The Daily Zeitgeist - Bribe Or Die, Paris Hilton Is On Brand 11.1.19

Episode Date: November 1, 2019

In episode 507, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and Bechdel Cast co-host Jamie Loftus to discuss whistleblower and impeachment updates, Trump's awkward comments about Melania, the most popular Halloween costumes, celebrity costumes from this year, Paris Hilton's Juicy tracksuit collection, Kurt Cobain's sweater being auctioned off, Apple laying the groundwork for an iPhone subscription, Game of Throne writers turning down Star Wars gig, and more!FOOTNOTES: Top NSC Russia official confirms key testimony linking Trump to quid pro quo Senate GOP shifts tone on impeachment The Beltway's 'Whistleblower' Furor Obsesses Over One Name Trump’s joke about Melania is just one of their many awkward moments Film fans choose Captain Marvel and Joker as top movie-inspired Halloween costumes See the 2019 Halloween costumes from your favorite stars Is Owning 100 Juicy Tracksuits Too Much, Or Just Enough? Kurt Cobain’s ‘Unplugged’ Sweater Heads to Auction Again, Never Been Washed Apple is laying the groundwork for an iPhone subscription ‘Star Wars’ Setback: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Duo David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Exit Trilogy Divided Attention and Toxic Fandom: Why the 'Game of Thrones' Duo Bailed on 'Star Wars' The Game of Thrones Creators Finally Admit They Truly Didn't Know What They Were Doing HBO’s controversial Confederate series is canceled as showrunners ink Netflix deal WATCH: Dua Saleh - Warm Pants (Official Video) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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A production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say officially, off the top, Hey, fuck Coke Industries, as in the Coke Brothers, and fuck Fox News. It's Friday, November 1st, 2019. All Hallows Day. My name is Jack O'Brien. Oh, I guess so.

A.K.A. I put a spell on you. Because I'm Jack O'Brien! Whoa! My A.K. was courtesy of Ramen King. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! From the window to the wow

to the bucket where the ballets fall, the house stood up and called, all in peace motherfucker! All in peace Cheeto man! All in peace this motherfucker! All in peace Cheeto man!

Anyway, there's that one part where he says, All in peace this motherfucker All in peace Chido man Shorty crunk So fresh and clean Anyway there's one part where he says Bout been to the club Bout been 11 times Now can I play with your panty line How do you play with your panty line? Play with your panty line

I think it makes a lot of sense It's creeping up in your butt Can I pull it out Help your panty escape I think that he's suggesting He wants to make the problem worse. Right. He doesn't want to help.

Or it's really innocent. He just walks his fingers along the panty line. It's a tightrope walk. It does a little like a da-da-da-da-da. Yeah, I'm really into like, you know, wholesome kind of shit at the club when I'm groping women. Can I play with your panty line for my finger dancer? Ultimately, that song is for middle school dancers.

Yes. Ultimately, who is speaking right now? Oh, shit. Wait, go ahead. The aux cord? That is the guest in our third seat. One of the very faces on Mountain Zite. More herself. She is

the hilarious and talented Little Zam. She is Jamie Loftus. Okay. Don't be shocked. No, I missed it again. I'm still, I'm She is Jamie Loftus. Okay. Don't be shocked. No, I missed it again. I'm still, I'm still Jamie from the Zat.

Got a dog that's a little alt-right. But that's okay, because I know that I'm Loftus. There it is. There it is. I always miss the fucking drop on my own damn thing. No, but you do that intentionally. People don't know that's part of the whole music. Oh, yeah. It's 4D chest that I'm playing. No, but you do that intentionally. People don't know that's part of the whole music. Oh, yeah.

It's 4D chess that I'm playing. Yeah, absolutely. There's just light shooting out of your eyes right now. Jamie, it's so great to have you back. How have you been? I've been okay. Yeah? Yeah.

I'm unemployed again. It's my first day. I'm back. Oh, all right. How's it feel? Great. You mean fun-employed. Great. I slept till 9 a.m.

Hey. Is that normal? But you're an early riser, aren't you? I tend to get up pretty early, yeah. Yeah, that's what I remember about you. Thank you so much. Is 9 o'clock, does that feel good to wake up at 9? 9 o'clock feels good.

It feels warm. Yeah. Feels warm, feels good. Woke up, made some oatmeal. Oh, okay. Yeah. Humble brag. Thank you so much.

I got a couple packets Of oatmeal Living that oatmeal life I keep like emergency oatmeal At the house Let's be real Did you use milk or water? I use water Wow

Okay so you're still humble Yes 100% That's when I know you've left I'm like she's using milk With her oatmeal I would never just Have milk in the house

That wasn't Oatmeal milk That was useful Right Like no I just have Emergency oatmeal For when I wake up I'm starving You only keep Spoiled milk in your house? Yeah To make a point that wasn't oatmeal milk that was useful right like no I just have emergency oatmeal for when I wake up you only keep

spoiled milk in your house yeah to make a point for pranks too unclear yeah unwanted guests can I offer you a glass of milk

do you what do you use the Quaker instant packets no it's like CVS CVS what flavor apple cinnamon okay yeah

that feels good it's the best flavor I'm a peaches and cream kind of guy really it's too sweet for me that's why I like it apple cinnamon is definitely the one Apple cinnamon. Okay, yeah. That feels good. It's the best flavor. I'm a peaches and cream kind of guy. Really? It's too sweet for me. That's why I like it.

Apple cinnamon is definitely the one that masks the fact that you're eating oatmeal the most. That's what I think peaches and cream because it's just basically pudding. Peaches and cream is not always there, though. What do you mean? Peaches and cream, maybe it's just always being eaten out of the box before I get to it. Why are you looking at me? Well, I'm just saying, apple cinnamon is always in the variety. You're saying in the office.

Yes, it's always there. No, just any, I buy a lot of oatmeal miles, individually packaged oatmeal. But you were looking at me as if you were trying to imply I was stealing the peaches and cream at your house. I'm like, I've never even been there. No, I wasn't implying anything. I was just saying that it's harder to find.

Nah, whatever, dude. Still waiting for that invite, though. Okay. All right. Cool. Well, I'll make sure that we have a fresh box of oatmeal. We'll never go to each other's houses. Well, it seems like everything is going well here.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't think it's going great. Hey, Jamie, who do you think would win in a fight, me or Jack? Well, I guess it depends. First, check out my fucking bicep. I'm Karl-Anthony Towns. You're Joel Embiid. Oh, shit.

And we'll see who Anna comes in and Ben Simmons. Yeah. Ben Simons. Ben Simons jumps in and just goes for the jugular. Just starts choking him out. They look like drunk Pacific Rim, like the two dudes fighting. They're so big and uncoordinated. Anyways, Jamie.

Yes. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. But first, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about. Today, it is everything that's old is new again, because we have an update about Paris Hilton and her collection of suits. Thank God. Velour suits in particular. Thank God. We're going to talk about Kurt Cobain's sweater from the MTV Unplugged show.

We are going to check in with the impeachment process. Girl, I'm talking about impeaching this creep. Oh, there we go. New drop. New drop. New drop. Whose vocals are those? I don't know.

It might have been Slim from 112 or Q or Mike or Duran. That's amazing that Dan got Slim from 112 to do a drop for the show. He apparently knows them. Yeah. We're going to talk about some more witnesses, the passage of the resolution, the passage of the resolution. Ah, yes. Resolution.

