The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 358 (Best of 2/10/25-2/14/25)

Episode Date: February 16, 2025

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Hello, the internet and welcome to this episode of the weekly zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laugh stravaganza. So without further ado, here is the weekly Zeitgeist. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by TDZ Hall of Famer, one of the very faces on Mount Zeitmore, a brilliant stand-up comedian who you know from MTV Comedy Central, NBC, True TV, E!, all the TV places. You've heard her on Bob's burgers. Her hour special live from the big dog is absolutely hilarious.

A must watch. It's Blair Saki. Oh, what's up, Zite gang? Woo. What's up? Oh, I can see you summon that energy right there. It's so good to be back with my guys. Yeah. Shooting the shit.

Catching up. Yep. Just doing our thing. You know what I mean. What is it, the brains? Oh, that was so good. Wow, it was really hard for me to stay silent during the eye crossing conversation, because I love to cross my eyes.

Yeah, me too. Do you do it also for comedic effect? Oh! I do it on stage all the time. I love to cross my eyes. Yeah, me too. Do you do also for comedic effect? No. Oh. I do it on stage all the time. I love it. Do you? But it is odd that children have a proclivity for it because it is wildly uncomfortable.

Oh, so uncomfortable. I remember when I had to train, I remember not knowing how to cross my eyes. And my dad was like, take your finger and just follow it. Yeah, yeah. And then I remember- I like how your dad taught you how to do it. I know. And this is how you smoke cigarettes.

Your dad taught you a lot of important stuff. Like he taught you about rain. Yeah, he did. And I was like, where'd you learn that? I've never heard a man know about rain. And he told you about it. Oh, he taught you about taro brock? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Incredible. We are evolved human beings, the great men. I'd say so. The gray family, yes, absolutely. Also taught, we're, we are evolved human beings. The gray family. Yes. Absolutely. Also taught me the, again, I always talk about this when I first saw like an unhoused person and could like articulate what was going on and like, what, what,

what's wrong with my desk at Ronald Reagan. So these are all. Fuck Reagan. Yeah. Fuck Ronald Reagan. Yeah. From that mind emerges a podcast host. He is able to really distill things down so simply.

A gift that I have taken on in my own way. Incredible. Shout out to you, Dad. The Grey Men sequel to Netflix's The Grey Man. And Happy Birthday to Jim. Yeah, Big Jim, Jungle Jim. Yes. My friends and I used to call him.

He didn't like it. Stop calling me that arms out. Let's swing on him in high school. He was not a jungle gym and yeah, that's because we crawled all over him. Blair. Last time you were here, you were preparing for a procedure. You were saying you had to get a procedure.

You're you had an operation and you're fine. I can hear in your voice. Everyone can tell you of you are on the other side of it. You are doing well. You're thriving. Oh, thank you for remembering. Yeah. You know, it's funny.

I had a little bit of like vulnerability hangover after that podcast, but I was so like fired up and upset about it. I was like, I really revealed a lot that day. But yeah, I did have this surgery. It was this the lead up was scarier than the actual thing. I went through the whole recovery and we're all good. Beautiful. Love that. Yeah, we love to hear. Yeah, thanks. We love good news on this show. Yeah, we do. We need every single last drop that we can get our hands on.

Yeah. Lydia Popovich, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? So the last heavy Googling I did was a few days ago. And the very top of that search history, because I had to look and be like, what were you Googling? What would you have been Googling? It was an article that said, infertility in the bitch. And I remember, it took me a second and I was just like, ooh, tough, tough jab. And then I remembered, because I'm researching, I want to breed my dog. I have a beautiful 105 pound Kenny Corso,

and she's a beautiful girl and she has the sweetest temperament and we want to have puppies. So we are going to be purchasing a second dog. And so I'm doing, you know, as you would as a responsible female, some research on how should, what she thinks should I look out for, you know, what creates infertility in dogs and just seeing the headline infertility in the bitch made me laugh a lot. I realized maybe I'm not ready for grand dog motherhood because I can't even read an article without laughing. Right. I could barely focus because every time it said the word bitch, I was like, bitch, you're like, and these

bitches are infertile. Yo, yo, yo, yo, easy. I know Trump's president, but like, yeah, and that's exactly where my mindset was. I was like, listen, I know I'm 47. Yeah, she's infertile. She's not having any babies. Okay, but we do we need to like start giving these be the results like a bitch. No, no, no, not me. The dog. Oh, that bitch. So yeah, that's so that's where I'm at is I'm googling about my dog's reproductive system. So you must love this dog because you like I to, I want this dog to go forth and multiply. I love this dog so much. It's not even funny.

I'm not so much that I want her to go and multiply. I'm willing to purchase a whole other male dog, raise that dog to maturity so that they can have sex so that I can control the bloodline and then she'll have puppies and I'll keep one of those dogs, which means if you're counting, I will have three Kenny Corso's. Yes. Three dogs. Which if you were literally listening, that's close to 350 pounds worth of dogs running around my house at all times.

