Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome this season two ninety four,
Speaker 1: Episode two of The Daily Zeit guys, this is still
Speaker 1: a production of iHeart Rate. This is still the podcast
Speaker 1: where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness
Speaker 1: and guess what the substitute is in the building. That's
Speaker 1: why you're hearing my voice. And it's Friday, July seventh,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. You're saying, what the fuck is July seventh.
Speaker 1: We'll let me tell you. It's World Chocolate Day. He
Speaker 1: already knew that. It's Global Forgiveness Day. It's National Dive
Speaker 1: Bar Day, National Day of Rock and Roll, National Macaroni Day,
Speaker 1: National Strawberry Sunday Day, National Father Daughter take a Walk Day. Wow,
Speaker 1: What a what a monumental day. My name is Miles
Speaker 1: Gray aka the Beach Curmudgeon aka Sam Pa aka Old
Speaker 1: Man at the Ocean aka the Cold Fart aka Grumpy
Speaker 1: Cold Men aka back in my Gray at the Beach.
Speaker 1: Shout out to CWGBO on Discord, because Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: talking about how man when it's not Sunday at the Beach,
Speaker 1: like I fucking hate the beach. Let's just be real,
Speaker 1: like a fucking cold for what around what sand No,
Speaker 1: thank you, and I'm thrilled to be joined by my
Speaker 1: co host. Look, it's Friday, it's time to bring me. Okay,
Speaker 1: you already know I don't even. I don't really have
Speaker 1: to say much. We know about the bed days, we
Speaker 1: know about the blessed voice, We know about the comedy, acting,
Speaker 1: the writing, the improvising, the podcasting. What more can I
Speaker 1: say except please welcome to the microphone. Mister Jackies.
Speaker 2: You tell me. Oh, that's it, that's it, that's it.
Speaker 2: That's all y'all gonna get. Thought I was gonna gig
Speaker 2: out some Verry White today, Yeah, not today. And he's
Speaker 2: got to save his voice, jack He's got to save
Speaker 2: his voice. You know, man, very white, very white, don't
Speaker 2: get the flowers he deserves. You don't think I need
Speaker 2: the flowers he I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: We don't do We all talk about berry white that much?
Speaker 2: No more? Man, I think like you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have a lot I was. I was.
Speaker 1: I listened to a lot of berry White, especially when
Speaker 1: I realize how much berry White was like sample, oh
Speaker 1: ship like this is this ship goes. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess I don't. I don't evoke Barry White's name as
Speaker 1: much as I could.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the man had a golden voice. He
Speaker 2: had the James Earl Jones voice of music iconic like
Speaker 2: he is of music stars, Vader's music.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we'll give him that one. We'll give him
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 3: You keep telling me this good voice, you can go
Speaker 3: even deeper, go lower, go lower. You keep telling me this, okay,
Speaker 3: me that ship what you preach.
Speaker 1: You probably got a good You probably have a good
Speaker 1: Teddy Pendergrass impersonation t K o.
Speaker 2: Let's let's bring int bring in together.
Speaker 1: Boodoo boodoo boooo. I was like the love TK Okay.
Speaker 1: So before we completely turn this into an old man
Speaker 1: music show, let's take the time to welcome our guest,
Speaker 1: a very talented performer, very talented writer working on shows
Speaker 1: like Corporate, Unbreakable, Kimmy Schmidt or also one of the
Speaker 1: most notable production assistants that come to my mind. As
Speaker 1: a lover of late night television. You might remember from
Speaker 1: the Late Late Show. Please Welcome to the microphone Bridger
Speaker 1: Why agud oh Bridger, Bridger, Oh welcome.
Speaker 4: All I wanted to do is sing in my intro
Speaker 4: and I can't. I simply can't a a tune.
Speaker 1: Also, of course, the host of I said no gifts.
Speaker 1: I just completely dropped the ball there also Fantastic Bridge,
Speaker 1: fantastic podcast. Bridge are welcome, man, how are you doing.
Speaker 4: I'm doing okay, Well, let's be let's be upfront. We
Speaker 4: talked a little bit about this before the show. I
Speaker 4: spent a lot of time very early this morning waiting
Speaker 4: outside of Glendale Hyunday for my boyfriend and then had
Speaker 4: to just drive home because he got a loaner car there.
Speaker 4: So my time was wasted. I mean to Glendale and
Speaker 4: my boyfriend.
Speaker 1: Oh was your boyfriend doing things like I gotta drop
Speaker 1: my car off and then I need you to pick
Speaker 1: me up after I dropped my car off and after
Speaker 1: a long wait, it's never mind. They gave me a.
Speaker 4: Loaner exactly exactly, and he woke me up so early.
Speaker 4: The drive to Glendale Hounday is twelve minutes he drove.
Speaker 4: He woke me up forty five minutes earlier than that.
Speaker 4: So it was it was a situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll do that, Yeah, I'll do that.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna throw this out there, Bridger, you gotta
Speaker 2: break up, will.
Speaker 4: Well, that's the plan. After after we hit stop.
Speaker 2: It's the bridge too far?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, are you? Are you not a morning
Speaker 1: person at all? I'm guessing not at all? Yeah, what
Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 4: It's like kind of the morning now, I mean it's
Speaker 4: almost after me. It's and I'm barely functioning.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, well, thank you so much?
Speaker 2: Can I was both of you a question before we
Speaker 2: get to know Bridge and Moore and before we get
Speaker 2: into the daily sight gist. Guys, Now, my car is
Speaker 2: also in the shop. I have a Volkswagon. It's it's
Speaker 2: still under warranty. Uh, it's in the shop. They can't
Speaker 2: figure out what's wrong with it, right, Uh, Like they
Speaker 2: I took it in for what was going on, and
Speaker 2: they was like, all right, we fixed it, and the
Speaker 2: next day, same shit. I take it back in and
Speaker 2: now they've had it for over a week and a
Speaker 2: half and they like, we keep trying shit and we
Speaker 2: don't know what it is. I have a loaner car too,
Speaker 2: but like, I'm pretty sure that if we keep going
Speaker 2: down this route, my car is gonna be considered a
Speaker 2: limit and they have to give me a brand new car. Right,
Speaker 2: So at this point, should I be rooting for my car?
Speaker 2: To not be fixed.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a How do you like your loaner
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 2: I love my loaner. It's nice. It's an upgrade. It's
Speaker 2: like three years old. My car is a twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: I still have a five year warranty.
Speaker 1: They got twenty one right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Or it's the twenty nineteen. I have a
Speaker 2: five year warranty. They got me into twenty twenty three
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Oh oh well, I mean that might be the universe
Speaker 1: sort of previewing what is to come for you.
Speaker 2: You know, listen, listen, you know, I'm like, let me
Speaker 2: sneak into and break some ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you know my YouTube channel, I'm all about manifesting.
Speaker 1: You know. Obviously it's all about the energy, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So you about to manifest this new car,
Speaker 1: you know, just the jack Key's what I would start
Speaker 1: doing now is close your eyes and when you're in
Speaker 1: that loaner, when you're holding the steering wheel, you say,
Speaker 1: I'm about to be in one of these but as
Speaker 1: a replacement from my car, and watch what happened.
Speaker 2: I am all right, That's what I'm gonna do. Like this,
Speaker 2: we all rooting for the lemons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, root for the lemons, although that kind of sucks.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine. But here's the other thing. Is it
Speaker 1: very easy to get your car replaced when it's deemed
Speaker 1: a lemon or there are probably like infinite loops you
Speaker 1: have to fucking hop through or hoops you have to.
Speaker 2: Apparently apparently because California is oh yeah, freak yeah. The
Speaker 2: California lemon laws go to the consumer, all right, are
Speaker 2: leaning towards the consumer. Like every other law with the
Speaker 2: cars is some gas like or like leans towards like us.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Now I was in Indiana, I'll be like, bruh, fix
Speaker 2: my car?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure they'd be like, hey man, you
Speaker 1: gotta We could squeeze the fuck out of it and
Speaker 1: give you whatever comes out at the end, and you
Speaker 1: could take that, but we won't give you a new car.
Speaker 1: All right, But let's preview a little bit what we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about today with Bridger talking about threads.
Speaker 1: It's out and apparently, as of this recording, thirty million
Speaker 1: people have already signed up to be on the meta
Speaker 1: version of Twitter. So we'll just kind of do a
Speaker 1: light check in with what's going on there and some
Speaker 1: also problems that people have already find began to encounter.
