The Daily Zeitgeist - Capitalism vs Socialism, MURDER MEMES! 10.15.19

Episode Date: October 15, 2019

In episode 495, Jack and Miles are joined by writer and Night Call podcast co-host Emily Yoshida to discuss Bernie Sanders coming for Elizabeth Warren, Mike Bloomberg considering running in 2020 election, the disturbing propaganda video of Trump killing his opponents, Gordon Sondland testifying, PG&E's power outages, police departments in Pennsylvania being concerned about THC-laced candy being handed out on Halloween, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. Bernie Sanders Takes Aim at Wealth—and Warren2. Mike Bloomberg keeps talking to allies about running for president as Joe Biden struggles against Elizabeth Warren3. Imagine a Conference Full of Conspiracy Theorists. Sponsored by a Prison Company. At a Trump Resort.4. Trump’s envoy to testify that ‘no quid pro quo’ came from Trump5. Hello everyone who's mystified by all the blackout posts coming from California's #Powerpocalypse, here's an explainer thread6. Parents, are you sufficiently paranoid about THC-laced Halloween candy?7. Dolittle Trailer: Robert Downey Jr. Is Not Your Mother’s Dr. Dolittle8. WATCH: potsu - im closing my eyes (feat. shiloh) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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this season on the new podcast, Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeart True Crime Plus, only on Apple Podcasts. is shared consciousness and say officially off the top fuck coke industries and the coke brothers won and fuck fox news it's Tuesday October 15th 2019 my name is Jack O'Brien aka

on a gathering storm comes a Jack O'Brien with a dusty black coat and a red hot take. Yeah. Nick Cage. It's a bad season.

I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. I'm Miles. Dabble-dee, dabble-die. Miles Gray, dabble-die. Smoking weed, dabble-die. Gotti-dee, dabble-die. Tuscany, dabble-die. Drink cold brew, dabble-die. Miles Gray, dabble-die. Thank you to Paul Garaventa for that spot on rendition of iPhone 65.

Damn, it's wild when you do a podcast and you truly how what the distillation of your entire presence is right ed cold brew tuscany yeah i mean those are those are just it's honestly you are right now it's i'm yeah i'm honest and open right yeah you're you're also constantly changing you know thank you we're evolving although to be fair i think prior to this there would just be the same thing minus tuscan right well i'm just saying you know, at our three-year anniversary, who knows what fourth thing you'll be obsessed with at that time. Thanks for helping me feel good. We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat

by the amazingly talented host of the Night Call podcast, Emily Yoshida. Hello. What's up? Thank you for having me. Thank you for being here. I love, I was wondering if like every single episode there's an Eiffel 65 cover or parody song,

in which case like if there isn't, we should steal that for Night Call. Yeah, it's very easy structure actually when you think about it. Well, like the verses are actually easier if you're doing a song about a person because that's like where they're like blue blue is house like you could you could you could fit in more right right person specific details there but you sound very inspired by that i am no i was thinking about it it's like i i feel like yeah the possibilities

are endless hell yeah i mean the lyrics are a little they are very story like yo listen up here's a story about a little guy that lives in a blue world it's a story song it's three chords in the truth Emily you are the co-host of one of my favorite podcasts Night Call you are I think the

last of the co-hosts to come on and be a guest on the Daily Zeitgeist. We're so thrilled to have you. I only recently came back to Los Angeles. Yes. Welcome back. Welcome back. So this is my chance to be in studio here, but I'm glad to have you.

Where are you moving from? I feel like I have a lot to live up to, too. I'm moving from New York. Okay. I've heard of that. Yeah. Yeah. Overrated. You must know. In your face from New York. Okay. I've heard of that. Yeah. Yeah. Overrated.

Who was that? What did you grow up? New York. I grew up in Iowa and around Seattle as well. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So people who are going to accuse you of LA bias, you know, fall back.

Right. Well, I do have an LA bias. In general? In general. But I am also just just I'm a Midwestern and West Coast person at heart and like

lastly like distant distance third it would be East Coast I find I find it a little bit alien there

in an interesting way sometimes what's it like being Japanese and Midwestern it's great you know you know I talked about this

on on Ethnically Ambiguous but you know, I talked about this on, on ethnically ambiguous, but you know what the great unifier is? Huh? Corn. Oh, yeah. And mayonnaise.

Yeah, on everything. Damn. See, maybe that's why I have an affinity for the Midwest too, even though I'm a coastal half Japanese person. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, the big problem is dairy. You know, that's the big, like, I wish I could drink a milkshake every single day. Lactase. Oh, I have.

Luckily, I'm built for lactose. Like, Japanese milk is my favorite drink, like, when it's, like, 5% fat. Oh, my God. It's terrible for you. I don't know that I've even ever had Japanese milk. Ah, come on, Jack. Come on, what the fuck, man?

We call it milk. Right. We call it whatever. Don't call me half and half. I feel like, do people who are built for lactose, don't you still get gassy and shit from milk? Or it's just, you can drink it like it's water? I don't know. I've never connected any kind of physical discomfort with my consumption of any kind

of dairy products. I would eat nothing but cereal. I'll eat a queso fundido, just without the chips. I'll just scrape the molten cheese into my gullet. Yeah. See, I thought the same thing. I was like, you know, i'll just scrape the molten cheese into my gullet yeah see i thought the same thing i was like you know i loved i love dairy i love cheese i love milkshakes and ice cream they're my favorite thing and like it's just like a weird coincidence that i happen to feel like shit and have to like go right it can't be this yeah it's not it has nothing to do

with drinking a milkshake and eating onion rings every day which is what i did for my first couple years in los angeles also because the diners here are wonderful so um but yeah then i then i realized that um maybe i shouldn't yeah i mean cut down i think for yeah a lot a lot of my japanese friends can't eat dairy a lot of my black family can't eat dairy i don't know how i've threaded the needle to just be like eating like this. I grew up eating cereal every morning with milk on it. And then farting your way to school? Yeah. Well, I don't know if I was. Like I don't remember having – like I had stomach pains like any other kid, you know.

All the time. I was just in the fetal position for the first few periods of school. But no, when I, my wife is lactose intolerant and she, like once we were married, I stopped eating as much lactose and then I feel like I started noticing that it fucks me up a little bit. I don't know if it was like, if it's just that I cut down on it

and then it started fucking me up or if I just started noticing that it was fucking me up. That addict mentality where it's like, I think think because i'm taking less it's actually making me worse right yeah yeah exactly i just need to i need to get right i need to get right down i remember it wasn't always like this not until i stopped doing it was it like this but if i tried to eat a bowl of cereal in the morning with milk it would ruin my day oh no even the thought of that makes me a little bit disgusting i am back in the day man uh if my house my mom would drink with coffee have like half and half there wasn't milk yeah oh oh i've done that on the granola oh on frosted that is decadent yes

pure decadence that sounds incredible i, that just sounds like a dessert. With granola, it's great because it strips all the sugar off the granola, so then you're left with this fucking... It's like frosting. Yeah. It is. Just eating frosting. Oh, my God.

