The Daily Zeitgeist - Big Coke Energy, Bodybuilder BAE 10.4.19

Episode Date: October 4, 2019

In episode 488, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Daniel Van Kirk to discuss Mike Pence being involved with the whistleblower complaint, the odd markings in the Ukraine call transcript, Corey Lewandowski's slurring appearance on Fox Business, Jacob Wohl's new dumb scheme that makes Elizabeth Warren look great, Matt Damon's bad deal, the new Coke energy drink, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Trump admits he pushed Ukraine for dirt on Biden and calls on China to investigate – live2. Trump involved Pence in efforts to pressure Ukraine’s leader, though officials say vice president was unaware of allegations in whistleblower complaint3. Odd markings, ellipses fuel doubts about the ‘rough transcript’ of Trump’s Ukraine call4. 'Did you have a little merlot?': Fox Business host wonders if Lewandowski is drunk on air5. “IT’S MANAGEMENT BEDLAM”: MADNESS AT FOX NEWS AS TRUMP FACES IMPEACHMENT6. JACOB WOHL MOCKED AFTER CLAIMING ELIZABETH WARREN SEX SCANDAL, SAYS 2020 CANDIDATE HAD AFFAIR WITH 24-YEAR-OLD MARINE7. When Bourne met Batman8. Brace yourself America: Coke’s about to give you an energy drink9. ETHNICALLY AMBIGUOUS AT THE CHICAGO PODCAST FESTIVAL TICKETS9. WATCH: Little Simz - Offence (Official Video) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 102, episode 5 of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist! A production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say, officially off the top, fuck coke industries and fuck Fox News. It's Friday, October 4th, 2019.

My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I can show you hot takes. What do I do with my hands? Eric Prince is in the news. But what about Sky Tic Tacs? I can open your eyes. Yeah, second verse. British coal gas study

Over, sideways, and under Didn't feel like rewriting that part On a zeitgeist carpet ride I'm Jack O'Brien Miles and me, we ride it out Our guests might tell us, yo, that horses blow. I smoked a weed, so someone please help me. That is courtesy of Disney, obviously, but Jacob Velo.

And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Man, man, man, man! Look at this load of crap! Hey! Trump's bullshit makes me laugh! The GOP is dying, if not dead! Like hair follicles on my head! And I just made that up right now because, you know what?

I thank you to fucking literally everyone on earth who was tagging me in that trump nickelback tweet i understand we create culture on this show sometimes it's so powerful our akas do reach the subconscious of the president of the united states and will use that to defend himself little known fact uh that takedown notice was not from nickelback it was from us from. Because we were doing Nickelback. Just like we went after De Niro. De Niro. What about Fox News?

Fuck them. Sorry, my guy. That's my thing. Got De Niro on the run. We got Trump. I mean, you know, whatever. Nickelback, Trump. Whatever. Also, another reminder, public service announcement.

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We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious comedian Daniel Vanyal Kirk. Hey, hey. What's up, buddy? How are you? I'm good, man. That's good. It feels good.

This energy is great. I have a question. Hit me. You said you were just in Toronto. I was. Is that why you have a Blue Jays satchel? I got to go to a game, and that's what they gave out. And I'm like, perfect.

This is now my life. When I came on your show, do you have some kind of connection with the Blue Jays? No. You're a Cubs fan, right? Big time. I don't know why I thought about that. I don't have to worry about it for six months, but I am a Cubs fan. Dave Carter played for the Blue Jays?

Yes. Big home run, I believe. Yeah, that was the one. Yeah, for sure. Jon Stewart talks about it in Big Daddy. Does he? Yeah, that's where the mother, he met the mother of his child during that World Series.

Like, Dave Carter, man? Come on, the Blue Jays. He's like, I was fucked up on Molson Ice. I still remember where I was when that home run was hit. Really? Do you? I have like random flashbulb memories. I have those too.

They don't remember. You don't know why they're even there. I also remember seeing a Major League Baseball game when I was like seven, where a guy in the background was like waving to the camera and then pointing to somebody else uh and it has no importance whatsoever your memory is just a vegan yeah I just remember this very specific thing and I was like I bet I'm gonna remember that for the rest of my life and I have the people who get to be in background of of iconic sports moments right Right. And they also live forever.

Right. Like, MJ shot, like, you're under the hood. Like, that's me. MJ shot in particular because the greatest, like, depiction of MJ shot is that photograph of all the Utah fans. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, the shot. Yeah, the shot. Like, the final shot of his career.

When he left Brian Russell for dead. Right. Yeah, yeah. I got to credit you reminding me of it. A couple years ago, the great D.C. Yeah, yeah. I gotta credit you reminded me of it a couple years ago. The great D.C. Pearson, who if you have not had on, you totally should. Amazing author and comedian. Yeah. He tweeted out once, looking at Frodo's

path every time I do, it makes me laugh. Which then inspired, then I couldn't stop thinking of some, so I think this is about 2014, I think. 2015, maybe. Then I tweeted out, look at this faux giraffe. Every time I do, it makes me laugh. And I have like nine of these because it just gets stuck in my head.

No, because of what's happening, it's all back. It's all back. It's all back. The kids are all right. It's all nickel back. Yeah. Yes. Whoa.

It's all back. Okay, yeah. Drop the bomb. It's all nickel back. It's all nickel back to me now. All right. Daniel, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we are going to take our listeners through a couple of things we're talking about.

We are, of course, going to blow that whistle. Just check in with what the hell is going on right now. The heck is going on? Are we in the fourth quarter? Is this the end, Miles? I don't know. in the fourth quarter is this the end miles i don't know that if i wanted if i wanted to go full person who has a bunch of it's muller time merch that's rotting in my garage yeah i might be like here we go baby fire it up one more time fire it up but um i don't know i mean it definitely looks like it's unraveling yes uh we're gonna look at what is happening now that uh the republicans

have started paying attention and realized that it seems like warren might be the person i have to worry about instead of biden uh and so they have put their uh bash machine on the case the bash brothers dude jacob wall and that other dude jack Jack Berkman. Jack Berkman, who had his fly down during that one press conference. Yeah, when he was like, I will have evidence of a woman who was assaulted by Robert Mueller. And they got there and was like, she was too scared. Also, my fly is open as I say this, and I won't notice. We are going to talk about the meme, the man, the meme, the Kroger the kroger uh the trump nickelback meme we're gonna talk about the uh chinese 70 year anniversary parade uh that showed off some of their hardware and how

fucked we'd all be if a war happened we're gonna check in with matt damon he had a yeah he made a a decision financial decision a decision. A bad financial decision. A decision that could have changed a lot of things. Could have changed the world. Could have changed the world, yes. And we're going to talk about the latest offering from the Coca-Cola Classic Company. But first, Daniel, we like to ask our guests,

what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? That's revealing about who I am. You know what? I will bring it up right now, and I will pick one that I feel appropriate to say. Ooh, you know what? We'll go with the most recent one.

F-150 Hybrid. Okay. There's a Ford F-150 Hybrid truck? This comes out at the end of next year, I believe. Uh-huh. And I want one really bad. Are you a truck guy? I've never had a truck, but I've always liked them.

And it just never made sense, like living in Chicago, that you don't even need a car. And then coming out here, I spent the first six and a half years without a car. And then I spent $1,500 just to get a get-around car. So eventually, when I get my nice car, I would like for it to be a truck. But in good consciousness, I can't drive around L.A. in just this big gas-burning truck. Gas-guzzling. Duly.

Yeah, rolling coal. Yeah, when I found out Ford's about to drop the F-150 hybrid, and then a year or two later they'll come out with the all-electric. Ooh. Yeah, man. And the crazy thing is, is the all-electric, they've already tested their prototype and everything. It has more power, more torque than the standard F-150.