Speaker 1: Then we're going to talk about Donald Trump, whose eldest
Speaker 1: son definitely has never done cocaine, has some thoughts on
Speaker 1: the cocaine at the White House, So we'll kind of
Speaker 1: look at his rant about that. We'll check in with
Speaker 1: QAnon really quick. Remember that guy who said JFK was
Speaker 1: returning and then he had all those people go to Dallas. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a development with him, and we may even talk
Speaker 1: about the biggest movie that came out on the fourth
Speaker 1: of July, in addition to some other fun things. But
Speaker 1: first Ridger we got we'd like to ask our guests,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history that's revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are, what you're into right now.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, I started looking into my search history,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, what's happening with search histories? I think
Speaker 4: because it's automatically typed in so many of the things,
Speaker 4: I'll just hit the first result and it doesn't even
Speaker 4: get logged as a search history. So mine is sparse.
Speaker 4: Mine is so bare. But I do have this recent
Speaker 4: one that says, why is Tingle not in Breath of
Speaker 4: the Wild, which is may make no sense to anyone.
Speaker 4: I'm talking Zelda now, it's I've been talking about Zelda.
Speaker 4: There's an old character in old Zelda games that's kind
Speaker 4: of a gay idiot who is not present in these
Speaker 4: new games.
Speaker 1: And I'm furious, and do we get to the bottom
Speaker 1: of the lack of Tingle's presence.
Speaker 4: There was no real logic, There was no real explanation.
Speaker 2: He could easily be there. There a million characters.
Speaker 1: End. Yeah, Nintendo, hear about going woke and going broke,
Speaker 1: and then maybe that's what they did. They suppressed this character.
Speaker 4: They may be suppressing Tingle. That's a great, great idea. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's I mean, that's my only the only explanation I
Speaker 4: can come up with. So no one has an answer,
Speaker 4: and it's very disappointing for me. Yeah, what a great
Speaker 4: name to Tingle. Have you been playing Tears of the Kingdom?
Speaker 4: I have, And I don't know why I searched Breath
Speaker 4: of the Wild rather than Tears of the Kingdom, but
Speaker 4: I guess it's because I had already played that game
Speaker 4: and it wasn't appearing in this game. And I'm desperate,
Speaker 4: desperate for answers.
Speaker 1: Are you a big Nintendo person or are you all
Speaker 1: kinds all over the place type of gaming person.
Speaker 4: I love video games, but I play like one a year.
Speaker 4: But when I played them, I played them like I've
Speaker 4: been playing myself or not NonStop.
Speaker 2: Yeah. God yeah, I'm kind of like that too, Like
Speaker 2: I'll do like maybe one or two a year. Like
Speaker 2: when I'm in it, I'm in it, Like I replayed
Speaker 2: the Last of Us games when the show was out right,
Speaker 2: and like I was in it. And now I haven't
Speaker 2: turned on a video game since I finish that. But
Speaker 2: when the New Spider Man comes out, I know I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be in that.
Speaker 1: Oh like that one. I already I already told my child.
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know when you use me again.
Speaker 2: When this shit comes, you better get this parent and
Speaker 2: now chit, little boy, this kid has problems.
Speaker 1: Come out the Grand Theft Autos six probably coming on
Speaker 1: a year and a half, so I probably missed the
Speaker 1: development of my child's language skeps and oh yeah. Then
Speaker 1: there's a Star Wars Outlaws game that's like a GTA
Speaker 1: but in the Star Wars world that you could be
Speaker 1: taking spaceships and ship I'm like, sorry, sorry, my people
Speaker 1: need me, and I poof I'm out of here.
Speaker 2: But no, listen, your son got a mom. Your video
Speaker 2: games ain't got a player without you know.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is too like part of me is like,
Speaker 1: I can't put him onto these games already. His brain
Speaker 1: is still developing. I can't rot him on these graphics
Speaker 1: quite yet. But I'm very like, like eagerly awaiting the
Speaker 1: moment where I'm like, see you pick up this controller.
Speaker 1: Now join me in this world of digital escapism. Bridge,
Speaker 1: what's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 4: Overrated? This might require a little explanation, but this has
Speaker 4: occurred to me recently. One shot takes in movies, those
Speaker 4: long shots where there are no cuts from the movie.
Speaker 2: Overrated? I don't care.
Speaker 1: I no longer care. Wow, I love a long runner. Okay,
Speaker 1: but go on, like, what is about it?
Speaker 3: Go on?
Speaker 1: Tell?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, right here, we know it's possible. First of all,
Speaker 4: we've seen it over and over and over. We know,
Speaker 4: and we also there's so many tricks that are being
Speaker 4: played at this point, they're not even one long take.
Speaker 4: This is my theory, This is my new theory. Is
Speaker 4: it's straight men who are afraid to choreograph dances, so
Speaker 4: they need to do something else. That requires all of
Speaker 4: this choreography. It drives me out of my mind.
Speaker 1: Who cares? So Paul Thomas Anderson closeted man? Who is
Speaker 1: not willing to just do an all out dance sequence
Speaker 1: because Boogie Nights full of those things, Like you could
Speaker 1: have just done a dance number. Yes, just give us
Speaker 1: all a fun dance number. Put everybody in a cool costume. Yeah,
Speaker 1: save everybody the grief of having to like go and
Speaker 1: have the camera floating around.
Speaker 2: I'm not impressed.
Speaker 1: What was the movie that was like one long run?
Speaker 1: Was it in nineteen seventeen? Was that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That whole movie?
Speaker 1: Right? Yeah? So for you that was that could have
Speaker 1: been a whole that could have been a dance sequence.
Speaker 1: That could have been a tens and thousands of dance sequences.
Speaker 1: Think of the money we could have had all kinds
Speaker 1: of dance sequences.
Speaker 4: And what have we had? A World War two movie
Speaker 4: that has dance sequences? Or is that World War One?
Speaker 4: Nineteen seventeen?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, World one? Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know they was dancing, They was dancing back then.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they d Let's get a whole dance movie around
Speaker 4: it then?
Speaker 2: Was getting a jiggy let me Okay, so can I
Speaker 2: ask you, then, Bridger, what was because I the last
Speaker 2: one that I the last one shot that I saw
Speaker 2: that stuck out of my mind that I was like, yes, this,
Speaker 2: this was great. Was from Pearl. The movie Pearl, which
Speaker 2: is did you guys so X? The movie X, which
Speaker 2: was like that porn horror slasher movie which was very
Speaker 2: good in Pearl was the prequel to that movie, and
Speaker 2: me a Golf like I said this, anybody would listen.
Speaker 2: I was like, me A Golf should have got nominated
Speaker 2: for her role in Pearl. She fucking went for it
Speaker 2: and it was great. But she rips off like a
Speaker 2: ten minute monologue where she hits every fucking emotion and
Speaker 2: I'm just sitting there riving it. And then at the
Speaker 2: end of the movie she also hits like a four
Speaker 2: minute like at the end of the movie, a four
Speaker 2: minute one shot just like look where she's like going
Speaker 2: through every facial emotion that she could possibly go to
Speaker 2: because she's losing her fucking mind. And I'm like, this
Speaker 2: was beautiful. That's the last one I said. I would.
Speaker 2: I would if you are into it's not scary, It's
Speaker 2: not a scary movie. If you're not into horror, But
Speaker 2: I would be interested to see what you thought about
Speaker 2: Pearl and me a golf's performance.
Speaker 4: But also what you're describing. I mean, I'm basically support
Speaker 4: of what you're talking about, where we're not like people
Speaker 4: aren't moving around and the camera is okay, take.
Speaker 2: You're doing a session ship like the s session ship
Speaker 2: that they did was like we filmed this whole scene
Speaker 2: with no this one ship.
Speaker 1: Like that succession Yeah, oh wow, which one? It was
Speaker 1: lost on me because I'm like, man, this shing so.
Speaker 2: So all right, spoiler. If anybody has not seen a secession,
Speaker 2: I'm letting you know this right now, I'm about to
Speaker 2: spoil something. So pause it and forward like thirty seconds
Speaker 2: to a minute. All right, So have you tube seen it?
Speaker 4: I think I know what you're talking about, but go ahead.
