The Daily Zeitgeist - What Does Fascism Sound Like? DeSantis Gets GOT 03.31.23

Episode Date: March 31, 2023

In episode 1453, Miles and guest co-host super producer Becca Ramos are joined by journalist and podcaster, Molly Lambert, to discuss… Narcan Was Approved By The FDA For Over-the-Counter Sales, Trum...p is “topping the charts”, Disney Just Mousef**ked DeSantis’ Takeover Plan and more! Narcan Was Approved By The FDA For Over-the-Counter Sales How the drug industry uses fear of fentanyl to extract more profit from naloxone A more powerful naloxone is on the way. The question is whether it’s needed. Over-the-Counter Narcan Could Save More Lives. But Price and Stigma Are Obstacles. Kentucky shatters its fatal overdose record; fentanyl blamed Vending machines with lifesaving drug grow as opioid crisis rages in US Nelson County considers ban on life-saving Narcan machines THE LATEST DANGEROUS DRUG TREND DOESN’T ACTUALLY EXIST Trump is “topping the charts”, Disney Just Mousef**ked DeSantis’ Takeover Plan Disney Just Mousef**ked DeSantis’ Takeover Plan DeSantis signs bill to take over Disney World's special district DeSantis’ Reedy Creek board says Disney stripped its power Weeks before DeSantis takeover, Disney gave itself new powers over special Orlando district, document shows Disney Chief Raps Orlando Officials, Then Apologizes Union Says Reedy Creek Fire Department is Critically Understaffed, Fears Increased Risk for Walt Disney World Guests Reedy Creek firefighters back plan for state control of Disney district LISTEN: Dance by Jay SafariSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 In California during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women did something no other woman had done before, try to assassinate the President of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nickname Squeaky. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer.
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Starting point is 00:01:08 Trust us, it's out of this world. Hi, I am Lacey Lamar. And I'm also Lacey Lamar. Just kidding, I'm Amber Revin. What? Okay, everybody, we have exciting news to share. We're back with Season 2 of the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network. This season, we make new friends, deep dive into my steamy DMs, answer your listener questions, and more.
Starting point is 00:01:33 The more is punch each other. Listen to the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just listen, okay? Or Lacey gets it do it hello internet and welcome to season 281 wow episode 5 of the daily zeitgeist this is still a production of iheartradio and it's still the podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness it's friday march 31st i always this is a tricky month i always forget march has 31 days and i don't know that like priming device that people always use uh it's always
Starting point is 00:02:14 just been vibes but anyway it's also national bunsen burner day national prom day take down tobacco national day of action national tater day man, Jack would have loved that. National Clams on the Half Shell Day and National Crayon Day. Not crayon. Okay, I know some people say crayon and that used to really bug me as a kid. And I was like, they're crayons, not crayons. Anyway, my name is Miles Gray and I'm not just somebody who is, you know, peeved by people's pronunciation of weird words, but I'm also Miles Gray, a.k.a. Zuck fucked the bed. He wants
Starting point is 00:02:46 the world to know. TikTok has got to go. Zack, fuck the bed. Why can't you all just see? Metal's the place to be. He fucked the bed. Okay, shout out to Rayzak on the Discord
Starting point is 00:03:02 for that wonderful I'm coming out, a.k.a. Shout out to Diana Ross. And I am thrilled to be joined by my co-host, super producer, talented individual, someone who has their finger on the pulse. And when I feel young, I'm always the first to ask this person, what the fuck is going on? I am joined by none other than the Puerto Rican legend from the great state of Texas, Becca Ramos! Woo-woo!
Starting point is 00:03:25 Hello, hello. A.K.A. Borico in the building. A.K.A. It's Aries season. Your favorite Aries. Oh, wow. Oh, you're Aries? Yes, it is. Three more weeks of my birthday.
Starting point is 00:03:37 Do you have Aries? I don't know. Are you hard-headed like that? Oh, yeah. Don't ask my boyfriend. Wow. It's funny, like, when people have, like, certain dimensions, they're like, I don't know that part. They're like, it comes out in different reasons.
Starting point is 00:03:52 Yeah, don't ask him. He'll be like, she's hard-headed? Well, thank you for joining me, Becca, and to really round this trio out. I'm thrilled to be joined by, know one of the ogs like i say when it comes to being on the internet whether you're doing journalism or podcasting you've read the work you've heard the podcast like heidi world and you know what you probably don't know this and you should because i'm going to say it every time one of the fucking gods of the 818 the san fernando valley please welcome none other than Molly Lambert!
Starting point is 00:04:28 Thank you! What's up? What's going on? What's new? What's new? What's cracking? I know it's been so long. I'm so happy to be back on site, guys. Start to do an AKA? Nah, I had a baby, though, in between. I was gonna say, man, you had a whole human
Starting point is 00:04:43 being. Yeah, and I love telling people that, especially when I'm slow with things. I'm like, man, you had a whole human being. Yeah. And I love telling people that, especially when I'm like slow with things. I'm like, man, I got this newborn. You know what I mean? Yeah. You got to get an excuse. You got the ultimate excuse for a lifetime. It is.
Starting point is 00:04:55 But in the same way, even though I say that, I'm like, oh, that's a good excuse. Like, meanwhile, I'm like literally like doing all kinds of stuff, multitasking. It's true. It's not just an excuse. You actually have a baby that you care for. I'm trying to wear the baby more you know what i mean so i could really be like two-handed throughout the day but i'm still like you know i'm still getting used to it because every time i'm like i don't want to bend too far over and i feel like he's gonna fall he's no you need like a like a jersey with a little kangaroo pocket oh a jersey
Starting point is 00:05:21 yeah yeah i feel like they have to have made it by now yeah are there no like marsupial shirts for like like humans to wear yeah we need a marsupial shirt okay is that even a thing marsupial shirt for because people are weird enough to do that with their cats and dogs so oh yeah they got you yo but you know what's so funny it's all dudes that of course let me get a screenshot real quick. It's just funny because the second you, like, I searched marsupial shirt for parents, and then it's all, like, dudes with beards. Of course, because women usually have, you know, the strongs or whatever. Yeah, I mean, we got a wrap.
Starting point is 00:05:58 I have a wrap. Yeah, I got a wrap. We got the herbal. Look at this. It would look like Jack Heese if he had no hair, this dude. No, that's true. Wow. I like that it's really like all built in
Starting point is 00:06:09 because I mean, there's also the part, I don't know how to, I'm getting to it. No, it's literally like, we can't do this. It needs to just be done. I can't figure out the rap. That's so funny. I love holding him with my arms though. There's something like about it
Starting point is 00:06:20 where I'm just like, this is my baby. And I'm like, this is my baby. Your masculine strength. I don't know. Like it's, I don't know if it's about, I just like, I feel like I just want to hold just like, this is my baby. And I'm masculine strength. I don't know. Like it's, I don't know if it's about, I just like, I feel like I just want to hold him like right under my neck.
