The Daily Zeitgeist - Corruption Is BAE, 8-Bit Whip 11.25.19

Episode Date: November 25, 2019

In episode 523, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Andrew Michaan to discuss the top trending stories on the internet, how current 2020 candidates aren't as well-liked as older candidates, Lev Parnas claiming hard evidence, needing more hearings, Trump calling in to Fox & Friends, Rudy Giuliani's son, how Don Trump Jr's book sold so many copies, the new Tesla Cybertruck, and more!FOOTNOTES: The 2020 Front-Runners Aren’t As Well-Liked As Past Contenders Lev Parnas, shady pal of Rudy Giuliani, claims ‘hard evidence’ of wrongdoing for Trump impeachment inquiry When even Steve Doocy is trying to get you to stop spewing conspiracies TRUMP on Kurt Volker, his former special envoy to Ukraine: "I don't know him." "She wouldn't hang my picture in the embassy ... it took like a year & a half or 2 years for her to get the picture up ... this was not an angel, ok?" -- Trump says one of his big beefs with Ambassador Yovanovitch was that she wasn't eager to hang up his portrait "I do want, always, corruption" -- quite the Freudian slip from Trump Rudy Giuliani’s son Andrew gets $90,700 a year as Sports Liaison for the White House. His job is coordinating professional athletes visiting Trump. His relevant experience? He golfs. What Does Rudy Giuliani’s Son Do? Trump hires Rudy Giuliani's son for White House role Forced Off Duke’s Varsity Golf Team, Giuliani’s Son Files a Lawsuit WATCH: Rudy Giuliani Inauguration Upstaged by Son’s Antics [1994] Yankee Stadium Opening Day Kellyanne Conway’s 'opioid cabinet' sidelines drug czar’s experts New FEC disclosures show a single large RNC payment of $94,800 to Books-a-Million in October, a few days before "Triggered" was released. An RNC spokesman confirmed that the expenditure was connected to their promotion of Don Trump Jr.'s book. The 12 coolest features of Tesla's new $39,900 Cybertruck pickup WATCH: Orchestra Baobab - Ndeleng Ndeleng Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's so much beauty in Mexican culture, like mariachis, delicious cuisine, and even Lucha Libre. Join us for the new podcast, Lucha Libre Behind the Mask, a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of Lucha Libre. And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar. Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. In California during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles,

two women did something no other woman had done before, try to assassinate the president of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed Squeaky. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore.

The story of one strange and violent summer this season on the new podcast, Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeart True Crime Plus only on Apple Podcasts. I'm Renee Stubbs, and I'm obsessed with sports,

especially tennis. Tune into my podcast each week to hear me and my friends in the community break down the latest matches, including the US Open. Plus hear from some of the biggest names in the sport about what the future holds. It's about belief. And once you break through that, then you know you can win a Grand Slam.

Listen to the Renee Stubbs Tennis Podcast every Monday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. In 1982, Atari players had one game on their minds, Sword Quest, because the company had promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists. But the prizes disappeared, leading to one of the biggest controversies in 80s pop culture. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hello, the Internet, and welcome to Season 110, Episode 1 of... Your Daily Sight, guys! Yeah. Production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say, officially, off the top, fuck the Koch brothers and fuck Fox News. It's Monday, November 25th, 2019.

My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Never made it as a high man. Just bring up Jaws and I'll spit Darjeeling. Takes are hotter than a fry pan. I'm sipping diet just to keep from peeling. And this is how you remind me. I'm hotter than a fry pan. I'm sipping diet just to keep from peeling. And this is how you remind me.

This is how you remind me that I'm Jack O'Brien. All right. Courtesy of Nickelback, obviously, but our trike gang. And I'm thrilled to be joined, always by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray I guess you're wondering what I do besides smoke weed and drinking cold brew

it's true I get handles to easy but lately I watch a lot of trash TV Sophia Alexandra and Neemayo Spray are hosting for 20 Day Fiancé. Don't you know that this is how I spend my time? High as fuck and staying on my grind. Oh, this is how I spend my time.

High as fuck and staying on my grind Get that money, yeah Keep it going, keep it going. Okay, that's enough. Thank you, thank you. Well done, sir. Wow. Well done. I haven't been singing a lot

because I've been really self-conscious of my voice. That had a fine young cannibal aspect to it. Drop me crazy. Yeah. Thank you, Christy Yamaguchi, man. It's been too long at Crispy Meme Donuts in honor of the new podcast for 20 Day Fiancé with me and Sophie Alexander talking about our favorite trash TV show, 90 Day Fiancé. Get in on the wave even if you don't watch the show,

because the takes are scathing. Did I say mine was courtesy of Craig Gang? Yes. Just T-D-Z-A-N-G? You did. Well, hell. Yes, you did. Great.

Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious comedian, Andrew Machan. Welcome. And here's my song. No, I don't have a song. I'm sorry. Whenever people say that, I always go, what's your favorite karaoke song? I don't actually do karaoke.

I apologize for that. Like as a political. Yeah, it's a political statement. It's actually about the environment. Right. Yeah. I just really think everyone who's typing in those words to get on the screen, it actually does take a toll on this planet.

I don't do karaoke for my health, but I admire that you don't do it for... I actually thought about this year. Sometimes I don't dress up for Halloween and I thought this year would be interesting to be politically against Halloween. There's so much waste in all those costumes. I'm not dressing up this year. If you do, that's kind of on you. That's on you, but honestly I think it's disgusting. I think it's disgusting. It ruins the plan.

And you look at all the wrappers and things and the candy. Oh my gosh, yeah. I mean that trash heap in the middle of the ocean is 90% Halloween. Yeah. Yeah. It's Halloween. Yeah. It's all discarded.

It's too many people throw away the Hershey's Special Dark in that Hershey's Mixed Mini bag. Yeah, you're a dark chocolate guy, huh? Bro, what the... I love that shit. Really? You do 100% ever? You ever try that?

No, I'm not. I'm trying to die. I mean, it's pretty crazy. I have You do 100% ever? You ever try that? No, I'm not. I'm trying to die. I mean, it's pretty crazy. I have some. 100% dark? Yeah, it's just there's no sugar. It just tastes like really, really bitter. It's quite good, I think.

Yeah. You just can't give it to a dog. Yeah. Because that's like the most, I feel like what Baker's chocolate is by far the most lethal. Now you tell me. All right. I've been raising my dog on a steady diet of 100% cacao. Cacao dog.

Cacao. Cacao. That's Method Man. Pass it over here now. If Method Man was a chocolatier, he'd be cacao. Anyway, forget it. People don't get the cacao reference. Yeah.

The cacao-ian stallion. Andrew, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about today. There is a new Gallup poll, I think it is, about where the Democratic candidates stand favorability-wise compared to past presidential candidates. So we'll see where they stack up historically. Lev Parnas might have a story to tell. Listen up, I've got a story to tell We are going to explain why we need more hearings We're going to listen to the president's call into Fox & Friends at the end of last week

And we are going to talk about Andrew Giuliani You may remember him as being played by Chris Farley when he was a child And SNL just decided to be mean and make fun of a child for being annoying. But he has grown into a very interesting young man. We'll talk about who he is, why he is the way he is. Why are you the way you are? We're going to look at a receipt that tells us something about last week's

New York Times bestseller list. We are going to say, on behalf of the world, hey, nice truck, asshole, to Elon Musk. But first, Andrew. Named after the prince? Yeah.

No, named after Julian, Julian's son. Oh, nice. I actually call him the best Andrew. Yeah. I think he's doing our people proud. Number one Andrew. Yeah, I'm proud to be in his ranks.

I'm proud to be an Andrew. Andrew full episode. Yeah, it's pretty exciting for me. What is something from your search history? I just was searching surf reports in Costa Rica because I'm going there next week for the holiday. La Roca Bruja? Oh, have you been there?

I don't know. I'm just going. Which is rock, bro. Mall Pais? No, I'm going to Arenal Volcano, the volcano place. Have you spent a lot of time there or something? Terrible surfing. Oh, wow.

