The Daily Zeitgeist - Be(elzebub)yonce, It REALLY WAS Russia 9.25.18

Episode Date: September 25, 2018

In episode 239, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and co-host of the You're Making It Worse podcast Brent Sullivan to discuss Beyonce's drummer claiming Bey is a witch and controlling her, Rod Rosenstein's upcoming meeting with Trump, more accusations about Brett Kavanaugh that came out, a new book that confirms that Russia meddled in our election, a neo-Nazi being hired at a police department after being fired from one in a nearby town, HBO planning to leave their sets up in Ireland for tourists to see, how the new Michael Moore filmed bombed, and more!FOOTNOTES:1. Beyoncé’s Former Drummer Claims Singer Molested Her with ‘Dark Magic,’ ‘Extreme Witchcraft’2. Rod Rosenstein Will Meet With Trump to Discuss His Fate3. Brett Kavanaugh Has Already Disqualified Himself4. Senate Democrats Investigate a New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct, from Brett Kavanaugh’s College Years5. How Russia Helped Swing the Election for Trump6. Yale cancels some classes as law students protest Brett Kavanaugh nomination7. Achille police department hires admitted former neo Nazi8. Oklahoma Police Chief Resigns Over Neo-Nazi Ties, Gets Job in Neighboring Police Force9. Dallas man runs Internet skinhead site10. ‘Game of Thrones’ Filming Locations in Northern Ireland to Open as Tourist Attractions11. ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’: Why Michael Moore’s Trump Doc Bombed12. SP12 Beat by Mount Kimbie Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hey, Mr. Jack O'Brien, play a song for me. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. That was old Bob Dylan singing young Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man with my name in it. That's how AKs work. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Oh, that's right. It's me, Mr. Miles Gray, a.k.a. Gray-once, a.k.a. Grazy in Love, because, my goodness, I'm still thinking about this thing I saw over the weekend.

We'll get to that later, but that is a self-made AKA for today. Me too. I'm thinking about it too. With not as big a smile on my face. We'll get into it. There's a lot of Satanists there. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the very funny comedian and co-host of the You're Making It Worse podcast, Brent Sullivan. Hey, guys.

Hey, man. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it. Oh, thank you for being here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better, but first we're going to tell our listeners what we're talking about today. We're going to be talking about the On the Run 2 show that Miles and I saw on separate nights this weekend and also the fact that Beyonce's former drummer has accused her of witchcraft.

And I believe it. Yeah, why that is plausible based on her performance. We're going to talk about the will they, won't they going on with Rosenstein right now. As we record this, it may have been resolved as you listen to it, but that's how time works. We're going to talk about Brett still being muy problematico. still being muy problematico. We're going to talk about how there's a new book coming out from an academic saying that, yes, Russia did swing the election. We can say that, basically, with a fair degree of certainty.

We're going to talk about white supremacy and law enforcement, and we're going to talk about HBO's plan to possibly make a Game of Thrones tourist trap in Northern Ireland and also we're gonna see how Fahrenheit 11 9 did after we talked about how Michael Moore is the Donald Trump of the left I think we tanked it guys but Brent first what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are oh Oh, that's right. Right before I came, I did Google two things earlier today.

One was Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz polls. I'm looking for updates on polls as much as possible. Got it. The other one was Young Perps, which is a new porn site I just discovered. Ooh. And it's a fun dynamic where it pretends to be security camera footage of someone who was caught in the mall shoplifting. And they bring him in. And the mall cop is like, you know, we can make this just disappear.

Wow. Take your shirt off. Wow. And it's so fun. And they really go deep where it's like an hour-long video. And like 15 minutes of it will just be the guy sitting alone, waiting for the cop to come back because he leaves him for a minute. Got it. So you kind of build suspense.

It's really fun. And then you get to watch the abuse of power play out in wonderful 360p quality. Exactly. Do they ever talk about the items that were stolen? Do we get that detail? So the acting still isn't great, which is disappointing. Sometimes they kind of repeat the same line. Oh, really?

I know. So it's a bit of a downer in that regard, but it's just kind of fun to get into. Yeah, there are so many new ways that people are just presenting people fucking now. Yeah, exactly. So many inventive ways, like, oh, do you like shit where someone got caught stealing? Do you like something where someone has car trouble? Right, exactly. Or someone's in a weird taxi cab?

Hitchhikers are still fun. That's still a fun one. Yeah, hitchhikers are great. And glory holes are still doing well. That's right. That's right. Glory holes are big. Glory holes are real.

They're coming back. Are they really? I see glory holes, man. It used to be your grandpa's porn. Yeah. Not anymore. Is it just a film of a wall because you're the person with your dick through the glory hole? No, no.

It's inside the glory hole. But, you know, oddly enough. They line the glory hole itself with cameras. They still haven't made a glory hole setup look anything. Like, they always look disgusting, though. There's not, like, a glamour glory hole. I have a weird mental block with glory holes such that I would not put my dick into a place

where I don't know where it's going and who That is so weird. What is wrong with you? Really? Jack's been kicked out of SeaWorld. It's a really big thing. Glory holes even exist in real life. And yet, I'm like, why would I do that?

It seems scary as fuck it's a trust thing for sure for everybody involved do you have trust issues not around glory holes mostly around like I'll never sign up for like a frequent buyer card do I go to Barnes and Noble do you want to sign up for them never

it is the trust fall of sexually deviant behavior is just putting it through there being like hey I trust you. That's right. I also refuse to sign up for airline rewards programs. Oh, my God. We were talking about that. Have you been on Alaska Airlines?

No. Yo, they will hard sell the shit out of their credit card when you get on there. Oh, my God. Spirit does – I take Spirit a lot to Michigan. Oh, yeah. And, I mean, Spirit's real low rent, as everyone knows. Right. And they hammer that credit card.

Yeah. And I've never seen anyone sign up for it. No. But I assume it happens once in a while. I think because once you go into Spirit early, you're like, I'm not going to do this shit again. Yeah. Right. I don't want this fucking credit card.

So, based on the fact that you fly Spirit, I'm assuming you identify with the captor in that porn. The abused because you don't mind being abused. I don't mind being abused and mistreated by a mall cop or a Spirit airline employee. You're exactly right. Don't the seats not recline on Spirit? No. Right? Are you kidding?

Right. I know. I've been like twice. And for short flights, great. Because it's super cheap and whatever. But like I did one like to D.C. Woo. Yeah.

My goodness, man. Especially if you're like a little bit taller. Oh my God. It's awful. And they charge you for everything. Yeah. You have a lot of shit in your pockets. They'll like charge you an extra $10.

Empty your pockets way in real quick. Right. So I really hate it, but to Michigan, sometimes it's like $100 cheaper than every other flight. No, I mean, look, I'm not knocking it because it is cost effective. But yeah, I think also if you have

a back or something, like when you don't do well in a really rigid seat, something to think about. You know what I just discovered recently, and I don't know how it took me so long to learn this. I've started sleeping on planes by putting my head in my arms and resting them on the food tray. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. How did that never occur to me?

Doing like the emo teen nap in high school. Yeah, exactly. Always have a hoodie. Yeah. But it's great. I mean, it's the only way I can sleep on a plane. I've always tried those neck roller things but yeah me too i need one that's like a fucking immobilizer you know because even

when i have one my neck just goes like my ears like i'm already mouth agape head back or something and i know they make those ones now that are like way stiffer so it just basically holds your cranium and i'm weirdly very insecure about how I look when I sleep. Oh, really? And I'm afraid that I'll fall asleep facing the person in the middle seat. And then they'll be like, oh, this guy's so ugly. And then they'll take a picture. They'll take a picture and then put it on their Instagram. You'll land and you're just the viral sleeping guy.

