The Daily Zeitgeist - Big D Toilet, Small D Energy; If A Mid Life Crisis Were A Toy 11.15.18

Episode Date: November 15, 2018

In episode 275, Jack and Miles are joined by Doctor Mister Cody Johnston to discuss our acting attorney general's working for a company that hawks weird products, conspiracy theories for why Fox News still hasn't tweeted, Trump continuing to throw a tantrum over his weekend, the right giving Democrats a game plan, Republicans screaming about Democrats trying to steal their elections, MTV bringing back Spring Break, Trumpy bear, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. WATCH: Time-Lapse: Lose Yourself in the Night Sky | Short Film Showcase2. The Acting Attorney General Helped an Alleged Scam Company Hawk Bizarre Products3. Now Accepting Your Conspiracy Theories for Why Fox News Hasn't Tweeted in Almost a Week4. Five days of fury: Inside Trump’s Paris temper, election woes and staff upheaval5. Trump, stung by midterms and nervous about Mueller, retreats from traditional presidential duties6. Fox News Once Again Forgets That "Radical New Democratic Ideas" Are Really Popular7. Hundreds of voting machines sat unused in Georgia as voters waited on long lines: report8. Hell fucking yeah MTV is bringing back Spring Break9. HOW TRUMPY BEAR DIVIDED THE WORLD—AND CONQUERED THE INTERNET10. WATCH: Trumpy Bear Official Commercial!11. Pro-Trump website selling Lego-like 'MAGA' border wall play set12. Mansur Brown - Shiroi Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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2018. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I had a dream that you were mine. I've had that dream. I'm Jack O'Brien. Hashtag to producer Nick's brother-in-law.

Hashtag. That was courtesy of Gabriel on Twitter at BullDossBronze. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Uh-oh. What's that I hear? I got hosts calling the young Glacians full. Where's Anna with the motherfucking dough? I'm potting like a second-rate host.

I'm balding Like a motherfucking Oh Oh my goodness Had to hit you with that Shake West Mo Bamba AK And that was for me Because every time I sing this song

I now think of AKs Because I'm a narcissist So thank you to me Miles You're welcome For that Mo Bamba, aka. That song is going to be stuck in all of our heads for a long, long time. Yeah, well, I was looking for 20 minutes trying to find an instrumental that didn't sound like total shit.

Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the funniest people just out there talking about the news. He is Dr. Mr. Cody Johnston. Hello. Hey. Thank you so much. The doctor is in. The doctor is in the house.

How are you, Cody? I'm good. I'm smooth. This is how humans speak. How art thou, fellow homo sapien? I good. I good. Good.

Great. Grand. Wonderful. Great. We're going to get to know you a little bit better but first we're gonna tell our listeners what we're talking about our new attorney general uh one of the scams he was involved with was selling big dick toilets we're gonna tell you what that's about bdt not that bd yes we're talking about why Fox hasn't tweeted in like five days. There is a conspiracy. We're going to dig into it.

We're going to talk about how the president is just in baby tantrum mode. We're going to talk about how Fox is just giving the Democrats the 2020 game plan and just our opinions, my opinion on what the Democrats need to do for 2020 and just over the next couple years of this presidency. We'll also talk about the recounts if we have time. And maybe we'll talk about Jim Acosta. Who knows? We'll also talk about MTV just getting so thirsty they're taking it back to spring break. And finally, we are going to talk about fucking trumpy bear trying there's also a conspiracy there the conspiracy music may be rolled out multiple times today conspiracies abound uh most of them about this big dick toilet we'll we'll get into it cody first of all what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are i was so i'm

just gonna do the most recent thing because i could talk about like minecraft all day we don't need to do that it's the only video game i play really um that's the only game you play pretty much yeah okay i'm gonna uh do spider-man probably soon i would do spider-man yeah i've heard yeah you want to you want to start doing spider-man but like my go-to is that um but something i actually google often and it's always unsuccessful is uh combinations of the words um hitler and china and japan and quote there's a quote i'm trying to find that i remember one of your favorite one of my one of my really uh favorite uh hitler quotes no so there's a quote that I can't remember for the life of me

and it's something along the lines. It's when he's talking about diversity and multiculturalism and how it's bad and how I just think that if you're in Germany, I'm not racist. I'm just saying Chinese people stay in China and you stay here and we all have our little countries.

And it's one of those things where I want to point to it. Right. To people who say that. Right. Like often. Yes. You know, like that's a thing that people say a lot now.

Right. And I can't find it. And no matter what combination of words I type into Google, it doesn't happen. And I don't know if anyone's listening. If you know what I'm talking about, you can tweet it at me. This is the Hitler, China, Japan quote? Something. I don't remember if anyone's listening. If you know what I'm talking about, you can tweet it at me. This is the Hitler, China, Japan quote? Something. I don't remember.

It's like... Does it have anything to do with him talking about like Lebensraum or something back then when he was like, we need our living space. No, it's not. Living spaces.

That's what that company named after. Lebensraumson. Lebensraumson. Yeah, 99 Lebensraumson. All right. Well, Zeitgang, we're putting you to work right off the bat Find this quote for us

So I can tweet it at people that say it What is something you think is overrated? I guess like Overrated I think like not caring about stuff Yeah Like insincerity I think we're all a little irony poisoned these days Like I am too

I think very much so But like I think we're all a little irony poisoned these days. I am too. I think very much so. But I think people sort of think being earnest or caring about something is pointless or not even lame. It's just like you have an opinion, you care about it, and people really try to be like, well, no, let's look at both sides and they're bad, and I'm just not going to care about it. Right. Oh, like just calling a double knockout on that one. I don't know. Right.

They're both, I don't know. I'm throwing my hands up. I was just listening to something about the 2000 election, like the recount in Florida. I don't know why that came up. Weird, weird. With George W. Bush and Al Gore. Florida recount right now? And I remember having that exact thought at that time,

just being like, well, first of all, does it really matter? Like, who's president? Come on. Like, I was like, I was young and cynical, and I was just like, who gives a shit, guys? We're all just like pawns. Right, exactly. But the more I learned and the older I got, the more I've come to realize cynicism is just a bullshit.

Well, hey, man, American society is just designed to fucking inspire apathy in the people, man. So they just let the powers that be run everything while the fucking people get crushed, man. I mean. That's why I don't vote. It's true. Oh, no. You came to the wrong conclusion. You had it right up to the last part.

Oh, fuck. Say it again, but, like, think a little bit harder. No, no, man. It's complicated, man. Society wants you to not do anything, so I'm not. I'm not. In your face. So I'm like, okay, I'll play your game.

By the way, you said, I mean, I'm irony poisoned, and I was like, yeah. I was just being like, yeah, you are super irony poisoned. I was agreeing with the fact that we should all own up to the fact that we're irony poisoned. But I am. Oddly, that was one of the up to the fact that we're irony poised. But I am. Oddly, that was like one of the – I forget right before the midterms. I think it was like the New Yorker, maybe New York Times was like interviewing like millennials who weren't planning on voting. And that was like one of the biggest ones where it's like, well, nothing is going to change anyway. Right.

And you're like, wow, you really think that shit. Still. You still think that? Your generation could take over the country. Yeah, but you must also be living very comfortably if you're like, nothing's going to change. And I'm kind of cool with that. Right.

That's essentially what you're saying. That's always it. When I saw that a lot leading up, it's like, you know, it's just like if you're saying these don't really matter that much, it just means it doesn't matter to you. It just means it doesn't affect you personally, so you're not going to take it seriously. So you're actually a shit bag.

