I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me for I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry.

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That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the

making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist.

Jaquese, we are joined by a great guest, somebody who's, you know, been on the show before. We tried to get him again. They're so busy. You know what I mean? They say, oh, hold up, man. Let me get let me get my assistant to holler at you real quick. That day is not going to work for me. This person is not just a talented person. They're a brilliant emcee, brilliant producer straight from Detroit, Michigan, you know, where basically the greatest beat makers of that of my memory come from. You know, people fuck around with the culture they know about Detroit. But I am thrilled and pleased to welcome our guest. Welcome our guest, Ellingsworth! What's up, Ellingsworth?

Hello. I'm good, man. I'm glad to be here. If y'all want me to get into the real reason why I was not on before, I can. I know. I was... That's up to you. I set it up like that because I remember the day you were supposed to be on and we said, Gio, he hasn't called in. We don't know what's going on. And then tell us what happened that prevented you from coming on a few weeks ago all right i'm gonna try to give the abbreviated version long story short you can give the long story i mean it's interesting if it's interesting please by all means um well i'll put it like this an unlabeled bag of candies ended up in front of

my father and my father is the type of person where it's like, if it's in my reach, it's mine. So he just indiscriminately ate these candies until they were gone. Only to find out later that they had a little bit of the ganja ganja inside of them. And he had a rough he had a rough evening um i actually uh you know in many ways i am proud of my father but in that in that day in that moment i was very ashamed at his gullibility and just like level of like you are so naive. An unlabeled bag of candy. You just go eat every last piece.

I mean, I ate a whole bag of anaphylactic. I know. Yes. Is it? Okay. How many? What are we talking like? You didn't even open this bag.

We're talking. Okay. Oh, well, you know, I'm not I'm not going to like act like i don't indulge from time to time but this bag actually belonged belonged to a friend okay wow who had left it around it wasn't it wasn't mine man it wasn't mine uh but no like oh no i was just i was gonna say like it was left around him as far as i know there were as little as six pieces and as many as 20 in this bag it was like a ziploc like a completely unlabeled unmarked you know with and y'all know how edibles look man they don't look like any kind of uh

store-bought uh candy they look very man-made like why are you just right dumping these into your gullet yeah yeah also the taste but it's not like you're gonna eat it you'll be like yeah eventually you're gonna taste the bees have gone you can taste the way yeah and that's what prompted him to like get in contact with me you know to find out like what was going on with him oh he was feeling was he going through it was he going through oh he was oh he was. Oh, he was going through it. It was incredible from my perspective. Right. You know, I actually like this kind of this kind of fits into like, you know, the pandemic health crisis or whatever. But we I took him to the emergency room and, you know, they took his information.

We sat in there for about two hours and didn't get any help. And I'm just looking at him. I'm like, We sat in there for about two hours and didn't get any help. And I'm just looking at him. I'm like, man, you'll be all right. So we just we just did. We just ended up dipping. How long was he high for? Was he high all day?

I know he was high all day. He was probably high until like the next day or two days, perhaps. You know, you know careful this is great i saw i saw him a couple times and i'm like like yo man you are you know you're a little bit more verbal than usual like my dad is one of those like very like stoic i only say what i have to say type dads and he was just like you talking a lot today what's going on oh yeah like laughing at some shit he's like look at that he was he was a little different but you know as soon as it got out of his system he went right back to like good regular non-verbal dad right right back to stoic statue dad that's the thing about edibles they all you know for me when that the the few minutes where i'm like did did I take too much? It's when you start feeling your heart beating.

Right. And you start feeling how slow it is or how fast it's going. You're just like, this is it. I'm going to be the first nigga to die from weed. And that thought get buried in your head. And that's rough, man. That's a rough hour. That's what I thought was coming from my dad.

Because he was like, I feel strange. Right. My mouth is real dry right like this is all kind of like you know just the fact that he was telling me something about how he was doing internally was always strange like oh he's in trouble you're like oh shit he's telling about his internal experience right now he's articulating his internal yeah he's giving me a glimpse into his inner world something's wrong like in case of emergency break glass it's happening yeah i mean uh yeah it's a slippery slope but hey when you know how to use them great time one of my fondest memories of taking edibles was actually at the art institute of chicago last time i was in chicago just strolling through their fucking high as shit, listening to my music.

And I was like, this fucking place is the fucking, this is it. Chicago, I love you. What's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? The most recent thing that I've searched is Ro roll doll books that's the person i've been uh i've actually uh because i i didn't i got rid of all my books and that's all i've been doing is trying to rebuy stuff and i'm also like but also i'm doing it in the the vain way where i'm like what books would look good to people when they walk by right do i have to read it no but i want to make sure people think i'm smart enough to read it on the plane I do that with music

I listen to some fire shit I make sure the phone is like right on the edge of the table so when people walk past it's like my man got some good ass taste in music just holding it up like this just holding it up like stretching and yawning with my phone just like toward everybody so they can see the song that

i'm playing real easy you're like you're stretching and yawning but you turn up the brightness on your screen you're like yeah i can see that okay of course of course you got enough so i get that i feel that solomon i feel that 100 you got rid of your book what do you mean you got rid of your like i just never like mean you got rid of your book? Well, I just never restocked. I probably have like 20 books on me now. But before I moved to LA, I had books. I had shelves of them. And now I'm like, all right, I need to get to the place where I have a bookshelf to show off. How do you feel like in the Kindle era? Because books used to be like in college, my way to be like, yeah, I read that shit. And you could tell by the way the spine is creased.

