Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment last stravaganza.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.
Speaker 1: Really well, we are thrilled to be joined in our
Speaker 1: third seat by the hilarious, the talented, the great bridget Oh.
Speaker 1: I love the air horns. Thank you for that introduction.
Speaker 1: I always feel I can like hear the air horns
Speaker 1: even when you're not actually doing them. So I are you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: how have you been? Things are good? Uh? I feel
Speaker 1: like how are you as almost like a triggering question
Speaker 1: these days, like what do you? What is that supposed
Speaker 1: to mean? How am i? Um? You are indece, I
Speaker 1: am in d C. Coming at you from Columbia Heights Heights. Uh?
Speaker 1: And is there because that that city changes based on
Speaker 1: like the administration? Right? Absolutely? Yeah, I moved. I lived
Speaker 1: in DC for a really long time. I moved here
Speaker 1: at the tail end of the Bush administration. Was here
Speaker 1: for both Obama administrations and the Trump administration. So I'm
Speaker 1: definitely the city definitely changes based on the current administration.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that in when I was here
Speaker 1: for the Bush administration, you would see dudes walking around
Speaker 1: with like, um, cowboy booths and like cowboy hats and like, um,
Speaker 1: what do you call those? Yeah blow ties that there
Speaker 1: was a real weird Texas vibe because of George Bush. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the city definitely changes based on who is in
Speaker 1: office and like what kind of people are moving to
Speaker 1: the city for what kind of administration? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's brutal. I wonder what Biden, what Biden does, are
Speaker 1: going to look like a lot of people with like
Speaker 1: really tight faces. Maybe the vineer movement is finally going
Speaker 1: to down. Yeah, it has the changeover happened yet, Like
Speaker 1: have u the maga folks vacated people are just jubilant,
Speaker 1: like I think it is. You know, when you live
Speaker 1: in d C, it's like you see these assholes around,
Speaker 1: like I saw Ivanka Trump outside of the soul cycle ones.
Speaker 1: You know, you see these people like I don't imagine
Speaker 1: that me and a lot of Trump administration officials were
Speaker 1: going to the same places. But every now and then
Speaker 1: you'll see them. If you go to like a fancy
Speaker 1: restaurant or something, you'll see officials. Like all my friends
Speaker 1: have planned out, Like what would you say if you saw,
Speaker 1: you know, Jared Kushner around on the street, what would
Speaker 1: you do? Like would you yell at? What would you do?
Speaker 1: But the vibe in d C is pure jubilant. I'm
Speaker 1: talking people spraying champagne on the streets, people hanging out
Speaker 1: of cars screaming, we cannot wait to be rid of this,
Speaker 1: their fucker and all of his croonies. So we're just
Speaker 1: so happy. Yes that were you in DC on election
Speaker 1: or not election day, but day of the day they
Speaker 1: called it. I was in d C the day it
Speaker 1: was called. Um it was, so I think, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I think I came a day later it was. The
Speaker 1: vibe was still very jubilee, And honestly, like all my
Speaker 1: friends who were in DC when it was called, they
Speaker 1: the images they showed me, the like videos they showed me.
Speaker 1: People stood out on their balconies and banged pots and
Speaker 1: pants and celebration. The only thing that I could even
Speaker 1: compare it to is I happened to be in Paris
Speaker 1: when France won the World Cup. It was like that
Speaker 1: level of of collective joy, like strangers high fiving in
Speaker 1: the streets, banging pots and pans, is my favorite because
Speaker 1: it's just like so just infantile and just like I'm
Speaker 1: happy banging. It's such a like, yeah, it's such a
Speaker 1: like infantile expression of happiness where you're like, I just
Speaker 1: gotta make this loud noise that Steve we like tesk.
Speaker 1: I guess what's something from your search history? Um, this
Speaker 1: is a little crazy, but I looked up. I tweeted
Speaker 1: this late last night that the mega church that I
Speaker 1: used to work at that I grew up with this.
Speaker 1: I guess this has happened in the past couple of years.
Speaker 1: I just wasn't paying attention, but the senior pastor, who
Speaker 1: is brilliant was a brilliant preacher and stuff like that
Speaker 1: kind of stepped aside so his son that I grew
Speaker 1: up with could take over. And his son is one
Speaker 1: of the worst preachers I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: I knew he was bad. I knew he was bad
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. He's a year older than me. I
Speaker 1: grew up with this guy and the the same draft class. Basically,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know this guy. I know his ex
Speaker 1: wife now and then his My first girlfriend was the
Speaker 1: sister his sister too. I know this family so well.
