The Daily Zeitgeist - Comey By Your Name, Brad Pitt x MIT 4.13.18

Episode Date: April 14, 2018

In episode 126, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Blake Wexler to discuss Friday the 13th, the Michael Cohen tapes, Rod Rosenstein making peace with the fact that he may be fired and what would happen in that case, the response to James Comey's book, the hoax that Diamond and Silk have been censored on Facebook, Colin Kaepernick almost getting a work out with the Seahawks, bloidwatch with Brad Pitt and his new MIT BAE, & more.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Wow. Yeah. Hey, have you ever thought about using that one, Miles? Nah, never. I've never. No one has ever suggested that. I thought it was funny that somebody gave that to me because that is the AKA that Miles gets like probably three times a day. Yeah, that or kilometers gray.

Right. Anyways, thank you to Trevor? Question mark on Twitter. Trevor Nick 51. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Well, since you included me, Jack, I'm going to have to include you in my AKA. Then I look at Jack. And the world is all right with me just one look at jack and i know it's gonna be a lovely gray lovely gray lovely gray lovely gray

thank you so much kellen t again bro i don't know how many AKs you broke off this week, but that's... Man, you might be approaching Chapman Rice territory. I don't know. I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it. No, no, no. Chapman's still got the crown. She's still on the throne.

But Kellen, my man. You'll always be our first goat, Chapman. Oh, Chapman is goat. Chapman is goat, you know what I mean? And you can be like LeBron. LeBron's a bitch. All right. Goat.

Chapman is goat, you know what I mean? And you can be like LeBron. LeBron. All right. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by third time returning guest, but first time with me, Mr. Blake Wexler. Yes. Thank you for having me, you guys. Jack, thanks for not having your house get caught on fire and having another child.

I think enough is enough. Yeah. No, we tried both. And it just wasn't happening. The fire wouldn't take. Right. The fire wouldn't take. Right. The fire wouldn't take. It's a little wet.

I should have said, also, Blake is a very funny stand-up comedian. I forgot to say that. What did you just call him? I just said. A guest. I just started talking about how I wasn't here last time because I am a self-obsessed weirdo. Yeah, it's weird because this is like my side piece, Jack. I'm only seeing Blake when you're not here, right?

And now it's kind of weird. Blake and I are looking at each other like texting like, should I say something? Do you want me to go? No one should say anything. We talked about this. Hi, nice to meet you for the first time. Miles, is it?

Yeah. Block? Sure, I'll take it. Blake, what is it? Block. Block, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? The worst host. It's just like, not only is that not my name, it's not a name.

Right. Yeah, Block. All right, Block. Sorry, I guess I just misread it. Guy isn't listening. He's not reading anything at all. I will spit out my cold. Weird thing, search history recent was cannot see well altitude brain.

Because I was in Colorado with my girlfriend's family, and I started seeing stars. It was not healthy, so I was worried something was wrong with my brain. And let me guess what it was. Let me guess what it was. It was a tumor. Dehydration. Jury's out. I'm a what it was. It was a tumor. Dehydration. Jury's out. Okay.

I'm a ticking time bomb. It's a tumor. Yeah. Maybe I have a brain tumor. Armani tumor got in my head. Oh, Armani tumor. Yeah. Oh, shit.

Altitude is so weird. I went to a wedding up in the mountains of Colorado, and I was running at that time, and I went for a run, and it was, for some reason, the hardest thing I've ever tried to do. Of course, because the air is so thin. It's fucking crazy, though. It's real, man. You were trying to do this shit like you're getting ready for a heavyweight bout kind of thing? Right.

That's like a title fight training where you're like, we're going to do some high altitude training. At that time, I could rip off five miles, no problem. And it was a struggle to get to two. Oh, I bet. Yeah. I was also probably drinking and smoking the previous night. So that might have had something to do with it. Well, alcohol counts as more. You get hit by it a lot quicker up there, too.

Yeah, that's true. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, you got to be careful. Why am I wasting all this money drinking at sea level? Right. No, you have to get that Denver buzz. Like, I just drive up here.

Got to get a mile high. Yes. Oh, just drive up here. Gotta get a mile high. Yes. Oh, I wonder if you get high, a mile high, you get even higher. Yeah, I do wonder if it's still there. We have many listeners in Colorado. Tell me the facts. Can you debunk that myth? Do you get higher when you're higher? Yeah.

I doubt that. But hey, look. We have John Elway on the line. John. Can I call you John? Big pot smoker, John Elway. Blake, what is something that you think is underrated? Peppermint patties. Actually, York peppermint patties. Oh, okay. I've taken a lot of shit for my public sense of loving that candy.

Yeah. But I think mint and chocolate is just like a very proven commodity. I love it. Yeah? I love it. Okay, cool. I love mint and chocolate. Nice.

Mint chocolate chip was one of my favorites. I think there was an X-Men flavor when the first X-Men movie came out. That was only available at Baskin Robbins. Of course. And it was a chocolate and mint ice cream, but the blue, it was blue for Wolverine and it had chocolate claws in it. I'm pretty sure I'm not having a fever dream out loud,

but I'm pretty sure this exists. Anyone from Baskin Robbins back me up. Cause I will buy that forever. Now blue mint. Anything reminds me too much of toothpaste. Give it to me green, you guys. Give it to me green. Give it to me green, as he says.

Like the shamrock shake. Oh, I've never had that. Is that good? Yeah, it's just like a mint. But that's just a mint shake. When is that available? I think the day of St. Patrick's Day in select locations. You rarely find it. I had it like once when's Day in select locations.

Like you rarely find it. I had it like once when I was in high school. Blake, what is something you think is overrated? Like being in credit card debt is that big of a problem. Yeah, credit card debt, I would say. Yeah, as being an issue. Yeah, because you just don't pay. Right, yeah, exactly.

Or you just don't pay, but also like what are you buying? Like when are you going to own something really? You know, for most people. Like millennials don't buy, but also, like, what are you buying? Like, when are you going to own something, really? You know, for most people. Like, millennials don't buy, you know? Like, we rent. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I can show you my, like, bank receipts.

Like, I'm fine. Yeah, let's do them. Do they not do a credit check when you are, like, applying to rent a place? Oh, I didn't say I'm in bad credit check. No, they do. I'm just out here giving terrible financial advice. But I am. Yeah, they'll do it, just out here giving terrible financial advice, but I am. Yeah,

they'll do it, but you can get a co-signer. That's why you go to networking parties around Hollywood. I need a favor. Hey, man.

Oh, you're not asking me to put you in a thing? Of course, I'll co-sign your apartment. And that's why you do a lot of those, you do a lot of stand-up shows

at those convalescent homes. Of course. Find an elderly person who's lonely, and you're like, hey, Earl, can you sign this for me? Yeah, it's a non-disclosure agreement. It's like, you know how Hannibal Buress puts people's phones in those Ziploc things so they don't film your set? That's like me at old person's homes but with releases. Does that make sense?

Yeah, I love it. So they can't narc you out. Right, exactly. Blake, finally, what is a myth? What is something people think is true that you know to be false? That eloquence is a sign of intelligence. At least that's what I'm selling. No, I've seen lately a lot of people who are inarticulate that are actually incredibly intelligent.

