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Episode Date: July 17, 2020

In episode 674, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Blake Wexler to discuss Trump demoting Brad Parscale, poll numbers for the 2020 election, Chuck Woolery deleting his account, masks being our savior, Trump administration covering up coronavirus information, Netflix top original films, what we're watching for Tuesday, and more!FOOTNOTES: Trump shakes up campaign leadership as he struggles in latest polls The Trump campaign has a new effort to rebut his lousy poll numbers. It’s not good. Power Up: Trump is touting an enthusiasm gap with Biden. But his campaign may be looking at the numbers the wrong way. Brad Parscale is wrong. The campaign probably can’t save Trump. Nationscape: A comprehensive view of the American electorate Game show host retweeted by Trump deletes his account after announcing his son has coronavirus Here's Your Sign COVID-19 could be controlled in 1-2 months if people wear masks: CDC Director Robert Redfield Georgia governor overrides all local mask orders in the state Trump administration accused of covering up COVID-19 hospitalizations after current data VANISHES from CDC site despite director's claim the agency's access to the information was NOT cut by the White House Netflix reveals its 10 most popular movies, and most of them have something in common Top Lifetime Adjusted Grosses WATCH: Spirit of the Beehive - fell asleep with a vision Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 142, episode 5 of The Daily Zeitgeist. Oh, yeah. A production of I heart radio. It's the season finale. I'm coming in. There's a lot of season for now. The, uh, there's a lot of,

uh, dark chaos energy in the studio. Uh, you'll soon find out why, uh, this is, Hey miles. Did you know that this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's

shared consciousness? Oh, I did. Also, we say officially off the top, fuck the Koch brothers. Fuck Fox News. Fuck Rush Limbaugh. Fuck Sexton. Fuck Ben Shapiro. Fuck Den Snyder.

Whoa, whoa, what? Who's that? Yeah, he is the owner of the Washington football team. Maybe the story is hit by the time y'all are listening to this, but the... I've seen a lot of teasers. Woo, the teasers are horrifying. It's so bad, you could just say, let's just get rid of the NFL. Like, literally.

We could just get rid of the league. We could just be like, all right, well, that invalidates everything all right well that invalidates having it in one place right i need it um and they're they didn't even use the cheating to succeed they're they're perennially the worst team not that that matters but it's just like such incompetence uh anything ever come of Donaghy's book and all that? Oh, in the NBA? Yeah, I mean, supposedly he was just kind of doing it on his own, and there might have been

a couple other refs involved, but I don't think it was ever at the level of teams getting involved. Anyway, we digress. The NBA is pure, Miles. Yeah. So pure, they're in a

bubble right now. It's Friday, July 17th, 2020. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Big Mama. You know the people out here all saying, give me that vaccine now. Mr. Trump is needing just a miracle.

So why are you keeping waiting? Give me that vaccine now. That is courtesy of Fresh Frankie. Very Fresh Frankie. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. There's a guy named Miles and he's got a friend, Jack. Ooh, Miles got Jack. They're really quite close, but not joined at the waist.

Ooh, Miles got Jack on the boulevard. Ah, the guitar was out of tune. Son of a bitch. I said the guitar was out of tune. Son of a bitch. I said the guitar was out of tune. What's that made out of? It's made from the bones of sinners and the sinew of... I think it's a fender.

Anyway, thank you so much to Ben Conway for that wonderful Satan does a deal with Garth Brooks sketch reference, a.k.a aka one of the one of the great musical ones i guess next one somebody hit us with a zargus bargus i just hit by the love i just been bit by the love oh love love jack see there you go there you go do your own for next time well speaking of the devil himself we are thrilled to have in our third seat the hilarious comedian, Mr. Blake Wexler!

Take a deep breath. This is Blake Wexler, a.k.a. the Great British Blaking Show, a.k.a. Paul West Hollywood, a.k.a. the Mars Caponi homie, a.k.a. Star Blaker, a.k.a. Peachy Bonds, a. peachy bonds aka the cardamon man aka the bread week geek aka i'm mary berry grateful to be here today guys thank you for having me wow

anytime anytime of course i got like a couple of those uh we have missed you you're on the east coast i am where i what amounts to to my hometown ocean city new jersey shout out to ocean city shout out to ocean city uh people are really wheeling and dealing in a in a free way out here but um i'm uh i'm locked down i'm wearing my mask so i'm trying to set an example you know what i mean mask adoption is not uh is? Yeah, no, it is. No one's wearing a mask here. I would say 3% of people. I saw someone lick a skee-ball.

3%? The other day. So you're not setting an example. You saw someone lick a skee-ball. If anything, you're like the example parents are going to point at to not be like that counterculture person. They're like, did you see one of them? Mm-mm, mm-mm.

Yeah. One of those sciencers. It is weird where it almost seems like you're making some sort of ridiculous statement but i know i'm you know what i mean like but i'm right right in this case for once this is the right statement to make so yeah yeah it's odd it's like people just like being like at the hottest beach with direct sunlight and it was like no i don't wear sunscreen you're like i'm just gonna do this and it's not a statement it's just quite literally the bare minimum to keep myself safe and somehow if that's a statement oh boy right but or if you could catch uh their sunburn like it was an aerosol in the air you know it would be the same thing

right the um i think new jersey is actually like looking good sitting pretty in terms of uh their overall numbers so uh we'll look oh i won't wear a mask in the next next couple weeks what the hell am i doing this thing on i feel like an idiot uh yeah so uh blake we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we were talking about. Yeah. Like I said, the, the Washington football team story, uh, may have hit by now. If not, uh, you know, there's a bombshell coming. We don't have any of the details confirmed by the Washington Post reporters, so we're not really going to talk about that just yet. Trump has demoted Brad Parscale, the guy.

So many glowing, just super impressed profiles written of him in the run-up to the election, just like this guy. Trump's whiz kid. He's a digital guru. Trump digital guru. He owns he owns the computer yes yes and it's a compact presario uh chuck woolery has uh stepped down from twitter uh from tweeting the administration's pandemic response is now like officially it seems like their policy is, you know, at all costs, including killing people. We're going to talk about Netflix.

