The Daily Zeitgeist - Bloomberg Meme God, Cocaine: The Book 2.14.20

Episode Date: February 14, 2020

In episode 570, Jack and Miles are joined by AfroPunk host Bridget Todd to discuss Michael Bloomberg paying Instagram influencers to support him, Michael Bloomberg's past problematic behavior, Hope Hicks returning to the White House, Corey Lewandowski endorsing a Pablo Escobar phone on Cameo, and more!FOOTNOTES: Huge Instagram Meme Accounts Are Shilling For Michael Bloomberg Mike Bloomberg Is Paying Fuck Jerry Now What 2020 Presidential contender said the following?- "I'd fuck that in a second," - "I’d do that piece of meat…” - “If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains they’d go to the library instead of to Bloomingdale’s” - Called women: “fat broads” & “horse-faced lesbian.” 'I'd Do Her': A Brief History of Michael Bloomberg's Public Sexism Hope Hicks to return to White House Corey Lewandowski Endorses a Pablo Escobar Phone That Probably Isn’t Real WATCH: BluntOne - New Dawn Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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tab for links to the tickets. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the greats, the hilarious, the talented Bridget Todd! Hey, y'all. Thank you for having me. Welcome to DC. Y'all were always born here, right? Yes, I do. This is my hometown. Thank you for having me Welcome to DC

Y'all were always born here right? Yes This is my hometown Wow Thank you for having us Of course I'm so glad we got to see you Because you don't live in LA

I wish So the last time you were on It's just because you were passing through And now since we're passing through It only made sense Yeah thanks for having me Yeah yeah yeah Thank you for joining us

Does it snow here? It does Not often. Very lightly. There's been some big snowstorms here. Oh, yeah. Was it two years ago? Snowmageddon.

Yes. Snowmageddon. That's controversial because people from the Midwest who live here were like, oh, it's just a little snow. It's nothing. It's just that I had this experience in Kentucky, too. It's that you're right on the border between where it snows and where it doesn't.

So you have just enough people who just don't know how to act in the snow. That's accurate. And it snows rarely enough that they don't have infrastructure built. It's like in Atlanta when they had that snowstorm and people were stuck on the highway for three days. Or LA all the time.

We have terrible infrastructure. In LA, all you need for it to be is windy and people don't know how to drive. There's a stick in the road. Pandemonium. Should I call the police? Or just pick it up and get this shit out the way. Actually, don't get

out of your car on busy roads. Oh, I'm talking about residential streets i'm not talking about highway people just are just parked honking their horn at a fallen yeah all right bridget we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about it is bloombergapalooza uh we're talking about mike uh his he's flooding the lanes on social media uh on yeah a lot of cool quotes coming out from him uh that i are actually quotes that have been around for a while but are being recirculated.

So people can understand who the candidates are. Yeah, exactly. That's not fair. That's not fair. Oh, you're leaking stuff from five years ago? That has been on the internet. That's like, no, you weren't surreptitiously reported. And that he voluntarily said to a group of people.

At a thing that he partially funds, too. Right. So we're going to look at a study that was widely quoted by people on the right your jordans peterson uh about how women just don't like science they don't like science bro that's why they don't go into the sciences uh it's just their choice um and somebody finally took a look at that study and the numbers were all fucked up so we're gonna talk about that we're gonna talk about uh trump is getting his favorite nurse back

uh hope hicks she's back baby uh the astros gave one of the worst apology press conferences ever so we'll talk about that. It's truly something to behold. But first, Bridget, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Something from my search history that is revealing about who I am is the fact that I am apparently gullible enough that if you saw that tweet recently, that NASA came out with a statement that a couple couple days ago was the only day that your broom could stand upright. And I live with a scientist. And so I was like, is this true?

Did NASA really say this? And he was like, no, are you an idiot? And so then I set off to prove him wrong. I did a lot of Googling. And it all turns out that's BS. NASA didn't say that. I did spend two hours of my time getting my broom to stand up upright.

Did you get it? I did. Oh, I have a picture. I documented this. Did you have video? I didn't get video. See, then I don't know, man. You could have got it. It's true. I'm a broom myth buster. Everybody made it seem very easy. They just put the broom down and it stood up.

But I think it takes a lot of balance. It took me two hours of my day. It probably depends on how new the broom is. I'd imagine it's easier with a new broom versus the ones I have in my house that are half curled over from years of use. Yeah, that was my problem. But then you can get it to stand up, but it has nothing to do with the planets. So that's what I had to Google. I didn't know.

I wasn't sure. What is something you think is overrated? Okay. Something I think is overrated. And I don't know if this is a controversial take. I just realized there's controversy around this. I guess I would say it is overrated to be on a plane and not put your seat back. Oh, yeah.

I just realized this. So there was a thing on Twitter where a woman put her seat back and the guy behind her is sitting in that last seat that doesn't go back. Right. And so for whatever reason, his response is just to punch her seat repeatedly. And so I tweeted about that and people were like, oh, people are divided. Like, who's in the wrong? And I was like, well, obviously he's in the wrong.

Like, she's using her seat the way that it was designed to do. Yeah. And I found out that most people think it's rude to recline your seat on a plane i see i think about that i go oh this is gonna suck for the person but i'm also like i paid for a fucking seat yeah it's the feature on there right i'm gonna do that the part i do understand right is more of like it's probably more about like uh treating the plane as like a village, right? Where we know we're all oppressed in economy. Right.

By our corporate overlords, the airline. And they've given us these limited resources. Now we could abuse them. Right. But we should also consider our neighbors because we're all in this together in steerage or whatever. Yeah, steerage. Because I really think, yeah, I think the most sane take about the whole thing is direct all your anger at the airline definitely right because but also like you can't be punching

someone's seat i think i think you're i think you don't you don't have to feel you're not a shitty person if you're like oh that sucked that someone reclined their seat yeah but i don't think that is violence i don't know yeah punching the back of somebody's seat over and over and over again. And people, I saw that tweet and I saw people responding being like, she just started videoing it is like bullshit. She should have like gotten somebody. And it's like, you don't know what happened before she started. Yeah.

Or what the real context is of this video. That's also a good point. You know what I mean? Because also these online videos, you never know what's actually happening. If some shit was going on and she just, I don't know what, I don't know what happened.

They're just going through a messy divorce. Yeah, exactly. Oh, she's like, oh yeah, that's my ex. She's like, I bled him dry. And I just happened to be

sitting in front of him and I gave it to him one more time. Yeah. Can you imagine how angry you'd be? If that was my ex-wife who'd like,

you know, maybe rightfully destroyed by the divorce or something, and then there she is in front of me and then sends me into spatial hell. Yeah. Yeah, that back row, though, that's criminal. Yeah, and people were saying in the comments of your Twitter post that they were like, yeah, i would never recline my seat it's like what do you think it reclines for right like i get it i get it right

that's what i mean like if the sentiment is purely coming out of like i cannot inconvenience my fellow human right you know because the space is limited but like to get very hard-lined about it i'm sort of like yo if the my if the person in front of me seat comes back, guess what? My seat's coming back too. Exactly. And before anybody sends me hate mail on this, I understand that you need to like,

maybe you need to ask, look behind you, make sure they're not drinking a hot coffee, make sure everything is good back there. Don't just shove it back. Oh, I do it the second we take off so they know what time it is. You like stake your claim. Yeah'm just like just so you know

it goes and before the thing is over you're back i use the grab the g forces of the takeoff to slowly recline just to press the button and then it's they don't they don't realize it's too late by the time they realize yeah it's too late one of the people in the comments i'm now realizing i like read deeply into this thread but one of the people in the comments i'm now realizing i like read deeply into this thread but one of the people in the comments was saying that they their trick is that if somebody reclines into them they point their air down the back of that person's neck and it makes them like go for it every time why you think i wear a hoodie bro right exactly good fucking luck give me your worst yeah but also like i mean if someone's really like excuse excuse me, my knees... That's happened before.