I did that before you came here. So it looked like I read this shit. And now like with Kindles and stuff, I love the convenience of it. But I do sort of miss the physical, the tangible aspect. I don't actually read it when I buy it on Kindle. That's the thing. I get on Kindle and I'm like, all right, it like it's just like not like i need to have the paper to like gotcha flip and get my like it's like there's like a goal to finishing it that way like you don't know like if you're

in the middle of a book and you see that little fold you're like i can finish that you don't get that from a kindle it doesn't tell you're halfway through and just like that's true like do i need you gotta like scroll to the bottom like all right i got another 50 pages like yeah right this one's like you're 40 of the way through i'm like i don't even know how to what 40 is if i'm not looking at the full thickness of the book but i need to see it right right right right it's like yeah but yeah but that's but but also yeah i just like holding books i like having them around i like just the physicality of it i like that i know that i'm killing something like a tree maybe right absolutely i don't know no i just but like i'm definitely like i'm not getting like new books i'm getting like old books so it definitely

looks like i read them even though it was hundreds of other people that did it before me what's uh what's another book so you got you got rolled doll i got the whole collection the whole doll connection i uh collection i also because i just saw the movie i got all the dune books again because i read them when i was younger guys all i'm doing is buying books that i've already read so i'm really yeah i've only yes yes yeah absolutely it's the shit that i remember reading going like i like that i want this to be in my possession that's great and then if someone sees it you don't have they don't have to pull your card if they ask you about it you know about it because you're like no i read oh yeah i definitely

yes let's go yeah you want to talk about i'm also very good at lying about uh about reading or watching something that i have not read or watched right like movies music i've always been like yeah i saw that because i don't want to be the person who didn't see that and get that like i can't believe you've not seen that i'm like i don't have time for that conversation right yeah they're like you haven't of all the people that i thought would have seen it it would have been you you yeah you're like well sometimes that shit happens all right and i saw it so you don't have to worry because of course i saw that shit my go-to is always oh yeah yeah i saw that but it's been a minute

it's been a minute so that way don't nobody make me talk about it like oh i don't remember it that much i saw it long right when it came out i saw it i say i watched it but i was a little i was so yeah i don't know yeah that's always easy and and also true there's like shit like people remind me like you did see that i'm like really you were at your niece's birthday party was i right i don't remember that at all actually what's something you think is overrated yara okay so this had to think about overrated there's a couple things uh i don't know if i'm gonna get a hate here i think shake shack is overrated okay all right we're in agreement i mean this is i'm just saying go ahead and say it because people

people a lot of times come on like i don't know there's a hot take man in and out sucks and i'm like yeah i mean it's fine i eat it but i'm not gonna i've lost the energy to defend it wait tell me specific because shake shack for us in la was like oh shit yeah and i was fucking with it i remember that first week i had it like three times the first week and then it's like when i'm around sure i'll get it but what is what's the perspective from you because you live in new york right yeah yeah i live in new York. I'm from California. I prefer In-N-Out when that question comes up. I like their fries. I don't care if they're not as crispy or whatever.

Anyways, but Shake Shack. I just feel like their burgers are kind of dry and like given all the fuss about them. It's oh, my God, there's a Shake Shack opening up. And, you know, it's it doesn't really. Yeah. The burger is just kind of dry. It's not juicy. I much prefer In-N-Out.

It's like it's more moist. It's more tender. I much prefer In-N-Out's. It's more moist. It's more tender. I don't know if they cook it a little bit less or... I don't know how it works. They salt that patty. That's kind of the thing. I normally find Shake Shack burgers to be greasy.

Not so much... Not like moist as in a nice, moist burger on the inside, but greasy as in the... What's the shit that goes... The the inside, but greasy as in like the bun. I couldn't think of the word bun. The bun that goes over the... Yeah, it becomes translucent. Yeah, I'd be feeling it.

So that's what I get from Shake Shack. So it's interesting that you find them to be a little more dry. Maybe New York Shake Shack is different. I see the greasiness, and I think the dryness also comes from, like, they purposely smash it. That's kind of one of the techniques. And that gets that, like, browning of the meat, which creates a lot of flavor. But all you also get is a lot of juice, I think.

Yeah, exactly, exactly. Two different things. Juice and grease are not the same, y'all. No, exactly. And that's the problem we have in this country, is that we are mistaking juice for grease. Yeah. You know?

Yeah. That's what I keep saying. Although I will say from Shake Shack, I like Shake Shack. It's okay. But I will say the, like, I don't love it. It's okay. It's just, it's whatever. It's a burger.

It's expensive. I can go get a double double for like $4 cheaper. But I do love them. I do love the cheese crinkle cut fries. Those hit. Those do hit. Are they animal style, though? Are they better than animal style?

I don't like animal style. People don't like In-N-Out fries. Yara, I'm with you. I purposefully order them soft. I asked for light fries. I said, let me get light fries. They're like, oh, shit. You really got nobody in

your corner yeah man but what's the best burger in new york would you say oh okay funny you should ask i'm not i don't know this is so funny that because just a few months ago i went for the first time there's a place called seventh street burger it's in the east village okay it is the most simple thing it's just just meat, diced onions. I think there's a pickle, a slice of cheese. I don't think they put anything else in there. Buns are perfectly soft and supple. And they are tender.

They have the browning going on that Shake Shack has without the loss of juice and tenderness. It's just like, holy shit. It's so simple. It's a bunch of like college kids there, late night, you know, folks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not like a sit down place. You grab your burger, you go. It's so simple it's a bunch of like college kids there late night you know folks yeah yeah it's not like a sit-down place you grab your burger you go it's cheap it's affordable it's delicious and it's been i think one of the bella bella hadid or gg hadid one of them went to it and then it got you know some notoriety after that so amazing place cheap delicious highly recommend okay hell yeah underrated page what is something that you think is fucking underrated okay i want

to bring this up because i'm hoping it could maybe open a larger conversation about rom-coms and what we like in rom-coms but i okay this happens to me all the time i see a movie and i enjoy myself and then i find out people think it's stupid or the flip it's like i'm like that sucked and everyone loves it and i really had a great time seeing marry me the new j-lo movie marry me marry me say yes marry me marry me say yes i i think it's a theme song to the movie oh yes that's the titular song to the film. They performed it so many times. I don't know which version I like. The one from the film, the one that they did, like IRL at the performance.