That's also not counting my tiny dog who is 16 pounds. So I have a problem. No, no no I think I you have our full solution Yeah, you go look you're on your Chris Jenner journey right now. You know what I mean? I mean, I I'm trying to have my Kardashians You know what I mean? I'm trying none of these dot Well, one of these dogs has an Instagram account the rest of them do not right, right? You know, what haven't existed yet. What's something you think is underrated? You know, I've been thinking about this because I tend to give the same answers and literally

everything is underrated. No, I think this is a controversial, but I think what's underrated is sugar. I have been on a personal no sugar journey and I miss it. Everyone talks shit about it and I know it's bad for you, it does things or so says my diabetes doctor. However, sugar's delicious. What it does to a morning coffee. Oh baby. Oh, you put sugar in your coffee. Sugared things. There's sugar in that creamer that you put in your coffee, which makes your coffee delicious, unless you're drinking just, you know, hot and black, which people do.

But you know, I like a little, I like a little, a little latte treat. You know what I'm saying? I like a little mixed, a little mixed kind of breakfast cocktail, if you will. Sugar certainly helps with that party. I miss it dearly. Sugar is underrated. I just miss it. Andrew, are you sugar in your coffee, guys? I don't put sugar in my coffee, but I put sugar in... I think the thing that a lot of people don't think about is like most braises and stews and some of your pasta sauces that

is good. The reason it tastes so much better at a restaurant is there's sugar or sometimes fucking corn syrup. Most, not most Asian shit, but a lot of like the best like Korean shit. Fucking corn syrup, dogs. Yeah, man. You start reading those rules and you're like, literally everything has sugar in it. Ketchup, sugar in it.

Like that is one thing I've looked into. It definitely has changed my philosophy on processed foods in America where I'm like, you know what? Europe's right. We're trash. We're fucking trash. I read everything and even when I'm thinking healthy, I'm just like, oh my God, unless it's naturally occurring sugar, everything is in it.

The amount of effort I have to put into to find foods literally with no sugar. It's so difficult. It's so difficult. I was looking at a bag of celery and they said it had two grams of added sugar. Wow. I'm saying. You know, is there a crunchy, crispy lady like I am? I love a chip. Love a chip. Love a cracker. Love, you know, love anything.

Even I was like buying these like toasty, like garbanzo beans. And I was buying these toasty garbanzo beans, and I was like, why are they so good? And it was a Korean barbecue flavor, and I'm like, oh, because there's fucking sugar all over these things, no wonder they're delicious. Just popping them by the handful thinking I'm doing right. And then I took a look on the back and it's like, yowza, all right.

As Homer Simpson said, the cause of and solution to all life's problems, apparently. So I guess really it's not sugar. I guess what's underrated is an actual functioning like insulin output. So like, hey, if your shit isn't working, yo, bless it, bless up. Bless up on that.

You know what I mean? Like, that's really what it is. Yeah. Yeah. Paulie, what's something you think is underrated? Okay, something I think that's underrated. This may be a story tomorrow. Oh myly, what's something you think is underrated? Okay. Something I think that's underrated. This may be a story tomorrow.

Oh my God, did I lose it? No, I didn't. Okay. So this may be a story tomorrow that you talk about more because it might have gained traction by then, but this is like a news thing. I think medicine is underrated, especially right now. There is somebody who is like related to JD Vance through marriage or something. She is a young girl who was, she's 12 years old. She was adopted

into this family that is like a non-denominational Christian family from China when she was four years old. She has heart issues. They knew she would be required to have a heart transplant at some point in her life. And Cincinnati children's won't put their 12-year-old daughter on this heart transplant list because her parents refused to get her vaccinated for COVID and something else. And if you don't get vaccinated, then you are more likely to get infections. The organ is less likely to last, as in she will die. And her parents are like, well, we shouldn't have to do that.

So they're fundraising off of it and acting like they're in the right. And I think this is abuse. I think this has so many different strands to it. There's like transracial adoption, this weird evangelical adoption thing, issues that have like those people putting their beliefs on these children. And it's also abuse, like she should be able to get the vaccine if it prevents, you know, especially just in general, but especially in order to get this heart transplant and be put on this list. So I think, especially right now, because I am sick, I'm taking cough medicine. I'm taking, I just love being over 30 and

taking ibuprofen because I exist. And so I think what is underrated right now is like medical advances and we need to embrace them and we need to understand them and appreciate them because we may not all always get them. Yeah. We live in an age of wonders. We might not very soon, but we did for, yeah, medicine was really on one there for, I think we're gonna look back and be like, man. It's pretty fucking lit. It's fucking crazy.

Do you remember when like we didn't have iron lungs built into homes because of the polio outbreaks? Oh my God. Man, yeah, it really, like in theory, I guess eight years ago or whenever this child was adopted, it's like they're being adopted by a family that's like related to the person who's going to be the vice president of America. And now it's like of all the directions that young person's life could have taken at adoption,

that is the worst one. Like that is where we live now. We just need to wrap our minds around the fact that like this, when people look back, they're going to look back on people living in the United States at this time and be like, God damn, that must have been fucking weird. They're going to call it the dark ages again. Yeah. Are we the baddies?

Are we the baddies? But we look at, we were in our Sheehan outfits in the mirror, but our big bubble butts are like, are we the baddies? I mean, I am. Look at this ass. Look at all that cake. This ass is doing all the talking for me, baby. What is something you think is overrated? Okay, I'll tell you what.

Cults. Cults? Joined one wasn't for me. What is something you think is overrated? Okay, I'll tell you what cults Colts yeah joined one was told you miles for me Told you we've been wasting our time with this one What too much of a mind of our own Currently looking for a nanny our last nanny joined a cult Wow And I think they're overrated purely going well for looking for a nanny, our last nanny joined a cult. Wow. And I think they're overrated. Surely it's not going well for her.