Someone was like, this person was huge, tall, and it was actually impeding on their legs. I was like, oh, yeah, I get that. But also, part of me wants to be like, you should have sat in the bunkhead then, sir. I suffer from a conflict avoidant personality disorder,

I think. I am just... You keep that shit upright. I will just avoid I will avoid the, yeah, I will just avoid this shit out of any conflict, no matter what. But, um, the,

yeah, but, like, in that case, I would always flip it forward. I can't imagine a scenario where you're just, like,

hitting it repeatedly. No. Unless, like, someone's hair, they put their hair over the seat. Oh, I hate that. When you put your hair over the seat oh i hate that when you put your hair see like yes over the back yeah i've seen that it's it's gross it's it's not like very

common but it's starting to creep up more and more anything like i if i could wear a bunny suit like one of those things or like a hazmat suit onto planes that's what i would wear oh yeah they're filthy it's not the air everybody blames the air it's the seats it's you are sitting in a garbage can they do not clean that shit so to like put your hair all over that shit yo i think in their mind they're like well at least i'm like like laying on it in between the seat but also like there was a there's a photo of some like woman's hair being so long coming out the back that it was nearly going into the drink of the person like there no in which case you should just be like you know what i'm gonna i'm gonna tune up your little ombre with some tomato juice yeah yeah absolutely yeah flying is the worst flying it's like just so nasty the cdc says that you should not wash your hands

when you're in the airplane bathroom because that water is that gross it's like grosser than not washing your hands after going to the bathroom is washing them with that water is like gross it's like grosser than not washing your hands after going to the bathroom is washing them with that water is that true absolutely true i know i talked about not knowing my like nasa science facts earlier but this one is take this to the bank all right uh what is something you think is underrated well i think i gotta go back 10 miles on this one i think it's underrated to not rise up against our like corporate capitalist nightmare airplane line overlords like blaming anybody in this like plane situation we should be blaming right i'll stop turning on each other yes yeah and when you look at it it's such a cynical cash grab

right slowly just been putting more seats in and it's like not even it's not the same shit and then i mean obviously look if you're flying budget you know like i'm just here to get from a to b like i don't need an experience in the air i just need the experience of traveling somewhere uh but like when you look at the it's almost like by design they want to make it so bad that you're like you know what man maybe i should just forego my child's college fund and fly business the next time. Because it's so unbearable sometimes. Especially if you're tall. Yeah. It can be a bit of a nightmare.

Yeah. But that's why you got to just get in early. Get that bunk head or what is it? Bulk head. Bulk head. Bulk head. Emergency exit row. Although bulk head does have that weird.

Depends. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes you get the weird screen. The weird screen that folds out like a robot, like a transformer robot arm. Yeah, that you never wanted. Yeah, I hate flying. And finally, what is a myth?

What's something people think is true you know to be false? Well, I have to go back to my first one. I don't know if that's kind of lame, but that your broom stands up on one particular day and that NASA said so. That's a myth. It's not true. Do know if this is was new or this has happened before people have tried to perpetrate this i think it's a hoax that comes up once a year right like the way that i saw it described was like oh it's the equinox it's some special day um but that's not true right right um we have to rise up against our broom overlords as well.

There have been other myths like this that went viral before the internet. There was one that if everybody jumped at the same time in the UK, something was going to happen. Throw off the tilt of the earth or something. Everybody did it. Everybody did it. Except for one person, and that's why it didn't throw off the tilt. That is a hero yeah we just didn't know she happened to be in the bathroom all right let's talk about what mike bloomberg is doing to get just get his name out there you know other

than creating his own media empire he is and naming it after bringing money at anything yeah anyone who might have a platform or any just like hi please i'm mike bloomberg right i just need name recognition because i'm not trying to actually have a campaign here i'm just trying to just do the name recognition thing and some people notice now that uh fuck jerry right the great meme stealing account right helped the Great Fire Festival perpetrate their scam is now apparently helping Mike Bloomberg out. And these are experts on what is viral, on creating viral memes. And the way they do that is they just steal tweets and Instagram posts from actually talented comedians and just don't credit them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or recontextualize them like, don't credit them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Or recontextualize them. And then like, yeah, right. Then it's fuck Jerry. Yeah. Um, yeah.

A lot of like their accounts are just big meme accounts. They've been posting like this same construction basically of, it looks like a DM that comes from Mike Bloomberg. And this is like to the fuck Jerry account. It says, hello, Jerry, my granddaughter showed me this account.

Your memes are very humorous. Can you post a meme that lets everyone know I'm the cool candidate? fuck jerry account it says hello jerry my granddaughter showed me this account your memes are very humorous can you post a meme that lets everyone know i'm the cool candidate and then it says what did you have in mind and it's like a photo of him like in a weird vest and shorts and it just says when you're the cool candidate and they just go oof that'll cost like a billion dollars then mike bloomberg responds, what's your Venmo? That's supposed to be funny? It's not funny. In the comment section, he goes, he does look pretty.

Fuck Jerry posted. He does look pretty cool. And then parentheses. And yes, this is really hashtag sponsored by at Mike Bloomberg. And then people in the comments were like, so good. Or one guy twice. Clapping, clapping. Wow.

Yeah, and then even Grape Juice Boys, same thing. Hello, Grape Juice Boys. Can you post an original meme to make me look cool for the upcoming Democratic primary? I don't think so, to be honest. Your vibe is kind of off. Wow, that's... Right, that's actually accurate.

And then he puts, I put Lamborghini doors on the Escalade. What? Okay. Wait, I don't even really... It says, and they're even saying, I don't get it. That's like the... Sure. I don't know. Yeah, my first question

is, these aren't even funny. They're more just weird. So I'm not even sure what he's trying to convey to the youth or whatever audience he's targeting. I'm not sure what that message is. Is that Mike Bloomberg is perplexing? Yeah. And he's quoting lyrics from the game? Yeah.