Speaker 2: I'm not remembering it. It's it's when they find out
Speaker 2: a logan Logan dies from the call that they made
Speaker 2: to Basically it was a twenty seven minute like scene
Speaker 2: that was just one like no breaks, one shot. It's
Speaker 2: not like one that play. Yeah, but they but they
Speaker 2: they were using tricks, so they were still using cameras
Speaker 2: and like they had three cameras and they would switch
Speaker 2: the cameras off and stuff like that. But they filmed that.
Speaker 2: Oh one, oh god, they filmed and then they did
Speaker 2: it again, and then and then the funeral was also
Speaker 2: filmed in one take as well.
Speaker 4: I feel like there's and this maybe this is the
Speaker 4: one I was thinking of. Is that party they have
Speaker 4: that the scene ends with Shive and Tom having that
Speaker 4: argument on the balcony where she tells him she doesn't
Speaker 4: like him. That's what I was thinking. But se look,
Speaker 4: we can't even really think of it. These things are
Speaker 4: so wasteful.
Speaker 1: But I think, yeah, Jackies, I think what you're saying
Speaker 1: with in that slasher movie that those long takes are
Speaker 1: more like give let an actor do it real quick,
Speaker 1: like here's a solo. Just let it cook, like I
Speaker 1: think of like in Buffy the Vampire Slayer when Buffy
Speaker 1: comes home realizes that her mom is dead. That's also
Speaker 1: one long take too, and she kills that ship. Shout
Speaker 1: out Sarah Michelle Geller. But yeah, yeah, I see now
Speaker 1: that there are versus like the opening of Snake Eyes,
Speaker 1: which is like this long shot going through a casino,
Speaker 1: and to Bridger's point, it's like you're just doing some
Speaker 1: some homophobic, like mask like masculine choreography is like yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I need you to walk across this way
Speaker 1: with a bag. You're like, yeah, I got that, I
Speaker 1: got that five six walking across with my I agree
Speaker 1: with this. I agree with Bridger on this.
Speaker 2: Bridger you have because if we are if we are different,
Speaker 2: if we are saying there's the difference between just like
Speaker 2: a one shot that is performance based and a one
Speaker 2: shot that's just like technical base. Oh these movements and
Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah. I agree. Like bird Man
Speaker 2: to me was cool, but it was like, okay.
Speaker 4: I'm could have made the same movie without all of that.
Speaker 1: But Bridger, you you've been around physical production is not
Speaker 1: one part of you impressed though to be able to
Speaker 1: pull that off or no, you're just completely not anymore?
Speaker 4: Who cares? And you also we're talking about how stressful
Speaker 4: it is for everybody. Easy on ourselves.
Speaker 1: Let's make it a dance note.
Speaker 2: It is yeah, yeah, have you been have you been
Speaker 2: in like an eight minute scene? But being on an
Speaker 2: eight in an eight minute see without cuts is terrible?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, my my my performance is based to like comedy.
Speaker 1: So I was never doing anything that was beyond me
Speaker 1: wearing a wig or fake vomiting or something.
Speaker 2: Like that, like this theater. I don't want to memorize
Speaker 2: all this ship. I'm looking at my size before you
Speaker 2: call action, like this is.
Speaker 1: Terrible, Richard. What's something you think is underrated?
Speaker 4: Let's say, you know what, listening to albums on repeat?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I think I would pay Spotify five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars extra a month for them to leave the little
Speaker 1: repeat button on.
Speaker 4: Just let me put an album.
Speaker 1: You get good faults to it being on repeat?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because the repeat thing goes off. I listened
Speaker 4: to the album and then suddenly we're getting into whatever
Speaker 4: bullshit Spotify wants me to listen to.
Speaker 2: Just let me listen to the album again.
Speaker 1: Yeah wait, So what what do you got on repeat?
Speaker 4: Everything? What have I been listening to recently? This is embarrassing.
Speaker 4: There's this band, well, it's just a woman. She goes
Speaker 4: under the name of Bully. She has an album called
Speaker 4: Lucky for You.
Speaker 2: That's so good.
Speaker 1: Okay, every song's perfect.
Speaker 4: She's kind of like it's like kind of mid nineties
Speaker 4: all kind of like you know, like fuzzy guitars and yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: like catchy enough, but she's so good and I just
Speaker 4: want to listen to the album over and over. Let
Speaker 4: me and you can, but you have to push the
Speaker 4: stupid button.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree with you. I've said this many times.
Speaker 2: I think like we as a consumer are trash in
Speaker 2: the way we listen to music. Now we move on
Speaker 2: very quickly. Like we used to actually live with albums,
Speaker 2: and we used to I think I probably said it
Speaker 2: on this podcast, Well, we used to live with albums.
Speaker 2: We used to like take our time before we would
Speaker 2: give a rating of an album and like let the
Speaker 2: album marinate and like wash over us and listen to
Speaker 2: it over and over. And now was just like like
Speaker 2: when Kendrick's album came out last year and somebody listened
Speaker 2: to it the first time, it was like, I guess
Speaker 2: I was just wanting to be wild more. I'm like,
Speaker 2: you heard it once, bro, one time, and now you're
Speaker 2: ready to move on, Like it's just we are trying.
Speaker 2: It's us. It's us. We are the pet, don't We're
Speaker 2: the problem with music because it's everything is just so
Speaker 2: accelerate and Spotify and iTunes is what really did it,
Speaker 2: because it's like now we just listen to singles and shit.
Speaker 1: But hey, shout out iTunes for that visualizer though in
Speaker 1: the player, I love the visualizer. Miss the way my
Speaker 1: fifteen year old ass would get so high and listen
Speaker 1: to the Hot Boys remix featuring Nas Lil Kim and
Speaker 1: Missy Elliott, Oh my God, Escobar CB all Bikes. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that whole thing was a moment. Yeah. I felt the
Speaker 1: same way. Like the last time. I remember when this
Speaker 1: Radiohead album in Rainbows came out, like fucking sixteen years ago.
Speaker 1: It was like a pay what you want album, and
Speaker 1: I was like, this shit can't be good giving it
Speaker 1: away for free. I don't know why that was my
Speaker 1: mentality at the time, because I was like twenty two,
Speaker 1: I didn't know shit. And then like I sat down
Speaker 1: with it. My first thing was like I don't I
Speaker 1: don't fuck with this album. And then like I took
Speaker 1: a second and listened to it like all the way through.
Speaker 1: A few times, I'm like, this is this is great,
Speaker 1: This is actually great. It's a beautiful album. Yeah, it's true,
Speaker 1: you do need it. You gotta let it marinate.
Speaker 4: People have forgotten what acquired taste is. Yeah, some things
Speaker 4: take a minute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, because we do like is it is it
Speaker 1: tired or wired for me? You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many times I've listened to
Speaker 2: an album and then like had a song on that
Speaker 2: album that I was like, I don't like this this much.
Speaker 2: And then like a year or two later, like started
Speaker 2: to be like, actually I love this song now is
Speaker 2: like it like fucking like hit my soul.
Speaker 1: Finally, that's how I got into Carli ray Jepson because
Speaker 1: at first I was like, yeah, whatever, Carli rage, I
Speaker 1: know about that shit. Then my like partner, my wife,
Speaker 1: she's telling me about it all the listeners like you
Speaker 1: gotta fuck with she just listen to it, just take
Speaker 1: a listen. And I listened to I'm like, oh, this
Speaker 1: shit is actually good pop music. Like I have my
Speaker 1: first perception of what the music was. And then I
Speaker 1: just had to sit with and I'm like, yeah, run
Speaker 1: away with me. I'm like, yeah, we fuck with it.
Speaker 2: Now she's got something to offer everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, shout out CRJ. All right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll be back to talk about meta
Speaker 1: stepping on the scene of again with an additional, potentially
Speaker 1: toxic social media platform we'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if y'all heard. I don't know
Speaker 1: if y'all are there. I don't know if y'all are
Speaker 1: following me. Please follow me at miles of grays. I
Speaker 1: keep the handles consistent over all the app based applications.
Speaker 1: But Threads has officially launched. The supposedly sanely operated or
Speaker 1: sanely ran version of Twitter, as Mark Zuckerberg called it,
Speaker 1: has launched, but obviously not in the EU because, as
Speaker 1: we discussed in an earlier episode, this this app is
Speaker 1: basically scraping your entire digital soul and giving it to
Speaker 1: advertisers in a nice package. So there's still have some
Speaker 1: privacy data things to get over in the EU. But
Speaker 1: according to Mark Zuckerberg, thirty million people have signed up
Speaker 1: already for Threads. Are y'all on Threads yet?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: I am at? I am at Jackie's nil y'all on
Speaker 2: band from Twitter?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Good? I mean r Twitter? Yeah we're out of here? Yeah, Bridger,
Speaker 1: what about you?