Trump is now trying to bribe GOP senators. There's been a tonal shift in how GOP senators are talking about the story that the Hill recently observed. We are going to check in with the whistleblower because apparently right wing media, just a drop full day, right-wing media has exposed who he is. We won't say his name, but it is a him, and we'll just make you guess. Four hands.

The president had a kind of brief moment of clarity where he— Yeah, gave some insight to his relationship with his wife. It was very interesting. This being All Hallows', All Saints Day, the day that we all look forward to. most popular, the celebrity costumes that really hit it out of the park. Wow. I don't know why I'm making fun of my own show. And we're going to look at Twitter. Just look at it. Just check it out.

It makes me feel good to look at Twitter and all social media platforms. I'm glad you said that. Yep. But the fact that they have decided not to accept political ads, which is kind of cool. That is nice. Hey, that's pretty cool, man. I'm doing that. But Jamie, first, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history

that's revealing about who you are? Titanic, Mexico. Oh, where they shot it? How did you know that? Because my mom, she's a film critic. She did a set visit. I remember at the time, and she came back. She's like, James Cameron is making a Titanic movie, and he's a really cool set I went to.

She talks like Ken Watanabe in Inception. I remember seeing the photo. I'm like, why Mexico? And I didn't realize they just had that little bay that they shot that in. It's just that boat. James Cameron was asking himself why Mexico after a while because there was a hurricane that tore the roof off of where one of the sound stages that they shot.

Oh, really? You guys know all these facts about the production of Titanic. I know. Miles' mom is a film critic. Totally passive for me. And my guilty pleasure is sadly movie reviews. I just like read every movie review and like behind the scenes. Like that's what I did growing up in high school.

I felt like you, it's odd. Yeah. I realized for you, Titanic is so important that somehow these old guys are you, it's odd, yeah. I realized for you, Titanic is so important that somehow these old guys are like, yeah, they shot it. Yeah, they shot it in Mexico. Shot it in Mexico.

Too bad about the weather, though. Too bad. You're like, what the fuck is happening? Oh my God. From both sides. You hear about the hurricane. Very, very terrifying.

Are you thinking about visiting the spot where it all happened? No. So I've been working on a show for the past month or so, and I was writing a lot of Billy Zane-specific jokes that were then, for a number of reasons, brought back to me because they were maybe not historically accurate enough about the very specific production of Titanic. I got some notes from the Zane camp that were like,

well, this joke can't be said because actually we were filming in Mexico. And so if there were any ghosts haunting the set of Titanic they would be ghosts from people who were in Mexico or Mexican themselves so we actually need a rewrite on this because and you were like idiots nobody knows that it was shot in Mexico

and then we just told people close to me right away that night of the show and I'm like I'm really disappointed in Jamie I can't believe this no wrong close to me right away. That night of the show, and I'm like, I'm really disappointed in Jamie. I can't believe this. No, wrong! Wrong! No,

no, Jamie! It's Mexico! Wait, where was the joke originally? Where did you think it was? Well, I was writing it, okay, maybe This is revealing too much. Come on. Just the location. We'll keep it simple without revealing the humor of it. No, I mean, so I was writing it as if they were actual ghosts from the actual Titanic. Got it.

I was thinking more movie-centric. I wasn't thinking about the extended universe of the production of it. But then they were like, well, think about, put yourself in Zane's shoes. What ghosts would he have been seeing? You think he's going to be able to believe this line? Right. Will he come? Will he come to your show?

Well, he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, guys. All right, we're back. We had to cut a little bit because Jamie got too deep into her NDA. Yeah, Zayn-troversy. Some very, very compelling stuff that we just learned. Here's what I'll say. There's a picture of Billy Zane on the wrap party cake.

Okay. That's all I'll say. That's all I'll say. That's all you need to know. Have you ever met anybody who didn't know that Titanic was a real boat until the movie? Or like thought it was just a movie? Yes. Yeah.

Which is, I want to like, wait a second. What? Hey? Just a movie? I love when people don't, because it's like, I mean, you can't be like that mad, because the Titanic, like, it's a big thing, but it's not like, you know, I feel like you don't lose your perspective of the entire world by just never having heard of it. Totally.

It's like, you're not ignorant. It's just a weird knowledge gap of it. Yeah, totally. He was like, you're not ignorant. That's just a weird knowledge gap. Right, yeah. That was a joke in my family about my mom's mom was born two days before the Titanic sank. Oh, really? I was like, oh, you're as old as the Titanic, grandma. She didn't like that.

I saw an afternoon screening of Judy a couple of weeks ago. There was someone in the crowd. It was like an older crowd. It was like noon on a weeks ago and there was someone in the crowd it was like an older crowd it was like noon on a sunday and there was someone in the crowd who didn't know that judy garland died like or like died young oh because there's there is not a great movie but i hope she's okay well at the end you know like at the end of like a biopic it says like you know two weeks later judy garland died at the age of 47 and someone in the audience was like oh like they were so shocked no i was really enjoying the film

they're like i thought she was gonna pull through i was like how would you think that yeah but they were just really i mean they were visibly like wow And I mean, to that point, James Cameron's Titanic does not include like a part at the end where it's like, that really happened, what you just saw or anything like that. You got to remind them. You got to remind people. An end card that says, dude, that shit was real. Seriously, you believe that shit? By the way.

Totally happened. Yeah. Everything except the placement of the stars and that dude pinging off the propeller Jamie, what is something you think is underrated? Underrated Oh, my boyfriend's aunt's sewing account on Instagram I've been saying this for years Go ahead

Okay, so it's a great account So, not to brag But my boyfriend has an aunt And I know. And she lives in the Boston metropolitan area. Okay, fine. You get it. One percent auntie.

She is, oh, so she's a great, I don't know, she's fascinating to me. I've only met her one time. But she's maybe the top interactor with my alt-right dog's Instagram account. Okay. top interactor with uh my alt ride dogs instagram account she leaves him really scathing messages on all of his posts but she's a very so she's if you want to follow her and and her very cool work she's a very talented uh seamster quilter quilter yeah she's a quilter and i got interested in quilting this year so i was very excited about it that's pretty cool she's in a guild uh she's at snippy scissors and i think you know people really have to know what's going on with with snippy because she's she's both very talented and very funny yeah and uh she give

good tips too if you're looking for him she gives good tips and she gives good snips i'll tell you what she truly does uh and then every time Sunny you know posts something she really she really puts him in his place and she often will call him

pathetic so she's just like a really funny person just like as a comment underneath a photo yeah she also staged she's met Sunny once

and she staged a picture of him with a bunch of empty pill bottles looking like he just overdosed. Oh, Jesus Christ. So she's got a very- Shout out to her. She's got some gallows humor.

She's really funny. You got to check out Snippy. She's wild. Why was one of her quilts in a tree? Is that just like a- Why was one of her quilts in a tree? That's part of the beauty of- Just laid amongst the branches.

That's part of the beauty of Snippy. You don't know. Is that an Etsy trend where you sew something and then just throw it in a tree? All haphazardly. In wilderness? I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, that makes sense to me. That seems like a cool way to display your chic.

Tornado chic. Your tornado chic. Her quilts are very complicated. I don't remember exactly what her day job is, but she works for... She has a pretty... She designs military wear. She has a lot of... She's got a lot of talent, it sounds like.

She contains multitudes. I think she's so cool, and you gotta check out those snips. Okay. Check her. What is something you think is overrated? Dressing your dog up like a knife for Halloween. What kind of sick person would do that?

It was too hard. It was you. Full disclosure. It was me. I overestimated my own abilities. To make a dog a knife? To make a dog look like a knife. No one knew he was supposed to be a knife.