Yeah. That is correct. And I was. What is something you think is underrated? I think space is underrated. Outer space. Outer space, yeah. I mean, space in general, sure.

We don't think about that a lot, but outer space, I think, is... Living space. Outer space is... Or Laban's Realm's realm yes i think what we're talking about miles get the fucking laban's realm off your mind sorry my grandfather was a collaborator oh no uh goodness did i ever talk about that what because he was like a foremost expert of grota's philosophy so like during world war ii like he was one of the few japanese people who understood german culture so he wasn't a collaborator but like he would look over stuff

and they'd be like what do german people mean when they say stuff like this because like they were flying in totally blind in certain sort of like diplomatic situations so he helped he just didn't like collaborate yeah you know he's an advice yeah he wasn't you know he had tuberculosis so he couldn't really fight or nothing. So he's used his brain. Although he did live in, he lived in Berlin for like a good eight months. The most dense philosophy book I ever studied was Being in Time by Heidegger. And like towards the end of this class that was all just looking at this one book, they were like yeah and then he became a nazi

yeah great we don't talk about that stuff a lot like people are like oh a great thinker by the way like he had nazi sympathy like and there are a lot of people that did yeah they really were speaking of people with nazi sympathies nazis got us space. They got us to the moon. Why do you think that's underrated? Oh, no. Now I have to. Okay. Yeah, I just think, I don't know. I think we lost a little bit of our, like, I think Elon Musk has probably, like, gone

a little too far in the space is the best thing. Right. Because he wants to, like, die there. Yes. But I think that there's so much out there and so much awe that we can get from it. Even like just like looking at the sky, like we are, I think that there's a problem

when we have so much like light pollution that I forget when it was, there was like a blackout, I think in New York. And then people looked up at the sky and saw the Milky Way and they like flipped out and called the police.

And like, what's in the sky? What is this? Like, well, no, it's the sky. It's like what the sky looks like. The Chinese are coming for us. Right. Yeah. And I think there's a lot that can be gained from just like seeing what the sky actually

looks like as opposed to just like a few little lights there. And like, there's so much water out there. We've got such water problems. Right. Yeah. But it's like the most plentiful thing. Yeah. There's just this patch of space that is just like 20 Pacific oceans of water just sitting out in space.

Just a blob of water. Yeah, just a big blob of water. You could go swimming. Let's go get our buckets then. Let's go get our buckets. Yeah, fill up a couple tanks. Yeah, one of the great YouTube videos I've ever seen is just a sped up time lapse thing of the night sky. seen is just a sped up time lapse thing of the night sky because like when you see things moving like fast you realize that it's just it really makes it clear that you're just on a rock that's

hurtling through space and that's what you're looking at because the stars are like moving it's just slightly too slow to notice with the naked eye but uh that shit out. It also helps us find our place in an existential way too where we're like hmm right look at all this other shit out here and I'm over here complaining about fucking Comcast's Wi-Fi. Well I think everybody

I think the aliens understand. Yeah we can complain. But yeah like finding our place and even, looking at the moon, you think, we went to the moon, and then we stopped. Yeah. And it's right there, and we could put something on the moon to, like, remind us all.

We all, like, everywhere you are on the planet, you look up, and you're like, oh, yeah. Yeah, that's right. That's where we are. Yeah, I think it went one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind, and then he said, boring. One small step for mankind, and dude, let's call it a fucking day.

I know, man. We get it. We get it. This was exhausting. We will put the video I'm talking about in the footnotes. Footnote. Because it is hard to describe. You just have to see it.

Finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? I know nothing. Okay. And is that it? Yeah's something people think is true you know to be false? I know nothing. Okay. And is that it? Yeah. The know nothing party. Not a debunker.

I mean, like, I can do, like, myths that are obviously wrong, like PragerU style stuff, where, like, there's a concerted effort to go out and lie to people. But, you know, like, yeah, we don't eat spiders at night. Okay. We don't? You don't. Wait, so that was totally made up? Yes.

It's all made up. Black who? Big spider? No, just like big internet. It's just like a lot of these myths that we have now were just came about by. Shit our parents said. Well, no. And like once the internet came around, like email forwards

and shit like that started getting spread around and it was a natural evolutionary process by which the most interesting facts survived, not the truest facts. So nobody was fact checking

and like they would take a small piece of a factual email, take it out of context, forward that part and like it became that becomes the fact. Right. Even like the 10% of your brain kind of stuff.

Yes, exactly. Where it's like, oh, that's so neat. I want to tell everybody. And then you post it, and that's there forever. Right. Yeah. And it's in our brains, 10% of our brains. Damn.

There you go. I really thought I was eating spiders. Sorry. I'm kind of mad about it. You seem so disappointed. Yeah, well, I like spiders. I thought maybe that's where my affinity came from. I was consuming them.

You're absorbing them into your... Yeah. Well, whatever. I guess I'll move on to some other conspiracy. I mean, just buy a bunch of spiders. Just eat them. Eat them. Now that you know...

Hey, bacon. I go to a petco. I'm like, look, man, I'm making up for lost time, man. How many fucking spiders can I get in a bag right now? Take some initiative. Come on. Catch me beer bonging some spiders. All right.

Let's talk about Matt Whitaker's tiny, tiny dick. Oh, my God. Hey, hey, hey. Come on, bro. I don't know, man. I mean, it's huge. But let's assume.

I don't know. I'm reading this. This guy comes off to me as some huge man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So let's let the Zeit gang decide for themselves. But Matthew G. Whitaker, our new functioning attorney general.

Literally acting. I like the word acting. Acting. Attorney general. Our chief pretender. Fucking attorney general. So when he was working for this pyramid scam marketing company, World Patent Marketing, scam marketing company, World Patent Marketing.

Yeah. He announced the, like, in the same press release that announced that he was coming on board, they also announced the marketing launch of a, quote, masculine toilet. Now, Miles, what is a masculine toilet? Oh, come on. If you don't know, bro, then you don't need it, okay? Because for some of us with just super penises, I'm guessing you're, this is, again, this is according to the release. They say the average male genitalia is between five and six inches. And the point of this is a toilet bowl specially designed to help well-endowed men avoid unwanted contact with the porcelain or water of the bowl.

So, and this is, again, they say it. This invention is designed for those of us who measure longer than that. So, yeah, you know, it's people who just don't want to, you know, stir up the stew while they're taking a shit. That's so gross. Such a weird phrasing. Yeah. I wish you had a longer than that. Yeah.

Look, the only thing, experience I've had with a toilet, like, not being accommodating my body is if the seat is too small. Right. And, like, I'm, like, literally just my butthole can, like, has enough clearance to probably defecate. Well, you have one of the world's largest buttholes. I do, yes. Circumference-wise. It is, exactly. Where did I read that about you?

Wikipedia, probably. Okay. On his bio, Twitter bio. Yeah, just At huge anus Kind of Kind of his thing Before this show launched Before yeah

If you don't remember me I'm the guy with the butthole Like a sail Oh Miles There you are But yeah This is so weird

So I guess it's essentially Just has like the Like probably a raised seat With a Bigger Cavernous space In case you're just gigantic. Or like just less water. Right.

Like just an environmental lake. I poop in a high chair because I want people to know that I have a big one. Yeah, right. Cool, man. Again, but these are the ideas that came out of that awesome, awesome world patent marketing company. So, you know. Get that guy. Be the lead. He patent marketing company. Yeah. So, you know. Get that guy, be the lead.