And it's like some loser with a million followers. And I'll be like, oh, great. My biggest success is this picture. Yeah. My shining moment is being mouth agape sleeper on Moist Buddha. Exactly. I feel like there's too many of those pictures. There's so many people who just fall

asleep on people next to them. My mouth is wide open when I see it. You have to be either exhausted or just very trusting. And I also just can't sleep sitting up. I just can't do it.

It's terrible. I'll doze for two or three minutes, and then I'm back. What is something you think is overrated? Bacon. Wow. I know. I know. I was excited to say this because I legitimately think bacon is fine.

It's fine. But I think it's grossly overrated. And I also don't eat pork because pigs are really cute and smart. Wow. You have the exact same philosophical stance on bacon as Jackie Johnson who came on. Oh yeah. It was the same thing. She was like, pigs are wonderful animals. Yeah. Don't want to be eating a pig. Also y'all are tripping if you think bacon is the be all end all. I couldnall. I couldn't agree more. I think it's fine, but there's like bacon soda now. Right, right.

I had a coworker way back when who was like, you know, who's that guy who's like, you know, everything's perfect with bacon. It was like his claim to fame was that he was the guy that liked bacon. It was like, chill out. That was his claim to fame? It was like his thing. That is an identity that people assume. It's an identity. Yes.

God love him. He was actually the best. But like, it was like, come on his thing. That is an identity. It's an identity. And God love him. He was actually the best. But like, it was like, come on, man. Like, chill out. I don't know that guy. And that was a perfect impression of him. Thank you so much.

I know that guy. I love the shit out of Bacon. Yeah, sure. I fucking love Bacon. Now, what do you like it on? Fucking anything. Okay. I've discovered that it's,

you could, it's like a, I was reading an article about it, you could dip it in anything. Right. Dip anything in bacon. You know what I like about you though, Miles?

You know what I like about you? That's the first time I found out that you really like bacon was when you just said that. You don't make it a thing. Right, right. And that's the other thing we're saying is, yeah,

when you walk around like at the bacon fest with the bacon socks, bacon hat, bacon sunglasses and everything, yeah. Bacon fest. Or like if the people were like, finally bacon emoji. Right, exactly. people were like, finally bacon emoji.

Right. Exactly. I do think the one thing about bacon I miss is bacon and eggs. That was the best. You're missing out. I don't think bacon

on a burger is any good at all. Oh, really? I mean, I think it's too distracting from the burger. I don't like burgers with more meat on it.

Just give me cheese and shit. Avocado or ranch or whatever. Don't give me more meat. Okay, I like it. It's just distracting. Yeah, or you're like a minimalist. Right, exactly. What is something you think is underrated?

Oh, Arby's. I think Arby's is the greatest fast food in the world. Wow, you're like, yeah, bacon's disgusting. I fuck with Arby's is the greatest fast food in the world. Wow. You're like, yeah, bacon's disgusting. I fuck with Arby's. Yeah. I know. And I cannot believe the number of people I meet who hate Arby's. Yeah.

And I always belabor the point. I'm like, when have you gone last? And what did you order? Right. Because the answer is usually maybe I've never even gone. Right. Yeah. And I'm just sort of leeching this sort of cultural zeitgeist that Arby's sucks, and it's really the best.

Right. And you're actually not the first person who's had Arby's as an underrated, I don't think. Yeah, we've had to defend the good for them. I think that's a sign that Arby's really, like, that's what our show is. Yeah. We're talking about the zeitgeist. Just an advertisement for Arby's. You can sound like our show.

Arby's is tight. You eat Arby's? I've had Arby's. Sure. Yeah, we're talking about the Zyklets. Advertisement for Arby's. And mostly it is... You eat Arby's? I've had Arby's. Oh, wow. Very diplomatic answer. I think there was a big turn where they started making these Carver sandwiches. Right, right. I haven't had Arby's since the We Have the Meats

era began. I'm a one-item man. Which is? The Meat Mountain. The Meat Mountain. Which is? The meat mountain. The meat mountain? Which is every meat in the restaurant in one sandwich. Oh, yeah. So that's two chicken tenders,

roast turkey, ham, a slice of Swiss cheese, corned beef brisket, Angus steak, one slice of cheddar cheese, roast beef, three half strips of bacon, and now a fish filet.

No. I had to eat it. I ate it once for a bit, and it was absurd. But truth be told, when it comes to Arby's, I'm a beef and cheddar man. Oh, good for you. That's all I eat. And I love horsey sauce.

Love the horsey sauce. That goes way back. Be still my heart. Yeah, yeah. The horsey sauce is great. I was going to say, the Carver sandwiches are way old school Arby's. Are they? They've had a really great couple years.

Yeah. Just in everything that they do, I think. I've always liked their curly fries and their mocha shake. Their curly fries are killer. Their jamocha shake is obviously top notch. Yeah. Are you guys into fast food in general? Yeah, yeah.

I don't discriminate. I'm a stoner at heart, so I'll never thumb my nose at the fast food. Yeah. I embrace it. Good for you. And I always like to try it, especially regional places, like when there are things that are just like very specific, but fast food. And I've said it before, like Runza in Iowa.

Oh, what? Wait, what? Or like Nebraska, rather. Sorry. Yeah. I've never heard of it. Runza? Yeah.

It's like a Hot Pocket. But everyone's like, yo, have you had Runza? And I'm like, what the fuck is that? Yeah, Runza Jules. And I love it. There's like onion sauce or whatever. Onion sauce for your thing. It's basically sour cream and onion dip but they're they sort of recontextualize it as like a thing and i'm like yo i will eat all this cholesterol i don't give a fuck yeah going

to like regional fast food is very special yeah it feels very you're like oh i'm like trying out the like the regional food yeah you're not but like you are figuring out what is super popular in nebraska yeah exactly and i've heard whataburger is the best yeah that's what i think big in the south although i've never been yeah we're gonna have to do the great burger tour pretty soon to just lay rest to this all this whataburgerness yeah right the whataburger of it all um so arby's your favorite it sounds like you're a fast food guy big fast fast food guy. Arby's is top. Arby's would be number one.

And then, you know what? Taco Bell has had a good couple years as well. I knew it. Yes. You know, the way they've come back. Did you have the chicken taco? You know, the taco shell made out of chicken breast? No, no.

It was the best thing I've ever had in my entire life. Wow. So that deserves number two. And I'll even say Chipotle number three. Chipotle is just so robust in what they deliver every time you go in. Just excellent food. This would be an amazing podcast to hear people speak

so intelligently about Chipotle and fucking taco. I had the chicken chips. Yeah, right. Doughboys. It's one of my favorite podcasts. Don't worry about Chipotle. I feel like they've really fallen off. No, but do a really NPR version. Right, right.

But like with the Doughboys sort of ethos, but with like the vernacular of like a literary, like, you know, like a book club. Man, the chicken shell taco. So I should have known, though. I should have known it was good because I held off on the Doritos Locos taco for a while because I was like, oh, it's just a gimmick. It'll be here today, gone tomorrow. And then I finally had it.

I was like, that's maybe the best thing I've ever had. Your fingertips were red for like three weeks. So amazing. So yeah, I'm going to have to. How did it take him that long to figure it out? I don't know. And it's just so intuitive once you have it. And it's just.