Like, okay. The Grape Juice Boys, like what they posted with it was, I don't get it. And then question mark, question mark, paid for by Mike Bloomberg. So are they just like taking advantage of the fact that he'll pay them

to do nothing or something? It's so, it's just wild. It's depressing. I think that one of the accounts that reposted one of these is Kale Salad. And I saw on Twitter that the person who runs that is a BuzzFeed staffer. And there was a good conversation about, you know, what are the guidelines that BuzzFeed has from a political candidate paying

one of their journalists money to run advertising on their personal Instagram account? And I thought like, that is a good question. That's a good question. I feel like we should allow journalists to secure the bag they need to get paid yeah but yeah i wonder what that means i wonder if their takes are going to be a little less objective um like you know he did put lamborghini doors on the escalator i bet you watched fuck it we'll have uh chris matthews saying that shit in no time and he did put lamborghini doors on the S-Place. I mean, it seems like it's about to be pretty concerted

that everybody who's not feeling Bernie is going to line up behind Mike Bloomberg. Or Mayor Pete. There's still time. They'll still figure it out who will be the savior for Wall Street. Mike Bloomberg had this tweet. We know many of the same people in New York. Behind your back, they laugh at you. figuring out who will be the savior for wall street mike bloomberg had this tweet uh we know many of the same people in new york behind your back they laugh at you uh this is at real donald

trump they laugh at you and call you a carnival barking clown they know you inherited a fortune and squandered it with stupid deals and incompetence and carnival hashtag carnival barking clown is the number three trending thing on Twitter. And people are like, ha, this is so funny. And Trump must be so scared of him. And it's just, well, we'll get into why we're a little bit not fully sold on Michael Bloomberg as a candidate. That's putting it so lightly. I'm not fully sold. I'm not fully sold.

I'm not all the way there. I completely reject Michael Bloomberg. I wouldn't say I'm not fully sold. I'm not fully sold. I'm not all the way there. I completely reject Mike Bloomberg. I wouldn't say I'm 100% there. Right. There's still a shot? Yeah. But yeah, I mean, he's getting support. He's racking up the numbers.

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So the wolf first, there was a clip that I think most people had heard where he was basically talking about how lit stop and frisk was right and completely ignoring that it was basically criminalizing being a black or brown young man in the city and just more like yeah but you know you put them up against the wall and they maybe they'll think twice to leave the the gad at home you know right and and that's how we make the city safer and then he said he had this basically he's describing the how like over policing uh creates this bias about how dangerous neighborhoods are without actually exploring that he's out loud saying goes and then you go in those neighborhoods and you police them more and then what do you know there's more arrests there it's like because you're over policing right yeah and like when you look i mean all the statistics just show like how completely wrong everything he was saying but he was trying to find like, basically saying like, yeah, I guess I'm vindicated in doing this.

When it was just an absolutely just terrible, atrocious, racist policy of harassment. Did he really say maybe white people are being over-policed? Yes. And maybe we need to police the other neighborhoods a little more. The thing is, I think his energy is so low, you don't realize I'm saying like the most v thing is i think his energy is so low right you don't realize i'm saying like the most vile shit right as my energy so he flips it in you don't even know if he's screaming like trump you know he's fucking like this it's a lot different someone's like you know trump did say that he has dead energy yeah like trump is like above all

things a media critic he's like his energy's off it's dead his energy's all fucked up yeah he sounds like a wet balloon um but yeah the whole thing like so then there was this that that whole thing and when he was asked to sort of like defend it he was just being like you know i i led one of the most diverse cities in the world never actually answering like the substance of it like right why would you say that like what are you do you believe that right and he goes i've already apologized it was five years ago and that's five yeah that's five years ago i don't know why we're bringing this stuff up that's so recent yeah isn't that like at the end of his run as mayor or was he still around i don't even know if he may have just bit me like that's after a lot of time a lot of his ideas had time to solidify and that's what

he believes and i'm sure if he had any kind of campaign staff worth their own salt they're like hey you're gonna have to figure this one out right especially well but considering it's not figure out a cool like this is what he did. Like, this is his public record. But I mean, figuring out, address it. Right. I think that's my thing. Like, as a black person, I can't imagine ever voting for him.

Apparently, I'm not, I'm a minority in this regard. But I can't imagine voting for him if there's not some meaningful, thoughtful reckoning. Not just, oh, I apologized. It was five years ago. Because that's what I hear from him now. I don't think he has taken stock of how horrible this policy was for an entire generation of black and brown kids in New York. And I think that like until,

and because of that, I think that he cannot quite see us as like fully human or like fully deserving of that kind of like thoughtful reflection of his own policies. And so I think you're right until I hear some kind of like meaningful tactic around it or like addressing of it. It's like, it just all sounds like noise. Yeah. And it is. And that's why I'm like, I don't expect any kind of meaningful response because I'm looking at everything he says and how he acts. And that's just who he is. I don't

believe there's a self-aware person or someone who's seeking growth or any kind of reconciliation about the effect it had on millions of people he's just sort of like that's what it was and the numbers you know they show one thing and i'll look at it very narrowly then he was out here saying in another soundbite that basically the 2008 economic crash was in part due to the ending of redlining or less restrictive loans being given out right which was unbelievable yeah where it's like hold on you're talking about the most racist practice that has led to the exact wealth inequality that we see today like right and the exact wealth inequality quick primer if you're hearing this word redlining

for the first time in the 30s their survey surveyors went to hundreds of cities in the country and began raiding neighborhoods like on them. Green meant best, blue still desirable, yellow definitely declining, and red for hazardous. And back then in the 30s, that just meant not white. And so basically from there, it was saying that these red districts are risks, so you shouldn't give them loans at all. Right. And if you did, it would be tremendously expensive or they just wouldn't be there at all.

Right. And so that means people can't move up. Yeah. There's no upward mobility if you cannot buy a home. Right. And the way people accumulate wealth in the United States is through buying their homes, owning a home, owning property. homes, owning a home, owning property. Yeah.

And so when you look at even now, the legacy of it in all these impoverished neighborhoods, they're still there because of this. Policy. Yeah. Or just the bucket they were put into by a bunch of random race. Well, not random, but just these racist people who wanted to create this system. Random racist, like FDR. Yeah.

Literally. So the term redlining has a lot of weight behind it. It speaks a lot to the scenario and the situation a lot of black and brown people, especially black people in this country, find themselves in, especially you look at Baltimore. Like that's complete, I mean, redlining, the legacy is still there in many places, in Georgia, all over the country.

And so to hear a candidate try and blame like loans being given out or equating that somehow black and brown people led to the economic collapse right is unbelievable i mean it's absurd it's offensive and it's diabolical it's complete i'm like there's no especially when it suggests billionaires and like wealthy people on wall street like his people caused the economic collapse and it's just like going out of his way to see what happens is when you're told to give more loans out you give the loans out but

then there's some people who don't have the credit for it so then they're overextending themselves and then you need additional credit to keep that going and it's a really bad place you know um so that's what's going and then so when he was asked about that the campaign had the lamest excuse why did Mike Bloomberg try and say that redlining or the lack of redlining caused the economic collapse and it's sort of like what he was saying was the end of redlining

was a good thing that happened and then after that a bad thing happened that was like almost the gist of the thing that's the worst thing I've ever heard. That's not even an explanation. That's just a weird distillation of what he said. Right.

