Speaker 1: Hello the Internet. Welcome to season two hundred and ninety eight,
Speaker 1: Episode three of The Daily Zeitgeist. This is still a
Speaker 1: production to iHeartRadio, and it's still the podcast where we
Speaker 1: take a deep dive into American's share consciousness. It's Thursday,
Speaker 1: August third, twenty twenty three. Shout out the Geist child
Speaker 1: is six months old officially on this day. Blessings to
Speaker 1: him and to her majesty. Also, it's National hair Gloss Day.
Speaker 1: It's National Grab some nuts Day, which they come out actual,
Speaker 1: you know, like peanuts and batons, shit, National IPA Day,
Speaker 1: National Georgia Day, Hey, shout out the homestate of my grandmother,
Speaker 1: and National Watermelon Day. So we've got it all going
Speaker 1: on here. My name is Miles Gray, aka the Lord
Speaker 1: of Blankersham, and I'm thrilled to be joined find my
Speaker 1: guest co host, as I call it, the only co
Speaker 1: host that I can ever trust. When Jack is out
Speaker 1: the building, I could give you a long winded introduction
Speaker 1: like I always do, but simply put, this man is
Speaker 1: simply the best, better than all the rest, and that
Speaker 1: hamburger meat that's just hair on his chest. Please Welcome
Speaker 1: to the mic, Jackie. Oh what Neil got do, got do?
Speaker 2: It was Neil, but the second.
Speaker 1: Hand e motion, Oh.
Speaker 3: What up niggas? We are here, we are back, we
Speaker 3: are in it. Can I You know, I always I
Speaker 3: always worry. I always worry.
Speaker 2: When you know, listen, when we have a new when
Speaker 2: we have a new guest, we're gonna get to We're
Speaker 2: gonna get to our guest soon.
Speaker 1: Always worry.
Speaker 2: They're like, who the fuck is this dude coming in? Oh?
Speaker 2: Talking to the negro I always acknowledge the Negroes first,
Speaker 2: and then everybody. You know, you're just on the ride behind. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: we love everybody.
Speaker 1: First things first, My people come first, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, people come first?
Speaker 2: You know, people come first.
Speaker 1: You know, I have to ask you something. I was
Speaker 1: at karaoke on the on the weekend. They had no
Speaker 1: Tina Turner songs on the fucking on the that on
Speaker 1: the hardware. I was like, this is that.
Speaker 2: Means I gotta go there and the first NI I
Speaker 2: gotta say as soon as I walk through the doors,
Speaker 2: what's up my niggas?
Speaker 3: Because people there.
Speaker 1: It felt like no, it felt like the fucking song
Speaker 1: list is when bars do that ship where they're like,
Speaker 1: we don't serve Hennessy and you can't wear hats here,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean when you're like, I get.
Speaker 3: Hey, you can't sing black music.
Speaker 1: They didn't have Montel. They didn't have Montel Jordan's this
Speaker 1: is how we do it. I'm still show they have
Speaker 1: wild But then they're also like a lot of even
Speaker 1: like the white people that were there were like, man,
Speaker 1: this is this is lacking. It's of course, but anyway.
Speaker 2: Even even the most racist motherfucker like Roland.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, there's no word, Yeah, singing Fogerty the
Speaker 1: whole night. Come on now. But anyway, let's get to
Speaker 1: our guest. We are thrilled to be joined in the
Speaker 1: third seat by a very talented human being. I gotta say,
Speaker 1: I don't know what this person doesn't do, but I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what they are doing right now. They got
Speaker 1: a single coming now August eighth, okay, because because music
Speaker 1: runs through their blood. Also, they got a film that's
Speaker 1: crushing the festival circuit right now, and we might get
Speaker 1: into that a little bit later. And also a podcast
Speaker 1: called trust Me talking about cults and extreme beliefs, which
Speaker 1: kind of that kind of intersects with today's topic. Giving
Speaker 1: all the Trump stuff going on, So please welcome to
Speaker 1: the microphone, Lola.
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me real singer.
Speaker 2: We got a real singer. Had drop some Lola.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your favor what's your favorite karaoke teck?
Speaker 4: You know, I never do karaoke because I feel too
Speaker 4: awkward because people are like, oh, she's a real singer,
Speaker 4: and the expectations are too high. And I also don't drink,
Speaker 4: so I can't like wile out, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: But when I'm by myself, it's torn by Natalie and Brulia.
Speaker 2: Wow. Hell yeah, faith so good?
Speaker 1: Right, Like when people don't respect that part, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, I get a little upset, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Yeah, I like though that you were
Speaker 1: like you're a kind god too, where You're like, let
Speaker 1: me not just ether the whole party right now with
Speaker 1: my pipe. So I will just sit back and say, no,
Speaker 1: that was great, that was great. I'm not singing today,
Speaker 1: don't worry.
Speaker 4: About No, I'm not even that kind of singer, you know.
Speaker 4: Like I can't belt like other people can belt. I
Speaker 4: feel like my musical theater friends, they're better at karaoke
Speaker 4: than me. I'm like, I'm good at singing. My songs.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, all right, let me let
Speaker 2: me give you something. Let me give you a track
Speaker 2: next time you go to karaoke. You don't have to sing,
Speaker 2: just do stand by eminem or some shit. You know
Speaker 2: you can, but you can sing a little, you can
Speaker 2: sing a little part.
Speaker 1: You know you do the rat me.
Speaker 2: You gotta do the fourth verse, like you know, you
Speaker 2: gotta do the fourth verse.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm on it.
Speaker 1: Who are your like, who are your favorite kind of
Speaker 1: like because if you're not a powerhouse singers, who are
Speaker 1: your sort of like softer voice vocalists that you that
Speaker 1: you kind of put your pantheon of great singers?
Speaker 4: Well, I don't I feel like great singers. It just
Speaker 4: depends on what kind of thing you're talking about. But
Speaker 4: I love Fiona Apple. Oh yeah, I love like an angsty, throaty,
Speaker 4: like kind of fucked up sounding voice can say fuck
Speaker 4: right yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, only but only when we talk
Speaker 1: about I said.
Speaker 2: I started the podcast with what up niggas you can?
Speaker 1: That would be wild? I was like, hold on, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're not doing that.
Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3: Now, come on, this is PG thirteen over here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Fiona Apple, Yeah, fetch the bolt Cutters. Great one,
Speaker 1: that's the bull Cutters.
Speaker 3: You know it's so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah? Who else?
Speaker 3: I mean?
Speaker 4: I love I love like classic jazz singers, so I
Speaker 4: love like El Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1: And okay, oh, classing up to join it.
Speaker 4: But also, you know, I'm getting really into this new Norwegians,
Speaker 4: but you know that that will come later. When you
Speaker 4: asked me about the media, I've been.
Speaker 1: Okay, fantastic. Was it reminiscent? Like I'm trying to think, well,
Speaker 1: who's the last big Scandinavian thing I remember, like Leaky
Speaker 1: Lee Back.