He was very uncomfortable in a knife costume. I loved those instagram stories following that saga and then like the people at the dog halloween costume at the dog park were like and he's a knife he's a knife wow there no one thought it was funny least of all sonny the dog he there snippy snippy scissors in fact commented on his his picture it said you couldn't find a professional out there to fashion a proper knife costume? Pathetic. Snippy.

There's some, I know. Getting snippy. She was getting, those scissors, be careful. Don't mess with the scissors. They'll snip. She'll snipe you. Is there a character that is a pair of scissors that is mean? Sentient? I don't know. You should ask her. Is there a character that is a pair of scissors that is mean?

Sentient? I don't know. You should ask her. I'd be interested. No, that's Clippy, not Snippy. No, I'm just thinking of... Oh, okay. I don't know. But I tried to make Sunny look like a knife.

Did you say Clippy from Microsoft Word? Yeah. Okay. I was just making sure. I was just giving a shout out. Wasn't it like a wizard? Clippy. Who was before Clippy?

I think the wizard. There was a wizard. Oh, the wizard. The installation wizard or whatever. Yeah, it was like a dude with a white beard and a wizard cap. Yeah. That's post Clippy? I think so.

As I can't let us know. That's post? Wow. Is wizard post or pre Clippy? This is the real news. Yeah. Yes. But yeah, I wouldn't recommend the knife costume. If anyone has any

ideas on how, you know, maybe I could improve for next year, but we entered him in a costume contest and it really couldn't have gone worse. Right. Yeah. What was the winning outfit? You just taped a real knife to his back, right? I should have just taped knives to Sonny.

That would have been way funnier. Shreds, literally shreds the competition yeah or just get like a like a cardboard harness and you just glue a bunch of prop knives on it so it's not dangerous but it's like this dog's just a bunch of knives it's more abstract yeah uh but yeah i think that the winning one honestly i didn't stay the whole time because sunny fucking humiliated himself pathetic it was pathetic they called him on stage and he walked out like

confused when you bail in the middle of the bit and he's like I don't really know what this is either guys sorry and you're like what the fuck what the fuck Sonny you sold me out I spent $17 on this shit and this is what you do how did you try can you describe to people how you tried to What the fuck, Sonny? You sold me out. I spent $17 on this shit, and this is what you do.

How did you try? Can you describe to people how you tried to pull off the knife? I bought him a dog sweatshirt that I then sewed silver fabric over for the knife base. For the handle? Just for the blade. Oh, got it. Yeah, yeah. He's a brown dog, so his ass is kind of the handle. Oh, right, right.

So you got the handle just by having him. And then you put the silver jacket on, and then we taped, like we made a little hat, a pointy little hat. Yeah. It looked kind of good. I thought it looked like it. Honey, you look good. Oh, sorry.

You look good, you knife. Is that you? Yeah, that's me trying to... I would be like, I think that dog got stuck in a piece of ventilation or something. Yeah, everyone was like, oh, is he a dust buster? I was like, oh, fuck you guys. He's a fucking knife, asshole. He's a fucking knife.

And he was embarrassed. I think a dog dressed as Guy Fieri or some pandering bullshit one. I don't care. Yeah. I don't care. Yeah. I don't care. I've noticed that the funniest people I know oftentimes don't successfully execute Halloween costumes because Halloween costumes are very... I feel like the successful ones are oftentimes very basic

and it's just like, I don't know. You just need something that's almost broad and a lot of really funny people I've been hearing stories from who go more obscure. I always go too high concept for Halloween and then I can't execute it. Don't make your dog a knife. Just, you know what? There's nice costumes at Petco. You could just go there.

It's fine. Sophie's dog, our office mascot anderson was a tootsie roll and it was just so cute very easy ace is a taco ace is a taco very cute incredible we're gonna actually have our halloween costume expert super producer on a hose nail on a little later on to tell us the digest. What happened yesterday? What went down in the costume world? But we also like to ask our guest, Jamie, what is a myth? Ooh, something I've been thinking about a lot this week,

or I didn't mean to think about it a lot, but then ended up doing so, was I was thinking about the, this is, and this is like, like if this bugs people it's like a little bit about eating disorders but I was thinking about how like I have thought about the same like throwaway joke that I saw on Family Guy when I was 13 for like literally maybe several times a week for my entire life since then and how it's like kind of informed i don't know like it was a joke that uh basically is like peter griffin some stupid fucking cutaway joke where he's like oh if a woman weighs over this amount like i i don't want to have sex with her or you know it was like a stupid not joke something where weight was a

qualifying quality of right with this like fucking sethFarlane cartoon but anyways like it's very stupid but I think about it all the time right and it's like that number that he says has like stuck in my head for like uh over a decade oh my god and just I was thinking about that so I just like tweeted it out just as like kind of as a joke but it's true and then all these, so I just tweeted it out just kind of as a joke, but it's true. And then all these—so I guess my myth is there's no such thing as a full throwaway joke. Right. Because there's always going to be someone that it hits a little different. And I don't really know—I don't have a proposed solution. really frustrating and unfortunate and like has you know a lot to do with just playing to

broad stereotypes instead of like thinking about something for 45 seconds right it's like i don't think i mean it's like i i doubt that like the speed like when you write a joke like that it's highly doubtful that it's intended for like yeah a 13 year old kid to see and then never stop thinking about it yeah but then people started like responding to that thread with like different very very specific throwaway jokes that they'd seen on tv or in movies that they had also been thinking about for like years and years and years and uh i don't know it just it just uh it gave me some food for thought we got a lot of people i guess guess that in some of the Twilight books,

they say a specific weight for how much Bella Swan weighed, and that fucked with a lot of people. Oh, wow. Bridget Jones fucks with a lot of people because they make jokes about her weight when she's a very normal. Yeah, she's a very normal weight. And I don't know. Yeah, it was like something that I had only thought about in regards to that joke.

And like I even like I would tell like my boyfriend, I was like, oh, yeah, I'm like, I'm going to hit Seth MacFarlane weight any day now. Like I'm like, why did I let Seth MacFarlane inform my fucking weight goal? That makes no sense. And then just that statement alone i'm gonna hit seth mcfarland wait and then what you know yeah what's that mean but uh but yeah it was like interesting to hear what other specific things um that i i mean i think in in a lot of cases we're not written to fuck people up but fuck people up anyways um yeah i don't know it's just something that's been on my little mind yeah yeah little my little mind gigantic and expansive

what was that mensa okay uh yeah that's a bummer um yeah but if i mean i don't know no i still love that's a really good point and i mean yes well i think that that's a bummer. Yeah, but I mean, I don't know. Do you still love Seth MacFarlane? Yes. Well, I think that that's probably, I'm sure that my performative love of Seth MacFarlane is partially connected to that. To that, right, this weird ideal that he's- Oh, for sure.

Yeah. Yeah, but to answer your question, of course. Of course, you can text me anytime. Right. Yeah, why do I have this dream about Seth MacFarlane to answer your question of course of course you can text me anytime right yeah i will i would why do i have this dream about seth mcfarland throwing me down a flight of stairs you know could we connect and we don't know we don't know yeah but i mean that is like you know what we talk about here is how culture affects reality and vice versa yeah. And how it's like designed to fuck with you. Yeah.

And even if it's unintentional, sometimes it does have an impact for sure. Well, yeah, because so many people have such different experiences. Like you can never think that any single thing will be received a single way. And that's why diversity is incredibly important when it comes to like writing rooms and stuff like that. Yeah, for sure.

