The Daily Zeitgeist - Debtflix, Protective Privilege 4.25.19

Episode Date: April 25, 2019

In episode 378, Miles is joined by Yo! Is This Racist? host Andrew Ti and comedian Steve Hernandez  to discuss Steve King thinking he's holy or something, Herman Cain being too rich for his new job, Twitter users being the wokest, Donald Trump asking Twitter's Jack Dorsey "Where are my followers?!?!", how the Supreme Court feels about impeachment, Netflix piling on even more debt, Aunt Becky's Chapelle-like legal defense, and more! FOOTNOTES:1) Steve King says he relates to what Christ 'went through for us'2) Herman Cain Says He Decided to Pull Out of the Fed Race Because He Didn’t Want a Pay Cut. Whatever3) TWITTER USERS ARE RICHER AND MORE WOKE THAN THE REST OF US4) Trump met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey — and complained about his follower count5) Trump says he would challenge impeachment in Supreme Court6) In Push for 2020 Election Security, Top Official was Warned: Don't Tell Trump7) Netflix Sets Plan To Raise $2B More In Debt, Reveals Executive Pay Packages8) LORI & MOSSIMODefense in Bribery Scandal: WE DIDN'T KNOW9) LISTEN: XTC - When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Oh, well, hello, the internet, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. Oh, well, hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 79, Episode 4 of The Daily Zeitgeist. You know the podcast where we take a deep dive, I guess. Yeah, we'll call it a deep dive into America's shared consciousness,

and you know how we do it, off the rip. Fuck coke industries, yep, and fuck Fox News. Thank you. Now we can move on to more important business. Yes, it's Thursday, April 25th, 2019. It is I, Miles Gray, a.k.a. The straight, wiling, not racial profiling, bird scooter riding, fake PJ Fying, kiss stealing. From Her Majesty.

Wheeling and emotionally feeling, son of a tragically broken home, 17-time heavy tank, champion of the world, the Great Turf Boy, Thick Flair. Woo! God damn. Oh. Shout out to my broken home.

Shout out to your motherfucking broken home, too. That, a.k.a. coming from Crispy Meme Donut, Christy Yamaguchi, man, I saw you trying to get me a gucci man i saw you trying to get me to do that one i saw you packaging it repackaging it uh like these agents do with their writers uh and i got to it so shout out to you uh and you know what i even though it's wcw i fuck with rick flair uh and i am pleased to be joined because again as as always when jack is not here he's always on the hunt for some perfect sandal. And his latest journey has taken him to the Bay Area

where he has met somebody who has some dead stock Birkenstocks from the late 80s that he's been trying to get his hands on. So our thoughts are with Jack until he comes back tomorrow. But for now, I am thrilled to be joined by one of the greats on this show. And someone who I can say is a friend of mine. Oh, shit. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, I just put that on you you really this is uncomfortable but i'm about to make it more uncomfortable we'll talk about it please welcome my special guest co-host mr andrew t bust down thought tiana hey bust out that tiana i want to see drew bust down Drew busts down. Oh! Okay.

You got a fucking blue face in the building. Oh my god, that's funny. I feel like I've been working on that since that song came out. And so that's as good as it got. I like how you did it like a spoken word prose kind of thing. Well, I realized that the actual AKA name check part was probably too subtle to actually read. So I had to say, especially, I want to see Drew bust down. Want to see Drew bust down. It's like reminding me of Deaf Poetry Slam.

Yeah. When I did it for, you know, this is for the listening audience. I did do the hand thing, too. Yeah, you did. I did the poetry hand thing. You did bust down. Thank you. thing too. Yeah, you did. I did the poetry hand thing. You did bust

down. Thank you. And in our third seat, we are thrilled to be joined by another first time guest but someone I know personally. I met even at my last gig at Wired Magazine when I he was running an open mic where I had someone do all jokes told by

an Alexa on stage. Would you say he's more tired or wired? I would say he's wired as fuck. And a friend of yours, a friend of ours, please welcome hilarious comedian Mr. Steve Hernandez. Yeah, great to be here, fellas. Thank you for raising the hand, too.

Cal Ripken on his retirement game. Wait, Andrew, this is your first time? Oh, no. As a co-host. Actually, no. No, you've done the co-host. Yeah, he slots in quite well. Well, I'm happy to be here with just two others like swaggy brown men, all different, you know, ethnicities.

We're really killing it. Who would've thought? It's 2019. We got black, Japanese. Are you Taiwanese? No. Chinese. Chinese? Grew up in Taiwan. Oh, you grew up in Taiwan. Oh, no, my dad grew up in Taiwan. Sorry. Okay, sorry. I think that's where I got confused.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a, You know, Chinese Civil War, it's fine. Chinese Civil War, broken home, and Steve? I'm Mexican and Italian. See, look, motherfucker, we got the UN in the building. Yeah, it feels great. I'm really happy to be here. We have like one of the more obscure UN committees in the building. Not many security council votes.

We're doing alright. Well, Steve, before we get to know you a little bit better, we'll walk people through a little bit what we're about to talk about. First, an update with the racist Jesus Christ checking in with someone from Iowa. You can guess who that is. We're talking about Herman Cain pulling out of his Fed nomination race, but for a different reason, because he's just bawling too much to be taking some broke boy job at the Fed. We're talking about Twitter users. I guess Twitter users are more woke, maybe? Make more money?

I don't know. That's what the research says. We got an insecure man basically ruining the world and this country. I'll let you take one guess who that is. Nicolas Cage. Okay, we're moving one guess who that is. Nicolas Cage. Okay, we're moving on. No, it's Donald Trump. And also a few other things.

We're talking about Netflix, a.k.a. Debtflix, and Aunt Becky with, oh, man, she's in court now, and she's gearing up to have the whitest defense ever used in a court trial, and I can't wait to let you all know about that one. But first, Steve, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are as a human, as a Mexican-Italian? Currently, I run comedy shows and stuff like that,

so there's a lot of comics names. But also, besides that, I don't know if you picked up on this, Miles, but I'm a gamer now. I don't know if you've been seeing my social network stuff. What you playing? Spider-Man. Oh, shit. So it was, how do I stop this airplane?

Yeah, drop the fucking ball. How do I stop this airplane wing? I'm just sitting at my gamer chair now. I haven't gamed since Halo, so it's been about 20 years. Oh, shit. But yeah, I'm just gaming now. My girl's gaming. We're watching each other game. Wow.

Are y'all doing that thing where you straddle her, like you sit on her lap facing her, like chest to chest, but y'all looking each other over shoulders, playing games on opposite sides? So y'all can dual game and be intimate? No. I will tell you, the last time I gamed, I've always been against gaming

because especially you just – I just think back. Think about like in high school and stuff and you just – all these guys' girlfriends just watching you play like NBA jams or something like that. Very bored. Yeah, and it's like, I don't want to put anyone through that. But now the new games are just so fun to watch. And when she's playing, I just like watching her and I'm pulling for her

and I'm like, we're on the same team, girl. Oh, shit. Look at you. It is very romantic. I like how sort of considerate you are. Your shame wasn't like, man, gamers whack or that shit makes you look like a loser. You're like, I just really feel bad

if I think about all the people who had to stand idly by when someone else games. That was truly one of the big things I didn't want to. I didn't want to put my girl through that, but she'll just come and she'll crack a LaCroix and sit on the couch and she'll be like, oh, dang, girl. She'll be like, dang, babe, you're doing it. I'm not kidding.