Speaker 1: But I fund out that and I started watching his
Speaker 1: clips on YouTube, and um, you guys, I tweeted it,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, for real, gonna tag you guys in
Speaker 1: a clip because it's the worst preacher I've ever seen
Speaker 1: in my life. It makes zero sense. If you know preaching,
Speaker 1: you can tell you all the reasons. I can tell
Speaker 1: you all the reasons about why it's bad too, But
Speaker 1: if you know preaching, it's even worse. But any layman
Speaker 1: could look at it and say, this guy's out of control.
Speaker 1: And I what I actually the search history was. I
Speaker 1: looked up his new wife and I found out that
Speaker 1: she's a member of this weird other megachurch family from
Speaker 1: back east called the munth Sies, So this is faith
Speaker 1: community church. I looked into this too. Also. I posted
Speaker 1: this clip on Twitter and it's kind of blowing up.
Speaker 1: And I guess this church that bought their property in
Speaker 1: West Covina for four million dollars about twenty five million
Speaker 1: years ago is selling it now for thirty million, and
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do it with that money.
Speaker 1: So I'm like the combination of looking into his preaching
Speaker 1: and me knowing this family and knowing like the kind
Speaker 1: of hady ways they're doing. I'm going to do like
Speaker 1: a limited series podcasts on it. And because I know
Speaker 1: this family and they're gonna try to run away with
Speaker 1: this thirty million, and all I have to do is
Speaker 1: post pictures of this guy's preaching and you'll understand what
Speaker 1: a fucking joke this is. And this is in West Covina.
Speaker 1: This is in l A County. So I don't want
Speaker 1: you know, people think of mega churches is happening in
Speaker 1: the south and ship this is half an hour from us, guys,
Speaker 1: So I wanna look at West Colvina, you know, shout
Speaker 1: out the ikea, West Colvina South. Eric used to hook
Speaker 1: me up with quarter pounds of couch out of West Colvina,
Speaker 1: Great Town, Great Town. So I looked up this guy's
Speaker 1: wife and so yeah, that's that was my last Internet search.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at your Twitter page right now because I
Speaker 1: was like, because I grew up in churches, going to
Speaker 1: you know, K through twelfth grade was either Lutheran or
Speaker 1: Catholic school. So I'm I've been around the Word of
Speaker 1: Christ and looking at this clip I have, I'm just
Speaker 1: watching it on mute and hearing you, I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: this dude is full of ship. But I just just
Speaker 1: to indulge us. I'm just gonna play a bit of
Speaker 1: a sound bite of it just so we can get idea.
Speaker 1: I just love the way it captures it. Here. Verse
Speaker 1: one says, the Lord is, how do you start? This
Speaker 1: is how it starts. The Lord is we talk with people,
Speaker 1: and people we start our sentences. What the world is?
Speaker 1: The world is falling the bar, You're talking with some people,
Speaker 1: and you're life government. The government is okay. I have
Speaker 1: to stop there, because, yeah, you're right. That is on
Speaker 1: the most basic level. I gotta keep watching. I just
Speaker 1: don't want to put people through this. I don't want
Speaker 1: to um. Yeah, I was gonna actually play the clip.
Speaker 1: I had the idea to have it and bring it,
Speaker 1: but you have to watch it. I don't want to
Speaker 1: put anyone through that. I'm so mad because his dad
Speaker 1: really is brilliant. He made me fall in love with
Speaker 1: the Bible and the Word of God, and the fact
Speaker 1: that he just passed it onto this piece of ship.
Speaker 1: Who say he's a legit bad person and he hasn't
Speaker 1: he like, he hasn't read his Bible. I know the Bible,
Speaker 1: and I know his dad's preaching, and I've I've been
Speaker 1: watching hours of this guy's preaching. Guys, it's available on
Speaker 1: YouTube Dan Reef Faith Community Church and uh go check
Speaker 1: it out. And I know his dad's preaching, and he's
Speaker 1: basically ripped off a ton of his dad's preaching too.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I'm pissed. He's like, let me just
Speaker 1: let me just freestyle off the top, y'all something I
Speaker 1: was writing from a sermon. How about this love, his patient, love,
Speaker 1: his kind, love does not envy or boast. Wait, you said,
Speaker 1: what does Corinthia get the funk out my face? America?
Speaker 1: American nepotism is just so they're about to come up
Speaker 1: on a thirty million Yes, and you know churches are nonprofits.
