The Daily Zeitgeist - Election Countdown, Ghost Dads 11.2.20

Episode Date: November 2, 2020

In episode 748, Jack and Miles are joined by Popcorn Book Club co-host Korama Danquah to discuss celebrity endorsements for Trump, the election, Tucker Carlson deciding it's time to leave Hunter Biden alone, Donald Trump Jr. doing his thing, Kim Kardashian's birthday gift, and more!FOOTNOTES: Lil Wayne, Brett Favre & More StarsEndorse Donald Trump For President In2020 Election Why Pennsylvania’s Vote Count Could Change After Election Night Tucker Carlson Suddenly Says It’s Time to Leave Hunter Biden Alone Jr. claims Coronavirus death numbers are down to “almost nothing” For my birthday, Kanye got me the most thoughtful gift of a lifetime. A special surprise from heaven. A hologram of my dad. ✨🤍 It is so lifelike! We watched it over and over, filled with emotion. WATCH: Hudson Mohawke & S-Type - The Rain Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Because who the fuck knows how long this is going to take. My name is Jack O'Brien a.k.a. Dewey Lewis a.k.a. Do-a-non a.k.a. Have you code read the latest do drop? Lewis, a.k.a. Do-a-non, a.k.a. Bruh, Have You Code Red the Latest Dude Drop?

Those are courtesy of Station Agent and Christy Yamaguchi Slane. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray! Who's the blazing that's smoking weed

and it is always high. M-I-L-E-S-O-F-G-R-A-Y. Miles of Grey. He is high. I'm just adding all this other stuff. Thank you to VeryBadSanta on the Discord for that. As you put low effort, a.k.a. You know, I added a front part.

I'm glad you only came up with the M-I-L-E-S-O-F-G-R-A-Y part. But I had to give the start off. So shout out to you, Very Bad Santa. You are, in fact, a very bad Santa. Miles, it's election time. It's election day tomorrow, or the kickoff of election season of the end times. Panic Fest 2020.

This is the last day of what we will soon be referring to as the before times possibly uh man but we had before times of the pin wow i know but who knows who knows hey yeah the optimistic there's levels to this shit um anyways it's election time so we're getting right into the format uh telling the people what we're talking about today. Obviously, we're going to talk a little bit about the election. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. A lot of it.

We'll talk about Pennsylvania, what a shit show that is, despite the fact that it's a 67% swing, depending on who wins that state, that one little block of rednecks uh they are going to swing the fate of the entire country by 67 percent uh so we're going to talk about that we're going to talk about the train of celebrity trump endorsements uh we're going to talk about how fox news managed to i don't know if they got on methadone or what but they were able to quit that hunter biden story yeah all of a sudden very suspicious uh we're gonna talk about trump blaming the supreme court for biden's victory already uh and donald trump jr And Donald Trump Jr. is flying. So we'll talk about that.

We'll check in with him. I don't know off what. I mean. That man is high. He's high? High on election forecasting. High on that election buzz. You know what I mean?

We'll check back in to the world of Kim Kardashian. And we'll ask, are planes actually safe? Like the plane corporations are telling us they are uh so you know you can trust it uh but before any of that we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious the brilliant the talented karama dankwa hello hi it's me hi karama rhymes with drama rhymes with drama uh how are you doing i'm good i'm nervous for the fate of society as we know it in this nation but good you know those two completely normal together feelings yeah for saying these things these were that sequence of words out loud surprisingly calm and upbeat you know i feel like that's how most american people are we're like everyone's like i don't know maybe it's gonna all end i don't know like i don't know you're for a good not a long time yeah seriously

uh and i am way up i feel blessed no i feel stressed my blood pressure is way up i feel stressed uh but yeah we'll see we'll see what happens man karama where are you in the country uh right now i am in sunny southern california i am in the coachella valley where it finally stopped being 100 degrees like two weeks ago. So, yeah, that's why I grew up. No, I did not grow up in the valley here. I grew up in Los Angeles, mostly partly in Ghana and partly on the East Coast in the D.C., Maryland, Virginia area. So I've just got like a smattering of locations that are my hometown.

There you go. But mostly LA. Quite a smattering. Internationally known and locally respected. I that that's right thank you all right i am enjoying the the cooler weather that we're dealing with right now i like having like a blanket that doesn't feel like it's trying to smother me yeah like it's like it's working with me, not against me now. Right. It's funny how like we're we're starting to kind of get into what we call fall, I guess, in Southern California, because you're like, well, the high will still be 88. But at night it will get to 60 versus like it'll only be like 88 in the day and then 78 at night. I'm like, oh, wow. Like the night times will feel colder.

But the like the temperature swings, i'm kind of it's kind of messing with me when it like because when you have a string of hot days and then a really cold one that always affects me so i'm sensitive you know and i'll be okay speaking of sensitive we're about to run the clocks by uh push the clocks back an hour my two-year-old is like with the very first rays of light that escape over the horizon. He's up and yelling my name. And now like now it's going to be at five in the morning instead of six in the morning. It's amazing. I love that he calls you by your name.

Also, he's like, yeah, Jack, wake up. Get up, Jack. Mr. O'Brien. Mr. O'Brien, are you in there? Mr. O'Brien was my father. Call me Jackie boy. Call me Jackie. Jackie boy.

All right. Well, Karama, we like to ask our guest up top, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are or what you're up to? Okay. I was like super nervous and then i forgot that i was doing this and i couldn't sleep in the middle of the night so my search history is all over the place um i only have to tell you one thing that's good

oh i googled spit and eggs which is an episode of season three of veronica mars and uh it's just been a lot of re-watching stuff for me recently and uh i'm re-watching season four of veronica mars but i was thinking fondly on the halcyon days of season three which was not a good season but season four was a hot mess so i was like remember spitting eggs that was a good episode so that's what's uh what happened with spitting eggs what's the is it is that i'm guessing that has something to do with the episode i you know what it's been so long since i've watched season three um because i've been re-watching season four because i was like remember that trash fire from last year let me let me do recent history then go back but it was like veronica is solving a campus rape mystery and that's where it all comes to a head yeah right and she's like

that first season i remember my uh my partner her majesty she's a big veronica mars fan and she kept on my yellow exterras and i'm like what the fuck is a yellow exterra the yellow that logan eccles drives oh yeah and she's like that's the yellow exterra i'm like i don't know i have not seen the show so i don't know why that is significant and also what is going on it's like there's a lot of heavy shit in veronica mars i didn't a lot of like a lot of stuff about rape and like uh like race stuff and inequality and like corrupt police departments and it was like a light teen show right yeah that's what thompson got her start actually tessa thompson was a series regular in season two hell yeah that's well then you can't be mad at that show ever

anybody um yeah no veronica but that's totally different from what i thought the vibe of veronica mars was like i thought it was i don't know i i thought it was somewhere between like a nickelodeon type show and like one of those fox shows but like more leaning towards uh i don't know like clarissa explains it all or like one of those types here's yeah you should watch it one of veronica mars veronica lives in this town called neptune it's got a huge gap between the hyper wealthy and the working class. And she is the daughter of a formerly disgraced sheriff. So he was disgraced because he accused the richest man in town of murdering his own daughter, who was Veronica's best friend.