Yeah. I'm like, this is awesome, man. You're like, yeah, beat up those dudes. Ooh, is this like a stronghold? Yeah. Is there a boss? Yeah. And she's very – I think she's better than me at gaming.

She's just – yeah, she's younger, sharper. I love watching her. I love learning from her. This isn't just about me. Even though it's a single-player game, we're she's younger, sharper. I love watching her. I love learning from her. This isn't just about me, you know. Even though it's a single-player game, we're learning together, I think. Holy shit. That was beautiful. Is your girl game?

Fuck no. But she gets that, like, it's a thing that I really enjoy. So because we have a healthy relationship, she's like, all right, that's your thing, you know. What are you playing, Miles? I'm playing The Division 2. I'm always playing fifa i'm dabbling in red dead too many games came out too quickly that i'm spread too thin yeah and like i'm playing the division online and i'm sometimes i hop on with some zygang people but i haven't been grouping up with everybody because my level is so low and people are so much stronger than me like i'll play they just kill everybody

and i'm i literally haven't done shit, so I'm getting carried through the game. Yeah. So I'm trying to get my level up, that way I can come with it and, you know, contribute accordingly. And if you like Halo, actually, you'll probably like The Division, too.

It's called The Division? Yeah. Okay. Not as well, but two, right? Yeah, Division 2, yes. Not like Step Up 2. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Streets.

The Division. The dance movie. I started playing PUBG pub g mobile again oh look at you that shit is uh just quick question to get on spider-man uh what suit are you using uh i really can't get away i love that punk rock suit yeah i'm at like the halfway point of the game yeah so you're like hitting that guitar riff yeah and i'm um i don't really i'm not really even trying to win the game i'm doing all the side missions, too. I don't want it to end.

What's just so fun to swing around? Oh, yeah. I remember when I first got that game. I'm not joking. I spent the first two hours just web-slinging around the fucking place. Yeah, I'm at level 25 on my guy, so now I've got a lot of... I didn't understand. I mean, I'm telling you, I haven't played since Halo.

And even then, I bought the Xbox, I played Halo played since Halo. And even then, I bought the Xbox. I played Halo. I beat Halo. And that's like all I did. Right. So all the stuff they're doing, I didn't understand that you could like power up your different like weapons. Yeah. Like the webs and everything. So I'm just getting into all of that stuff.

I bought my, I'm going to say the helmet. But I bought the online helmet. Headset? Yes. Yo, I like it better. you got a fucking full-on helmet on and and helmet for online you're like babe you're doing good you're like call me master chief i tried i thought they were just regular i thought you could just like listen like play with them like they were regular headphones but they're not just for uh just to play with my

nephews because they're into fortnight they're like 10 and 8 so um but i haven't really gotten into fortnight yet but okay look at you uncle the year yeah yeah it's great uh i'm having a great time um i'm sorry i talk trash about all you people for all those years it's just so amazing what they're doing in gaming now like the story i mean just so many side projects when i was miles morales for a little bit i was like they didn't have to do this they're just doing this yeah but they did it yeah They're just doing this. Yeah, but they did it. Yeah, they're just doing this because they obviously love games and they love the story and it's just so

cool. I'm so blown away by it. Also, a lot of the programmers are chained to their desks for 80 hours a week. But other than that, yeah, exactly. Don't get into the grind part, especially towards the end of development where they're like, we said it was coming out in a month. I don't give a fuck if you all overwork yourselves to the end.

Yeah, that is the very dark side of the video games we play. Yeah, thanks for that, Andrew. Oh, enjoy it. Yeah. Fuck off. I guess there's an Easter egg in the new Spider-Man. Do you see this shit? Where there's like visibly Hasidic Jews on the streets generally,

and they don't come out on Saturday, The characters. Are you serious? On Saturday in-game, yeah. How do you know it's in-game? Is there a day of the week? It was on Kotaku. I don't know how it works. Yeah, now I didn't realize, but I guess days do go by. It does get dark and sunny. I think there's days... Yeah, I mean, outside my house when I'm gaming. I think there's days in the world. Yeah. I think.

As I understand from this article. Look, man, I think time is a flat circle. I have made a conscious effort to not game too much, but I've gone down already. I've had the system for three weeks now, and I have gone down three different times where it's like, there goes five hours. Yeah. Or it's 5 a.m. right now. Yeah. But I do, I just go Alexa, you know, 45 minutes.

And then I'm pretty good at sticking to that. Right. And then it's like, it's been for me. I gotta beat Electro real quick. All right. What's something you think is overrated? Threesomes. Yeah.

Go on. Not enough. That's a weird flex, but okay. They're overrated. I don't. Yeah. I think they're too,

unless you've experienced a bunch of them. I've had a bunch of threesomes. I'm kind of like a sex god around the L.A. comedy community. Everyone knows that. And in any community. Yeah, yeah, in most communities. But, yeah, they're overrated. Someone's always left out.

That's what I feel. Yeah, someone's always left out, and it's sad. Half of the time it goes awful. And those are bad odds. Oh, like it means like people's feelings are hurt? Yes. Ooh. Yeah, that happens half of the time it's not like the what you see in the porno or like the other person who's maybe i'll be like oh yes i'm loving this oh yeah i'll keep doing it oh you watch different

porno than i do the porno that i watch has always has one person that's sighing yeah well yeah i mean if you well that's the thing too that's called cuckold porn that you're watching are overrated but if you're gonna do them you, you got to go two guys, one girl. It's the absolute best way to do it. Trust me. I mean, you've seen the pornography with that. Yeah. There's always one girl like rubbing someone's leg.

It's like someone gets left out. If you just all agree that we're going to worship the woman right here and then you have two guys doing it, it's super fun. Everyone's having a great time. But generally, I don't know if I'm going to have another one. I'm not in a situation where I've had the opportunity to have a threesome. Typically, in your

experience, how does the agreement come about where people are like, okay, it's time for a menage? It is just something in the air. Are you a swinger? I'm not surprised.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can do whatever we want. Okay, got you. But with respect and everything like that. Sure. Like ethical non-monogamy. I've had a ton of group sex with my ex-partner. We used to swing for like a couple of years,

and then we were polyamorous and stuff i i don't know if polyamory is a real thing but no disrespect to anyone but if it is i'm one of those i can't tell i'm it's something i'm trying to figure out like in my heart like is this a real thing or is this me not wanting to go deep with somebody right so i don't know if that's a real thing or not um but yeah i i could do all that stuff um yeah it's it's fun and she can do all that stuff so so shout out to threesomes overrated oh but they are overrated um you you got it's almost like it's almost like getting married you got to do it first and then you realize like oh that that's probably a bad idea oh yeah it's all a bad idea yeah once you

get married once you get married most married people and they look back and they go oh man like even if you've done that before even if you love your thing you're like we didn't have to do all of that we could have just done this I am not close to getting married but I'm realizing my primary

motivator for doing so would be because I feel like I owe so many people for nice weddings that I've been to so maybe I should just throw a party yeah really expensive party and just be like i got you guys back for the wedding yeah that's it just keep cooking up those bologna sandwiches oh yeah i will accept that as payment all right uh you've been to my wedding then yeah i've been to your wedding uh what's something you think is underrated? Knott's Berry Farm. Oh. Keep talking that shit.

Go on. I like this. You go to Disneyland. There's all these people out here. By the way, when I was single for one year, I dated a girl with a Disney pass. That was my mistake. We call them APs. Annual pass holders. Oh, yeah.

That was rough. I almost got one, too. That's the place I was in my life though where I almost got one too. How does that run you? I think if I understand correctly, like the one with parking that's like pretty decent is like 500 bucks. For a year? For a year. Okay.