Speaker 1: I know this church. I'm telling you, I haven't been
Speaker 1: this excited for a project because I've I've people started
Speaker 1: messaging me that used to go to the church, a
Speaker 1: lot of former pastors. They've they've always come to me
Speaker 1: because I used to work here, and they've been messaging
Speaker 1: me things. And I don't know what. It's a nonprofit
Speaker 1: so they can't steal the money. But I know what
Speaker 1: that family does a lot of times. Is they hire
Speaker 1: every member of the family because it's a church. It's
Speaker 1: tax free, so everyone gets like a hundred grand to
Speaker 1: do a different job, or you're do a different bunch
Speaker 1: of different jobs. I know his dad. This is West
Speaker 1: Covina Church. They started forty years ago. The dad lives
Speaker 1: in Newport Beach and they used to just come into
Speaker 1: West Covina and preach and go back to Newport Beach
Speaker 1: some some Devin noonas ship tons of they started doing
Speaker 1: tons of getting tons of plastic surgery. It's a whole thing,
Speaker 1: I know. I mean, the reason why I'm so hyperbout
Speaker 1: it is just I'm so mad they gave it to Dan,
Speaker 1: like I was gonna let it go, and this thirty
Speaker 1: million dollars seems so fishy to me. They're gonna break
Speaker 1: apart the megachurch, and they said they're gonna start a
Speaker 1: bunch of smaller churches, but I just don't see them
Speaker 1: doing so. I want to look this energy. It's like
Speaker 1: it's the kind of it reminds me of when I
Speaker 1: used to be on Facebook and I would see some
Speaker 1: ship about somebody like I kind of halfway fucked with,
Speaker 1: But then you see some up there like this, and
Speaker 1: then I would be like, hold on, come here, sir,
Speaker 1: let me tell you about this person right here on
Speaker 1: my laptop. And they're like I don't know them. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but wait till I tell you about I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, that guy, what something you think
Speaker 1: is underrated? Lazy? I'm I'm in a big Netflix wave
Speaker 1: right now, so you're gonna get a lot of Netflix takes.
Speaker 1: It's catching on now and it's getting popping. But Queen's gambit, Yes,
Speaker 1: I almost didn't watch it because I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: more White Lady TV. And but then I was like,
Speaker 1: I love chess, like I haven't played in years. When
Speaker 1: I was a kid, I would play with my dad,
Speaker 1: and as I grew up, someone said this on Twitter
Speaker 1: and I was like, damn, maybe my dad did scammed me.
Speaker 1: Because my dad taught me how to play chess, and
Speaker 1: then we would play against each other and he always
Speaker 1: be like one of bad and I'm like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: bet twenty dollars. He's like, I bet you watch my
Speaker 1: golf clubs. And I always had to watch his golf clubs.
Speaker 1: I was bad. Yeah, wait, lay, I played with you.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you were playing the same because
Speaker 1: I remember the way you were moving the rook around
Speaker 1: the board. I was like, everything, do everything. That's a
Speaker 1: grand Master. That's the whole grand Master new rule. People
Speaker 1: don't know about the rook candle, which which grand masters
Speaker 1: you study under? Grand Master Flash, Flexive, Freddy. They taught
Speaker 1: me everything. You don't even need a king for real, Like,
Speaker 1: if fact may go down, you can keep playing. I
Speaker 1: don't know who's saying that he still got pieces left
Speaker 1: playing with her? I hate playing with her. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they basically just created a like rock star chess expert
Speaker 1: like that. That's sort of the idea behind the show.
Speaker 1: But I love it because it is does give me
Speaker 1: a second way feminism vibes. But it is like there's
Speaker 1: a moment in the show where the girl is signed
Speaker 1: up for her first competition and the men are like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're not ready for that. What's your rating? Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: She's like, I want to be in that tournament. They're like,
Speaker 1: but nobody ever does that there. She was like, is
Speaker 1: it gets a rose and they were like, no, it's
Speaker 1: put me in their beach. Anyway, I'm gonna take my
Speaker 1: drugs so that's the one thing if you're in recovery
Speaker 1: or yeah, trying to get sober is very triggering because
Speaker 1: she takes drugs that make her better at yes, and
Speaker 1: I won the tournament. Also, like when she gets clean,
Speaker 1: it's not realistic because it's like she goes on a
Speaker 1: full fucking binder for like what seems to be a
Speaker 1: month and then she just gets clean, and it's like
Speaker 1: she would have had withdraw there would have been a
Speaker 1: bad period of like feeling horrible. So like if you, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're dealing with substance abuse issues or just not
Speaker 1: even issues, but like you know, the challenge of the
Speaker 1: quarantine is pushing everybody hard right now. So maybe don't
Speaker 1: watch Queen's Game because that ship makes drugs look fun.