And I think you see it a lot like the Zuckerberg thing, for instance, like watching him speak. He's not obviously an engaging, high energy speaker. He I wouldn't say he's inarticulate, but like Doug Peterson, for instance, this is like an example that I'm more able to speak upon. Philadelphia Eagles head coach is terrible at speaking. He really comes off as a dummy. He comes off as a total idiot. And I'm like, oh, this guy's a moron where when he's quoted in the papers, you know, Philadelphia Inquirer, that old rag. They have to use like ellipses a lot because like they can't really connect his sentences because they're so rambling. Like the president.

Yeah, right. Exactly. He's sort of stream of consciousness speaking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Well, he's not an example. But he's actually a very intelligent human being.

Right. He shows intelligence in other ways. So it's not even necessarily that someone who's eloquent can be an idiot. It's more that you can be smart and you can be a terrible speaker. Correct. Correct. Yeah, yeah. Thank you for clearing that up for me.

No, because I was hoping you'd be like, let me tell you someone who's eloquent and is actually a fucking dum-dum. Oh, yeah. Well, and there are plenty- Like me. I'm trying to think. There are plenty of people who can- I do agree.

They're completely separate skills, like being intelligent, making intelligent decisions and being able to speak, like, string sentences together coherently. Just the first time I tried to speak on a podcast and, like, listen back to myself, I had to do that. I had to, like, edit different chunks together because I was, like, speaking out of order and shit. It's just a acquired skill. Like completely out of order? Like the predicate was coming from the subject? It was crazy.

You're like, Jack, I, O'Brien, welcome, hi, to podcast craft. And then, you know, listen to any talk radio station in the middle of the country, and you will realize that there are a lot of people who are incredibly talented at, you know, speaking in a straight line for hours who are not, you know, don't have a tremendous amount on the ball. Right. I would say. Well put. On the ball. I like that one. Yes.

On the ball, kiddo. I'm going to have to say, your son, not a lot on the ball. Not a lot on the ball. Not a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Are you talking about my son? No, no, no. I'm going to have to say, your son, not a lot on the ball. Not a lot on the ball. Not a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Are you talking about my son? No, no, no. I'm just, I was just, I'm sorry.

I should have told you. We flashed on. I started a scene where we were at a parent-teacher conference. He can't speak that well. If you could set up your bits for a longer period of time, we'd appreciate it. I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you.

That was a cut to a parent-teacher conference. And I forgot to say that part, and I just said it out of turn. Interior school day. A nervous mother and father sit across from Professor Gray. Anyway, I'm sorry. Go on. All right. Let's get on with the stories, guys.

We're trying to take a sample of the national shared consciousness. What people are thinking, talking about right now, it is Friday the 13th. Whoa! Looked into. talking about right now it is friday the 13th looked into uh so there are a lot of things that we think like go back deep into history and back way back yeah and that actually don't like uh a lot of the druid and what's that witch religion wiccan wiccan traditions pagan traditions yeah they like started in the early to mid 20thth century. The early to mid-90s. Yeah, seriously. Ouija boards, tarot cards, those were all created fairly recently by toy companies.

Of course, yeah. Yeah. Have you been to the Wiccan Celebrity Center on Gower, by the way? No. What? I'm kidding. There isn't one. That would be amazing.

I'd believe it. If the Wiccans just started taking Hollywood over. Right. So Friday the 13th apparently goes back pretty deep. Like when you research it, like one of the first mentions is from like the 15th century, but it's talking about it as an already established thing. Like it's a plot element where somebody like tries to create a big panic because it's Friday the 13th.

And when you look at words and try and find out their origin, there's a lot of articles on the internet like the origin of this word is this. But no two sources are going to agree because we just don't have a record for like where certain things come from. And that seems to be the case with Friday the 13th too. It's like the best explanation I got was that 12 is like felt as a complete number and also at the Last Supper there were 12

people and then Judas showed up as the 13th and that was the night before Jesus was killed on Friday. So it's like Friday the 13th. Judas. But the biggest problem with Judas is that he was always late. He was always the last guy there. If I had to pick one thing, it would definitely be

punctuality. But anyways, it's already a shitty day. Will Ferrell has gotten into a pretty serious car accident. We don't know too much other than that. How serious? He went to the hospital. His car flipped over. He was not driving. He was a passenger.

Is he in ICU or anything? I don't know. We don't have the latest on that but just uh you know get well soon will ferrell who i think i i was actually having this conversation earlier this week with super producer anna hosnier i think will ferrell's underrated at this point we both watched the house fairly recently uh which was just critically savaged when it came out. Like, brutal. People were like, this movie fucking sucks. It's so, so stupid, but very, very funny.

It has one of the biggest laughs that my wife and I have shared. We both laughed for a minute straight. So, I don't know. When you said the biggest laugh we've shared, now I thought of you always watching, laughing at different things constantly and never being on the same page about what's funny.

You thought that was funny? I think that's true sometimes. We find different things funny. And Will Ferrell has been released from the hospital, so congratulations to us. So don't worry about it. Overrated. He's overrated. Can we talk about him now?

I do think he's underrated. His career went through a very slow overrated then underrated backlash type thing and I think he's still in the underrated backlash. What do you mean underrated? You mean at present we're not giving it up to him enough? Because clearly he's going to be in the

pantheon of the great community. come yeah but like I think when his movies come out now people are like oh this sucks like another will Ferrell movie I mean that's not the students just funny as fuck like it's not cool to be like this 50 year old white guy is really funny you know I'm like he's been funny for like 15 years so it's not interesting to say. So you're out here saying the controversial shit. Yeah, Will Ferrell is funny. Whoa, bro. Jesus Christ.

But I'm telling you, read some of the reviews for The House, because Jason Manzoukas is also hilarious, and I heard him on a bunch of podcasts. He was excited when I was coming out. He's like, this movie's going to be funny. And then I heard him on another podcast a week later, and he was like, holy shit holy shit man people really hate this fucking movie and like there's no reason to hate it what were they it's a lot of fun just because it was i don't know like a lot of critics just have bad senses of humor i think like dumb and dumber when it first came out people were like this is dumb shit like the headlines wrote themselves uh and you know people just fucking hated that movie

and then once it became a classic like everyone was like yeah the coen brothers peak was dumb and dumber and something about marriage coen brothers i mean fairly brothers uh no the coen brothers actually did that i'm pretty sure the coen brothers made dumb and dumber uh samsonite i was way off uh sorry i had already moved on to our next story hold on i just have to say my part of Dumb and Dumber is when he comes out to 7-Eleven. I'm with the two brothers there with the fucking Big Gulps. And he's like, Big Gulps, huh? All right.

Well, see you later. That's how good that movie is. I can say it in time with you with the pauses and everything. Big Gulps is so good. With my friend group, I sometimes be like, oh, big gulps, huh? Just to be like, all right. I think everybody of a certain age just grew up quoting Dumb and Dumber and some of those movies. And now we're mentally ruined. Yeah.

