Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
Speaker 1: laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really, we are thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: in our third seat by one of the very faces
Speaker 1: all Mount Zitemore. She is the hilarious, she is the talented,
Speaker 1: she is the legendary Lacy Mosley. What's happened? Weight? I
Speaker 1: want to see if I can do it? Oh mute, damp,
Speaker 1: you can't. I'm getting I'm getting recorded with y'all. Cangar me.
Speaker 1: I was saying, saying, wait, can I do it? What's
Speaker 1: doing that? It's so far? It's higher than that, isn't it? So? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can still do it. Ever, that's that's it's that
Speaker 1: woo that you gotta. That's the one that's where you
Speaker 1: put your own stamp on that that is That is
Speaker 1: a Lacy Moseley. You know, she's you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: that's how it works. I say, you make it your own.
Speaker 1: So I realized I was a soprano very late in life.
Speaker 1: I can when I hear that I lost years. I
Speaker 1: could have been Hallett at the girls. No, because I
Speaker 1: I've always saying alto, I don't know. I just thought
Speaker 1: this racism. Why has my whole life rooted racism? I
Speaker 1: was just thought because I was black, I was supposed
Speaker 1: to sing at I don't how the black people were.
Speaker 1: That's where the fun was in the quiet you said
Speaker 1: it was when you were criticizing that little girl's name
Speaker 1: when you're helping your cousin grade papers. But as when
Speaker 1: you said, wait, am I a soprano? I I wasn't
Speaker 1: even one who got me woke. It was a wonderful
Speaker 1: white man who we were doing Sweeney Todd. And if
Speaker 1: you know Sweeney Todd, you know the top line of
Speaker 1: Sweeney Todd is the opening number is like it's like
Speaker 1: a B flat. It's really really high. And they were
Speaker 1: he was like, okay, girls, who's gonna sing that? And
Speaker 1: we was all like no, we out toes and he
Speaker 1: was like, listen, come to the piano, and I was
Speaker 1: like okay, and he just started playing the scales higher
Speaker 1: and higher and higher, and I can sing Loving You
Speaker 1: by many repretend with it's like my sex song that
Speaker 1: I bring out of karaoke parties, so I had to
Speaker 1: learn that. I was like, oh, I can shriek very
Speaker 1: high shout out to Maya Rudolph's mom. Yes, many reptend
Speaker 1: I didn't realize. I think like Maya Rudolph. I remember
Speaker 1: she did this like Japanese character on SNL that was
Speaker 1: really good and it was sucking me up. I was like,
Speaker 1: what was going on? I think her stepmother is like
Speaker 1: Japanese too. She's got a she's been, she's she's seen
Speaker 1: it all and heard it all. Maya Rudolph is one
Speaker 1: of them people, Miles, you might be too. When I
Speaker 1: was like, in nine, nobody will have a race anymore, right, right,
Speaker 1: that's right exactly. All stock photos are just me or
Speaker 1: Maya Rudolph of generic. Oh shit, um yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: that was gonna happen like within the next decade. For
Speaker 1: some reason, I was just a little bit of it
Speaker 1: was promised pan Racial World and je Postal World in
Speaker 1: two thousand nine j the nineties. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that's where it's headed. We're racism, It's all
Speaker 1: going to be over. Just do you wait by the
Speaker 1: time I'm an adult, blakele, what's something from your search history.
Speaker 1: That's revealing about who you are. Thank you for using
Speaker 1: my God's given name. Your confirmation named blakele of course. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with can you get poison ivy from
Speaker 1: dead leaves? Is the most the most recent search that
Speaker 1: I had. What's the answer to that? Stay tuned? No,
Speaker 1: what if? That was my idea for a tease? Guys, listen,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do your job for you, but
Speaker 1: they will hang around for the answer to that question.
Speaker 1: It is at three in act three. We're waiting to
Speaker 1: act no. Act two. I like to put it right
Speaker 1: in the middle of Oh, that's a test, a test.
Speaker 1: I don't know how Robert mcke will feel about that,
Speaker 1: but there's anything I do. It's test the patience of
Speaker 1: those smoking. That's for all the Starbucks screenwriter crowd fucking
Speaker 1: reading story by Robert McKee. Um. But okay, so what
Speaker 1: happened you? You saw a pilot leaves and knowing you,
Speaker 1: I know what you like to do. You always you
Speaker 1: can't resist jumping into a dead pilot leaves with your
Speaker 1: naked body. So what happened is that? What happened? Let's
Speaker 1: just say I went out wearing nothing but a rake
Speaker 1: and I saw a pile of dead leaves, and um
Speaker 1: so I was wondering because like I picked them up,
Speaker 1: and because I was moving them out of my way,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, they looks like poison ivy. And
Speaker 1: apparently five days after poison Ivy's dead, it's still has
Speaker 1: It's the oil on poison ready that that gets you,
Speaker 1: and the oil is still a threat during that time period.
Speaker 1: I was fine, you know, sorry, I have to just
Speaker 1: to back up. I made a joke. And then you
Speaker 1: said something that actually struck me as even more odd
Speaker 1: is that you had to move them out of your way.
Speaker 1: What are you talking? What? What was? What do you talk?
Speaker 1: You were you just like beating up a leaf pile
Speaker 1: or some ship you'd like get back leaf pile? Coming
Speaker 1: to like what what it was? Imminent domain? Actually I
Speaker 1: didn'tvoke to emminent domain. Uh, they were evident in my domain.