Speaker 4: I signed up for it last night. But this entire
Speaker 4: situation at fit Twitter falling apart felt like the prison
Speaker 4: was on fire and we were all getting it out,
Speaker 4: and it's like we're all now like, well we found
Speaker 4: another person to go to. People are scrambling to trap
Speaker 4: themselves in another thing.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. Yeah, I hate it. I thought we were free.
Speaker 1: No we're not. We've merely just again, We're just always
Speaker 1: gonna just out with the old, in with the new.
Speaker 1: I guess we'll see. But Mark Zuckerberg promoted the app
Speaker 1: by posting on Twitter, which he has not done in
Speaker 1: like a few years now, and he posted the spider
Speaker 1: Man spider Man pointing to each other meme because but
Speaker 1: then part of me is just like, aren't you saying
Speaker 1: it's basically the same fucking thing, right, And in a
Speaker 1: way he's like, yeah, because I will give it to Meta.
Speaker 1: What they do is they rip off apps really well,
Speaker 1: like they know how to rip off a fucking app.
Speaker 1: So I guess they're they're saying, hey, we're gonna We're
Speaker 1: gonna just straight up rip off Twitter, and it seems
Speaker 1: to be working. AOC has said, you know, maybe this
Speaker 1: could be a less toxic version of Twitter. I don't
Speaker 1: know about that, because let's be real, because Meta is
Speaker 1: still a garbage company that regularly ignores documented toxicity violent
Speaker 1: movements transgressive movements whatever you want, like problematic shit that,
Speaker 1: and again promoting trends that are harmful to minors. We
Speaker 1: saw that in the fucking papers about Instagram and like
Speaker 1: mental health for teenagers and shit. And all they do
Speaker 1: is they say, no, no, no, we're all about lying
Speaker 1: going up. So part of me forgive me if I'm like,
Speaker 1: let's not act like this is some kind of completely
Speaker 1: different game. We're just It's like the Ronda Santis versus
Speaker 1: Disney thing. It's like, yeah, this guy is also terrible,
Speaker 1: and this company is also fucking terrible. But I guess
Speaker 1: I give the edge to the company because they aren't
Speaker 1: aggressively discriminating against LGBTQ people, where in this one it's
Speaker 1: like pick your poison. Here. They're both massive social media
Speaker 1: companies that don't give a fuck about what's going on.
Speaker 2: And Mark Zuckerberg is also trash, yeah, and has fight trash.
Speaker 1: He can fight those.
Speaker 2: You don't want to say I said he could fight, though,
Speaker 2: I know maybe.
Speaker 1: He's got that. He's doing like a jiu jitsu fight
Speaker 1: with Elon Musk coming up, Like is he like rips
Speaker 1: now He's kind of doing like this agro trying to capture,
Speaker 1: recapture his masculinity thing, like he wore like a twenty
Speaker 1: pound flag vest and like did like the Navy Seal
Speaker 1: Tribute workout and like was post thing about it. And
Speaker 1: then now he's into Brazilian jiu jitsu.
Speaker 4: If that man was fortant to be Dowey, just be Dowey. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I can't picture him as a tough guy.
Speaker 2: Well, well he's he's a skinny nerd. What Zuckerberg is, Well,
Speaker 2: now he's buffing up. I love it. Let me tell
Speaker 2: you why I love it. Why I love it, Like,
Speaker 2: of course it's gonna be just as toxic. Like yesterday
Speaker 2: I saw Matt Gates on on threads like already Hunter
Speaker 2: Biden should go to jail already. I'm like, all right,
Speaker 2: first block, but like it's it's you know, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be toxic and ship too. But like if one billionaire
Speaker 2: is gonna take down another, you might as well take
Speaker 2: down the one that I'm mad out now. So it's
Speaker 2: just like all right, man, like obviously we don't have
Speaker 2: the power right now to like take these bitches down,
Speaker 2: So like let's like let Zuck maybe take Eli that fight.
Speaker 2: And then and then when Zuck gets like, you know,
Speaker 2: little wobbly, Yeah, little wobbly. Then somebody, let maybe jay
Speaker 2: Z will come in and take them down, like somebody
Speaker 2: will say, we can just keep going like that until
Speaker 2: if we get them all out.
Speaker 1: Till we get one, until we get one giant gazillionaire.
Speaker 3: Who one gazillionaire.
Speaker 2: I can handle that.
Speaker 1: I can handle one gazillion at least at least the
Speaker 1: planet can focus all of its energy just on one
Speaker 1: person at that point and be like, we gotta get Rick,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Versus right now? It's like
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't even get my head started
Speaker 1: spinning when I'm trying to identify the people that are
Speaker 1: the architects of our societal collapse. But anyway, it's also
Speaker 1: again another thing if you've used it, it kind of
Speaker 1: you don't really know if you can, like who's thread
Speaker 1: posters or what do you call them? Threads that you
Speaker 1: can see, like if it's only from accounts you follow,
Speaker 1: like in your instance, unless you follow Matt Gates, they're
Speaker 1: giving you Matt Gates ship. And also a lot of
Speaker 1: people notice if you sign up, don't follow matg So okay,
Speaker 1: that's just popped up.
Speaker 2: I follow it.
Speaker 1: I follow him because I think he has interesting things
Speaker 1: to say that I think a lot of people, if
Speaker 1: they were just a little more open minded, they might,
Speaker 1: you know, see some truth in what he's saying.
Speaker 4: But also makes him absolutely that's what I've been saying
Speaker 4: about Marjorie Tayler gree but nobody wants to listen to ya.
Speaker 1: Finally, thank you you guys. You're slowly watching our right
Speaker 1: word pivot on the show. But the other thing is
Speaker 1: too A lot of people notice that you can't delete
Speaker 1: your account unless you delete your Instagram account. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: like so it's like it's like like they.
Speaker 2: Got signed up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't grow. You can deactivate it or whatever.
Speaker 1: So that's you know whatever. The search function is still
Speaker 1: somewhat glitchy, but again it's the first day and we
Speaker 1: will see where that goes. But again, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people are just you know, when you look
Speaker 1: at it, you're like, is this gonna be much better?
Speaker 1: But I think for now I'm not seeing weird crypto
Speaker 1: ads quite yet, so at least that's a benefit. Or
Speaker 1: when I just type the word crypto, I'm not getting
Speaker 1: hit by a bunch of bots.
Speaker 2: Yet I'm seeing a bunch of posts and ship from
Speaker 2: people that like I've only seen pictures from, you know,
Speaker 2: or I haven't had to hear their thoughts and yeah
Speaker 2: in the past few years and now like so it's
Speaker 2: kind of like, you know, it's kind of like Facebook
Speaker 2: and that, yeah, where I'm like, somebody I went to
Speaker 2: high school with is now just on my ship and
Speaker 2: I have to hear their thoughts about life.
Speaker 1: Like because right there was there's my Twitter self and
Speaker 1: there's my Instagram self and reconciling the two. I think
Speaker 1: maybe a bit of culture shock for some of my
Speaker 1: Instagram people like that don't know who like know me
Speaker 1: from way back or whatever, like you know, miss like
Speaker 1: so many people misinterpret sometimes when I'm posting political things
Speaker 1: and like backwards like conservative takes. You're like, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, okay, but go ahead, you'll you'll find
Speaker 1: some people to fight with h in my mentions anyway.
Speaker 1: Uh so there's thread. We'll keep an eye out on
Speaker 1: that and see where that all goes.
Speaker 2: What was your first post Bridge? Did you have you
Speaker 2: posted yet?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: I just I was like, what is this and then
Speaker 4: immediately closed it. Haven't followed anybody. I can't I can't
Speaker 4: get get dragged into this. Yeah, for you, oh, it
Speaker 4: follows them.
Speaker 1: For you, It.
Speaker 2: Follows a lot of people before you automatically. It follows
Speaker 2: like it follows like your Instagram like following list and shit.