Speaker 1: I was like a chess board on the ceiling. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like that's the way to play. Yeah. Although there is
Speaker 1: somebody who dies of alcoholism, uh or like dies of
Speaker 1: what's the disease that turns your eyes yellow? Yeah yeah, right,
Speaker 1: hepatitis from alcoholism. But they don't like dwell on it.
Speaker 1: They're just like dash sh it, just like moving well.
Speaker 1: But Jacka didn't make me think of the episode that
Speaker 1: we had when we talked about people randomly dying um
Speaker 1: in the Dominican Republic because it was like they were
Speaker 1: on vacation, so they kind of made it like a
Speaker 1: vacation death. We talked about where it's like, oh, you
Speaker 1: have lots of fun and then you die, So y'all
Speaker 1: watch out if you got to do it Thanksgiving, don't
Speaker 1: go too hard on the right. And then when she
Speaker 1: passed away, I would I would now that I know
Speaker 1: what I know that a k now that I read
Speaker 1: one book about the history of the CIA, I would.
Speaker 1: I would assume that she was murdered by the CIA.
Speaker 1: They have a heart, they have a heart. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were just like, she's too she's too powerful. We have
Speaker 1: to take somebody she loves out tertiary option. You got
Speaker 1: to do it undercover, you send in the genitals. It
Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break and we'll come
Speaker 1: right back and we're back. What is something from your
Speaker 1: search history that is revealing, that is embarrassing that you
Speaker 1: don't want us to know about. Well, I don't know
Speaker 1: that I would say it's embarrassing, but um, something that
Speaker 1: I have dedicated a lot of time to researching and
Speaker 1: reading every single comment about is Janet Huber the original
Speaker 1: aunt viv on Fresh Prince of bel Air. They just
Speaker 1: had a re union on I think HBO Max, and
Speaker 1: I remember thinking like, oh my god, are they gonna
Speaker 1: break out Janet Huber. I don't know if y'all watched it,
Speaker 1: but Janet Huber and Will Smith finally buried the hatchet,
Speaker 1: and so I have been doing some deep googling. I
Speaker 1: need to know every every detail of this few to
Speaker 1: remind myself she has held a grudge against him for
Speaker 1: like since the you know nineties, This is this is this,
Speaker 1: this beef has really aged and they realized that was
Speaker 1: still an active beef. Well, they buried the hatchet just
Speaker 1: this week. But it's been like if this beef was
Speaker 1: a child, it will be like twenty years old. I
Speaker 1: will be old. Yeah. Maybe it's like I wonder if,
Speaker 1: like Will Smith is in the reconciling mood because of
Speaker 1: his journey at the Red Table, remember that just like
Speaker 1: just dragged me, you guys, just yeah, I mean it's interesting,
Speaker 1: Like the clip that I saw, she really you know,
Speaker 1: was open about she was like you said, I was
Speaker 1: difficult and that really damaged my career. Like that's not
Speaker 1: a thing that somebody, a star can say about a
Speaker 1: woman of color and not have it like really damage
Speaker 1: her career. And like the fact that's kind of I
Speaker 1: don't know that that's the sort of reconciliation that you
Speaker 1: don't usually get. Usually it's just them being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but we're past it, and like not like actually like
Speaker 1: bringing the the actual damage to the foreground. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to watch the reunion now, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: should definitely watch it. It is. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie. I cried it's it was. And also it's
Speaker 1: like quarantine vibe, so like everything is like hitting up
Speaker 1: at least me. Everything is hitting me emotionally in ways
Speaker 1: that it maybe wouldn't before. But I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I think I was happy to see the conversation take
Speaker 1: that turn of like, well, what does it mean when
Speaker 1: you call a black woman difficult in Hollywood? And actually
Speaker 1: it means a lot. It's not you're not just casually
Speaker 1: doing that. Um. But then also it really got me
Speaker 1: thinking like a lot of us, myself included, like grew
Speaker 1: up on Fresh Prints, like they kind of weirdly even
Speaker 1: though it's a television show and they're fictional, they felt
Speaker 1: like family to me and a lot of ways, and
Speaker 1: watching them reunite now and then talk about Uncle Phil
Speaker 1: who passed away, like you really see, like, oh wow,
Speaker 1: this is like I feel like I grew up with
Speaker 1: them in a kind of way. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: very cheesy, but it was just really hitting me and
Speaker 1: all the emotions that I didn't realize that that was
Speaker 1: the grounds that their feud had been on. I just
Speaker 1: knew that they didn't like each other for some reason.