Speaker 4: Like I love Yeah, I know it's crazy how old
Speaker 4: old that album is now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel very oldly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was I remember being like I was like,
Speaker 1: I love her voice. It's like effortlesser. Anyway, we're going
Speaker 1: to get into that and plenty more of but first
Speaker 1: we got to tell our listeners what we are going
Speaker 1: to be talking about today. Obviously, the biggest news of
Speaker 1: the day is that Twitter will now allow you to
Speaker 1: hide your blue check mark if you feel like you're
Speaker 1: taking too many l's in public for having that. So
Speaker 1: we'll get to that and then some lighter news, I
Speaker 1: guess Jesus. I mean, I guess we'll talk about Donald
Speaker 1: Trump getting indicted again, fucking so many indictments. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. I mean, there's a fourth on the
Speaker 1: way to so cool, we'll talk about that. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then we'll we'll get into Barbie how it's become one
Speaker 1: of the biggest political tools of twenty twenty three, with
Speaker 1: every side arguing it's for them or against them. It's
Speaker 1: it's like a rorshact test I guess of a film.
Speaker 1: So we'll get into some of that and plenty more,
Speaker 1: But first we'd like to ask our guest, which is
Speaker 1: low Lablanc, what is something from your search history that's
Speaker 1: revealing about you know, reveal something about who you are,
Speaker 1: what you're interested in.
Speaker 4: Uh So I was looking at my most recent search
Speaker 4: results and this morning, the last one was observed particle theory.
Speaker 2: Okay, oh, okay.
Speaker 3: You know that.
Speaker 4: And it's actually something I don't know that much about yet,
Speaker 4: so that's why I was googling it. But it's that
Speaker 4: thing in quantum physics where the particles behavior changed upon observation. Yes,
Speaker 4: so a lot of people who a lot of people
Speaker 4: reference that as like, we don't know, there's so much
Speaker 4: that we don't know yet. There's so much that like
Speaker 4: maybe science has no idea, like there isn't evidence for
Speaker 4: it yet, but there will be eventually. Anyway, I just
Speaker 4: was very curious.
Speaker 2: About that little rabbit hole. Yeah going down?
Speaker 1: Okay, so okay with this? What kind of shit are
Speaker 1: you into? Lola? Like you're like old on man, because
Speaker 1: you know, I like the idea that just the mere
Speaker 1: observation affects these particles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yea, this.
Speaker 2: Is the smart This is the most educational smartest like
Speaker 2: search and I've heard everybody else will be up here like,
Speaker 2: oh man, I was up here searching about you know
Speaker 2: how quick your toenails grow?
Speaker 1: You up here?
Speaker 2: Like let's talk about quantum fits.
Speaker 4: But I don't know about it yet. I don't know
Speaker 4: about it yet.
Speaker 1: That's look, are you is any of this due to
Speaker 1: any of the hearings about UAPs and non non human intelligence?
Speaker 1: Does that intersect at all with any of this or
Speaker 1: how We're like, you're into this kind of shit, You're
Speaker 1: into quantum physics, quantum mechanics. What what do you make
Speaker 1: of all of the U A u AP shit going on?
Speaker 1: I mean, like.
Speaker 4: I'm a science Bay, So like I'm just kind of
Speaker 4: waiting to see what happens. Like I feel like one
Speaker 4: guy saying stuff is not really enough evidence. But I'm
Speaker 4: really excited to see what more comes of it, because yeah, open,
Speaker 4: I'm on that and shit, you know, like I'm really
Speaker 4: excited about the feasting. But yeah, I'm just like I'm
Speaker 4: someone who's like trying to figure it all out all
Speaker 4: the time and figure out like what we have evidence
Speaker 4: for what we don't have an evidence evidence for, And
Speaker 4: I'm just trying not to buy into like the first
Speaker 4: thing that people tell me, So I'm just googling what
Speaker 4: we have evidence for.
Speaker 1: Does that have to do with just sort of your
Speaker 1: upbringing and life of being just a little like not
Speaker 1: taking people at their word when they say things are
Speaker 1: one way?
Speaker 4: I think absolutely?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, yeah, I'm sure we'll get
Speaker 2: into that too.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is going to be therapy love, but.
Speaker 1: Yes, shout out, shout out all my alien fans who
Speaker 1: are going to go to the First Interstate Bank formerly
Speaker 1: First Interstin Bank building in Los Angeles to welcome the aliens.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And they put that blue light on us and then
Speaker 1: vaporize us.
Speaker 3: I'm excited.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is something that you think is overrated?
Speaker 4: I I'm gonna people are gonna be mad at me
Speaker 4: for this. But astrology. I think astrology is overrated, highly.
Speaker 3: Overrated science science, of course, but.
Speaker 4: I think that, like I'm always like, yeah, everyone knows
Speaker 4: astrology has no evidence and isn't real. And then I
Speaker 4: talked to like person after person after person after person
Speaker 4: who's like, what do you mean? I'm a Taurus and
Speaker 4: you're totally sagittarius. Although I will say that recently I
Speaker 4: read I was looking at my friend's like birthday book
Speaker 4: where it gives you your reading of your exact day
Speaker 4: of your birth, and it was like one hundred percent accurate.
Speaker 4: But I was like, not evidence, not real evidence.
Speaker 1: I'm the embodiment of that evidence. Not real really.
Speaker 4: On my page it said is skeptical, does not accept
Speaker 4: information without digging further. So a lot of different create
Speaker 4: has a lot of different creative pasts. I was like, fuck,
Speaker 4: that's like.
Speaker 3: That's actually that's actually pretty I mean, I get that too.
Speaker 2: I don't believe in it. But then somebody would be
Speaker 2: some you would hit me with some libra shit, and
Speaker 2: I'm like damn right, you know who? How fuck you
Speaker 2: know me? Man? But also like, all right, people have
Speaker 2: been writing this stuff for centuries now. At a certain point,
Speaker 2: if I write five thousand pages about a tourist, one
Speaker 2: of them is gonna probably line up with like, you know,
Speaker 2: so I'm on your side. Even even even you can
Speaker 2: still stay skeptical. You just happen to find the one
Speaker 2: page I know out of the five thousand totally was
Speaker 2: in line with your personality and ship that you believe
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. I get it.
Speaker 4: It's a broken clock thing. I think it's so funny though,
Speaker 4: because I'm always like I'm willing to stay open, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm like, Okay, what side do you think I am?
Speaker 4: What like qualities am I exuding? No one ever gets
Speaker 4: never get it right. And I'm a triple sage. I'm
Speaker 4: a triple sage.
Speaker 3: Well shit, I'm a liper Leo Leo baby, that's listen.
Speaker 3: I will say this.
Speaker 2: I will say that I date in Los Angeles. That's right,
Speaker 2: That's how I know all that.
Speaker 1: Wait, what's the lead? Wait? Wait, you got you know,
Speaker 1: you got.
Speaker 3: You know, you get the co star, you get the
Speaker 3: co star ship.
Speaker 2: And it's the way to flirt or it's the way
Speaker 2: you know, people be like, oh, what's your coat? Star?
Speaker 2: And I gotta text my mama at three am talking
Speaker 2: about when was I born? And ship and and then
Speaker 2: you and then it lets you know, like your I
Speaker 2: don't know the exact but the first one is like
Speaker 2: your birth monk, and then the other two are like
Speaker 2: your personalities or what you like. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just go right to them things like least look
Speaker 3: at our compatibility.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, I said, like a friend of
Speaker 1: mine who's whose family's from India talking about how you know,
Speaker 1: like a lot of times, reading the charts is like
Speaker 1: step one in making decisions. So it's interesting to see
Speaker 1: in this kind of like emphasis for like centuries. But
Speaker 1: then be like, come on, y'all, but also that's fucking
Speaker 1: me to a fucking tea. How yeah, Like I remember
Speaker 1: back when I was like, well, super lonely. I remember,
Speaker 1: like just after college, like heartbroken, trying to find like
Speaker 1: a partner. I would be on Susan Miller's astrology zone
Speaker 1: and shit be like give me some answers, Susan Miller,
Speaker 1: So I know, and that shit just what it is
Speaker 1: is like I get it. Too, because when your confirmation
Speaker 1: bias is strong, that ship will fucking it's gonna be hitting,
Speaker 1: like the fucking God's honest truth.