Starting point is 00:06:29 You know what I mean? And let's nuzzle him. And you got a little baby smells like, yeah, yeah. And I'm always like my baby. People are like, Oh,
Starting point is 00:06:38 your baby. I'm like, it's my baby. Anyway, gollum. Yo, no, she bullshit.
Starting point is 00:06:44 I said that to her majesty last night i'm like yo he got me like smeagol right now because i'm like fuck away i'm like this is my precious uh but anyway uh let's get let's just run through real quick what we're going to talk about in today's episode aside from me uh going full smeagol with my child uh we're going to talk about narcan was just approved by the FDA for over-the-counter use, but our over-the-counter sales, but we'll also get into like just the fuckery that goes on with big pharma. And when you have something that's like patent-free, like there's been off patent for many years, the ways they still got to try and mark this
Starting point is 00:07:19 shit up, even though this is something that's very needed in our country and most of the world right now. And then also, what the fuck is this fucking fly doing in my face sorry y'all that's that's real life for you coming at you then we are going to talk about so donald trump is quote topping the charts he just said that to sean hannity the other night and i was like what the huh we'll get into this track that has put donald trump as he says, on the top of the charts, bigger than Taylor Swift. And just really what kind it's it's a grift. Come on now. We all know it's a grift. So we'll get to what the grift is. And then we'll catch up with Trump's best friend over in Florida, Ron DeSantis, who, you know, he made a big thing of like, oh, Disney wants to like cape for LGBTQ
Starting point is 00:08:04 people, huh? Well, guess what? I'm taking over your public tax district where you run things. And basically, he found out real quick that Disney knows how to fuck around with legal loopholes and now he has no power. So we'll get into that and what that looks like over in Orlando. But first, got to ask you, Mali Lambert, as we say in France, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
Starting point is 00:08:31 I feel like I should almost ask you, what was the last shit you were watching on YouTube? Well, okay, that's the other thing I was ready for. Oh, is that an over and under? Or is that a search history? Because I don't want to take that away. Tell me what you searched for first. Like, I haven't been looking at... The only thing I've been doing is watching Taxi on Pluto TV. That's wild. I was just like when Judd Hirsch was at the Academy Awards. I was like, yo, he's in Taxi.
Starting point is 00:09:01 And then her answer was like, what? Yeah. And I was like, yo, that's Judd Hirsch. I mean, I was trying to explain other things. She's like, what else has he been in? I'm like, I mean, taxi. That was the OG thing. And then Independence Day.
Starting point is 00:09:14 Taxi's so good. Everybody in it is so hot. Who's the hottest? Wait, so how, like, tell me, wait, why are you coming back around to taxi? Like, walk me through this. Because I know you. There's a reason. I was like, my friend was watching it.
Starting point is 00:09:32 It's just a good show that I like. I've done Cheers a million times, and Taxi's like the prequel to Cheers. They're the same people. And it was taken off Hulu and moved over to Pluto TV. I don't know if you guys fuck with Pluto TV, but Pluto TV is like for old people kind of. It's like for old people if they knew how to use the internet.
Starting point is 00:09:54 What do you mean? It's like channels. It's channels. Oh, wow. And it just plays you and it has the channels are like of different shows so you can watch a channel and it's like the taxi channel that just shows episodes of taxi and nothing else and then there's a channel that's like the beverly hills 90210 channel that just shows old episodes of beverly hills 90210 and you can also this is new medicine woman okay Yeah. It's all just old syndicated shows. It's got these really janky commercials in between that are like, hey, keep watching Pluto TV and watch your favorite show, fucking Happy Days.
Starting point is 00:10:35 Right. And it lulls me into a state of such calm. Right. Yeah. Everybody on Toxie is hot. A state of such calm. Right. Yeah, everybody on Taxi is hot.
Starting point is 00:10:50 Jed Hirsch, Marilu Henner, Tony Danza playing a character named Tony Banta. I can't remember anything beyond that. Jeff Conaway, bad dude. Pretty hot on Taxi. Andy Kaufman, did I say him already? Danny DeVito. Truly a player's yeah of and the writing tracks like if like you laugh you laugh out loud watching it's so funny it's such a good show it's like legit so good and like kind of dark and like about just like blue collar people so good okay good to know uh check
Starting point is 00:11:23 it out on man pluto tv really is it's like macgyver you could watch jack for nine straight hours or biodome's coming on in 15 minutes right and it's like if you feel overwhelmed by streaming if you're like there's too many goddamn choices right i don't want to decide remember when tv just decided for you 100 showed you a bunch of commercials and you were just kind of like, you just said no. Becca, what? No, I said I know.
Starting point is 00:11:49 I used to. My family still has cable. I was like, wait, really? You were fucking with linear TV? My parents still very much pay for cable. Like they are, they're those people. You know when you like. I go home and I watch cable.
Starting point is 00:11:59 When you see a little hotel TV and you're like, oh yeah. Oh yeah. Remember when TV just tells me what i like that's what i think of as like a parent too you know what i mean because like i have nieces and nephews who are so up on like all the apps they're like oh well you ain't got disney plus they're like okay you got paramount tv i'm like uh yeah well guess what now you can sit them down in front of pluto tv where they have like a sailor Moon channel that will just show you like a thousand episodes of Sailor Moon. But wasn't like linear TV like the reason we have weird interests?
Starting point is 00:12:32 Because like I feel like as a kid, I was just like, OK, what's on? I'm sorry. I keep swatting at flies in here. No, this is the way in which we become like, you know, greatest generation grandparents because because we're just like... They used to just tell us what we were watching, and we liked it. At a certain time, we sat there, and we watched it, and it only came on once, and we couldn't
Starting point is 00:12:54 re-watch it. That's right. And you could tell by Motherfucker what their favorite channel was. I was a MTV Comedy Central HBO little kid, okay? That's right. I was the N. Oh my gosh. I was like, not Nick at night, but not Nickelodeon. Like, Nickelodeon for teens.
Starting point is 00:13:10 If you wanted to see a music video, you had to just sit there and wait and just hope it would come on again. You had to go to VH1 and then see what they were doing for the week. Yeah. 80s on 8. 8 miles in the snow to get premium streaming. Uphill, both ways. Yeah. The 80s on 8? 8 miles in the snow to get premium streaming cable content. Uphill both ways. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:13:30 Molly, I got to ask you what's something you think is overrated? All right. Here's what I was ready for. Something I think is overrated is things being underrated. Okay.
