Hello the Internet, and welcome to season three oh nine, Episode five of The Daily ZiT Guys, a production of iHeartRadio.
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Deep dive into America's shared sordid consciousness. It is Friday, Thank You, Thank You, Friday, October twentieth, twenty twenty three. My name is Miles Gray. Oh sorry, I would be remiss to not tell people what this day was. It's International Mass de Citosis and Mass cell Disease Awareness Day. Obviously we're in breast cancer Month awareness still, National Chicken and Waffles Day. Shoutout skoes, you know, the original, the
la original, International Day of the Air Traffic Controller. All right, shout out Ronald Reagan for firing all y'all in mass International Chef's Day, National Youth Confidence Day, National Brandied Fruit Day, National Mammography Day, and some other thing about credit cards. That's probably some self ad for fintech, so I won't say that one anyway. My name is Miles Gray. AKA been there, done that, fucked around. I'm not having fun. I'm finding out. I think my ass is going to
get beat. I thought I would get off again just aka fee. But from a friend, this ice just like my hair is getting thin, I've burned, my bridge is.
Short to shore.
Rudy won't talk to me no more. And now the judge says I can't make a pete. Been there, done that, fucked around, not having none, I'm finding out I never stopped thinking I could.
Cheat this time.
Baby, I'm not bullet proof. Shout out to Christy. I'm a Gucci man for that one, y'all. If you want to know where I was out in the year fucking like two thousand and nine, I was listening to the fucking dub step remix by Chrispy c Hri s p Y LaRue Dubstep Remix And you want to have a peek into my fucking weird drug out of brain while I was a lobbyist. Anyway, that's me the man in the place to be, and I'm joined by a hilarious writer comedian. Uh and just overall one of you like
the homie man. We're like, we're becoming homies now we're off Mike bro.
You know what I mean.
We do kicking it big, kicking in.
Our babies are touching, yeah, our babies holding hands and stuff. Just trying to unite the next generation of great talents or kids who have just been annoyed to death by their future exactly. Anyway, please welcome mister matt leeb yoll.
Footnotes are here. I'm here to uh to be your guest host. Man you, I'm ready to say footnotes when it's time for me to say footnotes.
Thank you.
I'm very excited to be here. It's me, matt leab aka from the river to the sea. How's it going, I'm matt leeb That's how that goes, right.
That's how that goes. That's what I'm pretty sure they were chanting the whole time. That's what they're chanting. Do you see how they got like Obama shook and then he's like I have COVID and oh yeah, but we got to get to our guest. Okay, we got a comedian, a writer, a performer, a very special talent. Okay, this person's off Broadway debut solo, a show about friendship, has been getting plaudits literally from Scotland all the way to
fucking Los Angeles. That's the whole world. That's the whole world. It's the only Scotland. You already know. There's only two places on earth Scotland and La. We only recognize the West here. Thank you, thank you, And Solo is still playing. It's gonna be this weekend and all of next week in New York at the Connolly Theater. And if you are fortunate enough to live in the windy city of Chicago, you can find the show being performed at the Den
Theater December twentieth through the twenty third. It is our honor to welcome to the show mister Gay Malka.
Oh, what's up, guys. It's nice to be here. My show will never stop running. We've done it like one hundred and fifty times. I will never stop. We haven't our stride yet. There's so many people that would like it, so we're just gonna. I just keep insisting that we do it, and people are like cool.
Well yeah, I feel like last time, last time, you're here, like, yeah, it's getting extended.
Again and again and again and again.
Yeah.
So we extended three times and then we got on this American Life. Well that's five million people, so you should just keep going. And honestly, I thought after this American Life would be easier to sell tickets, and it has not been. It's still really hard, but it's cool. Like last night we had girls from Yale rent a car and drive to New York City to see the show, so like, cool stuff is happening. It's definitely happening.
Okay, Okay, where is Yale?
This is how I am. I'm like it somewhere over there Connecticut. It's not a right, where is Connecticut? That's in the New Jersey.
Yeah, it's Jersey. Yeah. It's like, how do I describe it? It's like north and then east of New York. You drive up and then.
East east of New York. Isn't east of New York the sea?
Uh? Yes, technically there's an east River. I'm across it right now in Queens.
That's wild. Man. There's like a bunch of places over there that I've just like heard about on TV.
I remember like driving from like like the Hudson Valley or something back to the city and like passing through Connecticut and I'm like, yo, bro, I think we're in the wrong place, man, We're Connecticut. Now. They're like, it's the fucking road is just going through that little corner.
I'm like, Okay, Connecticut sounds fancy, like if you're from like Los Angeles and you don't know anything, which is I think me? I thought it was in New Jersey like Connecticut. You think of like a sweater vest, one of those like like are the things that you put around your neck to be warm scarf?
Scarf?
Yeah, sometimes that one forgot about scarf. One of those neck towels.
Got La must be sick. Yeah, you guys scar free amazing.
LAUSD schools are not the greatest, but uh no, I have homies who are like, uh yo, don't go to Hartford or something. There's sure there are certain places that are like like crazy, and I was like, oh, I didn't know that Connecticut had like hardcore, Like are there are there gangs and connects?
They the fuck out of Cromwell hand Yeah, like whoa, okay, okay, we're from Stamford.
Yeah, well Stamford's were all like the insurance companies are. So this is like giant buildings and then like w W A driving and then you'll just see the giant w W logo.
You're like, and then ESPN used to be in Bristol, right or are they still there anyway?
Whatever?
Shout out all the people from c t let us know you know what are we missing what's the hardest part of Connecticut? Honestly, that is I want to just tak that. What is the what's the hardest part its Connecticut? I've been Yeah, but it's active.
You know that's hard.
Hey man, if you're if you're hunting whales and ship they got cut in the name.
Yeah, you're about to get connectic cut connect to cut, yeah, connect to cut from your ear.
