The Daily Zeitgeist - Young MAGAs DGAF, Gas Station Sushi? 12.7.20

Episode Date: December 7, 2020

In episode 773, Jack and Miles are joined by Scam Goddess and comedian Laci Mosley to discuss young MAGA, Trump flipping on Georgia, the Fox Town Hall, five day old gas station sushi hallucinations, the Neilsen ratings, and more!FOOTNOTES: Young Republicans Stage Secret Gala, Ignoring Virus Concerns Trumpworld Declares War on ‘Fool’ Trumpist Lawyer Lin Wood GA Republicans Forced To Counter ‘Don’t Bother Voting’ Sentiment At Fox Town Hall Woman hallucinates for months after eating five-day-old gas station sushi ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Rules U.S. Streaming Chart, With Disney’s ‘The Mandalorian’ Breaking Through To The No. 3 Spot WATCH: Lone - Blue Moon Tree Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Okay, shout out to Charlie on the Discord for that Frank Ocean thinking about you. You know, no, no. I mean, I love that song. Oh, I was single when that album came out. I was crying to that shit. I was crying to that. I'm not joking. Because my room literally looked like a tornado came through also.

A tornado? That's impressive that you nailed that because Frank Ocean wouldn't even attempt to sing that song live. Like at the Grammys he sang it but didn't even try and go with the high notes. Really? Oh, I didn't miss that. Oh, man. I feel like I remember that where I was like

damn, he's really going to do it. And then he kind of backed off of it. Anyways, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the very faces on Mount Zyte Moore. She is the hilarious. She is the talented.

She is the legendary Lacey Mosley. What's popping? Wait, I want to see if I can do it. Oh, you're on mute. Oh, am I on mute? Damn. I'm getting recorded, but y'all can't hear me. I was saying, wait, can I do it?

Or do you not think so far ahead? It's higher than that, isn't it? Or do you not think so far ahead? Wow, there it is. Yes, I can still do it. Ever. Ooh. It's that ooh

that you gotta that's the one that's where the stank is. You gotta hit on the oohs and the oohs. You put your own stamp on that. That is that is a Lacey Mosley

interpretation. You know, she's finding the gaps in the melody. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. That's how it works. That's how you make it your own. Beauty. i i i realized i was a soprano very late in life uh oh god i can hate when i hear that i'm saying all those lost years

yeah i could have been howling at the girls yeah no because i um i've always sang alto. I don't know. I just thought, is this racism? Why is my whole life rooted in racism? I just thought because I was black, I was supposed to sing alto.

That's where all the black people were. That's where the fun was in the choir. That's when you got woke. You said it was when you were criticizing that little girl's name when you're helping your cousin grade papers, but it was when you said, wait, am I a soprano?

And you were like, what the fuck? I wasn't even the one who got me woke. It was a wonderful white man who we were doing Sweeney Todd, and if you know Sweeney Todd,

you know the top line of Sweeney Todd, the opening number is like a B-flat. It's really, really high. And he was like, okay, girls, who's gonna sing that? And we was all like, no, we out-toes. And he was like, okay, girls, who's going to sing that?

And we was all like, no, we out-toes. And he was like, well, you should come to the piano. And I was like, okay. And he just started playing the scales higher and higher and higher. And I can sing Loving You by Minnie Riperton. It's like my sex song that I bring out at karaoke parties. Wow. So I had to learn that I was like, oh, I can shriek very high shout out to maya rudolph's mom

yes minnie ripperton i didn't realize i think like maya rudolph i remember she did this like japanese character on snl that was really good and it was fucking me up i was like what was going on i think her stepmother is like japanese too she's got a she's been she's she's seen it all and heard it all maya rudolph is one of them people miles you might be too when i was like in 2039 nobody will have a race anymore that's right exactly yeah all stock photos are just me or maya rudolph of generic humor. Oh, shit. Yeah, I thought that was going to happen within the next decade

for some reason. I was just told. Takes a little bit of time. Takes a little bit of time. I was promised pan-racial world when I lived in Kentucky. I was promised a post-racial world in 2009. In January of 2009.

The 90s. I was like, yeah, now that's where it's headed. We're racism. It's all going to be over. Just you wait. By the time I'm an adult. Yeah. Anyways. Lacey, what's new with you uh since we last spoke yesterday oh whenever i feel like i talked to y'all yeah i know goodness um what's new with me i'm learning boundaries i think that i'm trying to get y'all more light so i don't i'm in my closet for those of you who are just listening to me uh it's for some reason darker than normal today oh weird I couldn't tell clothes falling over the camera

I'm literally trying to move clothing that is falling onto the camera I feel like I'm playing hide and go seek right now with my kids. I'm like, how can I get more light on my face? Yeah. No, I'm learning about boundaries. I'm in my late 20s, and I realized that a lot of being in your 20s is just saying yes when you mean no.

And, ooh, boy, that's not good. And waking up a lot and being mad at myself because i'm like why don't we say yes to things when we meant no um and then also like i i'm on a job right now i can't talk about it but we're on hiatus and they i can i say this i think i can um basically they asked me to do some work uh when i'm not supposed to be working and then i did the work and felt like this why did i do this and then they called me and were like hey girl so sorry we asked you to do work we was wrong and i was like out of nowhere i didn't know i didn't complain i didn't say anything they just called me and i was like oh they knew okay right that's so true about just so many careers just learning

to say no learning which emails to ignore uh very very important for uh your own health well it's like yeah because like those 20s are your 20s are weird because like you seemingly feel like an adult but that's just because you don't go to school anymore but you still have a lot of those like childish patterns of people pleasing that are inbuilt from when you're a child and people like oh good good look at that good job thank you and like you were still sort of like governed by this like stimulation to please or create smiles or to not say no and i think that's when as you get older you start getting burnt out that's what your 20s are when you start being like why the fuck am i doing what the fuck is this and then your 30s or later on depends on where you are in your evolution you'll begin to be like hold on i actually have to begin this thing

of called advocating for myself versus not make other person unhappy or whatever the fuck it is that you know so and i think i'm learning too slowly but i'm getting there i'm getting there because i'm barely getting there now i work in a weird industry uh you guys know i'm an actor but i had to learn that people will kill me if i don't say anything right it's like oh i could die like i didn't realize no one cared to that extent i've been thrown in the pacific ocean i had to go to the hospital we've talked about this. So I'm like, oh, people will kill me. I have to abdicate or maybe

I may die. All right. So Lacey, in this shot, we want to get you in setting the land speed record in this vehicle. It's going to go Mach 17. You're rated for this on an aircraft that goes supersonic, right? Okay. Or hypersonic. Fantastic. You'll be high. Yes. Yeah, yeah, right? Okay, or hypersonic. Fantastic. You'll be alright.