Speaker 1: So I moved them. Now, as you know, I've been
Speaker 1: into a Part three golf recently in los Fields and
Speaker 1: it was in the way of my ball, and I
Speaker 1: moved them out of the way with my hands and
Speaker 1: didn't make a difference because I don't know how to
Speaker 1: play golf. Yet but uh yeah, those leaves are gone
Speaker 1: and they were dead, dead as a doornail. Had ever
Speaker 1: had a poison oak or ivy experience ever? Apparently? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never had that either, Never got that, never never
Speaker 1: been stung by a bee, lived very sheltered, lots interesting,
Speaker 1: never been sung, never been stung from the people who
Speaker 1: brought you be movie, which is a horny I watched
Speaker 1: that movie for the first time last week. It was like,
Speaker 1: genuinely more horny than I was prepared for it to be. Morning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jerry seinfeld B falls in love with Renee zelwigger Wine
Speaker 1: Mom like in the first couple of and he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I think I'm gonna suck this human woman
Speaker 1: and she and she clearly for me. It was very
Speaker 1: clear that she only views this as a friendship with
Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfelby, but he is really like sel She's like
Speaker 1: clearly needs someone in her life, and so she says like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I'll hang out, Oh yeah, hang out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But then Jerry Seinfeldby kind of reads into it and
Speaker 1: thinks that you know, it's a tale. Is all this
Speaker 1: time the Jerryby is getting friend zoned big time. He
Speaker 1: doesn't even realize. And I think the most tragic part
Speaker 1: about bees is that their bodies have horizontal stripes instead
Speaker 1: of vertical stripes. With those big fat tummies they have,
Speaker 1: and if they got a little bit of a swimming
Speaker 1: action with those those stripes aren't doing the calls. Whoops,
Speaker 1: aren't very slimming. You know, God, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: It is what it is, all right, Lacy? What is
Speaker 1: something from your history? Something from my search history? I
Speaker 1: am actually going to look at the things that I prepared.
Speaker 1: Uh oh okay, so search history, black wellness, holiday God
Speaker 1: mm hmm. So my cousin uh teaches yoga and he's black,
Speaker 1: which like there's very few black yoga instructors, So shout
Speaker 1: out to black Matt Yoga. But um, he got me
Speaker 1: on this whole thing of like I need to find
Speaker 1: small businesses to send my Christmas gifts from, and I
Speaker 1: would prefer them to be black owned. So now I'm
Speaker 1: like on a full hunt to find like black owned
Speaker 1: businesses that I can send gifts from. Oh that's dope.
Speaker 1: N how's the how's the hunt going? And do you
Speaker 1: do you have without giving anything away? Do you have
Speaker 1: you had success? What are we looking at for Christmas gifts.
Speaker 1: We're finding some cute places, We're finding something those, we're
Speaker 1: finding some soaps. The issue is is that Amazon gets
Speaker 1: things to the girls in two days. You know, Jeff
Speaker 1: Baso's murdering as is gonna have your gifts on time.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, I think like with smaller businesses,
Speaker 1: especially during a pandemic, especially when the USPS has, you know,
Speaker 1: been so severely damaged by the underfunding, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: how far ahead do I need to order right now
Speaker 1: so that they Yeah, so that's where I Matt and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, panic because I need to order like
Speaker 1: forty gifts and now. So um yeah, that's the only issue.
Speaker 1: But it's still going good. But I'm trying to buy small.
Speaker 1: I hope people are buying small this year, especially because
Speaker 1: god damn, this is a hard year for small businesses.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think the other The thing with Amazon
Speaker 1: too is half the time, if you just figure out
Speaker 1: what the product is, just go to the website of
Speaker 1: the product that manufacturer, and chances are they're already having
Speaker 1: some kind of deal hut by Amazon. Awesome. Just get
Speaker 1: it from the brand. You know, there's a way around
Speaker 1: and you know what, maybe you have to wait three days,
Speaker 1: four days. Remember that, Remember the days we used to
Speaker 1: wait weeks for our Delia's orders to arrive. Come on,
Speaker 1: come on now, Why didn't Why did Cody think there?
Speaker 1: I know I know him? He um. He tweeted me
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago and was like, I just
Speaker 1: remember going through my emails at last he had three
Speaker 1: different Facebook accounts, and I did with three different photos.
Speaker 1: I still do, and I think I might have four now.
Speaker 1: But the reason was because I was chopping at Toby
Speaker 1: and Delia's and they'd be like, off, if you give
Speaker 1: us your Facebook. So I put on my ski mask.
Speaker 1: It was like hebook. They say, I say, this is
Speaker 1: like say you met later. That was completely different. I
Speaker 1: feel like based on the as I keep reminding our listeners,
Speaker 1: I'm watching the Crown four five six episodes in UH
Speaker 1: and I think the way that we're going to get
Speaker 1: out of this Amazon thing is a Amazon truck needs
Speaker 1: to hit and kill somebody who the president or Jeff
Speaker 1: Bezos cares about. Because that's that's the only way London
Speaker 1: got out of their deadly fog was because like some
Speaker 1: pretty young girl who worked for Winston Churchill spoiler alert,
Speaker 1: got you know that was made up? Right? A few
Speaker 1: things that was made up, there's exactly That's the episode
Speaker 1: that almost made me give up on the show. But
Speaker 1: the yeah, the they do a lot of stuff to
Speaker 1: make Winston Churchill and like the Conservatives seem okay, I'm
Speaker 1: not totally feeling that the politics of of the Crown.
Speaker 1: I am back on board for watching it, but the
Speaker 1: politics are bad. Well, we are thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: in our third seat by the Hilaria is the talented
Speaker 1: Allison Stevenson. HII, Hello, we come back. How are you
Speaker 1: doing back? You know? Yeah, yeah, perpetually evolving. I feel
Speaker 1: like it's you should you're not allowed to say that
Speaker 1: you're good, even if it's like the standard thing you
Speaker 1: have to say. I feel like you're just not allowed
Speaker 1: to be like, yeah, oh my god, I'm so good.
Speaker 1: And it was supposed to set off our electric shock
Speaker 1: callers for asking how are you? Because what's new? What's new?
