The Daily Zeitgeist - Breh Kavanaugh, That New Spider-Man Game Tho 9.21.18

Episode Date: September 21, 2018

In episode 237, Jack and Miles are joined by New Player Has Joined podcast hosts Keith Kingbay and Jesse Neil to discuss the new Spider Man game, Trump thinking you can build a wall across the Sahara, more Kavanaugh information, conspiracy theories the right is spreading about Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, racist remarks from a Texas superintendent about Deshaun Watson, the release of the new Predator and it's controversy, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. SPIDER-MAN ON PS4 MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE A SUPERHERO2. Donald Trump urged Spain to 'build the wall' – across the Sahara3. 'No accident' Brett Kavanaugh's female law clerks 'looked like models', Yale professor told students4. Accusations Draw New Attention to Kavanaugh’s Remarks About Drinking5. Drudge Report Dragged For Promoting Hit Piece On The Wrong 'Christine Ford'6. Is This a Photograph of Christine Blasey Ford Holding a ‘Not My President’ Sign?7. A pro-Trump troll started a viral hoax about Christine Blasey Ford and Neil Gorsuch, and Rush Limbaugh ran with it8. Debunking 5 Viral Rumors About Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s Accuser9. Allegations Against Kavanaugh10. Christine Blasey Ford is laying out conditions for her Senate testimony on sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh11. Texans address school superintendent's racist comments about Deshaun Watson12. The Predator (2018)13. Fox Deletes Scene From ‘The Predator’ With Registered Sex Offender14. Shane Black Apologizes Again for ‘Stupid Decision’ to Hire Sex Offender for ‘The Predator’15. Shane Black Adds To Apology Over Casting Sex Offender In ‘The Predator’16. WATCH: Predator - Shooting Jungle [HD]17. WATCH: Promissory Note by Nohidea Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Because the company had promised $150, grand in prizes to four finalists. But the prizes disappeared, leading to one of the biggest controversies in 80s pop culture. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 49, Episode 5 of Dead Daily Zeitgeist! For Friday, September 21st, 2018, my name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. When you're casting some pod and your pants are full of sod. Jack O'Brien. Jack O'Brien.

When you're casting daily pods and you're sitting on a wad. Daily Zeitgeist. Daily Zeitgeist. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Engine, engine, number nine on the Daily Zeitgeist line. If Miles Gray goes off the track Pick him up, pick him up, pick him up Miles on the scene

Blazing and clean I'm not really clean Actually, but thank you so much for Mr. Kelly T For that awesome Black Sheep inspired AKA You know, he always comes through with those really deep cut 90s hip hop and R&B AKs Always appreciate you, Mr. Kelly T Prickly persona Such a great feat Also, shout out to kirsten over at the late late show i saw you rocking some zeitgang merchandise on the show so shout out to you and all the supporters

out there on the show well you know at work oh but it's a conversation so it was like in the minds of people who were on the show might as well be a direct line to all the celebrities people got it yeah they got it so shout out to you shout out to all the celebrities out on the show. People got it. People got the impression. So shout out to you. Shout out to all the listeners out there. Yeah, shout out to all the people who gave me, first of all, the second diarrhea one, round and second base, and your pants are full of paste. Ooh. And also all the suggestions for AKA diarrhea ones.

Oh, did you get a lot of diarrhea? I did. I got a lot of diarrhea AKAs. They just weren't as good as the ones that I wrote myself. But good work. Good effort. Keep trying, guys. And we are thrilled to be joined in our third and fourth seat

by the hosts of the New Player Has Joined podcast, Keith Kingbay and Jesse Neal. What's up, guys? Thanks so much for having us. Thank you for having us. I feel so unprepared for the level of intro you guys just gave yourselves. I'm like, I'm blown away by this. Okay, well, now it's your turn.

Go. No. Jesse, freestyle. Freestyle. Let's go. Let's go. The worst thing. You guys want to have zero fans by the end of this episode?

Give me a beat. Okay. No. No way. Come on, man. No way am I going to do that. You can't just say, give me a beat. No. No way. Come on, man. No way am I going to do that. You can't just say, give me a beat. Give me a beat.

Maybe another one. No, not that one. Not that one. Another one. I guess I'm a little bit more vibey. Okay, no. No way. All right, we're going to get to know you guys a little bit better.

But first, we're going to tell our listeners what we're going to be talking about. Just a quick check in with the world of video games, of which I am completely ignorant. Speaking of ignorant, we're going to talk about a couple of things the president has said in the past week, as well as just what he's preparing to do to just bring this whole democracy thing crashing down. Advertently, not inadvertently this time. The funniest part of that is that you think he's planning anything at all. Right. Well, he's got some.

It's just thrashing. Yeah, that's what it is. Thrashing and bouncing. Violent uncertainty. Have you tried to wash a cat? That's what stage of the administration we're in. So we're going to talk more Kavanaugh stuff. I just feel like a clearer and clearer picture of this dude is coming into focus,

and he is Sack from Wedding Crashers, Bradley Cooper's character from Wedding Crashers when he's not in front of Senate Judicial Committee. Or his basketball team. Right. We are going to talk about some conspiracies that are being created around Christine Blasey Ford by the right. They're not even trying, but they are working because people are passing them around. Rush Limbaugh is sharing them on the airwaves with conservatives. So we're going to give you some different conspiracies to look out for at, I guess, Thanksgiving dinner. Next time you interact with your conservative relatives. We're going to talk about the black quarterback myth that is

back in the news and the fact that Predator came out last weekend and an interesting subplot going on behind the scenes of that movie. But first, guys, what is something from your search histories that is revealing about who you are? Oh, yeah, my last search history thing. I've been playing this game for the Nintendo Switch called Octopath Traveler that I genuinely hate and I've plugged about 70 hours of my life into regardless. And the last thing I searched for was battle-tested dagger location Octopath Traveler because I wanted an endgame weapon in this game that I fucking hate.

This is a game you spent $60 on. I spent $60 on this game. I fucking hate it. I don't. You're a savvy consumer, huh? I just pissed that money away. I have physical therapy shit that I've been doing that requires me to be lying down for long stretches of time. And so I'm just on my floor with this Switch hanging above my face, just muttering under my breath how much I fucking hate this game.

Oh, man. All I see is $60 I don't have every time I pick that thing up. But, yeah, 70 hours deep, and I haven't given up on it. Have you heard every moment of it? Have you heard of the sunk cost fallacy? Yeah, man, yeah, I have. But I'm not spending more money on this, just more hours. Right, just your precious time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when the Nintendo Switch was first coming out, they had, like, all these different scenarios they were having to create for, like, why you would need the handheld thing. People were doing yoga and playing video games on their floor in furniture-less apartments. I was like, yeah, I guess that would be a time when you wouldn't be able to game in front of a TV,

but you actually are using it for the design. Yeah, no, there wasn't any point in those commercials where they're like, you're going to turn 32 and your back's going to go up because you don't take care of yourself. Yeah. Would have been a better hook, I think. Yeah, I think it would have been more realistic. What about you, Keith?

I actually Googled recently flashy boxers because I recently started working at a boxing gym and I'm training how to box and give you a better boxer. Oh, and that's just underwear. No, no, no, no, just, yeah, really flashy. Flashy boxers and flashy boxers. Yeah, you remember those ties your dad used to wear in the 90s? They light up. I was looking at that sort of stuff.

No, but I'm watching, like, all these great, phenomenal fighters, and I'm realizing halfway through, like, I can't do any of this. Like, they're all way better than I am. I love that you Googled search flashy boxers, not, like, championship boxers. No, not at all. Who was taunting the other boxer and then got knocked out immediately? I want to look like that guy. Oh, he looks so cool when he's bleeding out his mouth on the fucking canvas.