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And we're back. And it's time to check in with the impeachment process i'm talking about impeaching this creep oh i love it new drop so smooth yeah really is smooth it's a smile to my face miles and dj daniel collab collab oh all right miles all right jack Miles and DJ Dan will collab. Collabo. Labo. All right, Miles. All right, Jack. So the House passed a resolution yesterday. Yep. It sailed right on through.

Sailed right on through. Not a good sign. Along party lines. So, I mean, it was basically what people expected. I think two Democrats who were particularly worried about, you know, how they would do in upcoming elections voted nay. Yeah. Instead of yay. Has to be delivered that way.

Yeah. Or nigh. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, there, there wasn't anything that was really unexpected about like the rules for what,

what's going to go down. Right. No. And I think what's good is that, I think the biggest risk though I see with public hearings is if some of these Democrats just start grandstanding and not actually giving good cross-examination basically

when it gets to the public phase. Because that's happened before. We saw that in certain committee hearings. We're like, what the fuck was that? But what's also good is that they can have like lawyers to pull up and ask questions as well. So, I mean,

beyond that, there isn't much new. I think the one thing that was interesting was Nancy Pelosi was basically saying like, look, these are the rules. And the reason we're doing this is that we can basically build a case because if we take a vote to actually impeach the president,

this shit is going to be ironclad right like it's not we're not going to fuck around on like some half-baked sort of plan um and for all like the the crowing and crying on the right about like this is just how's he going to defend himself well then when he's impeached you have a trial in the senate right and then you can defend okay because right now they're trying to figure out if you have impeached, committed an impeachable offense. So they're, I mean, they're just arguing with the constitution, right? Like the thing they're arguing against are the rules of impeachment. Yes.

It's, it doesn't make sense. Right. Because that's the only thing they can attack is process at this point. And like, everything's like, there's nothing, what you're saying doesn't hold any weight because even what you're saying like the due process occurs in the actual trial. Yeah.

That's like saying if you committed a crime and like the cops are like investigating something. Right. You're like well hold on I gotta be able to defend myself right now.

Right. It's like no fam I'm investigating to figure out if we want to court and then you can fucking tell your side. But right now

I'm trying to gather facts. To figure out what you're being accused of specifically. Right. Trump 2020 in the state of uh pennsylvania had a witch hunt themed party uh for halloween so boy that's fun uh well and again it's only the pile of this is not looking good for trump is only getting higher and higher with more material witnesses coming out. So Bill Taylor last week had mentioned the White House director of Russian affairs, like the expert in the White House on Russia, Tim Morrison.

He literally quit the day before he was going to testify. He was like, I'm resigning my position and tomorrow I will go speak to the House Intelligence Committee. And tomorrow I will go speak to the House Intelligence Committee. And so a lot of it, I mean, again, this is another person who was mentioned by other witnesses who has firsthand knowledge of what was going on. So this is another problem because it went from being like, well, you have a whistleblower who didn't know, who heard. Now you're being like, okay, well, we have this person. How about now? They're like, well, that's only one.

I was like, what about this? Okay, that's only two person. How about now? They're like, well, that's only one. I was like, what about this person? Okay, that's only two. And how about now? It's like, ugh, that guy might be a Ukrainian spy. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. I shouldn't have said that about the army colonel. The dude who made that claim on Laura Ingraham had to kind of do a apology tour, right?

Yeah, John, he went on Cuomo and was like, I regret saying that. I was calling the Russians spies. Ukrainians may have been espionaging. Which is interesting to see because that was a moment even Fox even tried to attempt of besmirching a decorated Iraq war veteran. When typically the stance of those networks is like, don't ever say a fucking bad thing about anyone who has served to send like that dude could be a spy. I don't know. He's Jewish, too.

So dual loyalty. I don't know. Whatever. And I but I think the sort of unified response about being like, what the fuck are you doing? I guess showed them a bit of a guardrail because it was interesting to see people like, OK, we like mean to like do that but right but maybe i don't know yeah just in case like we have to discredit this guy hard to say so i mean uh it does ultimately as you mentioned end up with the senate and you know the republicans do have the majority in the senate so kind of all eyes are uh you know people have at least the like out of the corner of their eye.

They're watching Senate Republicans to see how they're reacting. And, you know, overall, it seems like there's a pretty big tonal shift. The Hill published an article where they were talking about just how GOP senators answer questions have gone from, you know, in May, what's his name? Lindsey Graham being like, oh, we dismiss it out of hand. I think it would be disposed of very quickly was what he said in May. Oh, if there were to be a Senate trial. Yeah, if there were to be a Senate trial. And now they asked the Tim Scott from South Carolina if any of this bothers him.

And he said, there's a lot of things that concern me. So, you know, they're starting to actually be, actually take some of this in, it seems like. A lot of teaser trailers. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm like, oh, interesting. I think I might know what that might be. But yeah, I mean, you see some people

who are willing to go all in. Like, you know, we were talking about Ron Johnson the other day or even Marsha Blackburn. There are some senators who feel like they might have a little more involvement than we even know or even tangentially. And like, isn't that an issue if they're the jurors? It's like another question. It's like another question. And then on top of that, there was a fundraising email that went out from the Trump campaign that was telling all of the like massive donor lists that they have, because they're all supporting an anti-impeachment movement is like, quote, if we don't post strong fundraising numbers, we won't be able to defend the president from this baseless impeachment, which haunt all caps, which most people are like, are you bribing them by saying like, hey, I'll bust

open this $300 million war chest I have if you guys get in line. Y'all better get that in writing if you're planning on accepting that bribe because this dude never pays anybody. Yeah. That'd be so funny. He's like, yeah, can I get that in an email? Yes. Perfect. What do you want to say? Something to the effect of, I will give you this

re-election money if you just, no matter what the evidence in a Senate trial is, you vote against impeachment. Okay. Oh, sounds good. impeachment? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Oh, sounds good. Great. I love it. But he is like breaking records in terms of money,

fundraising for his reelection campaign, I think. Yeah, he is. And we were talking about a couple days ago how Republican senators are worried because their numbers are kind of drying up a little bit. People are starting to abandon them. So they're basically using one strength to solve another problem. It's funny.

I mean, right now, Susan Collins of Maine is showing such bravery by having no stance on the impeachment inquiry. No stance. When should she ever have a stance on something that hasn't ended up happening? She's in such a bad place after the Kavanaugh shit. Like, her approval rating is, like, not as subterranean. It's Mariana's Trench, basically, okay? It's where the Meg grew up, okay? Underneath that fog, beneath the trench.

And she's still, like, it's like, are you going to try and appeal to your conservatives? Or who? What can you do? Just try doing something, you know? Yeah. Oh, God. If she just stuck her neck out, she might have something, but not going to happen. Because she's always like, I think things are concerning.

That's about it all the time. Things are disturbing or concerning. But that's usually the line they walk, so they don't have to do anything too critical. Boo. Boo. All right. Well, so back to the whistleblower investigation. they walk so they don't have to do anything too too critical boo boo uh all right well so back to the whistleblower investigation the thing that started all yeah um it seems like they know uh the right wing media is talking openly about who the whistleblower is yeah uh and you know

the reporting is that everyone behind the scenes is pretty much in agreement about who it is. And the person, at least this real clear politics investigation is that alleges that the person is a registered Democrat. And they basically make it sound like the whistleblower is part of the biden campaign like oppo research head for biden campaign uh i don't know like how true any of that is because no kind of down the middle media outlets are reporting on the identity of the whistleblower but what we know is it's a CIA operative. The person went to Yale, so probably like a creep of some sort or another. Love that generalization. CIA Yale. Yeah, and they're young, younger than I expected. But even Drudge is not treating this like it's a big deal. It's like one link of 20 about impeachment.

