The Daily Zeitgeist - Clifford The Big Red Menace, South Dakota’s Mexican Border Crisis? 7.1.21

Episode Date: July 1, 2021

In episode 942, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and My Momma Told Me's host Langston Kerman to discuss another manufactured border crisis, charges coming to Trump's top executive, the democrats doing their own January 6th commission, Andrew Giuliani getting zero votes from GOP leaders, the spectator who caused the Tour De France crash, the new Clifford the Big Red Dog film, and more!FOOTNOTES: A GOP Megadonor Is Funding South Dakota Gov. Noem’s National Guard Deployment to Texas Florida Game Wardens Join Red State Pilgrimage To Southern Border Charges expected Thursday for Trump’s company, top executive Morning Memo: Pelosi Takes Things Into Her Own Hands Rudy Giuliani's son, Andrew, gets zero votes from GOP leaders in bid for New York governor TOUR DE FRANCE SPECTATOR FOUND, ARRESTED ... For Allegedly Causing Crash With Sign WATCH: Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021) - Official Trailer - Paramount Pictures LISTEN: Gal Costa - Pontos De Luz - 1973 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It is Thursday, July 1st, 2021. Welcome to July, everybody. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. My pod host has a first name. It's J-A-C-K-O. My pod host has a second name. It's B-R-c-k-o my pod host has a second name it's b-r-i-e-n oh i love to listen every day and if you ask me why i'll say because jack o'brien has a way with his t-d-z-a-k-a's that is courtesy of christy yamaguchi main i am sitting crisscross applesauce with a little broke-ass fishing rod in my hand in honor of the original commercial. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray!

I cry for Mexican pizza. Taco Bell took it from the menu. All on my worst days, I don't have my snacks. Will it return now? I don't know. But shout out to Christy Yamaguchi, Maine, for doing the exact two food-based AKAs. And look, I missed the shit out of the Mexican pizza. And it's hard to have.

How long has it been gone? I don't want to talk about it. Yeah. I don't want to think about it. I don't want to talk about it. It's hard enough when I have to over-explain, trying to make a Mexi-melt to the person at the drive-thru and do it ingredient by ingredient.

I mean, it's fine. It is what it is. But, you know, I feel like we can come back and feel good about it well miles we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very talented actor comic and podcast host uh his debut comedy album light skin feelings was rightly named one of the 10 best comedy albums of the year by vulture you've seen him steal scenes and shows like insecure the boys bless this mess and keenan and his podcast my mama told me on iheart and will farrell's big money players network is one of the best things we've done as a network we are

honored and thrilled to be joined by the great and hilarious langston Kerman. Whoa. What an intro. God damn. No lies detected. No lies. God, that was beautiful. I was going to make a joke about needing to sing an intro for myself, but then my heart was a flutter and I couldn't think of anything. This is a pleasure.

This is, I mean, yeah, thrilled to be. This is my first time having you on the show, even though you've been on, I think, twice already, right? That's right. You've dodged me every time. I've been dodging you, prepping. It's been like a long workout montage of me. It seems rude to call you a draft dodger, but it also seems appropriate. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, for sure. I wasn't up to the challenge. You know, I didn't have the courage. I was like, I don't know about barbershop discussions. I'm going to learn about them so I don't make a fool of myself. Miles was skeptical every time that you were coming on and I would call him with bone spurs in my feet.

Why does that have to do with podcasts? You got flat feet and bone spurs. Yeah, and bone spurs, man. My bone spurs are really making it difficult for me to sit with headphones on. But you would come back with a really nice edge up and fade. And I was like, what were you at? He's like, I'm just edge up. I don't know.

My doctor prescribed a nice haircut for my bone spurs. What's new, man? Oh, I'm hanging. You know, I just wrapped Head, writing pause with sam jay it's a very fun show that people should watch and yeah now i'm just back in the bullshit what's that show in the bullshit it's uh it's a show on hbo starring a comedian sam jay she's very funny she throws a house party every week and and talks a lot of shit it's a late night show oh yeah yeah it's cool what's it called goddamn shame that no one's ever heard of it it's called pause

because that's how marketing works with black shows yep damn there it is how long yeah i mean i'll say it uh but like when when did it uh come out we aired uh may 21st so we just had our final episode there's only six episodes but it just uh wrapped up last week so uh we had a beautiful run what a gorgeous run that you guys missed but if you haven't seen it you could stream that motherfucker on hbo max and that that'll solve all my problems. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you are I like left writing out of the list of credits, but you're also like a head writer. You have multiple careers that people

would have. Jack, I've tricked a lot of people into letting me do stuff and I hope to expose their ignorance and somehow still continue to trick more people what's the biggest jig you got where you thought you weren't you were not as confident and you're like oh okay yeah i did that i literally was not qualified to be a head writer before i was named head writer of anything and uh for some reason these motherfuckers fell for it and it seems to be working out but who knows do you think part of it though too is like you know like we think there's a specific

you know skill set that you need or uh whatever you have to do and really like i feel like a good head right like you just you have you're the have the ability to identify good ideas and nurture the good ones and filter out the bad ones more than like how many rooms have you been on your way yeah look when liam neeson when he got on that phone and he said i have a specific set of skills you don't he doesn't know for sure that he's going to be able to murder all of those guys right there's a part of him that's like maybe i'll get my ass kicked by a few of these people but he has to speak with the level of confidence right that suggests he can murder everyone and i think that's uh my approach to to comedy and and performing in general is like no i'm gonna murder and then probably some of y'all are gonna beat the shit out of me confidence is what i did confidence man is what

we'd call you we gotta sell it all right uh, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about. We're talking about another crisis at the border being manufactured by the Republicans. We'll talk about why Trump might be in trouble after all. We'll talk about that lady that caused the Tour de France crash. They finally caught her, but man, what a legend. And most importantly of all, we'll talk about that Clifford the Big Red Dog trailer drop. All of that, plenty more. But first, Langston, what is something from

your search history? Oh, this was fun. For the podcast recently, had to look up uh the history of black men wearing dresses on television just uh historically how frequently that happens and uh where it it all comes from and so that was a fun unpacking of whether or not this is rooted in some sort of terrible racism or just niggas being silly in their costumes you know know what I mean? Homophobia. Yeah, like which one is it? Yeah, homophobia. There's a lot of fun to find underneath what may just be a bit. Did you find anything sort of conclusive? Or was there even any sort of academic thought put into this idea?

