The Daily Zeitgeist - Xeno(phobe) Culture Warrior Princess, LET US HAVE SICK LEAVE! 9.11.24

Episode Date: September 11, 2024

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because we used to sign up for the potluck open mic and then go get burgers and wait until to see whose names made the list and then we'd watch our friends go up or whatever if we got called and uh the guy i always got a veggie burger and a root beer and the guys like i went back recently and it had been years like pre-covid and the guy still remembered my order and i was like i went back recently and it had been years like pre-covid and the guy still remembered my order and i was like i fucking love you dude because like i made friends with him because i'd go so often it's it there's like such a warm feeling being a regular somewhere like oh yeah that's your song hit yeah where everybody knows your name do you want to man i do that at the coffee shop and i'm like yeah when they say I come in like fucking cheering.

I'm like, you know what time it is. Miles has entered the building with his child. If I died, at least one person would be like, huh? I wonder if that, I wonder if root beer veggie burger died. I wonder if that's even know your name. Eating her face. Yeah. If root beer veggie burger or root beer diet?

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only on Apple Podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 355, episode three of the Daily Zeitgeist. It's a production of iHeart Radio, and guess what? This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared

consciousness it's wednesday september 11th 2024 it's a national day let me look those up so that means it's national hot cross bun day it's also national make your bed day and uh patriot and national day of service and remembrance for september 11th of Service Okay so Thanks so much I was like I know I'm forgetting something It's the hot cross bun day What the fuck My name is Miles Gray A.K.A. The Lord of Lakersham

The Shogun with no gun A.K.A. The Washed World Jurassic Fart Shout out to James McDonald on Twitter Because look I'm going to be 40 on Sunday and I'm just having I'm letting the washness take over me. And yes, I really that resonated with me, James. So thank you for submitting that over Twitter. It is the washed world I'm entering. And I am thrilled to see if you're hearing my voice. That means, you know, there's a guest co-host. And that means today I am joined by none other than a fantastic comedian, writer, performer, scientist, if I may, activist, general good person.

You can catch them monthly at the comedy show, Facial Recognition Comedy. The next show is actually going to be on September 20th at the Comedy Store, so please help me welcome... I know you're listening, so you can't, you know, she's not going to hear you, but let's all scream in our cars or wherever we are listening to this podcast. Welcome to the show. Pallavi Ghandali. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I am hearing you screaming and I will not answer your prayers.

Scream harder. Scream. Pallavi, thank you so much for joining me. It's been so good just to see you so much for joining me it's been so good uh just to see you so frequently we were talking about how our our in-person meetups are infrequent and such such is the case when you're doing uh remote podcasting all the time but and you are a floating head in person too i am but at the appropriate height you know yes exactly i just have a small i have a puppeteer operating the body for me but the head you know if I sneeze, it just goes right off my body. And then they have to, you know, adjust it.

It's like the headless horseman version of that Hey Arnold episode. Did you ever see that? No, I'm see that generationally. Yeah, yeah, maybe. Are you savvy, Allison? What? Are you savvy of that reference? Oh, yeah, yeah. I know Hey Arnold. I love Hey Arnold. I mean, I know Football Head, but I don't remember the Headless Horseman one.

There was Headless Horseman. There was Monkey Man. There was Stoop Kid. Oh, my God. There was Stoop Kid. Oh, Stoop Kid, I remember. They had so many great side characters. Classic characters.

So good. It reminds me of Batman the Animated Series because they created all these awesome villains, but it was in the Hey Arnold universe. Yeah. Well, hey, let's just get right into introducing the guests. Rather than me checking their credentials over whether or not they know about the Hey Arnold universe, I should be introducing them. Our guest today is a very talented comedian improviser. You may have seen them on stages across the country performing comedy uh or maybe on social media doing one of the best impressions of kamala harris you can find out there they also have a fantastic podcast the nk podcast which you know tackles a lot of like

the news but with a funny tone which we love around here don't't we, folks? We love that so much. Please welcome to the guest seat, Allison Reese! Hello! Allison Reese, welcome! Thanks for having me. Of course, of course, of course, of course. Where are you coming to us from? You're also in L.A.? I'm also in Los Angeles, yeah.

Okay. Where are you from originally? NorCal and Arizona. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah. Okay. Where are you from originally? NorCal and Arizona. Okay. Yeah, I clocked. I felt like in one of your videos, it felt very Arizonan. I feel like in one of your videos, I was like, that looks like the Southwest. And it is. And it is.

So like this heat wave we have right now, I'm like again. Yeah. This again. Yeah. Well, I know recently what like Arizona had like a hundred straight days of a hundred plus degree weather or something. Absolutely. Something absolutely. Yeah.

Woo. Crazy. Yeah. Okay. Well, look, it's great to have you, Allison. How, how is everything? I mean, I got it. Like we were talking before you do a, you did your Kamala.

It's fantastic. That laugh killing them. Your vibe doing it Kamala is fantastic. That laugh, killing them. Your vibe doing it is fantastic. And as I was asking, I'm like, what's the weight, you know, like in an election year of being somebody who has an impression that everyone's like, do the, do the, do the laugh, do the thing, do the thing. Like, how are you like, I mean, cause you did this, you started this like five years ago doing the impression, but like, what's that evolution been like?

It's been so wild. Cause like, like yeah it started out just like a thing i was trying out and then it like stuck and like it was the only thing the algorithm would push out of like my stuff and i was like i guess this is what i'm doing now and then she was the nominee all of the sudden and it's just been absolutely insane um and it's not lost on me like the weight of political comedy even though it wasn't exactly the thing i was like attempting to do it was kind of where i found myself but um yeah it's been it's been a ride and it's definitely been like like oh god gotta be careful gotta be especially in this day of misinformation out there gotta be correct i know i see a lot of the times you're posting like this is a parody you dummy like yeah sometimes you have to say that oh my god she said that there was i i did a pair i don't can i cuss on here

yeah yeah you can say whatever the fuck you want okay great i did a parody. Can I cuss on here? Yeah, yeah. You can say whatever the fuck you want. Okay, great. I did a parody where I was like, what kind of country do we want to be? Country spelled C-O-U-N-T-R-Y or country spelled C-U-N-T-R-Y. I posted it on Twitter and the response was, oh my God, I can't believe. And I was like, no, I have i have to no this isn't real this is yeah right yeah i mean it might help pretty cunt of her to do that it would be so cunt of her i mean yeah because she's worn brat out brat summer's over the polling she needs to go harder you gotta go harder you gotta serve kamala. Yeah. You got to serve. Serving.