But I think the reason I thought Coen Brothers instead of Forelli Brothers is because we got our next story coming up. The Coen Tapes, baby. These might be a thing. So there is apparently something about doing super illegal shit, like doing crimes around the presidency that makes people just want to record themselves doing it. So the thing that made me hopeless about this current scandal, the Trump scandal being anything like Watergate,

was when I listened back to the Watergate podcast, Slow Burn, it was still up in the air until they were like, oh, Nixon recorded everything. And he just gave us all the tapes with him being like, yeah, so how do we cover this up? Here's how we'll cover it up. I'll give you this much money for covering up the crime we did. And so I was like, okay, well, we'll never have that. But who knows now? Because apparently Michael Cohen, his lawyer, was known to record himself in conversations with clients and with people for clients so he could play it back.

And now everybody on their side is concerned that, you know, they just seized all this shit. Period. They're very concerned. they just seized all this shit. They're very concerned. They just seized all this shit. They probably have a lot of records of phone calls, like literal records, recordings of phone calls. Yeah.

They're saying that like during the campaign, people avoided him because he had such a fucking knack for recording everything. So this is, I forget what this is from. This quote says, in one instance, Cohen played a recording of a conversation he had with someone else to a Trump campaign official to demonstrate that he was in a position to challenge that person's veracity if necessary. Cohen indicated that he had something to use against the person he had taped, the associate said.

So he's just like he's also just so messy with it that he's like, I'm always just getting receipts. Right. And I put them in a shoebox that I don't basically protect. And now maybe someone else has my whole receipt box the most rateable office by the way like it was like just i mean they didn't even have to overturn anything it's just overflowing with evidence if you raided my office you would get like the three hoodies that i keep on the back of my chair and that's it and maybe one of anna's tide pods yeah definitely one of an's Tide Pods. Yeah, definitely one of Anna's

Tide Pods. But I mean, I'm assuming just my desk. Oh, which you call an office. Right. Your corner office. We do not even have cubicles. We're just all in it together. Very democratic. There is a old chewable vitamin, I think, on the edge of my desk. So they would get that and maybe some gum wrappers. Oh, and then also those weird manifestos you've been writing right right but those are barely legible i tried to read and i've sent those to the government already so yeah uh but yeah blake you're right it's like the most rateable uh office like just it's crazy how like is everything just gonna really be like who calls it dumb Watergate? John Oliver? I think it's

one of the Crooked Media guys. That it's now like really starting to even echo shit like this about like oh there's also recorded conversation not that we know it has anything to do that's going to be directly incriminating but like we're checking off all the boxes of the kinds of things like oh

possibly incriminating recordings. Check. Love it. Love it. Calls it that. Oh, nice. It is amazing like that. Trump has assembled just like an all world team of like narcissists and like people who are just super like insecure and like think that they're going to be stabbed in the back and are also backstabbers.

And out for themselves where because that doesn't gel well. You know what I mean? When you have the biggest narcissist of all time in office. So it's just like, God, how did this guy like not even have the wherewithal to like even have like sycophants and like, you know, like just people who are like just sycophants to their core

to like support him where it's just like, Cone's like out for himself obviously as well. So it's just like, yeah, everyone's's just gonna keep fucking each other over until uh literally nothing happens yeah I mean that's that's the problem with unscrupulous characters yeah right good word but I think you're right that a lot of times with a lot of other people you surround yourself with whoever you surround yourself with and And then once you get to the presidency, you're like, okay, and now I make over my team with all the people who are professionals at this. Right. Who have experience.

He did not do that. Right, right. He just installed his children into key roles. Literally his children. His fucking children. Who can't even get top secret clearance. Right. Well, why the fuck would they be able to?

I don't know. There should be a law, you know, now that like if you can't even get top secret clearance as a person, you shouldn't be able to run for president. Oh, there should definitely. You know what I mean? That should just be the first litmus test. Like, first of all, can you even be trusted with information? No. How the fuck are we going to let you lead the country?

We can't tell these guys anything, you know? Yeah. leave the country we can't tell these guys anything you know yeah how long do you think it's gonna take after the trump presidency for america to just be like okay so that was bad right we can all agree that was bad like what laws are we gonna pass to make sure that shit never happens again like i don't know i don't know we'll see yeah yeah the midterms go we'll see how people start sweating then yeah uh all right we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered.

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Jump around. Just to get the blood going. No, we're going to do a bunch of different stories because it continues to be a fast news period, not a slow news day. Ah. A fast news days. Psycho. The deputy attorney general basically thinks he's going to be fired to the point that his confidants are saying that in the past he's been very stressed out when he thinks he's going to be fired. And now he's at that point where he's made peace with it. Oh, no. He's quoting Martin Luther.

Oh, not King. The 99 theses. he's quoting Martin Luther. Oh. Not King, the other one. The 99 Theses? Yeah, he keeps saying, here I stand when people are like, so do you think you're going to be fired? Here I stand. Oh, shit.

I guess. Yeah, bring it. I got 99 Theses, but an indulgence ain't one. Exactly. That's crazy to think about. I mean, that's also very dangerous because that's like some samurai shit where it's like,

you cannot kill me because I have already died. And i hope he would like obi-wan kenobi but if it's also just to the point where he's like i've already broken so i can't be more stressed out because i'm so stressed out i hope that maybe he's found something deeper to power him through this very tough time because it seems like even with like signing off on the raid and shit and also muller handing it off to the doj clearly the two of them were like look bro we know we're in a tough spot right like fuck it like let's just do what we got to do now i've had jobs where i'm like oh the writing's on the wall here i'm for sure not going to be here very soon and there's no worse employee than like when that happened like that's just when you start stealing you know you just start taking right everything you can.

Because in your mind you're going to be like, well, what are you going to do? Fire me? What are you going to do? Charge me with something? That's a lot of work. No. Another way that the Trump camp was trying to spin this yesterday on the Fox news of the world was

that Rosenstein should be recused because he can't be both a witness and a supervisor of the world was that Rosenstein should be recused because he can't be both a witness and a supervisor of the investigation. That's what Dershowitz was saying yesterday, Trump's homie and dinner partner. And Jeffrey Toobin from The New Yorker and legal reporter was like, yeah, but that's been the case for over a year now, right? And Dershowitz was like yeah but that's been the case for over a year now right and Dershowitz was like yeah yeah fair point and like that he had just like shut him down by like being like yeah but why didn't you bring this up like any of the 52 past weeks where this has been the case hey man hey I don't know like that would have been the best like that's the same I don't know

why I didn't whatever fine then not. Fine. Then not that one. Okay. Give me a second. Let me think of another one. This sucks. This whole thing sucks. Right. So if he does fire him, we will be in a constitutional crisis. Sure. But a lot of people are saying it would be political suicide for him to do that.

Suicide. It would be a clear attempt to replace Mueller. But the question that people are asking is technically what happens, right? So he fires Rod Rosenstein. He could then fire Sessions too, and that would give him a direct line to whoever would then be able to end the Mueller investigation. whoever would then be able to end the Mueller investigation. He could override the established succession plan to replace Rosenstein because there is sort of a line of succession that is in place. So I guess like the deputy deputy attorney general. I'm sure that's not right.

