The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 266 (Best of 3/13/23-3/17/23)

Episode Date: March 19, 2023

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get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of the weekly zeitgeist uh these are some of our favorite segments from this week all edited together into one uh non-stop infotainment laughstravaganza. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. In our third seat, another TDZ Hall of Famer, brilliant stand-up comedian you've seen on all the TVs and stages. It's Blair Sagan! Oh, what's up, the Daily Dyke guys? Oh, it's great to be back.

I miss you guys so much. Oh, my goodness. It's so great to have you back. What a combo we have. Hey, Blair. The booking gods. Hey! I know. What a surprise, Mr chris crofton

uh this is exciting this is i mean this is we'll see we'll see how this goes this is a concoction yeah hell of a hell of a friday aka monday i mean monday yes a lot of friday energy coming to you on this monday brilliant case of the Mondays today, if I could say so. That's right. The Monday scaries, people say that, don't they? Or Sunday scaries. What's Monday then? The Monday madness?

Just a case of the Mondays. Got a case that they just don't even come up with a word. Mordant Mondays? Manic Mondays? that seemed off to me my mondays are never manic they're another mausoleum monday yeah mausoleum monday is pretty good so yeah blair is like i i saw blair i met well i i don't know blair well i just know her from daily zeitgeist but i met her her through Johnny Pemberton pretty much.

And, well, at least he told me about her comedy and stuff. And anyway, I just am a big fan, and I'm a big fan of any comedy that fucking Blair does about food. I mean, I just wish she did whole specials about just food, and that's all. About French fries, shoestring fries. Blair's outrage about shoestring fries is one of my favorite fucking things. You want to humiliate me?

I mean, that's my favorite fucking show. And this is the job of the co-host, is that you talk about the favorite jokes that the guest has done and then do an impression of them. Is that right? Is that what you're supposed to do? That's usually how it kicks off. look i am so flattered i that you even remember that joke from a long time ago because i can barely remember what i had for breakfast this

morning so look i was only in feeling gratitude yeah i don't really like shoestring fries. My thing about them, honestly, is that you have to get a whole... It's humiliating, again, because you have to get a whole handful just to get the equivalent of one regular fry. It's like a horse eating hay. It's hell. It's horrible hell. I like it also just because it's like, how often? Are you hanging around roller rinks or something?

You know what I mean? Like, when is this coming up? You'd be surprised. There's so many dining restaurants. Oh, okay. Maybe that's, I got it wrong. Blair only eats at the finest steakhouses. Okay, you're talking about Palm Creek and all that junk.

Look, I do love a steakhouse. Let's be real. You're talking about amused bouches. Yes. I'm so sick of amused bouches. What is something from your search history? Okay, there's too much in my search history, and I actually maintain it. I

don't like being surveilled, but I do like my YouTube recommendation feed to be accurate. So this is the conundrum in which I find myself. And a recent search term, how to get between the terminals at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. This came out of a recent traumatic incident where I barely escaped from Florida. Every time I go to that state, it's very difficult to leave. And then my mere presence there is actually in violation of a lot of the new laws that Ron DeSantis and crew have passed. So I'm a crime in Florida, and so a fugitive and I'm trying to get out and they just try to drag me back in. And in this case, I was trapped in another state with a wonky governor, Dallas, because American Airlines decided they're just not in the flying business anymore.

They're in the shuffle you around to different broken planes business for 17 straight hours. business for 17 straight hours. Yep. Yeah, the options have become limited on the flying space. By the way, I was hoping that your search, you said how to, I thought you were going to say citizen. You're just like, what does that mean? I was like, this is very late to be Googling that, Baratunde. It's never too late to learn googling that baritone you know it's never too late okay it's never too late to

learn and grow all right so don't shame knowledge seeking yes that's a good point or the full search is how to citizen legal in florida question mark need to know banging on door what were you doing and was it just like personal business in florida or i have no personal business in florida no this this was a financial obligation and i was there actually making my pbs show america outdoors we are doing our second season and we were filming in florida along the swanee river it was a really beautiful time. If you don't count the food options on the side of the road, the fact that Dollar General has Monopoly on all retail space.

But the people, the nature, the connection to the river. The nature in Florida is underrated. It's really beautiful. It really is. It really is. I was humbled by my time there, honestly. I was in North Florida where I have not spent really much time in my life. So it was a voyage of discovery. And I was ready to come home. And Dallas-Fort Worth didn't want to let you. American Airlines at Dallas-Fort Worth. We cannot just blame the worst airport in the country. We must also assign responsibility to the worst airline.

the worst airport in the country, we must also assign responsibility to the worst airline. It's their hub though, right? They're like, we want you to come here. We want to see, we want you to see what we've done with the place. Well, it was, it was, it was exacerbated by the fact that I've had, I have experiencing some hip pains and hip injury. And so the size of the airport truly becomes like a health hazard. And you know, it's, everything's bigger in Texas. Like it's not just words people say, it's like design principles for worse living. And these, these folks were just determined to, to put me through my paces. My pace was off. So the whole enterprise was physically and emotionally quite, quite painful. I did, there were moments of light, you know, some people helped me out.

I had fellow passengers helping carry stuff. I had dudes with the carts helping me try to move through that airport at times. So all, all was not lost. And, uh, and we started, uh, I guess it would call it a hate group. Uh, like we hate American airlines together. And we started, I guess it would be called a hate group. We hate American Airlines together. And so that was, it just feels like the one hate group I could support. I definitely don't tend to support hate groups, but this one just feels really justified

based on evidence. And I'm all about evidence-based choices. So I hope they're not a sponsor of your show. They are, but it's okay. I mean, they usually give us a pretty wide berth. Like an airship should. Yeah. But yeah, I feel like everything in Texas is just contingent, like designed contingent on the idea that you have access to a pickup truck at all times.

I thought I was going to have to move there. Getting from gate to gate. They're like, well, you're going to want to hop in your pickup. What do you mean? You don't travel with a pickup? Actually, my life would have been easier if I'd had a pickup truck and like many guns, right? Yeah, always.

And that felt like the Texas way. There was a moment where I was like, maybe I'm just supposed to live here. Maybe I should get a truck and like three guns and just sorry california we're done yeah well this is where i live now that's always a good feeling when you're traveling and your brain just says maybe this is just where we live now that was because i was like dude it was a 52 minute layover became 17 hours. Yes. Like we got the free hotel thing happened. Yeah. And, but at every turn, every turn, something went wrong. Something like the hotel I went to, I thought I was smart.