Starting point is 00:13:41 Right. You can see where this is going. Tell me about the emphasis. Okay. Yeah. What do you feel like right now where there's too much emphasis on things being underrated i just think sometimes when you're like this thing's underrated it's like a hidden gem nobody know you know it's been it's been underrated sometimes it's been correctly rated like for example what's something you think is not actually underrated what's this actually underrated or not actually being underrated i think things that are genuinely underrated is underrated what's not underrated is people being like like die hard 2 is underrated
Starting point is 00:14:21 or something or it's like no it's not I would say yeah it has to be like obscure enough that it's not like reaching the masses it's just like sometimes things are obscure for a reason though like sometimes a thing is like a lost thing or nobody you know it's down in the canon
Starting point is 00:14:39 and then you see it and you're like I get why I get why nobody likes this i got the fly y'all i'm sorry i'm swatting out here like i was on one but yes got it yeah i mean i get it i think a lot of the times like i don't really use the only times i've said underrated like truly or like for the weirdest things i'm like like bathrobes man like we don't we don't like that should be the only fucking thing we use to get out the shower because you could it's a wearable towel and you don't gotta fuck around like if the air is cold and shit is evaporating on your skin
Starting point is 00:15:13 you just cover it up that means you gotta get a towel fabric robe yeah you're like okay see i got like three robes and none of them are towel material. I have, I have one, you know, it's funny though. I do have context robes. I have a, I got a, like a fucking big ass blanket that I could wear when it's cold.
Starting point is 00:15:33 And then I have my bath towel robe that I also wear. But anyway, all that's a me problem. I should have bought a towel robe. Actually with the gift card you gave me for Christmas, I bought like a very soft robe, but not a towel robe. That's fine. To each their own.
Starting point is 00:15:49 You're also right about bathrobes being underrated. Thank you. How do you feel? What's your take? How do you feel about bathrobes? When I evoked that, were you like, ooh, yeah. I was like, I wish I had a really cozy bathrobe on right now. I love a robe.
Starting point is 00:16:03 Especially for people that smoke weed you gotta have a cozy robe here's the problem with that um i'll just turn into the big lebowski i'll turn if i start wearing a bathrobe i you know what's so funny i so i got i have like a thin like a friend of mine got me a thinner like robe like a linen one and i was wearing it when it was hot but i was wearing like a like a lakers jersey and like mismatching shorts underneath and everyone's like yo you kind of look like the fucked up version of the dude and i was like i'm kind of feeling this that's what i mean it's not that it's bad it's that it's too dangerous it's a slippery slope you'll never wear like you're never gonna get out of it yeah exactly that's why i can't have a nice cozy bathrobe is because i'll never leave my apartment if i did yeah if i got out of
Starting point is 00:16:51 my shower and i had like a cozy robe like why put on clothes at that point never gonna put on real clothes then so it's like i have to there has to be a little bit of discomfort to just propel me out the door. Right, right. When you're wrapped in a gossamer blanket of comfort, then it's very easy to just be mouthed on your couch. Yeah, but I think robe guy is a really, I really see it for you, especially now that you're- You think I can pull off robe guy? Oh, yes. I mean, as a dad, yo, you can pull off that.
Starting point is 00:17:19 Especially now you're doing dad life. You're going to, you know what you can do is like, yeah, like what you were saying when you're describing the outfit is the dude. But I'm also thinking like fucked up kind of like Tony Soprano when he's getting the newspaper every day. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Just a white tank top with my boxers and my leather slippers. But like what about instead of the boxers, it's like hoop shorts and. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:41 Like Corona board shorts. Yeah, I've been seeing this for you. I'm really I'm having a vision. With a Henry's Tacos T-shirt underneath. And you got your baby strapped to you. Oh, yeah. But the baby in the kangaroo pocket. I start making graphic like marsupial tees.
Starting point is 00:18:01 So I'm like, because you don't want the baby to cover up like what you fucking with. You know what I mean? So I'm just picturing the baby could like help you. Like the baby could like pop out and light your blunt for you. And like master master kind of thing. Yeah. Or what's that? No.
Starting point is 00:18:14 What's the dude in a total recall. That's like, yeah. In the stomach. Yeah. Quatto. My baby is Quatto. Your baby is Quatto.
Starting point is 00:18:24 Okay. Maybe I think I aspire for a little bit more, but that is a good idea. I'll put a pin in that. I'm just saying, it must be cool to have a little person attached to you that can help you do stuff. Well, he's like still like, you know. I know he's still little. My man is barely eight weeks old. He's actually literally eight weeks old today.
Starting point is 00:18:39 His grip strength was not quite there yet, but he's scanning with his eyes. I understand that it's mostly you helping him do things but it becomes poetic i foresee a world where it goes both ways yeah for sure uh what's something you think is underrated things being overrated go on what kind of things i've never come on here and not done one that was just like food that i just thought of right because i started to think i was and not done one that was just like food that I just thought of. Right, right. Because I started to think, I was like, I'll do that. But I was like, no, I already did that.
Starting point is 00:19:15 I think I already said like fried onion strings are underrated or whatever. Wait, what? Oh, as like a side dish? Yeah, I was going to do like fries. I was going to do like fries are overrated, onion rings are underrated. But then I was like, I think I already said that on here. And also fries are not overrated. That's like a lie. I would just be saying it.
Starting point is 00:19:33 You're just saying, right, right. You're just saying we got to give some more attention to the onion ring. Yeah, like onion rings are underrated, but fries are rated correctly. Onion rings or onion strings? Well, both. Like all fried onions. I had some really fucking good fried onions the other day at this place, Ototo in Echo Park.
Starting point is 00:19:54 Ototo? Is it a Japanese place? Yeah, a Japanese place. Yeah, that makes sense. I got fried onions there, and they were like spring onions, and they were tempura spring onions, and just like a plate of like onion spears basically
Starting point is 00:20:09 just like flash fried and they were so fucking good and it was also what I wanted it to be which was like a slightly high end bloomin' onion. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. It just tasted like a bloomin' onion but like a little delicate bloomin' onion. It was so good good it's funny because ototo is also like a japanese cracker that i loved as a
Starting point is 00:20:30 kid that was like whale and like nautical shaped but i like that there's but it's also like something you'd say like if you're like oh like whoops like or something's about for the ototo like it's kind of how you deploy that yeah uh that phrase uh dope but anyway. I love onion strings. I'm going to just say that. Sometimes the rings, when they're just the frozen kind. They're too thick sometimes. The batter can be a little bit fucked up.
Starting point is 00:20:56 It's too much. It hurts my stomach. Good to know. That's why we need tempura. It's greasy. The tempura, it was light. It was crispy. It was perfect.
Starting point is 00:21:09 I love tempura veggies. You got to fuck with it. Yeah. I mean, look, we can eat anything if it's deep fried. I believe in ourselves as a species. All right. Let's take a quick break, and we're going gonna be right back to talk about the news after this. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds, Sword Quest.
Starting point is 00:21:37 This wasn't just a new game. Atari promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists. But the prizes disappeared. And what started as a video game promotion became one of the most controversial moments in 80s pop culture. I just don't believe they exist. I mean, my reaction, shock and awe. That sword was amazing. It was so beautiful. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest, a podcast about the fall of Atari and the disappearing Sword Quest prizes. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. It's almost like a metaphor for the industry and Atari itself in a way. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app,
Starting point is 00:22:19 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman.
Starting point is 00:23:00 The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current, available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Substance use disorder and addiction is so isolating.