Paige, I'm kind of with you on this. I don't know why. I barely, like, it takes a lot for me to take my ass to see a film that's been released. I will watch if something i perceive to be like quote unquote shitty or campy i'm fucking there yes immediately and i saw what i saw marry me like maybe five days after it came out yeah it's so bad it's good yes exactly and it's like i feel like i'm realizing that unless a movie is actually funny, like say like a Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I rather it just be like mostly rom with like sprinkles of calm, which I feel like Marry Me has. It's like mostly just kind of like a cheesy movie with like.

Oh, yeah. And then like there's little moments of comic relief. But. Yeah. Like I saw The Lost City. Right. It was, like, fine. I was like, this is more trying to be funny than it is trying to be, like, cute.

The Lost City is a rom-com? I didn't know that. I thought it was a movie about, I don't know, ancient war or some shit. I know. When I saw it, I was like, is this Uncharted but with fucking? I literally couldn't remember the title. I kept being like the Sandra Bullock movie. Like, I was like, I can't remember what it's called.

Oh, that one. Yeah. Okay. Okay. With Channing Tatum in it. Yes. Oh, Sandra Bullock. That one.

That one. Okay. Because, yeah, I want to see Lost City. But for different reasons because people say it's fun it's like it's got all these things going on but like marry me when people say oh you lost the first reaction when i tell people i saw was oh you watched that i got the same reaction where it's like oh i heard it's like terrible they don't have good chemistry and i'm like yeah yeah it's not like a sexy movie but no it's also it's just funny to see Owen Wilson trying to pull J-Lo.

And you're like, this is this is so incongruent. There's nothing I can like even like the the setup doesn't make sense. The moment where he's like proposing by really just passively. Oh, yeah. And it's like you have no reason to say yes. Owen Wilson, this woman just said, I'll marry you. by really just passively oh yeah and it's like you have no reason to say yes owen wilson this woman just said i'll marry you you have no motivation going into this scene to suggest that you want to be married but then you get married and i'm like fuck it i love how i love

that nobody even gave a fuck about even that most basic premise of storytelling i think his motivation was twofold miles i think one he wanted his daughter to think he was cool right that's the whole reason he was at the concert in the first place okay begrudgingly right secondly he felt for her in that moment he didn't want to embarrass her so he said yes and i think that's what that's what went that's what went into it and even then that's a huge reach but i love it yeah owen wilson owen wilson low-key be pulling these be pulling these fine-ass women in these movies he had rachel mcadams yeah twice wedding crashers uh y'all ever see hall pass you remember that movie hall pass no but i mean i yeah yeah man i know about

pulling that fine boy she fine as hell like what owen wilson you can't stop and then j-lo come on owen wilson is the poster child for damn she with him that's kind of what the movie is okay that makes a lot of that but there is like the the cheesiness i love that was kind of you know what it is it reminds you of shit from the 80s and 90s yes we're like the jobs weren't rooted in reality even the portrayal of these things were not rooted in reality you're just like yeah she's a pop star that's what she does she sits in a glass high-rise suite and someone does her hair while she texts and that's why she's busy today and i'm like yeah fuck it simpler times

and he's a teacher and that's likable and that's enough. They go, okay, he's nice. And that's all there is about him. Sarah Silverman's his friend. What more do we have to say here? He's fuckable. It's very formulaic in the way that I wanted it to be. Yeah, exactly.

It was satisfying. Yeah. I love a good rom-com. I love a good rom-com. I love a good rom-com. Would you guys have a favorite rom-com that comes to mind? I love One Fine Day. Oh, that's a good one. One Fine Day.

Oh, I don't know if I've seen that one. Oh, with George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer? Looks like I know what I'm doing tonight. I'll be checking it out. I don't even know why. I only say that because it was like, I went on a date in sixth grade. That was like one of the first movies I went on a date to see.

Yeah. Shout out Kristen, uh, who went with me and yeah, now, um, that that's kind of, so that's been implanted in my mind,

but I like a few. What about you? I have two that are like top for me. Hitch. Hitch is one of my favorite movies and my best friend's wedding classic classic rom-com very classic yeah i guess you can i guess you can consider forgetting sarah marshall rom-com but i do forget that that's technically a rom-com i love forgetting sarah marshall is a rom-com forgetting sarah marshall is so fucking good it's so fucking good it is it's so good

it's so good that you forget it's like two and a half hours long you're like yeah it's so good i think my favorite has to be 10 things i hate about you i just love that movie it's just it's so good okay i've seen it the most, I feel. Yeah. Maybe. And then The Best Man. Maybe it might be another one. The Best Man. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Is that a comedy? Is that a comedy? Maybe I'm thinking of that last one. That last sad one. Like somebody died or some shit.

It was like The Best Man's Fun died or some shit it's like the best man's funeral or some shit oh oh follow up um yeah the rom-coms though they're just i think it's the same reason why i like holiday movies like bad christmas movies because they're predictable. They're not going to throw me off. They're not going to challenge me emotionally. Yep. Like art would. Yep. Exactly.

There's a place for people. People talk about underrated. It's the concept of just watchability. Like it doesn't have to be incredible. Sometimes you just want to watch something. You just want to watch something. Absolutely. I reject that in order to enjoy movies. I reject that in order to enjoy movies, they have to be good.

Like, that's a weird notion to me. It's just up to you. Yeah. Yes. Watch whatever the fuck you want. It just has to be enjoyable. Justin is asking, the Princess Bride count? Yeah.

