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Episode Date: December 18, 2020

In episode 782, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Guy Montgomery to discuss the new stimulus checks, Trump pardons, Trump's fight with Palm Beach, a former DIA director on UFO's, the most popular Gatorade flavor, blowing up Trump's Atlantic City casino, and more!FOOTNOTES: Staring Down Deadline, Congress Nears $900 Billion Stimulus Deal Weekly jobless claims rise to 885,000 as Congress nears stimulus deal 'It's turned crazy': Inside the scramble for Trump pardons Trump, Lifelong New Yorker, Declares Himself a Resident of Florida Trump is renovating Mar-a-Lago, ostensibly preparing for life post-presidency. Mar-a-Lago neighbors to Trump: Spend your post-presidency elsewhere Trump made Florida his official residence. He may have also made a legal mess. Trump's War With Palm Beach John O. Brennan on UFOs Parched Americans can't stop chugging Cool Blue Gatorade Atlantic City Is Auctioning Off the Right to Demolish a Former Trump Casino WATCH: Nate Mercereau - This Simulation Is A Good One [Video by Hunter Lyon] Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness, unfortunately. It's Friday, December 18th, 2020, 33 days until January 20th, Patrick Ewing days until January 20th. There were, and this is something I've been doing in the past two episodes, not just because of today's guest, but there were zero new COVID cases in New Zealand yesterday and zero deaths since late September. There were 13 new COVID cases in Victoria, Australia.

Continue to be zero deaths in the month of December. And in the U.S., there were 245,000 new cases, 3,611 deaths, a new high, or one 9-11 by dinnertime on the East Coast. I'm going to have to stop using

9-11 as the corollary, but that seems to be what the media does. So, just to put things in perspective, we really drastically, catastrophically fucked this one up. Yeah. They say 83,000 people will probably die before Trump is out of office.

Cool, cool, cool. Well, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. It's a beautiful morning. Ah, I think I'll host this podcast with Miles. Send Dan Files. Ah, that is courtesy of Christy Yamaguchi-Main and the Rascals. I love that band name, the Rascals. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Sing it. Rushland COVID

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Zamboni Sleep Sleeping Sleep, sleep in all day, all day please. Okay. I had to go out of body and channel Eddie Kendrick's right. Oh my God. Eddie Kendrick. My goodness. The falsetto had to come through.

That was the closest I've come to seeing God. And shout out to, oh my God, the Discord. I see I was seeing this when I was getting music. I was getting nervous. I had to rehearse. But J Music Chicago, I see you. Thank you for that. J Music Chicago.

The Temptations version of Silent Night. Man, I thought you started too high. I thought you started too high, but you pulled it off, man. You landed the plane. You gotta know where you can go with this falsetto. Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined by a real dick. Yeah. A real jerk who we're not going to take it from.

Probably the most hated guest we've had. His smug New Zealand shit. He is the hilarious the talented the legendary guy Montgomery honored to be here as a man on the ground just chicken in heaven what's it like making sure my mad lads are doing okay over there. The mad lads. I just cannot believe how, just as a binary looking at the US and New Zealand, how different things are going. Because the latest, the news story I woke up to yesterday, this morning, was that New Zealand's economy has bounced back in the third quarter.

Surges out of recession and V-shaped recovery. It's all happening. Everything's coming up Kiwi right now. That's right. And I would like to accept a huge amount of responsibility for that, injecting what limited disposable income I have into your local cafes, occasional flights to different cities, domestic tourism, if you will. Yeah, yeah.

It is life as usual in New Zealand. And I will say I'm honored and flattered that you guys are checking in with our news. So really, has America bothered to keep their finger on the thrumming pulse of the happenings of Aotearoa new zealand and then now you guys are schooled up and you know this is maybe a first in um uh transnational relations but i i barely know what's going on over there fellas i gotta tell you the amount of um, like pretty much since your election, remember that really efficient little piece of democracy you guys exercised over there.

But since the outcome of that, it's like the entire nation has just been slowly turning the dial down. On the US? On the US. To the point that if I skim read the local newspapers or generally the news you guys it's like it's it's really odd i hadn't actually thought about it but i mean and i think part of it is that trump's not being given the oxygen he once was right it's sort of like this low level

thrumming anxiety even from down here has just has just been um shown the door yeah i think it's a combination of being too much of a bummer to tell people about like, yeah, you know that thing, that dumpster fire still somehow the flames are getting bigger. I thought, how? That was the analogy I thought

during your election. It was like America was voting between a massive kerosene fire and a bucket of water. And you guys fire and a bucket of water. And you guys voted for the bucket of water. But it's not a big enough bucket. But yeah, I'm tapped into New Zealand for sure. Is this a return to what things were like before the Trump administration?

Or is this even quiet for New Zealand's Americans? Honestly, the way that people way that uh we are the way that people consume news and information now i cannot cast my mind back that far for a relevant comparison the before times it it feels um like i haven't spoken to people in america for or actually you know been on a zoom call with people in america for a while and it is a it is um because it's hard to not sound like a total ass when talking about life in new zealand but it's just like yeah you're just you're just doing your you're doing your business you know you're out and about you're doing your business and you don't have the same volume of time in which you're just looking at a computer for new information about what's happening and so i i feel less informed and honestly fellas feels really good feels really good fuck you man uh do

we do we look a little more dead behind the eyes than the people you've been uh interacting with on a daily basis over there yeah the energy is a little different uh yeah but it's it's it's it's great to be here and you know like it's it's a it's a process but surely you've got to be you've got to feel as though you're turning some some sort of corner the numbers are not and you're going into winter yeah but we're turning the corner in the wrong direction i know but it's like you know you've got the knowledge this must be the worst corner and then you think, well, once we're around this corner surely there's a much more

mild corner to come. And then we realize we're in a maze of just fucking brutality. We're like, wait, it's just all corners and each one worse than the last. And then you wake up the next morning and you're Jack Nicholson from The Shining.