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Starting point is 00:24:09 If people don't know what Narcan is or Naloxone, it basically reverses, helps reverse opioid overdoses. And, you know, the hope with the FDA making this available for over-the-counter sales is that basically saying like, yeah, maybe we can do something to address, quote, a dire public health need, because now it would be available in vending machines like big box stores, supermarkets, you know, wherever you can buy like any kind of over the counter stuff. But again, there's concerns. The big one being the price, because right now it's currently available through pharmacies. But a lot of people, since a lot of people aren't insured, and even if they are, a lot of insurance programs do not cover over-the-counter medicines. So earlier in the month, one big box pharmacy in Manhattan was reportedly charging 98 bucks for a two-dose box of Narcan to customers without insurance. And the company that makes Narcan has very
Starting point is 00:25:02 conspicuously, quote, declined to disclose the price it plans for an over-the-counter version of Narcan during their FDA review. So you're like, huh. Yeah, you're like, that means nothing good. Yeah, if they're saying with a prescription or not a prescription with insurance, like what insurance is approving purchase of Narcan? You know, like I feel like a lot of insurance companies would decline that as something as a part of their insurance benefits. Yeah. I mean, I'm not sure what exactly the policy is. If you are insured, you'd hope that on some level they're like, yeah, here's something that could prevent a dire outcome for you. But, you know, when you look at like what the current like naloxone market looks like,
Starting point is 00:25:44 it's big pharma is already fucking around. Like basically the every pharmaceutical company is realizing that like they're just adding all these unnecessary features, like including a specialized like syringe pen or a quote mechanized injector that gives robotic voice commands. that gives robotic voice commands. And experts have been saying, like, all that we need to address this, quote, like dire public health concern is something that is just an abundant supply
Starting point is 00:26:13 of cheap naloxone packaged at reasonable doses and in simple, low-tech delivery systems. Literally like Flonase. Like it should be like, you know. Yeah, no, exactly.
Starting point is 00:26:24 And, you know, but the pharmaceutical companies, they got to keep jacking up the prices because this is how like things work. So, you know, like everything, like an auto injector, like there's one, an auto injector that the Pentagon has purchased for use in the event of a terrorist attack. I'm not sure what. And it's like, huh? I don't know if there's like an opioid. The terrorist attack is already the opiate epidemic that we have. It's like, I don't understand. Right. And so all of these new products, right? As many experts, researchers look that are in whose business it is to look at harm reduction, they're like, these weird razzle-dazzle versions
Starting point is 00:27:00 of it do not fill a legitimate public health need. Basically, all it is, is they need an excuse to charge higher prices because naloxone has been off patent for nearly 40 years. And so they may create these variations, like a high dose version, which sounds like more effective, right? Oh, it's the high dose version, but it isn't. And then, you know, like a lot of like experts, like a lot of those claims aren't supported by science. So because no one company holds the patent to it, they basically, they're all looking at it. They're like, well, there's not much money in it because it's selling like low cost generics. So what they do is they start creating all these like wonky, you know,
Starting point is 00:27:41 feature filled versions to try and make you feel like you're getting something unique that justifies the cost and it also allows them to patent it and meanwhile we're like you know at the will of these greedy fucking goblins i hate they're inventing so upset they're inventing like narcan accessories basically yeah and it's just so especially with everything going on with fentanyl right now it's like so sad and scary that they would like finally you know approve this to be over the counter and then it's like inaccessible because even people who are not what you would consider maybe drug users like an overdose can happen anytime by accident right like like you could be given bad cocaine or bad weed and it has fentanyl and then you're overdosing you know so it's just like
Starting point is 00:28:32 everybody even if you think you don't needs access to this stuff like you should just have it in your bag in case someone around you is overdosing. Here's what I think. You got to get some homebrew chemists. And Naloxone. Right? If you really want to upset the balance of power, it's like, well, here's how you cook up your homebrew Naloxone. That's what I mean. If it's easy to make and it's off patent or whatever, home chemists of the world. Somebody figure out how to-
Starting point is 00:29:04 Andrew T. Andrew T. Andrew T. We were just talking about this. Andrew said he was going to start sequencing DNA because he said it's very easy. So now he's got to get him... Oh, it's easy? Yeah, he's like,
Starting point is 00:29:14 I can sequence DNA. He's like, just give me a PCR tube, like a centrifuge. And yeah, I can sequence your DNA. And so there will be 23andT coming up soon. But the thing is, the other big problem with naloxone is that when it was like, is there just a stigma tied to it again, to your point of like, people have no way to extend humanity to someone who needs help, or they're like, what is for overdoses. So even when it was available for a by prescription,
Starting point is 00:29:42 a lot of pharmacies just were like opting out of even stock because they were like oh we can't we can't sell you this we can only sell you these opioids that are going to kill you that you need this right well and i guess that's what i was like here's your here's your fentanyl that you need for your pain management but we don't have naloxone either yeah in case you overdose on that fentanyl yeah hey be careful with that dilaudid you might you might overdose but oh we don't have anything for that but anyway do you uh just please do not drink while you take it and so like and i think the part of that stigma comes from the fucking hyper politicization of making this drug more available so like yeah for example in k Kentucky, where more than 2000 people died of drug overdoses in 2021, like they put in a like the state's first free naloxone vending machine.
Starting point is 00:30:31 But they fucked it up because guess where they put this vending machine for people to go get naloxone to prevent an overdose inside a motherfucking police station. So which people are going to come in, they're going to use it, and then they're going to get arrested. Right. Or just, or the idea, you know, it's the same thing. Like it's not, that's a mental barrier or an obstacle for some people.
Starting point is 00:30:52 Yeah, it's like absolutely, you're in fear to go into the police station. So, yeah. And, but even despite all that, it shows you how dire the situation was because the machine was emptied within the first 24 hours. Wow.
Starting point is 00:31:03 And, you know, like a lot of right-wing outlets, they just report, they reported on that news. If you remember, there was like this whole, like fucking headline story going on that Joe Byron was putting up vending machines, quote, filled with drug supplies. It says Biden admin is placing vending machines
Starting point is 00:31:20 filled with drug supplies in rural Kentucky. They're acting like they're putting like a Rick and Morty bong and like a dab rig or some shit. Yeah. Can we talk about how cool that would be if he was though? Oh, yeah. They're like, bro, they got, they're like, wow, he got Dutch masters in there.
Starting point is 00:31:35 You could also get optimos. He's a, he knows that there are different kinds of, they could get a Fanta leaf in there for all the blunt smokers. The first time I've ever thought Joe Biden was cool was imagining him installing a vending machine filled with drugs kind of wearing like a like a mechanic onesie oh being the guy who's like the vending machine guy yeah that's but it's joe biden he's wearing his aviators and he's like got his carhartt onesie on right damn dirty okay jack yeah
Starting point is 00:32:04 these bongs are made with brocilicate you know what i mean that's the real glass you want to use all right joe byron out take care uh but yeah now people are trying to ban like additional vending machines in kentucky because the you know the conservative slant on it is that it quote enables drug use which you know we all see the problems with that um and then and that argument comes from again some urban legend bullshit uh where they said that people were throwing fucking narcan parties where they people purposely try to overdose purposely overdose and then bring themselves back with Narcan, which many people were like, this is absolute nonsense. I mean, it's the same argument as the safe sex mission argument, right?
