The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 424 (Best of 3/23/26-3/27/26)

Episode Date: March 29, 2026

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all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laugh stravaganza yeah so without further ado here is the weekly zeitgeist anyways I'm thrilled to be joined

in our third deceit by a hilarious stand-up comedian writer actor improviser you can see her at her monthly shows second screens comedy and facial recognition comedy it's polonium Polivigunale Oh, what the fuck

it smells like shit in here What the fuck Give me a one word Suggestion Fuck Give me a one Give me a thaw Give me a fuck

Your one word Suggestion is what the fuck Oh shit It smells like shit in here He just pisses himself Oh fuck Why do you get warm And they're really cold in here

What the fuck? That is. So you're a fellow pants pisser. You've experienced it yourself, huh? Yeah, yeah. No, I would never. It's an adrenal response when I'm like to fuck shit up. Yeah, sometimes when I'm sunning my perineum, I will accidentally retain.

Guys, put sunscreen on there. Put sunscreen on there. You can get burned on your perenn. Dude, there's some fucking pharmaceutical. drug, I heard the ad for, and they're talking about, like, you can get, like, a fatal infection in your parinium was like, it was like, oh, you can't get a fatal infection, like, between your rectum or anus and genitals.

I'm like, what the fuck? It's like the triangle of death that you hear about. On the face? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I don't know if it's, but I don't even know if that's a triangle. It's just, for whatever reason, this medication, like, in the thing, it was jarring because I heard it passively when I was like,

what the fuck? Oh, they put that in the ad, like a T. Yeah. Deadly perennial infection. Meanwhile, they're curing Alzheimer's in Cuba and we're like, now you can get butt killed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Feel what it's like to get killed through your perennial. Um, Pallivu.

Oh, me? We're thrilled to have you. Aw. Yeah. How are you doing? I'm thrilled to have one of you here. Oh. Here.

Okay. I like, I like the mystery there. Okay. Yeah. I just, I thought some of my, you know, Potions may have worked this time, but... Keep trying. Keep trying.

I guess someone's developing a tolerance. Oh. I was just looking at... I was just looking at... I was trying to figure out what the Jardians is one, where it says, like, it's... There's ones like, what does Jardians do to your paronyum? There's like a lot of weird shit. I don't know.

Somebody with medical... Now I got a look at my parietam. I'm fine looking at everything. Yeah, well, you might as well. You're already down there. stuff. Charlie makes, make you dance.

I'm like, yeah. I've been down there a lot. I've been in the minds. I got my heart hat on. Whistle where you work, you know what I'm saying? I say that canary,

it's dead. Hi-ho. Hi-ho. Canary has croaked. I killed six canaries with my parody. That mine is collapsing. Josh, Rory, what's something from your search?

history that's revealing about who you are. Well, I feel like mine is lame, but I'm on the road a lot as a comedian, and I'm on a tour, and I really love coffee and coffee shops. So my last thing, my literal last thing is best coffee shops in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

And did you get an answer that felt? I got some prospects. Don't leave us hanging on. I got some prospects. We got listeners in Alberta. They might have some input there. One called monogram that I think I'm probably going to go to if you guys want to know and come hang out.

We can start a prayer circle. I was going to say. What's your... Roi, I like that you were like, Koi, like you're like drafting a team and you're like, I actually am not sure who's going to make it, but monogram is looking good.

I got to say I looked up five. Monogram seemed to have the best environment for chilling out for about an hour. Yeah. Yeah. What's your drink? Are you like one of those people who like likes the real slow pour over kind of thing? I don't mind a slow pour over. I always get

espresso because I want to see what the pool is like and if that's pretty good. I'll sometimes do an iced latte. I was going to guess that that's your drink. Yeah. And why would you have guessed that, Sophia? I don't know. He seemed like a cold Bev person. He just wanted an ice situation.

But I like it. I do like it. Josh, what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? The last non-work-related search, because the work-related searches would be boring is, is it safe to give my cat Ozumpic? or could I give my cat exemplic? I don't know the exact phrasing of it, but I see those commercials all the time,

and I'm a little concerned about our cat's weight, and I was just wondering, there's no way I can get her. What's the shortcut for this? Well, I mean, diet and exercise works for us, but I feel like that's not a negotiation you can have with an animal. Like, how do you get a cat to that? You literally just give it less food,

and it's going to hate it, but it's going to get smaller. When I took one of my cats to the vet, I got told the most unhinged thing, my fatter cat. But they were like, your cat, if she were a woman, would be considered obese. How is that useful? I don't know what that means. How is that useful? I'm like, but she is a cat, though. So what are we?

Sorry, I was trying to use like patriarchical perceptions of womanhood to weaponize that. Also, if she were a woman. I know that we'll never have. happened, but if she were. It was so wild. If your cat was a bird, she would not be doing great.

If she was a bee, she could never take off the flower. If your cat was a woman, I feel like if it would be severely underweight. 23 pounds. 23 pounds is not livable. No, no, no.

That's not happening. If she were a living doll. Yeah. Wait, so Josh, was there any insight? Like, are there GLP ones for her felines? In fact, the answer was, no, you should not give Osama to your cat. However, they are, there are variations and they're working on, of course they are, because they're going to make another $10 billion on semi-glutides for pets.

But don't just dose your cat was the answer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sold to professional. That's helpful. But I call it Mianjaro when I give it to them. And hopefully it just, just. that one of the switch will help it work. You've been waiting so long to make that joke.

Yeah. And you didn't go with Meow Zempic? Miao Zemik was right there. But Manjaro, I got the M in there. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. As a seasoned improviser, I kept my ass on the back wall until I had to. And now is the time to do a Miao Jarro.

I saw the second you said it, Josh, he just fucking hit my brain. You're like, here we go. Here we go. Yeah, I'm like, oh, fuck yeah. I love this Josh, guys. He's giving me my best shit ever right now. I'm in. I'm in with this.

What's somebody you think is underrated, Caitlin? I think that practical effects in movies and stuff are underrated. With Paul, he just got so excited. No, I get, this is something I'm very passionate about. I'm like, I get so tired of seeing like CGI and stuff and like watching like old movies, like Jurassic Park. Like the practical effects are amazing. And that's also I think why Mary is doing so well too.

Like everything was practical effects. I'm just obsessed with... In outer space? Physical. Yeah, they went to space. They filmed it there. It was a documentary. Oh, my God.

Yeah, sorry. Oh, fuck. No, okay, but yeah, I get what you mean. I get what you mean. I love it. I love the building of it. What brought your love of the practical effect back? I mean, it's been there.

It's been being there. I hate this whole, like, everyone's standing in front of a green screen or blue screen. The sets aren't practical. The effects aren't practical. This has been going on for decades now. But I rewatched for the first time in many years for an upcoming episode of the Bechtelcast. Honey, I shrunk the kids.

Oh, my God. And all of the like sets with the kids just like walking through the grass and like being in the big bowl of Cheerios. The aunt. It's all little puppets and stuff. So I just, I was like, man, they just don't make them like this anymore. It's like animation too. They don't do like the 2D animation. That's like really good.