He's King Lawyer. Yeah. That's insane. King Lawyer, but yeah. And just a simple search. You're like, if I search his name, I wonder, comes up, oh, this press release for a masculine toilet, because dick too big for regular toilet. Let's make sure that my appointment is announced

with a product that really matches who I am. I need people to assume something about me. That my dick gets wet when I poop. It's like they didn't even Google him before this. And I get why certain people wouldn't, but nobody was like, Mr. President, this guy, his history isn't like... Well, he was probably like, I love it. I need it too, you know, Matt, because we're the same, you know, in terms of us being bigger than normal people. I don't have the average mushroom.

Penis-wise. Yeah, we call it a cream of mushroom soup when I'm out of there. I would love to hear the president say penis-wise. Penis-wise. Penis-wise. Penis-wise, I'm okay all right nick drop that conspiracy music uh because fox has not tweeted uh fox news has not tweeted in five days following a long ass meeting between rupert murdoch and someone down. Well, actually, technically six.

And at the time of this recording, it will be six days. Could possibly be a whole fucking week that they haven't tweeted. And their explanation is it's a protest against Twitter's handling of Tucker Carlson's lie from last week. Yeah, pretty much. You didn't take his lie seriously enough? Yeah, they said they wanted to stay silent while protesting how, quote,

Twitter handled posts targeting Tucker Carlson, specifically ones that included his address. Hmm, interesting. He does that on his website all the time, though. I wonder, yeah, if he... Mr. Doxo over here. Has any things to say about maybe he should stop that, too.

Right, and then other people were like, you know, Drudge deleted all his tweets. But that's like Drudge doesn't all practice. So there are a lot of conspiracies swirling, you know, because they noticed other accounts hadn't done anything like recently to like WikiLeaks had gone dark and Rudy Giuliani's thing. And the one that was very interesting to me, which is why we have a little bit of a conspiracy here. This is left-wing QAnon shit. Yeah, exactly. Someone said, I think I know what's up now. Just figured it out, guys.

Way to start that post, my man. Well, woman, I don't know who this person was, but it says. I think I've decided what's going on. It says, U.S. attorneys do not just work on national holidays. Murdoch is meeting with McConnell at his office. Matt Drudge has deleted his Twitter account. Not true. WikiLeaks is silent.

I suspect that Mueller has confiscated all of their accounts with a court order. Rupert meeting with Mitch on a holiday can only mean one thing. Something big is about to happen. Very big. It could be a Mueller press conference. Would that be that big? Yeah, Jesus Christ. Well, somebody was saying that recently that one of the smart ways he's played his hand is that he's been completely silent.

You haven't heard his voice. He could come out and be like, hey, guys. Yeah. Like the first time you heard David Beckham talk. Right. And it says, you know what I think it's going to be? As I said back in March, I think Mueller is filing a RICO case against all of them. Fight me.

Might just get hit with a RICO. Fight me. What a weird way to end that post. Right, like the first sentence is, I think I know what's up now. Yeah. And it ends with fight me. Fight me. I think this person also knows it's kind of stupid.

I hope so. I think it's definitely some fantasy shit. Also, you've blocked out their name. It says added five new photos. Right. Like, is it like, here's Mueller, and here he is. Right. And he's in an airport, and here's a U.S. attorney.

Here's the holiday. It's all connected. Here's what the holiday is. Right. Here's a picture of a calendar. This is a calendar. That is a, quote, holiday. That's what the day is.

Mitch McConnell would never meet with someone on veterans day we all know that if there's one thing we know about mitch mcconnell it's this completely arbitrary thing i just made up right yeah i mean this seems like it's reaching i i do think the muller silence it has people kind of wondering what's going to happen because he had gone quiet for the election, supposedly. And there were a lot of different people talking about that he might be doing some things behind the scenes, getting ready to indict various people. Junior, yeah. Junior's up. DJ TG.

Doju. DJ TJ. But there's been nothing. So I think certain people on the left are getting a little antsy, getting a little restless. Well, I think there are probably more indictments coming. No, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

I think so. I think that's fair. I mean, like, everyone's going to be indicted. I just don't know if we're going to get hit with that fucking Puerto Rico. I don't know. Right. Like, I mean, this is all, I mean, the fact that Mueller's so quiet, he's just a serious man.

Yes. He takes his job seriously. And he saw what Ken Starr did. He's like, the less people know, the less they can fucking obscure what's going on. Yeah, no, I'm going to do my job, and I've never smiled in my life, and I'm going to keep that up for this. You look like that eagle from the Muppets. I think everyone is so set and obsessed with the idea that Mueller's going to fix everything, and this is it.

He's going to, like, Bannon's going to be executed. I saw a Louise Mensch tweet. That Bannon's going to be executed? She heard from a source that he's going to be executed or something for treason. It's unbelievable. And so you're hinging all your hopes on the results of this investigation, because it does seem like it's the only way to get rid of him. We're still going to live in hell world after this. It's still going to be hell world until somebody does something electorally to get this dude out of office.

My God. I love the desperation, though, of some people who just want the nightmare to be over. We all want it to be over. Yeah, we do. But let's be over. Yeah, we do. Okay, look, but let's be real. This is not, even if what he has really just shows, lays bare all of the transgressions of this campaign and this administration, it's only going to pour more fuel on the fire and you're going to see the right get even more wacky and be like, they're stealing everything. Right.

It's all like, thinking that this is going to solve anything just means you haven't been paying attention for three years. Right. Like, what he gets away with, what he wants to do, what people let him get away with, and how people react to him just being like, I didn't say that. I didn't do it. It's all the deep state.

It's not going to... And look at this. We don't even care about the pee tape anymore. I know. Come on, guys. I don't care about it just because I know it's real. What are you going to do? Are you going to watch it? Are you going to not watch it? We're going to see it. We're going to not see it. It doesn because I know it's real. What are you going to do? Are you going to watch it? Are you going to not watch it? We're going to see it.

We're going to not see it. It doesn't matter. It's real. They had their window to drop the P-tape. They missed it. Right. They missed it. And now it's going to do horribly on the charts.

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state at least in the office uh there there's behind the scenes warring happening with the war years and uh we'll see how that plays out but that is is 90% of the news that I'm consuming. Oh, yeah, and in L.A. Like, what? The FedEx guy and I had a conversation with his wife on speakerphone. A FedEx person came to deliver to my house. He had a phone in his pocket blaring. She's like, tell you, KD's coming to the Lakers.

He's like, no, that's not happening. And I just came outside. I'm like, what's going on? He's like, my wife's saying it's Kevin Durant's coming to the Lakers. And I was like, for real? I'm like, I thought it could be the Knicks. He's like, Stephen A. Smith, man, talking about it. I'm like, well's going on? He's like, my wife's saying it's Kevin Durant's coming to the Lakers. And I was like, for real? I thought it could be the Knicks. He's like, Stephen A. Smith, man. Talking about it. I'm like, well, take that with a grain of salt.

Miles said that KD is the Thanos of the NBA. He's just like... He'll do whatever the fuck. Whatever he wants. I don't care what happens. He just decides on a whim to go somewhere and makes all the other teams disintegrate. Anyways, that's just speculation.

We'll see if anything happens there. But we do want to keep talking about the person who's in charge of our country. Yeah, KD is the QAnon fodder for the NBA, basically. Yeah, NBA head. We got lip readers looking at shit he's saying on the court, being like, he said that's why I'm out. But he did say that's why I'm out. All right, sorry.

Don't get me started. I'm sorry. Let's move on to news. So it seems like the president's in a cranky mood. Yeah. Yeah. Very cranky. Yeah.

