Weekly Zeitgeist 391 (Best of 7/21/25-7/25/25 )

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Yeah, so,
without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Miles.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by
a hilarious comedian an actor who I don't think we've
mentioned before, but you can see him in the classic
Insider trading Brian's Hat Courtroom sketch from I Think You
Should Leave, which one of the great sketches of all time.
You can also see him performing stand up on stages

(00:47):
and televisions across this land. He's the host of the
Wonderful podcast podcast but Outside, It's Andrew Mashaw.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Andrew, Hello, thank you for such a warm intro, Die,
and that's all I have to say. Thank you guys
for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
This is so fun.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
I really had a blast.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Great day to be here. Andrew.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
Where can people find you? Yeah? So just get on here. Yeah,
stuff going on. Thanks for having me. I'm always happy
to be here. It's always so fun. Excited for the episode.
Sorry about the mold.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I also have one of those Owala cups, but mine
is not taken over by the UH.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
I know that you are now.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Allied with this is the problem is we I went
from only having a couple cups to like having a
ton of people like donating drinking cups to me in
like the last few months. What does that mean after
the fire? Because everything I lost everything in the fire.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
You lost everything in the fire. Oh my gosh, I
didn't realize that. I'm sorry to hear that.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
It's all right. Jack's having a harder time dealing with
it than I. It's been really hard for.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Me because he sees all the sympathy and you kind
of are like cupless and you don't really He.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Gets like all these cups and he talks about it
all the time too, like he's like, just like there's
there is emotional labor. I'm not gonna say there's not.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
The number of cups. It's just funny like people donate
shit to you and they'll be like, hey, I'm bringing
up some stuff like over and it would always be
like a shopping bag from an event, a reusable shopping
bag from an event that was like the vessel and
it was like a like and then it would be
a drinking cup, like a reusable drinking cup from that event,

(02:28):
and then like a spatula or like tall like a
kitchen thing. And I'm like, all right, but the you're
like like six drinking cups.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Right now, You're like this is all the stuff I'm
glad burned up exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
I'm like, this is everybody has too many of around
the house.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Hey, do you need like a reusable tote from an
event that you forgot years ago? I'm like, yeah, I
guess we have a closet that's just those. Could you
help me, right? Could you actually come pick it up?
And uh yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
And as repayment you get to keep them.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Take whatever you want, man, take them all.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
What is something from your search history?

Speaker 6 (03:07):
Well, as I always do, I'm bringing you something from
our latest episode project, and my search history is Dear
Abby and Landers Urban Legends. So do you guys know
much about Dear Abby and an Landers, the two most
popular advice columnists, Just.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
That they were a very popular advice columnists.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I do not know.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
I'm immediately fascinated to like find out what the what
the like process was like behind the scenes of that.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Were they ever? Was it ever like contentious? That one
of them existed at all or is that misremembering. I
felt like there's something with like.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
Yeah, here's what I'll tell you, Okay, and Landers and
Dear Abbey were identical twins. That what yeah, fucking identical
twins the same yes, yes, dress the same literally slept
in the same bed, in each other's arms until the
day that they were married in a double wedding in
the same dress. And then they both became advice columnists

(04:06):
and got this horrible rift between them, and then we're
battling to be America's top advice columnist for many, many,
many many years.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Fuck, I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
I didn't know this else face right now. I was like,
I remember them. I just knew there was something about
their identity at the time.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
And so I like, yours the version that you got
with somebody who doesn't believe in twins, like.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
That person dressed as Dear Abby They're moving back and
forth really quick.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, that's the only explanation.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah is this?

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (04:49):
So I was like as soon as I heard that,
I was like, Okay, we need to dig dig into this.
But you know they were, Uh, since our show is
a lot about urban legends, they were a big source
of urban legends because people would write in saying this
happened to my friend, she'd print it. It would because
they had I mean, at their peaks, they had a
hot like around one hundred million readers. So this is

(05:09):
like these people are like those kinds of invisible architects
of culture that you just kind of dismiss, but they're
actually like leading opinion, and they did a lot of
things that were like pretty okay. You know, they were
like slightly they've been called like slightly left of center.
So slowly America was able to kind of.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Change act better than I could have been.

Speaker 6 (05:31):
I know, and it's not what I expected.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
She's like, I will not reprint the N word in
slightly center.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Wow, there's like a Ron Howard film about them refusing
to do that, where like they're the heroes.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
And I will not I will not printed.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Now, for some reason, the Lockhorns or other are characters
in it. I always associate them with being back where
the comics were.

Speaker 6 (06:01):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, It's just so wild that like there was this
period of time when there were like seven TV shows
on and like everybody watched them and nobody was paying
attention to like how they got like they were made
by three white guys and like the friends that they
had from college. You know, it was just like and

(06:25):
like yeah, Anne Landers and dear Abby were just like
people who had this market cornered. Nobody was like, wasn't
this hyper competitive thing where they were like two million
people all trying to like give advice or like have
advice podcasts. Was just like the two people who thought
to do that and had like massive influence, and nobody
was even like paying attention to it. Like it was

(06:48):
just like, yeah, that's because that's what's there.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
What a weird period.

Speaker 6 (06:53):
Really odd. I know, I know now we have read
it and Kora, so you can kind of ast you
can like crowdsource all your advice, but anybody. Yeah, yeah,
just like these two twins out there dictating culture and
it's it's it's a very fun story. And they were
very flamboyant, like they both wore skunk coats to their
first day of college, like the same outfit showed up.

(07:15):
You know, they were just very bizarre. So it's it's
a good it's a good twin twin tale, and yeah,
you guys can get that in like three or four weeks.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Okay, I'm just like blown away because I as someone
who like knows the Adam Sandler's Hanuka song by memory,
I'm like, that's right. We got Anne Landers and her sister,
dear Abby, and then Harrison Ford's a quarter Jewish.

Speaker 7 (07:39):
Not doo Shabby.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
I'm like, fuck, the answer was right in front of
me the whole time they were sisters.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
If I had tried to write that song, I would
have just like the song would have devolved into me
talking about how weird it was that they were identical
twins who slept in the same bed and each other Abby.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
You know, they were kind of during disillusioned identical twins.
And then I had a terrible falling out and they
wore Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Did they ever make up? Or do we have to
check in with the check in how things ended.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
I'm trying to kind of there's a lot of lore,
a lot of self lore that's creative, so I'm trying
to kind of pick it apart. So yeah, okay, tune
back in in a little bit.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Here we will we will.

Speaker 8 (08:22):
Come to my house. Just take my herbs.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Okay, you hear that, Dea, She's got herb at the house.

Speaker 8 (08:29):
I got hella herbs at my house.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
You got hell herbs?

Speaker 6 (08:32):
Okay, okay, takes.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Are you just how many acres we talk in here?

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Actually?

Speaker 7 (08:40):
Okay?

Speaker 8 (08:40):
Specifically, this is why my underrated is grow your own
food pivot.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Okay, boom, why boom right into the underrated grow your.

Speaker 8 (08:50):
Own fucking food. Why have we been? Why do we
have lawns?