So their thing, and they're already trying to get in front of this, is like your good old boys in Texas where there's more truck. I think there's one truck for literally every like six people, persons. They have to like get them to understand that like you're actually getting a more badass truck by not using torque. Yeah. Yeah. Literally, literally. It's unreal how powerful these cars can be.

Electric cars can just go from zero to... To fucking whatever you need it to. Whatever you need it to, yeah. It's like they're just putting limitations. They're like, nah, maybe the human skeletal structure can't handle that. This is where they're going to have to figure it out because when you have a truck,

you want that nasty exhaust sound. Right. You can't throw Flowmasters on a fucking they do that the electric harley they had to put a um like a thing in it to make it give it that sound what is it like an air thing that just blows like a kazoo but i but if there's any uh dz's out there who love this show and happen to work at a ford or maybe your uncle owns one i'm all over the the country. Buy me a truck. I will come to you. I will do free advertising. Right. Get me in that F-150.

I love them. And I'll feel better when it's a hybrid or electric. I've got to say, I would love to see some local car dealership commercials starring Daniel VanCurk. Oh, hell yeah. Come on. He's funny as fuck. I used to mob around an F-150 in high school.

Did you? Well, my high school girlfriend's older brother had an F-150 Lightning Edition. Okay. And I had no driver's license. Texas. And she was a white girl with a person of color

trying to get back at her father. So she would let me drive the shit. Oh my goodness. And he had a sound system in there. I blew the shit out. You did? Yeah. And then I had to be like,

I don't know. I don't know what happened to your brother's sound system. The good thing for me too is I'm not even a, like then I had to be like, I don't know. I don't know what happened to Brother Sound System. The good thing for me, too, is I'm not even a – like if Chevy, if GM announced – I'm not loyal to one. I just like a nice, good car, and the F-150s are phenomenal, but the new Silverados and Sierras are really good, too. Okay.

But I just want it to be – that's my thing, hybrid or electric, and then I'm in. I think you should hold out for the electric. But it's a few years. I don't know if my $1,500 banger is going to make it that long. Oh, really? Right. Yeah.

I mean, who knows? It's an oldie. But it gets me around. It does the job, which is all I wanted when I bought it. Yeah. They've been manufacturing fake car noise for a while. I guess the Mustang, one of those cars that was the new edition of one of the 70s muscle cars, they just like created a fake sound that they added to it.

Even those old mufflers amplified it anyway. Right. So whether the sound is generated from the engine or the sound is generated from a speaker, guess what? Sound is sound. Right. You're still getting the same sound when you drive. You're like, oh man, I blew out the speaker in my exhaust. Right.

That's awesome. drive you're like oh man i blew out the speaker in my exhaust right that's awesome i've definitely it's definitely made me feel superior when somebody blows by me in a mustang and it's like they're like yeah bitch eat my dust wait i'm like that's a speaker oh i feel less like i'm gonna open up the drafts for you right now i'm opening up the drafts for you i have a tweet in my drafts that says and i won't read it because i'll just try to top my head at what point in your life of being a dick are you told you have to buy a mustang right that's right yeah yeah man uh what is something you think is overrated wait unless it's a 5.0 right right or an oldie like a 67 like honestly that's a fucking i agree i'm I'm talking new. I should say new Mustang.

If you have to buy a new Mustang. That projects the Mustang logo off the side of the side view mirrors. Okay, overrated? Wait, is that true? Yeah. I was in a car accident. Not my fault. Uh-huh.

Just, okay. Sure, sure. Just for the course of listening. You were just smacked and blowing out the speed mirror. Yeah, exactly. Blew the shit out. And the car that I got for my loaner, because my Mazda was in the shop,

was one of those new Mustangs. And I could not believe the amount of, you could change the color, the interior light color. Oh, it's all on mood, baby. It's all on mood, baby. And I'm like, you know what? Let me just try and peel out in this thing. I almost fucking crashed this shit.

Really? I played ass mode. And I was like, let me just bend a corner. They say a lot of pro athletes get in car accidents in their super expensive sports cars because some of those cars, you need to take a class

on how to drive it. It's more power than you're used to. So you're like, I'm going to get out of here. And you're like, whoa, shit, I just lost control of my car. Oh, and I'm spinning.

Did you say overrated? I did. Overrated. White Claw. Okay. Yeah. It is overrated. It is technically, it's not even a real seltzer.

It's more falls into like malt liquor, which is why they can sell it at just beer and wine places. If you want to, if you are digging the White Claw, and I don't hate on it, I'll drink a White Claw, but I'm saying it's overrated. You need to roll with High Noon. High Noon is where it's at. Wow. It's actual liquor, actual real fruit juices.

It's better for you, although it's liquor. So how much of it is it? I don't even know. I don't even know. Doesn't even matter. Maybe like... One of them. It's like one of three people in here.

What's it called? Gallia? Gallia? Gallia? This is how you know I'm not working for them. But they are really good. Look for High Noon. I know they have it here in town, too.

I saw it over at the Galsys. I drank Truly for the first time okay not bad that wasn't bad either no but I'm telling you rock a High Noon okay

it's actual liquor actual fruit juices what is it like vodka vodka yeah okay yeah it's good

not all those preservatives and all that stuff is it a fizzy one does it have that you got that fizz baby it's a fizzy lifting drink yeah

High Noon I'm telling you roll up to that and bring that to the cookout, and people will be like, oh, okay. Wow. High Noon. Has anybody ever called their drink the fizzy lifting drink? No.

They should. That's what I used to call when I ran track in high school, this kid, Scott Suda, who was this Japanese kid who was 5'5", and he had the most wild vertical ever. Oh, really? And we were both doing high jump, and he was just putting me to shame. And everyone would be like, what the fuck? We called him fizzy lifting drink. That shit was just too much.

It was unbelievable. Oh, and you bought me time. It's Gallo. That's who makes it. Oh, the wine. The people make the wine. Yeah, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The fanciest of seven to eleven wines. Shout out to my buddy, Daryl Sacame, who tipped me to it and told me that it was gala. I had a server tell me, specifically say that the White Claw thing is out of control last night. Well, I think they're up 150, 180%. No, it's like 300. You're talking about their sales numbers? Yeah, they're crushing it. Yeah, it went like 300 or 400% in the last eight months.

Come down, hang out with me in the 20% with the high noon. Maybe high maybe they're five percent why did a server tell you the shit was out my wife my wife not a big drink my wife my wife uh at the hollywood bowl hollywood bowl breaker oh you're at the vampire weekend show i was nice and uh they they were like do you want a beer wine white claw and she was like wait what yeah they're like would a beer, wine, white claw? And she was like, white what? They were like, you don't know what white claw is? Oh my God, it's out of control. Like that's all. But like it's like in the conversation with beer, wine, white claw.

Like that's how well they're doing. That is true. That's good. Yeah. So I would agree. Overrated. What is something you think is underrated? And I believe this is how you say her name.

If I say it wrong, I'm happy to be corrected. Just don't be a dick about it. But I have to praise this person. Is it Edie Patterson on Righteous Gemstones? I don't care. If you didn't already fall in love with her in Vice Principals like I did, when you were like, this girl, she is a genius comic. I mean, flat.

That's what her bio should say, genius comic. And anybody who comes at her for that, yeah. Unreal. Did you know that they were saying she was playing the clown in the flashback scene of the child's birthday? She is not playing the clown. Someone said that was her. I mean, okay, if so, that's like some...

It's just so funny that she would even be like, yeah, let me be the clown too right here. Like the balding clown at the flashback 80s birthday party. I mean, that's like marriage level, like that much makeup. Well, every time I see her, I get the most excited for whenever I'm like, oh, here we go. And she's playing levels. If you're caught up on Righteous Gemstones, I'm not going to give anything away, but she's

playing levels where you are cheering for her from your heart like you did for Rudy. You're like, you can do this. You got this, mom. Oh, man. And I mean, Misbehaving. She wrote that. Her and Danny wrote that. That's a banger.