Speaker 2: So we all need.
Speaker 4: Ways to structure our realities because the world is chaos
Speaker 4: and scary. Also it's just fun to be like, are
Speaker 4: we supposed to be together? Are we a bat match?
Speaker 1: Right? Right? I'm sorry, I don't degeminize. I can't handle
Speaker 1: I can't handle the due duality of you. Sorry, what's
Speaker 1: something you think is underrated? Lola?
Speaker 4: I just rewatched this rom com Something's Got to Give
Speaker 4: from the early two thousands. It's about older love, and
Speaker 4: I think it's a classic and it is not considered one,
Speaker 4: and it should be.
Speaker 3: It is, I don't think so.
Speaker 4: No, It's always like when Harry met Sally. It's always
Speaker 4: like the Meg Ryan ones. Maybe You've got mad, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: but no one talks about Something's got to Give, Something's
Speaker 4: got to give? Its fucking awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree. Nobody really talks about it until
Speaker 2: but everybody who but everybody who talks about it loves it.
Speaker 2: It's like one of the It's like my best friend's wedding,
Speaker 2: Like nobody ever talks about it, but like everybody who
Speaker 2: likes it, or whenever it's brought up, people are like, oh, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: that's a good ass movie. Yeah.
Speaker 4: People think it's the same movie, is as good as
Speaker 4: it gets, which is not? Which is it's a different
Speaker 4: movie also starring Jack Nicholson. But I will say it
Speaker 4: was very ahead of its time. You know, you have
Speaker 4: an independent woman in her sixties who's a playwright. She's
Speaker 4: very successful in her own right. And you have the
Speaker 4: like playboy older man who's only dating women under thirty
Speaker 4: many he's like, wait a minute, what am I doing?
Speaker 4: I should be with someone who's got her ship together
Speaker 4: and who's you know, worthy opponent? Anyway, I love.
Speaker 2: It is favorite rom com or do you have one?
Speaker 4: I feel like it's that one. But I also really
Speaker 4: love You've Got Mail. I miss I missed this era.
Speaker 4: You know, I want this era.
Speaker 2: To come back.
Speaker 4: Did you guys have Senner Jennifer Lawrence one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I thought I thought.
Speaker 2: Let me tell first of all, I thought it was
Speaker 2: very cute and very fun, but all right, as a singer,
Speaker 2: can I ask you and you know that rendition of
Speaker 2: man eater in the middle have you seen it? Have
Speaker 2: you seen it? Lola.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wait okay, he.
Speaker 3: Started saying a man eater.
Speaker 2: I turned to I turned to the person I went with,
Speaker 2: uh in the middle of the in the middle of that.
Speaker 3: Scene, I was like, this should have spectacular. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: was so good.
Speaker 1: The progression, the chord progression was really different, and I
Speaker 1: like there were some like chord inversions under like under
Speaker 1: the vocals, and I was like, that's a new way
Speaker 1: of expressing that note from that song. I definitely the
Speaker 1: exact same thing. I was like, is he fucking killing it?
Speaker 3: I know, is great, but it was so good.
Speaker 4: He was such a it's like a.
Speaker 1: Very it was so good. Yeah, And it was wild
Speaker 1: to see Matthew Broderick, you know, like because we don't
Speaker 1: see him that often and now I'm like he was
Speaker 1: just just playing that like old liberal dad broo. It
Speaker 1: was so funny. But yeah, like I feel like one
Speaker 1: like that is kind of like a mashup of more
Speaker 1: like you know, are like sort of extreme American pie
Speaker 1: type comedy with like the underpinnings of a rom com,
Speaker 1: but yeah, like the sort of like what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: with my my my little bookstore and the big chain
Speaker 1: is moving in a are we just so fucking cynical.
Speaker 1: We're like, nah, man, we need to see Jennifer Lawrence
Speaker 1: beat ass butt naked on the beach for us to
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, that that really warmed my heart.
Speaker 4: I don't know, no, I think I think, well, first
Speaker 4: of all, it is actually heartwarming, genuinely, aside from the
Speaker 4: like first half of semi raunchyatness or whatever. But I
Speaker 4: feel like we all were kind of missing that culturally,
Speaker 4: we like want movies that just make us feel good
Speaker 4: and remember what it is to love and not like
Speaker 4: just be scared all the time. I don't know, I
Speaker 4: think it's coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense. That's why that's why I can't
Speaker 1: quit Hallmark movies on the holidays.
Speaker 3: You should lifetime Hallmark Baby. Them movies used to hit.
Speaker 1: I like Hallmark because they don't allow magic because and
Speaker 1: that would that would presume that there are forces other
Speaker 1: than Jesus Christ that work in our world. That used
Speaker 1: to be the rule. Will I'll always say, yeah, they
Speaker 1: used to be like harm like, they don't like movies
Speaker 1: that have magic as it relates to the Christmas time
Speaker 1: because then it is yeah, so upset.
Speaker 2: But isn't that the channel isn't that the channel that
Speaker 2: like touched by an angel came home and ship. Yeah
Speaker 2: magic if it's angel magic, magic, Yeah, Jesus magic.
Speaker 1: That's called Jesus magic. That's Christ. Christ's love is not magic.
Speaker 1: How dare you? Okay, that's just that is the fuel
Speaker 1: for our salvation.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: Shit, all right, we're gonna take a quick break. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back to talk about I don't know, we'll
Speaker 1: figure it out when we get back and we're back.
Speaker 1: I guess. Look, all jokes aside, we should talk about
Speaker 1: Donald Trump from getting indicted for a third motherfucking time,
Speaker 1: the hat trick of indictments. He's done it. While I
Speaker 1: think this is all relates to the you know, overturning
Speaker 1: of the election in twenty twenty and January sixth, all
Speaker 1: that wild fun stuff. And I think again, for most people,
Speaker 1: we saw that play out in real time. Like we
Speaker 1: saw him continually begin to, you know, ramp up the
Speaker 1: rhetoric around the stolen election. We saw evan of him,
Speaker 1: you know, leaning on people in a fake elector scheme,
Speaker 1: telling Mike Pence to fucking you know, delay the certification
Speaker 1: of the election. We all saw it, but now we're
Speaker 1: at the point where it's been articulating an indictment, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's interesting to watch. Basically Fox News and all the
Speaker 1: right wing news outlets just fully melt down with what
Speaker 1: apparently they are saying the steaks are. Jesse Waters on
Speaker 1: the Five called it political germ warfare and said, if
Speaker 1: it goes to trial, we'll have to quote go back
Speaker 1: and find fraud in the twenty twenty election. I'm sure
Speaker 1: they would love to do that because he did such
Speaker 1: a good job the first time showing that all happened.
Speaker 1: And then Greg guttfelt on the same show, he was
Speaker 1: so out of it he just held up like doodles.
Speaker 1: He was just holding up doodles of like dudes and hats,
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure like what that exactly. The point
Speaker 1: of that was kat Abu, who's on Twitter who does
Speaker 1: a lot of like monitoring of Fox News segments, put
Speaker 1: together just kind of like this mixtape of the reaction
Speaker 1: to the third indictment on five News, and I just
Speaker 1: want to the it's they're ramping it up, the rhetoric
Speaker 1: is getting ramped up. I'll play a little bit of it.
