The Daily Zeitgeist - Santaganda? Clauspaganda?? You Get It … 12.09.22

Episode Date: December 9, 2022

In episode 1388, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and host of Blake's Takes For God's Sakes, Blake Wexler to discuss...Brittney Griner getting released from a Russian gulag, Jesse Waters: Profoun...d Knower of Female Desires, Republicans trying to figure out what the hell happened, and the new killer Santa movie (now with more copaganda!)   1.Brittney Griner freed from Russian prison in exchange for Viktor Bout 2. WNBA stars continue to be outspoken on social issues (usatoday.com) 4. Jesse Watters: Knower of Female Desires 4. Violent Night review: David Harbour’s action-Santa movie is kind of a mess - Polygon LISTEN: White Rabbit (Reggae Version)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:01:22 then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 266, episode 5 of Dirty Leaves. Yeah!
Starting point is 00:01:37 Just 400 more seasons, and we're going to be at the raddest season of all. This is a production of iHeartRadio. It's a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it is Friday, December 9th, 2022, which, of course, means that... Jack, change your... I already forgot the character's name. 16th day of Christmas.
Starting point is 00:02:01 Change your name to Willie Lohman because it's national salesperson day did i get that right yeah you got that all right uh dude i fucking dug deep and i had like a panic attack i was like you fucking forgot the name already uh also it's weary willie day not sure what that is national day yeah is that based on death of a salesman weary Weary Willie Loman? Oh, no. It's a character from the art of clowning. Is it about people with erectile dysfunction? No, no, no, no. It's, like I said, as much as you want to make it about that. No, it's about clowning.
Starting point is 00:02:35 It's a specific character. When you see the clown with a bindle stick, that vibe, I guess that's known as the Weary Willie. Yeah. Working the old weary willy. Went on to be an American icon. I am going to be traveling weary willy status with a bindle stick and a big frown
Starting point is 00:02:54 painted on my face. And they're going to be like, wow, your eyes are painted so interestingly. No, that's just a lack of sleep. Yeah, no, those are real bags. Anyways, my name's Jack O'Brien, a.kbrien aka no one knows what it's like to be the bad man to be the jacked man behind pale thighs but my dreams they aren't as empty as my yearning for miles to notice me. I have hours only lonely.
Starting point is 00:03:34 Oh, my thighs are begging need to be seen. Yeah, that is courtesy of the one, the only Lex Lugy, Mr. Lugubrious himself. Very appropriate that we have a Plumpers themed AKA today. A little foreshadowing for who our guest is. I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Miles Gray, AKA garden holes in my mouth. Garden holes in my mouth. Garden holes in my mouth. Garden holes in my mouth. Garden holes in my mouth.
Starting point is 00:04:08 Garden holes in my mouth. Liquified freak. Sommelier critique. Garden holes lead. Make that nervous system weak. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're drinking expired Dasani. Wash it down with soda.
Starting point is 00:04:24 Pop for this acidic Dasani. Flo float eggnog on top of this here salty dasani shout out to salvador jolly on the discord for that one yeah and also you know you picked up when i said manguera i didn't say hoes but shout out to the bilinguals out there you knew what i was talking about yeah yeah strong entry. Strong nickname. Strong firsts, a.k.a. if we haven't heard a Salvador Jolly joint before. I don't know that I remember hearing that. Also, that is the only kind of, I don't like ice cream floats. There's too much flavor in there. So I just like eggnog on top of Dasani water.
Starting point is 00:04:59 That's my holiday treat. That's criminal. Miles. Yeah. We're thrilled. Miles. Yeah. We're thrilled, a little trepidatious, to be joined in our third seat by a brilliant comedian, writer, actor, and twisted motherfucker. Allegedly. Stand-up album, The Blake Album, Stuffed Boy, and Live From the Pandemic debuted at
Starting point is 00:05:21 number one on iTunes and Amazon. His album, 12 Years of Voicemails, from Todd Glass to Blake Wexler, charted on Billboard. Please welcome the hilarious, the chaotic. He's riding a recumbent bike in short shorts, and his plumpers are on full display. It's Blake Wexler!
Starting point is 00:05:37 Hey, guys, thank you for having me. This is Blake Wexler, a.k.a. Zyder Day! Zyder Day! Zyder Day! Zyder Day! Zyder Day! Z wexler aka zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day that is not from paul garabenta that's from me i revert that and it is titled saturday zyder day
Starting point is 00:06:00 zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day zyder day for zyding that's one of those songs that now that I've heard it a bunch of times, it doesn't strike me as much. But the first time I heard it, I'm like, this guy's just screaming Saturday over and over again. What the fuck? What is happening? Someone remixed that
Starting point is 00:06:17 in the air tonight with the drum where it's like... But they looped it over and over and over again for like four minutes. It just never ends. I wonder if someone could do that with Saturday. Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday. Just trying different emphases.
