The Daily Zeitgeist - Crumbling Empire State Of Mind, A New Scam Event! 09.27.24

Episode Date: September 27, 2024

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How's this? How's this? How's this? How's this? How's this? Now do one of your trademark screams, Blake. There it is. Yeah, yeah. This mother fucker crying. We got to take a cry break. Right after this. And we're just going to take a quick cry break. On mic. Don't throw the commercials. Full morning zoo. I think we just gonna take a quick cry break. On mic.

Don't throw it a commercial. Just full morning zoo. I think we should go full morning zoo, guys. Fuck it. I mean, one of these video episodes, we should just stick to the bit the entire time. Just to... You guys are fucking Gary Slime and Banjo Eric. Uh-oh.

Hey, BJ Eric, I heard a rumor about you, man. I was at Applebee's and Shawna says you haven't paid your tab in like three weeks, bro No, fuck on it she's been fucking with me for too long fucking bullshit, you know, hey, hey First of all, wait, what I say about bringing up Sean on the show. Jesus Christ miles. What the fuck did I say? Wait, hold on, Miles. What did I say about bringing up Shauna on the show? Jesus Christ. Miles, what the fuck did I say, bro? What the fuck were you thinking bringing up Shauna?

You can't bring up Shauna. Shauna? I like my coffee with 17 splendas in it and don't bring up Shauna. Those are the two rules. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was assassinated. Crooks everywhere unearthed the plot to murder a one-woman wiki leaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a Mafia state.

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Do you ever wonder where your favorite foods come from? And like, what's the history behind bacon wrapped hot dogs? Hi, I'm Eva Longoria. Hi, I'm Maite Gomez-Rejon. Our podcast, Hungry for History, is back. And this season, we're taking a bigger bite out of the most delicious food and its history. Seeing that the most popular cocktail is the Margarita,

followed by the Mojito from Cuba and the Piñu Colada from Puerto Rico. Listen to Hungry for History on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 357, or wherever you get your podcasts. Yep, clever name not just a clever name Not just a very very clever name. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness Okay, okay Friday hey, I'm trying to help my Dennis Miller Billy. No the face was wild bro. Okay Friday September 27th 2024. Yes. it's Friday. Good news. It's also a national. I don't know what National Day of Forgiveness is.

I didn't even do anything. Oh, I think it just means like, hey, man, it's about forgiveness. Let's skip that. And let's get to National Scarf Day, National Corn, no, my day. Forgive your parents for being mega supporters. I think that's what it's what they're going for there. They're like, please, please call us. We miss our grandkids.

Anyway, National Skar Day. You give your uncle and grandparents who you can't have at Thanksgiving anymore. Yes, and I'm sorry you found his Facebook burner account. I really am. He doesn't mean half of the stuff he says. But also National Corn Beef Hash Day, one of my favorite forms of breakfast.

National Crush a Can Day and National Gay Men's HIV Aids Awareness Day, September 27th, it's your day. There it is. My name is Jack O'Brien, AKA. He's a porn site shit poster, now running in Carolina. Posts on nude Africa.

His opinions on erotica. food to loving transphobe, return of flavor is his big hope, comments on porno as mini-soldier from a peep show in Carolina. He's a black Nazi, black Nazi, black Nazi. E-E-E-E-E. And courtesy of Re-Donks on the Discord. Re-Donks, who says, a great name by the way, capital Re, capital Donks. So it's not like just Re-Donks, it's an email about Donks, you know?

Oh shit, yeah, yeah. Re-the-Donks. Regarding the Donks, yes, yes. Re-the-Donks, you know? Oh, shit, yeah, yeah. Oh, re the dunks. Regarding the dunks, yes, yes. Re the dunks, could we circle back? Re dunks? Anyways, been a fan of the show since day one and don't really post, but this popped in my head and I thought I'd share.

And we're glad you did re dunks. I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, is Mr. Miles Gray! Yes, it is Miles Gray. Okay. You know what it is. It's Friday. I'm the Lord at Lankersham.

I'm the show gun with no gun. I'm the podcast host whose buns went toast. Okay. But now I'm on that bike and I'm getting my booty right. So shout out to everybody for tuning in. Shout out Jack for having me back again for this episode. We got a good streak going. I'm really feeling good about it.

So thank you to everybody. Hosting that podcast with God ass. What is God ass? Like the ass of a God, man. The ass of a Greek God. And as we've talked about, the Greeks had cakes. They were caked up. They did, they did.

Anyways, Miles. Just thinking deeply about that? Just thinking of those asses. Those Greek asses, man. Just like how- Golly, what'd I do to be a Greek guy? What, really? Well, just moving around, walking around enough that I had an ass that looked like a normal

human ass, you know? A normal human ass? I look like Mr. Incredible over here. We heard about what that torso do. We already know. Really tiny below, below this screen. We're doing a video episode for listeners. Yeah.

Do a video episode, but I will, you can't see my ass in the video. And that is entirely on purpose because I go full Mr. Incredible below the rib cage. What it grew. Yeah. What it grew. I do. I go full what it the rib cage. What it grew. Yeah. What it grew. I go full what it grew down there. What it grew.

Anyways, Miles, we often say we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat. Today we're a little, you know, we're getting there on this one. Yeah. A little trepidatious. Yeah, a little bit. He's, he's given us the, the two finger salute. Oh, he's given us a littleious. Yeah, a little bit. He's given us the two-finger salute. Oh, he's given us a little wave. Oh, thumbs up now.

He's a brilliant comedian. He's a brilliant writer and actor. He's brought you comedy albums such as the Blake album Stuffed Boy Live from the Pandemic and the newest special Daddy Long Legs, which you can go watch right now on YouTube on this very platform that you're watching this episode on, if you're watching the video episode. He's on the other hand, so those are all good things. On the other hand, and I don't usually go to the other hand

when introducing a guest, but he is the coiner of the truly disgusting phrase, plumpers, to describe his legs. Yeah, and ours, to describe his legs. Yeah. And ours, to be honest. And ours. Yeah. I mean, not much in the ass, but my legs do go fast. I'm all quad.

As the Sir Makes a Lot song doesn't say. Please welcome the hilarious, the chaotic, the riding a recumbent bike in short shorts is Blake Wexler! It's Blake Wexler! Hey, it's Blake Wexler, AKA. Let's talk about Wex, baby. Let's bring him on TDZ. Let's talk about all the plump things and all the Trump things that may be.

Let's talk about Wex. Let's talk about Wex. Mm. Little, little, little, little. I figured out how to use the discord. That was from Hugo Bosque on discord. So thank you. Thank you for that.

Great name. Friend of the show. Once guest of music. Hugo came on. Yeah. And also, you know, also a fantastic trend ocean bounty hunter for all the Star Wars fans out there.

Bosc. Bosc. No? What's the term is? Bask. So what are you talking about? I'm a boss separatist. Yeah.

