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Episode Date: September 26, 2025

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There's this thing that Jack and I were talking about today on the Trends episode where it's like GQ did these like etiquette things, like how to be a modern gentleman. Oh. 125. Just pick a number between 1 and 125 and I'll tell you how GQ tells you. Some things are like in anticetic etiquette where it's like, yeah, Don't like, don't, like, give your seat up for a person on the train or bus who, like, needs it more than you.

I'm like, yeah, okay, that's just called being like a decent person. 89. 89, Pala Vee. Okay, 89. Tip number 89, that is in the subsection called parties and events. Okay. 89. In social situations, dinners drinks, dinner drinks, meetings, I don't know how, dinner drinks, meeting your partner's friends for the first time, whatever.

Don't be boring. the whole is this contributing a joke a good story a genuine curiosity about another person quote being genuine curiosity for a man i don't think so quote being shy is not an excuse if you're pregnant pull your weight don't free load off the energy and hard work of others listen up you fucking incels learn how to talk to people but also like this like thing is like social anxiety is for bitches okay get over it and contribute it's like that's not helpful, like, sure, but... Hey, contribute to the check, even if you're broke,

no brokeies allowed, okay? Justin, pick one. You can a number between one and 125. 113. 113. I mean, your closet. This is about fashion. 113.

Oh, okay. Nobody cares about the deep meaning behind your tattoos. Okay, that's valid. Super relevant. No, that's like, you got like really dope tattoos. That is so funny. The person, like, they're talking to me. You're like, nobody, give a fuck about your tattoos.

It feels like half of this was written by like Andrew Tate and the other half was like written by just a regular woman. Pete Lynn, pick one. You know, I'm going to pick number 69. Hey, 69. Nice. Don't make the joke, 69. The phone and the internet. 69.

You'd be a better dad partner and friend if your screen time were cut in half. Okay. I mean, not wrong, but that's such a boring one for 60-9. But also, like, are they dads at this point when they're reading this? Because, like, then we've lost the plot. Like, it's gone too far. If they're dads, then they need this advice. But it just shows, like, how fucking backwards most dudes are that it's, like, the most

basic shit is in here, like, hey, dip shit. Hey, deodorant. Have you heard of it? Hey, not natural deodorant. Have you heard of it? One of the other ones that says, don't stop being weird about condoms. Oh. men still to this day

are very weird about them. What is being weird about not wanting to use them? Buy them. On my hand, wear them and don't make a big deal out of it. Don't ask if you can take them off in the middle of casual sex

and absolutely don't ever take them off without asking your partner first. Yeah, that's a crime. Yeah, what the fete. Hey, don't do rapes. This is a thing that most men think like all the time? I don't know about most men,

but a lot of men. My cousin was like, bro, I never wear condoms. Wait, is this the cousin that I met? I don't want to call him out, but he was at your party? No, I don't know if that one was there. I think you met my cousin with the dreadlocks. Yeah.

Yeah, that's not him. That's not him. He's a little more paranoid. He's like me where it took effort for me to ever stop wearing condoms. Okay, okay. Because I was born in the AIDS of like the era of the AIDS walk where like in my mind, I was like, you have to have protected sex. You never know what was going to happen.

You never was going to happen. And my parents are always like, you don't want no fucking kid. You don't want a kid. You better wear a condom. So, yeah, definitely. I remember being scared to not wear a condom the first time. You're wearing a condom right now, actually. I am, of course.

You always got to, if you stay ready, you don't got to get ready. Oh, triple stacked. Well, this is an IHeart podcast. I'm Jorge Ramos. And I'm Paola Ramos. Together we're launching The Moment, a new podcast about what it means to live through a time as uncertain as this one. We sit down with politicians, artists, and activists to bring you death and analysis from a unique Latino perspective. The Moment is a space for the conversations we've been having us, father and daughter, for years.

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Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of the on-purpose podcast. Today, I'm joined by Emma Watson. Emma Watson has apparently quit acting. Emma Watson has announced she's retiring from acting. Has anyone else noticed that we haven't seen Emma Watson in anything in several years? Emma Watson is opening up the truth behind her five-year break from acting. Watson said she wasn't very happy. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. In the 1980s, modeling wasn't just a dream. It was a battlefield.

It's a freaking war zone. These people are animals. The Model Wars podcast peels back the glossy cover and reveals a high-stakes game where survival meant more than beauty. Hosted by me, Vanessa Grigoriatus, this is the untold story of an industry built a ruthless ambition. Listen to Model Wars on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 407, episode 5 of the Daily zeitgeist. Production of IHeartRadio, this is the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Friday, September 26th.

2025. And what a wonderful day it is. It also happens to be National Gay Men's HIV-A's Awareness Day, National Compliance Officer Day, National Situational Awareness Day, National Dumpling Day, National Bancake Day, National Shamu the Whale Day, and National Johnny Appleseed Day. Oh, the Lord is good to me. And so I thank the Lord for giving me the things I need, the sun and the rain and the apple seed. The Lord is good. That's what Johnny Appleseed is. Anyway, I was indoctrinated with all kinds of Christianship as a child, and we had to sing that shit before we ate the shittiest cafeteria lunches.

Anyway, my name is Miles Gray, aka when I'm voting for Democratic nominees, Mom Donnie's the one who happens to be blue. And on new shows, I'll endorse that nominee in a way that won't disrupt the interview. And I would give the right a mile. And I would give the rights some more Just to be the damn Who lost to Donald Trump in 2024 Shut up to nerd knowledge bull

Because yeah, that icy endorsement Kamala gave on Rachel Madda Just felt like truly the bare minimum that you could do More than she gave to gay people Or even Palestinians, to be honest It wasn't even like She didn't nope her way out of it But hey, look, here we are. You're selling a book.

Drips and drabs are coming out and making Joe Biden's team mad, but I could care less about him struggling. Well, look, I'm thrilled. He doesn't even know what's going on. So why doesn't matter? He's fine. He's fine. You've seen his ankles? He's doing great.

I'm thrilled to be joined by today's guest co-host. I don't even got to say it anymore. You already know what time it is, okay? Fucking scientist, okay? Comedic scientist. Host of the monthly facial recognition comedy show. Okay? Fantastic human being.

And my friend, Polygonaldives! You made it sound like I'm the patch Adams of scientists. I'm like, whoop, what's in this test tube? Oh, my goodness. I'm like squirting hydrochloric acid on people. Also, wait, I want to go back to its situational awareness day. So it's like, hey, everybody, just like pay attention to what's happening. It's very like the, if you want to see what the image is to celebrate this day, it's very much being like.

The highlights thing, like find the differences. No, it's a lady getting mugged. Oh, my God. Well, maybe that's just a gloved person handing over a bag. Hold on. This has to be like for people with to have a gun or something. Because they all in an instant, a dangerous situation can develop how to observe it. Take a situational awareness course.