I got to ask you more about that. I know. I'm not going to surf the volcano. Okay, cool. And then I'm going to Tamarindo for two nights and then Nosara for two nights. Nice. What's your experience there? My aunt is

costa rican oh really uh she's a tika oh and so i've been going i've been going i've been i've been down a few times wow i'll ask you off my yeah mostly the pacific side i've also been to the caribbean side in limon um it's a vibe man the the way like the the caribbean side and oh it's totally different just like whoa yeah i've never been i just didn't have plans for thanksgiving and didn't have work stuff and I just was like looking up flights. Oh, you're about to go right now. I'm going on Monday. Wow, that's amazing. I've never been. First time, yeah. That's why I was like, I don't know.

Let's say that again because this comes out Monday. I'm actually there right now. I'm on the flight. You're leaving today. Holy shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm on the flight. Bless you. Are you taking that red eye? Yeah, yeah, I'm doing that red eye. That's a great flight. Yeah, I'm excited. Did you shorten suggestions to gestions? I didn't, but I could. Oh, I think you should. If you shorten suggestions to gestions I didn't but I could if you want me to

yeah I thought I heard that I thought I heard some gestions from you give me some of them gestions that's where that's like a suggestion

that you gestate a little bit more right like you think about it you know right yeah yeah there's good surfing down there though

I can't surf but you body surf I do body surf oh that's good are you a surfer no I mean i used to bodyboard a lot with my dad um and my cousins all surf so i'll get out there get out but not like

i'm not really living it like yo get up dude this is sickest left in town that's me that's me every day dude the longest i say get up dude that's the sickest left dude the longest i think the longest left is down there oh is that is that true? Or near Hermosa. I saw people surfing down there who were like going off the end of waves. Oh, that's a whole other. Going off waves and like doing tricks and shit. Did you go with him to Costa Rica? Yeah, we traveled together.

No. But we didn't know about it. He was watching me with a telephone. No, I actually went there many years ago as sort of a tryout on behalf of my wife. She was like, alright, we're starting to get serious. Oh, trying out each other. Yeah, like she was trying me out. Like, is this dude good enough? And cut to you at the

beach and you're like, I just don't... She's like, take your shoes off. I don't know, it's so sandy. What are all these small rocks? Stop. Yeah, but I had a great time down there. I rented a car, drove around. Oh, are we doing well?

I'm doing that too, sorry. Wow. Got rental car money, huh? Well, I guess you got family car money down there. Yeah, I got family mansion money. Nepotism. But when you go down there, make sure you have gallo pinto, which is their national breakfast dish. I will definitely eat that. beans classic um and you know it's just rice and beans yeah but it's their it's like

their national dish there isn't like for breakfast look forgive me if there's any tico tico zai gang out there but i feel like that is probably their most known i've read about it yeah it's classic yeah yeah uh what is something you think is underrated? Well, speaking of what we were just talking about, I'd say nature. Oh, shit, man. Yeah, I just think it's not even that it's under, I just think it's an easy thing to forget. I think living in the city, it's easy to go months without being like, oh, I haven't like connected with nature in any way. And I made a resolution this year to camp at least once a month. Oh, wow.

Yeah, just in an effort to be like, I used to like camping. I've lived here for like six or seven years. I haven't camped very much when I've been here, like only once or twice. So I was like, I'm just going to do it. So I've gone once a month this year. It's been really, really nice. Where'd you grow up?

I grew up in Colorado. That's awesome. I was going to guess that. I was about to be like, hold on, bro. Where is this fool from? That's part of it. Running through your veins. I lived in a teepee in the woods

for three months in Colorado. Did you really? Yeah, I was just trying to cultural appropriation. I was just trying to hit that up. No, it was when I was nine years old. Wait, when you were nine? Wait, were you solo? No, no, no, no. I was with my family. I like the idea of nine years old. I was nine years old. I was living in the Bay Area and my mom moved me and my siblings to Colorado. And I don't know if this was made clear to us, but we didn't have a place to live. And then we just lived on this property in the woods for three months with no electricity, no running water.

And it was one of the most formative experiences of my life in a positive way. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. When you say it was a teepee, was it like one of those, was it shaped like a teepee and you would have a fire in the middle that would go up? No fire, but it was shaped like a teepee. And yeah, actually there was like a stove in the middle. You're right. Actually, there was a stove in the middle. You're right.

Actually, there was a stove in the middle to heat it up. Very cool. That's awesome. Got sick. I got Rocky Mountain fever from a tick. Oh, wow. What was that like? It's like 105 degree fever for a week.

It was very, very brutal. Wow. It was the sickest. I'm just hallucinating all day, every day, just going crazy. It was pretty brutal. How many brothers and sisters do you have? I had 10 and only eight made it over the summer. No, no. sickest i'm just hallucinating all day every day just going crazy it was pretty brutal how many uh brothers and sisters you have i had 10 and only eight made it over the summer the donner family yeah though i have two full siblings and then a half sibling and they were

all there with me oh wow it was fun yeah it was a really like i don't want to dwell on it but it was a formative part yeah that's very cool well nature yeah it's one of those things too where they say even people who are able to just interact more with nature trees even or like just score a little bit higher

and like overall well-being to a certain extent yeah I think it really you know affects you in ways that you can't quantify at first and then you're just like

oh I just feel better or something just being in nature going on a hike for an hour is not a big deal who would have thought I mean we're

of the earth who knew you know what is something you think is overrated on the exact opposite end I'm going to say the internet a hike for an hour. It's not a big deal. Who would have thought? I mean, we're of the earth. Who knew? You know? What is something you think is overrated? On the exact opposite end, I'm going to say the internet. The internet? Yeah.

Uh-huh. I'm just kind of sick of it. I just want a break. Yeah. I just, I love, you know, I'm online and I'm looking at stuff and I'm engaging with media, but sometimes I'm just like, I just would pay a lot of money to have no affinity for this for a week or something you know what I mean like like because if you don't look at what's happening in the news you feel left out and you feel like you're not doing your part but then you have I just want to like a guilt-free way to not engage yeah it's tough especially with you guys your job is to know

everything that's happening and talk about it every day that's why I have a hard rule the weekend that's good what the fuck I like that. I like that. That's smart. The weekend is for the boys, right? Because, dude, I'm just pounding Trulies with the homies, dude. It's all good. It's all good out here. No, but yeah, for me, because I'm so engaged, I do need to really define the periods. When I'm done with the work day, I typically try not to look on social media too much. I think that's smart.

Because I have my defined hours where I can fully give all of my attention to it. But if I, in the beginning of doing this show, I used to look all day, 24 hours a day, every single thing, constantly refreshing. Just going, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. And it just wore me down. Yeah, it's stressful. We can't do this for 15

years like this. I mean, I don't know you guys as politics, I don't know you guys as politics, but the news isn't awesome a lot of the time. You say you don't know our politics? I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. Oh, no. I'm actually playing a part. We're just big fans of the direction that America is headed right now.

No, but I'm a smart grifter. Like some comedians, they go right. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm in the right going like, I think the money's on the left. That's right, man. But no, it is. It's just stressful, and it's just like so insurmountable and frustrating. I think at the end of the left. That's right, man. But no, it is. It's just stressful. And it's just like so insurmountable. I think at the end of the day, though, too, you shouldn't, if you truly, like, you know,

some people feel things very deeply or are affected by the news. If that's the case, like at a certain point, you have to be real with yourself. And be like, I can't feel guilty that if I have to disengage, like for my own well-being. Right. And, you know, that's why I tune into this show. Yeah. This wraps it all up in an hour. This wraps it all up,

and two guys just trying to figure it out. Yeah, so when I say the internet is overrated, I mean everything except for this show. Except for this show, right. Just to be clear. Oh, of course. I would have freaked out and threw this can of cold brew at you.

Yeah, thank you for reading that message that I just slipped in. You talked about cold brew in your song, and it is real. I see it happening in front of me. This is not a lie. No, your life is true. Politics are a total illusion. I see it happening in front of me. This is not a lie. No, your life is true. My politics are a total illusion.

I'm drinking cold brew out of a red solo cup. Party cup. Wait, where did you even get that? We have red solo cups over- Also, I like that you double cupped it. Yeah, double cupped it, bro. What's in the cup, dude? What's in the cup?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't worry about it. Promethazine? Yeah, we just haven't- We've had a lot of traffic coming in and out of the studios and not a lot of dishwashing going on. Don't look me in the eye like I'm supposed to watch this. Not a lot of dishes being washed, so I guess I have to drink out of this shit cup.

And finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? I'm actually going to go the opposite. Something that people might think is false that i know to be true oh yeah i got hypnotized to help with something and i would have thought that hypnotism doesn't work yeah because i'm i'm not into astrology like i i'm really not into a lot of stuff that la is defined by but i got hypnotized for a fear of flying and it straight up fixed me what yeah i've had a fear of flying pretty much my whole life about two two two and a half years ago, I got hypnotized.

And flying is not a problem for me anymore. Really? Now you're a pilot. I'm a pilot now. I'm a fighter. I'm flying every day. But no, because I think in my mind, hypnotism was these kind of, you know, I would put it in the same realm as like astrology or something. It's kind of like fake.

Yeah, you know. But it actually is more scientific than that. of like fake, yeah, you know, but it actually is more scientific than that. And it basically just, my fear of flying and a lot of people's fears is, you know, your brain taking a mechanism, fear that was designed for like, you know, like a tiger, like, you know, stress response hormones with something that is an actual danger. Survival. And it's putting it onto something that isn't dangerous. Right. Planes, even though they feel dangerous and you, you know, obviously they are to a certain degree, but your brain is being like, this thing is going to kill to kill me right and it just rewires your brain so you're no longer thinking that and it really helped and i can fly with much more ease than i used to be able that's amazing

yeah so it really did help me so that's just something that i was always hesitant about and then my ex-girlfriend convinced me to do it and it was a really good is it one of those things that does it work with everyone or because i know people if you're overly cynical or you might not even typically meditate or something like if you close your eyes while a guy's doing the thing in front of your face like swinging the i would have considered myself quite cynical about it right right and it works you go into it but did you go into being like this isn't gonna work or did you go be like i need i need to i need this i was in the middle i was in the middle yeah and then so what it is is like they basically she interviewed me for like three hours about flying and like how I think, feel about flying or something.

Yeah. It was like a watchman type. I was in a sphere with video playing all around me. 360 degrees. Are you, or have you ever been part of the seventh Cal? I was fully nude. All my holes were plugged.

Electrodes everywhere. All my holes were plugged. It was just a normal conversation and then yeah basically like she's basically looking into my brain to see how I talk about flying and like

and like specifically the words that I use you know because then what she does is she hypnotizes me it was like a 30 minute hypnosis I'm lying down and it's just like

using my words about talking about flying and kind of mapping it onto something that's more positive in my life as opposed to something negative and kind of doing all these things. And then she records that. And then I listened to that every night for like a month when I went to sleep, like the 30 minute thing. And then now, and then I stopped listening to it every night after like a few months. And then now whenever I get on a plane, I just listen

to that at the beginning of the flight and then I'm good the rest of the flight. Okay. Oh, okay. So you still have like a little bit. You don't have to, but it does help. Right, for you personally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, I would say it worked. Okay.

I know people who have done it for smoking and other stuff. Yeah, I know somebody who did it for smoking. Did it work for them? Yeah, yeah. It's interesting.

They began smoking though again, not because like the hypnosis failed them. They just had a very stressful point in their life and they're like, I'm going to start smoking for a second.

Hey, I've decided to start smoking. Yeah, but it's like, no, no, but for a long time, I think it was like two years or something. But it was like on a dime, basically. Wow. But then afterwards, there was personal shit going on. It's like, I got to get myself the sweet, sweet release of nicotine. Now, what does it feel like while you're being hypnotized?

Because I feel like people assume it's just like you go away or something. Right. But it's just like- It was just like a deep kind of meditative sleep type thing. And then when I listen to the thing, I'm fully aware of all of it. It's not like it all of a sudden makes me go- You don't start barking like a dog.

Well, yeah. Because all of our associations are, you are getting sleep. Right. It's not quite like that. It's just like your brain is thinking this thing is scary and let's kind of shift that a little bit. Now, do your eyes turn into whirly things like in cartoons? They do.

Oh, spirals. Yeah, spirals. That does happen, and that is one of the best parts. Yeah, that is actually pretty cool. It's out of a lot of parking tickets. Are you sure you want to do that? All right, let's talk about some polling, 538 published, that is basically telling us where Democratic candidates stand, the top three. So Warren, Biden, and Bernie, where they stand in comparison with former presidential candidates.

So the top, I was a little surprised by this. I would have thought it would have been Obama. But the person who had the highest favorability average and lowest unfavorability, like they're checking the difference between those. George W. Bush. What year? 2000. Damn.

Yeah, not 2004. Yeah. Barack Obama, number two at 2008. Barack Obama, number two, at 2008. John McCain, number three, 2008. John Edwards. This was apparently a different time. Rudy Giuliani, speaking of a different time, 2008. Above them, too.

Yeah. America's mayor. Al Gore up next. Hillary Clinton in 2008. Mitt Romney, 2012. And then we get to Elizabeth Warren Joe Biden Bernie Sanders then Hillary Clinton 2016 Newt Gingrich 2012 Jeb Bush 2016 and last pulling up Donald Trump 2016. So, uh, yeah. So George W. Bush is plus 32.7. Uh, 56% of people thought, like thought of him favorably 23% thought of him unfavorably. Uh, Trump's is negative 26, I believe, uh, 32% were favorable. 58 were unfavorable. Yeah.

So I don't know. It's just interesting. I mean, that seems about right to me. Who's the number one of the Democratic candidates right now? Warren has the highest overall. Hers is negative 0.4. So it's like almost even. Right, right, right. Joe Biden's next, negative 0.8.

Bernie Sanders next, negative 1.8 bernie sanders next negative 1.8 sorry pretty close well you know i again it just speaks to the fact that this is a year where there people are saying a lot of different things and a lot of ideologies are available to vote on yeah and people are still trying to figure out what the fuck they want. But I, you know. Yes. Shit needs to change. Right. I need these polls because I have no idea how everyone else is thinking. We were talking about it on the last week.

The support for impeachment is going down as the evidence is just piling up that it was completely justified. It's just like, all right, I guess. I guess people are just overwhelmed. They're like, I just don't want to read about this anymore. Right, right. No, honestly. People are getting fatigued. Yeah, it's stressful.

Yeah, it is. So do you think that the calculations in terms of like the favorability for these Democratic candidates is, like it feels like more than in the past, it's really based on like who can Trump lose to? You know, like, because it feels like such, like who can trump lose to you know like because it feels like such the stakes are so high well that that's like such a big part of it it depends on who how you're trying to motivate somebody right because you can use that argument to dissuade someone for voting for a candidate like bernie or elizabeth warren because it's like well yeah right that might that might bring about a little more equality to varying degrees but

but biden man he'll right i know it's and i think it's like i think we need to look a little bit more holistically at the situation because our issue isn't just that trump is president it's like on top of that there's a lot going on that needs to be fixed right to bring just generally people back together more in the sense that they feel that they're living in an equitable society. Yeah, yeah. I agree. Yeah. Yeah.

And, you know, Hillary in 2016 was negative nine and Trump was negative 26. So it doesn't doesn't mean what these numbers don't. Right. Right. Right. Are clearly not an indicator. Because Trump won that. Right.

Right. Right. I think. Right. Right. Right. Here, let me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, he did win. Because Trump won that, right? Right. I think that's right. Here, let me... Yeah, yeah, yeah. 2016, Trump won.

That was the one. That was the one that Trump won. I was trying to remember if it was him or Hillary Clinton. Do you think there's anyone in this country who doesn't know that Trump is the president? I was thinking about that this morning. Is there anyone who's like, who? Wasn't there a New York Times article

where it was somebody who, after the election, just moved anyone who's like, who? Wasn't there a New York Times article where it was like somebody who like after the election just like moved out and was like, I just unplugged from society and like stopped paying attention to the news because it was too annoying. I'd imagine there is someone who has no care in the world. I'm curious, you know? Yeah. I mean, credit to them. No, I'm jealous, you know?

But also like, come on, how the fuck do you not know what's going on? Oh, they're probably so much happier. I don't know. To be that aggressively. Like,

I don't want to hear anything about anything about ever anything. Right. They're just like a precog. They're just floating in a bathtub with all their holes plugged. One of those quota, a funny man. Epsom salt float tank. One of those float tank therapy places.

