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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. Rob Anderson,

(00:25):
what is something from your search history that is revealing
about who you are?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I don't know how interesting it is, but the most
recent thing was a search for a power shot three
confetti blaster because I am on tour right now and
I do everything myself because I am like virgo, like
I'm very in the weeds, and so I have confetti
that comes out at the edge of the show and

(00:53):
I need a hard blast, like I need to soak
people in confetti. I don't want this little like poof.
And so I was trying to educate some as a
different venues on like the real good confetti machines that
we need in the good shit.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
So it's a machine. It's not like because there is
a fun thing that I discovered one New Year's Eve
when I had kids that were too young, is like
there's a thing that you like pull. I think you
twist it and it like explodes confetti out of it,
but like it's also it uses gunpowder to do so
it's very loud and terrifying. It's basically a firework. Love it, Yeah,

(01:32):
but I love it. The one you're using is a machine,
like it's actually, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Well I could do a whole show on confetti machines. Okay,
but there's blasters that do one big boom, and then
there's blowers which continuously feed the audience with confetti. I
love to do both. I love the impact and then
the continual hit. I'm telling you, confetti changes everyone's mood.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Like it does.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I mean, not that they need their mood change during
a cor Always, if I bombed, but you end with confetti,
they forgot all your errors. They are like, holy crap,
that was amazing. So I really love to fill the
whole room with it.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
That sounds amazing. I want to.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
I want to know a person who has to. If
I knew a person who had a confetti blaster or
a machine, every comedy show I did would somehow incorporate that,
because you know how comedians, we'd just be like, oh,
I know somebody who got this, Like, oh I can
use it. I'm I'm not even thought of a confetti
in the show because I don't know anybody who has

(02:33):
confetti blaster. But now, but now, confetti is coming to LA.
Y'all is coming to the LA shows. Were about to
blast Sholl with some confetti whether you like it or not.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Front row gets hit and hit yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Does it come from you?

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Are you like, do you have a device that you're
like pointing out into the crowd? Is it coming down?
I always find it a little like after a support
event when the confetti comes down from the ceiling, Like
it's cool for a moment, but then I feel like
it's better if like you're blasting confetti out at people,

(03:11):
like a big confetti cum shot.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
You know, it's funny you say that. I was inspired
to do this at the end of my show because
I saw Adele in Vegas and she she's dropping shit
left and right. She's got postcards or like little mementos
that come down in paper, and then she and the
whole time, I'm just blown away by things. It's very
simple concept of paper coming at you from the ceiling,

(03:37):
and so I wanted to do that. And I think
you have to be in a really massive venue or
one that's properly built to drop from the sky, so
I just shoot them out at people from the stage,
and I do travel with one that is only two
hundred bucks and it hits people pretty good. But if
I'm doing a big theater, like fifteen hundred people or more,
I rent them out and they hit them hard.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
Do do theater? Do the people who work at the
theater love you?

Speaker 1 (04:06):
They're just like pulling companie three months.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
You actually have to pay a clean up fee, so
I pay a grand or more for them to.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Close it up. Wow, that's a showman right there.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, I don't have a choice. I'll pay it every
time because it's worth it.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yes, no choice.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah, I like that, absolutely perfection that.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Speaking of Carrie Fisher towards the end of her life,
and I didn't get to this during the Icon episode,
but she did have a habit of bringing glitter wherever
she went and just like glitter bombing people.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
See that's jail, that's jail time.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
There was cleanup fee for that.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Yeah, you will be finding that for years.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
I went to a Kesha concert once and I the
amount of glitter everyone was throwing. I swear I was
finding it for weeks. It was that's a rough place
to be.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, great, great, great use of your iconography.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Though it's like Bill Murray.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Being like no one will ever no one will ever
believe you when he like runs up and like hug
someone or like.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
He'll take up by their food. Yeah, that's what you're doing.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, what is?

Speaker 1 (05:16):
What's something you guys think is underrated?

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Katie?

Speaker 1 (05:18):
You want to start us?

Speaker 6 (05:20):
I do, And I have a very simple one that
I think is going to be a nice gift for everyone.
Cutting up your banana. Oh, if you're going to put
a banana on a yogurt or a cereal or a situation,
just take a few seconds cut that up with a knife,
and you are going to have a fancy, fancy day.

Speaker 7 (05:39):
South Indian drunk food yogurt, rice and banana cut up
on top.

Speaker 6 (05:45):
So good, Oh, so good. My best friend in junior
high and then she we went to college together too.
She was South Indian and her mother would always send
us the greatest food to college. And it was always
like she would put like hot sauce on ice cream.

Speaker 7 (06:02):
Oh that's why.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (06:04):
It was like I was like I get it. She's
like I gotta taste something. Some straw correct, correct, So
I encourage you all to to take that moment to
just cut up your banana, and you will feel so
fancy and you will save twelve dollars for the you know,
cut up plate of food that you would have thought.

Speaker 7 (06:23):
It's also, yeah, it's an investment in your self worth.
You deserve a banana.

Speaker 6 (06:27):
Correct, Yep, you just need a butter knife.

Speaker 7 (06:31):
It's it's butter knife, butter knife, butter knife, butter knife.
I hardly know.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
I wanted to give you the space to say that
a new to help you get it out.

Speaker 8 (06:44):
Jack.

Speaker 7 (06:45):
We know each other too well.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
I find uh, I find ice cream without hot sauce
on it too spicy. So I don't know what you
get talking about.

Speaker 7 (06:53):
Yes, actually had to.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Take a look down.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
It's a little a little too much for me.

Speaker 6 (07:01):
The skim milk is hot.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
I love sliced up and a on my cereal. That
is one of my favorite little treats.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
In the world.

Speaker 8 (07:10):
I urge you all.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
The one thing that those cereal boxes were not lying
about was, you know, the little sliced uff I feel
like cheerios. Maybe for a while the yellow Cheerios box
had sliced up an on it at one point, Holly,
how about you? What's something you think is underrated?

Speaker 8 (07:29):
Room temperature butter? Keeping it on the counter. Wow, So
it spread so easy and it melts so fast. I've
started buttering both sides of my toast because you know
we're all going to die, and the underpart is where
your tongue is, you know what I mean?

Speaker 7 (07:47):
Yes, can I tell you something fucked up from my life? Please?