I think so. Of course. Yeah. Won't Andre shine? Is romance at the center of it it's a little i mean i guess it's tough because a lot of movies do just have you know a romantic storyline and then you start to get into the weeds of like is this like a classic rom-com i think princess i spent so long since i watched it but yeah it's been a minute qualify yeah i think so yeah you put that in there why not why not all right um let's take a quick break and we'll come back to talk about the news right

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Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports where we live at the intersection of sports and culture up first I explore the making of a rivalry Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese I know I'll go down in history people are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game every great player needs a foil I ain't really near them boys I just come here to play basketball every single day and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her.

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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 Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back and jenny thomas is yeah just very very disturbing very disturbed yeah this is justice clarence thomas's wife and you know she she has some very controversial things to say about the 2020 election very nice and controversial things some very uh q-brained left the planet like long before we even realized oh yeah to say she said my home planet needs me and dissolved into the air about five years ago but yeah she's been all over the news you know like initially a lot of it was like yo she's a super active activist on like the far right she has a lot of ties to the organizing of the january 6th rally when people are like oh that's a terrible fucking look and then last time we talked about

her we were talking about this puff piece that she was in this conservative outlet where she was sort of like framing her involvement in all of this like insurrection shit is like, I was just a concerned American, you know? And like, and honestly, when it started popping off, I like, wasn't feeling great. So I left. So I didn't get to like bash the Capitol police with a barricade and then steal something from Nancy Pelosi's office. I left at that point. And all of this information probably should have been enough for Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from any Supreme Court decision involving January 6th. Or just quit. I don't know.

Nah, nah, nah. It probably won't. Because, you know, he was the lone dissenter in the 8- one decision to not shield Trump's documents from the January 6th committee. So that means Amy Carmi Barnett, Brett Carbonara, and fucking Gorsuch, like all the Trump people. They were like, no, this is we're not that crazy. But right. Fucking Clarence Thomas did did and it would might not know why yeah because we start seeing washington post has these texts right from jenny thomas to the chief of staff of trump's white house mark meadows who was by the way under investigation for voter

fraud because he said he was living in a like a trailer in north carolina that he actually didn't so that's on his plate also oh just like straight up claimed to vote from a place like that kind of voter yeah they're like you live in no yeah and his wife filled out the thing like filling out papers i'd say this is a felony if you if you like wrongfully like if you fill this out incorrectly or misrepresent where you live and they're like yeah don't worry i'm white honey watch me do this shit wow the one thing that they accuse us of right exactly not the one thing but chief of staff right like tax fraud yeah exactly so one of these so these texts come out right and they're from again the wife of a supreme court justice to the chief of staff of the of the

president on the day after the election she texted Meadows a fucking link to this YouTube video from this guy who's, you know, this guy named Steve Pchenik. And it says, the Trump sting with CIA director Steve Pchenik, the biggest election story in history, QFS blockchain. She tweets this to Mark Meadows and says, quote, I hope this is true. Never heard anything like this before or even a hint of it possible. Watermarked ballots in over 12 states have been part of a huge Trump and military white hat sting operation in 12 key battleground states. Now, we've talked about this.

We talked about this in the lead up to the election right after the election, because this is the thing people are saying is that trump was actually putting working with the military to have these like watermarked ballots so it would be clear that the fraud ballots that the democrats were trying to use would be easily identified and could be pulled and would prove once and for all who the real cheaters are that never happened that wasn't true but wait that so that was a theory they had that trump had done something or that the democrats had like watermarked it with invisible ink yes that was it involved decoder rings as well like because it definitely feels like some shit that my kids would be like making up as well like when you do the invisible ink right yeah exactly invisible ink a paper fortune

teller and that's how you knew how to decode all this stuff. And first of all, that video is from a guy who's on InfoWars with Alex Jones constantly, who says stuff like Sandy Hook and the Vegas mass shooting were false flags. And like, so that's the universe where his Ginny Thomas is like, check out this guy's video, huh? This could work, right? To overturn the election results we're seeing. So you could tell from the beginning, all of her energy was in the, this result isn't real. We have to do everything we can to stop it. Then if that wasn't weird enough, she texted this a few days later, quote, Biden crime

family and ballot fraud co-conspirators, elected officials, bureaucrats, social media, censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters stream media reporters etc are being arrested and detained for ballot fraud right now and overcoming days and will be living in barges off gitmo to face military tribunals for sedition she sent that to the fucking chief of staff? Yes. Yes. Wouldn't he know that if that was happening? The wild shit is, apparently they say the flow of the text is like,

he didn't respond for like 10 days. She just kept being like, he was like, oh shit. Okay. Did she hit him with the like question mark thing? And then like the exclamation mark thing? Did you get this text? Oh yeah. Emphasize,

emphasize. Right, right, right. Oh, just like nine of passive aggressive. That's not even, that's aggressive as fuck at that point.

So then if, so she goes down this whole thing again, she's sending this to the chief of staff, trying to get, be like, pay attention to this stuff. She even was saying like, you got you gotta let the the crack in lawyer sydney powell who remember who was like that woman who was clearly called back to her home planet as well based on how she was speaking in public was like yeah the everything's a fraud and you know she lost every like nearly

every decision that's when she was submitting stuff to try and gum up the election results or tabulations every time she was losing and then been sanctioned since because they're like, you did all of this in such bad faith. Like, there's no way you could ever call yourself a lawyer. But yeah, every judge that she's gone in front of, like including the like just Trump appointed ones. The like just Trump appointed ones. Yeah. The Trump appointed ones who might as well have a Confederate flag like behind their, you know, judge stand. Not bench. I think they're called. You can't just pump fake evidence.