But, you know, something of that nature. And Trump might have to go in and make that call himself yeah and eventually he will just kill lady justice right that's the last step right it's just a it wouldn't be the first scale he's broken thank you so much thank you so much oh god damn it blake is literally blowing kisses around the audience so good yeah you're doing that thing where you're clasping both hands and shoving it over your shoulders. Right. I'm catching invisible bouquets. Those pictures.

Thornless. Sorry. Those pictures of him last weekend, like, walking in his big trench coat where it seemed like he was hiding other people under the trench coat. Like, were those Photoshopped? There was a Photoshopped one that was going around that looked sort of super, like, weird. Like, too big. Okay. Those were Photoshopped. Yeah. There was aoshopped one that was going around that looked sort of super like weird too big okay those were yeah there was a photoshop one that was going around but i mean the original one isn't flattering either way like it looks like he was wearing like a silk bathrobe over his suit that was made to look like a coat like right the material seemed very thin

of the coat anyway you know how like mellow wears like like at a whole outfit underneath his basketball clothes like a hoodie and like pants and stuff? Right, right. That's like what Trump was wearing, but like adjust the sizes, like nine sizes. You know what I mean? Right. Exactly. All right.

The weirdest analogy I think I've ever made. Yeah, sorry. Hey, for all my Carmelo Anthony fans out there. Right, right. All right. So the other big story in Washington right now is the Comey book is coming. Comey's coming Tuesday, I guess. And the excerpts are starting to leak out. And there's a lot of interesting stuff in there. Good stuff, huh? The way the conservative media has chosen to

highlight it, they're playing up the fact that he's coming for Trump and he's an anti-Trumper. But then they're also like, I noticed yesterday they were like taking these very bland passages where Comey like says something nice about Obama or Hillary or they say something nice about him. And I was like, why is that happening? But apparently that's one of their strategies is to make it look like he's in league with the Democrats, even though he's a I'm pretty sure a lifelong Republican. But their whole narrative doesn't really make sense if he's a lifelong Republican. Yeah. And let's be real. He helped Trump when he fucking brought up those emails again right before the fucking election. Right. So, you know, it's hard to say like people definitely have their issues with James Comey.

But I think he's trying to be like, look, but I might be able to redeem myself here. Yeah. So a couple other ways the Republicans are dealing with this. So one of the most spread around excerpts that you've probably heard by now is that he says that Trump was immediately, the second he told him about the Russia dossier from, what's his name? Chris Steele. Christopher Steele.

Rennington Steele.ton steel do you not get that thank you blake yeah anytime man hey he's gonna get suspicious of us bro don't laugh sorry you guys are holding hands under the table no we're not what hand what is the hand hands what are those the most guilty person're not. What is a hand? Hands? What are those? The most guilty person. I don't know what a hand is. First of all. It's a witch hunt, Jack. Yeah. But much like the late night comedians, he focused in when Trump was told about the dossier, he really focused in on the pee tape stuff. Yeah. He was like, yeah, that pee stuff is weird that that's not me uh let's prove that false which is an impossible thing you can't prove something like a thing false you can't

prove a thing didn't happen right he was like but uh you know milani is gonna get mad about that so which also a thing he's never been like worried about at all right while you're having sex with people while she's pregnant or having just given birth to your son which in this scheme i think like this is why this is so interesting to me because like comey i want to say this objectively is not a likable guy like he he's done a lot of fucked up stuff like uh two progressives and obviously now he's trying to like hopefully make good let's just listen to the title of his book and see if he's a likable guy. A higher loyalty, truth, lies, and leadership. Go fuck yourself. Yeah, he's such a pile of shit, and he's so unlikable,

and yet we want to treat him like a hero. You do want to cheer for him because he could be a guy who could hurt the most unlikable guy. It is so petty. And by the way, no one wants that pee tape to be a thing. That happened more than i do but like really there's so yes yes and if we can talk about this uh tonight i mean um like just there's so many larger things like corruption and abuse of power that you should be focusing on and it's like if you have any brains whatsoever you know if you bring up the p-tape it's not going

to be about like the things that actually matter like everyone knows trump's a piece of shit everyone knows he's an adulterer. Everyone knows that he's a terrible husband, a terrible man. A P-Tape is not going to make that worse. You know what I mean? Unfortunately. That's how low he is. But it's going to make him look dirty.

But he had a couple reasons why the P-Tape could not exist. It's just funny to me that he focused in on that. While I agree totally with what you're saying about this being a ridiculous thing to focus in on. We're now going to talk about the P-Tape thing for the next 15 minutes. Yeah, for the next 47 minutes. His defense for why it wasn't true was not that, say, he would never be paying Russian prostitutes to explore one of his fetishes in a luxury hotel. It was specifically, he said, because he's a germaphobe and therefore would never, quote, let people pee on each other around me. Yeah, the thing that Comey wrote, he said, after quoting Trump, he's saying, yeah, there's

no way I would let people pee on each other around me. No way. Comey says he just rolled on, un unprompted explaining why it couldn't possibly be true ending by saying he was thinking of asking me to investigate the allegations to prove it was a lie again technically impossible according to the post and then he says i said it was up to him dude that's such an asshole thing to do where this guy's clearly unhinged and you're watching this go down he's like yeah i don't know i mean i clearly like why would i have people behind me i'm a germaphobe like that's gross and blah blah blah so i mean maybe you can like look

into it i don't know and he just goes well that's up to you the worst working relationship that is up to you man your call uh your life your choice this isn't i mean this is one of many reasons like because you know the right is very afraid of the p-tape too because i mean our man jesse waters i think we played this clip before but like that fucking idiot jesse waters on fox he also has a really great theory why the p-tape can't exist and you just got to hear this one because this is actually to me this actually i think is a good defense for why it cannot exist by the way this is the only show that i've ever been able to talk about the pee tape on.

And you know it's not true. If someone pees in the bed, where are you going to sleep? Well, I don't think he's having a sleepover with them. It's obviously not true. That doesn't make any sense. I don't think it's a cuddle fest. What the fuck are you talking about? It can't be true.

Because if they pee in the bed, where are you going to sleep? And you know Donald Trump doesn't have that kind of money to just get another hotel room to sleep in. Where are you going to find another bed in a Ritz Carlton? I mean, you pee on the floor, where are you going to walk? You pee in the sink, where are you going to wash your damn hands? Exactly. Pee in the toilet, it's ruined. Yeah.

So you don't cycle through toilets. Yeah. So if you don't cycle through toilets. Yeah. Also, it's entirely possible that while it's valid that Trump is a germaphobe and probably would not maybe choose to have people pee on each other around him. It's also entirely possible that he didn't know what a golden shower was. And you mean how I shower in gold? Yeah, exactly.

He's obsessed with gold and he's a germaphobe. So he was like, yeah, I want a golden shower.. Yeah, exactly. He's obsessed with gold and he's a germaphobe. So he was like, yeah, I want a golden shower. Fuck yeah, man. He's just ordered the wrong thing. I want a golden everything else. But did he do that thing where he mistakenly orders it

and then when it's happening in front of him, he goes, oh, I didn't order this. I'm not going to send it back. Yeah, but then he's like, okay, actually, go harder. Right.

Bring in a couple gallons of water, please. Well, let me debunk the germaphobe thing. Is that, like, this could be a situation, like, germaphobe pee could be, like, a separate thing where, like, people who are afraid of heights can go on planes. You know what I mean? Where you are technically high up. It is technically a germ-infested thing, but maybe it's just a different category. Anyway.