Flashy boxers. Vasily Lomachenko, guys. All day. Vasily Lomachenko. What is something you guys think is overrated? Yo, fuck coffee. Wow. Really?

You look me dead in my eye and say that. Come at me. Fuck coffee. I think coffee sucks. I think it's boring and it tastes bitter. Look how my hand's shaking. Miles is shaking like he's just having his Vietnam War flashback right now trying to tell me about the young Viet Cong soldier he accidentally shot.

Oh, no. I did. Wait, what do you like about coffee? It's bitter and gross tasting. It's expensive, and people don't need caffeine. It's genuinely bad for you. It's bad. Drink water in the morning, guys. Drink two cups of water when you wake up.

What's the caffeine content of water? It's very little, comparatively. It's not zero, but it's very little. There's a study that there's a lot of caffeine in the groundwater now in some cities. Really? That's what I'm saying, guys. Get your caffeine from the ground like normal people. Is it just from my urine?

Probably, yeah. It's every city you visited or lived in. Are you drinking that much coffee? More importantly, are you peeing that much urine? Oh, yeah. It's all urine. It's all urine. Yeah.

All right. That's all I got. Fuck off. So right to me, social media. Social media. Social media. Oh, definitely. I think anyone who's on social media is like, yeah, I'm on Instagram.

I'm on Twitter. I'm hitting it up. But part of them is like, I want to quit doing this. It's always the third thing. I'm on Twitter. I'm on Instagram, I'm on Twitter, I'm hitting it up. But part of them is like, I want to quit doing this. It's always the third thing. I'm on Twitter, I'm on Instagram, I'm on antidepressants, I'm on everything. I'm on this. I keep going back and forth. What is something you guys think is underrated?

Adding fresh nutmeg to everything you make is underrated. Really? Just coming with a fire cake. So obscure. Like, fuck coffee, but yo, y'all not grating your own nutmeg? Yo, grate your own nutmeg, put it in pancakes and waffle mix. So would you buy like a sprig of nutmeg

and like using a microplane or something? Yeah, bro. That's exactly what I do. Wow. I make those every time I make potatoes au gratin, I put a little nutmeg in there. Every time you make French toast, a little nutmeg. Every time you make potatoes au gratin? And I make them more than you think I would. Are you the only person who makes nutmeg not during Christmas?

Oh, hell yeah. It's awesome. Yeah, I think you're drinking eggnog right now. I dare say it's underrated. Oh, eggnog? No, fuck eggnog. But, yo, fuck eggnog, fuck coffee. I hate a lot of liquids, but let's get into the nutmeg game.

Anything with nutmeg. How about you, man? Talking about your feelings. That's underrated. Wow. If you guys are noticing, my pattern here is get off social media and talk to people for real about what's going on with you. And I have a difficult relationship with food. Yeah, I think social media, yeah, if you can't, some people, it can really be toxic.

Like if you're not able to separate yourself from what you're reading on there or it's terrible how people interact with you like everybody's so much better than me or something like yeah or like even for like what we do people tweet at you and have opinions on shit and like just like anything right like you make videos on youtube the comment section this shit can be pretty toxic if you're not able to at least give yourself some distance or just be like i don't live on this thing like i live in real life i mean what's worse than you guys getting a one-star review isn't that just like oh gee are we that bad no it's worse a three-star review who the fuck is that guy one star of you I get it you don't like it five star of you I get it you like it three star of you are you nuts person's very polite weird piss

them off just four star reviews also I'm like, what is this world that you live in? Oh, so for you, it's all or none. It's binary with podcasts. You like it or you don't like it. They're just like the Leonard Maltin of podcasts. It's so weird. They're like filing 20 reviews a day. It's so strange.

Well, this was a good effort by the Daily Zydex group. Right, it's funny when you see people, you're like, what else is this person reviewing? And it's like, it's podcasts or versions of a Sudoku game. Wasn't there one reviewer who gave us a three-star review, and it was clearly he was an alt-right person that just didn't like our politics, but still gave us three stars? You could tell he was torn. He was like, politics, one star. Video games, five stars.

I'll even it out. Three. It's in the middle. Don't even get me started on those two-star reviews. Wait, an alt-right person who likes video games? I know, it's crazy. What's something that people think is true that you guys know too?

You should definitely wake somebody up if they're sleepwalking. What do you think? They have a knife or something and you're like, don't wake them up. It's like, wake them up! They're about to jump off a building! Yeah, yeah. Mike Birbiglia jumped out of the fucking second story through a glass window. Should have been wake them up. They're about to jump off a building Mike Birbiglia jumped out of the fucking second story through a glass window should have been woken up Absolutely, and he would not have a hit movie today

Somebody had woken him up before he jumped out of that window wake people up or they will become more successful than you Right. Yeah, there's a weird thing with kids when they're having I have a two-year-old who has something called night terrors that Brag about it. Yeah, I'm doing pretty well. It's about you. And I was trying to wake him up and finally Googled it and they were like, don't try to wake him up. Just like let him wind himself down because every time you try and wake him up, it just gets worse. So I don't know if sleepwalking is like night terrors i don't know

what the bad thing sleepwalking is you're literally like i am physically going to my fridge opening stuff up eating food dropping the food on the ground like that sleepwalking get back to bed when i was when i was a little kid there was one night where i would sleepwalk all the time and i slept walk down to my parents bedroom and the door was closed so i just walked face first into it for like two minutes. Oh like an NPC? And your dad's just like don't wake him up. My dad was like this is the funniest sim I've ever seen in my

entire life. And they opened the door and I was just standing there and I was like my head hurts. It's like bloody. Do you ever sleepwalk when you drink now? No I haven't sleptwalk. So here's a thing that happened. I live with my girlfriend Kristen and a few months ago, because I'm a boxing trainer during the day as my job.

Superhero at night. Yep, superhero at night, boxing trainer during the day. Not a great cover, all things considered. You went from violent to violent. The other month, I shot out of bed, and I just started sitting upright, started punching combinations, and then giving people coaching advice.

And then Kristen put her hand on my shoulder and was like, Jesse? And I was like, no, no, no, it's cool and then giving people coaching advice. And then Kristen like put her hand on my shoulder and was like, Jesse? And I was like, no, no, no, it's cool. I went back to bed. There you go. No, no, no, it's cool. Like you almost realized what she signed. You're like, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no. Glad you noticed. You're right. I should go back to sleep instead of punching this ghost. Yeah. I slept walk when I was a kid. And then when I would drink, I would start sleepwalking too.

Yeah. So that's dangerous. Yeah, it's a bad combo. So you drink a lot. Yeah. Way too much. What is a myth that people think is true? Gaz, I think you're going to notice a trend in what I've picked today, but breakfast is not the most important meal of the day.

Oh. Wow. What is? Fourth meal, right? I'm going to say lunch. Okay. Lunch is the meal. Wait, are you saying don't eat anything in the morning?

Not if you don't need to. I think a lot of people eat throughout the day at different times because they're like, this is what I've been told to do is to eat breakfast, eat lunch, and eat dinner. But sometimes you'll wake up in the morning and you won't be hungry. Yeah. Don't eat. Sometimes you'll wake up and you'll be starving. Eat a ton.

I will say breakfast has the most deserty foods for a meal. It's so crazy. Like everything's like get a donut, get a cinnamon bun. It's fried dough. Like everything's just like fat and sugar. Other a cinnamon bun. It's fried dough. Like, everything's just, like, fat and sugar. Other countries have, like, meat and potatoes for breakfast. Yeah. Like, Portugal gets it.