I think the hard part of it is that academia has very little to do with funny. Right. And so there is a shit ton of academic thought and none of it is that academia has very little to do with funny. Right. And so there is a shit ton of academic thought and none of it's funny. And all of it seems to step on. Like at the end of the day, none of those articles were as good as Big Mama's House 2. Do you know what I mean? Right, right, right. So it's like, what the fuck are we debating here?

I don't know. Maybe they shouldn't be forced to wear dresses. Is this, in theory, some sort of attempt to emasculate uh black men it's possible but god damn is martin lawrence killing in that wig yeah i mean who could remember who can who would forget eddie murphy's portrayal in the clumps i mean just everybody yeah multiple dresses multiple women it's you know it's the tough call what what's the kid cuddy dress thing i just like randomly saw that cross the headlines he wore a dress on snl and that was controversial for some reason i think he wore the dress both it was a weird cross-pollination of things in that he wore a dress that was patterned after Kurt Cobain's dress that he wore in the 90s on SNL.

Right. feminine dress i guess was part of i guess where the controversy kicked in of like him mimicking kurt cobain but also making it sort of like a sexier spaghetti strap type joint when kurt cobain's was a little more of a school girl type dress i guess yeah right it's more fitted by the zombie school girl i felt like was the vibe that yeah kid cuddies looks just good that's like a good a good dress as the resident fashion expert here i will decree that's a good dress what is something like seeing you think is overrated? Overrated. Oh, boy. Something that's super overrated. I had to put up a fucking canopy thing.

My wife and I are having a child soon and we're having a baby shower this weekend. And I was asked to help put up a canopy-like structure for our backyards for this baby shower. And whatever company is responsible for that canopy is overrated. They should be ashamed of themselves. It took us hours. It was very difficult. And I'll never forgive them for the amount of shame it brought to my household as me and my wife, my pregnant wife, argued in our yard in front of our gardener who is helping

with said construction. So unwittingly, a third party had to have a front row seat to that screen. Not just the third party, the landscaper. He was there. And then his grandson, who he brought along with him in support of that activity. He brought him along. And then my wife kept being snarky about the fact that i wasn't screwing something in right and then we argued in front of him and i could tell

the grandson didn't love what he was being with and forced to witness right right right wasn't one of those like shade sales like one of those like little kind of you just have to attach it and keep it rigid and attach it to another point or Or were you really, is this some like a full on structure that you're- No, this was full on like a building. This was Bob the Builder level like construction. And that's not what I do. Do you know what I mean? I'm a silly Billy. Don't make me do physical labor. I'm the exact same way.'m uh unfortunately i'm i'm i'm learning skills over time on how to do things around the house but i remember when one of the times i moved and my partner we were just she was like yo we have to put these fucking curtains in i almost fucking like like did the

thing where i vanished for years i got so frustrated trying to drill something into like just to get curtain rods up and i was like i gotta go like to the desert and like just get my shit right. Because I think I'm about to give up on everything. Yeah. And as we see it, you just like wander off into the desert muttering to yourself. And be like, fucking curtain rods. That's how I feel. And that's the problem.

We don't talk enough about how many deadbeat dads are probably running away from responsibilities. Not just the families themselves. right right unreasonable ass is the thing that may is gonna make me go out for cigarettes it's not the the people i like the people you guys are just asking for too much it's just i don't want to struggle in front of y'all in front of my family because you know uh gender norms dictate that i'm supposed to be good at this so So when I don't arrive at that, I have to have a reckoning with that. And because I'm not built to do that, I will just implode and run away. If my arms shake in front of my unborn child, I will abandon her. I cannot under any circumstances, let her see me quiver. So I'm going to go. Oh, man. So I'm 13 years married. And I am at a point now where if I even suggest that I'm going to do the thing that we could

hire someone on TaskRabbit or something to do, my wife is like, absolutely not. See, that's dope. is absolutely not. Yeah, because I earned that by just doing irreparable debt. I once tried to hang a door at our old house and I had to sand the bottom down and it was crooked at the bottom. It was just a complete mess.

And also, i almost you know lost my mind like yeah i almost just drove off into the wilderness yeah if the if the cia had to do like a psyop on me it would be to install a bunch of like home hardware things in a house and yeah like measuring and drilling and stuff because by the end of it i will be so broken that you could be like okay so now you're going to be um supporting trump in this next like i'm okay so it sounds like i just need to let myself slip into the darkness and then on the other side will be a bunch of people who now know not to go any further i mean you might be more handy than me. I have friends who, upon starting this journey of dadhood or being in a relationship and finding themselves responsible

for various tasks, just got good at them. I was just completely hopeless to the point that I just suggested that I replace... We got a new garbage disposal, our last one jammed up. And I was like, oh, I can probably do that. Like I researched online. It seems easy. I'm like the look of like panic on my wife's face when I said that. She's like, someone's already on the way, Jack. Maybe that's what I have to do because I don't think I'm more handy than you are. I'm pretty incapable of doing most traditionally masculine things. And so I think maybe I just need to volunteer more often and then cause some destruction. I just had to start communicating. I said, look, I'm going to struggle with this.