They released some numbers for their top original movies, and some of those numbers are pretty mind blowing. We're also going to pick a Netflix top 10 rewatch movie and check in with Ben Garrison, the far right political cartoonist. Can you even call that cartoonist racist graffiti or something? I don't want to anger the entire political cartoon establishment, as powerful as they are. They'll draw you. Yeah, they will draw you. They will draw the line. A lot of the things that people are criticizing Ben Garrison about are true. When you look at political cartoons through history,

they are very bad. To represent a fat cat,, to represent a fat cat, they will have a fat cat and then they will have the fat cat labeled fat cat. It's not subtle. But before we get to any of that, Blake, what's something from your search history

that's revealing about who you are or where you are? Search history? I searched recently charleston river dogs jersey um because they canceled minor league baseball i believe a couple or like a couple weeks ago i think officially and my parents live in charleston where the river dogs play the it's a class a affiliate of the yankees and i was wondering i'm like god they've probably because they've laid off players like their minor league baseball players just won't make any money this year. So

I was wondering if there's a way I could support that team, which is like a thing I love to go to. Bill Murray, Barry Weiss, and now the minor league baseball. Sorry, that was like 20 seconds too late, but it gets worse and worse. I worse and worse. I know. Our heroes. Anna, we need Jack's medication. The Zoom delay is getting real bad. Sorry, what was the Bill Murray aspect of it? Oh, Bill Murray. What if there wasn't one? What if I need my pills as well?

He is a part owner of the team, so it's this little minor... It looks like a Little League stadium, and then Bill Murray is just sitting in the stands. He'll come out and do bits because he lives in Charleston, South Carolina. It's great. It's so much fun. Didn't you say

you stop by there as much as possible? If you can and there's a game, you try and go? I feel like you said that one of the last recordings that it's a must for you to see the River Dees. It is the River Dees as you it's a must it's a must for you to see the the river d's it is the river d's as all the big fans call it yes that is correct um and i only have so much yeah that one syllable we had to go to half a syllable

yeah guhs are exhausting yeah honestly it's the only word where a letter is longer to say than the actual word um but uh yeah i love going it's just going to a minor league baseball game is really really fun yeah what what is a river dog is that just a dog that lives by the river is that a name for like an otter type of fish an otter yeah i think it's the cut just like a modifier that they just threw on there because they didn't want to just call them the dogs you know it would be like if notre dame just called them the irish which actually they should do you know what never mind it's not like that they don't have to call them the fighting irish and i'm not sucking up to you right now jack i think it's terrible uh what they do over there and to paint that entire culture as fighters i think is wrong the oh you know what it was

charlie weiss was canceled they canceled charlie weiss dude this this river dogs origin story is so lame first they come for charlie weiss's just that. The reason they called the river dogs is the owners had a lab named Taco or possibly Chaz. I don't even know why this is disputed according to this article, but the neighbors called the dog a river dog. So then, yeah.

Well, there's a Portuguese water dog. Profuse urination? Why river dog? Did they live by a river? No explanation? Just the neighbors called it a river dog because it was dirty? Looked like it was bathing in brown water.

Look at that old river dog, huh? That dog's always in the river. Wow. That dog might as well be a fish. Woo-hoo! I tell you. Is that Taco or Chaz? Keep telling you, Mel,

the dog's name is Lucky alright it's a river dog but it's in the river I've never heard a virgin story that sounded more like it was being told by a drunk person than that yeah and you never asked hey you know why they call it a river dog

well you know why I call it a river dog don't you we don't ask him follow-up questions. We did it once, and it was the worst decision we ever made. The Charleston River Dogs. Mind that you know why they call them, right? Because the Gold Clangs, the owners, had a dog, a taco. Yes, yes. We're in Wilmington, Delaware, and I don't know what you're talking about.

I have to go do some tax-free shopping now, but thank you for that. I'm going to incorporate now, if you'll excuse me. Good day to you, sir. I have to incorporate. I have a nude incorporation, so if you could please. Oh, shit. Blake, what is something you think is underrated? Underrated?

Let's see. Underrated, I'm going to go uh oil-free suntan lotion uh because there's this little thing called adult acne that's been plaguing me uh throughout my 20s and now into my 30s but i have switched to oil-free suntan lotion and there's nothing more comforting than knowing that you're protecting yourself but not uh you'll still be attractive the suntan lotion industry has made giant leaps and bounds i i had uh you know prior to uh being married to uh you know a a smart person i had only purchased suntan lotion from like the equivalent of hotel gift shops. Gas stations. Gas station sunscreen. Your clothes are unusable from that point forward

because they all look like greasy napkins. They're making giant leaps forward. You can put on sunscreen that actually makes you feel better. More handsome. More handsome. More handsome. Yeah. Yes. Thank you.

Yes. And this is a video call. Yeah, it is Sunoco brand. That's right. Yeah, they actually just, they take the 10W30 and they can actually turn that into a sunscreen. It's great. It's true. It's true.

Yeah. Premium. Premium. And instead of doing SPFs, it's premium plus uh and then regular and then diesel i've been wearing diesel and i and i'm white as hell i smell awful actually i smell like shit they won't sell it to you but the the real good stuff is the leaded you want to get the leaded yeah we talked about that on yesterday you want to get a good base down you want to get a good base down. If you want to get a good base. My wife told me that 90%

of aging is sun related. That actually makes sense to me because have you ever seen that video or that photo of the truck driver? Truck driver? Yeah. That changed me uh but it's it's a photograph of somebody who is like 40 years older on the left side of their face than

on the right side uh yeah just from long haul trucking and having the uh window down um oh my god because like just that left side from the driver's side window just meant so much more uv rays on one side it's yeah i guess that's what they should bring fuck dare you know i think most kids don't realize like how to do the basic shit like you know fucking self-care like emotionally or like wear sunscreen i mean we're like in the car do you know how to do you know how to differentiate a pcp high from a mushroom high, kid? I'm only here because I was caught drinking on the job and using a racial

slur during a Rose Bowl concert. Right. PCP gives you superpowers and here's what weed smells like so you know it's in the air when it's around so you can ask around for it. Those are the two things I learned from Dare. Whenever this comes up on our show,

those are the two memories we always come back to. PCP equals superpowers, and that's not weed. I've seen this guy take 12 bullets and jump right up. Throw a... Throw a dumpster through a jack-in-the-box. This sounds more like truth than dare as far as programs go. You can do both. From your mouth to God's ear, Blake. To my head.

Yeah. To his ass. Right. Sorry, what is the phrase? I think you got it. Cool. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated?

This could be controversial. Spaghetti, I think, is overrated. Get that hell out of here. this could be controversial. Spaghetti, I think, is overrated. Get that hell out of here. It's strings, and it doesn't... No one ever wants to say, hey, this would be so much better as strings. With anything other than

maybe instruments or clothes. With spaghetti, it doesn't hold the sauce well. It's messy. It's work. There are so many alternatives to it. So I don't understand what all the fuss is about. What's your favorite pasta? That's a personal question, but I would have to say Ziti.

