There’s more news and less comprehension today than any historical period that didn’t involve literal witch trials, and trying to stay on top of it all can feel like playing a game of telephone with 30 people, except everyone’s speaking at the same time and like a third of them are openly racist for some reason. From Cracked co-founder Jack O’Brien, THE DAILY ZEITGEIST is stepping into that fray with some of the funniest and smartest comedic and journalistic minds around. Jack and co-host Miles Gray spend up to an hour every weekday sorting through the events and stories driving the headlines, to help you find the signal in the noise, with a few laughs thrown in for free.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-the-daily-zeitgeist-28516718/
episode 3: Trump LOST Lost, Spreader Claus 12.16.20
In episode 780, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Nikki Glaser to discuss Mitch McConnell and Putin both recognizing the Biden victory, Dan Crenshaw's absurd new political ad, Covid fatigue, the Santa super spreader, Kirk Cameron's massive caroling event, and more!
FOOTNOTES:
- McConnell Finally Recognizes Biden Victory, Six Weeks After Election: ‘The Electoral College Has Spoken’
- Putin finally congratulates Biden on US election victory
- WATCH: Georgia...
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Speaker 1
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one, sixty four,
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episode three of The Day Night Nice To production by
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Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a
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deep dive into America share consciousness. It's Wednesday, December days
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until January twenty. If my name is Jack O'Brien, a K,
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I'm Jack on the podcast again. Ah, that is courtesy
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of somebody on the Zeke Gang. They actually gave me
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the arrowsmith uh back in the Saddle, which I had
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never heard before. That song had somehow missed me. I
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will shout you out in a moment, but first, I'm
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thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
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Mr Miles Grass Happy Hollograss Grass as the Miles Gray
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keeps smoking happy Holograss to. I love Andy William I
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gotta tell you his his voice is so white if
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it confidents me, and especially when he's like and what
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fee do with Dickory dock and dog to say it,
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I'm my cock. I love it anyway, that was just
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for me. I'm just trying to do all holiday vibe
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a case straight out. That was that was dice man esque. Hey,
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doc sit on a spider's cock. Oh uh Well, I'm
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glad you brought your A game today, Miles, because you know,
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um my ak was courtesy of official Dickhead. Uh. So
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I'm glad again bringing our A game because we are
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thrilled to be joined in our third seat by something
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we're trying out on our third rate podcast, having a
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first rate guest. It is the hilarious and talented Nikki Glazers.
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Guys for having me. I'm don't call yourselves third rate.
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You're I love the show. You both know. You both know. Um,
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I'm a huge fan, so I'm so excited to be here.
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We're excited. I still don't believe the first time we
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met and you're like, I love this shows like like
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but she knows, she talks like, she actually listens validation
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unlike anything I've had. Oh my gosh, the first time
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I listened, I had to look up so many words
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you used. You guys are so smart. You got added
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to my list of words that I'm like, oh, I
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want to incorporate those more into my my life and
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and I haven't, but um yeah, I just still smarter
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having listened to you. You You guys are hilarious. You get it.
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Anyone listening gets it. So yeah, I'm thrilled at um
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of it. So you're coming to us from the great
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state of Louis. Yeah, my favorite state St. Louis. Yeah,
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I have miles. You were talking about having a little
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bit of a history with St. Louis. I lived in
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Colombia for the first three years of my marriage. Um,
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many many, many miles from any airport. So did a
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lot of spend a lot of time driving driving in Missouri.
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Why were you there for three years of school? Uh?
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My wife was going through medical school. Yes, Columbia is
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not bad. Columbia is a nice little college town. It
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is the definition of college. Yeah. We were like within
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earshot of the football stadium, so you could just like
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ambiently get the the vibes that I never had in
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my college time because we didn't have like a big
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college football team. But yeah, um, decent basketball. That's nice. Yeah, yeah, decent.
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What's the college of that? Missoo, missoo? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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My cousin went there. Yeah. I didn't know that was
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in Colombia. Journalism school. Brad Pitt went there, didn't he.
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I believe that's correct. That is on the on the
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sign when you're entering the University Red pitt One here,
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it's a statue of him like eating an apple, eating
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nacho because he's always eating so good at eating. Man,
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that guy he is. He photographed eating a lot. He
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thinks of any movies. Oh yeah, I guess you're right.
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Any Oceans film fight clubs, like you can. I can
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always picture a moment where he's eating or taking a
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bite of something. Yeah, he's got to work that. That
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chisel jaw actually draws attention to the chisel jaw. I
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noticed it in The Oceans and then I like went
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back and like in Eat Eat Joe Black, uh, Fruitian
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flip but meet Joe Black. He like there's a thing
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where he tries peanut butter for the first time. Like
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I I feel like there are certain people who just
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have things written into their contract that they have to do,
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and eating is like you know, show off the Tom Hanks. Yeah,
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Tom Hanks, we do. We do like talking about Yeah,
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John Cusack likes to be stuck in the rain us. Yeah,
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there's all sorts of Some people say they like Tom
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Hanks has had a career in acting just for easy
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access to doing pe scenes for large cruise one way
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or another. If he hadn't broken into Hollywood. He was
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going to get into the porn game. Because have you
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guys heard about that podcast where he fired a guy
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on on the set of Band of Brothers because he
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had dead eyes? And this guy goes back to the
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podcast is called dead Eyes. I just started listening to it.
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It's hilarious. This guy. It was like, you know, listen
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as like a podcast of the year, and I just
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heard the first episode the other night, but it's called
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dead Eyes. And this guy was like got his first
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act Sin gig Um in Band of Brothers, and he
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was he's American. He was over in London studying theater
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and and acting and he was really struggling to get
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a job over there, and like out of nowhere, Band
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of brother starts casting and it's like he has a
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chance as an American to get get a role, and
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he gets it, and then they take it. He calls
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everybody knows he's so excited to speaking role. Like it's
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not he has like ten lines, but it's huge, you know.
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And and then he gets a call from the casting
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director that says, you have to re audition because Tom
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thinks you have dead eyes and they're not he wasn't
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supposed to find out he had dead eyes. That was
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a note from like the assistant that told him that.
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And he goes in and he has a re audition
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and then he gets fired by Tom Hanks spreading dead
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eyes and he's going back and like investigating it and
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finding out like what happened, and um yeah, and it's
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it's it's really fascinating. That's a whole new level of
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rejection because like that's because that's you're being rejected by
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America's dead. Like here, it's one thing to get her
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acted by your own dad, but by the entire country,
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the world's I don't know if I'm like what I'm
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feeling right now, whether it's at like wait, Tom Hanks
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is capable of bad or also am I putting myself
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in dead eyes position? And I'm like what but I
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can't help my eyes? How can I undead them? Like
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did he come in wild? Extra for the audition was like,
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oh my gosh, Sergeant Baker, Captain Winter's we got it.
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We have to take that hill. That was the curious
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part I was. I was confused as to why he
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didn't talk about his re audition and how he tried
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to make his eyes more lively. I would think that
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that would be something you would move him more, but
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he didn't mention that. And then I googled him, which
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when I was going through my Google searches for you guys,
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I saw his name and I go who is that?
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And I was like, oh, I I google to see
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if he had dead eyes and he kind of does,
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like they're a little bit sociopathic, a little bit like
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just like looking through you, which is not a bad thing.
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He's actually a really great actor, comedic actor, and uh
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he's like a UCB guy and really accomplished. But um
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he he. In fact, I did see what Tom was
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talking about. But I do think that maybe Tom has
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a bad side, you know, like I mean we could
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have never guessed. Yes, Connor rat Liffe, is it okay?
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I mean Tom Hanks is a producer on that show.
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And it's like, on the one hand, it's not great
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that it got back to him because that's very personally
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insulting and something that he can do nothing about. It
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would sound like, but that is kind of his job,
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is if somebody has miscast or like doesn't isn't like
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reading on the screen, like I kind of don't big
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grudge Tom Hanks the ability to fire people for having
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dead eyes, especially because as we as we've discussed, I've
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always said that actually Tom Hanks, but he might have
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had that specifically stuck in his head because he was
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coming off of Polar Express, where the mo cap is
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specifically known for like giving Tom Hanks the deadest eyes
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that any movie character has ever had to go on
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the show. Seriously that, I mean, that's a really good point.
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He said. He walked into the re audition and um
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he and Tom's in there, and he didn't recognize him
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because he looked like ship. He said. He was like,
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he looked terrible and he has just gotten dumb film
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and cast away and so he had lost all this
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weight and you know, he didn't know what he was,
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all skinny and like just like looked homeless for and
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um it just like I have you guys ever found
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out something about yourself that you weren't supposed to know
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like that? Like I try not to hear. I would
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never I'm not one of those people that wants to
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know what people really think about me. I would like
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to in in the world where you know, like I
10:02
talk shit about people. So I assume every people talk
10:06
about me, and it's like it's there, right, I don't.