Connect I cut. Anyway, that is how we remember how to spell state names. Gay, We're gonna get to know you better, even better in a moment, but first you got to tell people what we're going to talk about. Just a quick Trump dump. Checking in with the lawyers because there's some there's some shit going on. That Again, in my heart of hearts, I'm like, okay, yeah, we'll
see what the fuck happens here. But if this were a book about a normal person in a reality where the justice system functioned equally, I would be like, oh, this might be bad, so again, we'll see about that. Then we're gonna check in with Netflix raising prices, I wonder why. Probably nothing to do with the strikes. Now, Really the big story, TikTok is absolutely fucking up the discourse around the rapture okay, and rapture anxiety is like
a thing I had not known. But for people who grew up in the evangelical rapture like centric communities, they're like, no, this shit is fucked up, so we'll talk about that. And the videos that are popping up of people can fucking raptored okay, cool. Yeah, Like it looks like the yanky version of The Leftovers, but hey, I love you. We'll take you TikTok. But before I knew that, gay, what is something from your search history that's revealing about something that you're into or.
Who you are right now? So I did a deep dive search into this movie that I watched called Wildlife, and it was Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano made this movie and they're married and Jake Jillen Hall's in it, and and I was just like, this is just like the perfect kind of thing that I love. It's just like a sad movie about like a like a guy who leaves his family to fight forest fires. And I'm like, this is a perfect movie. This is the kind of thing I'm into. Wait, so I've just been googling everybody
involved in this movie. That's wait, that's your kind of perfect movie.
You like it's sad and artsy y. Yeah, you like fire too, so you get bored from all the sad. You're just like a fire's cool. Yeah, and you're like Jake Jillen so handsome.
Yeah, he's a good guy. Wait, even though they were together, are.
They married in real life? Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan. Yeah, oh that's crazy.
Yeah.
Zoe Kazan's dad's a snitch, I know, I know, a famous famous snick Yeah yeah, the Waterfront Yeah yeah, wait who do you snitch on? He snitched on everyone in Hollywood during the McCarthy right, right, right right, yeah, yeah, he was going around name and names, being like that's a communist, that's a communist.
Like Ron Reagan.
Yeah yeah, exactly exactly, you know, And what's look to the site the heights that they soared to I know, yeah, at the very least, Elliot Kazan got like massively hated on for a long period.
I mean, so did Reagan. But that didn't matter because he, if not.
Didn't matter m president, because look, he made everybody rich in the eighties and they forgot about it all. Wait, So what's like a perfect archy, sad movie that I could kind of get a peep into your world game that's out where you're like, oh here, you want to you want to feel, you want to understand what I'm into.
Check this thing out.
The last just one. I saw this one got popular, but I didn't think it was gonna get popular when I saw it was Past Lives. You see Past Lives?
No almost, I'm savvy though, I know if I'm aware of past life. Yeah, Oh it's great, it's great. It's like a love triangle movie International Longing. When it started to like get popular, I was like, hell, yeah, like.
This is my time.
Hey, y'all cry, y'all cry? What part you crying?
I love crying in a movie by myself.
Come on, dude, I was I was crying in the fucking Creator Last Weekend Nice because it was too much. It was too much Death from Above ship in that movie that I was like, it was like hitting in another way. I was talking about this money. I was like, I don't even we don't need to debate who's a human in this even though they talking about AI.
I'm like no, no, no, no, no, no no no, not like this not like this. What were you saying, man?
Oh, I was just saying, uh, so these are not rom calms, these are these are rom drums, M drums. That's yeah, I didn't you know, I forget that. That's like, uh a genre or the dram. Yeah, like some things are romantic and just dramatic the whole time. I feel like I only ever see those as like HBO Max TV movies like the one with Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain where they're just arguing for like six episodes and you're just like, uh, why uh why why do they
make this? And uh then people are like, wasn't it great? And I'm like, I don't know. I don't know what people think is great. I don't understand great anymore. What's good? I don't know what.
I don't even know what how we define anything any Yeah, house is great.
They're just arguing.
That's like, but that that kind of movie is like my mom's favorite is just loves to get ripped apart by cinema and be like, oh my god.
Yeah, yeah.
Drom com are their mom drama coms.
Oh yeah, that's the sub genre.
Yeah, the mom dram, the mom dram the mom rom drum for them drums.
Yeah, absolutely absolutely gave. What's something you think is overrated?
Okay, So I've been thinking about this because when you're an artist, there's a million ways you gotta have income and streams and stuff like that. And so this week my thing that's overrated is buy is merch and buying too many koozies with your.
Name on them.
Oh now, I'm just drowning and koozies? Did you buy? Is that you? Oh?
Oh?
I bought coozies?
Man, I'm outside downings man.
Yeah, and everyone's like, buy merch, that's where you make your margins. And I was like cool. So like we're selling coasters, we're selling buttons, pins, whatever, stickers, but these koozies, man, are not moving and the creator economy is real. Can you give me an idea how many koozies you're sitting there right now? So it was a deal they like, they were like, you know more dam Like, well, here's the thing, bro, I got a deal.
Is this MLM. What happened here?
I got to buy five thousand to save three thousand, printed.
Them in the wrong color, so they I wanted white with black and now they're white with like this weird green. So I'm like, I wouldn't buy these either. So I have like three hundred and fifty coozies.
Yeah, what do they say on them?
They so it's it's the name of my show Solo. But then it's a parody of the Star Wars movie Solo, so it says Solo in Star Wars font and then it says a gay Malaca story, which I think is really fun. Yeah, and like we kind of our plan is to get sued by Disney so that we get all the free publicity in the New York Post, but no one's buying the coozies to sue us.
So I'm.
I mean, do you just fuck around in the Justice Show just once and dresses Han Solo and make it like just a absolute rip off of the IP so you get it hit with a season desist. I would love that because it would go postal. I mean, like
that's amaze. That would be interesting like marketing thing, Like you get enough friends who have like blogs or can write you up in like websites and people are like this Han Solo Solo show is a mind blowing and then that's got to be like there's got to be people at Disney be like, what the fuck is this?
Yeah, do you plug the merch at the end of the show Like a road comic, you know, the.
Show like ends on like a it's it's it's a it ends on a big laugh. But I'm also just like it's more like, please tell your friends to buy tickets more sounded that is like buy a shirt on your way out?
Yeah, right, right right, you got you gotta activate that capitalist scene you gave.
That's my favorite thing that road comics do, and I'm not above it. I've done it. It's like you tell your closer, you know, it's like, uh, I forget which comedian had this joke, but it was like a free Hugs shirt, you know, was what if Hugs was a bear that was in prison? And it was like it was like a great it was a great closer. And
then he was like, all right, guys, done that. Here, I got some shirts and it just was the exact joke that he did, and I was like, man, I forgot that that we're actually in a different business, like comedy is actually just a one hour pitch for some merch that you at the end, right.