Ziti. Ziti. Big tubes. So you like it. You don't like strings. You like big tubes. You like the big, fat, flat, smooth tubes. That's true. That is. Yes yes i do yes i do big fat smooth tube what do you really have against but you just

don't like the noodles no it's so you know you can't eat ramen now either so i don't want to see you eating ramen either we'll not oh well i actually put a potato a potato gnocchi in ramen and i eat it that way with a sick piece of shit you sick piece of shit. You get out of here. Potato gnocchi. In a tonkotsu broth. It's really in right now. It looks like a mistake, but it's delicious.

Yeah. I'm a few silly guy myself. Yeah, underrated. A few silly. There's a few silly guys on the Zoom call right now. Yeah, yeah. Hey, from your mouth to my ears

to Jack's headphones oh man you silly you crazy bastard I like anything you know with ridges I'm sorry just to bring it back to Pabstas if you got a good sauce going

yeah you want it to catch as much of that sauce yeah so that's really the deal i just bring it up right now uh it says here that ruffles have ridges have you guys read about that yet i have have we talked about that have we talked about that was that this week is that monday yeah no we're gonna put that in the doc we'll talk about that after uh the government's pandemic response i think perfect we'll bring up the ruffles averages conspiracy yeah if you want to do it after that that makes i mean that's up to you yeah but burying the lead and finally what's a myth what's something people think is true you know to be false so uh there was a myth that like during a forest fire i was reading about this that uh there was a story that a scuba diver was like accidentally scooped up out of the ocean by one of those fire helicopters you know where

they have those big uh things that they scoop water out to drop on the fire from the beginning of magnolia is i don't get that reference but i'm sure it was funny because i respect everything that no no this story is at the beginning of Magnolia. They tell this story. Really? Really? Yeah. Well, it's not true. Yeah, that didn't happen. However... Well, that's not true, Jack. Just so you know. Yeah, not all movies are true. I just don't understand anything.

However, while the scuba diver thing is a myth, the other day I was walking through a recently fought forest fire area before I flew here. I was walking with my recently fought forest fire area before I flew here. And I was walking with my big, strong legs. And I thought I had a mild cramp. And I looked down.

It wasn't a cramp. A shark was biting my legs, like onto my big, strong legs. So it turns out they had—I didn't feel it because my legs are so big and strong. But it turns out, I guess, a fire helicopter dropped the shark into the forest and it bit my legs. But I'm fine. Let's see the scars. Let's see those thighs. Here, we'll be...

Holy shit. Rippling. Was that a mako? No, that's my femur. My muscles are so big, it pushed my bone. You flexed and the shark's head exploded. I flexed my quads and I shattered my femur just with the strength of my quadriceps.

It's quite something else. Do you remember, Jack and Miles, feel free to weigh in, there was a pitcher named Turk Wendell. Who else would you be talking to? Turk Wendell. Wait, hold on, hold on. Wait. What?

Don't go. You're talking to, Jack jack and i the only people do you guys remember and the two of you because this isn't a bus monologue well i thought it would be good to set ground rules so we could communicate better yeah all right i appreciate it thank you for settling yeah not okay so no no confusion does not abound now. Yeah. Maybe I overstepped. Maybe it's not my place, but there was a pitcher named Turk Wendell who pitched for the Mets and the Phillies briefly. And he wore a necklace that had shark's teeth on it, but also on the necklace.

This is not a bit. He had his grandfather's molars like on the necklace. And this guy would pitch with that necklace on like on national television isn't that crazy oh is his grandfather still alive that would be such a oh my god his grandfather's skull was also uh dude this photo of his necklace is horrifying if what you're saying is true. It's just a jagged bone necklace. It's crazy. It's like crazy.

And it wasn't really talked about. And then announcers would be like, oh, and actually on his necklace are teeth from his relatives. Anyway, that's ball two. We're here in the seventh inning. And I was like, wait, can we go back to the tooth necklace from the dead dad's dad? Yeah.

Wow. I mean, you'd think people would talk a little bit more about his uh oh wow notable state when you have a wikipedia page that says notable statements as like a sub like a subject area uh not good i can't imagine uh oh wait he's talking oh is he using peds oh probably he pitched during that era oh he. Oh, he became the first player to publicly accuse Barry Bonds of using steroids. Incredible. Well, maybe Turk Wendell is some kind of real renegade. He just made his name so fancy.

Turk Wendell. Turk Wendell. Well, yeah, I think I want to maybe respect it. I just want to see what he's doing respect on that man's name soccer i thought for sure you'd be like this guy now runs some kind of bizarro business but it seems like he has faded into maybe he sells dead people's teeth and turns into a jewelry that's actually a big business uh they they sell teeth and you extract the gold. A little known way that dentists and morticians make a side look. Extra scratch.

I knew somebody who used to do that, who was like a gopher, like a lemming for picking up gold scrap. Miles, you got to bring that person back into your life, man. You can't let someone like that get away. No, this person too. You can't let someone like that get away. No, this person too. This person is so creative. And if you ever met them, you'd be like,

this is not the kind of person who ever was going around like a smurf trying to get gold scraps. Like this is Breaking Bad, but for a gold tooth empire. So yeah, I would expect that to be the most creative person because that's such a, just like... It's outside the box. My life is my work of art. My job is teeth gopher. I strip human teeth of valuable minerals.

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But anyway. Baseball is very interesting because of how superstitious. Because it's like such a knife's edge thing of performance and like you're trying to create like you know these tiny edges like fit a thing you're throwing 100 miles per hour into like a tiny space and like just the most minor like mind can like throw you off so there's just so many interesting baseball superstitions such as wearing your grandfather's teeth on your neck. All right, let's talk about Brad Parscale. Or Miles, why don't you tell me the fancy way to pronounce that?

What's the Wendellization of Parscale? Parscale. Parscale. Brad Parscale, sí, sí. He did a lot. He was the, like, the digital, built the basically digital media infrastructure and digital infrastructure for this campaign all the way back to 2016. Heading up 2020, he was out here making all kinds of wild statements,

pumping up the president, being like, oh, man, just you wait, bro. When you go to Tulsa, bro. Just you wait. Fucking 100,000 people, bro. It you go to Tulsa, bro. Just you wait. Fucking 100,000 people, bro. It's going to be crazy, my man. We're going to build a side stage cut to only 6,000 racists who are willing to die for the hive pulling up to this Tulsa stadium. So I think the writing was on the wall for him around then because that was just such a humiliation for the president uh and you could just see it from like the way he was just like his like anger during it to like the dejected