10:08
It's that whole phrase of like it's none of your
10:10
business what other people think about you. I try to
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like I would I wouldn't be one of those people
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that's like, if you could be invisible for the day,
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what would you do? And I wouldn't like go to
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hear people talking about me? Ever, yeah, not necessarily not
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a good idea, but people like that. It's like a
10:28
thing where like you're not I mean, like when you're
10:30
susceptible to that, Like it shows that you're very like
10:32
you can't live from your inside out, you know, like
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you're living from the outside in. Everything that's happening outside
10:38
of you is actually determining your internal space rather than
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coming from a place like yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
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maybe my mouth is crooked, which is and I'm like,
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but I don't give a funk. That's just that's what
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it is, uh, And I don't care. But at the
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end of the day, like I can't see my own
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fucking mouth, so gives a ship. Yeah that's a good point.
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You can't and we're our reflections Like, ever, what I'm
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just gonna says, is a great mouth, not not crooked
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at all. Had our performance review that you wrote up
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with me fine one bro, he wrote, bro your mouth
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dog dog Yeah, like what I've done the roasts, you know,
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Like that's when you are subject to those those um
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things that you're like, oh, I didn't even know that
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about myself. But people just the writer's room for those
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they just sit and stare at a picture of you
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all day and take it apart and say like the
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worst things possible. And it's really led me to be
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deeply insecure about things that I didn't you know, I
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already have insecurities, and then they find new things and
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um yeah. Like and one that comes back to haunt
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me all the time is like people said I look
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like Owen Wilson, which is I kind of like, I
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get it. And the way you guys just laughed just
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confirmed it's just a photo and really give it a gander,
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like we totally like yeah, we oh yeah, I gotta
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work on an impression of him that would be killer.
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But he has a he's like a feminine looking man,
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so I'll take it. Um, But that one's come back
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to hught me a lot, and I definitely did see it,
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and I was like, oh, you know, I gotta I
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like booked a m an appointments with a plastic surgery
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person after the roast to like go like fix some stuff.
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It was wild. I spent so much money different dumb stuff, uh,
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just to like you know, and then and then they'll
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make fun of you for looking plastic, so it's like
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you can't win. But I did have dead eyes for
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a while. Um, when I I got like botox, that
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really does kill your like that's that's talk about dead eyes.
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And now it's all gone. It's like it's with COVID.
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You can't have any more touch ups. So I feel
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so good, like having my face just like be able
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to move again and back to normal. Because did you
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feel like there was any diminished uh feeling like emotions.
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I've read that that's something that happens where when your
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face is frozen, you're less able to even feel the
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emotions because it's the two way street. Did you that? No,
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you know, I already have a hard time feeling my feeling,
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so I think that I was already just like it
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was probably just felt pretty good on top of that. Yeah,
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but I did cry. I was on Who Wants to
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Be a Millionaire right before the pandemic, like right when
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it happened that week. It was like the one of
13:36
the last things that filmed before everything shut down, and
13:40
I had a lot of botox in my face, and
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I cried on that show, like it's so weird that
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I don't cry, but when the camera was in front
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of me, and it was a real cry. It wasn't
13:50
for the camera, like I accidentally said the wrong answer
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and like I locked in the wrong answer. You know,
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it was between two things, and I was like, it's
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not this. I know it's not this. And then I said,
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you know, be final answer, and it was what I
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was saying was not so everyone knew, like I just
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funked up. And I go and I'm screaming and I
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cry because it's like it was just because I just
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didn't take my time and I just got done telling
14:17
Jimmy Kimmel, the host, that I really want to be
14:20
patient and and think and um, and I was just
14:24
so disappointed myself. So I started crying. And it looks
14:26
like I'm fake crying because my face can't move. It's
14:29
just like a tear falling out of a frozen face.
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And uh, and that's what I was like, You gotta
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get that stuff out of you until until the next roast,
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and that someone makes you feel bad again. By the way,
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Polar expressed two thousand four, Band of Brothers two thousand one,
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So maybe Tom Hanks should have worried about his own
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dead eyes. All right, Nikki, we're going to get to
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know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
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we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things
14:58
we're talking about. Biden won the election, it seems like
15:03
now that that is official. Uh, we'll talk about quiet
15:08
damage being done behind the scenes of the Trump administration. Uh,
15:12
Dan Crenshaw's audition to be one of the Avengers a
15:17
k a A. And also just an absurd political ad
15:22
that he put out one of the Scavengers. Yeah, that's right. Uh,
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COVID fatigue, we'll talk about that. We'll talk about Santa
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Claus getting everybody sick, all of that, plenty more. Might
15:33
even get to Kirk Cameron. But first, Nikky, we like
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to ask our guests, what's something from your search history
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that's revealing about who you are? Um? Okay, well, it
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kind of goes into what we were just talking about. Um,
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I uh, this just an hour ago. I looked up
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Emily Rodazowski Young, which she already is young, but I
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wanted to go younger because she recently posted I don't
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know if you know who that is supermodel. She has
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pregnant now, which like I was happy about because there's
16:05
like always a constant like divt running down her stomach
16:09
that defies science. It's like this line that is just unachievable.
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It's not even an ab and now it's popped out
16:15
because of that baby. But her lips are just so big,
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and I was like, is this what's going on here?
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And then I went back and looked and that pitch
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has always had like a yeah, she's always been good.
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It's not work, and um, I like to do a
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little investigating sometimes, not that I would have any problem
16:32
with it because I've done it too, but UM yeah.
16:35
I looked up that given injection. That's like me when
16:38
I look at bald people who I think, well, dudes
16:41
with hair plugs always like let me let me figure
16:43
this dude out. I'm seeing the wind is not hit
16:46
in the hairline work right, And that's built out of
16:49
my own you know, balding insecurity bullshit. But it takes
16:52
it takes one to no one, and you know, so
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that's why I rely on me from my expert eye.
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That's really interesting that you just said. I've found that
17:00
men are so obsessed with men's hairlines, Like it is
17:04
a thing that men are looking at men's hairlines more
17:07
than women are looking at men in any way. Like
17:11
it's it's it's like the more than you look at
17:13
women's bodies, and like get turned on you guys are
17:16
obsessed with hairlines, which I get, you know, because you're
17:18
obsessed with your own. Um. I recently, I was having
17:22
hair loss during COVID, like a lot of people were,
17:26
and it was just falling out in the shower like crazy,
17:29
and I got I'm getting a treatment I just got today.
17:32
I'm wearing a ball cap right now. I look like
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uh Antifa because I come in all the yea. Oh
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my god, I really do that one's triggering. Um that
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is so good. But I'm wearing it because I just
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got um scalp injections. I'm doing this thing called PRP
17:57
where they like take your blood out and they spin
17:59
around the machine and then they inject into your scalp
18:01
and it's supposed to like stimulate hair growth and it
18:04
might not work. But my friend who had like a
18:06
lot of hair loss did it. And I'm doing it
18:08
and my scalp is like has caked blood all over
18:11
it because I just got like a thousand shots in
18:14
my head. It's intense, dude, and um, and they numb
18:18
your head at first. I went, you get three sessions.
18:21
They numb your head at first, Uh, they by shooting
18:24
stuff into it, and then they do like a hundred
18:27
injections of your blood into your head and it doesn't
18:29
hurt at all, like the the injections don't hurt because
18:31
of the numbing, but you can hear the needle going
18:33
like and so it's like the grossest. So this time
18:39
I brought white noise to plug in and just like
18:42
jam out on some white noise and and I could
18:45
still hear it. It was so gross. But I don't
18:47
all these things. I don't know why I'm doing this anymore,
18:50
Like it's I don't, I don't, but you gotta do
18:53
the three sessions. So um, so that's what I'm doing.
18:56
But look into that if you want. But hair loss
18:59
it is just like it sucks, doesn't It's it's such
19:03
a funny thing, I think because I've talked to like
19:05
my other friends who are like around the same age,
19:07
who like, we will be like, yo, what's what's good
19:09
with your hair? I mean not that we that's all
19:11
we're talking about. But there's always like this refrain of
19:13
like how has science not figured this thing? Like we're
19:18
making so many leaps and bounds, but like more hair
19:21
on head, we're still I don't know, I don't know
19:24
what to do, which is fine because you know, I'd
19:27
rather they make advances and things like tackling terminal illnesses
19:29
and things like that. But you know, like break off
19:32
of your time now that these vaccine scientists got it done,
19:36
like let's put on the bald thing. That's a good point.