So, OK, we have this amazing nanny that we shared with a friend of mine. She came two days a week and she was like, you know, I can't come these certain days and times because I have to go to church five days a week. Yeah. OK. And I was like, all right, you know, whatever. Like, I'm like, are you a Catholic grandmother from Eastern Europe? Right. Right. My mother in law. OK, so you're my dad. All right. OK. Community friendship. I get it. You know, she's got kids. Yeah. OK.

And then she was like, I can't because I can't do these certain times because I need to take a class on this, a writing, a Christian writing class on evangelizing for my church. You know, right. And then I can't come this other day. So now seven days a week, we're at church because I got to work for my church. I got to do this for my chair. OK. Yeah. All right. And then she said, I I am going to have to leave both y'all.

I, my husband thinks I should find something closer to the church. Closer to the church. Physically. Like, all right. Physically closer. And then I looked up one of her videos and it's her and her husband out on the street with like an amp and a mic. Yeah. talking about how Where pants are from the devil now, I don't understand that because pants Because we're trying to be men and we're not doing our

Okay being there in the home and it's causing the collapse of society But then you have a job and wear a skirt and then be okay. Yes skirt Like you can be an independent woman just do not wear pants But if you're walking and it had recently rained that shit better be getting wet. That's all I'm saying Okay, if it's not too short, That's all I'm saying, okay? If it's not, too short. This is why I say cults are overrated. Yeah.

And you're wrong, but you just haven't found the right cult. I think, I mean, honestly, yeah. Yeah. It may be. I was hoping she was gonna be like- I'm just waiting for that one good one. I just can't make it today because there's a comet coming around that we're just, we really got to.

Yeah. We've got to keep our eye on. Oh, Miles, we have an update. Speaking of celestial bodies, the asteroid. We're at 2%, y'all. We're at 2%. Impact, break, impact. Oh, the asteroid.

Oh, man. Can it get here sooner? No, sorry. It's not until Trump is running for his third consecutive term that the asteroid may hit us. But yeah, so we talked a couple of weeks ago about how they thought that there might be a chance that it would strike Earth. They would have further calculations as more data came in.

They were like, but you know what? Like chances are it's just going to be going down and down. Like 2% chance we'll turn into like a 1% chance the next day. And then like further and further down. And instead it's going up, going in the wrong direction. So it really is coming. It's, I mean, now it's a 3% chance. So it's, so you're saying there's a chance.

Everyone's got slightly different measurements, but it definitely went up Yeah Yeah, that's not the direction I was excited the chances of us getting hit by an asteroid are The same as the chances of my getting pregnant via IVF right now, okay So then you're saying there's a chance. I'm saying there's a chance. That's yeah, it's a, well, hopefully this one hits the ocean rather than being a city destroyer, but.

Well, yes, it would be a city destroyer if it hit a city based on the size. But in the olden times when we had like government programs and like NASA was fully funded father, they used to be able to like land on an asteroid and explode so that it like moved enough off course that it wouldn't kill a bunch of people. I feel less confident in our ability to do that these days for some reason. Yeah, can it just hit four people? Yeah, yeah. Four really specific people. It broke apart so small, it just hit the oval office Yeah, yeah. Just four really specific people. It just hits, it broke apart so small,

it just hit the Oval Office. That's so weird. Very weird. Can we call it the Luigi asteroid? The Luigi. The Weege. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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at stake for them people. And also just hearing generally, what is anathema to someone whose vote you're trying to court and then be like, let's just ignore that if someone puts Gaza as a reason why they are maybe questioning their support, let's just put that as like, undis- let's just disappear that as a category. So people don't do you did you read that thing about one of the people who work on the campaign, like how they took concern for Gaza and just like disappeared it as a category so it wasn't really showing up in like data as it went up?

Anyway, all that to say, here we are. I want to point to a few events that are just, again, so infuriating, obviously not because of how evil and like just immoral everything is, but just how stupid they are at the same time. It makes it's truly like a force multiplier for outrage. Kristi Noem, the head of the Department of Homeland Security and famed canine, or I'm sorry, young canine executioner, I should say puppy murderer, that'sed canine or I'm sorry, young canine executioner, but I should say puppy murderer that's young canine executioner sounds like some shit they'd say on Fox News,

puppy offer. She had an exchange with Dana bash on CNN, where they were talking about how look, Elon Musk is now has an obscene level of access to people's data. And Dana bash was like, Yeah, you know, I remember, I seem to remember a time when people were like, weren't that into the idea of unelected perverts having access to your personal info. Let me just play this exchange because this is again, what what a moment from from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, here they are talking just going back and forth about our privacy and and who we can and can't trust.

