The Daily Zeitgeist - A$AP Rocky Owns Trump, Hasbro Doesn’t Get Socialism 8.26.19

Episode Date: August 26, 2019

In episode 460, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, author, and Noble Blood host Dana Schwartz to discuss the death of David Koch, the G7 Summit, Trump trying to go to war with China, Ruth Bader Ginsburg in treatment for a tumor, Fox New's thoughts on homelessness and marijuana, A$AP Rocky not thanking Trump, a giant volcano that could end human life, the new socialism-themed Monopoly game, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. David Koch, Billionaire Who Fueled Right-Wing Movement, Dies at 792. How the Koch brothers built the most powerful rightwing group you've never heard of3. Covert Operations4. Group of Eight5. The World's Top 10 Largest Economies6. Trump presses U.S. companies to close China operations7. Trump vows response to China tariffs on $75B of US goods8. Escalation in U.S.-China trade war threatens global economy, poses Trump reelection risk9. Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent treatment for tumor on pancreas, Supreme Court says10. ON FOX NEWS, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST LAMENTS PEOPLE LAYING ON THE STREET 'HAVING JUST SHOT UP WITH MARIJUANA'11. On Fox News, Republican strategist David Avella indicates he thinks people inject themselves with marijuana12. A$AP Rocky Didn't Let Trump Use Him13. A Giant Volcano Could End Human Life on Earth as We Know It14. Viral Thread Gets Very Deep Into Hasbro's New Socialism-Themed Monopoly Game15. Here's Monopoly: Socialism, a primer on socialism by dipshits, for dipshits 16. WATCH: Make This Magic by Godriguez Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and say, officially, off the top, drumroll please, fuck Coke Industries and fuck Fox News. We're not taking anything off. Welcome to hell. We're not taking anything off. Welcome to hell. It's Monday, August 26, 2019. Happy birthday to my sister, Shannon. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. the Jack O'Bite Rebellion might have failed a long time ago, but the Jack O'Brien Revolution is only just beginning.

That's courtesy of at 3.45 a.m. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. In your earbuds, I am Miles Gray. Fuck the Coke Bros. We scream that shit every day. In your earbuds With Jack and Miles Gray Super production

By Dan and Jose Wow! Okay, you know, I asked for Missy Elliott A.K.A.s, and of course Adding first At Crispy Meme Donut Christy Yamaguchi I like that disposition Adding first, at Crispy Meme Donut, Christy Yamaguchi-May.

I like that disposition, this Crispy Meme Donut. That's a good way to say, you know, use at to handle, you know, look, I'm an improvised starting forward. That's a great handle to have, at starting forward. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious writer and comedian and podcast host, Dana Schwartz. Oh, you're not going to make me sing, right? Well, you are. Go.

What's the song? And go. Three, four. This is great. This is great. Thank you for having me. Hey, thanks for being here. Whenever people point out that they don't have something to sing, I always ask, what's your favorite karaoke?

Ooh. You know, recently I've been doing a Mr. Brightside kick. Oh, okay. Like everyone in the UK ever? Is that it? I feel like most times I hear people spontaneously break out into Mr. Brightside, it's been in the UK. This is just a humble brag to point out how well traveled you are.

Well, I mean, Miles constantly is talking about his travels. Not only have I heard it in the UK, actually, about a few months ago, actually, no, less than a month ago, maybe over a month and a half ago, I was in Florence, Italy, and I heard just a bone-tingling rendition of Mr. Brightside. In Florence, Italy? Yeah. Really? Quite amazing, yeah. I think it was a bunch of guys from Glasgow on a stag do. Yeah.

Miles is the type of guy who doesn't even refer to it as Europe. He calls it the continent. Well, when you have respect for something, you don't want to. Dana, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners what we're talking about today. We are going to bid adieu to one of the Koch brothers. We are going to talk about the G7. We're going to talk about China announcing they're coming back.

They're tatting Trump's tit. We're going to talk about an interesting Fox News segment on recidivism and people getting out of prison. We're just going to urge, send good vibes to RBG. Just will her to keep living. We're going to talk about A$AP Rocky playing Trump. We're going to talk about a super volcano that might be coming to kill us all. Love it. All of that and more.

But first, Dana, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, recently, and this is because I also do, I'm not, this isn't me trying to plug another podcast I do also record here called Noble Plug. No, plug it. Yes. But recently. It's not you trying to do that. It's just you doing it.

It's me fully doing it. That's a Glade plug-in. My search history for the past 24 hours has been uh famous poisonings in history oh yeah um for research purposes but also for research purposes oh interesting what's been uh been any good ones i don't want to the best one i'm going to do it as an episode and i record so many and it's this is going to be an episode in like january probably but uh i don't want to spoil it but i do love lady poisoners. Oh, yeah.

So historically, it's sort of the cliche is that men, when they murder, they do it with like guns and knives, and women, when they murder, do it with poison, which is a stereotype, but also historically not a totally wrong one. Right. Right. But also historically, everyone murdered with poison just all the time because everything was poison and they didn't have good doctors. So you could poison someone and they'd be like, well, I guess he just – That's crazy.

Looks like he died of – I put his favorite spices on. Don't know what happened there. Yeah. It looks like he died of just his face turning purple and exploding. Yeah. Right. So that's – it's been fun.

And that is very much in brand for me. I think my Google search history is looking up – Famous poisonings. Famous, famous poisonings. Are there any deaths that might have been poisonings? Oh, people love doing that. Right.

People, their favorite thing is going back historically and being like, this person died, but it was, because doctors were so bad, they would just write things

that any, if you're, if you want to make a case for any historical figure dying, you could make it that they were secretly poisoned mozart because he started that rumor himself because he thought it was romantic yeah so he i don't want to now get too much in the weeds but in the movie amadeus they sort of imply that salieri poisoned him yeah um he probably wasn't poisoned right but when he was dying he just was such a weird romantic that he just sort of floated the idea of like, I'm getting sick. What if I was poisoned?

Right. That's pretty cool. Which is a power move. Yeah. Yeah. And a good way to be like, maybe you're not taking care of yourself. Yeah. Maybe you're only drinking alcohol.

No, no. And not eating food. What if I was being poisoned, though? You're poisoning yourself with this wine. Besides myself. With Merlot? I have a conspiracy theory that Tupac was poisoned. Interesting.

Right before he was. And then he grew blood. Right before he was shot. That was a coincidence. JFK also. It made bullets grow on his chest. What is something you think is overrated? I fully feel this way, and I think it's just because of James Bond PR.

Martinis are terrible. Okay. They're horrible. They're like adult shots. Why would you just want – it's just vodka. It's horrible. It's so bad. Who is their PR person where taking shots is now in a fancy trying to glass and it's sophisticated now?

No. I love a martini. No. That just means you like vodka. Yeah. No. See, I like salt. That's why I drink martinis because I get them so dirty.

It's basically just salt. Well, my theory, I do like, I love olive juice. I like picklebacks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think that a really dirty martini should be a different drink. Thank you. Okay. You should have a name for a drink that's vodka and olive juice.

I would never drink a regular gin martini or a regular vodka martini. Whenever I order, I'm like, it has to be just dumpster water. They call it Mississippi mud. I think I've heard you say that. They call it filth. You're like, just fucking filthy. Just fuck me up with that. Just spit in it.

Just make it. Actually, bring all the olive brine and allow me to just have a fucking little, just a whisper of vodka on it. Yeah, I feel the same way. Are you a pickleback fan? Love picklebacks. Love a pickleback. What is a pickleback? It's a shot of whiskey, shot of pickle same way are you a pickleback fan love pickleback love a pickleback what is a pickleback it's a shot of whiskey

shot of pickle juice pickle juice gross see no he's wrong we're right I've tried it with all kinds if you ever drink batomped

half sour pickles typically can only get it at like markets where they have like a proper Jewish section that brine for that one is so garlicky also an amazing accompaniment

for pickleback. It also makes the hangover worse because it's electrolytes, the saltiness. It's just taking everything away from you. Well, what are you going to do? What is something you think is underrated? Picklebacks. Picklebacks. There you go. Boom. We're back. And done.