walk off a marine one when he got back to the white house which honestly like straight into my veins but yeah so now he is only now he's being demoted he's still going to be the digital guy because i feel like certain people when they get so close like can you really fire these people because like they've seen things they know he's social media manager now social media coordinator and in true in true trump fashion dude this fool found out like hours before it was made public and the like the way it's written in politico apparently like the jovanka side of the house was like shocked because they've known him for so long and brad parsnip very very sad and very upset by this news very not brad yeah not brad uh i liked him there there's a

great picture uh on the front page of dredge report uh where which is by the way uh we mentioned a lot but that's because it's a single page that is more popular than the new york times uh so we're worth paying attention to what people are actually looking at but there's a great page at the top that uh under the headline like shock poll trump approval at 36 percent uh of him just like looking really sad and pigeon-toed that I really respected. Well, that's my new desktop background. Thank you so much for passing that along. It's perfect. That was the other thing too that he was supposed to do was like supposedly get the, you know,

light a fire under the country going into 2020. But as we've said before, they are just losing on so many fronts simultaneously that they're just getting overloaded. And yeah, of course, on top of it, that they're just getting overloaded and yeah of course on top of it the president is objectively destroying the country and killing people so there's not much you could do unless you had like a like a fucking neuralyzer the size of fucking alaska to like beam the entire country with the it'll be interesting to see because in a normal election cycle this is the low point at which point the mainstream media will construct a comeback narrative because it's just too boring narrative trying to get something in before Trump is possibly ousted for the U.S. to come to their back with military aid. things are like in the process of falling apart so yeah i can only imagine what you know uh

cataclysmic moment from the world events the campaign uses to try and get some steam building yeah that's what i'm kind of worried about like parscale was touting the enthusiasm gap as like the reason that they didn't need to be worried uh because you know like in 2016, Trump voters would die to prove him right, essentially, as we're seeing with the coronavirus. And the average Biden voter is somewhere between, like, embarrassed and in denial that he's our candidate. But what they haven't... That's the zone, baby.

That's the Biden zone. Get in it. So the thing, 538 was pointing out that the Biden voters are actually very enthusiastic about voting Trump out of office. And when you look at enthusiastic about voting against plus enthusiastic about voting for, Trump has a net negative in the enthusiasm gap basically right um which i'm not i i think a lot of times when we say something positive about polling people are like shut up about polling like it doesn't matter that's what got us into trouble in 2016 i just think it's important to

know how bad things look for them as they are starting to pivot and go away from the Parscale who was the, everything's good, man. This is, this is just a mainstream media lie to now like desperation hour of things do look pretty bleak for them. So like their,

their strategy is going to either be like fuckery, like long lines at voting spots making mail and voting difficult or like extreme extraordinary historically unprecedented levels of fuckery like suspending the election uh staging false flag attacks or starting a war uh colluding with foreign governments even more openly uh than they already, which is already pretty open. They're going to go from colluding to canoodling this time. Right. That's going to be the term of this election. But I don't think it's smart to,

or I don't think it's necessary to hold this position that we have to just completely ignore what polls are saying, because they're not ignoring what polls are saying, right? Well, yeah, to a certain extent but then you also know like i still don't i still think there are people who get uh you know called up by pollsters and lie you know yeah for sure aren't gonna admit that they're voting for trump i think at the end of the day it's at the very least i'm like okay it seems like we're still on

the right track seems like a majority of the country knows this is all kinds of fucked up. So I think that's one thing I'll hold on to. But I think the danger, right, is that it takes away, it deflates people's enthusiasm because it thinks like, oh, bro, I can fucking sleep through the whole entire week and Trump will not be president. No. Everyone has to vote. Everyone has to be as vigilant as possible.

I think the only way they win is through absolute fuckery. Start planning now how you're going to phone bank to just get... It's not just enough to vote. If you're in a swing state,

you have to knock on doors. Even if you're not, you can call into a swing state. If you aren't in a swing state, like you have to, even if you're not, you can call into a swing state. Yeah. That's what I'm going to say. If you aren't, uh, in a swing state, you can call it,

you can phone bank for them. But like the, you know, if you're serious about this, uh, which I don't know how you wouldn't be at this point, uh, you know,

there, there are things that you can do that you can start planning for like how you're going to, uh, help the, you know know vote this guy out of office and that can serve as motivation too where all right if you think oh my vote you know like we're gonna win who cares run up the score on the guy like if you need some sort of motivation how great would it be to see donald trump with all those electors you know in the blue column

and then such a small number, just a number where it's not even he can't even say shit. He can't even be like, oh, well, you know, this state was weird. That state was weird. You know, just make it so undeniable that he'll look even more ridiculous than he tries. And if you don't want to volunteer for the presidential candidate there's plenty of local races and down ballot races that need just as much help because you know the senate is the republican senate is going to try to starve us to death in between uh now and then like

they're literally not allowing yeah you know the very cynical part is like by not actually looking out for bills that are going to help stabilize households and things like that that it will create an air like an element of desperation that the administration will capitalize on to try and see like you see what i don't see what's going on you know like this is why like we need law and order it's like no you're systematically like you're antagonizing people and you're creating a situation that is untenable it's all anyway it's must have our eyes open yeah let's talk about chuck woolery uh real quick i don't know how you make that fancy chuck woolery charles charles woolery is the only way you can make it. Still sounds like shit. Yeah, it does.

Appropriately so. On Monday, Chuck tweeted, Chuck quote, the most outrageous lies are the ones about COVID-19. Everyone is lying. The CDC, media, Democrats, our doctors.

Not all, but most that we are told to trust. I think it's all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election. I'm sick of it. Was that the one that Trump retweeted? Yeah, that's the one Trump retweeted. Cool. So that's just openly spreading a conspiracy theory. Democrats and Dr. Oh boy, the CDC.

Then Wednesday, he tweeted, to further clarify and add perspective, COVID-19 is real and it is here. My son tested positive for the virus and I feel for of those suffering and especially for those who have lost loved ones uh and then he promptly deleted his account uh so that's so why do these why do they do this to themselves i don't know what i mean like it's it's so much easier to just trust a fucking doctor yeah or don't say anything yeah but just at the very least just to get because you know a lot of it is based out of fear you know and what who better to calm your

nerves about something like an illness than a doctor or science and say like yeah let me like this this is what we're thinking this is what it. This is what it's going to be. But again, because if your worldview is completely formed by pundits on TV saying that the economy must be restarted by throwing bodies on the pile or whatever, you're going to arrive at this. But you go from talking with your chest out like that to suddenly having to say, you know what? It's real i wish he would have apologized because that's really what like the turn that i think his own followers could have actually seemed like hey if you follow me please don't what i said was so off like it this is so real i couldn't have been more wrong unfortunately i'm now dealing with a member of my family who has been diagnosed with it i I'm hoping and praying that they come out rather

than like, just so you know, like it's real. Okay. And my son has it. So, and like shout out to the families of loved ones. Okay. Got to go delete Twitter. It's the demonization of intellect too is just so crazy where I do understand hating some condescending piece of shit, but that's condescension is different from intellect. So if you're threatened by the intelligence of a doctor, don't just don't be accept their help and let them help you. And that's my first point. The second point, I did some research and it turns out Chuck Woolery hosted the game show Lingo from 2002 to 2007 before being replaced by Bill Engvall. So if you're looking for an indication that your career is over, there's your sign. Hey!