Do you remember a time when Republicans were very careful about and worried about the government, particularly un-elected people? We can't trust the government anymore. Having access to personal data. Oh, absolutely. You are the government. Yes, that's what I'm saying, is that the American people now are saying that we have had our personal information You know what I can't trust her hair stylist did she dry out a bump it from 1990 She's got more hair. That's not hers in her head than I can count

She must have got that from the puppies that she offed. Oh my make them into a wig her Hey, hello, her hair is hitting switches because it's up in the back I don't know how it's about to hit the three wheel motion going down Slauson. I just again, I just want to. Weaver DeVille. I don't know. I'm just trying to. I don't have a lot of hair shade I can throw at the moment, but allow me to catch up. This is the wildest shit. How, again, reflexively, the Republicans do this thing where they go, well,

obviously you can't trust the government. And you're like, that that that that that that just just can you can you say that one more time? Because just let me hear that one more time from your mouth. The unelicted people we can't trust the government and having access that's our original data. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. You are the government. Yes, that's what I'm saying is that Yes, that's what I'm saying. No, yes. Fucking absolute, absolute zero of a person. Again, she's like, yeah, and that's what I'm

saying about the government. She goes on to now just fully panic pivot to, I don't know, I think something about Elon. Let me just hear the rest of her answer. The American people now are saying that we have had our personal information shared and out there. Elon Musk has access to it. Elon Musk is part of the administration that is helping us identify where we can find savings and what we can do. She says savings like we're cutting coupons and shit. Yeah. What the fuck are you talking about axing whole agencies and like well he's here to help us find savings. And I don't know if you- Savings where?

Teslas are extremely expensive. Elon Musk has never used a coupon in his life. Savings? We're fighting savings. He's shooting off rockets over Austin just because he farted in the afternoon. Do you know how much money that costs? Savings.

Well, you know, and by that I mean, you know, preventing people and developing nations from getting, you know, things that might be like life you know, preventing people and developing nations from getting, you know, things that might be like life saving medication and things like that. Oh, saving lives. I'm sorry, life saving medication. My bad, my bad.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My bad. He's also, it's so funny, cause it's like basically the main time he's gotten to do this wholesale is with Twitter, which was a disaster that he has lost so much money on. Right. Like, the basic, the tangible time he has done this very thing worked so badly. Yeah.

And it's like, he's just like, everything he touches turns to shit. It's really amazing. Well, I mean, that's like the thing, I guess he touches turns to shit. It's really amazing. Well, I mean, that's like the thing. I guess we can take comfort in how predictable this is going to go that it's just going to break everything. Yeah, I guess. I mean, because again, this man is not a genius.

He just stumbled upon my very stupid. And because of his ability to be completely, you know, just like sociopathic in his pursuit of influence and things like that. Yeah. He emerges in these places that somebody was like, Oh, wow. He must be really smart. Meanwhile, I was like, I'm bringing a sink to this office and I'm going to break the thing and now, and it doesn't work.

Yeah. And now, and now we have this ever before. I didn't know how to build anything. He don't kind how to break things. Unless it just involves including a back door where Russian hackers can come and get all of your data. Like he's very good at that. He's great at that.

He just leaves the door open, I suppose. Just leave it open. Just leave it open. Not even a back door. It's like, just go like this. It's literally the front door. Just cover your face when you walk in the front door like this and they won't even notice.

Just do that. Actually, he's just kicked all the walls out. He's like, now we just have studs and fucking... There's no doors. There's no walls. It's more of like a pagoda sort of thing that we have. Yes. Open plan.

Come on in from any angle, honestly. There's nothing to think about. Whatever you need. That is the favored architecture of these fucking Nazis. It's just a big acropolis, a big open six columns and no walls. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah. So these dumb fucks love. Come on in.

So again, yeah, there you are. You're your your your habit of constantly like we can't trust the government. You ended up saying that shit when you were the fucking head of Homeland Security. But again, but I do believe it when you say it, Kristi, no, we cannot trust you at all. Um, 100%. I mean, I do like how we're sort of speed running the incompetence of the first trumpet or not incompetence, but inability to govern for people.

Like I think it took until like COVID for people to be like, Oh, these fucks really can't do this. Sure. Sure. Yeah. And now we're going to get there in like, you know, less than a year. Oh yeah. Yeah.

I think once whatever fucking weird bird flu thing that's going to probably end up popping up because we're turning our backs on science and then again, they'll probably just blame Joe Biden. They'll do that, but it is like, you know, like, like, it's, I don't know, it's either gonna be polio or a depression or- Measles is already popping off right now. You're seeing clusters of measles outbreaks

because it's the fucking 19th century. But anyway- Polio's coming back. Oh, it is, it is. But meanwhile, you have Senator Katie Britt from Alabama. I don't know if you all remember her. She was the tired ass wannabe soap opera actor that gave that weird response to Joe Biden's last state of the union, where she was in a kitch.

She's like, I'm really worried. It was just the most labored monologue we'd ever seen. Well, she loved the first few weeks of the new regime, but then I guess she also found out how the government works. And when Trump and Musk made cuts to the National Institutes of Health and how those cuts would hit Alabama, her home state pretty hard, she began to be like, oh, wait, okay, wait, hold on, what's going on?

So on Friday night of last week, quote, the NIH announced it was cutting payments toward overhead costs for research institutions that receive its grants a policy that could leave universities with major budget gaps, the Associated Press reported. Currently, some universities receive 50% or more of the total amount of a grant to put towards support staff and other needs. This would now be capped at 15%. So this is huge. Like in the people in Alabama, especially the ones that work at the

universities are like, um, just so you know, like the University of Alabama is the largest employer in the state. Okay, we need every single dollar we can get budget cuts like this are not wanted, especially within a system that is like, again, so dependent on federal funds. Katie Britt is now sort of like, I don't know if you can even call this oppose the cuts, but clearly felt the pressure from constituents like to be like, you should say something this is like you're gonna

