The Daily Zeitgeist - Blue Wave-ish, Sandler’s Still Got It 11.7.18

Episode Date: November 7, 2018

In episode 269, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Sofiya Alexandra to discuss Adam Sandler's new Netflix special, midterm elections, the GOP's list of things they need to respond to once the Democrats take the house, aliens, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. The Unexpected Humanity Of Adam Sandler’s New Netflix Special2. Scoop: Republicans secretly study their coming hell3. 2018 Election: Live Coverage And Results4. It’s official: Democrats will control the House5. Fox Rebukes Sean Hannity’s and Jeanine Pirro’s Participation in a Trump Rally6. Cigar-shaped comet may actually be an alien probe, Harvard scientists suggest7. WATCH: Lil Haiti "HIT THE WAVE" Ft. Kush Flo (Official Video) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 56, Episode 3 of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist! The podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and unconscious using the headlines, box office reports, TV ratings. You're going to keep this going the whole time? That's amazing. What's trending on Google and social media and the polls, I guess, today. It's Wednesday, November 7th, 2018. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a.

My Zeitgang, are you with me? Where you at? From the gray to the jack, Daily Z's on attack. Ho, ho, ho, ho. Courtesy of JoeB806, and I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Oh, I get so high when I'm around you, gray bear. I can touch the sight. You make my temperature mine.

You're making me, ah, gray bear, gray bear. Anyway, thank you for that Tony Braxton-inspired hashtag, a.k.a. to Chrissy Yamaguchi-man. Also, shout-out to atmotheroffurbies. I know that's your Twitter identity, but, yes, I know your sister. She's the homegirl, and, yes, you don't have to hide on Twitter anymore, bro. That's an inside joke. Okay.

For that person. For that one person. Yep. My favorite kind of joke to have on air. Podcast. Yeah, exactly. I use it as my you know tin can with a string attached to just talk to private people across the yard uh-huh cool anyone else you

want to talk to no i'm just you know my circle is fried because of what we just had to go through but anyway jesus we will get to it we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious sophia alexandra hello and thank you for having me. Thank you for being here. Oh, my God. How are you feeling? I'm feeling... Feeling good?

You know. Yeah. I'm hanging in there. There you go. Woo! So... Real hard yes on feeling awesome here. Yeah. We lived through election night,

and I almost had a mental breakdown when I saw the 538 live polling thing go into the, you know, the House was going to go to the Republicans, like 55%. You are fucking beating me with your phone. I know. Like, looking at that page, you kept going, all right, it says seven and eight. Now one out of two. What's going on?

I'm like, yo. I know, but I know. I guarantee most of the country was having that same experience. Well, yeah, but I was avoiding looking at some kind of forecasting model because it was just- Yo, same here. I was like, no, please. It's all over the place. I'm like, let me look at races individually.

But you were so, I could see in your eyes what was happening. It was just a flashback to 2016 where it was like, ah, well, Hillary still got this in the bag all the way to slow side whistle. I did this differently than I did last year, last election, where I had hope. Right. This election, I was like, let's be real. I think we'll get the house. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know?

And then what I did was I kept telling myself, I was like, Sophia, this is like basketball. It's the fourth quarter that decides everything. There you go. You don't stress out until the fourth quarter. Right. And then when I was like, oh, somehow people are still voting for Ted fucking Cruz.

Amazing. That was when it all made me angry. White women in particular went big to Ted Cruz. I guess white men also did. You know what I'm saying? Who fucking heard us? I know. That we keep doing this.

We just took liberties with the whole format right there because we got some anxious energy. Well, we're going to... Sophia, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. But first, we're going to take our listeners through what we're talking about today. We're going to talk about the Adam Sandler concert. Fuck yeah!

Up top, 100% fresh. Show! Is very good. We were going to talk about that the entire show if the house had gone the other way, but instead we're going to talk about that the entire show if the house had gone the other way, but instead we're going to talk about the election. It was that or 90 Day Fiancé since Sophia's in the movie. But I do not know anything about 90 Day Fiancé.

All right, compromise. We'll talk about Adam Sandler. We're going to talk about insane news that people intentionally released yesterday, like Amazon dropped their big HQ will be in Queens and Arlington news on election day. That was just bad decision making. And the New York Times put up a Comey op-ed,

which was weird. They're op-ed policies, honestly, like decided by a fucking high person. Or no one at all. Who ever wants it? Yeah. We're just going to talk about the experience of watching the election for anybody who watched it live as the results were coming in. Then we'll talk a little bit about what we have in front of us as citizens of this nation with a split Congress.

Fox News apparently still thinks that some people think that they're objective. And then we're going to talk about the story that I was consoling myself with during the time when FiveThirtyEight's tracking poll went wildly in the opposite direction. There may be alien life. This weird object came into our solar system. And we're going to talk about it. Why people think it might be alien life. Exactly. And we're going to talk about it, why people think it might be alien life. But first, Sophia, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are or where you at?

It was mostly like anxious political things. But also, I guess I looked up the Ariana Grande ponytail thing because I'm a piece of shit. What does that mean? What is it? Oh, because her hair is hurting? Yeah. She was like, I do it all the time. I put my hair in a ponytail all the time even though it hurts all the time.

Oh, no. It hurts? I just remember seeing that this morning. I was like, honestly, not today, God. Any other day, I would love to hear about her poor scalp from having it in that up Tony. Here's the thing about that is a couple years ago a story was I'm so sorry listeners. A story was

trending. I needed something to distract me from the tension. This is what we're here for. Yeah so a couple years ago a story was trending that she was wearing her hair in a ponytail all the time because I Google this. I was like what is that bitch's problem like why is that the only hairstyle very specific look and it was a trending story that basically she was doing it because her hair got so ruined from like when she was on that disney show and it got dyed all the time and then

i was like but that doesn't make sense because when you put your hair back in a ponytail has like more chances of like your hair falling out. You would want to kind of just leave it loose. Let it live. OK. So I was like, that doesn't make sense. But then I was like, Sophia, you've already spent more time thinking about this than it deserves. So then I shelved that until the story yesterday, which was a couple years later.