So Veronica, in her spare time, works for her father's now detective agency. And she's trying to solve what happened to her best friend, who, again, was murdered. And so that's the first season. They open with that. Yeah. So it's more like a mixture between, like, those Fox shows and Twin Peaks. Yeah. Yeah, Twin Peaks, but less weird. More high school vibe, less weird.

Right. Saved by the Bell meets Twin Peaks. I had the same misconception of it before I started watching. I was like, so she's from Mars? Is that the deal? That's right. I thought it was just quirky.

Her Majesty was like, what the fuck are you talking about? I'm like, I don't know, Veronica. I don't know. I only seen bus ads for it when I was younger. I never watched the show. So I was just going off of the word Mars. I also had that there was a show called Life on Mars that started right when Veronica Mars was ending. And I got the two of them very confused. And Life on Mars is about a guy who travels back to the 70s after he like gets concussed or something like there's they're

not at all the same and i also thought it was about 9-11 so i just didn't know what was going on and i didn't start watching veronica mars till i was in college and i got scared in the middle of the night watching dexter in an apartment by myself and i was like i'll just watch a teen show to cool it down and then it was a teen show about murder. Wow. That is a really intriguing premise, though. I want to check that show out. It's all on Hulu.

You can watch all four seasons on Hulu. Yeah, I'm not going to lie. I got into it that first season. Personal opinion, season one is really good. Season two is pretty good. Season three, not the best. It suffers from this thing where there are two season long mysteries in the season. So they solve one halfway through episode nine, spit and eggs. And then they have a second mystery, which I think was

not wise on their part. Too many mysteries. Yeah. Too many mysteries, too many like series long mysteries. So like they needed to just stick to the mysteries of the week, but I get why they didn't want to like 20 episode rape arc. Like that's a lot of sexual assault, but season four is okay until the end. And then the last 10 minutes of season four just completely ruined the whole series for me. And I'm trying to like salvage something in it, which is why I was rewatching season four.

And I'm just like, no, I'm just mad at the end. I'm mad to like salvage something in it which is why I was re-watching season four and I'm just like no I'm just mad at the end I'm mad at it and the star is Kristen Bell right yes yes she is that's just I also like don't associate her with uh like pathos in any way like I just yeah but that's probably my limited imagination it's like noir so she's like a noir detective like the maltese falcon type deal but she's a southern californian teen hell yeah i think we are doing a huge service to our listeners by spending the first 10 minutes of this podcast talking about veronica Mars so they can forget for a moment that they are 24 hours out from the election. I forgot and now we're back. And now we're back. Karama, what is something you think is underrated? Something I think is underrated? I'm probably

going to say babies. I know a lot of people like babies, but I don't think they like babies for the right reasons. And I don't think they respect babies. I think they enjoy babies aesthetically. And they're like, oh, look at their little clothes. But if you really think about it, being a baby every day is kind of like your first day at a new job where you don't know what's going on and there are no actual tasks for you to do.

And you're just kind of like figuring out what's happening but it's not for like three to five years depending on how smart the baby is and i have a lot of respect for them for kind of staying in that gray area and rolling with it because i can't do that for a whole week let alone five years oh man i think it's that plus they're on mushrooms the whole time uh yes because they haven't like had the doors of perception like close in around like, you know, their brain. So you have one. So, you know, I got a couple. Yeah.

They are tripping literally. They're just like looking at their hands like. Yeah. Yeah. I'm seeing trails, Jack. Yeah. Mr. O'Brien, I'm seeing trails. So it's just pure joy a lot of the time but it's a it is a mystery yeah i couldn't handle that a lot of pure joy and discovery yeah

i think babies are vastly underrated yeah uh what is something you think is overrated uh i'm gonna stick with the kid theme and i think overrated is asking kids what they want to be when they grow up. I think it's a lazy question. I think that, no, I think it's lazy. And I think that most kids, if they know what they want to be when they grow up, they'll walk up to you. They're like, hi, my name's Susie. I want to be a paleontologist. You don't need to ask them.

They'll tell you. And sometimes you don't want to know the answer. You don't want to know what that kid wants to be when they grow up because when i was like five if you had asked me what i wanted to be when i grew up i would have said a stripper and you would have been confused and not known where to go but the fact of the matter is i was being very pragmatic because i was like strippers take their clothes off and i take my clothes off every day anyway. So I did not understand. That is my four-year-old's greatest skill

is I will like turn around and like for two seconds and he'll be completely naked. Like it's literally like he can take his clothes off faster than anybody and he knows that it gets a response that I'm like, whoa. So he keeps doing it

no matter what he hasn't been in public yet but uh i think we're headed for that that's i mean now's a great time to have a kid that likes to take clothes off because you're not going in public right so you can kind of it's just funny it's all but i want to say i respect strippers i do not have the core strength or the strength of spirit to be a stripper, which is why that dream has now been dashed. But I did not know that at five. What were the other jobs you wanted early on before you had any sense? Miles, you're asking the question.

I wanted to be a Power Ranger. I wanted to be humorally from the Power Ranger. There you go. I do like that. Amy Jo Johnsonson real life name yeah yeah i don't think i knew that off the dome so the blue ranger billy he works in production like in physical production as a production manager david yost uh which is like really funny yeah because you're like yo that's the fucking blue ranger they're like no that's

the production manager on this show i'm like okay, okay, but I'm pretty sure, okay, let me just look at the call sheet. Pretty sure if a giant monster walks in here, he's going to- He won't just activate? Okay. We'll see about that. Who's the naive one now?