Yeah. At least serve different than Joe Biden, because I think that's the that's the trouble that's currently, I think, manifesting in the polls is a lack of differentiation. But, Allison, we are going to get to know you a little bit better. First, we're just going to run down some of the stories we're going to talk about today. First, my God, man, the fucking Republicans, they really I mean, I don't know why I'm acting surprised, but they're back to the well of racist misinformation, blaming immigrants for all the failings of capitalism. So we have two very fucking wild examples of this from J.D. Vance and one from Aurora, Colorado. We'll check in with one of my favorite performance artists,

I think, of this century, Rachel Gunn, also known as the breakdancer Ray Gunn from Australia. You may remember her world-changing performance at the Olympics. She's currently the world number one ranked breakdancer. And people are like, what? Yeah, no. And that sounds wrong. I want to hurt myself in front of her and change the trajectory of her life i want to be the cause of a traumatic event yeah yeah remember this face i want that woman to never hurt you yeah this is what you did to me but yeah uh but apparently it's a loophole. So we will explain that loophole because it's, it's not because she,

we all saw that. I mean, I think she's again, fantastic performance art, terrible break dancing, but apparently she was, that was real break dancing according to her. And then we'll talk about the youth,

the younger people, Gen Z. They're helping to normalize sick days in this country because as a geriatric millennial, I can tell you, I thought it was a badge of pride to walk into a job like half dead and be like, no, I made it, dude. I clocked in. I'm all good, dude. But now things have changed thanks to younger people normalizing the fact that we shouldn't fucking die at our job. But before we get into any of that alice and reese our esteemed

guest can you tell us something from your search history that's revealing about who you are what you're into right now oh yeah one is karaoke songs oh we love that i had i went to a karaoke this weekend and they had like it was all online so it was so easy and the other thing is a tutorial of the parent trap handshake oh yeah i saw it recently and then you do the and it's what a great epic movie right this is the lindsey lohan parent trap oh yeah see i'm old i'm like the original one? The old Disney one from the 60s or whatever the hell that was?

The Grandparent Trap. You've identified the old. Oh, that was a fantastic movie from the original. I just remember that house that the dude lived in was so fucking nice. I was obsessed with the house

from the original. But wait, what? I didn't know. See, again. You was obsessed with the house from the original. But wait, what? I didn't know. See, again. You don't know the handshake? The twins do it. It's so good. So it's like she's at a camp

and her butler picks her up and it's all formal and they're British and then all of a sudden they break out into this secret handshake that goes to this song. And it's really, it's really cute. Oh, yeah. Thank God for YouTube because I'm refreshing my memory. And now I'm saying, oh, man.

Oh, my God. Now the now the search for the handshake is going to skyrocket. Skyrocket. Spiking. Everybody knows. I did a live debate parody at UCB this past weekend. And me and the guy who played Trump learned the handshake so that when we first got out there, that's the first thing we did. And we were like, I hate your guts immediately after.

Oh, yeah. We had the music queued up. We did the little handshake. And then immediately we're like, I hate your guts. You smell bad. Oh, yeah. That butler kind of low-key looks like vladimir putin from this grainy video i'm watching that's wild okay so my god vladipoo really fell off

vladipoo is serving a sick day serving like you're hiding an illness but i don't know i don't want to be messy i don't want to be messy that's what the cia is telling us well and then the other one karaoke songs did you were you because you were trying to figure out what you were going to sing? Like you don't have a go-to? You're trying to find a new go-to? No, no, no. It was like their directory was like on a website. So you scanned the QR code.

So you're just saying quite literally that was the last thing. I thought you were just being like, karaoke songs for me to sing for my friends so they know i am okay at singing but you know i i need to start that i have one from a friend and some of them line up with my with my tastes but i'm like i need to build my own and that was the thing everybody at karaoke had their own like notes app list of like karaoke songs oh you went to you went to karaoke with like musical theater or theater kids i absolutely did i absolutely went with like musical theater or theater kids. I absolutely did. I absolutely went with my musical friends.

Yep, yep. I get that. They're like pissed at each other. They're like, you're seriously doing Torn right now? No, so for real. Somebody's like, she's singing this wrong. And I was like, she is singing it wrong. And I think, yeah.

And I was like, hmm. Wait, so what's your song? Just so I can get that out the way. uh this girl is on fire by Alicia Keys oh my god damn you got so you got pipes huh you got pipes I you know I can do uh an attempt at an impression of Alicia Keys that's like pretty fun oh right okay because you're I'm guessing just based on your impressions you're gifted mimic so you probably yeah yeah yeah so i feel like you still have to like like i feel like you could still belt it if yeah let me do my version and compare yeah go off girl is on fire or whatever that run is i don't know what that was i like that like that you said like go off like you were a juilliard judge. And you'll be presenting.

Do go off. And please, I encourage you all to go off. Please, go off, honey. All right, well, I won't make you do it, but, you know, off mic. Do you want me to do it? Let me just hear it. I would love to. I feel like you got pipes.

I feel like I can hear something. We'll see. Watch me be so bad because this is like the first. I haven't sung today at all. I'm not a singer. Okay. Yeah, me either. This girl is on fire.

What the fuck? Okay, fuck you. This was a trap. Fuck you. Little Ronnie on fire. Wow. Okay. So rude.

Okay. Okay. I'm going to, real singers should not go to karaoke. Just go to your studios, record your little album. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I'm going to real singers should not go to karaoke. Just studios. Record your little album. Yeah. Number one hit. Sign your 360 deal.

If you don't sound like a gargoyle that gargled a bunch of cigarettes before you went up. I don't want to fucking hear your karaoke. Okay. This is for us and the toilet trash people. I feel fucking small. Okay. I don't want to feel fucking small after hearing your little fucking impression.

Fuck. Killing it. You know what's going to be on fire after your little singing? Your fucking car, bitch. Because I don't want to feel bad about myself. Your fucking house, okay? I came here to belt out all of the trauma my therapist couldn't handle.

You know that's why i keep a dead christmas tree in the backseat of my car because once you put that thing under someone's car and light it it's over it's over that shit is on fire um wow okay damn allison i knew it i heard it i heard the trick is i mean if i sing i don't know my own singing voice for the most part is the trick. Because I'm like, but what's mine? That's the doing that one. Wow. That's a rom-com.