But the way I was talking to – So less than two bucks a day if you go every day. I mean I was talking to this girl. For two bucks a day every day. I went on five dates with this woman and like from the date first date she was like trying to pass she's like if you think about it you know you're having a bad day you just head out to disneyland after she's like going a couple rides no big deal and i was like damn you're making a lot of sense they're like yeah if that's your way you could soothe instantly like man the cable guy didn't

show up i'm going to disneyland but uh yeah i i've never liked disneyland even when i was little because you feel taken advantage of it's like they're just trying yeah i mean as a child you were like this feels oh yeah it's part of my personality type when people overcharge me like that it's like you're just trying to get me but how did you as a child what was your first inclination in your child mind were you like something's wrong something's up here disneyland i was up if you i don't i don't i i know how you grew up miles i don't i haven't talked too much but if you're kind of poor and your parents aren't the best parents then you're aware of money very much all the time got you you know the bills i always saw when a

pink a red one would come and you knew the stress that caused in the house yeah yeah all that so i was very aware of prices walking into that uh Disneyland, you walk in there, you feel taken advantage of. I know it's too much money. Oh, you mean from a price standpoint, not like some other weird shit that they're like, they're being exploitative of my child brain to create these miles and shit. No, it's just being exploitive of us with money.

With money, gotcha, yeah. They're just trying to take all our money. Yeah, bleed you dry. Yeah. Now, you want to talk about Knott's Berry Farm, right? No, that's a value. That's a working man's amusement park right there. Where is Knott's Berry Farm?

It's in Buena Park. Buena Park. All right. Follow-up question. Yeah. Where's Buena Park? It's about, if you got in here, no traffic, it would take you maybe 40 minutes, 45 minutes to get to Knott's Berry Farm.

Okay. Now, their annual pass, Andrew, $130. That includes access to their water park in the summer. That includes parking. What is a day pass for Knott's Berry Farm? I don't know. Just buy the annual pass. It's almost like Universal Studios.

A Disney starting one for a SoCal resident is $399. And that's no parking. But with wild blackout dates, too. If you want that Knott's Berry Farm annual pass. I think they pay you now. Yo, you can get a season pass for five payments of $15.50. What? After initial payment.

Hold on. Let me pull up what the actual stats are on this. God damn, $75. No, and they even know. It has to be more because initial payment is probably a lot more. No, no, it's not. And they're also like, we know these fools are going to have to make payments. $98.

Yeah. For a regular. Gold. If you want platinum, god damn. 218. That's the best of the best. You get to hang out with John Knotts at that point. Yeah.

You get to hang out with John Knotts. He shows you around the farm. Yeah. Also, great. Yeah. If you want boysenberry pie and stuff like that, good stuff at the Knott's Berry Farm. They always have the boysenberry.

Oh, wait, right. Is it, so it's actually a berry farm? There's berries and whatnot? Well, that's how it was started. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is there a Knott's Berry that's popular?

I'll look it up while you're there. It's boysenberry. They created the boysenberry. Yes. That's a real thing. Whoa. Yeah, so the Knott's Berry Farm

goes back to like the 50s this is real history too yeah i mean you gotta love for socal you've gotta love the amusement park that like is based on a man making preserves yeah you know what i mean and also the mrs knott's chicken restaurant yeah i can't i haven't been there recently since my palate has evolved a little bit i'm my fear is that this shit is dry as fuck. But they got that chicken dinner with the fried chicken that was also like a staple. If you go to Knott's Berry Farm, you get some boysenberry. You go to the chicken restaurant, you get a fucking big-ass pickle.

Yeah. For like $20, you get this huge dinner with like five courses. That includes dessert. You can get a chicken pot pie or a couple of huge pieces of fried chicken, biscuits, gravy. Or you're almost suspicious if it's a chicken or not. It's so cheap. This is perfect for me because as Steve is aware,

we went to a Dodger game a week ago. About a week ago. And I could not stop talking about what I was going to eat at the Dodger game for fully two days, I feel like. You're stressing, huh? Well, no, it's because I think I've been trying to eat a little healthier,

but my- How are you going to do that at a Dodger game? Well, yeah, but so because I think I've been trying to eat a little healthier, but my- You can do that at a Dodger game. Well, yeah, but so my cheats are like if I'm at a sporting event or if I feel like it, I won't eat whatever the fuck I want. Anyway, I went disgusting. We brought Bon Me into the stadium. I had two Dodger dogs. You brought-

You smuggled some Bon Me into the- You can bring food into Dodger Stadium. You can? Yeah. And you can bring in any kind of bottled water or bottled drinks, as long as they're closed, non-alcoholic. And you can bring in chips and peanuts and all that stuff. It just has to be closed.

Oh, really? It's always been like that? This is for the daily Zeitgeist fans out there. Yeah, it's always been like that. Yo, because my friend who I used to go with, my neighbor, they would occasionally get tickets from their work season pass or whatever. His dad used to pound the wild Coors in the parking lot. Yeah. They had like they would occasionally get tickets from like their work season pass or whatever his dad He's just pound the wild like Coors like in the parking lot

Yeah, and then we were going and he would be like, you know, keep this keep this on the low So we were like kind of smuggling to begin with yeah, I didn't know the whole time you could Open you can walk in bring a pizza in there. Yeah, I fully brought in dog. Oh, that would be a hilarious experiment We try and like test the limits of what they're like. Okay, hold on. You're bringing in catering trays right now. I think you can do it. Yeah.

Go to the pavilion. We should go to the pavilion, bring in catering trays, and just feed the masses. Okay, anyway, that's a good note. Finally, Steve, what is a myth? What's something that people get wrong? What's a myth that you're just looking out there? I think the God of the Old Testament gets a real bad rap. Wow.

Yeah. I think people think he's mean and they don't like him. Yahweh? Yeah. Yeah, Yahweh, Jehovah. You know? Yeah. All of that.

I think he gets such a bad rap. When you're growing up, you're like, oh, Jesus, what a good guy. You know, he seems nice and stuff. Right. He forgives you for all your sins. But that's not the kind of guy, when you get older, that you want to be rolling with. You want a guy you can count on, that what his word means something. You know what I mean?

He stands for it. See, he loses his cool sometimes, but, you know, I mean, I love, I used to be a pastor, so I was a minister at a mega church. You were? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, at Faith Community Church in West Covina. I hear it's not doing so hot now.

West Co, okay, in the building. Yeah, but I grew up in the great Ikea. Great Ikea in West Covina. The parking is really great. Oh, yeah, for L.A. people, they know. Like, the Burbank one's too fucked up. Yeah. Take a little drive out to West Co.

This episode is full of L.A. tips. Yeah. Pure L.A. I'm an L.A. local native. So, yeah, so I grew up with that, and I never liked the idea of Jesus or I didn't like the idea. I knew even then that the Apostle Paul ripped off, like, the Jewish religion. Like, the way he tagged on the New Testament to the Old Testament was always kind of shady. Like, I knew that in my heart.

But I was mad at God for murdering people in the Old Testament which he murders a bunch of people but the older I get the more I'm like well come on he can do whatever he wants you're like he said he was going to do it he told you the rules and y'all violated it and also if you look at the Bible chronologically

the Old Testament especially a lot of people put God over time they say God's above time so he doesn't exist in the past or present but if you put God in time, the Bible makes a lot more sense. If you were an all-powerful being and you created these things, then you would murder them at first. You wouldn't understand. So you see that if you look at God in time and that he was learning to interact with us as a species, as a people,

then you can see that he's growing and learning. People don't like the idea of God growing or learning either. Right, because he's supposed to be omniscient. Yeah, but if you're an all-powerful being and you've never interacted with people that aren't all-powerful, of course there's going to be a learning curve, right? Yeah, it's like when Dr. Manhattan pulls up and he's like, oh, shit, I didn't know.