I mean, I get it, man. The fucking world's fucked up. But this feels very fearmongery. The world's scary enough as it is. Okay. I don't need to see stock images of a mummy. Shout out to my dog. There was a weird dude.

my neighborhood who I'm not like super afraid of but like he approached me in a creepy way and my my big boy knows when to bark he's a good boy yeah yeah but he he doesn't like well not to tell shout out here but like he knows like not to attack you know but he just like gives good warning barks when he feels me feeling he knows not to but he does know when to attack is that the implication I don't know yet but he hasn't had to I feel like seen those those clips of like people who like train dogs to like walk with their kids and be like, my child will never get abducted with this like military attack dog by their side. Yeah, but it's like dog abuse to like traumatize them to the point of like rabidness. You know what I mean? To be that violent on a dime.

Sure, sure. Yeah. That's why I like my dog. He just lays down. He does nothing. He's like, come make friends with the robber. He'll invite a vampire into the house. Oh, your dog is like going be the first to go in sinners. Yeah, exactly. That's why I was able to dog sit for you. The implication is, I'm a vampire. Yeah. Get it?

Yeah. When you came back, all the garlic was gone from your home. And we thought that's because Caitlin was white. But no, it's... No, no. Too spicy. It's got a kick to it. It's going to throw in the garbage.

Well, way to just not bury the lead, dig up the lead and show everybody who's here. Yes, in our third seat, we are thrilled to be joined. But look, a legend of the show. I don't have to run down the resume, the resume, the bona fides, the bona fides, the bona fides. You know them from their fantastic podcast, the Bechdelcast, you know them from being a wonderful teacher of screenwriting. And also, they happen to have an advanced degree in that subject.

People on this show have even taken classes and their lives. have changed for the better. Okay? That's a pretty good. I would say that's a pretty good. That's pretty good. Yeah. Also, you already know the anagramable name, Nineteet Dracula. You know, we already know. Latin dancer UTI. But to us, it's Galena Durante.

Hi. Hi. I'm back. You're back. Do Latin dancers get a lot of UTIs? Is this something that nobody's talking about how Latin dancers get you're doing? No one is. No one, except for me. No, I'm, I don't know, but

my name sure spells out Latin. dancer uti yeah incredible it's still man i bet polyphi you could nah you could probably have a good decent amount of intergrams you got a lot of letters in your name yeah let me get to let me get to work on it i only have nine letters in my first and last name so it's it's pretty like gay slimer sounds like a like a like a superhero pseudonym you know what i mean like Clark Kent miles gray yeah yeah i always thought i would be a cool fashion designer they're like oh and that's Oh. What's that sweater?

It's not a gray. This thread pound. Of course. It's Miles Gray. Of course. It was made with child labor. Well, Caitlin, thank you for coming on. We're going to just do a quick, just touch up on what we're going to be talking about today.

Just a loser Democrat, establishment Democrat is already, like, weaponizing this like Kirk post-Kirk shooting era to try and be like political violence is out of control. We'll talk about how it's the most disingenuous way, shame on them. also Trump just looks guiltier every time he talks about Jeffrey Epstein somehow yet there's still a lot of like media outlets trying to be as like quote unquote objective as possible and just been like wow he says anything like that like let's maybe keep talking about what he said and what that means let's give him the benefit of the doubt do have either of you seen the show 911 on Fox with Angela Bassett no but I didn't know

Angela Bassett was in it so now I want to watch it oh she's been a Two-time Oscar nominee, Angela Bassett, yes. She's- Check out those arms, Angela Bassett? Yes. Yes. Have you seen Strange Days? Dude, I fucking love that movie.

Anyway, that show, I saw, like, some of the early episodes because I was like, damn, Angela Bassett's doing a show on Fox. This show has progressively gotten weirder over the years to the point that this, this new season, they're like, they've beyond jumped the shark. And I don't even know if that means the show's cooked, but there's truly no boundaries. I will just say, why is someone who's in the LAPD somehow in outer space for a show that was supposedly serious about emergency, like, first responders? They did a South and Furious Nine, they took them to space. It's, look, we'll get into it.

And just sort of like the trends over the years that now I'm like, I think I love this show and I need to be watching it. I literally am going to immediately watch the show. Producer just said that show rules. So, Victor, I might have to ask you a thing or two when we get to that story. But first, Caitlin D. Toronto. Caitlin, I was going to say, Caitlin D. Tarante. I don't know why. D. D. D. D. Tentante.

What's the other one? Was it? Lauren D. Titanic. Lauren D. Titanic. That's what I was fucking up. That other anagram of your name. Lauren, what's a search? What's something from your search history? Lauren, what's something from your search history that's your feeling about who you are?

Please, call me Lauren D. Titanic. Lauren is my father. Please, call me Latin dancer. Call me nine to it. something from my search history is Paddington Afternoon T bus tour, which there's a damn it. God damn it, Caitlin. What do you mean? I now am like your entire search history is Paddington and you're just picking one of them. Okay. Well, there is like a 90% chance I have searched for this thing before and also mentioned it on this show as my recent search history.

So apologies if that is true. But no, it's just that you love Paddington. That's, I'm like, you couldn't be more Caitlin right now. Oh, yeah, the T-Bus, I think you, I think you maybe. I probably did mention this before. So, whoops, my bad, but I did look at it again. Wait, why? What's a follow-up? Yeah.

Well, here's something very important is happening in London right now, which is there's a Paddington, the musical that I have to go see. There's also the Paddington experience, which is sort of just like an exhibit that you walk a one. Oh, like, you mean the really busted horrible one? No, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's nothing like that. It's really good, actually, I'm guessing.

So I have to go to those two things. And then I was like, oh, is the Paddington T bus tour still happening? Because I'm going to just like, maybe do a trip and do all of these Paddington things. Oh, my God. They just had to make sure they were still all available. I am so fucking jealous. People are like, oh, like, what are you going to do is you get? older this millennial general this is what we do okay we take care of ourselves and paddington yeah yeah

this is yeah this is what happens this is like what happened with like a lot of gen x japanese people were like they saw their parents work themselves to death and never be happy and there's like you know what i'm not going to do that i'm just gonna buy all the guitars i want and just both like just do what i do and i love the idea like i'm i think i'm just jealous because you love paddington and there's like three dope Paddington things popping off right now. They're like, well, I got to go do this shit. I know. The Paddington fandom has got to be going crazy right now.

What the fuck? They got every, what the fuck is like? This is beautiful. What is this exactly? Like, I'm seeing children frolicing in a fake forest. So let me tell you something. Uh-huh. Last year, around the, not, well, I was like last May, I was on tour with a

Bechelcast doing our Shrektanic tour. Ever heard of it? Yeah. Obviously. And I went to some. something called Shrex Adventure, I think, is what the name of it was. But it's same area, same vibe. But basically it's just like this themed series of rooms you go through.