And I was like, I knew it. I've always been fascinated by her ponytail thing and the fact that, because we did a story back when I was at Cracked about the fact that she basically went back on an entire photography session because they photographed her from the wrong side. Oh, yeah, that's a thing. And she was like, I only do left side. You cannot photograph me from the other side. And then I was noticing she's the wrong side. Oh, yeah, that's a thing. And she was like, I only do left side. Like, you cannot photograph me from the other side.

And then I was noticing, like, she's the only famous person who, like, always has the same hairdo, like, every time she's seen in public. And I was like, wow, she really carefully cultivates her image. Yeah. And, like, we studied Bruce Willis' movie posters and found that he, like, cocks his head to the same, like, 15-degree angle on every movie poster just because he's like, yeah his head to the same like 15 degree angle on every

movie poster just because he's like yeah my head looks good at that angle it's like famous people are very your head is a circle it looks the same from every but they're experts at like very minute details of how they come off to other people when i worked in radio specifically bruce willis's head yes it's just a big old circle and also he looks kind of like just a turtle. So what's he worried about? But a very thuggish one. Yeah. Brolic turtle.

Hard one. But yeah, Ariana Grande will not let you show her non-dimple side. That's what it is. It's her non-dimple side, which I learned quickly, too, working with her. And then there's like a lot of bands do this. There's this one band called The Neighborhood, and they only allow you to shoot them in black and white. And it's like, all right alright dude, okay, thanks. But I guess, hey, you gotta be real careful

about how you present your image out there. But it's funny because knowing that about how careful your image is makes your image not real and just makes you look sad and over planning. Yeah, exactly. But maybe it only hurts you to people who are paying attention, which as we'll get to,

there aren't that many of those. There are more people who aren't paying attention in this country of ours. So, yeah, maybe it works out in the end. What is something you think is overrated? Okay. You know I love this part. I do know you love this. I know I love overrated, underrated.

So. Larissa from 90 Day Fiancé. No, I'm's another show don't get me started okay so i think that what's overrated is like backlashers you know like people today were posting all of these selfies with their I voted stickers. And then, of course, I was like, how many seconds till the first Backlasher posted their little, oh, I'm an edgelord status where no, where they're like, oh, I love how we reward ourselves for doing the basic minimum of democracy. Oh, wow. for doing the basic minimum of democracy by posting a, oh, narcissism combined with democracy?

That is so American. And I was like, Jesus fucking Christ. Just shut the fuck up. The people have to come, you know, the haters. I think what you're calling, that is actually called haters. But it is a very specific thing where it's like they get the very front end of a trend

that is just a positive thing and just have to jump in. Like what's the contrarian angle I can take on a thing that everyone is just appreciating and enjoying right now? And it annoys me that it becomes a thing. Like, for example, like, you know, people going talking about the doors sucking. I'm like, OK, objectively, they're a fucking great band. They're fine. You just don't great band. Yeah, they're fine. You just don't like them. You don't have to like them.

That's fine. But to just be like, suddenly, they're trash. Oh, they fucking suck. Yeah. Right. Okay. It's just like the Backlashers for the sake of being a hater. There's a lot of doors hate in this building.

People don't know. It's a very close band to my family. Oh. You know? I love them. Yeah, no, I think they're a great band when you're a certain age Wow Dude, I'll straight up stand for

Sublime I'll stand for O'Reilly all day I was just at a 311 concert, okay I can't be stopped I feel like the Backlasher is a social media thing that has taken the place of what used to be newspaper column the place of what used to be

like newspaper columnists. Like newspaper columnists used to be like, what's the deal? Like the Andy Rooney's of the world. Like now why do we have to have these stickers?

Like that is a take you would normally get like back in the day and like the, on the life and style section of the fucking USA Today or whatever. I feel like it's almost like

the 90s turned up to an 11 where like we were all like into Chandler and we were like Daria we were like oh sarcasm that's the way. Right right. And now it's come back like as like a horrible deformed monster where it's just. Just yeah. Just like

haterate. Cynic sorceress. Horrible. Cynic sorceress. So yeah so that kind of I love that I love that overrated what is your underrated my underrated is liking things

a medium amount okay because I think that's what's been like lost in this like going black and white

about anything all the time and these headlines and like the you know people going for clicks by being like this is the greatest thing or this is the worst fucking sucks yeah and i hate that sorry i don't i mean it's fine even as you do this like oh god i'm doing it i can't feel strongly about anything yeah most things yeah. Most things are fine. No, here's the thing. No, I think we can feel strongly about things. But I think, like, that Haunted Hill show right now that everybody's talking about, I watched it.

I feel a medium amount about it. Right, right, right. I feel like it was good. It was fine. Yeah. But I can't post that. Because, like, people are going to be like, are you kidding me? That was the best thing I've ever seen.

I killed my mother right after seeing it. And guess what? Didn't care at all. It felt great. That didn't even compare to the shit I saw on the Netflix show. And now it's just like, I just want to be able to like things a medium amount. And then when we talk about things, for me to be like, yeah, that was okay. And people are like, you know what?

You're right. That was okay. Just allow people to have their opinions. If they don't like it full bore like you, then whatever. That doesn't make your point less valid or theirs. I think people just look at it in this comparative way. I think it dumbs down the level of our cultural discourse. That's really why I don't like it.

Because I would like to be able to talk about a movie or a person or an opinion and say, you know, hey, I think so-and-so's politics on this are great, but I think that is pretty problematic. Instead of every headline being like, this person is a

pile of garbage, or this person is a saint who immediately, you know, inevitably is going to become a piece of garbage or this person is a saint who immediately, you know, inevitably is going to become a piece of garbage next week when you find out something from their browser history that you are disappointed in. Right. And I just really want to be able for us to just be realistic. Video game fans who are notoriously even measured basically threatened to kill someone for giving Red Dead Redemption 2 like an okay score.