I need you to do a sketch where you're Kamala and you're looking in the mirror and the mirror is slowly breaking. And you're like, but who am I? Who am I? And then the laugh comes out but your mouth isn't moving the one in the mirror is oh shit damn for you i'll do that for you yeah yeah yeah i'll do that oh my god special this is like my own cameo that's the only reason i got into comedy it was for me now are you on cameo me yeah i am and i actually just got a new phone and never re-uploaded that app so i think i'm backlogged on my cameo oh wow yeah they're like i can make seven thousand

dollars right now by just singing this girl is on fire what is something you think is underrated allison i think i think hats as a show of femininity is underrated. Oh. I think femmes wearing hats is underrated. Why did I immediately go to church lady hats? Because I feel like that is very... A vibe. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, I mean like I have like bucket, like these, not bucket hats, but just like... Like a camp cap yeah yeah what do you call that just in a six panel a five panel i mean we call that a camp hat i think yeah yeah yeah wait so what about uh what about the trend of like big brown felt hats that uh that wasn't a trend that wasn't a big brown felt hats i don't even know what that is no no no no no not like the pharrell vivian westwood gigantic hat but like you know how like you see those like pumpkin spice latte type fall white women photos and everybody got like the big felt brown like you know the big brown brimmed hat yeah it's not quite a cowboy hat yeah yeah Christian. Yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, exactly. Baseball hats?

They're dope. Would you ever wear it backwards? Yeah. Okay. But I like to wear hats on. You really had to consider it. Yeah, that's what I was like. Because I was like.

How far are we going? We rocked our shit. Whoa, I've never thought about that before. Yeah. The lesbian in me was like, it's not practical to wear it backwards because then how am I getting the shade? Right, right, right. That's not what the function is.

That's so funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, I that's not what the function is. Yeah. But yeah, I would wear it backwards. Okay. All right. Just for the record. Just want to get everything on the record. Stop trying to hetero her, Miles.

Yeah, get out of here. Stop trying to see. Great agenda. Get the fuck out of here. Would you rock it like this to the side? Like would you fresh prince it? It's like, I'm gay, but I i'm gay but i'm not gay i'm gay but i'm not 90s derogatory gay yeah thank you that's fucking gay miles

oh shit uh allison what is something you think is overrated? Veneers. Oh, my God. I hate veneers. Yeah, go on. I just looked at the difference between a crown and an implant and a veneer because dental implants are now being where they just fucking screw in whole teeth instead of like shaving. Wait, people are getting implants instead of veneers? I don't know. I don't know if it's like instead or if it's like older people who don't have teeth anymore like i don't know what the audience is but i saw an

advertisement for it yeah yeah wait what's an implant versus a veneer and like right the crown is when it's like on top and then the veneer is when they shave it down and then they put a whole thing around it looking like grains of rice is like fucking shave it down and then they put a whole thing around it. Looking like grains of rice. And then the implant is like fucking screw into your gums, motherfucker. Yeah, they have to put infrastructure into your bones and then the implant goes in. That's when you actually need a legit tooth replaced after an extraction. That's when you need to get off TikTok and go hiking. Not like big pieces of chiclets in your mouth type veneers. Yeah, that's what I mean.

I mean, get veneers if you need veneers. But there's like a, just like when they're, you don't need them. Yeah, it's a trend. And I'm like, that person's teeth, they were fine. It also looks like everybody's starting to look stranger and stranger. Yeah. And that's part of it. Yeah.

And it's like a class thing. Right. Yeah. And that's part of it. Yeah. And it's like a class thing. Right. Yeah. Well, and which has trickled down now to the point that you have janky ass veneer techs who are like, I know they said that shit could be like fucking 30,000, but I'll do them for five grand. Just come to my house. Do I have training?

No. Oh my God. I saw a nightmare TikTok where this woman was like, I, they gave her veneers on accident. What? She was somewhere getting something done, and they started to shave down her teeth. And she's like, what are you doing? And there was some sort of language barrier or something. And they shaved down her teeth when they weren't supposed to do that.

Oh, my God. Yeah. Yo. That's. Oh my god. Yeah. That's fucking wild. Okay yeah that would be the biggest. What was that old comedy show. They used to be on. Where the woman accidentally had a baby. And there was like an immaculate conception.

But she went to the wrong gyno appointment. Jane the Virgin. Jane the Virgin. Jane the Virgin. I'm thinking just the Jane the Virgin. Jane the Virgin I'm thinking just the Jane the Virgin but the gentle version I want to do trivia with Miles you know that thing you get the answer right

but you never say it explicitly it's just everything around it oh it's the show where the woman goes to the gyno appointment but the one person getting the insemination and she got that instead and then that guy you know yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that that show that show um yeah don't ask me for recent film or tv yeah veneers the other thing too is i always see like the like it always happens

when comedians get like blow up like comedians usually you know when you're in comedy it's really it's really not about your looks your your your craft is your ability to speak for yourself bitch i have no talent and it's hot like have you seen her luscious hair oh my god uh but she's so unfunny but yeah oh exactly uh super producer katherine in the chat exactly steve carell had the hairline She's so unfunny. But that hair. That hair. But yeah. Oh, exactly. Super producer Catherine in the chat. Exactly. Steve Carell had the hairline glow up.

We all saw Joe Bluth. You know what I mean? Job's, Job's hairline has done quite an absolute recovery too. But I feel like with comedians, like they enter the game kind of being like, yeah, man, I'm just like a comedian. And then like, I remember Amy Poehler's teeth. Amy Poehler didn't have, her teeth were unique. I remember when I was watching her on the original UCB series on comedy

central. And then once she got on SNL, that like SNL glow up kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. In her book, she talks about how they were like, fix your teeth.

Yeah. Like what the fuck? It's just like, so weird. Like that's also like very much. I'm a, I'm a real house wives reality tv show addict and like that's very much like a thing like they can tell like as soon

as you get money from like the fix like cardi b always talked about how they made her fix her teeth or like she finally got money and fixed her teeth yeah and like i'm watching real housewives of atlanta and you can tell as soon as they get money, they all start looking different. It's like everybody's got to get. I mean, yeah, it does feel like sort of a weird class signifier, too, at a certain point, because like if all the celebrities have this look of veneer mouths and everyone's like, oh, I want I want that. God, thank God that it's a class signifier in the US, but it's the one thing British people did right. They will always have fucked up teeth, and thank God for that. You know what I mean?

They're about equity. They're about equity. It's the only thing about them that's genuine. I love the teeth. Love the teeth. All right. Well, we're going to take a quick break, and we're going to come back to talk about some good old-fashioned racism. All right.