Starting point is 00:32:53 Like, it's like, oh, well, we can't teach them about what safe sex is because then that's encouraging sex. But they better not wear condoms either. Yeah, exactly. It's like, we're not giving out condoms because that's encouraging sex. yeah exactly it's like we're not giving out condoms because that's encouraging sex and it's like well maybe we're just like trying to encourage like nobody dies from an sti and or you know has a pregnancy they don't want yeah well you know again urban legends are basically like the fucking lifeblood of the right wing like whatever scenario there is like i would say likening it to the litter box you know outrage where they're like kids are identifying as felines and using litter boxes and the school district is accommodating it.
Starting point is 00:33:31 And then everyone was like, this is a reality. Like in what universe is the school district have enough money to be accommodating for litter boxes for kids to shit in? Like it's just like. Right. Yeah. Anyway, one where they have to because when like the reality of the situation isn't on your side, then you have to come up with weird other shit, you know? Once again, I hope the ravers of Kentucky are, you know, providing Narcan and condoms to people in the community. in the community yeah right exactly like the first line of like those are the ravers are the first people that i encountered in like the party scene they're like hey man do you need like are you good
Starting point is 00:34:10 like you're getting fucked up on like do you need like you need drugs tested drugs yeah they try to do drugs safely yeah but anyway well that's the whole thing in america is like we don't even we pretend nobody's even doing drugs so then they're like if you're doing them then you know you deserve to die you shouldn't be trying to do them safely right and then cut to every politician who's like i've struggled with like opioid use or my child has or something i'm gonna plug later when you guys asked what i was watching but the documentary about nan golden the photographer that came out on hbo max now called the beauty and the Bloodshed. It's really rad. And part of it is about her taking on the Sacklers
Starting point is 00:34:49 and shaming museums for taking money from the Sacklers. And it starts with this big protest at the Metropolitan Museum in New York where they throw pill bottles in the water in front of the Temple of Dendur and everybody starts chanting like Temple of Death. Temple of Sackler is like Temple of Death. A really great documentary. Nan Golden's really cool and like a really interesting person and a lot of her photos are of people kind of on the margins of society and uh yeah she just talks a lot about like how drug use is so stigmatized that we don't have a plan but also about how opioids are for you know yeah she there's a there's a part where they like confront the sacklers on zoom
Starting point is 00:35:37 the sacklers have to listen to people talk about how opioids are in their life it's really good documentary check it out makes you feel inspired oh good yeah because i'm like bloodshed yeah i mean i know what it's about and i'm like and everyone says it's good and i was always asking like in like it how heavy it is it's like well yeah but that also helps you like kind of get gained perspective it's also just like she's so cool and is still really cool you know and it's like that's inspiring when you're like wow this this woman and she has like some fucked up stuff happen in her life and you know? And it's like, that's inspiring when you're like, wow, this woman and she has like some fucked up stuff happen in her life. And you're just like, she's such a good artist
Starting point is 00:36:10 and she's got her head in the right place. Is Nan short for Nancy? Yeah. Okay. I was like, how do you become a Nan? Well, they tell you in the documentary. It's her first beautiful gay friend
Starting point is 00:36:26 calls starts calling her nan because that's i know that's cute i only know her from the trick daddy sense uh featuring trina girl you don't know nan uh and that was my person i was like that would be a really good a really good name for like a soundcloud rapper would be a really good name for a SoundCloud rapper. It would be Nan Golden. Oh, hell yeah. Or just have, if you're a joke rapper, you don't know Nan Golden. But like Nan Golden in the video, but you really fucking with Nan like that. Anyway, look, something, joke, aspiring joke rappers, you can have that one for free.
Starting point is 00:37:01 Look, that's a joke just for like me, Miles, and Becca. you know you can have that one for free look that's a joke just for like me miles and becca the overlap of like you must know trick daddy's body of work uh and nan golden shout out to the shout out to everybody who got that you know well i fuck with we fucks with you for everyone who laughed at that one um let's move on i'm trying to think of a trina joke keep going keep going i mean well she was the baddest. You know what I mean? She's the baddest bitch. And Nan Golden is the baddest bitch.
Starting point is 00:37:29 It's true. Wow. Trina featuring Nan Golden? The baddest? Okay. All right. We'll see. We'll see.
Starting point is 00:37:37 We'll see. Let's move on to another musical artist. Great segue. Donald Trump. Because the latest iteration of his career is now musical genius and i want to play this clip where you know donald trump is talking about how he's just fucking fucking up the charts right now by the way that's sort of like you're really beating taylor swift by the way yeah i did uh the j6 is beating taylor swift It's Donald Trump and the J6 prisoners on iTunes
Starting point is 00:38:06 and on Amazon and on Billboard, which is the big deal. Number one, Donald Trump. So now I feel like Elvis because now we've done The Apprentice. Okay. Anyway, did you hear how first of all, did you hear how uninterested Sean Hannity was?
Starting point is 00:38:22 He's like, yeah, you beat Taylor Swift. He really went, it reminded me of like the like women i dated in my 20s when i'm like man this new gta is coming out and like the map is so big uh-huh wow cool and i'm like oh all right all right yeah yeah cool anyway so what is this song so the j i'm not gonna play it because you have to play it miles you have to play it i need to know yeah it's let me you okay let me describe it first and tell me if you're still in so this track okay all right fine fuck it let's just play it real quick just so you can hear it then we can discuss it here we go
Starting point is 00:38:57 what the fuck is okay okay you get it i i'm not gonna play anymore because i don't want these people to start coming at the national anthem it's so let me okay so let me break this down in this track is the j6 choir and trump okay wait In this track, it's the J6 choir and Trump, okay? Wait, wait, back it up. What's the J6 choir? Oh, the J6 choir are motherfuckers that got caught up in January 6th, and now they're...
Starting point is 00:39:34 Oh! Yeah, yeah. People got caught up in that shit of imprisoned insurrectionists singing the national anthem. And then they became choir boys. Wait, so they're a jail choir of people who were imprisoned on January 6th? J6 insurrectionists apparently imprisoned J6ers choir.
Starting point is 00:39:53 Okay, this is tight, guys. I'm sorry, but this is... Okay. He's like, actually, this is really cool. Pretty cool. I'm pretty sure Donald Trump is endorsing prison abolition with this. That's what he's doing here.