Speaker 6 (07:51):
If you didn't, I.

Speaker 7 (07:56):
Killed a man.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
This recording.

Speaker 7 (08:01):
Yeah, it's fine. He jumped in front of the car.

Speaker 6 (08:04):
No, anyway, the Apprentice reboot isn't happening.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Because I'm not.

Speaker 7 (08:09):
Oh man, I okay. I take rolls and sometimes I don't.
This is so fucked up, guys, Please don't think less
of me. I take and then I don't cut them.
I slather butter on the side and I just bite
into it. And then I keep doing that in front
of the bite because I don't fucking I don't fucking
slice it. I just take a whole roll, slather butter

(08:31):
on the side, add more butter, chop, add more butter.

Speaker 8 (08:35):
Better as you go, hell, better as you go, baby. Yeah,
absolutely does seem like it.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Just I'm trying to figure out what bothered, And I
think it's the I think it's the fact that I'm
worried the butter is going to fall off. Yeah, not
as you do it right.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
And I'm.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
Hollis and I were the same.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
My grandmother would never refrigerate butter. That was not a
thing that she She was like, No, you.

Speaker 7 (09:09):
Don't supposed to be raw.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Eggs too, that are actually like fresh from the bird. Yeah,
real eggs are allowed to Yeah, you don't.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
You don't.

Speaker 7 (09:25):
I'm going to need to talk to people in my
tropical places. Please don't listen to this podcast. This is
for white environments only.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
People in the tropical places have never heard of refrigerating
eggs because they don't have to. There's like something weird.
I think that's right, that there's something weird that is
done to eggs by like, you know, factories, egg factories.

Speaker 7 (09:52):
That stop calling me that Jack. I've asked you a
million times.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (10:03):
You know what I mean? Broad? What is toy something
you think is overrated?

Speaker 9 (10:12):
I think that given the Christian nationalist vibes we're getting
as a country, I think that using apocalyptic language is
kind of overrated. You think that we're like giving them
what they want when we're like, oh, the world is
ending and whatever, because they're like, yeah, that's what we want.
We want to like trigger the rapture and us comes
back and God does this the genocide and like gives

(10:33):
us the earth. And I'm like, I don't actually think
we should be entertaining this logic at all. I think
it's probably not good for your mental health one. But
also it's like, let's imagine a future without these people
being in charge, instead of just being like, oh, well,
this is the end.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
They got it. They're taking us.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Out impossible, they will oh wait, they very recently were
viewed as just wackos who shouldn't be in charge of anything.

Speaker 9 (10:59):
I think, Yeah, So in the book The Ministry for
the Future, I probably have like reference this line on
here before. But and to be fair to the author,
he's kind of disavowed this a little bit. But one
of the lines in the book is people have an
easier time imagining the end of the world than the
end of capitalism, which I personally took as a challenge
and I was like, hey, let's do this differently. And

(11:20):
so I think that like when I just don't want
to be using framing, even if I'm kidding around, I
don't want to be using framing that like Mike Huckabee
and Pete hegseeth like sincerely believe. I don't want to
give them that win. I don't want to be carrying
water for their ideas. So I'm like trying to encourage
all of my friends to like, let's imagine something different

(11:41):
and new that like doesn't doesn't.

Speaker 10 (11:43):
I feel not called out but called in And I
like that.

Speaker 9 (11:49):
I mean I was raised like Christian nationalists, like borderline culty,
so I definitely was. You know, this is what I
was taught as like a little kid, is that we
need to we need to get Israel to attack or
get Aron to attack Israel so that Jesus will come
back and then like they'll do all this fighting and
God will kill everybody and then it'll be a grand
old time. And you know, once you realize this, like oh,

(12:10):
this is a death cult, you're like, hey, maybe maybe
not like giving them what they want and like imagining
an incredible future for humanity that doesn't include billionaires or
trillionaires or death cults.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
You're hewish.

Speaker 10 (12:23):
So I didn't grow up around any of that, like
the end of the world type language or relations like
that's just not a thing to me. But I do say,
like every time I talk about you know, when we're like,
oh my god, this is happening right now, we'll go
I'll go like, oh, you mean in the in the
air of our Satan twenty twenty six, And I'm like, no,
I need to take that out of my language, because

(12:45):
it's the same thing as what you're saying. I'm just
going to what we're it is.

Speaker 9 (12:51):
I think we're like like intervertinly giving into their I
don't know, propaganda about like how the world should be,
and it's like, know, the world should be a place
where everyone has health care and you can go and
visit the biggest living organism on the planet, and you know,
or a spring, go to a hot spring, go to
the deepest lake in the US, like you know, all

(13:13):
these beautiful things that you get to do when when
you're an Oregon. Everyone should be allowed to do those
things all the time and have enough to eat and
not have to be worried about these people. So I'm like,
I've been thinking about the way that like my language
carries water for fascists, and I'm like not going to
do that anymore.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
I'm just I'm just gonna.

Speaker 9 (13:31):
It's the kind of like maybe it's like a name
it and claim it thing or like fake it till
you make it, but like, no, actually, things are going
to get better, and there are good people on this
planet who are working to make that happen, and we
should be encouraging and supporting those people and like doing
what we can to care for our neighbors and communities
and not be not being not using this language of

(13:53):
like oh the world sending, it's over, we're cooked, Like
you know.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
No again, it's still going to be happening, and thirty
years and there will be like a whole new generation
who has to deal with the ship. So let's work
on it. Let's get started now.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Don't give up.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
Don't give up.

Speaker 9 (14:09):
Like they don't have as much power as they think
that they do, so like let's not just preemptively roll
over and die for them.

Speaker 10 (14:18):
I'm just gonna. What I'm going to do is increase
the amount of times that I say when the revolution comes,
there you.

Speaker 9 (14:24):
Go, you know, yeah, I'm saying I'm like reconstruction two
point zero.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
When that happens, all these people are going to go
to jail.

Speaker 9 (14:33):
You know, until we have you know, abolition for m Yeah,
so we have a done system.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Right now, you know.