Wow. Finish him. There's your sign. BillEngvall.com, Billangvall.com slash tour a lot of people a lot of people remember where they were when the challenger uh catastrophe happened i remember where i was when i first saw the where's your sign monologue because it was so sweaty and uncomfortable and clear what he was doing he was trying to like create his own like uh you might be a redneck and it was just you might that there's your sign i don't know so uh here's

your sign i think it was when i like came on came online as like a uh just perpetually as a human embarrassed human being. Yeah, I really I imagine that he was on that redneck tour, the blue collar comedy tour. I think that's what it was. And yes, 100%. And he was the lowest on the totem pole. And he's like, I need to find a way to jump one of these other sons of bitches on this thing.

Like, all right right maybe i can jump ron white like it's it's probably like you know jeff foxworthy larry larry the cable guys the headliner how can i jump ron white and it's like oh there's yours they drove by like a yield sign and he goes holy fucking shit that's it that's my sign here's your son i'm fucking oh i'm still hosting tomorrow i'm still doing five minutes up top okay okay that's fine the the premise is uh he he's saying that if you could explain dumb stuff should wear a sign that says they're an idiot and then he goes through a big run through of dumb things people do and says, there's your sign. Right.

But Jack, I think there's more to it than that. It's like so convoluted. Right. Some nuance to the there's your sign. There's so many moving parts. I just can't. Yeah. And I'm a, you know, it just makes me miss comedy that I can't see that guy live.

There's a Wikipedia page for this album. For the where's your sign album. The way they even try and describe this academically. The title of this album refers to a routine framework commonly used by Engvall, which began with his stating that stupid people should have to wear warning signs that simply state, quote, I'm stupid,

so that no one will rely on them or ask them anything. He would then go on to tell several anecdotes in which someone asks an obviously asinine question and the question is then answered sarcastically followed by the statement here's your sign for example a trucker gets his truck stuck under an overpass and the responding policeman asks hey uh you get your you get your truck stuck the truckerer says, no, sir. I was delivering that overpass, and I ran out of gas. Here's your sign.

I like to imagine that his fans. Wait, I don't think that even works, does it? I don't even know what. Jack, I don't think it has to. I think what happened is that. Why is the cop the idiot in that joke? Because he's asking, I guess it's rhetorical that the truck is stuck, but he's saying, no, I was delivering it.

It's like when he said, hey, you got a haircut? No, I got my ears lowered. Here's your sign. Oh, got it. Amazing. This is one of my favorite moments in podcast history, trying to make sense. Well, you know you have a good catchphrase

when it requires two paragraphs on wikipedia to set it up his fans were like i like the cut of this guy's fucking jib but i have no idea what the hell he's talking about let's wikipedia this there's your sign up still doesn't make sense still can't make sense of it he's a genius or a british accent i don't know what his fans are yeah i'm pretty sure mostly british okay uh uh i mean this is tough to pivot from engvall to uh the fact that the gop seems to be trying to kill people um i think it's perfect i think it's a natural transition engvall killed engvall kills uh every time he gets on stage but the the lack of mask wearing also does too right and so does

the lack of mask wearing uh georgia governor brian kemp is prohibiting local municipalities across the state from mandating that masks be worn in public um just going against all you know the cdc is like screaming at people to start social distancing, hand washing, mask wearing. If we just got behind that across the board, we could bring the pandemic under control. Within one to two months. We saw it happen in Italy in one to two months, but that's not tomorrow. See, that's a little bit delayed. that's not tomorrow see that's uh that's a little bit delayed and by that not to say that like it's all over we go back to normal that we can avoid what we're doing now which is burning out our icus

and medical frontline workers who are like having going through like an existential crisis from the amount of carnage they're witnessing in these like hospitals to do that. So everything can go back to like, yes, coronavirus is still here, but we don't have to worry about like an issue so bad that we're, you know, having to give people half measures to keep them alive. That's where we're not even there. We're not even there. We're like, we're in such a dangerous spot still.

And again, that's all one to two months to do that, just to just knuckle down. But we can't do that because it requires thinking of other people and inconveniencing ourselves. It's I also believe Georgia was the first state to open, I think, or try to open where this guy was like, all right. So I tried to open, be the first to do that. That hasn't killed everyone. It's killed a lot of people. But I want a 100 percent kill rate.

How about I also ban masks like the guy is literally actively. That hasn't killed everyone. It's killed a lot of people, but I want a 100% kill rate. How about I also ban masks? Like the guy is literally actively trying to take out all of his voter, like just everyone in his state. Well, that between that and even like the schools reopening, there are so many moves that the like Republicans are just kind of like, like Mike Pence in like a headline that is not from the onion is basically ignore the CDC guidelines when we're reopening schools. What? What we don't want is for the CDC to tell you whether you can or can't open schools.

I believe a direct quote. What is that? I mean, and I know some parents might feel comfortable doing that. I'd imagine most parents wouldn't, no matter what. But then we get into this is all because they need everything to get moving because if schools are open, parents can have their schools there and then they can go to work. It's all just so cynical and dark.

It has zero, zero acknowledgement for the amount of life that's been lost and the amount of pain that we're just causing for no reason. They're also actively covering up information about hospital beds, who's being treated for coronavirus deaths. A bunch of that data about hospitalizations disappeared from the CDC website, that data about hospitalizations disappeared from the CDC website, even though, you know, we talked,

I think on yesterday's episode about how, uh, they were trying to transfer the information, uh, gathering from the CDC to health and human services. And the CDC director was like, Nope, no, that's not going to happen.