Bosc. I simply took a Bosc. Oh yeah. Blake, are you doing good? How are the Eagles? They doing all right? Uh, they're doing all right. They're, they're records good and they're not doing all, no one's doing

all right in the city of Philadelphia. Yeah, they're, they're doing, they're two in one and they're figuring it out. I'll set back. We'll be right back. Yeah. Yeah. All right. All right.

I just want to check it. Cause I know that's your thing too. You host that, you host that show. You host that show for them. The 76ers haven't even had media day yet and I'm already in crisis mode. Yeah. It was so hard recording boosties. He didn't want to talk about the Sixers. He's like, whatever. Yeah.

So Eagles two and one 76ers haven't even had media day yet. I'm already in 76. Yeah, that's where I'm at. I think it's a, it's a tear down Blake. We, uh, they went in all in for big talent this off season and I think we just tear it down right now, just start selling, selling the team for parts. Yeah. I couldn't agree more.

Have you seen, are you following the stadium thing about where they're going to put the new stadium? They're looking to get a new stadium for no reason. And they want to destroy Chin new stadium. They're looking to get a new stadium for no reason. And they want to destroy Chinatown in Philadelphia in order to build it again for no, I mean, the reasons probably they think they can make money off of it, but yeah, it's a huge bummer. So that's happening, but I don't live in Philadelphia anymore. I moved. So you don't care.

It's not going to be your tax dollars anymore. No, and it never was because you have to pay them for that, to be something that affects you. Cool little hack I learned. And if you move, you don't have to, you're, you're clear. It's like, um, but without the, yeah, exactly. Exactly. Just declare it.

My address changed. The other option was putting it in New Jersey, which a lot of people don't realize is a suburb of Philadelphia. So I don't care. I don't think you would have to change the name of the team, but I'm sure people in Philadelphia have their reasons. No, legally you would, you would have to change it because it's lying.

You know, like legally you're not allowed to do that. It's the New Jersey Jets and the New Jersey Giants. Like, not the New York. They play. Yeah. I think all professional sports teams should move, should play their games in New Jersey. Come with us. The Jersey Lakers.

I would love that. I would rock a New Jersey Lakers fucking outfit. That's sick. Well, Blake, it's been good so far. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's something to have you here, man. The something's all mine.

We are going to get to know you a little bit better. The something's all mine. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of the big hard-hitting news stories we're talking about today. Another scam experience, pop culture experience, just hit the towers. A second one, Bridgerton themed ball in Detroit.

And that one just sounds like it's going to go wrong. No disrespect to Detroit, but you're like the Bridgerton ball in Detroit. Didn't go according to plan. What, what's going on here? What's going on here? Feel bad for the fans, but yeah, it's, it's, it was quite an attempt, I must say, by the organizers. We are going to just take a look.

So Eric Adams was indicted, double LP world excited. Obviously have to bring that back because this one's happening in New York and. Yeah. All sorts of corruption for, from somebody who's a terrible person. His policies have been horrible. I mean, he's a former cop who has doubled down on everything you would expect from a former cop. He's a joke mayor.

Yeah. However, also some of the wildest moments just of public, like, I w I want to look back at two in particular, his interview from earlier this year, and then a PSA he did for back in 2011. Yeah. Just because I don't know. It's true. It's truly like some next level shit that this guy's playing out there.

It's just, it's just a guy who has no self awareness. And that's like the best kind of politician for the purpose of this show is someone who is so hopped up on their own shit that they're like, record this. Let's say your child has a frame. That whole video is stupid. But I just want to look at this. I think we talked about it briefly when he was running for mayor, but like really letting it breathe. You're like, and this man was the mayor and in charge of the largest police force.

We're going to look at the notebook guy, Nicholas Sparks, salad dressing recipe. And we're going to look at, yeah. Oh, we are. Oh, yeah. Okay, baby. So we'll talk about those things, plenty more. But first Blake, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? And don't lie.

Ask and you shall receive. One thing from my search history is Jersey City Giants hat. So moved up to Jersey City. So basically New York about a week ago. And I saw this cool hat and I'm like, how soon can you rep a place that you moved to? We'll get to that in a moment. And it turns out there was a minor league baseball team in Jersey City called the Jersey City Giants and it's actually where Jackie Robinson broke the color

barrier in 1946. So one of those things where like, it's like big baseball fan know that story, but I just thought it was in a regular baseball game, but it was like a triple A game, which makes sense. So yeah, first, uh, black player to play a professional. This I think would be a really dope logo for Jesus Christ. Well, that's how I'm going to actually repropriate it.

I'm stepping on this a little bit, but I am starting a church, um, where you all have to wear a retro baseball uniforms to it and that's where it starts. So yeah, it is going to be Jesus Christ. Yeah. Jesus Christ. Yeah, this is Jesus. And you didn't, and you're looking for it now. Are you going to have to get one on Ebbets field flannels that makes all those vintage hats? Yeah. Jesus Christ. Yeah, this is Jesus. And you didn't, and you're looking for it now. Are you going to have to get one on Ebbets Field flannels that makes all those vintage hats?

Yeah, that's where I'm going to get it. That's where I'm going to get it. So yeah. And by the way, furthest promo, if they could throw me a 4% discount, Yeah, I would really appreciate it. Ebbets Field, come on, bro. I see all the Japanese vintage jerseys you do. I'm always eyeing them.

I'm always eyeing them. Holler at me. Yeah. Come on. Give me some wool. That's my thing. I just, I'm sick ofing them. I'm always eyeing them holler at me. Yeah, come on. Give me some wool That's my thing. I just I'm sick of all this breathable material You have more wool. I just want to wear a thick wool t-shirt in the form of a vintage baseball jersey Remember how athletic and comfortable babe Ruth looked? Yeah

Yeah. When he was playing. Yep. Wrapped in wool. 275 pound. I just, yeah. Like any world-class athlete, wrapped in wool. I think of Ty Cobb's glistening skin and I think, wow, that's what I want to wear and I want to be a racist like that.

Yeah. The only thing more glistening than his skin was his cleats when he was going into second base. Spiking everybody. Just a total piece of shit. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. But yeah, so it turns out that was where Jackie Robinson played his first professional game.

You know, do you remember the movie? It wasn't Tommy Lee Jones, Ty Cobb in that movie? Like that game. God damn right, he was. It's a strong cat. It would be him or Clint Eastwood. I just remember not knowing who Ty Cobb was and just seeing that movie as a kid,

I'm like, yo, what the fuck is up with this guy? It was such a fucking maniac. Anyway. Yeah. And then it's like every baseball player was that. Yeah. I remember like that, that was a time during my childhood where every, it felt like every week,

a new like Ty Cobb biography was coming out. They were like, man, this guy could hit a baseball and was also racist. Like the rest of America at the time. What a story. There's a period where I couldn't keep my Thai Cob and my Walt Disney. She's like, is it a Thai Cob story or a Walt Disney story? Yeah. Who was the swastika on their back?