19:40
It really is bizarre that there's been nothing, but there
19:43
are guys that didn't have hair and now they have
19:45
great hair. And what is that a transfor? I'm sure
19:48
you looked into it. What what are we dealing with
19:50
their getting getting transplants? You know, Michale's guy. Don't even
19:54
remember when we remember old Jeremy Piven. You know, it's
19:59
always any like because when you actually look back. You're like,
20:02
that's right. I knew that actor was bald. I just
20:03
forgot when I saw them on that sitcom in the
20:06
nineties before they got checked what they look like. So yeah,
20:09
they've aged in reverse. Speaking of shout out to anybody
20:14
with that the strong plugs. Yea, what is something you
20:18
think is underrated? Nikki underrated? Um well, it goes in
20:24
line with what I was just talking about, sleep masks
20:26
and white noise for sleeping. I think that a lot
20:30
of people struggle with sleep. I you know, hear it constantly,
20:34
and if you're not using a sleep mask and you're
20:37
not using a white noise machine, do that before you
20:40
go to ambient or before you go to anything else.
20:43
The thing that keeps you up is like light coming
20:45
in it wakes you up. Or it's the fact that
20:48
there are random noises and you might not even think
20:50
that that's what's doing it, But just try out a
20:53
white noise app it's called white noise. Put on the
20:56
airplane noise boom, crank that up, stick it right next
20:59
to your pillow, and um in a sleep mask, it's
21:02
just like I those are the sleep mask is the
21:05
one those both If you took them from me. I
21:07
don't know how my life would completely go down the drain.
21:13
Just the cover, yeah, just for your eyes. And there's
21:17
different ones because people are like, I can't stand something
21:19
on my face. My mom claims it like, well, you
21:21
can't breathe, but it's just not true. There's there's so
21:24
many different ones that you can use, and it it
21:27
changes the game. And then you get used to these
21:30
things being associated with sleep, and then as soon as
21:33
you put it on, it's almost like a lullaby and
21:36
you fall back asleep because it's like the soothing thing
21:38
that you associate with sleep. Um, which is I guess
21:42
one of the main things that you know, sleep therapists
21:46
recommend is that you need to associate like things with sleep,
21:50
Like your bed should only be for sleep. So if
21:51
you can't sleep, get the get out of bed, go
21:54
in the kitchen until you are ready to close your
21:57
eyes because so and no one's to do that, So
22:00
just get a sleep mask. The light pollution thing is
22:04
big for me because I used to just naturally, like
22:06
at a certain point in the morning, take a second
22:09
pillow and just crushed my face with it. And then
22:12
I remember like I had found like a like a
22:15
gag sleep mask from like a bachelorette party thing like
22:19
my one my partner, I was like, let me, oh, oh,
22:21
he's a sleep mask, and I put it on. I
22:23
had like a sexy kitten on it. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
22:28
I was catching the funk out of those z's though,
22:30
because like it just even that subtle change of like
22:33
where I'm like I could go back to sleep by
22:35
covering my eyes, but having that the whole time really
22:37
was something else. Yes, and even in the dark. I
22:40
will say, even in like a dark room, I if
22:43
I close my eyes, it's still not the same as
22:45
putting on a sleep mask and really getting that like
22:48
deep like I'm in a cave darkness. It's it's essential.
22:52
So um yeah, I just wanted to think of something
22:55
that would maybe benefit your listeners. I feel like there's
22:58
a stigma against sleep masks to like the people you
23:01
see wearing sleep masks and movies are always like fancy people.
23:08
It's a woman in a silk robe drinking vodka rocks.
23:12
I don't know why. Literally five dollars at CVS, like
23:22
everyone can afford this, and I'm glad, like maybe that
23:27
will make people more drawn to it because you'll you're like,
23:30
that's like a fancy thing, but it's it truly is not,
23:32
and it's it's a game changer. Yes, did you say
23:37
that noise syndicator. Yes, yes, you say you're white. Noise
23:42
setting is airplane sound. Yes, it is the sound of
23:46
an airplane cabin. And you can also just pull it
23:50
up on YouTube. There's like ten hour streams of uh,
23:53
like first class airplane cabin. Like that's different. I guess
23:56
that is different. Yeah, it's where you here like like
24:00
metal utensils on like porcelain flatwear versus like plastic trays
24:05
and the poor people's own I hate when you're on
24:09
a plate and like they do like there were about
24:12
to land or whatever and you're in coach and they're like,
24:14
and for people in first class, you can give us
24:17
back your bows headsets. They like they let you know that,
24:20
like the things that you're getting up there that you're
24:23
not in the back. You're like, could you just like
24:25
tell them individually that's kind of just put the speakers
24:29
to that part of the plane of the whole part, right,
24:32
you can do that. And yes, and thank you so
24:34
much for being upstanding citizens and giving people something to
24:37
aspire tors and this is the last call for your
24:40
foot massages and complimentary hand jobs. It's like, wait, what
24:46
what's happening up there? That's all I feel like they
24:51
could just they would make a coach so much better.
24:54
Just warm faced towels, that's all they need. Yeah, that
24:56
is a nice Sometimes I'm like, what am I supposed
24:59
to do with this? But it's I'm never even if
25:03
I just hold it, it's still nice. Yeah, Or doing
25:07
that thing where you keep going to be like how
25:08
much heat we can't take? How much heat will retain?
25:11
And it's got the most out of it? All Right,
25:13
I'm done with What is something you think is overrated? Nikki? Okay?
25:21
The guy on the skateboard drinking Cranberry juice singing Fleetwood
25:25
Macy was I didn't understand it. I watched it again today,
25:29
just like really soak myself in. Like the happiness that
25:32
everyone got from that. I didn't get it. I maybe
25:36
I'm jaded. It brought me no joy. Everyone's like, oh,
25:39
he's like it shows a new appreciation for Fleetwood Mac
25:42
for young people. I go, he's old, he should know
25:45
Fleetwood Mac. He's not doing a good job. Of sinking it,
25:48
which I'm a huge stickler for, especially when it comes
25:50
to music. People on TikTok that can lip sync dialogue,
25:54
I'm very impressed by. If you've ever tried to do it,
25:56
it's actually very very hard. Music is very easy to
25:59
lip syn too. And um, it was unsafe. He wasn't
26:01
wearing a helmet. Um the cranberry juice that's so much sugar,
26:05
and he was on a highway and everything about it
26:08
was annoying. I was not. There's nothing about it that
26:11
made me feel good. Wow. Wow. I the combination of
26:15
the like vibes on a board and uh dreams was cool,
26:20
But I think for me, I also find it a
26:22
little bit overrated, more like the phenomenon around him, because
26:25
he's turned into this weird pond of like corporate you know,
26:30
uh like philanthropy and being like you see, like this
26:34
guy was just himself and now like Ocean Spray bought
26:37
him a truck and he's got this thing and he
26:40
used to work in a potato factory where it's like
26:42
he was destitute. It's like, how about you zoom back
26:44
to the part where he was destitute before all this
26:47
and all the other people who don't have a longboard
26:49
and a TikTok and a bottle spray to get to
26:52
this other place. And I'm just like, we keep doing
26:55
this kind of ship. We're like this poor person made it,
26:58
y'all and it's like fantastic, And we didn't care until
27:03
they had a semi talent or they did something, and
27:07
they always have to have a talent, Like we can't
27:09
just give homeless people credit until they give us something.
27:12
Remember the guy with the golden voice, Like, oh now,
27:15
let's let's help the homeless because he's talented, Like it's
27:20
because you're a human being who's in need, which I
27:23
think that's that is sort of the American sort of
27:26
nightmare that we have, is sort of like it's we
27:28
can't just get to that part of like, oh you're
27:30
in need, Oh well then no questions asked here, let's
27:33
help you. It's like, oh your need, can you fucking
27:36
do a verial hard flip over a tent there? Like
27:39
I don't know, let's exactly we speaking a copy for me? Uh,
27:48
speaking of the American nightmare, Let's take a quick break
27:51
and we'll be right back. And we're back, and uh,
28:06
Mitch mccon Hall. He did it, you guys, he uh
28:10
said the he said reality after five weeks of bang,
28:19
he said, it's real. The thing that has been real
28:22
for five weeks. Yeah, but this seems to have been
28:26
this seems to have been like the mainstream media is
28:29
treating this as like, finally he's really put the nail
28:33
in Trump's coffin. Yeah, he told he told him. I mean, yes, Monday,
28:38
Electoral College certified. We saw the stupid clown show of
28:42
like alternate electors that were showing up to be like,
28:45
I'm here to put my vote down and they're like
28:47
even like the police are like, you're not coming in here.