And there's a lot of stories coming out more and more about how this last weekend in France played out. And he was just a big, big mess of tantrums. I love these because it's like every, it is like every three weeks you get something like this. Right. He's upset. And he's like going in the White House and he's like wandering around in his bathrobe

yelling at the TV. And like, that's always true, but it's always nice to know like, oh, I know why this thing happened that ruined the next two years for him. At least he gets it because, you know, he could just be like, and he's totally unaffected.

He's drinking more Diet Cokes and having a great time. It's like he gets, that's where you know he gets what's actually happening because there's no reason to get upset. So anyway, the LA Times said that, you know, when they were in France, he was just like basically not doing a fucking thing. He was just like cooped up in the ambassador's residence, just watching Fox. Yeah, just sending everyone to go do the other stuff, like be a representative of the United States at these important events.

You know, who gives a shit? And I think one of the things they were saying he was really harping on was that it was starting the realization that him just saying, oh, claiming flawless victory in the midterms wasn't the reality. And that was starting to set in that they're like, oh, wait, the Democrats could have subpoena power and oversight and stuff.

And that was getting him really upset. And he was just really trying to find someone to blame. And then the Washington Post goes on about the trip saying, him and Theresa May got in a fucking call. She apparently was totally fucking with him. Was like, hey, congratulations on the midterms or whatever. And he fucking lost it on Theresa May. Oh, yes.

And all her aides, apparently the quotes they gave her, they're like, I mean, we've dealt with heated calls between him and Theresa May. But this was particularly fiery from him. Congrats on the fucking midterms. That's the good stuff. That'd be so great. Theresa May is like, but this was particularly fiery from him. Congrats on the fucking midterms. That'd be so great. Yeah, I mean, you'll do that because if that's what he's saying out loud, then just be like, hey, I'll buy into it. Hey, congrats on the midterms.

And based on what you're saying, he's like, you're fucking with me because I'm fucking with myself. Yeah, and I think the other thing was that he got really mad at his staff for not telling him that not going to honor the fallen soldiers, like either for the armistice or on actual Veterans Day at Arlington, would be a mess for him to clean up. It was like literally the vibe, I guess, was like, how the fuck did you not tell me this was going to be a bad look? Right. Honoring the fallen troops on Veterans Day. Yeah.

How did no one tell me this? Day. How did no one tell me this? I mean, this goes back to a point like we're talking about like sort of the messaging and how people respond to him. I really do think the Democrats need to just get like four or five things, like basically do what they did with the midterms where they were like, OK, this is about health care. This is about, you know, it's about health healthcare, basically. Right, right. It was what they're- Healthcare and then other various issues

that affect working people. Yeah, but healthcare seemed to be the big thing. And they just need to focus on the things, because he floods the zone with these fucking scandals, and each one seems like it's gonna be the biggest thing that we'll never get over, and then we get over it, and it's just so diffuse. I feel like they need to just pick the things

that they know work to diminish his approval. And we know for a fact that his treatment of veterans and his just complete inability to vibe in any way as a commander-in-chief of a military unit, that that is something that gets to people like during even during the 2016 election one of the only things that really affected his overall approval was his kind of showdown with that gold star family yeah so like i just think the democrats need to just go in on this point like if, if he calls France a bunch of cheese-eating surrender monkeys

like we talked about yesterday, like, just continue to go in on the fact that he doesn't give a shit about the courageous people who are dying for our country. Just, like, focus. Yeah, they focus so much on the rudeness, and, like, he's not nice, or he's not a civil guy. Or he's, no, the president's never done this right and like so many people like him because of that like they focus on a lot of things where they're like

oh yeah he gave france the business uh and like then don't talk about that and being able to give an alternative because like resisting him and just being like he's bad he's bad he's bad this is bad this is bad that actually helps him a lot of the time. And if you're not giving an alternative to those people, then you're not saying we're better. You're just saying we're not him. Right. Exactly. And like saying you're not him is not enough.

Right. Yeah. And that turns like if you're even undecided, you're like, well, I need more than that. And just being like, well, he sucks, right? Right. What about what have you then? What will you do? Well, I think that need more than that. Yeah. Well, he sucks, right? Right. What about what have you then? What will you do? Well, I think that's what we're seeing now.

And I think this segues perfectly into the next thing we want to talk about was just about how Fox News has sort of given Democrats an idea of how to present themselves in 2020. Because, you know, as all the new freshman members of Congress go to D.C. for their orientations and things. Shout out to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for just wilding out in Pelosi's office. Way to go. Yeah. A taste of things to come in this party. You know, we're seeing like, you know, all kinds of ideas are emerging and, you know, they're trying to figure out like, how are we going to move forward in 2019 going into 2020? going into 2020.

So Fox News ran an image with Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley and just showing the new fresh faces of the Democratic Party with the graphic that says, Radical New Democratic Ideas. And let me just fucking, if you're driving, pull the fucking car over because you might fucking faint. Okay? Number one, free college for all.

Fuck. Number two, free healthcare for all. Fuck. Number two, free healthcare for all. Shit. I think I'm gonna be sick. Abolish ICE. No. And Green New Deal. The New Deal was kind of successful, I thought. But nah, you guys were right. Were you alive then? Or are you some historian?

Right. My bad, my bad. Aside from the Abolish ICE point, which I'm sure if you're on the right, that'll rub you the wrong way. Yeah, I mean, it's going to bother certain Democrats too. I'm not trying to do away with that either. But so a lot of these things are objectively very sexy talking points in 2020. And these are sort of addressing the exact reasons why Trump was able to capitalize on this sort of like this populist sentiment is because people have a barrier to entry for higher education.

populist sentiment is because people have a barrier to entry for higher education there is a like a financial income barrier for being able to afford to live and having your medical bills paid like lack of just jobs a huge push for new jobs that a will get people to work and help the environment we have not other shit i mean the ipcc report it's like hey we're doomed Here's what you do It's so bonkers to me Everything they suggest They all create jobs Every single one of them Creates tons of jobs

And does a lot of great things What was the report? The one that said we're doomed We have 20 years Here's what we gotta do Reforestation here and switching over to this and all. Like, they're big. Like, you got to change the world.

But changing the world makes jobs. Well, conservatives look at that report and they're like, I don't know. Step one says marry a bunch of dudes and eat kale forever. So I don't know how this climate change is going to happen. Like, it's a weird. Yeah. And again, I think what we're seeing is, you know, as more people are sort of opening up to the idea of more socialist programs in our country, like in terms at least for education and health care. You know, these new crop of Congress people understand that working people have these concerns that are like our threat to them. And they're basically pushing back on late stage capitalism.

Yeah. that are a threat to them. And they're basically pushing back on late-stage capitalism. Yeah. Like, hey, we need to rebalance these things because I think at the very end, this is a good... The fact that they're saying this is radical, like, and this is evil or whatever, and you have all these kind faces in the image. I know. It's nuts.

It's a bad... And, like, everyone loves them. It's like, I mean, like, the crazy Bernie stuff, too. It's like, healthcare is a human right. He said it for two years, and now everyone says it because it's true. And because we can decide that. Right.

And there's so many people who even like there are a lot of Democrats and like more centrist sort of Democrats who are giving the same advice as these Fox News people. Like, oh, this is like radical ideas. You don't don't do it. Don't do it. Right. What does that tell you? Right. Exactly.

Like who's trying to stop you from doing this? Right. Like, what does that tell you? Right, exactly. Like, who's trying to stop you from doing this? My one concern, I think, is, and I'm not saying we shouldn't do any of this because it's all good ideas that will help everybody. But, like, Trump is, I would say, like, a sort of, like, an unprincipled opportunist is a fair way to describe him. And he's been for universal health care before. He wrote about it in his book. And he's been for universal healthcare before. He wrote about it in his book and he's always talked about it, but now he always goes with the way the wind blows. And I think that when more people say this stuff

and we're going to do the Dem primaries and this idea will emerge, he's going to be like, yeah. That was my idea the whole time. He's going to say it. He's going to say, all right, well, I'll do it. I'll do universal healthcare because I think we should.