Speaker 6 (08:54):
What are we doing?

Speaker 8 (08:56):
Oh my god?

Speaker 1 (08:57):
All you need to grow one very very specific type
of grass that doesn't naturally occur and needs to ruin
the environment to be kept alive.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
No further answers your honor.

Speaker 8 (09:08):
Yeah, well, I mean that's a good argument.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
But I, on the one hand, very difficult.

Speaker 8 (09:17):
That's a good point. Get Oh my god, it is
so easy. I have like a I've got like an
eight foot patio. Yeah, but it and it gets all
the sun.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (09:28):
And all you need is just sun and soil and
all this time, okay, all this time, gentlemen, I have
thought that I'm a killer of plants because I kill
everything I have. Alicia Garza snake plant and it's dying.
It was dying, but now I'm saving it. I'm saving it.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Alicia. You're talking about Black lives matter, Alicia Garza.

Speaker 8 (09:55):
Yeah, she left it with her producer Phil and he
gave it to me and I.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Famous b L M. Alicia Garz. A snake plant. Wait,
I have snake plants. Really kill it almost oh damn. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (10:16):
And for all of you out there who do not
have a green thumb, you've got like a yellow, purple,
red thumb whatever.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Purple and cold.

Speaker 8 (10:27):
Yeah, uh a death.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Thumb yeah yeah yeah, like me.

Speaker 8 (10:33):
You can do this. You can grow tomatoes, you can
grow lettuce, you can grow herbs.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
I'm so ready. Actually, I'm gonna I'm gonna hit you
up about that, because I you can do it. My
old crib I had a huge rosemary bush. I don't
have to do anything about it, just grew.

Speaker 8 (10:49):
So I always have rosemary bushes down here.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Hey let him know. Hey, I got.

Speaker 8 (10:55):
Read of them for summer, but it's coming back this fall.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Growing. But I've always wanted to have chives. I love
chives and green onions and ship like that and also
onion gang. Okay, I'm gonna talk. We'll talk. We'll talk.
I was let me know what do I need to
I'm trying to do this.

Speaker 8 (11:14):
I'm trying to This is what I learned you just
don't buy your soil at home depot and loves don't
buy soil, yes, deal it from it. No, get it
from the local nurseries, your mom and pop nurseries. Get
the good soil. You water it and that's all you
have to do. And you have so many.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Herbs, all right, and just plant the butts of Oh
I thought she's gonna say cigarettes green and they in half.

Speaker 8 (11:42):
And put it in the ground and have your own tomatoes.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
I just we were just at like my kids were
over at the house of like the parents there make
you feel bad about how good they They're like they
just like created a little garden because their kids became
interested in gardening. And I will say, like, you know,
people talk about minecraft proving that the children crave the mines.

(12:08):
I think the children also crave the fields, because yeah,
the level that my kids were obsessed with just like
asking questions about this herb garden and like they had
a little like a couple stalks of corn and yeah,
thick green onions miles. I saw these green as I thought,

(12:28):
I was like, oh, my.

Speaker 8 (12:30):
Daughter dumps a gallon of water in there and bubble solution.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
There's still still it's gonna grow bubbles.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah, that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
What is what's something Siri that you think is underrated?

Speaker 9 (12:50):
Okay, overrated? Cold pizza? I mean we're just talking about
pizza anyways. So like, okay, I just I hate cold pizza.
I hate it a lot.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
You can't eat pizza is it's it's it's repulsive to you.

Speaker 9 (13:04):
Well, it's both that I choose to not eat it,
like I have no desire, and also I'm pretty sure
at this point I couldn't like if like it. It
is disgusting enough to me as like a texture, a temperature,
a flavor experience that if I were to take a
bite of cold pizza, I would really have to fight
vomiting as I actually fight vomiting with you.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Like we've gotten so good at like there's so many
good options for reheating now with like air fryers, which
is like using a pan that like, why whyever do
cold pizza?

Speaker 4 (13:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (13:42):
I mean this.

Speaker 9 (13:44):
Argument about this quite often because so many people really
like cold pizza.

Speaker 7 (13:48):
Like they they're like, well, it's like a separate.

Speaker 9 (13:50):
Experience that stands alone to have it when it's cold,
And I'm like, you know what, I respect that you
feel that way.

Speaker 7 (13:57):
Right, You're allowed to have that feeling.

Speaker 9 (14:00):
But respect I am also allowed to feel that you're
mentally ill, right for that being your preference.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
It is a little bit like people being like, I
really like cold French fries, Like.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Really, that's only high people say that. Do high people
say they like I used to eat cold ass friends
because I would be so high and it would be
like I got those fries from earlier, and then you're
just like my so so high stoner.

Speaker 9 (14:27):
But I've never been so high that I wanted to
eat food served at the incorrect temperature on purpose.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh I'm a piece. I'm I'm a vile scumbag when
it comes to like what I'll eat just high, like
the barges subterranean.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
The one cold food that I really ride for is
cold chicken of any sort.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Cold?

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Uh like fried chicken, cold wings. I really like cold wings. Yeah,
I'll even have cold wings.

Speaker 9 (14:52):
Okay, I got a I got an underrated now okay,
because I can only think of things in terms of
food in this moment, So my underrated is salted black licorice.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Very good. I love salted licorice.

Speaker 9 (15:05):
There's a specific brand that I think it's finished, and
I order it online because it's impossible to find anywhere else.
And it has like a witch on the bag. It's
just an illustration of a witch flying through the sky, like.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
I cannot hang with j Was it called jungle varrawl.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
No, that's a different one. That's actually that's.

Speaker 7 (15:27):
Heck shale.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
K s h e y l okay wait is salted
black licorice just better. I hate the flavor that anie flavor.

Speaker 7 (15:39):
You would not like this that okay, it was like
maybe it's a salt like.

Speaker 9 (15:44):
It's black licorice. It's incredibly salty. And it also if
you look at the ingredients, like it has like literal
ammonia in it, Like it's because it's from Europe. They
have different like preservatives that they use over there. So
the conservative used in this particular licorice like candy is
is like ammonia based, which just makes it even more addictive.

(16:05):
Has this like weird like like in your mouth.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, yeah, it does feel because I got on a
salty licorice kick for a while and it does. It
hasn't gotten that last like because it in the United States,
like all the best scientists are going into making food
like addictive and perpetually addictive, so that like you can

(16:30):
be on your one hundredth skittle and be like, man,
these are actually getting better as you get whereas like
salty licorice, I feel like when I was on a
real salted liquorice kick, like I like the eighth piece,
I was like, I need to stop because this is
like bad for I think I started tasting the ammonia.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, happening.

Speaker 9 (16:53):
I kind of like that, so I would never stop,
Like I have to stop myself with this particular kind.

Speaker 7 (17:00):
It's the flavor is pretty strong and like overwhelming. Also
like they're not.

Speaker 9 (17:04):
Hard, They're like they're a unique like delivery format because
it's like a it's like a little i don't know,
it looks like a sour straw or something like a
little chunk of a sour straw, like a segment, and
it has like a filling.

Speaker 7 (17:17):
So it's like that there's like a tube that's like
the licorice.