Right. And then Italy's like, here's some ice cream. Mark Wahlberg eats a New York strip steak at 2 in the morning. Right. Before he does his workout. That's true. Yeah, of course it is. He's like, seven pieces of sweet potato.

Yeah. Wasn't it three turkey burgers for his post-workout? And that's like at three in the morning? Yeah. Look at his schedule. You tell me if you guys are... He's just an hour set aside every day to just cry and hate everything. Now, it seems like you're telling me to trust my body, and I just...

Yeah, man. That's never worked for me. That's always been bad. Hey, man, does your body want to have night terrors? Let that shit go. Night terrors, bro. Let it go. That's never worked for me. That's always been bad. Hey, man, does your body want to have night terrors? Let that shit hit. Night terrors, bro. Let it go. That's all it is.

All right, guys, let's talk about video games. Let's do it. Because that is, you guys might know that I host a podcast called The Daily Zeitgeist, and a part of the zeitgeist that I am completely blind to is video games. So you guys have five minutes. Cram all the past year and a half of video games into it. All right. And go.

Well, it all started in 2018. It all started in 2018. I'm doing a year wrap-up. Well, now we've hit a point in video games that video games are now part of the mainstream. For a long time, it's been like, you play in your basement. Don't tell people you play video games. Now it's literally like NFL owners are buying up video game teams because they're competing. The Overwatch Championship was on ESPN.

Ninja was just on ESPN Magazine. That's the biggest streamer in the world. He was on ESPN Magazine? Yeah, just recently. On the bodies issue. Just in phenomenal shape, considering what he does. So video games to us right now,

it's actually really taking off. Even with Fortnite by itself, everybody's doing the dances. People are at the World Cup literally doing the dances and stuff. 125 million players worldwide for Fortnite. I get it, guys. I'm falling down on the job.

I should play video games. I'm bad at my job. No, you shouldn't. You're totally right. We're not doing swag games. Jack, do the swag games. We're telling you that you're bad at this. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

My bad. Jack, do you even know how to milly rock? If you did, you'd be playing Fortnite. Look at this fucking noob not even flossing for a second over here. But I mean, when you were a kid, remember Goldeneye was big. Yeah. Everybody was playing Goldeneye. No, I played video games.

Right. And then World of Warcraft was huge. Everybody was playing World of Warcraft. Fortnite blows all of those games out of the water by so much. It's like, it's insane what they've been able to do. World of Warcraft was what? 14 million. 14 million.

It was like the peak. Like that was like 125 million people are playing this game. So what are you guys playing now? I'm playing Spider-Man. Yeah, Spider-Man. Which another fun fact about that is apparently Spider-Man made more money in its first week than the movie Spider-Man Homecoming did. Yeah.

Hell yeah. That game got like tens across the board. Yeah, it's like $117 million for the film, $198 million for the video game. Because video games are making more money than movies and television. They're really taking off. They are crushing the market, man. Jesse's playing Octopath Traveler. I'm also replaying Persona 5 for maybe the third time in the last six months.

Persona 5? What is that? Persona 5. Oh, you asked the correct question. Whoa, he just took his shirt off. Miles is going to get this game. I am so pumped that I'm going to have to eat a New York strip steak and seven pieces of sweet potato right now.

This game is you play as a Japanese high schooler who stopped a man from sexually assaulting a woman, and the man turned out to be an important person in politics. So you go to court for like, an important person in politics. Ah. So, you go to court for assault, for, like, punching this guy, even though you were protecting somebody. You get transferred to the school, and the whole game is you go into the metaverse, which is people's collective subconscious, so that you can find evil people, change their hearts, steal their hearts, and make them confess to all of their crimes in the real world so that they will stop being evil and will finally be published.

So if you're super narcissistic, like your house looks to you like a kingdom and you're in charge of it and all these demons below you and everything like that. But when you're not doing that. You're just a high schooler. The way you get stronger in the game is to build up your social connections with friends and people around the community. So you hang out with people, go to karaoke, go to dinner. There's all sorts of these people you can meet and help different ways. You can go to the sauna. You can play baseball.

So it's like Pokemon in an RPG like Final Fantasy, but that doesn't matter because all you want to do is be a Japanese high schooler. All you want to do is go get ramen with Ryuji. That's all you want to do. It's the best fucking... But also change people's hearts. Exactly. That sounds like a solution to the world's problems

I thought of like on Molly. Yeah, exactly. What we have to do is like change people's hearts. You just got to go into the metaverse. You got to change their cognition, bro.

And I will say about this game because Jesse and I talk about it a lot and we talk about a ton of different games. I guarantee our show has sold probably over a hundred copies

because we talk about it that much. I know I guarantee our show has sold probably over 100 copies because we talk about it that much. I hope people buy more. I know, I think, wait, weren't you talking about it when I came on? It's the best fucking game of the last decade. And it cost exactly as much as Octopath Traveler, a game that needs to die in a ditch while on fire.

Check out PlayStation Store every once in a while because they do bring it down to like 25 bucks. Check it out when it's a good time. But get Persona 5, that game is dope as shit. And is it the fifth in a series it is it is and it is amazing

you don't need to know the other ones you can just jump right in and the fucking the music is this crazy acid jazz I have the vinyl for it now it's amazing

oh wow look at you I also like I'm in I like the fact that the message is to have a healthy social life as opposed to

like I feel like in american movies it's like well i'm secretly like strong don't tell anyone but i don't have any friends during the day like i will show them all so have you guys played a lot of spider-man we have not we haven't played spider-man oh really we've been finishing up the new god of war i love it and i can't recommend it enough i know everyone's telling us it's amazing people are literally telling us to stop playing god of war and to play Spider-Man instead. It's to the point where even other people who don't play games have seen me play, and they're like, is this that Spider-Man game?

I'm like, wait, you know about this? You're my 88-year-old grandfather. Yeah, they were advertising it on the NFL games and shit. I love that you have to tell your grandfather how old he is. You're my 88-year-old grandfather. I thought you were getting up there. Just to keep things clear. And Red Dead Redemption 2.

Yes. I remember the first one. I'm waiting. Just set the internet on fire. So it's so hilarious watching GTA V come out as a game because it's just bizarre and it's Hollywood and all this crazy shit's going on. And then they're like, all right, let's put our adult pants on and make a real Western game that's very serious and dramatic.

Yeah, it's the same exact game. When I played the first one, all I did was hunt for like the first seven hours. I would play poker all day. It's weird because it has all these other side things you can do as this cowboy, basically. And so like whether it's playing poker or just hunting for like pelts to trade in for better weapons. I was just obsessed with just like hunting. Like, I'm going to knife five cougars.

Yeah. Get that achievement. Fight a bear with a knife. How many different instances of experiences and situations they put you in? Like somebody being like, please, my husband, he just got shot or whatever. And then she's trying to rob you or kill you.

Oh, shit. Everything turns into like, am I actually going to help you? Well, that's an important lesson about women that we all have to learn. Right? Am I right, guys? Am I right, Brett Kavanaugh?

Brett. Shit. Well, all right. And that's coming out soon. That's October. Highly anticipated. All right. Well, I'm all caught up.

Thanks, guys. You get video games now. Hey, you want to buy a copy of Octopath? Yes, definitely. That is the lesson I took away from this conversation. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months.