You know, like we got to find that 90s niche, you know? It was so good. Yeah. I mean, I think that's why like, yeah, practical effects just look better. You know, it's just something about when the camera is actually filming something that is physically existing. It works really well. Yeah. The physics of things.

Like when there's a CGI effect or a care and look again, one of my favorite movies is Paddington. And that's on the set of that, that's a pile of tennis balls. And then obviously Paddington is CGI. But aside from that. Whoa. Whoa. I know kind of wild. Yeah.

Okay. Because you're kind of the duality of the films that really capture your mind. I mean, like, I know you've got a Fury Road tattoo, right? Which is a lot of practical. A lot of practical, right? Yeah. A lot of practical. Titanic.

Motherfucker built a gigantic Titanic out of Mexico. Okay. Yeah. And then your other king is a non-existent bear, Caitlin. Okay. I contain multitudes. What the fuck are you guys saying? Paddington is real.

How else is he doing the musical? How else was he at the BAFTA? Well, that's why I'm so excited about the musical. Yeah. Because it's practical. There is a little person actor inside the costume. on the stage. Yeah, yeah.

And it's, I'm delighted. I'm excited. But yeah, no, I, the, like, the physicality

and the lack of, like, gravity and just every, like, the physics of CGI effects looks like ass. Yeah,

yeah, for sure. It's never done well, and I just need everything to be proud of it. I feel like, the moments, CGI ass.

CGI ass. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes the CJA can get it, but other times they don't get the thigh thickness right sometimes. The thing with like, I'm trying, like the moments I've really been wowed by special effects have always been practical effects. Like even first, like even with Avatar, I was like, okay, fine. But like Jurassic Park, I was like, holy shit. Muppets and Space. My first.

Treasure Island. Thank you. Muppets Christmas Carol. I love Muppets Christmas Carol. I don't know why they would need to. do C.C. for any of that one, but yeah, why not? But like, even practical. Like, even Star Wars, too. Like, some of the first movies I grew up really being, like, interested in, all the miniatures that were being used. And just how much, like,

too, like action movies were using miniatures to blow shit up. And I remember always watching on HBO, they'll have, like, HBO first look. It would be, like, the behind the scenes, little featureettes they would put on. And I was obsessed with those because it always blew my mind that, like, it was a job that you got to basically build little toys to shoot with. And then usually explode them. It's art and engineering. I know. Imagineers were gods.

Sorry, I keep talking. No. I mean, we're just all so passionate about this. Like, never forget an Independence Day when they built that miniature set of the White House and then it split it. Yeah. Also, I feel like, like studios should be aware of how much people love that shit because, like, we literally, during like, Halloween or Christmas, we will drive to completely different neighborhoods just. just to like drive alongside and see like Christmas and Halloween decorations and like we go to haunted house. Like we love practical effects.

Like we love being in the place and seeing all the effort and ingenuity that people put into it. Right. Yeah. And that's what the Paddington Bear experience that I'm doing at noon on April 3rd. Yeah, you wanted the real practical effects in your face. Yeah. I get it. what is uh what's something you think is underrated like underrated screaming into a pillow as loud as you can

i found that that has been really helpful just screaming as loud as you can and it's such a good release you know there's a lot of shit going on so and that's in addition to therapy you know everything like actual you know medical things but yeah everyone's want to just take a pillow and scream it like just fucking yeah yeah yeah and it feels and the pillow matters so you don't scare other people. And this started... Oh, okay. And you made this discovery

after you found out you were having twins. Yes, I'm with them. So I bring my own pillow with me in general in case any... Obie appointment now. Any friction occurs?

No, anywhere. So any friction in my life... This is my shout pillow. Yeah. If I miss a light, like a traffic light, I'm stuck at a red light. I scream into it. You have it on a bungee cord

above you on the driver's side. And then it goes right back up to the ceiling of the car. Shout pillow would be a good product. The shout pillow. The shout pillow that's like on the top of your, like every car just comes with a little pillow that you can pull down. Yeah. I love shout pillow.

The Chinese already have that built into their cars. They've thought of everything. They've thought of everything. That's good. Yeah. No, it seems like things are going well for you. Yeah. Yeah.

The screen into a pillow is good. Sure, sure, sure. What's something you think is overrated? street cleaning where I've never seen a street get more clean when one of those like fans like those brush

zambonies yeah yeah yeah go by and Jamie Lofdis falls out of the ceiling because I mentioned Zambonoh. Yeah yeah yeah she's right behind you yeah she's mad she's like did you mention Zambonies again she doesn't want to be there

either you know yeah she's pissed off but yeah I've never seen them work and I have a conspiracy theory that it's a way for local governments to collect tickets and get money that way, which is a purely conspiracy, but I believe it's correct. I have a question about street sweepers that I've never asked out loud. Yeah, go ahead.

Are they? Because it does. All right. Who are you? What is a streak? They got the two big brushes that appear to the naked eye to just be kicking, kicking shit up. You know?

My eyes, yes. Right. Yeah, just like getting the dust, walking through and just being like, this your sandcastle, kick, kick, kick. Like everything goes fucking flying everywhere. But I have to assume that in theory, those brushes are sweeping it into a thing that is like picking up the shit off the street. Is that not correct?

Like an octopus's mouth. Yeah, yeah. There's a little octopus's mouth under there. Possibly with a beak, I don't know. I don't know. It's got to be, right? that's the hope. That's the dream.

I think that's the hope. Yeah. I feel like in China, yes. In the U.S. It's just a thing that kicks shit in different directions. Well, I mean, like the whole thing is like they're just getting shit out of the road. It's not to be like, it's like they're mopping the streets. It's like for debris.

Yeah. What a street mopper might be a better invention to your point. Or sweeping, you know? You're saying you want to see a street mopper. You want to be a zamboni where it's like just a sheen of clean behind it. You're like, oh, is that brand new concrete? Yeah, if you're going to ticket, what are parking tickets in L.A. now, like 70, 80 bucks. Water.

Oh, yeah. Water parking tickets. Water parking tickets. Wooder parking tickets. I went down, I went down the shore, got a boat to go crabbing, and then I got a wooder parking ticket. Oh, yeah. And then I brought it to my wooder bed.

I haven't had a legit parking ticket in a few years, but like back, last time I got one, I felt it was like 65 or some shit. Right? I got one at, uh, UCLA miles. I told you, Jack. I don't, I don't play. I don't play. Over 80.

Yeah. Westwood. That's Westwood prices. Oh, but you're playing, you're probably paying their like exorbitant, fucked up campus parking ticket things. Yeah. Oh, Victor, baby producer Victor just came and said,

my last one was like $70 or $80. That's a lot. That's a lot. And that's a lot for a baby. That's a lot for a little guy like that. That's crazy because you're a little baby and you don't make money. So how you pay that? How do you pay that, Victor?

How will you pay that? Streetkeepers do pick up small debris, organic matter. Dog shit, I think is essentially what they're saying there. Dogg. But they hate seeing. We pick up dog shit. What else do you fucking want? I'm not using my hands.