That's the song of the fall. That's the song of the fall is Misbehaving. And I don't know. If you are serious about running your karaoke business and you don't already have misbehaving. Whoa. Right? I mean, look, I was wearing lipstick and I got caught shaving. I got caught shaving.

Daddy said don't, but I did it anyway. Misbehaving. I didn't get that tattooed on my arm. Daddy said don't, but I did it anyway. There it is. Oh, the tattoo. That is good. That is good.

The new lower back tattoo. So she is a vision. She is amazing. She is incredible. The new lower back tattoo. So she is a vision. She is amazing. She is incredible. She should get to do whatever she wants. She should come out of this show with what HBO should be like, what show do you want to do? Oh, 100%.

She's so good. I feel like she could do like a Christopher Lilly type thing where she gave us like one woman, nine different characters, and I'd watch every single one. She's great in Between Two Ferns, the movie. Yeah. That was actually probably my favorite part. I thought it was funny. It had some moments.

It had moments, but I wasn't even- It's not really a story movie. It's like, here's a whole bunch of sequences. You'll find one you like. Right. And it's good. But then when she showed up, I was like, yes, Edie Patterson, don't ever leave. Yeah.

All my favorite comedies. I think story in comedies is overrated. Really? I think MacGruber is one of my favorite comedies. Yeah, but Wayne's World does have a good story. I mean, it's loose, but it's like... Right. Scott Offerman and Zach and Lauren Lapkus,

they know what they're doing. They're like, we're just going to make this fun thing after fun thing after fun thing, and we'll tie it together somehow. But that's what I like in comedy. Yeah, I do too. You know, you feel like you got a lot of that in the 80s.

Yeah. Where they were like, don't worry about it. He's been dead three days. We're still playing with his body. Don't read into this what do you mean it's what's rigor mortis yeah he can dance and shit whatever yeah he doesn't smell bad uh what is a myth damn what my myth is that cooking is hard okay now cooking well is hard like you're gonna go out and and really try to like flambe something like you can get deep and then be like oh shit i didn't pull it off you know like timing and all that stuff

but for the most part and i'm saying this as a person who up until a couple years ago did not cook at all you can cook things so much better than you think if even if you aren't cooking at all right now when you're listening to this it is very easy just oh you know what it is you just got to do what it says do what it says and don't guess it don't act like you know better right don't forget about it don't wait don't i'll do it when it feels like it get a get a meat thermometer know that it's done take it out then it roasting veggies and putting a little bit of like even just salt and pepper on them a little bit of olive oil you you have somebody over and you're like oh yeah i just i baked this chicken and like uh it was just a real simple like some olive oil and some lemon pepper.

And then I roasted these veggies with salt and pepper and olive oil and put that down. The person would be like, holy shit, you made an amazing meal. So cooking is not hard. Cooking well is very hard. But even then, you know, like once you – it's just like repetition. Once you start learning those things or just the basic rules. A lot of people, man, especially when they cook like proteins, they fucking don't have the pan hot enough right that's just straight they're just little things should be the rules heat the pan facts you need the shit hot right

or else it's gonna cook all weird and they're like why is the middle all fucked up it's like if you're cooking something they're like to get a cast iron skillet and then you don't do the cast iron skillet part you it's gonna be hard hard. Right. That's what I'm saying. I can't hand hold you to the promise. So just follow the instructions. Do with what's in your limit and in your budget. And I guarantee if you go through it, it'll be better than you think. And it might even be perfect. Or even, you know, start off with a stew.

Why not? I mean, if you want to blow your own fucking mind, make a stew. Because that shit, if you really follow directions, hard to fuck up. But over time, because your cooking is so slow and the flavors are developing, you're like, what the fuck was this? Your friend who says to you, oh, I just put it in the crock pot. They're not lying. That's what they did.

Yeah. And it's great. And then you're like, nah. Because you're like me. You used to not cook. And you're like, no, there was so much more involved. Well, I used to be. Hold on, fam.

I liked to cook. So, you know, I'll have you over for my famous stew also look if you want a good stew recipe because it's getting about that time stew season if you don't the food wishes channel on youtube with chef john he's a really funny guy and he talks like this in his videos very tim gunnish very he's very encouraging anyway you listen, it's always very clear, his instructions, and by the end, if you are following the directions and you're somewhat capable, you will come out with a fire dish. Anyway, his

beef stew, his Irish or Guinness beef stew recipe, look, I just gave up the ghost. That's one of my favorite things to make. Check that out. Also, add a couple bone marrow bones because you will add dimensions. And when you say add them, you literally just mean put them in the pot and let that cook.

It's your butcher. Shank bones. Give me a couple of shank bones. There you go. There it is. Thank you. I feel better. You know what? Now I feel like... Don't you kind of want to cook something? Yeah.

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Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game.

Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them boys. I just come here to play basketball every single day and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch.

She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better.

This new season will cover all things sports and culture. 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. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really hear them voice. I just

come here to play basketball every single day and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better.

Listen to the making of a rivalry, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of

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All right. So checking in with... It's time it's time it is time once again checking in with the scandal as it develops as it as it continues to unfold yeah in front of us so the president once again did his thing of just admitting to the crime he can't fuck i don't know man this is the problem, right? Okay. If we start much broader, the GOP, the reason why a lot of people aren't out here defending him and the ones that are doing a terrible job, we'll get to some of those performances in a bit.

The reason they can't defend him is because they don't know what the coherent defense communication strategy is. What am I supposed to not say? Because you say everything. Right. So am I supposed to say everything? Wait, so should I say you didn't say that you asked to investigate Biden? They're like, yeah.

And then cut to Donald Trump coming out basically saying like, oh, yeah, I definitely said to investigate Joe Biden. Right. He said it today when we're recording this. Right. He was walking down one of those driveways and was like, well, I would like it. If I were them, I would recommend that they investigate. Right. He just said it to a camera two days.

He can't help himself. Yeah. He's like, what would they do? He's like, well, if they're honest, they'd start an investigation. Anyway, also, I think China should start an investigation. Yeah, China should do it too. Okay. Yeah.

What? Might as well fuck with our biggest ally or our biggest competition. Well, you know, this is the thing too. Like anyone, your strategy is to either just keep lying or you just try and shift reality with blunt force and be like, yeah, I did and what? Right. And I think that's the strategy now is,

yeah, I did, now so what? What the fuck are you going to do? I saw somebody tweet out that they were like, today's the day we've gone from, no, I didn't, it never happened to, I did it Now, so what? What the fuck are you going to do? I saw somebody tweet out that they were like, today's the day we've gone from no, I didn't. It never happened to I did it and it doesn't matter. Right. Yeah. What are you going to do, huh?

Well, because I think now, you know, everything is just slowly, again, the room's getting smaller for him. He's feeling the heat a little bit. I don't, again, I don't, I wouldn't be surprised if they found some very sneaky, fucked up way to try and completely distract us from this and try and keep things going.

Oh, we'll go to war. Yeah, that or, I mean, look how quickly he forgot about Jeffrey Epstein. But now I'm thinking, like, with this, part of me is like, just looking at human nature, I'm like, everyone's starting to fucking turn on each other, and it's getting more aggressive. And case in point two, you know, Mike Pence now, if you remember. It's been my question from day one.

Where's Mike Pence? What are people thinking about Mike Pence? How's he polling? Right. Yeah. And, you know, Trump was very quick to be like, oh, well, you should ask about his phone calls. And people are like, wait, what?

Well, that happened too. So again, or like his communications with Zelensky. So we come to find out that he, Trump instructed Pence to not go to the inauguration of the president. Because again, if there's no representative of the United States at his inauguration, that would make President Zelensky feel, oh shit, maybe the U.S. does not have my back against Russia. Because they, I needed the photo op. Right. You know what I mean? Like that's how I show this is Ukraine and the United States together to face the enemy.