And I'm not interested in like struggling to the point where like, I'm going to lose my cool about it. Like, and it's worth it. I think for the sake of our relationship to pay somebody to do this work. So, oh, no, I've tried that. I've tried. I've tried the communication and it doesn't seem to be having any effect. Shit. Well, good luck to you. I'm bad at it all, including

collecting tools, creating a tool set. I have four hammers and then never the screwdriver that I need. I'm like, I can't find the hammer. Better go to the hardware store and buy it and then come home,

immediately find the hammer that I couldn't find before but realize that I can't find the hammer. Better go to the hardware store and buy it. And then like come home, immediately find the hammer that I couldn't find before, but realize that I don't have like the screw. I'm just, I'm hopeless, man. Jack has like a collection of like ball peen hammers. Yep. That's basically it. Got one of those giant, like two,

two sided saws that people used to use to like chop down trees uh but but no phillips head screwdriver right that i can ever find langston what is something you think is underrated oh this is exciting so my mother-in-law moved in with us and she's the one that bought that goddamn uh canopy thing so you know everybody's responsible for my frustrations. But one of the things that she has added in a beautiful way to this home is reasons. Candy. You guys know reasons?

Yes. They're sort of like if you put a Tootsie Roll inside of inside of actual chocolate, like better chocolate. And those motherfuckers are good and i don't like tootsie rolls i'm i'm sort of like indifferent about tootsie rolls but god damn our reasons hitting the spot and she keeps a jar full of them in the in the kitchen every day so i'm papa's loving what's happening here wow r-i-e-s-e- Okay. Okay. Yeah. I'm not big on Tootsie Rolls, but I do believe I've had like some of those and the adding chocolate to the

Tootsie Roll, like makes it work. Helps you get through it. Cause I'm the same. Tootsie Rolls just feel like fucking imitation chocolate. Like it just doesn't, it's like, I see what you're trying to do Tootsie Roll,

but it's, you're not doing it. And I get, there is a certain group of depraved people who appreciate that. But I think the chocolate coating on the reason helps sort of cover the rest of the candy you're eating. So you do have at least you get that hit of real chocolate as you power through the rest. It's a touch of class. Do you know what i mean it's just a little bit of class that you've

added to this otherwise uh filthy little candy uh that you served me so i like it i like what's happening yeah that's cool that you uh that your mother-in-law is living with you guys that's gonna become so helpful once you once you have this baby from the same people who brought us Werther's. Oh, is it? No, it is. Yeah, it's the same German company. Okay. That makes sense.

Not a joke. I feel like the bags are very, the writing seems similar, like the energy of it all. Yeah. Right. Because it's like, this isn't for children. Yeah, this is marketed towards the mature.

They're not having cartoon owls and shit on this. No, hell no. Yeah, fuck that. It's all about a nice, strong, sturdy font and some browns and yellows. Yeah, it feels like if they saw an owl licking a reason, they'd shoot it. Yeah, absolutely right mounted above their uh reading again yeah oh that's the the reason logo is the the owl from the tootsie pop commercial just stuffed and mounted just taxidermied and and sitting on a

mantle i love it i feel i the one tootsie roll that i don't mind is the fruit flavored Tootsie Roll. Because I think that's my issue with Tootsie Rolls is that they are fruit candies that are like, I'm good. I love Starburst. I love a fruity, chewy candy. Yeah, fruity. Like a chocolate, chewy. Yeah, high chews. Exactly.

But a chocolate chewy doesn't work for me. But then every once in a while, you'll get the like lemon Tootsie roll or the cherry. I think there is. Those are pretty. Miles has never had them. Wow. I think there's just,

I think I just got to like, I don't know. As a kid, I really was like rigid about the candy I ate because like, I wasn't just all about the sugar. I was like, I have really specific tastes and the Tootsie rolls. Like I remember as a kid, I don't know if you had like a bucket of your halloween candy that just sort of

oh hell yeah sort of ebbed and flowed over the years because you'd get through that first week post halloween and then you're sort of left with all the waste candy that you you weren't as into and then the next year comes around you like add to it and that was always just weird tootsie roll stuff and like weird chewy shit yeah i i love fruities i i think you're you're spot on with that and i do also i had that bucket but it wasn't it wasn't so much tootsie rolls as it was tootsie pops that that ended up being the the leftovers us. Do you like Dum Dums? I did fuck with Dum Dums. Yeah.

Certain flavors. You know, a pina colada, gotta love it. Yeah, yeah. A sour apple, that's the best. But then you get some weird ones like fucking grape, and it's like, come on, Dum Dum, you know this isn't what you do well. Come on, come on, Dum Dum. The degree to which big banking and dentistry

propped up the dumb dumb industry for so long was like that. There's just something about the fact that you would get that when you were a kid that really gave them a way to. Yeah, what happened? I feel like that's worth investigating. Were they lobbying the banking associations

to be like, this is what you need to have in all your banks this will be in all of your administrative buildings like that's that's a fucking contract yeah i feel like the coke brothers knew about like pork belly and dumb dumbs you know what i mean like there there's some sinister shit happening with the dumb dumb community yeah exactly we need to look into the spangler candy company i'm saying it here that sounds evil coke brothers had a part of my childhood they made dixie cups coke brothers made dixie cups yep oh yeah and like brawny paper they're in all kinds of paper goods you're surprised what uh how much money you might be giving the Coke pros. I guess that makes sense.

I never knew how, and one of them's dead, so we got one more to go. But I never knew how much the Coke, I never knew how they got their money, but that makes sense. They weren't just born wealthy. They probably sold some shit. Oh, no, they were born wealthy. Come on, wait, hold on. They're always born wealthy. Well, I said just born wealthy. Right, right, they were born wealthy, too. Come on, wait, hold on. They're always born wealthy. Well, I said just born wealthy.