What are you talking about? I also, I, for whatever reason, there's something so humiliating for me to see a dog just take a dump on like on concrete on the sidewalk. Part of me is like, they don't want that either. No, they don't want that either. This is designed for grass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why I walk around with a basket.

Your second reference to dogs shitting on grass in as many minutes. I got that shit on me, bro. I figured out a way to make that a bar. That's pretty good. My dog, when we lived in New York, my dog Miles at the time. What's up my dog? Would take a shit in the crosswalk as we were like what. Oh, that's so stressful.

For some reason it was just like, this is the one spot that I feel comfortable taking a shit. That probably stressed you out so bad. Do you imagine my? Not A to have like the dogs taking a shit in the strange spot, but then you thinking of like, I'm going to hold up the traffic now. Yeah. I'm having a panic attack. Just thinking about it. And you can already hear like some made up like New York City sanitation work would be like,

Oh, oh, oh, pick up your dog's shit. And it almost seemed like I had trained him to do that because he just did it every single time. Your act of defiance against the city is to have him take a shit in a crosswalk. When we had those huge, those two big like blizzards this year, that my dog will only shit on, I'm so glad you brought this up. He will only shit on grass and dirt, but there was no grass and dirt. And like the snow was too hot. Yeah, so it was just a night. It was a nightmare.

My dog was constant. My poor dog. I'm like, how do I find dirt for this? You didn't go like ice fishing for like some. You had to like drill down into the snow. Just to find a spot of shit. Yeah,

yeah. I poured 40 gallons of boiling water out there to try and melt it. I erected a shed in the middle of a snow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, you're going to be a great dad, man. Thank you.

You're resourceful. Skills like that. Yeah. Yeah. Take the kid to the shit shed. I'm tired. I haven't got my 14 hours of sleep. I haven't had my breakfast in bed in two days.

I don't feel good. What are you doing in there? I think I'm like getting sick or something. Yeah, I feel light at it. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we'll talk about Donald Trump's moon base. I'm Bailey Taylor and this is it girl. You may know me from my It Girl series I've done on the streets of New York over the years.

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Ladies and gentlemen, breaking news at Americopa County as Laura Owens has been indicted on fraud charges. This isn't over until justice is served in Arizona. Listen to Love Trapped podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And so is Stephen Colbert with a new, he already lined up the new gig. Okay. So we know he's ending, or, you know, the late show. show is going to be ending in May after, you know, the FCC came down and was like,

CBS, Ben to Our Will. We don't like people that have anything negative to say about this government or this administration especially. And, you know, other people are like, okay, what's next for Stephen Colbert logically? You're like this guy's a comedian. He has a background in, you know, comedy. He's a host. Is it a new show?

He was on Strangers with Candy. Let's not forget. Oh, let's not do it all the great. Do you watch Stranger Candy still? I periodically go back to watch shit. I haven't seen it recently, but... So fucking... It's so dark that I can't believe it was on TV when it was on TV.

Like the shit that they're touching on just with the character of Jerry Blank, Amy Sedaris's character, and you're like... I feel like we got away with like a lot darker stuff back then because there wasn't as much like real life dark stuff that we could... We had access to. So like, I feel like even the cartoons could be like dark. dark, you know? Yeah, because she's just like this old scummy, like 70s person. Yeah. But also like racist in the weirdest fucking ways.

Yeah. But I still, I remember as again, that shit pulled on my heartstrings. I was like, finally a show that's like saying some, I don't know, I've really fucked with this dark, the dark comedic stylings of Amy Sillars and Co. Okay. So, uh, for all of that, you know, what could it be? Is it in line with him? It turns out the next. The next gig is a Lord of the Rings sequel movie.

So it was just announced that Stephen Colbert and his son are developing a, quote, brand new Lord of the Rings movie. So after 20. Do we think he developed it or do we think he had that in his back pocket this whole time? Well, here's a deal. Okay, so it's interesting what's going on. 100% is because anyone who knows, like, Colbert is, I think, one of the most famous Tolkien nerds, like out there,

or at least most visible in terms of like, you know, whatever list of celebrities on A? Yeah, we call that A. But so in 2027, we're getting Lord of the Rings, the Hunt for Gallum, and then we're getting cold bears. Leave her alone. We're getting cold bears, Lord of the Rings, shadows of the past.

And you're like, okay, so how does this work? Because these movies came out like fucking 20 years ago. like what are we talking about here? So apparently Colbert's film is based on chapters from the fellowship that quote didn't make it into Peter Jackson. Tom Bombadale!

Are they going to bring Tom Bombadale back? I'm like, okay, I'm a Lord of the Rings person. You're back in. You're back in. I wanted to see Tom in the original so bad, but they were already like a million hours long. Yeah. So I'm like excited.

Yeah, this is what he said because Peter Jackson did like a cheeky thing He's like, and I've got a very special collaborator. And then like in the video call like Colbert comes in. And this is what Colbert said, You know what the books mean to me and what your films mean to me. But the thing I found myself reading over and over and over again where the six chapters early on in the fellowship that y'all never developed into the first movie back in the day.

It's basically the chapter three is company, chapter three, through fog on the barrow downs. And I thought, oh, wait, maybe that could be its own story. That could fit into the larger story. could we make something that was completely faithful to the books while also being completely faithful to the movies that you guys had already made? And it sounds like that's what it is. So the logline, quote, 14 years after the passing of Frodo, Sam, Marion Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure.

Meanwhile, Sam's daughter, Eleanor has discovered a long buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began. So, yeah. So who's going to play these people? Me? Me? I'll play Tom. Hurry. This could be your time.

Cut to me like hitting Andy Circus in the knee. Right. He's like, it's my voice really that's paying the bill. I don't give a fuck. And it's my facial reactions. It's your fucking knee, fucker. Yeah. So I also didn't, I forgot that he was in desolation of small.

Wait. Yeah. Cool bear world? Yeah. That was a big thing. He was like so excited to be in it. Yeah. Who did he play?

He, I don't know. He was like, I don't know who he was. I remember seeing him like with ears. Cool, bear. I thought like his family was like, did his kid get in a team?

Secret cameo. He played a spy. Yeah, he was just sort of like, it was there and you go, oh, there it is. So, boom. Remember when we saw Ed Shearin in Game of Thrones and we were like, no?

Yeah, you're like, yeah, yeah. that face doesn't belong there yeah well i mean but he he doesn't like he has iPhone face I think it was just sort of like he doesn't have iPhone face i know i know ed Shearin when i see him and I don't like seeing him in this context i think is how I that was my reaction does everyone just have the ick from edge ed Sharon or did he do something bad i don't not that i know of but i can't The lawsuit was like the only thing I could think of. Oh, wait, what was that?

Because he was there like, yo, you just basically ripped off scrubs. He's like, I don't want your life. And then TLC was like, oh, hold on. What, hold on. Can you sing that shit back one more time? Because it sounds like, I don't want no scrubs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then so that ended up, they ended up getting a writing credit on that because they sued.