There will be a documentary about why it took so long. You know, perfection. A guy be like, we just got to close with Frito-Lay, man. Once you have it, and it's just – There will be a documentary about why it took so long. Perfection. A guy will be like, we just got to close with Frito-Lay, man. I went to Burger King recently, and they had shakes that were flavored like Lucky Charms and shit and like two other cereals. They were horrible yet perfect. Right. Oh, like terrible. You knew like just the nutritional –

Yeah, it was basically mush. It wasn't even like in shake form kind of. It was just kind of liquidy already. But I think Lucky Charms is great. I love Lucky Charms. And it's just basically dust in a vanilla shake, Lucky Charms dust. It was just fucking amazing. So good.

And finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true that you know to be false? I think Grindr, which is a hookup app for gay monsters, as I like to put it. I think it's the worst thing in the world. It's the hardest to actually meet someone. If you have, and this might be controversial, if you have any standards. Oh, wow.

But I think it's the absolute worst. I think it's incredibly vapid and monstrous. And every time I talk to someone about it, they'll be like, oh, it's like the best. You get laid every day. It's like, I do not get laid fucking ever on grinder and it's really frustrating and mean it's just the worst and now do you think that the energy you're bringing to grinder is you're not here like you have some standards it sounds like because you like they're

they're well i'd like to think so but maybe not right uh is there an alternative to grinder yeah you know tinder right um is that less have you had more luck on tinder tinder is yeah i think tinder's better I think Grindr is It's a I call it My friends and I Call it a grid of rejection Where you just

You log in You see the first hundred people That are nearest to you Right And then it's just It's really the worst thing That's ever happened Because you see people

Who in theory Supposedly want to have sex Right Are open to it And are open to it And they're a mile away, and you're like, oh, this is great. Right.

I'm going to message this guy, and he's going to write me back. And, you know, obviously half the time they never write you back. That's right. And then the other time, like, you know, maybe you chat, and then he falls off. Maybe you swap numbers, then you text, and then he falls off. And I've done it too. I mean, I'm certainly not, you know.

Ghosting on Grindr. Yeah, exactly. And so it's just really, I think it's the worst thing to do when you're horny because you log in and you're like – every time – I've used it for years. Every time you log in and you're like, oh, this is going to be great. And, oh, that guy's new or he's a tourist. We're going to meet. And then it's never fucking happening.

I mean I shouldn't say never, but for me maybe like once every six months. I mean I think we just need to think more positively. I mean I think you're going into it with a very negative attitude. Maybe you can help me Photoshop my shirtless pics and make me... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put like some jail tattoos

or something. Be like, I was in Russian jail. This tattoo means I was a thief. Have you had luck? Have you used Tinder? Have you used any of the apps? No, I've been dating

prior to the advent of all the dating apps. Yeah. So, you know, I don't know. I think I'd do all right on Tinder or whatever the fuck the other one, Raya, that I feel like everyone, all the people are like, I can't believe I didn't get on Raya. Wait, Raya's for celebrities.

Yeah, or people who have like clout, but it's funny because in LA, everybody thinks they should be on Raya. So they're like, do you know somebody? Give me Raya. I refuse to do it until I know unequivocally that I would be approved because I could not live through the rejection of being told

I can't be on Raya. Raya waitlisted would be a good thing to have. Exactly. As in like a Twitter bio? Comedian, podcast host, and Raya waitlisted. What do you want? My wife and I sometimes text each other to like A Twitter bio. College all over again. Comedian, podcast host, and Raya Waitlisted. How about you?

What do you want? My wife and I sometimes text each other to act like we don't know each other type thing. Oh, nice. We've been married for 10 years. Oh, no way. Yeah. Wow. Married for 10 years.

What are you, a Baptist? Wow. Exactly. Yeah, we've been. Yeah, I'm a Baptist. Wait, where'd you guys meet? Where'd you meet? In college.

Okay. And then we didn't date in college, but we met up right after. Yeah. Nice. The rest is history, as they say. Why are you sweating? She doesn't like me very much. No, I'm just joking.

All right, let's talk Beyonce, guys. Yes. Let's talk about Beyonce. Now, Brent, you said you're not a Beyonce hater. Are you trying to get him killed? Maybe this could be the reason why he's not having luck on Grindr. Absolutely. I sort of skirt past all discussions about Beyonce on Grindr.

I am not by any means against Beyonce, and I like and, of course, respect Beyonce. I'm just not super. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's fine. Beyonce, yeah Beyonce. I'm just not super – Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's fine. Beyonce, yeah, she's from Destiny's Child, right? Oh, no. Just kidding. Yeah, no, she's great, and, of course, I respect her.

But, like, I respect Madonna. Yeah, but you're not – But I'm not, like – I don't go to her concerts. Yeah, the door's down to get in the show. But, yeah, she's obviously a force. So, yeah, she's a force. Everyone knows that.

There's clearly something going on. That's, like, NPR terminology. I feel like I was Terry Rose. She's a force. She's a force. Yeah, she's a force. Everyone knows that. There's clearly something going on. That's like NPR terminology. I feel like I was Terry Gross. She's a force. She's a force. Right. A force. A cultural force.

So her ex-drummer, this woman named Kimberly Thompson, who's been, I think her drummer for like seven years on the road, is suing her and trying to get a restraining order. But one of these websites got a hold of the documents that she submitted. And it alleges things like that Beyonce is a practitioner of, quote, extreme witchcraft. Sure. And, quote, magic spells of sexual molestation. And she used that to harass Thompson. And she also claimed that Beyonce is tapping her phones, controlling her finances and murdered her pet kitten. Yeah.

Now, I believe it. Right. I was at the On the Run tour. Yeah, we both went. And what I saw looked like satanic worship. It does not seem possible. The lights were red a lot of the time. Yes.

And I saw people gyrating and moving in ways I had never seen. The devil was present. Yeah. Inacceptable, polite society. Right. And also, I, along with the respectable hetero men, we sat down while she was performing as to not be corrupted by her Satan's power. Sure. But actually, all jokes aside, the weirdest thing at this show that in the section I was in was how you could see people on dates.

And it's like, okay, I'm here for Jay. She's here for Beyonce. We all get our thing. And it was funny. Jay-Z would come on. They're like, my name is oh they're scared right and then like you hear do do do do do do they'd like sit down they're like man i ain't dancing to this like your fucking masculinity is so fucking fragile right like to even nod your head to beyonce would be like yo man i'm gonna get

fucking flamed yeah uh but yes the show, I think everybody in the office actually went. Yeah. At some point. I went on Saturday. You guys all went on Sunday. Yep, without you. Yes, exactly. Couldn't have you seeing how we turn up

at the Satan show. Exactly. Yeah. But you didn't have a good time? I will just say. You were disgusted by the satanic worship. Exactly. I just don't trust somebody who looks,

dances, and sings that well at the same time. It seems physically impossible. somebody who looks dances and sings that well at the same time it seems impossible like physically impossible that she because she sounds like her best she sounds exactly like the record during a show that she's like had like 30 shows and she's just still fucking crushing it's also like have you ever had a conversation going up more than one flight exactly exactly you'll you're tired by the end right or like you're winded and you're exactly you'll you're tired by the end or like you're winded and you're like you know you're breathing it's like she's dancing she's running on a fucking like running like 80 meters of runway yeah yeah yeah like to get to

the other side like i gotta get my fucking wardrobe changed and then do like a soft ballad yeah right yeah it's weird because we walk up the stairs a lot in our building yes and yo by the time we get no like in our in our building, like from the first floor or whatever. And I remember even by the time we get to the third floor, I'm like, oh yeah, dude. Yeah, we just don't talk for the rest of the afternoon. And then we all think we're sullen. And I go to the gym all the time. Yeah.