It's like a narrative kind of unfolds and there's like kind of audience participation. It's sort of like live theater. There's characters. There's like people in costumes. And then they like take you through room by room as this like narrative. is unfolding. It's really for children because there are moments

where it's like, now I need a volunteer to stir the pot three times. Kate was like, get out of the way. Get out of them. You're like the guy

at the baseball game stealing the ball from the child. Yes. So if it's anything like the Shrek's adventure, it'll be like that. And so that's the Paddington experience.

And then that's totally separate from Paddington, the musical, which is totally separate from Paddington afternoon tea. How do I donate for you to experience this? Oh my gosh. You can just Venmo me. Everyone please Venmoe me.

If you live in London and you want to put me up for a few days while I go on this journey. Let's try and make this map up. This can be a TDZ thing where you like review it and come back and tell us about it. Yes, yes, yes. How much is a ticket to London right now? Well, you stow away like Paddington. L.AX, LHR flights. Make it the actual experience.

You can get a nice dizzy for the devil's number, 666. 666. That's not too bad from L.A. Fares from 659 number. I mean, why am I doing ads right now? Okay, great. So maybe we can figure this out. But fuck, man, I wish I-

We need to make this happen. See, look, and maybe I can make a thing out of it too because London also calls to me in the form of Arsenal football. Okay, and then I'll also be there and will just be me. Well, I'll go. I'll do comedy. I don't care. Yeah, on the plane.

We don't give a fuck. Lauren, what is something you think is underrated? Something is underrated. Buffet-style restaurants. Oh. They, but what I mean by this? A very brave take post-COVID. Okay.

What was that sound too? You sounded like a judgmental food critic. Hmm. Oh, go on. Okay. Enjoy. of you to say that. We'll see how the Andre goes.

Here's what I want. There are, like, I'll go to a restaurant. Yeah. And I want to try so many things on the menu. Yeah, a little bit everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you can't do that unless you want to shout out hundreds of dollars. So if everything was like kind of buffet style or maybe tapas style, you can just get a little morsel, dim sum, exactly, a little morsel of everything.

They should have like, the way they have like flights of. of beer or whiskey flas or whatever. You should do that for... Why do sliders are the only thing that comes in flights. We need more. We need more miniature food. The appetizer is always the thing that comes with a sampler. You know what I mean?

There's like, you just like someplace to be like, or you can try them all in the sampler. When you're like, we need entre's sampler platters. But that's also a lot of food. Because like every time I'll be like, oh, that's great. It'll be like me and like Her Majesty or something. I'm like, bro, we can't eat a whole fucking I can't eat like half a cassidia, half nachos.

We don't go to the, we don't go to the classiest places. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We've got some socialist country. So take home the leftovers and now you got left. It's like, look, I've solved the problem. Did you go to, I mean, okay, I know that for you, that was a solution to something that you're like, damn, this would make my life easier.

But have you been to a buffet recently? I'm like, this was great. You know, when was the last buffet? I went to I feel like they have become a thing of the past post COVID. I used to go to a lot of Indian buffets. Oh, hell. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Like a lunch special. Or if you order like a thali, which is like a platter. It's like dim sum, but like Indian style. Yeah. Yeah. I think the last one I went to was in Vegas two summers ago. I was going to say Vegas buffets are really good. Yeah. And all I ate was prime rib. I'm sorry, God.

Whoa. I know not what I do. Uh, Caitlin, what's something you think is open? You're like, I'm so sorry, God. What did I do? I was not taken in the rapture. Caitlin, what's something you think is overrated? I'm sorry.

Lauren. Lauren. I'm so sorry. Lauren D. Titanic now and forever. Something that's overrated is American cheese. And what I'm also mean by this is I don't think people are out here being like, American cheese is awesome. So I don't think it's overrated in that sense.

but the fact that it exists at all is a travesty that is it is the most disgusting shit I've ever had I don't know why it's an option you go to places and it's like oh do you want your omelet with American cheese oh you want American cheese on your burger flavorless why is it there it tastes like plastic it's horrible it's disgusting it's just like a slab of like yucky salt like congealed salt an oil like it's horrible why it makes me feel better about vegan cheese because I'm like it's cardboard I'm eating microblastic. So this makes me feel a little bit better that vegan cheese and American cheese are both bad. I would hazard to guess that every vegan cheese is better than like traditional American cheese. Godspeed on that. I've had a few. I've had a few. Look, American cheese has like the superior melt, you know, because it's just like a big little flap of melty shit. But like again, yeah, the flavors is not there. It's more of a texture than like a flavor to me. But the flavor that is there is. disgusting. I hate

it. I guess if you eat like a straight up raw, I call it raw, you're raw dogging American cheese. That's what I call it. Because normally I like to do it safe. I eat it with the plastic sleeve on. But if you eat it raw and you take the slice out of the plastic sleeve, yeah, that's a different experience. Men do not ask to eat it raw, okay?

Don't be weird about American cheese. Don't be weird about having the single slice crafty. That was in the GQ. man etiquette list, okay? The only, though you can't even eat American cheese raw.

Please be safe. A woman won't even let you eat American cheese raw anymore. What is his country coming to? What are we to hug with gloves now? What's going on? Hug with gloves. It's my new blog,

hug with gloves. Yeah, it's amazing. We're getting a lot of traffic actually right now. But yeah, American cheese, I think it's the only time, I'm trying to even think. Like, I just tolerate it, like, in fast food just because I'm like, great, it's that texture. But buying it, no.

Like, even if I make grilled cheese, it melts easier. It's better with other cheese. You just got to know how to cook your grilled cheese. Do it with some Havardi or something. Like, oh. Yeah. Pepper Jack. Like, have you heard of any other cheese?

Okay, Paddington. Somebody's got back from 32 Windsor Lane or Windsor Gardens or whatever the fuck. And then if you add some marmalade to your grilled cheese. Oh, my God. It's actually pretty gross. Hold on. Hold on. We're losing, Caitlin. And you dress like a little bear?

Is marmalade, like a big aspect of your dietary life? And wearing toggle coats. You know what happened one time for my birthday? Someone, knowing that I love Paddington, gave me like six jars of marmalade. That's amazing. And that's a nice gesture. And it's the thought that counts. But I don't actually like marmalade.

So I just had like six jars of this condiment that I don't know how to eat. eat really or like yeah you eat it with dry toast and tea you eat it with the jar because you're not raw dogging yeah you're not in glass yeah always always eat safely so I made like a marmalade cake that was like horribly executed oh do you bake not really I don't I don't cook or bake in general let me do two things that I'm unfamiliar with maybe it'll turn out fine this has to work but also just shows how expendable the marmalade is like fuck it i'll take a punt on baking this cake or whatever yeah yeah i did throw a lot of it away well eye opening eye opening uh y'all venmo lauren d titanic let's get yeah i gotta go to london and lordin to london the loren to london campaign

has be half begun because i just want to live vicariously through someone who like loves a thing you can't be the girl who didn't go to london is that a reference you guys get or no no what is that from the OC or like the hills or whatever what is it that reality show where that she she didn't she stayed instead of going with a boy instead of following her fashion dreams oh that was probably that was probably the hills the hills yeah yeah yeah was that Lauren Conrad or Christian Cavalier I think it was Lauren Conrad that's why I was thinking about Lauren now making great children's clothing I might have no hashtag no promo but no someone someone after the fire someone donated some baby clothes to us. That was that was Loring Conrad.