Speaker 1: I have to watch this. Yeah, you should definitely watch it. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that either. And I applaud her for
Speaker 1: like coming out and you know, be like saying that
Speaker 1: to like one of the biggest, most powerful stars in Hollywood,
Speaker 1: and also him like leaving that in because it is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think people realized a little bit more like the
Speaker 1: depth of what happened there. Yeah, I didn't realize that
Speaker 1: just this is all just from the trailer, but that
Speaker 1: Uncle Phil was like a Shakespearean actor. And after the scene, yeah,
Speaker 1: after the scene where Will was like why what does
Speaker 1: new love me? Or and like Uncle Phil like hugs
Speaker 1: him like he said into his ear. Now that's acting
Speaker 1: that was that's awesome. That was acting. That was so good.
Speaker 1: Not that you say he was a Shakespearean actor. Everything
Speaker 1: about like his voice, his like the way he carries himself.
Speaker 1: That his Shakespearean down that back wall with that voice.
Speaker 1: He really had a presence. And uh. And then Carlton
Speaker 1: when he did the Carlton dance, he walked up to
Speaker 1: and said, that's dancing. That's not true. A couple of scams.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get your thoughts on Lacy scam goddess. Um.
Speaker 1: So there's a new scam where it's kind of a
Speaker 1: two sided scam, a mutually beneficial scam where small countries
Speaker 1: like Cyprus are offering something called citizenship by investment, which
Speaker 1: is where where rich people like donate, you know, hundreds
Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars to the country and can then
Speaker 1: become citizens of that country. And you know, so basically
Speaker 1: citizenship becomes something you can buy as opposed to something
Speaker 1: that has to do with like where you were born. Um.
Speaker 1: And the idea is like this used to be a
Speaker 1: big deal for countries like you know, Pakistan, where that
Speaker 1: might be on like a travel advisory list or some
Speaker 1: ship like that. And now that the US is crumbling.
Speaker 1: Rich people in the US are starting to buy the
Speaker 1: ship up to so that they feel like, first of all,
Speaker 1: they can flee if the taxes get too much, but
Speaker 1: also they can flee once we come for them. Okay, cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start selling passports as well. Yeah, like try
Speaker 1: and find it. It's not on any of these lists,
Speaker 1: so you can go anywhere you want with that. That's
Speaker 1: what you want, is something that's not on the map,
Speaker 1: and it's made of vibranium, so be careful with that.
Speaker 1: The other thing, I mean, they have this in the
Speaker 1: U s too, right, like because you know, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of countries like it's like you spend like
Speaker 1: two million dollars or some ship and then it's like
Speaker 1: all right, well, we'll we'll relax our immigration laws. But
Speaker 1: it's interesting, like in the context especially of the US
Speaker 1: passport being like a fucking scarlet letter in terms of
Speaker 1: trying to travel around the world and like, fuck, bro,
Speaker 1: like I'll drop fucking three million for a Cypress passport
Speaker 1: just so I can go to fucking you know, the
Speaker 1: Argentine wherever the funk people go on these whimsical jets
Speaker 1: center vacations and then one other scam that I hadn't
Speaker 1: really thought about, but people somebody who's like a political
Speaker 1: historian for NBC tweeted the question of like, where will
Speaker 1: President Donald Trump's presidential library be located? Uh? And obviously
Speaker 1: it's the whole whole host of responses. Somebody he created
Speaker 1: a fake website that had like stuff like the right
Speaker 1: auditorium and like just very detailed layout of what his
Speaker 1: uh and like a COVID nineteen victim reflection pond where
Speaker 1: you can reflect on all the victims of that disease.
Speaker 1: It's just a mirror where it has an outline of
Speaker 1: Trump's hair, so when you look at it, you can
Speaker 1: just kind of frame your face with Trump's hair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that in his library, the victim reflection pond is a
Speaker 1: mirror for him. It's not anything. His library probably be
Speaker 1: the most fun of all the presidential libraries, because I
Speaker 1: bet you would be like a bar and a bitch.
Speaker 1: You could probably score some adderall get anything over there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that is so that's something like I had always
Speaker 1: heard of presidential libraries. I knew they were a thing.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize they just happened like starting in the
Speaker 1: twentieth century because FDR like they needed to store his
Speaker 1: presidential papers, like all the papers he left behind, and
Speaker 1: so they were like, yeah, we'll do a library where
Speaker 1: you can like look through all of his ship and
Speaker 1: like from there it ballooned into this thing where now
Speaker 1: it's just like a propaganda it's like a Disney attraction
Speaker 1: that is a propaganda win for like how that president
Speaker 1: wanted to view their own presidency, Like Richard Richard Nixon
Speaker 1: up until a few years ago had like his account
Speaker 1: of the Watergate scandal was a coup perpetrated by his
Speaker 1: rivals um at the Nixon Library um because it like
Speaker 1: the Hater section, it's just like all the c i
Speaker 1: as like yeah, exactly. It's kind of a great scam
Speaker 1: that you just like get to create an entire like
Speaker 1: physical location that is just a propaganda like Disney attraction.