I just touched that dude and he exploded. Right. It's like God was like, yeah, homie, if if you've said kill your fucking son for me real quick and then realizing like oh let me dial that back for the next next season season two on god yeah like the pantheon of greek people they're like putting axes in each other's heads all the time and eating each other that's just fun it's like a cartoon well that makes more sense that's why all the greek gods all that stuff they look like us that makes sense that there's a bunch of different gods oh okay if that effed up thing happens then that was the god of war sure or that kind of thing that makes sense when you

just have one god like that he gets a lot of guff because a lot of bad things happen on this earth but i'm just saying not to me though yeah look yeah he was a capricious youth you know let's talk it up to that you know know, he was learning his way. Young God and then older God. Older God. Let him get 6,000 years under his belt. Well, speaking of God, I just want to bring up very quickly the Nazi taint scab himself, a.k.a. Congressman Steve King from Iowa.

He recently, you know, he's been going through a lot. He recently found out that white supremacy is not fucked with in this country. Well, by most, by a good majority of people. A significant amount of people. Be by a thin majority of people. But nonetheless, a significant amount of people. A thin majority and a distressing number of them not white. Yes. And a few people were pointing out,

look, he sounds like he's caping for white supremacy and using all this coded language and other times completely un-coded language just straight up in your face like, what's wrong with a white civilization being under attack? Oh, I'm a bad guy now? Anyway, so he recently speaking to a crowd about the future of Christianity. He was asked by a pastor, I believe by the name of Pinky Perkins, what they thought and, you know, just sort of like his trials and tribulations. And this is, Steve King says, quote, for all that I've been through, and it seems even

strange for me to say it, but I am at a certain peace and it is because of a lot of prayers for me. And when I have to step down to the floor of the House of Representatives and look up at those 400 and some accusers. You know, we just passed through Easter in Christ's Passion, and I have better insight into what he went through for us. Put a capital H on that, he, nice. Yeah, boy, respect the Trinity, baby.

So, yeah, he, I guess, is Christ. Yeah, he knows better about Christ, you know? Well, let me just say, Stephen King has come a long way since The Shining. I liked his early stuff. And the Dark Tower series he capped off with. A lot of people don't like that last book, but this new stuff is funnier. It's interesting. It's interesting. It's definitely out of his wheelhouse, but we'll keep an eye on it.

That's the one thing whenever you could look at any book and call it inerrant, which a lot of Christians believe that the Bible is perfect, then you can do a lot of really effed up things with that thing. That's how they were able to keep slavery going. And I don't – I really – they're just stupid, the idea that white – even whiteness is in the Bible at all. I mean, they're just dumb people. Who's white in the Bible? Nobody. I mean, they're just dumb people. Who's white in the Bible?

Nobody. No one. No one's white. Jesus. Hey, pull up to Judea right now. Yeah. What they look like. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What's good over there? What's good in Egypt? But they, you know, yeah, these people are monsters. But I mean, I do think that it's very funny. Yeah. I mean, look, again,

shout out to anybody who, anyone who tries to put themselves, make them a martyr, make themselves a martyr and then make yourself – put your Christ complex on display like that when you were so clearly in the wrong. I mean the cognitive dissonance, baby, the mental gymnastics. Look, here's the mental consistency is for Steve King, his Jesus is indisputably a white supremacist. So in that sense, a lot in common. Yeah, boom. A lot in common.

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podcast. And we're back and just want to talk about Herman Cain real quick. Mr. 999 with one of the worst tax plans ever put forward. He was put up to be a nominee for one of the open seats at the Fed. I've spoken in the past about how the Fed is not just some shit you can just toss some dude in who used to run a pizza chain because they have tremendous oversight powers, setting interest rates. They have to regulate things. They're not just a glamour position. And you need a very good understanding of economics to work there.

So anyway, Herman Cain was put out as a nominee. Everyone was like, are we fucking for real right now? Just because this is like someone Trump knows who vaguely said something about the economy and worked at the fed in kansas city i mean indisputably herman cain has a better understanding of economics than donald trump oh absolutely he's like this guy knows everything hey you know this brother he's pretty smart this guy usually they're wasting their money on chains and shit i like this herman cain guy that's you know he's saying some shit like that anyway um it came out you know obviously's saying some shit like that anyway it came out you know obviously people looked at his past

he had to pull out of the presidential race because of allegations of sexual misconduct then the Senate made it pretty clear like off the record when people were asking GOP senators like hey what do you think about Herman Cain they're like

he's un-fucking-confirmable I'm just telling you that right now they're like I know I'm like a rubber for this president. And that's for Republicans. Yeah, and they're like, this guy knows fuck all. There's no way. He has weight. I can't. No, no. So inevitably, he was going

to puff his chest out a little bit. He said, I don't care. Even if that's the rumor, I'm still going to go through with it because I know I can do it. Then suddenly he, I think realized the jig was up and took his pizzas to go. But he wants everybody to know. He wants everyone to be clear. It's not because he was unconfirmable or wholly lacking the pedigree for the position or anything like that. It was because he's too

balling to take this gig. He said, quote, at the same time, I was told that what the ethical restrictions would be, I would have to let go of most of my business interests. I could not serve on any boards. I could not do any paid speeches. I could not advocate on behalf of capitalism,

host my radio show, or make appearances on Fox Business. Without getting too specific about how big a pay cut this would be, let's just say I'm pretty confident

that if your boss told you to take a similar pay cut, you'd tell him where to go. Motherfucker was out here being like, I'm run the fed and now be like nah oh i saw the pay no uh just so you know he would have made 183 000 a year roughly that's around the average yeah yeah but so that leaves trump with stephen moore as his other pick to take up the fed chair and this guy has been such a joke from the beginning. Like he's been advocating for the gold standard and people like put press him to the sort of like,

tell us about your nonsense gold standard idea. And he's like, oh, I never said that. And then on CNN, they played a whole fucking montage of him caping for the gold standard. And he's like, well, you know, I may have said that. He's like, and I think that makes sense, but I don't personally think it's necessary. And it's like, you, you know, I may have said that. He's like, and I think that makes sense, but I don't personally think it's necessary. And it's like, you slippery motherfucker.

I mean. He also said he's not much of an economist, self-admittedly. Oh. Even though he has a master's. I'm a little like, I can't believe Herman Cain. What a chump for like, I mean, I know it's just a lie, but like pretending the ethical restrictions have any bearing on any member of the trump administration well at least he's out in the open with it he's like look i'm gonna be real i'm a

scumbag and i'm trying to get every fucking check i can yeah and if i take this job there goes my yeah everything dries up so thank you next i'm it's also funny that like obviously like you'd think money would be a bigger part of where the backstop republicans it's like where berlusconi in italy could do anything until um the fucking money got devalued and all of a sudden it was like no well you're out you're out like within a week like so it's just weird it's just weird or whatever i guess i don't understand i'm sorry what's weird that like trump can fuck with the economy so much and like the actual powers that be haven't put a stop to that yet. Yeah, yeah.