It doesn't matter. The floodgates have opened. Yeah, the floodgates have opened, and we're beyond the point where we're counting on this, any one source of information. Yeah, the whole thing started with someone being like, I heard that this, and now we have people who are like, I saw the president do this.

I saw Rudy Giuliani do this. I saw John Bolton be like, this is a drug deal. Right. Good John Bolton. I don't like drug deals. I don't know how he talks. Hey, you know what really sucks?

I'm like a weird fucked up Muppet. That's what I look like. Guys, it's our favorite Muppet, Warhawk. There. Let's talk about the president. More bad news for the president. Oh, no. Yeah, he, well, there was a fundraiser on Wednesday night in D.C.

that was held at the Trump Hotel in D.C. that was held at the Trump Hotel in D.C. And apparently like Trump went up and did like an hour of like, I guess, mixture of complaining. Almost a mixture of complaining about Democrats or Mitt Romney and also telling dumb fucking jokes. We're like kind of half roasting people and then also patting himself on the back for killing Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. And then was basically saying that he called Representative John Joyce's wife, quote, a looker. OK. And called a shorter congressman, Chuck Fleischman, a little guy and some other stuff. But the thing that really stuck out at people is that he was talking to Steve Scalise, who is the minority whip in the House. He was involved in it.

He was shot. He was a victim of a shooting in 2017 at that congressional baseball game or the practice with the congressional baseball team when he was talking about him. This is what Trump said. This is from Politico. They say the president reflected on the shooting of Steve Scalise a few years ago and remarked how tough the Louisiana Republican is. And Trump quipped he wouldn't recommend getting shot as a weight loss plan.

Trump also said Scalise's wife, quote, cried her eyes out when I met her at the hospital that faithful day. I mean, not many wives would react that way to a tragedy. I know mine wouldn't. I mean, hold on. wouldn't i mean hold on so even even if he's even if he's like trying to do the uh my wife she's a real bad axe always always getting mad at me type thing it's still starting from a baseline that not many wives would cry when their husband was shot well based on his experience of wives, that would probably make a lot of sense. No one would be sad. Oh, God, that's so dark.

I know. That's so many layers of like, oh, he thinks he's like, you know, guy? Like everyone? You know how wives don't care about you because you probably abuse them and they're all like just sullen all the time? Right.

Isn't that right? Am I right? Am I right? Am I right, guys? Am I right? Can you imagine him Am I right, guys? Am I right? Can you imagine him walking into Scalise's hospital room and is just like, what's her problem? Yeah.

And his wife is bawling. What's her deal? Why is she so sad? She got a period. Like, what? She got her period? Her wife is in critical condition. What the fuck is that?

Melania, you never do that. Yeah. Told you my tear ducts don't work. Oh, that's right. That's right. Yeah, I don't know. It was a very, it's funny when you see these moments where like all the Trump family just say these things

that are revealing about their mental state or like how they see the world and things like that. So like even when Don Jr. was like, I think recently he said, I wish my name was, he was on Hannity. He said, I wish my name was Hunter Biden so I can make millions of dollars off my dad. Right. Oh, that was great.

That was beautiful. Okay. And even what was the other one when he said like, when you, when the father is powerful and you're the son, they own you. That's how it works. Yeah. It's hard. It's hard.

They just have these moments of clarity that are just so interesting father is powerful like yeah i mean there's no doubt that their relationship behind the scenes makes uh logan roy look like fucking mr rogers right like trump is just probably so mean to them oh absolutely i mean you can mean, you can tell, even what we said, the way he was interacting with children and costumes. Right. He probably does not interact with children. He doesn't like it.

He's like, I don't know. You can barely talk to them about the stock market. Yeah, he just met his kids when they turned 18. Yeah. It's like, yeah, Ivanka's like, this is your new granddaughter. He goes, oh, wow. Yeah. Do you know Obama is a Muslim?

She's not responding. She's two days old, dad. I don't know. She's probably a fucking lib. Okay, dad. There's that story about how, I think Ivanka tells it like about how he taught them to be competitive, but it's like basically when they would go skiing together as a family, he would like attack them with his poles to try and like trip them up and shit.

And it was like first one down would get love. Yeah. Basically. Yeah. I love, I love, I do love a competition for a parent's love. I know.

That is fun. Just like openly encouraging. That is so dark. Oh yeah. The most evil thing you so dark. I feel like that is- The most evil thing you can do. But that like, that, you know, crosses socioeconomic lines. Yeah. Like poor parents make you fight for their love too.

And that's also fun. Yeah. That's nice. That's awesome. It's a time honored tradition. Yeah. My dad used to do a game with us called Poopstick. Oh no.

Where it's- Based off that Upright Citizens Brigade sketch? Yeah, my dad's a huge UCB fan. No, this was like a long time, but no, my dad would like have us, like me and my cousins run around until one of us,

because he had to always pick up the dog's crap and he could never find it. And so he'd have us run around until one of us stepped in the poop. And then he would, he would get the poop stick

and he would scrape the poop off. Yeah, and then you'd get extra snack at lunch. That's kind of ingenious. Yeah, it was pretty smart. So you were- Low rent Logan Roy. So you were trying to find it. Like as a kid, do you remember

like trying to run around and step in the shit? You want to step in the shit. You want to step in the shit because then you get extra love and snacks. It wasn't enough to be like, I found it here, no need to dirty your shoe. You can just pick in the shit. You want to step in the shit because then you get extra love and snacks. It wasn't enough to be like, I found it here. No need to dirty your shoe. You can just pick it up here. No, he'd wave the stick at the front of the house.

Who wants it? Poop stick, poop stick. Scrape it off. Ringing the dinner bell with the poop stick. Oh, man. So nasty. It was a pointy stick, though. I really got it out.

I've been sweeping my backyard like a mind sweeper looking for those dog poops. I didn't know about this genius move. Just send the kids outside. They'll find it. Yeah, it's like a weird AI hack where it's like I use children. Right.

Your porch smells like dog shit all the time because all your shoes are covered in shit. The reason I go mind sweeping for the poop is so that my kids don't step in it. Well, that's a classical approach to the problem. Right, yeah. I'm not thinking 4D chess. Oh, man.

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I know. I just sprung that one on you. We need to intellectualize it, too. I was just going to list some cool stuff. What are the deeper meanings of our culture and the direction we're headed in? Well, first, let's talk about what were the- Just generally about hegemony. The most popular Halloween costumes, it looks like, were Joker, Captain Marvel, which makes

sense, Red from Us in the jumpsuit, Mr. Rogers, the May Queen from Midsommar. That was the thought choice of the year, I think. That was the thought costume of the year. The May Queen. That's what that character's called? The May Queen, yeah. Is that what the judges at the dog contest were?

They were. They were all May Queens, and then they shit all over the knife costume. Unbelievable. Assholes. Forget it. And then the other kind of fun thing is that now celebrities get

entire production companies to set up their Instagram videos for Halloween. Kim Kardashian did Elle Woods. Reenacted a five minute chunk of Legally Blonde. What? Right.

It's the video of Elle Woods trying to get into law school. Like the video she sends in. The Harvard acceptance video. Oh, yeah, yeah. So she remade that. It feels like a lot of them have so much money that their costumes are so wildly accurate. Like LeBron James did the Edward Scissorhands.

