They Zeit Be Giants 5/13: Have a Good Trip, Red Lobster, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, Obamagate

On this edition of They Zeit Be Giants Jack, Miles, and Anna discuss celebrities tripping (and tripping in general), an altercation at Red Lobster starring peak Karen energy, Paul Manafort has been released from prison while the Judge presiding over Michael Flynn's case is trying to keep the case going, and Trump is threatening Obama with an unknown crime.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of they
Zight be Giants. I'm your only trend. I'm not your
only trend, but I'm a little glowing trend. I feel
like we've done both of those before, but I love it,
you love it? Sides on day? Is that from Daria?

(00:23):
Isn't that from the theme song of Malcolm in the Middle.
Isn't that why they might be giants? Oh that's what
it is. I don't know. Maybe I don't know. Yeah, probs. Anyways,
thank you to Johnny Davis for just keeping churning them out. Uh,
we're here to try, farmer, am I right? Uh? Go boy, Yeah,

(00:48):
let's just end it right there. All right, Well, thanks
a lot. To wash your hands, don't touch your face,
and be kind to each other. Yes, yes, Uh, We're
thrilled to be joined, uh for this episode of the
Trendings Like Guys by super Producer on a Hosnier. You know,
live in my best I have fogo now fear of

(01:14):
going out. Yeah, yeah that's what I heard. I heard
that's the new thing, you phogo because you you're the
one person I've seen who gave themselves a haircut and
it looks really good. You did a good job haircuts.
I'm not gonna say anything, but yours is a good one.
I remember I pressed you when I noticed you had

(01:34):
a haircut because it looks so good. I thought, like,
this fool went to us alon. Yeah, you know somebody
has been going to the salon in the mirror. I
just I have one hair like an A line Bob.
I know how to cut that. My hair stylists of
like fifteen years taught me how to do and so
that's my go to cut when I need to cut
it myself. I love to see it. I love to

(01:55):
see it. Give a man a fish, hell eap for
a day, teach a man to fish, and they will
never have to come see you again and fire hairstylists.
So break that fucking fishing pole and tell him. There's
a bunch of monsters. What I'm saying, Uh, we're talking
about a bunch of tripping shows, A bunch of shows
about tripping. Uh, not a bunch too, but you guys

(02:17):
were talking about one. I didn't know him. Figured might
as well share it with the Zeke gang. You're saying,
there's a a new show where people take you through
their trips it's a documentary. It's called Have a Good Trip,
and it's um it's about you know whatever, two hours
hour half long. But um, it's a bunch of famous
people like Staying, Carrie Fisher, Nick Kroll, Um, you know,

(02:42):
Paul Sheer. Just a bunch of like comedy and yes,
Anthony Boordain a lot of comedy and just like you know,
fun actors or personalities. Uh. And they yeah, they share
the most fun. He's actually the least favorite of the group,
but yeah, they share story. He's like Sarah Silverman. They
share stories of themselves, like tripping on acid. And it's

(03:04):
kind of like guided with by Nick Offerman, who's playing
like a scientist character. Um. But then they also have
re enactments played by different actors as well, so it's
it's pretty fun. It's like almost like a drunk history
in a way, but for a tripping with acid trips. Yeah.
Thing Sting just I'm like, I like Stings music. I
don't look to him be like oh Sting is so

(03:26):
fucking wavy, you know, like, oh, and we're like this, dude,
what did you say his what was his trip? It
was almost one percent or it was like he wanted
to try peyote. So he was like, so I flew
down to Mexico City, like it's that easy, and um
just like hit up a peyote cult and like asked
to be initiated and then like had to take a
bunch of peyote and climb a mountain blindfolded and then

(03:48):
had deer's blood poured on him, like all this stuff
where you're like, what see, that's just like some I
don't when I hear that, I'm like na of some
narc ship man. That people was really in the game.
It was doing trips before they have money because they
were just surviving their own psyches, like and trying to
expand their minds and ship. The first time I did
if you want to do a peoty like me, the

(04:09):
first time I did peyoty, I took what I thought
and was told was peyote and was not, and I
had a terrible, terrible time. But you know, salute till
it was still psychoactive. It just wasn't the type of
psychoactive you were looking for. Yeah, it was like it
was definitely not like when I took a photo and
showed it to someone who like actually deals with psychedelics