Yes? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, sure, sure. It's going to look way better on camera. No problem. Look, we could put a stunt person there and put the CG mask on him, but you remember that part in Titanic when Rose and Jack are running from the wave and it looks all messy with the sloppy CG? You know, we don't want to do that. I do, I do. So if I do this,

you will like me? Yes, exactly. That's what's infuriating, because you look back and you're like, I just didn't want to displease someone else, too. Right. Who I will never interact with again in any meaningful capacity. So many just bad things I did to myself for a boss or, you a co-worker who uh yeah i still remember you know what veronica if you're out there i'm gonna find you i'm gonna say your last name but my last

four paychecks bounced and i believed your ass that the that there was some accountant shit i work god i work fucking damn near two months for free for this person. But you know what? That's just, that was like me being, I was being manipulated by someone being like, you know, but I just got divorced and like, we got to keep the store open. I'm like, all right. Not the divorce. Yeah, yeah. I got hit with that. That sounds like a YP and not an M.

I know, but you know what? It was, it was 2007 and you know, I just got out of college. I was like, what happened to the economy? So I'm working at a scammer t-shirt store where my paychecks are bouncing. That's right. But also, I love that you were like, hey, girl, the checks aren't going. The checks said no. The girls at the bank said the checks are not working.

Invalid. And she was like, I just got a divorce and i was going through a breakup too at the time so i was like i get it you know we all just trying to get on our feet right now what they gotta do with the check i don't know you know that's where i got that's the your 20s you know you forget to advocate for yourself and suddenly you're like uh-huh what you're saying is more important than my material existence and survival all right lacy we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners just a couple of things we're talking about uh we're gonna talk about that young republicans of new york ball that happened at the end of last week uh we're

gonna talk about where trump world is at with their degrees of acceptance, their stages of acceptance. We're going to talk about that Foxtown Hall. We're going to talk about five-day-old gas station sushi. We're going to talk about plenty of stuff. The Queen's Gambit, the TV ratings. You guys watch any of the Chicago shows? Like the Chicago Fire? That shit is so popular all over the

yeah is it the new csi or something yeah it's basically the new csi but like what what do we we are fascinated with chicago for some reason uh it's funny how i just sort of went from an acceptance of like csi is that show or whatever and then I'm like in the blink of an eye it's Chicago whatever Chicago ice cream store yes I do have you seen Chicago ice cream store that shit is dope yeah it's good

a lot of murders for an ice cream store yeah to be honest if you've ever been to a Chicago ice cream shop I'm told it's very realistic. All right, Lacey, what is something from your search history? Something from my search history. I am actually going to look at the things that I prepared.

Oh, okay. So search history. Black wellness holiday guide. What's in there? So my cousin teaches yoga and he's black, which like there's very few black yoga instructors. So shout out to black Matt yoga. But he got me on this whole thing of like, I need to find small businesses to send my Christmas gifts from. And I would prefer them to be

black-owned. So now I'm on a full hunt to find black-owned businesses that I can send gifts from. Oh, that's dope. Nice. How's the hunt going? And do you have, without giving anything away, have you had success? What are we looking at for christmas gifts we're finding some cute places we're finding some candles we're finding some soaps the issue is is that amazon

gets things to the girls in two days like that's right you know jeff bezos murdering ass is gonna have your gifts on time so i'm like okay i think like with smaller businesses especially during a pandemic especially when the usps has you know been so severely damaged by the underfunding i'm like okay how far ahead do i need to order right now so that they arrive yeah so that's where i'm at and i'm like oh panic because i need to order like 40 gifts now so um yeah that's the only issue but it's still going good but i I'm trying to buy small. I hope people are buying small this year, especially because, god damn, this is a hard year for small businesses. Oh, yeah.

I think the thing with Amazon, too, is half the time, if you just figure out what the product is, just go to the website of the manufacturer, and chances are they're already having some kind of deal uh because they're getting undercut by amazon so if you want some just get it from the brand you know there's a way around it and you know what maybe you have to wait three days four days remember that remember the days we used to wait weeks for our delia's orders to arrive come on delia come on now why did why did cody ziglar I know y'all know him, he tweeted me a couple days ago and was like, I just remembered going through my emails, at least he had three different

Facebook accounts. And I did with three different photos. I still do. And I think I might have four now. But the reason was because I was shopping at Toby and Delia's and they'd be like, 50% off if you give us your Facebook, girl. So I put on my ski mask and was's, and they'd be like, 50% off if you give us your Facebook, girl. Right.

Right. So I put on my ski mask and was like, here's my new Facebook. Lace. Lace. This is lace. You meant lace. This is lace. That was completely different.

I feel like based on the, as I keep reminding our listeners, I'm watching The Crown crown i'm four five six episodes in uh and i think the way that we're gonna get out of this amazon thing is a amazon truck needs to hit and kill somebody uh who the president or jeff bezos cares about because that's that's the only way London got out of their deadly fog was because some pretty young girl who worked for Winston Churchill, spoiler alert, got.

And you know that was made up, right? Yeah, yeah. That was one of the few things that was made up. Because that episode was so boring, they had to make something up. Yo, that's the episode that almost made me give up on the show. Yeah. Yeah.

They do a lot of stuff to make Winston Churchill and the conservatives seem okay. I'm not totally feeling that. The politics of the crown. I am back on board for watching it, but the politics are bad. What is something you think is underrated underrated watermelon sugar by harry styles okay it should have been a bigger watermelon sugar high that song has uh gotten me through many low points in my life i don't know why. I saw that tweet.

You shouldn't play Water, Mill and Sugar High and cry. You shouldn't do that and sob. Is that one of those things like your grandkids be like,

why is she crying? Why is Granny crying to this song? Just sitting in a rocking chair with the, hey, put a blanket on her. She's cold. And put on her song.

Just one tear comes down. Is she okay? If you put on, guys, after you're listening to this podcast, if you turn on Watermelon Sugar High, and then think about someone crying to that song, you understand why this is so funny. Yeah, I was going to say, that's not the vibe I got from that song. No, not at all.

But I get it. Sometimes we have songs that just hit in the weirdest ways. You're like, I don't know why, man. This C&C Music Factory song has got me in my feelings. I was crying and dancing and then crying and then laughing at myself for crying. I don't know why. I just love that song. I love Harry Styles.

I think he's beautiful. Yeah. And more people should love that song. I love Harry Styles. I think he's beautiful. Yeah. And more people should love that song. I think I feel bad for artists in every capacity this year because I got lucky enough that right before the pandemic, the first movie I was ever in came into theaters. And if you want to see it, it's called The Wedding Year. I think it's on Amazon and other places. But I got to watch it in the theater with my mother. And like that was such a huge moment for me.

And we were late. Cause I was on set for another show and they fucking ruined my life. But I still got to see the end and everyone came up to me at the end and was like, Oh, you were so great. And blah, blah,

blah. And like I, that moment that was huge. And I, I did Conan for the first time. I did a late night show for the first time during the pandemic. And it was completely different. I had to do it in my fucking car.