Just frozen solid. Exactly. Yeah. Well, Guy, you are giving us life. We appreciate you giving us a little beam of sunshine. Wellington is my new Washington. Yes. They'll be overwhelmed to hear that.

I know, I know. It took me a while to build the courage to say that on mic, but I did. Yeah. All right, 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 the things we're talking about. We're talking about getting that second stimulus check. It might actually be happening. We'll talk about why it might actually be happening uh we'll we'll talk about why it might actually be happening we'll talk about uh why like the the president uh who's

still our president guy uh despite the fact that you guys have turned the volume down on him is reportedly uh having just a long prolonged to quote an advisor of his, a fucking temper tantrum. And the advisor speculates he's going to leave. He's just lashing out. But some people don't think so. He might have to be dragged out. And he's also going to be dragged out throwing out pardons. We'll talk about that.

Why his plan to move to mar-a-lago might be in jeopardy uh we'll talk about dan crenshaw just because you know we we've seen the fun avengers meme crenshaw uh but and not not that he's uh great but uh i do want to talk about what he does when he's not putting out viral videos. We'll talk about the former CIA director's take on those UFO videos. And of course, America's favorite Gatorade flavor. All of that, plenty more. But first, Guy, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are uh well as recently as yesterday in my search history i looked up um knots two kilometers per hour converter because you know what do you know what knots are nautical miles per hour right ridiculous system i just don't understand why we can't have

one universal unit of speed that we all go okay so that's exactly how fast that thing is but the reason i was researching knots is because um we are currently here in new zealand specifically actually in auckland new zealand hosting a sailing boat regatta called the america's cup named after your uh fine home nation and um there are all these big boats and all these people that they're on the boats and the boats you guys they're going so fast these boats are going so fast and And I was like, God damn, how fast are these boats going? And then someone said to me, you know, like 45, 50 knots. And I thought, I have no use for that information. And so I researched it.

And that was upwind. And a knots to kilometers converter is one kilometer per hour, which also is a system you don't use, I've just realized. Right. Right. You use miles. I should have looked up. Yeah, that's right.

You just ask miles and he tells you. Wow. It's a busy job. Anyway, pretty much it turns out that one knot is 1.85 kilometers per hour. And 1.85 kilometers per hour, I guess is probably just shy of three miles per hour. But this is what I'm talking about. We need a system that works for everyone.

It's like 1.15 miles per hour, which I always assumed that knots was like slower because boats go slower than land vehicles or something. But it's actually like it under counts how fast the thing is going. 45 knots is actually 52 miles per hour. And what I want to emphasize is these boats are not motorized. And so when you see them going that fast, you think, wow, that's fast.

Right. You know, without a motor. I can't run that fast. And I can run fast, fellas. Yes, that's fast. Right. You know, without a motor. I can't run that fast. And I can run fast, fellas. Yes, I've heard. We've heard tell of that. Have you actually?

Just reading the way this was done, it just seems like we should abandon this system of measurement. Like, it's from the 17th century when people were like, there was a coil of rope with uniformly spaced knots attached to a piece of wood shaped like a slice of pie the piece of wood was lowered from the back of the ship and allowed to float behind it the line was allowed to pay out freely from the coil as the piece of wood fell behind the ship for a specific amount of time when the specific time had passed the line was pulled up and the number of knots on the rope between the ship and the wood were counted. That is so good.

Come on now. It doesn't stand for nautical, Miles Crowley. It's literally from a knot. It's literally a bunch of knots that they're throwing out. And I would like to say that Miles' cursory glance at it then also is an insight into who i am and how i am because i just looked up literally the the unit measurement calculator right once and left it alone and forgot about it but you were answering a very important question because someone says 45 knots like i don't know that looks fast to me based on how i normally make sense of speed which is

kilometers per hour and then i'm just sort of like how the fuck like because you always want to know like usually there people come and be like it's actually better because it's based on this and like the way the water works but if we're looking back and based on this we're saying we're talking about counting literal knots in a piece of rope that we were hanging out the back of a ship on a piece of wood i feel like we owe science uh a little bit more than to just hold on to this. You know, but the boat people, but like the yachting people, they're so, they love history. They're all like rich old nerds, you know, they won't let go of their language.

Yeah, of course. Fuck man, I just looked up knots, like the Wikipedia, and it has to do with, there's also a uh like air speed for planes are measured in knots and it like changes based on the altitude longitude latitude i guess uh i guess that probably makes sense for like if you're a pilot because for for us we're thinking like i don't know i'm sitting down why don't you just call it one speed right but like that's from the perspective of passenger not a pilot and we're like well actually it's very important to know the speeds at those different altitudes but right come on just say pick a speed right so it's speed relative to the air around you as opposed to relative to the ground i guess would it would it be i don't know am i a scienceologist i don't know

miles you read that one paragraph on the wik. I don't know. Yeah, a panic Google search rendered that answer, but I can't go past that. This is a podcast. Come on now. People know. Guy, what is something you think is underrated? Look, well, this one goes out to all of your country folk. I would actually like to say that i think uh staying indoors vastly vastly

underrated you gotta love it indoors you kidding me you've been out there that's horrible nasty stuff but indoors you got all your creature comforts a fridge a vessel in which you can pour liquid perhaps a plate on which you can put food the screen to just while away your your waking hours indoors is truly a guy that's someone very patron coming from that guy who who literally the guy who goes out there to regattas talking to people asking questions fucking hanging out at the america's cup, asking questions about knots to miles per hour. And then he's going to tell us. We're looking at positivity rates by county.