I made a reservation using some credit card points. Cause I was like, everybody's going to be going to the free hotel. I've got points. I'm going to stay at the hotel right at the airport. Cause no one thinks of that. Right. I've got points. I'm going to stay at that hotel right at the airport because no one thinks of that. And I get there and I'm so excited and I have my reservations on the phone. I can prepare for the backlash,

for the resistance, for the squashing of myself. I was like, here's my reservation code. We're good. And she's like, that's for tomorrow night. And I was like, no, no, it's for today, March 11th. Yet today, because

of the beauty of time and the amount of it that American Airlines wasted, today had become Saturday. Oh, no. So I get to my hotel room at like 2.15 in the morning. I have to get up at 6 to try to make the next flight out. We get on the plane. It's the third

plane we've been on. And the crew was like, we got you. We don't know what happened with those jokers last night. We got you. And we're like, okay, great. Yeah. We like high five. Like we think the war is over.

You know, like everybody's like, people are kissing in the aisle. Like it's great. You know, babies are being conceived. And the captain has to come on the microphone. And he's like, folks, I can't believe I have to say this, but something wrong with the plane. So we're going to need everybody to get off. Yeah.

Go to terminal five miles from here and try again. We will get you home. And at this point, babies are, you know, screaming profanities. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, Google helped a little. This is helping me understand that airport because the last time I was there,

I saw a barbershop in it, like in the terminal. And I was like, no, that's a business for regular life. But if you live there, you do need a haircut. That makes sense. Yeah.

There's like Home Depots in there. I do remember seeing the hotel and being like, what? I guess I could see, but that is a bad sign. A hotel should not be that close. You shouldn't be like

Gate 37A, Gate 37B, Hyatt Regency. Exactly. No. No, these are not the same choices. It's been bad enough for long enough that they built a hotel and a barbershop. They know, like the whole hotel is TSA approved. Yes.

Yeah. No nail clippers in the entire hotel. What is something you think is overrated? I was, it's so interesting because I was looking at these and I was like, man, this is going to be difficult for me because I actually have a list of things that annoy me. Nice. Let them know. I was like, what's the first thing on my list? And I think overrated, the first thing on my list definitely is the term Latinx. I'm so tired of hearing it. And I just did a talk on it also at Redline where I

kind of had to like share some information where I'm like, I really don't understand why we're kind of persisting in this space. And I don't think a lot of people really are having that discussion. The majority of people in the community don't really use it. So I find it's absolutely annoying to me that it's still here. It's sticking around and it's everywhere. I can't escape it. Right. Is the word that you prefer is Latino for broad or what is the preferred word for you? For me, I prefer to just be called Puerto Rican and Cuban. Sure.

It's much more descriptive so that you understand what my cultural nuance is, my milieu. Yes, totally. So the term Latino in general to me or Hispanic or all of these other terms that jumble us all in together, just continue this process of us being all seen as the same, right? Continuing that monolith. So for me, it's kind of like Latinx, it's like, you know, you've heard it, right? You can shine a turd, but it's still a turd.

You're trying to modernize a term that's already like super offensive and messed up. So like, I really don't understand the need for the hegemonic nature of it, right? For it to now have an English ending. Have the woke version of the hegemonic insult in turn. Yeah. Yes. We're good here, okay? I put, yeah.

Well, that's good. Yeah. I think informative. It's good to hear about that because I've heard a little bit about it in general. Yeah, that it's sort of been imposed from outside or brought in by people who didn't ask for new words or additional words that aren't as helpful. Right. And there was already like a gender inclusive word in Spanish. So Latine already existed. word in Spanish, so Latinx already existed.

So it was interesting to see the X kind of get thrown in where you're like, dude, we don't use the X ever. It's there, but shh, don't talk about it. How did you put it at the end of the word? This is so confusing. And it just

seems like English now is really starting to meld in, and we've kind of moved from a new level of Spanglish to just the bastardry of these languages together. Yeah. Wow. What is something you think is underrated? Something I think is underrated is this is going to be controversial. Checking your luggage when you're flying.

I usually carry on. I checked. I had a bunch of bags, so I checked them all. And I don't know what I've been avoiding this whole time. Like, it went fine. It was nice to not have to... I had a connection, so it was nice to not have to schlep bags from here to there.

This whole time I've been crapping on people who aren't able to get their stuff into a carry-on. I think I'm check bags for life now. It's really hit or miss it's when when it doesn't go well that's like they lose the the bag the bag takes an hour to arrive as it did on my last flight that i took where we checked a bag it's it's a bummer. It's really tough to just be like kind of waiting there with everybody that you were just on the plane with and never wanted to see again.

Yeah. Right, right, right. You're like, I'm standing next to this guy who is way too open with his feet. He's like, while we're waiting here, I might as well take my shoes off again. Yeah, let me learn more about you, bro. What kind of bag do you store your socks in?

Because I think you just have the one pair. But also, like, I got to say, I'm with Bridget on this. I'm team Bridget on the checking bags when it works out because I'm a sucker. And I love that moment for me it always feels like the uh climactic moment of a rom-com you know when i see my bag again and i'm like oh we've been you know we've been hundreds of miles away and here you are coming toward me

and i know it's you i knew from the first you know what i mean like you know i'm like hugging the bag and uh yeah yeah i don't know anthropomorphizing maybe i don't think my bag cares about me the way i care about no don't be so hard on yourself don't say that ben your bag looks you do you get do you guys tie a little ribbon? How do you know it at first sight? Because I do feel like bags have evolved. The way that nature keeps evolving into crabs, like animals keep evolving into crabs, I feel like all bags have evolved into the same black, gray, hard-bodied, rectangular suitcase that looks like it could have been made by you know one of the three internet bag companies do you guys have a little little piece of spirit little piece of jazz on there i do i have a very distinctive stickers so i usually travel with two bags one is like very distinctive no one would ever mistake it for theirs. It's like bright orange.

Definitely mine. The other is the classic black away bag, which I think I did get for free from for like making a podcast ad. Like everybody has it. We all did. Everybody who had a podcast got that bag. We all had podcasts. So everybody has that bag now. And it's a good bag.