They were like, it's good. No, that was bullshit, man. People got real mad about that. I was pissed off. They were like, this is the asshole who's bringing down the meta score? Exactly. I told them, I was like,

yo, if when I see you it's ugly, you could bet that. It's on site. It's like that stupid Yelp reviewer where you go and you're like, oh, this restaurant has all five star reviews, but there's this one star and you read it and it's like, it started

on December 4th, 1982. When my daughter was born. And then you're like, keep scrolling and they're like, we came there for her graduation. They were not able to accommodate her aloe vera And then you're like, keep scrolling and they're like, we came there for her graduation. Yeah. I'm like, this is a drama juice. They were not able to accommodate her aloe vera allergy.

One star. Yeah. And you're like, what the fuck? Well, so many of those Yelp reviews are just people having bad days. Yeah. And you're like, oh. Yes, dude. Get a hug instead of writing this.

Or someone's like, oh, you tried to set up a date for your girlfriend, and you fucked up earlier in the night, and y'all were still mad, so your Yelp review is about how they fucked up your anniversary when the problem was you panic-booked this restaurant because you forgot, my man. 100%. Your use of the word accommodate in your fake Yelp review is so on point. They use accommodate like five times in every review. It's always that. The chronic Yelp reviewer. I would think like five times in every review. It's always that. The chronic yuck reviewer.

I would think they would care about their customers. They would not accommodate. Yes, they don't. I guess the customer is wrong in this instance. Or it'll be like something you could never expect from where they're at. They'll go to a concert and there's porter potties and they'll be like, what do you mean? The porter potty smelled like someone had pooped in a hole yeah bitch someone just pooped in a hole what were you thinking was gonna happen uh and finally what is a myth what's something people think is true

you know to be false all right so i guess i want to debunk um there's like i just feel a lot of stuff that goes around that's like americans pass along for a long period of time as like a truism and then you have to keep referring to it as not true even though it's been a long time and it's like not and not ever been true like for example that um black people are who's on welfare. And it's like, okay, well, there's been statistics for a long time that have shown that that is not the case. They're not only people on welfare and proportionally, they are not. Or like welfare queens and shit like that. Yeah, that's what I mean. The myth of the welfare queen.

And my mom and I were on welfare when we moved here. And I love telling people that because a lot of white people's faces will change like they've never heard that right right and they're like well when did you start bleaching your skin yeah which is so crazy and so i just feel like i need to go around telling people that we used to be on welfare because people divide minorities into like good minorities and bad minorities and like uh you know jews uh asians i'm russian so like russian jews we're like model minorities we're like oh yeah you're gonna move here you're gonna go after you know schooling you're gonna get a great career we love you

yeah well we like to vilify being poor right this country. Right, exactly. And it's not, you know, my mom was a software engineer where we were from. And then we moved here, or she was a computer programmer. We moved here and she had to start over because she had to learn English. And we used to clean houses together and, like, be on welfare. And that is how it works when you move to a new place and you're trying to get your life together we were immigrant refugees and so many white people and so many russian people i know were on welfare when they moved here so the next time you think of the welfare queen picture my face bitch because that's who that is you're talking about me and my mom hold on you're about

to take down all the Fox News' talking points. Invite me to talk about welfare on your conservative network. All right, let's talk about the Adam Sandler concert in the next couple minutes, because there's not a whole lot to say other than that it's really good. Yeah, I don't want to start reenacting shit, because that's what we've been doing the whole week. It's so great. I saw him tape it. I saw it a lot. I heard, right. Yeah.

So me, Courtney, my co-host from Reality Bites, my podcast, sorry to plug it real quick. Oh, yeah. You just have two great guests on. Courtney Kosak. Hell yeah. Jack and Miles just guested. And guess what? Jack got vulnerable.

I know you didn't expect that. Oh, yeah. That's what happened. Get your tissues. Get your you didn't expect that. Oh, yeah. That's what happened. Get your tissues. Get your puffs with aloe. We went and we saw him do his little residency at the Dynasty Typewriter. Right.

And we saw one of the shows and five or six of us went together and all of us walked out of there with red eyes because we cry laughed. Yes. Yeah. I cry laughed too. I loved it.

Throughout. If you like Adam Sand too. I loved it. Throughout. If you like Adam Sandler and you loved, especially if you bought his albums, if you were that level Sandler person, I had his albums as a kid. OG Sandler. I was fucking scream crying. Her Majesty, my girlfriend, thought I was losing my mind during certain parts. And it was so, man, there's just something like, it really transports me to another time, I think, of that style of humor. Because I haven't been able to laugh at something like that.

That's not just, you know, overtly vulgar or whatever. It's just his delivery and just the shit that he chooses to talk about is just so funny. It's truly goofy. Yeah. And joyful in a way that we haven't seen in a long ass time. Yeah. And it reminds me of like when you saw Billy Madison for the first time. Exactly.

And just like the little lines that are the throwaways. Yeah. And all the, you know, the shampoo. Yeah. The bathtub scene. I am conditioner. I make the hair nice and smooth. Yeah.

How many times did we all. Oh, really? Oh, really? We all love that so much because it was so simple and joyful and goofy. Got it. Yeah. And I still remember where I was when I first heard his first album, just because of how hard I was laughing.

It was in my friend's basement, basically. Yeah, this felt similar. So I also don't want to like overdo it yeah i'm just supposed to say we're i'm a sandler fan so of course i'm gonna love it but if you're a sandler fan i can tell you if you're a sandler fan you don't like it check your pulse and your weed but honestly i was worried when i went to see it i was like oh god what is this gonna be like because we haven't seen him do comedy in a long time. And it's so by far surprised and fleeming. Yeah, once more and more comedians who I respect were like, hey, this is dope.

Yeah. We're saying, I was like, oh, shit. Yeah, yeah. Because most of the time you would think, oh, a Sandler Netflix thing is just something to fulfill his nine-picture deal he has. Yeah, just a cash grab city. Yeah. And I was really surprised.

Oh, who can get more than Chappelle or whatever? I just haven't been watching his movies for a long time because of how panned they are. But, like, I've also, I saw a couple back in the day, and I was like, oh, these aren't very good anymore, or maybe I'm getting older. Like, I didn't know what my relationship with Adam Sandler was. Like, had his movies gotten worse?

