The Daily Zeitgeist - Perfect ClickBait, No Place Like Clone 6.10.19
Episode Date: June 10, 2019In episode 409, Miles and special guest host Jamie Loftus are joined by comedian and Las Culturistas co-host Matt Rogers to discuss Nancy Pelosi delaying a Trump impeachment, The Intercept's Ryan Grim...'s new book about the Bret Kavanaugh hearings, Barbara Streisand posting photos of her clone dogs, Jezebel's list of actors who are actually not good performers, Beyonce's publicist telling the beyhive to leave Nicole Curran alone, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Pelosi tells Dems she wants to see Trump ‘in prison’2. Impeach Trump on the day before the election3. Democratic Leaders’ Reluctance to Wage Kavanaugh Fight Looks Even Worse Today4. Barbra Streisand's Dogs: We Miss Our Dead Clone Mom5. Actors Who Are Bad at Acting6. Beyoncé's Publicist Politely Asks the Beyhive to Stop Bullying Nicole Curran7. WATCH: The Frightnrs "Dispute" (dub version) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Controversial, Miles.
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It's Monday, June 10th, 2019.
My name is Miles Gray, a.k.a.
Here comes the hot stepper.
Murderer.
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kind of miss, edit the
last part. When I said
excuse me, Mr. Officer, it didn't feel right to
say still live in my house. Please stop harassing me.
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question they always ask you. And also,
why are you in this part of town?
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That, aka, comes from Sabrina Mancuso.
Ask Sabrina Mancuso.
Good name.
Good, good, good Italian name.
Sabrina Mancuso.
Hey, I love you.
You know, where are you from?
Let me know.
Oh, wait.
Italian-Argentinian, fluent in Franglish and Span-Italian.
Just looking at her bio.
I'm looking at her bio.
Do you have people's bios on the internet?
I just had to right now. She has an
Italian flag, an Argentinian flag, and a Canadian flag.
Oh, Canada.
I like when you're enjoying
someone's Twitter profile and then you go
and then the bio is like, Wanderlust.
Right. Hufflepuff.
Hufflepuff.
I have a short circuit. My blood pressure
bursts out of my body.
That, if you're a Starbucks, you're like a Starbucks, like struggling Starbucks addict.
In recovery.
In recovery, doing well.
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And I'm sure you already recognize that voice because Jack, right, he is on assignment right now.
Still looking for, he found the Crocs he was looking for, but now there's some Tevas, he said,
that there was a collab with Coors Light Tevas that he was looking for. He found the Crocs he was looking for, but now there's some Tevas, he said, that there was a collab with Coors Light
Tevas that he was looking for. I don't know, he just sends these
walls of texts, and I'm like, I can be there.
Yeah, just like, send up the bad signal.
Continue on your journey,
Mr. O'Brien. Thank you so much. Well, that
is my guest co-host, you already know.
The one and only, the legendary
Yammy Loftus, Jamie Loftus.
A.K.A. Big Little
Loftus? Oh! Wow. Okay. Big Little Loftus? Oh, wow.
Okay.
I figured I'd try it out.
Okay, here comes the song.
Or you mean really, A.K.A.
What?
Oh.
Oh.
She's back to text,
and comedy.
She must confess,
Zamboni.
Zamboni.
Dentist sneezing, and her hacking lies. Takesambonics. Sambonics. Dentist sneezing into
hacking lies.
Takes all the time.
Third guest
Jamie on Zeitgeist.
Wow.
So there you go.
Dropped a fucking bomb on that one.
Thank you. Went all the way up into my
nasal passages for that one.
Wow.
I feel, I'm blessed. Also, you had a little bit of range there. Went all the way up into my nasal passages for that one. Wow. Okay.
I feel I'm blessed.
Also, you had a little bit of range there.
I was not ready for that.
Thank you.
I had a solo in eighth grade.
Oh, shit.
Well.
And don't you forget it.
I will never, ever forget. That was from Taylor Lang at Listen to Blazer.
At Listen to Blazer.
Yeah.
Okay.
Fine.
I'll read her bio. let's see what it is
multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter terrible dancer love it oh great you know what i accept it
as long as you know what you're good at and what you're not so good at if you're if it's devoid of
wanderlust i'm open um well we are joined it's an honor to be joined by just a legendary, hilarious person, comedian, writer, podcaster,
with a podcast that, you know...
A legendary podcast, dare I say.
Way better than ours.
Come on.
It's Jack's favorite podcast, and he's really mad he's not here.
And you know what?
That's just how the universe works sometimes.
Yep.
Please, please welcome our guest today, Mr. Matt Rogers.
Wow.
Hi.
Hi.
Truly, how are you guys?
Very good.
It seems like you guys are good.
The energy is crack-a-lacking.
Yeah, we like to do it like that.
All three of us have cold brew crack.
We all do, and I look forward to, in the next 10, 15 minutes, this getting to be too much.
Yes, good, good, good.
And can we talk about these?
I don't want to say the brand.
I don't want to put anyone on blast.
No, we do.
We say the brand?
We say brands here.
Okay, so this is Kirkland Signature Cold Brew blast. No, we do. We say the brand? We say brands here.
Okay, so this is Kirkland Signature Cold Brew Coffee.
We're drinking 100% Colombian, okay?
And it's shocking to the first taste.
It's just not the... But I know it's going to work.
It's really strong.
What were you expecting?
I'm feeling it.
I don't know.
And I don't ever know what I expect when I start drinking cold brew.
But I know what's going to happen every time is I will become a killing machine,
a la Scarlett Johansson and Lucy.
You know how in that movie she used 100% of her brain?
That is me when I'm on cold brew,
but using 100% of my brain means I'm even more aggressively a gay dumb idiot.
I'm going to check in with you from time to time to see how much your brain.
So what are we at right now?
You're at 2% brain function right now?
Let's say I'm at like a 14%. I think it's about to be in with you from time to time to see how much your brain. So what are we at right now? You're at 2% brain function right now? 10? Let's say I'm at like a 14%.
Oh, shit.
I think it's about to kick in.
Also, I want to just say your resonance when you were singing was really huge.
That was amazing.
That was great.
And I'm really envious of you right now because my voice sounds like a frog-a-log because
last night I was at the Troye Sivan, Charli XCX concert screaming, screaming, screaming,
screaming, screaming.
Where was that?
It was at the Wiltern.
Wow.
And the last time I had been at the Wiltern, I saw the Countess Luann from Real Housewives
of New York.
Wow.
Money can't buy you class.
And it can't.
No.
Love that song, though.
You can't say she doesn't speak truth.
Who has the best song of all the Housewives?
Did you like Kim's track?
I would see. I wasn't Did you like Kim's track?
See, I wasn't that down for Kim's track.
I think that it's actually an unfair comparison because Erika Jayne is like a real pop star.
I think Erika, we have to...
She's done.
She's how many fucks do I need?
And I am obsessed with that.
That's such a good song.
That's a real banger.
She has so many bangers,
but I will say
Chic C'est La Vie,
C'est Bon, C'est Bon.
Yeah.
By the Countess Luanne is,
and when it,
when it played at the Wiltern,
and I'm telling you,
it was like,
it was like,
it was like Bon Jovi was playing like,
Living on a Prayer.
Wow.
It was truly like the place,
exploded,
like Chic C'est La Vie,
everyone,
like every 45 year old woman and gayyear-old, their twink.
Was it her?
Was it her show?
It was her.
Well, the show is called The Countess and Friends.
Okay.
So, you know, she brings out her friends.
Yeah.
And I don't know.
I was clear she didn't know any of them.
And you know who's done her show?
Catherine Cohen.
No way.
Has opened for her.
And so it's like Friends is very loose. I think they've had a half a conversation. I mean, that's a good show? Catherine Cohen. No way. Has opened for her. And so it's like, Friends is very loose.
I think they've had a half a conversation.
That's,
I mean,
that's a good fit though.
Very good fit.
That's amazing.
Yeah.
Well,
we're going to get to know you a little bit better.
Get to know me.
Yeah,
we're going to have to.
Right now,
you said 14% brain function right now?
Well,
I'm now at 17.
Oh,
shit.
Okay.
What happened was,
we said Countess Luann,
and my blood started running quicker.
So now the cold brew is running through my veins.
Getting through your system.
Yeah. Well, I'll update you system. I'll update you guys.
I'll update you guys.
All right.
Well, let's talk a little bit about what we're going to get into.
First of all, Jamba Juice.
New look, new you.
We'll get into that.
What that entails.
Not that much.
But, you know, I like to keep my eye on these brands.
You really?
Yeah.
I mean, you insisted on this one.
Yeah.
Because I only go to, you know, dining establishments that are available anywhere in the United
States. Right. So I never feel alone dining establishments that are available anywhere in the United States.
Right.
So I never feel alone.
I hate small business.
If I can't get it
off a shopping mall
in Barstow,
then I'm not fucking with it.
You know where I
electric scootered
last night after the concert?
Wait,
what brand of scooter?
I don't know.
I've never done this before.
I always found it on the show.
You're like,
I don't know,
I just pushed somebody off.
I was with my friend.
I just fucking,
I killed someone
last night with a scooter.
I was with my friend Jared and after fucking, I killed someone last night with a scooter. I was with my friend Jared, and after the concert, we were hungry, and he found me these
electric scooters.
I didn't even know this was a thing.
Right.
It's not a thing in New York, but you can electric scooter everywhere in LA, I guess.
And we electric scootered to Denny's at one in the morning.
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
And this morning, I found my first two gray hairs, which I think is the universe saying,
okay, bitch.
It connected.
Stop. Yeah. We're doing too much. We're the universe saying, okay, bitch. It connected. Stop.
Yeah.
Like, we can't be electric scootering to Denny's at 1 a.m.
At 1 a.m.
We're not 14.
Oh, God.
I used to work near a college,
and I would get hit by electric scooters all the time.
Very gentle bump.
Ooh.
Gentle bump, really.
No complaints.
I like it.
Oh, you didn't just, like, clothesline somebody after?
No, no, no.
Watch where the fuck you're going.
It's just 19-year-olds late to their midterms.
Those scooters in New York will get you.
I feel like the people in New York will just kill you.
No, forget it.
It shouldn't happen.
We also shouldn't have City Bike,
but that's a whole traffic lane thing.
Yeah.
Get it together, De Blasio.
Don't get me started.
Fix the MTA first.
Yeah, De Blasio running for president.
It's like our city is melting.
Right.