Shit. Don't do that. I've only done that maybe 43 times this month. The half and half challenge. Tell us what the best cereal is with half and half. Fart your way to school, kids. Emily, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about.

We're talking about the Bernie v. Warren feud slash contrast, I guess. Yeah, that's more. They're not at it yet. A single policy disagreement that has caught people's attention. They're not at it yet. A single policy disagreement that has caught people's attention. We're going to talk about the Trump slaughter meme video that got played at his Doral resort over the weekend. We're going to talk about Facebook having all these coincidentally right wing views and policies and outcomes of their policies. And just ask the question, is this all a coincidence?

We are going to check in with the whistleblower scandal and the ongoing impeachment. Ask the question, Gordon Sondland, dumb? Possibly. Yeah. Possibly very dumb. Yes. And then we're going to get into some food stuff,

plain food getting better and more sustainable, Halloween candy getting weed. Weedy. Weedy. Yeah. Weedier. Weed infused, all that, and plenty more. Tic Tacs getting Coca-Cola.

Yikes. Flavors. Do we need that? I don't know. Why not? Tic Tacs kind of fuck with how my teeth feel anyways, and Coca-Cola always fucks with that. What do you mean how they feel? It just doesn't, like gum or, like there's certain gum that makes my teeth feel like

clean, and other gum or mints that make it feel like kind of gritty, and Tic Tacs are not on the good side of that equation. Well, Tic Tacs are just sugar. They don't, they're not sugar free. Right, yeah. But it's just, it's weird. It's like, it's very interesting to think about the mode in which you would want to have the taste of Coca-Cola.

Yeah. Because you can have a Diet Coke if you don't want the calories, but. It's for someone who wants a dehydrated version. You want a little tiny dehydrated Coca-Cola in your mouth to suck on? Right. Yeah.

And my saliva will be the carbonated water. Yes. I wonder how they market tested to find that that was like... A thing? Yeah, the void that needed to be filled. But first, Emily, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

Oh, oh, oh. I have to bring this up because I had to do a screen grab. There's a bunch, but I mean mean you can take your pick i've so um okay so i was looking i my great procrastination thing now um when i am working uh which is better than online shopping or anything else is just like looking up some new, very obscure aspect of my natal chart and figuring out what the deal is with it. So what's an obscure, what's an example? So I have,

it's called like a focal planet and it's apparently like a bad thing. Maybe it's not bad. Maybe I'm being too judgmental, but it's like a certain kind of arrangement of planets on your chart. And so I have Jupiter squared the moon and Pluto in my chart. Yeah, I know. I didn't want to tell you guys. Wait, did you say Jupiter squared the moon and Pluto?

Yeah, we should not be in a room with her right now. All the blood just drained from my face. Holy shit. Tana's dead. This is why I'm keeping my eyes down right now. Well, I'm not really sure. Did it start with you being into the astrology and then going like, but there's a deeper layer. Yeah, I keep going deeper and deeper.

And I think eventually I'm just going to get like my chart done professionally. But for right now, I just keep like finding new things to look up because you can look up like literally everything online. So did you know the moment of your birth down to the minute? I know it like to an hour or so. So that's what the natal chart like getting specific with the natal chart. What exactly were the organization of the planets and stars and like what houses everything was you have to have that you have to have your birth time in order to know all that stuff wow it's just and it's like i i think i just find it

uh a good procrastination thing because it's like i feel like i'll never get to the bottom of it because i'll never fully understand it so it's just something I can like look at and keep you know doing searches of so that was the last thing that I looked up was my my squarage in Jupiter is there a time

when like everything will be arranged the same again I don't think so I think it's called the age of Aquarius oh okay I don't think so. I think it's called The Age of Aquarius. Oh, okay. Is that? I don't know.

Aren't the lyrics? You said that with such confidence. I don't know. Duh. Well, there's this Netflix German show called Dark that has,

it's like a time travel thing where everything happens in increments of 33 years because that's the difference in like, I think it because that's the difference in like, I think it's some astrological thing where like. Well, there's like your Saturn return

is I think every 28 or 29 years. And that's always a big, that's a thing that people make a big deal about with astrology. And that's supposed to be like a time of challenge, which also happens to coincide with your late 20s, which is always gonna be like funky no matter what. A challenge when I'm 29?

Yeah. What? How could they predict the economy? Yeah. I don't think, I think one of the things about it is it's really hard to have the same chart twice, but I did see something recently on an Instagram account I follow about astrology that there are two people,

two famous people who have almost identical charts and they are indie musician St. Vincent and Lil Wayne. They have almost identical charts. I guess they were like born the same day or something. They were born the same. Wow. That's an interesting class to think of. Yeah.

Class of kids. That's an interesting class to think of. Yeah. Class of kids. That's funny. But if you don't remember, Jack from Hair, when the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace will guide the planets and love will steal the stars. This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.

Oh, so we must be in it then, now, right? No, I think that was in 1969 or whatever. Oh, apparently not. What is something you think is overrated? No, I think that was in 1969 or whatever. Oh, apparently not. What is something you think is overrated? Okay, okay. I had to ask my husband what this would be because I think so many things are overrated that I was like, just give me something

that I complain about. We kind of came up with this one together and I have the matching underrated one as well. This preamble is that I've been seeing a lot of movies again recently in Los Angeles, which I love, and particularly Arclight. I feel a great deal of nostalgia. And I don't know.

I actually worked at Arclight for a couple weeks once, but I just think it's a great movie-going experience. But people that I know in LA have been slagging a lot on Arclight recently. I guess because it's expensive, which it is. I am personally, if I'm going to, it's already which it is um i am personal if i'm gonna it's already like so expensive to see a movie anyway like a couple bucks more to not see a bunch of ads i'm like fine with but um but they just i won't name a brand because i don't want to like specifically naysay a brand but um there is a certain there are many chains of theaters, like boutique-y chains of theaters.

Yeah, it's on my iPick. iPick, yeah. You know, I love the iPick lifestyle. Has anybody actually been to an iPick theater? I did on a date. I have too. And I forgot my wallet. You know that those theaters are basically

just to qualify Netflix films for Oscars. Yeah. Yeah, that's like their empire. Oh, is that true? But that's not how they started though. No, no. It was like a terrible investment opportunity for people who were like,

no, people want $18 truffle fries that come cold to their seat while they're watching Glory's Bastards. I didn't realize they had food at an iPick. Yeah. That's so stupid. Like, who goes to iPick and then who, sorry, iPick, but who goes to iPick and who orders food at iPick? Well, yeah, I think that's for a very specific bracket. Yeah. I'm sorry, so you didn't want to slag off a specific

brand yes but the whole thing of like now you can go to the movies and you can get uh queso and craft beer and a whole pizza um while you watch joker whatever it is um i actually and that's like now a value add and it's like oh like now we'll get people to the theaters because they can have they can have melted cheese

like while they watch or like a salad like a salmon salad which is like fine but the food is never that good and I just think that like eating

a meal in a theater in general and also like drinking in a theater is highly overrated it's distracting it's very distracting. It makes the theater smell like ass like over time.