But like, I don't, to me, it didn't seem like egregious or anything, although I don't know. Okay. I kind of like that he's not a bad man in the typical way and that we just don't like him. I like that. I don't think there's anything. Bring that pettiness back for no reason. When it's just been like, I don't like their face rather than I don't like them because there's some kind of predator.

Because they're probably. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bring that back. That's fun. Bring back back. Just hating somebody because you don't like their face.

For no fucking reason. Bring back looks based discriminating. Bring back body shaming. I don't like his floppy ginger hair. I don't like that baby's vibe is off. Oh, gosh, that baby's five. I'm pretty sure people are still saying that today. Elsewhere, now, Caitlin, like we were saying,

you've got to go to the airport soon. And by that, I mean, maybe you should get in line today because the TSA, TSA's acting administrator, Hawwyn McNeil testified in, you know, saying like, What's good with a funding? Give us a status report here. Yeah.

Hey. What's good, Miley? Hey, excuse me, Ms. Administrator. What's good? Can you give us a vibe check out there? What's the feeling? And we've all seen the videos. We've all talked to people who have been to the airports that have been slammed.

Not surprisingly, she said that the airports are experiencing, quote, the highest weight times in history. Because, again, they're now, we're at like almost 500. TSA officers have just quit. This is like, even considering when the right brothers were just bringing people on practice lights, even though it took years. We're actually factoring in the development of air travel into the wait time. For even the centuries, people waited prior to the invention of modern air travel. We still have the longest wait times in history.

And right now, some like absences, because people call in sick too, because like, well, fuck it. If I'm not getting paid, I can't come. Yeah, why the fuck would I? 4% in some places to over 40% at others. That's why it's like, you know, it's not consistent across the board because there's also airports like SFO and there's like about 13 other airports that contract private companies to be TSA rather than TSA directly. So those people are getting paid. Okay, I'm learning about that for now. No, they're just like contracted, contracted sort of TSA people. But their payment goes through these other contractors versus waiting for DHS money to come through. And I think, yeah, this is the crazy part.

So McNeil was asked. So like, okay, so you've lost about maybe almost 500 people. What does it look like to get restaffed? McNeil said, quote, training for new officers takes four to six months, meaning replacements would likely not be ready before the start of the 2026 World Cup. She called the situation a quote, perfect storm Because it's like you got this shut down You got people who just fucking quit

You gotta onboard 500 people It takes four to six months. Babes, this shit is kicking off in like under three. So This is crazy. Also, like I saw two things about this I thought were interesting. There's this one TikTok of this girl

who like left her mom's place in Atlanta, went to the airport like five hours early just barely made her flight like after waiting in line for five hours and then the flight took off and then the airport she was going to go to was closed and they had to come back to Atlanta so she traveled for 12 hours

to end up back at her mom's place wait could she even land or they were just like they landed back in Atlanta like no but I'm saying did they land at the destination or they're just like oh they were just like They just stayed in the air. I don't think they could land. I don't think so.

But like it was crazy. And I was like, what the fuck? Like, so even if you get, if you breathe that sigh of release of like, I got on the flight, that's like until you're off that fucking plane. And then also like I saw the delay is all effect. Like every single delay affects every single other flight. Yeah. This is also like, did you remember when Southwest was like not doing well during the winter storms? And it's because I looked this up.

It's because most airlines. lines have a hub and spoke type of situation, but Southwest has like a, uh, one plane goes to the next, goes to the next, goes to the next. So they don't have like a hub. And that works better for fitting as many flights as possible into your schedule during normal times, but it's terrible for emergencies because they don't have like a place to like regroup and like reorganize like the pilots and shit. But this is like fucking up all the hugs, I think. So it's like they can't even find a place to regroup. Um, but. And then I saw that like ice or whoever was like handing out waters to people online and then they were forgetting that they had waters and then they were trying to go through security.

Yeah. Went to water. That was probably on purpose because I'm like, ice would never do anything kind. Nice. Yeah. I mean, I've read like there have been so many articles written with people talking to people at people at airports and what their feelings are. And like some people are like it's fucking gross. other people like they're doing fuck all and they're like they handed out water and they're kind of

trying to talk to people but from what I've seen most of these people don't I think them with their faces out in the open like that I'm just being like huh okay they're scared yeah yeah and it's like one of these things too we talked about on I think yesterday the day before show that you know this like woman called into like the buck sexton showed and is that people are like pointing at this woman from Arizona calling into a conservative radio as the as the why, like as the genesis of this idea, because she's like, oh, the libs are going to hate it. Imagine if ICE is now at the airports and like helping TSA. And then that that host went on Fox and pitched the idea.

And then Trump the next day said, yeah, we're going to be putting ice at the airports. And then the logic there was like, I'm going to call into that. I'm going to be like, wouldn't it be crazy if the libs got free health care? They fucking hate that shit. You got to, you've got to be a little. You're going to need to add one more dimension of chess right there. Yeah, and I'm sure they'll figure out. Yeah, they'll be like, wait, huh?

They won't like it? Which brings us, though, to this is where I think maybe things might change a little bit because the CEO class now is starting to grumble about TSA checkpoints. And when I say the CEO class, I mean the CEOs are the airlines. Right now you have the head of Delta, or no, United. he's been basically saying like, look, dude, this is fucking, he said, this is ridiculous. Scott Kirby, that United CEOs said, quote, we're holding airplanes, but when there's a five-hour wait, we can't hold for everybody.

It's just ridiculous to me that it has to get this bad before they can get a deal done. Please get the deal done soon. This is a, quote, political football amid another government shutdown. And I'm sure for them, they're like, dude, we're hemorrhaging cash because of this. On top of the price of jet fuel because of the fucking war. Yeah. Like this is like the worst, worst time ever for the, for the airlines that like to squeeze every penny out of us. I mean, can't Scott Kirby just fill his body with hot air and float away?

He could. He should. Kirby. Kirby. Kirby. I get it. That was good. Oh, Kirby.

I didn't think about that. Video game reference alert. Yeah. You big on Kirby? You know Kirby? You fuck with Kirby? I've never played a Kirby game. Yeah.

Okay. I played the first one I remember on gay boy. Delta Airlines, though, I think this is the thing that might work because the Delta CEO is like, no, this is, we got to do something about this. This is the statement that came from the company. Due to impact on resources from the longstanding government shutdown, Delta will temporarily suspend specialty services to members of Congress flying Delta. Next to safety, Delta's number one priority is taking care of.

our people and customers, which has become increasingly difficult in the current environment. So apparently, at like a lot of major airlines have like a special congressional service desk for members of Congress on Capitol Hill. And the Delta ones known as the Delta desk. And I guess a lot of members of Congress fly Delta and have like their, you know, points with Delta or whatever. And so that desk helps members get like government rates, book their trips, last minute ticket stuff. just like basic saving seats like you know it's like a bespoke concierge for delta that like will interact directly with members of congress now they're saying like bro kiss that fucking desk goodbye so now you're going to have to live in our world which i hope you know i think that's the only thing

that'll happen that might incentivize people in congress to if they have no perks i mean obviously the only thing that's going to get members of congress to do anything is if trump says something but at the very least they have to suffer like everyone else because as as well as we look at things that happens with, you know, most policies. It's about those people insulating themselves from never having to live in our world. And I think- Pisses me off that I, that I'm now finding out about all these perks that are going to be taken away because of this. Like, I didn't even know that they got that shit. Yeah.