Speaker 1: It's very dramatic, but this is kind of how Fox
Speaker 1: News is talking about everything. Goal equivalent of the French guillotine,
Speaker 1: a political.
Speaker 5: War, Crome, a junk indictment, the shredding of our constitution.
Speaker 1: They're going full Banana Republic, full third World on this
Speaker 1: third World Banana Republic, full Banana Republic. Hell yeah, just
Speaker 1: so you know, we've gone full.
Speaker 3: Republic.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and I'm going full j crew.
Speaker 3: They got the memoir at the beginning of the day.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, all right, everybody, the word of the day
Speaker 2: is banana Republic.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they've gone full third World. And yeah, we
Speaker 1: saw Stephen Miller was saying that this is the legal
Speaker 1: equivalent of the French KIETI during the reign of terror.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And then we had Lara Trump come
Speaker 1: on to defend her father in law, who's just basically said, quote,
Speaker 1: he did exactly what you would want a president to do.
Speaker 3: Following in all, okay, okay, yeah he did. He did
Speaker 3: leave office.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: But then it was wild. Somebody pointed out that she
Speaker 1: was apparently she was live on Fox and Newsmax at
Speaker 1: the same damn time somehow, and with different outfits on
Speaker 1: and somebody I'm sort of like, I'm sorry, who the
Speaker 1: fuck is lying about being live right now? Because there's
Speaker 1: no way you're live on Newsmax and Fox News with
Speaker 1: different fucking outfits on. We're still not sure what happened there,
Speaker 1: but again, I think it all speaks to the chaos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you have Jesus magic on your side, you
Speaker 2: can do anything.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, mechanics. It's yeah, depend observation.
Speaker 1: I affected the particles of her clothing to become something
Speaker 1: else because my vision is also because just to get
Speaker 1: back to that, it's sort of like the idea that
Speaker 1: even the act of looking upon something is affecting, like
Speaker 1: the waves around it. Right. Yeah, anyway, shout out to
Speaker 1: Jesus for that. He was talking about that in the Bible.
Speaker 1: And then Newsmax they had Rudy Juliani on, and my
Speaker 1: man is just he's he's getting bad. He sounded not
Speaker 1: as articulate as he normally does, which is not at all.
Speaker 1: But I'll just play a clip of him talking about
Speaker 1: the real indictment needs to be for Jack Smith.
Speaker 6: The strange thing here is the people lying, but the
Speaker 6: people bringing this and this, this count they have here
Speaker 6: conspiracy against right, they should be indicted for conspiracy against
Speaker 6: right for bringing this indictment.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's a conspiracy against Okay, cool, yeah he said that.
Speaker 4: So does he seem especially old all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: I feel like.
Speaker 2: Drunk?
Speaker 1: He drinks, he's his last. In the last year and
Speaker 1: a half of that administration, he was definitely having wild
Speaker 1: ass appearances where people were like, I just saw this
Speaker 1: dude drunk as fuck at the cigar bar in Manhattan,
Speaker 1: and then they then you would see him on Fox
Speaker 1: like two hours later, and he's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I think again too. He's just a fucking He's a creep.
Speaker 1: So we all love to see him. Yeah, he's a creep.
Speaker 2: He was drunk enough to literally, as a former politician
Speaker 2: on the campaign trail, find himself in a Borat movie.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right, that's like that tells you everything you
Speaker 2: need to know about Rudy right there, Like how dumb?
Speaker 2: How dumb? Are you so dumb?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So you know, we have we've heard everybody the
Speaker 1: First Amendment thing that's coming up a lot, and we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that in a second. But then on bright part,
Speaker 1: they implied that Jack Smith would be seeking the death
Speaker 1: penalty against Trump. It says jack Smith's charge against Trump
Speaker 1: include potential death penalty. Now why do they say that
Speaker 1: there's no evidence that that's even close to what jack
Speaker 1: Smith is pursuing. But what they're pointing out is that
Speaker 1: the conspiracy against rights can result in the death penalty
Speaker 1: if quote death results from the actions covered under this
Speaker 1: provision and somebody did die.
Speaker 2: So specifically, the fact that they the fact that they
Speaker 2: are saying that the death penalty is an option, is
Speaker 2: an admission of guilt to the fact that he because you.
Speaker 1: Know, she did die, so therefore people give them the
Speaker 1: death penalty. And that's what's really interesting is watching this
Speaker 1: sort of cognitive dissonance play out in such an extreme way.
Speaker 1: Already Trump has come screaming with his two pay in
Speaker 1: hand asking for cash donations. The email he sent this
Speaker 1: morning quote patriot with Crooked Joe's corrupt doj having unlawfully
Speaker 1: indicted yours truly yet again, reports indicate that I can
Speaker 1: now face it combined five hundred sixty one years in
Speaker 1: prison from the left witch hunt, that six lifetimes. There's
Speaker 1: only one message, and he goes on and on. It's
Speaker 1: like a long ranting thing. Yeah you could, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at five hundred and sixty one years. I'm like, sir,
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 3: Every year.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But he goes on and be like, he's like,
Speaker 1: will you help me fight this Marxist government. You're like,
Speaker 1: this ain't no Marxist government. If you did people, never mind,
Speaker 1: I wish you were theory. Yeah, it's like, bring the
Speaker 1: Marxist aliens, now, solve this. But yeah, so he's begging.
Speaker 1: And the main thing we're seeing right now is the
Speaker 1: maga pundits are all kind of saying that this is
Speaker 1: some version of his First Amendment rights being violated. That's
Speaker 1: the sort of logic that they want to pursue. They're
Speaker 1: saying he was merely exercising his First Amendment rights by
Speaker 1: saying these things out loud. And now they're saying it's
Speaker 1: a crime because he didn't believe that the election was
Speaker 1: rightfully won by Joe Biden. And again he's trying to
Speaker 1: They're trying to just create some kind of logic out
Speaker 1: of this indictment that doesn't acknowledge that Trump was doing
Speaker 1: all kinds of shit, not just shit he was saying
Speaker 1: out of his mouth that his actions are also part
Speaker 1: of a quote larger conspiracy to subvert the election in
Speaker 1: the will of voters and undermine, you know, people's right
Speaker 1: to vote. So and then the part of this indictment
Speaker 1: sort of makes that clear. Quote. The purpose of the
Speaker 1: conspiracy was to overturn the legitimate results of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty presidential election by using knowingly false claims of election
Speaker 1: fraud to obstruct the federal government function by which those
Speaker 1: results are collected, counted, and certified. It's not why was
Speaker 1: he just lying all the time? No, just we saw it.
Speaker 1: There was a fake elector scheme. There was calls to
Speaker 1: other governors. It's it's not it's not something where they're like,
Speaker 1: it's just bad. It's misinformation, is all you guys are
Speaker 1: trying to put them in bords for.
Speaker 3: It's just what he thought it was, right.
Speaker 4: He wasn't just expressing an opinion.
Speaker 2: M Yeah, yeah, very clear, very clear, is very is
Speaker 2: very I I've been on record on this podcast many
Speaker 2: times saying that I think anybody that thinks this man
Speaker 2: is going to jail should not get their hopes up.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't think that's what any of this
Speaker 2: is about. Is him facing jail time. I mean, he
Speaker 2: should face jail time, but he won't but I I
Speaker 2: do think that we're seeing a very interesting thing that
Speaker 2: he is using all these indictments to just line his bid.