We're like, what part of the city is good? Also, it sounds like when a king is telling the poppers how good they have it. It's like, oh, this is really, if you think about it. Gruul is delicious. Wow. Look at this. And you have wood to burn as well. That is neat.

Get me out of here. That's right. So the great indoors. A huge shout out to my favorite place on earth. Have you spent much time outside since you were freed? Outdoors. Well, funnily enough, that's my overrated. All right.

Let's hear it. Outdoors. Tell us about it. Exposed to the elements. If it's windy, you're going to know about that. And if it's raining, you'll be wet. But indoors, you're sheltered from the wind and you're so nice and dry and outdoors you get the sun will burn you the sun what is responsible for all the power in the world it'll also burn you

just downright disrespectful no if i had it my way i wouldn't i wouldn't leave the house oh man that feels good see i'm gonna i'll take that with me into the holiday to go hey man i don't know in in New Zealand, where they're back to normal, they're saying outside kind of sucks. That's right, yeah. And you're also at risk of running into people. Yeah.

You know, one of the things that I forgot about. Say less, actually, off of that. Is small talk. You know when you run into someone and you've got to talk about it? It's so bad. The first time I had to do it after one of our lockdowns, I saw someone at a cafe and I was like,

there's a reason that we didn't talk at all while we were in our houses because unless this incidental thing happens, we've got nothing. And I came back and I told my partner, I said, I realized I don't like small talk. And she's like, what are you talking about? You're great at small talk. And I said, yeah, it's not me I'm worried about. I'm going, I would kill to run into me.

It's everyone else. Yeah. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Oh, man. How about this COVID stuff? That's my opening gambit. Yeah. I love the lack of running into people although i the one time i ran into someone luckily it was like

someone that was like close to me like a friend's older brother who i knew really well so it's more like hey look at you i like that those ones feel really good those are life affirming but the ones were like i'm high and then i'm like oh, oh, shit. That's like the old basketball coach from my high school. Like, no, no. Give me the fuck away. I'm putting three masks on and walking into shit because I can't see anything. It's such a good articulation of it. It's so obscene how outsized the response is to seeing someone you're vaguely familiar with.

I don't want to navigate five sentences with this person. Which is wild because you don't really care about them but that the risk like the energy the panic you feel being like i can't engage them we're both better off even if we see each other we're not going to feel bad that we ignored each other we're not that's just the reality so let's just you know run i'm just going to leave my grocery cart here and just run to the corner of the grocery store it's interesting though because when you move cities or whatever, like the measure of how homely a place feels, or I always think a huge benchmark for sort of, you know,

having your feet on the ground as a resident of that place is when you start having incidental run-ins, you're like, oh, shit, like I know people here. This is what it feels like to set up my stall in this place. But then, you know, you live there long enough and it becomes too much you got your basketball coach to worry about etc that or old geometry teachers like always catch them getting the four pack of mini sutter home wine bottles and a microwavable dinner i'm doing great y'all no i can't i can't even i don't even want i don't even i can't i cannot i

cannot go up to old teachers it's there's something just like i was kind of a shithead in high school sometimes sometimes you'll be like oh you're doing well now are you okay but anyway that's why you always wear zykan gear daily zyka's gear yeah i'm like yeah yeah for your information mr spelta i'm doing pretty fucking good. I got a podcast, all right? Yeah. Where I mentioned your cool math teacher that said, get radical with a square root symbol. What's a geometric observation, Miles, from you on this day? I don't know.

Actually, we did start out talking about knots. Yeah, right. Exactly. Maths all around. All right, guys. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back i've been thinking about you i want you back in my life it's too late for that i have a proposal for you come up here and document my project all you need to do is record everything like you always do.

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senora sex ed on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast and we're back and so are the stimulus checks hell yeah kind of uh half as big uh as before and yeah late mitch mcconnell yeah doing the bare literal bare ass minimum yeah it could not do less um because a long time we're like are we gonna get checks because they're talking about how the big thing that he was holding on to was this corporate liability shield, basically saying destitute working people who need relief will not get cash unless we can ensure that no one can sue a company for being reckless and greedy and possibly having their business practices lead to an infection for an employee or a customer. That was the hill that he wanted to die on.

He suddenly gave that up and was like, you know what? Let's maybe talk relief here. And of course, you know, we're talking about a sentient douchebag that's powered by corporate donations. So it didn't arrive at this conclusion based on something like human decency, because it's all about Mitch McConnell power playing and shit like that so his whole thing is not having anything to do with that quote mr mcconnell said that senators kelly loeffler and david purdue who are both facing runoffs in january that will determine which

party controls the senate were quote getting hammered for congress's failure to deliver more pandemic aid to struggling americans particularly the direct payments, and that enacting the measure could help them. That's why. Because of David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. And now we're at 600 or maybe 700. There's still

things being hashed out, but that seems to be the amount that people will get, including children, and then that'll top out at $2,400 per household as of right now. So he will treat constituents and the American people as much like shit as he can get away with while maintaining power, it seems like. Yeah, between their opportunity to exercise their democratic right to vote. And then he'll go, I know, I can clear this very low bar I've set myself. What about this?

And then you get what you want, and you go back to how you were. I'm starting to think this Mr. McConnell guy is up to no good. I mean, yeah, it's true. And the relief bill is really, there's a lot of things that people need and want. So I want to point those things out before i probably start having a meltdown about what isn't in there so you know the first this there was a bill passed i think back in fucking may that left that was that was ready to be signed into by mitch mcconnell but again he couldn't protect his corporate fucking bays

so he did not want to go through with it. And also suddenly he thinks he knows if people need 1200 or $600 when you're a fucking millionaire, like Bill Gates doesn't even know the fucking cost of laundry detergent. So how the fuck are these millionaires going to tell people what relief looks like? Um, but there will be an additional $300 per week on top of whatever state unemployment benefits people are receiving. There will be an extension overall of unemployment benefits because that program was set to sunset. And then there is also going to be funds for schools, vaccine distribution, extending a moratorium on evictions, more PPP loans. But the big thing that's missing is a lot of funding that goes to the municipalities, like at the state and local level, because that's those places are really struggling. And without those payments, it's going to be very difficult to have like the kinds of meaningful relief that, you know, a city can provide its citizens as well, because everyone has just been blowing through money without getting any substantial relief.