Speaker 1: What's new? Anything new? Anything good on TV? Well? I
Speaker 1: did are? I told you earlier, but I had I
Speaker 1: did just come back from the hospital a few days ago, right, yes,
Speaker 1: you're for fun? Ye out, just get some stuff rearranged,
Speaker 1: like what if my heart was like, that's on this side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you think, doc? No, I had to get
Speaker 1: my gallbladder removed? Oh, ship, yep, it's ah and I
Speaker 1: the like even in your description of I went to
Speaker 1: the e R and they were like, NA, you're good,
Speaker 1: go home, which is like, you know, I've unfortunately had
Speaker 1: friends have told that to them, and ship went horribly
Speaker 1: south when they went home, And I'm just so glad
Speaker 1: that despite that happening, and you're going back in another
Speaker 1: doctor like okay, we gotta get your gall bladder out
Speaker 1: that you're okay, Thank the Lord, Thank the Lord. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I find that gall bladder removal is rarely an elective surgery.
Speaker 1: It's usually things are going bad at that point. Well,
Speaker 1: we all know I need to lose weight. I was like,
Speaker 1: what if I just like four ounces from the morbid
Speaker 1: idiot beside of me is do you can you ask
Speaker 1: for your extracted biological organs after the back? I asked
Speaker 1: and they thought I couldn't. What fuck you know? Right?
Speaker 1: Fuck you you know? And I don't want to get
Speaker 1: into the financials of it, but I'd imagine you know
Speaker 1: that they're going to charge insurance whoever, whoever you know,
Speaker 1: if you or whoever's footing the bill, that's a lot
Speaker 1: of money that should come with the free trash park
Speaker 1: that comes with it. I shouldn't be able to get
Speaker 1: my gall bladder at a jar or some ship. Would
Speaker 1: you save it though? I mean, I know we asked
Speaker 1: those questions, and even if they said, yeah, you want
Speaker 1: it to be like no, I'm just I'm just curious.
Speaker 1: I would I would have saved it. And the little
Speaker 1: gall stones is it small? Apparently? Yeah, it's like a
Speaker 1: teeny little They like took it out of my belly button.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's pretty cool. I am so ignorant about
Speaker 1: most things medical, and I'm like, you know, I hear
Speaker 1: anything that's inside your bottom, Like, so that's the size
Speaker 1: of a volleyball, you know that. I actually don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know the answer my belly button. So I'm just
Speaker 1: imagining it like the size of a quarter. I think
Speaker 1: mentally that's what I needed to be at most of
Speaker 1: the thing. Agent Smith pulls on puts on Neo's belly
Speaker 1: button in the right I was gonna say, I have
Speaker 1: to imagine that was exactly how your procedure went. In
Speaker 1: the back up a speeding cab. Yeah, with like some
Speaker 1: weird laser like hold on, I've got it, I'm tracking it. Wow,
Speaker 1: that that sounds like a lot, especially the way I'm
Speaker 1: imagining it. So we're very very happy, resilient happy back
Speaker 1: here people postop, guests who are coming out of medical procedures,
Speaker 1: people who were battling COVID. So we appreciate you time.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back. Let's talk about, um, some ideas for
Speaker 1: police reform that are being put forward in California. There's
Speaker 1: a bill being discussed, UH that is kind of incrementalist,
Speaker 1: uh in the way that basically all of the ideas
Speaker 1: for police reform that are endorsed by um the police
Speaker 1: are attend to be But yeah, this one is basically
Speaker 1: saying that becoming a cop should require you to have
Speaker 1: a bachelor's degree and be twenty five years old, just
Speaker 1: based on statistics about what police officers with those attributes,
Speaker 1: how violent they are versus otherwise. Yeah. The legislator who's
Speaker 1: putting it, who's who wrote the bill, uh, is referring
Speaker 1: to like this study in twos ten that that basically
Speaker 1: says that college educated officers typically typically right, typically use
Speaker 1: less force often and fewer complaints filed against them. Now, okay,
Speaker 1: that's a good thing to identify that group of people. Um,
Speaker 1: but this is you know, like we're saying this is
Speaker 1: incremental change age when we know what the real issues are.
Speaker 1: But you know, this isn't the issue here. And like,
Speaker 1: the reason this bill is coming out isn't because we
Speaker 1: have a problem with you know, not enough cops who
Speaker 1: studied abroad in Bartarlona. You know, we have fucking real
Speaker 1: issues here. This is an issue within policing that is
Speaker 1: anti black, anti poor, anti fucking everything. Uh. And they're
Speaker 1: protected by powerful unions that can keep any kind of real,
Speaker 1: meaningful like legal repercussions from ever you know, getting close
Speaker 1: to them, as well as like the financial consequences via
Speaker 1: these like ridiculous retirement plans a lot of these people
Speaker 1: have where it's like, dude, you get fired and then
Speaker 1: you're fucking set, like no matter what, even if you're
Speaker 1: tray to murder somebody twice. Uh. And this is just
Speaker 1: you know, these are the kinds of things that you'd
Speaker 1: wish the legislators were actually looking at because this is
Speaker 1: a good way of legislator being like, well, this is
Speaker 1: this is an improvement. Yes, that would be great, because
Speaker 1: right now you just need to be I think like
Speaker 1: eight seen or have an equivalent like eighteen with an
Speaker 1: equivalent in a high school diploma to begin your training.
Speaker 1: And it can be I think twenty if you're in
Speaker 1: the California Highway Patrol. But yes, this is that's a
Speaker 1: good way to try and weed out other people. But
Speaker 1: it's really a disingenuous attempt at real reform, and we
Speaker 1: just need to look at how much money is going
Speaker 1: to these departments and actually just having this conversation about
Speaker 1: reinvesting in communities, because the perception in law enforcement in
Speaker 1: this country is, well, people commit crime because they're black,
Speaker 1: rather than seeing the full picture of how black and
Speaker 1: brown Americans have been abandoned. And we're merely just branding
Speaker 1: this failure of governance as crime. You know, it's not,
Speaker 1: oh it's crime. It's not we've failed these people. They
Speaker 1: have no recourse. They're so desperate that they commit crime.