It's durable. I've had it for years. I'm like, like truly it is like the day you start a podcast it shows up at your house with your microphone but so i have to have all kinds of distinctive stickers on it right because there there are so many of those bags and i i also uh to that question i i like to have like i have no stickers on a car because i feel like that's uh presumptuous somehow. People are already driving. They don't want to have to learn more about me.

I'll just use my turn signals and be quiet. But like with the bag, especially because they're relatively ubiquitous and I'm partially colorblind, I have a bunch of like just travel stickers. The ones they do from when you check a bag and I just haven't cleaned it. So I'm always thinking, oh, yeah, there's the one, the beat up shitty one. I knew you from the first. Welcome back, bud. when people have you know sometimes people make a statement everybody makes a statement right at different times and i kind of love seeing weird bags in the baggage claim you know i'm like oh this guy either is super into snowboarding or maybe it's a cello right right one thing i do know is he has very specific views on you you know, Tibet back in the 90s. Sure. From is like free Tibet thing. I think that's cool. I think that's cool. And if you check a bag, like to your point, Bridget, you can, especially if you have a connecting flight,

it's like the logistics is just sort of magical. I could never do that. I could never figure out how to follow every, you know, watch every falling sparrow from like one airplane to the next, but it's impressive. Yeah. Ben, to your point about like, you don't put stickers on your cars.

Do you ever see one of those cars that just has way too many stickers on it? Where it's like, you are trying to tell us way too many things, even if they're things that i like or agree with at a certain point it's like it makes you're advertising too much to the world even if it's things that i am aligned with it's too much yeah yeah it's too much and they're always like usually include get off my ass and it's like well you clearly want me somewhere close to you so that i can read the dissertation that you've put together there those stickers the bumper stickers are like so i don't know they do not have a fact uh industry-wide fact checker i will say because

there are quotes attributed to einstein that i'm i'm pretty sure are like Van Halen lyrics or something. What do you guys think about vanity plates? Oh, I used to have one. What did you say? This is so cheesy. It said love to teach because I was a teacher at the time and I really did love to teach.

That's cool. Yeah, that's a good one. I like the ones where I know i'm i'm never going to condone being high in traffic so for the purposes of this story i was riding shotgun and i got to the point where i thought regular license plates were vanity plates that I just wasn't smart enough to understand. I was like, H4, no, no, no, keep following that guy. I got to write this down. Follow that man. Decode.

Also, there was a study that I don't know if it's been replicated widely, but it's an interesting thought. There was a study that the people who are most likely to engage in road rage incidents were it had nothing to do with like you know so some of the things that you might like whether they were in a pickup truck or like a different kind of truck which would have been my first guess but it was actually people who had bumper stickers were like that was the only statistically significant differentiator between like how likely they were to get into a road rage incident.

And like I think the theory was that if you have bumper stickers, you view your car as like an extension of your personhood more than anything else. of your personhood more than anything else. And so like you view it as a personal insult if you're cut off as opposed to just a thing that happens to everyone, you know? Oh, wow. This is like one of the reasons why I don't drive is because I feel like I would be a road rage person. Like I drive a little bit, but I really don't drive a lot.

When I'm behind the wheel, like if somebody is trying to merge, like kind of box me out to merge, I will kill us both. Like I don't care. Like we will die in this car. I believe that. I believe the bumper sticker to road rage correlation. Yeah, it's like you probably feel much more like this is my, this car is my property and an extension of me and I will protect it, which I hate to say is like an instinct that I get. And I wonder if they I've never had a bumper sticker, but I do wonder if when you have a bumper sticker, you start assuming people are driving a certain way around you based on your bumper stickers, like your defensive.

You're like, oh, you don't like Einstein. You don't believe that I ran a half marathon? Well, we're like, I'm going to take this to the death. You're, like, laying on your horn, and to yourself, you're just muttering, well, this guy doesn't fucking coexist. That's for sure. I'll tell you one thing.

I see it, and this is just further cementing my no bumper stickers on my car situation. You know, it's great. You're right, though. It's a lot. I think people always want to sort of tell a story, right? Because we are the stories we tell ourselves. But to your point, how many? Should there be a limit should somebody like write write to our

local representatives and say hey i know there's a lot of stuff going on but like three bumper stickers max you know yeah like let's bring people together i don't know i don't know i believe there should be a limit on bumper stickers and also signs in your yard like again even even if it signs of things that i agree with it's like we get it three is three is plenty you don't need you don't need to like let's let's keep it reasonable three it's a diminishing return exactly you know and some people like try to build like there's houses that are like we do this this week and we're gonna like i don't know it's it it reminds me of like those like many library things that I think are cool. But I think a lot of people are like, this is how we build community.

And it's like, well, you're not really interacting with anyone. It feels like. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I'm glad those exist. I just don't know that they're the answer. This just did Jack O'briett library hater

i told you that was an offline thought i'm still workshopping so i mean jack it's not like you ever see like crowds of people hanging around a free little library you know talking about the book we have one like right next like in between our neighbor's house and our house. And it's, yeah, you don't, you don't see people like hang out there, but you see people like walk up by themselves. It, it gets a lot more traffic than I would have expected. It's pretty popular. It's definitely useful. It's just, yeah, people don't hang together at the, at the free yard library. At the free yard library. We got, I do want to give a quick shout out to nothing to relish here in Atlanta. An activist artist,

friend of mine named alien Loy has created on the heels of the book banning stuff that's happening around the country has created a, what, what she's calling a little contentious free library, which is all bands books. Oh, I like that yeah yeah that's great way cooler than me uh but but yeah it's like i you know it's it's a real problem if you're preventing people from being able to encounter knowledge you know at a formative age then

yeah i don't know yeah that might different in the future that might be the like we'll all have to have little libraries where we give out books that are banned elsewhere because yeah their schools aren't doing it in some states so all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and get into the taco bell metaverse wedding Taco Bell Metaverse Wedding. 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

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How do you, what do you see in your mind's eye? I went there once. So I know, but I just see like rivers and bikes and people walking in those waffles with powdered sugar on them. But I do think it's a majestic place of beauty where it's like, sort of feels like it's from a children's story.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I picture like fucking people in exercise clothing, like hot people in exercise clothes, clothing, like walking by canals and talking about like, you know, how much health care they have. Yeah. Just going to the doctor. much health care they have yeah just going to the doctor yeah like i think i'm going to go to the dentist today because my tooth is not really aching but it's starting to like i can feel something coming on yeah do you think i should go hans and hans is like yes i think you should go

it's free to drop in at the dentist maybe maybe go for a twofer and get a get a health checkup yeah and then also like windmills i guess you know with like some guy who's like wise inside it or some lady who's wise with like a hump and they're like don't forget to use moisturizer rhodion or whatever that stuff you were saying was rhodesia or whatever it is rhodiola so yeah i i feel like that is in my brain. And like, I assumed that was always the way it was. And apparently during the like 50s, 60s, 70s, they bought into the American style like city building and they like bought in hard.