Speaker 9 (14:42):
I again, I'm like, uh, Elon Musk can have all
of his assets seas and he can work as a
Walmart reader. And I think that would be good for
him to just like have a comfortable, middle class ish life,
two bedroom apartment, take the bus to work, shake people's
hands as they come into Walmart for the rest of
his life. Everyone else thrives. I think that would be
so so promising for all of us, and like so

(15:07):
much like psychic torture for him that like the world
would just thrive off of the I don't know, he'd
start like decomposing in real time and like Earth would
start healing. Yes, like all these good things would grow
out of his corpse. Like I'm just trying to be
more creative and like, okay, how what could things look

(15:27):
like instead of just being like, oh, I'm going to
give up, you know, the fascist one so whatever. It's like, No,
these people they don't win, Like it feels like they're winning.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
H for sure, But yeah, I don't have to win.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, they don't have to, so I do I love
that quote because and I I always say that I
think the reason we're at least part of the reason
we're obsessed with post apocalyptic literature is that it's one
of the only places that we can realistically imagine a
walkable city.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Like living in a walkable city.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
Totally it's not so hilarious.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, I truly think that that's actually true, that that's people.
People are just like, man, the only way that could
possibly happen is like everybody else gets wiped out. It's
like no, you can like go to cities in other
countries and like they're just like, aren't cars They're going
to like zip by and fucking kill you dude.

Speaker 9 (16:24):
Like yeah, like downtown Tokyo at night, I'm like there's
you don't see cars. It's really weird. It's like it's
like it's like London and peripheral where there's just like
two cars and like, yeah, it's super strange.

Speaker 7 (16:37):
So yeah, there.

Speaker 10 (16:38):
Is people are doing it cars, but you don't know
one you know has one because why would you. Everyone
takes the fucking metro or whatever, and.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
So they give you people waiting on the corners with
I was gonna say a bicycle and a bigotte and
uh four or five cigarettes, bottle of wine. Let's take
a quick break, we'll come back. We'll talk about the news,

(17:15):
and we're back.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
It's time for the news, Jack.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Time for some news here. Let me read the news.
The you know, as Americans were all primarily worried about
how are corporations doing, how does this affect corporation? And
of course we got some good news. I know, it
was a big relief to me.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
A couple of weeks back, it was reported that like
Chase Bank, all of the banks that do like investment
banking and like profit off of like trading volume at
on Wall Street have had like record great profits because
when there's volatility like the war in Iran, like every

(18:01):
everything is you know, on hyper drive, and everybody's making
a lot of trades and they're just making so much
money off of off of this war. But I was
still worried because I go to the gas pump and look,
I will happily go into debt paying for a tank
full of gas in order for to help America win.

(18:23):
To help America win, I'll do anything make America win.
This war. WAW doesn't make any sense whatsoever, But like
what like, if they're charging me that much money, the
corporations must be hurting, like hurt people.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
Hurt people. Oh that's so true, that's so true. The
gas What about the gas companies? What about the oil companies? Yeah, yeah,
for the emotional labor that they are putting companies.

Speaker 5 (18:50):
I was yesterday, I feel I was filling tank with
gas yesterday and the motherfucking pump dropped out of the
goddamn car and gas stars spilling all all over the floor.
And the first thought I had was, I'm wasting the corporations.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
You start, you put you started putting it in your
mouth to make sure.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
I was like, I can't waste this.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Come on, yeah, it's uh, it's so expensive, really expense.
I'm going quarter tanks at certain points. I'm like, surely
this is gonna go down at some point and we're
just gonna go quarter tanks for a little bit.

Speaker 8 (19:23):
Here.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
I have a hybrid and I do that thing where
it's like you know, if you drive it real slow. Yeah,
that shit is been an emode.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Oh I got I got my eye on that. Uh yeah, PM,
I'm like, we're not going over.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
To that's right, that's right. You keep that ship at
a nice slow pace and then you see a hill
and you're like, fucked. No five dollars.

Speaker 5 (19:47):
My my girl, My girl, be in the car, be
like it's hot. I like, don't you turn that air
and keep the windows up?

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Put your head out the window like a dog. What
do you think got made of money? I need this
gas money to go in the to the country club
that I wanted to do.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
That's right to pay for a shrimp cocktail because forty dollars.
So I'm breathing a sigh of relief today as it
was announced that BP's profits have more than doubled during
the Iran war.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Wow. So I don't know how that's possible.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Again, I thought that they were charging the higher prices
because of the war making things difficult for them. But
it turns out they are charging those higher prices because
the narrative that the war is making things difficult allows
them to do it, and they want to be surprised.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Are do you think they're tricking us?

Speaker 1 (20:44):
You may remember this from the pandemic, I don't. Supply
chain issues were happening. Supply chain issues in quotes, and
it made everything more expensive, and it made everything more
expensive on us and then and the companies were like,
we're barely holding.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
On to die. Oh, poor old McDonald.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
And then the quarterly profit samans came out and they
were like, guys, we are fucking queueing it.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
We gotta be we gotta pretend to die more often. Yeah,
this is fucking great. So I love that. And like
everything is just to go fundme scam. Now, the whole
the entire economy runs as a go fundme scam. It's
just people going like, oh, I have I have a
cancer and a bullet in my skull and I have uh.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
A lady's made of something that's carcinogenic. That's right, that's
probably gonna give me double cancer. Yeah, so just give
me your money. Please, just give me your money. It's
the same thing. It's just BP saying like, oh my god,
I've got cancer again. We're in so much trouble.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
We had to we had to clean that oil out
of the ocean. It really fucked.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
It really hurt us. Alie fucking sucks, man.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
It's so frustrating, it's so terrible.

Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Their profits for the first three months of the year
have more than doubled following a surge in oil prices
since the beginning of the year or so hmm.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
Hmm, yeah, because you see what they did. It's like
the oil prices went up and then they were like, oh,
we got to buy more oil. But don't worry, we'll
be able to survive this if we just uh make
everyone's gas more expensive and make everyone else pay for
it instead of us. And that's what they did, and
good good on them, because I always like it when
America wins.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
That's right, British Petroleum, British America's favorite company, that's right.
But yeah, anytime there's movement, anytime there's anything that like
allows them to hide a price increase and hide profits,
and they will do it.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
So yay.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
You know, you could make money off it by being
one of the stock people. If you if you go
into the stock market and you and you buy stocks,
then then that's one way. So if any savvy investors
out there, if you're listening, buy some stocks, yes, good, good. Yeah.