28:50
You're not this is you're just a weird sovereign citizen thing.
28:53
This makes sense. It's not legal, it's over and so yes,
28:57
the it's certified, it's done and dusted. It's in like
29:00
that though, despite all the malarkey and lawsuits. But yeah,
29:03
McConnell said it himself like a Chinese spy. He said,
29:07
we have a president who will be sworn in on January.
29:10
The Electoral College House spoken. So today I want to
29:13
congratulate President elect Joe Biden. The president elect. There's no
29:17
stranger to the Senate, and he devoted himself to public
29:19
service for many years, so he's already trying to pivot,
29:22
you know, he's are and he said he made nice
29:24
seas with Kamala Harris. It was like, yeah, the fifth down,
29:27
remember that. I thought that was him acknowledging it. Everyone goes, oh,
29:31
he gave her a little pound the first time they
29:35
were back, and everyone's like, oh, that was acknowledging it,
29:38
being like, good job girl, And I'm like, maybe that's
29:40
just how he greets people. Maybe that wasn't a congratulations.
29:43
Mitch McConnell seems like, I don't know what his whole
29:47
swag is about, but yeah, it was. That was one
29:50
of the things that I think most people were waiting
29:52
for because Mitch McConnell this whole time is entertained that,
29:54
well we have to see like all the legal remedies,
29:56
you know, just kind of waiting for this to say.
29:59
I guess he's saying, I respect the sanctity of the
30:02
electoral college. That was clearly the point for him that
30:05
he was going to abandon all this entertaining of Trump's
30:08
conspiracy theories. And even when you go over to Newsmax's
30:13
favorite channel, they're also Chinese spies based on what they're saying.
30:17
What because they said One of their anchors said, quote,
30:20
the Electoral College votes are being cast today. Here is
30:23
video from four states, New York, New Hampshire, Arizona, and Illinois,
30:25
all certifying the election for President elect Joe Biden. And
30:30
then this article describing how they said it. They are
30:33
describing how he was presenting this news on the air,
30:36
said quote. Moments later, Bachman referred to Biden as president
30:40
elected for a second time, confirming there had been no mistake.
30:45
So it's yea, as if like saying at one time
30:50
that I misspoke. I mean, that's that's the world we
30:52
live in that they can say that I was joking. Yeah,
30:56
that was joke. Respect, Mr President, that was just straight joke. Respect.
31:00
And even Vladimir Zadimir Putin has also he is also abandoning.
31:08
He's ghost in his ass to he this is now
31:10
Putin didn't say to himself, it's coming from his office book.
31:13
This is coming from his office in Russia. Quote. Vladimir
31:16
Putin wish the president elect every success and expressed confidence
31:19
at Russian the United States, which bear special responsibility for
31:21
global security stability despite their differences, can truly contribute to
31:24
solving many problems and challenging and challenges that the world
31:28
is currently facing. So even Putin is now like, okay,
31:31
so if you're in the driver's seat, it's yeah. So
31:34
didn't Putin's come before McConnell's. I think, yes, like it
31:40
always happening yesterday, Yeah, exactly, taking his cues from the
31:45
Kremlin again, Um, got him, got him? Does this matter? Like,
31:53
are there people who out there? I guess News Max
31:56
would be the one where this would be the most relevant.
32:00
But like, the main reason Trump is continuing to cast
32:04
out on the election is so that he can maintain
32:08
his legitimacy in the eyes of the people who voted
32:11
for him, right, specifically delegitimized Joe Biden completely. Republicans still
32:22
like believe it was fixed. I mean it's that's not changed, right, Yeah,
32:27
I think it just keep that Like he's just fanning
32:29
the flames to make sure it's like white hot. When January,
32:33
my neighbors still have their Trump flag up, and um,
32:36
and my one neighbors took it down. They had it
32:40
up the whole time, you know, and it was this
32:42
in our and our neighborhood doesn't have like a lot
32:44
of those flags, but these people just moved in and
32:47
they had Trump flag that was said Trump Trump, no
32:53
more bullshit you talking about what do you mean? No more?
32:59
That's that would have maybe made sense in two thousand
33:01
and sixteen to have that slogan, but like this is
33:04
there's been what bullshit? You're the bullshit? Yeah, and it was.
33:10
It was in a neighborhood my sister, like there's little kids.
33:12
It's like more bullshit, and like you know, it's a
33:16
middle class, nicest neighbor suburbs. And so it's weird because
33:20
we would my mom and I go walking the dogs
33:22
and we always walk past this house and we kind
33:24
of just don't want to have to talk to these
33:26
people because we're scared of what we might say or
33:29
you know. And and they're always out in the front
33:31
yard and doing some weird like they're just always out
33:34
and so but and and I was at a point
33:37
for a while where I was like I just I
33:40
don't want to be mean to to people who I
33:42
know voted for, Like I just want to be able
33:44
to smile to my neighbor and just like not have
33:46
it be a thing be the bigger person. So I
33:49
had I had uh resolved myself to be that way.
33:52
I hadn't run into this person yet. So then after
33:55
I like resolved that, I'm on a run and I'm
33:57
running back. This is around Halloween to I'm running back
34:00
past their house and this guy is in the middle
34:03
of the street admiring his Halloween decorations, which are insane,
34:06
you know, just like googles hanging from trees, like just
34:09
with the Trump flag and like there's just blow ups, pumpkins.
34:13
It's just like trashy, like tacky, terrible cobwebs everywhere, and
34:18
he's admiring it from the street and he's taking pictures
34:20
of it, and I'm going to we are the only
34:22
people in the street. I'm going to have to say
34:24
something to this person. I can't just ignore this guy.
34:26
So I'm like, you know what, Nikki, you don't want
34:29
to be mean and you don't want to lie. I
34:30
don't want to be like you're great, I love you,
34:33
or like hi, like I hope you have a happy
34:36
but I want to say something true. Yeah yeah, And
34:39
I didn't love it. So I'm really trying to be honest,
34:42
like I don't want to lie anymore in my life,
34:43
like at all, even with it's like a little like
34:45
white lie. So I was like and I was running,
34:48
and so I slowed down because I'm like, what are
34:49
you going to say to this guy? You have to
34:50
say something more than just and you have to acknowledge
34:53
his decorations because he's proud. I mean, he's taking a picture.
34:55
He just put him up. He's been putting couple day.
34:57
And so you guys, I killed it. I go, I go,
35:01
it looks really scary flag. And I met and he
35:07
goes it does and I go, yeah, terrifying, And I
35:11
just kept running and it was like a nice interaction.
35:14
I was honest. He felt good. It was like I
35:17
was like, oh good, there's there's hope. Um. And then
35:21
but he they took down the flag, but the are
35:23
closer neighbors have not, and they have two, and they
35:25
keep like moving it to different sides of the door,
35:27
and it's just, uh, I wonder when that'll come down though.
35:31
That'll be the real test. Yeah, yeah, that'll that's the
35:34
barometer currently, when when will they relinquish? You have Trump
35:39
flags out in l A in the area there. I
35:42
saw one the other day when I went on Mike
35:43
read they were, they were, they were decked out. It's
35:46
every you know, it's around Yeah, yeah, people don't do
35:50
it their chest. Yeah. So it's not a it's not
35:57
a it's not the best take to have right now.
36:00
Know might make things a little awkward, but yeah, yeah.
36:04
The bumper stickers I always I have like a pathological
36:07
obsession to always like drive up around to see the
36:10
person who has the Trump bumper sticker just be like, god,
36:13
I know they're always smoking with the kids in the backseat.
36:17
I did see a funny thing of like like a
36:20
maga had in a like a dashboard, but it was
36:22
like one of those joke ones. I said, like, made
36:24
you look fuck Trump, okay, because you have a visceral reaction,
36:30
like you see the white text on a red eye,
36:32
like what the funk is it? And I was like, okay,
36:34
all right, but I don't like your piece of shit
36:39
because even if, like say your friend has on one
36:43
of the jokey ones for a moment, you think your
36:46
friends douchebag, right like you, you judge it and then
36:49
it's a joke, but you there's there's something in your
36:52
brain that will always have that because that moment was
36:56
so traumatic, do you know what I mean? Like, that's
36:59
why I don't like pranks. You never let go of
37:01
the fear you had at first before it was like
37:04
a joke. It's a sick zz top logo, isn't it sick?