Yeah, like hopefully we've established enough common ground. I told you that I have a child, and you understand this is not an easy life. Therefore, yes, I do have some CDs back there. You know some of Gabe Molca's beer Cozy's that I bought off of him in a deal.
Just ignore that. This says a game by this my march.
If you guys like my comedy, I'll be selling soup after the show. I've got a soup truck. That's kind of my most of my business.
I know multiple comedians who sell hot sauce and or red sauce out of their car. A good show good might as well sell some pasta sauce, Like.
Wait for real, that's a new Yeah, Like they're like, hey, man, I got gravy out the fucking back.
Are they Italian comics? Because that's even funnier it's there.
Yeah, I wish they weren't to make it more offensive.
Henry, y'all, I'm selling some of Grandma's Sunday gravy come by, John and Cheese.
Hey, I know this New York and you guys are what is it? Mostly Jews? So I'm gonna be selling you guys some uh hala and Matsa, I.
May in my one my fam I got the Wildham and tashin come through, Come through.
You're gonna fuck with it, bro self homemade jarred Gefeltavish. It's disgusting the way you people like it, uh super just.
Like yeah, it's like but sable love sable love, sable gaye. What's something you think is underrated?
All right, I'm very passionate about this because sushi is expensive everywhere. There's a twenty four hour grocery store next to my apartment that for like six bucks you can get a sushi roll, and it is just powering my whole life. Yeah, so grocery store sushi when it's good under yeah, yeah yeah, if you can get it.
Like there's a there's a local market that I'm surprised sells sushi, but it seems like they have a business where like this sushi company owns the refrigerator case that they're just asking market to have in there. So I found out when they come drop the ship, and so the times I've gone for the drop and I'm like, oh, yeah, this is fucking this is great for fucking seven bucks.
Absolutely, I knew it was good when they started to use that health food store as a as like a sham restaurant on grub Hub where you buy sushi and you don't know, I'm like, oh, they think they're a whole restaurant.
Hell yeah, I love I love outing a good ghost restaurant. That's always, yeah favorite. Yea.
Remember during the pandemic it was chuck E Cheese. They changed the name. They were like raise famous and it was.
Just a Chuckie Cheese up and Chris is Hot Chicken, and you just it's like, this is Denny's. Yeah, yeah, what the fuck? Yeah, there was a few different ones that everyone yeah, everyone just was like Squally's. That's what.
Yeah, well done. Well yeah.
Man.
That's the other thing though, too.
If you got an Asian market nearby, or like someone has like a good fishmonger, you could save money buying sashimi grade fish and just buy your own microwave rice and put a little bit of sushi, like buy yourself some sushi seasoning vinegar for your rice, do the microwave pack, and you could buy a fucking big ass piece of fresh salmon for fucking like six seven bucks by my house and I'm my brother to slice this up.
Shit, I love that TikTok guy, the sushi guy. He goes to Costco and buys a big piece of salmon and just turns it into sushi. Oh, breaks it down.
Okay, yeah, you gotta do that. I'd be afraid of the parasite.
Yeah, he explains all that. He explains that they're in there.
You'll be good. You just take pills for that. They eat the pills your life.
Just take iodine.
You'll be fine. You'll be fine, You'll be fine, He'll be fine. All right, we're gonna take a break. Let's come back and we'll talk about the life and times of Donald Trump.
After this, and we're back.
But Trump dump Yeah Trump that time lawyer edition. So he's got some new legal ship to deal with that. And by that, I mean, who knows if this will affect anything?
Fred It won't.
Okay, good, I think the Vegas the Vegas odds are on. It won't do anything. And he is going to run away, obviously with the nomination. And then of course we'll see how uh see how Joe Byron does. There are there are rumblings of people of of of someone maybe potentially getting in the race. Uh, but we see, we'll see where that goes before we start talking about it. But anyway, Sidney Powell, a k A. Lady Cracking, the cracking lawyer lady who was like, oh we got the goods, trust me.
This was a fucking this was all a fucking scam against the American vehicle.
Does you wait?
Yeah, you wait, I got I got on files here with me.
No, but they will.
They're they're at my pillow dot com slash Election Interference Evidence.
One hundred dollars. Patron subscribers can read the files.
Yeah, and you will need to actually also subscribe in order to get discord access to use the key that will decipher the cryptic messages that we were gonna send you. Anyway, she has flipped in the Georgia Rico case. Oh shit about the scheme to overturn the results in that state.
And she again, if you remember, she was part of that shit show of a legal team headed up by Rudy Giuliani aka the jin Goblin, and she will now testify in order to walk out Okay, that courthouse with around seven to eight thousand dollars in fines and six years of probation. Wow, that seems when I saw that I'm like, that's all you fucking get, yeah, fucking being like your chart, you're in a rico fucking case. And you flip and like, all right, how about like seven
grand defines and six months six years proby? And I'm just thinking, what about that black mom who went to prison just relying about where she lived to get her kids in a better school. She's in prison. But Lady Kraken, let me see it.
You think her attorney was like, you see this is this is called being a lawyer, right right, right, see what I'm doing, See, this is what being a lawyer is. Just to rub it in her face.
Yeah, right exactly, because you're like disbarred?
Right is that? Is that the case or something?
I don't know.
I can't remember, but like you know, a lot of people are like, oh oh r, I p Donald Trump. But you're like, uh huh sure, because I get it right, she would. She's she was deep into that legal team, so of course she's gonna have insights that maybe people didn't have already and maybe that'll help the case in PC or whatever. But again, and it's like I don't know, man, sure, I.
Mean at this point, like holding out hope, just seems like so like feudile, Like it's just like completely how many times can you get burned people? How many times can you be like the one. It's almost like you know, and I know it's an unfair comparison, but it's very cute adjacent to be like no, no, no, no, no, trust me, this is all gonna be like this, this is gonna happen. It's like both sides have no idea how the legal system works on what side. It's like
it's not a fantasy revenge machine. Enough people and then for like libs or like it works for everyone equally. Both of them are just totally and utterly convinced of the competence of the people that they believe in, whether it's like the competence of the institutions they believe in or the competence of the demagogue. They put their trust into it, but they just believe it, like when the truth of it is is like it's all in competence.