(23:23):
So stocks are like a little bit of a company.
So if you buy a little bit of a company
that's doing lies, good, then you'll make money off those
lies with them. Yeah, and you're co signing it. And
that's good, and that's fine, and that's good to me.
Everybody part of the complicit should be complicit.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
Yes, I saw something about those stocks in that movie
Wolf of Wall Street.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Right, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, So they were buying stocks
and I don't remember the moral of the story, but
buy stocks, that's the only moral of the story. By
Bonds are for bitches, Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
Bonds is for people who in jail.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
That's right, exactly, Only Baylors get bonds.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Let's talk about Gavin News because so it does seem
like people are coming around to the fact that some
of the stuff bad, that the system that has currently
set up as a kleptocracy that's harming everybody.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
And maybe there's there's a very small chance that The
New York Times might be wrong and that this might
be more than just a tiny little flash in the
pan thing, a little fad. This isn't going to be
there's a chance that this might not be like slack bracelets.
People's kind of slow move towards UH socialism might not

(24:50):
just be a fun, little uh fad that everybody's getting
on board with. So there's there's probably going to be
an opportunity for the Democrats to run someone in twenty
twenty eight who has a chance, and we already kind
of have a sense that one of the people they're
really going to be trying to get get us on

(25:11):
board with is a guy by the name of Gavin Newsom.
Have you seen this fellow, pretty handsome guy.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
I heard of him surf saw baby, let's me.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Actually he's changed his voice.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
So you know, this is why I don't like Gavin Newsom.
One of many reasons. One is because his name is
fucking Gavin and he's not like, Hi, what's up, guys,
I'm gonna be fucking president soon and ship out there
is really sketch and I'm running on a campaign that's

(25:47):
the only way chill. Yeah, Instead he talks like fucking Batman,
like like shitty gravelly voice. Well, guys, I mean that's
the thing. You know. It's like, yeah, he's got rfk's voice,
but like like pitch shifted and corrected, like it's a
really good editor, really good editor. Fed with his voice.

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You'd be like, oh, that's Kevin Newsom's voice.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
Put his voice and pro tools and.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
Put some filters on it, you.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Know, the put the Alex Jones will Arnett filter on it.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yes, exactly, you know, just a little. I mean, listen,
you can do a low pass, you do a high pass,
you do a little d s ing, and you get
all those like bleeps and bloops out of there. And
this guy's got a Gavin Newsom voice. All I'm saying
is his voice should be different. Instead it's not I
should be so it should be Gavin. You're right, Govin?

(26:42):
That was the you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, yeah, I was my first My only complaint was
the incongruity between his name and his vibe. But then
I read this story. So this is just a New
York Times article ostensibly, uh, Sergey Brin, the Google co
founder billionaire. So he came to a very surprising realization.

(27:09):
He was like one of these tech billionaires who is liberal.
And then he found out, after years of being liberal,
that he was wrong the whole time, and that after
years of spending time and money around only billionaires and
one hundred millionaires, the correct views actually happened to be

(27:31):
the ones that benefit billionaires.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
That's crazy, dude. Yeah, well it's called growing up jack.
That's right. You should try you should try doing it.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I mean, think about it, when
you was only making like three figures and then you
start hanging out with people who make four, five and
six figures.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Changed, Jack, That's true. That's so true. Yeah, and you
stop caring about people.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
You stopped caring about people when that happened.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah, eventually I'd like to make so much money that
I'm I'm like, you know, I've had a sort of
a political reawakening around the whole concept of Arabs, right,
the Muslims. You know, I just I don't know, something
changed in me and now I'm like Boom Trance's.

Speaker 5 (28:17):
Thing somewhere somewhere, somewhere around somewhere around like twenty and
twenty one, I had this realization like maybe we should
use E r Instea. You know, why can't I say?
Are why can't Maybe maybe maybe maybe people get Jack.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
You've been asking for years, I've been asking you can't.
Is it finally that day?

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Today is finally the day?

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Because you know how I always.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Do it with the Aye, When can I do this?

Speaker 4 (28:56):
Do the party?

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Yeah? You get enough and they're just like you can
just say it now around us, what's gonna happen? We're
gonna what are we gonna do. It's just uh, what's
his name?

Speaker 1 (29:11):
The Supreme Court justice and get handing out the pass
for all the Clarence Thomas.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
Clarences new law, and every white man gets five of them.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
It's like the Pope giving out a blessing to like
a room full of them.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Just be all been granted and your wives they don't
roll over those, So you got to use up all five.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
New Year's Eve is a terrible day for black people.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yeah, this is a one one DMX song and you know,
don't waste it all once.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
But yeah, so he's come to he's found out the
secret information that you only find out when you're a billionaire,
that making billionaires pay taxes like they used to when
the country was actually functional would actually ruin the economy.
So what a fortuitous confluence of events for him and
his fellow billionaires.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Well that's a coincidence. So the article is.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
About an attractive, young mega influencer who he started dating
around the time that he decided that a kleptocracy under
Trump was actually good for the US. Actually, it turns
out I should have all the power. And this is
so weird, like what a this is so crazy that
I found this out.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
But in this article, yeah, he had.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
There's just a brief anecdote where we find out that
he Google's Sergey Brinn, Google co founder, one of the
world's richest people, is a longtime friend of Gavin Newsom
the California government.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
Oh cool.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Both men attended each other's weddings. Now, mister Brynn pulled
us Newsomb aside to a different part of the property.
They're at a party at this point for a serious talk.
So he's there at a party and he's like, I
need to use the east wing of your house to
talk to my friend Gavin. Mister Brinn told mister Newsom

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that he could not stand the state's proposed billionaire tax.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
I can't stand it.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
They were soon joined by mister Brinn's girlfriend, Jerlyn Gilbert Souto,
a Trump loving gut health influencer. Oh good, gut health.
That's truly what's important. Racism overrated. Gut health is very important.
Even as she tried to diffuse the tension, joking that
she would let mister Newsom's bad policy slide through because

(31:42):
he was handsome, she argued that the measure would wreck
California's economy. Yeah, mister Newsom, who had never seemed inclined
to support the tax, came out the next month and
pledged to defeat it. He declined to comment on the
interaction with his good friend, who is a billionaire, took

(32:03):
place at a party throne by the billionaire Chris Larsen,
and was recounted by three people briefed on it and
reflected mister Brinn's new war footing. And I do think
that's appropriate language, like this is a war that they
are waging literal all of us. Yes, they are waging
a literal war. They are, you know, non stop working

(32:26):
around the clock to defeat a bill that would just
ask them to pay a little extra in taxes.