Russia can't fuck with us. But again, as we were talking about yesterday, the benefit of Ukraine not feeling secure about the U.S. having its back is that they're going to be more likely to capitulate to Moscow and be like, what do y'all want to do? Right. And then that ends the aggression in Crimea and also ends sanctions for Russia. Just a thing to keep in mind in the future. Crimea and also end sanctions for Russia. Just a thing to keep in mind in the future. Back to Pence, though. He was also

told to tell, Pence was told to tell Zelensky that the aid from the U.S. was not coming because, you know, we need a little more action on quote-unquote corruption to investigate Joe Biden. Right. And so now we're starting to see, oh, wow.

You were a part of this. His plan, though, Mike Pence, is to act like, well, I didn't know. I was just doing what I was told. I'm a patsy in all this. Yeah. Right. Do we think that Trump did that? My first thought is it's like the mobster being like, do this line so I know you're not a cop.

Yeah. I was like, oh, I didn't know you liked to get wet. Yeah. Are you saying Trump doing that to pence two pence that's what i wonder though yo pence like make this corrupt phone call so i know you're down and also so that like people yeah so you're culpable you're gonna help with the cover i mean same with him staying at the hotel too in uh where's that in ireland oh yeah stop uh Sop. Was that Ireland, right? Yeah, it was Ireland. Yeah, Ireland. Yeah, Ireland, where it was completely out of the way. He's staying in Dublin.

Right. I'm sure there's been many little things like this. But yeah, it is one of those things to get him dirty. But do you think, let me ask you just personally, do you guys think Pence is dragged into all these things or he willingly is engaging in them? I think he's just not a confident person to begin with so he projects you know he's very he is like stoic and at times has this like he's the quietest fucking vice

president i've ever witnessed and i think quiet in terms of presence and like visibility whatever and he i i mean i think honestly if you if he knew it was bad he could he could have pushed back and be like i just can't do that what you're asking me is wrong right and then what would trump be like well then maybe i need to find a new vice president yeah, he could have pushed back and be like, I just can't do that. What you're asking me is wrong. Right. And then what would Trump be like? Well, then maybe I need to find a new vice president. Yeah. And then if you did, I'd be like, all right, go ahead.

Right. But again, I think when your currency that you survive off of is power and influence, then the game changes a little bit and you're like, fuck, I guess. I just want to remind every evangelical, you lied to yourself about what type of Christian man Trump is. And if you helped get him out of office, if we just team up for a little bit, unless he did other bad shit too, you're going to get the president who actually is the crazy Christian that you want. You would actually get the guy you lied to yourself about who you were voting for. You would have Jesus in the White House. Jesus who loves to close his eyes in the middle of meetings and go to La La Land when shit's getting tough.

Yeah, he asked. And I'm not trying to ask Christians. I'm just saying if that's your voting agenda, the agenda is waiting one step away. But I think we know, right, they betrayed the teachings of Christ when you even see how they treat the needy and the vulnerable. Dude, I know. No, I know that, but I'm saying Christian men and women

who do not speak, don't use cuss words and they don't go to R-rated movies. I grew up with them. And I'm like, I would love if I could see one of them right now

and be like, how do you feel about your president tweeting the word bullshit yesterday? Your president spoke like that to 65 million people who follow him and then all the other ones

who refuse to but hear about what he did. I just want to know just how do you feel about his cussing? Well, he's protecting unborn babies. you gotta take the good just not the ones he was gonna have even though many of those abortion bans have been blocked uh in many states

so yeah shout out to the aclu on that um but anyway back to pence's whole thing the people around him were just insisting he did not know what was going on. So here's a couple of problems with this. I love this explanation. Well, so first of all, they were saying that one of Pence's top aides was on the call. The call, as we all know, was on the call. And therefore, knew he was going to have a transcript to take to Mike Pence because Mike Pence had to prepare for a meeting with vladimir zelensky the president of ukraine when that happened they were saying oh well you know what on his flight there he probably didn't read the notes or the transcript before his meeting so he wouldn't have known what the subtext or what the content of the call was incompetent so they're either lying that he didn't know or he's so fucking incompetent that

he's going around on behalf of the united states to talk about foreign policy you know what your lawyer rudy giuliani would tell you incompetence may not be guilt right right exactly it might be but it might not be yeah lying is definitely guilt so why don't we go with the 50 50 right exactly but even then like when you look at all the dots like really your top aide was on the call and didn't mention country doesn't even know what that means they don't understand like you guys and especially miles the inner workings are like here's what when they're like well he wasn't on the call be like let me explain to you what an aide fucking does yeah the aid is there because that is representing him being on the call and then they have a report from their aides every fucking day at least once saying here's what you missed and what you need to know for the next,

go watch fucking Veep. Of course, if you voted for Trump, why would you ever watch Veep? Watch the West wing. Maybe that'll tell you. Sure. I mean,

at the end of the day, it's a, yeah, it's like your assistant, right? Let's just remove politics. Imagine you're a big boss of a big company. I can't be on that call.

I can't be in a meeting. Hey, underling, you go and you tell me what happened. Cause I got important stuff to do. And I'm going to have to talk to those people later. So I'll need to on that call. I can't be in a meeting. Hey, underling, you go and you tell me what happened because I got important stuff to do. And I'm going to have to talk to those people later. So I'll need to know what happened. That's how it works.

I'm flying into this meeting blind? Nobody does that. Okay. But, you know, that's, but this is the problem. Again, as it gets dirtier and dirtier and murkier, this is sort of like, this is where now Pence has been dragged into it. Now he's having to distance himself from it. He's not quite saying the same thing as Trump. So I think beginning, you know,

we'll start to see people's self-interest become a little more pronounced. Isn't that what you hope for? Remember when Pence was there at that meeting with Pelosi and Schumer and was just so uncomfortable because there was confrontation and basically made himself a statue and closed his eyes

and just wished he was somewhere else. He said, dear God, please make me a bird so I can fly far away from you. That's crazy because I was going to say the exact same thing. Shared consciousness. Well, we said it yesterday too. We talked a lot about Jenny. Jenny. But I feel like that's also his defense here is just like, close your eyes.

I didn't see it. So how could I have read it? My eyes were closed that day. Mother. Mr. Vice President, what do you have to say? Dear God, please make me a bird so I can fly far, far away from here. As the American people know. Dear God, make me a bird. here. As the American people know. Dear God.

Yeah, so I don't know. So what happens if Pence gets impeached as well? Who would then become president? Is it your attorney general? Nancy Pelosi, maybe? Is it Speaker? It's Nancy Pelosi, yeah. All right.

When do we get to Kiefer Sutherland? How far down the line is Kiefer? Got to blow up the whole... God, wouldn't you... Here's where we're at. How happy would you be if Kiefer was blow up the whole here's where we're at how happy would you be if Kiefer was our president tomorrow I would be worried he struggles with his drinking every president and good doctor struggles with

their drinking I'm gonna tell you something first hand this man has been spotted around the San Fernando Valley in terrible shape outside of local bars talking all kinds of shit. And I'll take it. Yeah.

In a way. I'll take that. I mean, the fact that when he was in terrible shape and someone said, you're a pirate keeper. And he turned to the camera and said, that would explain everything. And then ran and dove tackled a Christmas tree. Have you seen that video? I would say that's my president. Coolest, strongest move that anyone has ever done.

Sober or drunk. Agreed. Yeah. Let's talk about the call because so basically Trump is like now that everybody realizes everything he says is a lie. Now. Wait, okay, so that was clearly a lie. Let's take a couple steps back and figure out why he's lying about that. During a press conference, President Trump said Wednesday his controversial July call

with the Ukrainian counterpart was transcribed word for word, comma for comma. Hyphen for hyphen. This is an exact word for word transcript of the conversation taken by very talented stenographers. Very talented. Literally said very talented stenographers, which sounds like something like a Donald Trump impersonator would say in this instance. But no, he said that. So people were like, well, now that you mention it, like we do know that it wasn't a word for word transcript.