Speaker 9 (17:20):
Part, and then the inside has this filling that's also
more licorice, but that's like really like kind of a
monia apart, so you have two different textures. And I'm
getting way too into this, so I have a way
that I like I do with all foods, like snack foods.

Speaker 7 (17:33):
I have a very specific way I eat it.

Speaker 9 (17:35):
It's like I I like have I put the piece
of my mouth and then it's like a fifteen minute
process for one piece of candy where I like break
it down in my mouth by like eating it a
certain way. Obviously I have some some uh some conditions.

Speaker 7 (17:53):
I have some like DHD some stuff going on.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
I do get it in your mouth ADHD also where
or like oh or whatever like where I'm always like
I have routines that I do with my gum, where
like flatten it out into a tube, then I roll
the tube up. Then I press the tube flat so
that it or press the rolled up thing flat so
it's a pancake shape. Roll that, roll the pancake up

(18:16):
so that it's a flat tube. Let's roll it out
then bring that up so it's like you know, a
roll of tape flats flat into a pancake, and just
do that over and over.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
Sorry, I accused you of being high on molly the
last time you were together. It's your jaw, your mouth
was going crazy, and if I had known, you were
just flattening that gum out yeah, I wouldn't have made
that whole business meeting awkward.

Speaker 9 (18:38):
Do you ever do you ever mold the gum to
the roof of your mouth? And like with gum, it's
like has to be the right kind of gum where
it's off and then you pull it out and you're like, wow,
that's the roof of my mouth.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, yep, it's always bubble gum, because bubble gum that
has the thickness that you can really do like like
a dental impression. Yeah, I'd be like, yep, that's the
roof of my mouth. And I'm forty and I'm in
a movie theater. Thank you? What do we say about
you and gum? On? Mike Jack? I can't stop you, motherfucker.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
I don't.

Speaker 7 (19:07):
I don't hear the sounds.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
So my my other routine is that I take trida
already small pieces, break them in half.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
So, oh my.

Speaker 7 (19:16):
God, that's what my mom did. I would that's trauma
for me.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
I go through a lot of trydent so I need
I need this.

Speaker 9 (19:23):
When I'd go to church with the family as a kid,
and like I hated it because it was too long
and boring, and I would just continually ask my mom
for pieces of gum, but she choose trident and gum,
the blue one, and she would tear the piece in half,
and I was always like, I was like fucking offended, Like,
how damn you half a gum?

Speaker 4 (19:42):
Mother?

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
I don't do it for anybody else, but when I'm chewing,
I break it into half pieces.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
If I ever only have a half piece left, my
wife is.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Very angry at me. Yeah. Yeah, weird person.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Anyways, Uh, great, overrated, underrated. Let's take a quick break
and we'll be right back. All right, we're back, all right,
all right, all right, we're back. All right, Fine, I'll bite.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
We're back, fine, I'll bite. What's Jeffrey Epstein?

Speaker 1 (20:24):
What's all right? Fine, I'll bite. Who's this Epstein guy?
What's the story here?

Speaker 2 (20:30):
I heard he's dead? So like, why do I even
care about it? What'sn't even like that? Big Bill Gates and.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Donald Trump both told me he's dead, So like it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Matter, no further questions, Dad, moving on. H Yeah, this
story is not gonna go away.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
But New York Times was wrong when they were like this.
Seems like Trump has turned the tide on this and
following up just shut up over there.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
What you're saying again, you're they're doing the Caroline Levitt
thing of performing for Trump specifically when they write shit
like that, because no one fucking believes it. But Trump
will be like, did you see what the New York
Times said exactly? And then you know, Maggie Haberman or whatever,
can you know learn or some other little nuggets or something.
But anyway, just want to check in because it's a

(21:18):
full court press in terms of trying to create distractions
from the Epstein case files, knowledge how Trump is involved.
Just to start, Tulci Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence,
and sometimes well most of the times, Russian asset has
really swung for the fences in trying to like activate
people's anti black racism as a distraction. It usually works, Yeah,

(21:41):
I mean in America. But you know what, if you
put that on a menu of just possible ways to
divert this energy, I'd be like, yeah, you might have
anti black racism please, oh yes, okay, Well why don't
we try this one on for size. Barack Obama did
treason because he created the Russier hoax on me. Wow,
that's like yeah, yeah, this is like a very stupid

(22:05):
thing where now she's saying that Trump or the whole
Russia hoax was created by Barack Obama to fake that.
It doesn't make sense unless you really want to believe
that Trump isn't in the Epstein files. I wish I
could cover it with a little bit more enthusiasm.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Wait, so what does it have to do with Epstein file?
They're just saying because he was like that, this is
all part of them.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
They created the files. They're the ones who have always
been trying to get me with Russia, Russia, Russia, the
Laptop from Hell.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
It seems like almost they're preparing for the files to
come out so that they can basically be.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Some level they need. They definitely want to set the
table for people to be like like to confirm some
bias and not people be like, wait what about Trump though?
You know what I mean, Like they know because the
way the Republican audience looks at this is this means
that Clint, the Clinton's and Obamas and Biden's are going
down in the Epstein files, you know, Like that's how

(23:05):
it's presented a lot of the time, because like, look
at them, they're on the flightload. What does this mean,
but the one thing like so they said, they're like, oh,
Obama said that the election was hacked, that they hacked
the elections, Like no one ever said the election itself
was hacked in twenty sixteen. What they're talking about is
all the intelligence reporting, journalistic reporting that has been about,

(23:26):
like Russians approaching members of the Trump campaign, the Cambridge Analytica,
like psychographic data that was used for Facebook trolls and
the troll farms that exist there, you know, fucking hacking
the DNC emails. Like yeah, that shit happened. But again
that's what people were talking about. So yeah, they're now
trying to say Obama needs to go in prison. And

(23:47):
Trump even posted like an AI video I don't know
if you saw that where Trump was sitting across from
Obama gets arrested. Right, yeah, they're sitting, Yeah, they're sitting
in the oval. And then Trump's like whee as he's
being handcuffed by sort of nondescript FBI jacket clad.

Speaker 6 (24:01):
People, and they're doing like this weird like hoax inside
a hoax where it's like they're creating a hoax that
didn't exist to say that it was a hoax because
they can prove that hoax didn't happen, right, they can
prove that. I don't know. It just seems like they're
creating a new hoax to then discredit that hoax to
make it seem like everything.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
So, yeah, because what they're they're taking the actual intel
assessment of like, quote, Russia and Russian and criminal actors
did not impact recent US election results by conduct by specifically, yes,
by conducting cyber attacks on infrastructure.

Speaker 6 (24:37):
Yeah, we know that, but we didn't say that. But
now they're saying we said that, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Then they use headlines from places like the New York
Times talking about Russian hackers acted to aid Trump an election. Yeah,
by releasing like materials that would you know, be perceived
by voters in one one way or the other. That's
what they mean. So they're trying to be like, see,
they didn't do that, yet they all these people said
that Russia did stuff. Therefore, can we just forget about

(25:05):
it please? And be mad?