Starting point is 00:06:39 Yeah, because what is it like? Oh, wait, has someone made it? No. The internet. The internet is on. Is it like, oh, wait, has someone made it? No! The internet is on. No, someone did one for 21 Pilots Saturday. Is there a different one? Did somebody remake the
Starting point is 00:06:55 21 Pilots one? Jack, we're talking about Elton John's version. Oh, okay. You're talking about when people do whatever for 10 hours. It's kind of like that you're talking about like when people always do whatever for 10 hours is kind of like this that like youtube format just like just like when people do like i know i know i know i know i know i know i know i know i know i know i know i know uh oh guess what yeah baby hold on where is it we're we're 19 minutes in 19 minutes
Starting point is 00:07:32 yeah an hour and 45 minutes in You still think you're gonna come in And change it at some point, right? You still hold out hope The best is the visuals to the video It's a non-ending loop of Just like an infinite going into Elton John's mouth Zoom
Starting point is 00:07:58 Oh my god, I'm gonna throw up Just 10 hours 10 hours long that YouTube video is I love i'm just gonna say say it up top i was against having blake on today yeah our podcast we were gonna have henry kissinger on yeah and our podcast is just recovering from the last time blake was here and referred to his legs as plumpers and her like henry and i have the same agent and i often get his bookings when he can't make them which is frequently he's not well if you haven't noticed i loved your uh talk at davos it's fantastic i was so really put things in perspective yeah yeah great delivery it's like no it's not our fault you're right it's not our fault why are
Starting point is 00:08:43 they hating because we have money i don't get it, guys. Oh, jealousy? Is that maybe? Ever heard of it? Thank you. Anyways, Blake, it's great to have you back. Blake, did you see
Starting point is 00:08:59 Shaq get pushed into the Christmas tree? Oh, yeah. That's what we were talking about before we started recording. I said, the people crave this content we need to talk about people who don't know on inside the nba there was like a foot race where kenny put shoved fucking shack into like a like probably like a 20 foot christmas tree yeah and a second and a half they're running they go shoulder to shoulder shack goes like head first into into this fucking Christmas and like vanishes into it because it's so big
Starting point is 00:09:27 it is and by falling into the Christmas tree instead of continuing to move in like unimpeded that Christmas tree saved three lives because if he had just like gone off off stage into like people working behind the scenes
Starting point is 00:09:44 they would have been crushed i'm surprised shack hasn't given himself the nickname the vociferous coniferous yet after falling into that tree i think there's nothing more objectively funny than a person falling into a tree because you think it would be painful but you do get absorbed by the the pine yeah there's something about what like someone that big like running at full because it feels very childish because they're just racing to the other end of the studio and kenny smith just gives them the shoulder to shoulder here it is you just see his feet sticking out yeah it looks like in wizard of oz when the house lands on her yeah yeah his feet
Starting point is 00:10:25 are just sticking out from the bottom toes up um it goes up yeah i i think i would be screaming maybe he would have been it were we not on um not on tv maybe he would have been just going ow ow ow ow but he he held it in um there was this guy who would hang out in the valley. His name was Christmas Tree Mike. And he got that name because he was always jumping into Christmas trees. See, this is the thing. Kiefer Sutherland did it in that one video, and it's one of the greatest videos of just drunken madness that I've ever seen.
Starting point is 00:11:03 Now Shaq getting pushed into one. This feels like a thing that just diving into Christmas trees, its time might be coming. And apparently it already was with Christmas trees. Is that our new way of pushing back against creeping theocracy? Yes. Hold on. I haven't seen the Kiefer Sutherland one in a while.
Starting point is 00:11:22 Yeah. What is he, at a hotel lobby? Hey, Kiefer. Youland one in a while. Yeah. What is he, like, at a hotel lobby? Hey, Kiefer, you a pirate, man? That would explain everything. Oh, just take that fucker down. Take the tree down. He kind of dives. It's not a satisfying dive.
Starting point is 00:11:35 He dives with his hands, like, straight up. You want to, like, full arm and leg wrap around the trunk. Yeah. Not to be underrated is the guy saying, Kiefer, you're a pirate, man. And Kiefer responding, that would explain everything yeah before diving it would yeah that would explain everything you ever seen him out in la drunk i haven't but i know a lot of people who have yeah that's like another la story people would you'd you sort of like have is like back in the early aughts was like
Starting point is 00:12:05 you'd always probably intersect with andy dick doing something absolutely fucking ridiculous or illegal and then the other one was keifer sutherland yeah yeah oh brian came in the chat yep i know dude if you were hanging around the fucking canters on fairfax you definitely were running into andy dick because that's where i always saw him i've seen him there yeah it's crazy like yo that washed up dude is there like eight times out of ten i guess i guess i'm just gonna get touched inappropriately while i eat a grilled cheese sandwich at one o'clock in the morning my my friend got in a car my friend got in a car with andy dick around the time he was like 20 years old and he was like very much starstruck by like being like hey you want to go to a party with us and he got in like this
Starting point is 00:12:51 like porsche like with like two other dudes and then like he like got out like immediately and we're like oh it became like very lecherous and predatory very quickly. Yeah. Yeah. This is, this is what you're missing out by, by not living in LA, the rest of America. Yeah. I miss it. I miss that more than anything else. Not,
Starting point is 00:13:11 not, not the French. I'll miss you. Most of all, a little wizard of Oz reference for the kids, you know? All right, Blake,
Starting point is 00:13:21 we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. If we dare. Yeah, I'll hang out here until you're done. Okay, cool. Thank you for doing that. First, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about. Brittany Griner was released from a Russian prison in a one-to-one prisoner exchange, and the right is hopping mad about it. So we'll talk about that and whether that's a good look for them.
Starting point is 00:13:45 We're going to talk about Jesse Waters, a renowned knower of female desires, as Miles wrote. He's weighing in on the weed scene. Yeah. I think it's off the back of the Brittany Griner story because I think they, they want to keep the outrage up. Of course.
Starting point is 00:14:00 Marijuana. Yeah. We're going to talk about the Republicans. They're trying to figure out what the hay happened here what the heck and uh we're gonna we're gonna look at the numbers because they're not exactly what you might expect no um we're gonna talk about how uh there's a new killer santa movie out this is like a new trend with like action movie killer Santas. We're going to compare it to a killer Santa from the eighties that the right really objected to and ask the question, Hey,
Starting point is 00:14:31 what, what happened? Why aren't they mad anymore about, uh, about killer Santa? We might even get into splash mountain, finally closing, uh,
Starting point is 00:14:40 all of that plenty more. But first Blake, we do like to ask our guests, uh, as you know, here on the Daily Zeitgeist, what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? It's going to be a splash mountain when I show you guys my plumpers later. So I'm actually, well, the question is about a Google search.