Nobody is competent. I never see a good example of competence, either in fucking like government or in the private set. It's just like, no, why would you believe anyone would be competent? You're crazy what you libs and Q It's very very simple. It's very simple, and like I understand one of them. I do understand wanting to believe in the system, But how.
Many are I believe they're going to go you on that?
Where we go one we do go all?
Epstein didn't kill.
Him, he didn't kill up.
Little little little overlap on that.
But yeah, no, I'm just saying, it's just like fucking uh like I want, I want, I want justice to be served. I'm not against it. I just I'm not holding my breath, guys, that's all. Yeah.
I mean, look, we're Metallica fans who want justice for all, you know.
Right, Yeah, that's all. That's all. We're probably gonna, you know, be, We're probably gonna reload, and then we're gonna be feeling all that Saint Anger I'm trying to do other albums.
Sat Anger round my neck, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. Of course, of course, and maybe we will all be unforgiven part.
Yes, and maybe we will ride the lightning.
Thank you. Yeah, I mean again, I was.
I would say this just to give myself the opportunity to be absolutely stunned by the legal system. If they're like guilty. Yeah, man, you going away now about seven years for that. And I'm like, what, Yeah, I'd rather have that reaction than I need to be fully cynical rather than be like it's Mueller time, baby, like yes, come on.
And I have been pleasantly surprised a few times when he did actually get indicted and then arrested and mug shot it. I was like, Okay, okay, that's something. Yeah, but you know this idea that like, even if he is convicted, I'm like, just think he's seeing the inside of a jail cell. I just don't think so. No, I don't believe it.
It's hard.
But anyway, this isn't the end, you know, this is there's something else going on because in DC, the DC federal case against him that's being prosecuted by Jack Smith about overturning the twenty twenty election. There's a development here. So up to now, Trump and his lawyers have been doing this like double speak to try and make it seem like he's innocent or has like a real defense
against these charges. He's like claiming, He's like, well, I'm innocent because the lawyers I've had lawyers look at what happened, and I was off their advice that I was told that it was all vetted. So how could I think I'm doing a crime if the lawyers vetted it and told me to do it, And that's the only thing I was doing. I was just going off of this.
So that defense is known as the advice of council defense and so, and up to this point seemed like his only decent shot in terms of like a defense that might make sense. But all the while, right he were like, oh, if they told you do it, Like can we see the proof there? He's like no, just it's attorney client privilege. Yeah, And You're like, motherfucker, what is it? Like we say this, what the fuck's going on?
So Jack Smith has now asked the judge to make Trump decide what the fuck we're doing here, like are you going to use the advice of council defense? And if he says that's the defense, he will have to reveal all relevant communication with his lawyers about the twenty twenty election. The attorney client privilege like privilege. I said that like Joe Namath when he was fucked up at that game with Susie. Colbert completely goes out the fucking win.
So if he wants to hide those documents with under you know, behind attorney client privilege, he's gonna have to basically jettison the only defense that he may have had. Yeah, so this is actually the first time I was like, oh, that's that feels like an interesting outmaneuvering.
Or also, Trump is just so fucking.
Bad and his lawyers are so craven that of course, like he's like, no, I didn't plan this, bro, They're just so transparently bad at this. So we will see where that goes. But that's a that's an interesting.
It's definitely the second one. Yeah, they are bad at this. They are not They are not good at this. The weapon that he uses legally has never been as far as I can tell, at least from his presidency, It's never been like the competence of the lawyers, like you know, maneuvering through the legal system, finding the loopholes. It's just having a lot of money and tying things up into
litigation for fucking ever. That's that's always been his weapons, Like I have an endless pool of money and both and individuals don't have the time.
To do exactly They're like I will just fucking wear you out.
Right, Well, well, he.
Stiffs the lawyers. He's running through lawyers, so like eventually, like it's a circle that eats itself where he has to find like dumb people who will not only are they dumb, but they're they know they're gonna get screwed because they know they're not gonna pay them.
Because then what is if he does and he just fucking says, you know what, fuck it, I'm just I'm gonna punt my legal team, like y'all gonna have to eat this one. Can you imagine what the fuck they're gonna do to protect themself? Like, yeah, that's why who knows where this fucking thing goes. It's a mess, and it's disaster for just everyone because so un serious.
It's why I understand being like he's gotta go to jail, right, It's why I feel you, dog, But it just yeah, it hasn't happened yet.
No, not quite yet.
But what's really funny too, is like he's been he was just in you know court in New York. Who's fucking whining about He's like, it's a political hit job. I'm being forced to be here. That's what they want to do. They want to keep me off the campaign trail. This is all election interference, dude. This guy fucking lost track of his lies, like within the same conversation, because right after that someone asked him if he's gonna be in court tomorrow. I'm just gonna play this for you.
Just know that he was out here screaming, being like they're trying to fucking and my campaign by forcing me to.
Be here, and then this is what we got.
But this is what we go through because they want to keep me here instead of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and lots of other great places.
They want me to be here.
And tomorrow probably not, probably will have a very big tournament, professional golf tournament at Durrell.
So probably I'm sorry.
They're keeping me here. I'm locked in a cage. Oh tomorrow, Tomorrow's not do for me.
I'm gonna at a golf tournament.
Oh, i gotta play golf.
Probably not talking to like sounded like Don Junior asking if he's gonna show up to his graduation dad.
Probably not, probably not have a golf tournament. And you can't see it on the podcast, but in the video he answers the first part and then starts to leave, and then they ask him about golf and he turns back around. He's like, no, no, no, actually I do want to plug the tournament.
He's halfway out, and then he's like, oh, that's right, that's probably not Ah, that's right.
We're having a great big.
Golf great field, great golf course.
We love it. You're gonna love you. Well, it's not involved with the Saudis.
No, don't worry about my very good friend NBS will be there.
Yeah, he'll be there in costume incognito. Uh you know well, and we are giving tours of where Ivana is buried. It's underneath a bunch of weheks and the tax break yeah, which is still like again like the fucking low energy scams of this fucking and again that's how you know we live in a fucking clown show, yeh, where if you look a certain way man, things canna work out.