Speaker 2: He doesn't care about the presidency. He didn't care about
Speaker 2: the presidency the first time, Like Jail, I can't wait
Speaker 2: for the documentaries to come out, if they will where
Speaker 2: Like you know, Miles, I'm sure you've heard this too, Lola,
Speaker 2: I'm sure you've heard this.
Speaker 1: He was pissed he won the first time. I think
Speaker 1: Malania cried, right, isn't that the story from election? I
Speaker 1: should you don't want to.
Speaker 2: They didn't think they were winning. But like you know,
Speaker 2: and all it's happening all over again. I think like
Speaker 2: the bigger thing that we are seeing is we and
Speaker 2: I don't know if this will happen in our lifetime.
Speaker 2: Maybe it will. Maybe Jen Alpha can help us out,
Speaker 2: it can save us. You really need to we need
Speaker 2: to fix like he should not be able to run
Speaker 2: for president when you are literally under indictment after indictment
Speaker 2: after indictment, right now, Like that's not like that what
Speaker 2: that's insane, that's insane. I couldn't get a job in
Speaker 2: McDonald's if I was under like multiple indictments and this
Speaker 2: man is running for the highest office, and like we
Speaker 2: should be able to change the Supreme Court, just like
Speaker 2: there's so much shit I think it needs to change.
Speaker 1: It reveals too that, you know, the status quo is
Speaker 1: to be like, yeah, man, if you're kind of powerful enough,
Speaker 1: like you're gonna break some fucking laws. So why are
Speaker 1: we going to keep that from running for president? But
Speaker 1: I think this is all part of like why we
Speaker 1: need laws that are actually robust, that protect voting rights
Speaker 1: and shit like this, where it's just enshrined in law
Speaker 1: to be like, well, you can't even begin to try
Speaker 1: and test the results of an election, at least in
Speaker 1: this such a cynical way.
Speaker 4: People are so convinced that it is actually a witch hunt.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think that Trump is actually convinced
Speaker 4: it's a witch hunt. I don't think his people are,
Speaker 4: but I think they've convinced so many of the American
Speaker 4: people that it is. How can you actually achieve any
Speaker 4: change when no one can agree on what the reality
Speaker 4: of the situation is. It's all just being like propagandized,
Speaker 4: and it's so hard to like figure out how to
Speaker 4: fix anything when we don't even agree on the truth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can get worn down with propaganda. It leads to apathy,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what they need. And it's just clearly
Speaker 1: it's funny too, because you're kind of seeing it on
Speaker 1: the right where they're also like, fuck, man, my god,
Speaker 1: what am I supposed to say about this one this time?
Speaker 1: Like can't we just pretend like if we don't think
Speaker 1: it's bad and then keep moving? But there is something
Speaker 1: really interesting and going on with polling not interesting obviously,
Speaker 1: there are groups of people who just don't give a
Speaker 1: fuck what Trump does, no matter what. But it looks
Speaker 1: like the January sixth case isn't really moving the needle
Speaker 1: that much for independents and Republicans or even Democrats, because
Speaker 1: everyone is already so entrenched in their view of what
Speaker 1: happened that it just feels like a rehashing of shit
Speaker 1: that it's like yeah, I know, like it's like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we get it, he didn't fucking steal election, or yeah,
Speaker 1: that motherfucker stole the election or whatever, or I don't know.
Speaker 1: But it looks like the document's case is actually the
Speaker 1: thing that has begun to like shift poles a little bit.
Speaker 1: They've like last October it said thirty four percent of
Speaker 1: independence said that a crime had been committed in that case.
Speaker 1: The latest pull it grew to forty six percent, because
Speaker 1: I think we just see more new evidence of like
Speaker 1: hearing him on tape saying like talking about documents or
Speaker 1: learning like with new indictments that he was telling people
Speaker 1: to like, you know, vaporize the fucking surveillance camera footage
Speaker 1: and shit like that. And then for Republicans, since last October,
Speaker 1: the percentage of Republicans said they believe that Trump had
Speaker 1: committed a crime handing classified documents rose from nine to
Speaker 1: twenty five. But make no mistake when they follow up
Speaker 1: with a question about, like now, with that affect your
Speaker 1: support going into election, they said, if the fucking election
Speaker 1: was today, I'd be fucking wearing my maga hat. I
Speaker 1: don't care if that happened. So it's very very cult vibes.
Speaker 1: We always talk about that of just truly I will
Speaker 1: not There's no information that you can show me that
Speaker 1: will change my mind because I'm all in on this perspective.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think unfortunately that is just kind of
Speaker 2: the case or where we are today as an entire
Speaker 2: society and country where the elections have become very much that,
Speaker 2: you know, and we're seeing it a lot on the
Speaker 2: mega side obviously, but you know what happens on the
Speaker 2: left as well, where it is like you know, where
Speaker 2: we're not. We are not in a place now where
Speaker 2: we are and it's for a lot of reasons. And
Speaker 2: I'm not blaming like us as a collective society. I'm
Speaker 2: blaming the people who are in power that have kind
Speaker 2: of led us to this, and also just the world
Speaker 2: we live in with social media and things like that.
Speaker 2: But you know, we're not in a place where we
Speaker 2: are actively like picking the best choices, or we are
Speaker 2: actively like like debates don't mean anything, or you know,
Speaker 2: like these things don't mean as much as they used to.
Speaker 2: It is a popularity contest in any ways, and it
Speaker 2: is I'm this person on this side, and this is
Speaker 2: what we are, Bernie Bros. We are Maga, We are
Speaker 2: Clinton Knights. I don't know if they call it Clinton
Speaker 2: Nights or not, but you know, like, you know, that's
Speaker 2: kind of where we are right. I think it sucks.
Speaker 1: I think generally we're just from the conversation, we're like
Speaker 1: missing like what we actually want as outcomes from our
Speaker 1: elected officials. And what we want from the government, because
Speaker 1: the conversations are usually completely devoid of like sort of
Speaker 1: what speaks to people on a human level. Like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of policy talk and things like that, and
Speaker 1: you see people sort of like make appeals to like
Speaker 1: these sort of like populous talking points, but just in general,
Speaker 1: like people to each other, aren't it's harder for people
Speaker 1: to say, like, these are the kinds of policies that
Speaker 1: would really help my life because we also have a
Speaker 1: there's such a for the perception of the government is like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, they do shit that helps sometimes kind
Speaker 1: of so what's the point of fucking paying attention because
Speaker 1: my life really doesn't change, And that's a huge chunk
Speaker 1: of people that are really disconnected from like the ills
Speaker 1: that our current governmental system is, you know, raining down
Speaker 1: on people. So there's a lot. Yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things to battle.
Speaker 4: It's just so hard to keep your focus on even
Speaker 4: the issues that do really matter because it feels like
Speaker 4: there's so much on fire all the time at once,
Speaker 4: and everybody is like buying for your attention for the
Speaker 4: issue that's like you know viral that week or whatever.
Speaker 4: Like climate change is the most important issue to me,
Speaker 4: But do I forget about it constantly? One because there's
Speaker 4: so much else that's like, ah, but that's urgent, that's
Speaker 4: that's certain. I feel like it's it's really a hard
Speaker 4: time to be a politician who you know, maybe does
Speaker 4: have something substantive to offer, because it's just like a
Speaker 4: race for the virality or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and yeah we miss out I also think
Speaker 2: too because of because of that, and you know, this
Speaker 2: is not good either that for like some of the
Speaker 2: politicians that actually have something that they are fighting for
Speaker 2: and things like that. We have become such a society
Speaker 2: where like one thing can change that which and sometimes
Speaker 2: is a very good thing. And sometimes it's just like, well,
Speaker 2: you know, let's actually allow a person to progress and grow,
Speaker 2: like as a grow and progress, you know, and we don't.