Starting point is 00:14:56 My Google search is, I Googled 4Loco alcohol content. And someone brought up for loco and i remember in college it was this was before they rebranded it as something that can be currently sold in the united states where before they're like oh there's a lot of stuff in this that we i don't know why i almost said shit guys that i edited myself out don't worry yeah yeah hey man there's a lot of boiling in this in this drink and it's a more it's a more complicated answer than i thought it would be you're saying you were trying to get to the heart of pre-ban for loco well actually post-ban so current because i saw something in a gas station i was like what the hell is that left over from before nah but what the hey please what the what
Starting point is 00:15:42 is it like 11 what is it like 11 11%? It's 8%, 10%, 12%, and 14%. Because I think it depends... Just randomly, just based on which one you have to open. We just kind of pour it in there at random. Ooh, I got a 14. And we take a sip of it as we're
Starting point is 00:16:01 pouring it in, so depending on how drunk we already are, it might be a lower percentage. Let's take the foot off the gas a little bit. We got a 12. I think because it differs from state to state where I think local alcohol laws help govern how much of an ABV you can have in a alcoholic beverage, where I remember in college, this was the case where it wasn't federally banned. It was state by state. And I was going to school in Massachusetts. Can't tell you where it was, Emerson College. And they banned it in Massachusetts was one of the first ones. And this idiot that I knew had bought like cases of it boardwalk empire style and was up selling this poison around school and i was
Starting point is 00:16:47 did he keep it in barrels that were like encased in hay right with yeah with thompson machine guns uh in between them yeah off-duty pinkertons keeping it safe off-duty pinkertons Off-duty Pinkertons, on-duty Pinkertons. Yeah, who knows? Yeah, we had it all. But no, I never was into it. I was afraid. I still have a phobia of having a heart issue, I guess, even though that's not a medical issue for me or my family. Knock on wood. But that stuff always freaked me out to have a depressant and so many stimulants in one beverage but it's it's back and i think they i guess they watered it down a little bit but it still kind of kind of freaks me out
Starting point is 00:17:32 yeah well they got it they had to take all the uppers because that was the thing that was leading to like terrible outcomes for those kids they don't have just like a handful of caffeine pills dissolved in every. I always felt like that's what it it felt like that there were pills dissolved in. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. It had caffeine, taurine, guarana and wormwood, which is what absinthe is made.
Starting point is 00:17:59 Whoa. They had wormwood. Yeah. They're trying to hurt you at that point. Right. Yeah. Like that feels that feels uh because up to that i mean did you have like you know like real scrappy friends who are drinking sparks
Starting point is 00:18:13 oh yeah yeah i drank more sparks than four loco because well sparks well sparks was the og like hey man you want to really freak your friends out then drink this out of a paper like without a paper bag covering it and let them know you're drinking sparks that was like sparks kind of night okay yeah yeah without sparks you have no for loco that's right wait sparks was pre for loco oh okay yeah yeah sparks it just like you woke up with a bad taste in your mouth for the next week if you drank a lot of sparks. Yeah, exactly. That bad taste was the barrel of a gun. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:53 Tastes terrible. The four and four locals referencing those four stimulants, I just said. Yeah, that's why it's the number four. And now they don't have the stimulants and still kept the name they've lost their way yeah wow this this liberal society just keeps destroying all these great drinks yeah uh what is something you think is overrated blake overrated so this is my second year living back on the east coast after being in la for 10 years. And I've realized the cold is overrated where one of my biggest fears moving back,
Starting point is 00:19:29 I know that Mr. Angelino over here is making a face, making one of Miles's patented faces that I'm learning to see in person. I'm sweating under my gigantic fleece hoodie right now. I'm forcing on my body, but go on about the cold. Well, it is, you just need to buy, this sounds so simple, but as long as you have an appropriately warm coat,
Starting point is 00:19:49 it's not a big deal. Where I bought the warmest coat I could possibly find, and it has not been an issue. 20 degrees, put the hood up, you know, layer up. You just need warm clothes. Where the heat, you're kind of just fucked, you know? Right, just pile it on. Just pile on the layers and you're good of just fucked you know right just pile it on just pile on the layers and you're good what about your legs that's the one thing i always have trouble because you like to
Starting point is 00:20:10 keep those you like to keep those on display right oh yeah that's not a problem for you is it a floor length uh duster style parka that you're you're working with it's a cropped it's a cropped bubble goose jacket just Just a window in the front. Looking like a linebacker from the fucking 80s and shit. Fucking midsection exposed. There's no leg day. No calf muscles to be seen. So what I do actually, I'm glad you asked, is that I've gotten into crafting.
Starting point is 00:20:38 And I purchased two shower curtains. And I have sewn them together with a clear thread because i don't want to hide anything fishing line or just clear thread what or you can buy that someone what is that sorry is it fishing line or just clear thread that you bought it um it was fishing line because the thread was not strong enough where sometimes i want to be clear on that and it would burst my leg would burst i was gonna be my next question yeah and and i anticipated it that's why i said that but yeah it's it and but yeah you can sweat in there which can cause this is embarrassing if you misjudge how cold it is out you my shower curtains will fog up and i have to keep reaching into them and clearing out the kind of wiping them out yeah yeah i look like an idiot when that
Starting point is 00:21:20 happens yeah because it's you know uh pick your poison because you're either spending a lot of time clearing the fog or you're spending a lot of time asking people hey let me see those people asking you hey where are the plumpers let me see the plumpers let's see the program where the plumpers go what is that clear thread or is it fishing line come on what's the line diameter on that god i don't want to make a pair for myself. It's a lot of questions to answer, and I'm happy to do it. By the way, I leave an hour and a half early before I have to be in an appointment during the winter so people can ask me about my legs. That's why I account for those questions. And it is generally 90 minutes on the way to wherever I'm going.
Starting point is 00:21:59 So, yeah, I'm prepared, but it's worth it. It's a thing where, you know, heavy is the girdle. You know, It's a thing where heavy is the girdle. The leg girdle? Heavy lies the girdle. You should get one of those. You know how there are some celebrities, I think Steve Martin has a business card that's like, yes, I am Steve Martin.
Starting point is 00:22:18 Just like when fans come up, they're like, oh my God, you're Steve Martin. I think the Biff from Back to the Future has one that is just like, yes, I'm Biff. No, I didn't get to drive in the DeLorean. Yes, it was just answers everyone's first four questions. You should get one of those by your plumpers.