Like it's a memo, but we don't know how it is different from the word for word transcript. And if you look at the whistleblower complaint, they refer to it being a word for word transcript or they refer to a word for word-for-word transcript, or they refer to a word-for-word transcript. So there is a word-for-word transcript, according to the whistleblower, and this is not a word-for-word transcript. And people have pointed out that there are markings that don't typically appear on transcripts between presidents and other foreign leaders,

that don't typically appear on transcripts between presidents and other foreign leaders, including ellipses and like weirdly placed commas. So they're just wondering why they're there. What's up with the ellipses, huh? Yeah. What's going on here? What's really going on? And a few people have said, you know, I think Angus King said that he thinks there's 20 minutes missing. Other people think maybe it's 10 minutes missing of text.

But it still might end up just being the cover up. Right. Anyway, so fuck them. Right. Yeah. I mean, either way, like you already on wax have the president saying, yes, I withheld aid. Yes, I asked them to investigate Joe Biden.

You have Giuliani confirming the same thing. You have a transcript that basically also confirms the same thing. Just if even very narrowly, this thing is pretty much you could put that to bed. But I think it for the purposes of getting enough public support you want to really pull as many receipts out because you want essentially it's like playing uno you know what i mean you want to have you just want to play that fucking wild hand where you're like skip you draw two color change draw four i'm out you know i mean you don't want to slow it and be like oh i'm gonna win this game like no you're right keep you

put that hand down yeah so and you know, this puts the Republicans in a really tough spot because they, I don't know, like from the beginnings of this and when we started seeing like Mitch McConnell basically allowing the Senate to unanimously vote to allow the whistleblower complaint to be distributed and the House doing the same, I was always like, oh, is this the exit strategy? Because I felt the second you could hear the Republicans groaning

when he got the nomination, I was like, the higher-ups within the party must have some kind of exit strategy. Because their plan is to use him for everything that they want to push forward. And once they either get what they want or realize they can't get any more, there's no more juice left to squeeze,

then they're done. Because he only needs to be elected one more time. All these motherfuckers want to get elected for the rest of their life. So if they're like, this is going to put my future elections in jeopardy, because that's all they fucking care about. They're there to

get elected. They have some pet projects, but overall, all in all, representing you and I, no. They need to be be re-elected but they're kind of fucked because so much of the base still subscribes to you know trumpism right which is a little different if they drop him if they throw him under the bus then he could easily just be like well fuck you guys i'm gonna start trump party well party of Trump. I mean, it's very stressful, right? Because, again, you're defending an indefensible position.

So I don't know what you do to relieve your stress. Wait, I know one thing you could do. Get drunk as fuck and then go on Fox News and try and defend the president like Corey Lewandowski did on Fox two nights ago. So he goes on. Remember, OK, so again, we have to talk about kennedy from mtv the vj who's now like a libertarian pirate on fox business channel fox news i didn't know that oh yes she is just full-on on fox now but hey look again just like politicians it's well as they say

hollywood for ugly people you know what i mean that's what politics are and the same way you're addicted to the fame you will go to whatever audience will have you. So, look, hey, shout out to you, Kennedy, except not. So Corey Lewandowski goes on there. And even – it was too much for even Kennedy, who's been kind of defending the president. She just had to call out Corey Lewandowski because he was – he was tipped. Well, what we know is this, is little Adam Schiff, who's the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, already knew about the whistleblower complaint. And what we know is that the rules of the whistleblower complaint had changed in August of this year, which said you no longer have to have firsthand knowledge of what's going on.

And what that tells me is maybe the whistleblower is close to John Brennan maybe he's an acolyte of John Brennan what we know is this president has gone after the president of course he does blinding passion yes he does and Kennedy don't forget we know that the the whistleblower is a former CIA agent who was detailed to the NSC there's probably back at the CIA who hates this president more than they love their country. And the fact is, they never had any firsthand account of what transpired. Corey. Yes. Did you have a little Merlot with dinner? No. Should I have? You sound a little slurry. You sound a little Biden-esque. No, look, look what I'm mad about, Kendi, is that this is blaming the president for this conversation with the Ukraine president, Zelensky.

And what this is really about is people who don't love this country as much as they hate the president. I love this country. I love this country. I like how, you know, like when you're drunk, you have that real big energy. You're like, this is what I'm talking about? And this one goes, whoa, whoa, chill. Like, hold on. Are you fucked up? And then you have to take that breath to try and collect yourself.

Yeah. Let me tell you how not drunk I am. Kendi. Look, Kendi, I'm not drunk. It's America has a problem. And people don't like America and they hate the peasant. So what's the whistleblower saying? I don't know.

Adam Schiff? He's probably a colluder. Did I say it was little? I meant to say little. Little. With a hyphen on the end. Our boy holding it down over on Hollywood and Western right now, Adam Schiff. Oh, boy.

So this is what you see. Remember Sam Nunberg? Like, way back when the Russia shit was getting hot, he just melted down on Ari Melber's show, I think. Right. But did Ari Melber, was he like, are you drunk? And he was like, no. Did he? He did bring it up.

Yeah, yeah. He was, he's like, oh, he went on another show and someone was like, I smell a little alcohol on you. Yeah. And he's like, nah, man. And then Rudy does it pretty regularly. So, you know, I get it's stressful. And then when you look at Fox, right, there's a lot of motion within the organization that doesn't know what to do about Trump also. Because on one side, like internally, you have the quote unquote news side of the like the daytime people like your Shepard Smiths and Andrew Napolitano.

Still unforgivable cowards. But yeah, well, Shepard Smith at least has the most thing resembling a spine. He could do his job for a non-Nazi organization. He could, but I don't know. I think they would just replace him with someone from who claims they were a pussycat doll. And, you you know we'll protect the president that is someone who does go on fox news sometimes her name's kara brown um the so with that side you know they're the ones who have said this is bad this is if this

is true this is bad right this is illegal this is impeachable but then you have the hannity's and the tucker carlson's of the world who are like, no, we need to defend the president. And they are beefing like out in the open on air, like on each other's show. Like first Shepard Smith and Napolitano were like, this is impeachable. That night, Tucker Carlson plays a clip and he's like, can you believe these fools? And then the next day, Shepard Smith is like, how dare y'all like talk, like try and slander Andrew Napolitano or what we're trying to do here. So there's already a bit of a schism maybe that's happening on top of that. At some point, you got to cut bait.

Right. But this is the problem, right? So Paul Ryan, he's now on the board at Fox. Really? Yeah. And he is actually, according to like this Vanity Fair article, he is using his position on the board to try and get the CEO, Lachlan Murdoch, to begin to fucking pivot away from

trump because he's like no this is not good this is going to be an embarrassment right he's like we need to figure like this is not guys we got three years at some point we got to go back to the long game here right so it's just tough because like what do you do now because fox created the type of mindset that allowed for trumpism to flourish. Sure. And now, you know, I don't know if the Pandora's box has already been open for them, and it's too late. But don't forget, like, MSNBC is the same thing. I mean, we just agree with them. But, like, if you're getting all your news every single day from that,

I'd tell you to stop doing that, too. Like, it's too—MSNBC's ratings are going to go through the roof if Trump wins again. They're going to make so much money because it's so good for their business that he's in office. Nobody's watched MSNBC more than they have in the last three years. Oh, sure, sure, sure. So it's like also the same thing, too, with them. Like, the other

side, where they're like, well, just double down on all this shit. And at some point, when do you stop being like, alright, we have to go back to what's happening. What I'm talking more specifically about Fox is the idea of allowing racist, xenophobic conspiracy theories

to be mainstream. And I'm saying... Agreed, agreed. Yeah, and obviously MSNBC and all these cable news networks have gigantic corporate blind spots. Don't get me wrong. But I think with this, right,

they've cultivated this kind of voter who's very susceptible to racist dog whistles, straight up racism. And now you have Trump who's like, hey, I'm saying all this shit out loud. Now you're with me, right? Because they've been giving you this diet and now I'm the main course.