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Just the... J.D. Vance is currently, I think, in an attempt to rebrand himself as the racist conspiracy theory guy rather than just the racist guy who probably has sex with couches guy. And he posted some real fucking absolutely fucked up misinformation, propaganda nonsense about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. So what he pointed to, he tweeted this sort of thing, like a video of him at a hearing like earlier this year. And he was basically claiming that because of the influx of Haitian immigrants in this town, they are the reason for the lack of affordable housing and services. And now they're eating the pets of local residents they're abducting and eating people's house pets this is like some absolutely disgraceful dehumanizing shit yeah

pushing some what are you saying yes yes yes he says reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn't even be in this country where is our borders are given the fucking number of stories we've heard of from republicans about how they've abused their own animals lately right like yeah they're haitian immigrants are not who we should be worrying about for the like the neighborhood dog like well there was there was a tweet i saw that was like it was probably rfk jr truly or it was probably RFK Jr. Truly. Or who was that one lady who was in the running for VP for Trump? Oh, yeah.

Kristi Noem. Yeah, yeah. Kristi Noem? Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's like, yeah, I'll market her. Don't get her and RFK in a room together. No, no, do not. Don't even let them go into a sex show. I actually heard that's how they controlled the wolf population in Yellowstone, was they just let Kristi Noem loose.

Yeah, yeah. She's like, oh, this one? Bow. She's like, that was a Bichon Frise. That was someone's pet. You're like, I don't know. I don't know. I'm just saying all of them can get it.

I don't give a fuck. They can get it. Like, why are you talking like this, governor? So, again, I think like most people are like what the fuck are you is this guy talking about naturally elon musk and ted cruz like we're amplifying the message ted cruz posted a meme of kittens hugging each other it said please vote for trump so haitian immigrants don't eat us are they that's actually like the first fucking thing i saw about this story which is like okay so ted cruz's tweets is like all that people will understand like yeah it's so fucked up it reminds me of that do you remember that

recent like venezuelan gangs and oh we're getting to that we're getting to that that's all part of this that's all part of this shit because like that story right this one you go okay so where's let me see some receipts fam like what the, what the fuck are you talking about? Don't say fucking, there are reports of this shit. So when they pressed, you know, like his camp for being like, hey, where's the fucking proof? Their response was basically some form of, look, man, he's just like sharing what people have like told him on emails, but like, we don't have those emails. Just anyway, like, that's just like what, that's just like kind of what the vibe is right now. And like, what are y'all for real?

But the thing is, according to local police there, there has not even been a single report or even complaint about even a pet abduction, let alone someone fucking eating it. They haven't heard yet. They haven't heard yet. Just wait. They're going to get reports. They'll get reports. But again, like most things that come out of the, you know, xenophobic fear-mongering that the Republicans do, it's absolute bullshit. And like, it's funny because this is actually one of,

like, if you remember that story from last week about how these Russian operatives were paying, like, right-wing commentators to, like, just, you know, regurgitate a bunch of pro-R pro Russia stuff. Like one of the talking points that they were going into this sort of mission with was to get all these different talking points disseminated by by conservatives. And one of them was illegals are invading and ruining the American way of life and taking away opportunities from the white American people. Again, most fucking experts would argue that, you know, outsourcing from companies and the buying up of single family homes from companies like BlackRock are probably a bigger contribution to the people's financial situation than the mere presence of people who are not from the United States.

But that's what they do. So I will say that there have been issues caused by people not from the U.S. that do affect American citizens and their pockets. Specifically, my parents won't give me money. And I was going to say, my mom, she's bothering me for another grandchild. I know. So that's like something I'm dealing with with these fucking immigrants. But like, and technically they are U.S.s citizens now but like still like they totally had

an anchor baby or whatever i bet i bet somehow like even though you're joking and you actually put a video clip out that like out like that they'll be like you see even their own kids know their own they're like what they're they're very they're very good at like cutting out around the context yeah yeah and being like look at that look at how stupid and crazy and look at this They're very good at like cutting out around the context. Yeah. And being like, look at that. Look at how stupid and crazy. And that's your report. Report show.

Right. This own child. That their kids know. This own child. This child hates immigrants and it's her own mother. Okay. That's how bad the situation is, folks. That's what we're up against. Yeah.

This child wants to have therapy with immigrants. And it's her own mother. This young man wants his mom to acknowledge that, you know, anxiety is an actual thing rather than it just being, quote, you're being lazy. The Republicans are like, why are all the talking points about how immigrants don't have enough mental health resources? Who's pushing this? We've like changed the narrative. Who's pushing this? We've changed the narrative. Who's pushing this? Yeah, yeah.

But to your point, right? The last racist freakout we saw in the last couple of weeks, if you watched Fox or any other right-wing news, you probably saw a headline about Venezuelan gangs taking over entire apartment complexes. And they said that these gangs from Venezuela were kicking people out of their apartments so they could put Venezuelans in their place. Or they're

using it to run entire organized crime rings. I'll play this clip where you can hear directly from Jesse Waters how this whole thing was described. And we'll talk about, again, how this was also nonsense. I fucking hate Jesse Waters. Common borders and sanities wreaking more havoc officials in aurora colorado are setting

up a task force after terrifying video emerged of a vicious apartment invasion allegedly by a dangerous migrant gang that guy looks like evil phil dumpy oh my god from modern family Phil Dunphy. Oh my God. From Modern Family. Poor Phil Dunphy. Holy shit. Oh, I said evil Phil Dunphy. I know, I know, I know. He does, he is very evil. Wow. That's, that's, that's, that's Ty Burrell? Yeah.

Yes. See, look, hey, can I be back on the, can I be back on the trivia team? I didn't go. Oh yeah, we're all just giving each other quizzes. The dad who looks like the nice version of Jesse Waters. But yeah. So again, this was going around everywhere. Aurora, Colorado, Venezuelan gangs, because Venezuelan migrants are here and they're taking

over and they're ruining everyone's way of life. But guess what? That wasn't the truth. The people who lived in that apartment building, they had like a press conference to sort of set the record straight as to like what is actually happening. And this is kind of how this all went down. This is from a local news report in Aurora, Colorado. That's crazy. What's going on? Now, Mayor Mike Coffman says there have been conversations of an emergency order to take over the complex, but he says that's a last resort. Now, those who live there, they tell us

they have had no issues with gang activity, but say the real crime is the horrible living conditions they've been dealing with, like the mountains of trash, bed bugs, and even mice. And they say all of this happening without any help from the property management company. Now, the management company, CBZ Management, also oversaw the Nome Street complex that was shut down last month. Now, the city shut down Nome street because of code violations but the management company says that they couldn't go in there and actually deal with the code violations because it was overrun by a venezuelan gang wow so just fully lying so yeah it was 100% this like landlord story and then they just like

spread it and because they had like issues with other buildings and now it's like a republican talking point which is insane but still not as good as like how the couch fucking rumor came to me no because even now people went aurora they're taking over apartment complexes they're like nah all it took was a few people like i live here no that's not happening but the couch fucking you still can't you still can't get that stain off jd yeah you can't wipe it off i'm sorry but that's like it ain't coming but that's like it's so like insane this proves like two things of like how desperate landlords are and like these management companies to get out of like their own bullshit because like to blame people in bad conditions for those conditions