I fell asleep because I was so tired from work that I almost missed it. It changed how I got to experience it and the life moment. And so I really feel for artists this year because it's like, oh, you have you had all these great songs that were supposed to be the song of the summer or like the most poppin thing. Harry Styles, like you didn't get to have that this year because there was no song of the summer in the summer we was thought we was about to have the Civil War so like we wasn't blasting watermelon sugar we was definitely not a white

person talking about watermelon anything right now read the room Styles this ain't it right now we'll get to this one in November. But yeah, for sure. So I think it's underrated because of that. What?

I don't even... The lyrics are just so easy. You don't even have to really think much about it. I think that's why it's powerful. It can be anything you needed. You taste like strawberries on a summer evening. And it sounds just like a song. Okay. I want your berries. Listen, we can do this back and forth jack interrupt us stop us harry styles as we've mentioned on the show is

one of those people who in person uh is like just super super naturally like charming and kind and uh it's it's annoying uh lacy what is something that you think is overrated overrated what's something that's overrated independence okay okay as someone who lives alone in a pandemic and is fully fully like i'm one of those people like i will suffer in silence i will work, very hard and not say anything. And recently, I have had to start calling people and being like, hey, I need things. And it felt weird and bad. But then they helped me. And my life was easier from getting the help.

So I was like, oh, this whole time i thought this pride of independence and self-made and you know like we always talk about like i hate bootstraps like yeah grinding uh team no sleep we always talk about team no sleep y'all need to go to bed y'all need to go to bed go to bed Team poisoned by capitalism. What the fuck, bro? You just literally turned yourself into an automaton for nothing? Okay. Team, my organs don't work anymore because I'm working so hard. Oh, you wish you had this work ethic and these medical bills.

Yeah, but it's like, how long do you allow yourself to believe that i got to a point uh very recently where i was like oh shit if i just ask for help my life gets easier and that's okay instead of like i have the pride of suffering in silence um i like fully have fibroids and i've talked about that publicly uh which i only did because i was sleeping so much that I thought people were going to think I was an addict at a certain point because I was I have a special chair on set. I sleep a lot. And then I started to realize, like, oh, people don't need to sleep this much because I'm bleeding to death. Oh, y'all don't need to nap all the time. Right.

Y'all not working so y'all don't need to nap all the time right y'all not working so hard that you can't live so um i am gonna get surgery it's all happening but it was just it was a great moment of like oh i need help and people can help me and want to and i'm going to let them yeah i mean god it goes back to everything you know like we have these inbuilt habits from whenever you know that we learn of like you know sometimes we go by our parents example i look at my parents they fucking had their heads down and they did whatever the fuck they had to to make like just to earn to work or whatever and you hear like also culturally there's things like yo just just get on with it like this is what it is so you just got to get on with it and yeah there's a certain point where like sometimes that runs afoul of like what your

actual well-being is and sometimes it takes like for me it took like a moment where i asked for no help and then everything fell apart because i did not ask for any help and i thought i could manage everything for me to like begin to let my ego go or my weird false sense of pride and be like actually man that that that made everything fucking worse when i thought i could do everything by myself and not actually speaking up when i was in need or needed help or anything because of this weird you know like this idea of being vulnerable or whatever no man it's like that's this shit like yeah i also think i think you and i are also this everyone that were on this call right now.

This show are the kind of people if you ask them for asked us for help, we'd help you without thinking about it. We wouldn't judge someone for asking. But then we can't extend that same logic to ourselves and being like, fuck, bro. Like, I'm not I'm not going to inconvenience anybody. So, yeah, I think it's a valuable lesson. I can't bother anybody. Right. Yeah, you're absolutely right.

And I mean, I think about the black woman of it all too and that makes me think of stacy abrams like imagine girl you get your election stole you ain't governor and you still out here at magic city putting flyers between strippers booty cheeks to register to vote because you need everybody to vote like she working so hard that's not even her job yeah so yeah yeah but she built a movement you know with by reaching out to people and getting people's help like that is a big a big part of uh i don't know that's something that i like drastically pathologically underrated the importance of for the first like 35 years of my life yeah well and the other thing is too stacy abrams you know listened to the activists who have been who have made it their

life's work including her own but not just her like this has been an ongoing thing in georgia for decades of trying to be like nah man we just need to get organized a little bit and we can you know swing our weight around a little bit more and that's just like such a larger lesson that we're obviously watching the establishment not learn which is like hi you see y'all are too high up in the sky to know what's happening on the ground and then you act confused when the results on the ground aren't what they are up in sky world right they're like what does a banana cost? $10? What is that from? Because I keep seeing that pop up and that's like, is that from Arrested Development? It is.

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The young magas. Oh, man. So at the end of last week, had the young republicans of new york ball uh where photographs from the inside showed a bunch of people looking like they're at a formal dance in high school uh with not a not a mask in sight oh no no yeah the veneers were popping the lack of blending makeup was popping lack of beauty blenders was apparent um it was all there and yeah you're having a literal fucking ball in the middle of as of now the worst wave of the pandemic as we've ever experienced and all the talk out of this like the new york times was writing about this

um event prior to it happening being like we're hearing about this like it seems completely ridiculous given the state of the city and the country and the one of the dudes who was organizing it this 26 year old mario wax or some gavin wax or something like that he's just like no it's all gonna be fine like don't worry everything's on the up and up uh he said specifically uh as it stands now we are legally within our right to hold this gala following all the necessary precautions other events have gone on indoors ours is only receiving attention because we are a young republican club and they're saying like no it's because you're out here obviously uh thwarting all of the guidance from experts and you're considering you're also creating another event of super another super

spreader event that could also harm the staff at whatever place you did this they did it in new jersey it turns out and the funny thing was for sarah palin was supposed to be like the main speaker even sarah palin had the wherewithal to be like yeah you know what this is a little too much for me right now uh you know good luck though but i can't i'm you know you're gonna have to do this one on your own uh but worry not because they got matt gates to come through and replace sarah palin as a speaker and like all the photos of him he looks like a he looks like a guy who like Trump surely needs like the sort of, um,

you know, uh, adoration and like positive vibrations of like onlookers to like, you know, power his body. So it was, yeah. Die to own the libs or,

uh, more likely kill your loved ones to own the libs. It's very, it's very fascist. Like the whole, like, you know, more likely kill your loved ones to own the libs. Yeah, seriously. It's very fascist, like the whole like, you know, because these are the young Republicans and they don't give a fuck about killing the elderly

because they've outrun their usefulness. So it's time to just step aside, die so that we can replace you. It's all right. Yeah, and unlike even like the logic we saw in the queen even with christy noam losing her grandmother i mean we don't know if it was covid although everybody else in that nursing home died of covid um that that would maybe change something but yeah you know i don't know like these people have their eye on a bigger prize which is just like

they could i'm sure all these young republicans are like i'm gonna be matt gates one day i'm gonna be the next sydney powell when i go to law school and completely throw my degree away your goal is matt gates yo there is you know there's some fucked up little you know teenage republican with a vision board like that where it's like laura and chrome and matt gates and shit candace i know i know it they've cut it out of every magazine. I'm going to go to Prager University. Like, the bar is on the floor. But listen, they definitely have him on some vision boards, because I have Cardi B on a vision board. And that's working for me.