Power Ranger. Yeah, my four-year-old would want to be a train, I think, if you asked. That's great. I mean, one of our presidential candidates really likes trains so yeah you know yeah that's how he's gonna get the object the other one likes but uh trucks right yeah i mean i wanted to be i think the first thing i oh you know what i saw i saw the movie seven and i wanted to be a forensic pathologist oh i thought you were gonna say you wanted to be a head when that shit came out i was

like what i was like 12 or 13 i was like that was the last time i was like yo i'm gonna be this thing before that i wanted to be a cop because of the movie speed that copaganda got me yeah yeah because i was like dude all that gear they wear and plus they're not dealing with like real shit like they're just going after like dennis hopper with the blown off hand you know what i mean like it's abstract shit uh but yeah that and then a forensic pathologist and then uh i think just like a professional gamer like was a thing i also thought like in high school like before it was professional like there was anything like that i was like dude that'd be sick if like i could just get paid to play fucking blah blah blah all the time

then i went to college and figured that's not really a thing but you know we all tried yeah all right let's talk real quick about some of the celebrity endorsements that are coming out we'll go from least surprising to most surprising uh Brett Favre has endorsed Donald Trump. Color me shocked. What did he say? Did he have like a cool reasoning that was, because everyone's had to be this thing where they're like, I know what you're thinking.

I'm racist, but here's the thing. Like I feel like that's a construction where it's like, yes, I acknowledge this guy. Trump is whack as fuck but is like the construction of most of their endorsements but is he just i okay i did this is his tweet my vote is for what makes this country great freedom of speech and religion second amendment hard-working tax-paying citizens police and military in this election we have freedom of choice which all should respect for me and these principles my vote is for at real donald trump he's uh he he's voting for donald trump because uh to protect our freedom of choice

yeah and freedom of speech when he he literally says the press are like the fucking enemy of this thing again that nice trying like trying to hide behind all this deracialized shit uh yeah we know what time it is brett yeah uh and freedom of speech i think in his turn in his thinking is his freedom to send reporters pictures of his dick yeah right lil wayne yeah little wayne was medium surprising for me that was surprising that was depressing i yeah what what happened what what has happened to this man i mean i know that he had a photo he was like y'all i listened to the platinum plan and i'm like i don't know he was going like the same thing they're all saying is like, you're an influencer and you get your script.

It's like, okay, now please post with this hashtag and this language and then you'll get your check. Because it was saying, I've looked at the platinum plan. Donald Trump is really going to listen to us. And it's like so fucked up and pathetic and sad. And like you get all these question marks and realizations about what even hip hop is even. And you're like, oh my God, was this always the pursuit of just being a powerful white man? Really? Like this was like, it's all we're seeing this. I don't know. Like

it's, it's just, it's really disheartening. But at the same time, I think what it should just demonstrate is that people who are wealthy, they will not protect you. They don't have your interests at heart. So don't ever expect these people to come out and say the right thing. Just point. Yeah, it's definitely more cash money and less young money. I was focused on the youth. Oh, I can't. I mean, he's not he's not thinking about the future. He's not thinking about environmentalism, which Donald Trump has said is a Chinese hoax. Like, I feel like if China were trying to hoax us, they would come up with something a little more exciting than maybe you

should use less plastic. Like, that's not, that's not, I have more faith in the Chinese to be able to come up with something that is theatrical and beautiful and like very well organized. Like, this is a dumb hoax if it's a hoax right right right yeah it's uh i don't know but i mean we we can't let this cannot be a story that we move past where we're just like ah remember brett farve tweeted them anyways there's the wrangler ad was starring brett farve or lil way Wayne. They should not be allowed to... We wouldn't allow somebody who voted for the Nazi party to show their face

in public. Well, we did let them work for NASA, so I don't know. I know how to build shit, though. It was science, man. They couldn't show their face in public. They just kind of quietly worked behind the scenes.

And we're like, what? His name? John Stevenson. That's an American name. Super from here. Don't mind his voice. He's from here. Who are all these white people who just moved to Argentina?

Who the fuck is that? Oh, that's Julio Reichenstager. Oh, okay. Oh, he's been here the whole time okay he i don't know he just looks new something about him okay fine fine uh boy but yeah i don't know those those i think for a lot of people it was interesting so many people are confused but i think i'm hoping most people will just cut to the point here and realize that these these celebrities are not shit they are not most of these people are revealing themselves to be like only to have their self-interest their own interests at heart and whatever the fuck that

means and i think when people are like but i thought wheezy what man he i don't know he wheezy was not going to save you no these people aren't going to save you like we're you have to realize we have to actually begin to count on each other and you know have our each other's backs as much as possible rather than thinking these people who are you know in the socio-economic class well beyond our realities are like living the same living on the same planet because we're seeing it time and again like ego plus unlimited money will put you in a whole other fucking world that most people know nothing about. Like most people are checked every day by the limits of their like their ability of what they can achieve financially or even like what their own imagination can show you based on your life experience. But then you get some of these people. It's a it's it's it's it's a sickness that they of these people. Woo. It's a, it's, it's, it's,

it's a sickness that they're all kind of showing. It's really weird. What I was shook by was the list of celebrities who publicly admitted that they had never voted before. And I think what's wild to me is that they're admitting that they did not vote four years ago. And for the last four years, then I'm been complaining and I'm just like,

Oh, okay. I see who you are now like when someone shows you who they are believe them the first time I see you Selena Gomez I am disappointed yeah all right guys let's take a quick break and we will be right back hello everyone I am Lacey Lamar and I'm Amber Ruffin a am Lacey Lamar. And I'm Amber Ruffin, a better Lacey Lamar. Boo.

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yeah uh so let's talk about that the election tomorrow. Do we have to talk about this? Kind of. Can we talk about Veronica Mars some more? Yeah, yeah. How would Veronica Mars deal with the fact that everything hinges on this one state? Seems like it, yeah. So one thing that I had kind of forgotten is Iowa, the Iowa primary that happened this year that was like, everybody was focused on that.

It was highly anticipated and it was a complete clusterfuck where nobody knew what was happening. People assumed that like shady shit was going on. All of that happened earlier this year, and I feel like we kind of just forgot about it because it was right before the pandemic. Was that earlier this year or was that late last year? No, it was. It was this year.

I think it was in February. But once again, Iowa couldn't have been further from the rest of the country. So, again, our attention that we paid to it was ill spent. And also it was a complete clusterfuck that didn't have a satisfying resolution. But we were able to, like, move on to the next one. And also, like, the world completely shut down uh and also like joe biden came in seventh so it wasn't like a reflection of what was happening yeah he won yeah pete budaj won i know exactly one person who voted for pete budaj

yeah but that that tipped the scale but the question like that I'm now asking is, what if that happens again in an important state like Pennsylvania, where we're dealing with a split Supreme Court telling us they can't decide whether to keep counting the ballots that arrive after Election Day? model the entire election like if biden wins pennsylvania he has a 99 chance of winning the election uh if trump wins biden has a 30 chance of winning the election like yeah well but i mean the problems with the caucuses were all stemming from the the software they were using to report the results right but i'm just saying it was a complete clusterfuck of a state's election infrastructure. And Pennsylvania already seems like it's having issues. It's having issues with mail-in votes. It's having issues with whether like how many fucking envelopes you need to put your your vote into. I don't know. Yeah, I don't want to be like fear mongery or anything i'm just

saying like that well i mean i think you're in the camp that i think probably 65 of the country is which is completely freaked the fuck out because yeah on one hand uh they're the biden could win and then like it's a slight sigh of relief but then knowing there's still so much more to do because it's not just merely Biden being president. That's going to solve everything that's wrong in this country. But then also like that feeling of like, holy shit. Um,

the country, like if they're, if truly like the numbers are, you know, legitimate and we see that Donald Trump was winning in these places, then there's like this realization of like, oh my God. Yeah.