Had I just gotten, like gotten matured out of them? But no, it just turns out, yeah, this is what I was missing. He was just being a- Took me right back to it. Yeah, he's an astute business person. He was making dollar, dollar bills, y'all, and that's all he did. And you know what's funny? I've watched every single Adam Sandler movie.

I've watched every Netflix one, too. So Dave Rankin, the other reality bites person we uh me and him have a long-standing adam sandler joke about the fact that we won't see the new movies in theaters um but then whenever they come on tv right we end up watching them we're always like yeah that was pretty good yeah pretty good all right i mean some of the netflix ones are pretty whack but like i haven't seen the Netflix only ones. I just mean the like ones from the movie theater. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We should do a dive into like the more recent Adam Sandler movies, like ranking them as far as like, hey, you're going to be kind of surprised by how good this is.

What would be the sort of demarcation point? I think for me it was, I think it was Waterboy was where I was like, this is still okay, but not crazy about it. Big Daddy would have been maybe the one. I still, I love Big Daddy, but then I watched it recently on TV and I was like, it's so sexist. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I was like, holy shit. Not that, you know, whatever. Not like any 90s comedy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They all are, but I feel like we forget. Oh, yeah. No, no, no. Because the standards were so different then. 100%. That even the women were down with fucking hating women. We were like, but I feel like we forget. Oh, yeah. No, no, no. Because the standards were so different then. 100%. That even the women were down with fucking hating women. We were like, stupid bitch. I mean, literally.

You're like, Leslie, man, you stupid bitch. You don't deserve shit. You worked at Hooters. Yeah, idiot. Earning money with your dumb body, you dumb bitch. Like, what is wrong with us? You're like, oh, no, but the soundtrack was flames. All right, we're going to take a quick break

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And I was just like, yo, you probably killed some people with that. People probably died of a heart attack. You almost killed me. Yeah, I know. When I was looking at Politico and a few other things, I was like, all right, well, a lot of these races are tight. Nothing had been called in the wrong direction yet.

But a lot of things seemed a little bit tighter than we thought maybe at first yeah and the way you were just like what the fuck is going on it was it almost it sort of unnerved me because like wait why are they so like wholeheartedly being like okay well now the democrats have a 34 chance of winning the house yeah this is absurdity. But luckily, we've got our gears together. We've got our feet on the ground. Yes.

And our head in the clouds. And yes, we were able to find a version that worked. But yeah, that was pretty wild for them to be kind of constantly swinging the probability like that on people. We have 2016 PTSD when it comes to looking at returns. I think that's exactly what it is. And people can be like, oh, the libs, they're so weak. people we have 2016 ptsd when it comes to looking at i think that's exactly what it is like i mean and people can be like oh the libs they're so weak like they act like they were traumatized but yeah

i mean you can call me weak if you want but i'm legitimately traumatized from 2016 because everything after it has been just as bad as i was worried it was gonna be on that it's not worse it would have been great if we were all just being, you know, extreme in our predictions and, like, the world is ending kind of stuff. But now the world's actually ending. All right. They have a date. Exactly. So we were right.

Two decades. Just in terms of kind of early reactions to the results, it seems like it was basically a return to Nate Silver being right about everything, like in his, in terms of the predictions heading in, it was like, okay, the Democrats will take the House, the Republicans will keep the Senate. They were off on a couple of the gubernatorial things, but just in general, it wasn't a huge, broad repudiation of Trump in the sense of, you know, there was not a blue wave, or at least that's how it's being covered, that there wasn't a blue wave. But it was a successful night for

Democrats and basically enough for both sides to try and spin it as a positive night for them. Yeah. Oh, man. Hannity was really trying to spin this as a positive night. Yeah. He's like, it was actually a great night. For DJT. Yeah, for DJT. And I'm like, oh, really, sir? Because I think one thing, you know, as we look at all the returns, I mean, we've seen most of them.

But, like, as we really kind of get a picture of what actually happened, I know I think Colorado completely flipped their state legislature blue. Like, there's been all kinds of little things going on. So there's a lot of state-level things that we've yet to kind of fully, you know, wrap our heads around. But the idea now that with the Democrats in the majority, you know, now they're going to have those chair positions and a lot of those committees, which means a whole new bevy of investigative and subpoena powers that we didn't have because, you know, being in the majority is a tricky thing because you have to do lame shit like oversight or hold the president accountable. And I think one thing that like amongst the many things, not just that the Democrats are

finally going to act as a check legislatively from a congressional standpoint against Trump is that now we have the ability to start really calling people in to answer questions and explain things. And, you know, a few months ago, we talked about how there was a spreadsheet going around that the Republicans were putting together, being like, OK, remember all the things that the Democrats kept asking us for in committee, like whether it was around Russia or these other things? Well, and we kept saying no, because we were the majority party. Well, they're probably going to do this to us now,

because these are the things they wanted. And is the Republicans' list of things they're scared that Democrats would start doing if they won back the House. They called it a literal hell list. Yes. And this was all meant to basically put the legal team of the White House under alert to be like, prepare yourself to produce these records. It's going to be a nightmare for them. it's going to be a nightmare for them. But again, not that these things that I'm about to list are going to be resolved instantly, but it's good to know that now we do have some ability to begin to look into these things. And I'll just read off this list, very short list, just to give you an idea. So starting from the top, President Trump's tax returns, Trump family business, and whether

they comply with the Constitution's emolument clause, Trump's dealings with Russia, the payment of Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, James Comeolument clause, Trump's dealings with Russia, the payment of Stephanie Clifford, a.k.a. Stormy Daniels, James Comey's firing, Trump's firing of U.S. attorneys, Trump's proposed transgender ban for the military, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's business dealings, White House staff's personal email use, Cabinet Secretary travel off expenses. Hold on, hold on, I just slid off the chair. And other misused perks, discussions

of classified information at Mar-a-Lago, Jared Kushner's ethics law compliance, dismissal of members of the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors, the travel ban, family separation policy, hurricane response in Puerto Rico, election security and hacking attempts, White House security clearances are just a few. Just a couple. Just a couple. I'm just snapping to that.