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Exactly. Miles, you told me about this quote he had about the Sahara Desert. Yeah, so. Something he knows very much about, I'm sure. It's like to that point, right, where you'd think that anyone who is even in Congress or just an objective conservative would look and be like, that's not smart or intelligent. Where he was talking with some people, representatives of the Spanish government, and my goodness,

they were talking about what they can do about the migration crisis. And he basically suggested that they build a wall across the Sahara Desert to prevent people from moving towards Europe. Does this fucker think every problem is solvable with a wall? He must. I don't think he knows what object permanence is. I don't think he does. Right, right.

And then, so then after like some of the Spanish diplomats were like, you know, the Sahara Desert. Whoa. That the Sahara Desert. Sahara. The Sahara. That the Sahara Desert stretched for like 3,000 miles. Trump was just like, the Sahara border can't be bigger than our border in Mexico.

Oh, my God. I'm just picturing. Very much so. I'm picturing him in like a doctor's office and the doctor's like, you have gout. And he's like, build a wall around it. Yeah. Whatever it is. Or even his quotes slurred.

I'm sure. I don't know. He has those random moments when his teeth are clearly falling out of his head. Like when he was trying to say anonymous. Right. Anonymous. Anonymous. Anonymous.

And then just moved on. That was an important lesson that we could all learn. Yeah. He just was like, fuck that up three times. Moving on. We should learn from John Travolta when he said, Adele de Seam, just commit. Just go for it. Keep it moving. This dude's got dementia said, Adele Daseem, just commit. Just go for it. Keep it moving.

This dude's got dementia like, whoa. Yes. Like, whoa. Got that dementia like, whoa, whoa. That's a great song. My dementia's like, whoa. And then we never mentioned the thing where he was talking about Florence being the wettest storm we've ever seen from the standpoint of water.

All right. So he said it's the wettest storm as far as water goes, which means in his mind, there's like, remember Hurricane Andrew throwing Fanta all over the place? Oh, for sure. Yeah. It's so funny. This whole thing is just, it sounds like,

I don't know if you were like me. I was like a 50-50 student in high school where I took tests very well, but other times I would fucking slack on the reading and you would get called out to be like, Miles, what did you think of The Great Gatsby? And then you'd have to start bullshitting and I'd go, That Gatsby was great.

I was like, The Great Gatsby is probably one of the best books from the standpoint of literature. From the standpoint of just adding words. Just using words. Just trying to buy yourself time. I have nothing to say here. Just filling in a B minus Mad Libs.

Oh, yeah. From the standpoint of water. Yes. God bless him. Or don't. But stuff like this is the things that you bring to either your parents, other people supporting that you're like, how do you even have a defense to this? What's the point?

Just say you're wrong and I'm right and we can go back to being a family. Otherwise, get out of my face with this horse shit. So that's what's gonna make it really frustrating slash comical

in like 300 years when Trump actually brings down the U.S. democracy. Probably. Yeah. It'll be funny like with enough distance. Yeah.

That like, oh, it was like a comic. I mean, I laugh at Rome all the time. Yeah. It'll be funny, like, with enough distance. Yeah. I mean, people will. That, like, oh, it was like a comic. I mean, I laugh at Rome all the time. Right. Just like Nero. If Rome had been brought down by, like, a clear comic character, like Buffoon, I feel like it would be fun. Yeah.

And you had, like, video of him. Yeah. Oh, man. With his teeth falling out of his head. I hope that, like, our ashen remains are in some kind of version of Pompeii. And these were podcasters. Somebody described the president's dick and it's the first time

and we all were like, eh, it's like it's Tuesday. Yeah, exactly. That's exactly what I expected. It's POTUS Dick Tuesday. Welcome to 2018. Life is a nightmare. I always thought it would be a chode, but toad rhymes with chode.

So I'm dead. But yeah, I think right now. Brought it back to video games. It's all good. Everything goes back to video games. I mean, even Stormy Daniels brought it back. But yeah, this whole thing now is he's pushing to declassify all these confidential texts and emails and documents in an ongoing investigation, which is unprecedented. And, you know, it's sort of like the same thing with, remember the release, the memo, hashtag the memo and Devin Nunes, like, wait till we release the

memo. And you really see that this whole thing is just a deep state, deep state basically thing. And we're looking at the same thing now. It's like a whole other desperate ploy to try and throw dirt on. Now, I think Bruce Ohr is probably the main one in the crosshairs right now because he is the expert in the U.S. on like Russian organized crime. And he's the one who's able to kind of be like, I think there's some connections here based on what I know about the Russian mob and what we know about Donald Trump. But yeah, now he's trying to declassify this information. And the intel community has been like, this is a fucking red line. Yeah.

Do not cross it because this is purely political. And by doing this, you're going to expose sources. You're going to expose the methods we use to gather intelligence. You're going to put assets at risk. Like you're going to get people killed. Yeah, essentially. And also, it's going to be harder for us to get people to cooperate with us. They're going to be like, so I can just my name get put out there and I can be on some poison list.

Yeah. So, yeah, this has been a huge thing. And like Adam Schiff was like begging them to be like, please don't just hand over these documents. Like this has never happened. And a lot of the reporting now seems to be that the FBI is like, we're going to fucking thoroughly redact whatever we need to. And then we'll give you your fucking documents. But like, don't expect us to be like, okay, the president asked us. So they are exercising a little bit of independence, but this is the kind of thing where again, Trump in his pursuit of self-preservation is just going to bring down the integrity of just,

I mean, not that there was much integrity in law enforcement in this country, but at least weaken our ability to protect the country. And Putin is going to, would fucking love for these documents to come out so he can go through and be like, hmm, now can we reverse engineer how they got this information? So, but I guess, again, it seems like it's not going to happen right away. The FBI is like, we have to do this thoroughly. We're not just going to be like, here's the zip drive, zip drive, Iomega zip drive. Did I just make that up? I'm old.

But yeah, just say, have at it. But yeah, I don't think this is going to be very fruitful just in the same way that the memo wasn't very fruitful. What would it take at this point for like any Trump supporter? What would it take for them to be like, I think he's lost it. I don't think it's... We talk about this all the time. It's not possible, right?

Because everyone is so in their corners now. It's going to reach a breaking point. It's not going to be good. Yeah. To be honest. Yeah, well, that's why a lot of people don't like the impeachment thing is because that adds fuel to the conspiracy fire for them to be like, well, you see what happened? He got deep-stated out of office.

He got deep-stated. You can't just make deep-state a verb. I know. First of all, you can't make it a noun. It's not a thing. Right. And then you can't make it a verb on top of it. Oh, you can.

I'm just happy he's not smarter. Like, if somebody who's genuinely smart became president and was doing all the same things he's doing and we just couldn't, like, catch it. Had that agenda, right. But it's like, he's so fucking, like, he's just miserable and terrible at everything he does. But he's still causing a lot of damage, you know, at the end of the day. I feel like this specific story is an instance where, just by being indiscriminate and reckless, he could do a lot of damage.

He doesn't have to be targeted and intelligent about what he's doing. It could just be a spasm of just being mad, being like a baby stomping his feet and crossing his arms. He's putting himself before everything else. And by doing that, that makes all the other institutions crumble because he's like, well, I don't like the DOJ. So let me just cause as much chaos over there. I don't like whatever other agencies and I'll just basically cause as much chaos as possible. Because, I mean, the memo that they were talking about, like releasing once it got released, it was still just a memo. He's talking about releasing tons and tons of messages, emails, documents,

and the thing about conspiracy theorists, the reason they are so prevalent now with the internet at their disposal is the more shit you give them, the more they can pull stuff together and find a pattern where there is no better machine in the universe at creating and finding patterns than the human brain.