Like most people in this country are completely don't know what is don't know right from wrong um or know right from wrong and choose are consciously choosing wrong which is also a very fucked up feeling to like have this mirror held up to the country again uh i don't know i'm just like i'm just also just with the with the rampant voter suppression that happens i just don't even know how we're ever going to get an accurate picture of what this country does believe because i mean a lot of people talk about voter suppression in terms of racial voter suppression but there's less uh there's less ink given to accessibility like polling place accessibility for and we think about wheelchair ramps,

but we don't think about people who need large print ballots or braille ballots or people who have other issues that prevent them from leaving the house right now because they have immunocompromised stuff going on and they can't go vote, but they're not able to get their mail-in ballot. So like that's a whole other level of voter suppression. And there's also an intersectionality because a lot of people with disabilities are people of color. Yeah. So it's, like, it's so frustrating because we talk about how this is the will of the people. And it's, like, until we have fair elections, we're never going to know the will of the people.

And I think that the right needs to realize if they want to like have a legitimate say in what happens, they need to be fair for a second, because if they really do believe that the majority of the people are on their side and are like, we want our guns, we want our God, we don't want abortions, then they should just let everybody vote. But they know that they're not in the right. They're on the right, but they're not in the right. So it's just like, it makes me angry i'm angry they're actively fighting against it i mean they yeah there's an insurgency mentality like inside the gop party that like we have to cheat to win we have to like do bend the rules

to win but then i think the like i think that fox news and just the social media, self-selecting social media bubbles that people are in have made it so that people, like that portion of the country, exists in a separate reality where they think Trump is going to win by a landslide like they're going if trump doesn't win by a landslide which there's like almost no chance he will they are going to think something like that the election was stolen from them who who's predicting the landslide thing like i know robert kahaly with trafalgar you know polling is one of the pollsters who's saying like there's a lot of hidden trump votes that could tip the election but like yeah you know i don't know because even on fox predicting it trump is like predicting it at his rallies and like it's like individuals there are no organizations he modulates between that kind of confidence and then will then be like just so freaked out that like suburban women are leaving him and he's like i'll be really mad

if i lose like it's so that's the most relatable thing about him because i swing between high levels of confidence and being like no one loves me oh my god they um but when he's saying that like people made a lot of uh noise about like him saying oh my god could you imagine if i lost to biden like i might have to leave the country but he the way he was saying that was not like him taking that possibility seriously he was saying it like could you imagine if i lost to that idiot like be mortified yeah i'd be more i'd have to go right because i'm i'm facing such legal jeopardy. But that's not the joke. But yeah, I don't know. The other thing is, especially when you look at Pennsylvania too, the Trump campaign is very focused on Pennsylvania.

The Trump campaign was all over the state over the weekend. very narrowly just realizing if we can get this one and everything else holds then we just need to focus like laser guided fuckery in the state of pennsylvania which i don't know could be happening there's a lot of reports of how like uh certain like that citizens in some counties in pennsylvania been calling local law enforcement to be like is there going to be like violence like is it safe to go to the polls like i've been hearing like this group is threatening this group or this group and like now the local law enforcement is like having to go to the polls like i've been hearing like this group is threatening this group or this group and like now the local law enforcement is like having to reassure people like no like we're gonna have you know law enforcement there nothing's gonna happen so there's also

there's just so much just swirling misinformation uh but also local law enforcement has been have been openly supporting Trump and telling people they can't vote if they have Black Lives Matter t-shirts. There was a police officer at a polling place with a Trump mask. Yeah, no, all very legal but I mean, there's

police officers going around in police cars saying Trump 2020 and Flatbush. So yeah, I don't know know i don't know what's gonna happen then there was this new york times report uh they did a podcast about how america is breaking all sorts of gun sales records and it's first time gun gun buyers which is really scary um people on both sides no No. No, me neither. But I've definitely been like,

should I get a gun? Do I need to get a gun for the... Every time I hear these white supremacists talking about how they're going to kick off the second civil war if Biden wins, that's... Part of me is like,

I feel like I'm letting my family down by like doing by not having a gun well i think it all depends on what you know it's like one of those things like well everybody's buying a gun is that what i need to do and then a lot of people with guns not knowing what the fuck to do yeah that could be a mess but also like yeah it's a lot like honey get in here we got to do a dance explaining how we met 15 years ago everyone's doing it i'm not entirely sure how to do it but maybe i should do it before i can't do it anymore because they might take it away i feel like i'm uh letting my family down by not having a gun until i realize remember that i drop my phone five times a day and like do it in

cartoonish fashion where I'm like, dope. I'm like, right. Yeah. Yeah. Like literally Curtis dropped the Uzi and true lives took out the whole room.

Yeah. All right. Let's, let's talk about how the right is covering uh or was covering i guess uh towards the end of last week the election so there was massive news last week that ups was uh conspiring with the biden campaign to cover up uh the explosive documents that were going to lead to the end of biden's uh campaign they were just gonna have to resign once once this shit hit uh and so tucker carlson uh told us that you know somebody had opened their

mail stolen the documents except i don't know so it's so weird. He said, first he was very clear. And I did have copies of it. It wasn't the only copies. He had to mention that because I think a lot of people were saying, you shipped the only version of the explosive documents you had without any redundant backups or anything like that. And he did reiterate, he's like, we made a copy. As if a lot of people were giving a shit for that. So why are we even talking about something yeah so please chill out and there's

also a flash drive okay because we're like oh now it's a it's documents now it's a flash drive uh but he did say that you know the the ups found it and he's very uh very thankful but i'm gonna play a couple parts of his monologue on Thursday. He first still wants to let you know that even though the flash drive was found, so I guess it wasn't total malarkey, he's still suspicious. So as you can imagine, we wanted to know what

happened. Unfortunately, we still don't know what happened. This morning, UPS issued a press release announcing they had found our flash drive and then boasting about their customer service. Quote, UPS will always focus first on our customers and will never stop working to solve issues, which is fine. UPS is a reliable company. They rarely lose anything. We agree with that. That's why we use them in the first place. And yet they lost our Biden documents. How? UPS won't tell us how. We spent a lot of the day talking to executives there.