Everyone's got their own. Yeah, I don't know. So we'll see. It's really just alarming, though, too, is like you're saying, Jack. Like, it's so much of the energy is just to antagonize people. It's really I mean, I get I'm sure on a certain level, too. They're totally in denial that there's a pandemic and also have the need to socialize. They just don't have the ability to sort of sacrifice anything, obviously, like most conservatives.

But the other thing is a lot of the tweets and stuff coming out of there was all this shit like, oh, send Governor Cuomo because it was like a dude right next to Matt Gaetz, like embracing him and stuff like that. It's just, you know. I think there's just too much dependency in the Republican Party right now on hatred. I mean, it shows down to their merch. Like, why is your merch like Trump 2020? Fuck your feelings. Why? Why can't you just like the person you want to vote for for president?

Why do you also have to be like, and I hope you're sad. So what is the dependence on that? Because they are the most fragile human beings in the history of the world. So they need to project that and externalize that in some way. And also being so ageist really pisses me off like you're like oh old people time for them to die and it's like you know one day the goal of life is to keep living and become old so you will be old one day and we need to the whole reason that we even do funerals is for us because it's like when somebody dead like they're not at

the funeral kicking in and like oh the girls brought them out they got the casket cute they gave me a little dance and shimmy like they're not there we do that for us because we want to feel like when we fucking croak someone's gonna do the dance for us that's the whole point basically is we're all doing that and so it's like that makes sense to you but it doesn't make sense to you to care for older people because one day you may need someone to wipe your ass like that's the whole same with climate change there's no ability to actually look at the larger picture it's like so immediate it's like well i'm good right now and i'm 26 right now so right and I won't even lie.

Sometimes with climate change, I'll be like, I'll probably be dead. So, you know, if the girls burn up. I don't think there's a damn person alive right now who's like, dear God, please let me die before I have to. I'm sorry, but I'll do what I can. But what the fuck is this going to look like? That's a stress that's weighing on everybody.

I'm going to use a paper straw. I'm going gonna save a turtle but you know when the girls burn up from the fossil fuels you know i think i hope i'll be dead but it's almost like this pandemic is so perfectly designed to take advantage of every way that america is corrupt because america in particular like among all cultures throughout history and across the globe, just has no value for the elderly. In other cultures, you live with your grandparents. You really pay attention and value them. You value their wisdom.

They go out on top half the time in the family structure. Yeah. value they go out on top half the time and like yeah the structure yeah and in america it's like that scene in no country for old men like that i mean the title of no country for old men is just like the you go and this dude is just seen as like excess uh waste who's just like left in a house that's rotting with like you with garbage everywhere because he's no longer he can no longer do a job. That's how America is. And then it's

all also like capitalist usefulness to the death. It just speaks to the pathology of productivity culture, which is quite literally, it's like, oh, you're a worn out gasket in the engine so you're just being discarded and we'll toss a new one in yeah oh ring out let's get one

that's intact so yeah and i but again and that's what's sad because it just permeates through our entire culture like the fact that we can't respect people who are unable to work just has completely fucked our ability to look at anybody with empathy and be like oh they need help it's almost like can they work it's like almost the first because i remember like even you know uh like as a kid like hearing more like you know talking about unhoused people and someone would be like well they can work like they're working age that doesn't make sense they can work it's like i don't that's not the issue really here like it's not that there's a much more complex network of of ills societal ills that lead someone to that point

than like well their working age yeah yeah but then it's like because you're being worked so hard you start to have these weird jealousies for anyone having joy or things that you feel like they didn't deserve which is why we can't house people because it simply is that people in neighborhoods they're like oh don't build the unhoused housing projects near my place like you're gonna drive the property value down I work hard they're

poor like that's the reason in LA we can't house people it's cheaper to house people and we won't do it because of shit like that jamie loftus is often on this show you guys know her i do yes she was talking on twitter and i'm sure she's talked on the show about when they literally went under a bridge and moved boulders that some rich actor had contributed money to so that people couldn't live under the bridge and it's like you live in a home

and you're so mad about unhoused people that you was like i'm gonna pay hundreds of dollars for some rocks so they can't live down there what's wrong with you they've lost touch you've lost touch with your humanity at that point not my bridge not my bridge yesterday i saw an article yesterday that was literally like homeless mansions. They were like, the girls have running water and one of them has a tiki bar. More at 11. And I was like, why are you in their business? Why are you in their business?

Rather than like running more stories like mathematically, it's advantageous to house people and invest in them to solve the problem than whatever's happening now. News at 11. There's solutions that are being ignored. That should be this story all the time. No, there's solutions. They've worked it out. Money's been allocated. We have a problem with the NIMBYs and other wealthy developers who are just like, all of this is at odds with my greed.

And yeah. Anyway, that's where we're at. That is a persistent myth that you run into over and over again, that this person who is unhoused or who is begging is actually like making a lot of money like i remember even in college there was this dude who was like always you know begging in downtown georgetown and like people were like you know he's actually a millionaire it's just like this fucking it's it's but it's like an urban legend that like americans want to believe it just like always pops up in the in the national consciousness because it's just like they

they want to believe that like well yeah i don't actually have to pay them money because uh they're actually rich and it's a it's a scam yeah they want to feel better for being greedy right like they're like no no they're rich now there are a few scammers out there the girls there are a few girls who are throwing on a rag or two and getting the money but it's like that's not the overwhelming truth so right right um let's talk about uh where the trump administration is and what how they're uh making things difficult for uh the senate right now. Cause we got Trump world being like elections don't matter. They stole elections.