Well, I think that's why – well, because right now the deregulation has led to good profits for those people who are typically just trying to bleed as much capital out of the system as possible. But I think that's why they – like Herman Cain, that's why. They're like, yo, no, like this guy will actually fuck shit up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, no, yo, no, like this guy will actually fuck shit up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, no, no, no, no, no. So back to Stephen Moore. Recently, you know, CNN uncovered some of his writings from, you know, look, these are hot takes from 2002, y'all, when we were, nobody was awake.

But this, the sexism, man. Let me just tell you, in one of his columns, he suggested changes to the March Madness tournament to get rid of, quote, un-American aspects of it. The first rule proposed by Moore was no women. So this is what he wrote in his column. Here's the rule change I propose. No more women refs. No women announcers.

No women beer vendors. No women anything. There is, of course, an exception to this rule. Women are permitted to participate if and only if they look like Bonnie Bernstein. The fact that Bonnie knows nothing about basketball is entirely irrelevant. And then he also wrote that Bernstein, who was a CBS journalist at the time, should wear halter tops. I mean, was he being funny in the article? It sounds like he was, right?

Well, in a way, but it's clearly the take where, based on his other writings, he's the kind of conservative who back then would be like, you know, this is bullshit. We're fucking it up. Because in 2002, this was a take people would really say. Well, this is a Tim Allen. This is like home improvement humor. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, this is the, again, this is where he starts sounding like some dude out of super cuts who's upset that he got bounced from the next chair so earlier in the calm he had more anger that there was even a female referee uh in this like in a march madness game and he said how outrageous is this if this year they allowed a woman to ref a men's ncaa game liberals celebrate this breakthrough as a triumph for gender equity the ncaa has been touting this Oh my God, that's not joking. Yeah. What's next?

He said, what's next? Women invited to bachelor parties? Women in combat? Oh yeah, they've done that already. Why can't women ref the women's games and men the men's games? I can't wait to see the first lady ref have a run in with Bobby Knight. Okay. Anyway.

So yeah, that's the guy who, this is someone who has ideas about our economy. Yeah. This is kind of forward thinking he was demonstrating in 2002, just around seeing a woman refereeing a basketball game it's like i guess to me the thing that's funny is like right wing shit like never really improves like the rhetoric doesn't really improve like it is you're right it's like a home improvement bit and it's wild that he did it um but god put a spin on it guys you. You could hear this on Joe Rogan like this week if you wanted to. Yeah, they don't.

I think the Republican Party doesn't reward any kind of new thinking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's no reason for that. No, of course. Why would they? That's why they don't come up with new stuff. Nobody's really trying to. Well, yes, what's his name?

Ben Shapiro tries to act like he's coming up with new insights. Tries to, but it's just very superficial. I mean, I think really the- Well, they're not new insights. Yeah, the North Star of conservatives is just to avoid being wrong. Everything is done in service of just, oh, you can't prove I was wrong on that. Just dodging and dodging. It's never, here's an idea that we can prove is objectively good and works.

Everything is just more of like, that sucks, and don't try and nail me on my take on it, here's an idea that we can prove is like objectively good yeah and works everything is just more of like that sucks and don't try and nail me on my take on it because i'm just going to disagree with everything you say there's no like there's no like you're saying there's no advancement of any kind of thought aside from maybe just ramping up the attacks on people of color or transgender people lgbtq people like that's the one thing that maybe they are making progress on is being style yeah like the same style. Yeah. This shit could have come from 1953, 1943,

1933. Andrew, you're a woke Twitter user. And that's why you desire more nuance. I'm pivoting now. I'm pivoting. Jack's away and the fucking segues are just boom. I'm pivoting in the paint like a fucking whoo

this watch this drop step real quick so obviously we know twitter is a hellscape echo chamber for people um real quick because i think this is true for steve too i think we vaguely disagree with that sentiment right uh yeah i don't i love, but I want to hear, you do your thing and then we'll get cooking. No, no. I mean, let's talk about Twitter up front. What are your feelings about it? What do you mean?

I just, I think for me, I think too many white people don't just block the bigots. Oh, interesting. Yeah, because I'm like, and to me, I know the echo chamber thing that is reminiscent of that. And maybe it's just because when I do Yo! Is This Racist, I'm exposed to all this, but I'm like – and to me, I know the echo chamber thing that is reminiscent of that.

And maybe it's just because when I do Yo! Is This Racist, I'm exposed to all this. But I'm like right-wing thought is available, super available. Oh, no, no, no. What I mean is just like for whatever side you're on, it's there for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you can get caught up in it however which way you want to is what I mean. Of course, you can – you're like – I follow a few different people who I like to see what's going on on that side of the fence.

Oh. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, people- Me and Ben Shapiro hang out all the time. I do see a lot of, you know, white writers now that I think of it. I wouldn't have thought that, but I don't host a show called

Yo, Is This Racist? They do say like, oh, this, they'll just tweet about it. Oh, this website is making me sick and I can't believe I'm back on it. I've just always, you put down your phone if you want. Yeah, I think that's what it does too.

I think part of subconsciously what feeds me, my perception of it being a hellscape is also the feedback loop that will pull you in. Yeah, yeah. Where I do that more on Instagram, where I just go through stories, and I'm not even looking at them shits. I'm just tapping, and I'm like,

yo, my brain, I think it just gave out. Anyway, that's beside the point because what we're talking about now is, so there was a Pew Research study that just came out that wanted to answer the question of like just how different Twitter users are from just the general United States population. And just to kind of see like,

is Twitter actually even like accurate depiction of what people in the United States feel, where they are demographically? And they did this by taking a survey of about almost 2,800 United States adult Twitter users. And then they also shared their handles so they could use Twitter's API to kind of get some more information about them. And they compared that with existing demographic information they had. And the conclusion they came to, Twitter is a lot different than the United States. So Twitter users are younger. They're more likely to identify as Democrats. They're more highly educated and have higher incomes than U.S. adults overall. And they also said Twitter users

also differ from the broader population on some key social issues. For instance, Twitter users are somewhat more likely to say that immigrants strengthen rather than weaken the country and to see evidence of racial and gender-based inequalities in society. And it also seems, too, that the noisiest ones are making the bulk of the content that you see on Twitter because about 10% of the most active users are responsible for 80% of the tweets created in the U.S. Yeah. So, damn. What you're seeing really over and over your feed is around the 10% of people who are very prolific. The top 10% in something. Comedians?

This is fucking great. I love it. Yeah, I know. I'm a stand-up, so I've seen over the years now that what people get all worked up about on Twitter, and then I'll go bartend in Covina and I have an open mic on Thursday nights there too and I've just know like they regular people have no idea what the hell everyone's worked out yeah exactly so that it doesn't trend and I mean I could see it on the same day so I know whatever everyone's worked out about online specifically

Twitter because people talk there more than Facebook and stuff that if you even bring up a joke related to that, you're going to look like a moron. Yeah. And I think most people, yeah, like it's the most engaged people tend to be on Twitter, not that they're exclusively on Twitter, but that's a trait that they have. And that vibes with a New York Times report recently that was saying that Democrats who don't post political content on social media tend to be more moderate than people who are more outspoken online. And they're also more likely to view political correctness as a problem, less likely to join protests, and less likely to donate to political organizations. And less likely to fall into – Democrats who are not as outspoken online tend to fall into that demographic.