when they are paying their rent when they are like paying for better conditions is like super fucked up and then also the republicans are just desperate for a story like they're pulling at anything it's so interesting how their whole thing for so long has been here is the issue that people actually care about right how do we scare them in another way and link it to here right you know right how do we how do okay you're concerned about a all right cool how do i scare you about c and then say it's a right right well and it's always a it's always a form of you know like just doing this kind of racist shit to be like and again you know why because brown people showed up is like their whole sort of like playbook yeah but

like to really get into that story right so this slumlord who's running these buildings right who we heard in that news report had another building shut down he's like well venezuelan gangs that's why they were that's why this the plumbing doesn't. And I leave people in untenable situations. That slumlord hired a Florida-based PR firm, okay, to kick this thing off. They specialize in cancel culture issues. What? They're like a skullduggery. They're like a fucked up outfit that they're like, hey, man, you need to run some weird disinformation.

You need to wiggle your way out of some problematic shit. We're your people. They're based out of Florida. This is who they found to do this. And they work together with like a legal firm to like put this claim out there, like in this legal claim, quote unquote, it's like third party. It's like, well, this person heard from another person that it happened to someone they knew that this happened. That is, that was taken. And then that was taken as the gospel truth and made into a headline. But again, this was all done in the interest of this slumlord. Why? Well, many of the apartment buildings they own have terrible problems,

like they mentioned in there. The sewage, trash is piling up. There's all kinds of problems with the units that aren't being addressed. There's bedbugs, mice. And the city, again, like I mentioned, written them up for multiple code violations. And it was so bad. And one of the buildings, hundreds of people were mass evicted because of the neglect in the building. And they have a class action lawsuit against this management company. And that's when they're like, yo, bro, we need to figure out a way out of this. Can we just say it was Venezuelan gangs? And that's why I'm a I'm a slumlord.

Right. Right. So along with this, the Republican mayor of Aurora says this isn't a real thing. Even the police who love to fucking scare people into thinking there's a fucking crime wave. They're like, yeah, man, there is not. We don't see anything that suggests there's any kind of gang takeover at these apartment buildings, let alone even like these neighborhoods. Just people looking for cheap housing. So, again, seems like both immigrants have been blamed for the failings of our economic systems.

Now, J.D. Vance is like, I hate cops and I hate Republican mayors. What do they know? What do they know? Like that is it's I don't know. What do they know? What do they know? Like that is, it's,

I don't know. It's just like so wild that like, I still can't get over that. They just blamed Venezuelans in general, just because there is like a population of Venezuelans there. But it's that easy. Right. Right. But then you tell any of the people who live there,

they're like, this is like an open carry state. Like this isn't like some, like this isn't like a story that you would love. Like normally be like in California, they would love a story like like that they're like in california because they have their sanctuary cities these gangs i mean they've run stories like that before they've taken over but for the people that live there like this isn't even close to happening and just like people the gun culture is also a little bit different making shit up i watched this video of like a guy a youtuber who like what was commentary on his

video but he like went to investigate himself and he was like speaking in like really like not good spanish asking people questions and he was like asking if there were specific gangs i forget what he called what the names were um but he looked up like some Venezuelan kings and was asking, and they were like, no, we just like, aren't living in the best conditions. And like,

we just want that to stop. Like that was like the general vibe of it. But he was like, definitely like, I'm going to go into this territory and see if, you know, if I get hurt or whatever, like that was like his thing.

It was so stupid. It was like, literally just like give them money and like housing. This all reminds me of that Black Jeopardy sketch on SNL where it's like when you look at the real problem, we're pretty we're pretty care about the same things until you get to like race. Right. And because then you're one side is being told a bunch of fucking lies and like stoking those fires yeah yeah it's uh i don't i mean this seems to be their favorite playbook uh especially in an election year so why i'm not sure we have any reason to think it will slow down but again like now

republicans are like doubling down on all this and they're like this is all like jd vance he's like hey keep sending the cat memes we love them like not even addressing just the terrible it's so funny how they're really trying to like up their social game through like memes and shit because the harris campaign has like done that kind of effortlessly thus far well i think it's so interesting to see their version of it is like because there's also like a bunch of like shit posters who lean left who are just like yeah dude here's a fucking meme whereas like the stuff the republicans post are like this brown person will kill your fucking grandma and eat them you're like that's not a meme dude dude you missed the plot you like the plot

is so lost yeah it's it's like if kendrick couldn't rhyme you know what i mean it's like trying to beef with kendrick yeah it'd just be so intense you're like kendrick back off you're getting so dark yeah everything doesn't have to go over it is everything meet the grams because this isn't even like a fun song to listen to. It's really freaking me out. No, man. So, yeah, they will continue their bullshit. Let's check in with Ray Gunn. I refuse. Well, this is a quick one. But I don't know.

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or wherever you stream podcasts. And we're back. Pala V, it's time for you to do a battle with your arch nemesis, Rachel Gunn. I hate her so much. AKA Ray Gunn. Ray Gunn. I can't believe

You're platforming someone so problematic I love to platform breakdances I think it's a great option I think she should take a walkabout Yeah take a walkabout I brokedance all the way to Uluru Wait you're too good at that I'm scared

It's like a big rock I've never been to Australia but I always hear people talk about Uluru It's like a big rock i've never been to australia but i always hear people talk about ulu ru it's like a big rock or some shit aussie zeitgang please correct me um but anyway the breakout star of the paris olympics ray gun the break dance star as we remember failed to score a single point in the breaking competition but she's currently the highest ranked break dancer in the world. That's because she won the gold medal at the 2023 WDSF Oceania Championships. The fuck is that? It's like a regional. So the WDSF is the World Dance Sport Federation, which is the governing body. Okay.

And was everyone else sick? Yeah. Was it just her and her husband? I mean, this story was always like odd because I remember at the time people were like, how dare she? And other times I'm like, how dare them putting her up there? Like, she seemed pretty out of sorts to be like, I didn't see it necessarily as nefarious of a plot in terms of just seeing how, you know, like white people are able to fail upward quite easily. But I didn't necessarily see her as like trying to be like, and I'm representing break. I mean, she her life is terrible. It sounds like now.