Every person in New York is like,
why the fuck is he going to run for president? He can't even get the fucking city together. It's like, our city is melting. Right. Every person in New York's like, why the fuck
is he gonna run for president?
He can't even get
the fucking city together.
It is the funniest thing
and also when they announced
on The View
that he was running for president,
they couldn't even do the segment
because they were laughing too hard.
Everyone in the audience
was like,
are you fucking kidding?
It was so funny.
Oh, we're also gonna talk about
some tales of just
Democrat fucking up shit, not in the good way type
stories like come the fuck on yeah democratic leadership what the fuck are y'all doing
uh checking in with barbara streisand and her clone dogs because it's always a fun story this
is a story that jamie specifically wanted to discuss because you were on matt about this
jezebel list of terrible actors are they or't they? I'm so excited to get into this.
I was the perfect guest.
And then a little bit of update on the poor, unfortunate soul who decided to lean across
Beyonce's lap and got the fucking hive.
But first, Matt, what's something from your search history that reveals a little bit about
who you are?
So I just mentioned The View.
That is because I watch The View every day.
So I don't really do Google search history as much as I go to my YouTube and I kind of
refresh it to see what their recommendations for me are.
And it's always like what's happened on The View that day and also like this is insane
but construction progress on theme park attractions.
Oh, I get theme park attraction stuff too.
I'm very into roller coaster YouTube.
Oh, can you tell people what...
Did somebody tweet at you?
I remember someone tweeted and you said,
what's that channel that you watch to fall asleep to?
Tell people right now.
I watch Defunctland.
I love Defunctland.
Isn't it great?
Yeah, I love it.
I'm so embarrassed to admit it,
but I'm like, I think everyone watches it.
No, we're in a community together.
And I would say that everyone should come out.
Everyone needs to come out of the closet.
What is Defunctland?
So basically it's like you, it looks at, it's like a series, a video channel that looks
at like old theme park attractions.
Okay.
And it gets into the history of them and then it kind of just like talks about how they
were developed and why they didn't work or like what the story is with them.
It's pretty cool.
Like there's like a,
you know what old theme park attraction I'm obsessed with?
It's called Alien Encounter.
It was in the Magic Kingdom in Tomorrowland.
So this was like,
and you can really go down a rabbit hole
about this particular theme park attraction.
This is insane that I'm getting into this,
but it was a terrifying experience in
tomorrowland in the magic kingdom which is very much a park for children but they made a risk
and they were like we want to do a scary thing and so they were going to make a theme park
attraction based on the movie alien oh so the fucking movie alien they made a ride after yes
because disney was attached to it and so um they ended up sort of doing it and they realized, no, this is going to be way too scary.
So they kind of made like an alternate version of it, which no one knew but was the most terrifying thing ever.
It's got a pre-show that has Tyra Banks, which is my favorite thing about it.
And then you basically go into this circular room and they put a restraint on you
and the ride the it's a like a show really but you're strapped into a chair oh my god and so
what they claim that they're gonna do is they're gonna show you like a teleportation they're gonna
like beam in someone from another galaxy into the space and it's the mistake that the thing that
goes awry is it's a vicious alien and then they do
that sort of sensory stuff where you can feel it breathing on your neck and sliming on you and
literally someone dies in it and blood sprays and this is in the magic kingdom wow so this was an
attraction in the 90s and they eventually shut it down because of guest complaints but it's like
a beloved um theme park attraction um in for a certain type of person
who is gagged that they ever would do that.
Right, right, right.
But I believe Defunctland did a series on it.
They did, yeah.
I'm waiting for them to make a video
about the Aerosmith roller coaster.
Absolutely.
Because I like...
Well, that still stands.
Yes.
Where is that?
I love the Aerosmith.
Hollywood Studios.
I love it.
It's such a good roller coaster.
See, I haven't been to any of those Orlando theme parks.
You must go because they have been revolutionized in the past 10 years. I love the, it's such a good roller coaster. See, I haven't been to any of those Orlando themed parks. You must go
because they have been
revolutionized in the past 10 years.
I mean,
you go there
and they are,
it's just like,
you can't believe,
first of all,
the production value,
honey.
It is a show.
It is,
you are thoroughly entertained
and you must go see
the Harry Potter stuff.
Okay.
Yes.
I'm in.
Oh,
wait,
I've got,
yeah,
I've got a season pass,
Miles,
so I can get discounted passes if you ever want to come. Wow. Are you going to, weird flex, but okay. I'm in. Oh wait, I've got a season pass so I can get discounted passes if you
ever want to come.
Are you going to go to
Galaxy's Edge? Yes.
So that's current events as well.
I'm trying to restrain
myself because I will spend $7,000
in there. I mean,
off the strength of everything. I'll go to theme parks that
I don't care about the IP it's based
on. I'm not a big Star Wars fan, but I really want'll go to theme parks that I don't care about the IP it's based on. Like I'm not a big
Star Wars fan
but I really want to go
to Galaxy's Edge.
Like immersive experiences.
No for me that's like
a full fever dream
because I'm like
a theme park person
and a Star Wars person
so I'm like
really freaking out
and also this ride
that they're going to open later
in the year called
Rise of the Resistance
is apparently like
out of control.
I started reading
the first half
of the description
and I had to stop
because I'm like okay this is already pushing the boundaries of what of the description and I had to stop because I'm like,
okay, this is already pushing the boundaries
of what a ride is.
And I also don't want to spoil it for myself
because I know if I'm actually experiencing it firsthand,
I probably will just faint.
Well, it's allegedly almost 20 minutes long.
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
And it's more than one style of ride.
Yes, you change vehicles.
I'm so excited.
Which has never been done.
I didn't know that.
That's amazing.
Did you hear about the Kylo Ren animatronic?
No.
No.
Wow.
Like Apple Adam Driver?
No.
I know.
That's why I stopped-
It is an Adam Driver that is going to come all the way up to you, honey.
No.
And try to kill you.
Oh, fuck that.
And there are
life size AT-ATs
right
the fact that
Adam Driver
has been immortalized
in this way
it's insane
and it doesn't make sense
the first time
we ever saw him
he like came on
Lena Dunham
and now he is
the Star Wars villain
he is
it's so
I watched
we're doing an episode
on f*** today
and I was like
oh he was in
fucking that movie too
in Fedora the whole time
and you're just like
five years later
right
he literally
rose to fame
as the weirdest
fuckboy in Brooklyn
and now he is
the villain
of Star Wars
he is in a Disney
attraction
forever
I look forward
to a very thoughtful
essay on that
one day
listen
I might write it today.
If I keep drinking this cold brew.
I'm at 36% right now.
Oh, shit.
You're not even going to understand the book I write.
It's going to be too smart.
It's going to be a genius essay on.
Galaxy brain.
Yes.
Matt, what's something that's underrated?
Okay, what's underrated is the new Katy Perry song Never Really Over
because it is
everywhere anyway for me it is an earworm
but it is not the number one song
in the country and that is why it's
underrated I'm telling you I
couldn't have thought someone was more dead in this town
than Katy Perry like
her going to American Idol was so
sad and I was just like that's crazy that you
can be truly Katy Perry biggest pop star in the world.
And then like whatever happened with that last album, Witness.
Right.
Like that was like, that was like, it was like what everyone goes through in eighth grade happened with her and her pop star life.
You know what I mean?
It was like that awkward phase.
Oh, is that the album that has Swish Swish Bitch?
Swish, which actually is a bop for me.
That's a good one.
Yeah, I'll fuck with that one.
And I actually fuck with Bon Appetit too
I kind of fuck with both those songs but the rest of the album
is ridiculous but this song
is
it is phenomenal
and the second part of the chorus where it's like
just because it's a bit of a bit
I was just like this is the next level
the video is great she looks great I'm like wow back from the dead level. The video's great. She looks great.
I'm like, wow, back from the dead.
I feel like there's a lot of former pop queens
that are getting creamed right now.
Like the new Taylor Swift single, Underperformed,
which I hated that song.
I really don't like it.
It's too broad.
Too broad.
That's what it is.
It's too fucking broad.
I'm like, what the fuck is he doing?
It's like a step backwards.
She's done it before.
And Brandon Urie doesn't belong there. I just, whatever. Okay step back where she's done it before yeah and Brandon Urie
doesn't belong there
I just
whatever
okay
I actually think
if it was only Brandon Urie
then I would like it more
yeah probably
right
I don't know
I mean
no one can
no one can beat
Old Town Road
is the thing
the novelty hit
of a generation
because it's also
like the new Baby Shark
because kids
little kids
are fucking with it
so hard too
that video
yes I was gonna say
the video of them bopping along.
You could even tell his mind was going, oh, fuck.
This is crazy.
It's like, let it go.
Right.
Full riders and boobies, baby.
I mean, that's really, I think that's like the sweet spot.
If you just want to own the fucking charts,
it's like, it's something that just sort of straddles
all these sort of age demographics, too,
because the lyrics aren't like too complex or fucked up
that you wouldn't feel bad playing it for your kid.
Maybe the Billy Ray Cyrus version
because you know some shit.
Talking about Fendi sports bras.
But yeah, man, fuck.
Fendi sports bras.
You're just like, Jesus Christ.
Yeah, I'm like, all right.
It's so crazy to watch kids sing some of these songs.
And then you realize that was us too.
Like, oh, are we 14 singing Dirty by Christina Aguilera?
Being like little sluts.
I was like breaking my back in my backyard while Dirty was on.
My mother was like, okay, that's what we have.
We're calling the chiropractor.
Something's wrong with your spine.
I remember being seven.
And when I was seven, I would tie a literal bandana around my torso
and be like, it's a shirt.
My mom would be like, her brain would fall out.
And we're all wondering as to why the world is broken.
And I'm just like, why isn't my body like that anymore?
I used to be able to tie a bandana around my body.
And I could go to lunch.
What's something you think is overrated?
Okay, so still on the theme of music.
Like I look at the charts and I assume I'm going to see Never Really Over like at number one
because everyone I know is listening to it on repeat.
I myself have only listened to it, no other music.
But then I see that Billie Eilish is still on top of the charts.
And then I realized how huge Billie Eilish is.
And this is kind of like when I realized I'm a little bit older now.
Like I'm not liking what the kids are liking. It's this kind of – Billie Eilish herself, and this is kind of like when I realize I'm a little bit older now, like I'm not liking what the kids are liking.
Right.
It's this kind of, Billie Eilish herself is not overrated.
I think that what Billie Eilish represents in terms of this kind of sleepy, spooky pop star,
I'm over it.