Old Democrats. Yeah. Old white Democrats. And even younger people who i know who are like you know will vote democratic but aren't really engaged they're the same way where they're like oh really like you'll say some shit and they're like oh that's going on and so i think that's all to say that you know we a lot of the emphasis even the news puts on what's going on on twitter is a little bit misplaced because you know it's a very specific thing so i think i think a lot of the hellscape

thing uh comes from people who are surprised at the bad part of twitter you know what i mean like like oh there's so much more racism than i thought in the world that's surprising to me right so of course you can extrapolate who would be surprised by that sort of thing so i it's just one of the things where it's like i think people don't realize that even though Twitter is a hexscape, let's say, but the bad part of it, most of the is overrepresented in the part of the population that's not on Twitter.

Like all the ignorant shit that's much more pervasive in the non Twitter part of, you know, not by a lot, but like a little bit, you know, not by a lot, but like a little bit, you know, it's less surprising. Like that was the thing about 2016, I think for a lot of people that we might know in places like Los Angeles is like a shocking number of them were surprised by shit.

And you're like, oh, like I'm from Michigan. Right. Like it's like this always. Sure, sure, sure, sure. The reason, it's funny because in. Sure, sure, sure, sure. It's funny because in that study it's almost like I don't post that much about politics, especially since 2016 because it was such a battlefield. Right. I don't post that much about politics because I do feel like it is mostly other liberals and Democrats, especially people I know. So it just feels foolish to me to be like just throwing my hat out there

now i i will i have been crafting my uh coming out for elizabeth warren presidential nominee tweet it's gonna launch at some point maybe next friday a teaser to a tweet i've been retweeting other people's i think chris cubis a comic from austin wrote like i like what elizabeth warren has to say and i retweeted it it's coming but uh yeah that's one reason i don't i i wouldn't post about political stuff it's because it's oh for you feel like i'm not offering anything to that conversation there's so many people it's congested yeah everybody's saying the kind of same things about that stuff i don't and also I said, 2016 was a big lesson where I don't want to be fighting

with my friends. I have so many people who I dislike because of 2016 now. Right. That if they weren't posting the way they were on Twitter, that I would think better of them. I think the internet, I mean, I'm very careful about what I give the internet, and I don't give them too much of my real self. I write a lot of jokes, but I just don't think –

these strangers don't deserve my real thoughts or my heart or anything like that. Sure, or even just in general, you don't want to – you're giving your power away in a certain extent by even being candid to a certain level on the internet. Yeah, absolutely. On a podcast, I'll talk about it. My friends will talk about anything. But I just know that there's –

I see the way people interact online and it's like, you wouldn't say that to my face. And so why are we doing this here? And so I just, in that way, and I know the internet as good for a lot of people who've never had voices or anything like that, but I think in that way, it's pretty bad. So especially with politics, I don't want to interact. If I felt like I was doing some good, I'm a bartender in Covina, which is almost the Midwest, basically. So I'm talking to Latino guys about stuff all the time.

I'm talking about politics there and when I'm talking to them face-to-face, but I don't think it does much good on Twitter. Sure, sure. Well, more in Twitter news. Jack Dorsey, who looks like Tyrion Lannister, who became a hipster

with an Adderall problem showed up to the White House why does Jack Dorsey always wear that motherfucking nose ring with his beard I will tell you why it's because he's an edgelord a boring whack white guy who thinks it makes him interesting

he looks like hipster Tyrion Lannister he kind of looks like Jordan Farmer I'm trying to figure out who he looks like hester Tyrion Lannister. He kind of looks like Jordan Farmar, too. I'm trying to figure out who he looks like. He's got a few different facial parallels. Or like Mikey Day doing a character bit with a beard. I'm going to nod, but 90% of what you just said went over my head. That's fine. Peter Dinklage is what I'm saying.

Oh, no, he's got it for sure, like, in the morning, especially when he went to go see Trump yesterday. He had to, like, he was smoothing out his hair looking in the mirror and he's like, Trump's not going to know what to do with it. Yeah, yeah. He's like, I look like fucking Pete Wentz but smarter. I mean to me, he's like all of San Francisco white guys. All the tech bros are like – it's so predictable the type of things they think make them more interesting. the type of things they think make them more interesting.

It's just like these, like, they're imaginative in one domain. Sure. Yeah. I think that translates to other types of creativity, and it does for some, but not to everyone. Well, look. And not this model. He had to tweet-splain some shit because the president summoned him so he could get to the bottom of a very pressing issue for conservatives.

Where the fuck do my followers keep going? Yeah. And was very upset. That's what the meeting was about trump was like what is going on with my follower count and he've calmly explained look we have a practice where we identify bot spam accounts and we purge them from the platform because they are not real fucking human beings at best it's just someone who's not doing shit with it or someone who's just trying to create a bunch of accounts.

At worst, it could be someone like Russia who's just trying to signal boost with these bot accounts. There's that. And it could turn into this thing like, yeah, well, you know, a lot of conservatives are concerned that the follower accounts are all over the place. And I think that's where they're failing to make the connection that a lot of these accounts are following them to signal boost their shit, to give some credence or some semblance of legitimacy to what they're saying, and that real Americans are engaging with this stuff. And some are, but there's a lot that aren't. So that was a pretty simple explanation.

It's just so sad to be like, all these conservators, our followers accounts always go down after there's a bot purge. There must be a conspiracy. Right. I'm the team where the bot makers are trying to support me. Not like, oh, my largely unpopular bankrupt philosophy needs to be propped up by bots. No.

It's not that. It's not that. It's anti-conservative fucking conspiracy, man. Motherfuckers deep-stating me. I mean, I'm telling you, I say it all the time. If these guys weren't in control of the world, I think this would be the funniest thing. Yeah, it really would. On the Dark Knight Returns, the famous Frank Miller graphic novel from the 80s, they make President Reagan look like such a puppet and like an a-hole.

And I mean, I just can imagine the stuff you can't write it. Right. The stuff Trump says and comes up with the fact that he called Jack to his office to talk to him about this stuff is the funniest stuff in the world if he wasn't ruling the free world. It made me think like if you're just like if this were a bit you were writing, like if you were president, what is your equivalent ridiculous summoning to the Oval Office you would do to abuse your power? Yeah. I mean, this is like a King Ralph. Oh, yeah. Personally.

CEO of Taco Bell. Just tell me, who, what business leader would you summon to change something about their business for just your own personal benefit?

No, CEO of Taco Bell. What would you say? Not enough breakfast shit at the Echo Park location. Even though you're potentially living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,

you're still holding it down I'm still holding it down for my T-Bell. Brief people. Okay. I'm still holding it down for my T-Bell. Brief people. Okay. I bring back the CEO of MoviePass and just, you know, let's fix things up around here.

There is a real way. You didn't have to do what you did. Right, right, right. Like, they've just tanked the thing, too, but even a two-movie-a-week thing, there's a lot of people who are ready to get on board to pay $20 even.

So you're not even being like, you need to explain yourself. You're like, hey, let me help you out with this thing. Well, we knew when MoviePass happened at $9.99, any movie, every day. We knew that this is a bad idea. It was literally too good to be true. Yeah, we knew. And everybody, for those nine months, that gold rush of movies was amazing,

was so fun. I saw Rampage late on a Tuesday night at the Glendale Pacific theater. Best movie theater in America. You like that theater? Oh yeah. Did I tell you about my, my, the one on brand?

Yeah. The one in the Americana, right? Yeah. Oh, in the America. Here's the night. Marijuana,

Sujita, artisan noodles. Wow. A movie. Pie from pie hole. That is, that is, that is an eight-hour day.

Wow, DJ down. You activated his heart. You said Shijita. And when I say movie, the key is you get so high and then so full, and the game is you walk up to the movie theater, and you just have to see whatever movie is next. This is the bullshit I don't like about Andrew. I know.