Speaker 1: Like Reagan has a whole air hanger with like the
Speaker 1: Air Force one. Have you been like a bunch of
Speaker 1: the helicopter Now I haven't like a trip you take.
Speaker 1: I remember the thing when I was like seven or
Speaker 1: some ship or some sometime in the nineties, like what
Speaker 1: is this in California? Right? They're so dangerous, it's just
Speaker 1: that's it's a huge issue with American history, is we
Speaker 1: love some propaganda in America. Like I've said it a
Speaker 1: million times, like we rewrite history all the time, and
Speaker 1: it does have an effect on what people see and
Speaker 1: what people think of this country. So it's it's not
Speaker 1: great that Donald Trump's presidential library will probably paint a
Speaker 1: huge difference. I bet you there's no acknowledgement to COVID.
Speaker 1: I bet you just didn't happen. It's like, yeah, now
Speaker 1: that'll be because it already is way more of a
Speaker 1: Donald Trump style like bullshit machine than I had realized.
Speaker 1: Like with the like they even took a Irish pub
Speaker 1: that Ronald and Nancy Reagan had like stopped in and
Speaker 1: had a beer, and they took that and like just
Speaker 1: cart like broke it down, broke the Irish pub down
Speaker 1: in Ireland, put it in boxes, sent it to California
Speaker 1: and rebuilt the pub, and then like put the glasses
Speaker 1: that they drank out of like under like museum glass,
Speaker 1: so you can't touch it. You can just like see it.
Speaker 1: It's very strange. It's like what that What if you
Speaker 1: were a pub owner and one day they just came
Speaker 1: and it's like, look, we actually need this for the
Speaker 1: Presidential library. So y'allly got a pub. No, I'm like
Speaker 1: you needed for what president? This is my fucking pub.
Speaker 1: What then, a you're talking about in there? Like what
Speaker 1: an invisible counter? It's not there anymore. I remember when
Speaker 1: you served that hind the kin to that oh why
Speaker 1: man years? So now we need your business. Who was
Speaker 1: that guy? He did? He did a really offensive Irish
Speaker 1: accent when he was Now come on that that guy.
Speaker 1: Great actor would nail Irish accent, right, But that's also
Speaker 1: a flex when you could like brute force be like
Speaker 1: I want that thing here now, I don't care, like
Speaker 1: break the fucking pub down and create it and ship
Speaker 1: it here and then rebuild it in semi fucking valley.
Speaker 1: Now that we have what is undoubtedly going to be
Speaker 1: our worst ex president in the history of the presidency,
Speaker 1: Like the idea that ex presidents get to be like
Speaker 1: the kid from the toy where he's just like, give
Speaker 1: me that person, bring them here now, uh is pretty
Speaker 1: wild like that and probably going to backfire in the
Speaker 1: way that everything about this dudes presidency has like shown
Speaker 1: the show in America's asked he's gonna be like I want,
Speaker 1: I want an animatronic section like have you like you know,
Speaker 1: historical re enactments, So I want a big version of
Speaker 1: me and I'm fucking ripping Hillary's head off and I'm
Speaker 1: pumping it into the sea like election. Would that surprise you?
Speaker 1: Would that surprise you at all? Then we'll have another
Speaker 1: section with Robert Mueller where I pants him and you
Speaker 1: can see how it's weird his budget is and everyone laughs,
Speaker 1: and then that'll be the Russia Investigation. It's like, I
Speaker 1: feel like he would go that far to just completely
Speaker 1: just be like that was the Russian investigation, you panting
Speaker 1: Robert Mueller and laughing at his weird But it's on
Speaker 1: a plaque. The Hall of Presidents is just him, like
Speaker 1: twenty different times, taking credit for ending slavery and like
Speaker 1: everything other presidents did, just in different is not going
Speaker 1: to be in there any there. Oh no, it's Trump
Speaker 1: and black face. Yeah, yeah, that being the Barack Obama.
Speaker 1: He's been dying to do that. Yeah, thinking me, alright,
Speaker 1: let's take a let's take a quick break, and we'll
Speaker 1: come back and talk about the true meaning of Christmas.