It's all, all under control here. And then people notice that a bunch of the data just disappeared off their site um so yeah it's actively you know they're doing they're doing active harm in order to uh you know cover shit up meanwhile where are the democrats like where are they where where are these where are they, where are they? Where are these? Where are they? Just where are they? Over 5 million people and counting are losing their health care because it was tied to their employment. And, you know, there was talk of like funding COBRA, like through one of these bills, but it was attached to all this, like all this, like larger legislative package that on its own would not have gotten through the Senate.

like larger legislative package that on its own would not have gotten through the Senate. But why, why aren't there, why isn't there more discussion on how to get more people access to health care? Cause a lot of people aren't even aware of like what healthcare they can get if they don't, if it's specifically to do with like treatment of coronavirus, but everything is so inconsistent and so confusing and just so much chaos. I don't know if that's just the difference. Let's just cause a little more pain, and then they'll fully not want to vote for Trump if it's bad enough. And then we'll come to the rescue, but don't play the empathy card too early because we don't want to blow our wad. I don't know what it is, but I'm looking for leadership there, there too to also at least be more vocal

about how bad all these things are rather than me just reading, like in the way the media is covering it too, like put some pressure on these Democrats too because everything I read is like, it's like the tone is sort of like, man, the Republicans are fucking it up, huh? Right.

Okay, and what about, okay, there's other people there too. Just come out with a plan and like don't, and you know, get on the same page and keep beating the drum until like people notice health care is such a it's like one of the like easiest issues that appeals to the left and the right everyone has health does not midterms are all about that does not appeal to health insurance companies though yeah well you know what they can go do one the leadership thing too it doesn't even it doesn't have to be like a

winston churchill type figure you know making these incredible speeches just a voice of reason or any voice addressing the situation too and to your point just you don't fear the political fallout of oh well we don't want to peak with we're holding on don't hold on to the coronavirus thing actually do something that can save lives and hold people accountable and the fact that like anthony fauci is probably the only person that anyone trusts right now or has heard anything logical come out of his mouth. It makes sense. The guy's brilliant in his field. But a person who's a doctor for a living, who has no public speaking training, has nobody voting for him, he's not an elected official, the fact that he's the only person that we

can rely on, there's just such a gap where Democrats could so easily step up. And there would probably be positive political implications too but just for humanity's sake it's just put a bill put a bill out that you would get these some of these republicans on record saying no i'm denying access to health care in the midst of a pandemic like they did put a bill out right that was like trillions of dollars and that was in that in that first, like that huge package. And that was to fund, because COBRA is so expensive. You know what I mean? Like you're paying everyone's side of it.

You just have access to that plan, but you're not paying not only your side, but your employer's side too now. So the plan was to be like, we'll pay for that. Let's just fund that so people who've lost their insurance can at least keep their insurance through this and it's so overpriced like you think the insurance industry like yeah fool like yeah pay us these ridiculous rates that's why a lot of the criticism about it was like dude that is the biggest waste of money to just pay for the

cobra premiums like there should be a more clever way to do this while being efficient with the funds. And so that's why, like, I mean, you know, there's there's plenty going on behind the scenes. But between the media coverage and just the lack of real, real things that give you like hope or at least thinking like, yep, OK, that they need to do something. This is where the politics of it gets really tiring and just makes you cynical. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk about Netflix. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that.

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Which is like, was it that big? And he's such a bad person. Because remember, they were like, Netflix was saying like, this is like doing like world box office figures. Right. I think it had a big first weekend. And then it was just

nothing. Was that the movie with the weird beast in it? You know, like on the cover? Yes. Okay. Yeah. That was like Joel Edgerton. Yeah. So when you look, so Extraction is number one. That's that Chris Hemsworth movie from

earlier this year that's just like an action movie by the Russo brothers. It is at 99 million views.esus yeah to put that in perspective like the when you look at like how many tickets were sold to the top box office movies of all time like this early in the run basically the a comparable time into the release of the movie. This is ahead of The Empire Strikes Back's entire theatrical run, Ben-Hur, Avatar,

Avengers Endgame, Jurassic Park, Star Wars Episode VI. Extraction is ahead of... Oh, my God. This is an interesting tidbit I read in the trades on the heels of this is that much like Jack, and I know you're familiar with this

because we have been decimated by the digital video wars. The Facebook thing, yeah. Yeah, is that they count a quote unquote view on Netflix is if you watch it for two minutes. Right. Two minutes counts as like a view, is what they clock as a view. Because I remember what Facebook like hey man if it's playing you saw that shit even if you

scroll by it and didn't unmute it thank you very much five billion people saw your cooking video uh but this is very i mean two minutes i think is fair i feel like it's deep enough it'd be like accidentally hitting start and then well when i go to the movie theater if i don't like it after two minutes i yell fuck this and i throw my popcorn i walk out it happens i've lost thousands of dollars if you blow your whistle you throw a football penalty flag up in the air two minute whistle nope sorry gotta go i am for sure like more likely to stop a netflix movie that before i am likely to i've only left one movie uh in the middle like of a theatrical which one four rooms godzilla the uh the godzilla with matthew broderick broderick

yeah oh why come on i don't know the eggs were in madison square garden yeah yeah you were drunk in 99 yeah i was 19 uh oh shit all right because i'm like wait i was like 50 okay then that attracts i mean what the fuck am i i was drunk at 99 too and i was like 15 um but i just remember sorry one fact on the taco bell promotional game you could not get the z piece if you could spell godzilla out with all the things on the chalupa combo meal the z was like the fucking park place whatever park place is to the mcdonald's one the coveted z piece godilla sounds like a menu item on taco yeah i'm surprised they didn't have that yeah uh so but it's still i don't know like i i think that i i've talked before about how movies like really impact how like in my time it cracked like looking at when we had to like bust myths

i would just look at like what was in movies to like get an idea of what people actually thought about like a country or what space is like or you know anything about science like movies really like write a lot of our uh imagination for us and like yeah you know our version like how the world exists in our mind and like history like we you know things that we don't really have access to that we only read about in a book uh the movies are the are the things that like create the image that we generally have in them in our minds so i just think it's probably i've probably been underrating like how powerful uh some of these movies that just strike me you know like spencer confidential uh which is like the Mark Wahlberg movie

with a post Malone in it his was has been viewed 85 million times like that really seems like the sort of seems like too many yeah like six underground the Michael Bay movie about starring Ryan Reynolds. I think the thing of this like AV Club article was pointing to that I think is interesting is that it shows that if there's just one big celebrity in it, that's what makes the difference. Like Roma isn't in there or like marriage story. So if it's like too like artsy or heady, it's not going to find itself here. Like this is just for the like, like the wow factor right because i started watching extraction yeah that shit is like if i was fucking 13 and not going to school i would probably watch this shit on a loop and it

would rot my brain and i ended up becoming a toxic male and then it would take years of therapy for me to come back around and save myself but i you know it kind of makes sense like these the films that do well like the irishman barely did better than triple frontier like right that's a million views yeah six so the irishman is the biggest like prestige one that they that uh i still haven't seen it it's i've never been put off more by the running time i've never been put off more by that like just like dude fuck you no yeah it's definitely does not earn its uh 17 hour running time um the wrong missy made it i was happy to see that lauren lapkus star um triple frontier i'm I'm kind of intrigued

because that's one that I've heard people bring up since it came out and be like, that movie's absurd and also a lot of people saw it, I guess. So I might have to rewatch that at some point. It's got that one last job vibe to it. Yeah, yeah. Do love me some One Last Job. One last job vibe to it. Yeah, yeah. Do love me some one last job. One last job.