They claimed that the flash drive was found on Monday night by an hourly employee at the UPS building on 43rd Street in Manhattan. They suggested it might have been sitting on the floor there. They couldn't prove that because, remarkably, in a room where millions of high-value packages are handled, there are no security cameras. That's what they told us. So he goes on like with this like so interesting like still kind of like raising suspicions uh like that he's not letting

it go that they're still despite them finding it he couldn't he had to make sure that like sort of deep deep state plot pot was still kind of percolating a little bit he couldn't just let it be like oh they found it i guess that was, I just took an L. Sorry about that. Thanks, UPS. But then he fucking, then he does this weird ass turn towards the end of this monologue, which I don't understand what the point is of this,

where he suddenly finds his soul. A lot of documents about Hunter Biden's personal life that we haven't brought to you, and we're not going to, and we should tell you why. One is the obvious answer. He's not running for president. And so to the extent those documents pertain to his dad, of course. But Hunter Biden is a fallen man at this point. And I should also say that I knew

Hunter Biden fairly well. We lived near each other in Washington for quite some time. I knew his wife, who was an absolutely outstanding person, a good person. I never thought Hunter Biden was a bad person. I thought he had demons, but in the time I knew him, he kept them mostly under control. At some point, he lost control of those demons and the world knows that now. He's now humiliated and alone. It's probably too strong to say we feel sorry for Hunter Biden, but the point is pounding on a man, jumping on, piling on when he's already down is something that we don't want to be involved in. So with that. down is something that we don't want to be involved in so with that oh my god that was that was motherfucker carlson no it wasn't i know what the fuck was he fucking wasted weeks fucking weeks on this shit and then now it's like you know

what though but like but here's why we're not gonna tell you about it and it's not it has nothing to do with it's the fact that it's bullshit and has nothing to do with the race it's because i used to live near him and his wife is nice so we're gonna move on so what with that oh see this is what i'm curious he still still was like he's a he's a at this point he's a fallen man he's alone and humiliated like okay you're a fallen man way to have like you have the empathy to be like don't kick a guy when he's down but then be like i mean this guy is like a piece of shit he's completely humiliated and right garbage but like that's where i'm curious right this kind of floundering shit is of someone who fears retribution or whatever by being like, yo, I went all in on this dude's son who's now the fucking president.

Whoops. And you know what? Maybe hopefully the last thing he hears from me going into GOTV weekend is me being like, hey, let's let's lay off Hunter Biden, man. Don't kick a man when he's down. Like, I don't know. What's the point? It's just them not having it. it they don't have shit they don't have anything to share like they don't have anything that's interesting they knew they didn't though right you know what i mean like yeah so i think they backed themselves into a corner they had this big story about how the deep state stole

their flash drive then ups came out and was like yo we found their flash drive we have their flash drive right here now so what's he gonna do he's gonna he's got to share something or he's got to be like and you know what it's so explosive we're not even gonna share it because we don't want to do that to this loser well if he was saying they they they are still like assessing some of the documents uh-huh and terrifying it's just so weird but then you you go out there with your chest out and being like yo i got the fucking receipts y'all just wait just you wait it's just a karen energy of being like my package went missing clearly there is a conspiracy against me

it's remarkable it's like no ups sometimes loses shit even if you're important like they found it they looked for it you filed a complaint the system worked the way it was supposed to right it's i mean most sneaker heads know sometimes these carriers they know when you get a shipment coming in from nike and they'll take that shit but hunter biden got his uh he got his flash drive real quick. I don't know. It's all fucking it's just so exhausting where you're just like if you're if you're just going to smear him like what? What's the point?

Because you had no problem parading around bullshit stories before this. Like, why now are you concerned about the veracity of like these? Like, I don't understand. That's what it's not fully clicking. And I get what you mean, Jack, where it's like, well, they pump faked a little too hard and no one bit. So they're like, oh, actually, I pulled my back. Never mind.

I actually can't play basketball with you guys. Like, ah, ah, you didn't fall for that weak-ass pump fake. Like, I don't know. It's very confusing. There's been shameless propaganda since the beginning of time it's just now we have this hyper like focused you know we have social media there's like full transparency so it's just this new phenomenon with fox news where you have people that are openly lying and them being like and don't pay attention to anything that anybody else is saying

i think it's just shocking that people actually fall for it like that's what's just it would be so ridiculous and not worth paying attention to if it weren't for the fact that people are actually falling for this shit and it's actually destroying the country i think it's a failing on the part of our education system because a lot of people aren't learning how to critically assess information because like i have a brother who's 20 yeah he's 20 and i was talking to him about the wage gap and he's a business major and he's like a sophomore in college and he's like well like say i'm a businessman i'm like you're not you're a clown he's like but say i'm a businessman and i'm trying to i'm trying to like make the most money why if there's a wage gap and i can hire women for less money wouldn't i have a company that

hires only women and i'm like that is the stupidest thing i've ever heard right and my brother has a modicum of sense and he's still there and And I had a long conversation with him about how to critically assess sources, how to use Google Scholar, stuff like that. And I'm like, look, you cannot tell people you're related to me and go say stuff like that. Go out here saying this shit. Yeah. Right. Well, I've read stuff on both sides. And I'm like, from where, though? You're reading something from Breitbart that says that the wage gap doesn't exist and then you're reading something from npr that says the wage gap does exist those sources are not equal they just aren't yeah i mean one rhymes

with shite fart so you know take that for for you know an example it's just odd like because also the the odd thing is he's not like if you distill it down to what is bad about that take, which is he's like, well, what's wrong with exploiting people? Right. You know what I mean? That's what it's all coming down to. I hope he doesn't hear this. Do you get exploitation? Exploitation is not good.

I mean, because by that same logic, that's how you would justify chattel slavery. You're like, well, I don't pay them and i'm getting buku profits i don't know if you've seen the margins on cotton y'all uh but when you're not paying your workforce anything you make a lot of money when you pay people unfairly yes you you tend to make a little more money but if you're only in it to make money by exploiting people like that's not that's not you're not doing that with your heart in my brother's defense he was just saying why don't more workplaces have only women he wasn't saying he was going to do it. And I don't mean to drag your brother.

I mean, I dragged him first. He existed until I dragged him. That's for you to do. As an older sister, that's for you to do. I'm just a podcaster who has arguments in my mind with made up people. But those studies that we talked about last week about, you know, how America has all these signs that they're headed for spiraling out of control into a civil war.