Yeah. Did you ever drink pickle juice as a kid? No. See, I remember being a kid and eating, just finishing a jar of pickles and still wanting the flavor. And then I'd be like. Do you know what I did as a kid and also as an adult, that's my weirdest food habit, that I feel like every guy I've ever dated, if we get to a point where they see me do this,

that's when the relationship. That's when things fall apart? Well, that's when it make or breaks. Yeah. Okay. Got it. That's the fork in the road. Yeah. I eat a hot chocolate mix, but just the powder. Oh, hell yeah. With like a spoon. Yo, I 100% feel you. I used to eat Nesquik powder with a spoon like that.

It's like the texture is like powdery and sweet, but not too sweet. And then it turns to a paste that's so thick in your mouth. That's it, exactly. I mean, we should really go to Florence, Italy. All the time. I feel like I've had – They have the best hot chocolate. I feel like I've reached the point of like if I have a boyfriend,

then I like rip open a pack and I'm just like pouring powder down my throat where they're like, who are you? I'm seeing the real you finally. It seems like it's just chocolate fondant kind of. Yeah. But not as sweet and like it's a more mature fondant. Uh-huh. Yes.

A more mature fondant. It's an adult fondant. How often are you eating dry hot chocolate powder? You know, not, I go through phases. Okay. If I have it in the house, I'm going to eat it. So it's not, you're like, my secret, every night. I end my night with a nice packet of Swiss mints, dry.

If I could, I would. But the thing is, it will turn me. If I can't, I'm one of those people that I can't have just one. Where if I buy it for myself, I'm going to eat the whole box that night. Hell yeah. So I can't. I don't do it that often. You know, we have a lot of Swiss Miss packets in the studio here.

Yeah, don't tempt me that way. Next time you're in to record, I'm just going to fucking tape them to the desk in here. I'll be like, do you. Yeah, no, that's dangerous. Also, then my podcast will have my mouth be all like. Dry. Yeah. Also not good for hangovers, I'd imagine.

It's just dry. Just take the water out of hot chocolate. Like your hangover. Just hand me a Swiss Miss back here. What is a myth? Oh, it's something people think is true, you know to be false. I was going to do like now a dry historical one. Is that okay?

Yeah, yeah. Of course. For people who have not listened to the podcast that I'm pitching called Noble Blood, the biggest myth is obviously that Marie Antoinette said, let them eat cake, which is just like the best propaganda line in history that we're still saying it now. um no that was just i mean totally in like a propaganda newspaper right um which is it's kind of crazy to to have a thing that like you know people just sort of assume and even if they know it's kind of not true it's still associated with her right even though it was completely made up which makes me uh sad about the state of the world and the way propaganda works and the way um people talk about their

political rivals i mean not to make it too common but like the way trump does his like dumb nicknames for people and they stick right and even though we repeat them like ironically right it's like well maybe in 200 years they won't know that we were saying them ironically right it's like that's the way you know the it's a very dull knife that right you know history and so that is you know the most quote-unquote like basic example i have of history but i think it if you dig a little deeper it's kind of chilling that we still associate her with that thing that was written in a newspaper totally unrelated to her life yeah i. I hope Moscow Mitch sticks. Yeah. History books.

Let those, but that's just something about history where the humor just doesn't translate. Yeah. Because no one will ever, like sometimes you don't get context, but I'm sure when people inevitably write this chapter in history,

it's like, this president was known for being a fucking idiot on Twitter who would just give people random names. I don't know if they'd be like, and then there was Pencil Neck Adam Schiff. Yeah. Wait, that wasn't his real name?

And when he became president? But I think that's true of, I believe, Caligula is a lot of like, you know, people are like, oh, yeah, he fisted horses and stuff. When you think about it, it's like, maybe not. Maybe that's like a crazy rumor that his rivals made up and that's what there are a lot of catherine the great obviously right that's like one of those things it's like how do we still know it because it's allured but like you think about that for one second you're like obviously that's not true right and napoleon being

short oh yeah he was totally normal yeah he was normal for the time he was like five six yeah five six well that's the problem with caligula there's so many like good juicy stories and they're like these are all fucking just made up by his enemies right did you know weirdly the way that like the popeye spinach thing was because of a printing error yeah that like they thought that spinach had way more iron in it than it actually does yeah it has a normal plant amount of iron which is not that much. But they put the decimal point in the wrong spot. But don't they still say, like, if you need iron, spinach is a great source?

They say that incorrectly. I mean, leafy greens are good. I'm sure comparatively, right. Oh, okay. Like, yeah, but it's like, if you want iron, you should eat red meat. Or less red meat, because the Amazon is burning. So no, leafy greens. Eat a ton of leafy greens.

Raw red meat. Just eat a bunch of Iron Man action figures. Get your iron. There you go. All right. Let's talk about David Koch in memoriam. Oh, man. You hate to see it.

You hate to see it. You hate to see it. So, first of all, the reason we say fuck Koch is up top in addition to them being terrible is because they advertised once on our podcast and we just wanted to set the record straight we were not aligned with the fucking what advertised they like had remnant ads so it wasn't like we were like reading a coke brothers ad but like an ad made its way onto no but like for what company coke industries that's crazy isn't that wild yeah they're just like yeah hey coke industries i think i think maybe a fine american industry yeah yeah you know pillars of democracy i mean i think yeah obviously

not just that but when you look at sort of what their what their fucking you know the coctopus as they call it had its arms and fucking everything to do. Do they call it that? Yeah, yeah. That's a thing you hear a lot. The fact that they say that is so peak, like, are we the baddies? Right. Like, when you're like, we're the coctopus.

No, they don't say that. But I mean, that's what everybody, yeah. Because you imagine, like, nah, that's actually sick branding, man. But people are going to say coctopus, I'm afraid. And then that would be bad branding. Right. If you're trying not to have people mispronounce your name, Coke, as cock, you shouldn't then rhyme it with an octopus.

We'll call it the cock-tipus. Why not? Yes. But they have their hands in fucking everything from basically trying to just rip apart the little bit of democracy we have in this country from busting unions to climate change. I mean, let's just go over. I just want to remind people very briefly, there's plenty of articles you can read. We'll put in the footnotes if you want to tell people why we say this. Behind the Bastards and the Koch Brothers is interesting. Oh gosh, everything.

Their fortune comes from their father who made the money by opening oil fields for Hitler. Oh, really? Yeah. That's their origin story. That's their origin. And then their origin is that their father had them raised by a nanny who was a proud Nazi. Oh, my God.

It's like a fucking... This is too on the nose. I know. Isn't it crazy? If you had this, people would be like, back to workshop. Right. Yeah, yeah.

They were named one of the top 10 air polluters in the United States, just coke industries in general. Like, they outspent ExxonMobil in funding climate change denial think tanks and scientists. Right. Outspent the fucking gas producer on fucking trying to obscure the argument on climate change. Look where the fuck we are. Again, then you get into Americans for Prosperity. I mean, they have so many fucking dark groups. They fund so many conservative dark money groups. Americans for Prosperity love to fuck over unions

and getting a lot of the anti-union bills that were passed in Wisconsin or Ohio or Michigan. getting a lot of the anti-union bills that were passed in like wisconsin or ohio or michigan um and really like even trying to trigger a constitutional convention to sort of their whole end game was like what if we had like capitalism with fucking no rules at all and corporations and business is the number one god i mean we're already kind of there but like fully like their dream world was just like a world without government. Right. And only money. The worst part about them too,

well, one, the fact that our world has supervillains that are that ugly and uncreative. Right. Like not even like interesting or suave. But they were playing politically, Republicans play dirty and the long game where like they were doing the gerrymandering and the voter suppression, the they were doing the gerrymandering and the voter

suppression the things that have them win the senate and they've been having like judges they do the dirty behind the scenes thing that people don't focus on that then has the results so you're just like oh their their groundwork is so good right and so for people who are like oh what's wrong with the cooks i'm like they have fundamentally changed politics in this country. Yeah. Just like with their outsized influence. I think a lot of people don't realize that. If you believe in climate change, then they have been killing our descendants for the past like four decades.