Fucking beautiful. He's just tall, man, He's just tall and he talks.
Have you seen like those images where people are saying he wears like these kinds of lifts, like he walks weird because he's on his toes inside of his shis so funny.
I love people drawing them too. Yeah, like on inside, Yeah, they'll drawl and it's always just like this little ballerina. There's always a high arch that I'm always like, people are really getting into details on these.
Right, and I don't like. I'm like, yeah if so, though he is working those wedges. Yeah, and in a way I will have to give it up because it's not easy.
I'm here walking like the cabs. Strength alone, I know he should be able to dump probably those like jump sat.
All right, Netflix boo, they're raising prices. Boo. Why they had a huge surge of subscribers nearly nine million in the third quarter of this year, which means they're raising prices.
Fuck did they get more? Are there any people who don't have Netflix? I don't understand when they're like every year we get more, and it's like how Yeah, people buying accounts for their babies.
Yeah, just because they crashed down on the sharing is people have to Oh that could be.
I mean it's weird because I'm still on my mom's yeah, and I have not I haven't even gotten like those notices where they're like, uh, we see you, asshole. Are you traveling or some shit?
Yeah?
Yeah, And that's why I'm like really surprised by that.
Maybe you.
I'm I was on my sisters. I got kicked off my sisters at some point. I was like, here it is, this is it end of the line for meh?
God?
Yeah? And then I like signed back in and it worked, and I was like fuck yeah, sick hell. And then I clicked out the menu for an hour and didn't find a single fucking thing to watch.
Yeah, wow, exactly. Man, that's the worst. Like, like when I have the worst habit of when I eat something like sometimes I mean, like I gotta watch something like to coincide, my food has mold on it. Ye by the time I select something right. It's a terrible fucking trait to have. But I think, are we the same guy?
Because I do the exact same thing and everyone calls me a fucking crazy person because of it. Everyone's just like, eat your food. I'm like, I haven't.
Found something to watch.
I've already seen every episode of Arrested Development.
I will let it get cold until I find something to watch. It is now that I hate eating doing more than eating and searching for something. It's or like.
Turning something off in the middle, like realizing as you'm like, nah, this is an l and you're like, fuck, now I gotta find something else.
I have like three bites out of my.
Sandwich, right yeah, and now it's like your sandwich feels like it's been violated because you're started eating it during like you know, the intro of the presidency, the Pelican brief, and you're like, I didn't want to watch that, Gabe.
Do you have the same affliction? Well yeah, and then they play those trailers and so you just just end up watching those trailers and it's such a bad system. And then you go on like Amazon Prime and you try to watch a video in there, and they're like this interface is terrible. Just yeah, put me back in the Netflix.
Like if you pause and turn off your Apple TV, if you turn it back on and it just brings it up again, it's like, sorry, bro, you're gonna have to relaunch this shit, Like yeah, it looks like it's gonna work, but it's fucked.
They have more money than anybody, and they're just like we don't care what it looks like.
Whatever, Yeah, but the fuck, I mean, you got to sift through way more trash on Amazon, Like, it's also Amazon Prime. If I'm really high, I'll be like, I know I can find some terrible like like the Pacific Rim meets Fast and Furious meets Barbie type of like hype mash up film. That's what I like.
There's a there's almost like a commitment to being like we might not have that much good shit, but but some wild bullshit.
Yeah like search, Yeah, we got it all we got to, Victor says to b producer Victor to be the best for the wildest.
Yeah.
Oh Plex, you guys on Plex? Yeah I got I'm on Yeah, I'm on a I'm on a Homies Plex server.
Yeah.
Shout out to zeich Gang who's always sending, uh, send me more Plex invites. You know, I need to diversify my server options.
Oh yeah, one hundred percent. I second that love Plex. My friend had a Plex, had me on his server for a while and I was going through all of his stuff. It was great, but then his shit is so slow. So if you got a fast one and you really like me, yeah, well, if you.
Got a fast one and you really like that, look it up. But anyway, they're raising the prices in the US and UK and France for the basic and premium plans from like nine to eleven ninety nine and nineteen ninety nine to twenty two ninety nine.
Can you explain to me what the fuck a premium plan is and a basic plan? I thought of you. Netflix is Netflix?
No, dude, they have ones that are like fucking like, oh you like four K, Oh, you like this other thing? Yeah, you don't get like four K is like a thing you have to like subscribe to now.
Oh I didn't know that. Yeah, oh yeah, we're on the we're on the bullshit one because we don't have a we have an EPSOM projector that. Yeah. Yeah.
And also ship doesn't look good at four K. Like, to be honest, it's just every.
Time I see it, I'm just like, I don't like this feeling I'm getting. I don't want to see anything.
Sports are like something like nature, something like you want to see the details. Fine, but like in a dramatic thing, I'm like, I'm good with ten eighty.
You know, we don't go for them that.
I don't want to be inside of Downton Abbey. That's weird.
Yeah, and you will be. But here's the thing.
So like everyone's like, where's the money going because there's no there's no US productions right now, and so they're making more nonscripted ship like there's like a celebrity golf tournament they're doing. It's like, oh, Donald Trump, Wow, I can't think of something we want less. And they're also making fucking physical stores.
What you guys hear about this? Do you see this?
You hear about this?
You seen this? Have you heard about that?
Okay, I've heard about this, You've seen this?
He heard about this?
So Netflix they're making a thing called supposing Netflix House where they're gonna be like selling merch themed food and quote immersive experiences based on their shows.
Sounds like something that just happens. Is like the pop ups in LA where they'll be like, come see the Stranger Things experience, you know, But like what they're gonna do this in more than just LA. They're gonna have a merch store and fucking Hoboken. Yeah.
Maybe they're like you can get a fucking Stranger Things crew neck sweatshirt and some of that Champion barbecue from the Barbecue Cookoff show.
To sell it at Target. You idiots, that's so true. You don't need a brick and mortar store. Can you rent videos? Is this Blockbuster? What's happening the.
Fucking irony that we left the Blockbuster era only to come back to the Netflix House era, where it's like I kind of need like physical space activations.
I'd understand if there were movie theaters. You know, we're gonna make our own chane of movie theaters. If only, yeah, if only to just you know, qualify for a word season whatever. Stupid right, right, Like come to the Netflix House is fucking stupid.