They'll steal this election. You're not gonna, your vote doesn't count in order to like, for no practical purpose, like for no strategic reason, cause he's not gonna like pull the election back. So it's just to make their former president feel better. And in exchange for making him feel better,

they are hurting their chances at the upcoming Senate race, which I'd love to see it. You really have to love to see it. This is the thing we'll always keep talking about, this Georgia nonsense, because it's infighting it's misinformation it's the part the party's poisoning itself too and everybody you know last week lynn wood and sydney powell got up there and they had to stop the steel thing and

hundreds of people showed up in georgia hundreds of people showed up to be like yeah what are you saying what okay so like in this whole thing like lynn wood and sydney powell basically like well brian kemp isn't gonna do the work and fuck the election over then we gotta withhold our votes in the center who's with me blah blah blah and they're like yeah so this sent this set off like legit alarm bells in like dc trump world like you know because there's i don't even know there's layers right there's like there's maga world and then within maga world there's trump world uh but it's still part of maga world but maga world isn't always trump world uh but in dc they were the war room account of like trump's war room posted on twitter basically being like yo uh lynn wood sydney these people are democrat plants basically so you have trump like

trying to consume this group of people who were lawyers who for a while trump was bigging up like as of two weeks ago or three weeks ago being like yeah man like retweet this lynn wood hot taker sydney powell's the goat um and so lynn wood has been texting things like so just to have an understanding of what the logic is it's demanding that that Brian Kemp call a special session of the legislature and Loeffler and Perdue should make the same demand because the election was a fraud and therefore they can get the votes going to the right candidate. And this is also and like Wood has doubled down on this by saying, look, dude, the president himself told me I was doing a good job. So what the fuck do you want me to do uh so the it's the circular firing squad is definitely like forming and then uh at the end of last week laura ingram hosted a town hall to help bolster leffler and purdue

and a lot of it just turned into her brian kemp and i think like doug collins just begging these people to believe that elections work so it wasn't even like it started to backfire like David and they're all doing the same logic because it's they're trying to have their stop the steal cake while also simultaneously being like come on y'all let's believe in the voting systems that work even though we're stopping the steal and it's yeah stop the steal but also like the electoral college be working out but yeah it was but also that's fucked up it was stolen and there's fraud but y'all gotta vote too don't worry about it this one won't be stolen and everyone's

has like the aversion of this weird double speak like david purdue who's running uh was saying against ossoff saying you know quote president trump's very frustrated and i'm very frustrated and we're gonna do everything we possibly can to make sure whenever anomalies are uncovered in november don't happen in january and then at the end he was just sort of like being like uh setting a line of like if in fact the result is not in his favor so it's like well hold on was it stolen or the result will in fact if there's it's possible that the results could in fact not be in his favor right it's so interesting oh go ahead no no that's it i was just i was just doing my like you're doing so much with your hands i was like you hit me with the shoulders what

what's next um it's so interesting to see people at war with their own strategies. A lot of times we know that the Republicans have coerced this, you know, kind of smaller demographic in their base, basically fanning the fires of whatever nonsense they're on, being like, yeah, Q, we like that nigga. He cool. Come vote for us. They'll reach in and they'll be like yeah racism we love it and so oh no but we really do we really love that though no that's facts that's facts that's right no cap so to see them at odds because on one hand they're like hey hey girls we know y'all think the election was stolen and we agree because we need y'all and then on the other hand they're like but

also we do need y'all to actually vote because elections are real and they actually like are real but how do you you can't do two conflicting narratives because one narrative says elections are fake donald trump was stolen from so why should we vote why should we believe in the system and they need that they need to stir that up to keep this base but then then on the other hand, they're like, actually, we do need you guys to come out and vote in January. Right. It's I mean, infighting is healthy for a part like the Democrats are about to see a bunch of infighting with, you know, the progressive wing trying to push for, you know, ideals that are going to that are in line with the ideals of the party and that are going to help people. But this infighting is just so funny

because the only reason for insisting that the election was stolen is to not hurt the president's feelings. That's all they got. Yeah, because if they don't do that right, not hurt the president's feelings. Like that's all they got. But yeah, because if they don't do that, right, it's like how long it's, they're just swinging from vine to vine.

Right. And they're like waiting to grab the next one, but they're still hanging onto the Trump one because if they let go now, they have no support. So, and the only way to curry that support is by going along with this narrative that the elections are illegitimate but then i don't know so over the weekend i mean as we record this we know trump is going to be visiting georgia so i don't know what he's going to be saying there

if and even what he will say you know what i mean he's gonna be like hey sap the steel but hey real talk don't give the keys away to the senate but you don't give a fuck dude you're about to leave anyway and you hate this party i don't know like i don't even know what his angle is here uh that vine to vine thing is important miles because i also think that a lot of these republicans who are representatives of state um and you know work in politics also realize that donald trump is an insane narcissist who doesn't give a fuck about the Republican Party and I think they think, like, if we don't keep him happy, he may just destroy us. Like,

he's already starting to do it. He's turned on Fox. He's turned on Brian Kemp. He's turned on people, you know, so many people that he's hired and praised or whatever. So I think that there's also a fear that, like, Donald Trump will take the party down if we do not keep his ego afloat. Yeah. And I mean, he's already taking the He's fucking the whole country up, man. that like Donald Trump will take the party down if we do not keep his ego afloat.

Yeah. And I mean, he's already taking the party down. He's fucking the whole country up, man. I mean, it's going to be interesting to look at historical accounts like once we're able to dig in, maybe it's only going to be a couple of years since they're so incompetent as an administration. But just to see like what the internal communication

is like right now because you almost get the sense that he is fucking up the pandemic relief efforts right now almost out of spite and like it'll be interesting to see if he actually says anything like that like well if they wanted the relief and you know uh help with the pandemic they should have given me the election they should have voted for the for the good guy um but the smart thing is you know you fucking skull fuck the economy on the way out what was you bring in a democratic administration and then you have something to run on in the next election yeah when everyone's like memory fades or you know the republicans memory phase and like look what look, what was Joe Biden done for anyone?

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who's apparently some kind of licensed health provider, as the name would suggest. Yeah, Chubby Emo, of course. I mean, the most trusted name in medicine, Chubby Emo. In the takeout, they were sort of pointing to all this. And it was also in the Daily Mirror, but also NPR

has done stories about the existence of tapeworms that are in fish. So we will keep talking about the story. And I will use that as enough justification just to bring this up because this doesn't seem too far-fetched. On his channel, there was about a woman named JC who ate sushi that was bought from a convenience store slash gas station slash fucking not sushi. Bought from a convenience store slash gas station slash fucking not sushi. Right. And ate that shit five days after purchase while it was in the refrigerator.

Okay? And the tale begins like this as they write it in the takeout. Then the symptoms began. Everything started with insomnia and the woman's sleep issues escalated into anxiety and confusion, plus an elevated heart rate that felt as if it were beating out of her neck. That's not even where your heart's supposed to be. Yeah, my neck heart. And next came the stomach cramps. She'd feel her stomach jiggle before she went to the bathroom. Like, move.