Speaker 4: Right right, I've fed off of Twitter for like two
Speaker 4: and a half years, and I really thought that it
Speaker 4: was over. So I'm just doing doing everything I can
Speaker 4: to avoid this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, just do whatever you have to
Speaker 1: because we have to protect our psyche's at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. So you know, if you want to
Speaker 1: venture into digital swamp town, be our guest. And if not,
Speaker 1: that's all good too. Let's go to another swamp, the
Speaker 1: White House, because they found cocaine there. And we talked
Speaker 1: about this story on Wednesday and we ultimately landed on
Speaker 1: that this is a dumb story that will only have
Speaker 1: you know, that'll only be fun for the conservatives to
Speaker 1: scream about because it has cocaine Biden White House in
Speaker 1: the headline. I mean, if you missed it, there was
Speaker 1: a little baggy of cocaine that was found in the
Speaker 1: White House in a very, as they say, a heavily
Speaker 1: trafficked area, not like in Joe Brandon's bathroom cabinets or
Speaker 1: some shit. At first, it was only a headline because
Speaker 1: they weren't sure if the white powder that was found
Speaker 1: was of the party variety or the chemical warfare variety.
Speaker 1: So a has mad team had to come in, and
Speaker 1: that was news because a has mad team was going
Speaker 1: to the White House soon. The right wing media was
Speaker 1: just saying that this is proof that it was Hunter Biden.
Speaker 1: And you're like, what with connect the dots? So like,
Speaker 1: because he's done cocaine. They're like, but he doesn't live
Speaker 1: at the White House. They're like, it's his and it's
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's too, And that's exactly how Trump's response to
Speaker 1: this story sounded. He posted on Kirklands signature Twitter aka
Speaker 1: truth Social quote does anybody really believe that the cocaine
Speaker 1: found in the swing of the White House, very close
Speaker 1: to the Oval office is for the use of anyone
Speaker 1: other than Hunter and Joe Biden? But watch the fake
Speaker 1: news media will soon start saying that the amount found
Speaker 1: was quote very small and it wasn't really cocaine but
Speaker 1: rather common ground up aspirin, and the story will vanish.
Speaker 1: Has deranged. Jack Smith, the crazy trumpeting special prosecutor, been
Speaker 1: seen in the area of the cocaine. He looks like
Speaker 1: a crackhead to me, Oh okay, so he got it
Speaker 1: all in there. He got it all. He even referenced Leprechno.
Speaker 1: It looked like a crackhead got it all. He's got
Speaker 1: it all in there. Again. I like that, he goes,
Speaker 1: it's just it's is that Does anybody believe that it's
Speaker 1: for anyone's use other than Hunter and Joe Biden? Like
Speaker 1: this is their little coke den that they have in
Speaker 1: the White House that's in a like a heavily trafficked area.
Speaker 4: I would hope that it would have more coke if
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the other thing, like a little baggy. Come
Speaker 1: on now, like did you have the dya be like,
Speaker 1: hey man, we got some bricks. We tested it. This
Speaker 1: ship is base man is Bouro. If you want that
Speaker 1: ship we can. You can smell it through the back.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: But are we I are red to believe that like
Speaker 2: these Republicans ain't also doing coke?
Speaker 1: Like of course out here coked out if Madison, what's
Speaker 1: this guy Madison Cawthorne, the one dude who's in North
Speaker 1: Carolina who got ousted. He was he like his whole
Speaker 1: shit got like, his whole career started getting rocky when
Speaker 1: he was talking about how he knew about like the
Speaker 1: Republicans who do cocaine at the parties and stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I was like, of course, the fucking drugs cut.
Speaker 1: It's an omnidirectional weapon. Everybody getting hit. There's no yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no thing where it's like, oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: a Republican. I don't do cocaine. Yeah, you got demons,
Speaker 1: you're doing cocaine. Like, let's just be fucking real. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so again this was nowhere near the Oval office, but
Speaker 1: we get it. Trump is facing fucking new charges every day,
Speaker 1: it seems like. So this was like a brief moment
Speaker 1: for him to act like he isn't the one that
Speaker 1: seems to be in deep shit and could be like
Speaker 1: they're doing they're doing cocaine and it's their personal cocaine
Speaker 1: that they have. They share their little baggie. They're one,
Speaker 1: they're half a gram, and they get fucking wasted off
Speaker 1: of it. But the thing is, I would say Donald
Speaker 1: Trump would probably know something about, you know, having a
Speaker 1: son who may may or may not be in a
Speaker 1: perpetual state of being snowblind because we've seen Don Junior
Speaker 1: over the years and how many appearances has he done
Speaker 1: with eyes bigger than fucking Pikachu rubbing his nose and
Speaker 1: be like, the thing is the deep State man you
Speaker 1: got there, they're going after my dad and you're like,
Speaker 1: whoa talking at light speed? And I think that's the
Speaker 1: thing that is intriguing to me is that's the idea
Speaker 1: that Trump was saying, that they're gonna say it was
Speaker 1: ground up aspirin and it wasn't that large of amount.
Speaker 1: That sounds like the kind of story you get your
Speaker 1: powerful lawyers to tell when your son gets caught with
Speaker 1: cocaine as like a kid or something and you want
Speaker 1: to get him out of trouble. I'd be like, it's
Speaker 1: just ground up aspirin. It was a very little amount,
Speaker 1: and that I don't know, it's just so specific that
Speaker 1: I'm like, you weird and stupid. You've revealed your you've
Speaker 1: revealed your personal history, that this is something you probably
Speaker 1: have said in defense of your son. Who's because you're like,
Speaker 1: in your mind of a cocaine powerful son. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's ground up aspen, very little amount. Boom.
Speaker 2: Trump improperly when you said that. I was like people
Speaker 2: ground up aspirin. I didn't know that was a thing. No,
Speaker 2: that was I didn't know that was even a possibility
Speaker 2: of a lie. Right, that would be like that would
Speaker 2: be like you know if if like I said some
Speaker 2: ship and I was like, well, man, the sun was
Speaker 2: right on my block. When it like I'm saying impossible ship,
Speaker 2: it is impossible.
Speaker 4: It's one of those lies with like one too many
Speaker 4: you there are lies. I have one too many details,
Speaker 4: And that's when you know it's a lie. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: you just stopped with ground up aspiring.
Speaker 2: You probably could have.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like that's a decent lie. And it wasn't a
Speaker 4: small amount. Why why do you need that detail?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Because that now you're talking. Now you're making like
Speaker 1: legal arguments right to be like what covering possession with
Speaker 1: intent intent to distribute? Because it was a small amount.
Speaker 1: I mean it was only like an ounce of cocaine,
Speaker 1: I mean ground up asprint.
Speaker 2: Do we know? Do we know? Because like spoiler alert,
Speaker 2: the Obamas was smoking weed all the time.
Speaker 1: He is not a drug. But go on with weed.
Speaker 2: It is not a drug. We it's not a drug, right,
Speaker 2: But like, do we know our drug our drugs allowed
Speaker 2: in the White House, like like is.
Speaker 1: There a drug dog like being like yeah, yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: imagine they only I'd imagine they're only trying to catch
Speaker 1: drugs like bomb, but like explosive materials like bumb weed.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so like somebody even on the tour or
Speaker 2: something like That's what I'm saying. Like what like as
Speaker 2: long as you don't have weapons on.
Speaker 1: You, yeah, you're good. Like you can bring cocaine.
Speaker 2: Probably bring like a bag of cocaine in the White House.
Speaker 1: Yes, you could bring back into the White House if
Speaker 1: you need to go in the bathroom and beam up
Speaker 1: really quick before you see the Lincoln bedroom. Then that's
Speaker 1: your fucking right as an American. I mean, you own
Speaker 1: that house anyway with your taxes. So yes, I'm a
Speaker 1: smoke weed in there. I'm gonna do whatever I want.
Speaker 1: My ancestors built that house. Oh I can't do a
Speaker 1: little cocaine in the bathroom.
Speaker 2: I can't do a little cocaine. Well, my great great
Speaker 2: great great great Grandpappy built you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm wild if somebody comes back and claims it's their
Speaker 1: cocaine but they need it.
Speaker 2: Back, Like oh that was actually, my can I get
Speaker 2: that back?
Speaker 4: This is so embarrassing.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is so embarrassing threatening to beat my ass if.
Speaker 1: That rock.
Speaker 6: You don't want my blood on your hands, do you,
Speaker 6: because that's gonna happen. I need to get this baggy back,
Speaker 6: I was saying on the other day when we were
Speaker 6: first talking about the story, like on Wednesday, I bet
Speaker 6: you the person who left it, they probably put it
Speaker 6: together at some point they're.