Well, right. Like, when somebody has, like, a weird germaphobe, they can still be into like weird poop stuff. You know, it's like, I feel like that's. How do you know about this? I don't know. You can say we. It's a beautiful thing. Like sometimes it's a beautiful thing to just lay under that glass table and just have them

go to town. God's plan. But like a lot of times people's sexual proclivities are tied up with their fears and phobias and stuff like you're scared of clowns and yet you have the dominatrix dress up like a clown and i don't think trump can count not wanting to shake hands with latino people as being a germaphobe but i guess that's why he carries like oh my god i don't know i have to i have to wash i have to take three showers after i'm a big germaphobe right you're a racist yeah no no no i'm a germaphobe i a big germaphobe. Right. You're a racist. No, no, no. I'm a germaphobe. I'm a germaphobe. That was also a lot, like, not to compare them, but a lot of Hitler's anti-Semitic stuff was

very, like, focused on germs and, like, exterminating germs. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, boy. Yep. So another aspect of the Comey book that Wright has chosen to focus in on is that he compares Trump to a mob boss He says that the now famous demand where Trump was like I need your loyalty and tell me was like I give you my honesty

But I need loyalty he said to my mind the demand was like Sammy the Bulls Costa Nostra loyalty he said to my mind the demand was like sammy the bull's costa nostria induction ceremony with trump in the role of the family boss asking me if i have what it takes to be a made man sean hannity responded to that by dedicating a whole segment to just implying that comey literally said trump was a mob boss right not likening him to right god not that yeah he doesn't know how similes work hannity might not know that sammy the bull is not an actual bull i don't know about that yeah right he probably thinks that's the bull's mascot when he's at the delta center or the unit center like that's him that's sammy where do you find a tailor to tailor a suit for a bull yeah right yeah exactly but yeah let me

read some quotes from the hannity segment he, Since Comey can't distinguish between homicidal criminals and a politician he disagrees with, it is worth reminding him what an actual mob boss looks like. Al Capone plagued society with illicit gambling. Lucky Luciano was responsible for widespread extortion, prostitution rings, bootlegging. John Gotti was convicted. Like, is he fucking... Yeah, heitution rings, bootlegging. John Gotti was convicted. Like, is he fucking? Yeah, he's gish galloping himself.

Right. He's like trying to answer all these other points, but they're not even necessary. Right. It's like he's filibustering his own show or something. Like, that is the most nonsensical point I've ever heard somebody. It was just like, it's come to that. They don't have anything good to say in defending him. So they're just like, well, he's not technically a mob boss. Here are other mob bosses.

I mean, eventually the discourse will get to a point where I think Hannity's going to be like, well, James Comey's a bitch. So, oh, I mean, you can't, yeah. I mean, look at him. You know, he sucks. Like, I feel like that's where it's headed. Right. It's not even a good book.

Like that book sucks. Yeah. It's just like, that's not the point of it. I don't know. Have y'all, have y'all read Eat where it's headed. Right. It's not even a good book. That book sucks. That's not the point of it. Have y'all read Eat, Pray, Love? I would read that. Now there's a book. The GOP has also launched a website called lioncomey.com because that's how folksy and real

the Republican Party is. They don't even use the G. It's just L-Y-I-N Comey. I hope they also bought the domain Lying Comey in case there are people who are just hearing it and go there. Oh, I hope the Democrats get that one. Oh, let me just go to Lying Comey. Yeah, because either party would have a reason to make that website. Hey, they're smart.

They're smart. They redirect to Lying, apostrophe, Comey.com. And the site is made up of criticisms of Comey from Democrats like Hillary and Nancy Pelosi so yeah take that Hillary is credible in the instance of only when she's

talking critically of James Comey otherwise she's from Satan she's a lizard reptilian who cannot be trusted I mean again hey you gotta be flexible with your lies. Yeah, with your lies, basically. The Republicans have an actual plan, a three-point plan to attack for people going on TV shows this weekend. They say, one, emphasize that Comey has a long history of misstatements and misconduct.

Two, attempts to smear the Trump administration are nothing more than retaliation by a disgraced former official. And three, Comey is incredible. Just ask the Democrats. So those are that's tired ass talking point. Right. That's what they're handing out, though. So just keep that in mind as you're watching the weekend. None of you are watching.

Yeah. watching the uh weekend shows none of you are watching the weekend shows and there's something in the daily beast where they're asking about like the white house having like a real pr rapid response team to like deal with this and they're basically saying like yeah because the president just freestyles all the fucking time we really can't do that right because there's no way to be have a coordinated damage control operation because this guy will just fire off some fucking tweet at three and more three in the morning and throw everything into chaos so again man freestyling now do you think the most amazing result of this uh impending comey book release is like we showed you earlier fox doesn't really know what to do with the comey book uh he's a lifelong Republican they're just like we're having a tough time spinning this

and so on Fox and Friends this morning the president's friends who live inside the magic learning box we call it Sesame Street for the president they posited that bombing Syria would be quote a bigger story than Comey's book

launch here we're going to play a clip of that Geraldo if the president in France and the UK decide A bigger story than Comey's book launch. Here, we're going to play a clip of that. Geraldo, if the president in France and the UK decide to strike Syria, don't you think that story would be a bigger story than Comey's book that's released on Tuesday? Wow. That's... Geraldo? Yeah, Geraldo. Where is Geraldo?

He was in a factory or some shit. I don't even know. He was doing crunches. But that is them essentially being like hey use this as a distraction we're tired of talking about this Comey book dude if you bomb somebody we're gonna be

forced to cover that I mean the next step since it's Sesame Street is Elmo coming out Elmo says S stands for Syria bomb it for distraction like it was literally logically laying it out to baby Trump of, hi, you need a fucking smoke bomb? How about real bombs in Syria? Dangerous, dangerous, dangerous.

It's so crazy where if you look at it like it's run a business, and that was one of his selling points. I'm a businessman. I'll run the country as a business. It is an impossible business to work for where like so much about like working at a company is like coordinating everything and making sure everyone's on the same page and each department is in charge of its you know like task but now like when your ceo is just shooting off at the handle and you just have no idea what the hell he's going to do it's impossible to coordinate

like a response and then you have the different and by the way i'm counting fox news as a department in this government like they're now getting into the department from like you know like his aides and advisors and like they're just like uh like maybe you should fucking do this there's like you don't work in this department but it's like well who cares from yeah because like we're all just trying to make this thing work and it's just impossible to work. When you have a terrible boss, you like do things to make them think that it's their idea.

You like put ideas out there like, now I'm just putting this out here, but if you bombed Syria, wouldn't that make us focus on that? Anyways, just saying.

Yeah, I don't know, man. I'm going to go back and vape in the other room, but you tell me, bro. Just had this idea when I was loading up with some more

pina colada vape juice. That's funny because when you say that, bro. Just had this idea when I was loading up with some more pina colada vape juice. That's funny because when you say that, I think we may have mentioned it, like how there was a group of the Associated General Contractors of America. They were doing like a presentation or convention to a bunch of trade groups. And there was a slide when they were talking about how to deal with the Trump administration. And they were saying, this is like a slide from a presentation, being run like a bad family-owned business, autocratic leader, no coordination of message, employees operate in fear, loyalty exalted overall, family members untouchable, frank discussion, internal criticism discouraged, pits individuals and groups against each other, and lack of delegation.