Speaker 1: People commit crimes out of desperation. You know, nine times
Speaker 1: out of ten, there are some people who just do
Speaker 1: it for the jollies. But let's be real, like a
Speaker 1: lot of this is about survival. Like you deal drugs
Speaker 1: not because you've got to kick out of dealing drugs,
Speaker 1: you do it because that's the only employe and available
Speaker 1: to you that has the kind of income that you're
Speaker 1: looking for unfortunately, or things other things like that gang
Speaker 1: people don't want to be in gangs, like this is
Speaker 1: all these are all you know, fact, these are all
Speaker 1: byproducts of this failure. Um. And I just want to
Speaker 1: also point out that this study that the legislator uh
Speaker 1: is using to say like oh yeah, look check this out,
Speaker 1: like you know, people who have been to France and college,
Speaker 1: you know, murder less. Uh. It was done by the
Speaker 1: National Police Foundation, which I just want to point out
Speaker 1: that they love community policing like solutions, and they love
Speaker 1: putting forward the broken window policing strategy, which is totally
Speaker 1: fucked up and completely wrong and backwards and biased. So
Speaker 1: it's already like you know, it's we're we have an
Speaker 1: imperfect thing, drawing from an imperfect place, trying to you know,
Speaker 1: be presented as you know, meaningful change. Uh. So it's
Speaker 1: just I think, just well, we will continue to see
Speaker 1: things like this that look good and are good, but
Speaker 1: I think are avoiding what all the outcries were from
Speaker 1: the public over this last year over what is necessary
Speaker 1: to change the relationship between the community and law enforcement. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, I grew up in in
Speaker 1: the city of Chicago. What's Chicago public schools? Very diverse
Speaker 1: schools and all that, and I I can't tell you enough.
Speaker 1: I Mean, there are people who I've met and who
Speaker 1: I've known a little and they're like, oh, I'm becoming
Speaker 1: a cop. And in my head, I'm like, they're letting me,
Speaker 1: you become a cop, right, They're they're allowing and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like what, And so I don't. It's like there's
Speaker 1: so much about character and personality that matters, I think
Speaker 1: with becoming a cop that I don't know what kind
Speaker 1: of thing you could create to figure that out of
Speaker 1: how you get the best character and personality to become
Speaker 1: a cop, because it's it's it's it's a humanity job.
Speaker 1: It's dealing with people. It's having empathy for people, like
Speaker 1: you need to have empathy for people, you need to
Speaker 1: want to work for people. I think, even to your
Speaker 1: point about like the character that of you know of
Speaker 1: the kinds of officers that need to be out there
Speaker 1: on the street is. I think you start that by
Speaker 1: just having like reinforcing the fucking rules, so the ones
Speaker 1: who don't act with humanity in mind are quickly just
Speaker 1: booted the funk out, and it's made known to people.
Speaker 1: It's like, yo, you know, this isn't the place, like,
Speaker 1: if you want to funk around and do that, go
Speaker 1: to Florida or whatever fucking other you know, police department.
Speaker 1: But I think for police departments, this whole idea of like, well,
Speaker 1: a couple of bad apples or whatever, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: they tossed out all the fucking bad apples then, and
Speaker 1: then see what you're left with and then figure out
Speaker 1: what the real problem is. But they're like, there's no
Speaker 1: even sort of the energy for that isn't even there.
Speaker 1: So we get all these sort of like half measures
Speaker 1: that have the like on paper are police reforms. But
Speaker 1: we are we are well, and we are way past
Speaker 1: the time for these small things like those things should
Speaker 1: happen sixty years ago if you want to like start
Speaker 1: that little incremental process. But now we're looking at the
Speaker 1: situation should and we need, you know, we need to extinguish. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, the more you know about history, like that's
Speaker 1: that seems to be something that like the like, it's
Speaker 1: not just that black communities are abandoned, it's that they're
Speaker 1: actively imprisoned through redlining in communities where the you know,
Speaker 1: official government policy is to deprive them of resources, and
Speaker 1: then they're only interaction with the state, Like that ten
Speaker 1: year old who's riding by on his bike is only
Speaker 1: interaction with the state. Is violent racist police like it's
Speaker 1: it's not a problem that can be addressed through incremental change.
Speaker 1: What's something from your search history that's revealing about who
Speaker 1: you are? I recently googled if hamsters can chew on
Speaker 1: Palace Anto Santo like for them to it's if it's
Speaker 1: safe for them to none. That is the most like
Speaker 1: silver Lake Google thing I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 1: I think, if you don't know what Paulo Santo is like,
Speaker 1: it's if you've ever if wherever you're in the country,
Speaker 1: if you have some crunchy friends who are like seemingly
Speaker 1: just lighting a shard of wood on fire and being like,
Speaker 1: the vibe in here is so great. Superproducer Nick Stump
Speaker 1: famously kept his control room, just just piping with the
Speaker 1: Polo santo smoke, So is it safe though? Clear's negative energy?
Speaker 1: It's at stage. Apparently Plessanto is canceled though, is what
Speaker 1: I've heard canceled at St. Paulo the psay. I think
Speaker 1: like white people like myself, who are like, can I
Speaker 1: answer to you on it? Like take it back? Don't
Speaker 1: let him have it? Taking it back? What is it
Speaker 1: smell like when it's burning? Like, is it petulish? When
Speaker 1: we look at it smells pretty damn good. I think
Speaker 1: it smells okay for it over stage for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Any like place where they're selling crystals is like like
Speaker 1: Putuli gave way to sage, which gave way to Polo
Speaker 1: santo right now, you know, go to your local crystal shop.