Speaker 1: Like, oh shit, that's my baggy. I left the fucking
Speaker 1: white old boy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that boy sweating right now. Like I hope they
Speaker 2: don't find my fingerprints on that show.
Speaker 1: I know right exactly. We'll see, We'll see what happens
Speaker 1: with that drag net. But yeah, again, the Trumps and cocaine.
Speaker 1: Who knows? Who knows what's going on there? Although Aubrey
Speaker 1: O Day, who used to date Donald Trump Junior, has
Speaker 1: said herself she's like, yeah, man was on them drugs
Speaker 1: for real, honey.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: First, yeah, I'm never not sweating.
Speaker 1: No, And also like when you do that like kind
Speaker 1: of I'm trying to snort up all the drip without
Speaker 1: you bringing my hands to my face, look like it's
Speaker 1: you sound like a bulldog. Trying to get upstairs or
Speaker 1: some shit. It's it's not a good sound. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back
Speaker 1: to check in with Q andon right after this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we're back.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: I just want to touch on a story that we've
Speaker 1: talked about. We've touched on a lot about a year
Speaker 1: and a half Agoing back in November twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: we were talking about this group of Q and On
Speaker 1: followers that were camped out in Daley Plaza in Dallas
Speaker 1: where JFK was assassin as they awaited the return of
Speaker 1: JFK and JFK Junior, and upon their resurrection, they were
Speaker 1: going to announce Trump as God King or some shit.
Speaker 1: And that was like a huge focal point for a
Speaker 1: lot of Q adherents because that felt like, this is
Speaker 1: the plan is going to come to fruition and we
Speaker 1: got like a whole christ narrative going on. The man
Speaker 1: behind this movement his name is Michael Prottsman, who had
Speaker 1: a knack of like using like weird ass numerology plus
Speaker 1: coincidence to like like really like make these wild Atlantish claims.
Speaker 1: He also had a ton of other wild conspiracy theories
Speaker 1: like how Joe Biden was never actually sworn in as
Speaker 1: president and everything we are seeing in the news is
Speaker 1: actually part of a movie that is being shot in
Speaker 1: Culver City, California. You got very specific, So I guess
Speaker 1: Sony is making it. Yes, it's just that's very like, Oh,
Speaker 1: Culver Seal, that's Sony. Okay, cool, So Sony's behind this
Speaker 1: or that time he was in Dallas. This is the
Speaker 1: wildest part. He was in Dallas, right, The Rolling Stones
Speaker 1: are playing in Dallas, And while all those people were
Speaker 1: camped out waiting for JFK JFK Junior to return, he said, Hey,
Speaker 1: y'all need to get me some tickets so I can
Speaker 1: go see the Rolling Stones concert tonight. They've got They
Speaker 1: paid for his tickets to go see the Rolling Stones
Speaker 1: because he was like, he was saying, like, I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm going to see something when I'm there, not
Speaker 1: just maybe a band. I like that y'all are paying
Speaker 1: for He came back and he claimed at the Rolling
Speaker 1: Stones show that Charlie Watts the drummer, was replaced by
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson, the King of Pop Prince I believe was
Speaker 1: on keyboards. JFK Junior was I don't know, like Mick
Speaker 1: Jagger or something, and Aliyah was doing backup vocals. This
Speaker 1: is he said this ship with a straight face, and
Speaker 1: they're like, listen, man, uh huh, I know that part.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. I wish I lived in
Speaker 2: this man's world because that's a bomb ass.
Speaker 4: We all love that.
Speaker 1: JFK. I don't know what he's doing, that's fine.
Speaker 2: But as long as but we got Mike and press back,
Speaker 2: JFK Jr. Could just go at that point, you could
Speaker 2: throw anybody else the best time.
Speaker 4: A bad tattoo that feels yeah for that tattoo.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Like you have all those people. It's
Speaker 1: like Michael Jackson on drums, Prince not even on guitar, And.
Speaker 2: Then JFK is saying JFK is saying it not Michael Jackson, Prince, No,
Speaker 2: he's on drums.
Speaker 1: He's on drums because he's black. I'm sure that's probably
Speaker 1: the logic. He's like racist logic. He's like Michael Rum,
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson has to be on drums or bass. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Prince triangle, yeah, Prince, he wasn't sure. Maybe
Speaker 1: ethnically so he's like keyboards. I don't know, but here
Speaker 1: we are. But anyway, Batman died Michael Proxman and his
Speaker 1: followers believe it's part of a plan for him to
Speaker 1: return as JFK. Some say he was actually JFK Junior
Speaker 1: in disguise this whole damn time. The Southern Minnesota Coroner's
Speaker 1: Office says he died of blunt force trauma on a
Speaker 1: dirt bike from a dirt bite accident, but they said
Speaker 1: they said he may have been gotten. And it's it's
Speaker 1: a it's a varying, very chaotic time right now, and
Speaker 1: despite his very real death, the conspiracies are only growing
Speaker 1: as his inner circle tries to They're like they're hiding
Speaker 1: the details from like this massive telegram channel that he
Speaker 1: like or was running, being like no, he's like he's
Speaker 1: having brain troublem things like that, and people just were
Speaker 1: like pulld up records like it sounds like he is deceased.
Speaker 1: But this man was responsible for stealing a lot of
Speaker 1: money from his devotees, like many of whom we heard
Speaker 1: countless stories about how many of his followers were abandoning
Speaker 1: their families and even their children while like draining their
Speaker 1: bank accounts to fund this guy's nationwide tour of freaky
Speaker 1: ghost sightings, and it's like caused a lot of issues
Speaker 1: for like, you know, bystanders. But for now, while his
Speaker 1: followers argue over what happened, it looks like other people
Speaker 1: are actively trying to take over the telegram channel to
Speaker 1: try and continue the grift on those questions. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: truly is. And like people are like, I now run
Speaker 1: the negative forty eight and they're like, no, you are
Speaker 1: you surper? So just drama and qu a man. You
Speaker 1: know you hate to see it, you really do.
Speaker 4: First of all, good for him, take those morons money.
Speaker 4: Second of all, this man did not die of blunt
Speaker 4: force drama. He died of dreaming too big. Absolutely the truth.
Speaker 1: Wow, you could run, you could run his channel. Now
Speaker 1: I might be the person in charge. Now yeah, you
Speaker 1: might go on go on to social media. I want
Speaker 1: to join and watch. They're gonna be like Bridger take
Speaker 1: that word. He's a bridge to r Republic, my domination.
Speaker 1: B the second letter, you're like, oh shit, here we go.
Speaker 1: This is how this ship takes off when your confirmation
Speaker 1: bias is said to fucking please melt. Yeah, you can.
Speaker 1: You can make anything reality. So yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: dirtbike accident though, just so you know, he wasn't the
Speaker 1: deep state didn't off him. He he didn't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't have that much evidence, but but you gotta
Speaker 2: feel that could have They could have threw a stick
Speaker 2: in the spokes or some shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or they're going to say something like, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the fuck they're gonna say, like he was
Speaker 1: actually evil Knieval on the bike and he was covering
Speaker 1: for that guy's death. Therefore JFK is him.
Speaker 4: Well, if you're just going a helmet, we don't know
Speaker 4: who was under the helmet, thank you. Come on, okay,
Speaker 4: so think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do some research, do some research folks, okay, and
Speaker 1: then come back at me and creator. But we should
Speaker 1: also talk about, in pretty related news, the biggest movie
Speaker 1: that was at the box office on the fourth of July.
Speaker 1: The biggest movie on the day of the fourth of
Speaker 1: July was Indiana je Oh wait, no Sound of Freedom?
Speaker 1: Have you heard of? The top grossing movie was a
Speaker 1: Christian drama about child traffickings. But just so you know,
Speaker 1: this record is only extends for the actual literal day
Speaker 1: of the fourth of July, So it was going up
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday, and people were watching this really weird film.
Speaker 1: Now you're saying, what the fuck is going on here? Well,
Speaker 1: at least some of the money that went to this
Speaker 1: box office sort of count was due to the studio's
Speaker 1: use of a quote patent pending technology called pay it Forward,
Speaker 1: which quote empowers moviegoers to purchase tickets for other people
Speaker 1: whom they want to see a particular film. So it's
Speaker 1: like getting to It's like getting to the top of
Speaker 1: the New York bestsellers list, you know, the New York
Speaker 1: Times bestsellers list. Just buy seven thousand of your own book, okay,
Speaker 1: and you'll.