And just being like, okay. It's so fucked up. And then something else I want to, I like to mention when we talk about redlining is that this, it sounds like something that happened so long ago, but think about this. A lot of people in this country,

they're only able to pay for college if their parents can mortgage a home. Like that's how my parents paid for me to go to college. And so there are still ramifications of this today. Redlining is still something that we're fighting against today, the impacts of it that we feel today. And so if you're in college, if you're a young person, look around. Did your grandfather own his home

and so he could mortgage that to send your dad to college and he could mortgage his home to send you to college? Your black classmate, your brown classmate might not be in that same situation so it's very much something that we are still kind of steeping in today yeah and there's still a lot of racism in like the real estate industry and like where yeah like it's still lenders are still getting dinged for discriminatory lending oh yeah yeah and when again when you look at it that wealth disparity shows up now because white families have 10 times the net worth of black families and eight times that of hispanic families yeah that's just that's just what it is because they came through and said if this isn't a northern

european person area right we're probably it's probably going to be a red for us it's a bunch of like unofficial policies and like you know shit like that's hidden in maps in like archives in history and in like libraries but like that's where the racism like you can find it and that's where it's being enforced and this is why like when you look at a candidate right these are the stakes there is systemic racism in this country that is still you know thriving yeah we've no one there's not really been a real meaningful uh plan to really deconstruct that and try and create some equity so when i look at a candidate and i look at somebody who's trying to like very casually and lamely be like you know if the redlining was still there maybe the wall street people wouldn't have

taken a hit i'm like you have no clue what the was still there maybe the wall street people wouldn't have taken a hit i'm like you have no clue what the stakes are for regular people right and you have no clue the damage that has been done and based off if you don't know what the damage is you can't fix it right because it's invisible to you and i need to be visible to a candidate if i am invisible i will they will not advocate for me right and so i think that's why, you know, when the Bloomberg ad came on accidentally in front of our show, we're like, man, fuck that. Right. Because this guy, he actually, to me personally, and I'm not going to speak for everybody here, but he's embodying everything that is wrong with the political system and this kind of, this outsized power people have to just sort of throw their weight around without with seemingly no benefit for regular people it just seems like this is something like this is a project he saw how vulnerable the

party looked right now he knew he had hundreds of millions of dollars he could just sneeze away and just fart away on tvs like whatever it's an afterthought right and then be like yeah and then maybe we'll see maybe i'll be the president yeah he spent more money than anybody has spent on their campaign maybe ever at this point well his answer the press pressed him on that also and he was sort of like well you know some of these other people have been working for you know a year or something we've only been at it 10 weeks so because of that we're keeping up it reminded me of the ceo of goldman sachs uh was tweeting the other day. He was like, if Bernie gets elected, Russia would be thrilled because he hates our military and would sink our economy. And this is a guy who was the CEO of Goldman Sachs during the economic collapse.

Like during the 2008 financial crisis, this dude was leading one of the largest banks. This dude was leading one of the largest banks. And yeah, this is just these hundred millionaires or billionaires are really scared of becoming like 10 millionaires. Like they're just, it must be nice to be a hundred millionaire or billionaire because these dudes are protecting their shit like wild. I mean, the tax hit Mike Bloomberg would take

under Bernie's plan, I think is like $3 billion. Right. And if you look at that it's like man maybe it's worth me spending 400 million right that's the thing it's like that's so much money that like my broke ass can't even sort of fathom i can't know isn't it wouldn't he still have so much left over yes the human mind can't like process it yeah i feel like yeah it's absurd yeah i i can't process it. Yeah, I feel like it. It's absurd. Yeah, I can't process it. And I think- He's worth almost $62 billion. So what does that even mean? It's nothing.

What does that even mean? Well, Bridget, then he'll have less than $60 billion. I don't support him. See, that's what's at stake for Mike Bloomberg in this election. Heavens no. I mean, I think something that really grosses me out and that I think it's one of the reasons why Bloomberg is doing so well with black communities and other communities, I think something that really grosses me out and that I think it's one of the reasons why Bloomberg is doing so well with black communities and other communities. I think that we have gotten into this very sick, gross place of wanting to see these two white rich guys kind of duke it out.

And so people are saying things like, oh, well, Bloomberg, he actually has the money that Trump brags about having or pretends that he has. And I want to see those two. He can really take Trump down in the way only like another rich white guy could. And logically I sort of get that, but what if that's not what I want from my fucking president? Like what if that's not what I feel like we should be voting for?

I think there are generational differences, right? In what we're seeking in this election. Some people purely just do not want to see Donald Trump in the White House anymore. Right. And the other issues are like, we can get to those later. They're like, people are just so disinterested in anything else just to win. That's one group of voters.

And then there are other people who are just like, no, I feel like this is an opportunity to maybe do something good. And I want to see that reflected in the candidate i'm choosing and that's where it's like you're starting to see these like it manifests in all these weird ways now where especially when you see like like uh boomer like black voters being like yeah bloomberg isn't too bad right and when you look at evidence like this or sound bites like this sometimes the response is just sort of like yeah but you know so are most white politicians or that's how i feel deep down so maybe this is just the lesser of evils right and that's just what like that's what's disheartening because there's the the

lesser of evils does not give a fuck about you yeah either way and that's what i'm like you really want people to see like no matter who you are what your situation is try and really understand that like we've only we've majority of the time had presidents who are not really interested in like making sure everybody is doing better yeah i think this is this is the kind of things where only a few candidates are kind of saying the right thing out loud or i'm like this person seems to understand what the stakes are for non-millionaires. Yeah. I read somebody at FiveThirtyEight tying that to kind of the history of, you know, suffering oppression. You know, you are, your rights are being held down. And so you are looking for the most practical person to create a coalition with, essentially.

most practical person to create a coalition with essentially like and so black voters tend to be more pragmatic and they're gonna like go with the candidate they think is most electable which is like i think if you are especially older people who are like more steeped in media narratives they're like well biden and bloomberg are like the two guys right yeah have the most standard like definition qualifications to be president and why the fuck would you know somebody who's on the left do well and i think it also ties to like what a lot of people are thinking with regards to they just want somebody who can beat trump and they feel like Bloomberg can beat Trump and they're not thinking outside of the box. They're thinking of

this as just another election that is going to play by the rules of every election except 2016. I think some people probably are so beaten down by their situation and by this system that they're probably a little nihilistic they're

like this is gonna happen i'll never see a world where i'm paid a living wage definitely i will continue to toil and i think that's what you people need to begin to connect with the idea that it no like you're it's not that you shouldn't be resigned to the fact that it's unchangeable it's like there are more of us right and if we are coordinated and we are organized, there is a way to balance the scales properly. But to get just to resign to the fact that, well, this is how it always is. That's how we end up slipping every time. Yeah. I think that your point is a really salient one. I'm glad that you brought it up. I have a lot of friends that are Nigerian immigrants and Trump is cracking down on immigration from Nigeria. And these are people who I would have thought who I would have described as like very civically engaged active like paying attention

and now just like the burden of navigating their like increasingly more precarious immigration situations they have no time to like do what I'm doing you know to like be reading everything going to rallies calling my lawmakers this that the third time. And I think that that's under a, when you are dealing with this kind of, I mean, I'll use the word trauma. When you're dealing with that, the idea of being able to dream of making a living wage or dream of not having to fight through all this red tape just to stay here with your family, that seems like a fantasy. And it's not even worth putting an energy when you have this real world shit that's going to be knocking at your door today, tomorrow. And I think that's a really,

that's a part of living under fucked up fascist regimes that goes overlooked. It's like that kind of like psychic cost. That's why, yeah, like you hope that, I mean, we'll see how these other you know primaries play out and you'd hope that there's enough energy that people can at least believe in the ability to sort of begin to draw things back but it's hard to tell we'll see yeah we'll see what happens i feel like you're already kind of seeing it with the mainstream acceptance of trump

now like people are just beat down in general i I think there's, like, only a certain amount of, like, mental calories that we can burn on Trump before people are just like... Yeah, and just outrage before people are like, I can't do it anymore. We talk about how, by the time, like, when the Nazis first swept into power, there were all sorts of outraged news articles. But, like, by the 12th year that Hitler was in power... They're like Adolf Hitler is coming to town. Yeah, they were like,