And I'm not celebrating someone's death. Oh, God, no. Yeah. But I do hope your all-you your all you can eat shit buffet in hell doesn't go cold well here's the thing i saw some well-meaning liberals who i'm not going to name names being like if you're against the death penalty you and you're celebrating this man's death like take a look at the mirror or whatever right but the fundamental difference there is one the death penalty is the government which is notoriously racist and bad at

making policies having control over a man's life or a woman's life which i'm like i'm against that and the other is a terrible person who died of natural causes being old and being able to say it is a good thing that this person is not doing bad things in the world anymore exactly right i wouldn't murder him because i'm not a murderer but i'm saying objectively he was doing bad things in the world anymore. Exactly. Right. I wouldn't murder him because I'm not a murderer, but I'm saying objectively he was doing bad things and I'm glad he's not doing those things anymore. You can say that. Could you say that if you took the Koch brothers out of the equation, would this country look a little bit different?

I mean, I'm sure there would be some other group of well-funded, you know, capitalists who would have interfered, but they really swung for the fences. I mean, when you talk about the long game and like doing things behind the scenes that were pretty subtle, they've been like funding libertarian think tanks and right-wing think tanks like behind the scenes of universities for a long time. Like that book, Dark Money, is wild. I mean, it is almost creative, like how, how creatively evil they are.

Yeah. So, you know, enjoy your vacation, man. Mm-hmm. All right. We're going to take a quick break.

We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was murdered there are crooks everywhere you look now the situation is desperate my name is Manuel Delia I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere

a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden.

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Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. So the G7, formerly the G8, happened this past weekend. Is that right? Yeah. Can I be super dumb and reveal who was the eight that's now we're down to seven?

Oh, my God. Russia's out. Russia. Russia. Oh, God. I'm so sorry. Canada, US, France, Germany, Italy. Next Crimea.

Yeah. Oh, okay. Got it. There's just a lot of acronyms. I want to be in this convo. I get it now. So it's Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, formerly Russia, UK, US. That's the seven, which is weird. It's almost like somewhat arbitrary

because China's not in there, which is the second biggest economy in the world. India is not in there, which is bigger than at least Italy and will soon be bigger than the U.S. But Italy's bright side karaoke game. Yeah, that's true. In a way, I feel like they should always be part of the conversation. But we won't go into that. But I do feel like it's just like tradition, essentially, at this point. It's like a group of friends who just never stopped going out to eat together is what the G7 is, as opposed to an official designation.

It's your high school friends. You don't really have a lot in common with them anymore, but you still have to keep it going. Right, exactly. Well, just like, yeah. Brazil should probably be involved in any big conversations, not because I want Bolsonaro to have a seat at the table, but... Yeah, people need to be able to have a sock party. Yeah. That's something that's actually coming up is Macron, who is president of the G7 this year. It's just like a rotating thing, which country gets to be president. He was saying that they're

going to talk about the fact that the amazon rainforest is burning down yeah he's encouraging it and it's also a form of genocide against indigenous people right enforced yeah and uh bolsonaro's you know pissed hey he said like don't meddle right don't meddle in our situations like i'm sorry bro this fucking action like the amazon in a way we all need to fucking give a fuck about this right um so that's going to be something they discuss uh the fact that the economy is sort of teetering might be headed for a recession germany as i know is in that range as well as the u.s italy is and looking looking rough and the the UK, baby. And then, yeah, whatever happens to be on Twitter while Donald Trump feels like he hasn't spoken in too long.

I'm sure he's just so glad China isn't there. Yeah. Because he likes to talk a lot of shit. But he does not like to fire people in person. He doesn't like to, you know. He's a fucking coward. Yeah. You know what I mean?

He does not want smoke ever. So China made their own announcement. They announced they're going to be, you know, firing back at Trump. It's kind of clear why he thought trade wars were easy to win. He didn't think like the other country was allowed to retaliate in any way or something. He also, I'm not sure, has an accurate read exactly on what tariffs are or what a trade war is. I'm just, the way he talks, I'm not confident that he would pass like an AP economics quiz. Oh no, AP.

Seriously, he wouldn't fucking, I don't, oh, that just blew my mind to even think that Donald Trump would even be in an AP class at any point. But like if you asked him just to say like, what is a tariff? I don't think he could give you a straight answer. It was like, did you watch that video of when someone asked him what his favorite Bible verse was? And he's like, oh, just all of them. I wouldn't pick a favorite. They're just all so good.

They all are so meaningful. And they're like, no, just pick one. Which one that you like? And he's like, you know, I like them all. You love the Beatles? Yeah, I love the Beatles. Which album? You know, all of them.

Which is classic, like, book report on Booker B. Green. I like all the books in the Bible. By the way, that's not the right take either. There's a lot of shitty books in the Bible. But that's how I feel like he approaches economics, which is just right. He can sort of bullshit his way through. Yeah. You know, the supply, the demand.

Well, because also you also show like his worldview is America. Number one, everyone's scared of America. So he thinks the reputation sort of precedes him and can do all this fucking tough guy shit. And people are going to be like, oh, right, America. But now they're like, dude, no, you're in charge. Fuck that. Watch this now. Yeah.

Here's here's some we will retaliate with our own tariffs. I don't know why you still keep people still think we're paying the fucking tariffs. The fucking consumer is. And even who was it? Fuck what? China. No, no, no. There was like one of those banks basically did an analysis essentially saying that the

tariffs are going to cost American families an additional thousand dollars a year in increased costs because that's who's fucking paying for these tariffs, not fucking China. And but they're, you know, China knows how to fuck around, too, because like, yeah, let's let's turn up the heat on your tariffs in some of these swing states. Seventy five billion in new tariffs. And it seems like they're targeted at states that Trump would need to win in order to win in 2020. That's kind of a baller move. Oh, yeah. It's smart, you know, but then it's like, God, but unfortunately, it's like at our own expense. Yeah, no.

It's like, yeah, man, fuck yeah. Do that shit. I'm like, wait. Fuck. And they're playing us so well that you're almost like, I got to respect it. And then you're like, oh, no, it's making things harder for us. Oh, yeah. I forgot that we're we're on Trump's side, which is the worst. Yeah. Yeah. Sadly, that's that's the the uniform we're wearing. That's the shitty thing. It's like he makes these bad decisions and they make our life worse.

Yeah. And, you know, just sort of his whole overall attitude. I mean, even in the way he's tweeting about it shows you just what he thinks his status is. You know what I mean? Like he thinks just some of these tweets that he fired off. I hear by order. Yeah. All U.S. companies leave China. That's big.

Quit China. Big Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy energy. I declare bankruptcy. It's exactly. And again, he's saying we must. Okay. So he goes on. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China.

An alternative to China. They're hereby ordered to start looking. Yeah. To start looking in about two weeks. This is his favorite duration of time. Including bringing your companies home and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to China's tariffs this afternoon.

This is a great opportunity for the United States. Also, I am ordering all carriers, including FedEx, Amazon, UPS, and the post office to search for and refuse all deliveries of fentanyl from China. Oh, my God.

He's really, I mean, he's starting to realize how little power maybe he actually has. Who is, I hate to quote some political theorists that now I can't remember who, but someone smarter than me who I'm quoting, talks about that the president has the power to persuade that they have the pulpit. Right, right. quoting uh it talks about that the president has the the power to persuade that they have the pulpit right right i mean that yeah but like that idea like he fundamentally doesn't understand the power of the presidency and how to use it he thought he was going to be king when he became president like he thought he would just get to say everything that happened and everybody would have to agree with him and like the dissent really seems to have taken him by surprise well because yeah and when he has such this transactional idea of like how power works too it's like i do this for

them then they fucking pledge their undying loyalty to me and then i give my coalition of loyal fucking sycophants and then we take over the world i just say i'm very proud of taylor swift who in a guardian interview i think today said said that she really disagrees with Trump. And she's like, he acts like an autocrat. And he thinks that dissent, that he conflates loving him with loving the country and disagreeing with him is hating the country. And she's like, and that's not good. And I'm like, growth.