In addition to the oil wealth that they had from their father selling oil to the Nazis. Oh. Yeah, yeah. So they're evil, legacy evil through and through to an almost impressive degree. Well, it's like Michael Jordan always says, Nazi need oil too. Yeah. Nazis buy oil too. Turned panzer tanks, you need gasoline too.

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And let's talk about the latest crisis at the border currently being manufactured by Republicans. Yeah, it's their favorite thing to do. If you feel like you need to get the base, your nativist, xenophobic, racist base going, there's no better thing to do than create a spectacle at the border. And, you know, right now, Biden is, you know, grappling with his own immigration policy, like one where, like, on paper, it looks more humane. But when you really dig in, you're like, how do you actually get asylum, though? Because this looks hard, even though when you the rules seem more humane it seems like that getting access to that seems very difficult so how does this work sir yeah but all that aside

there right now the republicans are really they're going to their trusty border thing since the catch all boogeyman to just start saying like you know again when the republicans are in power they use crises at the border to justify their inhumane treatment of people who are seeking asylum or just a better life. When Democrats are in power, it's suddenly they use the border to be like, Joe Biden is 69ing with the fentanyl dealers of MS-13, and that's why our kids are overdosing. And this is where they're at right now. On the trending episode, we talked about how the governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, sent 50 National Guardsmen to the border to help, quote unquote,

the Texas government because the narrative is like, federal government's nowhere to be seen. What do we do? And we just found out that this whole stunt from Kristi Noem was being funded by a huge GOP donor. We saw that when everyone said how is this working like how are you moving these troops it said through a private donation that private donation comes from a wealthy like a millionaire junkyard owner from tennessee um and that's that's

that's what we have now and now meanwhile ron desantis is also wanting to show how dumb he can be and ignore the facts of an issue. And now he's sending his own people because he can't get out trumped by Kristi Noem. He's sending 50 officers from Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Highway Patrol and the Department of Law Enforcement. Hell yeah. I love the fish people. Yeah. Go send the fish people to shoot Mexicans. This is all going to work out perfectly for everybody. I love that it's a billionaire junkyard owner.

Like they're just, they are in the business. He's crushing the junkyard business. They're in the business of Mad Max, like Thunderdome. Like they're just like, get us there. Right. That's where we thrive. Master Blaster. It's post-apocalyptic wasteland.

I don't understand. You said North Dakota, South Dakota, South Dakota, South Dakota. So in my mind and maybe I'm an ignorant person, I'm absolutely an ignorant person. But one of the things that that at least seems logical to me is if I'm the the governor of South Dakota, I would want more states to get fucked up so that people could come to South Dakota. Like, it's not like Americans want to go. So, like, make everything else get even. And then suddenly South Dakota looks like a better option. Why are you competing to keep Texas safe, you idiot? Oh, just let it tank and then be like hey you know let it tank we have you

know if you want to talk about mistreatment of indigenous people check out south dakota come on through you're gonna love it here we've got our own brown thing going on up here and uh you're you gotta try it this thing so the the wacky thing about this shit too is they're saying you know they're sending all these people law enforcement national guardsmen and more than anything on every time there's a press release about this they all say for operational security we will not say the exact number of people the units involved where they're going to be or what their mission is so a lot of people are like yeah wait hold on what the fuck are they going to do exactly down there like because you know there's a lot of border to cover and of sending a hundred people are they each covering 180 miles a person that they're going to just be looking at on their

own so when they were asked specifically when they asked the governor's office of florida like what they were going to be doing a spokesman said quote we aren't enforcing immigration laws end quote uh-huh so then they say quote officers will be investigating criminal activity associated with human smuggling drugs and weapon smuggling this is why we aren't able to provide specific details on numbers and locations so they can make sure like i think one of the people said bad guys so the bad guys don't know what right where we're like gonna be operating it's i think when you start looking at the reason you're like it's it's all nothing it's all fucking paperware it's all just a spectacle the further you get from like they've found in in studies

that like the politics around the border like in border towns are much less hardline than they are like when you get further inland and like that keeps going all the fucking way up to south dakota like where it's just like they don't they don't know any immigrant immigrants so like it doesn't fucking bother them to just treat them like quote bad guys from from movies you know yeah and i think if you add in the language of criminals and bad guys yeah and and all these suggestions of drug and rape then you start to make associations that satisfy the need either way like i don't want drugs in my community i don't want rapists near my family so like yeah go get them if that's that's what you need to do. Right.

Right. And that's what they're doing to get everybody. It's and more governors are like Republican governors. You're seeing them start to posture, too, because it's starting to look like some kind of like litmus test for if you can run for president in 2024 or basically how still tied to Trump's sort of agenda or perception of immigration you are. And yeah, so everyone's saying, well, we have to support every governor should be supporting our country, blah, blah, blah. But again, daddy's always watching. You got to make daddy happy. Yeah. And for a dad who look at his own kids, this daddy will never give you the satisfaction of telling you good job or tussling your toupee. It's not going to happen. All right. Well, let's talk about Trump real

quick. Earlier in the week, his defense attorneys were basically saying they're not going to charge the former president. So you guys can move along. Nothing to see here. Seems like there is a massive yet at the end of that statement because they are going to charge his CFO, Alan Weisselberg. I mean, they say Alan Weisselberg is like the eyes and ears of the Trump organization. So and because he's CFO, that means he knows a lot about the weird tax stuff, you know, specifically this, a lot of it dealing with like compensation and how taxes were paid, because it seems like people just got like apartments or cars and things like that as part of their compensation packages as a way to avoid paying taxes. And this is sort of one of the lines of inquiry that prosecutors are going down. But I think, yeah, the whole thing was always saying, well, what's going to happen? Because he was never cooperating. And everyone