If you've ever been in like an older establishment that does this a lot, it's bad. It's not like a bar. So I've really been appreciating the pure unadulterated movie going experience at the Arclight recently. Is that your underrated? That's not my underrated.

My underrated is actually like another thing that I, a very basic like, so that's what I would consider like boutique movie going, like artisanal movie going, like all these fancy things that like you can only get at this one chain or whatever. The underrated thing is just like at any old regal or whatever, like having an icy during a movie

is like the best thing in the world. If you haven't had an icy at a movie, and I know it's like the end of summer now, so it's not really like summer movie going season, but I do, I try to make time to see like at least two movies over the summer where I have an icy during them. Oh, wow.

I like, I plan, I'm like, that's a movie for seeing it with an icy. What were your two most recent IC movies? Well, this isn't a summer. Oh, I guess it was sort of a summer movie. I do remember that I saw the first IT movie with an IC, and it was great. I don't really remember that much about it. I think I was sick at the time, too, but it felt really great.

What flavor? Red or blue? I get the red one. Okay. Yeah. Or the felt really great to eat that. Red or blue? I get the red one. Okay. Yeah, or the white one. Yeah, okay. Red or white one. They also do a cola one of that.

Speaking of other mediums for cola flavor. Well, when it's the icy, the proper one with the dog in the knit sweatshirt, knit sweater, isn't that the icy logo? Or it's a polar bear in a sweater. I thought it was a dog. Icy has the polar bear. What's the one that has like the

dog with like the like the bloodhound is that a slurpee no maybe it's a whatever i i'm getting all my slurpee is the 7-eleven one i think that's yeah they don't have an animal yeah i don't know um i haven't had a slurpee in a second um just like sugar soda in general. Uh, this is like very bad and irresponsible of me to say, but I do think it's like underrated. Cause if you haven't had a sugar soda in years, like I usually have it when you have one, it's just like, holy shit.

I can't believe this is legal. Yeah. Or yeah. Like a real, like, like true sugar soda. Oh my God. It's incredible.

When I quit drinking alcohol, I got back into sugar sodas. Like what? Like Mexican Coke? It's been worse for me. It's probably worse for you. Yeah, Mexican Coke, root beer, ginger beer.

Pepsi throwback? Yeah. All that shit. Mountain Dew, which I had to quit also. Oh, Mountain Dew is pretty brutal. Yeah, I don't know if I could drink a Mountain Dew in 2019.

He stopped wearing glasses since he stopped drinking Mountain Dew is pretty brutal. Yeah, I don't know if I could drink a Mountain Dew in 2019. He stopped wearing glasses since he stopped drinking Mountain Dew. The Cola Icy is actually pretty good, I would say. Yeah, it's not bad. It just wouldn't be the first one I would go for. Oh, maybe Slushy is the one with the other one. Yes, Slushy. Slush Puppy. No, Slushy?

Slush Puppy. Slush Puppy. Yeah, that's the one. Those are like the more icy ones. The rest are like more kind of a natural blend of ice and liquid, whereas slush puppies are, it's like really finely crushed ice. Yeah, that's always kind of a bummer though when you get to the part where you've sucked all the syrup out

and it's just ice. Slush puppies are basically snow cones, right? Right. With more syrup. So you're overrated. I was just thinking, the theaters are just trying to do too much and it's such a blatant cash grab because they're trying to say, fuck the dinner in a movie thing. It's dinner in your movie now. Right.

And we'll take all of that money, thank you, in a seat that will recline into a bed. So then you will fall asleep after you ate your 9 billion calorie dinner. And just every time I'm in a theater like that, I go to sleep. Yeah. And I like it. At first, I was like, oh, shit, look at this. It goes all the way back. Yeah.

And then I'm asleep. Yeah. Yeah. There's some that give out blankets. Like, it was just like, ew, also. Like, why would you want a blanket from a movie theater? It's worse than a blanket on an airplane. It's like, I'm not infirmed.

Do you have any unused blankets by any chance? And finally, what's a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Oh, well, I mean, this is something we talk about on Night Call all the time. So you guys are probably sick of hearing this if you listen to our show. But the Instagram is not listening to you or that like any like basically any app on your phone isn't listening to you when those ads show up because they're like i was just talking about this brew maker it's so it's like a it's people are telling themselves that they're not listening to you

so you can continue to justify using instagram all the time. But it's fucking Occam's razor. Like, why would they give you a free app to look at all your friends and catch up with like your relatives and stuff and like post selfies? They don't give a shit about your selfies. They just want to know where you're going and what you're doing and target advertising to you. It's like it's it's crazy how much like that's still controversial, Although I think more people are coming over to the light side with this one. Well, and I think people don't, they underestimate that. Like whenever you're pretty much passively signed into Facebook, whether you like it or not in your browser.

So it's just taking anything that has a Facebook logo on it. It's farming it back into that. That's why I'm like, oh, right. That's why the ads I'm being served are based on something I just looked at in my browser because that's how they go oh you like that thing yeah yeah the facebook thing once if you were able to unplug from facebook which i did a couple of years ago that is like that actually really lessens a lot of those uncanny things of like why is this thing following me across the internet because the facebook thing being yeah it's just every single site will log you into facebook that you go on to and so yeah it's it's a good thing to to get off of but i know that a lot of people like it's the only

again we talked about this on ethnically ambiguous it's like the only way that you can keep in touch with people a lot of times so i i i get that i mean the thing is facebook's all about connecting people how It is all about. How can that be wrong? The like ads right now that are like pushing Facebook groups, like it's fucking 2009 or something like like find your people on Facebook. Yeah. Like it's like message boards or something like that.

I don't know. I mean, yeah, there are Facebook groups and they're all racist. Right. And like organizing people to set fire to homeless encampments and stuff. Bringing people together. Bringing people together. I mean, who would have thought? You know, I just started it

as a way to like rate chicks, you know, like how hot they were. Who could have known it would have gone badly? First I thought it would be funny to compare them to farm animals. But then I thought, no. I drank massive amounts of Snapple Apple. Right.

What was that photo that we were looking at an article when Zuckerberg was first featured in 2004, and they showed his sad dorm room. Right. And there's some obscure drink. I think it was like, yeah, it was some Snapple. It was an apple pie or something. Snapple Apple Pie. That's what or something. Snapple apple pie. That's what it was.

Snapple apple pie. And we were like, it was like his desk in this empty bottle. You're like, oh my God. Of course. See,

okay, apple pie as a soda, I would do. I would. Really? Not a Snapple though. Yeah. Like it needs to be carbonated.

It needs to be like adjacent to a cream soda or something. Like a cream soda with apple in it. Doesn't that sound kind of fun? Apple pie a la mode? Yeah. Like it needs to be carbonated. It needs to be like adjacent to a cream soda or something. Like a cream soda with apple in it. Doesn't that sound kind of good? Apple pie a la mode. Yeah. That's a good flavor. Kind of like a mulling cider.

Yes. But carbonated. Yeah. With a little cream flavor. Actually, I've come around. A little pun place. But Snapple, no. Like not, wait.