I mean, it's like, I mean, yeah, they get a government rate, you know, same day travel or whatever. But I don't know. But then you also have to be in Congress, apologies. So, you know, there's that whole thing. But here's some good news. So Open AI, there was the big announcement that SORA, the video generation nonsense, SlopMaker factory is being shut down, despite all the articles that said, this is going to change Hollywood. This will revolutionize filmmaking.

If AI can make everything now. And then. Practical effects ever heard of them? Exactly. Exactly. I don't need to see Darth Vader breakdance against Elsa from Frozen in a B-Boy battle. Actually? I kind of do. I already seen it.

I need to see it real life, though. Bro, Darth Vader can't up rock for shit. Windmills were sloppy as hell. No, fuck that. You got the force and shit. You can't even get it, bro. But now other of the big, other big tech companies are having to legally reckon

with their mental health eroding apps. Quote, a California jury on Wednesday found that meta and Google were to blame for the depression and anxiety of a woman who compulsively used social media as a small child awarding her $3 million in a rare verdict, holding Silicon Valley accountable for its role fueling a youth mental health crisis. The jurors concluded that META and Google should pay the woman $3 million in compensatory damages, with MET on the hook for 70% of that amount.

The jury also decided that META and Google's actions could trigger punitive damages, which means there will be a separate phase of the trial where the jury will decide what amount of damages are appropriate to punish the multi-trillion dollar companies for their conduct. Yeah, the plaintiff who just was like for anonymity, K. Lee, but was being legally referred to as KGM has like a story like, I think millions of other young people, especially like kids who like grew up firmly in the social media internet era where they're like, this is all there's ever been. I think she just turned 20 years old. And basically their lawyers, you know, like are arguing, you know, Instagram, it's the reason it's Google and Met, it's like,

Instagram and YouTube were deliberately designed to be addictive, and the companies knew that, and they knew the harm that was coming from it. And we've saw, like, there was that whistleblower from META who was like, it's talked about at the company that this is bad. The people who work on this shit don't want their own kids using it. And that was like what the plaintiff's team did. The team showed, quote, the jury internal documents from META in which META CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives described its efforts to attract and keep kids.

and teens on its platforms. One document said, quote, if we want to win big with teens, we must bring them in as tweens. Another internal memo showed that 11-year-olds were four times as likely to keep coming back to Instagram compared to competing apps despite the platform requiring users to be at least 13 years old.

Like, yeah, it's also like, I'm surprised, have there been any cases of like chat GPT telling you to kill yourself or like the people who have, People who have. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure that's going to be next. Any like lawsuits.

Like they, because I don't like because that hasn't. Okay. Yeah. Let me see what happened. Because last time I believe that parents were suing and. Okay. So character AI was one of which I believe this person thought like

Colisi, he was in a like relationship with Colisi or some shit. They, they settled. Yeah. She loves me. Before it before the verdict. But like that's, so. So, I mean, like, I think a lot of them are trying to settle before maybe some court precedent is set because the lawsuit with this young lady also had snap and TikTok as defendants, but they settled before the trial. They were like, no, we're not going to do that.

What you want? There you go. Take it. We don't want any of this. We don't want any of this. The concept of me having a child to induce AI psychosis in the child to them suit for money. I mean, this is the thing. It's like, when the companies have documented themselves that they're doing this shit, it's hard to argue against it.

Obviously, the lawyers from Matt and Google, like, well, we're going to appeal. We're going to look at our, what are evaluate our options here to skirt responsibility. But here's the thing I'm going to say. Epstein emails that are like, we did it. We hooked the kids on this addictive substance. Yeah. I mean, they probably just think that they have enough money and resources and like whatever powerful enough attorney. attorneys that they will win any case.

I mean, I think it was just announced, too, that, like, Mark Zuckerberg was named to, like, the, like, White House Science and Tech Council. So trust that this guy, obviously, because all these assholes are only, they're styling up to Trump because they're trying to figure out how they keep their, you know, evil fucking empires rolling without any kind of regulation. And, like, Zuckerberg, when he was asked about these documents, like, that are saying like, hey, man, it's saying right here that you guys are trying to keep these kids here to fucking get them like stuck in an algorithmic loop. His response was, quote, if people feel like they're not having a good experience, why would they keep using the product? Like, what kind of victim blame or ass shit is that? I want to say really bad things. I want to say really bad things about this grown ass man.

I think you should make him some brownies. You know? I think he needs a care package. Oh, my God. I'm immediately arrested and taken off screen. I'm like, ah. They're listening right now. Lore from the show is used as legal evidence in your trial.

I mean, you said it here. You have access to polonium? In this AKA lyric, you stated. It's like the young thug trial all over again. But yeah, this is like, again, right now, there are, like, this is a belt. There's 2,000 other pending lawsuits brought by. parents and school district arguing that these companies, like, are, like, at the very least, should be considered manufacturers of defective products for hooking these kids in.

We need that PTA energy over on these companies. We need you to take all of that banning books momentum and fucking bring it to these social media companies. And in another great verdict for people who don't like predatory tech companies, a separate jury in New Mexico ordered META to pay $375 million in damages for failing to protect users from child predators on Instagram and Facebook. So the jury there in New Mexico said, you guys are responsible for misleading consumers about the safety of your platforms and declaring that the tech company had flouted state consumer protection laws. I just saw a reel of this

lady who used to post her kids. And then now she doesn't anymore, but she showed, examples of images and videos like with her kids versus without and like the the breakdown of like who the post was shared to do was like 80% men 90% men for the ones with kids and then the ones without kids it was like more women and she was like they're literally using the algorithm to pump these children in the front in the in front of the eyes of pedophiles like yeah that is the whole purpose and so like anytime I see like now anytime I see a child online. that's like saying something cute or whatever. I'm like, oh, this is sweet, but also get that kid the fuck off because like of this

site because it's just so scary. Like, it's so scary. Yeah. Yeah. It's wild. It's wild. And it's like, I mean, it's one of those things that everyone without like research anecdotally saw.

They're like, bro, like I'm stuck on these fucking things and like half the time. I'm like, why the fuck am I looking at? I mean, for adults, that's probably what hits your brain first. But if you're younger and you're not kind of like a fully formed person, you're like, a fully formed person yet. That shit's probably going to be like, why don't you look like this? Why don't you, how can you not wearing this? How come you don't look like that?

Can you make my Instagram stop being like, hey, are you a woman who's never worked out in a day in her fucking life, you lace a piece of shit? Do you want to get abs in two days? Those are all my ads. Please stop. My algorithm is, you know, news about all the horrible. things happening in the world. Lord of the Rings memes, speaking of Lord of the Rings.