was saying, well, charge him, then see what happens. Because usually people start singing a different tune when their freedom is on the line. And I think that's why a lot of people are saying maybe now we're looking at something real for Donald Trump, because there's someone directly in the Trump org who is now on the hook. it's also fun that weisselberg looks exactly like the accountant from the untouchables who allows elliot to take down capone like he looks like he's in costume as that dude sure listen you you gravitate towards the things that feel familiar. And I imagine through years of media, being a scumbag head of an organization is probably the thing that he was like, that looks like me. I'm going to do that. That's like, yeah, that's like there's a soccer player who said one time someone

told him he looked like Andy Garcia. And he said said from that day all of his style has been to look like andy garcia and it feels like just like one of those things where yeah weisselberg he's like i'm gonna maybe this is what i'm gonna do yeah this feels like a good a vibe for me to to ride in yeah he's sitting right in that pocket he's like i look i'm the andy garcia of uh of shitty guys right yeah i i will if somebody tells me they like a shirt especially if like somebody a woman tells me they like my shirt i'll wear that shirt probably like five times that week i i will say in college and i've told this story before my my facial hair grows and patchy as shit and i had it overgrown once and i remember hearing the like one one woman said oh no i think it's like it makes me interested like oh what's going on with him and i never gave a fuck again until

my partner now her majesty was like no that looks like shit like you should be saving it i was like fuck really oh that sucks she took something beautiful from you you were like yeah yo this is my power but i still lean into it in my mind that person's voice is still there be like don't listen to her baby it's trippy it makes you interesting like maybe he's an out-of-work pirate maybe this person i'm planning to lay with for the rest of my life is wrong maybe It makes you interesting. Like maybe he's an out of work pirate. Maybe this person I'm planning to lay with for the rest of my life is wrong. Maybe. That one lady I met that one time is correct. Yeah. Forget all the growth I've experienced with my current partner.

It's one thing. She's not going to meet me on my facial hair. All right. Let's talk about another investigation. Nancy Pelosi is planning to go forward with a January 6th commission on, you know, the attacks on the Capitol building from January 6th without the GOP. Who knows how she's going to do it because they've been so cooperative up to this point. But that's that's where we're headed. This is, you know, we might actually find out something. headed this is uh you know we might actually find out something yeah i mean i think most people on earth laughed at the idea of republicans participating in an investigation about january 6th because it feels like it would amount to just snitching on themselves but now nancy's like you know she's she's like fuck it we got do this. The fucking approval ratings for Congress are like subterranean at this point because everyone's like, y'all don't do anything and you're too scared to do shit. Fuck out of here. So on Monday unveiled a resolution, 13 member select committee that she will be choosing the members, eight Democrats and five Republicans that she will consult with minority leader kevin mccarthy on who those five republicans will be it's only consult though she can fucking say like no to anything like she has final say in the end so despite what you heard from majorly tainted goon

or i'm sorry marjorie taylor green saying that she wants to be part of the the committee that's that's not going to happen because Pelosi is going to determine who wants to. And again, we don't even know if any Republicans are going to want to cooperate. I guess the thing I'm struggling with, and this is a genuine question, albeit a pointed one. What's the point? Do you know what I mean? Like, what is the end goal of all of this? Like, where does this investigation lead us? Because at the end of the day, we do, in fact, know that this was like an orchestrated thing. And I know like that's, you know, obviously they need definitive proof to say that this was an orchestrated thing. But we we fucking know it already.

And they're aware of all the parties involved. The fucking tweets and misbehaviors are all documented and so is this investigation just to get us in a uh you know i mean uh another one of those weird like situations where we prove it and then they go yeah we can't do anything about it though anyway bye then it's like i don't know move on bro i mean i think until we can actually have a real reckoning with like white supremacy there's nothing gonna happen with with this this thing because they're protected by their whiteness. You know, there you see how, again, we saw the discrepancy and the differences and how these people were treated by law enforcement. And even the fact that you have sitting members who are possibly involved. Yeah, it does feel like it will just get to a point where all of these things will be seen. But because there's this, you know, there's not a lot of

appetite, I think, from the actual people in Congress themselves to, you know, get these people out or hold them accountable. It'll just be like, well, the thing is, hopefully the voters see this and then they'll do something like, well, that's no. Then how are we actually protect? That's when you start feeling the sort of cynicism about this, just like the illusory aspects of like what this investigation could be. And the voters saw the videos, you know what I mean? Like once you've seen the videos, you kind of know what January 6th was all about. january 6th was all about and if if that wasn't a deterrent for you to uh reconsider the way that you you vote on things then this fucking investigation with a bunch of people being like i felt sad that day because i had to hide is not gonna solve the problem right yeah and you

look at you know what happened in the build-up to this pelosi was giving away a lot of power to get the republicans to be on board for this fucking bipartisan committee and she put just so they would come to the table and it was absurd that like they i mean again if they were really interested in fucking up this investigation they should have took this deal that or you know what was being offered by Pelosi in that Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy would have been able to pick anyone

to put on this committee. They also would have had veto power over things like fucking subpoenas. And not only that, they were also agreed to have this investigation wrapped up before the midterm cycle. So because they have said

they refused all that, all of that's gone. And now we're looking at a thing where, yeah, maybe we will get a more aggressive investigation. But again, it's like one of those things where it just feels like, aren't there like, isn't there some real way to adjudicate this and bring justice or we're all just having a good time and a laugh because we don't know how to deal with this kind of rage in the country yeah all right let's uh take a quick break and we'll be right back when you think of mexican culture you think of avocado, mariachi, delicious cuisine, and of course, lucha libre. It doesn't get more Mexican than this.