And that wasn't a critique of the Trump administration. No. That was a strategic statement of like how to work with them. Yeah. Because they're like, you get it. You know, like as contractors,

like I'm sure you've dealt with bad small family owned businesses. Like this is exact same shit. There's the person at the top who is doesn't know what the fuck is going on. Right.

And their kids know everything and no one dare say a critical thing about it or else we'll fucking lose it. Right. And I guess if you really want to really look at that, that's also kind of like

how the mob is run. Exactly like the mob. But hey, I don't know. Whatever. Later. Loyalty. Family. Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty. Not to mention that Trump is good friends with a lot of mobsters. His first lawyer, his first big time

associate was Roy Cohn, the guy who was a famous mob lawyer. A McCarthy's lawyer too. Right. Oh my God. So I mean, he has mob connections for sure. It's just Sean Hannity's inability to understand metaphors and similes. All right, we're going to take a quick break.

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And we're back. And Super Producer Nick Stumpf pointed out that saying that you can't prove that Trump wasn't there is not technically true. You can prove a negative in certain cases. Like you could definitely show that Trump was not in Russia on the day that the P-tape was supposed to happen. But obviously he was there. And it's much harder to prove a negative is what I should have said. Okay. But yeah.

Proving non-existence. Right. Apology accepted. Check out Arrow's impossibility theorem. Hey, speaking of proving that things didn't happen, so yesterday there was an article that kind of got undercovered because during Mark Zuckerberg's appearance

in front of Congress, the thing that got more questions than whether Facebook exacerbated or helped cause the Myanmar genocide was whether they were censoring Diamond and Silk. Yes. So Diamond and Silk, if you don't know, are two hyper problematic African-American women who I don't know if they're being held hostage to say the things that they're saying, but they are just really crazy. Trump stands and they also spread all kinds of fake news and just kind of garbage that you would say violates Facebook's terms of service and things like that.

Right. They were claiming, you know, that they were hit with like a violation and therefore Facebook's algorithm was actually suppressing their content and people couldn't get to it. What is true is I think they were sent like a letter or a message saying that Facebook had thought their content was unsafe. But as for the thing that they were talking about, their content being suppressed or censored is completely false because, you know, some people did some number crunching and compared it to like very liberal pages like Rachel Maddow or the Young Turks and things like that. And the dip that they were experiencing was a dip that was felt across board. And like Rachel Maddow, like, you know, she went from and I think what they said from March 2017 to March 2018. Total interactions on her page went from 3.3 million to 1.6 million.

page went from 3.3 million to 1.6 million. Yeah. Now she's arguably much more popular than Diamond and Silk and is clearly much more liberal than Diamond and Silk. And over that same period, like it's the same fall off happened to everybody. And so it wasn't anything specific to them or being censored. Basically cut in half. Yeah. And actually, and some analysis of it would show that they were actually getting more

impressions comparatively than Rachel Maddow was. So I guess that was just them saying one thing. And then because these two women are the sort of, you know, the tokens from on high for the GOP to sort of point to, to be like, see, we're not racist. Oh, you're trying to censor African-American people who support the president. That's unsafe. unsafe. This is what Ted Cruz chose to focus his conversation with Mark Zuckerberg on was, you know, his censorship of diamond and silk. And he, I guess, just took them at their word because they complained about it. Right. And that's what everybody did. So this goes along with a couple of things. First of all, it suggests that Congress doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about when it comes to Facebook. Right. And they're just not sophisticated

enough. They're just going to look at something're talking about when it comes to Facebook. Right. And they're just not sophisticated enough. They're just going to look at something that probably got shared with them on Facebook. On Facebook. Yeah. 100%. Like that their fucking, you know, problematic uncle or your problematic uncle shared with them. And, you know, they just believed it immediately. And it also goes to show that Facebook lets just awful, shitty, problematic content still get spread around.

They should be stopping Diamond and Silk because the shit they're saying is crazy, problematic conspiracy theories that aren't true and could get somebody hurt. So, yeah. I mean, look, it's such a distraction because really they're missing the point when you have Mark Zuckerberg there. You should be asking, are you guys too fucking powerful for your own good? Yeah. Instead of being like, let me grandstand for some false narrative about how Diamond and Silk, who, by the way, will regularly sip orange soda out of a wine glass.

I don't know because she thinks it's dope. I mean, I respect the fuck out of that. That's classy. Well, I have a problem with that. You never put orange soda in a Merlot glass, okay? Right. It goes in a white wine glass. Of course. Thank you so much. Jesus Christ. What is this, a barn?

But you're right. The conversation should be, do we have to regulate you? That's what the conversation should be. No fair. You're suppressing conservative viewpoints. And when they fail to even look on their own, some of the top publishers on Facebook are still like Breitbart and Fox and a lot of conservative outlets.

So they're playing themselves by getting so myopic in their analysis of Facebook and just be like, look what you're doing. You're propping up liberals and you're putting down people who just spread outright lies. Right. And look, you can't be lying.

Don't lie. It's fucking, then you have people showing up at Comet Pizza with rifles trying to say they're going to save these kids. Right. Well, but they're doing God's work there. God's plan.

God's plan. God's plan. Speaking of God's plan, Colin Kaepernick almost got a workout with an NFL team. This close. Unbelievable. NFL team. This close. Unbelievable. So close.

So close. And then it was canceled. And they actually were surprisingly honest about sort of what the cause of the cancellation was. Shockingly honest. Yeah. In the past, they've just been like, you know, sorry, our coach's flight got delayed or like something like that but in this case they acknowledged that it had to do with his advocacy right yeah because at first they're like okay workout great let's schedule it monday be there and like everything was gonna happen then

like oh the thing is can you stop kneeling right and then they're like absolutely not and then suddenly it was canceled it's very weird with yeah but the thing was that was the that was a report i think from one side of people who were talking to kaepernick about it was just because he refused to do that that's why but the seahawks are more i don't know their explanation is more of a spin on that of basically like well we needed like a coherent plan about uh like what he was going to do with his advocacy right which i think just means is he going to kneel or not right what's your plan for kneeling because that's part of his advocacy that's his uh way of of uh bringing attention to the cause but

and continuing to kneel did not count as a valid plan in their book right presumably that wasn't coherent enough for them like i think it's so we haven't like in sports uh it's been like very like reactionary i think when, players would kneel. Or, like, I mean, what's his face? I almost called him Tommy Lee Jones. Jerry Jones in Dallas had, like, a very problematic approach to it. But Seattle just seems like the first team that is, like, actively acting against activists on their team. Where they've gotten rid of Michael Bennett, who is a very loud voice for activism.