Hitler had a funny quote yesterday about one of his political rivals. So, I mean, that's how it happens. It's just, it becomes normalized. But that's why, you know, just have to insist that you don't normalize it, that you can maintain that. Now you have to

be in a state of rage constantly but to understand like what the stakes are at the very least because i think most people it kind of flies by people very quickly because it's easy to get lost in all the other stuff that's going on yeah there's also a twitter thread that linked off to some of bloomberg's past sexist behavior that is that's a whole another segment he's just i had told one story that i had heard about him like a journalist going up to him and like complimenting him on his gun reform and uh bloomberg just saying look at the ass on her to him about somebody but uh there's just a litany of these quotes of just like horrible things. I'd fuck that in a second. I'd do that piece of meat.

If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they'd go to the library instead of Bloomingdale's, calling women fat broads and horse face lesbians. Wait a minute. They would go to the library and say, where will we get our clothes? We can't go to Bloomingdale's? What does that even mean? He would not let women who worked for him wear flat shoes.

He made them wear high heels. He would talk shit about them if they let a tiny fraction of their hair grow out gray at the roots. He would say, do you pay a lot to make your hair be two colors? Because now it's three with the gray. That's what he said to a woman who worked for him. One woman came in and informed him she was pregnant. And he said, kill it.

And she said, what? And he repeated himself. it wasn't like a like nah i'm just kidding he was just like yeah no kill it uh what a fucking way to even communicate that yeah like again that shows you how disposable life is to this person too right in service of my billions yeah kill your fucking and i guess it is like people, it is just like Trump. If you told me that Trump said all of these things, I wouldn't believe you. It's like people just want things to go back to normal and to have Trump out of office. And they will be fine with someone who feels this way about women and talks this way to women.

It's just so fucked. And was a Republican. Yeah. Right. On top of a Republican. Yeah. Right. On top of all that. Yeah. People talk shit about Elizabeth Warren for having been a Republican decades ago. This dude was a Republican days ago.

He was... This is all... Yeah. One of his employees told him she was married. He said, what is the guy dumb and blind? What the hell is he marrying you for? Or that she was engaged. Yeah, really cool.

Really cool. Yeah. It seems like there's just an unending reservoir of just horrible shit. Right. I mean, he is just... But that's the thing, man. That's why you should... If you're a billionaire, you should not be able to run for office no you have left earth right you are not absolutely you

are not on earth anymore no you can i even think of how much my life changed when i went from having not having a job to having a job right did you feel like you were like bawling out of control yes i was like oh watch me watch me get this big ass drink at the movie. I'm totally putting my seat back on the plane. Fuck you, asshole. Like I'm living big now. Just, you know, and that, anytime you get a little bit of mobility,

upward mobility, your lifestyle changes inevitably. Your values change somewhat or what's important to you can change somewhat. But when you keep moving up and up and when you get to the billions. Yeah. It's just just oh you've never you've never ridden enough you're not on the subway you've never been shoulder to shoulder

with somebody who might be completely different than you or completely different class than you you're not every time you get in a car you have the same driver you've got tinted windows you have to look anybody in their eye you get out someone greets you you go immediately to whatever space you need to be in you go to whatever private dining room you're going to be in the people you interact with in a service capacity might as well be avatars and not real people so you begin that should you you're in another dimension of existence yeah and i think and that shows with a lot of these people because they are unable to like reconnect to what that real human experience is of toiling under capitalism and maybe not having the time to do all these

things that you'd like to do or what you're able to do and yeah or as he would describe it he's really a victim of the way other people are treating him right because he's just self-preservation baby that ego they they won't treat him like a normal person so i mean what's he supposed to do uh all right we're gonna take another quick break. We'll be right back. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you.

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that was apparently very widely cited among right-wing people. Jordan Peterson did a whole video about it, and right-wing think tanks were all about it. The study seemed to suggest that women in progressive societies went into STEM fields even less than women in less progressive societies. So basically, if women's rights were protected, they went into STEM fields even less. And so the idea is basically like these progressives,

like their values are just enforcing something that disagrees with the natural law. And the natural law is women aren't interested in science. And a Harvard science historian, so like the most qualified person to look into this sort of thing uh not jordan peterson no not jordan peterson uh looked at the study and found that the study authors used a very selective set of data to produce a contrived and distorted picture of the global distribution of women in stem achievement so huh yeah and they were just like rah-rah-ing on that thing like that's those are the facts man

fuck your feelings those are the facts yeah exactly uh but that i've manipulated to say it's like but i wonder how many minds will change it's almost like that the fucking anti-vax shit where people like oh yeah the autism thing when that's completely debunked it's like well um there's other stuff too right like you know what i mean like what happens when your biggest card is taken once i feel like once these bunk studies are like out there in the ether it's so hard to even have any kind of retraction or reflection on them they just become part like i guarantee you will see this bunk study um cited in like online arguments from now until the end of time.

Like once it's out there, I think it's out there. It becomes part of like the consciousness or something. And I think pointing out that it's debunked just causes people to pivot. Correct. Really. There's never like, oh, it was debunked? Yeah. Huh.

Because I don't think it's about the study. I don't think it's about like the data, the numbers. I think it's about the study. I don't think it's about the data, the numbers. I think it's about something else. It's about making this cultural argument that they're so sure is right, that it really doesn't matter whether or not this one study was just proven. But I'm sure for young people

who are still trying to figure out how the world works, I could see them being swung by some shit like this. Yeah, I mean, that's what's scary about jordan peterson i think that's where you again it's it's about you know like you're saying rigid it's not even that they care about this study it's just that everyone has a worldview they're trying to reinforce some people are more rigid about being able to you know reflect and analyze their own perspective and i think if you're not

debunking doesn't mean anything the second it enters your consciousness it's like and you're you just need that to reinforce whatever your reality is it's like well if i give that up then my reality is not real exactly and then what else isn't real and then what do i do no so women don't like science i'll just that. Yeah. It takes a lot of work to re-figure things out for yourself. Well, in good news for the Trump administration, they are bringing his nurse back into the White House. Okay. So when I read this, right, that Hope Hicks was coming back to the White House,

this is what I said. Trump's former communications director will work in Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner's office at the White House. I'm like, what and senior advisor jared kushner's office uh at the white house i'm like what so she's working in shady jared's office right i'm like he is his mental health is completely going off the rails right this is not she she offers nothing strategically to them she her trump whisper yeah her greatest skill to that administration was like he listened to her right and she was able to control some of his impulses and like you're saying called her the trump whisperer she was at fox making money okay she was the fucking executive president and chief

communications officer at fox right so pretty big media company yeah yeah you know what i mean and at some point suddenly they're like she's going back to the white house right that must have been them begging her to be like it's getting bad right you know you're one of the few people that can talk to him we're really worried about this please come back because what's in it for her i mean like why like why else would she do this it doesn't make sense as a career move for for someone like her it really makes no sense other than what you're laying out that's just my literally a step backward yeah yeah it's like i'm gonna go right back to what i was doing before that i left that i wanted to go because it wasn't working out yeah especially especially with the backdrop of the muller investigation how she was like caught up in a few different things that was just God. That was just like, you know what? Maybe I don't really want to fucking do this.