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like I said, we talked about that. If you want to hear us talk about that, we talked about it on yesterday's trending. But we're going to talk about a series of silly fuck ups, starting with Andrew Giuliani, the human embodiment of silly fuck up. He is the son of Rudy. He is just charisma embodied right

he has the he's the prodigal son he is the political fucking maven he's the goat he as he said himself his political career has spanned five decades even though he's in his 30s because he counts every decade that he has been alive in as being part of his political career. I love that. And that's why he said, hey, that's why you should vote for me for governor of New York. And so recently there was a secret ballot that was just for like that was distributed for like a straw poll for GOP Republican leaders in the state just to see where the support was. And of all of the candidates there, Andrew Giuliani, I mean, he got no support. Abstain got more support than he did

as an option on this straw poll. So he came in with a whopping zero percent. And now he's gone on to say like, oh, like, you know, he actually said, according to my own internal poll I've done, I'm doing great. He really said that shit. So, you know, nepotism is a hell of a drug. I will say, and I said this to somebody very recently, I do think we're putting ourselves in a pretty dangerous place with an Andrewuliani in that the more that the internet makes him a bit the more likely it becomes that he actually does start to do numbers like i think we forget that trump literally announced his campaign on a comedy central roast it wasn't this dude you know what i mean like he's he's long been sort of like a gimmick. And then at some point that gimmick got taken seriously by some and that tricked other people into taking it seriously in a much more dramatic way.

And I don't think Andrew Giuliani, while completely ridiculous and seemingly non-threatening in the grand scheme of things, is actually uh innocuous as as it may seem yeah especially with his energy and takes around covet and things like that because the more mainstream his idea is like i have an immune system is like well don't give people i mean there are enough people thinking that shit but don't start don't let a governor or someone who's holding office hit you with that, I have an immune system shit. Because we have enough of those. I feel like maybe if he added a decade to the span of his political career, maybe going back to when his dad started fucking around on his first wife, that would be, if he counted that,

because that is eventually what led to his political career starting sure maybe maybe that will get him the the respect that he deserves yeah yeah he spent years sort of trying to uh politicize his dad's pussy eating and now here he is trying to fix the pussy eating in this country i like that yeah all right let's talk about that lady that caused the Tour de France crash. She was apparently a fugitive. There is a Mr. Bean movie in probably a documentary if there were cameras around. But she was a fugitive for three days from the law. I hadn't seen this video until this morning.

Oh, have you seen the video? I have not. What did she do? If you just search Tour de France crash. Okay. Because I want you to be able to see this. It's Tywell. Because this woman was holding a sign to get on camera.

And she fucked up the entire Peloton. And caused like a 20-person crash. Whoa. fucked up the entire peloton and everything caused like a 20 person crash whoa and her pose before she knocks the entire tour de france down is embarrassing like her she's posing in an embarrassing way and then knocks the entire like field of riders down and it like the second she is struck by the right rider she like gives a cartoonish like oh yeah her shit her like whole upper body whipped around yeah because she's like a fucking oh come on it's a road race and you're stepping into the road with your elbows out holding a long cardboard sign that says like, let's go, grandma and grandpa. And yeah, she struck this one rider and created an entire fucking chain reaction where dozens of participants that were in the Tour de France, they just went down to the point where after that, one of the like the head organizer of the thing is like, we're going to sue her for that shit.

Whoa. But it's also like brought into it. A lot of riders have also like this has kind of been a talking point amongst the riders is like around safety around the course, too, because it's like, well, come on. Like you got a race that is this important. But some idiot with with cardboard sign in a dream to be on TV could completely upend the entire race. I mean, luckily, no one was like super seriously injured, but there was one guy who had to like like pull out of the Tour de France altogether because he got, you know, ran over by a bunch of other bikes. Holy shit. And so she's rooting for for her grandparents but they're not in the race that's what i was so confused about exactly that's why it's like one of these weird i'm

gonna chalk it up to people being indoors too long and now they're like this is my chance to get some attention and get out there and just be in the middle of a road like just cheesing on camera and just destroying the race for people yeah but you know and this is going to be a controversial take but i do think at some point we just have to start like somebody should shoot her legs you know what i mean like treat her like we treat horses when they do not the thing that like if a horse runs and then he injures himself we we put the horse down. And this is a brain injury. If you go to another person's race and think that holding up a sign for your grandparents is a reasonable decision. So we should shoot her in the legs or the arm, her marker writing arm. You know what I mean? Just something punitive should happen that makes it clear for her in the future, should you do this,

we're going to take out your other appendages. Yeah. I like, yeah. I mean, what would we do in the, like, so this is one version, but it reminds me of Steve Bartman, the Chicago Cubs fan, that, you know,

who really, really had it it bad and because this woman apparently had a similar bartman-esque like fleeing thing where she knocked she knocked the people out she was like oh shit and everyone's like the fuck are you doing and she ditched her sign and like vanished yeah okay and that's why she's on the run for three days because she's like i'm oh fuck that like i'm not i'm not facing this but there's something there's on the run for three days. Cause she's like, I'm all fuck that. Like, I'm not, I'm not facing this, but there's something, there's just a Steve Bartman quality that I love too, which is someone who probably wanted to be there in the name of, you know,

good, you know, kind competition and be part of it just ended up becoming the focal point. And like just the lightning rod for people. Right. Like a very specific, very weird energy and her split second on the global stage like her the pose she's doing while she's and the sign itself langston like you were saying

go grandma and grandpa is just a weird thing to be saying on the sign and she's like striking this weird pose like bartman who was wearing a turtleneck and headphones like listening to the game when he completely fucked up the cubs chance at uh making it to the world series that season and all i'm saying is if we shoot her in the legs or in her hand or whatever it is that feels most appropriate for her decision, then she no longer is public enemy number one, because something punitive happened that feels satisfying for everybody involved. If I fell off my bike, I'm cool because her legs got shot. If my favorite racer lost the race because this lady got in the way it's fine because she got a bullet in her legs it's it's the easiest solution and we need to consider it how did you you're from illinois