I go to the gym a lot. And I'm like, I'm in great shape. And then I'll do something that I don't normally do. I don't do the stair master. And so you do two flights of stairs. And then you're like, I'm going to die. Yeah. Right. I'm in awful shape and then I'll do something that I don't normally do I don't do the like the Stairmaster and so you do two flights of stairs and you're like I'm gonna die

yeah right I'm in awful shape I think that could be a workout is you put an album on that you know all the words to

and get on a stair climber and fucking sing while you do it I feel like there has to be some amazing cardiovascular benefit to that yeah

and she just I think there's also something that she has figured out about her voice that like doesn't require her to like expend as much air as we do when we sing. Like I've heard that, that there's like circular breathing and shit like that.

How does that work? I think you have to sacrifice a couple kittens and then you're able to do it. Sacrifice a couple, control someone's finances and then do spells of sexual molestation. I will say two things for people. One, one mistake I made with my on-the-run tour attendance is when the tickets went on sale, like, you know, the thing where it's like everyone goes and hits the thing,

like countdown, everybody like buy the tickets. I did that and I just like bought the ones that were available. I was just like clicking kind of in a panic. Yeah. And that was not a good idea because I paid face price for tickets that by the time the show came around and people had realized, you couldn't see the screen from where we were sitting

and the whole thing has this giant screen. So the tickets were going for like $40. Wow. By the time on StubHub. So yeah, now that StubHub and shit like that exists. How much did you pay? Do you mind me asking? $250.

For both? No, no. For per ticket. Holy shit. Yeah. It was bad. And then my second thing would be, so we ended up going for that reason that we couldn't see it.

And for this reason, we ended up like standing three sections over just next to the usher for the rest of the show. But there was someone behind us screaming at the top of their lungs to the point that it sounded like somebody was blowing a like gym whistle two inches away from your ear. Sure. To the point that my wife turned around and was like, are you going to keep? And she was like, I'm not stopping for you at all. Yeah, you can't tell anybody shit at a Beyonce concert.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I saw that around me, like this one dude almost had the hands put on him from a group of women because he was living for Queen B. And these other women were living too, but his arms were getting in their face and stuff like this. They're like, if you touch me, we will put the hands on you.

It was almost like a work of sabotage, though, because everybody by the time we left was just turning around and just asking what the fuck she was doing. But she just didn't give a fuck. See, this is why I'm an Enya guy. Right. Because I like going to concerts that you're like, the youngest person there is 62. Yeah. And I know there's no chance I'll get in a fight. Right.

Because I don't. Well, I don't know. When Orinoco Flo comes on. Or at least I could destroy it if I did get it. It's not Orinoco Screech. It's Orinoco Flo. But I feel like I don't know what I would do under this. I mean, I'm obviously,

I'm not saying I would pick a fight with that person, but like, yeah, I've been to concerts before where like, everyone's in kind of like a weirdly aggressive mood, but they also have every right to kind of want to live the way they want to live. Yeah, it's bringing them happiness. But it's making me exponentially angrier with every ten minutes, you know? Yeah, exactly.

There's a sweet spot where, you know, get your jollies, too. Yeah, of course. But don't let that also – we're also trying to get our jollies, too. And if your jollies are too loud, then, you know, I'm just trying to be a jolly rancher. Did you see any fights? Were there any fights? No, there was a lot of vomit. No, I didn't seellies. Then, you know, I'm just trying to be a jolly rancher. Did you see any fights? Were there any fights? No, there was a lot of vomit. No, I didn't see any fights.

A lot of very inebriated people. Some many people. And the Rose Bowl is impossible to get into and get out of. Oh, my God. Just FYI. I think Anna Hosniay, did you want to say something? You were at the show, too. Super producer Anna Hosniay.

Here, he'll use my mic. In the heezy. I just wanted to flex on you and say I bought my tickets on Friday for $100 and had amazing seats. I know. Wow. Petty. And she's rocking the dope Beyonce t-shirt.

Did they sell out or did they not sell out? They sold out, but then it goes to the secondary market where people are then trying to sell it at a profit, hopefully. But again, when you have that many tickets, unless you're getting rid of them in that first month or so, the enthusiasm dies down and then you're like i have 700 worth of beyonce tickets i have to unload and you're like fuck it i'll take i'll eat this one yeah i fucked up so just in case anybody else has a similar situation coming up wait for stubhub all right we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back. 24 hours. BPM 110 120

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as of this recording what's the latest he the latest is that he will have a sit down with president mushroom dick on thursday and figure out where this thing is going now over the weekend everyone's like he's he's offered his resignation like apparently to to john kelly and then when they asked the doj for comment they were like no like if anything he's gonna have to he's gonna have to fire him uh he's not going to resign uh and then monday morning there was like oh rod rosenstein is going to the White House to offer his argument. And everyone's like, oh, my God, what the fuck is about to go down? But he didn't, apparently.

And then he went to like a principals meeting as acting Deputy Attorney General was there. So it seemed, you know, like not much is going on. But then we found out from the White House that they had a long talk today. And then Thursday, when Trump is back from trying to destroy the UN, they will have a sit down and then figure it out. A lot of people are just like, it looks like a lot of, it's very confusing, all the stories of like who said what, when, and then there's conflicting accounts. So yeah, it's very, very confusing.

Yeah. Yeah, these are rough times. And it seems like maybe the Trump administration and like John Kellylly is trying to you know put things out there like john kelly was coming back to him being like issue an apology that wasn't good enough issue another one and i don't know we we talked last week about the idea that you know maybe the idea that he was wearing a wire was planted by the trump administration because, I don't know, that gives them pretense to fire him. So it might just be a concerted effort to get enough speculation out there that it's

not that big a deal when he does fire him. And obviously, to put a little context, if he does get fired, the question becomes who takes his place and is that person loyal or disloyal to the Mueller investigation, which is obviously what everyone is, I think, most concerned about. Well, I think the immediate person who would step into his role is Noel Francisco, and he would most likely have to recuse himself because the law firm he worked for had worked with the Trump campaign, and Francisco has had a record of recusing himself or letting his conflicts of interest be known, especially with a record of recusing himself or you know letting his conflicts of interest be known especially with a lot of like judiciary nominees that have gone through sure so that seems like

is he the solicitor general francisco yeah okay yeah yeah and then i think the the next person is i forget the fuck his name is but someone who is very much like a partisan hack who would probably like do Trump's bidding. But again, it's hard to even begin speculating in this direction, too, because there's so we don't like literally now I have no idea what is going on. And most people don't because they're like, well, yeah, this is weird. And then other people speculate that I mean, this gets a lot of people talking about something else. Right.

Rather than other big news. Yeah. I mean, there is the idea that Trump is just a messy bitch who loves drama and will do anything to keep his name or his administration in the headlines. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, putting stuff out there that is on his terms, at least, you know. Right.

In this story, he is making critical decisions rather than being decided upon by Mueller. Right. And I think just the one thing with the Rod Rosenstein thing is like Axios was like the, I think they were the people that were reporting that Rosenstein had offered like a verbal resignation to John Kelly.

And Axios, like, you know, sometimes they pull the curtain back on the administration. Sometimes they'll kind of do stuff that will help them so I yeah I take that with a grain of salt too but oh Axios broke that story they were at least the ones who were first reporting that that Rosenstein had even offered a verbal resignation oh and that he like you know he'd been summoned to the White House or whatever but then everyone was like no he went there for a meeting he would always go to so again like I said don't really know but it's got us talking about something else. One of the things that they probably do not want us talking about, us in particular, because the daily zeitgeist determines the national conversation.

You have 100%. Especially at Arby's. The conversations within an Arby's is what we do. That's what we're known for. So Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court nominee. You might have heard of him. More accusations are coming out. Another woman has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against him this time.