Right. But, you know, some people think that, you know, that this has nothing to do with his mental state. But when you see, like, you know, there are more and more reports and whispers. Like, I don't know how founded they are, but when you see him speaking, clearly his vocabulary has been diminished

over the last couple years no that's just because he's becoming a better public actually getting more he's good at communicating it's called an efficiency of words yeah okay yeah but i i'm to me that's what i i mean the only value i really see hope hicks offering the white house is her ability to communicate with the president right so okay at at best they need somebody who can communicate with him still right at worst they maybe think that she can maybe get him across the finish line for some of these like for this campaign or something uh just because of their relationship it's i don't know and also like you know why is she in jail that's a really good question yeah i

remember when she was being um questioned a lot of the media were like oh well she's just a the framing was she's just a young girl who got caught up but she's like 30 like not really like i mean we're contemporaries no one if i did if i like did something wrong in my job or was like a party to something like wrong illegal yeah no one will be like oh well she's just a poor kid who got didn't know what she was getting into in over her head like why did people kind of project kid who didn't know what she was getting into in over her head. Why did people kind of project that

onto her? I think because she was pretty. Yeah. And I think there's still just this thing of they just want to act like, oh,

maybe she didn't have any agency in this and she was caught up in this thing. But it's like, she knew what it was when she signed up. She's,

you know, part of the job is to lie. She helped lie for the president. That came with it. And I don't think there's anything, I don't see anything about her experience there that would be like, oh, she's a victim here. I also think it was like at a time

when communications were occupied by Sarah Sanders and her and people were just like, well, anything's better than Sarah Sanders. And she was just like quiet and behind the scenes. Yeah, but there's no need for a comms team anymore. We've seen what the method is now at the White House. It's like, we don't talk to him. Hogan Gidley will come out and say some weird stuff

in his fancy new coat and then fuck off into the darkness. Yeah. I don't know who Hogan Gidley is, but I'm picturing somebody with like a fur of some sort or like a he was wearing a cat's character no he is like the the new you know comms guy um and press secretary hogan but he was wearing this jacket it looked like something olivia pope would wear in like scandal oh my god this coat this dude definitely thinks he's

olivia pope he thinks he's olivia white olivia pope yeah wow when i saw that this morning i'm like you think you're olivia pope he definitely was like styling in the mirror that morning i wish i could see this coat like he was definitely styling himself in the mirror being like messing with it like yep yeah exactly like, better watch out. Ooh. Hogan. Yeah. Yeah.

Damn. But he's just like, you know. That is a look. He just goes out and says what he has to say. You can tell he has no soul in his eyes. Ooh, it's even more of a look when it's tied up. Oh, is that the photo with him and Sarah Sanders? Yeah.

Yeah, I like it better open. Yeah, no, it looks better. he definitely had it like perfectly opened yeah i think that his like press spray was delayed for a few minutes because the collar wasn't standing the astros i guess their owner or president uh jim something crane jim crane something yeah uh i don't this guy just seems like a complete asshole but so they he was like well we're certainly gonna address this with our team when we start spring training the cheating yeah address the cheating and like come out with a statement as an organization where they address the fact that they had they basically used sign stealing and then when they knew a change up or an off-speed pitch was coming they would bang on a trash can to communicate or some people had

buzzers on them people had buzzers they get a vibration to know what the what pitch was coming and when you look at how they hit at home versus how they hit on the road it was apparently easier for them to do it at home uh it's just statistically anomalous like it couldn't it would make no sense statistically if there weren't some explanation for why they were so much better at home and this is the explanation uh and they also like when you look at the players before and after this whole system started happening, they just got miraculously, shockingly better. There's a chart on FiveThirtyEight where it shows how teams improved from 2016 to 2017

when they started doing it. And they had the biggest jump. Oh, it's like they're not even on the same chart as other teams. It makes no sense whatsoever um so with all of that in mind you know jim crane and the powers that be at the astros organization we're gonna sit down with the players and you know figure out how to address this how to express their remorse make amends uh just kidding he had a press conference uh where he was like we talked it over we don't think it had any impact on the competition people were like oh wait so what are

you apologizing for and he was like well we do apologize that we broke the rules and then the reporter was like but isn't sign stealing a distinct advantage? How could it not impact the competition? He said it could impact it. It could not impact it. Jesus fucking Christ. Our opinion is that this didn't impact the game. And then 55 seconds later, I didn't say

it didn't impact the game. I almost kind of respect this level of like whole thing scamming. I almost kind of respect it. Wow. Other scamming. I almost kind of respect it. Wow. Other quotes, I don't think I should be held accountable, which is always just a good thing to say out loud. Wow.

Just put somebody else out there like, mine shouldn't be me, though. Our opinion is this didn't impact the game. We had a good team. We won the World Series, and we'll leave it at that. Somebody please sue Major League Baseball. No, sir, we will not. Somebody please sue over this.

I don't know what the fuck. This is absurd. That was the most frustrating World Series to be rooting against them. Especially as a Dodgers fan. Oh my God. Man, I know people who threw nearly their lives away on buying tickets to those games.

Went to game seven only to be eviscerated. Just watch them get destroyed. Get your spirit ripped out of your body and thrown into Chavez Ravine. buying tickets to those games. Went to game seven only to be eviscerated. Just watch them get destroyed. Get your spirit ripped out of your body and thrown into Chavez Ravine. How are they responding to this news? They're pissed. I can only imagine.

They're fuming. But it's weird. There's also this thing. It's like, well, we don't want an asterisk win. Right. It would have felt better. But at the same time, there needs to be justice on some level.

And not just from the LA City Council with their you know developer shill council members being like oh we think we're this is a resolution that says major league baseball should give the dodgers the win right no we need some we need something real here right um but the irony of it too is this part of me is like you know i don't care if people are sign stealing in a way if you're using like your eyes like sure you got someone on second that's just like some human shit that you happen to catch and you got to figure that out because that's just in view they had cameras yeah when you bring in technology buzzers because the funny part was when they asked pete rose you know who's banned for life for

gambling uh on his own team and just other games that were going on uh that like he was like he's like what's the big deal when everyone was like no pete this is your chance to say yeah fuck that i just bet he's like i never changed the outcomes of games i just have a i was a gambling addict yeah i love that guy and it was just like he keeps it so real in a way that it's like no when a lot of people were like pete rose should 100 be back in major league baseball if he's if they're allowing this to just go on yeah especially with like these kinds of like one year bands and shit like that but hey you know we don't make the rules the rich white guys do um all right

finally let's talk about the escobar too this is the funniest shit to me pablo escobar's brother okay the fucking the drug kingpin pablo escobar his brother roberto uh huge fucking tech maven okay he is like he's all in he's trying to design all kinds of phones and shit right now he's the new esteban trabajos as i would say or steve chops now uh for my bilingual speakers yeah yeah so. So he wants to make this new device called the Escobar Fold 2, and it's a foldable cell phone. It's a knockoff of the Galaxy Fold phone, like a terrible knockoff,