Good for you. Great. Hop in a time machine and say that in 2015. But growth. Yeah, of course. Of course. I think that's important because she really did go from like to like slowly turning the knob up of like, this is where I am, which I get it, you know.

But I think also- She's a fan. She wants to make money. I'm like, I get it. And I'm proud of her saying this. But I almost feel like unlike Trump, I'm like, Taylor, you actually, you could fucking say anything. And I think everyone will be like, yeah, great, great, great.

I kind of hope that he tweets about her because her fan army on Twitter, I've been at the receiving end of them. Oh, God. So has Desus and Mero, and they're racist. So maybe they will be like, I get why they're so. I mean, look, it's like any rabid fan base. It's like when the beehive went after the girlfriend of the owner of the Warriors.

Oh, my God, yes. And her manager would be like, Beyonce would not spread this kind of love. Remember that hive? Right. But, you know. No, I hope he tweets about Taylor Swift. I think it's possible, considering the amount of

just completely disconnected from reality tweets and lines of thought he's been going down on Twitter. Even that rant extended to basically then blaming the Fed for what's happening with China. No mention of the fact that you started this dumb fucking trade war and you're mad that the people punched you back a few times.

Didn't he say trade wars, I quote, are easy? Very easy to win. Very easy to win. Very easy to be very quick. Very easy. And then also he doesn't realize he's going up against a leader who does not face elections. Right. Who is an autocrat.

Right. Who can just say, this is what we're going to do. And it happens. There is no hitting Xi Jinping in the swing states. No. To get him off his footing. But everything is so personal with him. He was like, we have a great relationship.

He really like thought that he liked him. And it's just like, what the fuck, man? How is this how you view the world? But we, you know, it's funny how like we sort of always have this cycle of like, what the fuck was he, what did he think was going to happen? But this is just always,

this has been it from day one. I mean, one of the biggest things to get his mind around during his first year of presidency was that it was worth it for America to have a military base in South Korea because he thought it was too expensive. Right. He's like, why can't we just stop there? They're like, well, but you can see a nuclear weapon from North Korea within five seconds. And if we weren't there, it would be 15 minutes. And he's like, yeah, but it's too expensive. I think nothing sort of reveals his thinking about how to be a quote unquote good president than the Mars thing and the moon thing and the Greenland thing.

I think he wants a W. Early 20th century presidency. He wants, yeah. Well, he wants like a thing that doesn't mean anything in the world, but that everyone in America can be like, that's a thing we did. Because he thinks that that is good for him as a president. I think he wants an easy win, whether it's like a trade war, which he's learning is not an easy win and so he's like okay I'll just like plant my dick flag

on something right what if we agreed to put him on the penny right and then phase it right the fuck out because they're already

basically phased out for all intents and purposes like pennies just are fucking no there's no way he'd be able to it's the same color as him

it's the same color as him he wouldn't want the penny because he does I know but like there's so many. Million dollar bill. Million dollar bill. I was going to say, what if we make him. And gave him one.

Gave him a bunch. Right. Here's $7 billion in million dollar bills of you. And we were just like, this is great. There you go, man. You're on the million dollar bill. He's just looking at it every day. The election happens.

He wasn't even campaigning. He's like, do you see this? I want a million dollar bill. That's exactly the type of thing he wants. They're like, oh, you're also out of office. Yeah. That New Yorker profile that somebody wrote of him five years before he was running for president. He has all these like knickknacks that he loves to show off.

He's like, Mike Tyson signed that. Mike Tyson like gave that to me. He said, we're very good friends. And yeah. So like his face on a million dollar. We roll together. His face on a million dollar bill would be the sort of thing that like, he's like time man of the year, like before he actually was designated, that would be like, he probably had the mirror one. Yeah. Well, you know, King Trump, you know, thoughts and prayers to you as you go through this difficult time of slowly letting reality start trickling onto your face.

You know, I realized if he died of natural causes, there would be no way his fans wouldn't think he was poisoned. Oh, yeah. Not the fact that he's like a 70-something man who eats McDonald's and has never walked in his life. There's no easy way out of this presidency because he's not going to admit he lost an election. He's if he died, they would think that he was assassinated. There's no good way out. We're already.

Unless he's like, you know what? Fuck Earth. I'm going to the moon. And then he gets in a spaceship and is like, y'all are too poor. And they're like, damn, that's where we should go. And then they're like okay we believe that he's gonna do he's not gonna gracefully hand over the White House

it's gonna be terrible I'm anxious thinking about election day now but you know like last week we know one of our guests is gonna happen sooner or later so we're gonna have to deal with it either now or god forbid in another fucking four years or whatever but like I'd say like 12 years i mean

look i'd i think i'm gonna serve for about 14 years for life i mean he's old he's so old yeah i know his he tans and has fake teeth and does everything he can to look less old but he's so old yeah uh does he have dentures or just really good veneer implants i think he has has veneers. You look at his bottom teeth and they're not real. Well, because at times they're like, oh, maybe something was going on with his dentures. Oh, right. When he started slurring and people were like, is he having a stroke? Is that what's going on? Fingers crossed.

His teeth were falling out. Yeah. He has, I mean, you just look at his teeth on camera and like, they're not real. Right. So his worst nightmare would be to have his true pale skin, the wind blowing on his comb over and his teeth not in. Yeah. Would probably be similar to death. I mean, think about how he would look with white.

He dyes his hair, obviously, because he's in his 70s and no man doesn't have white hair by that point. He would look so old with white hair. Yeah. It was weird, though. Remember when he slicked his hair back and for point, he would look so old with white hair. Yeah. It was weird, though. Remember when he slicked his hair back and for a second he looked like a normal person? That was the most frightening moment. I don't remember that.

It was for a moment and it became... If I Google Trump hair slicked back... Yeah, you'll see. After he golfs, he's like known to just roll through with a slicked back. I haven't seen that. Doesn't he look like a normal person, though? That's so weird looking. Yeah. I can't believe that. Doesn't he look like a normal person though? That's so weird looking.

Yeah. I can't believe I missed this photo. It was a very passing moment because then something terrible and racist happened. Right. And then everyone's attention was like, what the fuck the photo? Yeah. He looks so weird. Yeah.

It's like when a celebrity has a middle name that everyone calls him by and then you get rid of the middle name and it sounds weird. Joseph Leavitt. Joseph Leavitt. Joseph Leavitt. Yeah. This is the Joseph Leavitt of Trump photos. Jonathan Thomas. Yeah. You're like, who's that?

JTT, dude. Yeah. Who's Jonathan Thomas? He works at Arby's. Yeah. Well, again, all of this, you know, more and more mounting evidence as to why this president needs to be completely, you know, replaced and, you know, impeached. Maybe even that. How about that? How about we start taking action? Because again, I don't know where this road is leading because he's

clearly wanting to puff his chest up at China. They seemingly are also have a game plan. Do you think he's going to fuck? I was surprised that they are going after him in that targeted fashion where they're trying to get him to lose the election. I mean, that's obviously just a theory, but you'd think that they would enjoy just like completely being like five moves ahead of the American president. Although, you know, devil's advocate, those coincident swing states are also manufactured states. Right. Yeah. devil's advocate those coincident swing states are also manufactured right yeah like that's the reason they were swing states and the reason he won is because sort of like people with factory jobs well that's also why the agricultural stuff too was like right in farmland which is heavy you know trump country uh so these are everything's sort of like it might just be an added perk for

them that they get that little thing but it also could be that they're hitting the states that have the biggest manufacturing. Right. Because they're like, oh, your weakness is that you have elections. Yeah. Right. Watch this. We'll not only make you look like a fucking shit bag, you're going to lose it on Twitter. And then we're also going to go after you strategically in a way that you can actually be out of it.