Right. Try. This is this is not like how reality works. So she said. So this text she sends to Meadows is, quote, sounds like Sidney and her team are getting inundated with evidence of fraud. Make a plan. Release the Kraken and save us from the left taking America down. Boom. Boom. So it starts to make sense why Clarence Thomas may have been the lone dissenting vote there or voice in that decision. Because, yeah, it's stuff like this that would come out.

or voice in that decision because yeah it's stuff like this that would come out that is truly it's it's wild and at the same time it is to be expected because like this is just what the right is in in the in modern america is just completely detached from any version of reality that makes sense like 53 wrong turns later you you end up at the very beginning of like right the ideas their theory is based on but plus side great husband right i mean a sweetheart yeah i mean that would have caused some problems if he came home and she's like oh so you went nine you know you went with all of them really clarence really claire he's like i'm sorry babe it's just it's a bridge too far you're sleeping on the couch you're in the doghouse clarence but yeah it's it is one of those things too you see how again their aims are quite literally to involve all three branches of government in trying to overturn the election on some level.

Yeah. Like, I guess, you know, this seems like, OK, this is obviously a bridge too far. There will be pressure for him to step down, maybe steps down like that is my pre, you know, 2016 thinking. Getting it done. Yeah, this is this is just going to like, if anything, I could see this being like the this is this is just gonna like if anything i could see this being like the left is like attacking the woke mobs attacking clarence thomas and like that this like causes the right to like double down on like making sure clarence thomas doesn't resign and which was in the entire at least there were rumors that he was considering it at one point.

Well, yeah. And let's not forget, he's, as of this recording, I believe we haven't heard anything about his condition since he went in the hospital. So as of this recording, actually, this morning, which is days ago for our listeners, he was discharged from Washington, D.C. hospital Friday morning, a week after he was admitted for what court spokesperson described as an infection yeah i'm gonna tell a completely unrelated story to to this when i was a kid and i got caught i think it was like i forgot an important homework assignment or like i i fucked up in some way that like i knew i was in trouble with my mom and I came home and I was like oh my stomach oh damn I'm real sick like because she didn't know yet and I knew it was gonna come out and then she was real worried about me and then she was like hey I'm looking in

your backpack and like that assignment that you are supposed to be working on is not here. And I was like, oh damn, I think I forgot it. She was like, is this why you're sick? That's hilarious. I mean, he could be doing that. I'm just saying, he knew this shit

was about to drop. He's like, I got an infection. My guts. Get me out of here i mean there there is like i didn't feel great when i was claiming to a feel sick because i knew some shit was coming down on me like you know there's there's a story the other day about the dude who that uh song driver's license is about like he was hospitalized like after that song like hit and everyone was like yo fuck this dude i mean he's a child but like he was hospitalized with like heart failure for like a week wow yeah so i don't know yeah maybe he's like just feeling guilty or like you

know like the telltale heart kind of thing yeah right right yeah i mean you'd hope so but yeah we'll see where this goes i mean i think you know a lot of people are like you know imagine if this was fucking katanji brown jackson's partner you know what i mean what would have happened or even so to my or any any of the liberal justices you know like what would have happened if this kind of shit came out and granted there were some things about ginsburg's husband for sure but in this instance like you know fox news would have a fucking meltdown and you're like and then like it's funny when you watch on channels like msnbc people are like well you know like imagine what they would be doing right now they would melt down if this was another justice and it's like well this is pretty fucking

big too but i think the problem is not that it's a problem is that what you're inevitably going to come up against is that the conservatives are going to say oh you're going after the one black conservative justice oh okay that's what this is about that's what this is about and you're like hold on you're not about to do that when we saw you put up do that straight up racist circus with the confirmation hearings for, you know, Katonji Brown Jackson. Let's stop this. But, you know, that's where they're going. And I and I was reading a few places where they're trying to really make sure like Clarence Thomas is almost like has that. Appeal or that like mythos like Ruth Bader Ginsburg did for, for you know big d democrats like they want they want people to feel like they're like that's our guy but yeah i mean i just went to fox news just to

like triple check that they aren't covering this at all and the top story is unearthed emails i was like what make alarming revelation what about cdc's covet 19 school reopening guidance so don't nothing to see here yeah all right let's um actually switch gears really quick uh to talk about this this okay cupid polling that came out that has been widely discussed especially because it sort of aligns with other polls that have come from like dating sites when they're just trying to do a quick vibrational check on the users of the apps and their services. And this latest sort of survey that they did with their users, you know, they stumbled upon an issue that unites and divides potential mates more than anything, which turns out it's climate change. They say climate change or climate denial, quote quote was the biggest deal breaker

for users on the popular dating app surpassing differences on gun control abortion and other issues over the past year the app has asked 250 000 people if it was important that a potential paramour care about the planet and 90 said it was so that's pretty good 90 of people are like yeah if you don't fucking acknowledge earth death like in general how are you gonna like be good at anything that involves paying attention to me or having a future and it makes sense because considering that around 45 of young people in a recent study in the lancet said that like 45 of young people have had like emotional distress over the state of climate change and looking at the dire fucking straits we're in and like the lack of movement around anything, not only has it negatively impacted their emotions, but just impacted their ability

to enjoy just their day-to-day life because it's something that's like looming in the back of their head. And I'm like, okay, yeah, that, that makes sense. You don't want something that you're freaking, it's like racism, right? If you're like, I don't want to be with somebody who's like, racism's not real. I'm like, well, we're not looking at the same fucking universe. So I get the idea too for something like climate change that is so, it's an existential threat that people are looking for this kind of overlap. It's interesting that it ranks higher than certain other issues that they like that's what yeah like you said abortion is like less but i guess yeah because if you're not religious then you're like sure yeah

yeah hey i mean this is just a snapshot you know I'm not an OKCupid or nothing like that. So I can't speak to, you know, the clientele that they have. And I also care about the planet. I care about climate change. You know, I you know, I want this planet to survive for my great, great, great, great, great, great grandchildren i'll never know but right hey you know listen you know if if if we about to get down and she like you know i don't think the earth is warming i'm still gonna tap that ass and then you know i probably won't come back you know what i'm saying i probably won't come back but get the fuck out of here what do you mean oh like a relationship formulate i'm trying to

formulate a joke in my head and maybe you guys can help me with this there's something to a this is a new version of hot or not you know this is like some kind of the like i can't quite come up with what i want to say but you you get it okay right i get what you're saying how do we i'm just saying like what page what Paige said. No, I... This is on the... If there's a lot of stuff you can say in the bedroom, like, that would make me be like, all right, we got to go. And climate change is

probably lower on that list. Well, yeah. I kind of feel like these people taking this survey just, there's also an element of, like, wanting to look like a good person, you know? Being like, I would never date somebody if they said that. They're like, I'm currently in a relationship with a diesel engine. But that's a whole other story.