but it's just rebranded with like a Pablo Escobar golden monogram on the back. The kinds of shit that his brother has done just along the way here, he threatened to sue Elon Musk for allegedly stealing his idea for the that flamethrower and demanded one billion dollars from netflix also over the show about his brother um and then like ben so like in december he's like well i've i've got this like revolutionary phone it's gonna sell for a thousand dollars less than like the like than the like the

biggest one out there um and he said i have told many people that i would beat apple and i will okay um and then so this phone comes out it's apparently a based off the royal flex pie or something it's basically a knockoff um But when people were trying to buy it, they only got all kinds of headaches from it. They said that they took the $3.49 that these people were paying for the phones and then 100% just didn't deliver when they were supposed to. And some people, when they did get something in the mail, it was a fucking book written by roberto escobar with the title i made billions selling coke now my smartphones will destroy apple and samsung that's what they got instead of an actual phone yes the equivalent i mean that's actually to be fair that that title

of a book is basically cocaine right that's the cocaine story exactly that is big cocaine energy man and then my fucking smartphone fucking destroy apple and samsung man that is the most cocaine thing that i've ever heard yeah i made billions enormous title i made billions now my now my what's the pivot there Now my smartphones will destroy Apple and Samsung. The other really fantastic part about this is that Mike Bloomberg isn't the only person using his business savvy to get celebrity endorsements for some of his products.

He's also like been using Cameo to get like, Cameo is a website where you can pay like washed celebrities like 20 bucks. Excuse you, yours truly is celebrities like 20 bucks excuse you yours truly is on cameo if you want to personalize shout out no i'm just kidding i am but it all goes to charity i mean yeah you're doing it the right way it's when i see people like bethany frankel like doing her videos they're like in the back of a van like hey it's bethany yeah i heard it was your birthday happy birthday yeah um so all kinds of people are like on here,

including Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump's former campaign manager. And somewhat just when you listen to these endorsements, they ring so fucking hollow and they just sound like a cameo video. It's so sad that Lewandowski is on cameo. Oh, I feel sorry for him. I mean, it's sad.

So Bethany Frankel shoots videos in the back of a van. Yes. I bought a Cameo by Ramona Singer from Real Housewives of New York for my friend's birthday party. And she did a great job. She seemed a little... She seemed like she had been enjoying some wine.

Was it Turtle Time? It was turtle time. Oh, you know your house wine. I'm fluent. You know what I mean? Wait, what is turtle time? That's what she says. It's like a little song slash dance that she does when she's turning up. Turtle time. It's so weird.

I never quite got it, but I did enjoy it. So he's going on Cameo and getting some great celebrity endorsements from Corey Lewandowski, Trump's former campaign manager. Let me just, I'll just play this Corey Lewandowski one for everybody, just so you can hear how amazing this new revolutionary cell phone is. This is celebrated snake oil salesman, Corey Lewandowski. Hey, this message is for Roberto.

Roberto, it's Corey Lewandowski. Hey, this message is for Roberto. Roberto, it's Corey Lewandowski. I was President Trump's 2016 campaign manager and his current 2020 senior advisor. Look, all off reached out to me and I want to just tell you guys that I've seen the new Escobar Fold 2 phone and it's absolutely incredible. So this is just a quick big shout out to you guys

that did all the work behind that. And I wish you the very best and all the success in the world. Don't forget vote Donald Trump November 2020. Holy shit. The energy of this also, like he had a real intense energy. My man did not blink once. If you look, he actually didn't blink

the whole time. He doesn't blink, just like. He starts off the video from the back and then leans into it. Hey Roberto, it's me, Corey Lewandowski Camp's Trumpane manager into it. Right. Hey, Roberto, it's me, Corey Lewandowski, Camp's Trumpain manager. Manager. Right. Why is he introducing himself to him while, like, I... Just making sure the check cleared, you know what I mean?

Just the audience for who he thinks he's talking to is unclear to me. Because he's talking to Roberto, but then he's also talking about Roberto's product. Yeah, maybe they'll edit that for the thing because maybe roberto escobar is smart and be like well these trump people buy fucking anything they bought trump branded plastic they'll buy anything anything if cory lewandowski is endorsing the fold too then maybe they'll line up then we really get to see his whole marketing plan

really play out because he also got a cameo video from chris hansen from to catch a predator and again i don't know who the marketing team was goes this is who you need cory lewandowski and chris hansen from to catch a predator and these phones are going to fly off the shelf listen to this one again too this one's kind of sad hey guys chris hansen here of hansen versus. And to catch a predator, I just wanted to tell you all that I've seen this amazing new smartphone called the Escobar Fold 2. It appears to be the best phone out right now. I've been looking at the transcripts. So have a seat, check it out, and remember, I'll be watching.

Take care. Oh, my God. He's drunk. I have to say, I don't want to, like, he has seen better days. I did not recognize him. Yeah, Chris Hansen looks like shit. He's drunk. I have to say, I don't want to like... He has seen better days. I did not recognize him. Yeah, Chris Hansen looks like shit. He looks rough. He looks like he drank a bunch of hotel wine.

Right. Is he in a hotel room? Is that what the background is? He doesn't have that kind of design restraint. It's not that he looks unkempt, like he just rolled out of bed. He has his hair combed. He just looks bad. He's –

Yeah. Listen, he sounds like Joe Namath when he was hitting on Susie Colbert. Listen to this – one of his lines. Hey, guys. Chris Hansen here of Hansen vs. Predators. And to catch a predator, I just want to – To catch a predator. And to catch a predator.

I definitely can flirt with him. I know why I flirt when I hear it. I don't know. Because he's probably blasting through his cameos. Like, let me get a cameos. Quick 50 bucks, 50 bucks, 50 bucks. The fact that they would do that for 50 bucks,

like that's... Well, it all depends. I don't know what Chris Hansen's rates are, but I think... Cameo lets you like... Yeah, you pick your own rates. Mine are a reasonable $5

for all those listening. Like you will endorse a product? I mean, I think that some people have figured out that you can... So mostly cameo is like it's my friend's birthday she loves you you know say hello can i get debbie gibson to say hi exactly exactly it's like a dumb gif whatever i think some people have figured out that you can get

celebrities to seemingly endorse like your project or your brand or something and like no offense to these people but a lot of them are too dumb to know the difference like right there was a thing on cameo where like nazis were getting celebrities to like say nazi slogans and they just like didn't know so i think people have realized you can kind of gamify it right got it i mean some of these prices wow uh okay so for example chris hansen you can get him for 60 oh that's a steal michael rapaport 150 what gilbert godfrey 150 ernie hudson okay 135 oh shall i go on flavor flave 250 sir i'm not i don't have time tommy larin you can get for 80 oh shit yo we pulled our money there's no way that she would say what we want we're not but we would have to do a weird thing where we could like stitch it all together in a maniacal

supercut. She's already debased herself, so it doesn't matter. Yeah, I can't even imagine. Oh shit, you get a Redman for $150? Shout out to Reggie Noble, one of my favorite rappers. Oh shit, I might do that. Oh, Miles, do you have a birthday coming up? Maybe someone will get you this cameo. I'd be lying if I said I already didn't get myself one.