And I think the reason I like the Katy Perry song so much is because it's like emotional.
I miss like big emotion in songs.
I miss feeling something
when I listen to pop music. Truly, I miss
the days when there were big-ass ballads
on the radio. I miss my heart will go on being
overplayed. Genuinely,
I just want to listen to music because the
point of music is that music heightens
the emotions. I don't know if it says something about
where our country is at, that we
all want to feel dead, but
I just hope that with hopefully political, social,
and cultural changes going forward,
we can speak that into the atmosphere, knock on wood,
that we kind of go back to feeling.
You know what I mean?
So it's that attitude, sort of the sleepy kind of thing.
I don't dislike Camila Cabello,
but she is this kind of I'm asleep thing. Ariana Grande sleepy kind of thing. I don't dislike Camila Cabello, but she is this kind of like
I'm asleep thing.
Ariana Grande is kind of
doing it now,
but she's so like
sort of manic
that she is emotional
in some of her songs.
She sounds at least awake, yeah.
Right.
I just miss like,
you know,
getting it.
Do you think she's
an industry plant too?
Ariana?
No, no, no.
Billie.
Billie.
Something spooky is going on.
Everyone's like,
where the fuck does she come from? Okay, no, no. Billie. Billie. Something spooky is going on. Everyone's like, where the fuck does she come from?
Well, like, last year I was on something on Super Deluxe with her.
Like, it's like.
Yeah, she's blown up. She has, like, come out of fucking nowhere.
I mean, which is fine.
Like, she has a big following for a while.
But I don't know.
Yeah, I feel like there is some sort of, like this is like no reflection on her politics i'm sure she's not pro-trump but like a trumpian pop star
of just like a pop star for dystopia feels kind of like the vibe right i also i mean and i were
talking about yesterday how yeah she she makes us feel old she makes me feel old as fuck too
because i'm for the first time i'm like she's the kind of vibe if like i saw her in a food
court with her friends at the mall i'd be like see this what's wrong with these kids yeah i mean
absolutely i would be like i don't want to sit near them i'd be like who are her where are her
parents yeah where are parents and why is she wearing she was are you an extra from tank girl
she was born three months after 9-11 we were just like that is that says a? Born three months after 9-11. We were just like, who's born after 9-11? That says a lot. She's born three months after 9-11.
After.
Post.
I know.
Get out.
She is post 9-11.
I know.
You can't be yet.
Billie Eilish's post is a post 9-11 thing.
Post Malone featuring post 9-11.
Post 9-11.
But also, imagine only knowing a world where that has happened.
That's why.
I mean, we're going to have to get used to it because they're adults now.
They're coming.
It's weird.
Yeah, and I feel bad for the Gen Z kids
because they look up to millennials
who are like, we're dead inside.
So then they think this...
Are they doing the version
where we kind of have this nihilism in our generation
where it's trickling down to them
and they're doing their version like,
okay, so they're sort of like dead
to a certain extent.
The thing is, Billie Eilish's music,
I like it.
I think she's talented.
She's super talented. Yeah, nothing against the music.'s music I like it I think she's talented she's super talented
yeah nothing against the music
the music is good
I don't quite understand
the image
and I'm hoping
it just ends up being
an industry plant
and it's not that I'm old
as fuck
but there is that wave though
and I see it a lot
like I know people
in the game too
right now
who are doing this
like emo gutter kid vibe
when it's like
you grew up fine
that's the thing
also like
this isn't you it's crusty punkish it's like you grew up fine. That's the thing. Also, this isn't you.
It's crusty punkish. It's an aesthetic. You just put
this uniform on. Billie Eilish
is like a well-off white girl and always has
been. So, I mean,
not that that negs any,
but it just, I don't know, it feels
planty. Hey, do whatever you want.
Rock your big-ass jeans and chains
and shit. Look like a raver I used to make fun of
when I was in eighth grade.
She's got the JNCOs. I used to make fun of when I was in eighth grade. Yeah.
You know,
she's got the JNCOs.
Right.
I do think there is something positive about someone who is not clearly not
sexualized by the industry being this powerful.
I think that there is a lot to that.
And I think I'm happy to see that,
but,
um,
it feels like an extreme in the other direction where I'm like,
Ooh,
okay.
Or their research has led them to like,
actually kids are,
aren't really responding to the sex thing anymore yeah they want like queer well because we don't
fuck anymore that's like a thing it's like we're not we're not like I think we might be the last
generation that's like sex is something that really is prioritized in the last horny generation
it's like well how much what's how many retweets I get yeah that's it's that's my ed medication that
is that is so crazy.
Like people get hornier
looking at their computers now
than they do each other.
Right, exactly.
Because they look at their computer
and they think,
oh, I get off because of that,
because of porn or whatever.
Like honestly, retweets.
Yeah.
You look at your cell phone
and you get a fucking chub.
You're like,
I feel that way.
You're like,
damn, 800 likes in 14 minutes.
No, it's a very real thing.
We are very sad.
Preach on.
We're sad.
And Mr. Matt.
That's what we need on the chart.
What is a myth?
What's something people get wrong that you're like, no, I need to hip y'all to the truth?
Okay, so guess what?
Might have misunderstood the assignment.
Okay.
I wrote down Bloody Mary.
Okay, wow.
I think that if you go in to the bathroom, close the door, and shut the assignment. Okay. I wrote down Bloody Mary. Okay. Wow.
I think that if you go in to the bathroom, close the door, and shut the lights.
Yes.
If you say Bloody Mary three times, she won't come.
That bitch isn't showing up. Well, hold on.
Well, that's a fucking hot ass take, man.
She's not coming.
I have a lot of sleepovers that would indicate otherwise.
Do you have a lot of dead friends?
There is.
Yeah.
All my friends are dead.
Push me to the edge.
Isn't that a... Yeah.
That's a song that's basically the Billie Eilish album
oh you're talking about
Lil Uzi Vert
I don't really care
I'm being crying
all my friends are dead
push me to the edge
that one
no I wasn't talking
about that one
I was talking about
but I know the one
you're talking about
oh my bad
I think that
I'm just trying to
get Lil Uzi Vert
in here all the time
all my friends are dead
that's like pulled from
like a shitty like novelty book at Urban Outfitters yeah I'm sure trying to get Lil Uzi Vert in here all the time. All My Friends Are Dead, that's pulled from a shitty novelty book at Urban Outfitters.
Yeah, I'm sure.
I mean, also just the line isn't very original as prose.
All My Friends Are Dead.
Sorry.
Bloody Mary.
I'm sorry.
Are All Your Friends Dead?
Yes.
Okay.
So what do you say about that, Matt?
First of all, I can't source that.
Also, can I know what's your brain
capacity at right now
I'm at a full 24
wow
we're shooting up
we're shooting up
I'm incredibly smart
right now
because of this
cold brew
from Kirkland Signature
but
this is what I think
correct me if I'm wrong
the story goes
if you go in there
and execute this
saying of the of the name three times and the
door is shut, you look in the mirror, et cetera, she will come kill you or she will come spook
you?
I don't know.
I just thought she showed up.
I didn't know if there was a guarantee to kill.
I think that it's-
What does she do?
What does she do?
What's your goal here?
Are you a murderer?
I think the whole thing is unclear.
I think that we need to really get down to brass tacks about what it is to expect when we do this.
And I was thinking, like, literally, I was like, well, maybe we should just do it.
One of us should go in the bathroom, shut the door, and do that.
But then I was, like, literally thought of doing it, and I was too scared.
I won't do it.
I won't do it.
So is it real then?
And I don't want either of you to do it.
Well.
I would never do it alone, ever.
Ever.
Really?
Well, I think that.
And that's another thing is it's like if you go in there with someone else, will she come?
Because she knows she's going to be outnumbered.
Right.
But this is also existing in a world where she's like an omnipresent thing.
Like, sorry, God.
Where she's always watching and knows there are more people than her in the bathroom.
I don't know.
I think that the only, if I would only do it alone and I would like, if I like had a knife. Which is, I would end up. I think that if I would only do it alone and if I had a knife, which is-
How do you stab a ghost?
I would end up stabbing myself.
That's the thing.
How do you kill a ghost?
How do you kill those that are dead?
Famously, ghosts are already dead.
What?
You can't kill them.
Exactly.
It's one of the things about them.
We should start a new podcast.
I can't stand it.
It's like cereal, but we get to the bottom of this Bloody Mary nonsense.
Honestly, I'm happy I brought it up, and I'm happy I misunderstood the answer.
What is your goal, Bloody Mary?
Come face me, you coward.
They were like, we need to come.
Debate me.
Debate me, coward.
Come in here and disprove a myth.
And I was like, Bloody Mary, yes.
Killed it.
Like a cultural myth.
Top myths.
Well, do you know what else I thought, which has already been debunked?
Do you know the myth that is if you douche with a Coke bottle, you won't get pregnant?
I can't remember that.
What?
I heard a myth, and this has been debunked on another television show that I watched in middle school, which is how I remember this.
It's one of those things that you watch at one time during a formative age, and you never forget it.
Right, right, right.
I can't remember truly anyone's name that I met yesterday.
I can't remember truly anyone's name that I met yesterday.
But it said that after you have sex, if you have sex and something happens, like you have a little oopsie where the condom breaks or you just raw dog it.
Or someone shoots up the club.
Yeah, absolutely.
So you can douche with a Coke bottle and the caffeine will kill the sperm and you don't get pregnant.
Wow.
And women apparently were doing this.
What I mean, Coke never ceases to come up with incredible marketing tactics.
See, it's a cure-all for everything.
This is like a guerrilla marketing tactic
where they're not necessarily putting it on billboards,
but they are whispering into people's ears.
It is in our pop music subliminally.
Right.
Do it for the Coke bottle.
That's why Billie Eilish exists.
If you play her music backwards, it's all it is.
It's like, yeah, it's like Helter Skelter, but it's douche with a Coke bottle.
All right, we're going to go check on this Bloody Mary myth real quick in the bathroom.
Yes, we're going to have to.
But first, let's take a break.
We'll be right back.
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and we're back wow all right All right. And guess what?
We fucked Bloody Mary right up.
Yeah.
We killed her.
She's done.
You don't have to worry about her at home.
Yeah.
Don't worry.
She's done.
This is fun.
And we got to the bottom of it.
But can I say, she was beautiful. She just wanted to be understood.
Oh my God, she was gorgeous.
Her skin.