So this is still ongoing negotiations. Negotiations are still ongoing and this might not be resolved until the beginning of next week, but it's all just a very cynical, you know, low ball move. And you also just wish that the, you know,

Chuck Schumer might say something more than like, well, maybe this is the best we can do. Like, you know, $1,200 was already a low bar for people yeah so the fact that we're halving that is just fucking barbaric it's fucked up and it completely doesn't acknowledge like what people whose backs against the walls what that means the

difference between twelve and six hundred dollars right yeah it's enormous and this the idea is that this is going to hold them over for how long like this is i don't know yeah i mean the last one was what nine eight months since the last one so yeah and that was twelve hundred dollars for that many months right right yeah yeah yeah so the the wild thing too is like the math that they're using for like these unemployment benefits, like the $300 a week that people are getting, they cut that program by four weeks. Normally it was, it was going to be a 16 week extension, but they made it 12. And then, so now that's $1,200 of that unemployment money to give to like people who are even beyond the unemployment level, like the way they're just like shrinking an existing thing to carve out a

little more money for the thing. It's not actual additional relief. It's just this fucked up math. They're doing a number crunching. And, uh, again, it's,

these are the reasons why we have such ills again, because, you know, you think of most of the senators are actually literally millionaires and the debates around the, like what constitutes effective relief for people is really just, it's sad to hear and even hear these people negotiate these things because these, these dollar amounts are after thoughts to them, but they're so this like faux austerity that like the Republicans are suddenly interested in things. It's just tragic to see,

especially at a time when COVID rates are spiking and they're still trying to say, stay home and don't go out and maybe work or I don't know. Yeah, do the responsible thing while we let you starve, essentially. And then they get frustrated with the people for not following the rules. know let you starve essentially and then they get frustrated with the people for you know not not following the rules it's a bunch of like selfish people in a windowless room right deciding what to give people outside of the room i can't see they don't know what's happening right they're

like ah this is you know that'll do yeah i mean i still think about like nancy pelosi's 24 000 freezer that she has right this is what we're talking about like this is i'm you know i think most people listening to this show have no fucking idea who don't even probably don't even have a 24 000 fucking car you know like a thing that is vital to commute and make money with that we're dealing with people with such excessive amounts of money they're at that point where they go fuck it yeah what's 24k on a fucking freezer that is such a level of opulence that americans will never fucking know yet we these are the people who we're trusting to synthesize what's happening in the country and then be like this

is what relief is going to be even though though I've got all this other money. You've got to imagine it. She never gets, her ice cream never gets that ice burn. Freezer burn? No, no, no. Freezer burn, yes. That must be nice. Oh, it's top of the line, sub-zero.

Because when you do have it and you get that icy crunch, you think, this isn't what it's like in the store. Right. Mm-hmm. I don't know about this. I mean, there's that theory on class that people you know about the class that's directly above you and the class that's directly below you but you're not aware really in any real sense of the class that's like two above you or two below you um and two below nancy pelosi are the people that she is supposed to be trying to help, and she just has no concept of what life for them.

They might as well be fictional characters to her. By the sound of things, two below Nancy Pelosi, even on the sliding scale of how people are doing, they're not the most hard up for it either. Right, exactly. Two below Nancy Pelosi is Jason Derulo. You know what I mean? like they're not they're not the most tied up for it either like no right exactly too below nancy pelosi is jason derulo like that's that's where it ends you know and it's and the other thing is too like even if you have experienced uh like some bit of like upward mobility uh economically

chances are if you started at a certain place and worked amongst people who were actually working people too, you can take those things with you most of the time, unless you're decades removed. But this is the other thing too. We have so many people who just come out of this, like, I went to Harvard and now I'm in office. I'm a lawyer. I'm a business person. The sense of like what it means to like earn money in the same way that you know 97% of the country does is just completely abstract to a lot of these people as well yeah their their main concern is people thinking that they earned the money that they inherited and like making it seem like uh yeah that's what they're insecure about not where

their next meal is coming from it's impossible for them to actually understand the value of money like yes a number is a number like 1200 or 600 is just an abstract notion to them it's like right yeah yeah what was what was the politician who was like throw away your iphone and buy more milk or something like he just had such a skewed concept of how much things cost i feel like it might have been lindsey graham but uh there's been a few of those yeah i mean wilbur ross was i think wilbur ross seems like that probably came out of him because he was the one who had a can of beans and he was like, you need this for your life. And you're like, what the fuck?

Dude, he probably, yeah. I mean, purely comedically, in a vacuum, I do enjoy it when people do these big sort of staged bits. It takes courage to get up there with a can of beans and do your prepared piece. Especially for someone like him, who's just so wealthy. To him, it's so abstract.

He's like, what are those, poor people batteries? It's canned food. Another great example of this is when Mitt Romney was asked what his favorite meat is, and he says, my favorite meat is and he says my favorite meat is hot dog uh it's like obviously not man obviously that's not the case because you don't even know how to use that noun in a sentence my favorite meat is hot dog i love that it's just yeah the software needs an update all right let's let's talk about donald trump

still in the white house the the further we get from you know him actually not being a lame duck the the more surreal it seems to me that he is still in the White House and just completely disconnected from reality, still has access to being the commander-in-chief of the biggest military in the history of the world. So it's being reported he's having a hard time with his election loss. Should not be surprising to anyone. But based on

how he's been tweeting, what he's been saying to his followers it's always a surprise how where his temper tantrums take him though and right now the focus of his energy seems to be

claiming he's not going to leave the White House and then also talking about pardoning everybody for things that he claims they didn't do but would have to admit they did.