Speaker 2: We don't do that as much as we should on like,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, there's a culture of an expectation of purity
Speaker 4: and perfection that I think is really detrimental to organizing
Speaker 4: in general.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, yeah. I think. You know, there's the vote
Speaker 1: blue no matter who crowd, there's the MAGA crowd, and
Speaker 1: you know, you try and get people to understand that
Speaker 1: it's the stakes aren't just if Joe Biden isn't president,
Speaker 1: it's everything that comes along with that, that in the
Speaker 1: and the tragedies and the whorors that people are experiencing
Speaker 1: even now with Joe Biden as president. That are societal
Speaker 1: issues that we refuse to actually grapple with. So until
Speaker 1: we can, I mean not until But the discourse is
Speaker 1: so centered around just anything but real substance of policy.
Speaker 1: Like everyone's talking about Bidenomics right now, and I like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like it's a three pillar thing about
Speaker 1: what Bidenomics is. But ask any person who is not
Speaker 1: interested in policy what they if they give a fuck
Speaker 1: about Bidenomic, They're going say fucking no. They'll say, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Inflation is still fucked up. I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess it's going down, like gas isn't as high, but
Speaker 1: like there's still all these other costs of living things
Speaker 1: that are not being addressed. But we but every day
Speaker 1: they just point to things like look at the unemployment numbers,
Speaker 1: and it's such a different metric than what people's lived
Speaker 1: day to day experiences are. So yeah, we will see
Speaker 1: where this goes. Again. I am just like with the aliens,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'll believe it when I see Trump in
Speaker 1: court and he can't do his comb over, you know,
Speaker 1: like the way he normally does, and we get to
Speaker 1: see that kind of weird hair do that he got going.
Speaker 1: Until then, you know, I just feel like, well, I'll
Speaker 1: believe it when I see it, because you know, there's
Speaker 1: already debate about like is this even a strong case
Speaker 1: against him? Like what the fuck are we doing? Then?
Speaker 1: But he at the very least not like in his
Speaker 1: document's case. The judge that is assigned to this case,
Speaker 1: it was a you know as an Obama point who
Speaker 1: apparently has been going the hardest at January sixth insurrectionists.
Speaker 1: So for every judge Eileen Cannon, there are other judges
Speaker 1: or it's kind of like youah, no, I'm I'm not
Speaker 1: really here to fuck around with this case. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We're gonna be right.
Speaker 5: Back to talk about blue checks and barbies after yes.
Speaker 1: And we're back. And ever since Elon Musk made the
Speaker 1: blue verification badge a purchasable commodity, people have mostly used
Speaker 1: it to point out how sad, how loser somebody is
Speaker 1: for paying eight dollars a month to Ealan to help
Speaker 1: prop up the Twitter ad business. But I guess I
Speaker 1: don't know if the sob stories have made it to
Speaker 1: Twitter HQ because they are now ex whatever. Forgive me,
Speaker 1: I will never say X. I have to keep reminding
Speaker 1: myself that it will always be Twitter. Just like there's
Speaker 1: no meta, it's just Facebook, okay, just like there's no
Speaker 1: Crypto dot com arena is the.
Speaker 2: Staples Center, just like it's not the Willis Towers, the
Speaker 2: Seers there.
Speaker 1: You go, exactly. Do you have any local beefs like that, Lola,
Speaker 1: where the name changed of a beloved structure and you
Speaker 1: refuse to give it a new name.
Speaker 4: I'm with you on the Staples Center. Christ dot com
Speaker 4: arena is absolutely a no for me.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm fucking waiting every single day for that headline.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, they can't actually fulfill their commitment for
Speaker 1: the naming rights to the thing, and they're gonna.
Speaker 2: Have to pull off course I'm.
Speaker 1: Waiting for There's no fucking way. Crypto dot com is
Speaker 1: still popping right now. No, no way anyway. So on
Speaker 1: Twitter blues about page, it says the company like just today,
Speaker 1: like without really any fanfare. If you just look bab
Speaker 1: just sort of like, oh, hey, we're doing this new
Speaker 1: thing that basically anybody, any user who's paying eight dollars
Speaker 1: a month for you know, the edit window for you
Speaker 1: to edit your posts or like less ads, or get
Speaker 1: to see more tweets, they will now be able to
Speaker 1: toggle whether or not people can see their blue check mark.
Speaker 1: You can now hide your blue check mark in your
Speaker 1: display name.
Speaker 4: I hate it so much. I hate and what is
Speaker 4: the best listen man?
Speaker 2: Even though that was my biggest following was on Twitter,
Speaker 2: being banned from Twitter has been the best thing that's
Speaker 2: ever happened to me.
Speaker 3: I did, yes a whole other conversation. It's dumb, it's
Speaker 3: very it's really stupid.
Speaker 2: But like I look now, I look at it, and
Speaker 2: I just like it makes me laugh, like all the
Speaker 2: ship that's going on with It's just like, what's the
Speaker 2: point if you if you have a blue check market,
Speaker 2: you can toggle it on and off and you're paying
Speaker 2: I can see if you're not paying for it, and
Speaker 2: you can, like, you know, if you're one of the
Speaker 2: few that has the blue check mark, you know from Twitter,
Speaker 2: tackle it on and off.
Speaker 3: But what's the point of paying for it?
Speaker 4: It's just like because you can't do anything if you
Speaker 4: aren't verified. Like I was trying to DM someone who
Speaker 4: I don't who doesn't follow me, and I wasn't allowed
Speaker 4: to do that because I don't pay for the subscription.
Speaker 4: I cannot DM people who do not follow me. So
Speaker 4: there are this is like basic functions that do not
Speaker 4: work anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah on X Yeah, fucking Twitter. I mean it feels
Speaker 1: like with the Tesla bumper stickers right where you see.
Speaker 1: I was talking about this the other day. How in La.
Speaker 1: You know, the the Tesla Y model or whatever is
Speaker 1: like the most selling vehicle, like new vehicle in California apparently,
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 2: Said it for like fourteen thousand dollars or some shit keeps.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, you don't need this window trim, it'll blow
Speaker 1: off in the wind. But I do see cars more
Speaker 1: and more that have like these like sorry, I'm driving
Speaker 1: a Tesla. It's not because of Elon, It's because I
Speaker 1: like electric car, like apologetic like stickers that preempt someone's
Speaker 1: criticism of them owning a Tesla.
Speaker 4: Wait, really, I've never seen this.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've seen like I've seen at least I
Speaker 1: see like once a week almost. If I look out
Speaker 1: for it. Yeah, because there's one that's one was like
Speaker 1: bought the car before Elon became a dick, like one
Speaker 1: that I saw. Another one's like anti Elon Tesla Club.
Speaker 1: There's like a few version, like you know, different iterations
Speaker 1: of that sentiment. But it feels kind of like that
Speaker 1: where now I feel like Elon is probably telling the
Speaker 1: Twitter's like, look, man, I know I'm trashed. So if
Speaker 1: it helps you to keep giving me money, we will
Speaker 1: allow you to hide your scarlet badge whatever we're gonna
Speaker 1: call it.