Speaker 5 (32:33):
It's so crazy to me because like, like the amount
I pay in taxes is crazy. You know, I'm not
gonna lie, like I pay more in taxes now as
I've gotten mildly more successful successful than like I used
to pay then I used to make before, which is
insane because like like I'm still hurting, Like well, I'm

(32:55):
still hurting, And and then I look at these and
then and then this isn't rooted in anything, because it's
not rooted in numbers. There are no statistical numbers that
shows that not raising taxes on billionaires helps the economy.
Like every statistical number shows that's not the case. And

(33:16):
so I don't under I mean, I understand because they
want to line their own pockets. But it's not even
it's not even a good argument, because we have numbers
that can say this is wrong. Every time we do
this or every time we do that, like the economy
gets better or we have to dig dig the economy
out of the hole. And then when y'all niggas get
into the office, or when y'all people who like don't

(33:39):
care about tax rates except for the billionaires, the economy
undoubtedly gets worse.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
And it's just so frust it's frustrated in.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Every single fucking time. It gets every time, every time.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
And it's because their measurement of economy is completely based
on on how their personal stock portfolios are doing. That's
that's the whole thing. So with them, they all argue
about how great the economy is under conservatives, but it's
only for them. Everything else gets passed down to the consumers.

(34:15):
So consumers are paying more, working longer hours and getting
paid less, and their money is worthless and It's like,
you know, we were constantly stuck in this cycle of
you know, chasing that cheese or you know, the carrot
in front of us, and eventually you just you know,
at some point you're just like, oh, do we have

(34:38):
to kill these guys to eat that carrot? Is that
what you have to do? And now listen, I of
course I'm against all sorts of violence in every single
you know form, but I don't it'd be so easy
to stop, like the bleeding for so easy for like
you know, a huge portion of Americans, and yet there's

(35:02):
like an active choice to not do that. Yes, it's crazy.
It's crazy to me because I'm like it's maybe they're
maybe they're right in one sense, which is like, well,
what are you going to do about it? And it's
like the answer so far has been not much.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yes, their solution is vote for Gavin News Like that's
really going to be one of the only solutions we have.

Speaker 8 (35:24):
And just like this is.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
When when during the Biden administration, Biden would like throw
up his hands and say, look, man, I wish I
could like divest from like all the Israelia. I wish
I could or like I wish I could forgive your
you know, student student debts. But yeah, yeah, like that's

(35:50):
what he's taught. You're like, politically, that doesn't make sense.
You have the ability to do something. What is this
dark matter that is preventing you from doing anything? When
you're throwing up your hands and being like they they
it's just not happening.

Speaker 6 (36:05):
This is it.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
This is what it is.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
The Democratic Party is a machine that is lubed and
fueled by the extremely wealthy and corporations and newsome is
couldn't be more of a function of that machine, which.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
You know the you know, arguments against it. Jaqisu were
making an excellent point, which is like the arguments are
so stupid. That's like to try and sit and make
the argument that like the being taxed at the rate
that people that billionaires were taxed like not even that
long like during Reagan, right to try and make the

(36:45):
argument that oh no, that crushes the economy or whatnot
we all know is nonsense and also would be laughed
at by anyone if it was said in an audience
at a debate. The problem is is that you've got
this political machine in the Democrat Party that when someone
is there fighting that propaganda. When someone like a like

(37:07):
a Bernie Sanders for example, is fighting it, they are
actively being shot down, you know, rhetorically or like money
wise by the Democratic Party establishment who's like, no, we
kind of we require.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
We actually do like billions, we like billionaires.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Yeah, and so so it is this constant you know,
we're constantly stuck in this position of being like, all right, well,
instead of Bernie, we got someone who's uh gonna be
real sad about the fact that they can't do anything.
Does that help? It all leads back to people voting
for Trump because you know, people on that side of

(37:44):
the aisle are are dumb enough to believe because he'll
lie to them. He'll lie straight to their face and
be like, yeah, you'll all get like a golden balloon, right,
And it's like I want a golden balloon. Sounds yeah, no,
warn iroun in a golden balloon. And then of course
he does warn't run, doesn't give you a golden balloon.
That's what happens.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Damn. I think just as we get closer and closer
to the election, it's worth keeping in mind, like why
he is going to be the presumptive nominee. I do
think it's going to be a like, he's not going
to be pot like, it'll be somewhat akin to like
when Mike Pence, everybody was like, watch out for Pence

(38:23):
in the twenty twenty four elections.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Yeah, I don't see him getting through a primary.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
I think they are going to like him, but like
that's it's just instructive to know this is this is
who he is. They're going to shove him down everyone's throat.
And he just does not have the Jews, he doesn't
have the riz and he's not likable enough his name.
I mean, he is another example of a guy in
a political system or a person or political system who

(38:50):
is like very a political or a body politic that
has become increasingly cynical about politicians and if they look
and sound too much like politicians, they are not winning shit, right, Okay.
Biden was able to eke out a victory during COVID
during a pandemic because he had gotten so old that

(39:14):
people were like, well, say what you will about him,
but he does seem like genuinely to be a shaky
old man, and that's all he's presenting himself to be.
So people believed him, you know what I mean, Like
it was he did. He seemed like a real person.
If he had been if his brain had been a
little bit like if he had had the same cognitive

(39:37):
ability that he had in like say twenty sixteen or
you know, twenty twelve or two thousand and eight, I
don't think he would have been He wouldn't have got
past the primary right, which he just did, which, yeah,
which is why you did it. Yeah. And so I
feel like Gavin Newsom is an example of someone who
sounds and looks like a politician, acts like a politician,

(40:00):
is a he's the vibe is liar. Yeah, I don't.
I don't think he has a chance. I hope not.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
I hope your lips, your lips.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Any anybody giving us any positive vibes out there? Any
any hope right now? Yeah, I don't know, man, Like
I'm afraid it.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
Is Also the problem is we don't know anybody else
right now that we probably.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
I mean, I honestly think that I think if AOC
were able to try to she's like having the conversations
with people about right, you know, I'd be Here's the
thing with the AOC strikes me as at least a