Speaker 1: If you don't know that's it probably smells like polosanto
Speaker 1: in there. M okay, I will do that the second
Speaker 1: that I'm going to make a bee line for that,
Speaker 1: the second this uh lockdown of this lift or like
Speaker 1: musicians especially love and I think that's why Nick had
Speaker 1: it too, because I've never been like with vibe musicians
Speaker 1: who if you were playing with them or in a
Speaker 1: session or like a rehearsal where they were just like,
Speaker 1: let me just get the polo go on a little bit,
Speaker 1: just like vive it out. Like that's why it's such
Speaker 1: a silber like thing in my mind, because like so
Speaker 1: many rehearsal spaces just smelled like weed, Like, uh, paps
Speaker 1: and you know Paolo Santo, Alison, are you enjoying your
Speaker 1: Polo Santo? Are you like lighting a Is it just
Speaker 1: like a stick that you light always? Literally it's like
Speaker 1: do I have it on me? No, it's literally just
Speaker 1: like a stick. Yeah, it's the most uninteresting thing to see. Come.
Speaker 1: You know, it's very basic. It smells really good. Clear's
Speaker 1: negative negative energy if you're into that stuff. But I
Speaker 1: have a pet hamster and he needed a new chew
Speaker 1: toy and I was like, I'm you know, post recovery
Speaker 1: surgery mode, and I'm like, well, I have Palo Santo,
Speaker 1: Like could I give him that? Yeah, like, give you
Speaker 1: something to entertain yourself with. But I ultimately decided not to,
Speaker 1: even though I couldn't find a straight answer on Polo
Speaker 1: Santo specifically, it seemed like it might be too risky
Speaker 1: of the wood for a hamster. Would you pivot to?
Speaker 1: I ended up just waiting and I ended up just
Speaker 1: waiting and asked my sister to go to Peto for
Speaker 1: me and got the pencil shaped would chew things? Ah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: should have experimented with the polosanto it maybe it would
Speaker 1: have changed the whole vibe of the hamster hamster toys,
Speaker 1: just just would Is that kind of the I could
Speaker 1: talk about hamsters forever, so don't get me started. But
Speaker 1: it's they are very finnicky, fragile creatures, and I don't
Speaker 1: understand why we sell them to like five year olds,
Speaker 1: like that's not okay. They actually very high maintenance animals.
Speaker 1: And even like the type of wood they choose important
Speaker 1: because some what is poisonous to them. Another wood isn't okay,
Speaker 1: pine is bad for them, like stuff like that they
Speaker 1: can choke on some and not on others, or like
Speaker 1: some are like poisons. I don't know basically, so yeah,
Speaker 1: it matters what kind of would do they choose. For
Speaker 1: the record, you know, Allison is on her to not
Speaker 1: refers keyboard right now, just taking all that typing you hear?
Speaker 1: Is that transcribing everything the minutes of this episode? Finally,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about a story that would have
Speaker 1: I don't know it's it seems like it's way too
Speaker 1: important to cover in three minutes, which we're going to
Speaker 1: try and do. But uh, the former head of Israel's
Speaker 1: uh what what's his official title? He ran and Rance program.
Speaker 1: He was the program. Like there's no, he's not some
Speaker 1: guy with a cool Twitter handle that you know, bb
Speaker 1: Net and Yahoo like Fox with It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's I think he was running it from like
Speaker 1: the eighties to like or something like that. And but
Speaker 1: for a context, he's saying, if I had come up
Speaker 1: with what I'm saying today five years ago, and we'll
Speaker 1: get to what he's saying, I would have been hospitalized.
Speaker 1: Wherever I've gone with this in academia, they've said the
Speaker 1: man has lost his mind. Today are already talking differently.
Speaker 1: I have nothing to lose. I've received my degrees and awards.
Speaker 1: I'm respecting universities abroad where the trend is also changing.
Speaker 1: That trend. He says that we have made alien contact,
Speaker 1: the US government and Israel in particular, that we are
Speaker 1: in communication and in fact, in a legal contract with
Speaker 1: the extraterrestrials. Um and I mean, I'm glad of One
Speaker 1: of his quotes I'm glad that the Aliens respect contract law.
Speaker 1: That's a good sign. He said. Quote there's an agreement
Speaker 1: between the US government and the Aliens. They signed a
Speaker 1: contract with us to do experiments here. They too are
Speaker 1: researching and trying to understand the whole fabric of the universe,
Speaker 1: and they want us as helpers. Um. I I just
Speaker 1: the signed a contract is where it goes a little
Speaker 1: too far. I was on board agreement. Maybe you know
Speaker 1: contract were they were they redlining? Did they get the
Speaker 1: lawyers involved? Are the are the Aliens their own legal counsel?
Speaker 1: They're like, sorry, this this is actually a poison pill
Speaker 1: in this deal. We will not do it if it's
Speaker 1: if it's contained in the contract language. I don't um,
Speaker 1: but they're saying one of the first hubs of cooperation
Speaker 1: is a base on Mars, where, by the way, astronauts
Speaker 1: have already set foot, American astronauts, and the basis underground.
Speaker 1: That's why you can't see it. I love Aliensis. My
Speaker 1: uncle has a ten dollar telescope in New Hampshire and
Speaker 1: he was showing me Jupiter up close. I've I've said
Speaker 1: this before, I'll say it again. If I have a
Speaker 1: family six kids. I need to be there for my family,
Speaker 1: and aliens come to me and say, hey, we'll take
Speaker 1: you with us. You can never come back here see
Speaker 1: anybody again, but you'll get to see the galaxy for
Speaker 1: what it is. I'd be like, let's go. I would go, okay,
Speaker 1: I want a prologue with that. But I will say,
Speaker 1: this guy lost me when he plugged his book. He's
Speaker 1: coming out, he's got coming out, and that's where he
Speaker 1: lost me, you know, I mean it's and even in
Speaker 1: a way though it's like you don't want this guy's
Speaker 1: book though, you know, even like as a thing of
Speaker 1: like if he was talking that real ship, he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's so complex, Like to say it used
Speaker 1: the word agreement would completely betray the forms of communication
Speaker 1: these life forms used. I would be like, whoa, okay,
Speaker 1: But when you're treating it like a fucking like just
Speaker 1: you know a funny comedy film where they was like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's collab on some research, fam like okay, and then
Speaker 1: even like his his explanation, it's like what where y'all been?