completely fuck us over. She said, quote, every set of hard earned taxpayer money should be spent efficient, efficiently, judiciously, and accountably, without exception. While the administration works to achieve this goal at NIH, a smart targeted approach is needed in order to not hinder life-saving, groundbreaking research at high achieving institutions like those in Alabama. Yeah. All this is just hilarious to me because it's like every other dollar that they make that

is not coming from the government just goes to Alabama football it's like every other dollar that they make that is not coming from the government just goes to Alabama football. Like roll motherfucking tight. They're like, we have football, but we need people to think we do other things. No shave to Alabama in any way, shape or form. And it's funny you bring up the storied football program of Alabama because their other senator Tommy coach Tommy Tuberville, who acts like he has CTE without actually playing football somehow, is just telling people to relax because quote, this is when they asked again, they're like, sir, this could affect, you know, the universities in your home

state. How do you, what do you think of Elon's fucking rampage? He goes out and say, quote, Elon Musk is a genius with a proven track record of making businesses more cost efficient. We should be thanking him for being willing to serve our country in this way. Okay. Okay. I mean, the thing that is nice is that this is literally the facts don't care about your feelings crowd.

Right. Realizing that red states are takers. They take money from actually productive states and people and distribute. And like, this is, this is like what actually, like, like they have this like myth that it's all like, you know, urban poor people of color who are taking all their money and it is literally not true. So they are just finding out what happens. They're like, we need that money

They're like, what do you think y'all are kicking into the federal government? What what industry thriving? That's why like, yeah You know when people are like, whoa, we'll cut off funds to California. They're like, we'll stop sending you money motherfucker They who's gonna pay for Kentucky. Yeah, it's truly the let's go like let's fucking go. Yeah, it's it's again the Let's go. Like, let's fucking go. Yeah. It's, it's, again, thank God that they, you know, gradually defunded all of the education programs in the United States because yeah, no one has any idea how the government works or how anything works.

So they're just, again, have like, I said this last week, like what my idea of how electricity worked as a kid was it just came out of my wall. Like, I didn't know there was a whole grid and there was a power plant and resources that were extracted to create that. I just thought, yeah, just plug it in there. And then the TV comes on. It does. There's more to it. And that's how most people think about government spending as well. They kind of see taxes as sort of like working at a restaurant and having to pull your tips. And unless you're fucking your boss, you're not going to get a bigger chunk, right? Like it's just, and it's like, it kind of is that way. Um, but it's also

like a little bit more complicated and it's like, wait, how come the dishwasher only got that? Oh, well I'm a, I'm a server. Well, is the dishwasher not more important than the server? Like that's basically how our States treat each other. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, tune in next week when they figure out what pasteurization is. Um, I think quite literally, uh, we'll get to that story a little bit later. Um, so again, this mission Musk is on is to again, cut wasteful, I'm gonna use quotes here, cut wasteful spending and help us may be more efficient and bring prices down too, because the government will be so good at doing different efficiencies that your eggs will be the

price that they were when the segregation was still happening. When Brett Baier asked Trump on Fox directly, he's like, Hey, hey, motherfucker, remember how you were like, Hey, the prices are going to come down, you're going to love it. That's the whole point of all this shit. We're going to make shit affordable. Trump predictably gave a non-answer. So here's his answer to all of the people who voted for him. Hey, when prices come down, well, get ready for this one.

All goes to plan. When do you think families would be able to feel prices going down, groceries, energy, or are you kind of saying to them, hang on, inflation may get worse until it gets better? No, I think we're going to become a rich, and look, we're not that rich right now. We owe $36 trillion. That's because we let all these nations take advantage of us. Same thing like 200 billion with Canada, we owe 300, we have a deficit with Mexico of

$350 billion. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to let that happen. What? He said, I like how Brett Baier did the thing, too, with like an elderly family member is like, I'm going to I'm going to give you the answer you can say as part of the question so you don't have to just straight up say prices is going to go up. He said, he said, let me just again, we heard it.

You know, we're comedians. We like to listen, but I'll just again for the people in the back. Listen, bear. Really? He he did a nice lob up to Trump here, but he's still he's still fucked it up. All goes to plan. When do you think families will be able to feel prices going down? Groceries, energy or are you kind of saying to them or are you kind of saying to them or motherfucker, say this right now? Are of saying to them or are you kind of saying to them or?

Motherfucker say this right now. Are you saying to them on this search? Hang on inflation may get worse until it gets no Rich we got no we're not rich. We're not rich enough. We don't we don't have enough money We're're not rich enough He first of all, he doesn't even know what a trade deficit is, you know Yeah, he's like he's like it's like 300. It's like that's because we're importing more things than they are buying That's that's what's going on. There's not does like everything is unfair. I mean more more than even the first term like the the best thing I find to like, confront Trump people with is like, do you think Donald Trump is smarter than you? Because they're, you know, they have to like, merge the hero worship with the like, patent idiocy. Yeah, yeah.