She looked like Gwyneth Paltrow.
She literally, yeah.
She looked like one of those, what's that skin company where your face looks wet?
Glossier?
Glossier.
She looked like Glossier. Yeah. She Glossier? She looked like Glossier.
She looked so glossy. She looked like Glossier.
Yeah, she had good work.
You know what I mean? She had that good, good work.
Like that J-Lo work.
She had that work where you know that she sat her
person down and was like,
here's 50 million dollars. Do whatever.
I want the Demi Moore glow up
when I came back.
I need the Demi Moore.
So guess this. One time I met her and I called her Demi Moore and she said, it's Demi Moore glow up when I came back. I need the Demi Moore. So guess this.
One time I met her and I called her Demi Moore and she said, it's Demi.
Oh, fuck.
And I've never been so.
You turned to Obi-Wan Kenobi.
You just turned to a pile of clothes that just.
Yes.
I hit the ground.
Where did he go?
I became a ghost like Buddy Mary.
That's the reveal of this episode.
That's incredible.
Yeah.
So let's get into a little bit
of politics. Just because, you know, there are two stories that came out at the end of last week
that were just so telling and indicative of the potential disaster that the leadership of the
Democratic Party is guiding us towards. They're not all that surprising. Well, I guess first
is a story about Nancy Lock lock them up pelosi and
there was an article in politico that basically said she got a little bit of a back and forth
with jerry nadler who's the head of the house judiciary committee who's been like begging her
to be like let me impeach this man now um and from the article it says just we'll just hear all this
okay nadler pressed pelosi to allow his committee to launch an impeachment inquiry against Trump,
the second such request he's made in recent weeks only to be rebuffed by the California Democrat
and other senior leaders.
Pelosi stood firm, reiterating that she isn't open to the idea of impeaching Trump at this time.
Quote, I don't want to see him impeached.
I want to see him in prison.
End quote, Pelosi said.
According to multiple Democratic sources familiar with the meeting,
instead of impeachment, Pelosi still prefers to see Trump defeated at the ballot box
and then prosecuted for his alleged crimes, according to the sources.
Come the fuck on.
You think you are going, I mean, it sounds good.
It's the kind of thing that if you were impatient about impeachment, you heard, oh, shit, oh, because she wants to lock him up.
Okay, well, maybe that'll buy you a little more time.
But again, I don't believe that she has any interest of being like, I want to put him behind bars.
No, because there's no plan behind it.
This just has, I feel like, everything to with like the way politicians are like branding themselves now where like after nancy pelosi became an accidental meme lord now
she's like trying to build her brand with her little clappy clap yeah like now now she's just
trying to build a whole brand around that and it's like unlike you know some people it's like
there's no plan she's just saying it for you know for the
clicks baby right or even just why don't you support an investigation right but even then
you know there's some level that we've i've said that there's the reporting is that the calculus
for democrats is well we don't want to go hastily into impeachment and then have like just a fucking joke trial in the senate where mitch
mcconnell be like yeah my shit gills are getting in the way uh and just fucking punt the thing and
then it's done and then they can rah rah into 2020 like they tried it and this is why we have
to rally around our president which is i have to say i do think that would happen and i i'm of a
different opinion of this than you guys.
I actually am a Pelosi fan.
I find her to be very kind of calculated.
And I worry about what happens if we go to impeach him despite him deserving it.
The world just works in a way that I don't think is fair, obviously, as we've seen.
So I'm nervous about shooting our shot and missing.
Because I do think that all that they will do if we shoot our shot and miss
and how can you possibly trust the Senate right now
to carry this through with what we've seen,
that it then becomes a narrative of
it's just political what they're trying to do.
And with public support currently
not being on the side of let's impeach him.
It's like a little over 40%.
Right.
So without a majority,
I feel like,
are we just allowing them that narrative?
Right.
You know what I mean?
So I understand,
but I'm also of the opinion
where it's like,
we impeach him
and then even in best case scenario,
he's fucking out of there.
We have President Pence
for the rest of the term.
No fucking thank you.
Worse, yeah.
I think either way i want
him out too they have to show some kind of backbone against this because i totally agree
because i mean on one hand i do understand the strategy because yeah politics isn't a very
straightforward thing and so many people have all this kind of disinformation misinformation
coming at them that no one is actually operating from level ground in terms of just the general public
looking at this. But there's a part of it too that is very demoralizing, I think, for groups
that are marginalized and are facing the greatest of existential threats from this administration,
that you need to show them something that is like, we get that this is a threat to black and brown people
yes or queer people or whoever then like this is very serious and the the optics of it right now
just feels like just not yet not yet not yet and other people like we don't have like i don't we
can't just keep letting this shit rock right now and i get to because it could backfire it totally
could and i and i'm not i'm not totally ignorant of those risks,
but I think there's a way to thread this needle a little bit better
where you can do other things that will continue to drag out
as much as possible the bad shit that's done.
Because the thing that she has said is that the arguments that she has
are there are certain conditions that have to be met
for the impeachment to go off.
It's that public support, it needs strong public support and strong bipartisan backing.
Yes.
The latter will not fucking happen.
It will never happen.
There's no way.
And the thing that worries me, like sort of going off what you were saying, Matt, is like
the spin that is possible on this.
I mean, even after watching how the Mueller report was viewed publicly, I feel like the conservatives were able to spin that in their favor very easily
because unless you're willing to like or have the time to read every single deep dive
and understand the nuances, which most people don't and rightfully so,
like it was easy to spin that, which there was more concrete like discussion points for
still to their favor.
So I just i'm like how
how could this go better i also think there's a culture around the word impeachment and i also
think there's a lot of remembrance of the last impeachment was which of course was clinton and
i think what people remember about that and something that is something to think about and consider is the length of that process. Sure. The redirection of public thought and like focus to that process.
Whereas like,
I genuinely think you have to let people hang themselves and he continues to do
that.
It isn't working,
but I think that we are so far from where we were in 2016.
I really think that
the midterms, which I give Pelosi a lot of credit for,
will show that we are gonna be really strong in 2020.
I really hope, if we get behind the right candidate,
I'm personally all in for Elizabeth Warren,
but the thing is, I trust us to make this right,
but I don't, all he needs is a word.
And if he says, they tried to impeach me,
like the way he leaned on emails, and it doesn't work,
it's like, all people need is one word,
I'm just, I don't know.
It makes me nervous to get into a situation
where we shoot our shot and lose,
because the worst thing that could happen
is we have four more years of him after 2020,
and then people are really in danger.
I think when we look at the people, though, that are going to be swayed, right, there's a certain group of people who, no matter how impeachment goes, they're all in for Trump.
Of course.
What's that, like 33%?
Yeah.
And there's another group that's mostly like Democrats who might not be enthusiastic about impeachment, but when presented with a binary choice between Trump or fuck out of here,
they're going to do the right thing. So I think a lot of people think of these swing voters who,
I don't know how they've quite identified them in their minds, who are the people that are going to
be completely put off by a failed impeachment. But I think at the end of the day, there has to be a
way that just in terms of the way the government is set up, that this co-equal branch actually functions because this person is blatantly breaking the law.
Yes, absolutely.
And then it's such a fucking terrible precedent.
But I totally agree with you.
There is something to and I will read.
There is David Ferris, who in the week wrote just sort of how he suspects what the strategy is for Pelosi, because it's not she's
she has come out and said, look, I'm not saying here. I don't know what the fuck we're doing.
It's like my plan is just that it's not impeachment right now. Yes, that's and and I sure. But what
is this like? What's going on? Can we we need to begin seeing some kind of movement here?
Because, yeah, it's true. The president can say something, but he says dumb shit all the time.
And the needle doesn't move too much.
But what he was saying in this piece in the week was rather than beginning impeachment proceedings tomorrow,
Democrats should take the next year to continue investigating and litigating to obtain the documents and testimony they need.
Then they should summon the House from its regularly scheduled summer recess in 2020 to launch official impeachment hearings that would culminate during the Republican National Convention at the end of August 2020. Instead of proceeding to a
vote after both sides have presented their cases, as would be customary in normal times, Speaker
Pelosi could make up some smirking Mitch McConnell nonsense about how Democrats need to think about
this for a really, really long time. Then, in the most devastating move possible, she would recall
her caucus either the Friday or Monday before the November election
to officially vote
to impeach the president.
Members can fly in and out of D.C.
for their roll call vote
and be back in their districts
by midday.
Good night and good luck.
President Trump will lose his mind.
A sitting president
is never blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So that's sort of like
the soap opera version.
Which I gag for.
Yeah.
And I think it's possible.
Could be a little bit of wishful
thinking but like you know she's there are times when like she's talked about like George Bush's
behavior and I'm just kind of like I don't know like yeah where are you exactly Nancy like I don't
that's where I the words and their ideas on a general level I'm like I get the logic, but the action hasn't quite added up to make me not very nervous.
Yeah, I like her brand, and there's certain things that it's like I would like to see more plan or, yeah, more thought put into it.
Sure.
Well, let me give you another.
If that wasn't enough to shake your confidence in the leadership, let's talk about Chuck Schumer. Okay.
Because, boy, there's a new book coming out from The Intercept's Ryan Grimm.
And, you know, of course, every journalist in D.C. has a fucking book coming out.
Yeah.
And they've all got a spooky title.
Yeah.
It's the moment.
Oh, yeah.
His book is like, I don't even, the title is so long.
It's like something.
Scary times.
It's like, I think it's like the equivalent of like Precious based on the novel Push by Sapphire or something like that.
I think it's called, no, what it's called is We've Got People.
From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement.
Long title.
Very long title.
Fiona Apple album.
In his book, though, he talks very specifically about the brett kavanaugh
confirmation process and how that was basically completely fucking bungled by the democrats like
behind closed doors there was a lot happening that we did not know about if true fuck out of here
so first the whole thing was people weren't sure what the testimony of christine blasey ford would do for
his confirmation um and a lot of people are like what's going on like i know it's definitely of
long shot because we're outnumbered in the senate and his sort of first thing was like we have no
power in this situation we have no power but if you remember in that one weekend uh where a few
activists pulled up to jeff flake started getting him a little bit shaky Lisa Murkowski
seemed like she could have been on the fence
too Susan Collins was also another
one one of the most devastating things
to watch was that Susan Collins speech
it was just like watching a fucking
embarrassment yeah like watching a dog
die yeah and again it seemed
like oh shit there might be something here
because like between her testimony and some other
activists there was like wait there might be something here because like between her testimony and some other activists there was like wait is there could there might be a fucking way then but this is what grim
is reporting says uh that when democrats gathered on september 27th shortly after blasey ford's
gripping testimony schumer advised his caucus to do nothing quote there was no way he said that
kavanaugh could survive that meant that the smartest democratic move at this moment was to
not get in the way.