Speaker 1: Where the aliens been? What's going on? He mentioned Trump
Speaker 1: in there too. Yeah, he did say that Trump was
Speaker 1: on the verge of revealing all of the path Aliens
Speaker 1: in the Galactic Federation, which I think is literally a
Speaker 1: term from Star Trek, but maybe not Aliens in the
Speaker 1: Galactic Federation are saying, wait, let everyone calm down first.
Speaker 1: They they don't want to start mass hysteria. They want
Speaker 1: to first make us sane and understanding. So here's why, Like,
Speaker 1: obviously I want to believe, and I'm going to always
Speaker 1: err on the side of yeah, this could be possible.
Speaker 1: The thing about the contracts. So one of my theories
Speaker 1: on aliens is that they might end up being a
Speaker 1: lot more similar to us than we expect them to
Speaker 1: be because of parallel evolution and the fact that like
Speaker 1: when you look in Australia at like the wildlife that
Speaker 1: evolved there, and it like looks almost identical to wildlife
Speaker 1: that evolved independently in the US. It's like there, when
Speaker 1: you have the conditions of life in two different, seemingly
Speaker 1: different places, like they do end up cohering similarly. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, like maybe maybe that is something that
Speaker 1: eventually always comes up, and when when there's a civilization
Speaker 1: that has evolved to a certain point, maybe they're like, well,
Speaker 1: you gotta have contracts, man, I mean otherwise and then
Speaker 1: nothing separates us from the single cell to organisms. Please,
Speaker 1: I didn't come all this way to not have the
Speaker 1: legal paperwork and to protect my interests in disagreement Earthling.
Speaker 1: But I also just like picturing the process of getting
Speaker 1: from respected in academic circles has this hugely powerful uh career,
Speaker 1: and now what makes like just selling books just being
Speaker 1: like yeah, like it just seems I don't know, I
Speaker 1: have I have a hard time imagining that evolution, like
Speaker 1: unless he was always all along, like had some suspicion
Speaker 1: that there was alien contact, like just given his mouth
Speaker 1: shut because it's going to costume his job all the time.
Speaker 1: They're like, dude, you gotta knock that shut off, like
Speaker 1: like we're serious scientists and he's just using like the
Speaker 1: same ship that UFO heads in the US used, Like
Speaker 1: I'm just saying roswell though, dog look at this viral video, dude,
Speaker 1: what about that beam of light above tel Aviva just
Speaker 1: shot up in the sky? What was that? I have
Speaker 1: it from multiple angles. It's like that was doctored. We
Speaker 1: already talked about this doctor alright, it did a great
Speaker 1: job on it, you know. Yeah, no, I mean it
Speaker 1: looks it looks like I wonder if you like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like at a certain point, you know, this is like
Speaker 1: his like breaking bad like kind of thing, was like,
Speaker 1: fuck it, I got nothing on this alien ship and
Speaker 1: get a book deal and get my little check. So
Speaker 1: I can, you know, just buy my retirement cabin and
Speaker 1: live life comfortably because my government pension is running out.
Speaker 1: So I gotta exploit that position to say some wild
Speaker 1: alien ship. I don't know that would be a smart
Speaker 1: move though, because instantly right like it's a it's this
Speaker 1: has been a global headline because of because of the
Speaker 1: position he help. So it's like just if so if
Speaker 1: you just have that former title to give you any authority,
Speaker 1: keep in mind, anybody in any position with authority, you
Speaker 1: can do this, come out with some outlanders ship. That
Speaker 1: would just be like up end the general accepted knowledge
Speaker 1: of your industry and people like what the former head
Speaker 1: of what said? What but this huh? And then people
Speaker 1: will laugh you out, but you'll get your little shine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're you're officially on this guy's uh lost it
Speaker 1: or is just trying to sell books ship? I know,
Speaker 1: I mean I like the energy that I love the
Speaker 1: energy of someone who is gonna like completely change the
Speaker 1: game on us like this and be like, no, y'all
Speaker 1: not listening. They have signed fucking contracts, okay. And Trump
Speaker 1: almost sucked it all up. And then the aliens were like, nah,
Speaker 1: found just dead that for a second because the people
Speaker 1: are not ready for us to do our grand reveal.
Speaker 1: So if you could just sit on that, we would
Speaker 1: appreciate that. And Donald Trump was like, bet, and you
Speaker 1: know that it's basically who our president is. He respects
Speaker 1: the you know, agency of these as. I just love.