Was it, what's the Thai Cob? I think that's Elsa, right? It was Elsa. Yeah. Her Elsa. Oh man. Yeah. Who was the swastika on their back? Was it, was it Ty Cobb? I think that's Elsa, right? It was Elsa. Yeah. Her Elsa. Oh man, Elsa has some really problematic tattoos. Oh yeah.

You ever notice how she doesn't wear short sleeves? Yeah. Why you never seen her shoulder blades? How she always has those gloves on, man. So the story from Frozen is all a conspiracy theory to throw you off the scent, why she really has to wear the gloves. There's some wild tattoos down there, man. Yeah.

You don't want to know. Down there, yeah. Down there is a weird way to say that. Yeah, on the hands. Yeah. Yeah. Down there. On her hands. On her hands.

Yes. Yeah, the Jersey City logo does, like also it evokes fishing. It looks like somebody has caught the Cincinnati Reds logo with a fish hook. Yep. And you know who the ultimate Fisher of the city of Cincinnati was? Guy by the name of Jesus Christ. Oh, wow. Oh yeah.

All right. Yeah. Let them know. Thank you. I have to, Miles. Yeah, I know. I know. And he was a gold star guy, not a skyline guy.

For some reason, every time we do a video episode, it ends up going in like really weird Jesus directions. Is that true? Our first Jekies episode, if people wanna see like, the episode that would make my parents just die. Oh shit, that's right. I was, yeah, you know what? I was saying all this shit I was like,

wanted to say in Catholic and like Christian school growing up. I was like, what's up under that? Like, anyway, check out the video. I'm so. It's a thought I feel like everyone's had. Yeah, yeah, of course. We're all perverts. Come on now.

They should blur his feet out. You think Jesus got a wiki feed? Oh yeah. I mean, probably the most visible in the game, you know? Strongest arches outside of St. Louis. I've been saying it for years. Wow. Is that because St. Louis only has one arch?

Yeah. Yeah. And how do you think it got there? Jesus steps on something. Oh, this is bullshit. No, Jesus does have a WikiFeet page. Somebody do the fucking literal Lord's work and make sure Christ has a WikiFeet page. I mean, he was a foot freak. Like a lot of people are like, oh my God, he was willing to wash people's feet?

To wash people's feet? Yeah. Yeah, willing. Yeah, he was doing them a favor. Yeah, the guy was rock hard. Washing with my fucking mouth, bro. I don't care. That's how much I'll wash your feet. I don't know. I guess I'll eat dinner. I guess I'll clean them with my mouth. Geez, because I just want to show you how relatable I am.

Why does he keep going? Then the real Jesus, the real Jesus shows up. He goes, Hey, what the fuck did I tell you? Oh get out of here That wasn't Jesus guys. That's a fucking pervert who goes around sucking people's feet saying he's me Why is no one arresting this guy put to death for? No, no, we must forgive this young man and to demonstrate I will wash his feet. Yeah, and that's all that perverts wanted the whole time. It's a parable. It's a parable.

It's in there. If you read close, Blake, what's something you think is underrated? Underrated cuckoo clocks We have a fucking clock don't you there? Okay, go on go on why was that was that a hardly Being a foot No, I'm just gonna take the foot I'm like anticipating just laughing really hard No, I'm just trying to take the foot off. I'm like anticipating just laughing really hard. That's I'm like, get the fuck out of here.

Cause I know you're about to go on. Okay, go on. No, I don't have to tell you what this, uh, what this pick makes me do. It makes me go cuckoo. Yep. Cause you're cuckoo for cuckoo clocks. Yes. Your problem for cocoa clocks by, uh, my Fred Todd and I used to have a bit where it'd be like.

Todd Glass? I don't, yes, yes. It would be like, God, did you hear about, um, about our friend Eric? Yeah, he's in really bad shape. He went cuckoo for cocoa puffs and he's, he's so, he's sick. He's completely sick. He knocks on the door in the middle of the night trying to get them. Um, but yeah, no, I think, I don't know if you've noticed most clocks don't have

a bird that comes out of them. I would say 55% of clocks don't have birds that come out, but the ones, the other 45% do, and I love the fact that it kind of helps you keep track of the day and kind of takes the edge off of the eternal clock taking towards your death off a little bit where it's like, oh, I lost another hour, but listen to how many times the bird makes a noise. Yeah, it's like, it's really not that bad.

Full of life. Does it do, wait, it cuckoos for every hour? Is that how it works too? Like how a normal grandfather, oh man, when it hits noon, that's insufferable. Yeah. Yeah, it's bad. You're like, yeah, we fucking get it. It's actually cuckoo for punctuality. Yeah, it is. You know, it's a stickler. Yep. So sue me. Cuckoo for punctuality. So what? So what? Are that bad? But yeah, no, I love them. But one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock. Three o'clock.

Four o'clock. We're going to rock around the clock tonight. This show is no good. We really are. We're going to. This show is a blemish. I wonder if people like didn't recognize it was bad when it was just recorded. But now there's like a video component.

They're like, wait, what the fuck? Are we listeners? This is people. This is people with brains. Yeah. They're just saying nursery rhymes right now. What, uh, what Blake is something you think is overrated. I'll fucking tell you what's overrated. Smart homes, smart homes. So we moved into a place that, you know, nice, like just a normal place, but the

guy who lived here before who doesn't fucking own it, just rewired the entire apartment with smart home capabilities. And I can't turn on the lights. I can't turn off the fucking lights. The shades will go up and down. I can't operate the shades. So it's, it's an actual prison that I'm living in where also it's motion detecting. So in the middle of the night, I'm groggy.

I'll go to the bathroom, the fucking, all the lights come on in the bathroom and I can't shut it off. Right. Yes. It's horrible. It's hard. So anyway, you just get blind by the lights. Um, and then yeah, I'm revved up like a dude.

So I can't buy a douche that you used to rent this place before. Wait, so what do you do? Like you need an app or something? Like, is there any way to wrest control from the fucking machines in any way? So I tried just pouring water all over the house. Just spraying water all over these things. That is how it works in movies.

Yeah. It is just like some blue lightning, just like a few lines of blue lightning and then time solved. Oh is how it works in movies. Yeah. It is how it works. Just like some blue lightning, just like a few lines of blue lightning, and then time solved. Oh, if it isn't your worst enemy. Water. Yeah. Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch.

And also works with Teslas. If you wanna, no, actually that's not, don't listen to that. That's just bad advice. Cyber truck, not in car wash mode, I think it's still an issue, but anyway. Yeah. Yeah.

But, so that's the thing where it's, it's supposed to be easy. Like it's supposed to make your life easier. The smart technology, but it's actually causing more stress. So there's, there's an app that we don't have access to. We have to find this guy. We have to, it's just, really like to be like, Hey, sorry. Did you rent this place in Jersey city? Like, can I have like the code?

Yeah. Wow. That's exactly what's happening. And it seems like we're just going to have to get new, like, cause some advice that guide has never tried to do the electric in your home yourself. Like just don't it's damn. Cause you know, your fucking room, your home, who gave you that advice? Yeah.