(40:49):
genuine like populist and like, so I think what we need.
I think that's kind of our only hope, right, I
think her there is also the problem sometimes it is
a little bit hard to tell whether or not she's
serious or But I think I trust her enough, you know,

(41:14):
I trust her more than I trust you know, Gavin.
But at the same time, I mean, who knows, dude,
I'm not excited about anyone. I feel bad for that,
But I also I also feel like.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
I don't think we should feel bad.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
Well, it's not my job to make myself excited for someone.
It's the job of a politician to make you excited
for them.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
That's the thing, exact, that's the thing exactly.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Speaking of being excited for a thing, let's take a
quick break, We're you're gonna come back when we're gonna talk.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
About rash hour for hell. Yes, and we're back. We're back.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
We'reck and yeah. So the movie is called One Night Only,
starting Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro. Okay, do we know
who two babes? Yeah, two absolute babes. I feel like
they're they're famous, right, Like they're people who would.

Speaker 6 (42:19):
Be in ad Callum is dating du A Lipa.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Like that's the energy that I'm getting.

Speaker 6 (42:25):
Is Yeah, this isn't just like a random dud movie.
This is like a real a real movie.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Yeah, And like everything about it seems like a real movie,
like the they got one of the Please Don't Destroy
like that. One of the SNL cast members is just
like a fun friend, the tall redheaded guy, just like
he's in everything. But like that's you know, it's like
that type of movie where you like, oh, the comedy
guy right now shows up for like five seconds of

(42:53):
the trailer. It's not like his movie or anything like
it's that level of movie. And it's just like randomly
halfway through the trailer. They're just like on the one
night a week or the one day a year that
you're allowed to have sex and just like breathe.

Speaker 6 (43:10):
Past like marriage.

Speaker 7 (43:12):
I was gonna say the Household right like I do.

Speaker 6 (43:17):
It is directed by I think Will Gluck also wrote it,
and I know him and I do trust him, and
I think that this will be weirder in a good way.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
Right, think they're not just gonna YadA YadA past it
the way the trailer.

Speaker 8 (43:30):
I think this is going to be weird in a
in a good way and not Christian crop Baganda.

Speaker 6 (43:36):
It is not, but it seems like it is. But
I wonder if they lean into that.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
But I do.

Speaker 6 (43:40):
I do feel that. Look, I I want rom Coms
to come back there, and so I don't know. I
trust the gluck. I trust the gluck.

Speaker 8 (43:50):
Okay, good way.

Speaker 7 (43:51):
Do you think maybe the message is punishing people for
premarital sex will be bad?

Speaker 8 (43:56):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (43:58):
No, couldn't be.

Speaker 6 (44:01):
I've never seen the purge. The purge is just like,
you can't everybody kill a year? You can do anything
you want. Yeah, And so do people just take the
whole year to fortify their homes for the one day?

Speaker 3 (44:13):
You got it? Yeah? Everybody? Soe is that what you do?

Speaker 6 (44:16):
You like, get hot for like this one day to
fuck people?

Speaker 1 (44:21):
I think? Well, so like the day that in the trailer,
they are like she she's walking down the street and
everybody's like making out hardcore and it's just like everybody's
all over each other, and her and her friend are like,
we are going to be very intentional about this as
we like go through this day. And then like five
seconds later, her friend's like, Hey, I'm leaving with this guy.
I met in line for the bathroom, So yeah, that's

(44:44):
I think the dissonance that people are having with this
is like it seems like a very like fun straightforward
rom com that is written by like funny people with
like funny sensibilities, and then they kind of like address
the thing, but they're not like, and this is fucked up, right?
But like, I think that's it almost seems like, now

(45:05):
that I know that it's written by somebody that you trust,
it feels like they're just like, how do you make
a movie about fascism and make it be like a
thing that people want to watch?

Speaker 6 (45:19):
And in the background is a very sneaky, sneaky great movie.
And so I don't know. I think I think there's
probably another layer going on here.

Speaker 8 (45:30):
Yeah, that makes me want to watch it. And for
any of those like evangelicals or Chrysto fascists out there,
I just have to point out and if you never
get married, yeah I'm in attendance.

Speaker 7 (45:43):
I just I would have to.

Speaker 8 (45:44):
Point out the obvious that if you never get married,
then it wasn't premarital sex. Just don't get married, folks, Yeah,
and then you're just.

Speaker 7 (45:53):
Having sex, you know what I mean? Just that's crazy.

Speaker 8 (45:56):
Yeah, because marriage is overrated as well.

Speaker 6 (45:59):
What if it's just to hard fingering? Does that count hard?

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (46:03):
Where do we stand on hard fingers?

Speaker 6 (46:05):
I figure you don't want a gentle fingering if you
only get it once right?

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Making count?

Speaker 6 (46:11):
It's you know, what is what counts as sex? I
wonder if it's bill, what's the definition of is you know, what's.

Speaker 7 (46:23):
The definition of purge? What's the definition of troubadour?

Speaker 1 (46:30):
There's somebody guys like Fedoras who are dying to answer
that question for you.

Speaker 6 (46:36):
Oh my god, no kidding, And one of them's my husband.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
I do wonder, like, will we get a couple of
scenes in the Bureau of like pre you know, will
there be police actions happening in the background as the
day as the time runs out?

Speaker 6 (46:57):
Well, there has to be a government reason for it, right,
Like isn't the purge actually it benefits wealthy people somehow, yeah, population, Yeah,
so like this must have some there must be some
sort of nefarious reason why this happened.

Speaker 8 (47:16):
Yeah, like we're Republican conventions, Like, you know then grinder
crashes right right right?

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Interesting? I am very now that I know that it's
made by smart people.

Speaker 6 (47:28):
He's a good guy. I don't know. I'll see it. Also,
I'll watch anything that guy does. I watched that stupid
rowing movie he was in that I couldn't It was terrible.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
It was like Green Book, but boats and oh the
boys in the Boat. God, that suck.

Speaker 6 (47:43):
Oh okay, I know it was a good but the
boys in the boat. And because my my husband actually
was a rower and he was like, this book is
great and this the movie was so bad, but he
was the lead in it.