Don't do anything, he told Judiciary Committee members,
that could screw this up and give Republicans some way to paint Kavanaugh as the victim.
Stand down.
I don't know.
They did that anyway.
I'm questioning the reporting of this because that doesn't feel like what happened.
I feel like the Senate Judiciary Committee, like in terms of the Democrats,
I feel like they did what they needed to do they did but i think there were
outside groups right who were talking about coming after other democrats who weren't coming like
being aggressive enough and things like that so it was sort of just generally a note of like
we just need to let this cook like don't we don't need to begin fully grandstanding about what we just saw.
Like let the public
take what they saw
and let them,
let the outrage
build naturally.
It was,
I don't,
I mean,
yeah,
yeah,
like I think that
there's a lot of like
lead by example
shit to be said there.
Like,
I don't know.
Letting it cook
seems like a dangerous thing
because otherwise
the internet
will just take over and that's dangerous.
But I also feel like did they just let it cook?
I don't think so.
I mean they came for him pretty hard.
That was like – I loved Kamala in that.
I'm not a Cory Booker – I'm not a huge fan but I thought he did well.
I mean that was the first time I ever really kind of noticed Klobuchar.
I thought that they all kind of like,
and maybe there was some grandstanding on the part of those people because they knew what they'd be doing in several months from that time.
But,
and so they were kind of like,
you know,
I'm going to make my own decision about what to do here.
But it,
it didn't seem to me like there was any reservation on the part of the
Democrats on that committee.
Like it just did it.
No,
not that there wasn't in the hearing.
It was then early on side of that too.
And just getting everyone to be like,
if they wanted to throw the full force of the party
to fuck this up, we would have noticed.
Like there were definitely very vocal people
within the party.
I think in general,
holding his feet to the fire a little bit more,
talking about like what was going on
with like that testimony
and making more of a point out of just his outburst that he
had during it.
I'm sure.
A lot of people were like, well, you know.
He was emotional.
We'll see what happens.
I don't know.
I mean, honestly, it's hard to even reflect on that period of media coverage and the way
that the Senate reacted around it because it was just so much.
I can't picture anything more.
It was just, was just so much. I can't picture anything more.
It was just,
it was,
it was so.
That's like,
I think what I'm,
what I'm rubbing on with this is it's like,
I felt like the outrage was at a fever pitch from everyone, from people,
from the,
from the public.
Yeah.
I guess I didn't hear much from Schumer.
Oh no.
Yeah.
And it was,
a lot of people were like,
well,
that's not like,
I don't know if that's how we want our Supreme Court.
Just it's not like this guy is a potentially a fucking sex crim.
Yeah.
The fuck are we talking about here?
It was just more like, well, you know, it's a very diplomatic talk around it.
It wasn't like the kind of shit where they could have hammered it.
And again, I don't know exactly like what that might have actually done, because, again, we were counting on three fucking losers to find their soul.
Who you found out were never going to change their minds.
Yeah, were spineless just amoebas.
But it is what it is.
But the other thing that's really interesting, too, is that he also writes about, you know, Christine Blasey Ford first sent a letter to her congressperson who then gave it to Dianne Feinstein.
Yes.
And people were like,
how long do you have that letter for?
Why don't you just hear about it now?
So in his writing in The New Yorker,
they say that Feinstein wasn't too interested
in the letter because she said,
I think we can hit him more on legal problems
than personal problems.
And then after this article was printed, her spokesperson came out and said, I think we can hit him more on legal problems than personal problems. That was and then her after this article was printed, her spokesperson came out, said they pushed back on that.
They're like, that's not it.
However, and then he also writes that a more cynical reading of this was that it could have been that she needed conservative votes in her election against Kevin de Leon in November in the midterms.
against Kevin de Leon in November in the midterms. And she didn't want to be, you know, rah-rah,
full charge against the conservative pick because she needed to strike that bounce or she could have lost her Senate bid. I mean, there's no question that she's extremely out of touch. So
at very least it was a very dated reading of how the public would react to something like that.
But I mean, the thing with DeLeon,
I mean, that makes a lot of sense
because there was so much...
He got like 44% of the vote.
Yeah, I mean, I voted for him
once I learned what his platform was.
And why wouldn't you?
I mean, all you had to do was see...
I mean, Dianne Feinstein is,
for a California Democrat
way too conservative.
Right, I mean, she feels like a product of
30, 40 years ago. Yeah.
Of pre-9-11 world, not
post-9-11. Pre-Eyelash.
Pre-Eyelash. The crazy thing about Dianne Feinstein is
she's a Gen X-er.
And so can we really trust
her takes on anything?
She was actually in Hackers.
She was standing right beside Lillard the whole movie.
This is insane.
Dianne Feinstein is Ginger Spice.
Wow.
Oh my God, what are those horrible clickbait articles?
Think about it.
This Spice Girl became what?
And I will click.
Oh, 100%.
Because I have a melted brain.
Yeah.
Let's move on.
Okay.
To something a little bit later.
Wow, what a fucking,
it felt like we were underwater for a second.
I was like, wow,
just going back to that period of time,
just to put it like one more thing on the Feinstein thing,
with that letter,
I remember her being directly asked about that
during the hearings.
They turned to her and they're like,
how long did you have this letter?
And at that time I was kind of like,
why are we talking about this?
Like, this woman was assaulted.
Like, it doesn't matter how long she had it.
But then it's like, when you think about the politics
of it all, it's just like, oh my god,
this is so fucking exhausting.
Or that she could hang onto that,
and then like, the woman could be put through that
as just like, ugh.
Well the thing was, she was like,
well I did it out of respect to her,
but clearly Christine Blasey Ford wrote that because she's like something has
to be done about this i will do i will speak up yeah that's why the that's why the logic that
the feinstein camp puts up doesn't quite add up it doesn't hold water and that's why you're like
and also imagine if she did come out with it the second she got it this there would have been a
there would have been a lot more time for the story to to evolve a little bit to put pressure on him as
a pick yeah like and so you know but look we live in a world of what ifs you know what if billy
eilish was born before 9-11 yeah she's in a sundress and that's we live in society we live
in the society on netflix now yeah um have you seen that? No. What is it? Some show.
People are just like,
it's like Lord of the Flies with frats or some shit.
Wait, what show?
I watched Always Be My Maybe.
Oh, no, I don't know.
I just watched Always Be My Maybe
because I need to feel good.
Yeah, yeah.
Did you like it?
I thought it was fun.
Okay, I haven't seen it yet.
It's fun.
It's fun.
Yeah, I love a rom-com.
I mean, look,
I love Keanu Reeves doing comedy.
That's all you need.
I know.
Well, if you want to see Keanu Reeves do comedy, baby, John Wick 3 is out now. Oh, my gosh. Wait, I love a rom-com. I mean, look, I love Keanu Reeves doing comedy. That's all you need. I know. Well, if you want to see Keanu Reeves do comedy, baby,
John Wick 3 is out now.
Oh my gosh, wait.
I have a question.
It is so good.
I have a Zeitgang question because I've gotten,
a few people have tweeted this at me,
that I look like a ballerina who tears her toenail off
in John Wick 3 and I want to know what her name is.
I have no idea what her name is,
but that scene was gripping.
Someone help me figure out what this woman's name is. want to figure out if it's like gang get on it now
and compare the feet to jamie's wiki feet page to make sure yes and don't be uploading that photo
don't upload that photo to jamie's wiki feed page because that'll fucking tank her score unless
people like nasty blown off toenail pics there's yeah i mean right now let me just check in really
quick what's your wiki feed score i'm still at five stars beautiful oh hell yeah and some new like nasty blown off toenail pics. There's, yeah. I mean, right now, let me just check in really quick.
What's your WikiFeed score?
I'm still at five stars, beautiful. Oh, hell yeah.
And some new uploads to the page
since I last checked.
Beautiful.
All right, what about Barbara Streisand?
Hard left turn.
What about her?
Okay, so.
You were like,
can we talk about this?
Yes.
And I found the story,
and I mean,
I love an older lady cloning her dogs.
I just love it.
They're Babs.
If you missed this, I'm pretty sure.
Are y'all familiar like that?
Yeah, we're really good friends.
Okay.
She, if you're not familiar with, I think she literally wrote a New York Times op-ed piece about why she cloned her dead dog.
But she really just like peak older Caucasian woman.
And she was really like she was very upset when her dog Samantha died
Sammy and so in
Sammy Sweetheart
Dear Sam that night at bed
we saw yeah as we read
between the waitresses every morning in prayer
that's our that's our our father
that's our is the note from
Snooki wow
but she was she was so broken
up this is a from a Jezebel piece.
So broken up after the 2017 death of her beloved Sammy that she sent some of Sammy's cells to a lab in Texas to make two more Sammies.
And she posted to Instagram just yesterday a picture of three dogs, two who are Sammy's clones, one who is a cousin, which I don't know what that means.
Oh, my God.
I think that's a B-grade clone.
But there's a gorgeous picture of the two clone dogs
on top of Sammy's grave, which has a photo of Sammy on it,
paying their respects.
The caption reads,
The twins, Scarlett and Violet, honoring their mom
with cousin Fanny in the
center and i just i i just think that this is a very sweet and wholesome thing and when you're a
bajillionaire sure clone your dead dog now i understand i would clone sunny in a second i
would create an army of yeah i've talked in the past about like uh when i was lobbying we had a client who
had a clone dog it was at the forefront of dog cloning technology how expensive is that
well my man's was doing in the late 90s and has like i i'm pretty sure his work in the dog cloning
world had helped even barbara streisand type do this type of shit because i think for barbara's
like 50k, a dog.
That's less than I would think. Chump change.
Yeah, that's truly.
She'll be like, yeah, cook up like 40 of them.
Yeah.
Put them on ice.
They're only 50K?
Give me an army.
Yeah.
Well, wait, so for like 100K, can I get a bigger one?
Yeah.
Like double the size?
Can you make it larger?
Can the dog be smarter than me?
Yeah.
The first time I.
And use 100% of its brain.
Check in, how much of your brain are you using?