Fucking coward. Yeah. Yeah. I do all my little small man. You had a really a fucking coward. Yeah. Yeah. I do all my own electrical. He was a small man. He had a really soft voice. No, it was, but yeah, anyway, so I'm nervous. I'm definitely not going to do it. So I think we have to get like an electrician here, just take out the things that I don't actually turn on.

I won't even do a task in my home if it's in a room that has electricity in it. I agree. I have the same rule. Yes. I have to have someone come in and turn the microwave on for me. And then... Babe, I could get electrocuted. Oh, shit.

I'm nervous. I also keep my head right next to the door when we microwave. Just like, I like to hear it cook and sizzle. I do. Yeah. Well, you got to listen for the popcorn to pop. Yeah Babe it's popping Babe, your ear is really red

As big as your other ear, huh? Yeah, that's that's my listen This one's more for vibrations than sound. That's my microwave popcorn listening ear. Can't expect it to work as good as the other one. All right, let's take a quick break and come back and talk about a Bridgerton themed ball. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.

My name is Manuel de Lilla. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unearths the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. To listen to new episodes one week early and 100% ad-free, subscribe to the iHeart True Crime Plus channel, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. 24 hours. EPM 110, 120. She's terrified. Should we wake her up?

Absolutely not. What was that? You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it. That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year ago.

We're not hurting people. There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Do you ever wonder where your favorite foods come from?

Like what's the history behind bacon wrapped hot dogs? Hi, I'm Eva Longoria. Hi, I'm Maite Gomez-Rejon. Our podcast, Hungry for History, is back. Season two, season two. Are we recording, are we good? Oh, we push record, right? Okay.

And this season, we're taking a bigger bite out of the most delicious food and its history. Saying that the most popular cocktail is the margarita, followed by the mojito from Cuba, and the piñuculada from Puerto Rico. So all of these, we have, we thank Latin culture. There's a mention of blood sausage in Homer's Odyssey that dates back to the 9th century BC.

BC? I didn't realize how old the hot dog was. Listen to Hungry for History as part of the My Cultura podcast network available on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. It's true. We are. We're back. We are. And this is, yeah, this is a theme giving Glasgow Willy Wonka chocolate factory.

Yeah, a lot of a lot of scammy balls and fan events out there. And yeah, it's happened again. So obviously, like Bridgerton is a huge show with a ton of fans that would like love to pretend that they are in the show. I totally get the appeal. Like it has its own aesthetic and like musically, you know, fashion wise, et cetera. And so Netflix knows this and they have a legit event called the Queen's Ball that has like gone

like traveled across the country and world like cities like in like LA, New York, Melbourne, in Australia and it's like a fucking full-on production like set recreations, they have actual outfits from the productions that you can look at, really like a portrait photo booth, themed bars with bartenders dressed in period clothing, a dance show like a portrait photo booth, themed bars with bartenders dressed in period clothing, a dance show like a queen that shows up and chooses a diamond of the evening. It's like an event. And that Netflix party has tickets starting at $39. So I'm like, okay, that's not bad. So when people in

Detroit, yeah, when people in Detroit heard about a Bridgerton ball with tickets costing anywhere from $120 to $1,000, people got excited. The web miles my brain when I hear, okay, the other one's $40. This one starts at $120. It's gotta be better. It's going to be three times better. At minimum. At least that is.

Yeah. I'm such a sucker for shit like that. Oh yeah. That's, that's definitely fan math for sure. High price equals good goodness. We have 100%, 100%. The website said- Is it made in America? Can I ask you that? Because I know there's shows in Britain, but is the event made in America?

Yes, the event is- Is it built for tough? Yes, it is built for tough, exactly. Okay, good. It's patriotic. Thank you. But so on the event website it said, Step into the enchanting world of the Regency era

at the Detroit Bridgerton themed ball. Join us. The Hyatt Regency. Yeah. That was the Regency era that we were referring to. It's the Hyatt. 2002 to 2004. The Hyatt in the early 2000s.

And we know it's a bando now, but we've turned it into a whimsical event space. So it says, join us for an evening of sophistication, grace and historical charm experience a night like no other filled with music, dance and exquisite costumes. And, but this event started off shaky though. The event was originally supposed to happen in late August, but at the last minute organizers had to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances and people didn't get a refund. That's the first red

flag for people. Okay. They rescheduled it to this last weekend and people still shelled out the money to get in on the unique experience and paid a lot of money. Also, like people were dressed up, like custom custom-made outfits, doing their hair, all kinds of shit like that. And what they got was their hair, all kinds of shit like that. And what they got was not quite what was advertised here. This is from a local news report about the would be fantastic event. The way that it was described is that this was going to be a Bridgerton evening, we were going to have classical music, good dinner. And there was going to be a play. And they were

going to pick diamond of the season. They were going to give away all of these prizes and we went in and it's completely empty in there. Organizers, Uncle Amy LLC have since disabled its website and turned off social media comments. I say reaching out to the co-owner Chelsea Beard as early as 5 a.m. Monday. Monday afternoon, 7 News Detroit's Whitney Bernie also called. That's called door they step in someone. They got no response. OK, and yes, you didn't have a hype man who was also like a play.

Because they really if either of us ever gets interviewed for a local story, like something terrible happens to us, we have to make a promise right now that the other of us will go and we should just be cruising for news crews just to be normal yeah exactly and I'll just do like what guy I'll do Westside gun fucking as like anyway so that event was fucking shaky the like the event space was empty. The food was some regular ass buffet that ran out within one hour. I put a picture here in the dock that you can see that is it is all giving like a mediocre prom. Like it looks like it's like a frozen people waiting in line outside like the yeah, the food, I guess, does proms have food?

Maybe, maybe it's like a cash bar wedding. They have food. Yeah. Proms? They have. I forgot, Blake, Blake's a prom connoisseur. I'm a prom king. So the shit was like, you know, the, they said people weren't even scanning

your like tickets at the door. There was like, you know, the, they said people weren't even scanning your like tickets at the door. There was like nothing. So randos are just walking in and eating the food that ran out within one hour. Like I said, the Netflix event had a full bar. They were promising people drinks. The only drinks they had was I'm not joking blue Kool-Aid you had to buy. That was the only beverages on sale for people they were promised Libations, okay, and they marked it up to apparently the woman who is playing the Queen people are saying was totally out of character

While basically hustling her business card to anyone that would listen so think you could pose and take a picture and she was like Okay, that's my favorite detail Just not even in characters like okay. Yeah, so if you need me, this is my card. Yeah, good to see you. I'm the queen of Detroit real estate. I'm a realtor. So here, why don't I hand you this? I'm Detroit's muffler queen.

You got any muffler problems, you come see me. Your card making too much noise here. I will shut that card. Yeah, there are pictures from inside the event that have like promotions for other like events on the wall and shit. Like it's supposed to be this immersive thing and it just looks like you're inside a fucking bus station.