37:12
I'm like, yeah, but see to me, that's so it
37:14
did it already gid something to me? Right? My most
37:18
signifies took I live with my parents, my mom. We
37:20
had a Biden sign out front for a while, and
37:23
my mom sells stuff on Craigslist, and she had a
37:25
woman coming over to like look at a chair, and
37:28
my mom took down the sign because she's like, I
37:30
just don't want trouble. She was like, if this person
37:32
like won't buy my chair because of this, so it's
37:36
so funny. Yeah, she took it down just in case
37:39
she wanted to sell it a chair to a trump
37:41
ee yeh, she sold that chair. Hey, trumpers by chairs too.
37:45
You know what I mean? Right, as Jordan's said, Uh,
37:49
the hat prank really, because the whole thing with the
37:54
head is that you're making people feel like ambient aggression
37:58
and anger and or you're allowing races people to feel
38:03
like they're supported. Uh, so tell your friend not to
38:07
not to do that. It's not good. He and it
38:11
was a Dune reference too, so it came down real quick.
38:16
And even the signs. I almost got my dad a
38:18
sign that was like, you know, it's like by dawn,
38:21
like by down, and I was like even and it
38:24
had like the yellow hair. I'm like even that, Like
38:26
I don't want to see anything with his name or him.
38:31
I can't. I can't watch him like I I literally
38:34
cannot watch him. And I was really happy about the
38:38
Sarah Cooper thing of her doing those lip syncs, and
38:41
a lot of comedians got mad about her success. And
38:44
you know, oh she got a special because she does
38:46
lip syncs. First of all, like I said before, lip
38:48
syncs are very hard to do, so like I give
38:50
credit for like how does elevating like with her? Like
38:57
with her, No one doesn't like her, they're so spot on.
39:00
I did one the other day of a Kardashian thing
39:02
for TikTok, and it took me like ten hours to
39:05
memorize and then getting it right. I mean, I've never
39:08
spent so much time on fucking anything. It was bad
39:10
because my a d D medicine like kicked in right
39:12
when I started, so I just like it became my obsession.
39:16
It was so hard. So but with Sarah Cooper, that
39:20
for me was really good because I was able to
39:23
hear him for the first time ever because since he
39:27
want I just can't watch him or listen to him,
39:29
And it was the first time I could hear his
39:31
bullshit and like, actually, um, you know, get information that
39:37
I need to be to have and didn't have to
39:39
look at him, So I was I thought that was like, actually,
39:42
like pretty beneficial for me. Yeah. I think it was
39:45
a good public service she was providing for a while
39:47
because like you got the hottest lines and they were
39:50
served up in a very hilarious, palatable way. Yes. Yes,
39:53
And and good on her for having to listen to
39:55
him that much to learn those because when you do
39:57
a lip sync, you gotta listen to it thousands of time. Yeah,
40:02
because music, at least there's a beat and you know
40:05
when certain syllables will hit on the beat. But when
40:09
you're just talking, your cadence is completely different. And that's
40:11
why even like you see people who do like improved
40:13
music to trump where they're like playing drums or guitar
40:16
and you're like Okay, that's not either way. You're you're
40:19
so right. And anyone who doesn't know how hard it, like,
40:22
just try to lip sync to some someone talking. Just
40:26
try it. It's way harder than you think. And anyone
40:29
who can do a good job of it is very talented.
40:34
There you go. Let's let's talk about Dan crunch real quick.
40:39
This video is is too good to pass to. It's
40:47
I don't like, I'm just gonna just subs. Okay, yeah,
40:52
I'm just gonna play. If you haven't seen it, I
40:54
don't know, pause the podcas and just look up fucking
40:57
dick fury. Dan Crunch finds me who he is and
41:03
with him because I just couldn't. He's a he's a
41:07
congressman from Texas, and he rose to prominence when Pete
41:11
Davidson took some shots at him on Weekend Update. And
41:13
then people are like, yo, he has an ipadch he's
41:15
a veteran. Like that's fucked up. You shouldn't just be
41:18
like lobbin insults like that. So he had Dan Crunch.
41:20
He Dan Crunchhaw went on SNL two and then did
41:24
Weekend Update and had some of his own you know,
41:27
riffs and rasberries he was handed out. Uh, and that
41:31
was when people like, oh, wow, this guy can take
41:33
a joke. That's kind of cool, even though everything else
41:36
he says is fucked up, racist, trash. Wow. But he,
41:39
him and Pete Davidson got along. That's how giving another
41:43
one of these guys like kind of right exactly and
41:47
something that It's like he said the N word on
41:50
the error, So I mean, who, let's divorced to his
41:53
actual who he is from what we saw in there,
41:56
So now I don't know what is going on. He either.
41:59
He reminds of like when these dudes who has like
42:01
always had a camcorder and always like making little movies
42:04
and skits and never put them out, because this is
42:06
like some self indulgent, masturbatory, absolute nonsense. He it's I'm
42:12
just gonna describe it starts off with him at a
42:15
press conference and until he's interrupted by a gigantic like
42:21
burly dude whispering in his ear that I'm just gonna
42:24
play this. It's built on the greatest ideas in history.
42:28
This victory tonight, it's about you. It's about finding those
42:32
this guy's whispered in his ear. Sorry, folks, I'll be
42:35
right back so this sets off an entire sequence where
42:39
Dan Crenshaw is being told by a robot that like
42:42
Kamala Harris and the socialists are coming and David Purdue
42:45
and Kelly Lefler must be defended so they can win
42:48
in Georgia. And then it has a little bit of everything.
42:51
There's comedy, there's and there's goofy Antifa guys, um there
42:57
is he jumped out of a fucking plane like some
43:03
fucked up Tom Cruise and full on is doing I
43:07
don't know, I don't know how was to describe this
43:09
except for a terrible commercial and action movie trailer with
43:13
all of the worst fucking tropes and like, but they're
43:16
done in the way where like it's unaware that these
43:18
are overdone tropes and it's like you see that how
43:20
the hero landed on one knee, like from the sky,
43:24
even though that's like a bit that many people have
43:26
been making fun of. I did that, and it's sick
43:28
because then afterwards I punched Antifa through a windshield. Yeah,
43:31
he punches through the windshield. That's very like violent angry. Uh.
43:37
The impert the interpretation of Antifa that we get are
43:42
people just like walking through a field and with like
43:46
black sche masks on and all black hoodies uh and
43:51
a nose ring. And they nail the Antifa ideology by
43:57
having a conversation where one of them goes, don't even
44:00
know why we're mad, and the other one goes because
44:03
the news told us to be uh yeah. And then
44:07
the guys they have playing them are like obviously neck
44:11
beard like mega dudes. They like could be more clearly um.
44:15
And I think the whole thing was so he could
44:20
jump out of the plane and we and and show off.
44:23
This is all is he married? He's trying to get
44:26
laid with this video. It's it's so clear to me
44:28
he's trying to get pussy because when he jumps out
44:31
of the plane, there's like he's talking to a British
44:34
woman who's like giving him his his coordinates and saying
44:38
this Antifa on the ground and she goes, by the way,
44:41
great form, and like he's in the sky and he's
44:44
he does have great sky diving form. But that was
44:47
an unnecessary thing that he had to be like, hey,
44:51
by the way, can we have her say a line
44:53
where she tells me I have great form? It was
44:55
just him showing off that he had good sky diving form.
44:58
That is the whole thing, and um, it's just I
45:02
think it's just a massive attempt to get laid this
45:04
whole thing. His wife, No, he's married. He's been married
45:07
since two thousand to Tara Blake, who he turns the
45:11
speech over to at the beginning, so she's there with him.
45:15
He's like, you got this and then says he'll be
45:19
right back and then proceeds to go on what must
45:21
be a day's long journey. So uh, it really left
45:25
her still think it's a ploy to get late, oh
45:27
for sure, or like at least women. Yeah, sure, sure,
45:33
that's what I mean. But I think that um yeah,
45:36
it was all just to look cool and he wants
45:39
and it took that took so long to make. I mean,
45:42
that was a huge production. And if I was one
45:45
of like if if I what, that's what you're spending
45:49
your time doing. You're not a movie star? What are
45:53
you doing? Like, I just thought it was such a waste.
45:58
That's what I'm doing, you know what I mean. And
46:00
we're talking about it, and so that's why I did
46:02
some sick as stunt work. I mean, he has a
46:05
really interesting life. He's like born in like Aberdeen and
46:08
like went to school and like Colombia. At some point
46:10
he's had a he's this dude is I'm sure he's
46:13
gonna from or sleeping in a contact or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
46:20
no he did. And I think that's why I like,
46:21
I think that's why Pete Davidson that they were like, okay,
46:24
like what do I mean to take? Yeah, and it
46:27
was yeah, very much has been like ha, he has
46:29
an I patch. That's a bit of a misstep. Like
46:33
when people make fun of Trump for being fat or
46:36
for like, oh, he shipped his pants once. I'm just like,
46:40
there's so much more. We don't need to do that.