It will find anything when there is nothing. Right. And the internet is just made for confirmation. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So speaking of bad decisions Trump made with the motive of self-preservation, Brett Kavanaugh is coming into focus a little bit more, I feel like. Yeah, that hands-made tale really, they nailed it. They nailed it.

That was, yeah, it's crazy. That's him. So aside from the weird whatever happens in Georgetown Preparatory Academy, stays at Georgetown Preparatory, quote, which he has said twice. He loves that construction. Wait, I'm sorry. He actually said that? Yes.

In 2015. Oh, cool. Yeah, was still just like, I was a dirty dog, y'all. First of all, I'm going to quote everybody's favorite Vegas ad. Right. Well, he was saying it before Vegas made it cool, bro. This guy, he, so. To be fair, if somebody walked in on the thing he was doing, they're like, this guy's going to be a politician. cool, bro. This guy, he, so. To be fair, if somebody walked in

on the thing he was doing, they're like, this guy's gonna be a politician. Yeah, exactly. This guy's got no moral fiber in his body. At all. Yeah, so we're just getting more ideas of his professional behavior. The latest is from a woman

that was warned by her law professors about Kavanaugh's, I guess, tastes. Yeah, that this unnamed Yale Law School student said that her professors warned her that at the time when he was still a federal judge, that he liked his female clerks to have, quote, a certain look. That is so fucking gross. She went on to say he did not say what the certain look was.

I did not ask. It was very clear to me that he was not say what the certain look was i did not ask it was very clear to me that he was talking about physical appearance because it was phrased as a warning and because it came after the warning about judge kosinski and alex kosinski is a retired judge who like many people there are a lot of yeah a lot of allegations accusations and brett kavanaugh worked with him and he was acting like oh i don't i never heard of that and everyone else is like everyone knew he has a really bad memory unless it's about accusations against him, in which case he knows he did not do it.

He'd be a terrible judge. He can't remember anything. He can't remember. And also he'd be a terrible judge. He's a rapist. He's a horrible person. Attempted, alleged sex criminal. So Dr. Blasey Ford is still asking

for more time and asking not to be forced to testify on Monday in a sort of like he said she said thing without any corroborating witnesses. Because she doesn't want to be dragged through the mud like every woman who's ever had to do that. And everybody on the right is making a big

deal about this. What they're not making a big deal about is that they've actually asked the other guy in the room for this, Mark Judge, to testify under oath about this. And he said he won't. Right. So he's willing to deny it when he's not under oath, but he doesn't want to testify to that under oath. Yeah. And also he's not willing, even when he's saying what he remembers, he's only saying,

I don't recall that happening. Right. And he wrote a memoir where he was like, I was blacked out for basically my entire childhood. Right. And it's just the behavior

of people who don't seem innocent. You know what I mean? Like if you've ever, even as a kid, right? If like someone lied about you doing something, you would fight tooth and nail. You'd be pissed off.

And you'd think that if she took a lie detector test or whatever, that Judge Kavanaugh, at the very least, without saying, oh, I'll take a lie detector test, would be like, no, please do have an investigation because I will be proven innocent. Do it thoroughly. And again, we're not seeing any of this. All we're hearing is, you know what? Screw it. If she can't be there, then we're just going to have to go through it.

Then I guess this guy gets in and he's a Supreme Court judge. And then it turns into, it's a waste of time, we're using up resources and money to do all this sort of stuff, and it's like, it's just distraction, distraction, distraction. This guy, Brett Kavanaugh even looks like he's a villain from a bad 80s movie, like he's trying to close a ski mountain.

He is so fucking suspicious looking. I think that's probably gonna be what, mainly what he uses his Supreme Court power to do. This chateau has to shat go. And also orphanage as well. Good with the chateau shat go. So also, there was that big showdown between him and, who was it? Camilla Harris.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Where she was like, are you sure you don't know anybody from and who was it? Camilla Harris. Yeah. Oh yeah. Who, where she was like, are you sure you don't know anybody from, what is it? The Kazowitz law firm? Yeah,

his law firm. Yeah. Mark Kazowitz law firm. And he was like, well, I, Kazowitz, Kaz,

can you say the name again? I, who are you talking about? Right. And she was like, I think you know who I'm talking about. You just don't want to remember. Right.

And. That was such a good call out. She's fantastic. I really like Kamala Harris. We haven't found out specifically what she was talking about. However, his whole like playing like he didn't know that law firm is completely false because his best friend works there. Right. Like his best friend works at that law firm. He's a lying liar who tells lies all the time.

What do you have to do to get past this point? Like we all know he's lying. We all know it's bullshit. And we're like, okay, so it's still just going to happen. Because this isn't about the truth. The truth anymore.

At all. It's just about tipping the court into the conservative direction by any fucking means necessary that they have to ignore all of this shit. Yeah. To be like, no, no, no,

no. I know maybe that is the case, but our mission is to just completely screw, like fucking tip the scales in the Supreme Court. This is insane. And then there's this email. A level of cultish behavior. Then there's this email that,

so he went on what seems like, must have been like a bachelor party of some sort. This email was sent, by the way, on September 10th, 2001, so pre-11, pre-9-11 world, but- It on September 10th, 2001. So pre-911 world. It was September 10th, 2001. Holy shit. And he doesn't even mention that there might be an attack tomorrow. What a piece of shit.

What a piece of shit. He tweeted, great work. Paul, we'll call him. It's redacted. It's redacted. And thanks for hooking everything up for your weak crew. Check will be in the mail once I get your new address. Excellent time.

Apologies to all for missing Friday. Good excuse. Arriving late Saturday. Weak excuse. And growing aggressive after blowing still another game of dice. Parentheses don't recall. Reminders to everyone to be very, very vigilant

with regards to confidentiality on all issues and all fronts, including with spouses. Wow. Yeah. So, hey, guys. That's your kid's basketball coach. Great fucking party over the weekend. Super sorry I punched everybody's lights out when I got drunk and lost a card game.

Dice game. We all cheated on everybody. Let's be cool about it together. Be vigilant. He's clearly, you know, he's one of those guys, he's like a high-functioning, high-achieving frat guy who still modulates between like, here's my public persona, and then on the weekends, bruh, it's fucking bread.

Yeah, and he was a frat guy, by the way. And people who went to Yale anecdotally say that his frat is the one where you would cross the street because they'd throw stuff at you and call you a faggot was the exact quote. Jesus. My collar just pops hearing you guys describe him. So we were having a conversation about other phrases. He clearly likes the construction. Whatever happens on the bus stays

on the bus or whatever happens at Georgetown prep stays at Georgetown prep it's a shame just like locker room talk and boys boys it's like yeah boys are rapists and terrible like we wanted to come up with a list of other phrases that he probably overuses like work hard work hard, play hard, bro. Yeah, yeah. Guaranteed, he says, Saturdays are for the boys. Dicker down. At one point has said, it's not about the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog, bro. I so fit, dude. My mom's a fucking judge, bro.

Yeah, that's literally a thing he would say. To a cop. Hey, we should hire a bunch of midgets and do coke off their heads. Dude, you showed up without boat shoes on? Right, bro. I can't even spell empathy. I feel like, just a little uncouth,

but I feel like he'd say, I don't care if she's a girl, man. They hit you, you hit back, man. Oh my God. Hey, equal rights, equal lefts. Fucking Brett, dude. I don't know. The only rule, there are no rules. Oh, man. Oh my God. Hey, equal rights, equal lefts. Fucking Brett, dude. I don't know. The only rule,

there are no rules. Oh yeah. That's where, it's just, and again, back to the thing, we forgot to describe the instance

where he does say what he loves, what happens in X stays in X construction because apparently he was giving a talk and they said, this is from this article,

in one episode, he described taking a bus with his classmates to Boston for a Red Sox game and a night of bar hopping. Jesse. God damn it. Jesse. Come on, Boston. Come on, my hometown. Do better. Do better.