Who is he going to blame the stock? Because he's been a big like the stock market's good because of me. Who's he going to blame the stock market going down? Did you see the tweet on Friday? He did like a joke avoid his tweet again because the end of the world is going to be something that somebody's joking about he did a tweet where the stock market went down by like what was 573 points on friday and he tweeted like uh it's a shame that what's his name dropped out of like some. He said perhaps he's like the Dow is down 573 points. Perhaps on the news that Representative Seth Moulton, whoever that may be, has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race.

That's the only good tweet he's ever done. It's pretty funny. But at the same time. It would be so much funnier if he wasn't the president. Right. funny but at the same time it would be so much funnier if he wasn't the president right and it's taking the piss out of himself because

it's like yeah there's no way I'm going to admit that this is all my fault so I'm going to pretend like it's some complete nobody wait who is Seth Mulden what was he in the debates I don't think he made a debate stage once oh god

oh man oh god Trump would have been so much funnier if he was just like a harmless racist screaming in the world and not the president. Yeah, that's unfortunately... I wish we could just laugh at him, and it pains me so much that he has power. That's kind of the trouble

of even commenting on his presidency. On one hand, there's so much to just be like, wow, idiot but it's also to kind of deflect the true horror that we're witnessing of like this is just disintegrating right so much of like you know even like it was shitty before him and now it's getting shittier and it's like okay well then um let's laugh during the fire a little bit too but also it it you, that's why I was trying to underline too that these are all existential threats to our long-term stability and our ability to have abundance

and be productive going forward in life. Well, speaking of existential threats, Ruth Bader Ginsburg had another... Shut up, Jack, shut up! Don't say it. Don't make it real. Malignant tumor treated in August or at the beginning of this month. I don't know.

If we keep her medically alive, but she's brain dead, but there's still blood, her heart is still beeping. Uh-huh. She's a robot. Does that count? No. Okay. No.

But I would recommend to the people on the left, check out the movie Dave. Yes, let's Dave her. With Chris Klein. Chris Calvin Klein. No, not Calvin Klein. I mean Kevin Klein. Kevin Klein.

With Christopher Columbus. Miles, I think you mean Calvin Klein. Have you seen his coked out audition for Mamma Mia? Who? Chris Klein. Chris Klein? I like Chris Klein. Dude, he's like, yo, oh man, I'm loving it in here.

He's way too desperate for a job. Oh, Chris Klein from American Pie. And from Election. Yeah. He's good for Election. I digress. Has the same character from American Pie. Yeah, Bumblebee, Bumblebee, Bumblebee.

Yeah, Kevin Kline, where the president has a heart attack and they have to bring out his look-alike to keep him going. It's a really funny movie. It's a great movie. Sigourney Weaver's the first lady who is fucking... Am I allowed to say fucking? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We said fuck Coke Industries. I forgot.

It's been a long podcast. She like fucks Dave, kind of knowing that it's Dave right yeah which is like kind of kinky in the 90s

you haven't looked at my legs in years I remember there's a scene like that in the limousine and she's like she gets out of the shower right yeah

and my favorite bit where he's at a like an automotive plant using robotic arms and he's like I once caught a fish this big and the arms go out

to like 90 feet yeah alright anyway classic Dave stuff classic Dave stuff Dave is really a parable And he's like, I once caught a fish this big. And the arms got to like 90 feet. Yeah. All right. Anyway. Classic Dave stuff. Classic Dave stuff. Dave is really a parable about swinging as a married man.

Well, that's it. Because Face Off is another movie where the wife fucks a dude who's posing as her husband. And nobody, like, she doesn't notice it. Or she's like, that was amazing. Or something like that. But it's like, well, wouldn't you it or she's like, that was amazing or something like that. But it's like, well, wouldn't you know that that's not your husband or maybe not? You kind of want not to know. Right, yeah.

You know, but you kind of. Oh, that's right. He fucking died because he was having an affair, the original person. Right, he has a heart attack. He has a heart attack. Well, he was having an affair. Yep.

And so they're like, we can't remove this. Dude, crazy. They don't want the story to come out. Right. One, that he had a heart attack because I think they don't like the VP as the villain. Right. And then they don't want the affair to come out. Oh, okay.

Until the election. Just tell the mistress to leave the room and then be like, he's dead. Well, I think that they don't want him to be dead and also they know it would come out where did he die you mean like with Scalia oh he was

just at a hunting lodge he's still there he's on vacation he's good he's good he's at a farm I think there's really bad cell service up there right right I think that's what it is

huh anyways we'll look into it you were gonna say something and I interrupted you was I I don't think I was oh I was saying

I like the movie Dave and I also like the movie Wag the Dog oh similar premise yeah of uh the black

who Trump would call the deep state yeah manipulating the president yeah Dave and Wag the Dog are both about the deep state that's the president yeah dave and wank the dog are both about the deep state that's true trump shit oh man fox news please just play those films give him some ideas right he's like i was just watching this amazing riveting documentary dave about one of our past presidents uh president harrison mitchell well is that his name and dave yeah

william harrison mitchell three namer three namer three namer who's bill mitchell when you say Mitchell. Is that his name in Dave? Yeah. William Harrison Mitchell. Three-namer. Three-namer. Three-namer. But who's Bill Mitchell? When you say, yeah, Bill Mitchell, I mean, that doesn't mean anything. Well, speaking of Fox News, I just want to hear this one clip of their woke drug commentary. Well, allow me to give you some, let's give some context first, because it's such a stupid fucking take because the board of supervisors in san francisco they're looking at language guidelines to uh stop using words like felon offender convict addict juvenile delinquent because they're like you know what people get this tag of felon or whatever it becomes much more difficult to get uh employed and things like that they don't want you

to just walk around with the scarlet letter so they're using words like, you could be called a formerly incarcerated person or justice involved. And they're sort of like, I read like another like op-ed and a conservative news, like fucking website. And they're like, oh, so we're going to call thieves enthusiastic shoppers. But that's not the point because recidivism is a very huge problem in this sort of like, you know, endless cycle of prison systems. But I just want to point out there was a study that was done that, you know, immediate employment is a huge factor in reducing recidivism. Oh, and that, you know, before there weren't many studies into it because the prison industrial complex is so profitable that about a 20 percent reduction in a return to crime for people who were able to find jobs immediately. And then like the numbers go even down sort of over time. So, you know, they're using studies like that to say, yes, we have an issue where people come out of prison. They have no options

because of the way they're labeled by society and inevitably have to turn back to crime. And the cycle continues. Of of course the right doesn't like that because the private prison industry cuts them many checks for their candidates so in comes this fucking uh lobbyist and think tank guy from like go pack or some shit and he's like trying to spin this whole thing on how like this is just the beginning of the end but also has a very he's very experienced with drug use clearly from uh some of the things he says. California has tried to clear out their prisons, and yet every year they continue to have overcrowded prisons. And the focus ought to be on a society that follows the law, not allowing people to defecate in the streets, not allowing

individuals to lay on the street, having just shot up with heroin and having a needle sticking out of them. We ought to be focused on solving crime. Yeah, yeah. You know, just shot up with Marilyn Manson. Shot up with marijuana. I mean, like, also that, like, obviously, yes, there is a problem with people defecating in the streets in this country. But also there's a homelessness situation in these areas, too. in this country, but also there's a homelessness situation in these areas too.

I like that they always connect San Francisco to like, well, people poo in the streets because it's liberal. It's sort of like the weird argument that's always sort of tenuously connected. I get so angry. I feel like I'm like, this is the thing that makes me so mad. The thing about homelessness are people like, if we make it hard enough and unpleasant enough to be homeless, then they'll just not be homeless anymore. It's not like high schoolers like drunk driving or like, you know, like I don't know, like high schoolers loitering, like a thing that they don't have to do. It's like you're not addressing the root of homelessness.