I'll say, okay, Lauren Conrad. I'll see. Okay, L.C. I'll be seeing you later. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. And, you know, news after this. I'm Jorge Ramos. And I'm Paola Ramos. Together we're launching The Moment, a new podcast about what it means to live through a time as uncertain as this one.

We sit down with politicians. I would be the first immigrant mayor in generations, but 40% of New Yorkers were born outside of this country. Artists and activists, I mean, do you ever feel demoralized? I might personally lose hope. This individual might lose the faith, but there's an institution that doesn't lose faith. And that's what I believe in. To bring you depth and analysis from a unique Latino perspective. There's not a single day that Paola and I don't call or text each other sharing news and thoughts about what's happening in the country. These new podcasts will be a

to make that ongoing intergenerational conversation public. Listen to The Moment with Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos as part of the MyCultura podcast network on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All I know is what I've been told, and that's a half-truth is a whole lie. For almost a decade, the murder of an 18-year-old girl from a small town, in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

I'm telling you, we know Quincy Kilder, we know. A story that law enforcement used to convict six people, and that got the citizen investigator on national TV. Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran. My name is Maggie Freeland. I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, producer, and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find. I did not know her and I did not kill her, or rape or burn or any of that other stuff that y'all said.

They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her. From Lava for Good, this is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame. America, y'all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns. Listen to Graves County in the Bone Valley feed on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season ad-free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Chetty, and I'm the host of the on-purpose podcast. Today, I'm joined by Emma Watson. Emma Watson has apparently quit acting. Emma Watson has announced she's retiring from acting. Has anyone else noticed that we haven't seen Emma Watson in anything in several years?

Emma Watson is opening up the truth behind her five-year break from acting. Watson said she wasn't very happy. Was acting always something? you were going to do? I was using acting as a way of escaping to feel free. My parents, it wasn't just the divorce, it was just like the continuing situation of living between two different houses

and two different lives and two different sets of values, the career and the life that looks like the dream. But are you really happy? Fame has given me this extraordinary power. It's also given me a lot of responsibility. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the IHeart Radio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Power struggles, shady money, drugs, violence, and broken promises. It's a freaking war zone. These people are animals. There's no integrity. There's no loyalty. That's all gone. In the 1980s, modeling wasn't just a dream.

It was a battlefield. Book, book, book. Make deals. Let's get models in. Let's get them out. And the models themselves? They carried scars that never. fully healed. Until this day, honestly, if I see a measuring tape, I freak out. The Model Wars podcast

peels back the glossy cover and reveals a high-stakes game where survival meant more than beauty. Hosted by me, Vanessa Grigoriatis, this is the untold story of an industry built on ruthless ambition. Listen to Model Wars on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're back just we were talking a little bit about like just the state of the democrats the terrible takes of like they're like we need to bring in more anti-choice democrats to widen the tent many other just takes of like ignore where the momentum and the energy is which is in talking about inequality, talking about affordability, and acknowledging that maybe people who are

backed by corporate interests don't have people's best intentions in mind. So there's a congressional race coming up for California's 22nd district that's currently held by a Republican, David Valdao, and it's going to be a tight race. So it only makes sense during a race that all the candidates vying for a blue-collar area like this one in the Central Valley will do whatever they can to differentiate. So I just, I want to get into, so there, one of the Dem Challengers is Dr. Jasmid Baines, and she's making a fuss about how the other Democratic challenger, a college professor and auto shop owner, Randy Villegas, is quote, attacking her. I'm going to, I just, I'm going to read her Facebook post before I actually tell you what this quote unquote attack was.

That's from Jasmine Baines, uh, Facebook. Quote, appreciate all of the messages of love and warmth as political violence increases in America, I myself have experienced a heightened level of it. What gave the world permission to attack a woman of color because of her identity? What gave the world permission to berate a physician who spends countless hours taking care of the vulnerable? What gave a man the permission to resort to spreading lies just because his campaign is going nowhere? I think we should all look at the reality of how low people are willing to go, because right now in America, it is pretty low. Campaigns are run by spreading lies, not by hard work in showing up, attacking a woman of color,

does not just attack me, it attacks numerous little girls out there who dream of more and dream of a future in which they are welcomed, goes on to say, like, America needs to think long and hard about itself, and I will still stay dedicated. So what did Villegas say? This is from like a TV ad that came up, quote, my opponents, Democrat and Republican alike, have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from the same corporations that are ripping us off, making our health care, housing, and groceries more expensive. That was in this ad. Okay, um, Dr. Baines. Again, I do this almost every week.

I apologize on behalf of all Indian people. You don't have to do that anymore. We're white now, I guess. I don't know what is happening, but this is so bad. I'm so like, a lot of people point out, this ad did not even mention you by name, fam. But you're out here being like, oh, the political violence being in this era. So unfortunately, there was. Seats don't lie.

Okay, both Baines, who is currently in the State Assembly, and Validow, who's the incumbent, have had... And also of Batman origin. Yeah. They have, they basically share the exact same corporations, like the same 53 corporations have given them both money, including Abbey, Amazon, AT&T, charter communication, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Eli Lilly, Honeywell, like the list goes on southern california edison who allegedly burned my house down union pacific united

health care walmartin etc okay actually listing out the names of these corporations is actually very anti-indian i don't know if you know that but like you really should stop naming corporations i'm so sorry i'm sorry i will stop the cultural thing you know okay my bad my bad fyser fyser good fyser good flur so veegis is like the son of immigrants his and his message is just so clear right now. He's basically saying, we need less corporate Dems in office. And that's where I'm coming in. I'm like, I, my singular focus is about equity for like, and not even like a left right thing. He said, this isn't a left right issue. This is a class thing that we're up against. And this is interesting because he wasn't the establishment pick to try and unseat David Validale.

Baines was. And her record is abysmal. Okay. As a Democrat, in California, this is how she was voting. Only, she was the only Democrat to vote against an oil price gouging law in 23 and lost her committee assignments as a result because, again, she's got a huge oil interest in her distance. Like, she's just willing to entertain oil money. She also voted against Indians use oil in their hair. How dare you again? Motor oil. Being so culturally insensitive. Don't worry about it. Don't have so many questions. Baines voted against a bill to limit corporate landlords from owning more than 1,000

from owning more than 1,000 single family properties. Okay, first of all, that's very normal for Indian families. Can you are? Okay. She voted against stronger tenant protections. She voted against giving the state attorney general authority to block private equity purchases of medical providers. You'd think someone as a medical provider themselves would know the dangers of what happens when private equity comes in and starts meddling in people's medical care. I guess not, unless they're, you know, they're sliding you money on the side.