Yeah. Not made from the best stuff in the world. Is the Snapple lady okay? Yeah, yeah. She's great, wait. Yeah, not made from the best stuff in the world. Is the Snapple lady okay? Yeah, yeah. She's great. Wait, what happened with her? Why are you speaking so quickly? No, I have no idea.

Jesus. I saw her yesterday. Wendy Kaufman. She's great. Wendy Kaufman. Crushing it. Is she a milkshake duck? Has she done anything horrible?

No. Has she gone on a racist tirade? Currently, post-Snapple, just did I Love the 90s, Celebrity Fit Club, and that's about it. Hell yeah. The owner of Schweppes brand filed... No. Okay, that's... No.

It said she was on Fox News. Like, what? To explain something that happened to her. Thank God. Got it. You can... This is the only way you can go on Fox News, to explain something that happened to you. Right.

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I used to be a republican heck um yeah and i think now you know she's had um she had her accountable capitalism act which was sort of being like how do we make capitalism work for people right most people would say argue that it might not be able to work for people right but this is a stab at it um and then bernie on monday announced the corporate accountability and democracy platform. And this is a much more articulated step towards socialism than most of the things we've seen in terms of like, you know, there's similarities, right? Like with Warren's plan, she wanted to like sort of tax companies that are doing a billion dollars in revenue a year. Which is cooler than a million. Which is cooler uh but sanders plan is having corporations with a hundred million dollars or more in revenue

and all publicly traded companies basically transfer two percent of their stocks per year until 20 of the company is owned by the workers themselves so before like elizabeth warren's plan didn't have anything like this of that, like transferring ownership to the workers. And this, this new Bernie plan is doing precisely that. And when you think about the amount of people that would roughly affect around 56 million people, 22,000 companies, and sort of this idea too, that, that they would actually own some of this stock, like they would begin to make money because I think what people don't realize too is the way a lot of these like wealthier people who work with these companies,

they extract the wealth through these stock options. Yeah. And by putting those things in the hands of the workers, they're now, they have a seat at the table. There's also similarities too, where they want 45% of the board to be chosen by the workers. Elizabeth Warren's plan was like 40 percent.

A lot of people who are strict socialists would say 45 isn't enough. It should be technically 51 percent if you want to have true ownership of the workers. But I think a lot of people also look at this as like, well, if you watch Succession, you know that having 45 percent control over something is a pretty significant thing because a lot of the times ownership's fractured. So to have a block of ownership that's like that well, or at least organized or rallied around a certain point would help things. But I think at the very least, it's a great step to drive the conversation further left and to have people begin actually talking about these things. Because before it's like, why don't we just tax the wealthy? And like, they can stay wealthy.

It's like, what if like the people who are creating the revenue, the wealth are also cut into this scheme? So where do you get this idea? Venezuela, Soviet Russia, where is this coming? He goes to Venezuela once and he sees a bunch of starving people, whatever the Fox News. No, it's actually inspired by corporate co-determination in Germany. Right. Yeah. The co-determination. Very successful country economically.

Yeah. So, again, this is where we're starting to see where Elizabeth Warren, who is a capitalist, have those different policy points as Bernie Sanders, who is a socialist. And we will see what happens. I mean, either way, I feel like both candidates make the investment bankers and that class of people nervous. But I think when you're hearing someone say, no, 20% of this company is actually going to be taken from you and put into the workers' hands, I can only imagine the kind of smear money that'll be spent if Bernie were to be picked.

Yeah. Do you think that Elizabeth Warren will eventually come around and try to implement her own plan like that or something? I mean, it feels like. Yeah. I mean, she strikes me as someone who's like, I see what's wrong with capitalism. So if we just change these things, it'll be a little more equitable. Or add some socialist aspects to capitalism and still be essentially capitalist. But I think maybe she's trying to thread the needle.

I'll say capitalist still because I need to slow boil the frogs on Wall Street into realizing what's happening versus something like this, which is like, what, 20% over 10 years? A company's $100 million? I mean, at least Elizabeth Warren was doing a billion, like, giant companies.

See, I feel like, I mean, I think that the Bernie plan sounds amazing. Yeah. It sounds great. But I also feel like it's, like, the side effect of it will be that it'll just scare people back to Elizabeth Warren, which is also, like, not bad. No, yeah. I guess that's the thing. It's really down to whether or not we if people think

there's a version of capitalism that can work in this country yeah yeah i don't think so right it's more than just taxing people at this point yeah i mean we have it's runaway predatory capitalism and i don't know how you rein it in and you know a systemic change like going into socialism i think that's what a lot of people are having to find themselves wrestling with because at the same time it's like what why are you what's the point of defending billionaires right i think it's because a lot a lot of the times in our minds we think like well that could maybe that could be me someday so i don't want to like hurt them because that could hurt me and my ends in the future meanwhile i am nowhere close to being a

hundred thousandaire. You will not be a billionaire. There are things in place to make sure you're not. Unless you win Powerball and then do really good with your investments. But that's definitely going to happen. You will not win Powerball. Okay, Jack.

Everybody listening to this show right now, you will win Powerball. Don't give up on your dreams. Yeah, that's right. Just listen to that song. And nice oh my god I was listening to or I was this is like a good drugstore song what's it who does that song High Hopes

the like awful oh Panic at the Disco High Hopes but that song like I remember feeling like that this is like a fascist capitalist song. Like, it's like so, like, because I was just sitting in line. Like, that's when you really have to pay attention to a song.

And I'm like, Jesus Christ, this is just convincing everybody that they're going to fucking win Powerball one day and be a millionaire. This is poisonous. It's like, don't worry, let's dangle this thing in front of you. That is also an illusion. I mean, yeah. Had to have high hopes for a living. Shooting for the stars when I couldn't make a killing didn't have a dime but I always had a vision always had high high hopes while I'm in the CVS for a man's I can't afford exactly trying to pretend my Mercedes ain't a Ford

wow you know what I mean got a regular like weird al up in what I mean? Damn, dog. You're like, I'm out here, bro. I do like working people parody songs. Okay. Make a Jay-Z song about me now.

Make it like about how I'm cool. Okay. Work on it a little bit more than right now. Do three minutes. Jay-Z has never written a song about how he's cool, so it would be impossible.

It's about how he's a capitalist, actually. All Jay-Z's songs are. I'm a capitalist. Come on, man. Y'all already knew this. Yeah, I mean, I think Sanders followers' concern is that literally every single time that a capitalist has talked about, you know, hope and change prior to getting into the White House, the direction that they have evolved once they got power was towards, you know, the interests of capital.

But, you know, I guess the rebuttal to that would be that Elizabeth Warren was the main force behind that movement to, you know to reign in predatory capitalism. It's hard to know how anyone ends up when they pull up to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That's right. And what happens in there. We do know, though, this is just in the top headline on Drudge Report right now, is that Michael Bloomberg is now mulling entering

presidential race as Biden struggles. I'm sorry, what? That's going with the whole Starbucks guy thing where it's like- We need a billionaire centrist. Yes. Basically. He already announced- To look out for the billionaires.