Speaker 7 (47:57):
And the one where they go where they die and
go to heaven, he's like the first husband and she
has to yea with Miles tell her, yeah, that was weird.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
It seems like they're just like, we got we got
to revive the eternity. We got to revive the rom
com somehow. Let's go with like the biggest, craziest.

Speaker 6 (48:23):
We don't need a high concept, Yeah, we don't need
a high concept rom com.

Speaker 7 (48:28):
I don't think.

Speaker 6 (48:28):
I think we can just I like the simpleness of
it of like I'm in love with my brother's friend,
like you don't need Yeah, we don't need all that,
or j Low's a.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
Maid that is kind of high concept. Although I like
the idea of being like, well, people like the sorts
of people who need to see it aren't going to
go out of their way to like watch The Handmaid's Tale.
But if you do a rom com that takes place

(49:00):
in the universe of The handmaid Sale, like, maybe you
get some people who are like.

Speaker 8 (49:06):
Huhtail is a rough watch.

Speaker 6 (49:09):
I know I couldn't do it.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
I would have to shoot couples they're like doing dating
during that.

Speaker 6 (49:16):
That's a rough watch.

Speaker 7 (49:19):
Yeah, yeah, but I have I have a hard time
watching any like uh, stressful birthing scene in like any movie.
It feels like trigger warning. It feels like, you know
when they like when male directors or whatever just like
insert like rape scenes.

Speaker 6 (49:36):
For no reason to give it, to give a female
character or a backstory.

Speaker 7 (49:40):
Yeah, yeah, that's actually all of our origin story. Some
people get bit by spiders and women get raped.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
How does she get her superpower?

Speaker 7 (49:50):
How does she get her spite? But yeah, it feels
like that sometimes where there's a really traumatic birthing scene,
I'm like, that is such a visceral, painful feeling laying
I'm just like I don't, I can't, no, thank you.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (50:04):
Yeah, And it's not usually done well, because if it's
done correctly, it's it's more horrifying than I think anyone
cares to admit.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (50:14):
Yeah, there's usually a racist nurse and or dis a
period piece, racist midwife.

Speaker 6 (50:24):
And somebody's intestines are on the you know table, and
they shove it back in and it's just so. I
don't know anyway, I will see this movie. I think
that it'll be interesting. I want to see how they
do it. I like to seeing people back themselves into
a corner from a writing standpoint.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
Yeah, and it feels like they wouldn't have backed themselves
into that corner unless they had an idea of how
to get out.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
Not the gluck. Not the gluck, not the glove.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
Kid me over here with this guy. All right, let's
talk about scientology fall move on to something. Please, This
is actually fun they're doing there. There's a TikTok trend
where people are running into scientology centers and like seeing
how deep they can make it, and they have little

(51:13):
GoPros on their heads. They see what it looks like
in there. This is from one of the comments on
the Reddit posts that helped spawn the story. Somebody said,
I love getting to see the interiors of a big
secret place. Why do they have a fake old timey
newsstand and faux theater front. I can't wait to see

(51:35):
more of these. That is what's kind of fun about
these videos is like just going in there and you
expect it's like a fucking volcano layer and it's just
like they're making bad design design decisions and.

Speaker 6 (51:50):
It's just a It is just like abandoned corporate real
estate and Clearwater, Florida, right Like it's not you know
what I mean.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
I love this.

Speaker 6 (51:58):
I love it. I would I've it. I would love
to do this in a Mormon church. I think we should,
you know, I.

Speaker 7 (52:03):
Mean, Utah, get my girl pro really truly do it,
like like I think, I think because we're not. I
didn't get approved by the bishop though. Is that going
to be an issue?

Speaker 8 (52:15):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (52:15):
Okay, that don't that don't don't do it.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
Definitely.

Speaker 7 (52:18):
I don't want to be against the rules. They're my elders.
I'm running through. They're ripping clothes off of me. You
just see the Mormon underwear.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
They keep ripping.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
There's more layers.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
It's still there layers.

Speaker 8 (52:30):
But both scientologists and Mormons, they'll kill you won't they.
I mean they've read that.

Speaker 7 (52:36):
Sherlock Holmes mystery about the Mormons. Yeah, one of one
of the Sherlock.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Homes Home novel the first time Charlock Holmes appeared. This
is from an Iconograph episode about Sherlock Holmes. He the
first story is just like about a murder. Yeah, and
like Brigham Young is a character, and it's like the
first one is standards Sherlock Holmes mystery and the second

(53:02):
one is just this weird story that like takes place
in Utah and like bring.

Speaker 7 (53:07):
Them at the confidence. When I was growing up that
I have now, I would have brought that to seminary
and been like, hey, so what the hell is this?
I already asked too many questions when my friends took
me to church.

Speaker 6 (53:19):
But what are the repercussions for these people that do
the road Runner?

Speaker 1 (53:24):
It does feel like property inside the the thing inside
the video they usually get away and the Mormon Church
just like is standing or the Scientology security people are
like standing in the.

Speaker 7 (53:37):
Back there because they're doing kids.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
They're like it is really wild, like the the like
a lot of the videos, the kids like run past
them and like do a juke move and It's almost
like the scientologists are like.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
In on it because they who like their legs get
twisted up and ship. It's kind of amazing.

Speaker 8 (54:04):
They're reduced to being the old man and Scooby Doo
like you kids.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
Again.

Speaker 6 (54:12):
I wish I had done more things like this before
my skull hardened, like.

Speaker 7 (54:17):
Before I was married to I think a bunch of
stupid ship when I was in my twenties, many of
which I cannot talk about, but I I went to
Caltech and there's a Pasadena Scientology Center and Caltech students
are banned from it because we go in and ask
too many annoying questions, like we just go in and
fuck with them. So any vaguely nerd nerdy person that

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goes in there, they're like, you can't be here.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
Not very church likely chads.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
I know they don't like church, Tom Cruise or like this.
We only want Tom Cruise.

Speaker 7 (54:49):
Himbos in here.

Speaker 6 (54:51):
I also know that if I had moved to LA
in my twenties, I would a thousand percent of become
a scientologist.

Speaker 7 (54:58):
Yeah, don't you know, I say, I'm not susceptible to cults,
and I answer, you are, And I am dating an improviser,
so you know.

Speaker 6 (55:09):
With you Oh my god, Holly and I were in
it when it's like we were an improv when there
was still just like one girl on on a team.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
Yeah, like it was bad.