I think, you know, it's very stereotypical to attack medical things. A lot of us are talking. We're trying so hard. Then recently, she voted against ACA8, which is the bill that put Prop 50, like, which is the ballot proposition to rewrite congressional maps, basically in response to what's happening in Texas. She was like, no, we shouldn't do that. We should stand pat.

Okay, that's like a rewriting maps, very, wait, so they were trying to rewrite maps, and she said yes. She said, no, don't, no more, no more increased gerrymandering to offset what Texas is doing to add more Republican seats to Congress. Okay, yeah, well, you know what the British did when they came to India? Yeah, partition, yeah. Okay, it's a very sensitive subject for us. Okay, you don't have to bring the partition into this, but yeah, okay, you know what? It's literally, like, me at every occasion. Super Bowl, are we partitioning the teams?

Is that what, what's happening? So one man is just going to decide the fate of a nation? Interesting, interesting. Yeah, it's just, again, it's wild that a person is trying to say that being rightly identified as a person that is very cozy with corporate interests is a form of violence. Political violence. Yeah, like.

And also, like, I'm sorry, but we got to stop using the woman of color thing. There is a huge difference between, like, the richest minority. in the U.S. being women of color, and then, like, farm workers being women of color. You know what I mean? Like, there is a, it's a class difference, which is what he was trying to address in the first place. Yeah. And I think, yeah, doing that, like, actually muddies the waters for when people actually are

denigrating people of color, women of color, when it just, like, uses a blanket defensive, like, I fucking love the utility companies and vote for them every time. That's, you're actually anti-a woman of color. Yeah. Mm-hmm. But hey, maybe we are. I don't know. I'm just, in this age, I don't know.

Lauren, do you have anything to say about it? Lauren, are you pro or corporate? Lauren, as a woman of color, do you have anything to say about it? I guess you would have to speak as Latin dancer, UTI. Yeah, you would have to speak as Latin dancer UTI. I do not feel comfortable with what's going on. Great. So, well, here's the thing, I'm a white person and we are bad, white people.

bad but um and we will consider that thank you so much that was actually attack against women of color yeah actually attacking white women attacking women in general political violence i don't anything to do with it in fact i don't even know if i can go on this episode now okay but you know what let's move on to something else let's move on to something else um donald trunk he uh there's a new report in the wall street journal about the inner workings of the white house in terms of how the abscine files are being viewed it's mostly it's mostly that Trump just can't grasp like the why like why why are people like why do they care about this so much this was in the new republic quote trump complained to aids regarding

the intense public scrutiny over his failure to produce epstein's so-called client list claiming that quote palm beach in the 90s was a different time the wall street journal reported late Wednesday. After long-time allies whipped up a fur, fur, fur, fur, fur, fur, over the dismal Epstein files rollout on the second day of a turning point USA conference. We talked about then where Megan Kelly and Charlie Kirk were like, what's going on with these? And like, they quickly kind of like switched gears. Trump wanted no quote, why is everyone so fixated on this issue? And then asked other people, quote, what would make it die down?

And I just, I think it's super wild to me that. saying Palm Beach in the 90s was a different time as you know like when people say oh like oh I got caught doing something you go well it was a different time back then that usually goes along with an admission of guilt where it's like yeah I did it but I'm justified in that it was a different time back then that's why I did the Michael Jackson thriller blackface Justin Trudeau or whatever whenever he did blackface I feel like that's also like what he was saying back then. He's like, it's a different time now.

Even now. Listen, I can be racist against black tenants. It's a different time right now as we speak. I'll know that right now is a different time that I will use to explain why it was a different time now. But yeah, as in the night, Palm Beach in the 90s

it was okay to be like a lecherous child abuser. Is that the seems like that's what he's saying which I would say no, that's not correct. That was never, white people good again. Okay. Okay, all right.

That's cool. Let me erase one of the tally marks I have in the bad column. Okay. Okay. Go on, Lauren. No, that was the end. The end. Quit while you're ahead.

Also, like, he's asking what would make it die down? It speaks to the senility of this man also. I mean, first of all, probably the truth. You know, that's one thing everyone's asking. asking for it. Well, that's not going to happen next. The thing about that, a little bit incriminating the truth, apparently, and I don't like that. Are you attacking me with political violence by asking for truth? Trump? And is like that whole white right, right, right wing propaganda machine. White, yeah, I'm going to be Elmer Fudd real quick. The whole white wing

media machine. Very quiet. Very quiet. We're hunting wibows. They, basically, basically have been fanning the flames of outrage because they figured it's a way to keep the base suspicious of like elite liberals. But now like their own base, they're at the gates right now. And they're demanding answers. I'm like, uh, fuck. Are they still out there? What do they want? They want a resolution to the thing you've been dangling in front of them for many years as a way that you thought it would never come out. And you could just use that as like this sort of like conspiracy theory talking point to kind of just be sort of like, you know what I'm talking about Democrats bad because look everybody that all those names should come out

Republican Democrat fucking everybody that's but we have a reckoning problem in this country so I'm I'm not too convinced that'll happen um the Washington Journal is also reporting that Pam Bondi and Cash Patel continue to have beef she told like White House staff that Cash Patel's FBI was quote trying to destroy her because they're like they're leaking stories to the press about how that files are being handled and now the MAGA base. They want me out. They want me to resign. They all hate me. They're making her a scapegoat. And she complained to like Donald Trump apparently, according to this reporting, about like how bad the situation is and how she doesn't like all the scrutiny. And he just

told her to toughen up. Wow. Yeah. I mean, I'm not surprised since Trump views all these people as a means to an end. I just love the idea of all the scapegoats fighting. I think that's fun. They're like crabs in a barrel just like fighting each other to get out. 100. I mean, That's the thing with people who are driven by just this like unhinged desire to be powerful and influential. They don't, they're only doing it in service of themselves. So they don't have no idea how to work towards a common goal because they're so focused on their own shit that, yeah, it ends up turning into these so much infighting. I mean, we saw this in the last administration too. I don't know how they saw what Rudy Giuliani looks like.

And it's like, yeah, I'll take more of that for me. Yeah. I would love that. I want that. Where does he get his ink? It's actually printer toner. Yeah, he cracks open an absent printer cartridge. He's like, don't move me up.

Dump some magenta on him. Yeah, yeah. He's got the CMY case. They're just like, get yellow, magenta, blue, black. Wait, that's Trump. You're doing, that's Trump pointing it out. Here's the other thing, too. We talked about how there was that special election in Arizona,

where the candidate Adelaida Grijalva won, her father's seat because he passed away earlier this year. So she's going to be sworn in. She said she will be that final signature for the discharge petition to have the floor vote to release the Epstein files be like a real thing that potentially they would release in a searchable database for all people to see. You know somewhere Trump is shoving papers into his mouth trying to like eat it. He's like, oh, I got to get rid of these papers.