In the case of his kids, they're like, for what crimes? Or even other people, he's like, I can get you a pardon. They're like, I didn't do anything. He's like yeah but do you want one and he's like no you're not understanding that's not it's not like a card i hold on to for later in life like i didn't i'm not i've not committed a crime all right but he's i think one it's a couple of things right there's all this fucking scumbag scammers just smell the blood in the water. And apparently like if you have even like the most tenuous connection or link to the administration, your phone has been blowing

up from like just the most unsavory characters begging to try and get you to get their case in front of the administration for a pardon. And it's there, you know, they're saying it's just an absolute, just chaotic moment right now in the White House. And the president is like really loving it, too, because it's like the one few things like in his like quiver of like power moves he has left. And so he's just like, yeah, I can do that. I can hook that up. And we're already seeing there's already investigations into, you know, bribes for pardons schemes. So I can only imagine too

with him on the way out this is also a sellable thing like if i was if i was a scumbag like him and maybe i am i would start being like okay low-key like um you need to talk to somebody else i can get you that pardon but you need to put a hundred thousand dollars in this bank account and then you can just start making you walk out of there like fucking you know 20 million rich or whatever but i think that's one of the other things that people are sort of looking into but you know right now they say the count is around two dozen people in his orbit that he's talking about giving pardons to and one of them is alan weisselberg who was i think the cfo at the trump organization he was the guy who's behind all the checks like the hush money payments um and he's also the one who they who was involved in the new york times

investigation right like yeah he was kind of their main source of documents right so maybe he could get a pardon because that will help the president but the thing is you know like when you get a pardon or like when you're issuing a pardon you have to write the crimes in which they are being a pardon for so if that was a bribery hush money scheme to cover the president's tracks like how are you gonna part all right you know what why don't just go ahead and pardon him man uh it's like an iou or it's issuing a pardon for the idea of a crime right it's like a not it type thing he's not yeah what do you mean he's not it for what what doing what just not it he's on base i tell you who you don't need to worry about

this is that guy right there Why do you keep bringing this up? I would be surprised. Not only would I be shocked if he isn't doing some shady shit with pardons and accepting money or bribes. I'd be surprised if we don't catch him doing that because he's so bad at doing things like this. I bet they're on StockX right now. Like you can just fucking bid on a presidential pardon and like, you know, lowest bid right now, 45,000 from, you know, wherever the fuck. But yeah, it's I think it's only it's a logical end. And the thing with the not leaving on January 20th, that's I mean, yes, everyone's like, yeah, he's he's just full of shit because that's who he is. And he wants to say that tough guy shit.

But part of me also wants to believe him because it reminds me of like those viral videos where like white women like think they can like crash their car into a cop car. And then they're surprised when they're ripped out of the fucking driver's seat. But they're like, no, what? I'm sovereign. You know what I mean? Sovereign citizen. Yeah, I feel like he has that energy, too, where he's going to be like, trying to get me the fuck out of here. And they're like, yeah, watch this. They're like, okay.

And they're like, ah, why? You're hurting my arm. He's like one of those sovereign citizens in court that gets caged. Right, exactly. Yeah. But I don't know i could i honestly could see it going both ways because if you're you're sometimes your ego like i think the logic would be his ego wouldn't be able to handle being tossed out of the white house and the visuals of that but also i don't know if where his ego meets the road where it's like but

i also can't handle acknowledging the laws and going to mar-a-Lago and not coming back. So we'll see. But I think all eyes on Mar-a-Lago when we go into 2021 to see how quickly he returns to the Capitol. out kicking and screaming with a taser connected to his chest uh i do worry about what that would do in terms of all the people who seem like they're just like itching for an excuse to uh start shooting people in the name of like winning the country back i feel like it's gonna be harder to see like that image would be harder to find than like a rod's like steroid chest photos that you bought up and you can't find anymore like i feel like yeah they would know you can't have like it's it would just be too uh provocative yeah but i would i would spend a lot of time looking for them i mean people are already doing like deep fake videos sort of imagining it. So, you know, we can live through the art. When he does leave the White House, the plan has been he changes residency

to Florida from New York because of the way he was treated in New York by people. He claims that he was treated very badly. The most unfair anyone's ever been treated in New York City. That was pretty good good by the way jack thanks this is a quick sidebar it really shines a light on what i will miss the most about uh this presidency which is felons scathing and hysterical take via impression oh man i mean fallon he's yeah but you know he's gonna have a a hot take on the biden presidency i mean the guy's uh uh one of our great political minds can you imagine like fallon just outs

himself and he's doing like way hard like not even like leftist hard like just fox hard like on biden you're like what the fuck is this oh man i don't know biden looks like he's really sick huh he should probably just hand it back over to i don't know that's what i would do anyway well here's my guitar ding ding ding also he he said he's being treated unfairly meanwhile he's the person who called for the Central Park, the guys who were accused of the Central Park Five, demanded that they be executed even after it was proven that they did nothing wrong. So interesting double standard there.