But all that to say, she because she won like this qualifying competition, she got a thousand ranking points. And that's what secured her spot in Paris. ranking points and that's what secured her spot in paris but other qualifying events and the paris games themselves do not factor into these rankings apparently and that is by design so that athletes can focus solely on the olympic qualification without stressing out over rankings so basically what's happened was like within because she won this qualifier within the last year and there weren't other measurable or ranked events that happened since then, even the people who won gold, they weren't in events that would actually count towards this ranking. So all that to say is this is only because of the timing of her last win. She just has more points on the board.

That's all going to change in October. Did she do that intentionally? of the timing of her last win, she just has more points on the board. That's all going to change in October. Did she do that intentionally? No, I think it's just the timing of the ranking. That's just when that event was. No, but I mean, was she like, oh, now I'm going to go if I win. Is that why she entered? Oh, no, no, no, no.

Do we know what Alison Stoner thinks of all this? Oh, my goodness. Yeah, yeah. I remember from the Missy Elliott videos, yeah. Yeah, or like. What was it? You Got Served? That series of movies? Was she in one of the later ones?

She was in some dance movies. Oh, she was in Step Up. She was in the Step Up movies. What's You Got Served? There was a whole time of dance. I watched all of them. All the step ups?

I watched all the dance because I used to dance. Did you ever get Darren's dance grooves? I did not get Darren's dance grooves. That fucking took me back. My sister loved NSYNC and Backstreet Boys and like knew all the dances and stuff and she's the oldest so like the rest of us kind of like fell in line behind her yeah my brother got Darren's dance grooves and he was the choreographer for all of those like big pop yeah like bye bye bye I remember that was like the way they were selling it they're like you want

to be able to do the bye bye bye choreographybye choreography? Well, check out Darren's Dance Grooves. VHS. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, so like, again, it's just the time. It's like, it's merely like, that's why like this, the organization's coming out. They're like, look, it's just because these other people's qualifiers, it's been over a year. So those points don't count. The clock is going to reset come October when we have another official event,

but you know, we'll see who knows. She might come out. She might come out with some new moves. You know what I mean? She might do, she might do pushups up there. Is she like actually a bad dancer?

You were saying she's a performance artist and I keep hearing different things. No, I say that flippantly. She is a performance. I'm sorry. My deadpan sometimes sounds like I'm being serious. But no, she's just like a professor.

She's just like bad ass. She's an academic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She studied it. Yeah, she was some sort of professor or something. And she's like 36. And she has studied it academically. She's a lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications,

Creative Arts, Language, and Literature at Macquarie University, a faculty of arts. See, and smart people can be dumb. So that gives me hope. I don't know what that means. It's like anybody. Look, if smart people can be dumb, if smart people can be dumb,

as a dumb person i can be smart exactly you see okay loopholes i was gonna say i'm so silly um i was gonna say like her her husband was like her coach or something right yeah or there was some like he also break dances and i saw like a super clip of him breakdancing and they were like uh they played is somebody gonna match my freak over it and he was just also awful oh no like maybe it was i don't know they were like maybe he was having like these moments and they just captured those i mean i would like if you read the right, her husband is the one who encouraged her to get into breakdancing. Sex must be awful.

It's always a white man's fault. They can't even dance. They can't even dance. I would like to see them battle a toddler, like dance battle. Because I feel like toddlers all have the same, like, they're just moving at the knees. Toddlers all have the same, like, they're just moving at the knees. There are some actual, not toddlers, but five-year-olds that are actually insanely good at breakdancing. Because their center of gravity is so low.

So they can do a lot more stuff than if they were their adult version. The physics behind your toddler frame makes you the perfect specimen. And that's why you have to commit your life to this. That's why you must be a breakdancer. But yeah, apparently she did, though, pause her breakdancing career to complete her PhD. So she'd be like, look, let's listen. I guess we should call her Dr. Ray Gunn at this point. But yeah, she will probably be completely uh wiped off the rankings once they have another event where you actually have to be a break dancer to win because

my god what we saw was not great so look worry not b boys b girls it's okay you know ray gun is not out here actually being number one ranked okay anyway, now I guess we should talk about sick days because I don't have, what's your Paula V. I know you're younger than I think. Is everybody young? Am I the oldest one here? Uh, just want to check everyone's work habits. Were you, were you sick day users or sick days? Like, I think they they're gonna think i'm lazy and they're gonna fire me when i was in science i would be like i would sleep in the lab and they would think it was cool if you smelled bad and wore the same clothes as the day before because it meant you were working harder and if you were a lady who wore makeup well that's just weird because why do you have time to do

makeup and look nice shouldn Shouldn't you be working? Shouldn't you be looking at this microscope? I almost got fired for taking a sick day. What? The fuck? Isn't that literally illegal? It's literally illegal. I was a temp.

So I think it was like they had a way around it, you know? And that legally you don't have a sick day. And that legally you don't have a sick day. And that legally, you don't have a sick day. But like, I was sick. I was like living in Chicago and it was also like one of the like coldest winters at the time. And I was like, I'm sick. It's horrifyingly cold.

I need to stay home. And they were like, you're, you're done. We're done. You're fired. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, apparently sick leave in the United States has gone up 55% in 2023 and it's only been going up compared to 2019. And the people under the age of 35 are just driving this trend. And it's not because there's an affliction that only affects young people where the older people are left free to work constantly. But there are a few reasons. So the pandemic, A, obviously changed the way everyone feels about motherfuckers showing up at work sick. Because I remember back in the day, like, oh, you're sick. Oh, all right. Well, that sucks for you.

And then be like working shoulder to shoulder with somebody. And then as time goes, yo, you're sick. Yo, get the fuck out of here. Like, what the fuck are you trying to do? Like, you're trying to get everybody sick? No, no, no, no. We're not doing this. yo, get the fuck out of here.

Like, what the fuck are you trying to do? Like, you're trying to get everybody sick? No, no, no, no, we're not doing this. Today I gave 10 feet of space between me and this lady at Walgreens because she was sniffling. Yeah, yeah. And she was buying a pregnancy test. And I was like,

did you confuse that with like a COVID test? I didn't even want to get... Yeah, don't dig too deep on that story. Who knows? Sometimes you just are allergic to your baby, you know? Oh my God. That's going to be used. That one quote will be used by the right wing. Like, do you hear how they talk about abortion? Do you hear how they talk about it? Do you hear how they talk about this? These people, they are sick.

I'm going to blow them out like snot through my nose. I don't care. So the pandemic also led states to create or modify paid sick leave laws so there was basically so during the pandemic there was more allowance for sick days especially related to like mental health and obviously depression has plagued gen z younger younger people at higher rates than older generations probably because they are learning in real time more about how bad the world is. Probably because they're willing to get diagnosed. Mom, mother, right?