Because he's going to have his own network when he leaves. That's what he wanted. I mean, that was the plan if he wasn't elected, right? Right. Was I would have my own news network. And I mean, that was the plan if he wasn't elected. Right. Right. Was I would have my own news network. And I mean, the plan was also that a lot of these Republicans who now could be making plans for a post-Trump party were just going to like chalk this election up to being a loss and then like regroup. So maybe they're just like going back to that plan again. Yeah, I don't know.

This next one's a lost leader and we'll just figure out like. Well, because here's the problem, right? regroup so maybe they're just like going back to that plan again yeah i don't know this this next one's a lost leader and we'll just figure out like well because here's the problem right what happens because many people in the like they get all their news from fox on the right what happens when your idiot box starts talking shit about your number one god king right so that's really what's going to happen are you going to go with the establishment Fox News side or the wild racist Trump team? Yeah. Right. And I think what will happen is I'm sure reasonable people might be like, yeah, I guess if they're saying this is bad, I guess I'll go with Fox because I've trusted them the longest.

Right. But then you have people who have fully bought in on Trumpism and they're going to be like, well, fuck y'all. Like, oh, so y'all then. Oh, so the GOP is the enemy. Well, we're starting our own shit or we have whatever the fuck's going on. Yeah. So the GOP is the enemy. Well, we're starting our own shit or we have whatever the fuck's going on.

Yeah. The very top link on Drudge, the Drudge report page is Napolitano. Trump behavior is criminal and impeachable. So I do think that the objective little kernels that are filtering through Fox are getting down to the to the conservative people. Well, they have to realize, realize right if we just fucking stay on this ship it only goes down right so do you get off right or do you you have faith you're like i don't know maybe something maybe racism floats in the deep sea i don't know right i'll float down here this is yeah um but when you look at just like how Trump is acting, you know the second the party starts to turn on him, he will fucking drag everyone out.

Yeah. He threw Pence under the bus reflexively. Your theory, Jack, is probably what I think most, is that he needs to involve as many people as he can so that they're all culpable and none of them want to go down as well. So it's not them being like, oh, I'll just stand back and watch it happen.

They're like, well, you're going to go go too but the other thing he isn't banking on is how many people want to be re-elected more than they like him how many people are actually afraid of going to jail right because that's what's going to come out when you get people like i can't remember his name and i feel dumb for doing it but uh he's gonna test him he's willing to testify and he stepped down from his position so michael cohen yeah is it cohen you know it was somebody more recent i don't remember the name i just heard it this morning on the news but oh you mean uh ambassador the volker yes yeah yeah from the state department and there was like he was like well i'm gonna get out because i know where this is gonna go and then i can go talk about it whatever the

fuck i want and he's you got a picture in a house of cards style he is constantly telling people what they i need you to do this i need you to do this well that's not the same thing i don't care confusion's better than facts and then he's got people who's like you don't want to go to jail and he's trying to intimidate them but hopefully some at least two or three are going to be like here's how bad i don't want to go to jail when some people like i have a an actual future that i'm worried about i'm not trying to be some like far right celebrity on twitter because we I'm sorry for this, but maybe I'm helping one listener out there. We do not

still don't know who the whistleblower is, right? No. Okay. I thought that, but I was like, what if I missed it and we all know? Well, I mean, the New York Times definitely gave us a few details. People are like, why did you do that? And they're like, well, we just feel like people needed to know that this was a person.

They also said that the information that they revealed was known to the White house like the moment that the oh sure but i guess publicly though right when you put that in public then you can get a lot of you know fucking conspiracy theorists to probably get there the thing that that drunk dude said who isn't a good doctor orkey for sutherland he that he brought up that shift thing is that going to be a real problem that the whistleblower met with them first? No. That makes sense to me that that person's going to be like, hey, if I come forward, you guys are going to back me. Well, they're also like...

That might be even more in-depth than what probably actually happened. But also like, did you get that complaint I filed? You didn't? Right. Huh. Because something's up. Right. That's not... And they're like, he's colluding with them. It's like, y'all, y'all, y'all, calm the... Take a breath for a second.

But I mean, if you listen to- You're drunk. If you listen to anybody who has paid attention to Trump's life, they've all been saying, yo, like anybody he draws into their orbit, he fucks. Yeah. Like he fucks you over. Dude, he fucked Bill Rantick. Apprentice season one, he fucked him too.

Yeah, but like think about the think about the like all his businesses like they always go tits up he always ends up fucking like screwing people not paying people like that's how he has operated his whole life he's a very uh persistent and successful con artist so he's got that lizard reptile brain right it's It's like just what I need, what I want. I don't give a fuck. His show is called Unsuccession. Right. Yeah. But yeah, I think again, just with the same way he draws those people in, just how he

can throw Mike Pence under the bus. What do you think him and Lindsey Graham have talked about? What do you think him and Mitch McConnell have talked about? Devin Nunes, like all these, Jim Jordan. There's a lot of people who he could be like, well, if this is the GOP, let me tell you about your quote unquote clean politicians. And people like Lindsey Graham, weak people who are afraid are only as good

as long as they're afraid most of you. And once they're more afraid of somebody or something else, then they're no longer good to you. Yes, exactly. That's some Reek shit right there. Game of Thrones, baby. Damn, Lindsey Graham is Reek. Fuck yeah, he is. Reek. That's actually. Thrones baby Lindsey Graham is reek reek reek

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Yeah, Biden has like a firewall up right there. Oh, really? That'll be interesting to see if that- And South Carolina's early this time, right? They moved it forward. And so are we, too, right? LA is like March. We're early.

Oh, really? He moved his way up. That'll be interesting. Well, it might matter for Democrats. So the GOP has trained its laser guided sensors on Elizabeth Warren. Yeah. Well, yeah. Or Jacob Wool.

Yeah. Jack Bergman. Yeah. The two guys who can never do- Top operatives. Anything fucking right. Ever. Ever.

They can't make fake businesses up. They can't make fake people up. They can't fake a fucking- Right. The funk ever. Right. up they can't make fake people up they can't fake a fucking right funk ever right they did a fake news conference where they were trying to convince people and like did the whole thing with their fly down they when they created a fake company that was like behind one of the conspiracies they did

it was registered to jacob wall's mother um like literally people just like looked at it and were like okay we're gonna call this number and it was like, okay, we're going to call this number. And it was like, hi, this is Samantha. We'll call me back or leave your name. And it's like, oh, Christoph Waltz from Inglourious Bastards works for your company. Yes. Because are these all stock images of your staff? They're literally in a Coen Brothers movie. Right.

Where they're like trying their best to commit this. Yes. This act. Damn, the Coen Brothers need to adapt these people's stories. Oh, come on plan what uh so what what are they up to now how are they taking down elizabeth warren miles so how are they taking down elizabeth warren well here's so on i believe wednesday wednesday they put out a media alert from jack berkman and Jacob Wohl. Present. This is what it says.

Jack Berkman. Press release? No, man. Media alert. T-Report. Jack Berkman, Jacob Wohl. Present bombshell witness slash evidence against Warren. Evidence?

Sure. Of what? A crime? Okay, whatever. Let's not split hairs. Right. Conservative activist, blah, blah, blah, to be joined by former Marine who claims to have been in long-term sexual relationship

with the presidential candidate. Who? What? Go on. Consensual? Just allow me to read it because you're asking too many questions, man. It's just good when I say Marine.