right chicago area yeah i'm from right outside chicago okay how did did you have feelings around the steve bartman i mean not that you probably i don't know if you give a fuck about the cubs or not but what was that was there a feeling locally about it or nothing? I don't care about baseball. And, uh, if I had to pick, I would pick the white socks just because that's more of like the working class team in Chicago. Whereas like the Cubs is a lot of like transplants and, uh, people who, uh, just need a reason to get drunk and ruin the city so uh you know i yeah i i don't feel anything about uh steve bartman but that's not a good answer for your podcast so i hate him i think he ruined my family that shit my father and i don't speak anymore because of steve i'll never

forgive him i think he lives in lives in Arizona or some shit now. Yeah, they tracked him down. And he was basically in like a lifelong witness protection program. Jesus Christ. I mean, because there's nothing that's less reasonable than a drunk white guy who's a sports fan. Like they were not. They weren't like, well, let's think about his feelings. And like he probably he just seems like an awkward dude. Right.

I think they went hard after. He just really wanted that baseball and it really ruined a lot of people's hopes and dreams. Right. Yeah. Oh, just side note. Steve Bartman got a World Series ring when they won in 2016. That's how his park ended. That's kind of cute.

Tom Ricketts, the owner, gifted him with it. He said, well, no gesture can fully lift the public burden he has endured for more than a decade. We felt it was important. Steve knows he has been and continues to be fully embraced by this organization. After all, he has sacrificed. We are proud to recognize Steve Bartman with this gift. Whoa. So they were like, yo, we beat your ass so bad that you deserve a diamond ring from the Cubs organization.

Because you had to leave your town and hide for decades. Fuck. I'm sorry. I also want to say, like, his thing was a split second decision. Baseball's in front of you you reach out and grab for it you can't fully blame him a lot of the anger towards him was based on the fact that he had such a specific look that like it's still a good halloween costume yeah whereas this woman was put was set up like in the path and frozen like ready for her close-up type shit when she knocked over your grandma and your grandpa don't contribute to this

race or this organization in any way if you're proud of them go visit them go see them where they live i'm sure that those old fucks would happily spend time with you well before they want to watch a fucking bike race just in case your sign makes it on tv right right yeah and also with bartman too let's not forget alex gonzalez he actually made a terrible error in that game but people people forget that more than they do to hate on the dude with the turtleneck which i get optically like you're gonna be like no i'll fuck that dude in the turtleneck yeah i mean i think that i wake up every morning i say that out loud and i don't care about steve bartman at all i just wake up like good, fuck that dude in the turtleneck.

All right, let's talk Clifford. This is, as you will soon learn, maybe not, maybe this is just my unfortunate luck that somebody bought my kids a compendium, a series of Clifford the Big Red Dog books when we first had them. And so Clifford the Big Red Dog has been in our household for a number of years now. They are very stupid books. Children's books have gotten much better. The modern children's books are good. There's actually a market where people have to compete and talented writers and artists are competing with one another to make the best children's book. That was not true when Clifford the Big Red Dog was brought into existence. Sure. There's a series of children's books.

Good Night Moon nailed it. Good Night Moon is a work of art. Very well done. That was early on. nailed it goodnight moon is a work of art like very well done that was early on but there's also these books like pat the cat and pat the puppy that are just like this is neddy he has a dog he likes to pet the dog and it's just like real real dumb and also the art is like could have been drawn by me and clifford is like similar it's a little bit above pat the cat but it's like the people are not inspired by their own premise you can tell like they're phoning it in a

little bit right like it's just like i don't know let's have me eat a big pile of dog food yeah does clifford ever just uh like fuck shit up do you know what i mean like you're a big red dog i would assume like you got to be knocking over some fire stations and then a family burns the you know like nobody ever dies but it's like it's more woman knocking over the uh tour de france level hijinks not nobody nobody is killed but it's you also get the sense that like it's a miracle that nobody's ever killed so clifford just really wants the attention of his grandparents and then he shows up places and fucks okay i get you it's a it is a public health atrocity that he's allowed to just roam free in the community that he's allowed to roam free in but it is a small

town he like goes around and like you know will pick up a tree like rip a tree out of the ground and want to play fetch with it and stuff like that in the in the books in this in this movie uh he's a puppy still so he's only like the size of an elephant he's not the size of an elephant. He's not the size of a dinosaur like in the books. He lives in Manhattan, though. Oh, boy. And that's a target-rich environment for a dog. Like, puppies will chew up anything. Puppies will chew up anything. And there's a scene in the trailer where he swallows a pug.

He puk for it out. Yeah. Well, coughs it up, which is just like a miracle of, you know, just chance that he that it doesn't agree with him because he would have swallowed that shit. Puppies eat and swallow everything. And then you have like get it out of their digestive tract wait did did he swallow this pug with the intention of eating the pug or was this like the pug was running and he ran into his mouth by accident he's licking the pug in a lovable way and then whoops swallowed it which is just a classic gag of a family losing their dog to a bigger dog yeah but it's whimsical and it's a big red puppy that looks like satan's fucking pet right yeah the

other part is like they showed in the trailer there's like a person in one of those big inflatable bubble things that you can like you know run around in and knock into people and then clifford thinks that's a toy and even i get it this whimsical this fucking dog throws this dude in the bubble so high up i'm like dude this person's dead i don't care what kind of fucking bubble you're in and that's like they need to play this a little more real like all the financial liability the fucking trail of bodies that's left behind clifford it's i think i would honestly watch that version more than this i don't know if you guys remember this but there was that guy who went down a mountain in one of

those bubble things or like went like down some ski slope and then he accidentally went off the side of a mountain and like died because like it was like i think it was like a thing that was set up for people to do this like down a ski slope red bull presents yeah exactly unfortunate death yeah it's a fucking dude like went over the side of a mountain in that bubble thing and died real real silly and so yeah to your point clifford should do the same. You know what I mean? Like, he should murder people. Fun and silly. Yeah.