They've been public, obviously, about the Kaepernick thing. And then they got rid of Richard Sherman as well, who's another like very loud voice. And just like from a PR standpoint, if nothing else, whether it's right or wrong morally, it's really bad PR to like just publicly say like, hey, you know, like we're not going to allow this activist here, like all of them. And it's in Seattle, which is a very liberal city as well, which is very strange. Although there was like a video that came out a couple of weeks. I forget what Seahawks players were pulling up to the practice facility and like a woman pulled up like a white woman in like a suburban. She's like, when are you going to fucking get off your fucking knees and blah, blah,

blah. And they were like, what the hell? And she just kept going on and on. So like, I don't know. It's weird, too, because there are people in the city coming at their own players for that shit, too. Right. But, you know. Yeah.

Those people are everywhere. He came close, though. He nearly got a shot. Yeah. So we'll see. I mean, hopefully somebody will, you know, what the fuck is the problem here? Yeah. You're going to sell fucking a crazy amount of jerseys.

Yeah. And, like, I don't know. Like, teams are, like, look at the NBA. You know, like, they have, like, the most active players and, like, the most vocal players. And that sport is, like, at an all-time high. You know what I mean? Like, if for no other reason, take politics, take what's right or wrong out of it. Like, you're costing yourself money.

Yeah. The NBA is, like, they compared last year's ratings, ticket sales, jersey sales. All that shit is like going way way up and all these other leagues are dying uh the nfl is just so fucking problematic you're right like not only do they discourage you know tweeting and shit like that but yeah if you are smart and outspoken and a black man you can get cut from your team it interferes with your livelihood yeah guys just let robert craft be the woke person you know because clearly you know and a black man, you can get cut from your team. It interferes with your livelihood. Guys, just let Robert Kraft be the woke person.

Because clearly, he visited Meek Mill in jail. You know what I mean? Let Robert Kraft take that mantle up. Well, that's actually the Philadelphia thing. I know it was the right thing for Robert Kraft to do, but fuck him. All right, I think it's time for bloid watch uh so yeah we we've been on to this shit before anyone else uh yeah paying attention to american media inc now everyone wants to talk about

american media now everybody wants to talk about david pecker now everybody wants to do a means based on the note he's been doing trump holding back stories, squashing stories about his potential alleged illegitimate children, doing all this work for him. And Trump apparently put him in touch with Saudi oil money and Mohammed bin Salman. And now he got a bunch of funding to buy up a bunch more magazines. So there's a... That's a shoulder shrug. Yeah, yeah.

So they're all in it together. And we like to look at the Bloids because, you know, people still buy groceries. And, you know, these headlines are getting into your brain one way or another, as long as you aren't just, like, doing tunnel vision when you check out at the grocery store. So I had a couple of interesting stories. So the front page of the Globe had the story that crooked Clintons took Russian cash and helped Iran get an A-bomb. Wow. And a bitter feud behind the smiles.

Kate and Meghan hate each other. And so we're obviously going to start with the more important one, that Kate and Meghan hate each other. And so we're obviously going to start with the more important one, that Kate and Megan hate each other. This is about the royal soon-to-be sisters-in-law? Right. So Kate is Will's wife, and Megan is about to be Harry's wife. And so this is all sourced by an anonymous royal insider.

Which is whoever wrote the story. Right. And they don't even get good quotes from their made-up source. Do people even have bylines? They'll never be BFFs. The byline is anonymous royal insider. Right. Insiders say Kate expecting her third child any day has felt overshadowed.

Kate even boycotted Megan's bachelorette party at a luxury spa using the excuse that she was too pregnant, which. That's actually. Yeah, we'll buy that one. Oh, you're like three days away from giving birth. Sure, you bitch. You should have came. It was so great. I can't believe how petty you are, Kate.

Right. And then on to the Clinton story, Crooked Clinton's treason exposed. They actually named their source in this one, which is crazy. A guy named William Douglas Campbell, the CEO of an energy consulting firm and CIA spook. And he is, according to Reuters, a ex-lobbyist for a Russian firm. ex-lobbyist for a Russian firm. So the one time you have a named quote, you can't even get a guy who wouldn't even appear totally fucking in. What the fuck? This guy is the source behind the

Uranium One. Oh, he is Uranium One. Yeah, he is the Uranium One source, and that's the reason everybody's been like, yo, this is just completely trumped up to distract from the Mueller thing, is this guy used to work for a Russian... Well, that's a good point. Right. But also just a catty little box story off to the side that I'm pretty sure Trump specially ordered is it says, proof Hillary is sure loser. And it talks about how the disgraced Democrat trounced by President Donald Trump earned $7,000 less than Jersey Shore reality TV star Snooki to address students at Garden State's Rutgers University.

Sookie was paid $32,000 and Hillary only got $25,000. And therefore, we can all say that Hillary is a complete fucking loser and dying of brain cancer. This is what happened. Hillary was offered $25,000 and she's gracious and said, okay, that's fine. That'll work because I want to speak to the graduates. They offered Snooki $25,000

and her greedy ass went, no, we want $45,000. And they said, no, because said no because 32 is a weird number right and they clearly negotiated down from whatever crazy fee she asked for and then like fine 32 right okay great i mean that's like just a fuck i mean also credit to them for like trying to be like yo she's not even better than snooki right yeah and snooki does charge more for new jersey appearances by the way that is true. Is that true? No, I don't know.

Probably. Didn't you say that you do colleges? And are you allowed to talk about that? Yeah, I mean, who cares? Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's not like they fucking listen to anything that I do. Sorry. I have a professional relationship. He's my agent also for colleges and also represents Snooki.

And yeah, it's just like the amount of money that that guy probably pulls in. I mean, you just heard what? $32,000 fucking dollars? For Snooki? Yeah. She doesn't have jokes about dogs. You know what I mean?

Why fucking can't I get some of that? Can I open for Snooki? Let's spread it around a little bit. Wow, that would be great. Yeah, right? Guys, before I come out, I want you to meet my really great he's really funny blake wexler listen to this half jewish guy complain for an hour before i go on that's what you guys want right um but i do want to just compliment the national inquire because they got my favorite

story i think that we've ever covered in the Bloidwatch section. They found pictures of Meghan's father, Meghan Markle's father, reading a book that is just a picture book of Britain. It's called Images of Britain. And he's basically studying up a picture book ahead of the royal wedding. He probably went into that bookstore and was like, you got any england stuff right exactly i gotta learn about england where's your england stuff images of britain oh we have this the complete written oral history of no no i need that's long i need a picture book

i'm a visual learner right you got that harry potter's like no there aren't pictures in that either yeah right fuck shit really I thought that was for kids. What else is there? I thought that was for kids. Kids can't read. What else we got? People. The big one was Mariah Carey talking about how she was struggling with her bipolar disorder over these years.

People. Dropping heat. That's a good one. And also, she was talking what's really sad about how she said, I lived in denial and I just felt like I wasn't engaging with my music. I mean, clearly we knew something was up because her last few years of performing publicly have been like memes. Yeah. But to know that she was, you know, struggling. I mean, I think people knew something was wrong, but, you know, good to know that Mariah's out here.