Yeah. I mean. But those are, that's a greatest hits list. That is. Of the past couple years. And again, like I say, before these people on the right were able to just obscure this nonsense and buffoonery and act like we were the whiny people. But when you look at this, this reads like a list of things you probably would care about if you were an American citizen.

Right. So. So we'll see. MSNBC had the hot breaking news. Like the moment after they called the House for the Democrats, they were like, and this just in, the Democrats have informed us that they are requesting Trump's tax returns effective immediately. So they basically checked off that first box like right off the bat. But they don't have to. The IRS doesn't have to. It looks like they could put up a fight about handing over the tax returns, too.

So is none of this going to matter? Is it just going to be like shit? Is it going to be just like. Well, you never know. That's the thing about the way our democracy or quote unquote democracy is set up. You know, there's a lot of ways like if you're cheating like they do, you stack the courts with judges who like, again, if you had to sue to get these tax returns might be like, I don't think.

I'm just worried that this government doesn't respect the process. Well, of course not. I mean, look at all the last minute voter suppression shit that was going down. Oh, yeah. And I wouldn't be optimistic. But again, I think what we do have here, though, is that we can finally formally begin producing information around these things

in a way that isn't just us, you know, banging outside the shop window being like, please let us in. Right. I just worry because we have the information like about, you know, speaking of disenfranchisement, the Stacey Abrams thing. Right. I just worry because we have the information like about you know speaking of disenfranchisement the Stacey Abrams thing. Yeah. We have the information that the

votes were being changed. Yeah or at the very least yes. From her to Kemp. Yeah. Or registrations were being iced. Registration. Yeah. All of that. So like and what the knowledge is out there. Well I think yeah a lot of people are encouraging her to not concede that race because. I fucking wouldn't. You know you have someone who is running the basically the election also running i was just

yeah you can't do both no you're like oh i checked it out i won no everything checks out yeah looks looks right yeah cool someone had to wait four and a half hours to vote anyway i don't know whatever so there's this thing that is very important in political media coverage with expectations going into it where counterintuitively you want to set your side up as completely inept heading into an event so that when it goes in the other direction, you seem like you came out of nowhere. It's basically going against expectations. Watching the results come in, the only stories, the only races that they were covering were the ones that were sort of going against expectations. And then you'd get the one that was called that was a foregone

conclusion. But I feel like that's going to work against the Democrats a little bit as well, That's going to work against the Democrats a little bit as well, just in terms of how this midterm is covered. Because I think there are races that were being covered like Gillum in Florida, like Stacey Abrams, like Beto O'Rourke, probably the biggest one that didn't go the Democrats way. But those would have been kind of upsets if you were looking a month ago at what was. It's insane it got that close in Texas. Yeah. Right. And that's the thing. I think despite that, I know we were really pulling for Beto to pull off a upset against

Manet's face. Speak for yourself. I'm a Cruz guy. I know. You love Manet's face. I still don't get it. I just like blobfishes. I don't know.

Again, but I think there are a lot of good takeaways from that is that, you know, Beto really did energize the Democrats in the state. And also with a very progressive platform in a state like Texas to get that close, that's saying something. And who knows if 2020 we're looking at, you know, President O'Rourke. Sounds better, but we'll see. And one of the details that was kind of being papered over by Republicans on these sort of talking head shows is, you know, they were like, well, when Obama had his first midterm, he lost a number of like X number of seats. 69. You guys are only picking up this many. like X number of seats.

69. You guys are only picking up this many. And when you look at overall, like how many House votes they're predicting, it will end up between 6% and 10% Democratic victory, which is a pretty big win. Like Bush beat Dukakis by 8%. Reagan beat Carter by 9%. Those are seen as pretty like definitive

and era-defining victories, but because it's like people were going in with this idea that there might be a blue wave, that sort of everything was going to be more left than people predicted heading in. Sure, but I also think that speaks to all the gerrymandering too. Right. The same thing.

We have somehow winning almost by double digits, but it's this close yeah yeah so again and that's something that governors could help uh if you know the if the democrats had won yeah i mean as we record they are still winning we you know we don't know the full picture but the picture you know there's there's there are things to smile about, a couple things to frown about. But overall, we did the shit that we needed to do at the very least, which is gain control of the House. But the way

the New York Times is covering it, Ted Cruz defeats Beto O'Rourke for Senate as Blue Wave fails to reach Texas is their headline for that race. That is so misleading. Yeah. It seems.

I don't know. And well, Pete Sessions lost. So I don't think they were they were expecting that in Texas. Right. Also. So that was another. I mean, there's Pete Sessions. Pete Sessions is a congressman from Texas.

I think the Dallas area. And, you know, he's been around for a long time. But again, you know, he had a challenger coming up against him, very handsome man of color. And he did his shit and then won. So, you know, Texas, as much as they want to, you know, we were over here being like, come on, Texas, what the fuck is going on? At least we've seen something awaken in that state. Yeah. But at the same time, come on, 59. Was that 59% of white women voted for uh ted cruz

yes was that a real stat yeah that's what people were reporting on on the tv then 59 of white women in texas fucking ain't shit i don't fucking how much do you have to hate yourself or i mean literally who hurt you like i just don't understand i think you know there i think there are some people who just so entrenched in the partisan aspect of it where they're like I'm just I don't care I I'm not gonna be suddenly Beto because all the cool people are like all the young people think he's great and I'm sure they're also those people who are problematic you know they have uh racist views or other things or they like the president's agenda and that's why they voted for him. But yeah, you know, things are moving. Yeah. So what does this mean in terms of like what the Democrats, I mean, is it basically they'll be able to stall things out that Trump is trying to push through? Well, I mean, he's not going to get anything through the House, obviously.

Right. You know, so. What are some examples of things that he got through the House during the first two years of his administration? Like the fucking tax cuts. Oh. Like the attempts at Obamacare repeal. Got it. Those things now, you have no way to legislatively do that as you used to.