They like filled up the, like some of their canals with cement and replaced the canals with like highways and there's just like these pictures where it's just like four lanes of traffic in the middle of these cities that we now associate with like bike riding and canals wait so they changed that they like they they removed the cement from the canals yeah Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whoa! And what happened? What made them come to some radical decision to change everything?

So, like, among things like, you know, it just being a nightmare to live in a city that is just jam-packed. Like you walk out your front door and a car whizzes by. Yeah, like here. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like here. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like here. Yeah, yeah. So people, like children, were getting hit by cars all the time. Oh, my God. And, you know, the air was, like, disgusting. But it was, like, a—I guess it was 1971.

The daughter of—in 1971, 3, 3000 people were killed by cars. 500 of the people killed that year were children. And that probably happened today in America. Right. Yeah. I mean, they like. So today we have three times the number of automobile deaths that they do and like per capita.

And the reason for that. So one of the children that was killed was the daughter of a journalist and he wrote a front page article that with the headline stop murdering our children and that just like that it wasn't like everyone was like yes you're right we should stop murdering children like it was a long process but like and there there were other factors like it was there was like gas prices started shooting up because it was the 70s so so i can't imagine a reality like that where gas costs too much yeah you guys are paying like seven dollars right now right yeah it's fucking crazy yeah you know what it is here in tennessee like 350 yeah which is still like too much yeah it is but like yeah

that's how they they keep it low and the they can they jack it up for liberals because liberals can be like oh well you know it's because of this and that maybe because of supply chains and you know like but you know republicans are like they have to keep it artificially low in like red states because otherwise the red states will go crazy because they just are like, God tells us the gas prices. Yeah. Who's the, you know, like, it's just funny if the gas prices were $7 here because everyone here is a conservative, they would, they would, they would storm the Capitol again. Yeah.

Just every day. Just keep storming. Because they're like, Jesus names the gas prices. Who is interfering with the, with Jesus? Yeah. With gas prices. Who is interfering with Jesus? Yeah. With gas Jesus. Yeah, it really is. It seems to be that simple.

The companies were just like, we like money. And the pandemic slowed down how much money was coming in. So when it opened back up, we are going to charge more money for everything. That really seems to be the more distance we get from it like all the all the gas companies are having just like record-breaking profits but like the reason i like this story is so interesting is because like it just i assume i think we like tend to get focused on like the way things are and assume they've always been that way. And, like, there's this one drawing of, like, what Amsterdam was supposed to look like.

And it looks exactly like a city in Texas. Like, it's just, you know, being choked by, like, all these lanes of, like, highways and stuff like it or like the bqe like in you know like parts of new york that are just like all these highway interchanges and shit but they like were able to back away from that because like that that article led to a movement people started like protesting and just like laying down in the streets and like you And after gas prices shot up, it became fashionable for the prime minister, urged people to use less energy, change their lifestyles. He announced a series of car-free Sundays, which is my favorite idea. Can we just try a car-free Sunday fucking once in America?

a car free sunday like fucking once in america and i feel like people would see that their lives are like livable and it's cool to for your kids to just be able to like run wherever they want and not be worried about getting like run over by a fucking car that would never happen that would never happen because that would be like you're taking away our right to drive yeah like what do you think we're closer to the a car free sunday or the actual purge happening in the united states i feel like we're 100 closer to the purge. The only way we could have a car-free Sunday is when the aliens finally come down. And if they say, you have to have a car-free Sunday. But yeah.

I hope they come. They introduce really moderate incremental changes. They're like, guys, just hear us out. We're not saying you have to. We're just saying car free Sundays, one day, every couple months.

Car free Sundays. And you can only use your phone one hour a day, except for, for phone calls. Yeah. I'm taking pictures. Those would be some bad-ass aliens. The cities also began like passing policies to discourage driving.

They like made parking in city centers super expensive they removed some parking spots entirely they reduced speed limits so like there are things that can be done that have worked in the past like they turn some areas into car-free zones like all all these things that like seem completely impossible like we think of the united states they're impossible in this country uniquely because this country thinks that cars are like an extension of their fucking like blair just said like freedom you know it's like toxic men i mean i think about toxic masculinity constantly now because of what's happening in tennessee with the drag show ban and and the fuck the abortion ban.

I mean, this state. I mean, I just moved back here because I could afford it better, you know, but it's like it's a nightmare. And it's all these fucking men, these alcoholic men who are running things. I mean, like we keep electing alcoholics. We're fucked. Everybody in Tennessee is an obvious drunk. Every person, every person every member of the legislature i mean that's the culture here they all fucking drink their heads off you know what drinking makes you do it makes you fucking crazy i used to be an alcoholic i know you're a nut you make laws about crazy shit because you

think you're i don't know like a human meteor like alcohol makes you grandiose that's the last thing you want in a from here yeah in a leader i mean you know but i was thinking about cars you know that that is what men feel more powerful in a car than they feel it's the only place now they're like at least i can't get canceled in my car like no one lets you know i can fucking ride around with my fucking dick out and fucking four-wheel drive and all this bullshit and it's just it's just men are so have been told there are only two ways to be mad or or or madder i don't even know you know like there's two ways a man can be calm or mad the only time i'm calm is in my truck and if you try and take away my fucking truck then i'm'm gonna go fucking crazy, because that's my only other setting.

Yeah. Well, I think I always say this on this show, but, like, conservatives, like, their whole thing in their head is that they are against big government, but then now there's all this, like, insane

control coming over in all people's lives but if they if you had the car thing it wouldn't even be about what the issue is about it would be about taking away that something they can't do there's no self-awareness but i guess our government with the two were always it's just about winning at point. It's never actually about what's best for anyone. It's about beating the other party. And aside from that, I also think that there should be, when the aliens come down, that they should ban the politicians from having Twitter. I'm still fucking annoyed at these politicians on Twitter acting like every tweet is a goddamn wrestling promo.