We should all have the right to health care i'm really smart and like uh i don't think that's great because he's already said he's a nationalist and then if he adds the word socialist in regards to health care he's like just he's just saying it out loud right and i think that he will take advantage of that movement uh because that's what he does yeah i mean look how many bernie supporters he got right Right, exactly. And it's like sitting right there for him and he's definitely going to say it because he's going to figure out that people want it.

Like 50, I think 52% of Republicans want Medicare for all. Right. Like 78% of everybody does. And he's just going to be like, all right, yeah, well, let's do it. And we just need to make sure that as a party, we agree now to do it

get ahead of it and don't let him copy our homework right exactly and then make it very clear like this is why it's good for us and why we're not going to exclude people which he'll definitely exclude people if he does it and stuff like that well and that's why you know i think mitch mcconnell had an op-ed if he was like hey we're trying to do more bipartisanship and it's like no no we're not we're not fucking with you we're not fucking with you okay merrick garland take a fucking seat like google like the last 10 years of your life mitch yeah and i think but that'll be a good platform right if you have enough democrats making the pitch like hey well we presented a bill that

would provide health care for all and we can pay for it by taxing people and hey look who doesn't want it the president and the republican controlled senate this is what democrats trying to do in 2020 we want this we want this we want this and like make that clear that that's your brand before make the bills right like there's there's a people i also see a lot of democrats like don't know like do what you can do like do like do things that you can accomplish and i like i think that's so silly even for the past two years democrats should have been getting together every day and be like, what are our bills? We're not going to be able to pass them. We know we're not going to be able to pass them.

But let's write the legislation that we think should exist, like the best version of it. Go all the way, like, as far as you want to go. And then they exist. Yeah. And then you can have it. Exactly. As far as you want to go. And then they exist.

Yeah. And then you can have it. Exactly. Is it too early to start talking about who we like? Just in a fantasy football type of sense, who we like for the 2020 primaries? Thanos and Kevin Durant. Thanos and Kevin Durant. For president. Boom.

Both of them for president. Both of them for president. One thing. I don't know. I need to hear more people's foreign policy ideas. Yeah. Everyone's like so focused on America, as they should be, because we've fucking been looking out. America first, Miles.

Yeah, hey, you know me, baby. Come on. Let's make this motherfucker equitable again. Or for the first time. Right. Let's work towards doing that for the first time. Let's work towards doing that maybe once. I think, yeah, I'm curious to see a lot of people's foreign policy ideas i mean everyone's like beto beto beto beto but i think andrew gillum performed

better in debates than beto did i was really into andrew gillum he's really sharp and able to like and has personality too without coming off robotic like and like point out a lot that one like where he's like i'm not saying he's racist but like racist think he's racist right that kind of like very succinct just like here's a sentence that explains everything you need to know. And it's, anyone can understand it. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, he's your favorite rapper's favorite rapper.

Right. Yeah. Right. Ah. Whereas Beto's performance in the Ted Cruz debate, like, granted, Ted Cruz is, like, a debate robot. Yeah. And so he's hard to debate. And just go, huh, huh, huh.

Right. And, like, there's a response. But Beto still kind of had, I don't know, when he was like, that's why they call him Lying Ted, I was just like, yo, what are you? Well, you know, at the very least, he's clearly, I think the people, what is great about him is that he fucking, he draws people in,

he's a magnetic speaker, he's very authentic. But I don't know, I mean, it's so early. I mean, in Texas, like, he did a great job. Yeah, 100%. But also, like, I think this might be a little telling. Maybe this just says something about me. I didn't know he was a congressman until after the election. Yeah, no.

Like, what? He just showed up. Yeah, I didn't know maybe until, like, a week out. And I was like, oh. Oh, OK, OK. There you are. You've been, like, even there. I'm going to keep my eye on the prize here.

Right. But yeah, I think there's also a push. I think people are like, oh, no. He can bring in all kinds of people, like more center-leaning people and maybe some more conservative or socially liberal types. But I just don't know because if you have the Democratic Party behind you, they'll vote for you. Right. Like I heard that argument a lot during 2016 of like, Bernie can't bring people out. If the Democrats support him, then he will.

If he's the pick, then... Then yeah. There's no... They're not going to... I don't know. It's a weird logic that I don't think is there. Yeah. I think we need to sort out what the leadership is in the House first, and then we can begin

figuring out a more clear plan. I don't know what's why do you have a fantasy team that you're it's gonna be a real mess i'm just curious i had uh 538 did a sort of fantasy draft version of this uh on their live show last week and i think it was like biden bernie like in some order yeah oh god not by now they're pointing out that Ocasio-Cortez is on the board for her odds are like pretty good. She's like maybe the sixth best odds and it's impossible. It's illegal for her to

run for president. She's only 29 I think. Amy Klobuchar? Yeah, she was up. She was pretty high. They were pointing out that she might have done, like she's probably the hottest candidate because she was up. She was pretty high. They were pointing out that she might have done, like she's probably the hottest candidate because she was so strong in the Kavanaugh hearings and then just like kicked ass in her midterm.

And also like the idea that, I think people are like, oh yeah, Biden, I want to see him and Trump like call each other pussies for a year. And like that's not going to work. Yeah, also motherfucker, this is our future, not celebrity death match. Right. Like, that would be a sick fight.

Yeah. People just want to, like, see people be mean to each other. But if you do that and you have, like, a complete just, like, shameless asshole against another one, Trump's going to win that fight. Because he's the best version of that. So you want somebody who's like a little uh you need someone kinder like calmer like just like a decent human being uh who's still like got personality and can draw people in but not someone who's just gonna be like like yeah if someone who can just be stoic in the face of his shittiness and also just give

it right back right that's that would he would melt down like if you didn't get frazzled you and someone just went like okay right like like there's a there were a few moments in the hillary debates where she like showed some humanity i was like yes do that all the time right right because like when he's creeping on her and he's like doing that predator thing where he's like getting in like in the shot and stuff if she was just like you need to stop that. Yeah. Right. Turn back, he's like, back the fuck up.

Because that's like an honest reaction. It's still, you're not freaking out, but you are being very clear. Everyone thinks you're being creepy right now, Donald.

And they're right, so stop it. Right. That bothered me so much. The stalking? Yeah. Yeah, it was weird.

Gillum, speaking of Gillum, the Republicans are doing their thing where they scream at the top of their lungs that the Democrats are stealing an election that they're trying to steal. We're trying to steal it. Republicans are mad about stealing an election? That's so weird. So they're still in the lead in terms of votes counted, but there's still various votes coming in. Votes counted, but there's still various votes coming in, and it seems like it's going to demand a recount, but Republicans are basically trying to invalidate that process.

And this is what they do so well, is they just scream at the top of their lungs that you're doing something that they're actually doing. Whoa, you're counting all the votes to see who got more and then deciding who won the election? Slow down. What the fuck is this russia there's a fox and friends clip from the other yesterday or earlier today and it's uh someone's like you know and like i don't know like when you can't when you wait it's like six days later and like you count all the votes up and stuff and it kind of ruins like the fun of election night yeah that is the main sorry and like this isn't a sport right like what are you talking about you vote on the day and then you count them all up eventually and decide who all the dumb sports analogies that have been brought

marco rubio one was so great imagine a team is down 22 24 team was trailing 24 22 but in final seconds hits a three point kick as nobody has ever called it before ever to win then after a game lawyers for losing team get a judge to order rules change so that last second field goals are only one point and ken tremendous one of the office writers tweeted tweeted, Imagine if an NFL team were up 17-14 midway through the third quarter, then claimed the game was over. And when the other team scored a touchdown, the first team started crying and saying they were cheating and said the league was corrupt with no evidence and undermines democracy. Which seems like a more apt metaphor. Yeah, it's pretty good.