That's it, guys. I think Trump has a double standard. You heard it here first. So his plan is to move into mar-a-lago uh and that is apparently not legally like he he when he bought mar-a-lago the neighbors the people in the community did not want him to buy it he had to like do all these different things including turn it into a club uh that and that they like put a stipulation and that was like you can't stay here for more than three weeks at a time like you're and more than three weeks out of the year uh we

we don't like you uh and so he's i don't know it's just interesting i mean he tends to you know use roy cone tactics to get whatever he wants in these sorts of situations um it's just it's just so like becoming the president was the worst career move he could have made yeah for a car man yeah it's just like just putting all your shit out there in front of everyone so he could have made yeah for a car man yeah it's just like just putting all your shit out there in front of everyone so he could have lived a totally you know be like it was still an intolerable prick but like at least a passable life is just this caricature of a of a billionaire or a millionaire or whatever yeah it's just made it's just made everything so impossible, and obviously for so many people as well. But he really got that one wrong. Really, really, he beefed that one.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And, Guy, I'm actually curious, what is the, like, what would you say the national consensus in New Zealand is around UFOs, aliens, like, as compared to what you've experienced in america

um we we just we struggle to do anything on the same scale as you guys that's such a nice way of putting it uh we don't have a roswell right um this time last year actually i visited i was in roswell i visited roswell new mexico and it was um like you know they sort of like ah people said they saw something that got heavily debunked here 60 years ago why don't we brand our entire town around it but here it's like it's it's probably just um there's nothing there's nothing in the mainstream you know you talk to a few people who are hobbyists who sort of very like low-level fringe conspiracy theorists who who get excited but it's it's not really a feature of discourse right what about over there we're all in baby i will say i dabble a little bit and there's some wild uh there's one now

there's some wild sightings uh off the coast of australia and now it's a hemisphere it's it's almost like an exit strategy for you guys like i need this to be true to be real yeah it has god it's the only fucking explanation um well just an update uh that john o brennan uh very close to having my same name was uh see but the o is a middle initial um he was cia director under obama uh so a completely you know evil and manipulative monster uh but someone with the highest security clearance like he probably knows who killed kennedy and all the where all the bodies are buried all that good stuff uh but the surprising thing here is not just that he's like open to the possibility that ufos

are the result of intelligent life but also like how mysterious and completely wide open the whole thing seems to him like there's at one point he says uh life besides what's in the states, meaning like that other, it seems to imply that other countries might be aware of different life forms that we're not aware of. And then he says that there might be life defined in many different ways and something that we don't yet understand that could involve some type of activity that some might say constitute a different form of life. So it's like he's opening the door to,

I don't know if it's robots or what. Is this a fucking TED Talk at Burning Man? What are you doing, bro? Just fucking tell me what it is. This is the CIA director. It's a fucking scaven just sounds like a third grade classroom he legit sounds like us when we first saw those videos he's like you know I think we should be open to everything those videos are fucking wild man right right right essentially

he's like I don't know when people talk about it is there other life besides what's in the states in the world the globe life is defined in many different ways. I think it's a bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe that there's no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe. What that might be is subject to a lot of different views. But I think some of the phenomena we're going to be seeing continues to be unexplained and might, in fact, be some type of phenomenon that is the result of something that we don't yet understand and that could involve some type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life okay okay you cryptic fuck as if being the head of the cia wasn't enough you're like it might

be could it wouldn't it be hilarious if like we were just so wrong scientifically that something like, oh, yeah, water's aliens. And we're like, what? They're like, yeah, what the fuck do you think? That's the whole reason shit's popping here is because of water. That shit is aliens. That's the aliens, the water. Drinking aliens? Yeah.

My body is 80% alien? Alien, yeah. Yeah. I don't know. The way he's speaking, it's almost like his mind's been fucked. He's totally had his mind blown. Someone who just has the calm of zooming out to a point where you're like, honestly, man, clothes don't even fucking matter, dude,

after the shit I've seen. It's real higher plane of consciousness sort of galaxy brain stuff right yeah it's like hearing anyone who is a very specific expert at a thing try and explain it to you in layman's terms and you're like that you can see that their brain is working overtime to try and articulate it in a way that's accessible but what comes out is just completely fails yeah like yeah like there's no there's no penetration. It just keeps going out to the sides. A word salad where the crouton is the word phenomenon. You just use the word phenomenon like 30 times.

Punctuating every couple bites of that phenomenon crunch. You know what I mean? If you took the phenomenon out, it would just be a wit miss. Yeah. The CIA did, you know know during the cold war uh have a habit of dosing each other with lsd uh for you know as a bit kind of uh and also because they thought it might be a way to control people's minds mind control yeah but uh yeah maybe maybe he's dabbled it It sounds a little bit like somebody who's-

It does, yeah. Like you said, had their third eye opened a little bit. Right. It's a guy who came back from a shroom trip for the first time. Yeah. But really just even decided to look at a problem with this set, with this vocabulary of just being like- You know when someone goes like, I don't know, it's weird.

Some people call it pain. And I realized if you zoom out a bit, it's a sensation. And then from there we fork off to say whether or not that sensation is pleasure or pain. So I take a view even further back that that's sensation, not pain. And this guy's like, you know, this first line that he says, I think it's important for analysts to do. The important thing for analysts to do. The important thing for analysts to do is not go into this type of challenge, either discounting certain types of possibilities or believing in advance that is likely X, Y, or Z. That's such a good articulation of hallucinogens. It's just a person pushing zoom out on their perspective of life.