I'm just waiting to be media alerted. Sorry. So they're saying Thursday the 3rd, 2.30 Eastern, we're having one in Arlington, Virginia. Then it says more information. Jack Berkman and Jacob Wohl will be joined by a decorated former U.S. Marine and bodybuilder who alleges he was involved in a long-term sexual relationship with presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren. The 24-year-old Marine claims that the affair began in Massachusetts several months ago

when he was solicited from a prominent website utilized by sex workers. These charges will shock the conscious of the nation, Berkman said. Will shock the conscious of the nation. Not the conscience. No. The consciousness. By the way, this- If you're conscious, you will be shocked. Only the conscious, but the unconscious of America?

So where do I go to high five Elizabeth Warren for consensually fucking a 24-year-old green bodybuilder? That's the thing. I i'm like i don't know what the fuck they think yo i i guess because people look at trump's multiple affairs and it was a scandal because of all the cover-ups yeah or sexual assault allegations exactly the what 70 how many how many accusers are credible accusers i think open your twitter you might find more so and then i guess it's again this terrible logic that is always applied on the right of how they think the left or just the general society will respond. It's like, well, she's like banging a Marine bodybuilder.

Right. Okay. Which they just like took from their spank bank probably. Yeah. But like. I would. But like I would the other narrative that we've heard kind of circulating in the undercurrent of like people who don't want Elizabeth Warren to get nominated is that she is bad for billionaires. It's like these guys are doing her job for her. Like the two like the only thing that could make her cooler is if she terrified billionaires and was banging a 24 year old bodybuilder.

Because it's this, the, I guess the press conference actually happened. I'm looking at some things about it and everyone's laughing. All the tweets I see are just humorous. I see memes from it's always sunny. Sure. That ratio is way off.

Clowns are running around. Um, someone just said Jacob wool is Cougar presser is absolutely a comedy workshop. These guys should open for dave chappelle um they're showing this dude there's a ripped dude okay they do have a muscle guy and they're saying look at his back he has these scars on his back from scars yeah scars on his back scars guard um from his back from a sexcapade with elizabeth Get it. But, okay, that doesn't sound like...

No one's saying it wasn't about consent. They're just like, okay, so she likes to whoop your ass in bed? If you wanted to kill an afternoon and you went to their goddamn media alert show. Right. Right. And you're like, you guys taking questions? The first one would be like, consensual? Consensual?

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, you guys have a good day. What's this about then? So Elizabeth Warren, apparently uh she's got that thing on her where she can even attract a 24 year old marine hell yeah also i love that we're even just feigning the idea that this is even true right yeah well here's the best part within minutes someone went to the guy's instagram and found an instagram post of the dude who's

accusing her with that mark on his back but his instagram caption says hit my back with a chain trying to take down a swing well maybe he calls elizabeth a swing i don't know maybe take down a swing you know what the swinger take down have sex with you know what the best part is i don't need can you guys tell me what this tattoo is at the base of his neck triple x baby he has a triple x tattoo he has a the logo from the vin diesel film triple x now she should be ashamed yeah i'm not that you know what i now i'm appalled now i am appalled what what is a 24 year old doing let's timeline this triple x came out in what, 2000? Yeah, let me see.

I thought it was... Come on. Are we talking Ice Cube or Vin, baby? Well, there's only one. 2002. 2002. Is the first Triple X. So this motherfucker's 24. Right.

And that is... 17 years ago. 10 years ago. Seven years old. Hey, it must have been a seminal film for him. Oh, right. Like the way Rocky IV is to me. Sure.

Triple X is to him. Rocky IV tattoo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-oh. You know what? It says, I must break you on your thigh. He's like,

why do you think we never go swimming together and have a whole back piece from Rocky IV? Nicolette. So yeah, it's already become a complete embarrassment.

And again, this is completely what they do not understand, right? That I think because the one-dimensional understanding of what the Me Too movement is,

they think it's not about consent or violence or like sexual power and things like that. It's not about sex. It's about this coercion. It's about consent. But there's been like sex. Me Too, right? Me Too.

They did sex stuff too. Spanked a guy with a triple X tat. Which is indicting. Game over. Call it a flip. Ball game. Yeah. All right.

Let's move on to the other story that's probably overshadowing the Trump news. The revelation that Matt Damon has made about what might have been. Yeah. I mean, this story is infuriating as someone who will never have a million dollars. Right. Well, I mean, it's fascinating for me as a person who will never have a million dollars. It's probably infuriating to people who are hell-bent on accumulating as much wealth as possible. Right, right.

So there was an interview in English GQ where Matt Damon and Christian Bale are sitting down for their upcoming film or whatever. But Matt Damon talks about when Jim Cameron offered him the lead in Avatar. And he says, and this is directly from him. And when he offered it to me, he goes, now, listen, I don't need anybody. I don't need a name for this, a named actor. If you don't take this, I'm going to find an unknown actor, Sam Worthington, and give it to him because the movie doesn't really need you. But if you take the part, I'll give you 10% of, and then he trails off and doesn't actually finish the sentence. And then they say in brackets, at this point, Bale makes the cartoon sound of someone shaking their head with their lips warbling like Wile E. Coyote trying to shake off an anvil to the head.

off an anvil to the head. So what happened was he said no to 10% of the avatar backend, the profits, which would have been $250 million. That's a million. Oh my goodness. You could have bought the cowboys in the early 80s. But also for someone who is actually, you know, likes to stand up for teachers

and things like that, if he had that, he could have had a little philanthropic nugget to sit on to help people out, which is what I feel, I hope,

was going on in his mind. I believe, was it Matt Damon? One time I was, you guys let me in the door to do the show with you and Matt Damon talked about some invention

he wished we had that would have like changed the world or was that some other actor? It might have been some other actor, but I feel like it was Damon. And we had some world-changing invention he had wanted to do. But if it was him, or let's assume he's friends with the person who would have, they could have actually...

Yeah. Right. 250. Or think about the pranks him and Clooney could have pulled, man. Oh, my God. So many good pranks. He's like, dude, I rigged an entire election to get the country to change its name to George Clooney. 250, you could make George Clooney,

if you're Matt Damon, you could make George Clooney think he's been cast in and shooting a movie that isn't even ever happening. And you can pay everybody. You can pay the Coen brothers their fee to be in on it. It's like a new Coen brothers movie. And then once it goes out into the sequel to Avatar. Right. And then once it goes out into the sequel to Avatar. Right.

And then once that goes out into the Daily Zeitgeist and becomes just a crazy thing everybody's heard about, you then release that movie and make all of it back. Wow. Hell yeah. So, yeah, it's funny. When he goes on, he talks about he told John Krasinski about this. While they were making a movie that was about fracking. That was like a human interest movie

that was supposed to do good. Right. In the middle of them writing that script or working on that script, apparently John Krasinski just, he said, got out of his seat and just said, okay, okay, okay, okay. Here's the deal. Your life wouldn't be different in any way. The quality

of life would not change had you taken that. Except for the fact that we would wouldn't be different in any way. Right. You know, the quality of life would not change if had you taken that, except for the fact that we would probably be doing this in space. So, you know, it's a Damon two 50. Anyway, guys, quarter of a bill,

someone offers you back end or a weird thing. That could be an investment. Come on inside. Llewyn Davis. Yeah. Did we not learn anything? Don't take the money up front on art. Take the back end points.

And also, when we talk about this too, like Lily Allen, the singer, also the sister of Alfie Allen, Reek, just to bring it back. Full circle, Game of Thrones. She turned down the opportunity to become like some company who was working on Bitcoin. They like offered her like 200,000 Bitcoin for to do an online gig, like just to perform through a live stream. Yeah. She would have had 194, $800,000. Had she just stayed in there.