But that is complicated. And, you know, we have a history. Yeah. And it was like, it was my grandpa's truck. And, like, that's a whole other, like, hour of story. Don't worry about it. But the thing like you're saying though this isn't you do kind of have to look at this in its context right because

these aren't necessarily indicative of the entire country these are people who are on a dating app and users tend to skew like the average age is around 32 33 they're typically living in cities because those are the people mostly using that are on like okcube or other dating apps and also to to your point jakees they're not looking just for this smash they're looking for an eternal life of smashing so i get you look who among us hasn't heard some weird shit that you don't agree with and you're like well i'm not gonna let this like honestly i'll compromise my beliefs in this moment because i don't want to be alone right now as the world is ending by the way you know right yeah yeah you're with a person and you're debating why the world's ending as it's ending yeah yeah they're fucking hot though so this is just the the person that literally

literally the world is ending around you and the person you're with is like but this is just a natural cycle that the earth goes through this has happened before right and it's actually getting cooler so global warming is like confused like that's not what's happening no this is a nuclear winter basically what we're experiencing and that's and they said it was warming right so it'll get hot again and it's like you girls are always cold. So I don't even know. Don't steal my hoodie apocalypse. So, you know, when you look at like sort of the gap between like men and women who are like looking at this, there isn't much of a difference. Like both men and women that were surveyed in this were saying like, yes, it's important where they look asking non-binary people. Maybe not so much because this is a you know it's okay cupid it's not they're not necessarily have like maybe the most inclusive polling infrastructure but when you look at this though there's a lot of people like in a few articles talking about this polling stuff they bring up

this concept of like petro-mascul masculinity that there's this inherent interconnectedness between like sexism climate denial and authoritarian politics not that it's like a nailed on thing but it is something that you see intersect a lot and i think you see that already with the kinds like big truck culture you know like trucks are basically almost exclusively marketed towards like men i know people who buy trucks who don't even they're not even in like doing some fucking hard construction shit they just like a big fucking truck and that's that's fine that's their shit but like you know like rolling coal and like drill baby drill all this shit have all these sort of like you know like they're they're they have this masculine energy to them or they're being presented as sort of masculine ideals like

if you blow fucking black exhaust out of your car that you're more of a man than someone who drives a fucking hybrid right but that is true though miles that is just true what you just said yeah you're well and look we saw marjorie taylor green say it herself electric cars are gay okay so i mean listen she's she's the authority right you know she's elected for a reason right right to be the arbiter of what is masculine and not and you also like look at these like truck commercials too like you almost think that having like biceps the size of christmas hams were like a fucking prerequisite to owning like a gigantic truck or whatever. Not to say that everybody who drives a truck is bought in on this, but that's just the way certain things are like marketed. Right. And you even look at how like when the

Green New Deal was was being touted, everyone immediately focused their energy like AOC is a fucking witch who's going to take away my big monster truck tires and hamburgers. And I hate this shit. And you can already see like how, you know, like how Greta Thunberg is even constantly in the crosshairs of like conservative, like hyper misogynist, conservative movements and shit like that. That you're kind of like, oh, yeah, there is this sort of you see it kind of swirling together. That you're kind of like, oh, yeah, there is this sort of you see it kind of swirling together. There is this interesting thing that it even affects the idea that like caring about the earth is like feminine or less masculine. There is a Penn State study that found that like cishet men were reluctant to engage in, quote, eco-friendly behaviors like carrying reusable shopping bags for fear of appearing feminine or gay. reusable shopping bags for fear of appearing feminine or gay the more important it was to a man that he be perceived as straight the more wary he was about engaging in these small acts of care

for the planet wait a minute so they're saying that it's gay to um have like like shopping bags like when you buy shit is that what they're saying this this poll has found that it's clear that there is a group of men whose masculinity is so fragile to enter a supermarket with a reusable bag. Hey, is that gay, fellas? Now, see, you know, times have changed, man, because back when we were younger, Miles and Paige, you know, to being being a real man was I'm going to carry 30 bags of groceries into the house in one trip you know and now you can't even have bags no more i'll just carry everything loose look at you using bags keep moving these goal posts man shit my arms ain't that big no more also for like someone bags pile up you know before i was using reusable bags you would have like a whole section of your house was all these loose fucking bags you came home with and you know what

the fuck to do with them eventually i'm gonna need to put a wet bathing suit in this because right exactly i might someone someone might have muddy shoes that they can take their wet vans home in this bag but you might it's not always yourself and need to set your clothes on fire uh you need a bag example right so it's it Right. So it's not that caring about the earth makes you feminine. But again, that's just an interesting sort of dimension that people are like sort of looking at. It's like this idea like the very, very rigid, sad thinking concept of masculinity that like thinking of the future and what is like good for the health of the earth makes you less of a man it's kind of similar to like how men are more likely generally to like self-medicate and not like seek help it's just like it feels like a another element of that of like there's nothing wrong like we right i'm fine i'm fine are you fine like why are we carrying bags to the

grocery store i don't know what's going on they're like you don't want to carry bags i don't want to talk about carrying that i don't even i'm not carrying a purse into the grocery store like yeah keep wearing that face diaper what all right maybe they should put something on the bags that they sell at the grocery store. Something masculine. Maybe flames. Something to make it. Like reusable bags like an eagle with a four foot dick or some shit. That's a great example.