The allegations are from his time in college. The accusation is that he exposed himself to a woman named Deborah Ramirez and basically stuck his penis in her face. And then when the top Senate Republicans found out last week that this story was about to break, this was broken by Ronan Farrow, they rushed to try and move the confirmation vote up to try and get him in ahead of this, which is crazy because if they confirm him and then just it comes out that he's this like predator constantly doing shit like this, he's going to get impeached.

Well, that's a little easier said than done. Yeah. Not by this Congress, but eventually. No, yeah. And the thing is, right, when the whole thing when Chuck Grassley was like, you got to tell us end of day Friday if you're going to come forward and do our fake sham version of like, you got to tell us end of day Friday.

You're going to come right forward and do our fake sham version of a, you know, right. Right. Investigation, quote unquote. They were writing in the reporting of this that all those calls to rush it were like just right after the New Yorker was like, do you have any comment on this thing that's going to break this weekend? Yeah. And so they were really, really hoping they could just sneak in the confirmation vote like just right away after Monday. They thought, oh, she won't come in. It'll be too soon.

And then people like, you know, Susan Collins was like, at the very least, let's have this person speak in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. But yeah, we'll see. Thursday will be a very, very big day. Is she officially going to testify on Thursday? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it was moving around.

And I know we thought it would be today. Then it was Wednesday. And now it will be Thursday. Okay. Fun stuff. Great. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I think at the very least, right, any rational human being would think that Breck just the way he's behaving through all of this should already be disqualifying. If he's guilty, I think just to act as someone who is going to be a Supreme Court justice. And if you are, in fact, innocent and have not done these things, and these are just spurious allegations, then you would say, yes, please do an investigation. I don't want any kind of cloud over me becoming a Supreme Court justice because I very much take the rule of law very seriously and the legal system seriously. Please do that rather than this total partisan hack style of defense of like, oh, they're mistaken.

I don't know, man. Ask my bro. He knows. Nothing went down. Don't look at my yearbooks. There's some weird shit in there. Or the Yale comment, what happens at Yale stays at Yale. Yeah, Georgetown prep stays at Georgetown.

What happens on the bus stays on the bus. I think his favorite quote. Brett loves that quote. Brett loves that quote, bro. Yesterday morning he came out and said, I will not be intimidated. And that seems to be the way that they are approaching this, is that this is an attack on Brett Kavanaugh's integrity from the left. Right. They have to do anything but give any credence to these accusations.

If they show any kind of respect for that or just the slightest bit of being like, oh, well, maybe we should consider it, then they're in a whole other game of having to rationalize this rather than just being like, no, this is a hit job. Twitchcraft. It's interesting because it kind of reminds me, Anthony Kennedy was nominated by Reagan, but he was the third justice nominated that was confirmed. The first one that Reagan nominated back in, I think it was 86, was Robert Bork, who was super, super conservative. He was rejected by the Senate. And then he nominated Allen Ginsberg, who, oddly enough, this was during the war on drugs, obviously, in sort of the height of it.

And Allen Ginsberg, I forget how it came out, but he had smoked marijuana once. And so he had to withdraw his nomination. It was basically you cannot consider Ginsberg for the Supreme Court. He smoked marijuana. Because he smoked marijuana. Yeah. No, that stands up. And it's interesting now.

It's almost like we're playing this out again but with a different movement where sort of the Me Too movement is saying women's voices should be believed and heard. And you're getting this pushback from these two women who are saying this man does not have the integrity that people claim he does or that he claims he does. But unfortunately, we're not seeing Republicans in particular care very much about yeah we're saying yeah that just that toxic masculinity play out in its worst way possible like where they're not reconciling just their own moral values with just having a respectable it's just very weird like it yeah because all these quotes especially from a lot of these older senate republicans are like oh then half the people in on earth couldn't serve anywhere right like see this is the problem yeah Yeah. Because you are of this ilk, this mindset where, hey, man, I was just fucking around. Don't that.

That can't be evil. Right. Or or not at least understanding that your behavior is predatory or at the minimum unacceptable for a professional workplace. It's not that hard to find in Republicans case a white guy who can serve on the court who isn't a degenerate. Right. Who hasn't like done shit like this. Especially – I mean look.

I still think I can run for Senate. Right. And every action I do, every tweet I make is with the assumption that in 25 years I'll be running for Senate and I will win. And if you don't vote for me, I will destroy you. But it's like, yeah, there's lots of people who want jobs like this and they spend their entire lives preparing, whether they're good people or not, but they just know you can't do certain things. So the fact that Brett Kavanaugh has these things, these skeletons in his closet is problematic and wouldn't be that hard to find a Republican, which is what they're going to do. They're going to find another crazy conservative Republican, but one that isn't perhaps privately a monster. Right, right.

Yeah, it seems like he was that guy who spent his whole life preparing for this role, but he had this little steam release valve that he would use every once in a while where he would just get fucked up and sexually assault people or do stuff with the bros, and then the next day just while well taking a seven hour long shower with a scrub brush be like yeah hey everybody what stays what happens on the bachelor party

stays on the bachelor party what happens on the bachelor party stays yeah i don't think we're equating having smoked pot once with having sexually assaulted someone but it is interesting sorry i didn't mean to conflate those two very serious. Yeah, I get what you mean. But, yeah, it is interesting that the Senate at that time was like, well, this is a youthful indiscretion that certainly cannot be forgiven having smoked marijuana. Well, I think the victims of the war on drugs were mostly people of color,

so they didn't have a problem with the war on drugs. Right. And with the Me Too movement, a lot of the, you know, as they see see it the quote-unquote victims or the people who are reaping what they sow right happen to be a lot of powerful white men and men of color too but i think for this group especially they're like it's different with war on drugs because we knew where like who was going to get who's going to you know feel the burn on that whereas this is like oh god this is a little too close to home it's us though so see yeah yeah how did the war on drugs go by the way did they win that how did it end up on that. Whereas this is like, oh, God, this is a little too close to home. It's us, though. See? Yeah. Yeah. How did the war on drugs go, by the way? Did they win that?

How did it end up? Yeah. Did they end up winning that? Cool. Yeah. No. So there's a new book by Kathleen Jameson Hall that is profiled by Jay Mayer in a new New Yorker article where she basically says that Kathleen Jameson Hall is a Penn professor who basically has devoted her whole life to following and studying elections. And her main specialty prior to this past election was focusing on how the debates swung elections in various directions. And she's

never had a political bias.'s you know just 100% everyone J Mayor gets quotes from all of our colleagues and they're like she's just such a hard-ass and so all about the numbers that you can't fuck around like she honestly has no personality you can't say anything as a joke because she's just gonna be like no that's not true she's just like a machine got you of truth and so the article starts out by pointing out that both sides have either said they don't think Russia swung it or we laugh at the idea that they did. We don't. But I think people on the right are like, oh, it was Putin. Right.

Or at least discounting the idea that it's knowable in any way that Russian interference, how could we ever know what changed things? And so this academic has spent the last year looking into the numbers, the very specific details of what Russia did. And she makes the point that, yes, you can actually say, like, based on a preponderance of evidence. Obviously, we don't have, you know, in a situation like this, you can't go and look at someone's brain and say, well, this is clear. But based on- Or ask, like, the GRU in Russia. It's like, so is this what you were thinking with this troll attack?