Speaker 1 (25:07):
And the only thing linking these are that they're like
happening around the same time, right this and Epstein, like
them releasing this. They're not saying anything to do with
Epstein in this, No, this is just a.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Hoax, and this is just another thing to put into
the information environment to be like, yeah, back Obama.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
It totally reeks of because it yeah, it doesn't make
sense as like a refutation necessarily unless they're trying to
be like get ready for the time when like the
Epstein files are released and his name's in it, and
then they can be like, see, but well they did
the Russia hoax. Yeah so, But otherwise I feel like
it's more just Trump being like I mean, everybody's mad

(25:48):
at me about this, but what about that like the
same thing that like my seven and nine year olds
do about each other where they're like, I'm like, clean
up like the toys that are all over the ground.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
He didn't even brush his teeth yet, yes, is like
all right, young houton, why don't you step back with
your whatnot?

Speaker 1 (26:04):
But it's just like trying to like deflect in any
way possible when you know that you don't.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
It's like you're caught in four K, like come on,
you know, and I'm sure that's like with that fake
astronomer CEO, like notice like and Chris Martin maybe shouldn't
have even like done that to me. You know, it's like, Okay, dude,
this guy that was fake. So then moving along, right,
Then you have Marjorie Taylor Green. She her she's still

(26:32):
hungy for some pedophile elite cabal exposures. She's still her
appetite has not been satiated. She said. Quote. If you
tell the base of people who support you of deep
state treason, is crimes, election interference, blackmail, and rich and
powerful elite evil cabals, then you must take down every
enemy of the people. If not, the base will turn

(26:54):
and there's no going back. Dangling bits of red meat
no longer satus. They want the whole steak dinner and
would accept nothing else.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfied.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Really, man, they want the whole steak dinner. The whole
steak dinner.

Speaker 10 (27:18):
James did sound well when you're trying to lure in
the alligator. Just dangling bits are written meat no longer satisfied.
They wanted the whole steak dinner. He's ghostwriting for like.

Speaker 7 (27:31):
Politician.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
You know this is I mean speaking of MTG. MTG
like they have called the house. The house is like
shutting until September to block the epsteam vote.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Right, they're not. They're not taking a vote before the
August recess. No, they're like bruh, don't even Like Mike
Johnson was like, he's doing a thing where he's like, well,
you know, we we trust the government at the moment
for them, they say they're going to be doing what
the right thing is, and I believe that there's no
need for congressional intervention at this moment, and maybe we
will have to revisit that. So he's trying to he's

(28:02):
trying to see here, yeah, but he's trying to act
like too. He's like, but you know, if we got
to do something, we'll do something. But right now, I
don't think we need to do anything. It's kind of
like where he's at with it.

Speaker 6 (28:12):
And wasn't he originally like wanting to release the files
like first round, right.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Every one of these people was wanting to.

Speaker 6 (28:20):
But I mean even like right like just a week
ago or whenever it came out, wasn't he's still wanting
it to be released, like disagreeing with yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
There was a thing where like the vote happened, and
then a podcast appearance came out where he like it
seemed like he had just contradicted what the vote was.
I don't know when that podcast was recorded, but that
headline came from an appearance on a podcast where we
should be looking into transparency.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
It seemed like Trump legit, just like he got everybody
worked up about the Epstein stuff and then remembered that
he was in was like and like, like literally, we
have him hiring like hundreds of FBI agents to go
and like around the clock search through the files for his.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Name, like that's on wax. We have that happening.

Speaker 6 (29:08):
It's a thousand people, wasn't it.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
A thousand thousand people looking around the clock for his
name to flag it. So and there's I don't know
what they found, but all of a sudden, he's like.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Well, these files are nothing, they're nothing. This guy's dead.
He's there's a hundred thousand, at least, as I said,
like around one hundred thousand pages of evidence to go
to my question, why do not any other names?

Speaker 6 (29:34):
Yeah, command find it because all it's going to.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
Take is one.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
It's going to take is one Tump that's in there
that doesn't get caught and be like, yo, who's Donald Tump.
They're like, oh, fuck about that?

Speaker 1 (29:50):
He also doesn't know about control f and like people
are like, ah, this is actually we can make a lot.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Of money here.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Just tell him that we have to look through all
these documents.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
I won due. Can I get overtime for this?

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah, man, just just we do a bad job. And
then Caroline Levitt, the Nazi mouthpiece for the White House,
is now just trying to fully deflect. It's not even
like on the d it's not even on Pam Bondi anymore.
She's just like, I don't know. I asked fucking cash Hotel.
Like it's kind of her energy right now, which you're like, Oh,
things are going well, aren't they. Here's Caroline Levitt being

(30:24):
asked about the press. What about these deals I've seen
files of.

Speaker 9 (30:29):
Interest ordered the FBI to release the full empsident file,
just get it all out.

Speaker 11 (30:33):
The President has said if the Department of Justice and
the FBI want to move forward with releasing any further
credible evidence, they should do so. As to why they
have or have not or will, you should ask the
FBI all that.

Speaker 6 (30:44):
Wow, wow, great, great, thanks just passing the buck.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
All right, Cash Hotel, it's on you.

Speaker 6 (30:50):
You go potato right now?

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, this is bad. I wonder if, like, because they're
all so they are none of them are real critical thinkers.
I'd like if they all are like, yeah, du Trump
isn't in the Epstein files right, like subconsciously that they
and then now they're like, wait is he right now?
Like behind the scenes they're working it out. They're like,
hold on, dude, you think fucking Trump is in the

(31:13):
Epstein files.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
I think he's told people he's in there for some
shit that like would make him look bad, because they've
come out and been like, because we don't want to
release these files that are going to incriminate people who
are actually American fucking heroes.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
But how many do you think are like, Bro, he's
in that shit all that I have done, you know
what I mean? But I feel like you got it
in that moment. You can think of better stuff than just.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
Being like, I don't want you to ask Cashtel and
for that why I'm the answer is why don't you
ask the FBI?

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Maybe? Okay, I mean I'm so like, uh, miss, why
are you suddenly pretending that cash Pttel's FBI is somehow
like some kind of independent body? Like the whole time
before you guys got into office. You talked about I
have to clean house to get people who are all
going to sing from the same hit at the same time.
And now you're like, I don't know when maybe Cash
Wotel gone roll, We're gonna ask him. Yeah, cool, cool, anyway,

(32:07):
good good strategy. Uh. Then let's also check in with
Pam Bondi and the DJ. She now has the Deputy
Attorney General, Todd Blanche. He's off to speak Blanch. She's
off to speak with Gallaiane Maxwell for some reason.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Oh shit, Todd, she's gonna speak to Gilain Maxwell.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
One of my favorite tennis matches, Blanche versus Maxwell is
about to happen. And this is so Pam Bondi puts
this statement out about what's going on, and this just
sounds so fucking I don't even know what the word is, rotten.
I guess its core quote. This Department of Justice does
not shy And this is Pam Bondi posting a statement