A four foot dick. And it's coming rockets. You want to feel masculine? Let me hold this bag with a bear dick on it. With a big ass bird dick. I mean, dude, people already want to put a ball sack on their truck. So why not?

You know, but that's just that shit. That shit's tight. Not because I wish my toe hitch was like a like a chody dick on the back of my car. The fuck are you talking about? We don't hear the term chode enough anymore you know thanks for bringing it back i mean i don't know i felt like that was a very west coast thing you know okay new tv show west coast customs right exactly hey and i'm ex to the c exhibit and're going to check out this sick

new cho. We're hooking up her cho. They got the PlayStation in the back. All right, player. Exhibit? Not actually from California. We used to be a proper country back when MTV was pimping our rise and showing our cribs.

Do you ever drive by the West Coast Customs right there by the empire center oh yeah in burbank yes yeah just sigh i yeah for okay so for people who aren't from i know a lot of people like man some people they talk about la too much so here's a little insight folks the west coast customs shop i don't know if it was there during the filming of the show it may have been but it's in burbank california and it's right down the street from this big ass shopping center called the empire center where it's like the best buy and all that shit is in burbank walmart target everything exactly and you drive by like

whenever i drive by it i fucking i slow down for a second to like trying to see if i can see something happening in there and i'm like what the fuck am I doing? All they do is just give you tuned up Ford Focuses out of there. Yeah. I've never been. I should go in and just check. I've lived a mile away from it for 10 years and I've never been to it. I pass it up all the time. I should go to it one day.

See what they can do with my votes back. What was that one dude's name? Mike? Wasn't there a guy named Big Mike or something? Oh, Killer Mike? Oh, no, Big Mike. Yeah, Big Mike. Mad Mike. What?

Mad Mike? I think he died. Fat Mike or Big Mike? The Mike? Mike died. Yeah, Mike died. I mean, a lot of these reality shows that we grew up on, a lot of people who were on them are now dead.

It's a pretty huge bummer. It's very sad. It's very sad it's very sad yeah i was like watching robin big on pluto tv over the pandemic and i was like having such a great time i was like i forgot about this show and then i remembered and i was like oh yeah the chris i think that's what i'm thinking about rob died rob from rob no big yeah I don't know, man. Rob's still. Everybody on MTV is dead. They all go, man. Anyone on Pluto TV, probably.

Is dead. Q's still there. Mad Mike. Okay, he's still there, I think. Okay. He bailed on the show. Then he started on the Galpin Autosports. Blah, blah, blah.

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You've got an imagination. Jaquese, I know you like movies. You've got an imagination. Do you ever watch films? And have you ever watched like a human, like a Mission Impossible type film, a Jack Reacher, a James Bond? I'd be like, yeah, I think I could pull off that stunt. Or like, yeah, like a Mission Impossible type film? A Jack Reacher, James Bond? I'm like, yeah, I think I could pull off that stunt or like, yeah, I think I could jump all the time. You know what I mean?

I think I would. I think I would try and die immediately. Right. That's what I say. Yeah. No, I think I would. I think I would live as a kid. Did you?

I don't know. I would always kind of look at stuff and be like, I wonder if I could actually do that. Like, I wonder like Indiana Jones films used to fuck with me. Like I remember putting a fucking pole in the spokes of my own bike because I saw Indiana Jones do that to a Nazi in a movie and he flew off the bike. And I was like, I got to see if that shit works. It worked. And I damn near fucking busted my skull on the pavement. Wait a minute. You you put it while you were riding you like stuck a fucking pole in your yeah put a stick in the front yeah no i wasn't doing all that shit oh yeah i wasn't doing all that yeah people think i'm smart i'm not okay you should you should you

should have did the one where indiana jones shot an unarmed man that was a much easier one that's what i want to do i want to do the shit where i'm not i where you know i i'm not looking at the hero getting hurt and be like man i wonder what it would be like to get hurt i was just more like i was in my mind i was like man stop capping indiana jones that shit don't work and then i was like fuck i don't know what the fuck i thought and yeah it's too of, yeah, shooting the unarmed person. I mean, look, I can't, I don't have time to do the three weeks of police training to get a gun so I can shoot an unarmed person. Come on now.

I got, I got games to play. Weed to smoke. But, you know, so I ask you this because there is this, this, this casting call went out for this new game show that i think amazon is putting out with some other production company but it's essentially testing people's 007 gangster with like physical fucking tests i'll just read this to you uh this is the sort of conceit of this uh this upcoming show quote it will take place at historic locations scooped from seminal bond films meaning the Icelandic glaciers from Die Another Day and Florida's Seven Mile Bridge from License to

Kill. They're all fair game. Contestants will compete for a cash prize of one million pounds. Hey, because, you know, this is keeping a James Bond or one point three million dollars. Although passing physical obstacles will be a major component. Ideal contestants must also demonstrate their intelligence by answering questions correctly to qualify for the next round we don't know exactly what the tests are but this is i just i like i like anything that

takes somebody's like hubris and puts it to the test like remember joe's versus pros they used to be on spike tv oh not very vaguely okay so joe's versus pros were these like dudes who were like yo i'm the best fucking hooper at my fitness club or like i was i was a you know i was a college prospect in football and they're like okay go against marshall falk you know what i mean they're like okay play one-on-one with brian scalabrini or something you know what i mean and they would just get cooked and it was always fun like this guy's like i'm the best hitter in my local baseball league and they're like all right go against this retired pitcher and they would just get fucked up and it was like all this show to kind

of humble these people who had you know bigger ideas for what they were able to do so in my mind this is like i can already see like the the goofy contestants who are like way too confident in their skills and get all fucked up in the first couple of challenges. This is putting me in the mind of like Ninja Warrior. Right. This is a show that I used to watch back in the day. I love shows like that. We're just like normal people trying to do outstanding feats. Right. Failing. Right. So, yeah, bring it on. I'll check out the episode. feats right and failing right yeah so yeah bring it on i'll check out the episode too that's the reason why i did uh tough mother because i would be all you know it's no secret i watched the challenge yeah and i was like man i can do that shit i can do a final like all the

shit they'd be doing in there because they do like movie type like stunts and stuff for their challenges and things like that that's kind of what it's based off of. So I was like, all right, what's the closest thing? Because I'm too old to be on MTV now and nowhere near attractive enough. But I was like, what's the closest thing I can do? Tough Mudder, let's go. So hell yeah, I would do this. I want to, where to sign up?