My favorite part is like, so there was a main sort of dining room floor that filled up immediately. So people were relegated to the upstairs. That was this. It was just a fucking empty room. And like, yeah, bummed out people in the nicest fancy dress, like sitting on like on their phones, like, man, this shit was like a radisson. Yeah, not a higher agency, honestly.

No, not even a region. The live music, they were promised. OK, they had live music. It was the people felt so bad for this woman. It was just this young woman on violin by herself who played, they said for like four hours straight. Damn. No breaks. Just having to work that violin.

I don't know how many times you can play, you know, despacito on violin for people, but that's what she did. It's so classy though. It is. I mean, look, shout out to, what is it? That vitamin string quartet that like their entire catalog blew up because they were using their like sort of rethought up remix current songs with like string arrangements throughout the show. They said the backgrubs play though.

Right. What if we played yellow on violin? Yeah. Yeah. We had one of those at my wedding. FYI. Oh yeah. Have you heard clocks on cello. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I had one of those at my wedding. FYI. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. Have you heard clocks on cello? Yeah, actually, it kind of goes.

Is that that's a Coldplay song. Is that? Yeah. Claps. Then are we making fun of this or are we saying that we like it? Because I was making fun of it and also saying that I fully did it at my wedding. This shit goes hard. But like the backdrops again, this is supposed to be like, again, anywhere from 120 to a thousand dollars,

you can see like they just unfurled some plastic rows, like tablecloth print. And they're like, and that's your backdrop for photos. This is this poor like lady having to serve a bunch of angry, upset people in fancy dress, the food, and then the dancing, right? The dancing was one exotic dancer. They wheeled out the play or whatever.

They wheeled out like one of those, like you don't need a ceiling to put this pole up for someone to dance on. And then this is the quote unquote entertainment for the evening. I'll just play a quick clip of this. ["The Fancy Dress"] quick clip of this. I don't remember this. Oh, these poor people. I don't remember this in Bridgerton. Oh, you weren't looking hard enough. Because obviously there was string

music. Okay. The Royal Pole Dancer has arrived. Now please get out your shillings for this intrepid young business person. But yeah, like every other fucking scam event, the organizers are saying anything, but sorry, here's your money back. This is what they said, quote, We understand that not everyone had the experience. This is almost like identical to the fucking Glasgow Willy Wonka one. We understand that not everyone had the experience they hoped for at our most recent event Sunday night at the Harmony Club. And for that, we sincerely apologize. Our intention was to provide a magical evening, but we recognize that organizational challenges affected the enjoyment of some guests. We take full responsibility and accountability for these shortcomings.

Please know that we are working diligently to address all concerns to ensure that all guests have the enjoyable experience they deserve. Your feedback is invaluable and we truly appreciate both the positive and constructive comments shared with us. They deactivated their website, they took down their website, they took down everything. There's no comments, all the comments are disabled on their Instagram account account So that's where things are and people are basically out a lot of money Unfortunately this this one it seems like I don't know if this is funnier or sadder Which is a question I asked myself about pretty much any topic But because a lot of these had to do these scam events were geared towards children

And this is one of the first ones that's geared towards adults. So like, it is sadder in a way where at least you could get angry, where like, oh my God, these people, they deceived my child and like, yeah, yeah, yeah, some more righteous anger, yeah. Yeah, and now it's just like, oh, I wanted to have a nice magical evening as a princess.

And you took this away from me. Yeah, like as someone who is part of a few fandoms, like I totally understand the urge to do something like this. Like, you know, someone is creating the world that you secretly want to live in, or not even secretly you tell everybody about how you wish you lived on a Corellian cruiser, uh, but people, I think this is the thing to your point, Blake, for an adult event like this, we have to be more diligent when it comes to assessing the bullshit because you start just like vague clip art and stock images from the show without anything

really being there. And again, they canceled the first event. I was looking on Instagram, someone claimed in a comment, they worked for the first venue and they said the reason the first event was shut down is because the event planners did not fully pay out all the deposits they needed to to actually hold the event. Now, I don't know if that's how true that is, but red flags. You already paid once, they didn't give you a refund. The company that organized it was called Uncle and Me LLC. So I don't know why that gives you the sense that they're going to do a good job of putting on a Bridgerton gala.

Yeah. Have you ever done anything with your uncle and it was like, it ended up okay. I remember like helping my uncle build something. Wow, so tasteful. Yeah. It's a support group for perverts is what you would call uncle and me. Like that's what that should be called. Big unk energy.. I big unc energy.

But huge unc energy. I got scammed recently where with standup, which I should know better. Like this is a thing where I should know better. I've been doing this long enough where there was this a book or a quote unquote book or being like, Hey, we're putting on this event. It's a Kenan Thompson is presenting it and it's a talent event. And I'm like, it didn't say he's hosting it. He said he's presenting it.

And it was very vague as to like who the like talent bookers were going to be there. And I'm like, all right, this thing's not costing me money. It's five minutes from my place. Like it's really no sweat off my back if this is a scam, but this seems like a scam. Fuck it. I'm going for it. I'm like, Kenan Thompson is also in France for the Olympics right now. Like I know he's not coming to this.

And verifiably not even on the same continent. But you're like, I'm watching him with Kevin Hart on NBC right now. I know he's not flying back for this shit. And yeah, it was a total ripoff, but it was funny because it didn't cost me money, whereas if it costs like 120 bucks, a thousand, but like that is, wait, so you, it's double-deck book. So they booked you for this gig and you're like, I'll do it. And then you showed up and there just was no gig or just was no Kenan. There was no Kenan.

There were no talent book, like, you know, like agents or like, you know, talent bookers. So it was just some scumbag from Atlantic city. Shut up and did stand up. I did stand up, I killed, but it was all, you know. I killed the organizer who fucking invited. I killed, I committed, yeah, first degree murder. And we're trying to get that down to manslaughter

because no one's ever, hey, listen, I degree murder. And we're trying to get that down to manslaughter because no one's ever, Hey, listen, I have passion for everything I do, particularly crimes of. And yeah, it was a thing where, you know, they clearly were taking the door, the money, this was the saddest part is that the audience who did pay money thought Kenan Thompson was going to be there. So there were like 250 audience members there. And then the host in passing is like, all right, everybody, we got a great show for you tonight.

You know, Keenan couldn't make it. But I think, and then you just heard the whole crowd go, oh. It was such a... Did people get up? Or at that point, it's like diminishing. Couldn't make it. But he's still confidently and fully presents this.

Yeah. But we are using his name with or without his knowledge. So there's that. Please don't tag him in anything. There's some- Don't tag him. Got a bunch of cease and desists already. It's a headache.

You know how it is dealing with these stars. A lot of desists. I'm sorry that it didn't work out for you, but you know, we're here to support you. Thank you. Yeah. Well, I'm the next host of The Hormuz. I think these Bridgerton things are going to be more and more calm.