Who has loyalty to their streamer? Who were just like it's whatever's on there is what I care about.
Yeah, it's like, oh this show went to the other streamer, then fuck y'all just watch that? Yeah, like what happened to people?
Just do nothing?
That's not on here anymore? No, I don't do Max.
No, all right, all right.
This is a Toby House.
That's a sketching sree father who insists kids can only watch too weird, weird ass Thanksgiving dinner with a family where someone's like fucked up the status quo of the family by now watching Max.
I love that.
I also love the idea of the two brick and mortar store that they may amount of sense. Yeah, yeah, they ridiculous. Yeah, like boot legs.
It's they have those like screeners where there's people in the movie theater just in the camp corner.
They're gonna have like it's like, yeah, we smell, we sell like methadone. Like blank VHS tapes we got up. Yeah, barbecue barbecue tools, we got it.
Like what why why is this owned by Bubbles from the Wire?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he's cost he's a cosplayer. Actually, yeah, he's really into the I P.
Yeah. The two B Store should be all Kirkland brand Costco knockoffs. Yeah, it's not Netflix, but yeah, exactly. Oh, you guys are gonna love Downtown Abbot Downtown Elementary.
It's an old time It's it's like Abbott Elementary but without all the you know, the black people.
Bish.
Yeah, how you know, kind of how it was back in the day. You know, back what America was great in America was England. What the is It's still in Philadelphia though, It's like what how what the fuck? We're
just we want you to imagine something different. But honestly, I think at the end of the day, like I was always saying with the writers and sag after it strikes happening that the studios and networks are going to find a way to not pay these like the gains that have been made, right, whether that's leaning on AI and like just eviscerating like whole departments or something, or
completely changing marketing strategy or something there. Because I was like, there's no way they're gonna be like, all right, they won I guess we're gonna have to take a little bit less.
Yeah, oh darn, they're just like kicking dirt at their.
Feel like, fucket, we're raising the price on all you fucking losers.
Yeah no, they didn't give us ship. It's just it's funny because they could have done this the whole time, right, Yeah, like this has always been their option. Was just like all right, i't just raise the prices and it's just like you were gonna raise them anyways. You're just mad that you have to now in order to continue your up, You're you gotta growth numbers. Yeah, line gotta go up. I gotta go up, dude, or what else is a business for? But not? If not for line go up?
How far does it go up?
Dude?
Forever?
Not to heaven because we've because we've killed the Earth on our so we all go to heaven. Trust me, I'm helping you. I'm bringing about the rapture through.
Go up until you reach litl Wayne status. You're gonna get a space shuttle or a ladder. That's forever.
All right, We're taking a break.
We're coming back to actually let's talk about some serious ship the rapture after this.
And we're back.
And before we move through this piece, I just want to warn the listeners. I hope you are right with God. Okay, I'm not, because if you're not right with God, your ass may go poof like Obi Wan Kenobi when he pulled up to fucking Darth Vader in that fucking Star Destroyer. You feel me, yeah, I do feel You don't want that, you don't wan to be an empty pilot clothes because you were right with God. Now with that set and now you know the fucking the stance of this show,
we are pro rapture, propre there's this whole thing. Okay, So for people who aren't like me and were subjected to countless years of Lutheran and Catholic teachings at school, the rapture, you know, is that special day when the good Christians are called up to heaven and the rest of us sick fucks are left behind. But in my mind I always saw that as like I think people, those motherfuckers died, right, I mean like, I'm like, they didn't get called.
It's like if you vanished, bro.
I don't I don't want to know that. I don't want to know where that was. I'm good with this hell I'm experiencing now. But anyway, is the question now is is this rapture already happening? Because on TikTok there are a bunch of these fucking weird, low budget videos of people randomly disappearing in an instant like this video, and I'm and I have to play this for our in studio guests, and uh and we will have these
links in the footnotes so you can see you. But this is a video of like supposed family who is pushing their daughter on a swing. And then I guess Christ based disaster strikes hell. Yeah, I love a good christ based disaster. It's the best kind, Charlie smile. So it's a family in the backyard, my beautiful family, so contrived, but let's pretend it's real.
Pick your perfect models.
They're going to do the exact same thing.
Yes, I know, question being pushed on a swing and their backyard. Let's go higher to christ consciousness.
Yeah, hi, hi, mommy, I want to die again.
Look at her.
Oh she's so beautiful.
Their having says, oh oh Charlie, and their has today dot so come on good this thing called perhaps today dot org.
I'm gonna put you another one. Okay, that's the family in the swing. This one is from a school bus, apparently where a children are raptured on a school bus.
This was on TikTok oh. Hell yeah. Oh and it's hidden camera video.
So you know that there's a circle on this little girl.
Yeah, I see there's a You see a little girl. She's in a circle. Everyone's sitting on the bus and look.
Everybody disappears gone.
Why didn't they circle the one girl? If everyone disappeared.
Like I waited for I was waiting for that kid to.
Bus, the old bus disappeared, white circle girl.
That was the most yanky, fucking jump cut I've ever seen. It looks like if you remember the movie Speed, probably they had to fucking put the tape on a loop to fucking throw Dennis Hopper off the set that they were. It's the exact same like look and few if it's like and now they're gone, Like remember he noticed that
ladies purse kept. Yeah, first first got raptured. Oh my god, these things are like there's like more and I'm they're apparently they're all over the fucking place and like you like we saw at the end, there's a u r L that says perhaps today dot org. The website reveals that this is all not real. In fact, these are this is part of a celebrity evangelist what he calls pre enactments, So they're not technically a hoax because they're they are actually gonna happen, So like, don't fucking act
like as a hoax. This ship will happen to you if you're not right with God.
Creative as ship. As much as I think this is an abomination, pre enactment is a little bit genius.
That's what it's like. Do you know that line in Dodgeball when he's like it's a metaphor, but it really happened. They're like you could like you're eventually gonna disappear, but then we'll just show it literally and so like they're just not good English students, like just how symbolism works, right, right, terrible video editors are dying in this country. We need to fix this.
Yeah, but if you're bad enough, you actually can create some magic and pre enactment is magical, dude, that's magical.