That is your life situation, right. And making it harder and more unpleasant to be homeless is just making it harder and more unpleasant for homeless and probably harder for them than to when you look at all the things that are so entrenched into why that happens it's like well we can't give people proper you know medical care or mental health assistance because of the way the you know like health care industry is completely fucked up and then you can't even address like housing crises because the banking industry is so tied up in like exacerbating that issue so it's like yeah let just, let's just avoid the root causes and blame this other thing and just throw our attention to that. Same thing with immigration where it's like, well, maybe if we treat these people like subhumans, these other people who have no other recourse except to flee their country,

maybe just we'll stop doing it rather than like what's going on there. And it's also like, I think I remember reading somewhere that there was an experiment maybe in like Utah where they just like gave homeless people places to live. What if we just fixed homelessness by giving them homes? And it saved so much money in the long run where even if you're so clinical and you're like, I guess, a libertarian Republican who doesn't think that who doesn't care about like people's lives is more just like it's about the money. people's lives is more just like it's about the money it is cheaper to give them homes than to keep paying for their emergency room visits and like the way the system becomes clogged with with homeless people if that is your motivating factor and not like basic human decency it still works in the favor of just helping them because you want to basically make people who are needy look like

evil people yeah exactly and that's just to paint them with this brush. They're like, oh, well, if you're poor, it's because you're lazy and you have no, and I think the idea is, well, you give them free stuff, they won't do anything. And all those studies show that people are literally just looking for the stability because most people do have pride in themselves

that they do not want to be in that situation. And I'm sure even those people who are like, oh my God, I mean, like, they're just going to take free stuff. I bet even those person, God forbid, they found themselves in a situation where they were homeless. They would probably do what they could to get out of it rather than be like, actually, you know what? Fuck it. Let's just like let's just live in squalor and take these little checks. And we're great. You need an address to apply for a job.

And then people get arrested and then like their court dates, like if they don't have a fixed address, they miss their court dates. These things keep adding up. Then they arrested then they get incarcerated and then they have a history like it keeps compounding this i'm so sorry i'm going on a rant but the system is so built against just right actually making them if your goal is to make them become like functional members of society the way the system is designed now and the way they approach it of just like villainizing them is the exact opposite of how you would do that. Oh, yeah. But then, like you say, that creates inmates for a prison industry. That creates more money and like emergency care that people can charge the government.

It's just all, you know. And a common enemy for like decent, hardworking Americans, not these freeloading slackers. It's like you'd be like, I'm not a freeloading slacker. And then you feel self-righteous. When most people in this country are hanging by a fucking thread. Yeah. All right.

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Yeah. The story is very interesting. Yeah. So we're learning new details, right? Yeah. I think like most people, we thought, oh, Kim Kardashian must be like back channeling all of this stuff to try and get ASAP out. But that is not the case at all.

And this is actually, you know asap rocky in the past has not had some of the best political takes i remember when he was like he's literally said all lives matter and like you know said like i don't know if i can i really understand there's something about cosby he's defended bill cosby yeah yeah so look he he's not necessarily a political luminary, let's say. But, you know, him being incarcerated became a huge thing of public interest. And what happened was there were two people, Daryl Scott, who's this Ohio pastor who is constantly caping for Trump. He's like the person who's like, actually, Donald Trump has been the most pro-black president of all time. That's like, okay, sit your ass down. And another man by the name who like works with him, Kareem Lanier, they were the ones like who basically they were

approached by this like celebrity fixer after A$AP Rocky got arrested. And they were saying like, hey, like, you know, the president, like this could be a good opportunity for him because you know, he thinks if you do one good thing for one black person, all black people will instantly forget that you're racist. Um, they're like, this could be a good opportunity for the president. So then they sort of sent that up the chain and like, okay, yeah, maybe this, this could be a good look. Then, um, uh, ASAP Rocky's manager was approached and they said, okay, we've, we've got something for you. How about the president tries to help you out to get your client ASAP Rocky out of prison on the condition that when he's out, he publicly thanks Mr. Trump. And the quote that his manager

gave was, quote, if a serial killer gets Rocky out of jail, I would have no problem saying thank you to the serial killer. But I guess that's you know, you know, that's just good. When you're that hard up for like somebody to like you, that they compare you to a serial killer and you're like, good enough. That should have been their first indicator. Sounds like we're friends. Yeah. That should have been the first indicator of how ASAP Rocky's camp was looking at even

Donald Trump. Sounds like a yes. Yeah. It's like, okay, great. So they work their magic. He gets out, but radio silence from ASAP Rocky. And immediately they were trying to reach out the two men who were like the connective tissue to Trump. They said they immediately began reaching out to Rocky's team within hours of his release. They were expecting a thank you quote. We didn't get a

call. We don't get a call at all. When they finally got his manager on the phone, one of the men said the rapper's manager quote, started making all these excuses about rocky needing time to travel and rest and then he said i hope you guys go aren't going back on what you said you were going to do cue the fucking ironic music because guess what my man there is there's no thank you so you can kiss that one fucking yeah that's i hope he tweets mean things about a-type rocky now yeah he probably would like i'm grateful he's like ferg was actually probably the best one of that that one fucking good. That's amazing. I hope he tweets mean things about A$AP Rocky now. He probably will be like, fuck that. I'm grateful. He's like, Ferg was actually probably the best one in that crew.

And also, A$AP Yam's day is, we're fucking canceling it. Right. Fuck Yam's. Oh, what if he said that? He's like, fuck Yam's. I'm serious. Fuck that dude. Then he would really get all the smoke.

He really would. All right, guys. Let's talk about a preview of things to come. Great. Super volcanoes. Is that the vaporizer? It's probably a vaporizer. Sick.

But once every 2.1 million years, a super volcano will go off. There are 10 of them or 11 of them around the globe and or 20 scattered around the the planet and the last time one went off was 600 000 years ago uh it is basically like there will be huge earthquakes and then the sky will just like go dark because of how much magma will come out of the earth. Liquid hot magma. Magma. And the nearest one is under Yellowstone. Oh, great, great, great.

It's almost like saying near in this case doesn't make a difference at all because it doesn't matter as long as it's on the earth. Yeah. Right. Well, so it would cover most of the Midwest in ash, like in three feet of ash. This was in an op-ed in the New York Times. So they're basically saying that this-

Oh, so it's an opinion. Yeah. One of those scientists who just writes about his opinion. Oh, so that's your opinion, sir. Right. He talks about them as ultra catastrophes that would lead to global devastation and even human extinction, like a major asteroid impact, global nuclear war, or a super volcano, a super eruption of one of these super volcanoes. and he basically is making the point that the volcano is the one that's most likely to happen in our lifetime, but we are— Our current lifetime?

As in everyone listening right now? It's more likely mathematically, statistically, than the asteroid impact, but the asteroid impact is the one that we've had a bunch of movies about, basically. Well, new IP. I have a question. Yeah. Is this something that it would happen and we'd all die instantly? Because that's the way I want to go. Well, new IP. I have a question. Yeah. Is this something that it would happen and we'd all die instantly?

Because that's the way I want to go. Well, the people near there probably would. Yeah, people real close by would. People who lived in the surrounding states would, but we would just- Have a slow, painful death. Yeah, have a slow- See, that's the worst.

Yeah. Because also, then the people who have survivalist things, then they get to be smug. Right. Yeah, exactly. People have been storing gasoline for like years. They're like, ha ha, honey. They're like, yeah,

but what about your $50,000 in beanie babies, asshole? What about those? Okay, I took an L on those. But you know what? Like people with canned food, it's like, I've been waiting for this. They get to feel really excited. And I don't want that.

I don't want to live in that world. And all those Jim Baker and her survival buckets. Well, so this article, just something to look for. The reason I think this is a preview of things to come is because you remember the year when Armageddon and written and like made around the same time was because of a news story that had happened on like one of the main news channels like nine years before. So nine years from now, I feel like there's going to be a year of super volcano movies because this is like a it's a very vivid. Oh, we had Dante's Peak. We had the success of Jon Snow Pompeii movie. Right.