Like a fucking Furby or some shit. As time went by, JC started suffering from malnutrition and continence hallucinations of bugs crawling up the walls and underneath her skin and bouts of anxiety. And they were like, what is going on? Didn't quite put it together. Went to the doctor and they did some tests. They're like, oh, you got a motherfucking parasite, ma. This is a tapeworm to the fullest. fucking parasite ma this is a tapeworm to the fullest uh and apparently this specific strain uh i just want to you know for all for tapeworm gang out there is uh di philobothrium latum one of the largest which can grow up to nine meters long okay oh my god uh oh my god they gave her

nine meters is that like 27 feet basic i mean, the rough version is like three and a couple inches. Yes. Well, no, no. Because someone who's like two meters tall is like 6'7", I think, 6'6". So it's like three feet and a couple inches. So, yeah. Jesus. For our American brains, let's just call that 27, 30 feet, basically.

And so when they gave her the anti-worm medication, it all went away and suddenly was able to make a full recovery. But what about the tapeworm? Did that make a full recovery? Where is that? I don't know. I don't know. Where is she? I don't want no damn medicine.

If I got an animal inside me, y'all better cut me open and take that out. Well, you'd want it surgically removed rather than being like yo if you drink this it'll just melt in there I don't want him in there no more I don't want him swimming around the fact that her stomach was jiggling I'm sure it wasn't a situation where the tapeworm

was in there like ding ding ding ding ding the tapeworm was in there hitting him with the shoulders tapeworm hungy tapeworm hungy hello tapeworm was in there hitting him with the shoulders. Tapeworm Hungy. Tapeworm Hungy. Hello. Tapeworm was in there hitting him with the whoa.

Yeah. I've caught fish before. I've gone deep sea fishing, caught fish, and when we're cleaning the fish, there's just worms all over the meat. I've also cleaned fish, cut their heads off and caught fish out the ocean, so I know what you're talking about. Also, I feel like this woman, this is a woman, right? Yeah. A lot of times women have pretty high thresholds for pain.

We have pain every month. And some of us, in my case, I have fibroids. I have pain every month um like and some of us in my case i have fibroids i have pain like it's like three weeks where my body be like oh we having pain uh right i'm like there's too much pain there's too much pain and i have i remember once i was in spanish class uh as a kid and i passed out from period pain and in spanish, you could only talk in Spanish. So I had to be like, say yo, Corey. Un ambulancia, por favor. Oh, shit.

Right. I got dolor de reproductive system right now. Please, please, sir. Ayúdame. Ayúd sir. Ayúdame. Ayúdame. Ayúdame, por favor. It's really some. The fact that she let it get that far

where the tapeworm was doing the dougie in her stomach and the shit was moving around, that's a testament to women just being like, this is fine, pain. Right. It's like, oh, are those bugs crawling around my skin? Damn, my period is really going off this month. It's like, this is fine. Pain. Right. Right. Oh, are those bugs crawling under my skin? Damn, my period is really going off this month. It's like, what?

No. JC, that's no. Also, your stomach is doing the wave. I don't know what's going on. I think your stomach is doing the shmoney dance. Like you need. It ain't supposed to be hitting them with the shoulders like this. You need to go to the hospital.

Yeah, but it's crazy that a pill and medicine, modern medicine, just fixed it. But it's also wonderful. Shout out to modern medicine. I don't trust it, but every once in a while they get something right. every once in a while they get something right. Look, I've said this before, but I'm excited that, you know, Moderna and other people have coronavirus vaccines coming out.

I'm excited for us to be able to hopefully be able to take those. But as a black person who knows about the Tuskegee experiments and everything that y'all have done to niggas with medicine, I need y'all to take it first. Like, I'm a watch. Like, put it on TikTok. Put it on YouTube. Let me look at you. And then let me see you three weeks later.

And if you're still alive, then I'm going to take it. Yeah, just be like, not just, okay, all right, it's good. Well, you know, I think that's like the awful thing that's going on, though, too, in this country. Like, there's plenty of historical data to be like i mean if something did happen you couldn't say that there wasn't anything in history that could have indicated something like that but at the same time it's like is this the way something like that would go down i just know we need we need to be safe right we do it's weird and i i do want to say that too because i've i've learned that if i want to know if i want to put my pulse on the country,

I don't do it on Twitter because I've created a network and a bubble of intelligent people that I follow who kind of have similar dispositions as me and that is not indicative of the country. I go on Facebook. I get in group chats. I talk to my aunties and my aunties

and I'm like, what are the girls doing? Like, what are y'all doing? I told y'all, I went to my aunties and my aunties. And I'm like, what what are the girls doing? Like, what are y'all doing? I told you I went home and there was a Bloomberg sign in Milan and I was like, what is happening? So I had to learn from and I my parents told me Joe Biden was going to win when he had stopped campaigning. And we truly thought it was burning Elizabeth. And I came home and my parents were like, no, Joe Biden's going to win. And I was like, what are you talking about? And they they were like we don't trust the girls to vote so liberal so we have to go with the old white establishment and i was like oh is that what we're doing and they were like yeah this is what we're doing and they were right so it's like i i talked to them about the vaccine and i'm like are you guys going to take this do you trust it and they're like no we don't

trust that and i'm like oh okay like it's so i think that we should all you know be more vigilant of that and know that there are a lot of people who are very scared to take a vaccine that they feel like is coming from donald trump he's putting too much of himself on it and he's done press conferences where he's like i gave them the vaccine and i'm like you didn't give nobody nothing you wasn't in no labs you ain't ever even held the beaker donald. This ain't you. Right. Yeah, I think that's why that's so important.

I think every all the health professionals like they have to nail the messaging on this to get people to understand. Like, yeah, there's nothing nefarious going on here. But understandably, coming in, coming off a presidency in a year that's been so chaotic and filled with I don't know what is up. They're telling me down is up now. Even though I know that to not be true. That already puts people in like a already kind of like hmm. Like let me just be a slap. I'm just hezy hezy

right now. Like a lack of trust. But the fact that we just talked about a woman who had a tapeworm doing the two step in her stomach and then took pills and then the worm went away. That's how modern medicine works. And so I think that's how the vaccine will work. But we just have to get people to that place.

Yeah, that's why I shout out to all the presidents who are like, we will get it on camera, on live. You'll see me shoot up the vaccine just to let y'all know how safe it is. But I wonder if they really need to start like recruiting people from like all the different like cultural subsets that people look up to like you know like is jeezy gonna take the vaccine is joe the plumber gonna take the vaccine exactly right oh jeff dunham jeff dunham and the puppets get a vaccine too like who are they going all in on this? Or are we going to start seeing fractures there too? Is Ken Bone going to take the vaccine on live?

Ken Bone, yeah, he's doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, Ken Bone, he signed up. He signed up. We got him committed. Yeah, no, he's doing a versus. We got the commitment. But it's just the vaccine.