Speaker 1: And we're back and the Rockefeller Christmas Tree, I think
Speaker 1: we all can't agree most important symbol the seasons are changing,
Speaker 1: you know that. It's actually like kind of a wholesome
Speaker 1: origin story that like during the Depression, while the construction
Speaker 1: workers were like building a thirty rock, like, the construction
Speaker 1: workers themselves decided to buy a giant ass Christmas tree
Speaker 1: with their own construction worker money and like put it
Speaker 1: up as a symbol of hope for the city during
Speaker 1: the Great Depression, like when nobody had any money. They
Speaker 1: were just like, nah, fucking let's chip in. We'll decorate
Speaker 1: it with our own like Christmas tree decorations from home. Um.
Speaker 1: So this has been going on for for close to
Speaker 1: a decade or close to a century, And it started
Speaker 1: like with h the actual people as opposed to like
Speaker 1: some corporate sponsor that is, like the first National Bank
Speaker 1: lighting ceremony or whatever. The fuck. It starts off with
Speaker 1: like a sincere gesture from normal beings and the corporations.
Speaker 1: I get out my way, We're gonna brand it. Fuck you,
Speaker 1: there's a new thing. Here's a doll by this Christmas
Speaker 1: for your kids. Um. But anyways, our writer J M.
Speaker 1: I I had talked about the appearance of the this
Speaker 1: year's Rockefeller Christmas Tree. I got on the Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: so appropriate for bro, look at this piece of ship
Speaker 1: Christmas tree, because it did look like ship in the
Speaker 1: pictures people were posting and looked like it just looked
Speaker 1: like the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree, like a giant version
Speaker 1: of the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree, like just you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of branches, a couple of pine needles. But
Speaker 1: that was about it. But apparently that's what it always
Speaker 1: looks like after it's been transported for two days and
Speaker 1: it's just like all bundled up and ship, and so
Speaker 1: it looks like vacation weed. I'm like, are you sure?
Speaker 1: But yeah, I guess. I mean look at the one
Speaker 1: from like it looks like ship. Some arborists on to
Speaker 1: tell us if our our tree ship talking is on
Speaker 1: point or are we missing some nuances Like I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: check out that branch, those branch clusters looking pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I I guess one way to
Speaker 1: interpret it is that like we just don't usually look
Speaker 1: at the tree right when it's hauled out, like without
Speaker 1: any decorations on it for like a sign of the
Speaker 1: year to be like ah, see the whole year is
Speaker 1: fucked a that thing. Look at a tree that was
Speaker 1: all wrapped up and shipped on the right. Um, I
Speaker 1: would never look like that if I was bound and
Speaker 1: laid on a truck for two days. Are you gonna
Speaker 1: Are you gonna get a tree this year? Jack? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going to uh probably this weekend. That's usually when
Speaker 1: we do it. Got my ship up last night. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I bought a fake one for the first time because
Speaker 1: I was like, I A, I like the I love
Speaker 1: a tree, you know, because I love this scent. That's
Speaker 1: really the only reason I get it is just to
Speaker 1: basically a big gass potpourri dish in my home that
Speaker 1: smells like, you know, like a fir tree or whatever
Speaker 1: that is that pine scent. But then like that, when
Speaker 1: the needles start coming off, and I got pets, so
Speaker 1: that should just like start scattering everywhere, and then the
Speaker 1: pets want to drink from the little bowl where the
Speaker 1: fucking tree water is at, and I'm like it's just
Speaker 1: I'm like, fuck it. Let me just get the cheap
Speaker 1: sixty dollar joint that I just have to put in
Speaker 1: a box every year and bring that back. I'm actually
Speaker 1: liking it. It was it was nice. It has the
Speaker 1: nice shape because like to your point, when you buy
Speaker 1: them and like you get them at a tree lot
Speaker 1: and you're not getting the one that's like they're all
Speaker 1: sort of already on stands and stuff. They're like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: let me pull a six fruit from you that's already
Speaker 1: wrapped up. You're like, fuck, is this gonna go? And
Speaker 1: then you actually yeah, and you got like work the
Speaker 1: branches and ship to try him even and sap on
Speaker 1: your hand, and then like papers are sticking to that
Speaker 1: for like three weeks exactly, and then then you're disbarred
Speaker 1: because the judges saying you're making specious legal arguments. It's all.
Speaker 1: It's awful. I think, Uh, I think I don't normally
Speaker 1: like to get I don't have kids. If I have kids,
Speaker 1: then I'm doing all this ship right away. But I
Speaker 1: don't normally like to buy one. But I think I'll
Speaker 1: buy one this year just because I just want I
Speaker 1: like the real one. I even like to think about death, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: so when it's dying, I want to think about that. Plus,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta see my Instagram. You know, I
Speaker 1: gotta take a picture of my girl by a tree.