(32:48):
from the Deputy Attorney General. She's this These aren't her words,
She's merely reposting what the Deputy ag said. This Department
of Justice does not shy away from uncomfortable truths, nor
from the responsibility to pursue justice where the facts may lead.
The joint statement by the DOJ and FBI of July
six remains as accurate today as it was when it
was written, namely that in the recent thorough review of

(33:10):
the files maintained by the FBI in the Epstein case,
no evidence was uncovered that could predicate an investigation against
uncharged third parties. President Trump has told us to release
all credible evidence. If Gleainne Maxwell has information about anyone
who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the
DOJ will hear what she has to say. Therefore, at

(33:30):
the direction their direction of Attorney General Bondi, I've communicated
with counsel for miss Maxwell to determine whether she would
be willing to speak with prosecutors from the department, and
basically says like, no lead is to is like above
or below our scrutiny, and you're like, okay, so y'all
are warming up for a quick pro quo scheme here,
that's yeah, or.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
We're gonna talk to the woman who was put away
for being the head of a pedophile ring, who even
when she was arrested and put a way for twenty years,
the president was like, I think she's great.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
I wish her well.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah yeah, so like obviously there's some well wishing going on,
like they're they're tight.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
And it's a shame she wasn't charged when Trump was
in office, because then he could have swiftly, you know,
pardoned her. But yeah, now I'm like, this feels really
because again, the way they're talking is like maybe she
has some new evidence where she'll selectively say because again,
this doesn't end until the base gets names. Yeah you

(34:34):
know what I mean, and somebody, like somebody has to
get locked up, I think for this for them to
really put a bow on this shit.

Speaker 6 (34:41):
And there's like talk of there's talk of commuting her sentence,
oh yeah, in order to get her to talk, which
then she can say whatever they wanted to say. And
that feels like I feel like the tossing back and
forth is just them buying time and they're doing some
kind of bigger, scary plan and doesn't feel like a conspiracy.
It's like I think this is really bad.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
No, no, the maxwell of it all, I'm like, you're
pretending like this person doesn't have information or things didn't
come out in the course of both trials like that
you can't act on. So I think this is again
it serves two purposes. One, it makes it feel like
they're pushing, They're going a step closer for the base
to be like, well, you know what, we're going to

(35:24):
talk to the lady who was Epstein's girlfriend. We're going
to see what she has.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
I feel like that is how they end up spinning
this and getting out of it. Is just like having
her like making a big media production of her coming
out and then just doing like some scripted thing where
she's like and Donald Trump was not involved, However Bill
Clinton was a mastermind and.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Involved in that.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
It is making me wonder like, as hot as things
have gotten for him, why is he not just throwing
Bill Clinton under the bus?

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Like that's all these people want?

Speaker 1 (35:55):
And like Bill Clinton was on the flight logs and
like was probably like on the island and in the files,
Like why is he not doing that? Unless he's so
guilty there's the whole time, Yeah, that it could.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Just be like he's like, bro, that's like the you know,
the pot Callum the Kettle and Epstein friends.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
I mean, he doesn't mind being like he doesn't mind
being a hypocrite. But I'm wondering if he assumes that
like that will just lead people in like it, or
Chelsea your point that like he's just in the process
of like arranging things so that the files, the only
files that people can access, have Clinton in them and

(36:38):
not him.

Speaker 6 (36:39):
Yeah, I feel like I feel like she's gonna name
Rosie O'Donnell and all the people that. Yeah, like any enemy,
she'll just be like, here's the list and we'll.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Just colt asap Rocky he never thanked me for getting
him out of Sweden. Nasty oh yg he had that
song fuck.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Like Trumps also want to talk about it, say that
he fucks with Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Maybe I'm not with all the bloods. You know, I
do wear red tie, but no, I claim crip, so
people know that's that's where I'm at, and I'm ten
toes down on that ship. Yeah. But meanwhile, Trump, what
he's doing is like he's doing a bunch of culture
war wins right now. So we talked on like how
he talked about how he was. He said he got
Coke to switch it up to cane sugar, and Coke

(37:27):
was like, huh no, no, we like high fructose corn syrup,
and the corn Lobby of the United States is sort
of like their response, this.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Is very Unamerican of you. Yeah, like, yeah, exactly, industry
is other countries.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
We don't have baby, we do corn sugars here. Coke
has now said, well, yeah, actually we're gonna we're coming
out with a coke product natural cane sugar one, but
just not Mexican. Noted, Yeah, it tastes better when it's
in the glass bottle anyway.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Yeah, Like literally, they could just put regular coke in
a glass bottle and I would be like, hmm, you
can really taste the sugar sugar, Yeah, you can really
taste it. This is a great vintage.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, this is what eighty nine I think.
And then he also threatened the Washington commanders. He was like, dude,
you better lose that woll Gass name and go back
to the Skins or I'm gonna fucking I'm gonna I'm
gonna put the pie wash on a deal. He said,
quote my statement on the Washington Redskins was has totally
blown up, but only in a very positive way. Okay, yeah,

(38:34):
I may put a restriction on them that if they
don't change the name back to the original Washington Redskins
and get rid of the ridiculous monitor Washington commanders. I
won't make a deal for them to build a stadium
in Washington. Here's the thing, Congress already, let the city
of DC, like the District of Columbia decide what to
do with. Like what is that rf What do they

(38:54):
play RFKFK stadium? Yeah, RFK stadium. Yeah, named after K Junior.
Yeah exactly, So it's it's it's gonna be great. Yeah. Yeah,
it's gonna be called the Measles Bowl soon. Yeah, and
they'll but everyone, like all the journalists like there's really
no way, not sure exactly how he's gonna like like
metal in that deal because there has nothing to do

(39:15):
with him at this point. But again it's not he's
just saying him yeah potent, Yeah I am potent. Watch
me chan lean on this football team and make Coke
have sugar in it again. Wow, Wow, you're.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Almighty omnipotent Trump. And then there's just like a slow
drip of like I don't know, old shit that people
are just resurfacing. The people that I feel like is
breaking through, Like there's a video that went viral where
it's just Trump he's judging a like beauty contest for

(39:48):
like pre teen or like, you know, fourteen year old
girls with like the seriousness of like an art appraiser,
and right like it's just him and a bunch of
like grown men just sitting back watching like fourteen year
olds walk by in fucking bathing.

Speaker 6 (40:04):
Suits like it's a dog show and they're yeah, just
looking at every Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Which just like I feel like enough time has passed
that it just looks like fucking so weird and creepy,
and also you know enough people aren't like as much
as much as they're going to want to dismiss it,
like he is acting so much like a nervous liar
in a bad movie.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
He's just like, what do you mean? I don't know
what you're talking about?

Speaker 1 (40:32):
This guy? This guy the people said he was my
best friend, never.

Speaker 12 (40:35):
Heard of him, Like he's yeah, literally he was a
collar yanking You think how close is he to putting
a pair of eyeglasses on and be like you wouldn't
punch a man in glasses.

Speaker 13 (40:46):
Which is like, what that's where we're Did you see
that clip that another one that came out from in
nineteen ninety two when you sees like a ten year
old girl on an escalator and he's like, I'll be
dating her in ten years.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like there's so much any stories like that.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
This was so you're going up the escalanta, I'm going
to be dating her in ten years.