What fucking, was it naked gun or something? The toilet's about to be clogged again. There was a movie where people were doing that and they were shredding documents and then putting pasta sauce on it. I feel like it was in naked. It was just like a stupid bit in this scene or they're like, we got to get rid of everything. And they're just like eating it with pasta.

That's a thousand days. They saw that and thought it was a documentary. Put it in a hamburger. Put American cheese on it. Hurry. And chili and onions. I'll eat it. Yeah.

The other thing though now is that they're like Thomas Massey, who is like the main Republican leading this charge. He's got the support. of Marjorie Taylor Green, Nancy Mason, Lauren Bowbird, who are like the three people who are helping tip the scales towards the discharge petition? Worst Blunt rotation ever. Nightmare Blunt rotation.

Also, I bet all of them will pretend to smoke, which is also a nightmare. He's saying that all of them are under tremendous pressure right now from the White House to reverse course. Now, I've been saying this from the beginning. I don't know if those three are holding out to be like to get some shit for themselves because I don't think any of these people are truly interested in the truth. They're probably interested in how they can, you know, enrich themselves.

But I don't know. We just don't know yet. Hopefully they, for some reason, keep it together long enough to get to the voting part. And then we'll see what happens. Then the next bit of confusion will pop up. Did you see the, I think we may have talked about it, the press conference where the victims said that they were going to compile their own list? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wonder if that has like put a pressure on them or like first of all I hope those women are safe

and taken care of but like I wonder if that had any effect on them or like if they're stalling to kind of like wait it out or whatever I think they know because a few weeks ago Thomas Massey did call somebody out my name and was like okay I can start saying names too and I think probably did that as like a warning to be like you know the Epstein files may be under lock and key, but we're talking to people who are the survivors of this abuse, and they have memory, like, they can tell us things that we can look into. So, I don't know. It's, it stands, I don't know. I don't know where this ends up. I mean, like the optimistic version is like, then they vote on it. And then the DOJ has to put out the unredacted or like the versions that are somewhat redacted for like legal purposes. What can legally be revealed? They accidentally publish the shooter's text messages again. They're like, oh, Fuck, wrong file. Wrong, yeah.

It's like a group chat. It's in final draft. They're like, hey, do you think someone can make, like, with AI, make some Epstein files we can release? Is that, is that a thing? I just, again, like, it's just in a really odd moment because even Republicans are highly suspicious of the FBI when it's like they've fully taken over that thing. I also wonder if, like, Republicans, like, obviously they don't have genuine intentions most of the time, but I wonder if they're also suspicious of the FBI because it's like a

brown dude in charge like actual low key probably I mean there are people who aren't like people who don't like that Charlie Kirk's wife is trying to take over turning point like they're like why is she doing it and it's clearly like this misogynistic shit where they're like

it really feels like Ben Shapiro and like Nick Fuentes are angling for that too like they're both like making the rounds trying to like fight for the audience at least well I know I think it was Stephen Crowder or something like I don't know if this is true but his like Twitter bio said that he is like now like the number one conservative like commentator on the internet.

I don't even know he was still doing his fucking show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, he's, yeah, okay. He had, yeah, he changed the bio to say Latter with crowd, the number one conservative daily show because it used to be Charlie Kirk. Yeah, that was cold blood. Yeah, but again, these people don't, they have no common goal aside from watching marginalized people suffer and then being at the top of a pile.

Like, that's, it's not really a worldview. They're, they're chasing a sensation of superiority. It's not like a system of, like, actual governance. I mean, there is a version of that, which is just authoritarianism. But, like, actually, that's the immersive experience. I'm going to go to a sensation of superiority. It's going to be, like, really beautiful. And it's probably in London, too.

Yeah, it is in London. For sure. It's at the museum. Yeah, but they're like, they're like, but don't ask for any of your artifacts back. Okay. You're not that superior. We're still, we still will hold on to your history for, and we'll stamp it with our stamp.

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Coming season 9 premiere, which will find two-time Oscar nominee, Angela Bassett, Queen, traveling to outer space. Okay? Well, there's an emergency up there. Her character is a cop, okay? Not a fucking astronaut. She's going to shoot the asteroid. So we'll be like, you're resisting arrest. Stop resisting.

We had, yeah, they had a call the unhoused person in space. So they called the LAPD up to come through a little bit of course. Oh, God. What is Gavin Newsom doing up there? Yeah, just cleaning up, just cleaning up this tent space camp. Doing a podcast. So we just watched that promo. You've seen, okay, so you guys got a taste of sort of what this show has offered.

Like I said, I saw like the first season. What it was like, there were some wacky sort of things happening, but it wasn't on the level of like B-Nado. Okay, I had no idea this show existed. And I was like, we live in multiple Americas. I was like, it's eight seasons in. And I have never experienced the B-NATO that they're both, they're like, we've gotten full, like, past Gray's Anatomy bomb in the hospital or whatever. We have a B-NATO, and we're proud that we've experienced all of these emergencies with you as an audience. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, I think this is a great bit of writing. But also, if I feel like they always have the most sensational billboards around L.A., like 9-1-1. I don't know if you've seen them. Do I think that it's just regular 911, like, I'm not. Am I just like, oh, cool, they're advertising for safety. Oh, cool. Oh, cool. If a cop car drives into my billboard, I'll call them. Yeah. Wait, Caitlin, have you seen the, like, the wacky 911 billboards that they've had around?

If I have, I have not perceived them as such. I also thought maybe they were just like, hey, do you forget what number to call if there's an emergency? Here it is. Yeah. Either that or I'm just not driving. You know what? I just don't drive very much. We're looking at the road, okay? We're fucking keeping aware of threats. We're situational awarenessing the road. This was when they had that was a van going into the billboard.

Like a, whoa, wait, that's, no, I have not seen that. Yeah, yeah. They've had, like, just really wacky things over the years. At least they, like, they know that they had to get attention with, like, sort of, like, the absurd sort of rescue things. But, again, if you're curious what B-Nado is, okay, it's a B-tornado, obviously. But it was like a three-episode arc where the bees are the dads and the NATO is the moms. That's why it's B-NATO first. Oh, wow.

Like a Lager. It's binomial nomenclature for all my scientists out there. So the three-episode arc starts with a truck that is carrying millions of killer bees for some reason, just crashes downtown, quote, threatening the lives of a group, attending a perfume party. Oh, and the bees are attracted to the perfume, probably. That's just making it a little bit worse and making them a little bit cookie. What perfume were they wearing?