Some people get it right. Like Tom Hanks took points on 494. Million in 2014. So it was offered in 2007. By by 2014 that's what it'd been if she had just stayed in till 2017 would have been one and a half billion one and a half billion she would have been a billionaire she would have been a billionaire if but she was like a live stream yes they were like my you could phone this shit in just literally video just needs to be beamed into this feed yeah it's like nah I'm good what's 200,000

I'm good thank you though right cut to good that's crazy honestly it doesn't matter

cause she I'm sure she has plenty of money she's fine you know what I mean her kick game is good too I feel like stories like that are made to

make people do stuff make people who care too much about money want to jump off a bridge like the dude from Victoria's Secret and finally big news in my world

the world of Caffeine Informer my number one website Caffeine Informer you know I get the jitters now so website. Caffeine and pharma. You know, it's now, now I am a play. Concert. I get the jitters now. So, uh,

the energy drink game is about to have another player join the game. Uh, Coca-Cola ever heard of them? Also owner of monster energy. Yeah. They're like a huge stakeholder. I don't think they fully own it, but they have a big old chunk of it yeah but so apparently they are getting a little insecure about the fact

that they don't have a hyper caffeinated sugar beverage on the market yeah so we're getting what's called energy coke energy coke. Coke energy. Regular flavor, cherry, zero sugar, and zero sugar cherry. Is it spelled weird? Nope, just straight up. It's not like an RG.

It really seems like they have, they're going for a very stripped down, almost like communist aesthetic, where it's just like energy, zero sugar. Do you want pleasure or energy? Right. Right.

I would like the one for fun socializing. Yeah. I mean, look, and this is where I ask you. As we were talking about. Okay. This is not that much caffeine. Right. That's the first thing I asked you because I read it.

I'm like, well, what's in it? Guarana extracts. Guarana. Guarana. Guarana. Guarana. I'm sorry. Guarana extracts.

B vitamins. B vitamins. And 114 milligrams of caffeine. And is that not a lot? It's not. I mean, 200 is like your average cup of coffee. Oh, really? Diet Coke is like 60.

So, I mean, it's more than most sodas. Remember Jolt? Yeah, Jolt is like in the high hundreds maybe. But it's not as much as a cup of coffee. Coffee is king when it comes to caffeine delivery. Whoa, whoa, okay. Coffee and- Sit down, Jack. Wow.

Sorry, guys. He's on the table. Tom cruising it right now. Because what, a huge- Look, I'm pretty high right now. What was the deal? Like a grande cup of Starbucks coffee had like 9, 330 milligrams? Yeah, 330.

How many grams of sugar are in that energy though that's my other i mean you're gonna crash baby yeah that's the thing that's what's also good about coffee is that you don't need to put sugar in it so therefore it doesn't have the sugar crash at the end of it as opposed to monster energy jack i think you like coffee i know some people like get added energy from sugar. I personally don't. And in fact, it fucks with my energy a little bit. So I prefer a non-sugary caffeine delivery mechanism. Like coffee. Like coffee.

I'm trying to figure out what my beloved Kirk Siggy cold brew has. Yeah, it didn't show up on Informer. Caffeine Informer, I know you're listening and that you're one person. Please let us know what Kirkland's signature cold brew is, caffeine delivery was. Dumbout, whatever it is, it's working. Yeah. That's all I'm at. Also, shout out to somebody on Instagram who messaged me again.

I get a lot of insider information from Instagram, just like how I had the scoop on the breading for Popeye's chicken sandwiches. Shout out to you. Did you have one? Yeah. What was it good? Oh, it was delicious. I've heard it's phenomenal.

Fantastic. Shout out to Logan on Instagram who just said, yo, I'm meeting with Costco buyers. Costco Kirkland Signature cold brew may have low supplies, but are not going away in spite of rumors. So, yes. So, we bought that pallet of cold brew for no reason? Shit, it's almost gone.

Is it really? I mean, we're putting in work on that thing. You're putting a dent. Yeah. All right. Love it. Well, shit, Daniel, it has been a pleasure having you as always. I love being here.

Where can people find you? Find me at DanielVanKirk on social media. find you find me at daniel van kirk on social media you can check out my podcast pen pals that i co-hosted rory scoville as well as dumb people town that i hit up with the sklar brothers and guess what guys in a couple weeks i am starting the final uh leg of my tour go to daniel van kirk.com here's where i'll be let's see if i can get some locations ready starting right now i will be in philly baltimore chicago detroit rochester boston albany new york cleveland louisville nashville cincinnati milwaukee and ending my tour in my hometown of rochelle illinois so that my grandma can come out and see it as well as anybody else who wants to go to the heartland go Go to DanielVanKirk.com.

All those dates I just listed fall between the 13th of October and the 15th of November. I would love to have some DZs come out and hang out with me. Yeah, guys. It's happened before, and they're always great people. So if you're listening to my voice, come say hi and high-five me in place of Elizabeth Warren. You'll be at Zaney's in Rosemont. I will. You'll be in Detroit.'s in Rosemont. I will. You'll be in Detroit.

Yeah, and this weekend, I'm in Atlanta. I should say that. I'm in Atlanta at the Red Clay Comedy Festival doing a live podcast with Rory. Yeah, tonight and tomorrow. Oh, shit. So come up to the Red Clay. Yeah, we were doing that. And then a quick little tip I haven't told anybody. What?

I'll tell your people and you. Go on. I haven't told anybody. What? I'll tell you people and you. Go on. In the first, I believe, maybe the third month of the year, I will be headlining in Austin, Texas.

So keep an eye at danielvankirk.com if you're in that area. I love you, Texas. All right. Yeah, please support this young man. Yeah, with an F-150. Yes. Is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yeah, my man.

I have one that I love yesterday from a great comic. Runs an amazing show. They just changed location. It's called Faded. Faded LA is a phenomenal comedy show. I don't say that with any hyperbole. I say it with heart. His name is Zach Toscani. He's a great dude. And his tweet is

from my experience, construction work is primarily pretending to not be scared of what someone else is telling you to do. Yeah. And it is so true. Can you say that one more time just for the people in the back? I will. Zach Toscani, at Zach Toscani, Z-A-K-T-O-S-C-A-N-I.

From my experience, construction work is primarily pretending to not be scared of what someone else is telling you to do. Yeah. That's pretty good. Yeah. And it's so true because there's so many times where you're like, you want me to go up where? Yeah. And then I do what up there? The nail gun. Right. yeah and it's so true because there's so many times you want me to go up where yeah and then I and then I do what up there

the nail gun right is there a harness or anything is there a harness is there a harness no there's no harness man you just keep your weight forward

it's so crazy man yeah Miles where can people find you Twitter Instagram at miles of gray a tweet I like is from Mark Phillips at supreme dreams underscore one

yeah amazing video content. I cannot begin to describe this video. I can, but I won't because you should watch it. You've probably seen it if you're on Twitter, but the caption is how they expect you to react when you get an Amber Alert. And the premise of the video is a guy's playing video games with his friends, gets an Amber Alert, sees the description of the car, and immediately takes action with his friends and finds a child. They all come out of their houses. It's a community effort.

It's so dramatic, but brilliant. There's fucking drone photography. This is fucking genius. Give these people a shot. A couple tweets I've been enjoying. Janelle James, the comedian, that's what her Twitter handle is, tweeted,

I solved this timeline a year ago, and then it's just some screen grabs from her Netflix is a joke set but it says it's weird times man I feel like we're in another dimension or some shit feels like Marty McFly did fuck his mom and that's where we all are and then Cola Scola tweeted

I love when straight men come together to push a car. That's great. I like celebrating the small things that we straights do. You can find me on Twitter at 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,

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She's from the UK for sure. And yeah, I would just say like her work's really dope. Her style is dope. Like it's aggressive, got energy, but she's got great lyrics. And the music is also wonderful. This track, look, if you like some heavy overdrive on

your bass guitar yeah i'll be coming through one of those boss od pedals i don't know the yellow one y'all know uh this is what uh yeah you've got a heavy ass uh bass line great drums and vocals so enjoy it go to the weekend stomping your feet and uh doing good in the world i've just been distracted by the thought did the word offense come from of fence? Like disagreements with neighbors? Oh. Who knows? Only God knows. Only God can judge us now. The Daily Zeitgeist is a

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