He announced like an exploratory committee or something. Right. And I think in unison, people were like, no. No. Right. It's the subway unison people were like, no. It's the subway. It's like the same time. No, it was Bloomberg,

right? Not de Blasio. Oh, yeah, yeah, no, no, de Blasio. Yeah,

no, my bad, my bad. Listen, I'm a New Yorker. No, because in de Blasio, he was also,

wasn't he flirting with it too? And I think that was the refrain I heard everyone was like, look at the city but I think they're both no's for different reasons de Blasio is like just a truly embarrassing figure right now yeah and then fix the

subways is the easy rallying cry around that but Bloomberg I mean I don't want to get a fucking another billionaire presidential candidate I don't know it's just I mean I don't really know how well he ran New York because I didn't live there for his, his like what, how many terms he had?

Like four. But I don't know. I feel like it was sort of planting the seed for a lot of the kind of like crazy real estate speculation and pushing out like low income housing and stuff like that that we have now in New York

and all over the country. In Los Angeles. Anywhere. Yeah, literally. People are building luxury apartments that no one can afford. Did you live in Bloomberg's New York? I did.

I moved to New York at a time when There was a doo-wop group on every corner? It was still there was a doo-wop group on every corner? It was still, there was a doo-wop group on every corner singing around the trash can fire. And the people called the really clean,

drinkable tap water Rudy juice because Rudy was still considered like having succeeded as a mayor. And yeah, those times are still here because I'm a big Rudy fan love is work is the water which is the objectively best part about living in New York is that really Rudy Giuliani is doing no I don't think any of them and also the idea also the crime drop that he gets a lot of credit for, people have reported recently that a lot of that was basically putting pressure on police precincts to have their crime rate fall. And therefore, they became incredibly corrupt about not reporting a bunch of crimes and just reclassifying crimes that were sexual assault as misdemeanor something or other.

So yeah. So it sounds like you're a no on Bloomberg. I'm a no on Bloomberg. Okay, okay. For the record. Also, if we are worried about predatory capitalism, I don't think you can be a billionaire and be all good. Let's talk about the current billionaire.

Wannabe billionaire, maybe billionaire, one-time billionaire. Arguable. Arguable. So there was a conference over the weekend, last weekend, called the American Priority Conference that was all about letting the world know what the Trump administration's priorities were, I guess, and conservatives' priorities were. I mean, it was a wonderful gathering, the American, the AMP Fest. I mean, you had, there are people like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Doju, Dana Lash from the NRA, Charlie Cook, Dinesh D'Souza.

I mean, you know, another, you know, wonderful QAnon conspiracy theorist. It was a truly a gathering of of Trump world funded by a private prison company. Yeah. Funded by the GEO group, who was the largest sponsor of this. And they're in there. Oh, look, to their credit, they're based in Florida. OK, that's maybe why they did it. Also, maybe a coincidence that 40% of their revenue comes from the feds. Maybe a coincidence

that they were doing really bad when Obama was trying to move away from private prisons and then Trump came fully back to them. But they've donated a lot of money. I mean, they donated, what, $225,000 to a super PAC during the campaign and then another quarter of a million to the inaugural committee. So this is a way a lot of people are like, what the heck is this? It's really because the GEO group needed a way to funnel more money into the Trump campaign by just being like, hi, we love you.

We're going to spend all this money at doral golf club right or doral or whatever you want to call it yeah and uh yeah so it took place at a trump uh resort his biggest owner biggest biggest earner uh still becoming less popular because he's because the world is sane uh generally um but so a video was shown there uh that basically depicted him slaughtering uh obama hillary clinton didn't name any like literally anyone who's been on the other side mccain rosie o'donnell rosie o'donnell yeah and then when their little boy who was mowing the lawn in the white house that he was yelling at in that meeting. Right. Slaughtered him. Yeah.

Yeah. But it's just a pretty gruesome. It's taken from a scene in one of the King's Men movies. I think it's the first King's Man. The King's Man. The King's Man. In which Colin Firth, notorious badass. No, that's the King's Speech, Jack.

My bad. He finally learns to talk right. He, uh, yeah. He confuses them a lot. No, this is how he learns is by,

uh, doing a bunch of gun kata and killing like hundreds of people. I remember watching this movie on a plane and being like, this is evil. Like whatever is happening here, this is like really bad. Like it was just a unremitting like murder fest. And so they took that, you know, portion of the movie

and turned it into a work of propaganda where people could like get charged up about Trump killing his opponents. Yeah, it was showing in the hall of memes. Yeah. Apparently at this thing. And a lot of people, obviously the outrage was immediate when clips were coming out and people

like, what the fuck is this? What is going on? They're like, if we had known we would never have shown such a thing. Right. It's pretty chill video. You got to admit.

So this is like, I'm picturing like a kind of gallery hall where this isn't like a gilded frame and somebody's like exactly and there's a placard under underneath in a weird way there is like this room where there were tvs on stands like in the corner that is so funny yeah yeah and it was mostly empty to all the journalists that were in there. They were like, yeah, this is like the hall of memes. It's like a bunch of like 60-year-old, like, yeah, like private prison people were like, oh, we heard that our younger constituents are really into these things called memes. Can you show it to me on a television?

I don't know how to access it on the computer honey uh can we get uh some some tvs ordered in so oh my god it's so funny picture of what looks like an art gallery it does like that's what i was i was joking right it's a ballroom yeah with like weird lighting um but yeah apparently there was like a meme contest or whatever and there are some people who actually suspect uh a journalist on Twitter was saying that the video was posted by an account that was, quote, connected to Russian intelligence. Yeah, of course. But although at the same time, like when you look at the people who make memes for Trump, like I don't know how much of a difference that makes because he has a meme army. Yeah, they have overlapping interests.

he has a mean they have overlapping interests um but i mean the fact that it's being used to stoke a base that just recently like within the last year tried to bomb a bunch of the people he murders in this video is i don't know it's just the sort of thing that when people say that there's a leftward bias in media and the monoculture, it's insane to me. Because if this were the opposite, if somebody had created a meme where Obama murders a bunch of people after an Obama follower tried to bomb a bunch of people like the world would end. Look what happened to Kathy Griffin. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Not that I think that was the best move or whatever but that response was wild from the right. You know what I mean?

Yet here we are with this kind of shit. Kathy Griffin the comic who appeared on a magazine cover with a severed head that looked a little bit like the president.

It was meant to evoke the president, obviously. She is murdered in this video. I didn't see her. I'm sure she had to have been. She said she was. She was like, hey, is this cool, though?

Is this all right? It's memes, though. I think that's really the probably the intellectual defense they're deploying in their own minds right well that's a meme dude i'm not like it's just funny because like we like do you guys remember what was it called the um jib jab yeah like from like that was like early early viral content and i remember seeing it was like dude looks like a lady but it. And I remember seeing, it was, like, dude looks like a lady. But it was, like, John Kerry.