Like, I miss the old days when they were just fake smiling in public like freaking Richard Nixon and doing bad shit in private. Like, I don't want to see them openly just being nuts every day. It's like terrifying to

the human spirit. Yeah, it's like the joker they're all like the the joke you know like everyone tries to out joker the other one well how about if we outlaw you know i don't know i don't know what they you know everything you know they just want to outlaw everything just to out out outlaw their other joker you know it's like you think you're the joker watch this yeah richard nixon by the way when last time there was inflation he just came on and was like companies if companies try to raise prices for the next month they'll be like under arrest like it something that today would be seen as like

the most socialist thing that's ever been done. Yeah. Everything. Everything is socialist if it isn't mean as hell. By the way, unrelated a little bit, but that Star series on Watergate with Julia Roberts was absolutely incredible. Was it really? Yeah. I enjoyed the hell out of it. It was so good.

It was really about Martha. La la la la la. la but what i forgot her two other names ladybird johnson is that no martha um i forget the name did julia roberts play richard nixon no she i want that kind of casting so bad i want that kind of casting so bad. I want that kind of casting. I would be so interested in biopics or biopics. Which is it? I mean, I can never. No, Julia Roberts played Martha. Martha the Whistleblower.

Martha the Whistleblower. I want to see Samuel Jackson. Yes. I want to see Samuel Jackson as Amelia Earhart. That's the kind of shit I'm talking about. Yeah. I want to see that. I'm tired of them casting people who look like like the person it's so fucking stupid and juvenile like oh we have to get an actor that

looks like that's so dumb i mean that's the dumbest thing you could ever think of in the world yeah like casting in a meeting being like well he doesn't look enough like jesus i thought we were here for art guys, everybody laughs and jumps out the window. But one thing quickly about aliens, to Blair's point, is like, I wish they would come down and boss us around, too. And I'm starting to lose faith in the aliens. I just want to mention that because they've been buzzing around here for what, 50 years or whatever. Just I don't believe they're aliens anymore, because if they were aliens, they wouldn't give a fuck. They would show up and get in our faces. They're not like, oh, they're just investigating. That's horseshit. Why would they ever waste aliens they wouldn't give a fuck they would show up and get in our faces they're not like oh they're just investigating that's horseshit why would they

ever waste they don't give up what are they afraid of us for why wouldn't they just come down and start patting us on the head i just i don't i'm i'm i'm a big believer in everything i can believe in anything i believe in bigfoot i believe in ghosts i believe in every goddamn thing but aliens fucking do it already like come down here and shoot us with a ray gun or fucking tell us to have no cars on sunday or just get it over with stop just buzzing around the sky and drive diving underwater and stuff come on stop diving underwater i'm not kidding people are like and get these politicians off twitter What the fuck are they doing underwater? Tell them to come up here and kick Mitch McConnell's fucking ass.

He fell down. I know. And everybody's like, you can't be mean to him. Fuck that. I hope he falls down a million times. Yeah. So Taco Bell held a contest where the winner, yes, the winner winner got to have their wedding in a digital taco bell in the metaverse that was what you won that feels like a punishment to me but the the

ceremony happened at the end of last march but people who attended just i don't know, broke their media embargo. I don't know. And it's just truly, I don't know. This story made me feel as empty as any story we've covered in a long time. But I did have to talk about it. So the bride and groom's avatars faced each other across a sacred fire. So the wedding was a traditional Indian ceremony, other than the fact that it was in a Taco Bell in the metaverse. It was hosted by Cal Penn. The bride and groom's avatars faced each other across a sacred fire

made of Taco Bell's signature fire sauce. See, okay, okay. All right. You're on board. No, look, I'm going to... Wait a second. I feel See, okay. Okay. All right. You're on board. No, I look, I'm going to wait a second. I feel like, yeah, I'm like, oh, okay. Now I'm back in. I didn't know it was signature fire sauce, but I gotta be honest. This, um, is gross. Uh, and I wish everybody like marriage is tough. You know what I mean? Like I, I wish everybody the best of success finding your person. You know, it's like even better than that rom-com moment with your bag at baggage claim.

Right. It's like that forever. And that's really noble and cool. And that is for most people the height of romantic love. So you're saying this is even more than seeing your bag. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I mean, okay. We're, we're very. Controversial statement, but okay. Bridget and I are being paid by big checked bag, I guess. Yeah, we are.

Because we're all such good spirit airlines. Right. Call me TFA. But okay. There's like, again, you know, good friend of mine, actually my best friend, is he's getting married pretty soon. And he was telling me all like how stressful it is and how messed up and crazy planning this thing gets. And so he and his partner, they have decided to elope, which I think is cool, you know, cut past the nonsense and then make it their own. So maybe for this couple, it's their dream thing. Maybe they were like, hey, we met at Taco Bell or like,

you know, quesadillas. In the metaverse. Yeah. Yeah. Gordita Crunchwraps are really the glue of our partnership. My problem here is not the taco bell theming i will say that the okay i do but the official taco bell theming the the fact that it is i i don't know i just feel bad for like if you want to diminish the amount of stress associated with an event adding a corporate sponsor who has notes on everything oh no oh you're right like it just seems like not the not the way to go i mean i think like the idea idealized version that like they pitched when taco bell you know signed on to this idea and contest is probably that it's like yeah they just start expressing their love and they're

to a couple weirdos who just love taco bell but in practice for anyone who has been involved with sponsored content and uh trying to get any amount of art through uh past past corporate sponsors who have notes i just like i don't know it seems it seems difficult i also like the fact that they keep saying that they want a contest to become the first people married at a taco bell in the metaverse as though this is going to be an ongoing thing that we'll be looking back on them as the fucking george washington's of this thing that we all then went on to do as a people pioneers yeah i mean people do have like really strong feelings about taco bell like i i have no trouble believing that this couple maybe met in a taco bell and taco bell was a big part of their relationship and i didn't have taco bell for the first time until like five years ago so

i am not in that particular group, but yeah, we weren't allowed to eat it when I was growing up. Like a weird, a weird rule. My mom had no Taco Bell, no Mountain Dew, but all the other stuff was fine.

Yeah. All fine. I don't know why she just like had a thing. Well, for Mountain Dew, she said it was because this is, this is her words, not mine.