(04:32):
are like, m this looks like some kind of awfully
treated like mushroom thing. I don't know. Yeah. I had
a similar experience where like a close family friend I
went to college with gave me something and he was like,
it's either peyote or mescaline. You'll only find out if
you try it. And I was like, well what is it?
And he's like, I don't honestly remember, and I was like, oh, god,
damn it, but I took it, and um, yeah, yeah,

(04:57):
I mean and here. The best advertising from Mescaline I
ever saw it as a kid was in The Matrix
when like that first scene where Neo is Mr Anderson,
he gives that guy the disk and he sees the
woman's white rabbit tattoos. Like you ever have that feeling
where you don't know the difference between the real world
and a dream, and the guys like, yeah, it's called mescaline,

(05:18):
And I was like, whoa dude, fun Matrix shit, yeah
that's drug taking. And then you find yourself talking to
a homeless man for forty five minutes about nothing, and
then you're like, oh, I'm high, and that's that's drugs.
Midnight Gospel is another kind of trippy show from uh

(05:41):
I think the Adventure time it's Duncan Trust and then
Duncle Duncan Trustle. Basically it's basically Duncle trust N's podcast
animated too, like have really psychedelic things going on, and
it just it's it's pretty cool. It definitely feels like
some things that I have dreamed when I had a fever.

(06:05):
It's like my first introduction to Duncan trust was when
he was on Drunk History and I didn't know who
he was a comedian, but I and he had one
of the most violently ill drunk histories, like the way
he was just like floored from how drunk he was.
It was like, oh, Duncle Duncle trust is I guess

(06:27):
we should talk about what's trending. Yeah, he's very cool,
Like he's very and he has also has a really
great voice to listen to. Can I tell you a
quick duncan and pitched Can I tell you quick duncan trustle?
Uh story. So he used to come to my live
shows back in the day and one time we were
doing like a stylized one where it was about Y
two K and I was like, yeah, if you want

(06:49):
to play a religious figure like a pastor or whatever,
and he's like yeah, total, and he shows up in
a full pope out like the full like beautiful Rowe Huget,
like I'll find photos and post them. But we're all like,
oh you okay, yeah yeah, like and we're all like okay,
sure if you want to be the like and he's like, yeah,
I showed up. We're like that it works. But it

(07:11):
was just really funny because it was also a gorgeous outfit.
Like I was like, oh, you came through seven dollar
a day, right, We're like we can't to this day.
I think the funniest like thing that we don't acknowledge
as a joke but is pretty like just the fact
that the Pope had exists that somebody was just like, yeah,

(07:36):
I gotta have the biggest hat. We wrote a sketch
for Cracked about it before we need a we need
more like people to like troll him in the Vatican.
They're like, yo, look at that. Huh damn. And they'll
be like, oh maybe it just acting like impressed by

(07:56):
it that I just want to I don't know, Pope.
Pope trolls, Pope hecklers for the hat. I don't know
something about it. I never forget him slapping that woman's
hand away who wouldn't let go of him, was like
she said, God damn Pope off smacking Red lobster is

(08:18):
trending and it's due to an altercation, a peak Becky
moment if you pe Karen energy at this point older
there's a you know again on Mother's Day, there was
a lot of people getting take out and this particular
red lobster. There was just a video filmed outside. That's
why it's it's going viral of this woman. She's like,

(08:39):
she's It starts off with her being pushed out of
the restaurant by the employees and she's like, no, I
need my money. I want my money, and they're like,
we're gonna give you your money, just get the funk
out of the restaurant. We don't want you in here.
You're making a scene, like I get you've been waiting,
your stress or whatever. And this one woman is like
trying to keep her out, and then this other this

(08:59):
this other woman takes a swing at he or some
ship pops off. But then you hear all these other
people in the back like crowing at the employees of
this red lobster, like it's not hard enough to be
working right now. They're they're being like, I've been waiting
for three hours for food. First of all, if you
were waiting, what's your dumb ass doing waiting there for

(09:19):
three hours? If it's that important, you can just say
I need a refund, I'm out. But I think this
this crowd particularly looks like they got off to seeing
these mostly what looked like people of color working this uh,
at this red lobster, and I think they were just
being like, oh, now I get to yell at people
who are already stressed out in working conditions that are unsafe.

(09:39):
Now I want to add to that my where's my
fucking Cheddar Bay biscuits? Bullshit? All right, that nonsense. So
you know, it's it's just another moment, another snapshot in
the tension in this country. M hm. The Karen figure
is the one who throws the first like wild punch
the other person trying to get them out of the

(10:01):
red lobster. And yeah, it just sucks to see like
the other employees trying to restrain the their coworker who
was struck by this woman. It sucks because like in
the street, you'd be like, yeah, you know what, there
you go, your thing, fair one. We want to one
on one. But it's like you can see the way
her coworker was trying to like look her in her
eyes and be like, please, don't, please, don't please, don't.