Yeah, exactly. But the effect was that they had access to all this different information. They had Hillary Clinton's strategic roadmap, basically. And they went about suppressing different points that they were scared of. This is the Russians and the Trump administration. was that voters in three battleground states, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, that she ended up losing. There was an unusually high proportion of residents whose demographic and voting profiles identified them as likely Democrats, but Hillary defectors, people who were so unhappy with her that they were considering voting for a third party candidate. And so the Clinton campaign had identified those people people and the Russians stole that information and it was available to everyone, including the Trump campaign and the Trump campaign and the Russians specifically went after those people.

And just made sure they stayed home. Yeah. And tried to either get them to stay home or vote for a third party candidate. Wait, so, and this information about those voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, that was information that they know was stolen from the Clinton campaign? Yes, they do know that. And that came out when Mueller announced the indictment of all those Russians back in July. Oh, that was named in that indictment? That was specifically named in that as information that they had access to. But that's just one aspect of her argument,

but I found that particularly convincing. And most of her argument is just pointing out how every election in the modern era has gone up to this point is the elections have similar resources, similar roadmaps, and similar weaknesses, and they cancel each other out for the most part. And in this case, you just had this extra actor who was pushing on the side of the Trump campaign. And things were definitely more even than I think people realized heading into the election. Everyone was like, oh, Trump has no chance. And it turns out he did. But with the help of Russia and with Russia, you know, with those leaked emails, for instance, like one of the questions she asks is like, imagine if we it were even and Russia

had leaked both the Clinton cache of emails and the equivalent on the Trump side. What would that have looked like? And that would have exposed like the Stormy Daniels stuff. It would have exposed like Trump Tower meeting, Trump Tower meeting, all sorts of crazy shit that would have had a huge impact on an election that ended up coming down to a few hundred thousand votes. So it is a really compelling argument. We'll link off to the article about the book. What was the other thing you were saying about James Comey? Like right after he came out and said, OK, we looked into Hillary and there's nothing, but also kind of- Right.

So there was that press conference where Comey came out and he basically said- Right before the election, right? Yeah. It was the- In October? It was the earlier one. The press conference that happened over the summer. On the summer.

Okay, gotcha. Where Comey said, we're not going to pursue this investigation any further but and then went just in on the on clinton and like how careless her actions were and just like really said a lot of uh negative about her and that was shown to be pretty impactful like both both comey press conferences or comey announcements that were sort of unprecedented nobody expected expected the head of the FBI to behave in that way, were impactful on how many people voted, who they voted for. Nate Silver specifically does say that that last Comey email, you can look at the numbers and see that that basically swung the election. But this makes the argument that James Comey was acting on

the basis of a forged Russian document. Basically, Russian hackers created this document where it seemed like Clinton was colluding with Loretta Lynch. And Loretta Lynch was like, I'm going to go easy on you, Hill. And they had this back and forth and it was actually a like forgery a shitty russian forgery but that made comey worried that once it came out that he had stopped this election that this other evidence that this other evidence would come out and it would look like the clinton campaign was in cahoots with the department of justice so he like went extra hard to make it seem like that. Yeah. Wait, how does the author know that James Comey even interacted with this forged document?

I forget exactly what that line of reasoning is, but it seemed. Oh, OK. I think it's saying because they were also targeting the FBI to try and give them as much misinformation as well. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. OK. Well, look, we're here, baby. 2018. Yeah. It's just interesting because I mean, have you started canvassing yet? No, I'm about to, because I was just reading an article about the van, the voter activation network, which is what has most of like any voter outreach you do. Yeah. That their mobile app is what, you know, canvassers now back in the day used to be clipboard and just striking numbers off the list. They have an app, right? The increase in mobile users of that has increased 230% since the last midterms. So I was reading that as like a dimension of voter enthusiasm.

I mean, most likely, I'll probably phone bank into districts that are more swing districts, because I'm like, locally, I'm not too concerned. I've been really active, because this year, I was like, I have to, I have to like do something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I've been doing a bunch of canvassing and voter registration. And there's like five swing districts within an hour of LA. So it's been, you have a lot to choose from. But I've actually been really surprised the number of Republican doors I've knocked on that in which they've answered.

And we've had like oddly very thoughtful like conversations about how concerned they are right i don't know if that's how it bears out in statistics nationwide but like i haven't spoken to a republican in california yet that isn't like at the very least put off if not terrified by trump right which is which is encouraging to hear you want people on that side because they're still getting what they want they They get justices that will ban abortion. They get tax breaks during economic booms. Like they're getting what they want. And so to hear them still say this guy is terrifying to me is, I think, super important.

Yeah. Well, I think California probably has a different brand of Republican. I'm sure if you went knocking on doors in Mississippi or Alabama and those Republicans. But yeah, I think it's true. There's clearly a group of concerned Republicans who are like, this is a whole other game. Absolutely. But don't forget, you don't have to win over everyone to win back the White House and win the House in 2018. Just bring the reasonable people into the light.

Exactly. And I think it's an important point that actually going face-to-face with people, they're forced to encounter your position as that of an actual human being with like a soul. Like a Twitter avatar. Right. And also liberals are the worst about voting of every demographic. Right. Like you don't have to send volunteers, college students into farm country to remind farmers to vote. They just do it.

Right, right. But you have to go into cities and suburbs and hammer Democrats to vote. Right, yeah. Time and time again. Otherwise you just, you literally won't win. Yeah. I did a fundraiser show for this candidate

running in the Midwest. And they said, they were like, you know, the way to win my district is to either swing Republican women in the suburbs or to get the city in my district to vote. Just to turn up, yeah. And she's like, I'm not holding my breath on the city. I'm focused on the suburbs, the women in the suburbs. Hey, all you urban youths, voting is lit. We got it. All right. Thanks, Dad. So that's been solved. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. I've been thinking about you.

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And according to the super producer Ana Hosnier, Yale has just canceled all classes because Yale students basically walked out and staged a strike to protest Brett Kavanaugh. And so they had to cancel all classes. Just withdraw, Brett. If only the stock market would do the same thing. Right. Everyone would just leave the Dow Jones. Unattended.

Could you imagine? Just withdraw, Brett. It's going to be easier for you. It's going to be easier for your family. All right. Let's talk white supremacy and law enforcement. What's that? Yay.

Yeah. So this apparently exists. I think we first started bringing this up in the context of that footage from Charlottesville where police just stood by while a white supremacist shot a handgun into a crowd while shouting racial slurs. Oh, it was the guy who took a shot in the ground or something? Yeah. I wouldn't say he shot in the crowd. Okay, he shot into the...

I mean, yeah, he busted his gun in a crowd for sure. And cops were just kind of standing around. And they also kind of stood around while a black dude got the shit beat out of him by all those white supremacists. In that parking lot, yeah. And even happened in Portland, too, when there was that alt-right rally. And it was just sort of the tactic of them is just sort of like, get the cops to protect us from these counter-protesters. talking about how even before the Charlottesville rally last year, he was protesting a KKK rally

and the cops were clearly sympathetic to the KKK and annoyed that protesters were there. And so it's just a thing that has been in the air, sort of a story. I don't think a lot of people are going to be surprised that there are racist ideals in the law enforcement community, but this is just a crazy example where this dude, Bart Allsbrook, was the interim police chief of an entire Oklahoma town and had to resign because it turned out he ran a pair of neo-Nazi video and music companies and a skinhead website and was basically like the leader of Blood and Honor USA, which is a skinhead group.