Speaker 4: Honestly, it's probably smart if you're going to have done
Speaker 4: the policies that they have done. Offering that is like
Speaker 4: a useful option for people.
Speaker 1: Right because they're like, I can't keep getting dunked on
Speaker 1: when I reply to you Elon. It's so fucked up.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh wow, where's that eight bucks going? But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's this is this is the states of that business.
Speaker 1: But it's funny because it allows people. It allows people.
Speaker 2: To you know, pay for the service that they know
Speaker 2: is embarrassing, but turn it off because it's embarrassing.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, was there ever something what was
Speaker 1: did you ever engage in something that you're like, man,
Speaker 1: I ain't. I ain't fucking letting go of that, but
Speaker 1: I will hide it because I get I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: fucking flamed out there for like in it.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of what I mean. Yeah, man,
Speaker 2: I dude, yeah, I got a lot of shit like that.
Speaker 2: But like now I'm thirty six, I give a fuck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, same, I'm like, yeah, back, what's up?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I watched General Hospitals, So what anybody, Charles, I
Speaker 2: feel like.
Speaker 4: They need to be cool kind of goes away once
Speaker 4: you hit thirty and you're like, I like all the
Speaker 4: most embarrassing bands from the early two thousands, all the
Speaker 4: alt rock guys. I love them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm yarling all day. I mean the way I
Speaker 1: wear my fucking crocs, dirty ass crocs out. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man, life's too fucking short, and I just
Speaker 1: need to get something here at CBS so I will
Speaker 1: look like some kind of like vagabond from like if
Speaker 1: the World ended in two thousand and six.
Speaker 4: But that's cool now, it's cool.
Speaker 2: Now throw some gibbets on them joints.
Speaker 1: And you all, no, I ain't doing gibbets, man, I'm
Speaker 1: an adult.
Speaker 4: Do you still use Twitter?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean not. I never really used it, Like
Speaker 1: I was never a prolific tweeter. I'm not really a
Speaker 1: prolific user. Yeah, yeah, I'm not like good at I mean,
Speaker 1: like I don't I don't have the gift of you know,
Speaker 1: you know, firing off like the fire tweet. Sure. So
Speaker 1: really it was more just a place for me to
Speaker 1: like communicate with other people and and see like other
Speaker 1: funny people and talented people do their shit. But I
Speaker 1: use it less and less because just in general, I
Speaker 1: think it it's very bad for my own mental health,
Speaker 1: like to be in a thing where like the content
Speaker 1: that I'm seeing is like bringing up like really awful
Speaker 1: shit or people being really awful about awful shit when
Speaker 1: I already know that exists and I don't need to
Speaker 1: be so vivid all.
Speaker 3: The time totally.
Speaker 1: And then also too like yeah, it's just that's why
Speaker 1: like threads is kind of funny, because it just feels
Speaker 1: like you're like a like a Denny's before it opens
Speaker 1: and it's quieted here.
Speaker 2: It's sweet, It's sweet.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Twitter is just magnifying all the worst parts of
Speaker 4: humanity and making them seem so much bigger than they
Speaker 4: actually are. It's not it doesn't make a person feel good.
Speaker 1: It really don't know. But that's why I also hate
Speaker 1: this ship, because why I'm like, I hate that I'm
Speaker 1: now being like, thank you Mark Zuckerberg, the person who
Speaker 1: could do no wrong, like like comparatively, like, okay, you
Speaker 1: have a one up because you have a better you
Speaker 1: have a less fucked up version of Twitter. But like,
Speaker 1: let's be real, We've seen the business practices of all
Speaker 1: the other businesses and it's led to pain and suffering
Speaker 1: and genocide totally.
Speaker 4: So it's destroyed all of our brains. But who's going
Speaker 4: to win their fight is the most important question.
Speaker 1: I feel like we just need chat rooms, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? That used to be the place where
Speaker 1: you could be ugly and anonymous.
Speaker 4: Isn't that chat that's the place where alia happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's what we need.
Speaker 2: Yeah I'm a sixteen year old girl, I'm a sixteen
Speaker 2: year old boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, what's your asl oh? You know? But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's just funny though, like how we are now,
Speaker 1: like we just have all of these vectors in which
Speaker 1: we can do ourselves untold amounts of happiness or observe
Speaker 1: things that are gonna have such a fucking hold on
Speaker 1: like how we view ourselves or the world. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I can totally see, like, especially with stuff when like people,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're posting content and then you get
Speaker 1: some weird ass trolls and shitsing it coming into your shit.
Speaker 1: It's like, that's not the experience that you just want
Speaker 1: as a human being when you're sharing your thoughts or whatever,
Speaker 1: unless you're a fucking Nazi, in which case give fucked.
Speaker 1: But anyway, all that to say is that we need
Speaker 1: to move on to talk about the Barbie movie because
Speaker 1: it's the everybody's loving it political tool right now. I
Speaker 1: feel like we talked briefly about how like in like
Speaker 1: Latin America it's being used just sort of like the
Speaker 1: Barbie coore aesthetic to sort of align itself with these
Speaker 1: like larger movements. But man, there's also like democrats being
Speaker 1: fucking so sad with this shit, and you're trying to
Speaker 1: use the popularity of the movie to like like sort
Speaker 1: of prop themselves up. Gavin Newsom, for example, oh god,
Speaker 1: he did a Twitter thread highlighting the connections between Barbie
Speaker 1: the character and his policies.
Speaker 2: No he did not.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's like, uh, point a, she's a quote climate
Speaker 1: champion and I'm also and also an advocate for mental
Speaker 1: health like.
Speaker 7: Me, yeah, my boy, yeah yeah, that's that's not quite it.
Speaker 7: Then how come you were like citing with all those
Speaker 7: companies to to like sort of worker rights.
Speaker 2: But anyway, last time I checked, gab gas wasn't five
Speaker 2: dollars in barbie Land.
Speaker 1: They said, what has it said? Like the way one
Speaker 1: of it's word is like number four California is taking
Speaker 1: action to make sure that every California is supported and
Speaker 1: has access to mental health resources. Barbie is also an
Speaker 1: advocate for mental health and has been vocal about normalizing
Speaker 1: mental health struggles and why reaching out for help is
Speaker 1: so important. I get that. I understand that as a
Speaker 1: sentiment about normalizing people being honest about their mental health
Speaker 1: and like their needs and things. I totally that's It's
Speaker 1: like the way I've moved and improved my own life.
Speaker 1: But like, I don't even find I'm like, who is
Speaker 1: this compelling to? If you're Gavin Newsom, You're like, yeah, like,
Speaker 1: who's who's this for?
Speaker 2: Who are you?
Speaker 4: Millennial women?
Speaker 3: Mothers?
Speaker 1: Maybe I feel like but then wouldn't they I feel
Speaker 1: like I even extend, I would say they have maybe
Speaker 1: higher intelligence than to be like, well, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Gavin is Barbie, so.
Speaker 4: But he's literally Barbie though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's also kind of stereotypical Barbie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with his slick back hair. Real piece of shit.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is what I'm saying. People just trying
Speaker 4: to memify their politics and it's not interesting. Do something
Speaker 4: real you had like.
Speaker 1: The it's not one like Patty Murray, the senator from
Speaker 1: Washington said this Barbie wants Congress to pass the pro
Speaker 1: Act to Protect every Worker's Right to organize with Like okay,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, you could just say you could
Speaker 1: just advocate for worker rights, you know, explicitly all the time,
Speaker 1: and not attribute that to be like this Barbie. John
Speaker 1: Fetterman also was like getting in on the bar Barbie action.