Why were they downtown with wearing perfume? This shit gets wilder. This three episode art gets wilder, okay? So at one point, Angela Bassett is in a plane escorting a guy who, quote, killed her fiance back in 1991 to testify in court so he can have like a lighter sentence for another crime. But the pilot, quote, gets sucked out of a hole and into the sky, like it's twisters or some shit. And the co-pilot passed out. So Angela Bassett has to land the plane with the help of a, quote, young aviation-obsessed child.

Okay. Okay. And what part of that seems unreal to you? I just don't. I don't know, man. It seems like everything is every loose end is tied up. Yeah, yeah. This happens at the end of snakes on a plane as well.

So it sounds like they're just regurgitating already perfect media. I didn't realize this was. I thought maybe this would be like more of a serious show. But what I'm hearing is that kind of, it sort of was and wasn't. Like they knew it's Fox. So it's not going to be that serious. Like it's still going to have a bit of sensationalism. But like it's only gotten, it's ramped up over the years.

Well, it sounds like it's escalating the way that the Fast and the Furious movies do. Where the first one, they're just humble DVD players, stealers. Mm-hmm. And then the ninth movie, the ninth season of 9-1-1, everyone's going to space. Oh, did Fass & Curious 9 go to space? Yes. Is it F-F-9? They drove right up there.

That's crazy because season two of 911, they were in Tokyo. You mean season three? Yeah. Season three, my bad. Too fast, too. Oh, that's right. Oh, my God. Tokyo trip.

I fucked that up. I fucked that up. I fucked that up. You, oh, my God. I'm so humiliating. We also had somebody on, Kyla, you recently who was actually in that, too. Oh my gosh. But you know what's great, though, too, that episode about the, I got to get

the guy who killed my fiance back in 1991 episode was called When the Boeing gets tough. I'm mad. I'm mad. You're mad now. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Wait. I love that. I kind of love it. I like a pun. Here's the thing. Let me write on it. Yeah. You're not, what would you lose? Quality? No. Let me just show you. A couple other things. They had one season that began with a blackout where cyber attacker hackers fucked the grid up, which led to zoos, the animals escaping the zoo, okay, and running a fucking muck.

And apparently a lot of people just like, I think sort of critical observers are like, this may just be that like there's just a void that was left by the absence of disaster movies, which have been like a staple kind of content that just human beings watch. just disaster flicks and that maybe this is just the way that like they're filling this void and they're ramping it up because people are watching it and you know some people have said like it's potentially like a coping mechanism for the disasters we just hear about in real life also just to watch what like what happened to the shark nato movies and stuff like is that not going like or are they can only do so much like the brand you you kind of it gets it gets it can't

be on their shoulders yeah Victor Victor what What's your favorite 911 absurd moment? Because you said this, you love this show, right? Yeah, I mean, I love the TikToks on it because the best way to observe it is like through 90-second clips on TikTok because then you don't have to hear any of the characters like talk or do anything. It's just like the action. The most absurd parts, just like all the good parts.

Yeah, exactly. I think my favorite is, I actually watch it for the character development, but okay. Yeah, that's fair. Um, my favorite is that the Lone Star spin-off actually did an evil MRI machine before Final Destination did, like, a few years, like a good few years before Final Destination did it this year. Whoa. Wow. A doctor brought in a metal bed, and they're like, no, no, that's the MRI room. And then they got stuck into the MRI.

Uh, and all of the firefighters had to strip down to their underwear to try to remove the MRI. This show knows what good entertainment is. Yeah. Some have said they're like, no, it knows when to lean into the funny and also knows when to talk about it. It's like potentially dying from bee stings. Like we also know how to be serious about that.

So it could be like just a fine example of truly just well polished writing. I don't know. But they shouldn't be villainizing the bees. Of course not. Bees already get such a bad rap. But, no, you're right about the, uh, disaster movie like the dearth is that the word that i'm trying to say i feel like dirt means like the opposite of what you think it is and i always mix it up yeah i really struggle with this

word the you know the the vacant the vacancy yeah no yeah dear dearth is yeah the lack this is the word okay thank goodness um because disaster movies really peaked in the 90s i feel like and then they haven't really except for like things like shark nato which no one takes serious really, they're, you know, B movies on the sci-fi channel, or whatever. So, yeah, I guess 9-1-1 is filling the void, filling the dearth. Then we talk about the apocel. What was the movie with Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis where they... Armageddon.

Yeah, Armageddon, where, like, they didn't just have the astronauts go to space. They had the, like, professional drillers. Yeah. It's the same. We could have the cops go to space. Who cares? They're like, why don't we just give this? astronauts' guns.

They're like, no, no, no, no, no. You got to send the pros up there. That's what I'm like, what could this is, I mean, without knowing. How far off are we from like the New York, NYPD, like having the money to go to space? Where do you, like, Caitlin, how would you write, how would you justify a member of the Los Angeles Police Department needing to go to outer space? I am. Which is completely, I'm pretty sure, outside of their jurisdiction. Right.

Well, you'd be wrong. And that's why I'm running for sharing. Yeah. I can't think of a justification for that, aside from just shooting all cops into space and leaving them there. Yeah, I don't think it's like a police abolitionist message, to be honest. No, but that's the script I'm going to write. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They're going to do stop and frisks to like every rocket. I don't know. Like, is it to do police shit? Is it like, it feels like the, it's like, the only way it's justified is like for some reason, it has to be her for whatever reason. What does she have? Maybe her what was it

who got shot in 1991, her fiance or her husband. What if he never died? He just got sent to space. He's been living on a space station since 1991. And so she has to go back. Oh, wow. You wrote a way better episode

than they thought of. I'm sure. Wait. So then maybe that's like, um, what's her face. Take Caitlin's screenwriting class. What's the home girl in Greece? I love you, Newton, John. Olivia Newton, John, like how her husband faked his death.

Wait, is that a thing? Yeah. Her husband faked his death and he's living in Mexico. Whoa, I did not know about that. Is it like a Tiger King thing? It says her ex-boyfriend Patrick Dermit may have faked his own death. He disappeared on a fishing trip. And then people were like, bro, we spotted this dude in.

fucking Mexico. So you think maybe he faked his death and went to space? I don't know. I mean, like, there's like a real life quarrel. Like, maybe there's a parallel story that you could be like, well, did,

I mean, Olivia Newton-John's boyfriend at the time said, said deuces. And then people were like, this guy is still alive in Mexico. They're unsubstantiated claims, but I just like this idea. No, well, I mean, well, the beautiful thing about fiction

is that you can just write it. And that's in the show now. So that is what I would do. And then the end of that episode would be Angela Bassett also gets stuck in space. I mean, obviously, I love her. But like, if she's a cop, like, we don't. So this is from the Dateline NBC story about this, her ex-boyfriend. Since the airing of the, because they went, they were like, we need to fucking see if Olivia Newton-John's boyfriend really faked his own death.