And so he got fired, obviously. And then he got rehired by a nearby town in Oklahoma where they were just like, oh, he's not racist anymore. We asked him. Yeah, we asked him and he's good now. So I don't know. It's just a crazy example. I mean, there's other thing, too. There was a guy in New Jersey sheriff who was running for reelection and he had to resign because there were comments of him, like recordings of him off the wall racist comments right like about uh like decriminalizing marijuana he said something

like christ this is a quote christ almighty in other words let the blacks come in do whatever the fuck they want smoke their marijuana do this or that and don't worry about it you know we'll tie the hands of cops and then referred to the seek attorney general as the turban oh cool cool i mean so i feel like the only, you know, he had many other very problematic statements. But yeah, I think the one requisite to be elevated in law enforcement is to have very dated, ignorant worldviews and just hate everybody. Yeah, it's pretty fucked up.

And then also, I think what the Amber Geiger, who was in the Botham Jean shooting, she just got fired. Right. Finally got fired. Right. Finally got fired. But even then it's like, what about the investigation? Where is that at? And she's still being charged with manslaughter. They haven't upgraded that to murder yet.

Right. I mean, the Botham Jean thing is there's nothing political about that. There's nothing. That's Ted Cruz. Yeah, right. Ted Cruz shouldn't be taking the side of anyone. Right. Except for the guy who was murdered in his apartment.

There's nothing political about this. And if any Republican civil libertarian hears about someone who was murdered in their apartment by an off-duty police officer and people say that that is a mitigating circumstance, they should be fucking terrified. That's insane. It's just – And I remember someone was like, well – When did that become political? What about Amber Geiger? What if she thought she could have been dealing with an aggressive assailant or whatever?

No, she broke in. Why are you looking at – why are you giving her all of the empathy and sympathy? This is insane. What about this man in this house? What if he thought motherfucker opened up his door and is like – has a gun on them or is a cop or whatever? What is this person's mental state? I've read very few defenses of him – I'm sorry, of her online. And I even read in the National Review, which is a super conservative magazine, that said essentially what I just said was that if you aren't worried about this, if you think justice is being done with her being charged with manslaughter, you're out of your fucking mind.

Right. This is – it's just – it's not political, guys. It was murdered. Yeah. That's pretty crazy. Yeah, and then, yeah, again, like with Ted Cruz, though, I don't know what that tweet was when he showed the Beto O'Rourke speech that is now known as the how can it be speech because this guy has become such a powerful public speaker that now his speeches have fucking names,

like there are tracks on the CD. And he's like, it's just him being like, how can it be that this unarmed man was killed in his home? And Ted Cruz is trying to show that. He's like, yeah, look at this fucking asshole. Look at this jerk. Look at this nerd. I mean, that is how polarized we are at this point. One person can just be like, look at this. Look at this jerk. Look at this nerd. I mean, that is how polarized we are at this point. That one person can just be like, look at this.

And it's a clip that I'm not convinced it's going to work. I mean, I legitimately do not believe that if you sat down with most people in Texas or anywhere and you laid out the what actually happened in this case and said, what do you think? I legitimately do not believe most Americans would say I'm on her side. I really don't. Right. You couldn't. And if you do, then maybe you just fundamentally don't have a value system that is compatible with democracy. No, I think, I think the people precisely who would respond to be like, I'm her uh would be like the people who are so polarized and like are such on the op like they're so into the partisanship of it that they know that to to agree with you means i've seeded the culture war or whatever that means now of all cops are evil rather than objectively

looking at the situation saying no this is this this is actually bad. This is not good. Absolutely. And it's a scary thing. Yeah. How did the Cruz-O'Rourke debate go, actually? Dude, it was a fucking nightmare for him, for Cruz. Oh, was it? Dude, Beto, like, all the clips on Twitter were just him, I mean, from what I saw. Now, I could be just only getting things from progressive... You probably were, but yeah.

...from journalists, but from the things that Beto O'Rourke was saying, they weren't, like, hyperbolic or, like, so out of left field. They were just sort of like, You probably were, but yeah. verifiable, like his voting record, how he missed a ton of votes in the Senate. Then he was just, you know, showing like, and that's this guy. But you could see Ted Cruz just making the face of like, that's not true. Right. And it was just very, very cringy. I think if we win, it's obviously, it still, I think, leans Republican just because it's Texas.

But if we win, it's just because Ted Cruz is so unlikable as a person. Yeah. That like, he's just such a fucking doofus. And Beto, I think, happens to be – I think he comes across authentic and likable. I mean he was skateboarding in a Whataburger parking lot. Exactly, exactly. So I remain hopeful that we'll win, but it would only be because Ted Cruz fucking sucks. We're actually a pro-Ted Cruz podcast.

Oh, sure. It makes sense. Is that why you guys have those Cruz 2020 tags on? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just right under my eye. How do you think Beto O'Rourke fakes that authenticity? It's insane. Do you think he has an acting coach?

Do you think? C, Beyonce. It's Satan, Jack. Definitely some kittens being sacrificed. Oh, yeah. Oh, for sure. But yeah, in the thing, I know like Cruz was like, tried to call Beto O'Rourke like a communist

and was like, he wants to raise taxes. And it was just, yeah. It was clear that, you know, one guy is, like one guy is actually good at his job and another person's a blobfish. Right. And the other is a literal blobfish. All right, guys, we've got some big news.

HBO might make the sets from Game of Thrones into, like, just leave them up and make them into tourist attractions. Yeah, so they have a lot of sets in Northern Ireland where they shoot a lot of Game of Thrones stuff. And they're saying they have plans now to convert these into straight-up tourist traps. Sure. Enter and exit through the fucking gift shop.

Right. And they're saying, like, yeah, so they have huge sets. Like, there's, like, for example, you go to Winterfell, Castle Black, King's Landing, and then there would be, like, an actual built studio that they do for interiors and things like that. You could go through there. You could do a tour of that where you could see all kinds of props, and you can see just everything, costumes, weapons, decorations, art files, production. It's just a fantasy world for you GOT fans.

Now, I know you are not a particular Game of Thrones fan. That's right. I'm not a huge Game of Thrones fan, and I tried. And I love dragons and medieval shit but I just couldn't get into it. I think there was so there was so much

going on quickly that I I hate being reminded how dumb I am and I think I pulled back after like after like six episodes I was like

I can't keep track and it kept making me feel dumb and so I stopped watching. You know it's funny I needed someone to walk me through watching the first season

to get me hooked because I was like yo the first season to get me hooked. Because I was like, yo, the first episode starts, how many fucking kings are there? Because I had no concept of it. And they all kind of look alike as far as I'm concerned. Right. And I had no concept of where there were other kingdoms and shit. And in my mind, there's one fucking king, you know, Jesus Christ. And so I was like, what is this Satan shit?

But no, in the thing, I was just so confused. I'm like, who's this Bobby Baratheon character? People would be like, no, just get through it. Ask me questions. It'll be fine. And then once I grasped everything, I was like, okay, now I can get into it. I resent the suggestion. And maybe it's worth it with Game of Thrones.

I hate when someone's like, just get through the first season. I'm not spending a day of my life getting through something bad so I can get to something good. I'm not. There's too much TV. That was like when I was trying to get into Mad Men. And they're like, just get through the first – it's going to get better. And I was like, bro, I don't have time. Right.

And I'm like – and this world is not interesting to me enough that I'm going to put the time in. Now, Game of Thrones, I remember a lot of my friends in college were obsessed with the books. So I was like, okay. I had a little bit more – I was were obsessed with the books. So I was like, okay. I had a little bit more. I was like, people I respect like this thing. Sure, sure. But yeah, I get it. What's your show that you like?

What's a show you like? What did I get into? Let's see. I just started watching Baskets, which is really funny. Oh, so great. Baskets is so good. Baskets is great. Louie Anderson is fucking amazing.