And it is... Because I'm pretty sure you seem like a smart person. Yeah. But you seem like not the dumbest motherfucker that has ever existed I mean, so are you taking your not to counter that though? I mean, there's also I mean around here There's lots of people that they like him because he's not smarter than right? Yeah That's what it is where they're like this I can understand what this guy is saying, which is nothing. He's talking around the house, right? Yeah, you know what? I like that. Michael Scott is saying, which is nothing. He's talking around the house. Right? Yeah, you know what? I like that. Michael Scott is the president. Yes. Yeah, I think it's entertaining and hilarious Yeah, and that dude's dumb as hell and I like that kind of like that

I feel like that's what we need right now someone dumber than me. Yeah, who thinks the power just comes out of the walls I mean again, this would normally be some kind of gotcha moment But let's remind ourselves that would require Trump to actually give a fuck about anything he says or think that hypocrisy is bad. These people are great goblin freaks who just want to, you're asking a lot of the wealth. Yeah. You're asking a lot. Well, let's, let's swing the focus, uh, to Nashville, actually, um, where human ass scab kid rock recently crashed. Let me just this is a long sentence. He crashed john bond joe v's keyboard players birthday party in Nashville at

a bar that I think john bond joe v himself owns. This dude was absolutely pissed, as they say in the UK just drunk as shit. When he took the stage, just drunk as shit when he took the stage and was like, let's sing proud Mary in G. You're like, oh fuck, bro. Someone whose musical talent I do not respect is now saying what key they want to sing.

I'm like, oh, this shit is going to be good, baby. But I think all the beers made his inner monologue louder, which I assume just like a constant barrage of shit like you ain't shit. They all know you have no talent. You're a fake ass blue collar LARP or your hair looks like cooked angel hair pasta that was left out in the sun and dried out again. Yeah. And he noticed that people just weren't into his terrible karaoke. And you hate to see this, but again, maybe we do love to see it. Let's see Kid Rock in action.

Come on, start. Get the audience going. Oh, he's going to clap. You clap. Oh, he missed the first clap. Oh, he missed the first clap Wait, whoa. Whoa. Whoa. What happened kid? The fucking balls on this guy, he can't even clap. Did you see that? Look at that. He missed this one.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Come on now, clap with me. Show me how to clap, please. Nowhere near the beat. They have slowed that song, which is already slow, and obviously it ramps up. God bless that singer. Yeah.

There's no way she could slow it down anymore. No. Absolutely not. Like, there's like six counts between every strum of a fucking instrument happening right now. It's like, bring me one, two,

three. I, listen, I love DJ Screws, so this is perfect for me. This is a chocolate screw. Big Wheel, T-Bone, Turnin'. Yeah, if this was in Houston, that might have played a little bit differently, but this is Nashville, Music City. Some people clapped, other people were like,

why the fuck did he just stop the song? But I still want to skip ahead because he got a baby about a minute of people kind of clapping before they were like probably talking to each other. Like, is this motherfucker for real? I know he sounds like shit. And then he had a bit of, I guess a meltdown, hissy. I don't know, whatever you want to call it.

He had a bit of a Jeb Bush moment when they did not please clap But here here's that moment where he's like, nah, I'm off this shit Come on y'all clap for Now, do you think he was actually upset or maybe he just forgot the next verse? And he was just like, I think he was probably actually upset. I think he also didn't realize he wasn't in his bar. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He owns a bar in downtown Nashville.

Oh, he does. And he does. He owns a big bar and a big honky tonk in downtown Nashville. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I remember that. Which he infamously loves to go to after he's been to other places all fucked up and he loves to show up there

and loves to take over the stage and start performing and doing things. So I would bet money that he did not realize he was not in his own bar and was very upset that he was not getting the same response that he normally gets in that state in his bar. You know what I mean? Maybe the JB, John Bon Jovi, I can't say John Bon Jovi, did I say that right?

Why do I want to put a V in there? I want to say John Bonham. I don't know why. I'm conflating my rock stars. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Speaking of which, there's apparently a really good Led Zeppelin documentary that's about to come out. I've actually heard about that too. Yeah, yeah.

I need to watch that myself. Speaking of Bonzo. But yeah, I mean, unfortunately, I have been, I've had the pleasure, question mark, squiggle, of sharing space, being in the same place and space as, as our friend Kid Rock, um, in various states of fucked up-edness. Yeah. Bob's a, Bob's a menace. Yeah.

I'll say that, uh, that probably won't win me any favors here in Nashville, but Bob's a little bit of a menace. Well, look, you can- Not a fan. Yes, well Lydia, you will not be drunkenly singing Proud Mary at John Bon Jovi's bar again, okay? I certainly won't. And I usually leave those spaces

because your girl doesn't drink anymore. So I'm just like, when I walk in somewhere and that dude's there, I'm like, oh, this is not my party. There's definitely going to be cocaine and a lot more drinking going on here. And I need to leave. Not a substance on earth that makes that palatable,

I think in any way. But yeah, I do like the idea that he's so drunk. Maybe he thought he was because the way he disrespected this dude's birthday to like he just saw it was like stopping the song twice. Like, hold on, hold on, hold on. These motherfuckers got copy and then be like, you know, fuck this. The guy the guy who's like the keyboard player is like, bro, this is not even your the fuck is this? No one even invited you. Yes, I happen to be here. He's like, this players like bro. This is not even your the fuck is this no one even invited you Yes, happened to be here. He's like, this is my fucking bar. You guys get out of my fucking honky-tonk

They're like this is your own bunch. Oh you oh, okay. This isn't your bar, Bob Come on, you know, this isn't your place dude. Call me Bob It's not for you, honey, Yeah, it's not. Poor Bob. But you know what? You know what I mean? Despite that, there are rumors of him and Lauren Boebert hooking up after the inauguration. So if you need a more nightmare.