Right. Which off the top of your head, or just when you try and picture it in your head, if you haven't seen it, you're like, that doesn't really make sense because Johnny Depp is a sickly looking hollow-eyed guy. So that's why he makes sense. To his credit, he didn't do whiteface.

Right, yeah, he did not. But the costume was fucking amazing yeah paul george did night face paul george did the night king and like i that's one that i can picture it immediately and i'm like yes that makes sense yep yep um i loved ariana grande's costume was she courtney kardashian no courtney kardashian was ariana grande, who was Ariana Grande? Ariana Grande was from that Twilight Zone episode where the twist is she's been ugly the whole time. It was really, really, really good. Is it the pig mask?

The pig mask, yeah. Oh, that one? She had a bunch of really horny pics of her in the pig mask. It was a master film. Oh, let me see. That's classic. I thought it was good god oh yeah like true money to put like an over-the-top costume anna is our must be nice expert she

comes on and that's time for must be nice with anna host must be nice what are you talking about i don't know courtney kardashian looked looked exactly like Ariana Grande. That was one where somebody has once told you that you look like someone, and so you go with that. Yeah. I don't want to embarrass you, but in the doc, you wrote Kourtney Kardashian with a C. What the fuck? I didn't.

That wasn't me. Yes, it was. Jack's canceled. That was not me. You're out of your fucking mind. I spelled the Kardashian with, and, and. I spelled the Kardashian with a C too. Yeah. I was just like, oh my God.

These Kardashians. Yeah, Kardashian. Right, like Kardashian. Kardashian dashboard. But I too, also though, when I read it, I didn't know who you were talking about because it was spelled with a C. Really?

For a split second, I was like, I don't know who this is. I can't fucking believe it. Put your shit together. I apologize. What were some other good Halloween costumes that you saw? Gabrielle Union went as her

own character from Bring It On. Hell yeah. That was her. I was like, that's a great costume. She really was. She looks like that young lady from Bring It On. Hell yeah. That was her. I was like, that's a great costume. She really was. She looks like that young lady from Bring It On. That was me. That was her. Oh.

But she also dressed her daughter up in it. It was really cute. Oh, that's cool. Ciara and Russell Wilson went as Beyonce and Jay-Z. I thought that was the best costume I saw. They also made a video. From the Ape Shit video. Yeah.

Yeah, which people have a lot of time and production money. that was the best costume i saw they also made this from the video yeah yeah which people have a lot of time in production money right honestly i feel like heidi klum and seal were really the first celebrities to shame all other people on halloween right because like when she would go all out even some of her problematic costumes they'd be like well this person's putting thousands of dollars wait what was her halloween what was her problematic house? She's done like Hindu gods and shit. Right. I don't want to leave that alone. Right, right. But, you know, look, it was 2007 when nothing was problematic. This year she went as a

human firework. Yeah. I mean, it was like really cool looking, but then when I found out that it was nothing, it was just like... Because they didn't look like fireworks. They just looked like shimmery... Oh, that was a firework? Yeah, that was... It looked more like, She was just covered in glitter. Because they didn't look like fireworks. They just looked like shimmery... Oh, that was a firework? Yeah, that was... It looked more like, I don't know.

Shit is the word you're looking for. I liked famous anti-vaxxer Jessica Biel had a fun one. What was hers? She dressed up as young Justin Timberlake. Oh, yeah. Top ramen head, Justin. Yeah. And JT went as a microphone next to her.

Oh, really? Oh, really? I didn't know that. That's cute. He didn't look happy in any of the photos. Yeah. Well, that's as a microphone next to her. Oh, really? I didn't know that. That's cute. You don't look happy in any of the photos. Yeah. What do you think someone will know

about him? That's also, well, maybe because his wife is an anti-vaxxer. The mother of his children is an anti-vaxxer. Are their kids vaccinated?

I don't know. We don't know. I don't know because I know she was caping for other people who didn't want to and then was being very coy.

It's a third rail these days. Yeah. It's a new McCarthyism, man. Oh, boy. You say one thing. Demi Lovato went as Marie Antoinette, and that was a very well-done costume. Full face makeup. The old...

She did some white face. Yeah, she did some extreme white face. Haim went as Hanson that's actually funny yeah Tony Hawk went as Larry David oh nice uh Anna Hosnier I went as a strawberry as a strawberry again two years running really cute

uh Jamie Loftus yeah I went as Anastasia while she's poor although everyone's been shitting all over this costume they think I'm a pencil It's just hard to If you haven't seen the movie it's hard to Place it Apparently it's not a very popular movie

I learned that the hard way The animated film Anastasia The animated film Anastasia At the beginning she's poor And she wears a yellow tunic Like a newsboy hat Or like semi-military-ish hat sometimes yeah sometimes not all the time and she wears brown leggings and red hair and she has red hair yeah

yeah that's well that's what you really nailed me on wasn't it to me if you had red hair i'd have been like oh anastasia when she's poor right i i you know what I'm not good at Halloween. I thought it was a really bad Kill Bill costume. If you got a red hair wig, you could have gone as Natasha Lyonne in, what's that show she did? Russian Doll. Russian Doll cosplaying as Anastasia Poore. Oh, my God. Why? Did she?

Was that a character she played in that movie? The big red hair. Hair. The big red hair. You know what Jack welcome to America. Listen I fucked it up.

Eric Andre went as a pregnant Allie Wong. That was good. Fun. Fun fun. Fun fun. Jennifer Gardner was USPS mailbox.

I'm sure. Pandango listed one of the top group costumes as cats from the new movie Cats. That seems like a really hard one to pull off. Too much of a lift for a group costume.

No, it's not. You didn't get my invite? No. Oh, I didn't know there was a picture of Tony Hawk skateboarding as Larry David. That's special. Who else? Missy Elliott went as her first album cover so she just went as herself.

Okay. Miles, weird flex but okay. Am I right? Yeah. Weird flex but alright. Miles loves saying that. He says it at least 10 times a day. A lot of people don't know Miles and I are

great friends I say the coolest catchphrases constantly I don't like to do them on mic because you know I don't know where I'm at oh my

my boyfriend JaVale McGee of the Lakers went as Beetlejuice that was a good one because he was working with his natural creepiness

yeah well natural like height and skinniness and you know Beetlejuice at times his limbs extend out. Quite sexy. Great.

Well, we have learned a lot about the zeitgeist here today. Thank you so much, super producer. Anna Hosnier, will you stay with us? I'm a strawberry. Please don't tell. You are. Hi, I'm a strawberry. I like totals

we have a little pop culture throwback news oh yeah okay to the 90s I guess and 2002

not the 2000s yeah she's the 2000s the early aughts Paris Hilton is extremely post 9-11 yeah exactly she's a direct result

yeah Paris Hilton so extremely post 9-11. Yeah. Exactly. She's a direct result. Yeah. Paris Hilton. So she recently did an interview in The Guardian and talked about her love of the Juicy Couture velour track suit from the early 2000s. And she said, I love Juicy Couture velour track suits. I probably own a hundred of them in every color. That's my uniform when I'm chilling at home or going to the beach anything that doesn't involve a red carpet that and honestly i think i like somebody who's so on brand even with a style choice that is so outdated i can't get mad about it she's just

living in her moment yeah forever she's right exactly you time stood still at the height of your fame and that's now your look, your brand. I can't be mad. Like if Cher's still dressed like from the 70s Cher. Right. Which sometimes she does. Right. Yeah.