I've been getting a lot of that. Cat videos. Oh, that's good. Very well curated. It is, but also I'm on it way too much. I find myself just like holding my phone being like, oh my God, I haven't accomplished anything today because I've just been doom scrolling. And yeah, I'm a full adult.

So I can't even imagine what it would be like for a tween. They're also talking. about the inability of kids, especially in the U.S. to, like, fucking learn anything right now. And part of it is, like, the pandemic. Part of it is, like, teachers not getting paid enough or not having enough resources. And then part of it is, like, our cognitive decline with being online so much and the increase in, like, dementia risks with, like, your scroll time and stuff. It's crazy.

I mean, also, too, like, you think about the amount of people who are, like, outsourcing their, like, normal cognitive things to like AI. Yeah. Yeah. Or it's like, it's like, holy. Hey man,

we might have to save this planet. Us old crusty, well, at least me, a crusty elder millennial. Tell kids about what it used to be. Remember when we used to put our hand in one sleeve and then do the little thing that made us look like your hand was coming up like this?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I still write in cursive and I'm like, a relic. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

You know that meme where like somebody's writing and it like lights on fire whenever anybody's like, oh, that's like bars? I'm like every time I look at my pen, I'm like it's got a quill. My pen is fucking spinning magma right now, not even ink. Look at these lines connecting. All right. Let's take another break when we come back. We'll talk about an old school scourge on society. Scorge.

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But he's been scrambling to find a solution. You know, the second, it became clear that him and Netanyahu's war on Iran was not going to end well. First of all, like, NATO nations want nothing to do with attacking the Strait of Hormuz. And it's not because they don't like Trump. I mean, that's part of it. It's also just, again, like every military mind before. It's incredibly hard to control. And strategically, there's no plan that we have available that doesn't end up with just killing

scores of people. So that's kind of why we don't do it. Trump on Thursday morning posted, NATO nations have done absolutely nothing to help with the lunatic nation now militarily decimated of Iran. The USA needs nothing from NATO, but never forget this very important point in time. Okay, so I guess he doesn't need them. He doubled down on that recently when he was asked by the press. If you don't need them, why are you so mad, though?

That's, well, I mean, he sounds pretty unbothered. That's why I just want to, I just want to play his own words on this, Sophia. This might change your feelings on it. Okay, cool. This is him being like, it's not that like I needed them. I was, it was a test. I never thought we needed them. I was more doing a test.

I said, I really would love to have you come up. Bring your boats. You can sail through the beautiful harmless straits, and you can protect people that are being shot at. They didn't do it. And that's small potatoes. Do you understand what I'm saying? You understand what I'm saying?

It was a test, actually. How is bring your boats not merch? Because that is insane. Bring your boats. Whoever that journalist was going, yeah, I do. I do understand. All the journalists would be like, no, I don't. Can you elaborate further with going?

so far. Yeah. Could you just kind of describe the shooting at people what boats? What beautiful, name some stuff that's beautiful that you personally found beautiful about the straight that you never seen or didn't

and also didn't even know existed until someone told you we fucked ourselves. Also, here's a world map. Point to it, please. Also, really quickly define the word straight. It's just the only thing I want to be.

Yeah. Yeah. That's why we like the Hormuz so much. It's straight. We let Doge know. Keep it open because it's straight. Don't go to the bisexual one next door. Yeah.

Real bad. Real bad news over there. The worst passage way. Worst water way possible. He was then asked about a deal, right? They're like, well, clearly you need, like, what's, how are you going to end this? Like, You've said that you were making a deal Monday, and then Iran was like, no, we haven't even

talked to you. What is this fucking guy talking about? And then recently Iran also came back and they're like, yeah, I mean, like, we have our own ceasefire proposal that we're going to send along, but we're not even close to negotiating with a group of people who can't even negotiate with us without attacking us. We were in the middle of negotiating when this whole thing kicked off. So then he was asked, okay, well, it sounds like, you know, with the global energy markets being completely out of whack, we kind of.

we kind of need a deal, right, with Iran? No. And they're like, maybe we're, it seems like I think he said, he was commenting on the fact that I think some Iranian officials were like, the U.S. is like desperate for a solution. And here was Trump's answer. I'm the opposite of desperate. I don't care. I want to know. In fact, we have other targets we want to hit before we leave. We're hitting them on a daily basis. I don't talk about you. I can't talk about specifics. I'll post about it on truth social. You know?

I want to talk about it. But now he's on, I'm the opposite of desperate. I don't care. I just, I don't care. I don't even like you. I asked you out. You said, no, you're a fucking ugly fat bitch anyway. You know he tried to find the word for opposite of desperate.

He's like, I'm the opposite of desperate. I'm, I don't care. I don't care. I'm opposite word. Whatever the opposite is, that's put that word there when you write this story. All day. All day. Did you see Hegseth's face, by the way, when he talks about more targets?

I mean, he was so aroused in that moment when he was like talking about bombs bombing shit. He said a prayer earlier in that Hegseth where he was like, please break the teeth of our enemies and kill the wicked. Like he's, I mean, a lot of people have talked about like he he has some like nutbag pastors that he listens to who are just. One million percent. All in on this like, dude, bring that, bring Jesus back by having a nuclear Armageddon in the Middle East. Like, yeah. It's the quickest way to see him again, man. H-D-H-fueled evangelism is crazy.

I say he's in my act, but I think, I think when they say Jesus is going to come back, I'm like, I think he's tried to. I think you keep killing him. When he comes back, he's not like a superhero. He's a human. And you keep killing, you probably kill his mom before he even gets a chance. You more than likely are doing that. Yeah, right? Just mathematically speaking, I like the odds on that.

And then again, back to the Strait of Hormuz and his petulance, it turns out, as we don't even need the Strait of Hormuz. The thing where one-fifth of the global oil supply transits through, that's, you know, the cause of all this energy disruption. We don't need it. Well, we have a coalition for them, but they should have been up here a long time ago. And, you know, they're affected. The amazing thing is we don't need the hormone strain.

We don't need it. We don't need it at all. We have so much oil. Our country is not affected by this. We have more, we have twice. Okay, hold on. Okay, where's the oil hot, though? My favorite is, if you, Rubio's reaction of, like, kind of falling asleep, then waking up and being like, I don't know.

I think the whole issue is that we do need it. Because if we didn't need it, no one would be talking about it at all. Wait, so, I thought that was the whole point of this fucking thing. Literally, we don't need it. The hinge of Middle Eastern policy is oil.

I don't know why. Neda needs to come and help us with this thing we don't need or care about. Yeah. Don't need it. And they're assholes for not helping. Yeah. But we also didn't need the help. And also it was a test anyway.

And we weren't. even trying to do that. I mean, again, I don't know. And you're ugly, like I said. So I didn't even want to go out with you. What's gas prices right now in Portland, Sophia? Because I, they're like high fours. Oh, 570 was the cheapest I saw recently in L.A.

from L.A. to Portland this weekend. And it definitely was like mid to high fives, like 560 or something in L.A. And then it got less as I got to Portland. But not great. I guess I'll take Trump's word for this because our country is not affected by this. Not at all. Yeah.