A Ken Bone versus Joe the plumber. I need that versus i need that that's like um i think the way people will be looking like that is when you accidentally hit one of those alerts when someone goes live and you're like oh shit i didn't go i don't mean to go x out i hate doing that especially when you're the only person in the live i've accidentally hit a live and was the only person in that bitch and i was like no no no especially if it's like someone that you're kind of like like is like your friend and then you're the only one there like hey what up and then you're like you left and you're like oh all right well i'm gonna just say i was driving that's a good excuse damn miles you was that was was quick. Oh, yeah, yeah, don't worry.

I got this shit on the ready constantly. Let's talk real quick about the Nielsen ratings. Nielsen uses their patented old-timey technology of just calling people and asking them what they're watching and to keep track of it to figure out what Americans are watching. It's not a perfect science science but it's pretty good compared to what we have otherwise like you know what i tell you guys a weird fact what's that so i know this because i have a lot of friends who are mormon um because i'm from dallas texas that nielsen people target Mormon families for ratings

because they know that statistically Mormons have more children. Like they have more people in the home than the average family. So a lot of my Mormon friends were Nielsen families who like at that time had the setup, like the little box or whatever that watched what they were watching. And I was like, oh, this is fascinating. But yeah. That's so interesting. I'm liking that.

So we had talked before about how Queen's Gambit was the Queen's Gambit from Netflix had just like broken into the top 10. Well, for the past couple of weeks, it has been the number one series like across all streaming platforms. Yes. My influence.

I think people found out that Lacey was into it. Lacey's behind scenes on everything. She's behind Super Nintendo World and Japanese Universal Studios, I heard too. Is that open? They started showing the photos of it.

It's going to be dope. Anyone who remembers Nintendo, you're like, oh, wow. heard too so is that open surprised no but they they started showing the photos of it and it looks it's gonna be dope anyone who remembers nintendo you're like oh wow okay yeah everybody wanted to like be mario like be able to just like yeah fuck around i love shooting plates i love shooting plates and ducks oh yeah oh hell yeah oh just holding the duck hunt gun right up against the tv screen yeah yeah but this one they let you shoot the dog oh shit they let you shoot the dog that well when it laughs at you that would be the ultimate um but anyways queen's gambit uh just kind of in thinking more about why it's becoming such a phenomenon because it only has seven episodes

like when you look at all the other shows that are in the top ten they're like NCIS shows and like Chicago whatever shows that have like hundreds of episodes or at least dozens the Mandalorian is the other one that doesn't have dozens of episodes it only has 10

that is in the top 10 but it also has the entire Star Wars canon behind it whereas the Queen's Gambit is a limited run seven episode series about chess it's like you know that's way that's how you know Netflix has like the good data because they were like, yeah, so this series about chess is going to be, going to sweep the globe. But the thing that I was wondering is like, when you sit back and like look at the overall politics,

like we've talked about the addiction stuff, but the bigger kind of overall message is it's kind of pro like russian communism during the cold war or like sort of revisionist in that and like sort of the overall rejection of capitalism because the entire show is based around the failed social safety net of america because her origin story is being held in an orphanage that drugs her and gets her addicted to drugs and then makes her quit cold turkey uh and expects religion to work instead and then there's just like it goes in an interesting direction towards the end where like

the state department accompanies her to russia and there there's like a jesus group that like wants her to go and like teach the uh commies like the power of christ and she's like no fuck you uh and she's like no fuck you it goes like in a really interesting direction and then like ultimately like she decides to she like gets out of a car with like a cia dude who's basically accompanying her everywhere and just like decides to stay in russia and like chill with the people in russia uh and yeah i don't know it's like i feel like socialism is something that like is more and more something that americans are interested in and that we're going to be like waking up to the fact that we have been, you know,

have been misled when it comes to the, the modern history of socialism. We've been deep throating our own bootstraps. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And even chess, like I grew up,

my father taught me how to play chess. I don't really remember now, but as a child, I would play with him a lot. And he would always be, like, bet me. He'd be like, oh, if you lose, like, you have to clean my golf clubs. And, like, I think that nigga was scamming me because I always lost. And I always had to clean his golf clubs. Like, I remember vividly, like, scrubbing golf, like, dirt and grass off of golf clubs as a child. Because I lost a bet.

But chess in itself is war. Right. which is uh mental challenges and uh confrontations that are of the mind and of people rather than killing people and and you know using casualties to decide if you've won something which is capitalism like going to physical war is capitalism it's like we're just gonna kill more people than you do and then we gonna win like that you know what i mean versus like what's actually better for society is that if we don't agree we have to convince a bunch of people to agree with us so that we win you know and that's what we should be moving towards so i do think that they did an excellent job of that and also like we're all sitting still we're all at home and

we're all learning that wow this whole time that I was busy and the government was keeping me busy because I needed to make coins, I wasn't realizing that capitalism sucks. And then when you have to be still for months or can't go to work and you're like, oh, I'm still living? I thought everybody had told me that when we started working, I was going to die. What happened? And learning that that's not true and that other people live different ways and maybe, you know, Occam's Razz or maybe the simplest way is better.

I was like, oh, okay. So, yeah, I do agree with you, Jack. I think that Queen's Gambit is introducing some ideas to a lot of us that are like, hmm, this could be cute. I don't know. Right. Yeah, and, like, everybody who's a Russian is, like, kind of kind.

And this is not to say, like, and that is true and exactly how it is. No, because they be defenestrating niggas. I was like, why is everybody getting defenestrated from Russia? There's too many doctors falling out of windows. What's happening? They love to throw someone out a window and be like, suicide.

They did it too many times. They did it too many times. We're like, girl, how y'all had three niggas get defenestrated from this hospital? And it's been two weeks. Like, what's happening over there? Everybody ain't falling out the windows. The windows ain't just extra folly.

Like, you know. Banana peel. Right. Y'all got some signs up that are like, the window's here, girl. You got to watch out because you might fall out. Like, what? No. Yeah.

Miles, you haven't seen it still, right but i think i'm about to because between that and the crown i mean every i've heard from every angle yeah my life everyone liking all those things or watching them so yes are you a mandalorian girl i'm not i do love the baby mode love the Baby Yoda memes, but I haven't watched anything from Star Wars. I'm sure I'll get to a low enough point where I will start watching Star Wars, but I'm not there yet. But I will say that if you've watched The Crown, if you've watched Queen's Gambit, if you've also watched The Undoing, and you're like, what else, girl? Because I need my white mess i need my privileged white mess uh the flight attendant is what i'm watching now so that's with

uh kaylee cuoco yeah everyone's like that i like her today i just like her i like she gives me the vibes of just like a white woman who you know may get so drunk that she's barefoot at a point and on the street and we could be friends. Like she just gives me like just cool ass vibes. And I really like the flight attendant. So if you're hooked on white mess and you're like, I've watched all the white mess. I need more. You scratch your neck like a crackhead. I encourage the flight attendant.

Yeah. Hell yeah. And they the flight attendant. Yeah, yeah. Hell yeah. And they released three episodes. Yes, flight attendant is messy. Anna's my girl. All that shit Lionel. And also they gave you three episodes. They gave you three episodes for the first release.