Starting point is 00:22:34 I should, but I don't know if they make paper long enough to answer all the questions. But yeah, Biff, by the way, Radnor High School's Biff of suburban Pennsylvania. Just so you know, he went to the high school over for me. I don't like talking about it. Yeah, clearly. Yeah. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated. We just finished that show Bad Sisters on Apple TV. It's Sharon Horgan show who you might know from Catastrophe. She was in that show with Rob delaney and she's a irish actress writer
Starting point is 00:23:05 producer director so fun you'll probably recognize her if you see her she's so funny and the show is so uniquely dark and funny and it's pretty much an all-female ensemble cast and they're all amazing and there's one guy in it who is i can't think of a villain in a show who's more detestable than this guy and as he's worst villain i think i've ever seen in a show he's it's horrible he's horrible but yeah highly recommend that show and funny side note um i looked up one of the actresses in it and cause I didn't recognize a lot of these people. And it said her, her mother and father and her mother was a normally named person. And for father,
Starting point is 00:23:51 it just said Bono. And I'm like, wait, is that Bono's daughter? And it was Bono's daughter, which had had no idea. She was like, Oh,
Starting point is 00:23:58 this is really great actress. Who is she? And it's just happened to be Bono's daughter. So your followup question on that makes me wonder, has anyone tried just taking that name being like, yeah, well, lots of people are named John.
Starting point is 00:24:09 I just happened to be Bono. Have the one name Bono, like fuck off. He took it from me. Right. Actually. Yeah. My parents named me this a long time ago.
Starting point is 00:24:19 This is my son. It's a family name. Bono. Oh boy. Formally, if someone someone wanted to be formal would someone call him mr bono that's funny yeah i think you that feels like whack as fuck you know what i mean that up once you have a right because if you're it sounds like you're flirting with them like it would like it would be like maybe like mr, Mr. Miles. I'm like, okay, I'm married,
Starting point is 00:24:48 motherfucker. Back up. Okay, Mr. What? No. Not happening. I have heard really good things about Bad Sister. Sharon Horgan is a genius. If you haven't watched Catastrophe, then you need to go watch that immediately also. And her performance in that is so good. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:04 Everything she touches is gold she's great and then the edge is he mr the edge yeah mr the edge i think that's great mr the edge mr the edge is it the edge or the wow could you imagine being corrected it actually it's the the the edge the singularity of yeah my edity of my edginess. Just saying. Just want to throw that out there as well. Maybe his issues with his confidence and his self-esteem where he goes, no, not the. It's just the.
Starting point is 00:25:35 Right. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome the edge. Actually, it's the edge. I don't feel good. Just call me David Evans edge I don't feel good just call me David Evans I don't feel good I have a stomach ache I don't even want to be here
Starting point is 00:25:50 one life three four he's just doing a bad job doing all the different parts of that song I'm sorry what are you doing you're not playing any drums you just keep saying what are you doing sunday bloody sun fuck man he's not facing the audience he's just looking into a corner in the back of the stage it's like
Starting point is 00:26:20 god damn it although i did i really when i was kid, I really liked that one song where he comes on and talks from the zoo. He talks in it? Zootopia? Oh, Zeropa? Zeropa? Yeah. Zootopia. Yeah, yeah. Wasn't that song Lemon on that album? Lemon, Lemon! Yeah, that was the only U2 song
Starting point is 00:26:39 I fucked with, was Lemon. Yeah, the only one I fucked with was the one where the edge comes on and is like, do, do, do, do, do, it was like like just talks like quietly and without any effort he doesn't know he's miked is the problem it's all just a hot mic moment that they put to music they cut that part out where he opens it if i sang that would you know that's Bloody Sunday in the context of U2 if I went no I don't think I would
Starting point is 00:27:10 I'm trying to find it it might just be for drummers not a big two head you know people have been like you would love them they're like Irish you're Irish and I just like I like the hits yeah people have been like you would love them they're like irish you're irish
Starting point is 00:27:25 and i just like i like the hits and the other like the the deep cuts i'm like yeah i just i don't know i just fuck with i did see them live once and Okay, so you are a YouTube head. Pretty good. I have a friend who was a YouTube head. A YouTuber. A YouTuber, as they were called until fucking YouTube came out and blew it for everyone. I saw them at, was it Madison Square Garden?
Starting point is 00:27:58 Ooh. Oh. Yeah. I saw them when I was, it must have been like 12 or maybe 14. It was definitely an even number. And I saw them with my mom. And, it was, I think it must've been like 12 or maybe 14. It was definitely an even number. And I saw them with my mom. And I remember, I didn't know it was one of my first concerts, I think, because I wasn't
Starting point is 00:28:11 a big or like a huge concert like that. And I remember Bono being like, who is this man? Who is this man? And we were like, what is he talking about? And who is this? And then Bruce Springsteen came out oh wrong with them and i didn't realize how cool that was where i was like all right is he okay okay wait had they not met yeah what a weird way to what a weird way to bring someone out
Starting point is 00:28:38 is he a ghost yeah maybe don't improvise that one. Maybe have somebody write something up for how you're going to introduce him. Who is this man? Who is this man? That's actually how I'm going to introduce guests on the Daily Zeitgeist from now on. Oh my God, who is this? Who is this man?
Starting point is 00:29:01 All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church,
Starting point is 00:29:31 an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine. Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts, the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives.
Starting point is 00:29:53 Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions,, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? Or can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes. Each week we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties
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Starting point is 00:31:13 I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them. Why is that?
Starting point is 00:31:33 I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two
Starting point is 00:31:53 supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the black effect podcast network iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast the black effect podcast network is sponsored by diet coke and we're back we heard the rocket
Starting point is 00:32:21 that's just how it starts off it's there he wasn't lying to you alright anyway what's going on Brittany Griner got out in a one to one prisoner exchange she will not be spending
Starting point is 00:32:43 Christmas in a gulag and that is i think a like undeniably happy story oh wait what is this the right is furious they're so mad uh donald trump jr you guys know how to make sure putin keeps arresting americans and severely punishing them trade him an arms dealer aka the merchant of death, as we've all been calling him. Someone guilty of conspiring to kill Americans and aiding a terrorist organization for an American-hating WNBA activist.