46:42
But I will say the one thing I got from
46:44
this video that changed my perspective on something is that
46:47
he was wearing a helmet during the skydiving sequence. And
46:51
I've always thought that I could never go skydiving because
46:53
I'm very scared of my face skin stretching out, and
46:57
when you skydive, it's always like pulling back. And that's
46:59
the reason I've never wanted to because I just don't
47:01
want to like mess with, you know, an aging woman.
47:05
And now I'm like, oh, you can skydive and not
47:08
funk up your face skin, and so I'm like excited.
47:11
Suddenly I get to like skydive now, yeah, it's kind
47:14
of a p s A for you. Yeah. Yeah. Have
47:17
you guys ever done skydiving? Have you ever skydive? Oh? No? No,
47:20
I just saw my one friend, uh skydiv and I've
47:23
just seen that thing where like all your snot will
47:26
just drain from your face sometimes depending on how your science.
47:30
A few videos were like it's it's to the point
47:33
where I'm like, why did you buy this video up?
47:37
And it looks like like I don't know what I'm
47:40
seeing and it's unnerving because it's just like stringing out
47:44
of your face and it's like and your and my
47:46
friends a smoker. So it was like flemy and it
47:48
was just like nah, and my mind, skydiving isn't even
47:53
the thrill of jumping out of a plan. I just like, no, dude,
47:55
I don't want to get my snot all over the
47:56
person who was handom jumping. I I've had that same
48:01
thing happened where you're like, like you reminded that you
48:04
have snotted in there. Have you guys gotten a COVID
48:06
test yet? I'm assuming maybe I guess no. Um, they
48:10
put it in and then they take it out and
48:13
they put the same and in the other nostril. They
48:17
double dip and that is the most disgusting feeling of
48:21
having the wet end go into your other like there's
48:23
some reason that's just so gross. And sometimes when I've
48:26
gotten a lot of them and they pull it out
48:29
and there's like a little snack on the like there's
48:32
some sometimes I'm like, oh, I didn't, I didn't. I
48:34
should have blown my nose before this, and they just
48:36
have to like put another like they transfer a booger
48:39
from one end to the other. Um, it's so gross. Yeah,
48:44
but it's so how Yes, sometimes they like they really
48:52
go in and then other times it's like very like
48:55
not that. And I found that when they're doing a
48:57
rapid test when you're about to like a TV show
49:01
like The Day of where they like need you to
49:03
be negative so that they don't shut down, the COVID
49:06
test is like a gentle they just like to like
49:11
it's almost like just like like it's almost like romantic. Um,
49:15
like they're brushing the hair out of your face. Yeah,
49:18
they're actually just touching my face with your finger test
49:21
and it's negative. Okay, So yeah, Nicky is good to
49:24
go to set now, Yeah, exactly. You can get a
49:28
neggie if you want. Yeah, alright, let's take a real
49:34
quick break and we'll come back and talk about COVID
49:36
fatigue and we're back. Uh. And if you're like most Americans,
49:52
you're fast forwarding through this part of the show because
49:55
everybody is apparently tired of paying attention to COVID. According
50:01
to the new Harris poll, um there, you know percent
50:06
say they're doing less than they used to, uh, in
50:10
terms of like washing hands, social distancing um or at
50:16
least that forte percent say they've just come to terms
50:20
with the fact that the pandemic isn't ending soon and
50:22
that's why they're doing less. But people are also you know,
50:27
one fifth of Americans are consuming less COVID related news
50:30
than they were six months ago. Right, yes, exactly, just
50:36
gobb that ship up. Yeah, it's really it is a
50:42
definitely inverted from where we should be, right because we
50:45
now have more evidence than we ever have before that
50:49
this disease kills people and is a danger in these communities,
50:55
and it's purely a matter of our brains being like,
51:00
this is kind of an underrated UH risk to humans
51:05
being able to deal with like a a scary story
51:09
like that. We talked before about how when the Nazis
51:12
first froze up, there was like shocked stories all over
51:15
the newspapers, but like by the time they were actually
51:19
like taking over the country, like it was on the
51:22
back page of the newspaper because nobody everyone was just
51:24
like over it. Basically, the the over it bias is
51:29
pretty uh is an underrated way that we're bad at
51:33
consuming news and just like interacting with our day to
51:36
day life, like we all we can get used to
51:39
fucking anything. It's basically it. Yeah, truly, I mean yeah,
51:44
even like you lockdown, people have found ways to sort
51:47
of find a new normal throughout it all. But yeah,
51:50
that that whole thing of it going the other way,
51:52
the pendulum trying to swing the other way and be like, yeah,
51:54
I don't know, like whether it's cynicism, nihilism, whatever, it's
51:58
it's it's hard to hear, but you can, like you know,
52:01
to your point, I think you were sort of indicating
52:04
and your writing about how if you're not really have
52:07
a direct connection to someone who lost their life due
52:10
to COVID or it's like it's felt like that this
52:13
story has really hit your doorstep that it's even easier
52:16
to you know, wish away all this ship, like, oh well,
52:19
maybe I can go there and hang out here. Maybe wow,
52:22
it needs matthe we just go eat there and blah
52:24
blah blah. But I think, yeah, and all along with
52:27
all of this, like we're seeing that the real big
52:29
spread it comes from these multi generational houses where you know,
52:33
it's just a lot of people living together and people
52:35
having to go out and interact with the world and
52:38
not being able to be as safe as possible. So yeah,
52:41
I don't know what. I don't know what to do
52:42
to get people to, you know, coming just embrace the
52:47
safety measures that we need to take, because yeah, at
52:50
the end of the day, if people just are looking
52:51
at a situation, it's like, I don't know, things are
52:54
just getting more dire and there's less hope. So what
52:57
the how? What the what good is it for me
52:59
to give a fuck me? I feel like it's based
53:04
based on my own experience and like noticing how when
53:06
my parents seem to like really like start carrying a
53:10
lot more, my parents already care and they're convinced it's
53:12
a deadly illness. But even for myself when I read
53:16
something that when I read a story, like when I'm
53:20
just subject to some kind of information that makes it
53:23
real and it's like an actual case study of what
53:27
of it happening. There was this USA Today article about
53:30
how it like ravaged this family in Ohio and it
53:33
like this guy's kind of diary of each day and
53:36
who got it, and it really drove it home. And
53:39
then all of a sudden, because you guys, know, like
53:41
you'll read a headline or here sist and then all
53:43
of a sudden you get like more vigilant and then
53:44
you kind of loosen and even though you believe in it.
53:47
So I think it's just about retweeting these stories, drawing
53:50
more attention to these stories and U and I also
53:54
I feel like, because the vaccine is around the corner,
53:58
it would really suck to get it in this final stretch,
54:01
Like I feel like this is the last mile of
54:02
like a marathon. It's like I really don't want to
54:05
get it before the vaccine. So I feel like I
54:08
hope people shift to that kind of mindset of like, Okay,
54:12
we have a little bit more to go, let's just good.
54:15
They said that this study, this Harris poll, found that
54:18
twenty seven percent of people who said they were being
54:21
more lax now than they were in April cited the
54:24
imminent availability of a vaccine as the reason for being
54:28
more lax, Which that's the opposite with me. Like I canceled.
54:32
I was able to like kind of rationalize canceling my
54:36
parents coming out here for the holidays by being like, look,
54:39
there's light at the end of the tunnel. We'll be
54:41
able to see each other at some point in like
54:44
the new kiss right and kiss kissing you knows kissing
54:52
and hugging. Uh yeah, but that that doesn't make sense
54:56
to me that like that kind of gives it a
54:58
finite and uh that that I don't understand why that
55:02
would make you more lax. It seems like it would
55:04
just be more I I used to have this kind
55:06
of logic with other things when I was younger, and
55:09
the idea is, yeah, it's fucked up, but see, the
55:11
vaccine is out there now, so that's kind of melting
55:14
away the COVID that's out there because the vaccine is
55:17
out there, So then that means it's kind of not
55:19
as bad as I could see before there was no vaccine,
55:22
right now there is, so then that only means it's
55:24
gonna go down. So that means a volume starting to
55:26
come down. And then that's why I can go outside
55:28
and I can go to my Kirk camera and organized Caroline,
55:33
let's talk about the Kirk camera and just generally Christmas
55:37
related activities, Uh, that are not not a great fit
55:43
for this world that we are living in right now. Um.