A real basketed ball. If you Google the phrase hit a three-point kick, there are zero results. Dude, nothing but air. How do you do that? A three-point kick goal. It's a little like Brian Stelter did. It's the election night.

Turnovers, transfers of power, nail biters. It's just like, shut down, man. What are you doing? People's lives are affected by this. Nail biters. People are materially affected by results of elections. What are you talking about? Not me.

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They managed to last a lot longer in sort of tracking these youth trends. And the way they did that, by the way, is hiring really young people and paying them nothing and just tracking the trends that way. But it seems like they have finally aged out of this game because the last VMAs had the worst ratings ever. There are planned reboots of shows like Aeon Flux, Daria, and the real world haven't really gotten the zeitgeist. One turn, one turn, why?

Yeah. Yeah, they announced and were like, oh, cool. All right, man. All right, moving on. Yeah. No, you guys should do that. That seems like it would be cool for you. Yeah, that's chill, dude.

I think people would fuck with that, man. So now they're doing MTV Spring Break, which I remember from the early 90s as a kid being like, oh, my God. It's the reason I wanted to go to college. Yeah. I'm not joking. Yeah. Because I was like, yo my God. It's the reason I wanted to go to college. Yeah. I'm not joking. Yeah. Because I was like, yo, Wu-Tang is there,

and Daisy Fuentes is just working the runway, House of Style, and fucking X on the Beach, True Life, I got a summer share, all these weird things. Yeah, they think bringing this back from Cancun could bring the children's back, but I don't know. Okay, so this sums up everything. They're planning to do another MTV Spring Break in Cancun with, quote, performances, celeb guests, and even activism.

Oh, God. That's exactly what, like, so that doesn't fit at all in MTV Spring Break. Like, MTV Spring break is all just like bros it's toxic male culture yeah incarnate you're like inviting two completely different groups of people like having them party together activism dude mara mara wilson's about to judge this wet t-shirt contest dude like what the fuck are you talking about? Activism? Oh. I don't know. I would love, like, just, like, five minutes into the first airing of it, just, like, someone

just, like, pauses and looks in the camera, like, what are we doing? Why did this happen? Yeah, what are we doing? My God, I feel so ashamed. It's just not a good, I mean, yeah. Maybe they are the final dying farts of this. Why do we think corporate wokeness is just like the worst? Why do we think MTV hit an expiration date?

Is it just like this generation is too smart? This generation. I don't know. I think social media just replaced all of it, so you need authenticity. I think youth culture left MTV and lives on social media. And those are your people that are your new Carson Dailies, what have you, or the Daquans and shit on IG or whatever. Because even that early MTV stuff was weird,

but weird because the people who made it wanted to make it. It wasn't forced, and that's what the internet is, is weird people making cool stuff they like. Right. And that's no longer the place for that. Yeah, and before that, not everyone had access to the internet, but most people could look at a TV on cable and be like, oh, that's where people my age go to fucking just zone out and consume shit. And now it's like, dude, it's gotten away from me. Because I think Teen Mom is like their only like properly operating show. So they're just like kind of.

I think Jersey Shore. Yeah, Jersey Shore did okay. But I think like Teen Mom is like the one thing that's still like is performing, I think, from a ratings aspect. And so they're kind of turning into like what happened to Bravo where they're just like, it's just trash reality now. Right, right. Yeah. Because it, yeah, it's just trash reality now. Right, right. Yeah. Because it works. It works.

And they know that, yeah, people like bad people being mean to each other. So we'll film that. But like Syphil and Ollie, stuff like that, people are making that on the internet now. No one's going to pitch that to MTV. No. Because MTV's not going to say yes.

Right. Yeah. But hey, bring back Spring Break. I'm curious to see what the activism part is. Are they going to talk about like how like the crippling drug war in that part of Mexico? They're like, let's talk about the Yucatan Peninsula for a second. It'll be like that drones episode of documentary now. Right.

I don't know. I don't know what activism is for MTV MTV spring break unless they're gonna literally be like and now we're doing the Me Too cam like I mean on the dance floor we're like

whoa foul bro it's just yeah the Me Too cam on the dance floor on the ground looking up and they're like

oh well let's cut the feed because this is a terrible idea hashtag activism they should just do year break where like every single it's just like that every day

right just like just own it like we like every single it's just like that every day right just like just own it like we know what you're doing just party on the beach 24 hours straight

every single day and then eventually don't be a channel anymore I think if they hired all the people who were making shit of Super Deluxe they could probably

have a shot yes that's what they need to do is just get weird they should do that be an alt voice because that's what MTV was initially

yeah do like the first two years of MTV. Yeah, just be like, whatever, dude. Do some weird shit. Because we'll give you TV budgets to do what people are doing on the internet. But we'll just actually try and be authentic in a way. The problem with that is MTV does not give TV budgets. Yeah, I guess so. They give internet budgets to make TV shit.

Well, even better then, because Super Deluxe was already using an internet budget. Exactly. All right, guys. Speaking of trash realities, the one we live in. Because the Trumpy Bear is a thing, and people are talking about it. Did it just happen? Why is everyone talking about it? This has been around for over a year, but it-

A fucking year? Yeah. It emerges every like, so like, every once in a while. Every time. Every so often. Every bad event for the president. But, so the toy, if you're not aware of it, congratulations. I'm sorry to do this to you.

It's basically taking the idea that the teddy bear was originally a teddy roosevelt like propaganda toy uh because he chose not to brutally murder a wounded bear like or or no he chose to put a wounded bear out of its misery and people were like oh that's great he's a really upstanding man that's the fucking backstory is that he it's something with uh he was bear hunting and chose to I think it was that they tied up a bear for him to kill and he was like I won't shoot this bear that's tied to a tree because that's unsporting and people were like oh we'll make a stuffed bear called a teddy bear that wears glasses like him and it'll be lovely and it worked and it took off because he was actually a cult of

personality that you know had charisma and wasn't a complete shit bag so people not a bear murderer right oh so people got on board and now the trump folks are trying to be like well the latest this is the greatest president since teddy ro, so let's do this thing. It looks like a teddy bear had a midlife fucking crisis. Yeah, so it's a teddy bear with the hair of, not really Trump, because it's too normal to be Trump's hair. Trump doesn't have hair. Let's not call it hair.

It looks like it's not- It's got some wisps. Yeah. It just looks like orange shit on a bear's head. Yeah, it's just got long, flappy hair that's combed to the side. And it has a slit in its neck where you pull an American flag out of. At the back of its, like, the base of its skull. Yeah, at the base of its skull.

So I think the thing that got people buzzing is that there is this ad that I guess has been out for a little while, but it's just now making the rounds. And it is fucking crazy. Like you would assume it is a Tim and Eric's sort of influenced spoof type thing. I mean, visually, like when it starts up, I thought I was watching an SNL parody commercial. Yeah. Like from the very like aggressively, like just slap dash graphics and shit. I'm like,

Oh, this is a great, even the film quality, like everything about it. It's like, Oh, you, you know,

you know, come on. Have y'all heard of Da Vinci? Y'all can do some color correcting. The fuck? You got this from a stock, like stock video house from the eighties. Like why?