Louie Anderson as the mom is just, I have no idea it would be so perfect. And it's just great. Because when people describe the show, they're like, and Louis Anderson is Zach Galifianakis' mom. And you're like, what? And they're like, just watch it. And then you're like, damn, and everything is Kirkland's signature in that house. But you guys love Game of Thrones. You both do, right?

Yeah. I like it a lot. I like to watch. Yeah, the last season was a little frustrating. But at this point, I'm too deep. I got to see this thing played out. Yeah. both do right yeah i mean yeah i like to watch yeah the last season was a little frustrating but at that at this point i'm too deep yeah i gotta see this thing played out yeah yeah i don't know where it goes yeah and finally just a quick box office report that uh fahrenheit 11 9 which is michael moore's documentary about the trump administration and russia collusion and all

that good stuff didn't do shit at the box office this weekend. It came out for reference. Fahrenheit 9-11 is the most successful documentary ever. It was a monster hit. And despite the fact that this is something everybody's talking about and seems to care about, they just didn't want to go see a movie from Michael Moore talking about it.

Yeah, because he's kind of a buffoon. Right. about they just didn't want to go see a movie from michael moore talking about it yeah um yeah because he's kind of a buffoon right and i think i think like we get that now we were just saying i like i've enjoyed a couple of his movies but like you know i when i heard about i was like there's absolutely no way i'm gonna go see that yeah i mean there's nothing new i don't think that that could come out of it that isn't like stuff't like stuff Robert Mueller knows that would make this a documentary. Like, holy shit. When you watch,

I'm like, yeah, I get how bad this is. Right. I'm not under any illusion of that. Yeah. How much did it make? Yeah.

I'm sorry. How much though? It made three point something million. It's really bad. Yikes. Yeah. That's not great. Uh,

three ninjas kick back did better in its opening. When? Oh no. Well, I mean, that's fair. Three Three Ninjas Kick Back did better in its opening weekend in 1994. Well, I mean, that's fair. Three Ninjas Kick Back. I mean, I'm looking at worst box office opening. I mean, Gigli. Is it on the list of worst box office openings? Well, I'm just looking at a list of worst openings for 2,000 plus seats. Got it.

Or 2,000 plus theaters. And I mean, if you're only making that, boy, there are some movies that did much better. Yeah. I wonder if it, because there are some movies that did much better. Yeah, I wonder if it, because Fahrenheit 9-11 did so much better, I wonder if it's, have we just learned that he's a buffoon or is it that he was sort of the only show in town back then?

Like there weren't that many conspiracy theories about the Bush administration back then, whereas now, because the Trump administration is so bad at this it's just constantly on the surface and in the media and it's like well what is a documentary film going to tell me that i don't already know right from just watching last week tonight right because i think yeah like news bashing the president with facts became like the thing i think michael moore finessed in fahrenheit 9-11 we're like, damn, and like, look at him,

like totally disconnected from the reality of the situation. And that got people being like, yeah, man, Bush fucking sucks. And like, right. I think people now are savvy enough that they are looking at the news and reading more that it's hard to surprise somebody with stuff or images you hadn't seen. Because like every clip of Trump doing something weird goes viral now. Like, you know, I remember when I watched the Fahrenheit 9-11 thing, when Bush is like being asked something and then he's like, now watch this drive and then just tease off

after a very serious question. I was like, oh my God, what the fuck is this? But now we have those like Trump clips and he was like trying to say thank you. And he's like, and you know what I'm talking about? It's very weird. People just sort of isolated it in a loop where I think a press conference or something was ending, and I think he was just trying to say,

thank you. But he does... The T8's for so long, and his eyes roll back in his head. It's just a really odd clip. Jesus. But yeah, I don't think, again, there's nothing new out of that documentary

that's going to really move the needle. Unless you have buried your head in the sand. Right. And I saw people actually... Oh, man, I feel bad if going to move the needle. Unless you have buried your head in the sand. Right. And I saw people actually, oh, man, I feel bad if they listen to the show. But, like, people on their IG stories were, like, showing their ticket stuff. And they're like, yo, I'm so afraid now. Oh, really? And you're like, the fuck have you been?

Yeah, I know. They're like, I didn't know Gwen Stefani was behind all of this. Right. That's one of the theories that is most often shared is that Gwen Stefani was behind all of this. Oh. That's one of the theories that is most often shared is that Gwen Stefani was behind all of this. Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean, I still blame her for the downfall of Bush.

The band. Oh, I was like, yeah, Bush the band. Either one, man. The way you want to look at it. Yeah. Glycerine, man. Brent, it's been a pleasure having you. Thank you so much for having me, guys.

Where can people find you, follow you? You can follow me on MrBrentSullivan across all of the platforms. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh, you know, I don't have a tweet, but I have an Instagram post I wanted to share. Oh, yeah, and you can listen to my podcast. You're making it worse. Yeah. But this is my favorite.

Sometimes gay guys like to make everything sexual, and I found this Instagram post that is just one of my favorite. Sometimes gay guys like to make everything sexual. And I found this Instagram post that is just one of my favorites. All right, so it's a picture. And the guy says, let's play the what are you reading challenge. Post a pic of you nude with what you're currently reading. What? Why are you nude? And the best part is, so he posts a picture.

He's nude. And he's covering his genitals with his book. And the great part is, he's so far from the camera, you can't even see what he's reading. And he doesn't even say it

in the post. So it's like, you really missed the point, I think, of this. So yeah, so that's my favorite. I know it's not a tweet,

but Instagram counts, right? Yeah. It's the social meds. Right, right. Miles, where can people find you? You can find me, follow me on Twitter, Instagram at Miles of Gray. A tweet I like comes from Jordan Uhl on Twitter.

You know, a little political follow for you guys. And it says, this tweet's from Jordan Uhl. It's actually a photo, and it's like, it says, Ted Cruz literally admiring Beto O'Rourke. Beto O'Rourke. And it's a photo of Ted Cruz on a plane. And you can see his iPhone. And he's trying to, like, expand a picture of Beto O'Rourke on his phone.

Wait, no way. No, that is so funny. Hold on, let me pull it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that is so funny. That is the perfect moment to capture. Yeah, it's very. So there's Ted Cruz on his phone.

Oh, no. And then you go one more. Wow. He's got just looking right. I don't know why. I mean, maybe he's watching a video. Anyway, but you know, you know, Ted. Yeah, you know, good old Ted.

Old blobby. Also, if you want to hear even more of me, and I hope you do, please check out this week's Behind the Bastards, because I'm kicking it with Robert Evans, and he just puts me on the game about Eric Prince, the man behind Blackwater. Very good. As if this man couldn't be worse.

He is modern American history's Kaiser Soze. He's just like the evil guy behind everything. Mixed with like Richie Rich. Yes. Because he has like the funds to do, just entertain any asinine idea he has. Indeed. And a tweet I have been enjoying is from Teresa Lee, Larissa T on Twitter. See how she transposed those two.

And it is, I was forced to buy a $ 50 swimsuit to attend a bachelorette party because the bride wanted us to match in pictures then i couldn't go to the pool party and wasn't in the group pictures so i hired a professional photographer to take pictures on my own here they are and she's wearing this ridiculous bride squad bathing suit and she basically uh said that she would continue wearing that as long as people donated, I think, $100 to RAINN. And people kept donating it. So now she's on day five of wearing this bathing suit. The letters are peeling off of the bathing suit.

It's a terrible thing for her, but really good for the... Yeah, raising money for RAINN. Yeah, for raising money for women. So, yeah. Go to her Twitter and make her wear it forever. I think maybe we should ensure that she never takes it off.

At the same time, doing something good. And it's tax deductible. So, it's a win-win lose just for her. For having to wear that. You can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can follow us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

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