And some people, they just get their finger caught on the zoom out button. They're like, get the command minus key. The text is too small now. If anyone wants to, I think one thing we're learning here is that if anyone wants to immobilize John O'Brennan or render him moot for like seven months they just have to introduce him to the joe rogan podcast because this motherfucker would love the joe rogan or he's like too hard for rogan he goes on there he goes dude you're full of shit dude you don't even fucking know you're out here with your fucking navy seals who run marathons you're fucking stupid man what's this podcast even you fuck i can't be here man i can't even fucking be here right now with the shit i know like oh my god i talked to this

journalist uh who i want to he's like a historian journalist who i want to develop a podcast with and ahead of our call he had like clearly just like tried listening to podcasts a couple times for the first time and that was his exact vibe he's like joe listen to joe rogan what the fuck is that like he was just so unimpressed i was like yeah well we wouldn't we wouldn't do that necessarily uh but he's like what the fuck is that man that's the future whoa exactly wow shit elon musk smoked a blunt on there i mean damn dog um let's talk about america's favorite gatorade flavor and our favorite gatorade flavors um do you guys uh fuck with gatorade in new zealand yeah we got we sort of they're like fringe drinks here powerade is the sort of um is our version

that we all we rally behind and get behind i'm sure that they're exactly the same drink um pretty similar i think power is actually a little sweeter oh yeah yeah you guys got parade there as well oh yeah yeah yeah because yeah because that's a cocaCola company. Because I think, is Pepsi big in New Zealand? Or Coke is Coca-Cola. I'd say Pepsi is equivalent to over there. But yeah, Powerade here is like all of our, you know, Gatorade's all the athletes over there. They love to drink Gatorade, according to the commercials. Gatorade's what?

Enhances their performance. The same is true for Powerade in New Zealand. Right. They'd have you believe every professional athlete is living on a diet of high fiber breakfast cereal and Powerade. Yeah. But you watch professional sports, they're never drinking Gatorade.

Like the physios are like handing them like these pouches that you could never buy in a store and they're like, drink three now. And they're like, we can't sell that shit to normies because they'll die. If they have that kind of hydration you're a high performance athlete you need this other shit but what i love about the list of flavor names that gatorade has is that um a lot of these are not flavors they are not defined flavors right so yeah this article

in the takeout uh the great food blog they got an email from like a Gatorade rep who just kind of wanted to like hit him with some inside knowledge. Now, I don't know how reliable this is, but according to them, this was someone from G, then Lemon Lime, Fruit Punch, and then the number one flavor, Cool Blue. Wow. That's not least popular overall. That's the top five most popular. And so you start with number five. This rep from Gatorade is saying that's the ones that Americans, in order of what we have to put out to keep up with people, people are loving the fuck out This rep from Gatorade is saying, that's the ones that Americans, like in order of what we have to put out to keep up with people,

people are loving the fuck out of that blue Gatorade. Wow. That's incredible. Only two of those are sort of clearly defined flavors. One of them is the idea of a drink and two of them are just an adjective and a noun. I gotta say though, there are some times, Gl sometimes glacier freeze is also blue

i don't know what the difference is between cool blue and glacier freeze they're both blue flavors but glacier freeze gatorade is one of the few benefits of global warming as they take runoff from glaciers that are melting and they bottle it yeah it's millions of years old uh i'm like personally uh the only gatorade i buy are the ones that are like the half water half gatorades like they're like lower calorie lower uh gatorade content what hey here's an idea jack why don't you buy a regular bottle of gatorade and water it down twice the value doesn't hit the same doesn't hit the same and they also have a fierce grape version that i think uh i i wouldn't know that my statement doesn't make sense yeah

what you're saying is grape is aggro was the fierce flavors were a little too much for me when they came out i was like easy gatorade we get it like you're fierce as shit but this for me lemon ice is one of my favorite gatorade flavors i don't it's hard to find now um but it's like i remember that was like the fucking shit in the 90s when it came out because it was like it was clear as water but it had that like refreshing lemon flavor then but right now my favorites are mango and limon pepino the lime cucumber one is probably now 100 without a doubt my favorite gatorade flavor really i don't know if it's i've never had it oh yeah yeah you

gotta have it it's it's fantastic is it is it more mild than your other traditional gatorade flavors like the flavor is stronger but the the way it overtakes your mouth is more like its essence of the flavor rather than like syrup i mean it's still built for the north american palate so it's yeah it's about as subtle as a fucking american comedy uh but like you know it it's still comparatively it's it's a departure because like you can you can tell they, oh, this actually like they're kind of the cucumber flavors coming through on that. And I think most people like if you're not culturally used to having cucumber or whatever all the time, you're like, fuck that. Give me blue.

I want blue. Yeah. That's crazy. I'm definitely also lemon lime gang. and there's also something about the blue stuff like something about that adventure golf tinged water that just like tells my brain i should be refreshed yeah it's like it's the color i would color in water when i was like doing coloring books as a five-year-old and so it's like my brain just wants that to be the color of refreshment and then i think yeah and well like

the the only powerade flavor i would ever really i remember craving i don't know when i last said it is the blue i think it's called mountain blast here yes i'm blessed you know because it's like you're blasting a mountain or whatever the hell yeah yeah we all have that sense removal coal mining but if you if you're like if you're severely like dehydrated from either exercise or or um perhaps over indulging the night before i can still imagine a world in which i crave a blue, an ice cold blue Powerade. Yeah. That's funny. I was about to say,

that's the one time I'll look at blue and be like, I'll entertain it is a hangover. Because I don't know. I think to Jack's point, like I have this association of like, that's water. That's like the, that's the essence of water,

blue. Yeah. This chemical, this naturally impossible color is what I'm connecting with hydration that I could get out of water. Yeah. That's why the capitalist geniuses at Adventure Golf decided to color their water that color

because they just boiled it down. Yeah, Barbicide also should not be that color. Very tempting. I find myself just sitting there when I'm getting my hair cut just fantasizing about gulping the whole thing down. Oh, yeah. I know I say I don't go to Whole Foods, but the reason I don't go to Whole Foods is I'm banned

because I drink all the Windex when I'm there because I'm like give me that fucking you can't tell me what to do and finally there is a charity auction on the horizon that might be worthy of

our attention they might be offering people I like most of those dog shit charity auctions exactly fuck charity They might be offering people the... I like most of those dog shit charity auctions. Exactly. Fuck charity. Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small announced that the Trump demolition auction will be going forward. The proceeds from the winning bid will go to the Boys and Girls Club, which provides a host of after-school educational training programs

for young people in Atlantic City. And what you get if you win this auction is the ability to blow up the Trump Hotel, basically. Yeah, in Atlantic City. Oh, whoa. For whatever, they're hoping they're going to get around. They're hoping it's at least a million dollars. They get to at least a million in the bidding war for this thing.