So they went down to Mexico. Since the air, this is from Dateline NBC. Since the airing of the Dateline NBC story, the media coverage of the story from around the world, we, the investigators in this case would like to say thank you, blah, blah, blah, who have helped us track Mr. McDermott down. Our team cannot ever say thank you. Okay, so on February 10, 2009, our firm received a fax from a small city of Mexico near Acapulco in the state of Guerrero of the Pacific Coast.

After investigating the letter sent to us by fax, we began to investigate its origin. Since that time, we have been in phone contact with a, quote, representative of McDermott. We find this, quote, representative credible. We are currently in negotiations with this. this representative, and we'll make an announcement when necessary. Please understand that we're using all caution due to the current issues. Mexico is facing the safety of staff, et cetera, et cetera. And, you know, they said, they keep saying, like, I'm pretty sure we found them.

So the lesson here is that men are so unable to commit that they'll fix their own death and move to Mexico about it. But it also said, like, he had overdue child support. So, like, yeah. Yeah. Hey, it's how you do it. It's how you do it. They said the cleaning of McDonald is a lot, like, a lot of sloppy.

Everyone goes like in America's like, and then I'll go down to Mexico and just duck it out, you know. Nobody will notice me. Like a not. A famous guy. Yeah, a person not from Mexico in Mexico trying to keep a low profile. Like, yeah, man, I don't know. I used to date Olivia Newton John, you know. I had to fake my own death though to come down here.

That's nuts. I would feel so. I'd be like, you couldn't just. a phone call? You're really ghosting me like this, bro? That is a true sign of, like, the absolute worst communication skills and lack of respect for somebody. And you're like, I'm going to have to just fake my own fucking death here, man. Yeah. Did she die? But also kind of baller. Yeah, she passed away. Yeah. Well, so he can come back then, right? And that's a really horrible joke.

He comes back. He's like, whew. All right, boys. Where are we going out tonight? I'm going to finally go back to my favorite Chili's in Escondito. All right. Well, Caitlin Durante, thank you so much for joining us on The Daily Zykeyes today. It's been a pleasure and an honor, a privilege and an honor playing with you gentlemen this evening. Thank you so much. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can find me on Instagram at Caitlin Durante. You can listen to the Bechtel cast that I co-host with Jamie Loftus, of course. We love her. You can catch me. at a show in state college, I believe this is happening.

We're still hammering out the details. That is Pennsylvania. Okay. And this is on Friday, October 3rd. Okay. So like a week from now, it's going to be a comedy variety show that I'm headlining. I think, again, we're figuring it out. Wait, what do you mean you think?

Why is it so up in there? Because I'm talking to the venue, which is manis. state college Pennsylvania and we just like haven't solidified the details yet but if you want to know more oh so it's not contentious it's just kind of like sloppily being put together yeah it's a very kind of last minute thing I like told a friend of mine I was going to be in town um visiting people and she's like oh do you want to do a show and I was like sure and so we're just like still hammering up you've heard Caitlin off the cuff you know it's going to be great so you all should go thank you so much um so So, yeah, I'll, you know, post about it on my website slash Instagram if you are interested in going and you want to, like, DM me and then I'll send you details.

And what's your Venmo for the Lauren to London campaign? Thank you so much. It's at Caitlin dash Durante. But it is going to Lauren D Titanic, just so you know. Correct. Caitlin DeRante on Venmo is for the Lauren to London campaign. If you do contribute, put hashtag Lauren to London as I king, so we know. And bless you all.

I wish you well on your journey to get there. Thank you so much. Is there a work of media, social or otherwise, that you're enjoying? Well, I'm always going to recommend a movie, which is twinless. I don't know if it's still in theaters, probably not, but it was this great indie comedy that I enjoyed very much. So if you get a chance to watch twinless, please do. there's a famous guy in it who I like don't remember his name because I like don't know any of the things that he was in. Patrick McDermott. Maybe Colin O'Brien, no, not Colin O'Brien. Dylan O'Brien. Dylan O'Brien. Maybe. That's a famous guy. People have pressures on him.

It is Dylan O'Brien. Oh, it was in Team Wolf? Yeah, he's like a huge, everybody on the internet is like horny for him. Okay. He's a good looking guy. The maze runner as well. Never heard of it? So, but yeah, twinless was great and I enjoyed it very much. Okay. Well, Pallavi and Olin, thank you so much for joining me today. Where do the people find you? And what's the work in media you like? I'm at Pallavi G-A-L-A-V-N-A-N everywhere except Blue Sky where I got Pull-L-A-V-E. We have facial recognition comedy at the comedy store next month on the 17th at 10 p.m. Please be on time, my brown brethren. And then a work of media I've been enjoying is I've started reading smut and it's amazing. I'm reading Crowns of Nyaxia, which is like, it's like a thick-ass book and it's mostly like it's world, there's a lot of world building and stuff. But then there's some really fun,

romantic scenes in it. It's a fantasy series with some sexy ass vampires. And it's just a fun read. You need you should read next? What? Hallopine. What is that? Say more. Yo, my home girl, she loves, she's like a smut reading machine, like the amount of

smut books she gets through. Is this a play on Halloween, but it's Halopin? Yes. A sentient object romance follows two friends who tempt fate deliciously and end up having a legendary time with local urban legends. Oh my God. Okay. Well, it also sounds like jalapeno kind of, like jalapeno.

No, it's like a dude with like a dude. dick made a rock candy and shit. Whoa. I thought it sounded like hollow and I was like, that doesn't sound fun. No, like Halloween. Yeah. Yeah. It's wild because I just remember.

Is it like the headless rider? Like the headless dick. It's so wild. I, like, I got to find the excerpts. I'll send you some of the excerpts that my friend showed me that I was like, this is fucking. Mine's not like so crazy. There's like one or two sex scenes in each book.

I jump straight into the nonsense. I need to. I like the fantasy, too. You know what I mean? Yeah, I get that. But if there's a hallow peen. Why not? Why not?

Or you read fourth wing, you know, like everybody else, do whatever you going to do. That's your, okay, that's your work in media, you said, New Lincoln? Yeah. Okay, cool. You can find me everywhere, Miles of Gray. Some little posts I like on Blue Sky. First one is from Tim Marchman. I said, I'm a reporter, not a political strategist, but one answer to the question of

What can the opposition do is use the extraordinary investigative powers members of Congress have, even when in the minority, to get new information courts and journalists can't get. That's one thing you could do, you know, if you want it to. And then Barrio Speedwagon. What a fucking fantastic display name. At Chicano Brown Dood, biscata social posted. As something of an olive branch to the right, Disney will release Song of the South from the vault on Jefferson Davis's birthday. Fantastic.

You got to balance the scales, people. You got to balance the scales. You can find us everywhere at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zitegeist on Instagram. You go to the description of the episode, scroll down a little bit, and that's where you will find the footnotes. Footnote. That's where you're going to find a link to all the information we talked about,

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