Starting point is 00:33:15 Oh, activist. Mm-hmm. Okay. WNBA activist. John Cordillo. Why aren't more than 50 former intelligence officials writing a letter condemning biden for swapping a terrorist arms dealer for an american hating drug smuggler while leaving a retired marine
Starting point is 00:33:32 to rot in russian prison um yeah they're mad it's a it's a weird look for them to be so this guy's gonna kill other people some people on on fucking on msn or not msnbc newsmax they're saying so biden is sitting there bragging about the worst u.s foreign policy decision of my lifetime this is on par with abandoning our soldiers in benghazi to die at the hands of terrorists unspeakable evil will happen now that he is back into the world you traded a non-violent pothead wokester wmba america hating hippie that's a long string of insults. I like that the WNBA is included in there as a
Starting point is 00:34:09 slander, as an insult. I think that may be racist. WNBA! I think it's racist and homophobic probably is the reason why, because they don't want to use they're taking notes from the midterms like, don't use all the slurs at once out loud yeah a lot of that shit they use wnba because
Starting point is 00:34:30 on twitter you can't italicize the word woman in order to convey disgust from these people so that's why they use wnba although woman i mean if it was a white lady with blonde hair they wouldn't be saying those are no right or anything because she would have been home months ago when the u.s mobilized all their resources to get her back to safety exactly um oh yeah oh wait wait no that was uh the alleged cia spook and seculis who killed a young man who was riding a motorcycle in england because she was driving on the wrong side of the road oh right right she just skated on those charges just skated now she was driving on the right side of the road okay they drive wrong side what's wild is somebody actually killed somebody and
Starting point is 00:35:13 he was like yeah get him back get him back get him oh yeah uh you know diplomatic immunity and a lot of people in england are like wait did they have immunity because they worked on that base because the way we saw it was they were just married to the cia agent on the base are so is that extended to her because she is also working very weird what's going on it's a very very interesting thing but again uh things move quickly i guess if you're like a cia spy so that helps or right yeah yeah yeah the The American hating activism they're talking about. Let's find an example of that. Yeah. When did she burn a flag?
Starting point is 00:35:49 Oh, she did write an op-ed when Texas passed some legislation, or was debating legislation that would target trans children. And in her op-ed wrote, Texas would be subjecting trans athletes to harassment, bullying, and possible assault. While we do not identify as transgender, we know what it feels like to be singled out for not fitting neatly into social norms. The efforts of activists
Starting point is 00:36:11 before us have provided us both with the opportunity to live authentic lives in the open and realize our personal and athletic potential through support. As beneficiaries of such brave efforts, we do not take our responsibility as activists lightly. We believe it is our moral duty to use the platform we have been given to speak out damn monster yeah communist holy shit
Starting point is 00:36:32 okay absolutely this man it's again you know salvation is only for bootlickers it seems like you know like if you're standing up to anything then it's like you're an activist wokester who should just rot there but i guess you know if uh britney grinder had a maga hat on who knows what happened anyway i don't know i don't know what they would have done you know yeah and you shouldn't be allowed to criticize the government in a country where that's like sort of our thing and the thing we're supposed to differentiate us from the authoritarian regime that you're criticizing but not anyway not in print no yeah you can that's where we draw the line yeah hey jack where'd you where'd you learn to talk like that huh right who told you that stuff put that crap in your head uh let's talk jesse
Starting point is 00:37:20 waters uh let's quench our thirst for some cool waters uh the cool waters of jesse of cool water cologne yes yeah dude my man obviously he knows everything he knows that the reason republicans lost the midterms is because women just need to stop chopping their hair off and kiss a man as he said uh or in this instance the topic of marijuana comes up i'm presumably again like is to keep the outrage up around grinder's release because that's one thing the right is really fixing like she's a drug mule who can just just do whatever she wants kind of thing it's like okay just please just shut up um but geraldo was speaking and he was like look man if you're gonna compare like weed to alcohol like
Starting point is 00:38:05 weed is way less dangerous uh like you know you're not hearing about fucking stoners like getting in horrible accidents like that's drunk driving is a way bigger threat to people's safety and then Jesse Waters can't take it and he just does the most Jesse Waters thing where he's just so condescending but then also is like, I know what women... Just listen to this. Weed is all fucked up, okay? I've seen the movie. I've seen Mel Gibson's movie. I know what women... I submit it is the lesser of two evils.
Starting point is 00:38:35 Do you agree with that, Jesse? No. Let's go to the pros and cons of smoking marijuana. Let's go to the pros and cons. Food tastes tastier. Music sounds better. Disgusting. And nature is more impressive.
Starting point is 00:38:47 All right. Cons. It kills your sperm. Girls don't dig it. Not true. The scene isn't as cool as people think it is. If you're an athlete, it affects your conditioning. It stays in your system.
Starting point is 00:39:00 And it kills your brain. It affects your memory. I'm like alcohol. Debatable. From what I've heard, and I've never really experimented with that stuff much at all. So an expert opinion. Perino's there. It's really not that good for you. She's like, what are you talking about?
Starting point is 00:39:15 Girls don't dig it. Girls don't like the scene. They don't like the scene. Girls like the alcohol scene. They like the alcohol scene. Are you kidding? They don't like alcohol? No, no.
Starting point is 00:39:24 They like alcohol. They like alcohol they like parties with alcohol they don't like the scene with the guys smoking it's not a cool scene for okay for them for them dude shut up the scene please the fucking scene it's not as cool a scene as the alcohol scene the alcohol scene what fucking alcohol scene? What fucking, again, the most out of touch fucking people. You know what I mean? This wasn't even from like a class basis. Like he doesn't even hang around like people
Starting point is 00:39:53 when you're like, oh, what are you guys in that? What's the alcohol scene? I like the alcohol scene. And you can tell this is the scene everyone likes. The weed scene? I don't know. It scares the hoes. Everybody knows that.
Starting point is 00:40:06 This guy is such a loser that him talking about the scene makes me feel like a loser because i'm like oh i guess i don't know the scene like it makes me sound like oh fuck do i what am i missing oh shit the scene he runs out of steam so quickly on his list of all right let, let's, let's do a list pros and cons of, and then he's like, it doesn't like look cool to me. I've never done it, but it's like, not doesn't, it's bad for your health.