But like dresses up like. Like always. Not like hangs around in the house as the first version of her that was famous. Yeah. I just like, again, I don't know what it is. I love the Juicy Couture tracksuit. It was my favorite garment to watch somebody wear.

I would wear my own tracksuits that were baggy, not tight like that, showing off my cakes. But there's something about... Don't Google that. Do not Google Miles Gray Juicy Couture. Find the picture oh my goodness do your work that in a Von Dutch bag

wow wait I actually didn't know I didn't know Juicy Couture was only for women I used to rock that you got these

tight ass velour hoodies what is going on today I like I like lusted after those when I was a kid but I was too I was couldn't be denied I was a child.

Did you ever wear, did you ever have a velour tracksuit? No, I had swishies. I had swishies. What swishies? Like the, I feel like I've done this. Oh, yeah. Like a nylon windbreaker kind of material. Those are the kind of tracksuits I had.

Like real tracksuits. Or like tearaway pants. Oh, I love tearaway pants. Oh, loved it. Till mine yeah. Like real track suits. Or like tearaway pants. Oh, I love tearaway pants. Oh, loved it. Till mine were ripped off at a party. Yes, yeah. And I was not wearing basketball shorts underneath. Very humiliating.

Oh, shit. Were you wearing like tighty-whities, like jockeys? Look, that's not really important right now. Okay. Okay. Were you wearing juicy couture underneath? I had juicy couture. Just a juicy on your butt?

Yeah, cut off shorts that I was wearing underneath my North Carolina tear away pants love it and then taking it back another decade Kurt Cobain's sweater from the Unplugged show which happened like just weeks before

months five months before which happened just months before he died just sold at auction for $334,000 Oh months Five months before Just Which happened just months Before he died Just sold At auction For $334,000 Sure The most expensive sweater

Ever sold at an auction Sure It's unwashed Olive green mohair Yep And acrylic People are such perverts Do you think

The person who wanted to Snitch on the fuck out of it I just wanna smell it Smelling it And jerking off I just wanna smell it And become better at music. We find out some millionaire died

of autoerotic asphyxiation with a sweatshirt around his neck. Just wrapped around his head. Although I guess you could apply that same mentality to all museums, so I'm just calling people museum curators perverts. You fucking creep.

Is there any unwashed sweater of a celebrity or historical figure you would be interested in just kind of getting a whiff of? Oh, just to know what someone smells like? Yeah, anyone's garments. Oh, I need a few minutes to think on that. I got to think about through historical sweaters. Mr. Rogers? I'm curious what Mr. Rogers, his sweater smelled like.

But then it's like they never meet your heroes. They never smell your heroes because what if they don't smell the way you wanted them to? Fine. Then I learn. And that's that. And I can move forward in my life. I make a $350,000 investment and I learn that Kurt Cobain wasn't the man I thought he was. Yeah.

It actually smells pretty clean. He smells like Dracar. Yeah. Cool water. He's like, damn, this fellow's using cool. How do you call that grunge? Aqua Disho. He's like, damn, this fellow's using cool water. How do you pump that grunge? Aqua de show? He's a fraud.

Can you imagine just being heartbroken? I mean, I've always been curious about how just terrible everything smelled throughout history. Like deep in history. Right, when no one was bathing. A couple centuries. Like there was one summer where there were they just dumped all the waste into the thames river and all of london just smelled like shit for a whole summer and it was just a thing people talked about like they're just like man really smells bad here like to the point that you can't think about anything else for the whole summer. Yeah, it's got a, must have been bad.

Napoleon was into smelling women's body odor. Like getting a whiff of the armpit or something? Yeah, that was his kink. Or would he have them cut the armpit hair off and then he could just huff the armpit hair? I don't know what he would do. I mean, there's just different methods. I was curious what his was. He wrote letters to wrote letters to the community we talk about it a lot

so was he buying it from that website the hairs the uh rasputin like collected virgin hair and you would stuff it in his have i ever told you guys about this this is i mean i'm wearing an anastasia costume please give us some rasputin. So, Rasputin would cut, he would have people steal, snip hair from virgins or people that they

thought were virgins and he would stuff them in the walls of his house and so years and years later when they were demolishing one of his houses, they were like, what is in the wall?

The walls were stuffed with hair. And he just, I don't know what he was saving it for but like he yeah he like collected lady's hair and then would like squirrel it away and it had protective qualities i don't know i mean he was really hard to kill so yeah like what if that's the secret to immortality to surround yourself i feel like this is not good for. Wow. I'm going to start going to like.

To put out there. I'm going to start going to children's barbershops. What y'all doing with this hair? Right. Mind if I sweep it? Yeah. Mind if I sweep it? I'd do a service where I collect just children's hair for insulation.

Wouldn't your house, like my thing is like wouldn't, I would worry about like if my house caught fire, it would burn down twice as fast because it's full of hair. Because your hair walls. Virgin hair burns incredibly fast. Right. Yeah. It spreads. Yeah. It's the leading cause of wildfire. It's probably C4 basically. Yeah. Do not get a fire near virgin hair. It's true.

And there's reports coming and and on top of that. Here's something new uh apple what the fuck uh all right guys uh so apple may be laying the groundwork for subscription based iphones basically like you would subscribe to an iphone as opposed to owning, which I think is technically true now. Well, they have that program where basically like you pay monthly and then if every year you can just switch to a new one.

Right. But you also have, it's like a, like by the end of it though, you'll own it if you don't switch it within a year. Like if you do the two year payment cycle, you'll own it anyway. Yeah. But I don't understand why I would, anyone would want a subscription to a phone. So Tim Cook came out with a statement where he was like, a lot of users are asking for this, and so we're going to do it.

But the article on CNBC that wrote about that announcement was like, actually it's because there's a lot of pressure from their investors to transition from transactional to recurring revenue. Oh, instead of just breaking your fucking phone every year? Right, yeah. Get them hooked. I think they got scared because they started making the iPhones so good

that the last batch of iPhones didn't sell as well in the United States. And it was because of how good the previous group was. So people are, you know. That's how you cultivate brand loyalty and shit like that. Right, but they're not thinking of any of that shit. Also, he's really out here being like, a lot of people have been asking for another recurring bill.

Who the fuck are you talking to? Right. Hi, sir, would you like another recurring bill, miss? A recurring bill? Another one? Timmy. DJ Khaled? Another one? Timmy. DJ Khaled? Another one?

The easiest thing for a CEO billionaire to say is just make up something that poor people want. Right. You know? Okay. It's an odd move. Yeah. And I just don't- It also, I don't like the idea of disincentivizing them from like having to keep innovating and creating better phones

right right because like if you're on a subscription service then you just like get the phone whether it's cool or not it just like comes to you right so like why you know right now i think i i can totally see why it would make sense from their perspective because they don't like having to like all this pressure to innovate and upgrade their phones like every year and like make a better phone that's gonna appeal to users like that much more than the previous phone that's not gonna work right they're like hey you want the stale iphone right it's like kind of like nah this one from five years ago is still the best phone ever made yeah i stand i ride with the iphone 8 good for you yeah i got whatever one was last year

mine still has a button that that's where i'm at oh nice yeah i got yeah i have no idea it it works though they haven't demanded it break yet they haven't summoned the death spell on it yeah i've had it for like exactly a year though, so I'm like, ah, soon. No, that one is, that's pretty robust. You got mileage on that. Because I have one that's almost two years old. It's fine. They haven't done a kill,

they haven't flipped the kill switch on it yet? No, not yet. Kill switch engage. All right. Great band. I had never heard their music. I don't know who they are. Kill switch engage? I know that they sell their t-shirts at Hot Topic, right?