Speaker 2: Be for everyone's most annoying family member.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, can you imagine it?
Speaker 4: Like bought you some tickets?
Speaker 1: Oh you're like your wild aunt is like they bought
Speaker 1: me forty tickets to see this movie. Pay it forward
Speaker 1: or not? Pay it forward? Wasn't that movie with Kevin Spacey?
Speaker 1: Was Kevin Spacey and paid?
Speaker 2: What was pay it Forward? I think I don't know
Speaker 2: who that is a movie, but I don't know who
Speaker 2: was in it?
Speaker 1: Who was in it? Yep? It was all right. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Kevin Spacey got his own He's got his own legal
Speaker 1: problems right now.
Speaker 2: It's just so funny that they buy a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of was like, listen the tickets was bald. I can't
Speaker 2: help what I was the only person in the theater.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. But the movie star stars Jim Covitzel who
Speaker 1: who you made from the passion of the Chrizi speaking
Speaker 1: drop an aramaic on you. But he's playing a real guy,
Speaker 1: Tim Ballard, who, according to the film synopsis quote, quits
Speaker 1: his job as a special agent with the US Homeland
Speaker 1: Security Investigations Department in order to become a vigilante who
Speaker 1: hunts down human traffickers. Now, Covizo appeared on Fox News
Speaker 1: and he was like, oh, yeah, this is this movie
Speaker 1: is you know, straight from christ and I just want
Speaker 1: to hear you listen to him. He was like, on
Speaker 1: I guess Laura Ingram show, but Ingram wasn't interviewing him.
Speaker 1: But we'll just hear a little bit about him just
Speaker 1: taking a victory lap over this fantastic triumph of having
Speaker 1: the number one movie. Like in the realm, what's going
Speaker 1: on here? Why is Disney fighting? They're saying the pre
Speaker 1: sales shouldn't come, but they do come. You're the number
Speaker 1: one movie.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, this isn't about them, and it's not about
Speaker 5: Angel Studios putting it out. It's about the children and
Speaker 5: Americans waking up right now, and the only way these
Speaker 5: laws are going to be changed is that if the
Speaker 5: people move right now to save them. This is a
Speaker 5: good versus evil story. This is a battled hero story,
Speaker 5: and I was very blessed that I got the opportunity,
Speaker 5: just as I was blessed to do the Passion of
Speaker 5: the Crisis. This is the best film I've done since
Speaker 5: that film. It is a controversial issue. It shouldn't be
Speaker 5: We should just be naturally wanting to save our children.
Speaker 5: But again there's those out there that want to exploit them.
Speaker 1: So he goes on, He's like, this is not Disney's film.
Speaker 1: We are the people's film, and God's children are no
Speaker 1: longer for sale. Boom hold that l child traffickers.
Speaker 2: But the movie was funny to me, Not to not
Speaker 2: to catch you down, but it's so funny to me that,
Speaker 2: like some of these issues that they've percent, they act
Speaker 2: like people would disagree with exactly. I agree, we shouldn't
Speaker 2: be trafficking children. Yeah, Like, that's not that's not a
Speaker 2: controversial issue, bro, Like, well, yes, that's a pretty common
Speaker 2: fucking issue, Like, oh, that's a pretty common like take
Speaker 2: for the majority of people who don't traffic children.
Speaker 1: Well, this is where this is where, this is where
Speaker 1: we go into q town though, because we know that
Speaker 1: QAnon's whole thing is about quote protecting the children, although
Speaker 1: these people don't know the first fucking thing about human
Speaker 1: trafficking exactly. So the movie was just just just a
Speaker 1: little bit of a q andon if you think about it.
Speaker 1: It was released on America's birthday, starring a conspiracy theorist
Speaker 1: who played Jesus Christ and talks about QAnon all the time. Okay, Ballard,
Speaker 1: the guy who the film is based on, hasn't explicitly
Speaker 1: supported QAnon, although his and his organization now Hold on
Speaker 1: to Your Black but jack Keys Operation Underground Railroad is
Speaker 1: what his fucking organization is called. It even features a
Speaker 1: blurb on their website distancing themselves from quote conspiracy theory groups.
Speaker 1: But Ballard has also claimed that theories like QAnon quote
Speaker 1: have allowed people to open their eyes, So it all
Speaker 1: seems pretty intentional where like where this is all going?
Speaker 1: And Ballard also he's expressed all kinds of transphobic bullshit
Speaker 1: in interviews and even blamed human trafficking on Biden's border policy,
Speaker 1: but his organization. I just want to drill down on
Speaker 1: this for a little bit, Operation Underground Railroad. Despite their
Speaker 1: seemingly noble goals, it's a pretty controversial group for starters.
Speaker 1: They have ignored requests from black activists to change the
Speaker 1: organization's name and like this group has centered black and
Speaker 1: like Latin chill like Latino kids in all the fundraising
Speaker 1: imagery to be like help these poor children of color
Speaker 1: with our underground Railroad of creepy white saviors, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people have raised a lot of questions about
Speaker 1: how this group operates. Like there was this time Ballard
Speaker 1: and his operatives went to a remote village and like
Speaker 1: in the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, in
Speaker 1: search of a missing child that they thought was being trafficked,
Speaker 1: only for the crew to find out that when they
Speaker 1: were there, the tip that led them there was from
Speaker 1: a quote psychic medium from Utah. Bridger, any thoughts I
Speaker 1: believe you're from.
Speaker 4: You, it always comes back to Utah. Everything comes back
Speaker 4: to Utah. From there, I don't I can't have there's
Speaker 4: so much baggage.
Speaker 1: You're not so, but you don't know this. You don't
Speaker 1: know the psychic just.
Speaker 2: I wish I did.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm thrilled for her.
Speaker 1: The other thing is they also exaggerate their successes. So
Speaker 1: one child they claim to have rescued actually just escaped
Speaker 1: by herself, and their partnerships with like local law enforcement
Speaker 1: often amount like what they do is they give local
Speaker 1: law enforcement just a donation in exchange for credit in
Speaker 1: press releases to be like, yeah, and we did that
Speaker 1: with our partners operations underground railroad, which they deny up
Speaker 1: and down, although there's a very there's like recorded evidence
Speaker 1: that this is how they operate, and even when their
Speaker 1: missions are successful, they may still be doing significant harm.
Speaker 1: Ballard he mounts sting operations posing as a wealthy pedophile
Speaker 1: looking to buy children for quote large amounts of cash,
Speaker 1: which critics and experts are just like, you're just provoking
Speaker 1: the very behavior that the group is ostensibly attempting to
Speaker 1: cur Like many trafficking experts, they say, Okay, this is dramatic,
Speaker 1: but quote such operations fail to address the complex social
Speaker 1: and economic problems that create the conditions for trafficking because they're.
Speaker 4: Just like the worst cost playing I can possibly imagine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh hell no, I'm a wealthy pedophile.
Speaker 2: Looking for.
Speaker 1: One writer recounted like a sting operation that she was
Speaker 1: asked to participate in which featured a camera crew because
Speaker 1: Ballard was making a pilot for a fucking reality show,
Speaker 1: and like all other like child like trafficking expert was
Speaker 1: just like, this is quote just likely another childhood trauma
Speaker 1: for the victims he was trying to help. So very messy.
Speaker 1: And the studio that put the movie out, Angel Studios.
Speaker 1: They they made their like initial business of like editing
Speaker 1: mainstream movies to be like Christian friendly, uh, and then
Speaker 1: they got sued because they're like, you can't just edit
Speaker 1: these movies and themself.
Speaker 4: Wait, is this another Utah thing they maybe do?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Angel Studios there was.
Speaker 4: A Utah thing like this where they would edit videos
Speaker 4: and then they ended up getting sued into into oblivion
Speaker 4: and they would like sell burned DVDs of movies with
Speaker 4: stuff cut out of them.
Speaker 2: They look, we let's like what stuff they didn't want
Speaker 2: in them?
Speaker 1: Exactly?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so funny.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know it provo Utah baby of course.
Speaker 1: So you already knew you already. It used to be
Speaker 1: called vid Angel. Yeah, I know. I'm like, I'm like,
Speaker 1: is this I don't know? Yeah, you never know, you
Speaker 1: never know. And lightly, let's lastly, let's just touch on
Speaker 1: some some like cringey shit justin Trudeau. Okay, So Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift's Era tours, Era's tour doesn't have any Canadian dates.