It was quote for white trash. So we weren't allowed to drink. Oh yeah. No, no confirmed. I think, quote, for white trash. So we weren't allowed to drink it. Oh, yeah. No, no. Confirmed. I think Taco Bell might have been in the mix as well. My family didn't encourage it. I will say that.

I never went out to dinner with my family to Taco Bell necessarily. But, you know, I got it like after, you know, a game or something. you know a game or something like if i you know we we just it was the thing that was open that we could like scarf down in the 15 minutes we had and yeah it's such perfect point just like so delicious i don't know it lit up something in my brain that i have been unable to uncrease from there and the same is true of Mountain Dew. When I lived in Kentucky, I became addicted to Mountain Dew and have never been able to fully...

Like, I don't go frequently because of... Or, like, drink Mountain Dew frequently because... for self-care reasons. Because, like, if I have a 12-pack of Mountain Dew in my house, I'm not going to be able to not drink at all but what if you could do it in the metaverse bro now now we're talking ben thank you no that's mountain dew was originally slang for moonshine that's the etymology of it

yeah i haven't tried it um but i do agree with your mom brid Bridget. Oh, my God. She was actually onto something. But that was like, wow. You've never tried it? I've never tried it. I've tried the red kind, but I've never had regular Mountain Dew. Regular. I mean, the red kind, you get the overall. Yeah.

Wait, Ben, did you say you've never tried it? Mm-mm. You've never tried Mountain Dew? I probably, this is like asking someone if they've always been vegan. There was probably something in the drinks, but anytime there was a Mountain Dew situation available, there was some other soda or something to drink. So I would end up going with that.

And also growing up, some of my relatives I didn't care for were into mountain dew they were super into mountain dew and i would look at them and i would be like better you than me my friend you know so like okay but taco bell though the appeal the late night appeal back in the day you know you got like 12 18 bucks you're high in a car following another car because you think it's a vanity license plate they roll it to a taco bell yeah and then you're like i'm living like i am the fucking emperor of bad decisions you know what two quesadillas yeah throw in the churros. YOLO. You know? Oh, man. Cheesy gordita crunch.

I just discussed, like, Miles, I think, turned me on to it. Like, I loved Taco Bell, and I wasn't even getting the best stuff growing up. What's the good order? I mean, cheesy gordita crunch with a quesadilla. Quesadilla I've always had, and then I like to get a grilled stuffed chicken burrito with. That's the healthy part of my order. Grilled stuffed chicken burrito, extra grill. Like put it on the grill for a little extra time, if they don't mind.

You can ask for that? Yeah, well done. Yeah, grilled stuffed chicken burrito, well done. But then I'll freelance. And then, of course, with the biggest Baja blast that they will allow me to carry out. You're in deep water, my friend. Like, I had no idea this was a thing. So wait, though. I get it like once a year at this point.

And I don't tell my kids or my wife. It's just like a dark trip to undercover of night. I turn my headlights off. Dark night of the soul. Oh my god, Bridget, he's got like a fake mustache on. Wait though. Wait though.

A wedding in the metaverse. You gotta tell us. These folks getting married, they were in person, right? This wasn't like a remote No, yeah, they were in person, right? This wasn't like a remote, like entirely remote. No, yeah, they were together. They kissed each other's faces, like real people in love and all that stuff.

Which is like, that almost makes it because then you're like, oh, so they are really like married now. you're like oh so they are really like married now like this was really their wedding because like the the picture that you see of it is like two people deeply in love kissing one another and then they're like weird avatars in a purple like on a purple throne like kissing each other above but so the vows were written by chat g. So like this story seems like it's being written by chat GPT because of just like all the stupidest buzzwords coming together here. The vows were written by chat GPT. It was within a video game. So it wasn't even really the metaverse. But like, I don't know how to feel about that.

Like, I'm not I'm no metaverse snob. So if they want to do it in Decentraland, the video game, it just seems like it was a poorly orchestrated publicity stunt by Taco Bell, which has to hurt a little bit when like the big viral marketing campaign that is sponsoring your wedding like doesn't even put it in the real metaverse. But I don't I don't give a shit. But if they pay for the wedding, though, I mean, at that point, it's just like, yeah, absolutely. Like, that's that's great. However, but like for the wedding in the, I mean, at that point, it's just like... Yeah, absolutely. Like, that's great.

However... But, like, paid for the wedding in the metaverse. So, like, not really. Sure. Good point. I guess it's sort of breaking my brain. Did they pay for a ceremony IRL or only within the metaverse? Also, does a Taco Bell within the metaverse have employees?

Like, I just have a lot of questions. So many, yeah. Yeah, I thinkverse have employees what like i just have a lot of questions so many yeah yeah i think they have employees uh one thing that we do know for sure is that and this is my favorite point because it's like you suspect okay the corporate brand is going to have some notes and ideas that they're going to want implemented the one place we got to see this is that in addition to having Cal Penn host their wedding, they also had a Twitch streamer like he, who was narrating the whole thing to the point that the guests of the wedding couldn't hear what was happening. A play by play. Yes.

Like a play by play, but not even like he was just a Twitch streamer. They were like, here, do your thing like had no relation to the couple so he's just like over the top keeps singing no one so this no one could hear what was going on because the twitch streamer taco bell hired kept singing about taco bell throughout the ceremony legion except the o and in legion is a q for probably q anon reasons but i have no idea

spoke through every minute of the ceremony he shouted out his followers and made up little songs proclaiming his love for taco bell as he showed off his avatars various outfits during the wedding wow he sounds like a rowdy wedding guest that you have to throw out of your wedding because they've had one too many. But like during the ceremony. It's like, how can I make this wedding about me? He said, you know. Which that happens. I've heard war stories.

You know what? I don't want to. I've never met these folks. Wish them the best again. Yeah. As we said at the top. Nothing against them. It's just we live in hell, all of us.

And this is amazing. And hell is a combination Taco Bell metaverse. Wedding chapel. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. What other things are going to happen in the metaverse? What other, is Taco Bell going to have a funeral contest next?

Like, are they going to have a quinceañera? Like what's, what's going on? Who would, who would think this is a good idea? I want to meet the couple that steps up and has their divorce in the metaverse. Yeah.