Reminds me of Cypher from the Matrix. Oh, yeah. He unplugged, you know. Ignorance is bliss. He's eating that steak. Yeah. Yeah. Spoiler.

Hey, remember Tasty Wheat? Oh, yeah. I like that. I like that. What was his name? Mouse? Oh, that was Cypher. No?

Oh, so Mouse is a small guy. Yeah. I know what you're talking about. Cypher is Joe Pantoliano right Joey Pants Joey Pants baby

alright we're gonna take a quick break to talk more about The Matrix we'll be right back hey fam I'm Simone Boyce I'm Danielle Robay

and we're the hosts of The Bright Side, the daily podcast from Hello Sunshine that is guaranteed to light up your day. Every weekday, we bring you conversations with the culture makers who inspire us. Like our recent episode with Grammy award-winning rapper Eve on her new memoir and the moments that made her.

It became a theme in my life, the underdog syndrome of being questioned, of the, would they say this to a man? No, they would not. Like, why? That was one of those moments where you're just like, oh, wow, it was a bit shocking, but it didn't take any steam away or anything like that.

If anything, it was more of the, okay, I'll show you, no worries. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now.

The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks Everywhere starting September 25th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I've been thinking about you.

I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session. 24 hours. BPM 110.

120. She's terrified. Should we wake her up? Absolutely not. What was that? You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it. That was live audio of a woman's nightmare.

This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year ago. We're not hurting people. There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? The Boone County Rebels will stay the Boone County Rebels with the image of... It's right here in black and white in the prints of a lion.

An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I'd just take all the other stuff out of it. On the segregation academies. When civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools, these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot.

You have to be ready for serious backlash. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And Lev Parnas. Who the fuck is that? He's the, you know. Rudy's man. Rudy's boy, Ukrainian guy who has been charged with illegally funding $350,000 into a pro-Trump PAC.

Right. And also into Pete Sessions' campaign, former congressman. But not just that. He's been like one of these dudes who's been palling around with Rudy Giuliani. Him and his other boy, Igor, you know, have sort of been, I guess, guiding him on his wonderful journey through Europe. I feel like they're his body men. Like they're just like, they're his bag man, they're his body man.

Yeah, they're always around. And a lot of people are like, you know, he's been photographed numerous times with Donald Trump and other people in the administration and, you know, was sort of presenting himself as like, yo, dude, I'm in good with Giuliani, who's Trump's main dude. Right. Rudy's my main dude.

Therefore, I can do anything. It's in a book. Take a look. It's reading Rainbow. So right now, because he is currently facing charges for that illegal money funneling, he's been under a little bit of pressure and he's been pretty willing to speak about anything he knows because i think he's looking for some kind of immunity well at first he wasn't and then trump was like i don't know him right and he was like oh word really look at my facebook look at these pictures these photographs uh yeah and i think his and oddly enough his lawyer this guy uh joseph bondy he was on like

an 11th month hiatus on from twitter and had not been using it and then suddenly starts tweeting this stuff out being like my client has a hard hard evidence of wrongdoing by the president he is a direct witness to some of these acts. And basically saying like, let Lev testify or whatever. So he's basically been trying to dangle his client in front of Adam Schiff to be like, you may want to have this guy up too. Now, a lot of people aren't sure, you know, does he really have something to say? Is he clever? And he'll just pull like a Paul Manafort type thing where he's like, oh, I'll say something. But just enough that I seem cooperative and maybe just enough that I can protect the president. But it seems like he has

an ax to grind with the president. And when you look at sort of like these past stories, we talked briefly about how Devin Nunes was going around with Lev Parnas and helping him sort of do his own little trip to Ukraine to look around to sniff around. And then another one is that Parnas had accompanied Rudy to a meeting with the guy, Andrew Yermak, who we've heard a lot, who is one of President Zelensky's advisors. And that meeting is one of the meetings they point to a lot as being one of the turning points or a milestone in this whole scandal. as being one of the turning points or a milestone in this whole scandal. So, you know, it gets murkier, but a lot of, again,

we're at that phase where all the scumbags are trying to support them or trying to save themselves. Right. It'd be interesting if this Lev guy is the final nail in the coffin and Trump's just like, that guy? He's just hanging around. Never heard of him. But yeah, I think that's where, you know, kind of brings us to our next point about the hearings.

I know at one level, you know, it seems like the public phase of the impeachment presentations is winding down. Although they did leave the door open possibly for more. But there is something that I feel like we are still missing. Granted, we already know. We already have accepted what the reality is of the situation, but we kind of need, knowing that the president,

vice president, chief of staff, secretary of state, probably attorney general, all these other people have like direct knowledge of what was going on and they still haven't been dragged up to the hill to actually, you know,

explain themselves. It leaves us wanting a little bit because they're like the hot chicks haven't been dragged up to the hill to actually you know explain themselves it leaves it leaves us wanting a little bit because they're like the hot chicks at the quid pro quo party right and we're like yo come on why y'all gonna talk right you know what i mean oh my god he looked at me he looked at me he looked at me no but please now tell us something because we've got the other people at the party but you know we kind of want the main players to also start speaking i think that might be we sort of need that also. I think it's too easy for the Republicans to deflect and sort of be like, well, these

are never Trump or these are ambassadors. What do they know or whatever? But what about these people? What if about the vice president, chief of staff? I think they could offer something. Oh man, if they got Pence up there, he's so cool under pressure. He would just close his eyes really hard. He would bend Kenobi in a new hope.

Just become a pile of clothes. I heard a thing yesterday that part of the Republicans' argument is that the aid was eventually given to Ukraine. Yeah, therefore. That's so funny. That's like stealing something from a store and then you're like two blocks away

and then they catch you and you're like, oh, we'll actually here have it back. No, I was going to say that. Yeah, here you go. two blocks away, and then they catch you, and you're like, oh, we'll actually have it back. No, I was going to bring it back. Yeah, here you go. You can take it. No, we're good. We're good. Well, it's the same thing as like attempted murder isn't murder.

Right. Did they murder them? No, they attempted it, and it was fine. What's the problem? I feel like Tim Robinson could play a White House lawyer. Right. It's fine. He gave it back.

It's a little digression, but my cousin just murdered someone. Yeah. Did they? Yeah. Is it interesting? Is it cool? What happened?

Yeah. I don't know. It's just, my mom sent me an article a week ago. Are you serious? Yeah. My mom sent me an email. Your family is so interesting.

The subject line was, wow, all lowercase. And then in the body, it was just a link to an article where my cousin admits to murdering someone. Oh no. Holy shit. Sorry to digress

but you said murder and I've just been thinking about it. Like a close cousin? Like somebody that you grew up with? I grew up with him but I haven't spoken to him in like 20 years.

I'm not very close to my family but he did murder someone. Oh wow. How does that make you feel? Good because there's one murderer in every family and it's not me. Right.

There's a murderer in every family? Yeah. Every family's got one murderer. Damn. I think my mom's doing a good job i'll bet you she'll come after these raccoons oh that's true possums oh yeah her opossums i was so happy to hear uh that your cousin no that uh i adam schiff i heard at the end of last week on the radio somewhere where he was basically saying what I've been saying all along that like this is worse than Watergate like this isn't like the Republicans keep being like no it's not as bad as Watergate it's like the strongest there was a

break-in and he's like no this is a country that is at war with Russia yeah like we this is so bad and it's also about a future election as opposed to a past one. Future election, withholding aid from an ally who's fighting an aggressor nation.

Right. And like, and I think the biggest difference is that Congress is different. Right. We just don't have, we don't have Republicans who are willing to engage

with the reality of the situation. Congress is different in Fox News, which was invented specifically for this purpose, is in existence. Speaking of Fox News, the president, who is like a person defending themselves in court,

you always know that that person is innocent, he called into Fox and Friends to just kind of chat him up yeah like you guys haven't heard from me in a long enough in too long a time i mean the i feel like one of the last times he called he called for a pretty long time and they had to get him to hang up but they're like we're sure you are very busy as the president of the united states of america do you need to get off the phone now? They sound, this is the most uncomfortable, like this is even more uncomfortable

than they sounded that time. And they sounded very uncomfortable. Yeah, because it's your spooky uncle saying all kinds of weird conspiracy theories that are fact baseless and that have already been so aggressively, publicly debunked that it's like, we can't really engage you here.