One of the main symptoms is just stagnating wages. The wages of actual workers, actual Americans, not like the uber wealthy, the actual American worker have stagnated since the 80s they it like minimum wage is not going up it's not keeping pace the federal minimum wage has been 725 for like a decade yeah all right let's talk about how the man himself donald trump is uh dealing with the coming election yeah he. He's, he's doing the thing he always does.

He accuses somebody else of what he's going to do. Right. And in this, and in this regards, in this regard, he is basically saying like, you know, honestly,

the way it's looking, the Supreme court, they're helping Biden win this election. Right. And he's referring to two decisions that were essentially you know uh wins for democracy in pennsylvania north carolina just on like sort of the timing in which you can still count these ballots but you know also let's not forget on uh thursday or friday uh there was a fucking major blow in the state of minnesota that where the supreme court

completely skull fucked the grace period for ballots to be counted after election day um so changed it like yeah leading up to the election while people were voting and mailing in their five days out five days out from election day um and i think all all this to say at this point you know uh it's it's tomorrow so i don't know what else i can tell anybody uh except if you have your vote, don't mail it in. If you've still got it. Yeah, don't mail your vote in. Just drop that shit off. In some states, you can, as long as it's postmarked by the election day.

But I would say if there's a place where you could just slide it to somebody and be like, yo, here's my vote, you should do that. You should do that instead of mailing it. And not one of those shady ones yeah that the uh the orange county republican party or whatever yeah the fake ballot boxes yeah so yeah i mean that's that was an interesting you know again he was going back and forth between oh my god i'm losing because the people who are supposed to help me are helping him um and then also he gets a win as well so it's just it's going to be very hard to read.

I mean, like, you know, if, if I'm, if I'm just high and living in a dream scenario, it's like one of those things where it's like, well, maybe, maybe one of those states that we think would never turn blue will turn blue, uh, on Tuesday. And that would really, that would really make shit easier for everybody to go to sleep. But I don't know. People keep talking about Texas going blue. And I'm just like, okay. Yeah, I'll believe it.

Okay. I've seen Friday Night Lights. It's not happening. I'll believe Ohio when I see it. I'll believe any of these places. Yeah, Florida. I'll believe it when I see it. Speaking of high and living in a dream scenario,

Donald Trump Jr. went on Laura Ingraham's show to break the world record for most words said while high on cocaine on tv yeah love that for him yeah i mean we don't like to you know cast dispersions on the first son um of the president but here's something i do know and this is all anecdotal the wealthy white men i've been around who live in New York, they like cocaine. I'll just say I know people in finance, the entertainment industry, where you're like, wow, that white bag came out real quick and you haven't even had your dinner. What is going on? So I'm just saying I'm looking at through those lens and I'm looking at a rich kid from New York who's never had a job that wasn't with a company with his own last name in it um and i'm thinking yeah okay you're starting to fit that profile again this is this is all anecdotal i'm not this is not a court

of law okay because i'm not kim kardashian i'm not legally uh able to practice law on a podcast but yes just i just want everybody to watch this man's face um and his energy as he is really talking about like start trying to dismiss the death toll of the coronavirus fly these people are truly morons you know what i mean i like how they go after scott atlas because he's not an epidemiologist but sanjay goop that now magically is i mean give me a break laura the reality is this if you look i put it up on my instagram a couple days ago because I went through the CDC data because I kept hearing about new infections. But I said, well, why aren't they talking about this?

Oh, because the number is almost nothing because we've gotten control of this thing. We understand how it works. They have the therapeutics to be able to deal with this. If you look at that, look at my Instagram. It's gone to almost nothing. Okay. His eyes are like he looks high.

Like high like he smoked weed. Like his eyes are like almost shut. He looks like he's traveling at the speed of light. That's why his eyes are like on substances. You know how when people get high and then they get excited about some idea and they're like okay so i have this idea okay what we're gonna do is we're gonna take gifs right look at my instagram just look at my instagram yeah you know the gif like like the moving thing which doesn't have sound what if you made a gif but it had sound it's like you just invented video congratulations

that's exactly what he's like i think you're describing snapchat what the fuck is that man that's fucking thing fuck fuck you're like whoa calm down what's i'm sorry is your friend okay uh he's just coked out and he's mad he didn't think up snapchat uh eight years after the fact it's he was wearing a uh a windbreaker that said Team Trump on one breast and then Don on the other. Just to complete the picture for people. It's un-fucking-real. I wonder if they gave Tiffany one of those. Do you think Tiffany had one?

I love Tiffany. She's out there also doing her part as a surrogate, even though everyone was like, oh, she's the rebel. And it's like, no, she's not a rebel. She just is less loved by her father. That's the rebel and it's like she's not a rebel she just is less loved by her father that's the thing the thing with this clip i mean uh this is him off his face like it's really morbid when you think about it right like this is the son of the president when they're discussing like you know rally goers of any trump rally should quarantine it It's unsafe. There's a pandemic. This is for safety. This guy's fucking on it.

He's on one. I don't know what, but he's on one. And he's like, you know, the thing is, like, Laura, like, I mean, when you look at it, it's so... It's basically nobody. Basically nothing. Nobody's dying. Yeah.

It looks like a scene where, like, in, like, Blow or any of those, like, drug movies where, like, the shit starts coming down. And, like, fuck like fuck man get the fucking cash over there like it's all good man because nothing's fucking going on like you know it's my kid's birthday like we're gonna have the party in the back it's all gonna be good you know but i don't know that's it's so hard to read their energies or like if i'm writing a script i'm like okay this is perfect this is the drama scene where you realize it's not gonna happen and they're all panicking but then i don't know i mean like they're so insulated with their privilege he might just be having a good night and be like yeah i don't know i just blew up and went on laura ingram to

just talk some shit i mean also i think there's a huge focus on covid deaths and i think that it is important that we look at the fact that a quarter of a million people practically have died yeah but also there are people that are sick and we don't know what the long-term implications of that illness are. And they're like very sick and they're alive, but they're not okay. And that's the conversation that we also need to have

because it's like, they're like, oh, well, you know, people died. We knew people were going to die. It could have been more people. If I hadn't closed the border were gonna die it could have been more people if i hadn't closed the border to china it would have been more people but like there are still people who are sick like long haulers who are chronically fatigued for the rest of their life might have heart and lung issues for the rest of their life like that's also worth exploring and worth avoiding yeah and also a thousand people died on the day that he said that it's practically no one like two 9-11s worth of people died in like the last week or so well

you know again we're even talking about this with the azerbaijan armenia thing it's like when the victims don't look like most of the country it's like i don't know like i'm i'm fine and i think a lot of people have this weird narrative in their head about what it means to get coronavirus which is like dude you'll get it it'll be fucked up for two weeks and then like you're over it um because that's not the case like every person i know who uh has battled it or has family that has like some have come out the other side with like you know their scent and uh taste intact and things like that. Others are like it's incremental.