Starting point is 00:40:07 We'll get to that. So the track is called Justice for All, and it's not an homage to Metallica, but it's just it's basically those people plus Donald Trump just saying the Pledge of Allegiance over it. And apparently there's like a music video that's like just pure visual propaganda. And here but here's the hook. OK, it's on it's true his this song was at the top of the charts billboard number one but that's insane on top
Starting point is 00:40:34 of the digital sales charts not the one that actually fucking matters that's based on okay that makes more sense the popularity of a fucking track because like trump trump says he feels like elvis after his song beats taylor swift yeah maybe he'll maybe he'll have an interesting look i'm sorry interaction with the toilet funny and cool like i know that's not the takeaway i'm supposed to have from this but like whatever you follow that do you follow that instagram catatonic youth? Yeah. With just the fucked up music. Where they just play fucked up music. A lot of it's just like crabcore and stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:41:16 That's what this is like. Yeah, because it's super cringy and amateur. It's not even that it's amateur or cringy it's like that it's literally like outsider music like oh like does it feel like manson's shit no or just like daniel johnson or something it's like like it's so weird to be number one on any chart it's it's people's a quad jail choir singing with somebody reciting stuff over it right well and again it's like it's one's people's a quad jail choir singing with somebody reciting stuff over it right well and again it's like it's one of those things where it's like any product that comes out that's connected to trump is like there's a chance it's sales so it premiered at number one on march 11th
Starting point is 00:41:57 because it got around 33 000 purchase downloads like in the like the five days prior all he wants is to be like pop culture he just wants to be taylor swift like he doesn't care about being president he just wants to be popular the most famous popular guy and but he's not necessarily the one behind it i'll get to that part too but just for comparison right uh when you look at the actual billboard charts the top streaming song that week was morganen's Last Night. Got 38.9 million streams. And the number one radio track is Flowers by Miley Cyrus, which reached an audience of over 106.7 million people.
Starting point is 00:42:35 Shout out K-Rock. Okay, but can we also talk about how Morgan Wallen got totally uncanceled? Who even is Morgan Wallen? I was like, I don't know. Oh, bro. This is so much more fucked up is Morgan Wallen? I was like, I don't know. Oh, bro. This is so much more fucked up. Morgan Wallen's a country singer, like a new country singer.
Starting point is 00:42:52 Isn't he the one that got in trouble after SNL or something like that? Because he was on SNL. Yeah, but why? Why did he get in trouble? I don't remember. He said, there we go. There we go in the chat.
Starting point is 00:43:01 Oh, he's that big N-word user? Oh, he said the N-word on camera. Oh, I remember. Yo, I remember a couple of weeks ago. A couple of months ago, there was an article about like, oh, so we welcomed him just back right now? Yeah, he's a white guy from the South and they just got him on video. And he's wearing chains. For real.
Starting point is 00:43:17 Saying the N-word when he was drunk. And not only did he not super apologize, people rallied around him afterwards and made him more popular than ever. And then when I heard this song that's like the hit, it's just, I think that's what's fucked up. I'm like, the Morgan Wallen song is like so insidious because it's just like a light little pop song about like, I will sing it for you. It's like, I'm only pop song about like, I will sing it for you. It's like, I'm only quitting one thing at a time. He can like light the bar on fire or he can lose your number, but he can't do it. He's only got, he only do one thing at a time.
Starting point is 00:44:00 You don't stop saying racial slurs. That's on my list. One thing at a time. That's on his list, but he's one at a time. I can burn the bar down or I can take your number out of my phone. One thing at a time. That's on his list, but he's one at a time. I can either burn the bar down or I can take your number out of my phone. I can give you up right now and never want you back
Starting point is 00:44:11 as long as I'm half stoned. Oh, cool. Like, if you want me to quit you, want me to get you out of my heart, out of my baby, off my mind,
Starting point is 00:44:21 I hate to tell you, girl, but I'm only quitting one thing at a time. Wow. But here's the problem. It's only quitting one thing at a time. Wow. But here's the problem. It's really catchy. It's a really catchy song. Here's the problem.
Starting point is 00:44:29 It slaps. I mean, it does a little bit. And Molly's like, can I stream it? No, I heard it a lot the other night, though. I went to this line dancing night, and they were playing it. And I was like, this is crazy. Morgan Wallen fully just, like, like nothing happened he didn't get canceled he
Starting point is 00:44:47 apologized and there he's good now well then he's in good company on the charts with that song like at least at least the trump thing sounds fascist rather than like the insidious undertones of white supremacy country guys who have these kinds of songs where then you realize they all they're all fucking racists and you're like oh right like that's why it's bad yeah well i love me some pop country but i'd also the charts are looking good though you got donald trump uh morgan wallen and and other famous culture vulture. Miley Cyrus right there.
Starting point is 00:45:27 Jay Zomati. Jay Zomati. Yeah, other famous interloper. So get like me. Man, remember that era? Banker's era. Mike Will, man. What did you do, Mike Will?
Starting point is 00:45:40 Flowers, unproblematic jam. I do like flowers, though. Yeah, I mean, she's coming back. I mean, she let that go, but you know haven't has she she had a moment she's like no but you don't understand like i was just like finding myself and it's like of course you were finding yourself through black music and got famous off of black music divorce your disney image off of black music and then you were like okay i'm done yeah that's kind of like not me was problematic so that's also like like because she's like, I hate rap. Donald Trump's making some white music.
Starting point is 00:46:08 Right. Thank you, Donald. Imagine how much scarier it would be if it was like the Donald Trump rap. I mean, imagine if he did get together with Kanye on that. That would have been crazy. He has a rapper's. Like flow. He got a certain flow to him.
Starting point is 00:46:23 He likes to flow. He loves to rap. He's got like, he's truly like, he's famous for ad libs right oh yeah 100 for sure but i do want to say like the music video is also wild like it's basically like all kinds of it's a proper visual propaganda mixtape with all kinds of violent imagery like including video of ashley babbitt getting shot and killed at the capitol but during the rockets red glare bombs bursting in airport yeah so there was actually i mean this invited outrage naturally from you know people on the left but even brian kilmeade on fox was like bro you gotta let go of the january 6th shit it's sort of like what is sake but this is brian kilmeade just like
Starting point is 00:47:02 exasperated about like because donald Trump opened the Waco rally with the track. Of course, this is such an opportunity for Republicans just to say, look at what we did. Look at what he's doing. Look at what we had. Look at what he's doing. And I think for President Trump to spend 80 percent of his time complaining about court cases instead of just looking at his own record. And what do you want to do at his own record and what he would have done let me tell you what i would have done to svg let me tell you what i would have done over in um to syria if we are guys got hit uh for the 74th time uh and twice in two days he does that or other candidates do that they're going to be unbelievably successful because that's going to
Starting point is 00:47:43 be the conversation at the kitchen table great political mind brian kill me go on brian tell us more about what just what other pointers would you give instead the president united states foreign president states opened up with january 6th video which is insane he should be running from that period i don't care his point of view that is not a good thing for him i thought that was absolutely awful well you heard it but but he's like but the track fucking slaps it slaps as a show me the music video i can't find it i have to see it i don't i don't uh it was on like rumble exclusively for a second so if you want to fully debase yourself you can head on over there rumble exclusive i know but you know where i'm pretty sure it like the world premiere music video was on steve bannon's fucking like twitch stream or
Starting point is 00:48:32 some shit so that's the kind of like the way they sort of seeded it where'd you find that bannon bannon anyway so the other thing is the people that are behind it you're like so obviously this is this is a grift. Let's just get to the part where it's a grift. This banger, the people who are behind this are Kash Patel. If you remember from the Trump administration, he was a Devin Nunes aide that nearly became the head of the CIA and also is a pretty central or key figure in the classified documents case and then ed henry a former fox talent guess what they both look like they have legal bills patel obviously is having some you know run-ins with the doj because of the documents case as i said and henry has been fighting a rape lawsuit for two years and the way they are telling people that like you got to buy this track because quote the profits are going to be going to you know the the fucking jailed patriots but it looks like right now all that money is going to a non-profit that one of them control and we're not sure how it's being of course so anyway are the jailed patriots real yeah i'm sure i'd imagine they are at least could you imagine like do they really
Starting point is 00:49:41 have a choir are they really in jail performing? I mean, from that clip, it sounded like a bad choir. So, yeah. It sounded like it was recorded on a prison phone. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That could be faked. Oh, sure, sure. But that's like, Molly, that's a level of thinking you would add if you worked on it to be like, it should be through a phone.