The events, the thing that he goes, oh, let's go eat food around this event, are things that I truly love and care about. Right, right, right. With the Dodger game last week. Oh, man. He texted me. He's like, hey, let's go to the Dodger game. It's going to be great. I'm like, oh, yeah.

I'm going once a year, at least once a year besides opening day. They have a nooner or 1 p.m. game on Wednesday or Thursday. Right, right. Everyone ditches work. I was looking forward to this. He hit me up, and all this guy gives a fuck about is the food. He kept texting me about the food. I treat Dodger Stadium like a hot dog stand that it costs $11 to get into.

Oh, wow. And that's also how much the tickets I paid for. No, that's not what I would talk. No, MoviePass would be great. I'm willing to pay $20 a month. I mean, I don't know. Yeah. Literally 20 or $30.

Movie pass has been around for years. I don't know if you knew that, but I subscribed to movie pass. The most I paid was 30 bucks and you could see a movie only the same movie once and you could see a movie every 24 hours. Whoa. So I paid 30 bucks as much as 30. How long ago was that? That was, I don't know, three years ago.

Oh, so you're a movie pass hipster, huh? You're on the ship with everybody else. I have a friend, Joel Mandelkorn, who produces a lot of stuff, produces Hot Tub. He went up to $40 with that. Wow. And it was everything except for Arclight. And it's the same thing. You can go see whatever. Yeah, but you can only see it once.

There was like rules. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's okay for there to be rules. Why is there a rule that you can't see the same movie more than once? Because they're trying to limit the amount of movies you see. Right. The reason why MoviePass fell apart, why I had to let it go, is they blacked out everything except for this one movie, and then they took away that time. It just got so spotty.

Give me some real basic rules. You can see two movies a week or one movie a week. 20 bucks. I'm still saving money. So yes, that's what I would bring the CEO for MoviePass. And work that out. Me personally, I would demand that McDonald's begin refrying everything in beef tallow. Oh, yeah.

That's what I want. I've heard about these fries. Sorry, vegans. You know what I mean? Yeah. But look, your time is you'll inherit the earth when all of us omnivores just die. Well, after we've destroyed it. Yeah, after we've destroyed it.

And after we've, there's nothing left. Sorry. But I'm trying. Look, I do Meatless Mondays. Oh, yeah? Sometimes. I do. I try to.

Sometimes. I want to know. I mean, look, I fuck with vegan food. You know, I actually, once a week, we usually get the Impossible Burger. I only eat the Impossible Burger now. Oh, yeah. I think if you're going to have a fast food burger, it's actually a little, just get the Impossible Burger.

Just get the Impossible Burger. And you can afford it. And it doesn't really, like, taste like meat anyway. It tastes the same. Like, even fast food meat doesn't taste like meat, so just do the Impossible. Anyway, just to keep it moving. Wait, real quick cooking tip, though. Also, if you're making chili, get the uh whatever the vegan burgers are because you can't

tell the difference between that and ground beef that's good ah yeah yeah yeah there you go um now just one other thing just because uh the president's insecurities not only around twitter but even his election are putting the country at risk um there was a report in the new york times that you know things are really fucked up especially at dhs where kirstjen Nielsen, a.k.a. Reichstag Barbie, just took off. And we found out that, you know, she was becoming concerned about Russia's, you know, election meddling, especially with the midterms. Alleged. Yeah. And as were many people in the intelligence community.

And she tried to bring it up a few different times. But in a meeting, Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, basically said, do not bring this up a few different times but in a meeting mick mulvaney the acting white house chief of staff basically said do not bring this up around him at all this is this is a quote wasn't a great subject and should be kept below his level because he doesn't any talk about election meddling triggers his uh you know fear that people are going to suggest that it delegitimizes his presidency which it does because from what we've seen, he was the only person to benefit from this meddling. So, of course, he doesn't want to hear about it.

Part of me also is a little bit weary of this story because it sounds like these stories are trying to come out to paint Kirstjen Nielsen as someone other than the person who was behind the family separation policy and should never be allowed to walk in public again. But, hey, I guess the news is news. So just, you know, that's the state of our election security, because as everyone suggests to 2020, it's going to be a hold on to your butts one more time because the bots will be coming.

Hold on to your bots, I should say. I don't get it. And also, don't forget. Come on, man. Jurassic Park. And then also John Bolton last year, he eliminated the position of cybersecurity coordinator at the White House. So, you know, not a priority. So, again, hold on to your bots.

And one last thing about the Trump stuff, just to get one more point in. The Trump stuff. A hard-hitting event. The Trump shit. Trump stuff. Yeah. A hard hitting event. The Trump shit.

You know, as these investigations heat up, he was on Twitter just, I don't even know. He was having, he had had it. Yeah. And was just going on about all kinds of shit. He's fighting every subpoena that is coming his way. He's telling people in his administration to do the same thing because it's time for there to be some accountability. And they realize some of this shit isn't going to hold up in the light of day. One of the tweets that really sticks out is him saying,

if the partisan Dems ever tried to impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court. Not only are there no high crimes and misdemeanors, there are no crimes by me at all. Okay, I get that. You've had a pretty successful run by basically defaulting to, or your plan B always being like,

let's just take this to the supreme court i've stacked it with enough conservatives and then the decision will come out on my side there unfortunately my man you should have read a fucking civics book because the supreme court wouldn't even touch this shit because again the house has sole power over impeachment and the senate has the power to try all impeachments. And if there were a trial in the Senate, Chief Justice John Roberts would be presiding over it. Even in a world where if every Supreme Court justice was a conservative one, they know it's just not constitutionally, it's not a thing they can do.

It's just like, I'm sorry, this is a political event. Yeah. So we can't hop in here. So again, he's coming up with things. He's just throwing everything at the wall at this point. But I think that's the thing. It's like his, like, you know, third grade understanding of president equals king has held up more than the Constitution. Yeah.

Is the thing so far. So, I don't know. Maybe he's right. Yeah, we'll see. Got to try everything. Yeah. All right. So, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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for the top people at Netflix. And it will make your eyes water, if not flood. Compensation in 2018. My eyes are flooded. They're flooded, baby. CEO Reed Hastings, 2018, collected $36.1 million in salary bonus and stock awards. up from $24 million in 2017. My man made $60 million in the last two years.

Cool. Just for losing $12 billion? Yeah, yeah. It's all good. It's all good. It's the biggest thing ever. Also, Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos made $29.6 million up from $22.4 million. So he didn't have as good a year as the CEO, but he's doing his thing.

What's Netflix's endgame? I think it's probably just to become so big that someone like an Apple or someone just buys them to be like, now we're the captain. But aren't they too big for that? We don't know. That's where, I don't know what they're, I think a lot of people are trying to figure out what their end game is because they're spending money like it's going out of sight.

The end game is we cornered the market. Right. If they're going into deficit spending to corner the market, then they just have everyone forever, right? If it's the only way to get entertainment, which is their goal. But yeah, that's not going to be, I mean, the Disney thing coming out.

But they got to try. Yeah, but still. I mean, whoever's giving them this money, they're not going to get their money back. There's still shareholders. There's still shareholders who are like, hey, what's good? What are we doing here? No, it's like two pyramid schemes. It's great.

It's like the pyramid scheme of the content and the pyramid scheme of the actual money. Fucking hell yeah, Netflix. Buy Steve's comedy special when he has it. Yeah. Buy everyone's comedy special. Yeah. I mean, we should. Fuck it, man.