Others are like my heartbeat can be weird sometimes. And it's like that's the shit you should really fear. It's like it's not that you're going to get a illness that you get over. It's like you could get something that could fundamentally change how you live your life. Yeah. Depending on your own biology yeah that's what scares the shit out of me like i don't it and i that's why i'm like always just want people to be as safe as possible or at least to be in tune with that and but unfortunately we're also living in

such a cruel society where some people they have no financial recourse except to put themselves in danger and i think that's just so fucked up. I mean, as we're recording this, there was a record 91,248 new virus cases in a single day. Is that nationwide? Yeah. And also just massive, suspicious mail delays in Pennsylvania. So, yeah, they're doing everything they can to steal this and remain in power and do nothing about the about the pandemic. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back to talk about Kim Kardashian.

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yeah uh robert kardashian sending well wishes to his daughter on her 40th birthday the video i mean we'll get into what you know obviously how disconnected from reality kim k is but like the video is so fucking weird like it if it was if i was kim k i'm like that ain't my dad and this is a waste of money and this is actually fucking stupid because this this person is like moving like a car salesman the way he's gesturing he's like yeah also kim i must say i am a proud armenian father and you have married the biggest, most, most, most, most, most, most genius man in Kanye West. Like that, the number of mosts or whatever that modifier was to saying Kanye was a genius made me cringe up out of my skin. Like you could just say genius.

Like you don't need to put all that extra on it. It's like a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat on a hat. On a mag. Calm down. Right. Yeah. I Jack, how much of the video did you see?

I just watched like the 10 seconds that you heard me watch before we started recording. So I just saw like the end. What do we, okay. Let's, I mean, let's try and be objective here.

If we're going to go on like a grading scale, what do we grade the quality of this spooky ass hologram of her dead father? Are we doing one to ten or letter? Let's do one to ten. One to ten. I'm going to give it a four because it had a body and a face. So there's that. And that gives it like a couple of points. And then it did not like glitch.

A lot of points lost for the weird Thanos snap at the end. Yeah. Did his face seem to like not emote that well too? Like it also felt like it was sort of missing a lot of like good facial expressions that would have took it from like creepy avatar simulation to like maybe i am hallucinating and that is my dad i mean i don't know him so i don't know what his face is like so i'm not gonna nitpick stuff like that but i also think that the subjects he was talking about were peculiar like you think he'd talk more about her childhood and things that he loved about her like specifics but he was like oh you know when when people fart and sometimes i'm there like

that was a weird thing that must be like weird thing that's where like i got if we started thinking about who was behind like the writing of that script because clearly the genius genius genius most most most most most most times 10 genius rye had to be a late uh note from kanye or maybe that's the only thing he had written down and then they had to build the entire speech around that um but like the pfee thing i must be i'm guessing that's like an inside family joke that maybe one of the sisters could have like helped like concoct but the the pfie thing was peculiar also because like i'm not armenian so i didn't know that that was like an armenian term for farting so i was like what is he saying and then when i found out i was like

oh i don't why would you lead with that also like what's yeah maybe yeah i don't know again but then on top of it the tone deafness is really something like to even tweet about it a like just don't know again but then on top of it the tone deafness is really something like to even tweet about it a like just don't tweet about it because like we're yeah just don't know I think that yeah the gesture I get that the gesture is sweet in terms of like also she is deeply wealthy she's like hyper wealthy what are you able to even get somebody when they're that rich that they can't get themselves the most thoughtful gift of a lifetime a special surprise from heaven a hologram of my dead father um so like i get that the gesture was kind and it is something that she's not gonna think to get herself it would be weirder if she got it herself uh but

also like we don't need to know everything like we don't need to keep up with you we have a show for that like we didn't need this on your twitter some things there's a difference between privacy and secrecy and she needs to keep some shit private like it doesn't need to be a secret but she needs to keep some shit private yeah i mean i'd imagine a lot of the like fun or not fun but the magic of this is being in the room with it and being able to like walk around it. Right. And like,

see that it's standing in front of you, uh, in terms of the quality. But it does, it does feel like you, I don't know. It's like a cartoon version of somebody. It's like,

yeah, he's got like all these gestures and weird things it's like an xbox cinematic scene cut yes it didn't feel like high level i was like bro this is like a good video game and honestly a video game cut scene i would be pissed if somebody tried to like resurrect one of my relatives in such shitty fashion but that's what the movement was for me was one of those um non-playing characters yeah it's like do you want to buy some shields for your armor oh and you are trying to be a lawyer like your father kim i love that it's so then every obviously the replies she's just again she she got so much smoke for the fucking private island fiat 40th

birthday celebration. She's like, oh, my God. And I know how privileged I am, but I can't help but stunt on all of you with this tweet. Same thing here. You know, like people first her vibe was like, ha ha. I can hang out with loved ones. Like, it's not a pandemic. And now it's like, ha ha.

Not only did many of you struggle to even see your loved ones pass away in person, I can summon satanic technologies to deep fake my daddy. Eat that. It's like, what the fuck? Like, who? This is like one of those things that you're saying, like, you keep that shit secret. Like, your opulent lifestyle is offensive. Not even secret. It's offensive or whatever.

But you want that to be a thing where it's a rumor, right? Where, like, you would never be like, hey i heard kanye made a fucking hologram of your dad and it spoke to you i've always been like oh i'm not really gonna speak on that and just let that be a let that be that don't i don't know like again i just when you also look at the replies in there there's like so many weirdos with their class solidarity with her being like i don't know what these people are talking about kim kanye is so sweet at kanye west you did a good job emoji emoji emoji and other people like one woman was like i don't even know the man and i'm crying and someone said are you okay underneath that right and then the person was like what do you mean they're like because you've created some kind of parasocial bond with a person you've never

met and now you're getting emotional on twitter because some celebrity tweeted a video about it and they're like i don't know you just have a good day and you're like oh wow okay here's my thing i don't know if kim has any real friends because i feel like a real friend one would have told her don't tweet that or would have been the person she sent that to if they weren't there which they shouldn't be because she should be isolating from her friends like the rest of us. Like, I haven't seen any of my friends since March, and I miss them. But, you know, I care if my mom lives,

so I'm not going to see them. But, like, it just makes me think that she really doesn't have people who actually care about her. She has fans and she doesn't have... She has, like, fans and followers. She doesn't have people who actually care about her. She has fans and she doesn't have... She has fans and followers. She doesn't have friends. I mean, her mom directed a sex tape to get her famous, so that's... directed her

to release a sex tape. Yeah, not a lot of good advice. Again, like we're saying, when you have unlimited money and an ego the size of the planet or this sense of self-importance that is like just far beyond what how normal or the you know we're working people who are tethered to like the toil of like having to work uh are you just go into this other dimension and i think she must

be just also surrounded with people who are just as much who probably don't know a single person who's struggling in the pandemic um because then you would you would probably think about that person before tweeting you're probably like well i don't know i pay all my home staff very well they're okay and they haven't told me that things are bad when i don't ask about it so i'd imagine things for poor people are is okay uh like it's this i don't, the insulation of privilege is really something to see. It's also frustrating because I feel like there are a lot of reasons to hate Kim Kardashian and like the culture vulture stuff. The complete loss of like a concept of reality and how people live. And just there's so many reasons.