I love fucking way you people bend their minds. Yeah, coming up with phrase like bless you doctor David Jeremiah, which sounds like an evangelist, scam artist already, that's the guy's fucking name, and he's certain he's selling like this quote new teaching series and book that's all about the rapture. But he says, worry not because it's not quote a series of doom and gloom scare tactics.
Like videos.
We just saw someone's beautiful daughter disappear. But it's not that it's not don't worry about it.
There's dude.
There was another one where this woman sees like her like family, like a family car crashes because while it's driving, everyone got raptured.
This is just the fucking leftovers, and the leftovers did it fucking way better. Because the leftovers was like, there's no way to make this look good. Like if someone just disappears in front of you, that's gonna you're gonna it's like seeing the Alien from Signs. You're like, ah, they should have never shown the alien.
Yeah yeah yeah, Like.
So The Leftovers just has one minute you look over, the next minute they're gone, like and that worked fucking great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Season two was fucking That was like one of those ones where you're like, damn that middle one.
Fucking dude. Season two. Season three though, as well, like season one is probably the worst season, and they're all good, they're all good. Yeah, oh fuck dude.
Anyways, dude, I want to get raptured.
Bro, I want to get grabbed.
But no way though, Remember they went to some fucked up dark world Yeah yeah, siler, But like in that case, I'm like, nah, I'm good here, I'm good here. Yeah, I'm not trying to be with them over there. I mean, I get it if you're separated from your family. But anyway, so it seems that like social media is just going to make uh it's it's this is apparently like an existing and newly observed phenomenon that they're just exacerbating, called rapture anxiety. Yeah, but let's let's go back a few
ticks here. The rapture Is it in the Bible?
Fuck? No?
Oh, okay, I was invented by some dude in the eighteen thirties, Like this just came out with it like sort of taking little drips and drabs of the fucking you know, original ghost story book that they read from and trying to create a new off book ghost story to kind of get people to fall in line fan fans. Jesus never spoketh about said rapture, just for for all my Bible students out there, and I will see you this Sunday. And the idea was like basically cemented in
like our public concent all in the twentieth century. Like again, shit like the Leftovers, like pop culture. There are books and there's like the left Behind series that was all kind of dealing with this.
I didn't know that. I thought it was just one of those Like for me, every time there's like some crazy shit that people talk about from the Bible, I just assume it's in the Book of Revelations, right exactly. That's the one where everyone draws from. It's like, oh no, that's like the exciting conclusion for these things. Now for the exciting of Jesus.
Yeah, part three of the finale the tell all was fantastic though, But like, this is the thing like for people, like I said, people who are in communities that are like actually like on this rapture shit. Apparently like it has left a lot of people traumatized. They're saying that it can be a chronic problem, like some experts said, rapture anxiety can be a chronic problem in these places with an increase of anxiety, depression, paranoia, sometimes OCD like behaviors.
And the thing is, like, I don't know how this wouldn't fuck with like a little kid's head. You're saying like, hey, you need to get right with God or guess what, man, the fuck because the rapture is coming and they ain't telling you ship okay.
Exactly any any day, any second, your whole family can be gone. And this is considered like a good thing to tell your kids.
Yeah, that's why you gotta ey repent, repent, repent, or just think about give money. Yeah yeah, obviously you're.
Gonna rapture a few dollars a few hundred.
Oh so you really oh so you really want to get left behind, Matt, all of my money. Yeah exactly, I've met your family. They're beautiful. You don't want you don't want to get left behind.
I hope when I'm rap sure I'm reunited with these thousands of dollars that I spent reading about the rapture.
Hey, guess, stop talking about the money man, You're not getting the money.
Okay, what's on my salvation? The rapture is just like a d NC email.
It's Gabe, It's Hakeem Jefferies.
I need your help. The Rapture's coming.
But for twelve ninety nine, we can fight back. The radical right wing.
Trump is just this is lib rapture. Yeah, right, coming again. You need to donate.
But like here's the thing, Like I guess like for people who grew up in these like rapture friendly communities, this is like extra unsettling. Like people would talk about how they would like kids would prank each other using the rapture to really fuck with them, like hiding and shit and getting be like, oh.
Yeah, everybody been rapped. I think everybody got.
Raptured and shit. It's just so fucking wild. And then like some cases like the Left Behind movie series and books like we're being promoted in churches and being like, yoh, this is like actually a great series because this is like almost documentary style footage of what a post rapture world could look like. And yeah, it's it's it's it's wild.
I would love to live in a fucking post Are you kidding me? Doug? If I got rap shirt or not? If I got if everyone else got raptured, first thing I would do. I guess this is more zombie apocalypse. If I was an I am Legend? Can we change the subject?
Oh wait, are we mashing up the leftovers with I am Legend?
No, I'm just doing I am Legend now, I'm I just really wanted to say I would be at a CBS doing all of the delauded, That's all I wanted to say. Oh yeah, every old Yeah, I'd be like everyone's dead. I'm not a count at all.
And then you a German shepherd.
Yeah exactly, dude, that was hit. That part of the movie is always so wild. That's pretty great. It's just funny too. I always talk about this whenever the movie comes up. But I had a friend we were watching it like like on video or whatever.
And he left.
He's like, I can't do this, bro, because of the dog.
Really bro, Yeah, he's like one of those people who like you. There's some people who fucking animals more than people. And I'm like, yeah, sir, I really He's like that was too far. That was too far. I'm like humanity and yeah.
I just like for me, I'm like, okay, but now I need to show you a movie where a kid dies. I want to see what you do if you sit there and just watch City of God was hilarious.
They just can't figure it out. Those Favelashu.
They just those flas man just come on, got it together.
Those little kids were sobbing. They're soft down there, they're soft. But yeah, I mean again, this is like it's just wild. There are certain kids who are talking about how like expecting the rapture, like that it could happen at any moment. Like they just became despondent and felt like they had no future on earth.
Yeah.
I'm like, yeah, don't worry, kids, let me tell you about climate change. Yeah, pull up chair, pull up a chair, so my brother in Christ, so I can get you with some facts.
My brother in Christ, you will not be raptured. There is no one day everyone disappears, but there will be a slow, painful descent into the heat of the world.
Well, they already had the hell thing. They already had people freaking. Now they're just like it's now worse, Like there's just a new version, right.