I wonder how the Spike Lee movie will end up placing on that. Do you see that cracking the top? Probably not, right? I mean, the Irishman got so much more publicity. That's a prestige film in terms of how they, the stuff that's just like explosions

or super wacky premises, like Bird Box or something, or celebrity stuff, that seems to be the top earners. I mean, I would assume that a lot of these are international audience. That's why they are so popular. And that tends to hold true

that movies like extraction that are star first of all international movie stars but also our action like explosions speak every language bro that's exactly as i always say uh the yeah we saw your sony emails that got leaked but uh it's it's really impressive that like the wrong Missy made it onto the list. Or murder mystery, Adam Sandler, apparently. Well, that's his slate. His slate is just popping. So I think I was shocked to see at number nine,

Bill Engvall's Just Sell Him for Parts special was on there. So good for him. Here's a sign. Yeah, bro. Here's a sign. sign oh that's what i think it is i think you're handing it that's what it is i it's i fucked the delivery here's a sign oh so he's handing out merch uh during his yeah yeah i mean it really is like we really fucked up how we we disrespected the entire's the first stand-up routine written entirely by a marketing team.

Here's your hat. It couldn't be more obvious. Here's your t-shirt. Here's your Subway sandwich. This is the funniest sandwich I've ever eaten. Anyways, do you guys want to discuss what's in the Netflix top 10?

Pick a movie to rewatch. We're going to discuss it on Tuesday because I'm going to be out for Monday's episode. Okay, so Tuesday. Because Miles and I are beefing. Hey, dude, do you beef? Do you beef, bro? People say that for a fart. Yeah.

I remember the first time I heard that i was so i was like ain't i don't know it was confusing and i didn't like it because it didn't make sense like you beef and i was like what i heard at camp because that's when you interact with people from other states for the first beef smells great if your farts smell like beef then i'm like oh somebody somebody grilling a steak with like herbs de Provence? Yeah, beefed. I boofed. Is that a medium rare fart, my king?

It's a Wagyu fart, sir. Just facing somebody's ass. Damn, man. Is that a whoop? Oh, this is USDA prime beef. Yeah, doing the chef wave. What are we doing? What happened? Oh, this is USDA prime and this. Yeah. Doing the chef wave. I'm so sorry. What are we doing?

What happened? I feel responsible for this. Thanks, the devil himself. Yeah. So I feel like the movie that has most in common with some of the ones on the list is at number one on on the netflix top 10 that is the old guard that is a charlie's theron action actioner as the trades would call it action where she plays a 2500 year old uh like warrior um and there's like three other eternal immortals

so that I've heard is very bad oh I mean the trailer looks cool yeah Jason Pargin was tweeting that it's based around the myth that like everything is getting worse in

the world as opposed to like that history was better. That is a modern world. I mean, it's gotten very much worse than, uh, in the past four years,

but it's not worse than it was like in the 1700s. Right. Right. Oh, were you there? Were you there? Yeah. Thank you.

Uh, the business of drugs is at number two. That's just a whole limited series. I went to D.A.R.E. I know what I know. I was in the game, bro, from 2000 to 2007. I spoke at my high school's or middle school's D.A.R.E.

graduation, by the way. I was the keynote speaker and that's not a joke. Wait, what? Did you really? So funny. i didn't know that yeah i think i talked about this i kind of pulled a scumbag move to get there what did you do like everyone had to write a speech and they picked one at the end and uh yeah i like you just i like the gettysburg address yeah yeah yeah it was, I was like someone I knew. I pretended I was closer to an alcohol-related event than I was.

Oh, so you built up fake sympathy for yourself? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I just used excellent prose and turns of phrase. Interesting. You rely on the voice of the others. Sad. I was hooked on allegory. Interesting. You rely on the voice of the others. Huh. Sad. I was hooked on allegory.

That was my drug of choice. The much less popular competitor hooked on phonics for children. The other... Hooked on allegories. I can't stop watching Alice in Wonderland or whatever the fuck was that was that the movie that's the allegory to the gold standard you know that was wizard of oz god damn it blake oh boy jackson nice try i was so close to appealing to so many people with that yeah with that allegory gold standard it's like hey kids a new kind of play-doh you guys are hooked on allegories

all right no allegory of the cave okay moving on number three down to earth with zach play-doh i was thinking play-doh so was i anyway so i get it um down to earth is the zach efron thing where he came out as like uh a bear he He's very, I don't know. He's rugged. New look for him. I mean, he did a thing where his agents are like, enough people think you're hot that I can get Netflix to pay for you to go on vacation and we're going to make a show out of it.

That's right. You just got to do weird stuff. And he's like, yeah, yeah, fuck it. Let's do it. So that's a level of fame we can all aspire aspire to shout out to the american dream as it were yeah uh the lorax which i've uh mentioned i watched recently with my kids uh not not that fun to talk about because it's just like fine and a uh you know allegory that is probably accurate i've seen the other i've seen uh unsolved mysteries i've seen babysitters club

you've seen babysitters club yeah yeah just on the background passively i've listed you know i know based off the old book series yeah they revived they revamped it but it's funny like this the aesthetic is still very much rooted like in the books like that off the old book series. Yeah, they revamped it, but it's funny. The aesthetic is still very much rooted in the books that we saw when we were in school. And they kind of have these funny references to the 90s. Does it take place in the 90s? No, no, no. It's current, but they like to blend the two visual aesthetics.