55:47
I talked on a recent episode like Carol Er showed
55:49
up in my house. Like, first of all, I was
55:52
like I felt like a scrooge because I told them
55:54
to leave, and I used the excuse of my I
55:56
just put the kids to bed. But like after like
56:00
fifteen minutes, I was like, yeah, it wasn't that's when, Yeah,
56:05
time for your time for your nap. Hey, why am
56:11
I on? Get the funk out of here? But it
56:15
occurred to me after the fact, like that is a
56:18
super spreader activity is like going from door to door
56:22
singing into people's homes. Like that's singing is specifically on
56:27
the door, like wet evening it look, if you got
56:32
to the New School version, we were massed up in
56:35
it like maybe fifteen feet away at least I can
56:37
be like, well, at least a're not trying to be
56:38
up in my threshold screaming into my house. But it's
56:42
also entirely popular possible that it was they were doing
56:45
a thing like that horror movie The Strangers, and they
56:47
were just getting access to the house and then going
56:49
to kill us. But um, I like that your mind
56:52
went there. Always say vigilant, always gotta be. Do you
56:54
want to give them to the benefit of the doubt
56:56
that they weren't, you know, anti masks, masks, they were
56:59
just Yeah, they're just just murderers ready to brutalize me
57:04
in my family sleep. Um, but yeah, So I think
57:07
I get what's happening, especially with the holidays like we have.
57:10
This is like the one time I feel like like
57:12
there's this American sentiment of like we have movies that
57:16
are built around this idea that I don't give a
57:18
funk what's in my way, I'm going to be home
57:21
for the holidays. Like it's just a cultural sentiment that
57:25
we have, like Hardwired and all of our shitty movies
57:28
that have to do around this time. Whether it's somebody
57:31
who's like I don't know, I guess I'm gonna have
57:32
to hitch hike with these like jugglers and get to
57:35
Chicago whatever it is. Yeah, like it's always about like
57:40
fuck it, There's nothing's gonna stop me because it's my family.
57:43
And so I understand like this urge especially now, like people,
57:47
the fatigue is there. You want to feel the magic
57:49
of Christmas. But god damn, y'all, do not let your
57:52
fucking guard down, because we have all these instances now
57:55
where the like Santa is just so disarming for bowl
58:00
they're they're actually finding themselves in kind of bad situations. So,
58:04
for example, in Georgia, they said fifty kids may have
58:07
been exposed to COVID when both Mr and Mrs Claus
58:10
tested positive after a local Christmas parade where children could
58:15
have their photos taken with Santa and his wife. And like,
58:19
the local commissioner who put this together was sort of like,
58:22
y'all need to chill, okay, So what he this is
58:25
what he said is quote, well, this is caused for concern.
58:27
I feel that it is important to note that exposures
58:29
happen every day as we go about our day to
58:31
day lives, often without any knowledge. Children are in close
58:34
contact with both other children and adults daily at school,
58:37
wreck functions, and church. Proper CDC exposure guidelines should be
58:41
followed if your child was exposed. However, I do not
58:44
feel this incident is caused for panic. Um. Okay, that
58:49
is a very eloquent defense of just doing the bare
58:53
fucking minimum. Don't just always blame it on something else.
58:57
We're not panicking. We're just criticizing you for a bad
59:00
decision that is going to get people sick. You dumb fuck. Yeah.
59:04
It's like, oh, you're when you call out your uber
59:06
drink like actually, or if anyone are you drunk? Are
59:09
you well, what's the problem this panic? Okay? Yeah? Wow, okay,
59:19
because you could go out there any day, you could
59:21
get hit by a bus and that guy could be drunk,
59:23
and then you might drink something that's bad for you
59:26
and then you'll die. So like, honestly, like just freaking
59:28
play the margins full um. It's a and you're like, okay,
59:33
so on the counter three, we're just rolling out of
59:35
this car, um, and I'm gonna take the black Eyce
59:38
air freshener with me when I leave. But and then
59:40
also in Belgium, a similar thing happened as well. A uh, like,
59:45
I guess in Belgium they have like a more specific
59:47
tradition where like I think December five is a day
59:49
when like there's a specific name for St. Nick in
59:53
Belgium or whatever. Um. And so this man came by
59:56
a nursing home and seventy people at the nursing home
59:59
got to walk go away with their very own infection,
1:00:03
so they don't know. The person who came as Santa
1:00:06
was the child of one of the residents there, and
1:00:09
one of the people who run the the retirement home said,
1:00:14
quote in depth scientific research would be needed to definitively
1:00:17
say whether the visit was the cause of an outbreak. UM.
1:00:20
But the like the city said that sixty one residents
1:00:24
and fourteen staff members have tested positive since this person's visit,
1:00:28
and they were being very conscious of things. So I
1:00:32
don't know what I mean. The holidays in Santa like
1:00:35
be be weary, you know, just try and be as
1:00:38
safe as possible. Be waried. Don't be weary. Just I
1:00:43
mean having your kids sit on a guy's lap and
1:00:45
talk like face. It's just so intimate. That's it's it's
1:00:50
so it's it's the dumbest thing to do ever. It's
1:00:55
just like, I just don't get it. What is wrong
1:00:58
with people? But you gotta have that picture. You've got
1:01:01
to have a picture. Yeah, I loved an excuse not
1:01:04
to sit on a fucking creepy man's lap when I
1:01:06
was We're always we cried as kids. No kids, like
1:01:11
if a kid likes it, that's a weird kid. It's not.
1:01:13
It's something. It's the thing that they had to, like
1:01:15
a phobia they had to conquer. No one wants to
1:01:18
do that. Yeah, don't don't. We all have like shriek
1:01:23
crying with the stranger. We were forced to take a
1:01:26
photo with pictures like you want those pictures Like that's
1:01:29
it's the it's the roller coaster photo before you're able
1:01:33
to tall enough to get on those rides. Right, I'm like,
1:01:36
as a young personal color, like, I'm already going to
1:01:38
be tormented, terrorized by white men. So let's not don't
1:01:40
get me, don't get my licks in at fucking three
1:01:43
please at the fucking Fashion Square mall in Sherman. Please
1:01:46
help me to be fair. Those kids did most of
1:01:48
those kids did as Santa for a ventilator, so they
1:01:54
and the people who were playing Mr. And Mrs Claude.
1:01:56
I mean, you know, your heart goes out to them
1:01:57
because they were saying it's like the most important thing
1:02:01
that they do every year is just able to go
1:02:04
out and give and while I set that and that
1:02:07
is so commendable. But yeah, like, but this is I
1:02:14
feel like one of those things alter people. You know,
1:02:18
you can there are other ways to help out without
1:02:19
being like go to a nursing home and Sana. Oh wait,
1:02:24
maybe I feel like I've seen enough evidence that this
1:02:28
is like one of those things like petting a tiger
1:02:31
that some people just get like so fucking super charged
1:02:37
off of being Santa Claus. Like there's entire like unions
1:02:41
devoted to it, and like uh cons Santa con uh
1:02:46
And I get like that's that's actually a much better
1:02:49
thing to get a thrill from than petting a tiger.
1:02:52
That is like being held captive and treated like shit.
1:02:56
Like that's great that you get joy from spreading you know,
1:03:01
joy two children, but like give it a fucking rest,
1:03:06
like take a take a year off. That's the thing
1:03:09
these people. It's like that's what everyone says. It's like,
1:03:12
but I like it. It's like, okay, well, sorry, that's
1:03:17
not an excuse to do things. It's the wrong thing
1:03:20
to do. You. That's people that say, I just but
1:03:23
I I want to and it's but I love it.
1:03:26
It's like okay, like no, we have to make sacrifices.
1:03:29
It's not an excuse. What is that, mom? This person
1:03:38
said I can't go there right now? What's going on
1:03:42
right now? Like we really are? I mean it is.
1:03:45
There is this whole thing that we see too with
1:03:47
all the anti master stuff. It's just a whole subset
1:03:49
of people who have never been told no in their life,
1:03:52
and it's they found a whole other movement that I
1:03:55
don't know if they've they're aware of it, but that
1:03:57
appeals to them is the can't tell me nothing energy
1:04:01
that these people have of being like, I don't know,
1:04:02
this is America, this is socialism. Anyways. We do want
1:04:06
to get to Kirk Cameron real quick because he's uh,
1:04:11
he's part of the you know, let's do something for
1:04:15
the holidays and own the libs a situation? Yeah, why
1:04:21
you know, why why do this? This the Growing Pains
1:04:23
guy that I only remembers, the Growing Pains guy. Uh,
1:04:27
he is attempting relevance yet again, but this time it's
1:04:32
specifically to troll Governor Gavin Newsom. Now, look, well I
1:04:37
love to troll the funk out of go like Gavin Newsom. Also,
1:04:40
you know, please let me have Kamala Harris's Senate seat
1:04:42
or Diane Feinstein's Gavin Newsom, let's talk, um. This is
1:04:46
a very specific take that they're they're going down this
1:04:49
battle with him that they want to do, which is about,
1:04:52
you know, why are they stopping you know, the congregations
1:04:54
of people just because there's a pandemic that's transmitted through
1:04:58
the air and enclosed spa aces and could lead to death.