And it was, like, a video making fun of him, I guess, for Bush fans. Like, where they made him look like a woman in it. Like, very, very cutting edge. Yeah, John Kerry does look like a woman. Yeah. Like, one, yeah. It doesn't make any sense at all. But it's, like like the exact same technology

it's just like a floating head over a body and we really haven't advanced any further well pretty soon the deepfakes memes will probably make their way that's what I was thinking I was like this is really

abysmal and terrible to watch, but I'm glad that it's not the deepfake version yet because that would be really bad. Well, that would be so much more graphic, I think. Either way, like you're saying, Jack, a lot of people are taking their cues from memes or whatever the president, whatever he says

in terms of who his enemies are. Yeah, the guy who sent all those bombs out and was just a really bad bomb maker or else we'd be talking about a completely different America that is like basically at a boiling point of a civil war. That guy had like memes and shit plastered all over his van. He had like, you know, printouts from the internet and bumper stickers that talked about how he wanted to kill the mainstream media and you know the fake news was everywhere so i mean and also i mean you look at all the violence that happens on the right yeah i think it's hard to say

this isn't all part of an active cycle that's continuing to happen yeah let's check in with the impeachment inquiry and the whistleblower so the ambassador of the eu and the guy doing the heavy lifting between trump ukraine giuliani and the guy who in the text was like let's not do this over text message. Please call me. Gordon Sondland is going to testify in front of Congress on Thursday. And we have some leaked information as to what he's planning to say. Yeah. I mean, I think just for people who don't remember what was going on, there was this back and forth like like over texts, where Kurt Volker basically, or not Kurt Volker, Gordon Sondland came out with this really odd description defense of what the president was doing. So the thing that a lot of this testimony or what we think

he's going to talk about is between him and Bill Taylor, where he's talking. Bill Taylor, I think, is from the Defense Department or no, he's an ambassador. And when they're talking about, wait, I think Trump's withholding aid from Ukraine. He actually articulates that. He said, as I said on the phone to Gordon Sondland, I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance to help with a political campaign. Then five hours pass and then Gordon Sondland texts this. Bill, I believe you are incorrect about President Trump's intentions. The president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. The president is trying to evaluate whether Ukraine is truly going to adopt the transparency and reforms, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So the reporting is that he's going to Congress and saying, yes, that text where I, when the guy calls out what the whole game is and I wait five hours to respond, I texted that because the president told me to do that. And dictated it. That was like basically written by the president. Yes. That tweet or that text. Yeah, that the text message that that that was relayed to him directly in a phone call. Yes.

Then. But here's the here's the thing, though. This is where he's going to flip it on Congress. OK, right. He's going to also plan to tell lawmakers he had no knowledge of whether the president was telling him the truth at that moment. Quote, it's only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth. According to a source that's familiar with the logic with his team. I'm sorry.

It's only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth. So then he's, so it is a quid pro quo? I mean, he has a point. Right. Yeah, I understand what that means. In any circumstance, but the president lying for no purpose to make himself. Well, I think what they're going to try and do is say that it was a logical and righteous quid pro quo. That it needed to happen to rat out.

I don't know. That's again, I see everybody's confused as I say this out loud. But this is apparently the thinking on this side. Because a lot of people are like, why doesn't he just not fucking cooperate? Like the White House is already giving him the cover at a stonewall. But I don't know if maybe again, we were speculating last week when we heard he was going to testify like is this just to create the optics of like i am going to tell the truth and this is where you guys are getting it all wrong right yeah the president said about we don't know if that's

the truth right huh um and it's going to be closed door or the someone he might be a lot of them have been closed door because adam shift's logic around that is like by doing that, the president can't find out what they were saying. So he can't get ahead of the story in any way. Matt Gaetz actually was trying to get into the testimony of his top aide on Russia today. And they kicked him out because they're like, what the fuck are you doing here? You're like not on any committee that has anything to do with this because they're like, you're just going to tell the president what's going on. Please go, sir. So, again, this guy, Gordon Sondland, he was working with everybody involved on this.

The Ukrainians, Trump, Rudy Giuliani. And his whole thing is basically going to he's going to just claim ignorance about the whole thing. He's going to say, quote about the whole thing he's going to say quote this is from the washington post sonlin appears poised to say that he and other diplomats did not know that the request to mention parisma uh was really an effort to impugn the reputations of biden and his son hunter so he contends sonlin contends that he didn't know about the biden connection until a whistleblower complaint and transcript surfaced in late september really the guys on the other ambassadors was very clear it's very clear to anyone who saw rudy giuliani on tv talking about this shit like what

what is he gonna suggest that they talked about when he was like hey stop saying that and call me like what what how did that conversation go if he had no idea that like there was any attempt to impugn biden's reputation i don't know i it's so a lot of people are like we don't know what this is yeah where's this is going yeah um all right we'll stay tuned yeah probably here i would tell you this sir don't lie to congress on under oath yeah like if you have you know why don't you go do the cory lewandowski thing you know i mean i don't i don't know where this ends up but they clearly have a plan that they're going to play. Do they?

No, I don't know. Because he's testifying against the president's wishes. Well, but he is in a way, but it sounds like that's going to be the pivot. Which is like, yeah, we did, but here's the deal. We have to look into this stuff. And then people will be like, well, shouldn't the DOJ investigate

if there are Americans doing corrupt acts or something? Right. Oh, that's different, though. Right. I use Bill Barr to, like, lean on Rupert Murdoch to get Fox to fire Shepard Smith or something. Yeah. If that's what happened. Shout out to Shep Smith.

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not too far from where we live here in Southern California. Yeah, your Porter Ranch? Yeah. That place is, oof. And the way that the PG&E, what's that stand for? Pacific Gas and Electric. The way they've chosen to try to deal with the threat of wildfire. This is a time when wildfires always kick up because there's something called the Santa Anna winds that happens right now. Shout out to the Santa Anna winds.

Shout out Santa Anna. We had Santa Anna winds and a full moon last night. I know. It's like a recipe for disaster. But this is something that I hadn't experienced until I moved to LA, like a weather event where the wind is so strong that people have to slow down driving. Because it's just like- And then act as a bellows for a furnace of wildfire.

Yeah, and just things are falling, like branches are falling out of trees and shit. But anyways, that is a big part of why wildfires will kick up because power lines will get downed because of the wind, and then the wind will, like you said, act as a bellows. So Pacific Gas and Electric came up with the idea to address their outdated electricity infrastructure and just update all the equipment, and everything was cool. Yep, that was great.

And thank God, another story about corporate responsibility, except not. Yeah, they did none of that. First of all, PG&E is a fucking terrible fucking company. They're not a public utility company. They're privately owned. They are profit driven. They are behind some of the most aggressive pushes against green energy in the state. I used to work on a lot of green energy initiatives like ballot propositions.

to work on a lot of green energy initiatives like ballot propositions pg&e was always the largest donor against anything having to do with uh changing our like our uh power mix in the state um so anyway to give you a little idea of pacific gas and electric um and essentially they're so focused on profits that they were basically convicted of like felonious negligence because their lack of upkeep of their own infrastructure led to these wildfires that caused damages to the tune of $13.5 billion. Right. So they did the honorable thing and declared bankruptcy. Yeah. And they told the courts basically that they said, look, we got to do a lot.