There's going to be a lot of executive orders and shit and lawsuits probably. Right. So the things that literally hurt people. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there are going to be many ways to inflict damage as we found because he is you know unstoppable in that aspect but you know the other thing too is that the democrats can now begin to pass bills that are going to signal to voters coming up in the

next election what the fuck this platform is about and i think the other it's a double-edged sword because on the other side too we may really find out how deeply fractured the Democrat Party is, where you have a lot of these younger or freshman incoming Congress people who like ran on really progressive things. And then you have someone like Nancy Pelosi with the speaker's gavel who might not be down to do Medicare for all off the rip, you know, and expend all that political capital. you know, and expend all that political capital, you know, it'll probably be more realistically stuff like infrastructure, prescription drugs and things like that that are just a little bit easier to even get a little bit of bipartisan support for. Predictions. Yeah. Things like that. And also to just general things like reverse some of the damage that's been done now with the Senate being in full on Republican control, that's going to be difficult.

But again, that's why that's how Democrats are going to make their case so like this is what we're trying to do on behalf of people yeah you know and then this is what's the gunking it up at the top so please vote correctly in 2020 but yeah at the same time i will just say going against everything i just said about like expectation setting This did just feel like from a gut level to me, like I was back at a place, the same place I was at in the aftermath of the 2016 election where it was like, OK, so I can get away from the reality of what America is like. All I want by, you know, reading actual journalism and, you know, talking to other people who are paying attention to the news. But there's just this hard, immovable reality that you have to come up against every time there's an election. And this just didn't make me... I started thinking forward to 2020 and just pooped a little bit. I mean, there are definitely encouraging things,

you know, I don't know the specific detailed numbers of, you know, turnout, millennial turnout, but, you know, there were huge moves to the left in anywhere people basically had educations, it seems like. So like suburbs and stuff like that. And basically how Florida broke down and how a lot of Texas broke down was basically completely based on, you know, whether you had a college degree or not. And things in counties where people have college degrees really moved to the left in a significant way but just you know when you are seeing a charismatic figure like beto o'rourke lose a statewide election even even if it is like red texas it's when when he's losing to ted cruz it's just like wow like i live in a different

reality than a lot of people yeah yeah well Yeah. Well, and also this year, uh, over a hundred women, I think were elected. Yeah. Through these. And that's showing me something too. This is, we're trying to have a,

uh, government that is a little more representative of what it looks like. That reminds me of my favorite tweet that I brought. Oh, wow. Sweet. But you kind of jump in the gun, miss.

You can. She can. Okay. What is your favorite tweet? This is, uh, my friend, um, Alison allison lippert um tweeted this on twitter and she said this gay kid never imagined that her hometown would elect sharice davids an openly gay woman as the first native american woman to congress yeah thanks for giving me new hope kansas And she did a picture of her as a little gay kid. So yeah, I think that's something that's giving me hope.

Yeah. You had the first, I think, Latina elected to Congress from Texas. You had the first two Muslim American women in Minnesota and Michigan. You had Ayanna Pressley was the first black woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts, finally. So, yeah, a lot of firsts. And, yeah, I just hope this is more indicative. And, like, when a lot of the ballot measures that passed, too, like with restoring voting rights to felons, like in Florida and things like that,

there were moments where I was like, how are you voting for that? And then the progressive guy didn't win. And I get how some people, you know, they are some vote just straight down the ticket for some things. But it was also it was there were more heartening examples, too, of sort of shifts happening on smaller levels. Yeah. And even the Beto thing, I was talking about how in the Texas governor race, the Republican, they called it like with 25 percent reporting just because it was like, oh, this guy's crushing. The Republican is winning by such a wide margin. But enough people, enough Republicans defected to be like, I mean, look at these two guys. Right.

Like, who are you going to vote for? That, you know, maybe that is something to take a little bit of solace in. Yeah. Michigan, welcome to the legalized weed club, too. And now Beto is free to run for president, I guess, in 2020, whereas the Senate would need him to keep that seat since you wouldn't want it to go to a special election. So we'll see what happens there. Little wish fulfillment here at the end of this segment. Of the different things that Miles read off of the different house investigations that can be launched, what is the one that you're most looking forward to?

Oh, God. What is the most? How can you pick one? They're all my children. Family separation policy and the travel ban. I feel like the family separation policy and the travel ban, there's just going to be emails behind the scenes on those that you can just FOIA and it's just going to be wild. Oh, actually, hurricane response in Puerto Rico. That's my number one. That's going to be unbelievable. Yeah.

I think also finding out about what Trump is doing with all these Chinese trademarks and other business things that are going on, I think, could be very interesting. The emoluments stuff. Yeah, the emoluments stuff. I think also, you know, anything around Jared Kushner because we know he's shady as fuck. So I don't know. Honestly, they're all – I'm excited for everything. Yeah. Again, but I don't mean to say this as if because of this happens, you know, they're going be marching jared out in the prison orange jumpsuit or anything like that but again it'll be good to bring some truth

out around these things and begin to call people forward to be accountable especially people who are running departments like fema and things like that and be like okay what what what went on exactly my man i think i'm most excited about the ones that are hurting people, like what you were saying, Jack, the most directly. Right. They are all hurting people, obviously. But the direct deaths from the horrible response in Puerto Rico and for sure family separation. Yeah, or have all the people in the army come up whose own assessment of this migrant caravan were like, yeah, this is not an actual threat. And have those people come up, say that out loud, and help people realize what's going on a little bit.

But again, yeah, this could be wish fulfillment and wishful thinking, and we're just delirious because we've been watching the news all day. Trump's dealings with Russia. I'm excited for that. I feel like we were on hold there for a little bit. It's like that part in the Hamilton where they're like, can we get back to politics? Good. Oh, I'm not doing that well.

I haven't been able to see Hamilton. Right. Oh, yeah. So, you know. Weird flex, but okay. It reminds me of the original cast of Hamilton, not so much the one that's out here now. Oh, did you not see it with Lynn?