Yeah, this theologian who came up with in the nineteenth century, like he's he's a double dip it man. Yeah, you know, like you're putting with a hat already. Yeah, you know most people like, yeah, the Catholics I grew up with, like who are like like we're up in it? Who are like, Bro, the fucking guilt man, I can't even believe. Like I didn't think it was fucking with me, but it is because I thought there was hell And I'm like, dude,
that is so. I just remember when I first heard about hell, I just didn't like the idea, so I wasn't believing in it. That same that's like that that's been my path with like organized religion or theoty. Like when it's like these things are put in front of me, I'm like, wait, hold on, If I don't do this, I'm a burn in hell.
I'm like, bro, no, I.
Don't like, no, not if you start off with like, there is a God and he loves you, and you're like, okay, except that premise, and then you go into the health if you're like, damn, I don't think that sounds like what my God.
Would do as he loves me, right, or the like the thing when the atheism starts creeping up in kids, like in middle school. I remember at my school, they'd be like, wait, so God is in control of everything?
Yes, he is.
He is omnipotent, He's omniscient. He knows and does everything. I'm like, then, why do like people die tragically?
Oh? Well, uh, you see, they're bad?
All right?
You know what, Go to the principal's office.
Man, get the hell out of here.
That is kind of disruptive behavior.
Man.
All right, y'all, let's open our rapture books and sing the song to get right with him.
I'm gonna disappear. I'm gonna disappear here, take all my money. I'm gonna dis.
And I'm disappearing to the fucking principal's office.
Uh.
Gabe Molica, thank you so much man for joining us on the Daily Zeitgeist. It's always awesome having you man, where can people find you?
Follow you?
I know I hit up some hit some of those dates, but please the floor is yours. Yeah at gave Molica Instagram. I'm posting about my show a lot, and we're taking on tour all over and listen to episode eight ten of This American Life and you'll hear all about my show.
Yeah yeah, but it resonates if you look.
If you're going to your thirties, you know what I mean, You're like, what.
Is friend what is this friendship?
Seriously?
How I do and do I still do it the right way?
This is something? This is it?
This is it difficult?
And is there a work of social media, traditional media, new media whatever that.
You want to put people onto.
Oh?
I had this tweet made me really laugh about Biden when he said Biden suggests medicare or he would veto medicare for all over its price tag and it's the Emperor from Star Wars going, I'm too weak, And then the New York Post headline Biden and says, US can confront wars in both Ukraine and Israel. We're the most powerful nation in history and it's unlimited power. Holy man. Oh yeah, we got we Yeah, we got one hundred what do you need ten billion?
Yeah?
Yeah, we're good. Whatever, write the check, absolutely good.
We're absolutely good, Matt Leave, thanks so much man for helping me co host pro Bro.
But I don't know when I know, I'll fuck it.
Like I said, I'm gonna point to you when. Okay, at the very least, I have to say it first. Like I said, it's like a calling response. Don't just you know, scream it out.
I just want to do it on time so people know that I tried.
Where do people find you and follow you and all that? Man?
Oh?
So you can find me on all of the social media's I'm on I'm on Twitter at matt Leeb I'm on more importantly, I'm on Instagram at matt leib jokes. Follow me there. I you know that is that matters because this other Twitter is dying and uh and is a bad place the bad people. So yeah, follow me on Instagram. And also I do a the Wire podcast called Bought Yourself a Gun, a tv rewatch podcast, and
you can find that wherever you get your podcasts. And I've got a what do you call a snoop soundboard, I've got all of her Europe's I have and I've got yeah, yeah, and she's got a lot of those we don't know what they mean, but pretty cool.
Yeah.
Yeah, So listen to that.
There we go, There we go.
Let's see any any other nothing, No media just just oh uh, you know what?
The only media I think I will suggest not a specific thing, but I will say I've been a a big fan of the homie Max Collins. At EVE six, I've been reading kind of his posts recently regarding kind of the what's going on in the world, and I got to do a big shout out to him because it's a it's a tough position to take online, especially if you are, you know, not Jewish and not Arab, and most people want to like, oh, I got to stay out of this. I don't know. Maybe I don't
know enough. And I think he brings a clarity to the situation that I think is it's cool of him the post. As someone who agrees with him, I think it's great. At EVE six, he really has put his tender heart in a blender. Yeah, and we're.
Watching it spin around right now into a beautiful Oblivia, beautiful rendezvous and I'm through with you and I'm through.
I wait, who's a gone like.
Or GONI no talk about again? Bam Israel?
Oh okay, there we go. Like there's all kinds of remix happening, remixes happening.
Uh.
The thing I like is from at Tony Zerit. It's like, it says, anyone know if this is real? And it's a screen cap of like the looks like a word document that's meant to look like ahead line from a website, it says the satire news McDonald's to keep up with the times by offering new woke Hamburger by John.
Fake Tony's the king Man.
That's why it's so fucking good man? Is this kind of feels like everything right now? I'm like, oh, is this is this reel by John Fake? Yeah, it's got a blue check. You can find me at Miles of Gray, Twitter, Instagram, all that. Find Jack and on our basketball podcast Miles and Jack. On mat Boostie's you can find me talking ninety Dayance on four to twenty day Beance.
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And The Good Thief is the other show talking about true crime, the real Greek Robin Hood. Check that out, uh, and also find us at Gordon said at Daily's I read something like da Gordon, I was about to know this g Gordon ledio like at wait what at daily zeit Guys on Twitter at the daily Zeit guyst on Instagram, got a face with fan page and a website, dailiesyeguys dot com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes.
Well yeah, smashed it where you can find all the links and articles we talked about today, like those fun videos, as well as a song we were gonna ride out on. I wanted to just go back in time with this track with Burial and Forted for people who like electronic
music and are of a certain age like me. That's those are two names I grew up with and I love hearing, and this track is called Nova, and it's just like, I don't know, man, this is like the kind of thing I like to just play like I'm working in like a techno cafe type music sometimes in the morning, you know, making my coffee, feeding the baby and stuff. So try this Nova, Burial and fourteen. That's gonna do it for us. We'll be back on Monday
to tell you what happened over the weekend. And then you know, we start off with a brand new week doing that whole thing.
So we'll see you then.
Bless you, Bye bye, bry get right with God.