And it's, I was diagnosed with laziness and not trying hard enough. That's why you feel bad because you're too lazy. That's why your dreams didn't come true. That's why you're sniffling. You lazy bitch. Oh, it's because you got,

you caught a case of the L's. Oh, you have a hundred degree fever. Get the fuck out of bed you know the fever only gonna get worse if you stay in bed i remember you gotta burn the heat off not not that it'll get worse but it's like you should get around and move a little bit yeah you gotta move around you gotta go run a mile you know literally one time my brother told me he was like yeah when i start feeling like i'm sick i just get on the treadmill and i'm like we are not i don't know how we were raised in the same household i use that to take

like liberties to become like a living mummy yeah you just start wrapping yourself in a blanket exactly put discovery plus on please i have reality to watch as I recuperate my body, recover. So anyway, the thing is, as we were saying, like when you as a temp probably got fired because you weren't offered paid sick leaves. Because the United States is, again, we hold the crown of being the only wealthy nation in the world that does not guarantee workers paid time off when they are sick. does not guarantee workers paid time off when they are sick. And almost a quarter of private sector workers don't have access to even one day of paid sick leave. So obviously the lack of a federal paid sick leave guarantee has left it up to states to implement their own laws. And that weird implementation has just basically enabled experts to study the effects of guaranteed paid sick leave. And it turns out everyone wins effects of guaranteed paid sick leave. And it turns out everyone wins when you have paid sick leave. It's not like they're just going to stay home sick

forever and then my widgets don't get made. No, apparently, and I think this makes sense, paid sick leave helps workers as well as communities as a whole by quote, significantly reducing the spread of infectious diseases. And even then, if you're like some asshole who's worried about your widgets getting made, look, it's actually good for your business to increase. It increases worker productivity, reduces turnover, thus boosting your beloved economy. So come on, lay off of it. And a recent poll showed that what? Eighty five percent of Americans support federal paid sick leave requirements. That was before the pandemic. So that number is probably a lot higher given the realities that people are living in. So, you know, while I think people have tried to implement this into like law, like in Congress,

they have been apparently they've been met with heavy resistance from corporate lobbyists. They're the cause of and solution to all of their problems. Miles, I have a question. Yes. About this topic. What do you think widgets are? Widgets. I'm saying widgets as like a business class term

for like a fake product. In my mind, it's a fidget toy. Like fidget toys came to my mind. Oh, oh, oh, okay. I was thinking about like the apps and like yeah yeah yeah so like the ones you like and i was like the way you're saying it it's like they're they're little elves tinkering on a line yo i'm so old there's like a wreck-it-ralp universe where they're just building it in the phone i'm now mad at paula v because you're

checking me like does this motherf motherfucker know what a widget is? I was just like, do I know what a widget is? You know somebody doesn't make those shits that you put on your home screen that tell you when the weather is. Back to the widget mind. Back to go making your widgets, me lord. Paid sick leave, me lord. No, no, that was just to remember. Widget union.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, you. paid sick leave below no no that was just to remember widget union yeah yeah oh yeah yo yeah the international brotherhood of widget workers you know what i mean we're out here local 223 um no that's again that's like from the one business class i overheard and i always hear that in terms of on your way to drink bro exactly dude you know how it is you know yeah suckers but yeah i mean again like this is also just i feel like there's just a cultural issue like i think we've all experienced where like especially in this country we've normalized the idea it's like yo dying here is actually the dopest thing you could do like just oh my god your body on the line. Did you guys cover that story? Oh my God. What story?

I don't think we did. This woman died in her cubicle and her body was there for four days. Four days. Because no one checked on her. For four days, her body was there. Oh my God. And no one gave a shit. Yeah.

And it didn't smell to anybody? That's just what cubicles smell like. That's not. That can't. Someone, I think they only know. At first, when they smelled it, they thought something was off. And they didn't realize they were smelling like a necrotizing, like a decomposing body. Oh my God. Yeah.

That's happened in Tempe, Arizona. That's where I'm from. Yeah. So what did you have to do with this? It's my fault. What'd you have to do with this? It's my fault. I should have smelled the body. Yeah. Oh, my God.

I thought she was playing Heads Up, Seven Up. Oh, my God. And she was winning. Yeah. She was just really good at Heads Up, Seven Up. Yeah. But I think, yeah, I think because a lot of people worked remotely and it was like, you know, part of the building where people weren't there. And I don't blame remote work for this.

No, I'm not. I'm just saying that's why nobody's in there. I'm not saying if they weren't remote working, someone would have noticed she didn't die. No, I'm not saying that at all. If they if they worked, if they all worked remote, she would have been at home and her cats would have not noticed she died. And that's how she would have wanted it. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. That story is really grim. And also just how like atomized like workplaces are too, where you're like, I don't know them. Like I'm over here. People don't even know like who works for me. I haven't heard from them. I don't even know.

We work for Wells Fargo bank. That's just how it is. I think like in general, it feels like the answer to a lot of our problems are like community and community based solutions. It's like if people if the if people gave a shit at work or if people gave a shit at home or whatever, we would like shit like that would not happen if we were like checking up on each other more and have the ability and the time off to do so. Right. Right. Yeah. Like everything, you know, even with like housing and stuff like this, everything, if we just get corporations out of it, like if they didn't buy up all the homes and we had again, community-based solutions to policing and like social safety nets and all these other things.

Yeah, that would be that. I agree. I agree. And hey, take those sick days. I've been shitting on my mom a lot but she really was like the first mutual aid person that i know of like growing up because she would like make food for like the old people in our community and like go to their homes and help them and like clean their like places just like as a friend like all of that shit that is mutual yeah all the stuff our immigrant parents taught us about life.

They're like, oh, so-and-so's, you know, like, aunt died. I'm going to go bring some food over there. Like, you know, you're sort of raised in a thing where, at least, like, you know, culturally, if there's food is such a love language that that's just, like, the first instinct. It's like, I don't even have words. I can make food. I can bring that. Or, like, child care.

Like, people, like, caring for each other's kids when stuff happens or, you know, that sort of stuff. I wish that was just like. I don't think anyone got the impression that your mother was a monster. I don't think that you would turn out as such a good person if your parents weren't actually upstanding people. So I didn't. I don't want you to think and I don't want the listeners to think that somehow. Can that be the clip from the episode? Yeah.