1:05:01
I don't understand why they would ask us to do that. Nay,
1:05:05
why would they make this a law or say that
1:05:08
we have to do this. So this dude has been
1:05:11
doing some outdoor caroling. Uh, just like full on meet
1:05:16
me out a parking lot. I'm gonna set up some
1:05:18
p a s and we'll just yell into each other's
1:05:22
mouths in the cold. And he did the like he's
1:05:25
I think the second one happened recently in Thousand Oaks
1:05:28
at the Oaks Mall parking lot, and they were just
1:05:31
the photos were like, yo, this is interesting, Like no
1:05:35
masks and and and singing, um, sure the police were
1:05:41
called in which they just came up, didn't give any
1:05:43
citations and just sort of like you guys should wear
1:05:45
masks and they're like boo, and then they left. So, uh,
1:05:49
this is all again, so camera or Kirk Cameron control
1:05:53
the governor and like like not even giving a funk
1:05:55
about these people. Like sure, he's gonna bait these people
1:05:58
in with the promises of like, hey, get your holiday,
1:06:00
jolly's off with everybody, and like we can sing like
1:06:03
you know, falla la la la and all that ship.
1:06:05
But really he's just doing that behind the scenes. He's like, oh, yeah, man,
1:06:08
this is just a safe yeah right, Oh yeah, I
1:06:12
wear a mask and I will be seventy feet away
1:06:14
looking through binoculars. That's how her camera was experiencing. Yeah,
1:06:19
but try and explain bananas without agreeing with Kirk Cameron's worldview.
1:06:23
Have you ever seen that video of him being like, oh,
1:06:26
you don't think God exists? And then he holds up
1:06:29
a bananas like explain this. It's like, uh wait, so
1:06:38
the logic being like wait, what is that mean? It's
1:06:41
too perfect of a creation for man to have created it,
1:06:46
even though like basically all fruits that we consume these
1:06:51
days have just been genetically modified and like by Man, Yeah,
1:06:55
by Mann, bananas were the size of your pinky finger
1:06:59
before humanity started, just like breeding all the biggest ones together.
1:07:04
And now we don't even have like bananas that like
1:07:07
our our elders used to eat. Yeah, like we've got
1:07:10
like we have like one banana on earth now. Thanks
1:07:14
Kirk Kara, thanks God or God Santo or mon Santo
1:07:18
worerever funk. You are uh shout out to that one
1:07:22
banana doing all that work though, great great food, how well?
1:07:26
I mean, do you think Kirk Camera smoked weed that
1:07:30
feels like a but you look at this banana like
1:07:35
I feel like he smoked weed once and saw God
1:07:39
a guy who smoked weed on I feel like coming
1:07:43
from oh yeah, yeah, he met a white dude, a
1:07:45
white pasture with dreadlocks who's like a Christian like pastor
1:07:49
and he was just like, I don't know if you
1:07:50
thought about a banana, Kirk, like it's it seems like
1:07:53
chaos on the outside and it doesn't make sense, but
1:07:56
when you peel it, it has the vital essences of
1:07:59
things we need, Like has even vitamins and and and
1:08:01
the fibers we need for our bodies, sort of like
1:08:03
Christ's love and salvation. From the outside, it may look
1:08:06
like this one thing, but you really have to engage
1:08:08
with it to understand its nourishment. Kirk Alright, I'm I'm in. Actually,
1:08:15
I'm gonna be at the That was actually good. Yeah,
1:08:21
I'll be there. I'll be a Hillsong with Justin Bieberrow
1:08:23
this Sunday. Where am I white outfit? Yeah? Oh yeah,
1:08:28
because that dude was he said God was like making
1:08:31
him cheat on his wife or some ship at tempted
1:08:34
him and he fell down on the job. Yeah, it
1:08:38
was cool. Glasses Nikki, it's been so great having you.
1:08:43
Where can people find you? Follow you here? You Instagram,
1:08:48
Nikki Glazer g l a scrum Instagram Twitter. That's all
1:08:54
for now, but stuff upcoming and it all on those
1:09:00
things and yeah, and I'll be back on you know,
1:09:04
on the road when everything lifts. And uh, for now,
1:09:08
I have a couple of specials on Netflix and you
1:09:10
can watch those. Is there a tweet some other work
1:09:14
of social media you've been enjoying? Um? I wanted to
1:09:19
share the um I retweeted it yesterday. But have you
1:09:22
guys seen the cameo that Smokey Robinson did or a woman? No?
1:09:27
Go okay, So he is he gets us to do
1:09:33
a cameo for a woman that like used to live
1:09:36
in his neighborhood, like as a kid, and it's really
1:09:39
sweet and he's just saying, like, we go up in
1:09:40
the same neighborhood. That's so great. He goes, I'm being
1:09:43
told that I need to wish you a happy chanuka
1:09:46
and I don't know what that is, but happy chanuoka
1:09:49
to you, and I hope you have a great chanuka.
1:09:52
And it's just the cutest, most sincere thing. But he
1:09:55
definitely had never seen that spelling of of honaka before
1:09:58
and so really heartwarming. But it's it's hilarious. I was
1:10:03
contacted by yourselves, Jeff and Jara, and they wanted me.
1:10:07
They told me that you used to live in Detroit
1:10:08
across street from me, and gosh, that's that's beautiful. Um,
1:10:12
how are you doing again? Nice talking to you again,
1:10:16
I guess, But anyway, you're living in Vancouver now and
1:10:20
they wanted me to wish you happy chanuka. I have
1:10:23
no idea is happy chanuka because they said so anyway,
1:10:30
God bless you, babe, and enjoy Chanuka. Hey, enjoy Chanuka baby.
1:10:35
You know what, Christ loves your baby all right? His
1:10:42
face is so pure, like it's so funny. When do
1:10:45
you see someone be like so sincere and wrong and
1:10:48
you're like, I can't be mad at this, It's so sweet. Miles,
1:10:54
where can people find you? What the tweet you've been enjoying? Oh,
1:10:57
you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles
1:11:03
of Gray and also the other podcast for twenty Day Fiance.
1:11:06
You know, I'm just getting ripped talking about ninety fiance
1:11:08
trying to make sense of things over there. So check
1:11:10
that one out. A tweet that I like, uh is
1:11:14
from Sharene Naz at siro Hero six six six, and
1:11:18
she said, oh, look at the time I have, I
1:11:21
have to go attack and dethrone God because that that
1:11:25
seems to be a very big concern from the evangelical
1:11:29
rights at the moment. Uh. You can find me on
1:11:33
Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. Tweet I've been enjoying is
1:11:40
to meme with a woman, uh making anama. It says
1:11:44
I'm making an omelet, flips omelet, I'm making scrambled eggs. Uh. Oh,
1:11:53
you're trying to make omelets. I'd never have tried because
1:11:56
I've always feared the flip so hard it. Yeah, I'm
1:12:01
out of the habit of I've convinced myself that I
1:12:04
make really great scrambled eggs uh and so that I'm
1:12:10
I'm content just doing that. The secret is a lot
1:12:13
of um. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist.
1:12:19
Were at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have Facebook
1:12:22
fan page on a website, Daily Zeitgeist dot com. Whey
1:12:24
post our episodes and our footnotes where we link off
1:12:29
to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
1:12:31
as well as the song we ride out on miles
1:12:34
What are we riding out on today? Just this L
1:12:37
Michael's Affair album I Love a Lot, and we played
1:12:42
a track called Villa and I think we played another
1:12:45
song from there before, but now I want to add
1:12:49
another song from this album called E N F A
1:12:54
n T and it has again. I love them as
1:12:58
a band. Everybody's tight on their instruments. There's a really
1:13:01
haunting vocal on top and play that, Like, listen to
1:13:06
this whole album and pretend you're in a French indie
1:13:08
film because you will, everything you do will suddenly feel
1:13:11
more artistic. It's a great track and it's just a
1:13:13
good vibe raisor so check this out. It's called phone Phone.
1:13:16
That's what you were listening to when we joined the
1:13:18
call today, when I pulled up my vibes in a
1:13:22
nice place. Al right, Well, The Daily Zeitgeis is a
1:13:27
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1:13:35
going to do it for this morning. We're back this
1:13:37
afternoon to tell you what's trending. We'll talk all then
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