Netflix. It's how we redistribute the wealth. Put Yo! Is This Racist and Daily Zeitgeist as our own show every day. We'll do it every day. Just give us that Netflix check. But I will not take less money than Beyonce, just so you know. Yeah. Now, one last thing, and I just want to move on to Operation Varsity Blues,

the Aunt Becky saga, the song of white privilege and ice by George R.R. Martin. Are you saying Aunt Becky's pleading not guilty? Aunt Becky's pleading not guilty, just so you know. So she had a plea deal. They said, hey, take this plea deal. And she's like, I'm not going to jail.

So, no. And then they're like, okay, so now if you want to go to trial you're looking at 20 years yeah are you are you built for that you can you do two dimes uh and it seems like it's stressing her a little bit out but the thing that the only reason i bring this up now is that tmz has some of the legal tea okay and her legal defense is fucking ironclad. Our sources say lawyers for Lori Loughlin and Massimo, shout out to Massimo, 90s brand, didn't take a plea early on because they believe they had a solid defense on several fronts. First, ringleader Rick Singer, the person who they're giving money to, did not tell them how he would use the $500,000 to get their daughters into school.

Fact, they were aware Singer did want pics of the girls on a rowing machine, but they say that doesn't mean they knew what the endgame was. So essentially, their defense reminds me a little bit about a famous Dave Chappelle joke, and it goes like this. Sorry, officer, I didn't know I couldn't do that. They're doing the, I didn't know I couldn't do that. They're doing the, I didn't know I couldn't do that defense. They were like, well,

other people pay to build buildings and stuff. And I think that's maybe the weird logic they're applying here. That was, I mean, to be fair, there is a payola way to get in. Yeah. So it's wild that you would,

I know this is not a new take, but you fucking kidding me. You had that money and you elected to spend it this way to try to get your dumb kid into a whack school? You got to spend seven figures. Oh, they tried to take a discount. You're saying the discount is a problem. They took the broke boy. They tried to get in the matinee showing of privilege.

I don't know. They didn't do the midnight showing that they bought eBay tickets off of three times the price. I mean, look, maybe this is more of an East Coast thing. And these are West Coast people. West Coast? Every East, like, you know, when I went to college, I didn't realize that I went to Columbia. And that was a lot of rich kids' safety school. Right, right.

That's like, and these kids were. This is your reach school. Dumb as shit. Yeah, exactly. your reach school dumb as shit yeah exactly and it was like i was like oh they just went to a prep school where the uh like the head of admissions at columbia also went to that prep school and these kids got in the the dumbest people on earth truly damn and i'm like yeah it doesn't matter and that couldn't have cost more than five hundred thousand dollars it's ridiculous yeah well look the the sad thing just about there i didn't know i couldn't do that defense is unfortunately Massimo, he paid $100,000 directly

to the assistant athletic director at USC. So I don't know how he's going to feign ignorance on that one. He was like, no, it was a bet we had on whether or not my daughter would get into USC. That's a good spin. I just don't.

I bet my daughter could. And she did. I do not overestimate the ability of white people to get off of being convicted of things. Especially the wealthy in general. That's what I'm saying. If there's some way they could figure out a thing where they get a slap on the wrist, I'm sure it's going to happen. I am not.

There's no way. Well, the prosecutors. And Becky's not going to jail. The prosecutors are very clear because Felicity Huffman's going to jail. Yeah, because she did the plea, right? Yeah, but she's going to get in jail either way because they said even in the plea, the prosecutor is like, there will be jail. I'm not trying to go light on you. This is so great.

Yeah. So, hey, we'll see what happens. I mean, shouldn't having your kid go to USC be punishment a lot? Oh, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, go Bruins. Yeah, we out here. You out here.

You know why? What's the thing about a Trojan? They only last one time. Holla back. Drop the bomb, dude. Yeah, UCLA in the building. I feel like this has gone full LA local news. Yeah.

We're like morning radio. University of second choice. You know what I mean? University for spoiled children. You feel me? Wait a minute. Hold on. Is the joke then that you go more than one time

yeah you go two times oh I reuse condoms over and over again that's the joke I haven't bragged about going more than one time

in a long time I just make that one time count you know what I mean I leave it on the mat it's a lot of sighing and saying this has never happened

before yeah yeah yeah that's the mat that's the mat how we do it. Yeah, I got my G-E-D in E-D. All right, so Steve, thank you so much for joining us. I had a blast.

Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, where can people find you and follow you? I've got two hit podcasts, Views from the Vista for Movies, Who's Your God with Amy Miller for Religion Ethics Talks, and you can find me at Hernia on Instagram, hot Insta, dedicated to my girlfriend, and Big Hern on Twitter. And we got a new podcast coming up with the bad boys of Twitter.

It's called Horned Up. Next week with Yusuf Roach and Alan Strickland-Williams. Oh, shit. I mean, forget about it. Yusuf, bro. Yeah. Whatever he's on, it's melting down. Yes.

We know what Yusuf is. Yeah. He's our Incredible Hulk. Yeah. So you just gotta. For sure. He's our incredible Hulk. He's always horny. He's always horned up but you just gotta make sure, you gotta hope he doesn't destroy the whole city.

But we're ready to go down with the ship. It might last 10 episodes, who knows. But we love him. I think he's one of the funniest guys in the world. It's gonna be great. I'm a big fan of Alan's too. He's gotta come on our show too. And was there a tweet you've been liking? Yeah, it's gonna be great i'm a big fan of alan's too he's got to come on our show too uh and was there a tweet you've been liking uh yeah it's actually yusuf tweeted this the other day i mean he's one of my funniest favorite guys on this uh i mean it's not this is why i'm just so happy to be working with him no people love will yusuf on this the quote is uh if this is a quote and he's

going to attribute it to someone after if you go home with someone and they don't know how to read don't fuck them that's a child and that's attributed to john waters r.i.p king so i actually even looked i was so stupid that i even looked up if john waters died and of course he didn't no yeah uh but yeah i love that tweet he has put uh he did he's done a couple of Lena Dunham tweets that I want to get made into t-shirts that, I mean, I just love him. Yeah, one of my favorites is, even when he came on the show the first time, I told him, I was like, one of your first tweets I saw, and I was like, we got to have you on, was him standing in front of this house, and he was kind of rubbing his mitts,

and he's like, had to do it to him, like he's about the mansion, and then parentheses, I robbed this house. Andrew, where can people find you and follow you? Oh, you know, yo is this racist? Andrew T.

Last name is spelled T-I. Andale, Andale, mommy. And what's the tweet you've been liking? This one's from Left at London. She's a woman who I think does like song, like recreation type shit.

But basically, it's a video on Twitter called How to Make a Tyler the Creator Song that is fucking hilarious. Oh, yeah. Someone on the Zeitgang put me onto that tweet, too. It's very funny. Shout out to you. And Tyler the Creator retweeted it. And it's very good. But it's also...

You gotta get sent. I like when people break down music because I'm not very musical. But I have a composer friend that will just be like, oh, this is just that song or this technique. And I'm like, there's another one too that was like viral years ago when someone just been like, how to make an Alt-J song. And it's fucking unbelievably good. It's just like looping. And the guy just sings like this. Anyway, you can find me on Twitter and Instagram

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Cannot stop laughing at this review of I Think You Should Leave, Tim Robinson's incredibly funny sketch show where the reviewer's problem with the show is the literal definition of sketch comedy. He writes, we get the fact that Robinson has an overall theme in mind with his sketches. He wants to show situations of discomfort or embarrassment. But the problem is those moments are often projected out to the point of absurdity. I'm sorry, my man. What the fuck?

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