And you're like sorry uncle we got to go to commercial right yeah what do we have do we have audio of that one where they're like are you sure well okay so i mean look first of all he called and had a whole 53 minute solo over the phone that's insane uh this first one even steve ducey sounds uncomfortable by what he's hearing normally fox and friends right president can do fucking no wrong but they are i think they're even starting to see like how they fit into all this right so just check this is this is a nice moment to see ducey very uncomfortable had to do they say with ukraine but mr president interesting it's very interesting they have the server interesting. They have the server, right,

from the DNC, Democratic National Committee. Who has the server? The FBI went in and they told them, get out of here. You're not getting it. We're not giving it to you.

They gave the server to CrowdStrike or whatever it's called, which is a country, which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian. And I still want to see that server. You know, the FBI

has never gotten that server. That's a big part of this whole thing. Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company? Are you sure they did that? Are you sure they did that to Ukraine? Well, that's what the word is. That's what it is actually in my phone call, if you know. What?

So, yeah. That's what the word is. Are you sure they did that? Can you imagine how he would be in a cross-examination? Right. Are you sure about this? And his answer is, that's what the word is. That's what the word is.

I mean, that's what you just said with words. That's what they're saying. Is that what you mean? He's like, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. That seems important. You hear Richard Gere had them gerbils up his ass? That's what the word is.

Are you sure? That's what the word is. I don't know. Lil' Kim had to go to the hospital to get her stomach pumped. There's also so much semen. Gallons of semen. Are you sure?

I don't know. That's what the word is. That's what the word is. Her corn was named after an incident where they... Anyway, that's another weird myth from middle school.

I don't know that one. Oh, it's dark. They stuck corn cobs up their ass? Nah, they... Nah. It's dark. Just look it up. So yeah, again, he goes on about this missing DNC server, which doesn't even make sense.

Okay, like the server, right? If you're even talking about the DNC, all their IT infrastructure, it's actually made up of 140 servers, and most of them are cloud-based. Right. But again, he's grandpa. He thinks it's like this blinking box. Yeah. That has all the secrets. That has emails rattling around it.

So he just shakes them loose and they'll come out. The other thing is this whole idea of CrowdStrike being owned by a Ukrainian. I have no idea. That's just, I don't even know where that comes from. They're publicly traded. The founders is a dude from, I think, Jersey. Right. And the co-founder happens to be Russian.

Right. So I don't know. I guess that means Ukraine. People are saying they're owned by Ukrainians. That's the word. That's the word. That's the word. You know what I mean?

Well, their headquarters is in Ukraine. Oh, no, it's Arizona. Sorry. Right. Exactly. I always get those two confused. No. And so, again, it's Arizona. Sorry. Right. Exactly. I always get those two confused. No.

And so, again, that's when they were just like, I think that's why they were like, are you sure? Because we've already established that's not a way to talk about anything. Because our fact checkers who are conspiracy theorists. Have even let go of this. Have decided this isn't true. Then he goes on to talk about, he does his Mariah Carey. I don't know them.

I don't know any of them. This is him now denying he knows any of these people who testified. First of all, Volker, I don't know him. Don't know him. Volker? This guy, Sondland, hardly know him. I've had a couple of conversations with him.

I see him hanging around, you know, when I go to Europe. But was really a the european union ambassador and all of a sudden he's working on this and you know ask about that what the fuck are you talking about i think he's actually sick like he's fighting a cold he sounded very nasally yeah which shows you i picture him with all of a sudden he's working on this like a hot water water bag, you know, like from the cartoons, like that red balloon on his head with like a thermometer in it and like a St. Bernard helping him out. And I gotta say, you don't get sick if you're not guilty. Yeah.

If you're guilty, you get sick. And then he goes on. Well, all illness is just fear. Totally. Taking hold. Yeah, yeah. Hey, yeah. That's what my hockey coach used to say.

I mean, I believe that his brain was very close to saying volker i hardly knew her yeah i think that was gonna happen volker you see what i did there no i volked him uh but yeah then he goes on to talk about marie ivanovich who my goodness completely let it be known that she's an upstanding person. The head is completely in the right place. Not a partisan at all. Right. We all saw her.

Yes. This is his take on her. This ambassador that everybody says is so wonderful, she wouldn't hang my picture in the embassy. She's in charge of the embassy. She wouldn't hang it. It took like a year and a half or two years for her to get the picture up. She said bad things about me. She wouldn't defend me.

And I have the right to change an ambassador. And Rudy didn't say good things, but he wasn't crazy about it. You know, he wasn't like a major topic. But I have the right to change. This was an Obama person. Wouldn't didn't want to hang my picture in the embassy. It's standard as you put the president of the hang my picture in the embassy. It's standard as you put the President of the United States picture

in an embassy. This was not an angel, this woman, okay? There are a lot of things that she did that I didn't like. And we will talk about that at some time. But I just want to let you know this was not a baby that we're dealing with. This was not a what?

A baby that we're dealing with. Dude, I don't know what you want me to say. This is where we're at. This was not a baby that we're dealing with. This was not a what? A baby that we're dealing with. Dude, I don't know. What the fuck? Let me just say it. This is where we're at. This is not a baby we're dealing with. This is why I have a Trump picture in my house. Because he can't use that against me in the future if I'm ever like, you know, testify.

If you have an album out. Oh, totally. I love his album. She wouldn't hang a picture of me. She's no angel. She wouldn't hang a picture. She's definitely no baby. Right. She ain't no baby. Like, what the fuck is that? What picture of me. She's no angel. She wouldn't hang a picture. She's definitely no baby. Right.

She ain't no baby. Like, what the fuck is that? What the fuck is that? Uh-oh. This is no baby. Totally pwned. They've destroyed our baby argument. I was in here being like, I thought she was a baby.

That might be the most unhinged sound. This is not a baby that we're dealing with. This is an adult woman. Right. With a fine education. Telling people, no, this is no baby that we're dealing with. This is an adult woman with a fine education. Tell the people now this is no baby. I looked up baby. I compared them, and they look totally different to me.

Yeah, very, very, very different. And she's a very bad lady. And you could just tell at the end of that one, they were like, okay. No, they were dying to cut off the president of the United States to get him to stop talking. And their faces, if you could see their faces, they look like a bunch of, I don't know, like they were so defeated. They're always like looking off camera at their producers while he's rambling. They're like.

Or solemnly just down. Yeah, yeah. Or like sort of below the camera eyeline and just like, this is our guy. We're listening to Poppy do his weird talk. And then finally, great slip of the tongue or brain in this one where he's trying to explain, you know, like, I was never about this quid pro quo, man. I'm trying to clean up Ukraine, man. I'm trying to drain this fucking swamp and fill it with a bigger swamp. And here's him. I don't know know just i don't even whatever just fucking hear this go your ambassador to the united uh to the eu uh mr sundland in his opening statement said that there was quid pro quo

there was quid pro quo he said because uh you wanted an investigation into corruption in exchange for a visit to the white house or something like that yeah well that's total nonsense i do want always corruption i say that to anybody why should we give money to a country that's known corrupt it's a very corrupt country i mean that's just stupid I do want always I do want always corruption it's a good quote he clearly misspoke but

I also like just that little sound bite of Fox News being like and like just completely mischaracterizing like the entire idea of it I guess like they wanted because you wanted to clean up Ukraine, they were mad? Let's be clear. I want always corruption.

Fuck. You know? Okay. Uh-huh. You should go, Mr. President. You need a nap. No, I need mucinex. Right.

Yeah, well. Shit. That is amazing. Especially that second to last clip where he's just rambling on about how yvonne yvonnevich is no angel no baby no angel and no baby she's no zygote like is he picturing like one of those angel babies from like cherub yeah yeah like a little cherub like a little cupid doll yeah she's no cupid doll i'll tell you that much she's a she's a cold-blooded snake um well it's funny again like when you see this in my mind i'm like isn't he just chilling because it's so clear the republicans

aren't taking this seriously right that's really right once it gets to the senate if you don't have the two-thirds in there what's the fucking point here right and i think that's what a lot of but this seems i guess i wonder because it's even clear to him he's like oh boy this thing's bad yeah for me no he i mean you know that he is taking it seriously because he had a meeting with senators from GOP senators like Romney and people have been critical of him and just like kissed their ass. Right. And his version of kissing their ass, which is being like, I did nothing. Kiss my ass.