Speaker 7 (55:18):
Did she make the sandwiches? Was that what her job was?

Speaker 6 (55:21):
No, she was a prostitute or her mom?

Speaker 7 (55:23):
Yeah, but never never both never never.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
Well, at least that would be interesting if Will Gluck
wrote it, I could write it. The mom would have
been the prostitute.

Speaker 10 (55:35):
Us.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
So some of the stuff they're doing to answer your
question in response to this trend. One of the things
is very funny. They're taking they're taking the handles off
the doors that the people are using to pull open
the doors.

Speaker 7 (55:49):
They're just like the churches, so that they won't pull
it open.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
Yeah, so they won't open it.

Speaker 7 (55:54):
There's also there's also an Instagram account of this guy
who like literally stands outside the Scientology Center in Hollywood,
I believe, and as they're trying to like recruit people,
he like knows all the names of the scientologists. He's like, hey, George,
you're trying to you're trying to bring people in today,
and then they like scudder away from him, like as

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and he like gets people to not buy into their stuff.
He's like, don't talk to them. They're a cult. They
do these things blah blah blah. And his videos are
very entertaining because he knows all the people who work there,
and they try not to break, Like they try not
to laugh when he says funny shit, and they like
they have to like hide and close the door.

Speaker 6 (56:30):
That's see, this is what happens when there's no no
third spaces, right, Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
I want to go hang out outside the Scientology Center.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
Guys.

Speaker 6 (56:43):
This is no no no harm, no foul. This is
fun mischief, This is great.

Speaker 7 (56:50):
This is exactly in my mind because these are like
a lot of these are like what I would probably
consider annoying white teams. Yeah, but this is like TMZ
being sick on politicians. It's like using your annoying qualities
for good, is exactly. You just have to target the
right people.

Speaker 6 (57:07):
Yes, it's like as a big old white lady, sometimes
you have to use that for good and to step
in when you see, you know, the cops. So I
don't know, I like it. I think it's I say,
good job, good job gang.

Speaker 7 (57:21):
Good job, broccoli headed teens.

Speaker 8 (57:23):
I have to always marvel at the Scientology Center in
Los Angeles when I would drive by, because they have
a huge cross on top of it, and it's kind
of like, why where is there a cross, like the
symbol of like the Crucifixion, like a piece of like
that has nothing to do with it, nothing to do
But also it's funny science is in their name because
there's no science in there. But I guess I guess

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there's no Christ in Christianity either.

Speaker 7 (57:47):
Yeah, oh, no Christ in Christianity. I've never never.

Speaker 6 (57:52):
It's really weird, that is.

Speaker 7 (57:56):
I always think about science because I'm a fucking nerd,
and I get really piste when they use our branding.

Speaker 6 (58:01):
Right where What did you go to school for?

Speaker 7 (58:04):
I did bio engineering and English. Yeah, I majored in
going clear.

Speaker 6 (58:11):
That's so awesome. I wanted to be Originally I wanted
to be a genetics counselor. Oh, and then I hated
chemistry so much that I didn't do it.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
What's a genetics counselor?

Speaker 7 (58:22):
Like if you have a baby, you smash it.

Speaker 6 (58:24):
So it's kind of like science meets therapy, so like
you like you like smash up jeans and you say here,
this is this is what it. It's not genetic engineering.
It's not like making a perfect child.

Speaker 7 (58:37):
It's more of just like explaining why your child isn't perfect.

Speaker 8 (58:41):
Yeah, it's more of like this is what you smashed
together your genitals, and I'll smash together your genes.

Speaker 6 (58:47):
Yeah exactly. But if you're Christian, you're just smashing together
jeans married just denim rubbinontata.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
The church is officially decrying these incidents as hate crimes.
That is the troubling part of Scientology is saying it's
a Scientology. That's the only church. When I say the church,
I mean Scientology the uh there, which does feel like
they're laying the groundwork for doing something like fucking horrific

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because right now they're just letting the people go.

Speaker 6 (59:23):
But it is see how that's a hate crime. No,
but they're not only they're not a protected class right
or scientilgic. I guess religion is religion they.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
Are, that's kind of that's the trick. This one trick
that doctors don't want you to know about is.

Speaker 6 (59:39):
Just to not pay taxes and claim hate crime.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
They truly like that. What they did is they you
know blackmailed the head of the i r S and
made it so that the head of the I r
S like couldn't say no to them. They got religious
status and now they have so much money because they
don't have to pay taxes. Yeah, but it is interesting
for them to call this a hate crime when like

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they routinely spy on their critics. There's a crazy story
about like David and the Scavage there. I guess scientology
pope guy when his dads short king.

Speaker 6 (01:00:14):
He is a short king, but we do not stand the.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
Shortest the one short king.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
We do not stand. And that's it.

Speaker 7 (01:00:21):
Where is Shelley?

Speaker 6 (01:00:22):
Where is the other thing that's a white crystal missing? Yeah,
she's in Lake Arrowhead. I think that's the those cabins.
They have these cabins, these like rehabilitation cabins in there,
which she's being kept in there, which honestly I could
use a break.

Speaker 7 (01:00:37):
So yeah, she's got a writer's retreat, Lake Arrowhead, Scientology.

Speaker 6 (01:00:42):
Case working at her specscript.

Speaker 7 (01:00:44):
Next thing we see, it's gonna be these guys like
parkouring into the cabin. Okay, sorry, Jack.

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
Has something.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
That is like the buildings that they're running through. If
you read the book going clear, like there are rooms
in there that sometimes are holding people who are having
troubles with the teachings and are you getting into you.

Speaker 7 (01:01:04):
Know so so they need to be rescue mission.

Speaker 6 (01:01:07):
There's prisons down there, Yeah, but they there's also a
prison in Eagles Stadium.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
That's true.

Speaker 6 (01:01:17):
Onoard there's definitely Eagles Jail.

Speaker 7 (01:01:21):
Is it like Disney Jail? No, come in and be.

Speaker 6 (01:01:27):
There's cruis, there's a there's a real there's a judge
and that you can go to Eagles Court's so crazy.

Speaker 7 (01:01:33):
It's like the military has its own court system.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
M hm. So to Philadelphia, they shouldn't allow that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
That seems like they should actually.

Speaker 6 (01:01:43):
Let them sort it out how they want to sort
it out.

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