I would put money on that. God, just imagine the breadth between those two. Oh my God. Just Bud Light cigarettes and... Cocaine? Like Belvita? Cocaine and Jack Daniels. Yeah. Cocaine. God just Bud Light cigarettes and what cocaine like cocaine. You know, yeah, yeah, cocaine. Yeah, they got cocaine breath. The very, very specific, very specific thing.

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And we're back. We are back. Guys, so these shelved movies, we've talked about like Acme versus Coyote or whatever that one is the Will Forte movie that was completed. And then Zazlov from HBO Max was just like, yeah, we're gonna kill this and nobody's ever gonna get to see it. It was that Ann Batgirl, right? We're like, yeah, we're gonna just, let's this and nobody's ever gonna get to see it. It was that and Batgirl, right? We're like, yeah Yeah, let's just take the tax loss on that one. I'm a big MacGruber head

So I was sad that that's the ACME one is the one that really sticks with me But so there's now two more movies that are going away not because of David Zazlaw Fortunately, but first I just want to ask, was this something that ever happened before? This is new, right? There were albums that were completed and withheld for a long time. There's all sorts of legendary books that got lost. Well, I think like Hemingway's like first manuscript got lost or something like

that. But like movies, I feel like if they could complete a movie and put it out in theaters, they were going to like find a way to do it. Like Bruce Lee died halfway through making his last movie and they just like put somebody in like a wig and like shot him from behind. Yeah, it's bizarre because it's something about their taxes. Because you'd think if you put the capital into completing a movie, that's already sunk in costs, that you would put it out to get your ROI. But there's something happening where the tax exemption is bigger.

So that's the motivation for not releasing because it's been happening now I hear that, like the, well, it's tax implications. Like part of me is like, don't say anything there. Like, it's just too smart. It's too complicated. You don't understand it. Just shut up. But like, part of me is I feel like we should just be like, well, that's

a dumb system then like if the incentive is such like, then that's too complicated. And like, I feel like we should just be like, well, that's a dumb system. Like, if the incentive is such like, then that's too complicated. And like, I feel like we should just be like, well, that's a dumb system then. Like if the incentive is such, like then that's too complicated and it like is making the people who have the power to make big decisions do stupid stuff. Like that's bad. So even whether it does make financial sense or not, like then that means the system is fucking stupid. Yeah. Would be my contention. That's it.

I'm just reading a list of movies that were completed. Never really. So there's some, there's a movie called All-Star Weekend with Jamie Foxx and Jeremy Piven, Oh, the hair plug All-Stars. Wow. Um, the hair plug All-Star Weekend with Jamie Foxx and Jeremy Piven. I love Jamie Foxx. But apparently it was shelved.

It was supposed to come out during the 2018 All-Star game about these two guys who win tickets to the All-Star game. NBA All-Star game? Yeah. And they were like, the post didn't begin until 2019. And then in 2022, quote, Foxx confirmed the film was shelved while promoting the 2022 film Day Shift expressed the difficulties of getting the movie released in the present day comedy landscape. So I'm guessing so this was supposed to

release in 2018. Something happened in 2020. In which case they said, Yeah, you know what, maybe we don't put this out. Apparently, Robert Downey Jr. was in it and he plays a Mexican man. Also, and some people were like, maybe that's what it is, but there was never a reason. Yeah. Again, let's blame the comedy climate and not our terrible decision for casting Robert Downey Jr. once again in brown or blackface. There's a picture from the set.

He looks like Mickey Rourke more than anything in this picture right here. Oh Jesus Christ Yeah, any of you guys ever say that I look like Mickey Rourke You don't understand the devastation that that's a lethal read for you One you can't come back from. I have to pack my bags and leave town if you ever say I look like Mickey Rorick. You're giving Pisshound420 too much power here. Pisshound420, he's my best friend.

No, I was talking about Piss Hound 420. Different one, different guy. Oh, different guy. That's Jack's reply guy, which is secretly me. All right, so two new movies that will not be ever coming out. One, I can kind of see it, all right? So the first one is Pharrell's autobiographical musical about his childhood.

The Lego one? Not the Lego one, Miles, because, and this is news to me, the Lego one came out last year, that shit dropped on all of our asses and it did not do bofobio. It did also Be oh, oh no, it was not did not do very well three million three mil First week out and it had a campaign like it I it was playing as a trailer before a lot of big movies I mean as a concept it was was like, who is this for? Who indeed? I'm a huge Pharrell Williams fan from his time in the Neptune and stuff,

but I'm like, I don't need to see a Lego depiction of his life. I would have watched it and I probably will now that I know it exists. It exists, it's out there. You should have seen it in theaters because now we're not getting a second Pharrell autobiography. Thanks a lot, Blair. Sorry. I do love a Lego movie, like I am a fan.

Oh yeah, the Batman Lego movie is a blast. So good. So this one is not a Lego movie, although it's directed by Michelle Gondry of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. And like the thing I knew him for most before Eternal Sunshine. The Kylie Minogue music video coming to my world. That made Miles cry. No, I can't get you out of my head.

Okay. Was the White Stripes video where they are made of Legos. So it was a fell in love with a girl. What is it? Yeah, I think it was fell in love with a girl, but it's so again, like Pharrell was just like, I'm going to, it really feels like Pharrell was in, in talks, trying to decide between two biopics. One was a Lego movie.