I'm the best. And then what do you want? Yeah. And then they were like, he stayed on topic for like five minutes at a time. It was amazing. He did such a good job. Well, maybe that's why we got this phone call. He expended all that mental energy to try and appear human with these other senators.

And then it's like, okay, it's time to fire up the band. This is his equivalent of just like putting his face in a mound of cocaine. Yeah. I mean, that's what i mean if you really if you just read the text of that yovanovitch part it sounds like a wacky drug rant yeah just imagine that everyone says the owner of a she wouldn't hang my picture in the embassy okay she's in charge of the embassy she wouldn't hang it took her like a year and a half or two years to get the picture up she said bad things about me she wouldn't defend me and i have the

right to change the bachelor rudy said good things, but she wasn't crazy about it. It wasn't like a major topic, but I have a right to change. This is an Obama person. Wouldn't hang up my picture in the embassy. It's standard. You put your picture of the President of the United States picture in the embassy. This is not an angel. This is a woman okay? And there's a lot of things she did that I didn't like. And we'll talk about that sometime.

But I just want you to know, this is not a baby that we're dealing with. He also like basically threatened her. I'm like, this is my stock. I'm going to get off the bus now. And this is no baby. We're going to get into all that later. Sometime. But I just want to tell everyone, I want the American people to know, this is no baby.

Because a lot of people saying she's a baby. Yeah. All right. We're going to take another quick break. We'll be right back. day. Every weekday, we bring you conversations with the culture makers who inspire us. Like our recent episode with Grammy award-winning rapper Eve on her new memoir and the moments that made her.

It became a theme in my life, the underdog syndrome of being questioned, of the would they say this to a man? No, they would not. Like, why? That was one of those moments where you're just like, oh, wow. It was a bit shocking but it didn't take any steam away or anything like that if anything it was more of the okay

I'll show you no worries listen to the bright side from hello sunshine on the iHeartRadio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was murdered There are crooks everywhere you look now The situation is desperate My name is Manuel Delia I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere

a podcast that unhearts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks Everywhere starting September 25th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that.

I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session. 24 hours. BPM 110. 120. She's terrified.

Should we wake her up? Absolutely not. What was that? You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it. That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this?

We passed the review board a year ago. We're not hurting people. There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television iheart radio and realm listen to dream sequence on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts do you ever wonder where your favorite foods come from like what's the history behind bacon

wrapped hot dogs hi i'm evil angoria hi i'm. Our podcast, Hungry for History, is back. Season two. Season two. Are we recording? Are we good? Oh, we push record, right? Okay. And this season, we're taking an even bigger bite out of the most delicious food and its history.

Saying that the most popular cocktail is the margarita, followed by the mojito from Cuba, and the piña colada from Puerto Rico. So all of these Latin cultures. We thank Latin culture. There's a mention of blood sausage in Homer's Odyssey that dates back to the 9th century B.C. B.C.? I didn't realize how old the hot dog was.

Listen to Hungry for History as part of the My Cultura podcast network. Available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. I'm just thinking, do you think he'll ever use baby to describe someone positively? He'd be like, no, are you kidding me? Mick Bovaney's a total baby. John Bolton's such a nice sweet baby Mike Pombebo

What does that mean in his mind? Baby good? Yeah, baby good I mean baby good Baby good Yeah Okay I have to agree with him on that

Baby good Baby good Baby do no harm Baby good I guess that's what it Yeah I guess he has found a truth Well, speaking of innocent babies agree with him on that baby good baby good yeah baby do no harm yeah i guess that's what it yeah yeah i guess he has found a truth well speaking of innocent babies rudy giuliani's son uh is you know apparently uniquely qualified to work in a suburban golf club pro shop yeah he's a

very good golfer it would seem uh was like kind of on the verge of being on the tour a couple times. Wait, really? Legitimately? You're not fucking around? Yeah. No, for real. What's he shoot? I think the story where they were talking about him getting kicked off of Duke's golf team

for being an asshole. We'll talk about that. But he was shooting a 74. He averaged a 74, which was like bottom half of the team. 72 is par, usually. Oh. But yeah, so he's qualified to work in a golf club pro shop. He actually works in the White House and makes $90,000 a year of taxpayer money organizing visits of athletes to the White House.

That's his main game. That's a job? That's his job. So wait, you get $90,000 to organize visits of probably, that has to be the easiest job, because I feel like most athletes will be like, pass. Right. Hard pass. Yeah.

No, they do. A lot of them do. Right. athletes would be like pass right yeah no they do a lot of them do right i guess he was responsible for the visit of that nationals reliever who wore the mega hat anyways i remember this dude from my childhood right really he pushed me around no he was like giuliani when he was first sworn in as the mayor of new york his son went up and started just acting wild. He was like seven or so. Talking into the mic when he was being sworn in.

He was talking into the mic, imitating his dad, knocked over a thing of water, which ran down Rudy's leg. He was paid $100,000 a year to do that as well. That's right. That's a crazy thing, yeah. He spent it all on Ravenven's revenge candied powder uh but that event was parodied on snl with chris farley playing him so like i always

remembered that like the this kid who was played like i've always been like remember when snl made fun of like a seven-year-old like what would you do if you were seven and Chris Farley was playing you? I mean, he's probably hit the links. I mean, in all fairness, he was eight. Oh, okay. You know what I mean? So he can handle it. He's no baby.

He can handle being flamed by the physical comedy genius of Chris Farley. He's no baby, you know? He can handle it. The Yankee Stadium sketch with them? Yeah, we watched it yesterday. It's depicting him getting hit in the yankee stadiums yeah we watched it yesterday constantly it's depicting him getting a hit in the head with baseballs and like stray bats and shit yeah and you're like i'm sorry are we pretending that we're laughing in a scenario where this eight-year-old is getting

like tbis from like uh like runaway balls and things like that we didn't know what tbis were eyes were at the time but yes uh anyways he grew up to be a fine upstanding young man he claims that him and trump are close independently of his father uh or giuliani says that he says that they've been close ever since he was a baby uh so as you see trump's friendship with he goes hey andy, Andy Giuliani, total baby. That sounds like a Woody Allen defense or something. Like, look, me and Sunyi were close, independent. Yes. Independent of any of this.

Independent of me. Of being the father. So he eventually went to Duke, made the golf team. And when he was cut from the golf team for being a jerk- What does that mean? What are you thinking? What are you thinking? What do you mean? Like, what's a jerk mean?

Toss an apple in a teammate's face, flipped his putter a few feet through and broke a club and gunned his engine in a parking lot. And the coach was like, I want to kick him off the team. But if everybody on the team votes to bring him back because you're all friends with him, right. If it's good for the dynamic,

right. He can come back on the team. And instead five players wrote letters saying Andrew quote should be removed from the team. He, he wasn't even good enough to be like, he wasn't like one of the top players. He was on the bottom half of the team and just a complete asshole that,

by the way, that description of toss an apple in a teammate's face, flipped his putter. That was on the bottom half of the team and just a complete asshole. By the way, that description of tossing an apple in a teammate's face, flipped his putter, that was from... A few feet. Yeah, a few feet. That was from a lawsuit that he brought. He sued Duke and Duke's golf program for kicking him off

the team. For messing up his apple. Yes. He goes, messed up my apple. So that is his version of events. Yeah. That's him being like, they kicked me off just for throwing an apple in my teammate's face, flipping my putter a few feet, breaking a club, and gunning my engine like a fucking boss. I'm now trying to picture if that was him, that's his version. Tossed an apple means straight overhand fastball

foreseam fastball to someone's nose flipped his putter a few feet is a happy gilmore fucking chuckaroo of the putter probably into the like into a water hazard threw and broke a club i mean that's pretty much it i don't know how you can turn that one up gunned his engine he hit some kids Or like nearly did Fish tailed it just to like fucking knock someone's bag over Took off in his Mustang He

Yeah he sued he was like I should be able to play there and like use the Athletic facilities for life Cause they cut me Wait what? Yeah Yo I would love to know even for five minutes the this kind of privilege oh we're like you're in your mind you're like well i'm gonna

fucking sue everybody and you know what i'm gonna be here for life yeah well i mean this dude definitely spent his whole life being like, I'm telling my dad. Right, right. And then you're fucked. My dad's the mayor. Right. Oh, could you fucking, oh, I would beat the shit out, no. No, you wouldn't.