Oh, yeah. Lynn is a great friend of mine. It reminds me of when you just performed it with Lynn? Oh, yeah. Lynn is a great friend of mine. It reminds me of when you just performed it for me in my living room. And I was like, oh, my God, this is so embarrassing. And he's like, Sophia, look, I got to just tell you this is going to be big. And I'm like, OK, I guess. But, yeah, again, we don't know. We'll see what happens.

That's the other thing is because just because this is happening doesn't mean Trump isn't going to do everything in his power to avoid being held accountable or protecting the people around him who are enabling him. But again, at the very least, we have some kind of a check now. He doesn't have just an entirely Republican House and Senate. But it does seem like the Mueller investigation went quiet for about three weeks there and stuff was happening behind the scenes. Well, yeah, because he was, I think the whole deal was he wasn't going to do anything that was going to become a distraction during an election. So that's what we'll see now because he's been in the lab, you know, on the cover of darkness. So we'll see what he's cooked up. Yeah. And I do think, you know,

we've talked in the past couple of weeks about how Trump's approval rating has slowly inched up a So we'll see what he's cooked up. news coming out where it's like, look at this. Even though people are like, oh, the Russia stuff is just a distraction and it doesn't affect middle America, I still think that when you have this steady drip of stories that just show clear evidence that the president is corrupt, that has to hurt his approval rating. Yeah. Well, I think it dipped again, though, before today. Yeah. But I guess that was just- it's been in the, like,

10 points underwater range. Like, just more people, 10%, disapprove of him than approve. Well, he seems very confident because, you know, he tweeted just late at night on Tuesday after the Democrats took control of the House, and I mentioned all those things that could happen.

His tweet was, tremendous success tonight. Thank you to all. But you knew he was going to tweet that regardless of anything. But then he'll probably wake up at like 3 in the morning, shit his pants, and start being like, Paul Ryan is a little fucking loser, and I should have never trusted him. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was right. Yeah, exactly.

I do think he was, it turns out, because all the places where he went, they did end up winning the Senate seat by more than was predicted. And yeah, racism still works in America. Who knew? Who would have thunk it? Yeah. The whole idea of not talking about something, having a blackout period on a story that's bad for the president in the run-up to an election seems like that in itself is a bias. It's not telling a story that is happening. That people should consider. Right.

Right. And Comey kept himself quiet because he knew Fox News was going to lose its shit in the run up to 2016 and actively like made it seem like the investigation into Russian meddling on behalf of Trump was less of a thing because he didn't want to be accused of bias. But being like aware of only one side of the bias is in itself biased. Well, yeah, and that's what's led to the rise of right-wing extremism violence, too, is because that's another thing that they try and defend and be like, oh, why are you just trying to pick on these people because they have guns and a violent agenda and military weapons? And blew up the Oklahoma City bomb. You know what I mean? But it's true. And there was an article talking about how that did affect law enforcement's ability to seriously assess those threats because people were going to try and – that they would face criticism for doing it. Oh, we're doing a whole section on that this week because, yeah, that article underlined a lot of stuff we've been saying for a while.

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And so there might be alien life, turns out, if I'm reading this right. I know, I'm a little bored by this story now. Come on, you guys. Well, no, I exhale because originally I think we wanted to talk about it in the event that things went horribly awful and we're just like, whatever, dude, an alien ship might just come kill us all and take us out of our misery. Amu, amua. Okay. That's pretty basic to think that the aliens would want to kill us, Miles.

Thank you. They are evolved. They are going to take us with them. Oh, you're right. Okay. My bad. My bad. Sorry for the backlash.

to take us with them. Oh, you're right. Okay, my bad, my bad. Sorry for the backlash. But Jack was pronouncing the name of this object, this foreign object that they have detected. Sorry, did I say something? I thought I just blacked out there for a second. No, okay.

So to set the story up, y'all, what happened was like a while back, I think a year ago or something. Yeah, last year. Yeah, the astronomers, they detected this gigantic object that was very sort of odd looking, dubbed, Jack, as you pronounced. Amu Amua. Or Omua Mua, or whatever. Hey, whatever you want to call it.

Amu Amua. Hey, all right. All right. Yeah, they say it arrived from interstellar space beyond the bubble-like region that demarcates the sun's domain. Sort of dildo-shaped. Yeah, it looks like- Splinter-shaped.

It looks like an eclair or a ladyfinger, I think, is what you would call that. Uh-huh. But the thing that got people sort of interested in it is that, especially these people at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, so they're not just lying to you- Like a hax. That they're saying, first they're like, oh, maybe there's a comet, but they have a very different theory. So some of these astrophysicists claim that Oumuamua could be a, quote,

fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization. Oumuamua deviates from a trajectory that is solely dictated by the sun's gravity. This could have been the result of cometary outgassing, but there is no evidence for a cometary tail around it. Moreover, comets change at the period of their spin, and no such change was detected for Oumuamua. So they're saying, yo, this thing is moving around, not like anything else we know. What's going on here?

Yeah, and there's also... I also like that one of you thought it looked like a dildo on the other one, like an eclair. Right thought it looked like a dildo on the other one like an eclair right it's like a hungry horny situation yeah yeah it just depends on who's got dicks on the brain and who's got there's a you know truth be told there's no amount of uh marshmallow fluff you can put on a dildo for it to taste good so they're they're talking about it being potentially a light sale what is that something where you're using the speed of light to transport yourself at the speed of light? Is that the idea?

Well, they're saying that they, again, this is so science and I did so terribly in science in school. I had to cheat to pass. Okay, so I'm sorry. I'm a little confession for y'all. But the way that it's moving, they're saying another explanation is that the, quote, extra force exerted on Oumuamua by sunlight, that is what's moving it. And for that to be possible, that the actual object would have to be less than a millimeter in thickness, like a sail. So they're saying that this may be some kind of light sail produced by an alien civilization.

But it's also kind of a thing that we're kind of working on on this planet too. Yeah. With, yeah, anyway. Never heard of a light sail? No. Pretty embarrassing. I'm a broke boy space explorer. I have a Dodge Dart.