Like that. It seems like that would be harder than just getting normal stock footage right and it's just footage is so old and it's weird because they're almost marketing it as the bear obviously because it's an analog for trump or whatever it's that it's that it's solved all these people's problems right it blurs the line between the bear being donald trump and being a like sort of stand-in for donald trump or like sort of a symbol of donald trump and yeah so it has these really strange testimonials that i think we have a couple of the most bizarre ones right now i'm a small business owner and business is great again thank you trumpy bear yeah thank you a couple of the most bizarre ones right now i'm a small business owner and business is great

again thank you trumpy bear yeah thank you a lot of people speak people know me as frankie de broom i own my own commercial cleaning service my business is doing great thank you trumpy bear when i ride with trumpy bear he makes my golf game great again thank you trumpy bear um hey i'm frankie de broom that is amazing that they let that guy. He's like, I'm going to go a little off prompter. I'm going to tell people. I have a feeling Frankie. People know who I am.

Frankie the Broom was not doing that commercial unless he could call himself out as Frankie the fucking Broom. Okay. Frankie doesn't do free PR. Yeah. And it's like there's a cop who's like, I take it along for rides when I'm shooting in unarmed black, when I'm enforcing the law. When I'm serving and protecting. Yeah. Or then like firefighters, which are just like a family.

He's a fighter like me. Yeah. But there were firefighters. They were all like civilians. Because first of all, like if you see in a way a fire, you have to be very physically capable. And these people were like just sort of regular people wearing like firefighter jackets and like jeans underneath. And you're like, y'all are enough. Just because you're sitting on a fire engine. Come on now. Don't do it.

But they said it. They said they were. They said it. And Trumpy Bear. And Trumpy Bear is there. I trust Trumpy Bear. I trust Trump. And improve my golf game. There you go. I mean, I love Trumpy Bear. I believe it. Obviously, you're listening to this, you're assuming it is like somebody doing this ironically,

but the ad has actually been targeted at the types of shows that you would expect actual trump uh followers or trump fans to watch like it's like you're walker's texas ranger you're it's on fox news yeah murders she wrote your fox's news uh bonanza like literally reruns of bonanza it was running on yeah uh so it's they're put they're running it where racist old people would be directing their eyeballs right so and like buying it for themselves right or like their grandchildren well it's a way to trigger the libs ah obvi i love being triggered you see all the other shows it was running on like it was there are other it was also running on other shows including manhunt killer capture project

nazi the blueprints of evil another show just called hitler and how the world ends yeah uh so they hitler i think it has an exclamation point, and it's a fun game show. Reality is so mean and funny. They're doing it on purpose. But that's why I'm like, who the fuck is behind this? Yeah. So it is a company. First of all, by the way, again, I just want to emphasize that they're charging two installments of $19.95 for this which if you need to

buy this thing in installments you shouldn't be spending your money on novelty plush toys but also like that's too much money for a novelty plush. Yeah but it's two installments of this smaller number. Right. But like this smaller number

is too much money. And there's also the fact that the commercial starts out by basically quoting QAnon saying a storm is coming. Right. I am the storm, which is weird because the ad came out before the QAnon conspiracy surfaced. So this could make you lend. Yes. Thank you. I think it confirms the q anon is real right or it could confirm that q anon is actually like a liberal troll and this has all been part of okay all right i like that one the q is out there the q is out there yeah or q anon is trumpy bear

and trumpy bear is q anon there's no. That'd be amazing to reveal for QAnon. It is I, Trumpy Bear. It's just so weird. Just like a toy, just like banging the keyboard. But the fact that the ad opens with that quote, a storm is coming, I am the storm. Yeah, that is odd. It's very weird. Very weird.

It's weird that everybody jumped on that quote too. Because Donald Trump says whatever pops into his mushy little brain. very weird it's weird that they like everybody jumped on that quote too cause like Donald Trump says whatever pops into his mushy little brain and like it's meaningless all the time

and like the closest you could come from his like it's like the calm before the storm the only interpretation of that that isn't just like

he said it cause he thinks it sounds cool is we're gonna do a war soon. Right. War is coming because we're all like these are all people in the military. With their families. Right. You're going to have to tell your wife you're going on a deployment.

It's like one of those like, you know, calm photo ops before I announced the war. Right. Yeah. That's where this quote is from is Trump talking while posing for pictures with military people and presumably just like bullshitting because he didn't have anything to say. He's like, this usually works with my kids when I'm like, oh, what I got you for your birthday? Yeah, you'll see. It's going to be great.

It's a real calm before the storm. Just consider this Christmas the calm before the storm of next Christmas when I really get you something. When I remember it's your birthday. So the company that is making this is called Exceptional Products. They're a Dallas company that owns the trademark from an invention submitted by V.L. Lang. And Exceptional Products sell other fine wares, such as- Fine products on both sides.

Plaque Attack, a dental spray for pets, and of course, Hairdini! Exclamation point. And on their website's list of commercials, they still have a commercial for Dialmate, which is a handheld computer that stores phone numbers for you so you can call your friends from a payphone.

Yep. My dad had that. Yeah. So this is all accidental, it turns out. I don't... God, why but why yeah why can't it why can't some genius troll be like i'm gonna basically fuck these people's heads get them to believe in this weird conspiracy theory and then i'm gonna reveal it was a stuffed animal version of the president right that's me wiping my hands off. Yeah, the thing that we were talking about before the show, though,

is that if you were a liberal doing this as a troll, wouldn't at a certain point you be like, oh, people are going to die now because of this troll, this QAnon troll, and back out of it? Yeah. Yeah. It's a fun way to out of it. Yeah. Yeah. It's not, it's a fun way to embarrass crazy people.

Right. But like at a certain point, stop it. Yes. And so I, yeah, I don't think it's necessarily a leftist trolling. I think it's either,

whoever it is, they're trolling because they know it's bullshit. Oh yeah. Which is kind of odd to me, though, either way. It's like, it's either a right-wing person being like, oh, this is so cool. People are paying attention to me now. Right. Like, the logic at this point behind it is like, you can't possibly believe it.

Right. And you know it's affecting people. And you know that people are showing up to rallies with Q shirts. And one guy started a fire. Right. Not because of Q, but like he happens to be one of the unhinged people that sort of gravitate towards that kind of stuff.

You'd think he would, whoever Q is, would eventually be like, as Q, Trump wants you to cool it. Right. He wants you to not be so bonkers. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, Q. Yeah. Yeah. How cute. Yeah, and so producer Nick was just pointing out that on Robert Evans' podcast, Behind the Bastards, they covered the fact that Wall, what's his name? Jacob Wall. Jacob Wall. The guy who was trying to bribe people into accusing Robert Mueller of rape. And then implicated his mom.

Accusing Robert Mueller of rape. And then implicated his mom. Yeah, implicated his mom because that's who the website of the fake company that found the intelligence was registered to was his mom. But he actually sells impeached Trump bumper stickers. A lot of the people around the Trump orbit and the fuck Trump orbit are just grifters. Yeah. Great. Yeah. It's the age we're in.

There's a lot of people like the Dave Rubins of the world who are like the age of Trump. It's like a realignment politically and like people are waking up to this and this. No, no, no, no, no. People are waking up to like, oh, I can be a grifter. Yeah. The King Grifter got elected president and he's making it okay, and so now I'm going to do it and make money during this time. Now all his baby snakes have hatched.