Which ended with the students, quote, falling out of the bus onto the front steps of Yale Law School at about 4.45 a.m. And here's this quote. Fortunately for all of us, we had a motto. What happens on the bus stays on the bus. Fuck this guy so hard right in his face this dude has paid for how many abortions oh god you know what i mean like this like none none yeah that's what i'm saying like this is the same guy yeah yeah and again it shows you why like why so many things were hit made committee confidential or hidden, right? Because that email that you just read about the dice game was a committee.

That was a thing that they didn't want out. So clearly they knew the kind of baggage this guy had. What the fuck? You know, they're doing their by any means necessary mode right now to do anything, make up lies, whatever, just to push this thing through. This guy in college had a Fight Club poster in his dorm, and in adulthood, framed it, and it's in his office. Guaranteed.

Well, he's old enough that he probably has, like, he has, like, the Criterion Collection. He has, like, the bar of soap, even. He's like, that's the Fight Club soap. Here's something he definitely said. People need to give Boondock Saints 2 a chance. We talked yesterday about what a shitty movie Boondock saints is do

you see the doc the documentary no we talked about that too though that that's way better than the movie yeah um so speaking of what they're doing to try and you know jam this guy through there are a bunch of dumb conspiracies that the right are coming up with about christine blazey ford um that's fucking poor woman. Yes, and she knew it. For many, many reasons. Yeah, because she's like, I'm not going to say, I don't want any of this to come out.

Yeah. So there was a big report that people were going crazy over being like, we found her review on like professor.com or like wherever. Yeah, Rate My Professor. And she was savaged. She is apparently the worst professor. Drudge put it up with with the siren light thing.

Like, you know, this is big news. And it turned out it was a different Christine Ford. So they just got the person wrong. And also, had it not been, who the fuck gives a shit? But the fact that that's the best they could come up with is so weak. But that's where it is, that you have to make things up out of thin air, do anything to try and discredit this person. Right. Oh, God.

I hate this world. There's a meme. Breakfast sucks and so does this. There's a meme being shared. Allow me to introduce you to, and then it's a picture of a blonde haired white woman with sunglasses holding a not my president sign at probably like the Women's March. And it says Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford, the left's latest weapon in their endless attempt to undermine our president and this administration, which is just so lazy, especially because it's not her. We don't have to undermine anything. He just talks and he's not her. We don't have to undermine anything. He just talks and he's an idiot.

We don't have to do anything. The dude fucked a porn star and paid her money not to talk, and that's the 19th biggest thing he's done since being in office. But it's not her. It doesn't even look like her, really. They couldn't even Photoshop something. But because there aren't that many pictures of her, they were like, people will buy this.

Right. This is the shit my dad reads and believes it. Like this is straight up like what he does and he reads it and he's like yeah that actually happened. I'm like what the fuck. It's fucking stupid. I think we might have to be like proactive and just like find all our conservative relatives and be like guys. Just yell at them. Just fucking yell at them.

I think the only way it works is just be like look I know eventually you'll realize what's happened here. And I'll give you the time to figure that out. Because I think we're so deep in this thing now and people's relationships with conservatives of like, dude, come on. You're going to read this and tell me, you know, like that sort of rhetoric. Yeah, is gone. It's not useless anymore. And I think it's a waste of energy for both parties.

It's just be like, look, you're going to realize what's happened here. You fucked up hard. And I don't care. And I'm not going to say I told you so. I'll just think it, look, you're going to realize what's happened here. You fucked up hard. And I don't care. And I'm not going to say I told you so. I'll just think it inside and then I'll welcome you back. But you'll figure it out. You just need some time

to figure this out. Oh God, I can't fucking deal with it. I can't. I'm just so angry all the time. There's this Twitter troll and QAnon acolyte, Josh Cornett,

who shared this inside information that Dr. Blasey Ford had sent another letter telling the same story to stop Neil Gorsuch's confirmation. So that's a lie. That's a complete lie. No evidence that that happened at all. And in fact, there's lots of evidence to suggest that this has been a lifelong trauma for her that she was working through back in 2012 with a therapist and in couples therapy. And yeah, so he wanted to make it seem like this was just she's like this person who goes after any conservative judicial nominee. And Rush Limbaugh read that on the air. He's like literally every conservative listens to that guy.

Everyone listens to him. I have no idea of the veracity, but I'm just going to put it out there. I'm just going to say this. This is what people are saying. I don't hear you rustling any papers, so I don't believe you. Papers? I think you misspoke. Pills is the word you were looking for.

So yeah, that's just not true. But they're not even trying to find real information. They're just putting stuff out there to see what sticks. And a lot of this stuff is going to stick because the way social media and the internet works is... People are desperate. Isn't it also like half of the Fox News anchors are like, this man is crazy. Like he says crazy shit all the time. And people are like, yeah, you guys are too democratic.

Remember when he called into Fox and Friends and they cut him off and hung up? Because he started saying weird shit. He started rambling. Well, Mr. President, you probably have a lot going on today. He's like, I don't! I don't! He basically started to incriminate himself and they were like, we gotta get him off the air. Schedule's all clear. What do you want to talk about?

I'm on the toilet. Let's go. What about these black guys in the NFL? Sick of it. Anyway, hold on. I mean, the one thing they did find is that Kavanaugh's mom did... My mom's a judge. Yeah, his mom is a judge. Your officer.

Your officer. Your officer. Excuse me, your officer. My mom's a fucking judge. I don't think I am drunk, your officer. Now, please let me back in my Mercedes. That her parents were evicted from their house by his mom. Oh, no, they weren't.

No, that didn't happen. No, that there was a foreclosure case. Right. And then they settled with the bank. But actually, she had very little to do with the case. And then ultimately, her decision was in favor of her parents. Helped her parents. Yeah, there would be.

Or yeah, not in favor, but it's a more favorable outcome for her parents than the bank. And so, again, they just found, oh, wait, maybe this? This is all so far off the point because all this is is that guy tried to rape me. Full stop. Yes. Full stop. Right. That's it.

Yeah, no, no, no, no. His mom foreclosed on their house. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. None of this. Full stop. Right. That's it. Yeah, no, no, no, no. His mom foreclosed on their house. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. None of this. Answer this. Let's talk about this point right here. What about his friend who refuses, if they're innocent, won't even come out to testify to prove their innocence?

I have no recollection of that happening. Yeah, well, you know, Bart O'Kavanaugh might. Bart O'Kavanaugh. What do you think is going to happen? You think it's just going to be a distraction? Well, the whole thing is that, I mean, it looks like that her lawyer is saying that she does want to testify, which is the GOP's worst nightmare. And I think they were trying to basically bluff her like into not testifying. They've been like, well, it's going to have to happen Monday.

But apparently her lawyer has reached out and said that she does want to testify for sure. Not Monday, though, because that's too quick. So preferably later in the week. But basically, her first thing is to just have the FBI do just the most cursory of investigations first, at the very least, because, I mean, that's the bare minimum they could do. And then she'll testify. But it looks like we will be hearing from her. I have the text from the email that her lawyer sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee. It's, I would like to set up a call with you later today to discuss the conditions under which Dr. Christine Blasey Ford would be prepared to testify next week. As you are aware, she's been receiving death threats, which have been reported to the FBI, and she and her

family have been forced out of their home. She wishes to testify, provided that we can agree on terms that are fair and which ensure her safety. But yeah, they're like, well, what's taking so long? It's like she's fucking having to go into witness protection because of your fucking supporters. They're saying that we don't have time

to do a thorough investigation. In the case of Anita Hill, granted it wasn't a thorough investigation. In the case of Anita Hill, granted, it wasn't a thorough investigation. People think it was poorly done back then. They did it in three days. Yeah, but they still did it. They also found other people who had experience that they were going to bring to testify, but this asshole senator just rushed through it and basically made a deal so that those witnesses couldn't be brought. I think his name was Joe Biden. Damn, son.