(10:23):
Like the steaks are so much larger, even larger than
this white woman disrespecting them. Uh, it's you know, it's
like anyway, all this for red lobster, correct, Yeah, I
mean red lobster is pretty delicious. The Cheddar Bay biscuits,
they've been hacked that menu already. You can make them

(10:45):
at home, you know what I mean? Yes, sir, Quick
and Cheddar I don't know. Man of some bay, some
and some bay, some dirty baywater some bay, I don't know,
some bay, some Tampa Bay. Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn
are both trending, probably for good reasons, right because they

(11:08):
were brought to justice and the everything is right and
this is prevailed. Well, it's kind of like a flip
flop where on one hand, Paul Manafort is out of
prison right now. He has been released because white man,
because I love Trump and I have secrets that will
damage him. Um so he was Trump loves me, I

(11:30):
will fake having COVID ninety. So he's been sent home
to do his like prison sentence from his house. But
the thing is, like, you know, the d o J
was like, yeah, you know, we gotta look at cases
and people who are vulnerable, like their federal penitentiaries like
in Lompoc, l and like in the area in southern California,
UM where there are cases of COVID where they're not

(11:52):
being so hospitable to these people. The facility Paul Maniforts
and there's not even reported cases of COVID in there.
So it's just like adds insult to injury on top
of like I think there are other standards like if
you had already served a majority of your sentence or
had less than eighteen months left to serve, you could
be released. He didn't even meet those guidelines, so again
it's just like some nice shoulder rubbing from the Department

(12:15):
of Justice. And then that brings us to Michael Flynn,
who we we talked about how the dj dropped their
case against Michael Flynn even though he had confessed twice UM,
and the judge basically was like, oh no, no, not
so fast. Basically, what he's doing is allowing amicus briefs
or outside groups to file uh like their you know,

(12:35):
arguments against Michael Flynn. Um, so the judge is trying
to slow that process down at a minimum. But yeah,
that's where that's where the Michael Flynn cases. So a
judge at least, but we'll see what happens there. So
is this a different judge, This is a conflicting judge
who's I think No, it's the judge providing over the case.

(12:56):
Like so once they heard the like okay, that's your deal,
then took a set and and the next point was like, okay, well,
I think there may be other people who may want
to uh not want to drop this case. I may
want to actually see this thing out. And then finally
we have something that I think a trend that I
think we're all involved with, we're all guilty of tweeting,

(13:18):
and that is hashtag subpoena Obama's obama Gate, the biggest
political scandal of all time. Uh, it puts water Gate
to shame, It makes water Gate look small. These are
all things Trump has said, while being non specific about
what Obama did. Yeah, uh, it's just it's stupid. It's

(13:39):
just like about like, how do how dare President Obama
as president figure out what person what may have been
doing kissy face with the Russians, uh to subvert our
electoral process? And I think that's like how do he?
What do he do? And again, Obama's just been back
in the news because he'd you know, white America, haste
here a man of color's opinion on what Trump's doing.

(14:02):
But he was like this is a This response is
basically not good. And McConnell's like, you just shut his mouth. Um, yeah, yeah,
you keep his mouth shut, keep his mouth because they
know it's set Trump off. That's why he's like, think
about Obama all this ship, it's just fucking it's just
so messy and dark and not addressing what's actually happening

(14:26):
right now that it's just really odd. Um. And the
other thing was like people in the White House like
Trump Obama left Trump with no way to deal with
a play a pandemic, like what just nothing empty cupboards
And they're like he literally left like a sixty nine
page or seventy page a playbook on how to handle
a pandemic in the United States, and they're like, just

(14:49):
fucking I don't know. It just it's like anything. Yeah,
it doesn't matter. And then that's why now, like the
crusade from the right is against the CBC because Fauci
and Burke's are getting too close to the truth. Although
it seems like Burks is kind of going along with
helping alter the numbers at the CDC, which is a

(15:10):
little disheartened here. Yeah, all right, Well, this is not
the best timeline of all the possible timelines we could
be living in right now, but it is the one
we have so here. We are glad to be uh
traveling down this timeline with you guys and UH listeners.

(15:32):
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