Yep. Is Kill Switch the band? You know where they're from? Westfield, Mass. Really? There's a lot of shitty bands from Massachusetts. That doesn't mean... I mean, yeah, there's not a lot of good music there.

I was hoping that... Unless you're an Aerosmith head, of course. Oh, shit. And they got their own roller coaster. Are they from Boston? I have to assume, but I can't say for sure. What if they weren't? They're from Omaha, shit. And they got their own roller coaster. Are they from Boston? I have to assume, but I can't say for sure. Could you imagine? What if they weren't?

They're from Omaha, Nebraska. Pixies are from Boston. Yeah. Okay. Well, then look. Not bad. Yeah. Oh, good.

Thank God they are from Boston. Whoa. I would like to say, like, from Westfield, Connecticut. It's Boston. From the Westfield Shopping Center. There. What? Live from the Westfield Shopping Center. I? Live from the Westfield Shopping Center.

I think that that's where I'm going to start doing live shows now. Oh, that would be a great album. I want to be a mall comedian. Just unwanted comedy like in the middle of a food court to set up a microphone? Honestly, 95% of comedy is unwanted comedy. So what difference would it make to me putting it in a mall? difference would it make yeah putting it in a mall uh there was a new development in the star wars universe david benioff and db weiss benioff and weiss who ran game of thrones uh are not going to be making a new star wars trilogy after all oh great disappointment of nobody yeah literally

there's applause from the fucking, they're done. Yeah. Some people thought it was connected to, apparently, they did a press conference at the Austin Film Festival. That was rough. Where they were like, yeah, we didn't know what the fuck we were doing. We were just kind of learning on the job, man. It was crazy that they let us do it. What the fuck? That was fascinating, too, because I feel like people would see that interview 10 years ago and be like, wow, this is an example of how you learn on the job.

And this industry is actually really hard. But now people are just like, yeah, this is an example of how easy it is for two incompetent rich white guys to fail their way upwards. Right. Yeah, exactly. And they also were like, we cut some of the fantasy elements because we didn't just want that type of fan base to be into it. What? Was Mark Benioff from Salesforce, are they cousins? I have no idea.

They're related. Yeah, there's a lot of inherited wealth. And then the weird, yeah, their backstories. We talked about it a little bit when we were talking about Game of Thrones, how, what a privileged life they've had.

Apparently from their end, they were not thrilled with the experience of the last season of Game of Thrones. Because of what? Because of fan backlash. And so they were like,

we would rather not deal with like an already super committed fan base like Star Wars. Yeah, we want as low a bar as possible. And then it's weird. As we made the show, the bar kept going up. And I was like, this is actually like too much of a challenge for me. So I'm going to quit.

Right. Once we learned what we were doing, we were like, oh, shit, this is hard. This is like really fucked up. Oh, boy. But they refer to it as quote toxic fandom. Well, anyone who disagrees with you is toxic though. Yeah, right, right. That's like, that's a thing.

Right. I agree to a certain extent that that is a real thing. But when you objectively made a, just the last season was just absolute garbage. Yes, it was very bad. God, that's all so fucked up too. Cause I'm like, I also don't agree with like people are like, sign a petition for HBO to make a new series. I'm like, they fucked it up.

I mean, I guess it's nice to have nice things to be upset about instead of real things. Yeah. But the main thing that they're saying caused this is just that they signed like a $250 million deal with Netflix. So they're just going to be making Netflix shows. Peddling out garbage. And to give you an idea of some of their other ideas besides let's make a TV show of this book that we really like. That was their Game of Thrones idea,

which I mean that's to their credit. They like had to go out, get George R. Martin on and like it was their idea and like their vision of like making this into a HBO style TV show. Hey, how little work can we do? But their other pitch was, yeah, Civil War. Right. You might not remember this, but last year we talked about a show that HBO greenlit that

was about a world in which the confederacy wins oh right talk about toxic fandoms right seriously jesus i forgot about that is that's that's not happening still right no no hb yeah No, no. Yeah, people were like, excuse you? Yeah, what? I hate it here. Yeah. Here? Fair, fair. On Earth. She must go back to her home planet now.

Yeah, I have to be beamed back up. My home planet needs me. My home planet knife dog. Knife dog. Well, Jamie, it's been wonderful having you back on the Daily Zeitgeist. It's good to be back on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you? You can find me on Twitter.com at Jamie Loftus Help.

On Instagram at Jamie Chris Superstar. If you live in Boston, tickets go on sale today for my show, Boss Whom is Girl. It'll be at November 22nd at the Rockwell in Somerville, so you should come. Thank you. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yes, and I'm ready. I'm prepared. Hell yeah. This never happens. Okay.

So this is a tweet from my friend Corey Johnson at Corey T. Johnson. Says, picture this. You go to see Parasite. After the movie, your father yells, who is this directed by? Bernie Sanders? To the entire Arclight Theater.

It doesn't land. Why would it? What the? That happened to him? That is truly, like, that's, Corey's, I mean, Corey's father, Reed Johnson, is notoriously the strangest man i've ever met and uh yeah he really tried to get people hyped up at the arc light about i don't know i haven't seen the movie but i just that made me laugh a lot that is incredible yeah so at cory

t johnson uh miles where can people find you find me follow me on twitter and instagram at miles of gray uh some tweets i like uh this one is from maddie at oh maddie yo says psychology majors be like damn i can't even be mad at you because i know why you reacted the way you did uh and then this is another one is from uh asia not asia h with an underscore uh it's like a quote tweet of a thing that's viral worthy. Vagetials are so 2020 next level shit. Step your pee game up. And it's some kind of vaginal steaming thing going on. I don't know what the fuck I'm looking at.

Oh, yeah, the vaginal steaming thing. I remember that was a thing when goop was. But there's another element to it. I don't know. This looks like they stepped it up. A vajayshal. And then what she says is, ain't it crazy how women do all this to keep their vaginas pretty and

healthy? Meanwhile, men just wiggle the pee off their dick before they put it back in their pants. And oftentimes they don't do that. They just let it drip all over the bathroom. Oh, don't tell me that. Yeah. Like an old sick horse. I've done one of those. Like an old... Like an elephant with a runny nose

no sorry um some tweets i've been suffering from that one uh some tweets i've been enjoying uh oh no she twinton tweeted trump you wouldn't cry if I got shot. Melania, oh, that's not true though. Trump, what? Melania, true. I said that's not true. And, oh, there's this thread from Melissa Martin at Double M Martin where she said, Happy Halloween Eve. It's time for another year

of my all-time favorite festivity, Tokyo's Monday and Halloween costume party where folks dress up as an utterly normal and boring thing. Here are my favorite costumes. And there's just a guy whose pen is leaking, a guy who bought an umbrella

but then it stopped raining, and a guy who washed his hands and wiped them on his clothes. We're all very good. Love it. Yeah. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily

Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we write out Miles what's that gonna be? This is a track from

Dua Saleh she's dope she's like not really only been making music for a few years and is just an amazing artist lyrics are dope production is dope very haunting spooky little sample that helps that informs the rest of the song and as it expands and grows i urge you to listen to the whole track but this track is called warm pants warm pants by

doula sally nothing i like better also just thinking about all saints day i went to catholic high school we used to get november 1st November 1st off And I'm thinking right now This would have been the most lit Halloween Because All Saints Day would have been a Friday So you would have just a three day weekend Shit happy that Shout out to all saints To all our Catholic High School

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