There's a lot of Sean Kemp references. Oh, yeah. And Detlef Schrempf. A lot of Detlef Schrempf. Oh, my God. uh oh yeah and detlef schrempf more a lot of detlef schrempf oh my god surprising amount of yeah you would be surprised i mean obviously we figured a couple will be baked into any television show but yeah no oh yeah river like my dad's going to a wayman tisdale concert later he plays bass people don't know that he's not only good in the post anyway so riverdale did a blend of like present tense and um and the 50s but that's funny that

they're doing that with like that sort of pastiche with a 90s show that's uh we're old as fuck a dark desire warrior nun these are all shows jeffrey i've seen filthy rich we've already talked about wait so sorry real quick why were you watching the babysitters club just because you grew up on those books yeah oh uh because you know i was a big fan of the book series that peewee scouts goosebumps uh anything from at the scholastic truck when i was big fan so i don't know i just watch a lot of stuff passively her majesty with those something on i'm like okay uh-huh okay what's going on here who's that who's that what is this who is this did it get good reviews i feel like i might have seen that it got good reviews baby i don't know i didn't i completely saw it like in a vacuum i

was like what the fuck maybe yeah okay let's try that out and it went by it was cool the new yorker gave it a a rave um oh wow the other thing that is interesting now, as two old washed guys from the 90s, there is a new movie that came out called Fatal Affair that's a Netflix original starring Nia Long and Omar Epps. Whoa. And this is the description. A lawyer is caught in a terrifying game of cat and mouse when a drink with an old friend escalates into an obsession

that jeopardizes everyone she loves. I'm in. Omar Epps. I have not seen Omar Epps in so long, and I just, this, and Nia Long. I was just watching The Best Man the other day. I think this might be a ball rally. Is that your watch?

I'm going to watch, I think, just based on what I'm seeing, I'm having a reaction to these faces. I'll watch Federal Affair. I'll watch The Old Guard. Okay, yeah. I think that'd be a good balance. Yeah, yeah.

I'm going to go actually with the original list, Bird Box. I'm going to say that one. I'm going to re-watch that. Great. Let us know what you think. Oh, yeah. We forgot to mention that Bird Box is number two, which makes sense because that was a big cultural moment, I feel like.

And it came out when everybody was on Christmas break. I think that's another thing, too. I think movies are going to be crushing right now, but those other ones that are still there. I just remember everyone was talking about that at the end of the year. What was that? Two years ago when it came out. Yeah. And I was like, damn it.

Making a Murderer. Those are things that just hit at the right time and then i mean extraction and spencer confidential both hit uh when we were in quarantine so and tiger king so yeah i mean these are only features i don't think they have like things like tiger king on there making a murder right all right so that's what we're gonna re-watch blake uh i wish i could say it's been a pleasure having you but um so do i i wish you could say that too but i i understand that my behavior uh would make that very difficult and dishonest questionable so i apologize uh where can people find you and follow you

you should go find me uh go find me um that's not a joke I'm going to make. I was about to make a GoFundMe joke, but now you see why I didn't make it. So you can go find me. I have a podcast called Blake's Takes, for God's sakes, where each week I give my take on a current event from four separate subjects, politics, sports, relationships, and leisure. relationships and leisure and usually it's just me i don't have guests on it but this week i had a total stranger on someone i've never met and knew nothing about who uh just found my email address so i had her on and that was interesting and then next week i think i'm gonna have a comedian todd glass on and uh yeah blakewexler.com at blake Wexler on all the social media that we hold so valuable and true and close to us. Now, Todd Glass, I heard of that guy. I like that guy. He's good. He's good.

What's he doing getting mixed up with you? Did he mentor you or something? Yeah, he did, actually. He mentored me with a long play of a friendship. And we have an album. It's called 12 years of voicemails from todd glass to blake wexler and uh it is exactly what it sounds like so yeah that you can find that too um and is there i put out a lot of great work get the whole blake wexler catalog

if you want the opus the oeuvre uh is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying yes so uh this tweet actually came from my best friend from home jeff and his twitter handle is at jeff mcdev and it says her he's probably thinking about other girls me thinking about creed's 2001 thanksgiving halftime performance at the cowboys game and then he has the video. I don't know if you guys have ever seen this. It is Creed performing in Dallas's stadium. And it's one of the most incredibly like aesthetically stimulating things I've ever seen. There's Creed is there's so many things to hate about it.

Cowboys Creed, but it comes together into a way where it's beautiful. There's a shirtless guy in pants, like flying around on ribbons. Scott's staff is really just going for it. Watch the video. You will not be disappointed. It's incredible. Oh, yeah. Wow.

It is like a fever dream. It's a fever dream. Oh, this was like, this had a Shreds video for it, didn't it? Maybe. Anyway, yes. If I knew what that meant, I would be able to answer that better. You know when people just dub the really bad? Yes.

They'll just take a performance and just do really bad guitar and vocals and overdub it. Right. There's so many Creed Shreds videos. Anyway, but yes. It's incredible. At Jeff McDev. Miles, where can people find you and what's a tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter, Instagram, PlayStation Network,

Miles of Grey. You like reality show? You like weed? You like either or? Check out my other podcast, 420 Day Fiance. You know what time it is. We're talking 90 Day Fiance,

but we're high. Me and Sophia Alexandra, and it's hilarious. You like voices? Good. We do them. I do all kinds of bits. So, some tweets that I like.

First one is from uh at arguing dope uh and it says this is the hardest i've ever laughed at a reply on this website and so first this basically screen capped a viral tweet and one of the replies under it so the first is this tweet that went viral from plant pop it said my girlfriend and i met during the quarantine nowhere was offering floral arranging when i was planning our first date so i've had to arrange every bouquet for her myself here's a thread of all the bouquets i arranged for her if i can do this anyone can and it's like you know he's like this dude attempted all these like you know really romantic floral bouquets this person responds at blake's dad too no relation maybe Maybe could be. You don't know that.

This reply underneath it says, you mean well, but have a lot to learn about floral design. I take great exception to if I can do this, anyone can. Your designs are crap at best. Crap at best is the most internet thing. That's devastating. That's the meanest thing. That's devastating. That's the meanest thing I've ever heard. Yeah, and then the other one is from at heybuddy underscore comic.

It says, cop, do you know why I pulled you over? Me. Arbitrarily exercising power over others helps you forget how powerless you feel in your own life? Cop, nothing. Me, pulling off mask to reveal I'm his therapist. We've talked about this.

You can find me on Twitter, Jack underscore O'Brien. A couple tweets I've been enjoying. Shereen, Lonnie Eunice, Shirohero666 tweeted, my pronouns are bro, bruv. And Jurassic Park Updates tweeted, despite popular belief, the tales of dinosaurs are not muscle.

They're nothing but dead weight, and they hate them. That's great. Leave that shit. 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 foot notes link off to the information we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on miles what's it gonna be today this song is a track by the spirit of the beehive and it's called fell asleep with a vision and it's like very like lo-fi kind of pop uh rock music

uh and it's just great i don't know like this i always like describe things like in terms of some kind of weird uh apocalyptic hellscape but this feels like if you were like fired up and old like you were like you know like you're playing Fallout or some shit and you come across an old abandoned arcade and you're like maybe this works if I plug it in and you bang the machine and it fires up and like this would sound like some music playing out of

a machine like that but it's also post so all that to say is enjoy this track on this fine Friday. It's a haunted track. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for this morning.

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