Starting point is 00:50:04 You know what I mean? But I don't know. I'm pretty sure it is because we've heard about this. Like there are these group of defendants who have kept saying, like, we are the J6 choir. Well, look, I think that's really cool. They've like found a new hobby in prison besides overthrowing the government. The boys choir. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:22 What a wonderful, like, what wonderful feel-good movie that would be it's like from insurrectionist to then be like you know what we were so wrong we should just be talking about lifting our voices in a melodic way not a violent way that's the next pitch perfect but it's every it's every country's political prisoners in a fucking battle of their choirs. That would be so... Oh my God. And then whoever wins gets to get out. They're no longer prisoners.
Starting point is 00:50:51 Wow. The final showdown. Fighting for their freedom. Right. The Guantanamo Showdown with all the prison choirs. That's the next... What's the big European pop song competition?
Starting point is 00:51:04 Oh, Eurovision. Yeah, like Eurovision, but you do it with every country's political prisoners. That is coming soon. Coming soon. Coming soon. Who do you think will have the best? Yeah, that would get so murky as to how they even categorize their political prisoners. But anyway, we'll hear more about them later on, I'm sure.
Starting point is 00:51:24 All right, let's take another break and we'll hear more about them later on, I'm sure. All right, let's take another break and we'll take it on down to Florida to see what DeSantis and Disney are up to after this. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds, Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game. on their minds. Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game. Atari promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists. But the prizes disappeared. And what started as a video game promotion became one of the most controversial moments in 80s pop culture. I just don't believe they exist. I mean, my reaction, shock and awe. That sword was amazing. It was so beautiful. My reaction, shock and awe.
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Starting point is 00:54:36 It is a real city. It's terrifying. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And like one where recently the, you know, like emergency services people were like, we are not supported nearly enough. And it's like it's costing people their lives. Yeah, because people live there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they do. They do.
Starting point is 00:54:52 So originally DeSantis had a bill that was just going to dissolve the district entirely. It's called the Reedy Creek Improvement District. But this plan had to be changed because it would have meant like additional costs to neighboring districts if they're just like, oh, well, they do like self-generate the funds to do a lot of stuff. So do we do we pawn that off on other people? So instead, the plan became to just have a bill that would just simply rename the district. Now it would be called the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, and they would replace the five personperson board with desantis little plants
Starting point is 00:55:26 instead of disney allies to try and upend like the business of this board and you know this guy this is what i love man this dude was he was doing all this tough guy shit like in february he was like there's a new sheriff in town but guess what the lawyers at disney were like oh huh i think we know what this guy's about to do let's ready ourselves for the eventual fuckery from the governor and so what happened was the board with the help of the lawyers they pushed through a quote multi-decade agreement uh that would completely kneecap desantis's plan and essentially make disney like the government in that area for the first i mean is that much of a difference really but I guess at this point it's more so that DeSantis can't really meddle as much as
Starting point is 00:56:10 he'd like to I like how that's also so bad yeah that's what I'm saying can both people fucking lose here like what do you mean they're the fucking government it's like yeah when capitalism wins yeah yeah like oh good a corporation defeated the evil government but also owns the city right it's like give it to the manatees that's my florida hell yeah exactly back to the manatees so like the so the people that like desantis planted on the board they're like like throwing their hands like we fucking can't they fucked us and they're like what do you mean basically the way they fucking structured like these agreements and stuff and these like guardrails means that like these incoming board members they can't do anything but beyond maintaining the roads
Starting point is 00:56:54 essentially and really basic infrastructure like everything else they have no say in and basically it allows disney to continue to build on the land or sell development rights without the approval of new board members and they can fuck with density they can do whatever the fuck they want to and this document was quietly agreed upon by the disney board february 8th which was quite literally the day before the florida house voted to put the governor in charge so they they did the indiana jones shit and they snatched their motherfucking hat before the shit closed on them. And the document.
Starting point is 00:57:29 But also, no. The crazy thing is, this is what's even wild. I think people kind of like the Windsor Clause because the document states that its terms are enforceable in perpetuity or until 21 years after the death of the last surviving descendants of King Charles III, King of England. What? Yes.
Starting point is 00:57:50 What? Yes. That is so wild. People don't do this. This is like some 17th century shit doing like this Royal Lives Clause. But guess what? The fucking Disney lawyers were fucking, they came ready. You know what that means?
Starting point is 00:58:03 It would be 21 years after the death of harry megan will and kate's kids yeah like that which is so crazy because it's like as much as america's like we are not with england we divorced ourselves from england we left england we founded the new colonies and then every chance they get they're like but we love england we're gonna tie ourselves to england in this in, we got to respect, you know, the descendants of King Charles III. We got to respect the descendants of our rulers from way back when. But like, so now the Florida Republicans are really pissed and they're going to challenge, try and challenge the legality of the document.
Starting point is 00:58:39 But again, everyone's like, it's because of Disney's cloud too. They're like, this is just going to be, as they say, protracted litigation. And right now, when you look at like what the like the state of Florida is up against, they're fighting all kinds of bills like are fighting in court over all kinds of shitty laws and things like that. And it's going to this legal firm really putting money in the pockets of one of Ron DeSantis's college buddies. one of Ron DeSantis' college buddies. And also like a law firm that both Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz also were alumnus. Of course, of course. So, you know, it's all, you know, I guess kind of funny, but it's really just fucking fucked up that Disney can even set this kind of thing up.