Volcano movies have not done that well. Because volcanoes are so boring. They're slow. Dante's Peak was the same year as Volcano. Joe versus the Volcano. Well, that's a great movie. But I think it's a great movie because the volcano doesn't happen. I still have a promotional bag from Joe versus the Volcano that my mom got in the 80s.

Were you born? Yeah, live around that time. I think it was made by Orion Pictures because it still has the old Orion logo on the bag. And it's a reusable bag that, to this day, that my family uses. Good for you. Yeah, they made a Pompeii movie that did very poorly, I think. Yeah, yeah, very recently. And there's so many good stories. Wasn't there one guy masturbating when he died? They made a Pompeii movie that did very poorly, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Very recently.

And there's so many good stories. Wasn't there one guy masturbating when he died? But that's not a good story because everyone dies. Everyone masturbates when they die. It has to be like an art film or something where it's like you see that same moment for people all over the place. Ooh, that would be interesting. It's like sliding doors or something. Sliding doors-esque.

Yeah. But I don't think you can make a blockbuster where everyone's like masturbating. Although, you know, Titanic. Titanic sinks. I've written this Titanic sense. That's true. Did you see the article that people were like, the Titanic's like falling apart on the seafloor? And they're like, motherfucker, that shit sank over 100 years ago. It's in the sea.

In the fucking sea. It looks like shit, you guys. I was like, I never thought it looked that good to begin with, first of all. It's deteriorating. What are we going to do? They're like, y'all, I don't know if you've to begin with. First of all, it's deteriorating. What are we going to do? They're like, y'all, I don't know if you've seen the Acropolis. It's a mess. Right.

What are we going to do about it? What happened there, everyone? What happened? Yeah. Time? No. Yeah. They're like, we last saw it 40 years ago and it looked better than it does now.

And it's like, well, yeah, being 40 years under the sea will do that. How did you look 40 years ago? Like, oh my God. It was 14 years ago. Oh, 14, sorry. And the last time that anyone was down there was James Cameron. Wait, what do you mean 14 years ago?

That somebody was down and diving around the Titanic. Oh, I got it. Remember, because he made the Titanic, but then he also got really into diving to the Titanic. I'm pretty sure he only made Titanic because he really wanted to go dive down to the Titanic. But then part of it,

didn't that obsession create new like submersible technology though too? Yeah, he nailed it. He does that a lot in films. Yeah. Credit to James Cameron.

I went on a tour of his workshop once, which is just- Wait, why'd you use air quotes? Because it's not really a workshop. It's like an airplane hangar where he keeps like-

I thought you meant like, I use air quotes, it's a van. No, they called really a workshop. It's like an airplane hangar where he keeps like – I thought you meant like – I use the word because it's a van. No, they called it the workshop. It was like a press thing. It was like James Cameron and like 10 reporters. And it's like just little things from all of his movies. And he just keeps like the thing from Aliens, like the – Oh, really? I don't know what it's called.

The robo suit. The robo suit. Get away from her, you bitch. And all the models of the titanic and he just seems like he just is a dude like a kid who happens to make movies right but really loves this stuff toys making cool things yeah he's just yeah he just loves i'm a collector who just got into filmmaking yeah i realized that was a good way to get access to stuff yeah the kind of that's what it felt like right uh like real like was it real did he have any stuff from the Titanic in there?

Like from the, no, that would be. Not that they showed us. Maybe in his personal home. Yeah. Probably. He's like, this is the wheel for me. Did you meet him? Yeah.

Was he nice? He was. Jim? Jim. Good. But here's the thing. Jim came. I wanted, I thought he was nice, but he was nice because he's like an old man meeting

a few reporters. Right. Like, I don't think I would want to be married to him. No. Why? What'd you get? What was the sense you got from him? I have it,

but just from stories. Oh, right. He's not, he's a controlling, but I think now that he's of an agent status where he gets to do whatever he wants. Right. Like I think back in early in his career when he had to yell at people,

he was not a pleasant person, but now he's, he's James fucking Cameron. He gets, I bet now he's a pleasant person to be around because everyone says yes to him. One of the early things he did in filmmaking, he was, I think, working on the set of a horror movie. And they wanted to have a shot with a bunch of worms and grubs in it. And he was like, they're not wriggling enough.

So he just electrocuted the whole thing of grubs and worms. So they would start crawling over each other, which is brilliant, but also really cruel. And I think a good kind of description of how he treats people in his movies. He will just like, when you look back at The Abyss, he's talking about how fun it was. And everyone's like- I almost drowned nine times. Yeah, people almost died on that movie. They needed them to wriggle more.

Wriggle! Wasn't the thing, they were breathing water? The technology was that they would learn to breathe in fluid. That was the premise of the movie. Right, but I'm saying, but even having that in your head,

so the actors are in these suits that are filling up. Wouldn't the helmets fill up with liquid? Yeah. I'm sure that would stress me the fuck out. I miss the LA. Yeah. Oh, man, bring stress me the fuck out. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh man, bring it back. I know. It was getting so good. It was never getting good. I mean, it got so wacky though. I was like,

well, well, well, hold on. Cause before I just thought there was some weird show and now we're dealing with like some other dimension this dude saw in a dollhouse. I'm so mad that they canceled it just because like. They canceled it?

Yeah. DOA? Yeah. Is DOA? Oh, damn. No one made that joke yet. It's just like no one else is making shows that weird. Yeah, right.

More weird things in the world. I mean, I think they should do a flash mob to bring it back. With the dance moves? With the dances. What the fuck? I'd never saw that. The movements. You don't know the movements, Jack?

You've never watched the climax of the movie? The climax of- It's because he knows the show creators and he's salty. I had never saw it the movements you don't know the movements Jack the climax of the movie the climax of it's cause he knows the show creators and he's salty I'm not salty oh I can't wait

for this to stop rolling cause it does I'm so salty there's so many shows I'm not salty at them Jack actually had the idea for Jack tell them about

your OA idea you had before you had the idea for the OA before the OA they stole it from me yeah he was talking about all these

NDEs he had near death experiences at water parks. And they're like, hold on. I will say there's guys I hooked up with and now I can never watch

anything even tangentially related to them because it makes me viscerally upset. Yeah. Oh, what do you mean? Like, who are these people you're dating?

I'm not going to say it on the- Damn, okay. Well, none of this is going in. I live in Los Angeles. There are people in the world. I mean, the only thing that reminds me of X is like an empty TV box. You know what I mean? So I'm going to be like, oh, I can't watch NBC.

She's like, I hooked up with a guy, and now I can't watch any of LeBron's games. And he soured it for me. Especially when he came to the Lakers. I'm like, of all the towns. Really, LeBron. I came here first. I moved here. You asshole.

Let's talk about the new socialist version of Monopoly. Wait, wasn't that so interesting? Because originally Monopoly, wasn't it supposed to be social? It was supposed to be a social. Sorry, I don't mean to be jumping the gun. No, that's fine. That's a good point. It was originally meant to warn against Monopoly.

Right. good point it was originally meant to warn against monopoly right uh and also there were rules you could follow that were more socialist and would make it so that everybody wins but now uh in sort of a fever dream version of what the person had in mind hasbro has made a version of Monopoly that is basically designed to make fun of socialism. It's a send up. Right. Socialism. It draws on old fashioned Cold War era iconography, denigrates universal health care,

veganism. It's just like shits on the left in general. And yeah, but it's not like something that like Ben Shapiro made with his friends. It's from Hasbro. Which makes, I mean, it's just odd and like, yeah, but it's not like something that Ben Shapiro made with his friends. It's from Hasbro. Which is odd and like, yeah, okay, I get it. There's some corporations like, fuck it, man. This can maybe help obscure the conversation and maybe we can sell some stuff to the right.