Speaker 1: Then Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. They were even had
Speaker 1: like they had like a doll that kind of looked
Speaker 1: like her and they dressed her up in a fucking
Speaker 1: like pink outfit in a corvette in front of the
Speaker 1: Capitol building and shit, and they're just also doing this
Speaker 1: just like, Hey, how this barbie doing work? I wish
Speaker 1: they would do this with like Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer, we talked
Speaker 1: about that, like they'd rather not talk about all the
Speaker 1: like courts, the people they displaced to actually do those tests,
Speaker 1: and all the cancer clusters that popped up when the
Speaker 1: fallout blue fucking thousand miles ago anyway, and we won't
Speaker 1: even talk about what happened with that technology in the
Speaker 1: World War. But hey, all good. But yeah, so like
Speaker 1: even even in Michigan, right, the police were even trying
Speaker 1: to get in on this shit to recruit people to
Speaker 1: be you know, brutalizers of you know, the working poor
Speaker 1: and things like that. The Post said they had a
Speaker 1: picture of like a barbie like in a cop outfit.
Speaker 1: It's from the Michigan State Police said, this barbie is
Speaker 1: ready to serve the state of mission again. Oh, when
Speaker 1: you joined the MSP hashtag, you can be anything from
Speaker 1: a trooper to a forensic science scientist, a motor carrier
Speaker 1: officer to a pilot. The possibilities are endless. Explore your
Speaker 1: future career.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: People were fucking coming at that shit so hard they
Speaker 1: deleted the ship and act like it didn't even happen.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, it's just this is very it's very funny.
Speaker 3: I feel like.
Speaker 4: It's just a bunch of adults trying to appeal to
Speaker 4: young people and doing it really.
Speaker 3: Really badly.
Speaker 4: They're like, yeah, this is what the kids like, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: like when.
Speaker 1: There was so much like hip hop bullshit like in
Speaker 1: the early nineties, and like, hey, everybody, like, what the
Speaker 1: fucking kids like the rhyming and the wrapping. We don't know,
Speaker 1: we don't know what it is, and that's clear from
Speaker 1: the product we're going to push out. But we think
Speaker 1: that's what the youth them like. And then like you're
Speaker 1: saying too. Like in Guatemala, the presidential candidate there Sandra
Speaker 1: Torres shared a musical TikTok video, pitching herself as a
Speaker 1: Barbie who wants prosperity for all. So it's a very
Speaker 1: you know, I guess become a potent visual although I
Speaker 1: just think it's just the most popular ship and that's
Speaker 1: why everyone wants to talk about it. But hey, it
Speaker 1: is what it is.
Speaker 2: I fear like, you know, next summer, like two studios
Speaker 2: are going to try to like recreate the Barbenheimer Yeah ship.
Speaker 2: You know, like because this was a natural and I mean, look,
Speaker 2: I look, I'm an actor, I'm an entertainment. I thought this.
Speaker 2: I thought it was fun, Like it was fun to
Speaker 2: be excited about two summer blockbusters that weren't Marvel movies
Speaker 2: and yeah, Mars movies. But like it was fun. It
Speaker 2: was fun to like get into it. And I got
Speaker 2: my picture in the Barbie Box two. You know, I
Speaker 2: get I it can't post it because we can't promote
Speaker 2: struck work, but you know, but but still, you know,
Speaker 2: I I think it's been super fun. But next year
Speaker 2: is probably gonna be it's gonna be so cringee, so awful,
Speaker 2: because we're already seeing it now like the Natural, like
Speaker 2: the Natural, you know, marriage of these two movies was organic,
Speaker 2: and you know, now we're already seeing so many unorganic
Speaker 2: like people trying to like hone in on like what
Speaker 2: was like natural and popular, and it's only gonna get worse.
Speaker 1: So let's see what's coming out in July next year
Speaker 1: that they will probably try to do this. There's Despicable
Speaker 1: Me foray, move Fassa The Lion King, which is another
Speaker 1: fucking live action.
Speaker 2: I'm not the I'm excited, for that one. I'm excited
Speaker 2: for that one. Move. I'm excited for that one. I'm
Speaker 2: watching that.
Speaker 1: How was the live action one? I'd like it was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw a part of it. I was like, No,
Speaker 1: this ain't this can't be it. This can't be it.
Speaker 4: They're trying to do it with the New Saw movie
Speaker 4: and Pop Patrol. Oh my god, they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: So No, they all saw it. It's movie. Then they
Speaker 1: got Then there's Venom three Twisters, Okay, the fucking follow
Speaker 1: up to the ninety six smash hit Twister.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm exciting.
Speaker 1: I'll put a pin in that I can. I was like,
Speaker 1: that has a little bit of gravitational pull Twisters.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Then you have Captain America Brave New World, and I'm
Speaker 1: sorry about that. No, So I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: like Twisters with Despicable for I don't know, because I
Speaker 1: feel like it.
Speaker 4: Doesn't work with movies that are like the fourth sequel
Speaker 4: to a long existing franchise. It's just not the same thing.
Speaker 4: These were two original films. I mean, obviously based on
Speaker 4: Barbie and based on a person, but still like it's
Speaker 4: not Marvel seventy five, Like it's not gonna work.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, and then you get Beetles Juiced to coming out.
Speaker 1: That'll be dope.
Speaker 2: Now I'm excited for that.
Speaker 4: I'm excited for that too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm excited that if they get Beetle Twister or something.
Speaker 2: Beetle twisters to beetle twist twist that speed.
Speaker 5: Ye.
Speaker 1: Well, Lola, thank you so much for joining us today
Speaker 1: on the Daily sit Geist. Where can people find you?
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Speaker 4: That, right, No, it's a short film, so it's totally independent,
Speaker 4: totally unrelated to the AMPTP.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I have a new short film that's doing festivals
Speaker 4: right now called Pruning, which is about a political commentator
Speaker 4: who inspires a mass shooting and has to contend with
Speaker 4: her conscience. And I'm on Instagram at Ula Lola, and
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Speaker 1: can find you all that good stuff.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, listen, you can always find me
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Speaker 2: Everybody. We in these streets all the time, every day,
Speaker 2: all day except when this ninety degrees are hotter than
Speaker 2: we in the air conditioned rooms. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: We getting older? You know I started doing we started?
Speaker 2: When When did this show? When did we start? Because
Speaker 2: culture kings and then started the same year. Was it
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, twenty seventy seventeen? God damn, I was thirty
Speaker 2: when this shit started. We getting older, man. We can't
Speaker 2: be on these heat streets at all, right, We can't
Speaker 2: be doing it at Jackie's niel on every social media
Speaker 2: thing that I am on. Also, I did confirm I
Speaker 2: can promote this because it's a game show. Yes, so
Speaker 2: I think in the next like two to three weeks.
Speaker 2: They haven't told us to exact their day yet, but
Speaker 2: my episode of Celebrity Family Feud is gonna be on
Speaker 2: and popping. So that's gonna be a fun time. See
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Speaker 2: You know what, man? I got something from the homie
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Speaker 3: What if this was cold and sucked?
Speaker 1: Oh man, be good. On A tweet that I like
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know unless they're on the MSNBC where they're like,
Speaker 1: oh my God, we love it. We stan Jack Smith.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, yeah, we'll see what happens there.
Speaker 7: Uh.
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