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Oh, God. So there's news out of Texas, the start of every good national news story. There's news that a school superintendent wrote on Facebook after a bad play by Deshaun Watson at the end of the Houston Texans game. He was like, see, that's why I can't have a black quarterback. What?

And then he came out and said that he apologized, like didn't realize that it was a public post, and was just... What? And then said, and was just... I was just making a point about statistics. I wasn't trying to say anything racist. And the news report was just like, oh, okay, so he apologized.

That's not an apology. No, it's not. And the news report was just like, oh, okay, so he apologized. That's not an apology. And that is underlining, like their headline was superintentioned, apologize for racist remark about Deshaun Watson. That is an affirmation of race science. He said that there were statistics backing it up. The only rigorous statistical analysis I've seen about black quarterbacks, and like, this is one of my pet peeves like this story and so I always follow it the only statistical analysis that there's been is that black quarterbacks are statistically more likely to be benched quicker and for lesser mistakes than white quarterbacks I can't oh man it I mean it has to be true how many black quarterbacks you think there have been in the nfl but there's just enough that

warren moon had to have a support group for black quarterbacks right yeah so and how many black quarterbacks have been to the super bowl because i am very willing to bet that the only statistic i can i can like conjure up with black quarterbacks is if you are a black quarterback you are much more likely to take your team to the super i also knew one kid played for a high school team should have been the quarterback but didn't get to play he was a black quarterback, you are much more likely to take your team to the Super Bowl. I also knew one kid who played for a high school team should have been the quarterback but didn't get to play. He was a black player, and the kid that got to play instead was white. And I'm not gonna say his name

because his dad's super famous in football. I know his fucking name. Yeah. Wait, I know where you grew up. The quarterback's dad bought the football field for the high school, and they're like, you're gonna be the quarterback. His own team would boo the quarterback on it, being like, because you're so bad.

Put the other kid in who's like a born athlete, like is amazing. Could have gotten a scholarship. He never got to play. Yeah, we were talking. Athletes, man, and politics, man. Show you how politics can be good, but shit can hold you down like that. We were talking earlier this week. I think somebody made their myth that sports is a meritocracy, right?

That was Billy Wayne. That was Billy Wayne, yeah. He said sports is not an absolute meritocracy. No, not at all. That's a perfect example. Yeah, right. That some dad was like,

now you're the quarterback. But the kid's dad's so famous, it's like you could have just walked onto any team and that kid still could have gotten his scholarship and everyone could have been happy. Right.

But even the kid, he didn't want to play football. He quit the first team he got on after he been happy. Right. But even the kid, he didn't want to play football. He like quit the first team he got on after he was done. Right. Yeah. Well. This whole like, the thing was like, I said that, but not in a racist way. Yeah. It's like, really? And he's also, as

superintendent, I'm also going to introduce physiognomy to the curriculum. The first excuse I heard is like, I didn't know it was public. So it's like, okay, so you're privately racist? Like, what? That makes a difference. I thought I was just sending this to my other Klansmen. Right, exactly.

Anyways, fuck that guy. He should be fired. And I don't think he is going to be. No, of course not. Because there's no justice. They're releasing their decision, I think, later this week. And the decision will be, well, he didn't mean it in a racist way. Right.

Exactly. Plus, look at these statistics that I got from the Rush Limbaugh show. Predator came out over the weekend. His name is Brett Kavanaugh. Predator is

slowly coming out over this week in news in the form of Brett Kavanaugh. That joke also works for this story. So that movie did okay, not great. It was weird. It topped the box office, but it was the worst opening for a film, right? Yeah, it was the worst opening for a live-action movie debuting in over 4,000 theaters.

So basically, they blew it out. They were like, this is going to be huge. And it still was enough to top the box office, but it was not good on a per theater basis. And I'm super disappointed by this because the guy who wrote and directed it is the guy who invented like buddy cops. He's, he wrote lethal weapon. He wrote and directed Iron Man three.

He wrote and directed kiss, kiss, bang, bang, shame. Weapon. He wrote and directed Iron Man 3. He wrote and directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Shane Black. He's like a really good writer and nice guys he wrote and directed. Love that movie too. Yeah, so he's a good writer director and this was a movie that

he was in. He was also an actor, I think in the 80s and was in Predator. So he was like, yeah, this is I'm going to take over this franchise and make it awesome again. And apparently he didn't. Yeah. It wasn't awesome the first time.

Come on, man. Although I would have been curious to see when Jean-Claude Van Damme was supposed to be the original Predator. Have you seen the footage of him in the costume? No, wait, what? Yeah. Yeah, Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally the Predator, and it was just like him in a foam.

There's footage of it, and he's like running around in a foam suit. It looks awful. He looks like a praying mantis. Seeing the Predator do splits all the time would be fantastic. He just dodges bullets by like doing the split jump between trees and just stays there. But so there was controversy around the movie heading into the weekend because Olivia Munn basically made some complaints

because she found out after filming a scene that the guy who was like hitting on her in the scene was actually a sexual predator like a registered sexual predator and it's not a famous actor but he tends to show up in Shane Black movies and it's because he's Shane Black's homie no and so he's yeah he was in Nice Guys he was in like who was he it was right before it came out too right like yeah it was right before so the studio did the right thing and immediately cut the scene from the movie but they did not do the right thing and not checking the background of the people who are performing in the movie so people go to Shane Black they're yo, what the fuck were you doing?

Yeah, man. He was like, look, I was helping a guy out who was in a tough position. What? He didn't do anything lecherous. And the reporter was like, so it says here he groped and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old. Oh, my God. Turns out he had just believed the bullshit story the guy had told him.

The guy was like, yeah, I sent an email to my 14-year-old cousin because she felt ugly. So I told her she was hot, and I got arrested for that. And that's why I'm a sexual predator. Oh, OK. And he was like, oh, OK. Well, seems like a nice guy. All right, here's your Iron Man costume.

And that man's name? Robert Downey Jr. He's Iron Man. No. He's Iron Man. So, yeah's name Robert Iron Man. He's Iron Man. So yeah I don't know. It's also our writer Jay McNabb was pointing out that the Predator is actually an

interesting movie for this to happen because the first movie can be read as a satire of like patriarchal privilege and you know there's that scene where they like go into the

jungle and like fire their guns for a minute straight and like don't hit anything. patriarchal privilege. And there's that scene where they go into the jungle and fire their guns for a minute straight and don't hit anything. And the director has even said that it was supposed to be satire of those sorts of movies. If there aren't two. Cutting shit down with guns.

Yeah, because there's all these things where people are shooting these huge, powerful guns and just getting the shit kicked out of them. And one time someone's shooting a machine gun and his arm gets cut off. Right. So it's basically about the impotence of guns. It's literally the line,

I ain't got time to bleed. Yeah, exactly. Unless this movie has two future governors in it, I don't want to see it. Hey, you never know. And I bet one of them is a fucking sex offender. Governor, yeah. Yeah.