The problem is we will never do this again. It's like we got to get these transformers changed. We got to get trees trimmed. We got to get a lot of old equipment, like changed up our towers, things like that. And we're going to do that. That way we don't get into a situation like this cut to now.

They've only done maybe less than one third of the things they told the court they had to do for, to like sort of make sure this wasn't going to happen again. So, you know, like their solution rather than risking one of their power lines going down, costing additional money. Yep.

They said, we'll just fucking shut this shit down. And it's mostly affecting people up north in the Bay Area. Just shut down the power. Shut down the power, exactly. Because it's like, well, if there's no power flowing through those lines, if they go down, no fires. And because those are the only damages

they would be held accountable not like people not the knock-on effect for people who don't have fucking power right you know what i mean like people who need electricity or food that spoils or any kind of medical support equipment whatever it is they're like oh yeah luckily we can duck that if we just keep it to the power stuff because if we have the power on and the lines go down, then we're on the hook again. And they've just been doing a terrible job. I think when they started it, their computers went down. It's just been a fucking carnival of errors. So the Saddle Ridge fire, the one that's been going on over the weekend, that was just, I guess, revealed to have been caused by a spark from a power line.

And was that a PG&E power line? No, I don't think that would have been PG by a spark from a power line. Was that a PG&E power line? No, I don't think that would have been PG&E because I think that would still be DWP? I don't know. Edison, that's right. So yeah, I mean, I think in general, right, this is an issue we have because that's a huge starter of fires.

Yeah. But, you know, it's just a very clear story. But I think one thing we can all agree on is Edison, from the beginning of the company to today, has never done anything wrong. So we're all on board with that. Oh, yeah. We love our Con Ed.

Again, I'm a New Yorker. Hey. I have a possibly stupid devil's advocate point to bring up here, which is the best kind of devil's advocate position, which is like, if we are going to eventually be taking climate change seriously and taking drastic measures to prevent some of the more damaging effects of it i feel like intermittent power outages are probably like would be a part of that right we should consider or like obviously there should be planning and exceptions made for people who you know are on oxygen support or something like that or or need you know give them a chance to get to a hospital where there is yeah yeah i like i mean during you know heat waves in prisons that's probably not one of the times that you would do a power outage. But if you're a responsible person making these decisions, but I do feel like stuff like that, which is to our eyes and in 2019, a pretty big and disruptive sacrifice is the kind of thing that we should probably have to get used to, though, for. But it's this.

But the intent of that sacrifice is completely misplaced. Oh, yeah. No. And I do. I do not trust their intentions or. Yeah. Yeah. There's purely to be like, no, no, no.

We're saving money. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think also, too, you'd think, though, this helps spur people on the idea of other energy sources, too. It's like, well, what if I have solar in certain areas? I'm not relying on the grid to power my home. Because that's a lot of the problem, too, with getting a lot of the clean energy around is we have such an old electrical grid that there are serious investments that have to be made on that for that kind of power to be transmitted properly. But, yeah, I think that is, you know, in general, like you think if people were like, okay,

no power Tuesdays. But I think at the end of the day, that's putting more responsibility on us than the people who are at the levers to be like, rather than that, why don't we heavily invest in this other thing and then we can keep it moving. But yeah. Yeah. Well, as much as I'd like to continue discussing the only news story we should care about, the impending doom of our Earth, it's time we talk about the fact that people could be

putting weed in your kid's Halloween candy. Oh, God, no. Happy Halloween. The Johnstown Police Department in Pennsylvania are back at it again. In my mind, I believe we've talked about this department before when they were asking people to volunteer to get drunk for a study. But either way, they're active on Facebook. So they're just doing viral stunts? I don't know.

That's probably where we're headed. Police department doing viral content? I don't know what they get out of it. probably where we're headed. Police department doing viral content. I don't know what they get out of it, but like the, well,

if the social media, the head of social media for their police department is like, you know, gets promoted. A few viral stunts are like proposal videos can paper over a shooting. Yeah. It's like, well, what about that white cop?

What about the white cop that, you know, hit them folks at that barbecue? You know what I mean? The dance. Yes. Not literally hitting somebody. The dance move.

You never seen an undercover Millie rock. Yeah's hilarious and then kiss a dog all over not that they just shot a woman fucking in her own home in fort worth through a fucking window christ but upload that video of the police department doing the harlem shake right and i'll be forgotten to be fair i do think that cops don't have problems going viral right now, just not for the reasons they would probably like. Yeah, right. Possibly. I mean, maybe that's the idea is that they're. Thank you.

That's a straight up for you. Yeah, I could totally see the meeting where they come up with that strategy of like, we got to combat all this negative social media publicity that we're getting out there come on pitch me ideas guys yeah cops can be fun yeah cops can be fun this cop was a former break dancer i wouldn't have known in that people need to remember that we are out there protecting their children what's a story that we could tell about that oh what about that child that was shot because they thought he had a gun. Oh, no, not that. No, no, no. Not real stories. Remember how we used to be afraid that people would put razor blades in our candy? Yep. Boom.

Yeah. Here we go. There it is. How would that even work? Okay. You bite into a candy bar. Well, no, because I think you push the razor blade into the flesh of the apple and then the caramel covers over the actual point of insertion. I eat apples also just like candy bars with my teeth.

What are you talking about? The most impervious, my mouth bones. Your tongue does get in there. If you took a full on bite though and there was a razor blade in there, she would cut your mouth in half. It's maybe unpleasant. It's just not the most efficient way to do harm via Halloween candy.

This on the other hand. This apparently is. According to the Johnstown Police Department, they have this whole Facebook post. It says, attention. The Johnstown Police would like to draw extra attention to the Nerds Rope Edibles containing 400 milligrams of THC. Nerds Ropes are so good. I know. Nerds Ropes are the GOAT fucking movie candy.

Found during a search warrant in Stony Creek. It says, okay, during this Halloween, we urge parents to be ever vigilant in checking their children's candy before allowing them to consume those treats. Drug-laced edibles are packaged like regular candy and may be hard to distinguish from real candy. Okay, now, it looks like maybe if you're just like the dude who's making your own wild edibles, you sell them like this to avoid detection from the police. Not because you have a scheme where you're throwing thousands of dollars away to play a sick ass prank on the kids of this town. I want to bankrupt myself by getting a bunch of six-year-olds high. It's a really good use of my money.

I'm going to give away all of the weed that I bought to sell to get for these kids. To get a bunch of kids, to make their Halloween extra spooky. I mean, you should obviously check your kids' candy. I think that's all fair. But I don't know if this is like, they're like, what, Kiva mints? Are those for kids? I mean, I'll personally be giving away jewel pods

at my house for this trick or treat. Wow. Shit, you heard it here first. Yeah, dude, I just wanna be cool with the kids hell yeah yeah dude i just want to be cool with the kids no for me it's to be cool you know what i mean yeah that and some fortnight stuff that's right but in the long run it might be just as bad as putting razor blades in an apple fiberglass truth campaign dang yeah you're giving them fucking deijarum clove cigarettes. Yeah. Oh my God. Don't do that. Wait, what?