Oh, 56. Okay, wow. Wow. smarter than me yeah the first time i use a hundred percent of its brain check in how much your brain is using oh um 56 okay wow yeah i can it's crazy like and like a little bit before the the diane feinstein thing i was at 64 wow and then because i was underwater i need more oxygen yeah
yeah i truly like that my head hurts a little from thinking about it too hard which is why we have to
talk about barbara streisand's dogs i the first thing I ever heard, and I'm curious if Zeitgang's also,
I'm a big Errol Morris fan.
I love his work.
And my first Errol Morris documentary
was called Tabloid,
which is about a woman,
it's a very bizarre story about a woman
who may or may not have kidnapped a Mormon man
and made him her sex prisoner in the 70s.
And it's so good.
And then flash forward like 30 years
she is like one of the first people to get her dog cloned oh shit and so it is a great documentary
it's very funny and weird and i haven't seen it in a while but uh yeah like it seems just like
old ladies with uh just spent like with expendable income can just sort of get their dogs cloned.
Yeah.
Well, it's a flex.
I think it's a good flex.
I mean, I think like, okay.
You're like, I never have to grieve because I can just pop open another one.
It's crazy.
My dog is one, right?
My dog is, he's a young man.
So I'm like, that gives me like, if things go well and he doesn't get, something horrible
doesn't happen.
Right.
You got eight years.
I've got a while to like, yeah, that's how much time I have to make enough money to get
him cloned with the guys.
Well, if you think about it like this, if you save $1,000 a month and you put it away
in your clone fund.
I can't even see a dentist, Miles.
Where am I going to get $1,000?
That's a lot of money.
Patreon.
It's complicated.
Oh, Patreon.
Hello.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Yeah, I'm going to start now.
I'm going to start another Patreon.
The money is in the patreon
the sunny memorial fund started now in advance please be part of my journey to get over his death
and clone him he's a disaster i heard though with her clone dogs the thing that she's really upset
about is that they don't behave like the dog because you have the physical form of the clone
right but the all the nurturing and stuff is different.
Didn't she ever see Clone High?
Like, that's not how it works.
Well, I don't think so.
But apparently a lot of training goes into the dogs acting like the clone when really it could have just been nurtured.
Like, I don't think she did the work of, like, being near the dogs enough.
No, she just wants a dead dog.
Anyway.
I have to reveal something.
Yes. I may
know
the person
who trains her dogs.
Matt, how? Oh my god.
Friend of a friend. I know
someone who has the same dog trainer.
Which is where I heard
this. Yes, and I
have seen
I haven't seen much, but I have seen I have seen
and I haven't seen much but I've seen a photo of those dogs together
and when you picked up that video I was like oh my god I've seen
those dogs like and I know that I know that
they live a
lavish life
doesn't she have like a little
like mini McDonald's and shit in her basement
she has a shopping mall shopping mall
yes do you Babs?
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Now, we have a story that you are so excited.
Everyone is psych-electric.
The second I was like, oh, we get to talk about the list.
I'm so excited.
This is the most insane thing. What was the publication
that did this? It was Jezebel.
Jezebel. Which, you know, every? It was Jezebel. Jezebel.
Jezebel.
You know, which, you know, every other story in Jezebel, you're like, come on.
But this is, this I think, as a former clickbait writer myself, this is a masterwork.
Of clickbait.
Of clickbait.
Jezebel published yesterday, one of their culture editors, Clover Hope, published a piece called Actors Who Are Bad at Acting.
It is a masterwork of clickbait because she offers, in this list, no explanation for why she does this.
She just presented without comment.
So if this was Twitter, you'd be like, just ratio this shit, fam.
This is both the most insane and genius thing anyone's ever done because, like you said,
it is a masterwork of clickbait
but it's also
nothing
it is nothing
I have to hand it to her
like I just
it's alchemy
people on Twitter
were like
I can't believe
they're doing this
for clicks
I'm like honestly
you're talking about it
she gotcha
honestly
Cloverhope is now
unfortunately
a household name
like
writers who aren't
good at writing
not for nothing but she fucking wrote a list unfortunately, a household name. I know. Like, writers who aren't good at writing.
Not for nothing, but she fucking wrote a list.
She made a list.
She leads it. Hey, man, that's my girlfriend.
The identity of her majesty.
I stand by saying that because if she can fucking put that out there,
she can deal with me saying it about her.
Exactly.
And I have read none of her work,
which means I've done as much research
as she did in her piece.
There you go.
The list is all over the place,
which I don't know how intentionally that was done.
There's some of her takes,
if you can call it that,
that I'm like, yeah, sure.
Others made people very upset.
So I'll just go through the list.
And should we say whether they're good or not?
I think the triumvirate here should...
We're gonna weigh in,
and it's gonna be a two out of three.
It's like, yeah.
For everyone, definitively.
And it's like Clover Hope,
you know what?
We'll just say it now.
You win.
We're talking about your dumb ass story.
100%.
I respect it.
If there needs to be debate,
we can have a small moment for debate
because I haven't,
I'm not familiar with
everyone's entire body of work.
So there could be a sleeper movie
where they did have a good performance.
But I guess.
There's some I'm on the fence about.
I'm confident saying
I know everyone's of on this list. Brie Larson off the rip. So, okay. So There's some I'm on the fence about. I'm confident saying I know everyone's of
on this list. Okay, great. Brie Larson, off the rip.
Okay, so let's get started. Brie Larson.
She's a good actress. I think she's good.
I don't know enough.
I didn't see Captain Marvel.
Here's my take on Brie Larson.
Great actress, not a star.
Ah, yeah, yeah. I think that's what it is.
I'm just not familiar with her work enough.
Okay, I like that. She's an Oscar winner. Jennifer Lawrence. She's a great actress. I think she's fine. I think that's what it is. I'm just not familiar with her work enough. Okay, I like that. She's an Oscar winner.
Jennifer Lawrence.
Jennifer Lawrence, yeah.
She's a great actress.
I think she's fine.
I think she's fine.
I don't think she's bad.
Michael B. Jordan.
It would be insane to say Jennifer Lawrence is not a good actress.
Michael B. Jordan, I actually don't love as much as everyone else.
I think he's talented.
I can't say he's a bad actor by any means.
I'm so, so on him.
He was a maybe for me.
I think star, not necessarily the best actor, but a star. Yeah, that makes I'm so, so on him. He was a maybe for me. I think star,
not necessarily the best actor,
but a star.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
Oh, got you.
So his star power
outweighs his acting power.
For me, for me.
Okay.
Nick Cage.
Nope.
I think he's good.
He's not good.
He is fun to watch.
He's not a good actor.
But I think that is part
of being a good actor.
And also that means star,
but maybe not good actor
but he...
But then how would he...
What would you say
of Keanu Reeves then?
I would say star.
I would say yeah.
I mean,
I don't think anyone's
making the argument
that Keanu Reeves
is actually a really good actor.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're just saying
he's a presence.
Okay, I'm a Nick Cage
is not a good actor
but I can't say
that it's not fun to watch.
I'm willing to go along
with you.
Nick Cage is not good.
Like, would you trust him to play
a part that was a character
you really loved? Probably not.
I would never cast him. For anything?
No. I would cast him
as washed up
actor who wasted his money.
I think it depends on the
serious role he's in of whether
he will... A shamed Coppola family member who had to change his name. I think I'd cast That's just him. It depends on the serious role he's in of whether he will. A shamed Coppola family member.
I think I'd change his name.
I think I'd cast him as Nick Cage.
Yeah, exactly.
I'd love for him to play himself.
Yeah, which seems like what people do, Jeff.
Like how Jean-Claude Van Damme just became JCVD.
Bury that.
You know what I mean?
Okay, John Travolta.
I would be willing to say he's bad.
But I haven't.
I think star for sure.
Yes.
And I think talented performer.
Yes.
Performer.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which is famously different
from being an actor
as being a performer.
Yep.
So I think it sounds like
he's not a good actor.
What we're saying.
Because we're giving people compliments.
We're doing the thing.
We're like, well, not that, but this.
Luke used to say full throat.
Hey, as an actor,
we're going straight up off the acting.
Sorry, my man. I'll give it to Clover Hope on this
one. Okay. Kristen Stewart.
Depends.
I think good
film actress when
you need something done that's very
internal. I just feel like
so generous
and specific. You can't
tell her performance outwardly.
Not a performer at all, but an actress, I would say.
I think she's probably a good actress, but even when she's doing a great job, I'm still
not wanting to really watch her.
Okay.
Never my first choice.
Yeah.
But I think she's good.
Yeah.
Okay, so she's not a bad actor.
No.
Okay, what about Daniel Radcliffe?
I don't know.
I love Daniel Radcliffe.
I think he's a good actor.
I feel like no matter what, he's done so many more interesting things than he ever would have needed to in his entire life.
And so I'm going to give it to him as a yes.
I'm going to give it to him.
I've only seen one Harry Potter movie, but I saw Swiss Army Man where he is a farting corpse.
That was tight.
Yeah.
But I saw Swiss Army Man where he is a farting corpse.
He's brilliant.
That was tight.
Yeah.
And also he was, I was already about to say that,
and he's also amazing in extras.
His comedic chops in that.
The timing was right when he was hitting on a homegirl.
Wait.
What's the movie again?
Helen Mirren, right?
Helen Mirren.
I mean, I like. No, who is he?
Say the movie again.
Extras?
Extras. It's a Ricky Gervais comedy. Yes, yes, yes. And he kept being like. I mean, I like- No, who is he? What's his name? Say the movie again? Extras? Extras.
It's a Ricky Gervais comedy.
Yes, yes, yes.
And he kept being like,
you know, I can smoke cigarettes.
Yeah.
Everyone that gets on that show was good.
Kate Winslet was fucking amazing in that show.
Well, either way,
I think that Harry Potter getting a second life
as a character actor is really great and cool.
I like it.
And I think he's good.
And Miracle Workers is good.
Miracle Workers was really good.
Yeah.
Adam Sandler.
I feel like everyone's gonna say Punch Drunk Love,
and I just am not willing to,
I don't know,
I think he can be good,
but the harm outweighs the good.
I'm willing to call him bad.
I would say good,
because we can't forget that,
you know,
he's iconic.
Like,
you can say what you want about him
but the thing is like
he is fucking iconic
and that is
but also again
that's performance
and being a star
I don't know
give him Shakespeare
I don't know
but also how are we defining
being a quote unquote
good actor
this is why the list
fucks your head so bad
this is why Clover
is killing us
slowly
Clover Hope
I'm gonna say
I'm gonna say good actor there you I'm going to say good actor.