Starting point is 00:40:33 I heard in middle school that it kills your sperm and gives you boobs. like just, yeah, just literally middle school level, like anti-drug propaganda. Well, he's, yeah,
Starting point is 00:40:44 he, those are like, he only remembered two things from dare. Right propaganda well he's yeah he those like he only remembered two things from dare right then he just spun it into like it'll destroy your ball sack you know what i mean like you're fucking your eye turns green everybody knows this shit about the demon weed so that's why britney griner doesn't deserve freedom okay based on my experience having never smoked weed and knowing three women uh none of us talked to me my mom my sister and my wife right uh they they don't dig it yeah it's just they don't dig this it's like
Starting point is 00:41:13 do you okay uh a lot of people smoke weed sir but it's a scene man it's a scene i guess some people don't think smoking is attractive like i'll i will give him that much but to sort of again this is how i think conservatives have to like state as an objective yeah everything's half of the population and it's an absolute you know what i mean like they're only absolutes on the right they're all everything is an absolute yeah ask anyone god the alcohol you know what a scene that is that's a good scene you might say that if you're like you're in recovery right you're like i'm not really in that scene really anymore like i get like like describing it like that but for him acting like he's like a fucking journalist for like rolling stone in 1986 and he's like yeah we're going deep in the alcohol
Starting point is 00:42:01 scene in la like right we went undercover in the alcohol scene allen ginsburg passed me a doobie in the scene now that made me how it's just all personal issues he tries weed once it gave me a weak chin it's like no i think that's i don't think all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about murderous Santa Clauses. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church.
Starting point is 00:42:46 And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine. Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts, the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives. Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:43:35 Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions. Like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? Or, can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes. Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Sanner.
Starting point is 00:44:09 The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it like you miss 100 percent of the shots you never take? Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself. Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app,
Starting point is 00:44:34 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil.
Starting point is 00:44:57 I ain't really near them boys. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically Black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game?
Starting point is 00:45:16 And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple
Starting point is 00:45:32 Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back and Wakakanda forever still at the top of the box office but there was a new kid on the scene at the doing some boffo bo oh this past weekend okay yeah no i love the movie scene the movie going the box office scene hey the mise-en-scene i mean i'm mostly in it for the ladies if you know what i'm saying i love when an actor is like i got into acting for the ladies
Starting point is 00:46:10 oh gosh if you say you got into anything for the ladies i'd be like okay this guy's a predator yeah uh yeah well you can't say any for the ladies it's just unless you're like i got a vasectomy for the ladies. Just doing my part. That's what it may be. Those tubes are not tied. They are not. Anyways, the number two spot.
Starting point is 00:46:35 Bafo B.O. for Violent Night. R-rated action movie in which Santa Claus murders the shit out of a bunch of armed mercenaries during a hostage situation. If you've seen the poster, you may have seen Santa Claus played by David Harbour smoking a candy
Starting point is 00:46:52 cane for some reason. Oh, yeah. It's worse than weed. Candy cane is actually, that's not a scene that anyone except Mrs. Claus digs. I've heard she's a communist. um david harbour plays santa claus uh in like a die hard but he prevents a heist at a wealthy family's mansion
Starting point is 00:47:14 and he is i guess in the process of delivering gifts it is a uh mLean Ian version of Santa Claus. And that he's like kind of worn out from doing all this shit. And it's just like, ah, whatever kind of rundown. They just took John McLean and put him in a Santa Claus outfit. You see right through it. But yeah,
Starting point is 00:47:40 in the movie, Santa stabs, bludgeons and dismembers multiple people. Uh, in the movie santa stabs bludgeons and dismembers multiple people uh and this is notable because there was absolutely no outrage from the usual war on christmas pundits right you'd imagine like well i i think that is it especially when we we're gonna get to who the villain is and the villain uh might be a Daily Zeitgeist listener. Because he's got some woke talking points about how vast wealth accumulation is immoral.
Starting point is 00:48:13 But just to compare the kind of enthusiastic embrace of this with what has happened in the past. In the 80s, there was a slasher movie called Silent Night, Deadly Night that was definitely one of the most intriguing boxes at the video store because it had yeah santa's arm coming out of a chimney holding an axe yeah i believe and that actually sparked a national protest because advertisements made it seem like santa claus was the killer. It was actually just a spoiler alert.
Starting point is 00:48:47 Okay. I'm going to give you a couple seconds. Spoilers for Silent Night, Deadly Night. Yes. Spoilers for that. It was really just a teenager dressed as Santa. Ah, shit. Fast forward four hours
Starting point is 00:49:01 until we're done. Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! But people really got angry about it. It was across the board because it was the Reagan 80s. So Mickey Rooney wrote an angry letter claiming that the scum who made that movie should be run out of town the way i have
Starting point is 00:49:25 been uh incidentally he later went on to star in silent night deadly night five the toy maker oh my god oh hell yeah like even siskel and ebert dedicated their in-depth commentary segment to silent night deadly night and they called out the makers of the movie by name and told them your profits truly are blood money just like holy shit guys okay and it it worked the movie just like vanished from theaters after two weeks the protests included crowds of parents singing christmas carols outside of the theaters just not the short sort of shit you want to deal with in the Reagan 80s. That didn't seem like the vibe. Low bar for outrage back then for that. So now no one seems to care,
Starting point is 00:50:10 even though this would seem to be attacking Christmas even more squarely. Santa Claus, who's tired of doing his job and murders people, he also supplies the U.S US military with equipment for their fighter jets. Oh no, sorry, that's another Christmas movie. Let me take that again. And so there's
Starting point is 00:50:32 even though he is a killer Santa Claus, this one he's actually the killer. Spoiler, there's some ex-military, I think, in the background. But this is the second killer Santa Claus movie. there was also fat man starring mel gibson uh as a santa who has to fend off a hitman hired by a kid and the reason that
Starting point is 00:50:54 these movies probably don't raise the ire of conservatives is santa's fighting against the war on christmas he's like killing people in a right-wing fantasy and fat man mel gibson santa claus supplies the u.s military with equipment for fighter jet who else is going to make that equipment yeah yeah yeah that's right it makes a lot of sense i love like teaching kids like there is no military industrial complex santa delivers that stuff every year after congress approves the defense budget that balloons by at least i think the latest one is 45 extra billion than last year anyway that should actually be their argument because they just failed another audit where
Starting point is 00:51:34 they were like yeah we still can't account for eight billion dollars of our budget um they should just be like that was the one that went to santa claus but you don't believe in santa claus should we tell all the children in america you don't believe in santa claus and in violent night santa is a ex-warrior like an ancient warrior who was like um this is basically a cover story for his like information gathering reconnaissance work what do you mean like he's like a pagan god who's been fighting for like no no not pagan not pagan no no no no no not pagan do you not well no that's what i'm saying the overlap with you know because there's all that norse obsession with white supremacists too yeah there's probably some of that i feel like you can draw a line where he's
Starting point is 00:52:18 also like a viking a christian pure-blooded whitey type thing where they're like, eh, that's why we fuck with Santa Claus. Yeah, I was going to say he's Ronan, but that's probably not white supremacist enough for them. But, yeah, I mean, it's an action film where old Saint Nick launches a savage offensive and, I don't know, it just feels
Starting point is 00:52:40 like it's a right-wing fantasy, like, all in all. And the villain, alright, so let's get to the villain. The villain of Violent Night, played by john leguizamo johnny legs no enough there johnny plumbers scrooge johnny plumbers he's looking to steal money but pointedly he hates christmas and even more pointedly he is mad at the family for a history of shady government dealings and war profiteering so he's's like, the family that Santa is protecting are war profiteer like billionaires. Unreal. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:53:15 He's fighting for their right to continue to be immorally wealthy. He's intervening on behalf of war profiteers? I mean, according, if you believe everything that John Leguizamo says, but this person of color says, now who are you going to believe? Yeah. Wow. Wow.