Like, like if you're really going to be about that life. Yeah. Like they didn't look at the bylaws in the entirety of their wedding including like the consummation everything has to happen in the metaverse oh my god what if they go bell present narrating all the whole thing wait wait wait though wait last last last question what if what if there is something i think you're onto something with the fine print what if there is something where they cannot get divorced unless taco bell signs off right talk about like we don't

love this for our yeah i i wouldn't be surprised if it was in the contract i'd be surprised if they upheld it if like i'm sure they put it in the contract being like, because now this is going to be America's sweethearts. Everyone's going to be paying attention to the first couple to get married in a metaverse Taco Bell. And then now that it has happened and everyone's just like, oh my God, we live in hell, they're probably like, never mind, you guys do your thing. But yeah, I'm sure the contract gives them rights to the first two offspring from the children, you know, or from the marriage. All right. So let's take a quick break and then we'll talk about more insane news. insane news. 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 LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview

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I don't know. It's such a bummer that he is both into psychedelics and aliens, but also really shitty right-wing political takes. Yeah. So he's like, mothership tickets to the opening week were 40 sold out and have been going online for 500 plus a two drink minimum there's this one comics oh you know rosanne bar truly like she was one of the opening opening weeks terrible comics yeah but there's a profile of the this comedy location and it opens with a woman is standing outside the theater

holding a unvaxxed sperm sign up and that's they're like so you know you're in the right place joe rogan's new comedy club mecca in addition to joe rogan the lineup featured comics like rosanne barr who praised the club for daring to have a green room where comedians are openly drunk and high has she been in a green what the fuck that's kind of nice talking about yeah i've been, I get drunk and high in green rooms. Is that not welcome elsewhere? That's every green room. Not every green room, but I've been in green rooms where people are smoking and there's always beers and shit or drinks and things like that. This isn't new, at least in my experience. Yeah, it's not exactly cutting edge, but I'm not surprised that she thinks that that is cutting edge.

Yeah. It's okay. Yes, very true. Very true. You know, I'm not surprised that she thinks that that is cutting edge. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Very true. Very true. The crowd was reportedly mostly dudes with beards and baseball caps. And the jokes on the opening nights were like gay slurs and jokes about trans people. Of course.

And so they banned phone usage. So like you have to seal them in the pouches. That's a good thing though. That's that they do a lot of clubs. Most clubs do that now, which is, I mean, all the clubs I performed at that do that.

It's a much better experience. It's a much better experience. It's not even like the whole thing of like recording someone. I get that's one thing, but really it's just about audience distraction. And that's, that's the principal thing of it. Like,

is that a thing that have it? Like people will be on their phones while you're absolutely there yeah absolutely and it's like it's the worst thing that you can possibly encounter is someone on their phone the first show i ever did after the pandemic i mean granted this is after the pandemic but well not after it was like the first show i did when they were starting to do shows again it was an outdoor show there was these two ladies in the front row and they were both on their phone. I'm like, you know, this is insane. You left your house to do the thing you've been doing in your house for the last eight months. Right. Yeah.

Yeah. I also can't really blame them because it's like people forgot how to behave, you know? Yeah, we're all broken at this point. Yeah. But the phone bag thing, I it's just that's just yeah that's policy in general when you can get away with it what people do it's just expensive yeah it's expensive it's probably like not the audience's first choice but i think in this case they're like well he also disagreed with mask mandates so we'll let him take our phones to you know but yeah i don't know he he's also like this is like i can say whatever i want without getting canceled here i feel like he's not been he's been like opposite the opposite of canceled

like he's just built a massive yeah massive media empire by just saying yeah punching down and then he's like finally i i have a place where i can speak freely but yeah so this is the thing he has a place where he can speak freely outside of the place where he can speak freely which is his own show his own podcast sure yeah no it's it's you know of course the funny thing about oh here's a place where i can speak freely and not be canceled and you know you can't record it and anything like that which i agree is a good policy just because you know as comedians you don't always want your shit to be recorded and then live on the Internet if you don't want it on the Internet. Yeah. If you're working material, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But but there is there is a part of me that's just like, well, if you believe what you're saying, what you're worried about it getting out for.

If you think it's, you know, like that means, you know, you're saying some shit. That means, you know, you're saying some shit. I know I'm about to say some shit that means you know you saying some shit if i know i'm about to say some shit that could get me in trouble yeah i'm gonna tell you lock your phones up too right yeah like go ahead lock them up real quick we we about to talk and we gonna keep it in here because this might get me in trouble but if it's some shit i believe and i'm like yeah man fuck you i believe shit. Say that shit with my whole chest. Say it with my whole chest. Like the In Memoriam is perfect.

Thank you. And I should stay in charge of it. All right. The Mandalorian is back for season three. Facing a lot of pressure on the home front. My kids really want to watch this shit. They're like six and five. They kids really want to watch this shit they're like six and five they don't get to watch it it's like a little oh they're not quite old enough you

think yeah they're just not not old enough i think based on arbitrary shit that i've like heard read somewhere on a on a forum somewhere but the so the this is good news for fans who need who like two shows in which pedro pascal escorts a highly important youth through dangerous terrain it's kind of wild like what a specific thing to get a typecast i mean it really is a typecast though because it's like that thing where you know we like what you did here we're just gonna have you do it some more because it's working yeah we'll have you do it until you die. You're going to be doing this thing

because he's got the voice. Yeah, he's good. He's daddy and also like daddy. The two types of daddy that everybody wants. He's a multifaceted daddy. He's daddy's daddy.

He also does the same thing in the Last of Us show where he's you know how the Mandalorian is sort of an imperfect hero, like he makes mistakes, but he always ends up winning? Yeah. Same with the Last of Us guy. Yeah. Yeah. It's typecast down to the

details of the character. There you go. But fortunately the Last of Us is like what if we could see his face it's it's beautiful right like that's we should we should just keep his face visible so gina karana karana karana no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no famously shit cam by disney after putting a bunch of right-wing bullshit on social media including posts comparing being a conservative to being jewish in nazi germany and so her character cara dune will not be joining grief karga din jar in grogu moff gideon so so uh super producer justin was telling me to not point anything out about

or he was saying i did not say that i did not say the oldest observation in in the book which is that like you can make fun of the goofy names because they are goofy i'm just saying it's it's the oldest it's just not it's not very creative joke is all I was trying to say. I'm just saying. They're great names. They're great names. They're very like, they, I don't know. I I'm curious what the like writer's room, like how much of the writer's room is devoted to naming because grief, like they're just like, yeah, they're so specific. They're always like just perfect. What was it? Move, move, bop. They're always like just pitch perfect. What was it?