But people don't hate on her for the right ones. Like when she said she wanted to be a lawyer, I'm like, I think that's great. I don't think there's anything wrong with her wanting to be a lawyer. And I understand why she's trying to take this alternate path as opposed to going to law school. Because can you imagine like Kim Kardashian just sitting at UCLA Law? Like that's not happening. The way that she has lived her life, it's going to be impossible. The way she would actually become a lawyer is the reason to hit her, not her wanting to be. But also like she does a lot of good for Armenian people and bringing awareness to Armenian genocide and the plight that Armenians still face today in terms of getting their genocide recognized.

But people are like, ah, dumb Kim Kardashian. And I'm like, girl, like not to be respectability politics, but you need to think about what you're doing and how that can affect your goals. That's my thing. Like, I'm not saying she shouldn't be cute. I'm not saying she shouldn't have a beauty business. I think that's amazing. I think that, you know, having those businesses is not my issue with her. My issue with her is that she's not thinking about how people are perceiving some of the things she's doing and how that's going to negatively affect some of the change she wants to make. And I'm like, everybody else has to think about those things. Like, I think about that all the time as a black woman. I'm like, if I sound angry in this tweet, it might ruin me in 17 years.

Sure. Sure. Yeah. And, but then she can just call them boxer braids. And then she, she just scourts around that one. Oh no, no.

These, these are boxer braids. I don't know where that term came from, but I don't think I was into doing cultural appropriation. I have to go. Karama. It's been a pleasure having you on the daily zeitgeist. Where can people find you and follow you

people can find me on Twitter I'm at KaramaDrama K-O-R-A-M-A D-R-A-M-A and also same on Instagram but my Instagram page is super boring and I don't love Instagram so follow me on Twitter instead because I like words

and oh they can listen to me they can listen to me. They can listen to me on my podcast, Pop Crumble Club, which is an iHeartRadio podcast. We talk about books and their screen adaptations. Dana Schwartz.

Yes, with Dana Schwartz, Jen Wright, and Melissa Hunter, and Tian Tran, who is hilarious. I love Tian. She is not on Twitter, but she's great.

Follow her on Instagram at Hank Tino. Is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? So many. There have been people of black Twitter has just been dragging Lil Wayne, but I don't want to talk about that. I want to talk about something that's a little less political that I enjoyed. There was somebody whose Twitter handle is at T3RRIAXO, which I think is TerriaXO. And they tweeted a news article

from Pink News about how Sam Smith wants to be a mummy by 35. And they were confused because Sam Smith is talking about being a parent, like a mom. But they thought that Sam Smith is talking about being a parent like a mom but they thought that Sam Smith wanted to be mummified

and I think that is the funniest thing I've ever read because it's just absurd I think that I love miscommunication and like innocuous miscommunication and I think that that yeah that was on I think Thursday that that happened

and it just made me smile to be a mummy yeah I also like the idea of Sam Smith walking into like an establishment and being like oi I've come in here because I would like to be a mummy and they're like oh okay

you want like a fertility clinic it's like no no no like the Tom Cruise film that used to be a brendan razer film like a mummy mummify me uh miles where people find you and follow you what's tweet you've been enjoying twitter instagram at miles of gray also the other podcast for 20 day fiance where we're just you know toking up talking about 90 day fiance trying to avoid reality because shit's heavy. And a tweet I like is from Reductress. Add it again. At Reductress tweeting, self-care queen.

This woman sometimes changes her bong water. And I was like, yeah, I feel that. I feel like I'm really, I'm like, damn, look at you with your adult life changing your bong water every five years. Tweet I enjoyed Noah Garfinkel tweeted yesterday my girlfriend said Barry Weiss like Borat saying very nice and now it's my favorite part of the Borat universe.

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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. What are we riding into this election week on? Oh, man. This is going to be a track by Hudson Mohawk and S-Type called The Rain.

It's just a great beat because it has like a huge brass band like sample. But on top of that, the fantastic production of Hudson Mohawk and S-Type on top of it to give you a little bit more upbeat electronic feel. I don't know. I love hearing big horns. As you know, Jack, you know Rocky. I love the big horn. Big horns. Big natural horns. Yeah, big naturals. Yeah.

You're referring to one of those alpine horns that the guys blow. That's a big natural horn. Oh, no, that was like versus a sharp or a flat. That was like a high level music theory joke. Oh, you went there. Oh, wow. I'm sorry.

That was a diminished joke on my part. I was a nerd in high school. It's fine. Well, allow me to augment that with this one. This will be, yeah, look, I was in marching band too. So, yes, this has just great energy. I figure we need every little thing we can do to have our hearts racing in a positive way and not in a stressful way. So yeah, guys, buckle up because it's going down tomorrow.

It's going down for real. Mess around and find out what we are all going to do tomorrow. All right. What are all going to do tomorrow. Alright, what are we going to do? Are we going to just drop trending episodes throughout the day? We've got to figure that out. I don't know. We'll have to stay tuned. We'll have something going on.

Maybe we'll have to go on Twitch or something and we can broadcast our group Zoom call. I think multiple trending episodes might be good. Alright guys, stay safe. Stay sane. I don't know what advice to give you. Yeah. Yeah. All right, guys. Stay safe. Stay sane. Yeah. I don't know what to, I don't know what advice

to give you. Steal yourselves. Steal. You know what I mean? And like, you know what? Either way, the fucking marathon

has to continue. That's, that's the thing. I mean, but one version is way more fucked up than the other. They're both fucked up though.

Let's not get that twisted. But, yeah, just, there's a lot of work to do either way. Yeah're both fucked up, though. Let's not get that twisted. There's a lot of work to do either way. Down ballot. It's all about down ballot. Local representatives. Those propositions. Some of those are serious.

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