This is what I also love. Did you watch Cheer? Of course. You remember Jerry? Of course! How much is he? also love did you watch cheer of course you remember jerry 150 if you want jerry harris to get him what's it called when they like mat talk oh yeah to get him to mat talk you would be so dope and then we remember mark mcgrath when he famously broke up with that one dude right 125 125 yeah that. That is the, so the title of that book is Cocaine in Book Title Form. There's a clip of Mark McGrath on Wendy Williams

that is cocaine in like old video form. Oh boy. It's amazing. It's hard to find though. They had it taken down. Damn. But he is flying. Gary Busey 350. Yeah. Gary Busey, $350.

Yeah. Gary Busey. Come on. I'm a little steep. Hey, the market determines the price, you know? Yeah. He's not out here putting it out there at $350 without getting some buyers. I mean, yeah, and you get Randy Jackson from American Idol for $250.

To come to your house in person. Yeah. And say whatever you want. Dude, or Brian Scalabrini for $99.50. To come to your house in person and say whatever you want. Dude, or Brian Scalabrini for $99. Wow. Brian Scalabrini. Oh, Andy King from Fire Festival fame? $125. Damn, Corey Lewandowski's are only $55.

That's so sad to me. $55? I mean, whatever. Andy King's time that he's spending just reading like terrible joke after terrible joke about him sucking somebody's dick for water like over and over and over.

That's like a Black Mirror episode. That is like a Black Mirror episode. Where your job is to embarrass yourself into your phone for credits to come back to. Yeah. God. Wow. That's so dark.

That just got very dark. I know. I'm sorry. Because if you think about it right like i have to go this is sort of like the end game of celebrity yeah where at a certain point the the markets have done what they have done with you they've they're done with you you're never longer present value and you're just like well i'd love to be able to make passive money as best as I can. So now I'm literally just saying, I'll say whatever you want for a couple of bucks. So you can laugh at me. That's like when Dirk Diggler

jerking off in the truck. Pick up truck scene. Come on, man. Harder. Faster. Go as fast as I can. You can't get hard. It's so sad. And then don't they kick his ass? That whole scene, yeah, it was a gay bas I can. You can't get hard. It's so sad. It's so sad. And then, don't they kick his ass? Yeah, that whole scene,

yeah, it was a gay bashing thing. Yeah, God. That whole, man, that whole sequence is so dark. Yeah.

Hey, shout out to the San Fernando Valley. Because the character, like, is then a gay basher, but he's clearly into it when it's happening. Right.

But, yeah. Hey, you can get Tim Hardaway Sr. for 50 bucks. I feel like Tim Hardaway can get a little more than $50. Yeah, some of these, I feel like they're really selling themselves short. Yeah, a couple of them, I'm like Tim Hardaway Sr. for $50. I feel like Tim Hardaway can get a little more than $50. Some of these I feel like they're really selling themselves short.

Yeah, a couple of them I'm like, hold on now. Sean Kingston is $300. Okay, well. Yeah, that's interesting. I would just listen to a podcast that was just people going through and reading cameo podcasts. Just an over-under on cameo prices. Holy shit, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, $500. See, that's somebody who knows their fucking worth.

Yeah, that's a legend. That is like a timeless icon. God, my dad would die if I got a cameo from him. If I was like, oh, happy birthday, dad. It's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Here's the guy who scored the most points in the history of NBA basketball. Gosh. That's unbelievable.

Bridget, it has been so fun having you. We ended this conversation in such a fun place, despite just all the bullshit. Where can people find you, follow you, hear you, experience you? You can find me on Instagram at Bridget Marie in DC, on Twitter at Bridget Marie, and on the Afropunk Solution Sessions podcast on all your normal podcast places, Spotify, iTunes, et cetera, et cetera.

And is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? Oh, God, what a good question. Probably this picture of Megan Thee Stallion and Debbie Harry hanging out. It's just a picture. No words just then, just two queens. Just two out. It's just a picture. No words. Just them. Just two queens.

Kicking it. Just two queens. Two legends. Two icons. Wow. So I hope they're friends in real life. I'm so glad she wasn't with G-Eazy. Oh, God. Me too.

Glad that was just whatever that was. What a weird. Did they explain that? No. She was just like. I'm glad it's over. She was like, yeah, we hung out. Or was it like one of those Trump things where he'll say some terrible shit out loud, everyone

gets on him. He's like, I actually never meant that. Right. I never meant that. Right. I never believed that. Right. I was kind of feeling it. Right. I mean, just go enjoy being Megan.

Yeah, you're Megan the Stallion. You know what I mean? You enjoy it. Miles, what is a tweet you've been enjoying? And where can people find you? Find me on Twitter, Instagram, at Miles of Grey, and on my other podcast, 420 Day Fiance, where we talk about 90 Day Fiance.

Hi. Okay. One of the greatest reality shows of all times. A tweet I like is from Reductress, or a couple of tweets I like. The first one is, uh-oh, friend on hike wants to keep going. Oh, no. Y'all, I'm going hiking this weekend.

This is going to be my life. Your fear. If they find me dead in the shenandoah national forest this is why because my friend wanted to keep going damn you're going out to the shenandoahs all right beautiful beautiful say your friend's name so we know who to blame mike amato wow let him know you've been put on a tracking mike and then um and that's always how i feel whenever i've gone hiking too and i'm like yeah this seems pretty high like we could probably go back. And they're like, yeah, it's just up there.

The sunset's going to be so worth it. I'm like, what's up there? Uh-oh, friend. Me breathing heavy and like half. Anyway. And then one more tweet from Reductress, which hit very close to home. Man treats his sneakers with tenderness unknown to girlfriend. Oh, my God.

That's so dark. Oh no! Oh fuck! Oh, they know us! Alright. My favorite wordplay tweeter,

Marissa, in marriage counseling, therapist, your wife says that you never buy her flowers. Husband, to be honest, I didn't even know she sold flowers. That's fucking good Marx Brothers style shit. She's good, man. She's got an amazing gift of just doing these dumb wordplay jokes. And then Eliza Skinner, at Eliza Skinner tweeted,

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Miles, what's that going to be today? For all the celebratory blunts that were had in Brooklyn, this is an artist, Blunt One, who mostly does really instrumental jazz hop stuff. And I always put this on in the background when I make a little coffee in the morning when I take a cold brew. It's nice. I like a little bit of atmospherical sound. I love instrumental pop when like writing or doing anything creative. Yeah.

So, you know, if you go on Spotify, like make, do Blunt One Radio or whatever, or Chill Hop, whatever you like. This track's called New Dawn because again, you know, don't let the nihilism creep in. Hey, they're coming for you. Yep. You hear that? You hear that?

Uh-oh. Bloomberg heard what I had to say. Why don't you hop on in, pal? I'll give you. Yep. You hear that? You hear that? Uh-oh. Bloomberg heard what I had to say. Why don't you hop on in, pal? I'll give you a ride. Miles and I were talking about the scenario where we get up on stage and look around and it's just all MAGA hats. Oh, God. It might happen.

Yeah. Wait, why? Why? Yeah. Why might it happen? Yeah. Because we're in D.C., man. Oh.

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