That the Republicans take that I'm such a good person. That does not take. Yeah, all of those. They'll mash them all into one Omni take. But yeah. Wow. It's like we help each other. That seems to be the solution. Yeah. I wish that was

so separate from like church culture too. Right. There's so much of like community is like outside of like gay culture to me is framed in like church culture too like a lot there's so much of like community is like outside of like gay culture to me is framed in like church you know sure and like i feel like this generation my generation is not not like church going but wants community and it's searching for that everywhere they find it online which is cool but that's not the same as in person yeah exactly and i think that's why the same as in person yeah exactly and i think that's why you start you're starting to see just like what that yearning for a community

is like how it's manifesting with like running clubs i feel like that's a huge thing that's happening more and more people are like i don't know like it's just it you don't have to be a good runner but like a bunch of people get together and i can just talk to a bunch of people over a shared interest and then afterwards people hang out and i'm, that's great. Or that's why Jay-Z joined his walking club. Cause Beyonce doesn't do interviews. Okay. She's working. So she cannot talk to him. He's lonely and he needs to go on his walking club. Let's take a little stroll. Yeah, no, it's not going to happen. It's not going happen Well Allison Reese Thank you so much for joining us today

On the Daily Zeitgeist Where do the people find you, follow you, support you, hear you Watch you perform, all that kind of stuff You can find me on most social media platforms At Alien Reese Alien as in outer space And then Reese as in the candy As an illegal alien

Not at all Because I feel like an alien sometimes I feel like I don't belong And then Reese is in the candy. As an illegal alien? Not at all. Oh, far. Because I feel like an alien sometimes. I feel like I don't belong. Do not come. Do not come. You can find me at Alien Reese. And I have a podcast, the NK Pod.

Me off the antidepressants. Do not come. Do not come. And then I perform at UCB regularly. I'm doing a new show with them called Ass Sketch, which is like Ass Cat, but with Sketch alumni. We have Sherry Cola

in a couple weeks here on Saturday, the 20... 21st? Yeah, 21st? Yeah. 21st. Okay. So yeah, come through to that live show. It'll be really fun.

Hopefully I'll get a Kabbalah sketch in there. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to come to that. Yeah, please come to that. If you want to murder me, I will be at the UCB show on Saturday, the 21st. Yo, that's real. I've had to stop posting where I get coffee because I'm like... Oh, I don't post anything except for shows because I don't mind you murdering me as long as you buy a ticket first.

You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. Interesting. Very. And I'm going to start doing this. Everything must be a show. And it'll make a fantastic crowd work reel that you can post to. Yeah.

Getting murdered. I don't know. Attempted murder. I don't know. You're like, I fought this fucker off. He had a hatchet. He thought I was slipping. Comedian destroys heckler with his own gun.

Yeah. With her gun. You're like, whoa. With Ray gun. Yay! Call an ambulance, but not for me. Bow. Okay.

Is there a tweet or a work of media, social or otherwise, that you're enjoying, Allison? There's this content creator on TikTok who is a very feminine man who's like, I am straight, honey. I am straight. Bow. Oh, I love. I love vagina. Bow. And it is just the funniest fucking thing on the planet.

And that's what I'm really into right now. Do you know the person's name i remember this guy i turned my phone off because it kept linking up to my garage band i oh okay okay you can you can send it i'll send it later it was so fun because they always have they're always responding to comments they're like i'm sorry are you straight and they're they're like yes i'm straight honey yes honey i am straight i love the titties where can they find you follow you or would you do you're gonna add to i need to i don't know why but i feel like your obsession with that is i don't know i feel like we're both probably having the same enthusiasm for these different things but do you guys know mudang what is that mudang is this baby hippo i don't know what country it's a

it's i don't know if this is like it's a it's a type of hippo a small hippo and it's it's the one that has like all of the memes about it oh yeah i'm like obsessed with and so like i started liking the tweets about mudang because people make their own fan art of of mudang because like they're all these like but the image of him getting sprayed with water and stuff go viral and like become react memes but people make their own fan art and i've been liking like all of them so like all of my twitter it's just mudang and mudang fan art and i'm obsessed with this hippo and i don't know where he is but i love him i was just looking at know your meme and uh mudang is a female pygmy hippo born at cow cow open zoo in thailand this july oh my god no actually oh yeah oh it's only july

because i feel like i've been seeing her pictures like everywhere oh my goodness i'm obsessed with i'm obsessed with her i'm also like it's i don't know what it is about online hippos but like the cincinnati zoo has fritz and fiona and another and i'm like constantly keeping up with them i'm like constantly like quote tweeting this zoo i wish i were there do you think it's because like the transition to adult full-grown hippo you're like i fucking with that but like the baby is just like more accessible and can't kill you like a full-grown adult hippo could maybe i yeah definitely like the lack of being able to kill me is something that i am enjoying but then also i don't know just hippos look so cute and i'm like what do they feel i know dolphins feel like velvet like they feel really soft i'm like what do what do

hippos feel what do hip and also like there's i feel like all animals are puppies. Every animal, you give it a toy, it's going to play with it. And this is an especially puppy-like animal when you see it interact with it. And they just look so cute. It's so cute. The amount of folds is impossible. It looks like an accordion or something. I know. And it's like, I will never have the impact on the world that Mudang has.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. You never know. You never know. You never know. I could do it, but in an evil way. Yeah. If you murder me on stage. Yeah, you never know. You never know.

Saturday, September 21st, Miles of Grey is going to murder me on stage. Come through. Come through. Come through. Come through. Come through. Come through. Come through.

Come through. Come through. Come through. Go on. Altering the course of UCB's history forever. We'll have an onstage pistol duel. Amy Poehler will never take the Emmys with that light in her eyes again. No. And I'm sorry to the four. You built a great space for comedy, but we're burning it down.

And murder. But also, I gave you a lot of money for those classes. And I gotta get something back. Also, fun fact, in Thai, mu dang literally translates to bouncing pork. Oh, that's why I kept saying bouncing pork. Oh my god, I kept saying bouncing pork and I thought the people were being mean. No, no, no. I didn't know that that's actually her name. And it's also a and I thought the people were being mean. No, no, no. That's actually,

and it's also a dish, the name of a soup dish. Uh, where do the people find you follow you? And obviously aside from the mood, dang meme, is there anything aside from the mood? Dang means,

but tell us the other literally only that that's all I'm watching. Okay. That's all I care about. Don't send me anything other than mood. Dang. Okay. If you want to book me, send me mood.

Dang. Uh, okay. Um, that's on my writer. That's on my writer. My writer. Three Mudangs.

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haven't really looked at my Twitter recently. I've just been playing that Star Wars game that I mentioned the other day. Look, it's not that bad. I really like it. Star Wars Outlaws. Get into it. You have a Mudang-like animal sidekick that you use to distract stormtroopers with its cuteness. So, you know, something to think about,

Pallavi. Hop in. I'm going to stick with Mudang, okay? Well, I'm going to come over with my bros and a plate. I'm one of these impersonators. I will not have any Mudang usurpers put in front of me.

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