Hey girls.

Hi, girl.

We're multiple today.

We're multiplying.

Multiplying.

Back two and threesome.

But it's a new girl to the pod.

You know.

Well, let's get into it so we can introduce our sister for the day.

I'm Saeed Jones.

And I'm Zach Stafford. And you're listening to Vibe Check.

Very, very special guests here today.

I see it says pop culture anthropologist, right, Saeed? Yeah. Yes, that's how I refer to myself. Yes. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. Today we are so excited to be joined by Blakely Thornton. Hello, hello. I'm doing well. I'm doing well in this cultural hell we exist in, you know? Girl. It're trying. It's a mess. We're trying.

And it's so fun.

Listeners, as you know, sometimes Syed and I are together here in the studio in L.A. Saeed is back home in Cambridge, but Blakely is with me in L.A. You know? Which has been so fun already because we get to storm the serious X-M office to remind people that black people aren't just excellent. Exactly. We're here we're queer get used to it.

No raisins in the potato salad today, motherfuckers.

Let's go.

Enough, enough. Enough is enough.

Well, I'm so excited you're with us today.

I'm already feeling the energy, the cranky barbed. I'm like, yes, that's my sister. Kindred spirits, brothers in Christ. Well, this episode, we are going to talk about the government shutdown. So we're going to need your cranky spirit because we got to give it to those girls. All eight of them and Schumer 2. All them hoes got to go. Retired. Out to the ice. Push them out to the ice. Not an ice death. Ice death for the elderly. You either retire or get the fuck out. It does feel like a warm hug, I guess, when you're in freezing water. Exactly. And he's already lived past like the average American male. Like you've had your time. Made more money than the average American male. He held on to power, grasp onto power like that little, that Lord of the Rings character with his precious. Get the fuck out of office, Chuck. And he's also had a job longer than anyone in America, too. Truly. One job many decades.

Him and Joe Biden.

He ain't done a goddamn thing.

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