So, yeah. All as well then ends well. Well, I guess speaking of oil and the toll it takes on our earth, like I said, up top, like, you know, anyone who lives in the western United States or areas that typically get snow in the western U.S. probably had a freaky fucking quote unquote winter because it was non-existent basically. No, like a lot of places had like no snowfall for the first time in many years. And, you know, that's like those snow packs are what we count on for our water once it gets into the warmer months, you know, like, but ski slopes were bare. They were relying on snow machines.

And also, it doesn't bode well in terms of the risk for wildfires also. And states are already trying to plan, like, how to manage water usage given the record low snow, you know, as we find ourselves in the midst of another climate change escalation. And sadly, Earth death, as we've seen, is a partisan issue in the U.S. Some are just paid to not give a fuck by the oil and gas lobby while they secretly are like, fuck, man, where, Michigan? Is that where we go? Is that where there's fresh water? I wonder what they're going to do with their money.

Yeah, right, exactly. It reminds me of the scene on Titanic in the movie Titanic when Billy Zane tries to pay one of the guys to get him on a boat. And he's like, your money doesn't save either of us. Yeah. Just eat. He should have just ate it. He's like, what do you want to fucking do with this?

It's like at that moment you have to understand that money is a construct instead of like, It's a real thing that exists. The real thing is what you're living in. You're fucking psycho. MDMA, we just got to get more MDMA out there. Corey Lacossack will tell you. Reverend Corey LaCococke will tell you, MDMA, well. Amen, brother.

We'll open us up. So I think the other side, if you're not an oil and gas shell, you might just be like an anti-science Christian because that's another thing you hear a lot where they're like, well, Jesus will sort this out. You have to have faith. cut to Minnesota state lawmaker Mary Franson during a meeting of the state legislature about future weather trends. She decided to just kind of let everybody know at the meeting.

You know, I'm not really bothered by any of this at all, actually. Let me tell you why. It's got something to do with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And that's why when you talk about climate change, I don't get upset about it. I don't get worked up about it is because my faith is not in climate change. It's not in scientists dictating what we should and should not do to save the environment because my faith is in Jesus Christ. He's the same today, tomorrow and forever yesterday. And so, you know, if you've read the good book, you know how it ends.

It's not with climate change. And that's my closing speech. Wait, the book, wait, the book has an ending that is the ending? Does this bitch not know about revelations? What is happening right now? I got to say, is Noah's Ark not a climate change? Nobody believed him and then they died when they couldn't, when they drowned? No, no, no.

It doesn't say the words climate change. That's the thing is what I'm saying. I'm a literalist. It's always funny when people say stuff like, well, I don't need to put my faith in experts, yet you are standing on two legs in a world based on the achievements of people who study the scientists. And the knowledge of others. And to just be like, no, actually, I prefer knowing nothing before I do things. Yeah, yeah.

What an insane take. Just purely vibing out on faith. And it's like, oh, so did you not go to the doctor either? You're like, hey, I got this weird dark spot on my skin, Doc, which actually, you know what? Why am I even here? I'm putting my faith in Jesus. But you know does go to the doctor. Yeah, right.

Exactly. It's like, it's a melanoma. It's like, well, your car broke down. Why? You don't need a mechanic. That's science. No, no. Just pray.

Yeah, yeah. That radiator fixed up. There was a scene in season one of the pit where someone is anti-mask and comes in for a procedure and gets mad that all the have to wear a mask in the ER and her husband is about to go up for surgery. And the doctor's like, okay, well, so I'll just let them know up in the ER that when your husband gets up there that they don't need to wear the masks or the scrubs or anything. Yeah, wash their hands. And she's like, I'm okay with the masks. Right, right, right. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So should we do this surgery raw?

All right. All right. Well, let's just do it right here. We'll hand me a steak knife and a fork. Yeah. There's also another episode of the pit where there's a kid that almost dies because they get measles because the parents are anti-vax. And they're like, well, his siblings already got it. And they made it fine, like through it.

So it's fine. And they're like, it's not fine. your son's literally near death is what we're saying. Yeah, he's near Christ. And what we're saying is, yeah, it's not. And actually, the reason we do the vaccine is because you don't know how severe it's going to be. And because it can be so severe randomly, you just are like, going to let this third one be like, let's let God just throw the dice or whatever you think. Like, insane.

Yeah. It's interesting, too, because, like, they don't, you know, porn's not in the Bible, but they have real. strong opinions on that and stuff. Yeah. But again, that's the thing when you use the Bible to just be like, because clearly, like, you can tell this woman is actually probably terrified at the notion that things are so out of her control at this point. Yeah. The only refuge she has sort of emotionally is to be like, get that fucking get that shit out of your

head, girl. I think that's a lot of people. You got Jesus, baby. Yeah. Come on, man. Like, it's a, like, your last bed at the horse track. Yeah. Well, also, people are like, if you just put your faith in the Bible, then you don't have to

change your use of plastic and you don't have to change. None of us are going to be perfect about change, but, God, there's a little bit you could do. Right. There's actually, the sad thing is there's a little bit we could all do to mitigate a lot of this. Like, it's always presented, like, climate change, it's hopeless. It's not.

There are legitimate life changes that won't affect our lives in such a profound way in terms of inconvenience. We just don't want to do it. And also, like, look, lady, There are actual science. There are many people who are trying to really figure out what to do. You just got to fucking listen. Does it change anything?

Is Jesus going to go, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, why are you doing with climate change? What do I say about that? Yeah. You better put your faith in me and start rolling coal down the highway. That's just so how I always interpreted Jesus, like a little aggressive. Hey, hey, hey, knock that shit off. Hey, hey, huh, huh? What?

You want to live with me and my dad? Yes. Yes. Oh my God. I do want to live with you and your dad. You better knock it off. You better knock it off. You're going to live with me and my dad.

Yeah. Don't drink Bud Light. You know who drinks Bud Light, right? You know who. You know who. Knock it off. Jesus is also. Transmobic?

Yeah. Uh-uh. No-uh. I saw what they do with Pride Month. Those cans. Talking about an abomination. Shit. All right.

Jesus. God. Sorry, man. Kind of uptight. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back. I got to get your guys take on one of the smoothest criminals I think I've seen on the internet this year. We'll be right back.

And we're back. So, again, crimeless. This feels like a very apt video to sort of check out. This is kind of blowing up on the internet right now because this woman had a court hearing. She joined via Zoom over some unpaid debt. It's like small claims court, it looks like. And things took a turn as the judge noticed that during the hearing that maybe the defendant was driving in a car. But again, she's very smart.

She plays things very smoothly. You cannot be driving, ma'am. What are you going on? Come on. I'm not driving. I'm a passenger in a car. Just based on what we're seeing right now. It's a zoom screen.