Starting point is 00:59:20 Yeah. We've talked about this before. Like their pseudo government status to just siphon money away from affordable housing in order to upgrade Disney's sewage system in 1990 was definitely a story that you're like, oh yeah, this is not for anything except for the
Starting point is 00:59:36 enrichment of Disney. And there's been a lot of problems. Like I just mentioned, a woman died of a heart attack in 2021 and it's allegedly due to understaffing for their emergency services because they're like oh yeah man we're trying to we got this other shit we're trying to build right now okay we didn't realize people were like living here have lives that may need attention and that was one why the union representing disney world's
Starting point is 00:59:58 first responders came out in support of the state taking over the reedy creek improvement district because they were like no there are actual problems with this thing but now here we are and now you just basically have to choose your fighter fascist or trash ass media fucking giant pick yours pick yours so yeah there's no winning i guess there really is the most american thing where it's like i don't know maybe the fucking company can take down the fascist and it's like the company is fascist no but they're funding the guy they're fighting anyway so uh yeah let us know if you're out there and uh checking anything out in the newly improved Central Florida Tourism and Oversight Board. But, yeah, I mean, what a fucking insult to injury when they put in a clause there. Like, yeah, it's actually until King Charles's grandkids die.
Starting point is 01:00:54 That is so crazy. It's like, oh, Americans will never die off the hill of being tied to the monarchy. And yet British are likeica's like shitty parents no really but we but yeah but we're like but we're way more turned up too like let me show you let me show you how to really ignore some motherfucking problems that's right molly thank you so much for joining me uh as i see you wrap yourself with that blanket i can all i can't help but think how much better a gigantic robe may be for you. But where can people find you,
Starting point is 01:01:28 follow you, listen to you, and all that kind of stuff? Wow. Especially if you are a robe company and you want to give me a free robe, you can find me at Molly underscore Instagram. Molly underscore Instagram. Oh, I love that. Please take that handle, Molly underscore Instagram. Oh, I love that.
Starting point is 01:01:46 Please take that handle, Molly underscore Instagram. That's my handle. Molly underscore Instagram. Molly underscore Lambert on Instagram and at Molly Lambert on Twitter. And yeah, listen to Heidi World. We've got some new things coming up soon that we can talk about more. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:07 Soon. Yeah, yeah. That I'm excited about. Okay. And what's a tweet or some other social media internet thing you've been liking? I love those. I love those copybaras who are in like a hot spring. You know what I'm talking about?
Starting point is 01:02:25 Yeah, it's like trending on TikTok. They got the coffee butter song. It's always just like trending because it's like there's some hot spring where they let them cook, let them in the jacuzzis. They just get the water on that. I'll send it to you. It's so good.
Starting point is 01:02:40 It's good, wholesome, positive. You need eye bleach. When shit goes left in text threads with people, I just send pictures of my baby now. yeah good wholesome you need eye bleach yeah i send like when when shit gets like goes left and like text threads with people i just send pictures of my baby now that is smart that's an immediate decision oh yeah this is animals too animals it's like if you don't have a baby to use you gotta get us some caviar it's weird though how powerful though like baby and like cutie animal things can derail a conversation we're like nah man this is fucked up and then you're like oh my god what yeah me really yeah or me too i'm like completely like
Starting point is 01:03:10 oh man i needed that well wow like that fucking otter's playing a banjo that's right exactly yeah it just reminds us there's good in the world yeah exactly that otter's playing a banjo yeah have you seen the the deep faked version of deliverance with all otters okay don't take it to a place of darkness i'm sure someone can ai that please don't make me think about how animals also rape and kill and in fact do that so much that every time I watch a nature documentary, I'm reminded that like all cute animals too is fucking rape and kill. So it's all in there. Becca Ramos.
Starting point is 01:03:53 Thank you so much for joining me to the guest hosting. Where can people find you follow you? And what's the tweet or something that you're liking? You can find me and follow me at Bex Ramos, B-E-C-C-S-R-a-m-o-s on all platforms you can find me at mil mundos every other saturday volunteering come get your books from a queer latinx owned local bookshop uh support local and then a couple tweets i have a couple tweets one from cal cinema uh it's a picture of snoopy and like all these little like snoopy dogs and it
Starting point is 01:04:27 says when you beef with me and my gang this is literally who you're beefing with just think about how ridiculous that is it's just like a bunch of little snoopies looking all innocent shit and that's how i feel you know it's like you beef with me and my gang like this is us we're just a bunch of weirdo nerds yeah they. Pull the ad. They're like, yo, we out front. You're like, oh, shit. And then the second one I have is from Slebo Slays, capital S-L-E-B-O-W, capital S-A-Y-S. I'm obsessed with how they talk on TikTok. Girly.
Starting point is 01:04:59 It's called a grocery store. And it's a screenshot of this TikTok that says, POV, Trader Joe's is your hyper fixation food supplier. The kids just like don't know how to say things anymore. Just and that's how my sister-in-law talks. Anyway. Yeah. Hey, shout out to you. I got to say a tweet.
Starting point is 01:05:18 I like a thank you. Somebody tagged me in the thing because I was like, I'm kind of not looking. But then I saw somebody said, you might like this this tweet and let me just first shout out that person that was a gen dangerously at von pokemon i was like hey you might like this one uh it's a tweet from at jared luhan that says uh it's a conversation says my wife did you get high and watch samurai movies again me crying yes my wife did he die because he was burdened by the very code he lives for again? Me, my voice breaking into a sob. Yes.
Starting point is 01:05:51 Wow. You know, get you some Satoichi or something in your life. You know what I mean? Check out some samurai shit if you want to know about that code life. You can find me at Miles and Gray on Twitter and Instagram. You can also find me on Miles and Jack gotmadboosties, that's our basketball podcast Shout out to the Lakers who pulled one off Against the Bulls on Wednesday
Starting point is 01:06:10 It was nice to see Austin Reeves give Patrick Beverly That too small gesture You can also find me on 420dayfiancé Which will be returning soon, I promise It is not over You can also find us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter At TheDailyZeitgeist on Instagram Got the Facebook fan page.
Starting point is 01:06:25 Got the website. You know that. That's right. You can find all our episodes in our footnotes. Footnote. Thank you, Becca. Where you can find all the articles that we talked about as well as the song we're going to ride out on. I want to go out on this track by this artist, Jay Safari.
Starting point is 01:06:41 I was like, who is this Jay Safari? I think I found him on TikTok. But then I was like, because he was like battling all these people.ari i think i found him on tiktok but then i was like because because he was like battling all these people like you're just biting the neptunes and i was like wait what so i wanted to check out his music because i love the neptunes this track is called dance and it is a fucking amazing ripoff of the neptunes like if you fuck with it like early aughts neptunes it's it's the exact sound it's like he's using the exact same keyboards and shit like that. So rather than getting mad about it, I'm like, I like that someone is honoring that style.
Starting point is 01:07:10 I don't really see it as like that egregious. But look, for those of us that get nostalgic about seeing Chad and Pharrell together wearing trucker hats, you might like this. It's Dance by Jay Safari. All right. That's going to do it for us. Just remember, this show is a production of iHeartRadio, so for more podcasts, check out the iHeartRadio app or Apple Podcasts to get more and listen to your favorite
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