There you go.
I'm going to say good actor.
All right.
I think just based off, you know, Punch Drunk Love, I was very surprised when that came out.
I was like, what the fuck is this?
Bizarre.
Also, you know what's psycho?
Spanglish.
I know.
Spanglish is fucked up in so many ways, but I think that Adam Sandler turns in a solid performance.
Turns in a solid performance.
What about Gwyneth Paltrow?
This offends me that she's on the list.
I'm offended.
Because I actually believe that her performance in Shakespeare in Love is phenomenal
and that she deserved the Oscar over Cate Blanchett.
I think she is...
It's so hard to be that much of a superstar, romantic lead, doing what she did.
She was so believable. I think Shakespeare in Love
is one of the greats.
I think Gwyneth is canon.
I say she is a great actor because
she has a lot of people believing in pseudoscience.
Based off of that,
you're on the list, Ma.
Also, you have to always give Gwyneth
props for her fun turn on
Glee. You have to give her credit for her fun turn on Glee. Yes.
You have to give her credit for her fun turn on Glee.
Okay, fine.
Okay, fine.
She's good.
Wow.
She's good.
I forgot about that.
All right.
This one I think is just straight up Vin Diesel.
Good.
No.
No.
Come on.
No.
No.
I'm unwilling to discuss this further.
Vin Diesel, I can't even.
That's like not even.
That's stupid to even have that on there.
That's stupid Clover.
Yeah.
Come on, Clover yeah come on Clover
you fucked up on that
Chloe Grace Moretz
hate her
I don't hate her
but I don't think
she's a good actress
I think that she is
too like spunky for me
ugh
she just makes me feel
icky
but acting
stay focused
see this is where
the list goes
out of y'all fucked up
acting good or no
I always
I always see her acting
I always see her acting
you can tell she's acting
yes thank you but she's acting. Yes. Thank you.
But she's also young and I like her.
Emma Watson.
Bad.
Sorry.
Bad.
I've only seen one Harry Potter movie, so I can't even really tell you.
I really, I'm unwilling to talk shit about Emma Watson because I thought in The Bling
Ring she turned into fun performance.
Okay.
That was fun.
That's a push.
But also Hermione.
Wait, well, hold on.
She's the spirit of Hermione.
Jamie, why do you think it's a no for you?
With the exception of the bling ring, I've been super, super underwhelmed with any other performance she's ever done that isn't Hermione.
I feel like the casting director for Harry Potter was amazing.
Killed it, yep.
And you never know with child stars.
I feel like, you know, whatever she's, but like dog shit in Beauty and the Beast, whatever
that like corny, what was that teen movie?
Ursa being a wallflower.
It wasn't good in that.
I don't know.
I mean, I'm, as of right now, I feel like maybe she'll change my mind someday once she
gets over like the blockbusters.
She needs a good director, but yes.
Okay.
Anthony Mackie.
I think Anthony Mackie's a great actor.
I like him. Yeah. I think he's a good actor. I like Anthony Mackie. I think Anthony Mackie's a great actor. I like him.
Yeah, I think he's a good actor.
I like Anthony Mackie.
Just didn't like him as Tupac.
I'm offended that she's picking on Anthony Mackie.
That feels like a punchdown.
I mean, did she see 8 Mile?
When he was Papa Doc?
Anthony Mackie's good.
Also, you can never forget him in The Hurt Locker.
Yeah.
He's stunning in that.
He's not quite as A-list as everyone else on this list.
It's a weird one.
That's why it feels like a punch down to me.
It's like,
what are you doing?
I think,
I'm like,
what's he trying to do,
Clover?
Yeah.
No,
he is going to be the new Captain America.
He's good.
I like,
yeah.
Oh,
he is?
He was handed the torch at the end of the movie
by old Chris Evans.
Spoiler alert.
Oh,
whoops.
By old hot daddy Chris Evans
who could still absolutely break my arm.
What about Jessica Alba?
That's a no for me, dog.
I feel like she's-
I love her.
I love her.
I think she was never given enough of a chance to do a good job and stuff because she was
made such a sex symbol.
Objectified.
She was never given a good part.
Off the rip.
Off idle hands.
Jessica Alba is primarily an entrepreneur.
Yeah.
That's true.
And that's what we love about her.
Exactly.
You can sometimes catch her on Tujunga in Studio City.
Right across the street from Cafe Aroma.
The next one is what people have gotten the most upset about, Amy Adams.
This is ridiculous.
Why?
This is stupid.
Just move on.
That's bullshit, Clover.
It's insane to say that.
That's a lock.
Clover should go to prison.
She's never turned in a bad performance.
Ever.
She is one of our best.
She's haunting.
You know?
Armie Hammer.
I think
I think he's good
at doing that one thing.
Yeah, so good at being
white, tall, and handsome.
I don't think
that he's a good actor.
I think he's very well cast
in a lot of movies.
Absolutely.
I think one of the
oh, let me find it.
One of my favorite
entertainment reporting pieces
of ever was about him.
It's called 10 Long Years of Trying to Make Armie Hammer Happen.
It came out during his Call Me By Your Name Oscars buzz.
It's by Anne Helen Peterson.
It was on BuzzFeed.
If you want a deep dive as to why Armie Hammer is not a good actor, but is in fact well cast.
Yeah.
It's 5,000 words.
He's got a good, he does his thing well yeah but he's also a very
nice person he i've met him too yeah really nice yeah i was very surprised at how cordial polite
and like just considerate of a human being he was well she's media trained yeah and i was making him
extremely i did a video with like vanity fair with him where i made him like respond to other
talking cars and he had a for a dumb
internet video he was very gracious and then told a bunch of stories that his publicist didn't want
the video I'm sure that he likes to party I'm sure that he's a lovely person I don't think
he's necessarily a good actor okay Mark Wahlberg I hate him he can only do one thing well and that's
like what the fuck bro I don't I no longer like the boogie nights defense of mark walberg also what is the
boogie nights defense it's he's talking about being well cast well i would say i would say
the same thing for adam sandler is like maybe this is just a paul thomas anderson like making a good
choice thing i think that adam sandler makes choices in his acting whereas mark walberg is
always just the same this and also like you got you guys, his cryo chamber, 9 a.m., 3 a.m. workout, gives me anxiety.
Also, he's fully a Republican.
He's horrible.
Kevin Costner?
I don't know if I have a strong enough opinion on him either way.
This is such another bizarre one to have on the list.
Like, what?
I think she's just trying to take a shot at somebody who is a star for older women.
You know, like in the early 90s, everyone was like, Kevin Costner!
I will say this.
You know what movie holds up?
Waterworld.
Bodyguard.
Oh.
I watched the Bodyguard recently.
It will make you cry at the end.
And Whitney is such a star.
She's great.
I wish, see, I would take Kevin Kline over Kevin Costner, but that has no bearing on
the list.
Yeah, Kevin Kline, he's a performer, though.
Kevin Kline is a, Kevin Kline is an actor down.
Bradley Cooper.
He's definitely a star.
I think he's a good actor.
I think Bradley Cooper's a great actor.
He did the Elephant Man on Broadway, y'all.
Yeah.
I think that, yeah.
I understand there's like,
sometimes people are just like,
he's hot, so he can't be a great actor,
but unfortunately, that's not true.
The scene in Star is Born
when he is apologizing to her,
that is good acting.
Also,
I thought he should have won that.
When he snorted those pills up
that he smashed with his boot,
that resonated with me
as somebody who used to do a lot of pills.
And he makes choices too,
like everything in A Star is Born
is a fucking choice.
It's a choice.
I really respect it.
Although the one thing we did say
when it came out,
that character could have been played by anybody though. I don't think Bradley- But not that way. I don respect it. Although the one thing we did say when it came out, that character could have been played by anybody, though.
But not that way.
Not that way, but I think the Jackson main character,
the film could have been the same thing
with other people doing that character
because for me, at least,
I thought the real performance that was moving to me
was Lady Gaga's.
I would agree.
I agree that she outperforms him,
but I still think that he, I mean,
he made choices that
bradley cooper would not of course of course i'm merely saying that that character could be
interchanged and you could still maintain a really good piece not to say that it would be better or
worse but it's not like if you took lady gaga out of it then i'm like i don't know what the
fuck you got not worth it it's it's this discussion of which i always think when the oscars roll
around i always think well i think the person that wins the Oscar
should be the role
that no one else could have done it as well.
And that is why,
I thought Bradley Cooper was incredible,
but with Gaga,
I was really in love with that performance
because I don't think
that we could have had someone else do that like her.
In terms of believability
in becoming a huge star like that.
The type of pop star that she became,
the sort of like groundedness of where she came from becoming who she was.
I think the script gave him more opportunities to be more dynamic and give a
better performance.
But she was singular in that.
Which I stood by.
And let's move on to one of the great Asian American actresses,
Scarlett Johansson.
I think Scarlett Johansson is an amazing actress.
Ooh, what's your favorite performance of hers?
I would say Don John.
Wow.
Is my favorite performance of hers.
Wow.
And I also think that whenever I run into a gay
and they haven't seen Endgame,
I'm like, you have to see Endgame
for Scarlett Johansson growing out her hair,
drinking and eating sandwiches,
and having her eyes welled up with tears
the entire middle section of the movie.
Her dystopia ombre is wild.
Dystopia ombre should be the title of this episode.
Dystopia ombre.
Ashton Kutcher.
Oh, bad.
Bad.
But you have to see, but if you haven't seen Ashton Kutcher's career-ruining performance
as Steve Jobs, I really recommend you see it.
It's one of my favorite bad movies.
Chris Evans?
I love Chris Evans.
I think he's good.
I think he's fine.
I think he also never tries to do something that he can't do.
Ansel Elgort.
Not convinced. I don't think he's a good actor do something that he can't do. Ansel Elgort. I. Not convinced.
I don't think he's a good actor.
I have no opinion on this.
I just, I don't like him as a person and that's like, he just seems like an asshole.
Gal Gadot?
No, she can't act.
She can't act.
But she's a superstar.
Yeah.
She's a star.
Can't act.
Yeah.
Yeah, no.
Angelina Jolie.
I think Angelina Jolie is a good actress.
She has an Oscar.
She's blowing this off.
And I think that people. Yeah, but so does Three has an Oscar she's blowing this up and I think that
people
that's true
the children have forgotten
Girl Interrupted
yeah
yeah
the children have forgotten
which is well acted
across the board
Brittany Murphy
is amazing in that movie
Sienna Miller
how do we feel about Sienna Miller
you're so funny
I can't even speak
to Sienna Miller
because I constantly
confuse her with Naomi Watts
so I have no idea
well I can tell you right now that I believe they're both good actresses.