27-year-old Denis Burakov was with friends at the Dombai Ski Resort where they frequently went snowboarding on January 3rd. We decided to take a ride in a Zorb. And he went off a cliff. Got a video taken on his phone by one of his friends. So the two men being fit in the harnesses inside the Zorb and then they go oh damn that's that's a shame yeah it's a sad story that's yeah yeah and in my mind in your mind i hope you're not in the thing where you're like man i'm in a zorb i'm good no matter what even if i went off it i'm hey no better place to be than a zorb when you fly off the side of a cliff you're're just in a literally inflatable bubble wrap. In that moment, you have to assume that is what, as you're

falling to your death, you probably do have that moment of like, maybe the Zorb will stop this. Yeah, that moment you're like, please Zorb. Hold steady Zorb. Yeah, it's also surprisingly common for people to be in a bounce house that gets blown

away by wind and that's like a surprisingly common way way to go so yeah you're not protected by zorbs by bounce houses and this dog would kill you don't be fooled don't be fooled yeah i wonder what's the yeah what's what do you think the rate is for absorbed, like annual absorbed deaths and bounce houses that fly away? I bet it's like 15. Right. Like more than sharks. Yeah.

I bet it's, it's like a shark level, like murders are a little above sharks. Yeah. I say, uh, let's see for people, wind related accidents with bouncy houses, 10 deaths in the last 15 years. Oh, okay. Not bad. Okay. More common than I would have expected. More dangerous.

Fine. Yeah. Now I'm not going to get to be that annoying uncle. Be like, hey, you know this is more dangerous than a shark attack, right? And now I'm like, check the numbers on that again. Sorry, old school. That's not true. dangerous than a shark attack right and now i'm like uh check the numbers on that again sorry old school that's not true there does seem to be a uh dining trend among sharks where they like eat people doing silly stuff like a shark just like tried to eat somebody who was parasailing that

there was a kite surfer who was attacked by a pod of sharks and killed. I would be interested to see if that. Oh, if there's some crossover. Yeah, if we got any Zorb attacks of sharks on Zorb. A little Kong versus Godzilla type. Right. Yeah. Yeah, I like that.

Well, Langston. That's a good IP. We will look into that before you're on next. But this has been such a pleasure having you. Where can people find you and follow you? Oh, they can. And I've had a pleasure as well, gentlemen. They can find me at Langston Kerman on all platforms, Twitter and Instagram. Please don't try to find me on Facebook.

I'm off of that toxic thing for the time being, I think. And you can always listen to my podcast. It's called My Mama Told Me. It's on iHeart and Big Money Players. And I get to talk a lot of shit about conspiracy theories with black people. It's a good time. Great show. Is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying yes so uh recently an extremely old tweet from shack and a tweet from 09 uh resurfaced on my timeline from from shack shaquille o'neal himself and he writes and this is all i i want to step it out just so you guys understand how funny this is. He writes these nuts comma. Aha. Got y'all.

If you fell for that, come on now. LOL. L M F A O. Aha. Got you all. Oh, why Shaq got drunk.

And we give this man millions and millions of dollars in endorsement money in television time every year all because he had big feet in 92 uh and he's playing these nuts on twitter you did get me though on that I have to admit listen he got us all yeah jack he got these nuts ha ha whoa what I'm sorry whoa dog You didn't even give me a chance to react. Is that the setup and the punchline is the same thing? If you get to write down Deez nuts, you win. Sorry. Miles, where can people find you? And what's a tweet you've been enjoying?

Twitter, Instagram, Miles of Gray. Also, the other podcast, 420 Day Fiance. We're talking 90 day. Hi. And, some tweets. I like past guests, Melissa Steddon at Melissa Steddon.

She tweets. If you love injuries, you'll love the NBA. So true. Everybody's going down. Oh man. Giannis is a neat thing. Oh,

freak me the fuck out. Yeah. Also Marcella Arguello past guests. Uh, she just sort of quote tweeted another thing, but I just like, I like her set up to this really good tweet. She said,

this joke is so perfectly written that I actually hate it. And it's a tweet from Zach vile at Zach V V E E tweeting. Brad Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston. Now he's dating a woman half his age. This dude went from gen A to Gen Z. Wow. All right. Real easy. Real good

construction. Better than that. That's up there with these nuts. Ha ha. Gotcha. Stupid. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. A couple things I've been enjoying on Twitter.

PFT Commenter tweeted, Every TV in America should automatically cut away to any Shohei Otani at bat like a weather alert. I'm on board with that. This dude is just non-stop every day. The new home run, new successful outing on the mound. And somebody tweeted a picture

of a Chuck E. Cheese where Chuck E. Cheese is sitting in black and white in an old Chuck E. Cheese and there is a Confederate flag on the wall. And they tweeted, Chuck E. Cheese used to fly the Confederate flag. And Fund Abortion's Not Pleased tweeted, Robert Entertainment Lee. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist.

We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do we suggest people check out today? This is going to be a track. Let's go to Brazil from this artist, Gal Costa, G-A-L-C-O-S-T-A.

And the track is called Pontos de Luz and it is a track I've heard sampled a lot by one of my favorite producers, Sango and it's just got this nice, you know, throwback 70s Brazilian funk feel to it. So yeah, this

should be something that you all should enjoy as well. Alright well go check that out. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us this morning.

We are back this afternoon to tell you what's trending, and we will talk to you all then. Bye. Bye. Captain's Log, Stardate 2024. We're floating somewhere in the cosmos, but we've lost our map. Yeah, because you refused to ask for directions. It's Space Gem, there are no roads.

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