Speaker 1: She'll love that ship. Oh yeah, yeah, right, yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I'll buy one this year just because we
Speaker 1: have there's there's like we're gonna have nothing. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, like Charlie Willie walk on the check
Speaker 1: when he gets the loaf of bread. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: just the fucking tree. Yeah, just that loaf. But but
Speaker 1: I'm I'm excited. I love the holidays. I didn't used
Speaker 1: to because I came to the church and there's a
Speaker 1: strong streak of like, oh, this is such a bullshit holiday.
Speaker 1: But the older you get, the more anytime you get
Speaker 1: time off of work, anytime you can see your loved ones,
Speaker 1: which just like take time to think about what's good
Speaker 1: about life. Like I'll fucking take that ship now. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it comes eating the secular side of it that like
Speaker 1: you know, we've been celebrating this before Christianity, like just
Speaker 1: as the the day that the earth is trying to
Speaker 1: kill you the most, and we all get inside and
Speaker 1: get drunk and eat a lot of food. And it's actually,
Speaker 1: uh humanities mating season when you look at like how
Speaker 1: the birthdays line up, like this is the time when
Speaker 1: most babies are conceived. So it's I like that. I
Speaker 1: like that side of it. Just people fucking in a
Speaker 1: hot cave exactly, some whiskey milk contraction. You know, we
Speaker 1: have all these dating rituals now, but back then it
Speaker 1: used to be villages and you just just grab the
Speaker 1: closest person like like that's to me, Like, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: just animals, baby, I know we've created all of this,
Speaker 1: but give me that fucking you know. You know, but
Speaker 1: with the lights off, you know, you don't be a
Speaker 1: swim party in the lights. Still respect this. Maybe a
Speaker 1: small fire flickering in the corner, but yeah, I would say,
Speaker 1: you know, like to your point, Steve of like, you know,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna get the same activities that we normally do.
Speaker 1: Like I would love to hit a Christmas market or
Speaker 1: some ship. Shout out to the Vancouver Christmas Market. I
Speaker 1: love that one. But there's like ship that you do
Speaker 1: that's out and about and you're like, oh, let's go
Speaker 1: look at this. Since I can't do that, I am
Speaker 1: fully just trying to transform like my living room into
Speaker 1: like a Hallmark channel, fucking like fever dream because I
Speaker 1: put a I got a wreath, I'll put a wreath
Speaker 1: on my wall inside of the fucking house. Like I'm
Speaker 1: I'm honest, I will be. I'll trust me. On fucking December,
Speaker 1: I will be Karen Gray. I am a year old
Speaker 1: white woman from the San Fernando Valley who does not
Speaker 1: around with the holidays. Like I'm I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: new candles and ship. I'm fully invested on, like getting
Speaker 1: my senses as immersedy map just to make up for
Speaker 1: like the other ship. Yeah, people can't see it, but
Speaker 1: like you spent the you know, you took a few
Speaker 1: days off and came back with an amazing blowout. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Yeah, I got it. Looks like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got the hair transplant because I didn't want to
Speaker 1: wear a wig. As telling you, it just doesn't feel
Speaker 1: the same, So I want to get the transplant. I
Speaker 1: got the you know, can I speak with your manager?
Speaker 1: Kate Goslin edge cut like the edgiest woman in Yuma, Arizona. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just feeling good, you know. Yeah. And then there's
Speaker 1: also the fact that they found like this really cute
Speaker 1: tiny owl in the Christmas tree that they that Rockefeller
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, this year, that's this year. They this
Speaker 1: year is ken bone. Yeah, that's right, is tiny tiny
Speaker 1: owl the Rockefeller the tiny owl uh and was I
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, transported from wherever the tree grew.
Speaker 1: They had to put it in like an animal sanctuary
Speaker 1: because it was dehydrated and like mal nourished, and so
Speaker 1: they gave it a bunch of water and mice. This
Speaker 1: thing is a killer, don't ever forget it. Owls are
Speaker 1: like the greatest hunters. Have you ever seen those videos
Speaker 1: where like they show all the different animals like flying
Speaker 1: and like how much sound they make, and then an
Speaker 1: owl goes and just complete silence stealth. Anyways, this tiny
Speaker 1: cute little owls still eats red blooded animals or those
Speaker 1: like Scandinavian pilot women. Oh the yeah, the um night witches. Right,
Speaker 1: because when they killed the engines and tell the engine
Speaker 1: glide over and just drop bombs, like wow, you shout
Speaker 1: out to the owls throughout history when you come through
Speaker 1: island and you just sucked the whole thing up just
Speaker 1: like drop bombs with their hands out of air. Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: give me another one. Eat that one, all right, that's
Speaker 1: gonna do it. For this week's Weekly Zeite, guys, please
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Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
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