There you go. There you go. Anyways, guys, it's is a sex offender. Governor, yeah. There you go. There you go. Anyways, guys, it's been a pleasure having you. That's the go out. Governor Munn. And you guys should leave. Oh, we just hit the hour point. That's our cue.

That's so funny. Where can people listen to you and follow you on that social media? You were saying such nice things. Hey, guys. Check out our podcast. New Player has joined. You can find us on iTunes or, I mean, anywhere you listen to podcasts. If you look at Google, New Player has joined.

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all I do is post stuff about boxing I don't give a fuck oh yeah but listen to the episode I did an episode so at the very least oh yeah God

Miles was the best guest and we do a specific segment just for Miles and I guarantee all you fans would love it so if you guys want to hear Miles

talk about Guitar Hero and I guarantee you do you do would love it. So if you guys want to hear Miles talk about Guitar Hero, and I guarantee you do. You do. New player. You want to hear about my life. It's so good. Guitar Hero changed my life. We'll definitely have Miles on again.

Yeah. Is there a tweet that you guys have enjoyed recently? Oh, right. Yeah, so I think the best tweeter is Megan Amram. Yeah, she really is. She's like amazing. And the first one that comes up is, there's literally no way to know

how many chameleons are in your house. And I'm like, yeah, you're amazing at Twitter. She's so fucking funny. Daniel Spencer had one yesterday. A Purge comedy where two pals accidentally kill someone

a week before the Purge and try to fake the person's life until the murder would be legal. That's so good. Just a weekend at Bernie's. Exactly, for a whole week. And then just leading up, and then they're like, we can finally let this rotting corpse be in the street.

I also, she just won more because I like her so much. I want to get a tattoo of the Getty Images watermark. Who did that? Emily Heller, right? On the red carpet? Yeah, she actually put it on her bag. At the Emmys. Oh my, that's so fucking funny. Genius. For those of you who don't know, Emily Heller, right? On the red carpet? Yeah, she actually put it on her bag. At the Emmys. Oh, my God. That's so fucking funny.

For those of you who don't know, Emily Heller is this comedian. She was at the Emmys, and she had a purse that had the Getty Images logo on it. And that guaranteed, like, so Getty Images were like, oh, we're going to have to get a flick of that. Every photographer must have hated her so much. They're like, I work for Splash. Should we give the quick shout out? Oh, absolutely. We got to. I mean, we had the picture taken with you before.

We work with somebody who's a huge fan of the show. Yeah. So Katie Michael, if you're out there. You the best. You're killing it, Katie Michael. You're crushing it. That's Miles telling you you're crushing it, Jack. It's like, gang.

See, that was Jack. That was Jack. How I compliment people. And now you have to talk to us and we come back to the gym and say hi to you and now you're gonna have to deal with this and I'll know Katie

if you shade these guys then you're done R.I.P. R.I.P. your mentions Miles where can people find you you can find me on

Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray and a tweet I like you know I have pets I have two cats and a dog and this is from if you own a a dog. And this is from, if you own a cat, you get this. This is from at odd the sun god.

When you catch your cat's attention and they go, retweet if you agree. It's something because my cat, when they sleep and I'd say their names they're always like, they give some kind of sound out.

That's great. That's just one of those Jerry Seinfeld type tweets, observational tweets that I like. I'm going to do a Megan Amran also. She tweeted, hey, Brett Kavanaugh, if life begins at conception, then you are most likely legally an adult

when you assaulted Christine Blasey Ford. I did see that one. That is a good line. That's good. Woof. You can follow me at Jack underscore O'Brien on Twitter. You can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter. 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. Footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on. You can also find that in the information about the episode on whatever application you're listening to this on. Also, check out this week's Behind the Bastards series wherein they go behind the life, the times,

the rise of one Alex Jones. And it's very interesting. What did you want to say? Oh, before we get out, I just remember we should plug the live show. Yes, do it. We've got a live show coming up for the Outlier Podcast Festival on September 29th and Saturday at 2.20 p.m.

And if you find us on Twitter or on Instagram, we'll link all this up. What town is the Outlier Podcast Festival in? It's here in L.A. Los Angeles. It's here in L.A. It says West L.A. It's near Sawtelle.

Yeah, mid-city kind of region. Just before I in LA. It says West LA. It's near Sawtelle. Yeah. Mid-city kind of region. Just before I forgot that. Find us on Twitter. Find us on Instagram. And we might get an awesome guest. We might get a guest that you're very familiar with. We might.

We might. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see if the check is right. We'll see what happens. See if the check is right. It's me, guys. So Super Mario.

Did you guys know, as video game, you were probably too young for this, but that you could control the duck? With the second controller. I just saw Seth Rogen tweet that. Yeah, Seth Rogen tweeted that, and that blew my mind. I love that you think that I was too young for that. Oh, you guys seem young.

You look great. You're boxing instructors. We also have a live show coming up December 1st. In Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. Yeah, guys. I've never had an Italian beef sandwich.

What? Let me know. For real? Let me know where to go. Yeah. I mean, at the time I was in Chicago. Wherever you get a hot dog and you're getting sworn at, that's the perfect place to do that. Right.

And I'll be like, hey, I need ketchup for this. Yeah. And then get my ass beat. Right. So rest in peace, future Miles. Rest in peace, Miles. I was beaten with a bottle of ketchup.

Also, there's a fascinating conversation on Culture Kings this week, or maybe it's next week's episode. I'll have to find out about whether you sample grapes before you buy them. I've got to respect. I think it's a... I can't do it. Miles can't do it. find out about whether you sample grapes before you buy them. I've got to respect that.

I think it's a... I can't do it. Miles can't do it. Apparently, this is a thing that only white people do. I would believe that. Well, because, of course, because if somebody who's not white starts taking food and stealing, they're going to be in a lot of trouble. Yeah. My dad would be like, you're going to look like you're stealing something.

Exactly. And then my mom would just be in Japanese. Like, which is sort of like, you have no manners. Definitely not touching shit at the grocery store. Me and my parents

are feeding each other grapes. Yeah. We're white. We can get away with anything. We can be judges. Excuse me, officer. Get back in your car.

You're an officer. And yeah, me and my family looking at y'all like, you see? You see? You see? You see? All right. And Miles, what song are we going to ride out on? This is a track by No Idea.

And this is like a lo-fi track. I've not heard this artist before. And it was a really dope minimal track. A little rapping and tapping. This song is called Promissory Notes. No idea and looms together. So keep this track and just enjoy the ride. All right, we're going to ride out on that.

We will be back on Monday. So have a good weekend, everybody. Bye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Stretch the palms, crab in the sky The wretch had passed but he managed it fine He means that Bleed black, green pack wrapped in the white Hang lucid in the family ties Trapped in the mines, he'd aught to a gloom On a throne built from bones and the parts of his tomb

Basque midmar with a staff of the stoop You can catch him with the marsh or the moon Light looms, you can run but you can't hide They ain't low and it's the off-the-way round But running tracks ain't the same as seeing finish lines Sitting by the riverside, puffing grey clouds they ain't rain though still got the raincoat pocket bin carrying the kings like parliament twist spliffs in the mist grass artisans rip lips from the quick barbershop could i tell you something I've never told anyone before? See it Oh looms be thick as the smoke See the sinner grew thinner and moved the

mirror remote The lyrics and codes be promissory notes The Caesar sees but he ain't never missing a boat It's high tide and the bright side burn the neck A lot lessons earned in debt from the damage it days And he carried away still the charity case And he's still most languid where we happen to lay supine new life bruised from the start but it's calm with humans in the dance or whatever so for now let us dance and endeavors up you will never see the last of our efforts so the low stay subterranean bright as the night

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