One was with the guy who made the Lego music video. And he was like, fuck it, we're going to do both of these. We're just going to keep going with both of them to the point that we had like a Armageddon deep impact situation of Pharrell autobiographies coming out. And they've decided to shelve the second one because nobody saw the first one. Yeah. It's, I mean, I'm surprised it was them, you know, cause like, again, the other examples are like the studios being like, bro, we cannot put this shit out.

You know what I mean? And I like how Michelle Gondry and Pharrell are like, no, no, no, no. So in this case, they were like, we went into the edit bay. We realized that there was no way to make a good movie. We were like, no, no, no, no. We were like, no, no, no. We were like, no, no, no, no. Yeah. So in this case, they were like, we went into the edit bay. We realized that there was no way to make a good movie out of what we had here. And we've decided to not do this. So this is wild. They had Janelle Monet, Holly Berry, fucking Brian Tyree Henry,

Missy Elliott, Quinta Brunson, Jaboukie Young White. Yeah. Okay. The fucking Twitter Lord. Like, I mean, this is such a, such an L for a filmmaker to make a fucking movie to completion, take it into post and then say, quote, during the editing process, they collectively decided there wasn't a path forward to tell the version of this story that we originally envisioned.

That's what a script is for. Just so you know. That's right. That's the thing. There's this bias within Hollywood that it's like writers are like the tertiary. You have the directors, you have the actors, and producers oversee everything.

Then the writer is just down below, just a hired hand, hired gun. You go back and read the scripts for great movies, and it's like, this is all there. Everything that was great about this is on the page. You go back and read a script for a shitting movie, and a lot of times it's better than what ended up coming out on screen. Like, but yeah, that, that is, they might've wanted to figure this out at the scripting stage.

All right. So that's one I probably wasn't going to see. I do think I have to see the Legos one, by the way, did not get like terrible reviews. It's like in the sixties on Metacritic. So I'm sure it's like, oh, movies not get terrible reviews. It's like in the 60s on Metacritic. Yeah, but the Lego movies are incredible. Yeah, Lego movies are good. It's just not everybody was checking for that one. Too specific.

Very specific. Kids are like, Batman, yay! They're like, what about Pharrell Williams? They're like, what? The guy who's saying the Despicable Me? No, not Despicable Me. Stop it, Let me finish. The old man who has fantastic skin who barely ages.

What do you mean barely ages? Okay, maybe that's more than important to me. Yeah, maybe we don't need to see this. It's usually a bad sign when you're doing a pitch of a children's movie to kids and you keep having to scream, can I finish? That's funny. Let me finish. All right, this one, I'm bummed out about this next one,

though, Netflix just canceled a nine hour documentary about Prince directed by Ezra Edelman who won the Oscar for the OJ made in America movie. Did you guys watch OJ made in America? Yeah. That shit was so good. Yeah. Was that that one a while ago?

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, I did watch that one. I didn't watch the new one. So this was, he's been working on it for the past five years. This is what he followed up the OJ one with, was this Prince documentary. It's nine hours.

It was going to be a complete banger. And then, and he was granted access to Prince's entire archive, known as The Vault, and had permission from his estate. Then the estate changed administration and the Netflix exec who greenlit the movie left the company and now they're killing the project. This dude just made a documentary that the New York Times, like a journalist got to see it and was like, this is a cursed masterpiece.

Wow. Wow. Yeah. We're going to learn some stuff about Prince, which anybody who's been paying attention probably had a sense that it was there. But allegations of physical assault from his ex-girlfriend, descriptions of his addiction to painkillers, and criticisms of certain lyrics as anti-Semitic.

But now they're going to take another pass at it with the approval of Prince of the State. And could you imagine how sanitized it becomes? And he was a prince. And that was it. and he was a Prince. That was it. They called him Prince Prince and everyone lived happily ever after. Shout out to the healing waters of Lepiney. That one was because someone on Prince's side, like found a way to get a kill to protect his legacy or, oh yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Because I was going to say with the last five years with the state of our industry, the film entertainment industry, I've experienced this several times where there's so many layoffs at the executive that you're developing something with for like a year or two, all of a sudden, poof, they're gone and the project's immediately dead. But poof, they're gone and the project's immediately dead. Right, right, exactly. I mean, that was a huge thing when HBO Max, like that whole discovery thing, so many people had shit potentially about to be piloted, have things greenlit, then all those executives like,

hey man, do you know anywhere in the Thailand? Yeah, exactly. I was about to ask you if we could take this project somewhere else. Yeah, and like the mergers and then whole like, streamers and companies not even existing. I mean, it's just been crazy. It's, I know LA feels like, and I think this is a, this is a very specific to LA vibe thing, but I think people just outside of LA should probably understand.

Like this city feels like it's dying. I don't know. If people are aware, it feels like. Like, like, you know, when factory jobs were like, there's the work is gone. There are so many people having like, crises about they're like, I'm an editor, but there's nothing to edit. Edit. Yeah. And I can't go anywhere.

I'm a writer. There's nothing to write or like that whole industry is being so it's like in such a state of chaos right now Yeah, it's like there's just a huge dimension of the city. That's like lost at the moment that it's very fucking eerie I gotta say it's yeah, like a lot of people are leaving the business Yeah, I know people that are like I used to do this I'm gonna be a lawyer now. Yeah People have been in the business for a really long time and yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's yeah anyway Clown like the ghostbusters and Ghostbusters to Children's birthday parties. I already am a professional clown. So that's hey and that's impressive ahead of the game

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