Speaker 1: It's like it's also tough don too, because we're we're
Speaker 1: we're like having this conversation in society right now about
Speaker 1: believing the scientists and buying any of these people. Like
Speaker 1: this guy is an academic super respective he ran their
Speaker 1: Space program, So this is somebody who we should buy into, right,
Speaker 1: Like we should say, like he's probably I need like
Speaker 1: for something like this. It's like, yo, you need I
Speaker 1: need you to bring another few friends with you. The
Speaker 1: ratios aren't good here for a thing like this. I
Speaker 1: need better ratios. I need like five other people who
Speaker 1: like y'all can actually be like yo, yo, okay, we're
Speaker 1: not going to tell y'all but that one mission look
Speaker 1: into that, and then I would be like, oh oh,
Speaker 1: but nan, if the aliens are out there trying to
Speaker 1: get us to be more reasonable, you know, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: where did this vaccine come from? It's all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we got a vaccine this accurate or effective. Come on, dude,
Speaker 1: you think the aliens didn't give that to us? What
Speaker 1: the fun did you think? I was talking about Operation
Speaker 1: Warp Speed. I was on the fucking USS Enterprise, motherfucker
Speaker 1: secure in the vaccine. There's no way he was. I
Speaker 1: was in the I was doing deals in fucking sebulon
Speaker 1: three six nine dash z. There's no way he'd be
Speaker 1: able to uh not brag about that ship actually brokering
Speaker 1: this deal because he's gonna do. We've heard about his
Speaker 1: negotiating tactics. He's gonna be in. There's like, nice to
Speaker 1: meet you alien people. I'm surprisingly calm in this negotiation,
Speaker 1: but I just want to shut up and saying fuck you,
Speaker 1: and he walks out. Uh ship, All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 1: I just want to check in with one of my
Speaker 1: old US is Gordon Ramsey Um because he is he
Speaker 1: is taking his talents Um and Burger restaurant to a
Speaker 1: new location inside Herod's in London. And what's on the
Speaker 1: menu A hundred and six dollar burger. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: yall read the room you were not? I mean, look
Speaker 1: the city. From our point of view in the United States,
Speaker 1: it seems like absolutely ridiculous. I know in the UK
Speaker 1: two things aren't that great. And last I checked, Herod's
Speaker 1: is not open. So I don't know when you were
Speaker 1: going to even go into this restaurant to eat this burger.
Speaker 1: But just to let you know, how you get to
Speaker 1: a hundred and six dollars A hundred six dollars the
Speaker 1: extravagant patty is a wug you burger apparently featuring apparently Okay, interesting,
Speaker 1: Wait hold on, this is a scam then it can't
Speaker 1: it burger? This ship needs to be unequivocal. This is
Speaker 1: it's undeniably has to be this Dent UK heritage beef patty,
Speaker 1: seared walk you sirloin, fresh black truffles and truffle Pecorino cheese.
Speaker 1: I can say I don't know why they even why
Speaker 1: even put a press release out. It's gonna anger people
Speaker 1: like you want to talk about your luxury burger in
Speaker 1: the time of like the global depression. Um, but he
Speaker 1: did read the room on the other side because he's
Speaker 1: entering the Seltzer game. Also, uh, and it's called wait
Speaker 1: for it, Hell's Seltzer. Isn't White Claw, just Hell's Seltzer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and the Seltzer Seltzer game is getting crowded.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that it is getting crowded. At this point,
Speaker 1: you need a good name. You know, it is coming
Speaker 1: down to because they all cost about the same, they
Speaker 1: all basically taste like shit. Uh, so it's really coming
Speaker 1: down to a name game for me. What's the deal
Speaker 1: with Hell's Seltzer. Oh? Well, the website that apparently, like
Speaker 1: you know, they're doing apparently that isn't that that kid
Speaker 1: wasn't that that meme the kid who said apparently all
Speaker 1: on that and apparently, well, you know, come down and
Speaker 1: apparently that just like okay, I just learned a new word. Also, Um,
Speaker 1: the website that's like doing the press release says that
Speaker 1: Ramsey's quote discerning Palette is behind the Seltzer's for unapologetically
Speaker 1: bold flavors. They're all inspired by the popular menu items
Speaker 1: from his Hell's Kitchen restaurant. I'm like, so what beef Wellington,
Speaker 1: lobster Risoltso I worked on the Hell's Kitchen show, so
Speaker 1: I know what else are we talking about? Is that
Speaker 1: the I mean beef Wellington seltzer sounds like it's worth
Speaker 1: a punt uh. And then the ingredients, by the way,
Speaker 1: our seltzer natural flavors and hate for hate Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you idiot the other his like his cheesy ass like
Speaker 1: you know, puff promo talk is amazing to quote, this
Speaker 1: is Gordon Ramsey. Quote. Yes, even I enjoy a hard
Speaker 1: seltzer after a long day. So I decided to toss
Speaker 1: the devil horns into the ring and heat things up.
Speaker 1: Hell's Kitchen will never freeze over, but a cold health
Speaker 1: Seltzer is a great start. And you know those are
Speaker 1: lying through his teeth. Take a sip. You think Gordon
Speaker 1: Ramsey had he lied? Did you hear what he said, Jamie?
Speaker 1: He said, yes, even I he's acknowledging that it would
Speaker 1: be strange. This is real, he said, even he would
Speaker 1: after a hard, long, long day, He's going to kick
Speaker 1: back with a heltzer. Heltzer skeltzer. I'm gonna szer skeltzer.
Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, beef Linton heltzer skeltzer. You're like, I
Speaker 1: think we need to speak with them. Are they okay?
Speaker 1: They're drinking beef flavored alcohol? Alcohol? Is it? What? Also
Speaker 1: with the celt you got, you gotta it's all all
Speaker 1: of it is like low though, and it hurts you.
Speaker 1: But somehow my thing with selters like you drink one,
Speaker 1: the alcohol content is very low. But then yet you're
Speaker 1: still like getting hungover in real time, and you're like,
Speaker 1: how is this possible? I'm not and yet and I'm
Speaker 1: already hungover. What's your favorite flav? I do like a
Speaker 1: mango white clow. I like the main white cleasy too.
Speaker 1: I'll play around with a little black cherry from time
Speaker 1: to time. Yeah, sometimes I add vodrell. Is that a
Speaker 1: weird move? That's what I tell her, Majesty. I said, Yo,
Speaker 1: give me that mango cleasy, but boost it, boost it,
Speaker 1: boost it a little bit. What do you think, Hey,
Speaker 1: her majesty, let me get a man cleasy, but don't
Speaker 1: trim the claws. Actually put some put some cloth, st
Speaker 1: sharpen that claw. Her magic. One time for your boy
Speaker 1: so he can so he can fall over picking up
Speaker 1: dogship in the yard. Uh. That's just an insight into
Speaker 1: my Sunday mornings. Um, and just one last treat I
Speaker 1: want to go out on. Actually is just Jamie and I.