Starting point is 00:53:32 Wow. Okay. But I mean, it kind of just, it's like they took all those, like they're those photographs that go viral where families pose with Santa Claus at the mall and they all have like their assault rifles with them like it's like they were like that is the thing that they've chosen to adapt into a screenplay
Starting point is 00:53:50 is just like that part of the culture i wonder too if it's also like this right-wing thing too of where it's like mask slipping shit where you know conservatives do feel at a point where like we're done with the niceties yeah you know and then like so they can they kind of feel this care this version of santa which is like look we get it he's santa he's supposed to be fucking you know being all jolly and shit but shit is a little bit hard for us as we see it and we like being a little fucked up and there's nothing wrong with that like i feel like there's like other parts too where you can be like yeah that's fine santa's burnt out like let him fucking dismember a colombian guy who gives a shit he's gotta blow off some steam the guy works hard the rest of john leguizamo wasn't even born here okay he's was born like in colombia like
Starting point is 00:54:40 fucking the narcos guy you know who knows what he up to? When we first see Johnny Legs, by the way, in this movie, he greets someone by saying, happy holidays. Oh, fuck. I'm going to vomit. I'm fucking done. Oh my god, Blake, just projectile vomited across the room. It makes me sick. No one wants to work anymore.
Starting point is 00:55:01 Sorry. No one wants to work. Kids are spoiled these days. No one wants to work anymore. Handouts. one wants to work. Kids are spoiled these days. No one wants to work anymore. Handouts. People want handouts. That's it. And you know what's not a handout? A big jolly man bringing a gift into a rich person's home.
Starting point is 00:55:14 That's not a handout. That's right. Not at all. God damn it. He wants to bring gifts to billionaires so badly that he kills a bunch of people in order to protect his right to do so. He gets the job done. But it's just interesting.
Starting point is 00:55:28 People talk about the liberal agenda and Hollywood having a liberal agenda, but there is an entire genre of movies, like most genres of movies. There's no genre of movies that's about workers' rights or protecting workers' rights or protecting the environment. But every action movie is ultimately
Starting point is 00:55:46 a right-wing, gun-nut fantasy about killing people. And Westerns were similarly about Manifest Destiny. And if our writer, J.M., hadn't submitted this, I wouldn't have known that this movie that I've seen posters for everywhere is secretly just this super right-wing piece of propaganda. Yeah, 24 is
Starting point is 00:56:12 a good point. And Kiefer Sutherland tackled that Christmas tree that we were talking about. He saw a terrorist in the Christmas tree. That's why he tackled it. He was tackling a terrorist who was hiding in the Christmas tree in his defense. when you do the lord's work like a movie or a show like 24 where you're like portraying the war on terror and uh enhanced interrogation as we call it as heroic
Starting point is 00:56:39 you actually get a certain number of war on christmas credits and you're able to jump and tackle a Christmas tree without anyone getting mad. You just kind of trading your Christmas the way Elon Musk created in his carbon credit. He's still up by the way, actually, I think he still has credits remaining from that tackle. So that's how many he built up from. Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:01 I've, I've heard the credits are so much that he could, he could tackle 70 trees a day for the rest of his life, and he wouldn't even get halfway through them. 100%. You're a pirate? That would explain everything. That would explain everything. That would explain everything.
Starting point is 00:57:15 That was actually a very thoughtful response. It's just, yeah. But Santa Claus, he's basically like winter Uncle Sam. Right. Yeah, yeah. That's what they want him to be, for sure. It's like, dude, yeah, he's basically like Winter Uncle Sam. Right. Yeah, yeah. That's what they want him to be, for sure. Yeah. It's like, dude, yeah, he's fucking stands for everything.
Starting point is 00:57:29 I don't know what the fuck this Santa Claus is, because they just got their whole Claus Preganda machine going. Red, white, and black and blue. That's right. He's already looking at the red and the white. Let's throw some blue in there. There it is. And, I mean, it is ultimately a pretty socialist mythology,
Starting point is 00:57:48 as we were talking about. Like, that's true. He gives gifts to everyone, and it's not like I give more gifts to the rich kids, even though that's how it ends up happening. But that idea needs to be dismantled. At some point, in their unconscious minds, they're like, wait a fucking second.