Speaker 7 (41:06):
Going oh my god.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
Okay, yeah, I mean I feel like no, like we
will probably have some of the things that he's said
about Ivanka like resurfacing, because some of that shit is
so wild and like he was saying it while she
was like a child.

Speaker 6 (41:23):
Yeah, so well he's talking about was it I don't
I don't know which daughter it was, but about her
legs when she was an infant, and like, well, I
don't know if she'll have like the breasts of her
mother or not.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
It's like, oh, he was talking about Tiffany.

Speaker 6 (41:38):
Tiffany. Sorry Tiffany.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Yeah, sorry, Tiffany.

Speaker 7 (41:42):
Sorry.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Tiff not acknowledged that he was saying pedophile shit about you.

Speaker 14 (41:47):
Yeah, she was a.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Very beautiful baby. She's got Marla's legs. We don't know
whether or not. He put his hands up to his chest.

Speaker 6 (41:55):
Okay, Jesus Christy, Yeah, really normal, really normal.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
He said. The full quote is, we don't know whether
or not puts hands to test she's got this part yet,
but time will tell.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
That's a cool and normal way to be looking at
a fucking child at.

Speaker 6 (42:13):
Your own infant.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Yeah, daughter, Yeah, well she has my she has the woman,
my romantic partner's body. We'll see if the other part
of it happens too. On the purpose of.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
This, it's normal. Like, but honestly, I feel like you
could just do such a just create a documentary. There's
like thirty minutes of just shit like this and over
and just drop it on their asses.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Yeah, well, we'll see. They might. They're probably closer to
being like I'd rather support a pedophile honestly, if it's
between that and a Democrat. Yeah, I'm not going to
do it. But I don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
It's just it is frustrating because there's just so many
like the people's interest in this case comes like it's
there's a people who are interested in this for a
good reason. This is like a concentrated amount of wealth
and power that is like clearly doing evil shit, and
the fact that it is just being fucked this badly

(43:15):
and that like a person involved in it is the President.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Like it's like that.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Most movies don't have it where the bad guy ends
up being the actual president. Yeah, you know, the bad
guy involved in the conspiracy. I think the bee Keeper
did that, but like otherwise, it's pretty pretty uncommon. It's
like kind of B movie territory.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Right, Clear and President Danger or yeah, Clear and Pleasant
kind of got near it where the President was covering
for another bad guy and was trying to lean on
Harrison Ford, but that still wasn't like smoking gun kind
of stuff.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
It's just like weird to have like somebody fist fighting
the president at the end of the movie the Beekeeper,
it's actually the president's shitty kid, so it would be
like Donald Trump.

Speaker 6 (44:01):
So why do you think and maybe I'm sure you
guys talked about this, but why did they in the
first place bring it back up again?

Speaker 7 (44:08):
Right?

Speaker 6 (44:08):
That seems like a weird move, Like they could have
just the files, I mean and just be like, nope,
nothing to see here. Was there like a lot of
external pressure happening at that moment to make them decide
to bring it up, Because if they hadn't brought it up,
it just feels like it people would have kept wanting it.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
They could have just been like, we're still working on
it exactly, is going all the way to the end
of it, do what everybody did with the JFK files
for decades.

Speaker 6 (44:30):
It just seems really odd that they decided because they
had to have known that it would was going to
be a big problem.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
I think it's that they made the mistake of bringing
in like people like Cash Ptel and Dan Bongino, who
are literally like the head of the FBI, and they
were putting pressure in so like institutionally they had to
be like, no, this is nothing, we're moving on. And
then when they did that, Cash Hotel and Dan Bongino

(44:57):
were like pushing back on it. And then that I
think the damn Bongino thing was the first time that
like there was a big flare up of this right
where people were like, oh wait.

Speaker 6 (45:06):
A genuine rift.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
Yeah yeah, yeah, this seems like there's something happening here.

Speaker 6 (45:11):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, it's just I think they
probably thought we'll put we'll give them like some grainy
video and some other ship that they've kind of seen,
and then that'll be it and we can keep it moving.
And yeah, you didn't realize what they've been. These people
have been simmering ready, very messy, very yeah, and I

(45:32):
can I can only imagine what kind of fucked up
shit they'll do in the name of self preservation to
spin their way out of this. And what what. You know,
innocent people actually get harmed, and you know, victims are
like re traumatized again when they're like, we need to
read from this document again out loud and ask this
person what they saw.

Speaker 6 (45:51):
Let's get Glen out of prison. Let's talk to her.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Yeah, let's get her out of prison, and then maybe
she'll she'll tell out the truth or finally have some
kind of odd tragic accident that we just can't explain.

Speaker 6 (46:04):
You know, she's unhealthy.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
I think she's fine. I think she's their fucking golden ticket.
I think she's probably as safe as anyone's ever been
in prison. But I don't know unless she's like I'm
telling the fucking truth people.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
She's like yeah, yeah, yeah, get me out there, all right,
So here's the deal, Like yeah, yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 6 (46:22):
Mean that'd be that would be nice.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
I would imagine wow, but yeah, i'd imagine a scumbag
of that degree is only looking out for themselves and
trying to avoid.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
And he just wants to get back to just like
evil Nepo baby, like the worst people.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
I have to say to get out of this, Okay, yeah,
that's what.

Speaker 6 (46:39):
I think is most likely.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Yeah, would love to.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
we're back.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
We're back.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
And this is the public service announcement part yeah, the
show where we tell you how to avoid reenacting a
scene from Final Destination.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
Essentially, just please stop wearing metal near MRI scans, please,
iron and the like.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
This is the type of metal I did not know
people were wearing. It is not earrings, yes, no, no, no,
like a belt buckle.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
No, this is okay. So this is really fucked up story.
So this man in New York was with his wife
as she was getting her knee scanned, okay, at an
open MRI facility. They thought the machine was off apparently
because she his wife was like, hey, can you help
me up out of here, and so he was like, okay,
let me enter the room now to help with a
tech with the with the MRI tech they're operating. It

(47:44):
went in there. But here's the thing. This man, this
is from the Guardian article. This is ritten up quote.
The technician operating the machine, which looks like a long,
narrow tube with openings on each end, then allowed Keith
to walk in while he wore a nearly twenty pounds
and metal chain that he used for weight training. So
the guy was wearing a twenty pound metal chain around

(48:08):
his neck.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
I guess what does that look like? I didn't know
this was a thing, but it's.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
Probably some thick ass like near anchor chain level kind
of shit where it's like, I'm gonna put this fucking
twenty pound workout chain on again as somebody who's not
working out let alone their necks specifically with chains. I
couldn't tell you, but I'd imagine it's something very industrial
looking and again just straight up metal. So then when

(48:33):
that happened, he was quote sucked into the device by
its potent magnetic force and endured a quote medical episode
which left him in critical edition, and then he was
he passed away a day later, And I'm like, how
the fuck is this possible? Like you're already like you
have a death magnet machine, and then you let a
guy saunter in with a fucking twenty pound iron chain

(48:56):
around his neck. He just feels so negligent on the
part of like the MRI facility. But apparently this wasn't
the first time he wore the chain into the clinic.
His wife quote told News twelve that she and her
husband had previously been to Nasau NASA Open MRI and
he had worn his weight training chain there before. Quote
this was not the first time that guy had seen

(49:17):
that chain, she told the station. They had a conversation
about it before. Geez, it's just like that has to
be like MRI Tech training number one, right, Like, aren't
there signs all over those rooms that are like, yo,
do not get the fuck out of here if you
have metal. It's been many years since I had an

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MRI scan on my knee. It's when I had Osgar
Schlager's for my for my growing pains. Anyway, I've not
been recently. I don't know if you have, Andrew or
have any insights too.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
I've got I've had a couple scans my chain I
left at home.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Smart good.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
I think we got to turn this open MRI into
a closed MRI.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
I think they deserve it down to maintain the open
MRI status. Yeah and yeah, real sad real sad for
this woman.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Your MRIs were recreational. They weren't even medical.