Speaker 1: We were talking about what it was like to work
Speaker 1: at Playboy back in the day. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if this was on we did this, but we we
Speaker 1: worked at Playboy. We actually worked at the same time
Speaker 1: and weren't even friends. It's a shame. Although I didn't
Speaker 1: I knew of you because everyone was saying she's a
Speaker 1: comedian and I was like, what, there's someone funny here.
Speaker 1: Get away from that. Surely to me, Yeah, we should
Speaker 1: have been friends the Playboy. No one talked to me. Well,
Speaker 1: you were in a weird part of the office. It
Speaker 1: was a weird time. The country was start of the
Speaker 1: company was having a bit of trouble figuring out the
Speaker 1: non nude age. Yeah. Uh. And house er. We got
Speaker 1: to go to the mansion for like staff party. One
Speaker 1: you got to go. I didn't get didn't. I got
Speaker 1: terribly drunk and walked into a glass wall. My sister
Speaker 1: snuck into Hugh Hefner's house on Valentine's Day. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: met his son and they were just hanging out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if it wasn't Conny, Yeah, he's on it. He was
Speaker 1: the guy that stole my cake when he was on
Speaker 1: a segway. It was like the day that I got
Speaker 1: laid off and my boss was like, here's a cake
Speaker 1: because I got laid off on my birthday and they
Speaker 1: got me a birthday slash goodbye cake. That was really depressing.
Speaker 1: And then Hugh Hefner's son rolled in on a segway obviously,
Speaker 1: like I had no idea who he was, and he
Speaker 1: was just like, Hey, what's a whose birthday is it?
Speaker 1: Can I have a piece of cake? And he just
Speaker 1: rolled the way and then he felt So it's good
Speaker 1: taken off with your cake and your health insurance. But yeah,
Speaker 1: So the reason I bring it up is because every
Speaker 1: like six three to six months, the online store, the
Speaker 1: Playboy magazine online store would just have a you for
Speaker 1: all of ship nobody wanted, and the staff could go
Speaker 1: and like pick from the bones of like the online
Speaker 1: store and get like a T shirt or beer Cozy's
Speaker 1: or high healed sneakers in Jamie's case, that she so
Speaker 1: lovingly took um, but I just want to just I
Speaker 1: just point this out because the State Department had a
Speaker 1: holiday party on Tuesday or super spreader event, whatever the
Speaker 1: funk you want to call it, but I just want
Speaker 1: to point out what the gift bags were at this
Speaker 1: State Department holiday party. Quote This is from the Washington
Speaker 1: Post reporting of the State Department party. Amid the point
Speaker 1: said is chandeliers and meticulously decorated Christmas trees. Children on
Speaker 1: Tuesday night received be Best branded swag, such as backpacks, Frisbees,
Speaker 1: and water bottles from First Lady Milania Trump's signature anti
Speaker 1: bullying and Wellness initiative. The State Department has a stockpile
Speaker 1: of the best merchandise that is often handed out when
Speaker 1: the First Lady travels abroad. In the absence of a
Speaker 1: second Trump term, officials need to find a home for
Speaker 1: the plus gear, one official said. The officials said, quote,
Speaker 1: it's time to get rid of the leftovers. That sounds
Speaker 1: like a playboy giveaway. He was like, well, this is
Speaker 1: the worst, this is a bad idea. Come again, and
Speaker 1: we got it here. My friend what a treat. My
Speaker 1: friend was like asking me if I had any tattoos,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I changed my mind so often.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'd be one of those people that
Speaker 1: would get a Playboy like tattoo and regret it. And
Speaker 1: when I said that her boyfriend pilled up his sleep
Speaker 1: and he had a bit playboy tattoo, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm sure yours is great. I mean, it's the most
Speaker 1: recognized logo in the on Earth. It's the most recognized
Speaker 1: logo on Earth. So I love reveal when someone has
Speaker 1: an embarrassing tattoo that is also very large. There's almost
Speaker 1: nothing funnier in the world. I like, ran into my
Speaker 1: high school boyfriend. This sounds fake, but it was real.
Speaker 1: I ran into one of my my first high school boyfriend,
Speaker 1: um a couple of years after he had dumped me
Speaker 1: for the saxophone. And it sounds like Whiplash that movie,
Speaker 1: except sounds like that movie This Christmas. He left you
Speaker 1: for his music career, he did. He did leave me
Speaker 1: for with Quentins. He left me for for jazz um.
Speaker 1: But then I saw him a couple of years later
Speaker 1: and he had a huge tattoo of foghorn leghorn on
Speaker 1: his bicep, and he was like, my uncle got it too.
Speaker 1: It was a little thing me and my uncle did.
Speaker 1: He had a huge said, I said, what the funk?
Speaker 1: You got a fog horn leghorn tattoo? Yes, I swear
Speaker 1: to god, he had a huge fog horn leghorn tattoo.
Speaker 1: And then it was like it was it was great
Speaker 1: for me because I was like, well this this break
Speaker 1: up validation valid Yeah, but a huge like just so
Speaker 1: much out of nostalgia, but you for your mouth on
Speaker 1: this person. And then now they have a foghorn leghorn tattoo.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just googled fog horn leghorn. Now
Speaker 1: I get the joke. Yeah. Anyways, well can Joe all right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeite. Guys,
Speaker 1: please like and review the show. If you like the show,
Speaker 1: uh means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks.
Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
Speaker 1: talk to him Monday. By ut and the Factor and
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