Starting point is 00:58:05 Right. This is giving gifts to everyone. He wears red, like some sort of commie white beard and red, you know, the internet's made the argument that Santa's communist before, but I feel like there's probably some part of them. That's like,
Starting point is 00:58:20 we got to take this asshole down a notch or make him us, make him part of who we are i think he's a capitalist you think santa's a capitalist yeah because he's like good at like convincing you that his like aims are good and it's like for everybody but he's still picking yeah i mean it's really not universal i mean if that's the thing i don't know what's the original lore because naughty and nice when you get into that then it's not universal anymore then it's there are people who deserve
Starting point is 00:58:49 it and don't and then you know he's clearly part of the military industrial complex based on that other one but I think he stands for something good I think that's why it's so funny like if you search like Santa Claus socialist like there are like a lot of people like the socialist argument for Santa Claus and they're like he's a good capitalist it's like i don't
Starting point is 00:59:08 know dude it's he's a fucking rorschach test and i just see him as a guy who sounds like he fucks with cops well how am i supposed to get into the apartments there's no chimneys maybe they should have worked harder and been homeowners. Right. Yo-ho homeowners only. Yeah, seriously. Blake, as always, such a pleasure having you on
Starting point is 00:59:35 the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, check out your plumpers, all that good stuff? My plumpers are on full display in the Blake's Takes for God's sakes podcast. And then also I'm, I'm doing a little winter standup tour situation coming up where December 15th, I'm in Burlington, Vermont.
Starting point is 00:59:55 At the comedy club. Yes, that's right. I winter in Vermont. December 17th. I'm at steel stacks in Bethlehem, January 5th. He'll in comedy club in Philadelphia. I'm sorry. Going to Bethlehem January 5th. Killian Comedy Club in Philadelphia. I'm sorry, going to Bethlehem, sir? Oh, it's not a coincidence. I'm going to find this conservative
Starting point is 01:00:10 Santa. I'm going to shake his goddamn hand. Will you dress as one of the magi? Bethlehem to Steel Stacks. I'm a little worried about you running aground of a conservative gun-toting Santa Claus. Stacks of cash to then not pay taxes on i thank you okay yes that's no
Starting point is 01:00:28 we're on we're on the same team brother you're not gonna do like you want to we do like a nativity based set i just feel like it's ripe for completely uh dislodging all the material you've been working on and just doing something completely impulsive just because i said it right now no you're completely right and the venue is a manger so it's a six seater and it's a six layer yeah if you're not a goat or if you don't have a beard you will not be allowed the fuck in yeah and it's a bringer on a sign that shows a bringer bring your own hay to sit on well i heard i mean i heard it's half sold out already with those three kings that are coming. Yeah, and he's dressed as one of them. And they didn't pay face
Starting point is 01:01:10 value. They bought the Black Friday deal. They're capitalists and they get it. I just like the idea of you doing a stand-up. You know those suits that people wear where it makes it look like they're dancing with six other people and they hold the bars to control them? Like that you go as the three match
Starting point is 01:01:26 just going through the motions like in there and okay what and then and then you do crowd like what you're gonna say anything no this one nothing to say ever ever they step on my punch lines like over and over and go god fucking damn and it. And I can't, but I'm on the end. I'm not even the one in the middle. I'm the one on the far left. You keep saying God damn it and all these other sacrilegious God damn it. Fucking Christ. Is this guy serious?
Starting point is 01:01:59 January 5th, I'm at Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. January 13th and 14th, I'm at the Hideout in Boston. And then last date, series of dates, February 23rd and 26th, I'm at Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 13th and 14th. I'm at the Hideout in Boston. And then last date, a series of dates, February 23rd and 26th. I'm filming a my first stand up special in Cincinnati, Ohio at Go Bananas Comedy Club. It's this legendary comedy club over there. So I'm sorry.
Starting point is 01:02:19 Please do go bananas. Cincinnati, stand up. And if you're just across the river hop on by come on up you're right there yeah come on by isn't the cincinnati airport in kentucky technically i believe it is that's just my one tidbit also hey get some good cincinnati chili too oh i'm gonna gear up i'm gonna be bloated as hell on that stage and that's a promise or your money back if i'm not bloated you will get your money back if i'm not bloated you will get your money back if i'm not doing the most horrifying farts from eating a fucking five way from skyline chili then you get
Starting point is 01:02:52 your money back and that's my promise if i look like anything other than total shit you will not have to pay for your ticket and that's a blake wexler promise oh yeah and is there a tweet or some other work of social media that you've been enjoying yes it's very relevant it's from megan gailey and uh megan tweeted any progress on getting my ring back robert kraft calling biden this morning amazing uh miles where can people find you what's the tweet you've been enjoying find me on uh twitter and instagram and all them at symbol type places at miles of gray also check uh jack and i out on our latest episode of miles and jack got mad boosties yes yes uh you know the basketball podcast also you can uh find me on 420 day fiance with sophie
Starting point is 01:03:47 alexandra so check all that shit out um let's see some tweets that i like okay this is from uh you past guest ellery smith at ellery smith uh tweeted i shit on freelancing a good amount but it did allow me to figure out whatever the least amount of money I can survive off was. Make that much, and then fuck entirely off the rest of the time. Shout out to me in 2008. That was right before I got into politics.
Starting point is 01:04:16 I was just like, ah, fuck. Yeah. Amazing. Some tweets I've been enjoying. I'm on Twitter, Jack underscore O'brien and there you can find me liking things like a slick tweeted dribbling past defender excuse me sorry just trying to get to the hoop and uh head up with passing basketball to teammate hey man put the basket if you can um that's great yeah if you could if you can if you would uh you can find us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page
Starting point is 01:04:56 hey oh that totally threw me off facebook fan page oh yeah and a website uh where we post our episodes and the foot notes we're like off the information that we talked about today's episode as well as the song that we think you might enjoy and miles if it's the song that i think it is hey it's friday get fucking weird y'all one pill makes you horny The other pill makes you a conservative I think were the lyrics Anyway, this is a dope ass remix mashup Of Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit But it's the vocals from the Jefferson Airplane
Starting point is 01:05:37 Laid over There's a dub cover Reggae cover By Prince Fatty Called Black Rabbit And this uh dom mashups or something basically said oh i'll take that dope ass instrumental and i'll take the original vocals they're mashed up it's super fucking heavy i love it uh and you can find it i think on youtube just search jefferson airplane white rabbit reg version, and you will find it.
Starting point is 01:06:05 The usual test Miles has is like that I like a song because I'm like, oh, what is this? When I come on the Zoom and he's playing the song that you get to go listen to. This time, I didn't even have to ask that. He could tell because of the way I was moving this ass. Yeah. Yeah. Shaking it. Shaking that ass. Shaking that ass.
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