Right, exactly. It's like giving permission to take advantage of people more than everybody already had permission to do that. Right, right. Oh, QAnon. Well, anyways, people on the right are triggering the libs by buying Trumpy Bears. No, you're not. You're wasting your money.

No, come on. Buy some Keurigs and break them. Nah, fuck that. We should invent the thing that they buy to trigger them, and we could profit off that and give the money to something worthwhile. Like, haha, we played you, and also you just paid for LGBTQ rights and immigrant rights.

Peace, motherfucker. There's that woman. She was like, I'm a black conservative. I'm wearing my Trump hat and I'm getting harassed. So give me money. And like a bunch of Trump fans gave her money. And she was like, no, I'm not. You guys are crazy.

What are you talking about? Like, damn, that easy? I think she ended up refunding the money. But she should have donated that shit. There's also a novelty product that is MAGA Build the Wall. MAGA is written in Lego font because they are not worried about getting sued. And it's like a little Lego man that looks like Trump. And also a little cartoon Mexican dude

behind the wall. It's very offensive. Oh yeah, it looked like he got a fucking sombrero on with a poncho and dos maracas. And it's also definitely a Lego guy. Right. It reminds me of that photo maybe like last week two weeks ago of that elementary school

that took photos. It was like for Halloween and it was a bunch of elementary school teachers and they were all wearing outfits like this holding like a build the wall banner. It was like their Halloween costume was building the wall and dressing up like a Mexican. Elementary school? Yes.

Like a caricature of a person from Mexico. Where was it? I don't know. Baraboo, Wisconsin. Arkansas. Arkansas. I don't know Baraboo, Wisconsin I don't know Arkansas I don't know Sparage There's been a lot of cool pictures Of schools going around

There's also Hey man Teach them Each one teach one man You know What if We had Universal education

For everybody And educated people better So they didn't do stuff like this That's crazy Cody Well that's what they say You know If you start learning shit So like You don't believe shit Like oh educated people better so they didn't do stuff like this. That's crazy, Cody. Well, that's what they say. If you start learning shit, you don't believe shit like,

oh, you eat a bunch of spiders at night. So an educated society is a bad thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a threat to powerful people who want to obscure the reality of someone's oppression. Yeah. Okay, okay. Is what I hear.

Never mind, never mind, never mind. I read that, I think, on a Snapple cap or something. Cody,ody it's been awesome having you man it's been awesome being here thank you where can people find you on the internet um my twitter is uh dr mr cody uh i want to change it but i'm stuck with it uh dr m-i-s-t-e-r-c-o-d-y uh some more news is also the twitter our patreon is the same name, obviously, watch the show if you like shows about the news. Our podcast is called Even More News. It's all out there.

It's all happening. And Cody, you are on the episode of Creature Feature that dropped yesterday, so people should check you out there as well. Creature Feature, the uh comedy podcast out of our studios with katie golden it is super interesting your mind will be blown multiple times and you'll have a good time doing it it's true it's fascinating is there a tweet you've been enjoying yeah honestly i really uh enjoyed uh marco rubio's follow-up to the three-point kick. No, there was a follow-up?

Awesome. Yeah, it's just – so this is actually – I don't know if you know Grace Spellman, a Twitter user. So his full tweet – I'm not even going to read it or find it, but it's just a close-up of Marco Rubio's tweet, and it says, I am being roasted, and i just think it's so hilarious that the centers i'm being roasted for saying it's a three-point kick but like not everybody knows football lingo wow what um so i really i really love that i think uh good for him um but i think a more a simpler one is um myspace really made us publicly rank our friends from one to eight and i think that's just, yeah.

They were like, pick your friends and rank them and post them for everybody to see. And we were all like, yeah, MySpace, let's rank our friends and let them know, here are my top eight. I totally forgot that. Yeah. And it was drama back then. Yeah.

It caused a lot of problems for people. Yeah, if you got to nine or some shit, they're like, are y'all good? What happened? That's amazing. Oh, man, I remember when I went through a breakup. Boom, she was out the top eight. Out of there, yeah. And that's how you let people know.

That's how you broke up with her? No, no. Just being like, hey, check my top eight. No, she left me for a sax player. Oh, man. Why does that keep happening to you, man? I don't know, man. Is that a common theme?

Yeah, it's the fucking saxophone. Fucking Kenny G. Like, the trumpet ain't good enough? Right. Are you taking saxophone lessons, then? No, I play the trumpet, Cody. I'm not gonna play their game. Ah, just do the saxophone. They're the same thing. I'm not. Oh, no, they're not. You play them

the same way. That's a brass verse woodwind argument, and I'm not getting in the middle of that band controversy. Sounds like I understand why it didn't work out. With that attitude. Miles. Yeah. Where can people find you? Find me and you on November 29th at UCB Theater on Sunset

in Los Angeles at 8.30 p.m. to see the Daily Zeitgeist live show. Very first. Yes, very first. Sorry, Chicago. Sorry to do that to you. But then two days later, December 1st, we're going to be in the Windy City. And hold on to your wind

because we're going to be there for live show two at the Chicago Theatre Works for Chicago Podfest. Okay, now moving on to social media. You can find me at MilesOfGrey on Twitter and Instagram. Two tweets I like. The first was shown to me by Super Producer Anna Hosnier because she knows how much I love Reductress headlines. And this one is,

Five controversial things to discuss at Thanksgiving because your family is black and none of you voted for Trump. And then another one is from past guest Yusuf Roach. It says, Saw someone on Facebook make a joke about Stan Lee making a cameo in heaven, which made me laugh because it implies he is in hell. Jesus Christ.

Oh, wow. Yeah, that's heavy. Think about that one. Dang. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. And a couple tweets I liked. One is Alexandra Petri responding to the Mother Jones story about the toilet for big-dicked men. And she just wrote, may your first toilet be a masculine toilet.

And then somebody else showed the Fox News. This one is Old Man Weldon, at Old Man Weldon. Will Weldon, I think his name is. Super producer Anna Hosnia shared with me a tweet where he showed that screen cap where it says, Radical New Democratic Ideas. And it has the four pictures of the four politicians, and they all just have

these beautiful, welcoming, authentic smiles on their faces. And he says, A nightmarish vision of a future run by women with warm smiles and a vision for a better life for us all. Because that's exactly what is communicated. It's just like these warm, happy people being like, we want to pay for your college and for your health.

We want you to feel better. Yeah. And like you to feel better. Yeah. And, like, to help the planet. They had to make sure that Ilhan Omar's from Minnesota's 5th District, who's the Muslim woman, was in there, too. Like, he ratted. Oh, of course. We know what's going on here, guys.

We know what's going on here. Although, actually, like, kudos to Fox News. Never said that. But for using those photos, because more often than not, they use the ones where they have crazy eyes, or the unflattering photos. Like screaming amidst sneeze or something. Yeah, that makes them look like, I want to give you healthcare!

Right. Yes. But they chose not to, so good for them. They're like, shove this healthcare down your fucking throat, man! Are you going to believe these kind-eyed people, whose sincerity even communicates to you through a photo? How kind? I don't know.

They're evil. They're radical. Are you going to believe these kind-eyed women or Sean Hannity who trains in MMA? Just keep that in mind. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're on Instagram at The Daily Zeitgeist. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes.

We link off to the information we've talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on, Miles. What's that going to be? This is from a guitarist, Mansour Brown, who's like a jazz dude, modern dude. And he's got a track called Shidi which means white in japanese the adjective form of shiro uh just for all you uh japanophones out there that's even the word uh but this is like a cool little track a little hip-hoppy a little technical guitar playing some rhythm uh so this is for you mansour brown shiroi shiroi i should say it right i'm not trying to romanize that

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