Moof bop? What was the names again? Moof bop something. You said moof something. Grief karga. Karadun. Grief karga. Karadun.

Dinjarin. Dinjarin. They roll off the tongue. They sound like a delicious menu item. Moth Gideon. I think was the one you were talking about. Moth Gideon. Moth Gideon. That's right. The Moth Gideon. I think that's the one you were talking about. Moth Gideon. Moth Gideon with chicken, please.

And I'll have, how's that grief card? Is it pretty good? Oh, it's great. Do you want egg with that? We can do a fried egg on top. And then Cara Dune is like more in the Luke Skywalker like family where it's just like,

well, this is a normal name with like some cool. We have a 20-ounce caradune. It's well-marbled and it's from our farms in New Zealand. The caradune cut is sort of between a poorhouse and a ribeye. It's just a steak. That's all it is.

It's just a steak. Kansas City style. I mean, like, it would be fun listen can I top off your Stein of Grogu? There you go of course you can I do think like there are people who like come up with these names obviously there are

that's not a groundbreaking thing to say but I think it's twofold I think there are they really think of the names because it sounds like you can just be like, what's the name? How about Blanktar? You're like, all right, cool. But then there's like then there's somebody in that same room who's like, but what does that mean? What is it derived from? Well, it's like who takes it way too seriously because you know they believe in the lore of the world and everything like that and so i believe they definitely have people who

truly yeah think what would the parents name this kid based on the place they are the region they are the type of names uh because like a fully lived in world. Like a fully lived-in world. Yeah, absolutely. Like, Blank Tar is not good, sorry to say. Yeah. In case it wouldn't work like that. Well, think of what the alternatives were. It was going to be named, like, Bucket Skunk or, like, Scorpion Face. Yeah, yeah.

Which, in Guardians of the Galaxy, is a great name. Scorpion Face. Yeah. Creaky Jack. Creaky Jack. Oh, I like that. That's actually kind of cool. I like that. I'm just aging gracefully into that nickname

Creaky Jack Creaky Jack Oh Creaky Jack Anyways they didn't really come up They didn't like fully write her off The Mandalorian asked Carl Weathers what happened to Dune And he responds that she was recruited by special forces For a new job somewhere off screen

and old soap opera trick always leave the door open always leave the door open I did like her character though I gotta say that's the problem there's a good character on the show yeah she's like a badass

right like just yeah I'd probably bring her back uh you know look i'm a fan i'm a fan of wrestling and there's an old adage in wrestling never say never right and i you know like the the thing is this show i don't know when the show is going to end uh if it has an unlimited amount of seasons they can do but if it has enough seasons we have a short-term memory unfortunately as a generation and society, I can see them bringing her back and be like,

you know, that was 2020. You can come back and have an episode and then there'll be a big controversy. You know, it's like one of those things where I don't agree with anything she said, but during that time, a lot of people were losing their,

losing their mind. And if she'd, if she had walked back, she said she's like guys i was going crazy i was drinking a lot alone at home i don't know why i said something so stupid there would be i think there would be universal like okay yeah um we all we like no one nuts yeah you know but yeah but she seems to be doubling down on yeah yeah that's what hurts because it's like yeah i mean also what a dumb thing to double down on what a just a truly not very interesting and stupid like that's i don't get what did she even say i forgot she said something about like mask mandates being similar to how the jews treated in Nazi Germany. Yeah. Something like that.

Just the classic non-comparable thing that she knows is not, it's just, you just don't do that. Yeah. Yeah. She has been busy starring in movies made by the Daily Wire, including 2022's Terror on the Prairie, which made officially $804 in its one-day theatrical run,

making it one of the biggest box office failures of the year. Also the title with the most R's in it of all time. Yes, they were going for breaking the record for R's. This is why we don't believe y'all conservatives. Like, if you really like, you know what? Get her out of liberal Hollywood. And let's watch. We're going to watch you. You got to do better than $840.

If you did, if you did numbers, we'd be like, oh, they really believe they should. All right. But $840. That's how we know you're bullshitting. You watch the same movies we do. You like the same movies we do. You like the same actors and actresses we do. You don't give a shit about all the liberal Hollywood stuff outside of just talking points on Facebook.

I'll tell you what the problem was, Jaquise. What was it? Blasted by its target audience for being too woke because... Too woke? No way! You serious? Female protagonist. Oh my woke no way you serious protagonist oh my god i'm serious cram your woke action heroes down our throat bench oh man that's that's just that's that's

sad though that's one of those things where you're just i feel bad for everybody and find out. Yeah. God. Oh, that's so pathetic. That's so fucking funny. So pathetic. Oh, man. It's hilarious. Fucking Christ. Of course. Of course. Of course.

Maybe she will be getting circumspect about the, you know, some of those quotes here in the not too distant future. Jesus. Too woke. That is just, man. Wow. Where's Arnold Schwarzenegger as the action star instead or no who do they like kevin sorbo yes yeah kevin i feel like chris pine is probably pretty popular or not chris pine chris pine oh chris pratt i feel like chris pratt probably across the board

but chris pratt chris pratt still, like Chris Pratt is like a religious motherfucker. Yeah. But he still is very active in like what they would consider liberal Hollywood. He, you know. I'm saying, he just, I feel like he hasn't offended

either side. Like he's probably okay in their book. It's called Too Dumb to Fail. Too Dumb to Fail. Walk this way. So I'm telling me they're going to be seeing Mario.

They're going to be seeing Mario this month or whenever it comes out. That's right, Mario. It's going to be a big movie with the Republicans. That's right. Republicans buy Nintendo entertainment systems, too. Yeah, Mario is big in the Republic. That would be hilarious. It's just huge.

They love him. The Italian-Americans have flocked to see Mario and are outraged at this depiction of Italian-Americans. Why does he have to be a plumber? Why does his mustache have to be so big? This is unfair. Our big complaint is that his ass. They did not give him enough ass. Mario had no booty.

He had an ass that he used as a weapon. It's a weapon. A him enough ass. Mario hadn't got no booty. He hadn't got no meat. He used as a weapon. It's a weapon. A weaponized ass. He would flip and land on his ass so hard it would cause an earthquake. And they just de-assed him. He's been de-assed. What are you trying to say about a time food?

A time food can be very high in calories. That's right. A lot of oils in there. There you right. A lot of oils in there. There you go. A lot of oils that go right to them hips and ass. That's right. Damn. All right.

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