Speaker 1: A lot of people like, bru, when are you coming
Speaker 1: up to Canada? What the fuck? Like we fuck with
Speaker 1: you up North Canadians? Are you know the Swifties up there?
Speaker 1: They're a little disappointed there, a little angry. Last month,
Speaker 1: a Conservative member of parliament filed a quote official grievance
Speaker 1: over Swift's reticence to bring her show across the border,
Speaker 1: and not because they were a fan, but due to
Speaker 1: just quote the economic opportunities her shows generate. And the
Speaker 1: quote unquote grievance was supported by other politicians who claimed
Speaker 1: to have like no idea how any of this works,
Speaker 1: probably because there is no official government protocol for complaining
Speaker 1: about a pop stars touring schedule. But here they go.
Speaker 1: They're trying. A lot of people say, there's probably a
Speaker 1: few reasons why Taylor wouldn't take her tour to Canada,
Speaker 1: won the capacity of the stadiums a little bit smaller,
Speaker 1: and we know Taylor's a capitalist baby that week Canadian
Speaker 1: dollar would likely mean hiking ticket prices even higher to
Speaker 1: match like what the fucking take in is and some
Speaker 1: of these other venues that she goes to. But just
Speaker 1: when you thought things couldn't get even weirder, U, I
Speaker 1: just got to say, just in true. So Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: posted like additional dates of the tour and without like
Speaker 1: any Canadian dates, and Justin Trudeau tweeted like referencing her songs, tweeted,
Speaker 1: it's me, Hi, I know places in Canada would love
Speaker 1: to have you, so don't make it another cruel summer.
Speaker 1: We hope to see you soon.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, I was on Canada's side for a minute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, horrifying. Yeah, but hey, you know, just get hey,
Speaker 1: get your dollar up. You know that's just the work,
Speaker 1: you dollar, get your dollar up, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll be there.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Carly ray Jepson, just she's a Canadian. Have
Speaker 4: her come do some tours?
Speaker 1: Yeah, shit, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: Listen, you know, look, I I I appreciate like listen.
Speaker 2: There's presidents here that would be like, you know what, yeah,
Speaker 2: we got all these issues, but so and so got
Speaker 2: to come back on tour, baby, Like, that's that's one
Speaker 2: issue that I'd be like, you know what, this man
Speaker 2: is for the people. This person is for the people.
Speaker 2: You know. He was like, Beyonce, you got to get
Speaker 2: them ticket prices down. I'll vote for that president in
Speaker 2: a minute. In a minute.
Speaker 1: Yeah right.
Speaker 2: It's like, listen, Beyonce, I love you, I love you girl,
Speaker 2: love on top. The ticket price is way too high.
Speaker 4: But do it on the phone. Don't do it an
Speaker 4: at reply.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, show it on the pact. Come back when
Speaker 2: you win that. Come back when you win that argument. Like, guys,
Speaker 2: look I fought for you and here it is, look.
Speaker 1: What I did. Look what your boy did. And I
Speaker 1: didn't have to do black face either to make it happen. Bridgeard,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us on the Daily Szeitgeist.
Speaker 1: Really great to have people find you, follow you. Hear
Speaker 1: you all that.
Speaker 4: I have a podcast called I Said No Gifts. People
Speaker 4: seem to enjoy it. You don't have to listen if
Speaker 4: you don't want to. I don't care anymore.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go.
Speaker 4: And then I'm on Instagram. I've got my name on Instagram.
Speaker 4: And then I said, no gifts on Instagram. Come here,
Speaker 4: do whatever you want with your life though, really, yeah
Speaker 4: for shore yourself.
Speaker 1: And is there a work of social media or any
Speaker 1: media in general that you'd like to point people in
Speaker 1: a direction to.
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: I mean, well, you guys asked me for a tweet.
Speaker 4: So I got back on Twitter and was like excavating basically,
Speaker 4: And I went back and found an old tweet that
Speaker 4: I really liked from years and years ago. Oh I
Speaker 4: like that, and it was this guy I don't know him.
Speaker 4: It was at Leemanish and the tweet is just guy
Speaker 4: in the pet Co express line clearly has more than
Speaker 4: fifteen snakes. That's like one of my all time favorite things.
Speaker 4: I was very happy to find that again. Uh yeah
Speaker 4: see and now Twitter instead, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now you can watch it all unfold on threads.
Speaker 4: Or my social media network unfold.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or or a blue sky wherever the fun people are.
Speaker 1: I don't even who even knows anymore? Jack, what about you?
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for helping me? Yes today, you.
Speaker 2: Know, always a pleasure, Miles, Always a pleasure, Miles, Jack,
Speaker 2: you gotta come back to work though. Yeah, Jack, you know,
Speaker 2: let me tell y'all Jack Jack saying he on vacation.
Speaker 2: Let me tell y'all what Jack really doing in these streets.
Speaker 2: Jack out, I'm not gonna put sleeping. He's here sleeping.
Speaker 2: He ain't He ain't on vacas. He's just sleeping. That
Speaker 2: is a vacation though he's selling cocaine.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: You can find me in these streets, baby, and on
Speaker 2: Instagram at Jaquise Neil. Oh, I guess on threads too.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: You can find me everywhere anywhere that there's a social
Speaker 2: media platform that I'm on. It would be at Jackie's Neil.
Speaker 2: You don't find me on there. That means I ain't
Speaker 2: on that ship. So that's you know, that's what it is.
Speaker 2: Also Comedian Feud always come check it out. We're gonna
Speaker 2: be announcing the lineup for this month pretty soon, within
Speaker 2: the next few days, so keep that in mind. We
Speaker 2: got some really fun shows coming up in the next
Speaker 2: few months. We're gonna have like the cast of the
Speaker 2: Righteous Gemstones on the show one of these a couple
Speaker 2: of months. Maybe some other big names that you guys
Speaker 2: may love from the television Tube and movie screen Tube,
Speaker 2: So come check that out. And then you know, ain't
Speaker 2: nobody working right now, So I ain't got no shows
Speaker 2: or no TV shows to promote.
Speaker 1: So any media, any works in media, social media, anything,
Speaker 1: TV shows.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, man, let me tell you I
Speaker 2: I love There's one meme that I will always love,
Speaker 2: no matter what medium, no matter how is presented, and
Speaker 2: it is the John Sene that you can't see me
Speaker 2: like me. I think it's the funniest fucking me just
Speaker 2: like anything that has to do with that, like oh,
Speaker 2: like like dere's John Cena's prom days, Like oh that
Speaker 2: poor girl had to go to prom by herself. It's
Speaker 2: just so funny to me. It will always be funny.
Speaker 2: So there's one that is I don't know who wrote it,
Speaker 2: but it is like it says John Cena, I love you, her,
Speaker 2: I love you too, When can I see you? And
Speaker 2: then John Cena and he just looks down and the
Speaker 2: press like you can't see.
Speaker 1: Tragedy.
Speaker 2: It will always crack me up. It is the funniest shit.
Speaker 2: I love it. So if you ever see a John
Speaker 2: Cena meme, actually no, they'll send it to me because
Speaker 2: y'all be tripping but just know that I'd love it too.
Speaker 1: Have some tweets I like, let's see Okay, So Mike
Speaker 1: Drucker at Mike Drucker quote tweeted this, I don't know
Speaker 1: where this like. Right wing conservative mom Lady Tiffany for
Speaker 1: just for Tiffany Justice tweeted. Two moms traveling from Washington
Speaker 1: State sat in front of two ANTIFA members on the plane.
Speaker 1: The two men had just met and discussed being given
Speaker 1: debit cards. Their accommodations were also paid for while they
Speaker 1: were in Philadelphia to protest manufactured division. Who's money? And
Speaker 1: then Mike Drucker goes on to complete it quote and
Speaker 1: then they said their plan was to turn all the
Speaker 1: kids gay with books, and then they drank blood from
Speaker 1: a Christian skull, and then a soldier told them to
Speaker 1: leave America, and everyone applauded with tears in their eyes.
Speaker 1: That sounds about right. That's the tone of these weird
Speaker 1: ass sweets. You can find me at Miles of Gray.
Speaker 1: Like I said, wherever they got ad symbols, chances are
Speaker 1: I'm there, and also find Jack and I are on
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Speaker 1: but it's not really about a criminal. It's about the
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Speaker 1: which is kind of a story that we could all
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Speaker 1: well as the song We're Gonna Go Out on. The
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