Like, I think this is just the beginning. Like, I read an article about the orb or whatever the fuck is, you know, the sphere in Las Vegas. And like, that is part of this big, like, thing that whoever, like, advertisers and marketers, whoever, like, creates psychographic networks, like like says that is like, it's the big thing that people just like want immersive experiences because our lives are bad. And so we're like, they're like, yeah, they just like want to feel like they don't exist in the context of their lives. They want to feel like they are in some other world.

I think other than the orb, the orb is the only one that I've heard of that consistently people are like, yeah, it's really weird. You don't feel like you're on the planet at all. From some people, some people are like, yeah, it's just a weird bad motion sickness experience. But if you go to Disneyland or Disney World as an adult, that's what that whole experience is about, is immersive feeling like you're not there. It still feels to me, not to everyone, obviously they're Disney adults who love Disney, and I think that's great.

But to me, it still feels like you're like in a bar when the lights come on, like on your childhood. Right. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Cause you don't just see Minnie. Yeah.

And you don't just see like goofy or whatever. You also see a guy vomiting in the corner, you know? You do get the whole. Right. Yeah, that's why it's, you know, for kids, it's, they don't, they have tunnel vision. Like they see, like, oh my God, it's, it's, you know, I was trying to think of a celebrity equivalent

for an adult, Jeff Bezos was the only name that came. Oh my God, it's Bezos. Dad, Dad, Bezos. Have you been to Amazon land? It's one of my, it's incredible. Oh yeah, it's great. It's coming, and everybody's gonna be disappointed in it it because I think the, the ideal that we have is like most of being like transported by an immersive experience

is mostly from our childhood. I totally sympathize with it. I think like we all crave that, especially more and more in the current environment of a disintegrating empire. But I do feel like we're just going to continue to have stories where people are like, yeah, come on in here. If you just go through that door,

it's fully immersive. You're going to forget the world that you live in. There's a venue downtown by the SoFi, like in Inglewood called Cosm. That's basically a half sphere screen where they show sporting events now. And it's like in like it, the fucking screen is, oh, yeah, wild. And they show like soccer games there. And I was going to go see Arsenal play.

And like the tickets are so much money. It's unbelievable. I hear like this is just give you an idea of like what these seats look like. God, like look at this. It's pro. Oh my God. Like so it's a full.

It's like two levels and you can buy like a booth has eight seats and it's like 300 or $400. It's a shit ton of money just to watch on like a freaky screen. But again, I think for a lot of people, especially if you like to watch sports in a new way, it's kind of worth the money. But yeah, like everything is just becoming more and more immersive and like they pump stadium sound into there and they try and give you a feel of like, Hey, can't make the game give us $90 to sit down.

Like, yeah, it's like, I could just go to the game, right? Yeah. To your, to your point, Miles, like that like, I could just go to the game. Right. But to your point, Miles, like that's, you know, Arsenal plays in London, you can't just go to the game. So there must be some people who love you. You gotta split in other countries. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And we're back and the government of the city of New York is disintegrating. As we speak, Eric Adams was indicted. And before we get to that, I want to talk about Nicholas Sparks's salad dressing. I like that tease. Before we get to that, Nicholas Sparks's salad dressing. The news, the first ever indictment of a New York mayor. But what about this salad dressing?

Let's not get ahead. Let's not put the card ahead of the horse. Yeah. Let's get to the notebook. Don't put the dressing in front of the bowl now. So this is going viral because an article pointed out that he is putting, it's from a profile of him in Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. So here, times recently did a profile of him in their real estate section.

And the reason people noticed it is the reporter and photographer arrived as Sparks was making himself a salad that included a dressing that one of the ingredients was 16 packets of Splenda. Oh, wait, that's why y'all were saying that earlier? Oh, I thought you were exaggerating. No, 16 packets of, so I don't know, have you guys had experience with Splenda? Yes. Oh yeah. So like one Splenda is the equivalent of like they say two packets of sugar, but I think it's way sweeter than that. It's so overpoweringly sweet. I mean, it's, you know, it's lab concocted to just replace sugar, like replace your memory of sugar.

If my back's against the wall with like sweet and low or equal staring me, you know, like down the barrel, I will use Sponda, but I have to half it, at least half it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like you have to just like, you gotta put a little on your fingertips and blow it.

Right, you have to do it like, yeah, or like how- Rub it on your gums, yeah. Like when a cop finds like a brick of cocaine in a movie and they have to put it in there, like just put it on your gums. Yeah. Just a tiny bit. Yep. Yep. The person writing the article about this, about, about this New York Times

article said that it's sweeter than a can of Coke and I just have to take a little issue with your police work there. So, Wow, there we go. The Coke Facts with Jack. Defund journalism. Thank you. I think we might as well at this point. We might.

So 32 teaspoons. So they're, they're saying 16 Splenda packets is the equivalent of 32 sugar packets, which again, I think that's low, but we're going to go with that. 32 packets of sugar is 182 grams of sugar. That is the equivalent of the sweetness of an entire six pack of Coke, like cooked down into like black tar corn syrup. It is so fucking sweet. It makes sense.

Like he writes the trickliest like shit that has ever come out of a fucking word processor. So it makes sense. But like, I can't imagine having something like, it would just bend the laws of sweetness in your brain. Like your, your entire overton window of what is like sweet would, it would just like punch a hole through your fucking brain. Like the pleasure cortex of your brain would just have a hole in it after eating this salad dressing. I guess I, if that was sugar, you might like experience some light diabetic

shock or something like that. But luckily sucralose. That's why I can get away with eating 128 grams or 182 grams of that shit. That's what I'm thinking too, where I feel like once it hits a certain number, it ceases to matter anymore. How much more it keeps going up where it's like, Oh, I'm in 160 degree heat or 250 degree heat. It's like, all right, well, you're dead.

It doesn't matter if it's that or if it's 1000 degree heat. Like it's done, you know? So yeah, I feel like it doesn't even matter. This description of it is fucking my mind up. Okay. Quote, earlier in the day before a photographer and reporter arrived at his home, Mr. Sparks spent the morning at his kitchen's granite countertop chopping two skinless boneless rotisserie chickens, a few stalks of celery, and a Vidalia onion.

He then whipped together a dressing consisting of mayonnaise, dill pickle relish, jalapeno relish, apple cider vinegar, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, and 16 packets of Splenda. And then rendering every other ingredient completely pointless because you can't taste them anymore. What the fuck? It said, uh, Sparks, who apparently avoids carbs explained, quote, you can use real sugar, but why throw sugar in if you can use Splenda? Splenda is about twice as sweet as sugar. So according to the conversion chart of the box, 16 packets is equivalent. Like you said, 32 teaspoons of sugar, 32 teaspoons of sugar, which is 182 grams. It is not a single coke.

You guys. Six pack. Yeah. It's a six. Who's the person put an arrow dipped in poison, dart, frog venom in the middle of the day. It's like, what is this shit? What are you doing, man?

Wow. Is this like, does he have like some kind of of damage to his tongue or something? He's like, it's the only way I can taste anything. It is so on point that salad dressing for him would be something that tastes like it is coming directly out of a unicorn's ass. Because he is such a, just like, the shit he writes is just so, it's like Christian romance is what he writes.