You got the sign up link? That's funny that you bring up the challenge because I was like, I know Jaquise would, this would be up your alley just to try your James Bond skills. Oh, hell yeah. I don't know if they're, like, are you supposed to, like, clap a machine gun on a jet ski or something? On the challenge? Yeah, no, no, no. Like, on this show.

Like, if you're really going to do your James Bond shit, like, how, like, I can't imagine it's really firearm centric because I would just present a huge safety risk. You're like, yeah. And these amateurs and guns do from moving vehicles. But the alcoholism challenge. Right. Exactly. They're like more than all the women you got killed. Challenge. How many women can you sleep with? Challenge. Oh, there we go. Actually, no, this show is all bad. They're like, how many women can you disrespect challenge as James Bond? How many authorities can you, you know, not pay attention to?

The challenge, though, like, do you think, because look, I like the challenge, too. And I was texting you because I started binging. I watched. I cleared up. I had dead weight. I told was texting you because I started binging. I watched. I cleared up. I had dead weight. I told you over the summer, I stopped watching when DM passed away. Because that got too real for me. I was like, man, DM passed away.

That was my like CT and heard. Wow. That was a love story for millennials. You know what I mean? And then when she passed away, I stopped watching. And then I got back into it. And the same shit was going through my mind, Jaquese, where I i do one i'm like i could eat anything i'm not worried about any eating challenges i'll eat straight shit for a million i don't give a fuck like i'm i can do that

it's the it's like the long distance uphill running that terrifies me when i watch those challenges and like i see those especially in like the later ones are like, this is the hardest one of all time. And you got to go up and like run through the Sahara naked. I was like, OK, maybe not. But yeah. How did you feel going from I can do this to actually trying something like that? I mean, you know, if I was in my 20s, I probably would have been like I was like, hell, yeah, I can do this. I can do this. I can fucking do this. Just let me just get me on the field.

Now, in my 30s, my mindset is I can do this. I can do this. I just need about three or four months of training first. So like, you know, I've shifted my I've shifted my mindset where, you know, I can probably do some stuff, but I need to first see what exactly am I going to be doing and then train toward that. So when I get there, then I can do it, you know. So like that's where it is now. I had to train for it, you know, because if I would have just went out there willy nnilly i you know it's like tough mudder was like nine miles 25 obstacle courses i wouldn't have lasted on a third of that shit you know at loki they were like hey would you guys be open uh they're asking jack and i like would you want to would you want to be uh tough like do a tough mudder sponsorship they're like and and compete in the thing and jack and i like bro we'll die in the condition

we're in they're like i'll do that shit send them to me. And Jack and I were like, bro, we'll die in the condition we're in. They're like, I'll do that shit. Send them to me. There's like, well, they were like, there's one coming up next week. I'm like, the fuck out of here. I'm not going to do no Tough Mudder in one week. That's too short. We need training. Tell iHeart to go ahead and give me another podcast and have Tough Mudder sponsor me.

Right. And I'll be there. We'll do a new podcast called... And then I'll quit the podcast. As I call the challenge, the Cheugy Olympics, the Cheug Olympics for the old millennials.

And it's about two old-ass millennials trying to get their bodies right to do a challenge or a Tough Mudder or this James Bond show. I don't know. That's a good branded show. Come on, sales.

It is. It is. Ellensworth you went i mean you you gotta be there man just by proxy you were here you gotta be there you were here i mean i'm i'm i'm at the point where i can look at the first challenge and be like oh maybe i can do the first challenge i don't think i would be able to get past when you watch number two though when you watch ninja, okay, I could do the little uneven foot thing. I could get across that little uneven foot bridge. Maybe.

Right. Maybe. I really want to try and get up that wall. You know what I mean? That ramp wall. That's usually at the end of stage one. Oh, where you have to build up the momentum and run up and pull yourself. Like a half pipe?

Yeah. I can't do that. I got the bird chest. Tweet, tweet. I want to try. See, I just want to be humble. Tweet, tweet. want to be not gonna be able to do it i'm sorry well then maybe we'll just stick to the james bond shit i still want to do the aggro crag from guts oh you remember that shit class fuck i still want to do that shit i still want to do that i want to do that hell yeah want to do that. Hell yeah. I would do that.

I would even go Legends of the Hidden Temple. Come on, old mech. Yes. I don't care how culturally insensitive this shit is. Uh-huh. I'll kill that silver monkey, baby. Yeah. Doing all that exertion, getting all them jump scares to win like a stereo.

Right, exactly. Pretend you're in a video game. Or a bicycle. bicycle yeah a children's what you got was a translucent cord phone for your room plus a uh a four-night vacation from outrigger hotels contiki in hawaii it's like always like outrigger in hawaii giving you a vacation i remember the first time i saw that i went to hawaii and i saw like outrigger in Hawaii, giving you a vacation. I remember the first time I saw that I went to Hawaii and I saw the outrigger hotel. All I could think of was like this was a prize on every Nickelodeon show was to come to this hotel. And my wife was like, yo, what the fuck are you talking about?

I'm like, just let me have my elderly moment by myself. Yeah, I'm like, I'm here at the outrigger. Yeah, Nickelodeon timeshare. Alright, that's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show

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