I would fuck him up, rather. Right. That's what we would do. I'd tell my dad he's the mayor. I'm like, yeah, tell him this. Bow. Across his chin. I don't know why I don't like people flexing on me like that.

If some kid was like, my dad's a mayor. Right. I'm like, all right. Like he would, kids who claim their dad is a cop, he would be like, well, my dad's a mayor. He's, fire your dad. Yeah. Oh, right.

And probably still does that. Anyways, he did some pro golfing, appeared on a golf channel reality show, The Big Break, where people said- They break their club in anger. Yeah. Talking, that's all he does. I mean, he would talk to this door.

What does that mean? Like he just nonstop chatterbox, loves the sound of his own voice. Oh, so he is his father's son. Yeah. And now he works in the White House. Yeah, great, great. Let's get him in there. I mean, this is is honestly of all the terrible

nepotism we've been hearing about this seems like the lowest stakes one right and it you know what andrew i'm gonna need my ninety thousand dollars back right they also asked him uh in addition to the sports stuff they asked him to work on the opioid crisis uh wait what really yeah work on this why what's wrong with that what i? I mean, this isn't surprising, because wasn't Jared in charge of the opioid crisis, too, at first? I forget who it was, but it was somebody. It was somebody who's like, yeah, and they're in charge of opioids.

Jared's going to completely destabilize the Middle East and completely fuck it up and throw it into utter chaos. What the hell do you mean? And so people, sources, people who have worked with him in the White House say, Andrew, quote, doesn't really try to be involved in anything. And he's, quote, just having a nice time. Yo, that's so tight. And that's someone speaking positively about it, right?

That's a glowing review. Yeah. Andrew, quote, credits Trump for helping him through his parents' divorce and even for mending his strained relationship with his father. What? But John Kelly did not like him. Dude. What if Trump was Andrew's real dad? Oh,

that actually, he kind of looks a little bit. He has that karma face, you know, like cause all of Trump's children wear his karma on their face and he has that. And I feel like it's weird, right? It's like, he's like,

maybe you're my dad, Trump. He looks like a... Like some people say he kind of looks like a combination of Trump and Giuliani. Our writer, J.M. McNabb, said he looks like a Mad Magazine caricature of Gary Busey come to life. I think it's like somewhere in between.

I'll be nice to Gary Busey. Yeah. He also looks like Gary Busey come to life. I think it's like somewhere in between. I'll be nice to Gary Busey. Yeah. Yeah. He also, he looks like Gary Busey had a child with, uh, that Coke brother, Scion.

Wyatt. Wyatt Coke. Diet Coke. Diet Coke. Wyatt Coke. Yeah. He's, so he is,

so he's just chilling all day. Just not bothering anybody. Uh, yeah. Who, uh, Andrew, Andy, So he's just chilling all day, just not bothering anybody? Yeah. Who? Andrew. Andy. Andy Giuliani.

Yeah, so- Not butting heads too much? John Kelly didn't want to do anything. At one point, he was asked to do something that John Kelly was like, why the fuck would this guy be doing it? Right. the fuck would this guy be doing it? Right. He said he didn't like Rudy or Andrew,

the random guy who played golf with Trump. And Kelly actually revoked Andrew's pass. Oh, really? Yeah. At which point Andrew flipped out. Trump ordered Kel to restore Giuliani's pass and give him a promotion. Wait, to give Andrew Giuliani? Andrew a promotion for his trouble?

He's been working hard. To chief of staff. To chief of golf. Right. Do we have a list of what athletes he's brought to the White House, though? Maybe he's been doing good work. I mean, I guess what? That football team that was served fast food?

Yeah. Yeah, that was impressive. He's been doing some pretty good. He was behind that meal. He made that order. He called me, Donald. He's like, this is going to sound, you're going to think I'm totally lying right now. I need 500 Big Macs, dude.

Can you get them like 20 minutes? Great. Yeah. So Kelly refused to give him the pass or the promotion and just assumed that Trump would forget about it, which he did. But then Mick Mulvaney restored the past and gave Andrew his promotion. Why is he in the news right now? Does anything happen or are people just kind of aware of it now?

Why is he in the news right now? I don't know. Someone like – what I first saw was just a tweet of his face. Yeah. That was enough. And someone was just like – because it was reported that his son works in the White House, but no one cared. And I think as the news maybe slowed down.

Oh, that's right. It's a Atlantic article that chronicles his role at the White House. Got it. Yeah. I mean, hey, you know, dress for the job you want. Right. And you might get it through nepotism. Well, speaking of nepotism.

Neppies. Neppies. The bestseller list. We have a little more insight into how Donald Trump Jr.'s book Triggered Made it to number one Triggered with the letters being filled in by flames

Oh is it? Yeah Hell yeah dog Yeah they The Federal Elections Commission man There's something Because you know they make people You know submit and be transparent

About their expenditures How they spend money, yeah. And this little receipt, when you look from the – Okay, so this is the name of committee in full, Republican National Committee. Okay. Okay, and then it says, full name of recipient, booksamillion.com. Huh. In Birmingham, Alabama.

Left for like $14 or something? It says, donor mementos in the amount of $94,800. What were they doing spending nearly $95,000 at a book website? Huh. And then, wait, I'm trying to remember

because his book is on the bestseller list and then, wait. Yeah. Did they buy them all? I know. I i mean we knew this but we knew that i don't know how many copies of that book that buys but like who knows how how much money they spent buying buying this asshole's books yeah well when a couple reporters started sniffing around they're like was this having to do with his book they're like yeah but then when they asked an rnc spokesperson said we haven't made a large bulk purchase but are ordering copies to keep up with demand then this journalist asked well how does that square with

buying almost a hundred grand worth of books on a single day and the answer is we stand by our statement uh-huh boy whatever you know i don't think Don Jr. believes he's actually achieved a thing in his life. I think he does. I thought, but he's so torn up and haunted by the fact that his dad doesn't like him. I think he killed that part of himself. Oh, that like felt his own inadequacy? Yeah. I think he seems like he believes his own bullshit now, which is, I mean, that's an easy adjustment

for people like that to make. Right. It seems like just being, someone managed to convince him that he wasn't completely full of shit in a national disgrace. Yeah, I guess now when you have all these MAGA heads just being like,

yo, dude, you're the sickest dude ever. They fucking love me, dude. Are you fucking kidding? Are you kidding me? Watch this, dude. And now the sickest dude ever. They fucking love me, dude. Yeah. Are you fucking kidding? Are you kidding me? Watch this, dude. And now he gets to walk into that room in the White House

that's full of his books and just smile. Right. It's just that side room where they're just putting them all in there. Well, no, they're sending them

to anybody who donates to the Donald Trump re-election committee. Yeah, they're like, hey, for a $20 donation, you get this $30 book. When I was in college, my friend had a job that he found on Craigslist, which was some rich guy wrote a book and he hired a team of like 10 people to hand out the book in

public every day for hours. Wow. Just to give people. So his book was just out there in the world. Huh. It's like a super rich guy. And he's like, I just want people to read my book. What was it called?

I don't remember. Holy Bible. Yeah, it was a holy bible well speaking this beck is like said that he's not a scientologist anymore yeah i just saw the headline no like he's like in some interviews like i'm not affiliated with really oh some people matt lieb past guest believes maybe someone's about to come out about him because he's distancing himself from the church maybe i don't know he's about to come out about him because he's distancing himself from the church, maybe? Something's about to come out about him or the church? Beck, maybe. Ooh, like a...

I don't know, look. No, the church... Anything's going on with Dianetics. If something's gonna come out about you, you want to be associated with the Church of Scientology. That's like Danny Masterson. Right. Homie from...