It actually also comes with a light sail. That's actually the color of your car is light sail. Right. One of the theories that I've heard, and by the way, we'll talk about people who are debunking this because the scientific community loves themselves a backlash. Yeah. They love a good debunk. Yeah. Well, let's really look at this object.

I'm really into bunking. I mean, essentially the point that somebody made in debunking this was just that a theory is just something that you can't prove incorrect outright, which is true. It's one of like a thousand possibilities, but this is a very interesting possibility. So it's worth talking about. And, you know, it helps explain a couple of things that haven't been explained otherwise. that haven't been explained otherwise. But a theory I saw somewhere was that this is part of a ship that has been cast off from another craft that has been now slowing down in its approach to Earth.

Because if you had our spacecraft, you shed different parts of it that are powering it as you're going up through space. So if you shed something that was part of a spacecraft as you were slowing down to approach Earth, then that thing would go flying by the solar system before the ship actually arrived because it would be slowing down.

Oh, shit. So we might be seeing what was actually coming here. So that's them ditching the rocket booster. Right. That's the rocket booster that they ditched. Woo! The real deal is coming for us. So that sounds like Independence Day, the second part,

and now I'm terrified. It's like, I feel like the way you look at aliens is the same way people were optimistic about the election before and after 2016. There are groups of us who are like, yeah, baby, any signal means aliens or means Hillary's going to win. And then there are other people who are like, no.

Even though I'm an expert, I need the fucking alien to come down upon the planet and be able to shake its hand for me to acknowledge it. I just also hope that they love 90 Day Fiancé. Oh my god. They almost definitely will. That's the only thing I care about. That will be the ultimate 90-day

fiance is an alien life form coming down to earth idea ever jack they're like bleak blorg was way different than when we were first chatting online right he said he was a multi-cell organism but actually when i met him he was more of an amoeba. I was like, I thought on Earth you guys have gold and go on vacations. This is not what I signed up for. God. He didn't meet you with flowers. Where are my flowers? Larissa, anyway, we have to figure out how we're going to talk about this show.

One possibility that I've always thought was more likely that I didn't understand why people don't talk about more is that like we would encounter an alien civilization that had like died off a million years ago and we're just like seeing evidence of it, you know, coming to us through space. And that's something that I saw mentioned while people were discussing this report that like it could be a long ago civilization and it's just like passing by. Their space shit is only making it to us

now but like that would be fucking dope if we found out about an entire civilization's like history an entire species history but we didn't have to deal with like getting killed off by them we just like got to read an entire history yeah we go oh cool a dead body but wouldn't it be crazy if it was just our history and it ends with Donald Trump? Right. We're like, yo, dude. That's a script right there. You still couldn't get people to vote him out of office.

Did I blow your mind this time? That's a script. That's a script. Write that down. Honestly, though, I can just imagine us being like, holy shit, this is our history. And the next year, Donald Trump ends the world and people would be like, nah, fake news. It would go exactly the same way. I've said for a long time that the aliens are very bigly losers.

This is crisis space refuse. Right. It's not real shit. Right. Space refuse. Right. It's not real shit. Right.

Well, Sophia, thank you so much for coming and joining us on this special election episode of The Daily Zeitgeist. Thank you so much for having us. It was great having you. We're burning the midnight oil, so we appreciate it. Yes. Where can people find you and follow you? I am TheSophia, T-H-E-S-O-F-I-Y-A, on Twitter and Instagram. And I got a podcast called Reality Bites. Reality Bites.

A lot of fun. Is there a tweet that you've been enjoying besides the one you shared with us already? I'm just going to share my all-time favorite tweet by Ted Travelstead, which is, I'm not everyone's cup of teeth. That makes me laugh more than anything. Miles, where can people find you oh you can find me on twitter and instagram at miles of gray and a tweet you've been enjoying uh this comes from at cotton can daddy uh gracie who's just is the display name it says wow bitches really will get 10 000 likes on a tweet and move to L.A.

I saw that one. Like, for real. For real. And then another one, Ever Maynard, shout out to you, Ever, because all caps, you tweeted out loud and proud, just got health insurance, bitch. So, yes, please get that health insurance. I'm sorry we live in such a place where we can't take care of our people, but yes. Also, Ever is hilarious.

Yeah, pop bottles, man. Ever is so funny. You can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. I'm just going to draw your attention to a thing I tweeted a couple days back that says flip your phone upside down. That's pretty fucking cool. It's just somebody showing outside their car window as they're driving, and it's dusk, so it's's a pretty sky but then it says flip your

phone upside down and when you do for whatever reason it just becomes this like crazy trippy like weird light show uh just from like changing the perspective that you're looking at it so yeah yeah a highly visual tweet for this uh audio medium and then a partner non-charlissa sunday is the day of rest unless you're existential dread, in which case you better work. Which is so true for me. Sunday is, I feel

so much anxiety. Do you? I just talked about this on the Mental Illness Happy Hour. I said the way it feels on Sunday is like that something is ending and you don't know what it is but it makes you so sad. Yeah, me too. You know what's funny?

I used to get it until I started doing this show. No lie. Now you're happy on Sundays? It was always when, like, are you doing a job I didn't like? Because I'd be like, oh, fuck, I got to go do it. It doesn't matter. I still feel like that Sunday feeling is sad. I feel blessed.

Blessed, y'all. Thank y'all. Sunday is the fall of days. The fall of days. The end of days. The season. The autumn of days.

Monday is winter. We'll workshop that. I'll work on this analogy for next time. Alright. You can follow us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com,

where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about on today's episode as well as the song we write out on. You can also find that information in the show notes. Shanotes. Miles, what song are we going to write out on this day after Election Day? The song we'll go out on today. Now, I know it wasn't quite the blue wave we were hoping for where both houses go,

but it was still a bit of a wave nonetheless. And I played this song a while back. We were first talking about The Wave. And this is the song, wave by little little haiti uh and kush flow uh but again i know it's on a full-blown wave but if you just want to hit the shmoney dance and then bust the wave uh you can do that on all uh your homies who voted red yesterday so yes the wave little haiti there you go and i know what all those words mean all right we're gonna ride out on that We will be back tomorrow because

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