There's six boxes. Backseat behind the driver? The woman is clearly, I mean, unless there's like a really amazing third row of seating that looks like the backseat of a car, you might be in the front. And just based on the side, guessing that's driver, but we'll let her keep going. You're still not, I'm not here in cases with people driving or as passengers and cars. Okay. I will pull over right. Short of us coming out to everybody's house and doing these on boats and stuff in the summer.

I don't know. I'm sorry. I have an emergency. I'm going out of town for a family member, but I will have my driver pull over. Hang on one second. I'm sorry. I love my driver. I don't know how she's.

Is the driver in the car with us right now? I got to say, I'm wildly impressed with this confidence. Yeah. Yeah. If I had just a little bit of this confidence, I would own a company by now. Right? Yeah, because you have to have the heart to lie straight to a judge. To a judge.

Yeah, yeah. I don't know. Your honor, you can clearly see, I'm not driving this car. Because I am in England. Have you been to England? See, she should have been a little bit more clever because that's where she gets caught up because, okay, maybe you got through the first lazy rounds of questioning, but it's about to ramp up, miss. I know that I wasn't allowed to be in a car, but he got my. second.

They look like she has one hand on the wheel. Am I crazy or does it not look like you're driving that car? I'm not driving the car. I'm a passenger in the car, sir. What side of the car are you on? I'm on the left hand side. Oh. Come on.

Kimberly, you had it. You had it. Truly, I thought she would be like, oh, when you, on FaceTime or Zoom, It flips. But to see the left side. So then the judge is like, are you sure? So clearly in the front seat.

Like how? She tries to recover. She tries to recover. How would you be on the left-hand side if you're a passenger in the front seat? Am I missing something? Left hand side. I'm sorry.

I've been sitting in a room. I didn't know. Oh, in a room. What is I have to do with anything? He started off so strong. Classic diversion. I've been sitting in a room. Now everyone's going, what's going on with the room?

They're thrown. Imagine a life where you're like, well, I was sitting in a different position in a room. So now I'm really confused when I'm in the car. I was in a room. I don't know where north is anymore. You know how room be. It's confusing. Oh, man.

Brian, bottom right hasn't even jumped in yet. He can't believe it. Yeah, he's like, his eyes are big. Yeah. That's probably her attorney. He's like, I'm just, my Zoom is not working. I'm frozen. Yeah, he's like, I don't know what to do here.

I'm going to get fired. He's totally frozen in this case. He's quietly typing a like resignation email. Yeah, he's like, I'm sorry. I won't be able to represent you anymore. So anyway, you know how it is. You're in a room and just left and just right now. The judge is still

The seatbelt's coming out of the driver's side The judge is so gracious here He's really calm Now you're lying to me, right? No, I'm not, sir Uh-oh, Kimberly, come on. Kimberly Pam. No, I'm not here.

He said, let me see the driver. Uh-oh. Let me see the driver. Uh-oh, she, you saw the hard drive spitting up. Did you? It did. It did. The driver. How did she not assume this was coming?

Bro, the flinch, the flinch and then the next stretch. Look at her. She's like looking off into the future where she gets out of this. Right. And she's trying and it's like, maybe I can manifest someone? Yeah, she's like, can I materialize a driver if I just look stricken

enough? She's Let me see the driver. Hang on one second. Oh, no. I have to ask their permission. Oh my God. Smart.

Super smart. I get it. I get it. I knew that was coming. Buy you some time. Can I tell you what I would have done? I would have gone just quickly like, no, don't get out. They want to see you.

No, come back. Shit. They just got out quick and ran. God damn it. Every time I'm in these. Well, now I'm stuck in this parking lot until they come back. Well, that's a one-star review. That's a one-star review.

That's a one-star review. I would drive, but I love the law, so I'm not going to. She goes on. This is where it gets a little dicey because I think at this point she's trying to figure out how to change the optics a bit where she's like, okay, they've got me pinned. I'm in the driver's side and I've got no driver. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

So she's now getting out of the car. You're not in the drive. You weren't in the driver's side. You think I'm that stupid? Oh, she's going to the other side. I'm going to go ahead and enter a default judgment. Our paperwork says that we can't have, that they can't drive. Does it not, Jennifer?

I think she's getting. I'm sorry, Your Honor. I took a breath in and started choking. What? I miss. Does our paperwork not tell people? I like this. I'm sorry.

I took a breath and started choking. Like, medical emergencies, the next natural step in this lie chain. Well, that was a different. He was talking to, I think, someone like in the, like in an administrative capacity in the court being like, when people get this, they know, like, we write down that you can't do this in a car, even if you're a passenger. And she was checking. But what's great is this woman, Kimberly, who is the one lying, she's now just,

now she's just standing on the other side of the car as if that's going to change anything. They can't be in a car. I don't know, Your Honor. I'd have to look at it. The paperwork that I'm looking at it does not say that I cannot be in a car. I'm entering a default judgment. You lied to me. Judgment 1921.85.

Send me your counsel. and put in their defendant was not available at the time and then was driving a car and telling the court she was not. I'm entering a default judgment. Have a great day. Thank you. Mike drop. She tried.

She had so many, so many opportunities. And it also said, right, that her license is suspended. Is that what they said? Oh, yeah, that was one of the, I don't know if she was, yeah. I said driver was suspended license stunts court, with. Oh. Yes.

So in addition to all of this, she literally had a suspended license. It could have easily not been driving. Right. It was on her phone. Could have easily parked, got out, started the Zoom. Pull over. No.

Pull over. Yeah. She could have just done, again, anything else. But she does, like, she lies the same way Trump does, but Trump doesn't get pressed with follow-up. in such quick succession where it falls apart as quickly. So in this one, she, like, I get it. You just push the boat out into choppy water.

He's like, fuck it, man. Let's just go with this. Yeah, I'm not, I'm the passenger. Yeah. Are you sure about that? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What side do you want?

The left. Oh, shit, they're right. But I was in a room, Your Honor. The left. How do you not even bring a blanket to drape over the seatbelt that is clearly in? But also the left side, like the left. Confident. Yeah.

Duh. Yeah. Have you not been driving? Yeah. Oh, you thought I was in America. I'm in Ireland right now. So many options. Yeah.

I feel like we've like, Roar, we've run into stories like this on crime list. And it's always like when you get caught in alive that you should immediately tell the truth. But it's when people don't tell the truth that they get into these incredible, paint themselves into these incredible corners where they have to keep escalating. Oh, yeah. And it escalates so quickly. Yeah. Exactly. And even like, even going like with your six point plan, Rory, you would have ended up having to either sprint out of the car, do a really great dramatic performance. It's relying on doing some extra work that you might not be prepared to do.

Yeah. You know, just tell you. If you didn't graduate from Improv Olympic, I just don't think that you could handle a line to the judge about driving or not driving. Yeah, you just don't have the qualifications. This is level one improv. Okay, level. This is the scene. You're clearly in the driver's seat. The judge is asking you're there. Figure out a way to convince the judge you're not driving. All right. And let's go. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly zeitgeist. Please like and review the show.

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