But you will get to push the button to basically implode the fucking Trump Plaza. Thanks, shout out to the chemical brothers was that um atlantic city was the casino he started which lost money right yeah like we're in all of them but yeah that is it's just like it is you know it is almost inspiring the incompetence you have to have to set up a casino and then immediately lose it's like this yeah right the house always wins unless the a real dumb ass is in charge yeah yeah you can like see you can see the scheme occurring to him and you can see him being like well this is a sure thing and people saying it's not that easy and he goes who's gonna know more about this huh and then now you can blow the thing up for charity well the trump plaza has been in bad shape for like a minute so if i think it would be feel much you know it would be feel a

lot better to blow up like the trump tower in new york but you know that's for another auction uh down the road when someone buys that because he is in crippling debt so who knows you know you might who by the end of this we may be able to buy some of these properties to tear them down ourselves um but yeah it's been in some pretty awful shape and like parts of they they're kind of giving a caveat they're like look we know it's kind of fucked up already so it's it might not feel as good as blowing up the whole thing if we're intact but you still get to blow up like a big chunk of it and you'll see the name come down and all that so please please donate it's funny to think that he like trump's auctioning off pardons and other people are just auctioning off shit he used to own the ability to blow up his name the circle of life yeah i mean who knows i mean the way this

country operates they might be doing this to distract the people from the fact that they aren't actually going to try and bring any kind of justice uh for all of the transgressions and crimes he committed while in office and before like it'll be like oh yeah look look we can't we got to heal the nation but you guys can fuck up the trump tower with pickaxes this monday uh like for fucking three hours just go fucking wild with it uh because we obviously don't have the resolve to actually you know protect the country from future transgressors yeah so what are you gonna do well guy it has been a pleasure as always having you on the daily zeitgeist uh where can people find you follow you experience you if you use twitter or Instagram and you punch in at guy underscore mont, M-O-N-T, you will be treated to a peppering of my musings and photographs.

And as always, I've got to tell you, it's high-quality stuff. Not a lot of people run a perfect twitter account and yet somehow here i am uh is there a tweeter some of the work of social media you have been enjoying uh there was actually a tweet it's i hopefully hasn't already been covered but it's it ties in with the joe rogan podcast thing which was um by a guy called Patrick Monaghan at Petty Mo. And it's Joe Rogan. Yeah, I read a thing about this. There's a lot of noise around Christmas in Whoville,

and it's a problem. The Grinch. That's right, Joe Rogan. Oh, shit. Miles, where can people find you? What's the tweet you've been enjoying? oh shit Miles where can people find you what's tweet you've been enjoying Twitter, Instagram, at milesofgray also

other podcasts, I'm on a few podcasts this week aside from 420 Day Fiance talking 90 Day, I'm on Will You Accept This Rose Art and Marines show with like Fortune Feimster and scott ocherman they somehow let me up in the mix with those two people and also on uh bechdel cast uh with jamie and caitlin durante talking about uh was it this christmas yes the movie this christmas

with delroy lindo and all all kinds of people uh some tweets that I'm liking. Let me just run down the list here. This is from Derek at Derek8185338005. I wonder if that's his name. If you're from the Valley, I'm going to holler at you. He says, COVID has ruined doing push-ups on the gas station floor to show the gas station employee that you are strong. I agree with that. It has ruined that. Not here in New Zealand. still doing that every day yeah petrol station push-up contests are alive and

well that's what you call petrol stations right don't you over there yeah that's what we call right exactly i respect because they they put petrol in the cars they don't not gasoline uh so the next tweet i like is from at thick vic uh quote tweeting something from tyler perry tyler perry took a like a mirror selfie where he's just like jacked like clearly was just working out in like a very tight under armor shirt with his muscles bulging and tyler perry's tweeting this is what a midlife crisis looks like i'm 51 single and wondering what the next chapter of my life will look like. Whatever it looks like, I'm going to walk with God and be the best father.

And it's like a thread. And then Thick Vic tweets, if you got a billion dollars and no hoes, that's on you. Aw, Tyler. That's funny calling him Tyler without the Tyler Perry yeah that actually sounded really weird you know why because otherwise it's always a white person

yeah and Tyler Perry is the one we have to modify it that's right Tyler Perry the black man not any Tyler everyone close your eyes. When I say Tyler, what do you see? Because it's not Tyler.

When I say Tyler, you say lacrosse. Tyler. I see some muscle-bound, red-headed guy. Yeah. Terrifying. You can open your eyes, guy. You look terrifying. I'm quite liking this.

One single tear streaming down his eye, though. Interesting. So strong. Tweet I've been enjoying from Grace Spellman. She tweeted, me, gender is a social construct. Me to my cat. Mr. Sir, you are just a little boy who is a man, Mr. Sir Boy. Mr. Sir, you are just a little boy who is a man, Mr. Sir Boy.

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The guitar was out of tune. So this is a track by Nate Mercereau called This Simulation is a Good One. Very interesting title because the vibe is very sort of like new jazzy, almost sounds like floating screen music from, like, Ridge Racer. Like, if it had way more swag. Like, it's got this very familiar, like, sort of cheesy quality to it. But also, rhythmically, it's, like, super on point. And it just feels like swaggy elevator music.

And I love it. So, this is Nate Mercereau with a really apt title. Aptly titled, This Simulation is a Good One. That is a great title. Reminds me of Midnight Gospel, The Midnight Gospel. If people have seen that, let's show them. The Daily's out. You guys are in production of iHeartRadio.

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