So you can get nice and hooked and get your fix. They just released two more. They've been talking about the flight attendant on Lost Colch. And it sounds good. They say it's like real easy. Goes down easy, which I love in a show. Oh, it's so smooth. If you're someone who needs to be on Twitter while you watch television, the flight attendant.

You know what's funny, though? When I did that with The Crown, because The Crown be hella boring sometimes. sometimes i'll be like they've been brushing this chair for three hours bitch i'm tired and but the thing is i'll get on twitter and be swiping and then i'll look up and i'll be like they fighting what happened and i have to rewind right yeah that doesn't happen as much on the flight attendant so miles you watch mandalorian right uh I watched the first season. I think since I'm about to have a full season of season two ready to watch it once, I'm going to dive in then. Because I like to I like to just binge it out. You know what I mean? Just on my back.

You know what I'm saying? Just smack a can of this syrup. Watch Amanda. But they're I mean, Mandalorian is a little complicated. I mean, really, if you go into the lore, I mean, they were pacifists and then they sort of became fascists. And it all depends on what sort of point in Star Wars history you're looking at Mandalorians. Right. But the first season, it's hard to really discern any like politics from it because they're essentially just taking cowboy Western structure of, you know, the Lone Rangeranger you know come riding upon into town and

helping people out with this right so it is sort of i'm i also like destiny yeah it's hard for me to like be high and watch something that's like star wars it's fully escapism and me being like now hold on now let me look right what the fuck is mando saying what is carl weathers trying to say to me right now well don't worry guys i will watch it and yeah like charlie and it's always sunny with your fucking conspiracy theory well lacy uh it's been a pleasure having you uh as always where can people find you follow you listen to you oh god i love being here i always love being here um you guys feel like my family you're so sweet um both of you uh i don't know i feel like i need to say that but i did and you can find and follow me look if you like comedy honestly i scammed everybody by making a podcast that is basically just me being a comedian.

But I will also teach you about scams and how not to get scammed. And it's called Scam Goddess. And if you want to follow, listen to that. Scam Goddess pod everywhere. And if you want to follow me and my personal shenanigans, D-I-V-A-L-A-C-I, Diva Lacey on all platforms. And let me find the tweet that I love right now. This comes from Nina Snow 00. And she said, Benadryl be like, can't have allergies if you sleep.

And then it's like. Is it the Roll Safe meme? Yeah, it's a gif, yeah. James Franco being, turning around and winking like, hey, girl, can't have allergies. Can't have allergies if you're in a coma, bitch. That's impossible, Rhonda. How can I be asleep if I'm high on crack?

And honestly, it hits super hard because, and this i guess is a weird tip one time i went to the doctor and i was like hey i need xanax but xanax is too strong can y'all give me something lighter than that because i'm not trying to be asleep and i have anxiety so mostly for flying i needed it and then the doctor prescribed me a low-dose antihistamine. And then I was like, is Benadryl Xanax? Sort of, yeah. So then I got Benadryl. And sometimes if I can't sleep and I need to go to bed because I have to wake up early, I'll take a Benadryl.

But if I have it on a full stomach, that girl will be like, oh, we're just chilling in here. And then I'll wake up and I'm like, I'm groggy. What's happening? Right happening right right right so yeah like uh benadryl will knock you out and i'm like did you fix my allergies or did you just make me pass out i'm confusion don't worry don't worry not that way clare's like we're gonna actually work on your allergies girl but it's gonna take three days. Also makes you drowsy as fuck. Really? Clannan doesn't make me drowsy. Oh, that might be because I'm extremely

tired all the time. Blame him. That might be it. Spindle feels like someone shot me in the neck with a dart. I'm like, what happened? Got a fucking dart in your neck, man. Miles, where can people find you?

What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Find me Twitter, Instagram, at Miles of Grey. Also, 420dayfiance. Talk about 90dayfiance. Some tweets that I like. First one is from Brody Reed, at AO Bro Bro, saying, the future liberals want is receiving checks for all the data our phones are selling, quitting the jobs we're losing to automation anyway, and making beats and quilts all day and I'm really serious.

Yeah, that tracks. I can see a world. I mean, I think we're all feeling like, what's going on with automation? What's the nature of work anymore? I think we're all being like, what's going on with automation? What's the nature of work anymore? When are we going to take that thing on? Because universal basic income is starting to get a lot more momentum in Europe, it seems, like places where they're like, how do we make this somewhat more equitable? Let's see. Beats and quilts.

Not to say that that place is perfect either. Another tweet from at ZZIAK, Z-A-K, Z-A-K 22. She tweeted, need a weighted blanket so heavy that it crushes my bones and I disintegrate into mere dust, settling back into the earth from whence I came. And finally, Caitlin Corey at Caitlin Corey tweets, trying to buy him a gift. And the girl that works there goes, this is a pretty is pretty expensive does he spoil you too i put that shit back and walked out that store uh some tweets i've been enjoying uh sean o'connor tweeted this is the funniest rich guy question i've ever seen uh it's bill james uh the guy who used to be like a consultant for the red socks and wrote the like created sabermetrics but his tweet was what major league player lived in your neighborhood when you were a kid

and what do you remember about him somebody somebody responded who the fuck is major league players living in their neighborhood what a wild question and bill james responded i'll bet 70 of my followers had some major league player living in their neighborhood when they grew up and then there's like a bunch of his followers who are like george brett uh was my neighbor. He got a niche, bro. We rich nigga Twitter. We rich white people Twitter. Also, don't fuck with this Avermetrics guy. If he's saying he knows 70% of his followers,

I'm guessing he may have some numbers on that shit. That's so wild, though. 72.7% will respond to the affirmative. But to just put that question out there is so amazing. Hey, guys, what major league player did you live next to? What?

Yeah. The fuck are you talking about? Which Saudi prince lived in your apartment building, and how many degrees from the throne was he? Right. Yeah. How many apples does Oprah Actually pick from her yard And can you see her doing it

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riding out on today? I don't know. I just want to go back in time. I want to feel like I'm in the... I think I've used this description before. I'm in a Nike i think i've used this description before like i'm in a nike town from the 90s that had like weird like drum and bass house music playing and you're like this like hip store uh this is a track called blue moon tree from lone and it just has like i don't know it feels like in the late 90s when like a cool place had music playing it was this kind of shit and it it felt very i went back in time listening to this so you know maybe turn off your lights a

little bit and just you know pretend to be in having a shopping experience from the late 90s because most of us are at home i thought you were going to recommend back in time by huey Lewis and the News. I thought you were going to recommend Watermelon Sugar High. Watermelon. Oh. No, I mean, I can't handle a Harry Styles lawsuit. There you go. All right. Well, The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio.

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