Liz Fran Frank and Brace Belden—posing as Rachel Jake—unravel in a chaotic, off-topic rant where Jake mocks Liz’s name before disavowing "repulsive" racial remarks, then pivots to critiquing fictional character Gourmand’s timelessness while praising his own persona’s racial transcendence. After a detour into iHeartRadio conspiracy theories (tying it to Miley Cyrus and Steve Aoki’s gorilla tattoo), Belden reveals Jake as a retired alias, shifting to Liz’s TV binge habits—dismissing Euphoria as inauthentic while avoiding news—before circling back to media consumption, exposing the episode’s unhinged, meandering energy. [Automatically generated summary]
This is Rachel Jake coming at you from MSNBC Podcast Studios.
I have with us here today a white woman here to talk about what's going on with white people.
Liz Fran Fran Frank is, well, Liz, frankly, I ain't gonna pronounce that last name.
What's up with you, fucking whites?
Liz?
Whites?
You're not even participating.
This was me.
I'm not doing this.
Well, thank you for listening to that commercial break.
Unfortunately, what our guest said was so, so incendiary.
And frankly, I found, as somebody who is, of course, partially white myself, repulsive that let me tell you, this Neapolitan host of this show is not happy.
I'm so happy for you to bring back Rachel Jake.
I feel like he is just, as a character, we've got to develop them a little bit more because I feel like Gourmand has, as he should, very three-dimensional.
This is a well-shaped character.
Gourmand is actually four-dimensional because he's been, for some reason, he's been pushing through.
He's been eating the same brasserie and the same patisseries since before World War I.
And he's still at it.
So he's in time too.
Racial Jake to me is a guy who has both transcended whatever sublimated means and also gone through the racial, every racial question.
He's solved race.
For his radio show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, he does.
He's a YouTuber, but I feel like he's on some version of iHeartRadio that I don't know about.
That's like the dangerous one.
It is insane to me that a company called iHeartRadio got that big.
It is by far the worst name for a major corporation in history.
I don't even know what they do.
In my head, it's affiliated with Miley Cyrus, and I have no idea why I think that.
Yeah, you're wrong on that.
There's something.
I mean, I think they're probably a festival.
But it comes from the era.
Remember when a lot of people were like putting a lowercase I, like, like the iPod in front of their company to denote that it had you'd use technology?
They're like an early hype-based company.
Again, I think you're incorrect on that.
Are you?
Are you?
Yes.
I'm thinking of the like iHeart Radio Music Festival, which was in, I think, Las Vegas.
That was very big and had a bunch of those like those types of pop stars.
And it was, I, in my head, it's like affiliated with like a post-Aoki hype beast type person.
Steve Aoki has a gorilla biscuits tattoo all on the side of his body.
I know that because I had sex with him.
Okay.
Hello, everyone.
My name is Brace Belden.
You thought I was going to be crazy Rachel Jake, but that's retired.
I'm Liz.
We are, of course, joined by our producer Young Chomsky.
And this is Trunan.
Hello, everyone.
Hello.
We're talking on the media today.
Liz, do you watch TV?
I do watch TV.
You know, I watch a lot of TV, actually.
Really?
I watch probably more TV than I should.
Internet TV.
What's your oh, so Shit's Creek?
No, I've never seen that.
Oh, that's.
I don't support the name.
You got to see Shit's Creek.
No.
Really, I just, I don't like the look of it.
Yeah, it's crazy.
It's, I've never seen anything like it.
I've never actually seen it.
So I guess I've never seen it or anything like it.
What's your programs?
What you watch?
My programs?
There's like nothing on right now that's good.
I did finish.
I watched Euphoria.
That was crazy.
The teens are crazy.
Yeah.
Well, those are actors, but they're portraying.
It's also, we were talking about that.
That show is like written by people who recap or like for people who recap shows.
Yeah.
It's like not written by young people.
It's like written for like a vulture freelancer.
Yeah.
Totally.
It's a very, it's like, it's a very like content-oriented television show.