Great.
Which one was in 21 Grams?
That was Naomi.
Damn.
They're interesting.
There I am.
That's why I'm here.
Yeah, thank you.
They're also like 15 years apart in age, but I cannot tell them apart.
Do you, Sienna?
Yeah.
Okay.
Finally, I just want to touch on very quickly.
So Clover, you got us.
You got us. You got us.
You got us.
That was 20 minutes.
That's the whole list?
That was the whole list.
Fascinating the hodgepodge that she put on that list.
This is insane.
Clover Hope.
Clover, will you write a follow-up about it?
I need that Clover psychology.
Now I'm hooked on these listicles, Clover.
I need that Clover dope.
I need more.
I need to follow her right now.
Okay, finally, just Just wanna touch very quickly
On Nicole Curran
Who is the wife of
Golden State Warriors owner
Joe LaCope
Or Laco
Or whatever the fuck
You say his name
Now
If you don't know
She was the woman
Who made the fucking mistake
Of leaning across Beyonce
To talk to Jay-Z
And what she describes
Is merely getting his drink order
But based on Beyonce's face
And the frequency Of which she was talking, I don't know.
She was definitely being a little chatty Cathy.
And Beyonce was not feeling it.
And her reaction set off the motherfucking beehive.
To the point where her Instagram comments were inundated with bee emojis.
You know how they get down.
Yes.
And then she said that she got death threats.
Yeah.
Now, and then on Friday or Thursday night, possibly, Beyonce's publicist had to basically tell the Hive to stand the fuck down.
She said,
The On The Run 2 tour was a place of joy, unimaginable entertainment from two of the best performers in the world, and a place of love.
Every single day on that tour, I saw love, which is why I also want to speak here to the beautiful B-Hive.
I know your love runs deep, but that love has to be given to every human.
It will bring no joy to the person you love so much if you spew hate in her name.
We love you.
In her name.
Oh, my God.
The God-like invitation.
That's God.
Yeah.
This is what happens.
In her name.
That's how you know you have reached deity levels because people will begin killing in your name.
It is insane that this is a thing.
Yeah. Yeah. Everything that this is a thing. Yeah.
Everything about it is psychotic.
The fact that Beyonce can sit in a chair,
unknowingly be filmed,
just having a human reaction,
and literally what the woman was trying to do
was provide a good experience for them,
and she had a human moment of annoyance,
and the woman got her life threatened.
It is comedy.
It is tragedy.
It is Shakespeare.
It is history.
It is history.
It is now history.
And it just shows you the fucking evolutions of fandoms.
We have ones now that are so fucking ready.
Based off a look of displeasure from their overlord.
People need to get a life.
Yeah.
It is really crazy.
Yeah.
This is the kind of story
where I just look at it and I'm tired.
Yeah.
I'm just tired.
But it's so funny.
The gif is so funny.
Because her face,
if I was Beehive,
I would have been like,
you know what,
Nicole Curran,
you're getting it.
Can you imagine if Beyonce
could harness that
into her actual acting?
Like, the fact that she's capable of that sort of, like, amount of doing nothing but doing everything.
It's like, oh my God, if only she could do that on purpose.
What if she brought that to Austin Powers 3?
Her best performance for me.
Yes, gold member.
I mean, nothing like it.
Oh, man.
Have you watched that recently?
I watched it again and I was like, ooh.
Is it not hold up?
No.
No.
No Austin Powers film holds up.
Wait a second, an Austin Powers movie?
I mean, there's the fuck you and fuck me.
Oh, my God.
And I'm like, yeah, you get the fuck out of here.
Starring Carrie Ann and Abba.
Yeah.
Oh, great choreographer.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, like, I mean, where was that performance in Obsessed?
Honestly.
Yes, so I forgot about Obsessed.
Also, the fact that they chose a name for her son that she can't say correctly.
Like, cow.
This woman wouldn't name her son something.
Kyle is the child's name.
Also, I don't know.
The whole movie's insane.
You can tell that they didn't change the script at all
to fit, like, who they had cast.
Right.
They're like, no, that's what the script says.
We'll rock it like that.
Well, prepare your mentions
for coming at Beyonce like that, Matt.
Well, no, I...
Come on, please.
I've seen Beyonce three times in concert
since the beginning.
I saw every on-the-run tour.
You can't find a bigger Beyonce fan than me.
But we know where her strengths lie.
And I will also say she turned out a great performance in Dreamgirls.
I loved her in Dreamgirls, man.
And she's amazing in Cadillac Records.
There you go.
I appreciate when a superstar is aware of their limitations.
I think Ariana Grande is another good example of that.
She stopped acting because it wasn't her strength.
I also think it's not a mistake that Beyonce didn't do with Star is Born.
No.
That wasn't what should have happened.
No, no, no, no, no.
Can you imagine Beyonce and Bradley Cooper having chemistry?
No.
I cannot.
No.
No.
I think, wasn't it for a hot second going to be Beyonce and Leo?
Really?
Yes.
They had talked with Leo about it. I feel that more than- a hot second gonna be Beyonce and Leo really yes they had like
talked with Leo
about it
I feel that
Clint Eastwood
was gonna direct it
years ago
and then
Clint passed it off
to Bradley
and Bradley
was gonna do it
all himself
famously
well thank god
that Clint Eastwood
didn't have to
direct it
well thank god
and thank god
Matt blessed
the zeitgeist
today
this was so fun
thank you so much
Matt where can
people find you
listen to you follow you listen to you
follow you
donate to you
your upcoming clone fund
my Venmo is
Matthew-Rogers-1
yes I did get the first
Matthew Rogers
even though there are
millions of us
also I have one
with a dash one too
I'm like why do I need the one
why can't I just be it
I'm just Jamie-Loftus
but you can listen to my podcast
Las Culturistas
I co-host that with Bowen Yang but you can listen to my podcast Las Culturistas I co-host that
with Bowen Yang
and you can follow me
at Matt Rogers
though
at Matt Rogers
T-H-O
on Instagram
and Twitter
and I welcome you there
and is there a tweet
that you like
oh okay
yes
I love this prompt
so I actually
am going to just
shout out my friend
who I think
has the best Twitter
out there and is a comic genius.
And that's Pat Regan.
And here,
I want to read a couple of his tweets.
Sure.
Here's one.
When I swipe at the subway turnstile and it says,
please swipe again.
I'm like,
okay,
fine.
But when it says,
please swipe again at this turnstile,
I'm like,
okay,
now you're being colon controlling,
insecure,
manipulative, codependent
then I love this other tweet
just told perky 23 year old
who does musical theater that I'm 30 and
she said quote that's amazing
and one more
the most
terror inducing six words in the English
language are quote just send me what
you have end quote
he's the one of the funniest people
in America and my sister.
And you should
follow him.
Well, listen to Las Cotrisas first and then
find somebody else.
Cat and Pat get enough press.
What about you?
Where can people find you, follow you, support you?
The Sunny Clone Fund.
Yeah, please donate to the Sunny Clone Fund. I want to really get ahead of it by at least a decade uh
i'm at jamie loftus help on twitter at help i love at jamie christ superstar on instagram
i don't have brand unity and that's very brave of me uh listen to beckdill cast i plugged i
plugged edinburgh french last week and today i'm going to say I'm going to be in New York City
for exactly one night because I fucked up my schedule.
Oh.
So if you want to come to ASCAP 3000 on June 16th,
I'll be doing the monologue there.
And I might also be in New York just by chance too.
I know.
Wait, when?
June 16th.
June 16th.
Oh, I'll still be here.
No.
I'm going back to New York on June 20th.
Oh, my God. Yeah. Can back to New York on June 20th. Oh my God.
Yeah.
Can you move your show?
Yeah.
No, I'm pretty sure that UCB is like really willing to move their flagship show.
Really, yeah.
And pay you to, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They'll do it in the morning if that works for you.
You can do it right after a level 201 graduation class show.
Can I say one thing that I actually just realized I'll be able to announce?
Yes.
That Las Colteras is going on a second leg of our tour.
Yes.
And that we're going to be in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, and get this bitch, Orlando, Florida.
Oh my God.
Are you going to?
It's going to be late August.
Are you going to Toy Story Land?
We're going to do it all.
Oh my gosh.
I'm so excited.
We're so excited.
So by the time this comes out, which will be when?
Monday.
All right alright I think
it'll be time
and if it's not
I'll tell you guys
to cut that out
but that's exciting
that's really exciting
oh my gosh
I'm so excited
yeah I don't think
so Honey Live
it's we get 50
you've done it
yes
we get 50 comedians
to get on stage
and they rant about
something in pop culture
that they hate
for one minute each
and it's really fun
at the same time
it's the most fun show
in the world
one after another
that'd be great
it's 100% it's a very 100% brain capacity kind It was, it's, and it's really fun. At the same time. It's the most fun show in the world. One after another. that'd be great. It's 100% brain,
it's a very 100%
brain capacity kind of show.
Yeah,
you,
it's,
it's,
it's an inundation.
Yes.
And just for those listeners,
you don't have to check your app,
this,
this episode was not playing
at one and a half times speed.
We are just fucked up
off this cold.
I'm now using 98% of my brain.
Yep.
And your headphones
are actually floating
around your head
like a ring of Saturn.
Yeah,
and my eyes are like milk white. Like, I'm now like, and that's because, that's because my brain. And your headphones are actually floating around your head like a ring of satin. Yeah. And my eyes are like
milk white.
I'm now like you're
working.
That's because that's
because my brain told it
to be that.
Yeah.
Also worth mentioning
that Matt Rogers is on
the Bechtel cast.
Yeah.
Coming up this week.
Hey.
We talked about Love
Simon.
We're talking about
Love Simon.
Yeah.
You can find me at
Miles of Grey on
Twitter and Instagram.
A tweet that I like is
from Marcella Arguello.
It said, I've gotten DMs snitching on chicks who are completely jacking my whole persona, vibe, etc.
And I'd be mad.
But if these whack bitches know they're whack, then I'd rather they copy me than a fucking Kardashian or some other lame ass bitch.
I'll always be me.
They'll figure themselves out.
Damn long.
Wisdom.
Love Marcella so much.
We love that.
We love that.
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What's the song
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Which Way, because let's just start off on a dub version of their track, Which Way.
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