But the game was originally invented by a leftist, Elizabeth Maggie, I think, who wanted to highlight the evils of accruing vast sums of wealth at the expense of others. And then her game was stolen by Charles Darrow, who sold it to Parker Brothers. Oh, wow. So she didn't even. They eventually paid her $500 for the game. In 1835 dollars or in. No, it's like.

In the 20th century? Oh, boy. But it's like if you ever, if you play Monopoly, you know that the point of it already is that once someone gets like properties and has that, then it makes it cripplingly difficult for the other players, which is what the game is. Yeah. And this one is the point to like if you land on Venezuela, you starve to death. Right. Right. Yeah. Oh, didn't they also, they made like Monopoly for Millennials.

That was like with Snapchat and they try, I feel like they're trying with like, it's the same with like Oreos. Now Oreo has like Sriracha flavored Oreos. Like I think Monopoly is just being like, please buy our game. Yeah. Although some of those Oreos are very good. Are they? Which ones?

Lemon. No. Birthday cake.os are very good. Are they? Which ones? Lemon. No. Birthday cake. Birthday cake is good. The red velvet is not terrible. It's all right. I was in the UK. Oh.

On the continent, as we call it. Well, no. That wouldn't be the continent. That would be the UK. That's true. Sorry. Tis an island. Jesus Christ.

On the island. But I was in a castle in Scotland. Aye. It the island. But I wasn't a castle in Scotland. Aye. It's true. But they have chips, which are the best flavors in the whole world. Yeah. Because they have really weird flavors. It would be like roast chicken flavored potato chips.

Those are the best ones. And it tastes like roast chicken. Really? Sweet Thai chili. Is it another good one? Sweet Thai chili. Then they have like pork, barbecue pork. Yeah.

It's so good. And it tastes like it. And it was unbelievably good flavors. Like, super specific, weird, detailed chip flavors. Hey, Frito-Lays, bring the Walker's Crisps flavors to America. Yeah, hell yeah. Because the closest you can get them is in fucking Canada. And that's where you get the roasted chicken, I think is one of my favorite ones.

The roasted chicken is unbelievable. That was unanimously our favorite. Yeah, because it has the proper, the proper roasting herbs in it, too. It's like, ooh, I think there's thyme and rosemary in this. Oh, really? It's so good. And I'm a skeptic. Are you?

Yeah, I was like, this is going to be gross. Sure, and then you're like, oh, my God. That is exactly what it was like. Don't they have ketchup-flavored potato chips? Yeah, and prawns, prawn cocktail-flavored. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, our homies from Toronto sent us a Canadian chip bag. Oh, really?

Someone send me a chip bag, please. Yeah. It was ketchup. What else was there in that bag? That care package. All dressed, which was like ketchup and everything. Look, I'm probably fucking this all up. Wait, just all the condiments?

Just like a mixture? Yeah. Hold on. All dressed. I like that in the UK and in Europe, mayonnaise is a more socially acceptable fry dip. Yeah. It's good. All dressed chips in Canada are barbecue, ketchup, sour cream and onion, and salt and

vinegar. That sounds good. All mixed together? All mixed together. That sounds good. Yeah. That's a lot. It's just flavor.

You know what I mean? Right. Who cares? Just flavor. But that's how I feel about Monopoly, which is that they're just doing whatever, and this is so misguided and dumb. Yeah, our writer, JM, said, why even keep making new niche versions of Monopoly

when they've clearly already peaked and included a picture of Monopoly, the Golden Girls. What? Yeah, there's a Golden Girls version of Monopoly. That's the only time i've ever thought about buying monopoly is when it's completely intersected with a thing that i love and i'm like oh yeah maybe just to collect it like star wars monopoly right some shit like that yeah it doesn't make it like because it's not like a trivia game right so no the properties are the properties just

have new names and maybe the p maybe the pieces are probably unique. Yeah. The play pieces, so it's not just the shoe or the car. Fun. Yeah, or the thimble. Right.

Although Golden Girls probably does have a thimble. Did you have a favorite board game growing up? I had, so I got really good at, you know Labyrinth, the thing?

No. It's like a marble that has. I'm 26. Oh, okay. Well. But you made that deep Joe versus the volcano reference. Damn. I've seen a movie.

Yeah. I thought you were my people. No, this is even old for me. I still am your people. I'm like a child of the 80s. But this is like a, it's like a board sort of a. Is it a video game? I don't know what you're describing.

No, no, no. It's got, it's like a wooden box that you... Did you grow up in the Great Depression? Yeah, exactly. So you bring out an oil cloth. You get a wooden hoop and you push it with another stick down the road, you see. Great fun. Great fun. That was

good. And Stratego, I liked. Yeah, Stratego I liked. No, it was a thing that, you know, it like moves on two vertices and you control... It's like a maze with a steel ball. it was the thing that, you know, it like moves on two vertices and you control. It's like a maze with a steel ball. Maybe if I saw it, I would know it. It's like the kind of gift you see at toy stores that don't sell actual toys. What?

Like, you know, they're- The best toy. Okay, I'm sorry. Anyways, I could go all the way to the end and back like three times. I asked you for a board game and you gave me this weird pen. They didn't have board games yet. Another one. Tiddlywinks.

Board game. I was really good. I loved Chutes and Ladders. Yeah. And Trivial Pursuit. I don't know if it counts as a board game, but I guess it does. I love Scrabble. Oh.

Yeah. And I'm so competitive with Scrabble that my family doesn't like to play with me anymore. I have to trick new people into playing with me. Yeah, my grandmother, rest in peace, who really loved Scrabble. That's how I got her to start using an iPad because there's words with friends. And I was like, Grandma, I could play with you from across town. She was so fucking good, though, that when I started creeping up on her, she's like, are you cheating? I'm like, Grandma, why the fuck would I cheat?

Of course I have another app I can use concurrently with this one that will blast you out the She's like, are you cheating? I'm like, grandma, why the fuck would I cheat? Of course I have another app I can use concurrently with this one that will blast you out the water. Oh, did you? A couple times. I had to level the playing field.

I need to play in person. You cheated against your grandma. Because I need- America, baby. Dana, it's been a pleasure having you. This has been a delight. Sorry that I got us

a little bit off the road. No, Dana. Dana, jump. Where can people find you? On Twitter and Instagram, Dana Schwartz with three Zs at the end. Great follow on Twitter. Is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Of mine or someone else's?

Either way. Well, my favorite tweet, and now I feel bad because I don't know who it's from, so I'm going to look it up right now, is the, should I read it? Sure. It's from Brandon Is Good, LeBeur Girdle, and it's dentist waiting room, me chanting teeth, teeth, other patients, teeth, teeth, secretary pounding her clipboard, teeth, teeth, teeth, and it's like a classic tweet that goes around,

but I just sometimes wake up in the middle of the night thinking about how much I like it. Teeth, teeth, teeth. That's great. It's a perfect tweet, and I just sometimes wake up in the middle of the night thinking about how much I like it. Teeth. That's great. It's a perfect tweet and I love it so much. Just passionate about teeth. I love it. Miles, where can people find you and what's a tweet you enjoy? You can find

me. You're so smart. Well, not really. I'm just on a podcast so people assume I'm weird. You can find me and follow me on... that app that gives you all your smart takes Yep, it's called Smart Takes Yeah, you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey and a tweet I like

is from Reductress that says 5 rompers that are difficult but not impossible to masturbate in Yeah The challenge factor makes it more worthwhile Yeah that are difficult, but not impossible, to masturbate in. Yeah. That's pretty good. The challenge factor makes it more worthwhile.

Yeah. Tweets I've been enjoying. Somebody said, bad news from the thrift store. It's just a picture of a sign that says, sorry, we are no longer accepting copies of Austin Powers' gold number. Sorry, boy. You can find me on Twitter, Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on. Oh, yeah was from dan chamberlain by the way i forgot to say who it was from didn't i miles what song are we gonna ride on uh we're gonna ride out on a track from god rigas uh and the track is called make this magic instrumental music, instrumental vibe, no words, just feelings, beats, and should be a toe-activating toe tap. Oh.

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