That 70s show, yeah. It was a sex crim. Sex crim, and the women who accused him were harassed and followed and oh by scientology yeah by scientologists uh terrifying terrifying group of people let's talk about a terrifying car how about a fucking dope car the tesla cyber fuck cyber cyber truck yeah uh it this is it's like seen this oh Oh, yeah. I got to admit, I looked at a regular truck today. It looked weird to me.

After that. Yeah, I'm just like my whole perspective is skewed. You know, you're like, what? What is this? Why is the back open? Chevy Silverado. It looks unbelievably bad. It looks so strange.

It looks like it came from the Herbie Hancock rocket video. And for those y'all don't remember it's like og polygonal like computer animated it's so angular it looks like one of those puzzles where it's like you can use three lines to connect all these dots i mean this shit basically looks like a triangle it's bizarre it's a pyramid it's it's in a pyramid scam uh and is the is it a try i mean you can't there's no thing to put stuff there is a bed yeah this angle is a little bit – it'll betray the true intent. I was trying to look at an angle where you could – because I couldn't see if there was a bed or not. Yeah, there is.

Okay. When you kind of look through this – let me just show you. Just real curious. Okay, fine. It's really hard to tell. There's a bit of a thing. But again – It's still stupid.

It's starting at – for $39,900 for the single motor rear-wheel drive version. And it goes up to $69,000 for a tri-motor all-wheel drive. That doesn't seem that expensive for a truck, $40,000. I feel like trucks are really expensive. I mean, for a Tesla? Yeah, that's good. I mean, they've been more and more affordable. But I think the thing that, again, besides the shape, which looks so, I don't know if aerodynamism has anything to do with it.

Somebody wrote on Twitter that it looks like it's something like a truck being rendered by something that, like an early version of computer games that isn't up to the task of rendering what it's trying to render. I believe that the cars in the launch version of Ridge Racer that was made by Namco for PlayStation look better than this. They were better. With more detail. And come find me if you disagree. It looks like you zoomed in on the cars from the very first version of Sims. Right.

And I guess the other thing, too, it's made of, like, the color is just really odd. It looks like raw steel. It's because it's just straight up stainless steel on the exterior yeah and it's just like say what you want about tessa their aesthetics are pretty good usually like this seems like a departure it's very bizarre i wonder who got away with this was elon just so fucking high and like in a mood or they're like fine dude maybe Grimes designed it he let her do it you know like Azalea Banks left a drawing

in the house and she was there alone but then the other part was then they talk about this stainless steel because I think apparently it's better for

it's like less prone to damage or corrosion because it's not paint it's just straight up steel if you're fucking working but then their whole thing is this armor glass

that's like so damage proof and that the unveiling the shit just shattered. A guy who didn't look like he was a baseball player. Like he didn't look like he knew how to throw things

very hard through the ball at the window because Elon Musk told him to because it was unbreakable and then it shattered and then he was like, alright, that was one lucky shot. Let's throw it in another row. Throw it two times in a row. Yeah, and it shattered both times.

At which point he said, oh, fuck, or something like that. Oh, my fucking God. He said, we'll fix it in post. That's what he said. Deep fake. And then the stock price went down 6%. Yeah. All right.

You guys ready for my hot take? What? This shit looks kind of cool. I'm going to buy one of these. With all the jokes, this is from an article about it. With all the jokes, the specs of the truck have gone somewhat unnoticed, but they're not unimpressive. Double negative.

Yeah. 250 mile, 300 mile, and 500 mile range. That's prettyressive. Double negative. Yeah. 250 mile, 300 mile and 500 mile range. That's pretty impressive. It's a lot. And all of them can seat six adults. And there's a 3,500 pound capacity and a hundred cubic feet of storage space. Okay. I'm just saying,

yes, it looks stupid. Yes. Don't care. It still looks fucking dumb. That was the worst unveiling of anything ever uh but it like tesla's still good at doing what tesla does do are there like nelson months memes that abound around this because this just feels like a perfect moment for everything about it

from the shape to the unveiling speaking of sim Simpsons, I feel like this would be really fun to skateboard off of. It looks like it could be just a perfect ramp. Oh yeah, just hit it like a ramp? Yeah. People are going to be ramping off that shit. Another reason to buy it. You got your skateboard here? Got your World Industries deck? Yeah, my board.

Hold on, let me put on my hat backwards and alright. Let me put on my DC ways. I'm on my way. Let me press play on my DC backpack. What was that called? Oh, the G bag? Yeah, the G bag.

Andrew, it's been a pleasure. Hey, it's been great to have me. It's been great to have me. Where can people find you other than Costa Rica? Yeah, I'm online, Andrew Michon, M-I-C-H-A-A-N. And I have a podcast that comes out every week called Podcast But Outside. What's that? What's the premise? My friend Cole Hirsch and I, we set up a table on the sidewalk,

and anyone is able to walk by and talk to us. Holy shit. So we talk to strangers. And where can people find you? It's that podcast you mean? Oh podcast you mean it's different every episode so you know Burbank downtown Hollywood we've been to Vegas we've been to San Francisco we go we do weddings

we do weddings people book us for weddings so check that out it's on YouTube and podcast apps is there a tweet you've been enjoying I just saw a tweet the other day that really made me laugh I don't even follow this person but I thought the tweet was funny. And this person's name is Jack, Jackie's Neil, J-A-C-K-E-E-L.

Oh, Jackie's Neil. You guys are friends with this person? Yeah. I don't know this person, but it was a screenshot from the Saturday Night Live calendar. And it's, you know, December 7th, Jennifer Lopez, December 14th, Scarlett Johansson, December 21st, Eddie Murphy. And it says, oh shit, three POC hosts in a row. Scarlett.

Very funny. Oh, Scarlett. It's a good tweet. Shout out to Jaquise and Culture Kings. Moving on. Yeah. But nothing but love for those guys. Miles, where can people find you?

Twitter, Instagram, at Miles of Grey. Tweet I like. One is from at kibble smith it says did it ever occur to you that darth vader's not an idiot and maybe he just tells every idiot farm boy who tries to kill him that he's their secret father just to rattle them long enough to cut off their hands um and also uh from rachel winitsky atinnitsky, she says, my personal style is like cute furniture, but every inch is covered in piles of paper. Benito Sereno tweeted, I've never made it all the way through Watchmen because I find it so upsetting

that the guy in the hat and coat has a picture of my parents having sex on his face. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. 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, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode

as well as the song we ride out on, Miles. This is from a group from Senegal called Orchestra Baobab. And it's just got, I mean, I love African music. And this track is called Deleng Deleng, but it's spelled N-D-E-L-E-N-G twice. Okay. And I don't know, man.

There's just a lightness, a funness to this track. And look, if this doesn't get your big toe to just blow out directly through your croc when you listen to this, then you better check your pulse, go to urgent care, whatever you got to do. Or check your toe. Or check your toe. Your toe might be missing. Or you could be wearing crocs that already have the hole Kind of near where the toe is In which case, carry on

Open toe shoes These are all valid excuses Yes, thank you But not your toe not moving Because the song is going to fuck you up Yeah, just to start your week off Push your boat out and float on As we let the world carry us

And that's your favorite song. You have the tattoo. Float on. Float on. Modest man. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever fine podcasts are given away for free.

That is going to do it for today. And we will be back later this afternoon with the short version and back tomorrow with more podcasts. We'll talk to you then. Bye. There's so much beauty in Mexican culture, like mariachis, delicious cuisine, and even Lucha Libre. Join us for the new podcast, Lucha Libre Behind the Mask, a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of Lucha Libre. And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, Emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar.

Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. In California during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women did something no other woman had done before. Tried to assassinate the President of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed Squeaky. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer, this season on the new podcast,

Rip Current. Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeart True Crime Plus, only on Apple Podcasts. from some of the biggest names in the sport about what the future holds. It's about belief. And once you break through that, then you know you can win a Grand Slam. Listen to the Renee Stubbs Tennis Podcast every Monday on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hey, I'm Bruce Bozzi. On my podcast, Table for Two, we have unforgettable lunch after unforgettable lunch with the best guests you could possibly ask for.

People like Matt Bomer, Emma Roberts, and Colin Jost. Did you say a Caesar salad with lobster? Yeah. Whoa. Our second season is airing right now, so you can catch up on our conversations that are intimate and often hilarious. Listen to Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.