Speaker 4 (50:11):
They were just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, mine were fun. Yeah.
I just I like the beeps, I like the sounds.
I like the vibe.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
And then you're like, hey, tell me my brain's good.
Yeah it was the scan, say my brain's good. Yeah,
well no, they said my brain.

Speaker 3 (50:26):
My brain was so dense and smart that they actually
couldn't even scan it.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Oh wow that felt good. Yeah that's sick.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
Sorry, it was a Yeah, it was a big red
axe on the screen. I think that's good. I think
that's good.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
But just like, this story sounds like the like the
like a wacky incident from like the early days of
MRI scans where it's like, ah, okay, don't have all
these oxygen tanks.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
I don't want to be I don't want to be
the devil's advocate because this is a new story.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
So who knows.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
But the article that I was reading said that that
he ran in and they told him not to.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
But I don't know who.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
I don't I don't want to victim blame here.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
I don't know who's that multiple accounts. Either way, I'd
be like I would be like, sir, don't even come
into my MRI imaging facility with this fucking thing.

Speaker 4 (51:14):
Yeah, I don't even I agree with that.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
I know what can happen, and I don't care if
it's your right to work work out over there, because
I don't want the trauma of something terribly happening and
I have to bear witness to that. Please. It's just
very again, it just feels like so multiple failures at
every level where I'm like, it's was it a magnetic
resonance imaging is what Mr Sandsport.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
I did like a full body scan thing in one
of those a couple of years ago, And like while
I was in there for like an hour and they
let you watch TV, and the one that I was
in it's like really lying It was really interesting. You're
lying down and as you're looking up, you're looking at
a mirror of a TV that's like behind a wall
behind you, like behind plexicalass.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Oh right, okay, so the really put it, Yeah, put
an idea of faces not in there, but it's really
the way they did it was like interesting, like you're
looking up at a mirror of a TV that's behind
It was kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
That's how serious they are. They've like invented new magic
asshole type ship to avoid there being any metal in there.
And then this guy or the tech was just like, yeah,
come on in here.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
Yeah, they're consulting with David Copperfield to let you watch that.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
I do feel like particularly called to this type of
like I could see something like this happening to me,
like just you know, like they talk about the call
of the void, the people who are like, you know,
standing on the edge of a building and they're just like,
but what if i'd tea anytime? Like you know, there's

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the garbage disposals going in the sink, and I'm just like,
you know what, I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
I want not to.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
But you're like, you're you're parked outside of the MRI
Center with your wife and you got like a giant
metal chain in one hand and a plastic one in
the other, and you're.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Anyways, or do I wear my plastic chain with a
bunch of nails construction nails on it? So many options,
but yes, please God, like like to the point, right,
like Final Destination creates these like sort of weird phobias
for us or movies do that I can't like, y'all,
come on now, we should be terrified of MRI machines,

(53:33):
just with something going awry at this point, Like every
time when I've driven. I remember driving through Washington State
once and being near like a logging truck, and I
was like, yell you. I'm like, bro, I'm getting off
the fucking highway.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
Dude.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
I don't even want to hear this shit.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Because I saw a movie when I was fourteen. That movie, Yeah,
I do wonder if that movie like caused a drop
in deaths by logging truck. I don't know how common
they were place right. I've definitely been way more careful
around logging trucks since seeing that movie. I used to

(54:07):
be a wild man came to the logging truck whatever
the equivalent of birding is.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
I was doing there for a logging truck, just trying
to get real close.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
You played a game, You're like, oh, you see a
log you close your eyes and step on the guy.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
I mean, Jackie's clearly didn't learn your lesson with the garbage.
Just bossible that You're like, it makes me want to
touch it a little bit. I don't want to. I
just know the possibility is there.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
You know what I mean, that's what they call the
void is It's not It's not something who's like I
want to do this. There's a part of you that
recognizes I think it's a part of me that recognizes
how little I'm in control of or like, how how
much of my mental faculties are happening like in a
in a part of my brain that I don't have

(54:54):
access to.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
You know that, you're like, why am I into this?
Why am I so horny? Right now? It's calling you
like the ring of power.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
I think it's just it's one of those things where
just like such a small shift has can have such
profound consequences.

Speaker 4 (55:10):
It's an interesting concept.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
I think that if you just did this one small thing,
everything would be quite different. I think that's that's that's
the smart version of what we're trying to say.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
For sure, people talk about it with regards to like
grabbing a cops gun, like yeah, yeah, you're like out
and there's a cop right there. I'm not not looking
at that gun.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
Oh yeah. Everyone looks at a cops gun. Yeah yeah,
and go like that.

Speaker 14 (55:36):
Brittany Broskivy, All right, let's let's talk about the Catholic Church.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Shall we it is Tuesday later stories when Hollywood inevitably
reboots The Exorcist, I firmly believe they should make about this.
There's a story published in The Pillar, which I don't
have to say this, I hope, but it's a journalistic
outlet that covers the Catholic Church, cover the world. But

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we all knew that. So this story went viral. I
wonder how many the Pillar stories go viral, but.

Speaker 4 (56:22):
I can never tell when they go viral because I
get my pillared in the mail.

Speaker 3 (56:25):
I get it to live hard copies, so I don't
do the social media thing. Ye let me look at
the ones I've cut out though.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
Yeah, yeah, oh, I missed this one when I was reading.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
So Underrated reading The Pillar in paper.