Yeah, he'll like taste like Thousand Island. He was like, ah, spicy, spicy. Ah, la, la, la, la. I don't like Thousand Island, I need more sugar. Yeah, I always put a little bit of Diet Coke in my Thousand Island dressing just to cut it a little bit. All us whites think Thousand Island is way too spicy. Can we put a few less islands in this?

I'm fine with like one. Maybe a Long Island, two Long Islands? These are Pacific Islands that you're using. A Long Island dressing is just all the dressings put together Can I get that one long island dressing? What's that? It's rain blue cheese thousand island Italian for whatever you got. Yeah, but all together. Yeah French Russian All right, speaking of Long Island New York's very own I got a long Island.

All right. Speaking of long Island, New York's very own has been indicted. Yeah. Speaking of long Island, close to long Island, where he probably lives. There's a great anecdote. Like, so he has been accruing an amazing array of anecdotes over the course of his mayorship, doing horrible things to the people of New York and the city of New York, you know, over policing the subways, getting people shot, but also just doing the wildest shit.

There's an anecdote from when he was running for mayor where they were like, they suspected he didn't actually live in New York city because he didn't. And so they staked out the place where he supposedly lived in Brooklyn for like a week and he came there twice. And like one of the times that he came there, he like drove away on the sidewalk from his residency because there was traffic outside. So he just drove on the sidewalk.

That's some, that's some gangster New York shit. The fucking rush hour movie. Yeah. Right. He's just like, Hey, put the siren on the roof. Like a fucking detective. I'm like, all right, let's go. Let's go.

But I just want some greatest hits from his time as a public figure, as that time seems like it might be coming to an end. From earlier this year, there was an interview where he was asked to sum up 2023. The implication of this interview is like, you're under investigation for loads of corruption, but we're not going to directly ask you about that. We're just going to say it's been kind of an up and down year. So nice. So how do you give us one word to sum up 2023? Yeah. And this is what he had to say. Mr. Mayor, we've come to the end of what was a very eventful 2023, right? So when you look at the... It's

like, bro, didn't they, right right before this raid his house? Yeah, like, took everyone's phones and shit. His house in the house of people like everyone who worked for totality of the year, if you had to describe it in the substitute in one word, what would that word be? And tell me why. New York. This is a place where every day you wake up up The work experience everything from a plane crashing into our trade center to a person who's celebrating a new business that's open This is a very very complicated

It's a great city on the globe in a globe. Yeah. Those things like a it feels like a weird Stefan bit from SNL. What is like this city has everything right up playing, crashing into one of our world twin towers at any moment. Someone's celebrating the opening of a new business. The fuck is he talking about? And that's it.

Actually, just those two things. Yeah. He said nine 11 is why New York is the greatest city on the globe. Not the resilience in the face of nine 11, but the fact that nine 11 could happen here at any time is why it happened in the Chicago happened anywhere else. It happened to Philly, not LA. Sorry. He looked up, saw the second plane hit the tower and said, only in New York and

smiled to himself. He did the Charles Dutton from Rudy clapping gift. What will you think of next New York? What? Motherfucker. Wow. Under attack. So then trouble. And then there was his 2011 PSA about just how to be a good parent. I don't want to talk too much about it before we get into it. I, again, like that interview feels like an SNL sketch. This is like better than any SNL sketch. Yeah. I've seen this was, yeah, this is just how to check your child's room for contraband And he's doing it in a room that looks like you're recently passed away. It's uncle's house Yeah, but anyway, but that's your uncle and me. Let's just say this is your his body's still on the floor Yeah, your uncle is decomposing

Slowly, you can look in a jewelry box a jewelry box of this nature Maybe a simple jewelry box, but if you look through it closely, you don't know what your child may be hiding for instance a gun a picture behind him cameras no this isn't so good a gun i like again such a cop perspective on young people it's like your child has a gun and is a murderer everyone has has gone. All right. Your child is an enemy combatant. Yeah. Yeah. Who must be dealt with. But yeah, this is like a super cut.

I look this music bed on it. It's really fucking funny. To determine what's, what's taking place behind a picture frame. You can find bullets. You should always, when your child bring in his popular knapsack, but many his popular knapsack popular Napsack is Sport no Being a popular brand different location look through it to see what exactly is your child carrying in addition to a book? Something simple as a crack pipe

As it as a baby doll could be just a baby Could be a place where you could secrete or hide drugs he says secret yeah that's police that's police book cap shout out Eric Adams run your hands over the pillows and see if you feel anything that's unusual like a pillow like this with a button is a perfect but don't do it don't do it I felt something bumpy it's a, what's in there? What it is. It was a gun!

Another gun, it was another gun. This shit was a gun! It is another gun. It's a fucking revolver. Inside your bookcases. It could be more than just books. Perfect place to hide cocaine. Okay, I'm sorry, your child does not.

Take off your child's hat. What's underneath it? A gun. Why don't you open up your kid's shoe box? What's inside the shoe box? Three guns. Yeah. Now... Open up your child's...

So many guns! Open up your child's gun. What's inside of there? A gun and a crack pipe. Tell your child that the airplane's coming in his mouth. Open wide. What's in there? 14 guns are in your child's mouth. Ah, ah, ah. This is that way. I mean, again, how to treat your child. Like this is obviously someone

who has no trust even within his own family. Like it's so revealing that if you're like, this is how I like, I keep a safe home. I like, I treat my children like inmates and I'm flipping their cell doing a bunk check real quick. Yeah. Great, great, great parenting advice and so relatable because something as simple as a crack pipe. Yeah. Great, great, great parenting advice and so relatable because. Something as simple as a crack pipe. Yeah. You know? And also this must be for the people who are like wealthy because I don't know

kids who have cocaine money. Uh, but again, sure. They might have a fucking half O of blow in their baby doll where it's secreting. Yeah. They're of an age that they're playing with a baby doll. And they also have three handguns. And three ounces of cocaine. Okay.

I do like that they're responsible enough not to keep the gun loaded. The ammunition is kept behind the picture frame. Bullet by bullet, yeah. Just loose, loosey's everywhere. Yeah, it's like a bullet Easter egg hunt in their bedroom. Find the loosey's, find the loosey's. It's also, my other favorite one though, too, is when the when he basically

unveiled the trash can on New York. He's like, now we have trash cans. Uh, and so like, and people are like, wow, holy shit. And everyone was making fun of New York. You're like, oh my God, they just discovered the trash can in New York. God bless you. Um, but there's like this moment where he's like dapping up this like white woman who's like the sanitation commissioner

and she didn't know what time it was. You didn't have to dapp her up. She didn't know what to do. But again, just a very, it's a very funny moment of him being him. Yeah, he is him more than anyone else that I've ever seen. He is him more than anyone else that I've ever seen. He is himself. He's been playing in New York.