Did those really, like, what did those do? I mean, other than taste delicious. I remember the myth was. That they would like. They would like fiberglass. Fiberglass in your lungs, yeah. Fiberglass, yeah. Because that's why they hit so smooth, dude.

Oh yeah. That was like the thing. That's why they hit so smooth, dude. Because of the fucking fiberglass. Is 400 milligrams of THC a strong edible? That seems like a lot. That's the thing. That's why they hit so smooth, dude, because of the fucking fiberglass. Is 400 milligrams of THC a strong edible? That seems like a lot. That's, yes. DJ Daniel is headbanging. DJ Daniel is headbanging.

Because it was too much. That is too much, kids. Too much for an elementary school age. Especially on Halloween, because shit is spooky. You do maybe 15, 20 to go to sleep nice. Would 400 kill you? I don't know if they, I mean, I don't think they found a lethal dose of THC that there's such a thing.

I don't know. I think I found mine. Like most people are like, I don't know. I died in this Ipik theater. I'm right now. I'm in my afterlife. This is all a dream. This would make sense

if this was perjury yeah you're like anxiety it's also perjury your anxiety attack can kill you Freddy Krueger style

like just because you believe you're dead yes oh my god that's what I always thought was happening that's incredible

yeah that's a good idea that's a really good idea. Freddy Krueger attacks people who are too high. That is my nightmare, though. Dude, it feels like my chest is getting sad. It's like, you are a motherfucker. It's like, you do this every time.

I mean... You had one CBD drink. I don't know. I don't know I don't know mine would be that like my hands come alive and kill me because I don't know what to do with them you have alien limb syndrome my hands got a mind of their own oh shit

you gotta write that trademark trademark WGA registration number 9268, whatever. Yes, thank you, thank you. There you go. Also, I'm posting this here,

so you can't repost it on Facebook. What's that thing? What's that mean that everybody fell for? Oh, on Instagram. I hereby declare by posting this, this is legally binding. Right. Or, dude, just email yourself the script, dude.

Right. Or mail it to yourself. That's true. Yeah. Done. In the mail mail. Exactly. Solved.

Done and done. Postmark, dude. Then they'll know. Emily, it's been so fun having you. Thank you for having me. I'm glad. We covered a lot here. I know.

We ripped through them. We didn't even get to Dr. Doolittle. I mean, no. I mean, I should say Doolittle. John Doolittle. The adventures of Dr. Doolittle. Some dude who does Michael Jackson hat tricks. You only hear

a single animal in the trailer talk. Anyways, we'll talk about it, but that Doolittle movie, if you saw the trailer, it cost $175 million. It did? That's what the movie cost. What's Bernie going to do about Doolittle? Right.

Like budgets for Hollywood movies. Hey, where can people find you, follow you, hear you? I am on Twitter at Emily Yoshida. And I am on Night call every week on Mondays on this very network show yeah check it out give us a night call we take all sorts of spooky calls

and go stories stuff like that speaking of so spooky you can't handle it high night call our podcast will haunt your dreams yeah and that's about it right now. That's all I'm doing. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying?

Oh, yeah. So last night was the succession finale, which I understand. Miles is still not watching. I'm sorry about that. It's okay. I'm truly sorry. I had to screen grab this. So this is like, so it's always good to like,

when there's a big TV event and you scroll through and you see who's making the funny jokes, right? And this isn't a funny joke so much as it is just like a really well-written tweet that I appreciated so much. It was retweeted by somebody else. I don't know who this person is at all, but it earned a follow because I liked it so much.

And it's a thread. So I apologize in advance. I stopped pitying Kendall early this season when he showed himself an unrepentant bad brother. My heart of ice never thaws. But when Jeremy Strong acted so hard, bags bloomed under his eyes and hollows grew in his temples like a fearful dark springtime and furling it all in his face. That wasn't makeup and tricky cameras. That was real time. Like when you unpack a mattress and the air rushes into its expanding foam of memory.

Anguish filled his pores as Naomi ripped off his plastic seal around his fragile self-conceit and exposed it to the pitiless sea air. Holy shit. So that's what you have to look forward to on the succession finale. Holy shit.

Oh, and that i should give credit also this is like a person it is at queen of bithynia b-i-t-h-y-n-i-a i have no idea who this person is but all of uh their tweets are amazing so yeah awesome uh speaking of giving credit where it's due my aka was courtesy of hannah soltus and i forgot to say that earlier my bad uh thank you hannah uh miles where can people find you you can find me follow me on twitter and instagram um there's one tweet i like but there's a couple things that i was brought to my attention first uh christy yamaguchi main at ass warfare uh there was someone in the subreddit we talked about like what the fuck is

the point of a tandem bike we're like they're useless right okay i've been corrected uh they are clear they can be used very and for very beneficial purposes for people with disabilities so if you're blind you can also ride the bike so i'll put the tandem bike bike hate on pause there is a reason but the reason still not good enough for me. Who hates a tandem bike that much? I just don't think they're, like when I see them, I'm like, what is this? You're getting in the way. It looks very awkward.

When is the last time you saw a tandem bike on the street? Oh, yeah. But that's a lawless zone. Yeah, see, I think that's where it's different. And I realized, dude, like, okay, so you know what? We live and we learn. And then we get loves, according to that's where it's different. And I realized, dude, like, okay, so you know what? That's we live and we learn. And then we get loves according to that diaper commercial. Now, a tweet that I like comes from Reductress at Reductress.

It looks like a guy who kind of looks like Ben Shapiro contemplating. It says, quote, I just don't think a woman can beat Trump right now, says man who is the reason for this. Yep. That about sums it up. Also, Wednesday. Oh, that's tomorrow. Check out. yep that about sums it up also Wednesday oh that's tomorrow this is your final warning check out Anna Hosnia

and Shireen Younez doing ethnically ambiguous live at the Hungry Brain at 7pm pull up or don't do wait you should no pull up or shut up. That's the one I meant.

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It's a delight. If you really want to get into the lore. Soren brought something to my attention. Soren Bowie at Soren Limited, LTD. A tweet from Marlo Stern, which said, Signed photo of Brendan Fraser at this East Village bar is the best. And it's just a signed photo written on it. I like the steak.

It was my favorite part. I was in the mummy. Brendan Fraser. That's incredible. No punctuation between it was my favorite part. I was in the mummy, which is important. This is a bonus tweet and one like I can't quote verbatim because I don't have it But did you guys see that the Pope was tweeting about like new Saints that I guess got?

But what happens when you make a saint what's canonized? Is that it? Yeah, and hashtag Saints and because there was a Saints game going on the little flirty Came up like it was like the New Orleans Saints. I was like, congratulations to our new Saints. The Pope. Shout out. Hashtag who dat nation. Like, wait, what?

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Miles, what's that going to be today? Let's go out on a track by Potsu featuring Shiloh called I'm Closing My Eyes. This song's been sampled before, but this original beat, nice, because it has a very kind of like lo-fi sort of singer-songwriter on acoustic guitar sample, and then you bring in that nice, deep sidechain compression and the nice drums. It's mostly an instrumental track, but, you know, just a nice and easy. Is that the one you were playing earlier? Yeah, that I played twice in a row.

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