Speaker 4 (56:42):
For as the Pope intended.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
Uh So, this story revealed that a group of Denver
seminarians Again I'm not gonna have to tell anybody what
seminarians are, but just in case, uh you know, these
are people training to become priests were subjected to a
strange ritual involving fake blood and a yetti costume. They
were woken up in the middle of the night and

(57:09):
told they had to participate in a quote sacred tradition,
which involved being led into a trailer where a priest
dressed as the Yeti performed a fake ritual involving grizzly
bud blood. He warned them, if you enter into this family,
there's no going back, and the seminarians were told to
scream as if in pain before leaving the trailer with

(57:30):
bloodied hands and taped mouths, and then just like went
back and like washed up.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
Oh, but then they had to go into the next
room because they would come out to freak out the
next batch of h training, so like so freaking mouse.
So then when they when they go in there like,
oh no, you guys are.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Bloody, scream Oh it's a classic Yetti blood fake out.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
I thought you knew the classic yetty blood fake out blood. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
And also, this is why was Hugh Grant behind this.
I think this sounds like that movie I was also
set in Colorado. I don't know ship it was setting Bolder.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
This feels again, this is why this is peak virgin behavior.
Like this, y'all should be fucking bro the fuck are you?
I would be so pissed off if I'm like if
I even was trying to do something seriously like and
you do the Yetti blood oath. I'm like, you guys

(58:28):
are fucking losers that it was already a stretch me
dedicating my life to the fucking church, but now we're
doing yetti blood oath. Shit, fuck out of here. Come
photos or not, they're I don't like them. It's tough.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
So YETI is tricky, because what do you mean In
one sense, I don't find Yetty scary. I only know
it as like Harry and the Henderson's, Like I don't
find it interesting or scary.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Or you're a Disney adult who loves the matter Horn
right our vergon Jin's we're talking about Jack from the Matterhorn.

Speaker 4 (59:03):
They love fucking Disneyland.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
But there mileage varies wildly around YETI stuff, like some
people seem to just really love Yetti ship, like be real, all.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
In on it, you know.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
Like I feel like YETI is one of those things
that I dismiss. But I'm also like very interested in
aliens and UFOs, so like, you know, it's just one
of the crims that I think has like a deep
spiritual power over certain people that.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
Virgin wouldn't ever again. Virgin when I say certain people,
you of course know R.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
Jack Skids, I think, yeah, the way that like artists
and you know, Star Wars and ship like that. Like
I feel like for a certain of people like YETI
Star Wars virgins. Dude, I never said it was I
would never.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
I don't know the employer. I don't know because I've
I'll I do sex, dude, I've done sex before, so
and I fuck with Star Wars man find a new angle, dude,
I don't. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
Do you guys like fuck with Yetti's at all?

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Are you? Are you interested in like YETI?

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
I mean yeah, I mean I even grew up in
the woods, and I just you know, I grew up
in like the middle in Colorado, and I just I
never really cared. Oh, I just feel like I just
I just feel like I don't know, like at this point,
there would be something about it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
If it was legit, that's what.

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
Yeah, But even if it wasn't legit, It's like they
find new animals in the ocean all the time and
it's not like a big deal.

Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
It's like, oh, I guess there was a thing we
didn't think about. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
Even if there was a YETI it's kind of like
it's is it just like a different kind of animal.

Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:00:53):
It doesn't even feel that relevant or that important.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
Keepsessed if people were like, mister, we were getting killed
in the woods like every month, you know, like, then I.

Speaker 4 (01:01:04):
Think that the story would be more more interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
About to hear from some people. Then they will tell
you that that is exactly what's happened.

Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
Do they really claim?

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Because okay, because I guess I thought that they were
just saying, like there're sightings, but they're saying that they're
actually like people are getting killed and stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
Oh yeah, okay, you don't know about mysterious disappearances in
the state parks man, Okay, then I mean you look
at a map, you look at where people have disappeared from.

Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
Yeah, I guess I didn't realize it was that Okay, couldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Yeah, but this the way first of all, this the
pillar right up, it's a sub stack, which I love
and like there's an editor's note, but is so funny
how like insular? This like field of journalism must be
said quote owing to pre pre existing relationships or other
circumstances which could lead constitute a potential conflict of interest.
Neither J. D. Flynn nor Michelle la Rossa contributed to

(01:01:54):
the reporting or editing of this story. I'm sorry, are
you related to the fucking yettie priest or something? And
you don't want to snitch the way this sound this one, guys,
this is so painful, it says they. When the seminaries
entered the trailer. The seminaries were met by father of
Friar Napil, who can be seen in the video setting
up a camera to record the occasion, alongside a man

(01:02:16):
dressed in a yetti costume. Each seminarian was then invited
to sit at the table on which there was a
dagger and what appeared to be blood and a dollar
bill on a piece of paper. This is giving such
virgin horror movie bullshit. I've ever in a video of
the ritual seen by the pillar the seminary and asked
he has quote any ideas what's going to happen, to
which the seminarian response, no, quote. You're about to enter

(01:02:37):
into a sacred tradition. Are you ready for it? This
seminary and also in front of the people who come
up here, not everyone makes it to enter into the tradition,
and it said, you guys have the balls. This is
such this is like snipe hunt shit when your yees
are actually really tough.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
I'm really impressed with how you're handling this.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Yeah. Also, like this is the most sacrilegious shit ever
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
And they just got and this is gonna surprise anybody
who's familiar with uh Catholicism. But they because no canonical
crime had occurred the priest slash YETI was given a
slap on the wrist and merely reassigned.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
Oh oh well that is the ultimate punishment the Catholic Church.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they got that muscle worked out real nice.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
What they do, let me see, I don't know is
Penal code two ninety, section three fifteen in the no.
I guess no, I guess we'll just have to reassign him.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
An important aspect of this is that the church, like,
so I the thing that I was assuming the Church
would be like this is ridiculous, We're mad at you.
Like this is like mocking Catholicism by like wearing a
spirit Halloween YETI costume and like making that a part
of our like very serious like ancient tradition where like

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we like wear robes and whip ourselves or whatever, and
instead they they were mad and like brought in an
exorcist to like reverse to Oh so they're saying, it's
like legit like kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Which one is it? Again? Is it? No canonical crime
has been committed, But then you need some an exorcist
to come up and clean up the vibes.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
The exorsus prayed over the seminarians and they made a
formal renunciation of this blood oath that they had made.
But it doesn't say whether the seminarians had asked to
swear had been asked to swear an oath of no
takebacks when they were first, because if they had the form,
if they had done as, then the formal renunciation actually

(01:04:37):
holds no water.

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
Ah yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, they said it's immature.
I mean yeah, no ship because you have a bunch
of emotionally stunted dudes doing weird blood oath crap. It's
just like no, you're you're you're having them sort of whatever.
Like now now my inner Catholic teacher is coming out.
This is not this is not a game.

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
This is back to my point that my pitch for
Catholicism and all organized religion get into the psychedelics thing,
like this is your future. There was a study that
I mean they've done multiple studies, but studies where they
had priests and like people who are religious leaders taking

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psychedelics and they were like, Wow, this is like a
powerful religious experience and like make that your thing. It
would be it would be so good for organized religion
and uh be a lot cooler if you did.

Speaker 12 (01:05:33):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
No, we want to do like a weird janky, haunted
house type thing to open their eyes to God.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
We should go to we should go to the Catholic
churches and wear like shirts that say hashtag let them fuck.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
Yeah, like with a YETI though it's like a speech bubble,
leave me alone, let them fuck. What's you are fucking?
Like that idea?

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
Man, Jesus gets us. They're like, Okay, the next one is, uh,
what's your fucking.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
Fucking is playing the Nintendo switch to.

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
My fucking is weirdly yetti blood oaths for somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
I don't know what wires got crossed? Yeah, but I'm
into it. I love cryptis. All right, that's gonna do it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
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