Hopefully she's getting some help. People, by the way, not owned by American Media Inc. Yeah. getting some help and people by the way not owned by american not owned by them yeah am i is just national inquire us weekly star uh all the other ones okay yeah the examiner yeah uh let's see and then in touch they're saying channing tatum and jenna when they're getting divorced right because they on i think publicly said it's like a amicable divorce or whatever and they're like nah man he was cheating he was drinking and screaming and they're fighting over like his movie money or some shit whatever uh then okay magazine is like jen ben and lindsey love triangle explodes that's jen uh garner ben affleck and lindsey pay something whatever the

producer who works at sms yeah who are together but they're like saying caught with ex-wife garner and girlfriend just days apart i'd imagine that's because they have children and maybe he has to see her at some point. I don't know if it's that he's stepping out. Busted. Yeah, well. Hanging out with his children. Yeah, hanging out with his baby's mother.

Gross. What? And then the examiner is just, as we always know, is for only the most elderly of Americans because their cover stories are Sally Field tells all. Love and betrayal. What does she have to talk about? Then all the intimate details.

Newman and Woodward's undying romance. Okay, didn't realize that was a thing. And also Clint Eastwood, 87, inside his amazing secret life. Oh, that he's racist? That he's dying? Yeah. What do you want? That he's now

marrying that chair that he brought up at the RNC? Good for them. And Brad has a new girlfriend, you guys, and it's not Jennifer. So we've been talking about how every one of the covers of Enquirer and Us Weekly and all the garbage

AMI magazines have been all about Brad and Jen moving back in together and all the shit AMI magazines have been all about Brad and Jen moving back in together and all the shit that is just pictures of them from 10 years ago and then made up quotes from their sources. But apparently, Brad is hooking up with an MIT professor, which is crazy. And apparently, her Twitter is really interesting. Yo, her Twitter is so next level. I don't, let's find out what she professes. Do we have a handle?

Neri Oxman. It is N-E-R-I-O-X-M-A-N. Nice. Do they say what she teaches? Science, maths. Ah, probably technology. She's not even verified. But she will be.

She's about to be. Well, anyway, regardless of what she, obviously MIT is a prolific school, but her fucking tweets are amazing. It says, this is one from November 1st, 2017. Women who count in seconds and dream in firsts must always carry a flower pressing kit, a compass, and a hot water bottle designed by Droog. Cool. Uh-huh.

How about this? This is kind of interesting. Nostalgia is the brain's way of instructing the mind to grow up. Childhood is its ultimate refrain. I kind of fuck with that. That sounds fun. She, like, tweets in, like, poem fragments. This one's great.

I miss a straight line. Uh-huh. No, I agree with that for sure. And then this one's really cool from February of this year. Embracing ambiguity may well be as life-sustaining as raw almonds and SPF. I-O-W, I don't know what that means. If you can afford a one-way sojourn to Mars on a rainy day, make it round.

Yeah, you guys can't see. We're going to sprain our necks from nodding so hard at these tweets. Holy shit. You've compressed all the discs in your neck from doing that so hard. But I have always felt like Brad is attracted to intelligent women

and outward intelligence. That's why he dumped Jen for Angie. Now an MIT professor makes a lot of sense to me. At this point, the next one will be like an algorithm. Yeah. That's it. But she looks, I mean, she's trippy. I fuck with her.

She kind of reminds me of Zool. She's beautiful, yeah. Beautiful and has a dope style. She is Zool. Yeah. That's a good look. She kind of reminds me of Zool. She's beautiful, yeah. Beautiful and has a dope style. She is Zool. Yeah. That's a good look. She kind of has that Zool vibe. Zool chic.

Yeah, exactly. Zool chic. Yeah, Zool chic. And he's going to be like, I'm the Vince Clortho to her Zool. I'm the key master of Gozer. Blake. Yes. It has been wonderful having you here, man.

Where can people find you, follow you, learn about you? It's been great to be here. Thank you. I'm recording my album in Los Angeles next week on April 19th at UCB Sunset at 830. Todd Glass is opening the show. Oh, wow. Which is very nice of him. He's a lifelong friend.

Yes. Well, nearly lifelong. People don't know that about you. Yes, lifelong friend. And I never talk about it. No, I talk about it all the time. But yeah, please come to that. And then at Blake Wexler on all social media, Blake Wexler dot com.

But yeah, album recording April 19th, 830 used to be Sunset in Los Angeles. Nice. Follow Blake, man. He's got a good Instagram. He's got a good Twitter. Thank you. Likewise. I was one of the funniest.

You did a story recently where you were in like an old Philadelphia Flyers shirt. And I think you were showing what I thought was your apartment, but there was no furniture in it, and I got really worried for you. Oh, God. Is that a flop house you're in? No, that was squatting. Before my girlfriend moved into our place, I didn't want to decorate it without her because I wanted it to be our shared place.

Oh, look at you. Thank you. Now I feel bad. You were just being a good boyfriend oh no no no but i lived in a like furnitureless apartment for a month like it took a month for her to move in so it was a really tough time actually it was really straight like i had a friend over and there was just like uh beach chairs like to sit oh that's dope dude this sucks this is bad i like that that reminds me that it's like, dude, this sucks. This is bad. I like that. That reminds me of that. It's like you're serving out of your apartment. I lived in LA for a month before Sarah

moved out here. It was just a blow-up inflatable mattress and mail. You're living like a CIA hitman. Just waiting for that text to go now. That was more because I am totally fine living in squalor.

And also any decisions I made were going to get unmade because she has better taste than me. And you're a cuck, bro. Yeah. And I'm a total cuck. You're going to keep letting her pushing you around like that, dude? Yeah. Come on, man. No.

They're girls, dude. Dude, stand up to her and change your son's name, bro. Change your locks, bro. Miles, stand up to her and change your son's name, bro. Change your locks, bro. Miles, where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. And check out two podcasts I'm on that came out this week. I'm on New Player Has Joined, where I talk about one of my favorite video games, Guitar Hero. Very fun.

And then I did the Bechdel cast with Jamie Loftus and Caitlin Durante. Very favorite guests of yours. Zeit gang. So please check out the Bechdel cast because I went on there and we talked about The Rock. The Rock. Nice. And some surprising results of whether or not it passed the Bechdel test. Not the actor.

Not the actor. No. The film. The film. Welcome to The Rock. Right. You can find me at Jack underscore O'Brien on Twitter. You can find us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter. We me at Jack underscore O'Brien on Twitter. You can find us

at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter. 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. Footnotes. A link off to the information that was contained in today's episode. Miles. Yes.

What are we going to ride out on? You've been playing a bunch of really good music around the office. So many bangers around the office. Which one's going to happen? Okay, so obviously today's Friday the 13th. What does that make for next week? Add seven days from today. What is next Friday? Uh-oh.

420! Okay, so you know how I get down. Maybe you don't. But, you know, the cannabis plant has given us so many healings and powers on this earth. So, you know, I think we're going to have a special 420 episode next week we are uh and you know we'll probably talk about various things about uh the the benefits of cannabis and and what you know the big pharma trying to step in and shit like that but yes to prepare you guys get ready uh this is a really dope kind of flip

of uh past the dutchie but this is by this artist called star slinger and this is called dutchie courage so guys pass your dutchie upon the left-hand side and, you know, turn up the tunes. Enjoy your weekend. Bless y'all. Please contribute to an atmosphere of love and positivity and acceptance. All right. We're going to ride out on that. We will be back on Monday.

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