He's putting a garbage bag in there to demonstrate how the garbage can works. Now pound it. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Yo, that looked like when Donald Trump shook that dog snout or was that Mike Bloomberg? Who shook hands with the dog snout during an event anyway, that's what the very uncoordinated Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it was my I'm fine to meet you yeah He like was it didn't he like grabbed a dog snout an event and just like shook the dog's mouth human thing to do. Oh man. That dog's mouth, a gun. Yeah.

If you want to be mayor of New York, you cannot know how to shake anything's hand at all. Well, yeah, here it is. You don't remember this? I'm so excited for this. Look, oh, and here's this dog. Hey, nice to meet you. Oh, and here's this dog. Hey, nice to meet you. What the fuck?

Oh, that sucks. Just grab the dogs, open mouth and shake the mandible. All right. There you go. You too, pal. Good to meet you. Welcome to New York. You too, asshole. You can find anything in New York. You can get some too. Yeah. It's one of the great things about New York.

And that is one of the top three things. First, 9-11 can happen anytime. Anytime. Second, shake any dog's head. A dog's head is basically a human hand as I've read in many books I've read. Also just, I mean, even though we talked about that, the shit that he's on the hook for alleged to have done, it's just like so many fucking bribes, like it'll make your head spin.

So many bribes. Like it'll make your head spin. So many bribes. From like, from foreign countries. Turkey, Uzbekistan, China, fucking everybody. Why are you doing this? Why are you even talking to these people? Yeah. Cause they- Right.

Cause like, you know, he was getting like free trips to Turkey. Like I think it was Israel, Qatar, South Korea. There's the list, like what goes on and on and on. And then not to mention like the revolving door of like resignations that had happened recently only for people, like the replacements for those people who had, who had resigned to also get into legal trouble. Yeah. Really wonderful thing they have going on.

Yeah. Well, Blake, it's been quite the pleasure having you. Quite the pleasure indeed. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? People can find me at Blake Wexler on all social media. Um, when this comes out tomorrow is the one year anniversary of my standup special being out. So thanks to everybody who watched it.

I know a lot of Zeitgang people supported that. So thank you. It's called daddy long legs. It's on YouTube. And then the Sunday I'm in Wayne, Pennsylvania. These are my stand updates. Then I'm going to be in Minneapolis, October 12th, Brooklyn, October 26th, Boston, November 1st. That Minneapolis gig is me and my friend, Cy Amundsen.

It's a show called Both Sides. And it should be called No Sides because nothing's going to be accomplished during the show. We're tackling the big issues of the day. So yeah, come check that out. That's a part of the 10,000 Laughs Festival. So yeah, October 12th in Minneapolis. And that show is presented by Prince, right?

That's Prince, P-R-I-N-T-S. So we are doing an event, a Prince themed event that you're all welcome to. It's a, you gotta wear purple and there's gonna be a buffet and we will have, I will be the stripper actually this time. So if you wanna see that, yeah. You wanna see these plumper's grind pole.

You're welcome to. In a one piece bathing suit design, like the artist logo that he was using. And like. Yeah, and I'm gonna tell you, it's not nearly enough pieces, that one piece. So I need multiple, it should be an 18 piece

to cover up these legs. Is there a work of media, Blake, that you've been enjoying? No, yeah, there is. So there's a tweet from Anthony Moore, who's a very funny comedian at all that and more M O O R. And he was responding to a tweet. Someone wrote this might be a dumb question, but why the fuck are zoos a thing?

And then he wrote, no, this is real because an elephant should not live right off Gerard Avenue. is real because an elephant should not live right off Gerard Avenue. Gerard is kind of a weird rough street in parts of Philly where the zoo is located. There's penguins in there. It's ridiculous. Amazing. Miles, where can people find you as their work comedian? You've been enjoying.

You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. You can find Jack and I on the Basketball Podcast. Miles and Jack got mad boosties. You can also find me talking 90 Day Fiance on 420 Day Fiance. Is I mean, there's so many Eric Adams tweets. So many to look at. Everyone like New Yorkers are really, it's always great when you have an entire Twitter population that is just ready to fucking unload the shit posts on someone. So just do yourself.

Hey man, that's too soon, bro. And also you're in Jersey city. Okay. Let's not get it twisted. There's no corruption in Jersey, right? Never heard of it. What's happening in New York. Yeah. I don't know what's going on with that one senator in New Jersey, but I've never heard of a corruption scam. Neither do I. But anyway, I would implore you just do a cursory search of Eric Adams because there is a lot of fantastic tweets.

And also learning more about his fuckery because let's not forget, he was totally perpetuating this narrative about a migrant crisis to while behind the scenes perpetuating it himself to make exacerbating it himself rather For his own political goals. Oh, that's right. I forgot mem that there are people also posting remember the NYPD dance team Do you remember that when they went on the news? Yeah, that was cool. And like they were like like the brokest like dance team. Okay, anyway Whoa, check out those Eric Adams tweets. That's it for me. Yeah, that was cool. And they were like the brokest dance team. Okay, anyway, whoo, check out those Eric Adams tweets. That's it for me. Yeah, that was a bummer.

That was in the running for Eric Adams clips to show, but I didn't want to have to talk people down from, I didn't wanna be depressed all afternoon. Yeah, dancing cuffs. All right, a tweet I've been enjoying on be depressed. Yeah. All afternoon. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Dancing cuffs. All right. A tweet I've been enjoying on the Eric Adams thing. Ascela Express, good New York reference, biz underscore socks tweeted, meanwhile, across town, Samantha was dealing with an indictment of her own.

You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes? We link off to the information we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.

Miles. I- Miles. I'm sorry, I should have interrupted you because I did find just one of as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles. I, Miles. I'm sorry, I should have interrupted you because I did find just one of the good Eric Adams tweet videos that you should watch. This is just, this is him, just every time.

Just listen to this. This is Eric Adams and how likable of a guy he is. Everyone knows that New York City is the Athens of America. Is the Istanbul of America. Is the key of America. Is the Istanbul of America. Is the Key of America. Is the soul of America. We are the Tel Aviv of America. New York City is the Islamabad of America.

The Zabgreb of America. We are the Lima of America. New York City is Mexico City of America. This is the doubly of America. Yo, with the beautiful Irish sweater, that poet sweater, God bless him. Bless him. You and P. Diddy will make fine cellies. I know. That's another great image that people are sharing. Yeah, the key to the city. I'm on September 15th, 2023. Yeah, my birthday. Where he's giving Diddy the key to the city. P Diddy run the city.

Oh yes, the song that we're going to go out on. As someone who just saw Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, there's this one track in it where everyone starts lip syncing it. That's just kind of like, I had never heard this song before, at least this version by Richard Harris before. And it's just like one of those cheesy tracks that you listen to and suddenly you're transported to a time where, you know, the hair was long and there was, you know, drugs flying everywhere. And I don't know if that's really something that appeals to you, but I like that image. And this is called MacArthur Park by Richard Harris. So check this one out. Check this out.

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