The Daily Zeitgeist - Election Day Update: Robocalls and Omens 11.3.20

Episode Date: November 3, 2020

In episode 750, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and rapper Open Mike Eagle to discuss some good news when it comes to ballot counting, Trump claiming he will declare victory only if there is victory, robocalls, when to expect election results, and more!FOOTNOTES: November Surprise: Fewer Ballots Rejected by Election Officials Trump Says He’ll Declare Victory ‘Only When There’s Victory’: ‘No Reason To Play Games’ Suspicious robocall campaign warning people to ‘stay home’ spooks voters nationwide Election results timeline: how the night unfolded Forget the Exit Polls, Watch Florida, Ignore Pennsylvania I’m Here To Remind You That Trump Can Still Win Open Mike Eagle Turned a Very Bad Year Into a Very Honest Album WATCH: Tierra Whack – Wasteland (Audio) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 158, episode 2 of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist! Episode 2 and a half, kind of. yeah we're dropping we're recording this a couple hours before we drop it it's election day motherfuckers uh gotta stay up to date whatever this thing is e-day yeah yeah uh this is a production by heart radio it's a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness, which I think is just like a steady, low boil of panic, no matter who you are right now. Yeah. It's that feeling when you have to pee, but you don't know if you're going to shit yourself at the same time. And it's very tense and you don't know which way it's going to go.

I can tell you which way it's going for me. It's Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Hello, Darkness, my old friend. Why are you here? It's 4 p.m. That is courtesy of Johnny Soon, or Johnny Sun, I think. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Oh, Oat Milk Daddy had a pod, E-I-E-I-O. And on that pod, there were some takes, E-I-E-I-O.

With a top story here, fiancé visa there, here a take, there a take, every day a fuck, Fox Oat Milk Daddy had a pod, E-I-E-I-O. And thank you to Nicholas Shoup for that one off the Discord. Yup. And Miles, it's election day. We're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're covering. First thing we're covering, how about how early it's getting dark. Am I right?

Just want to avoid talking about it, huh? Let's deal with this. Daylight savings time. I honestly do feel like they fucked something up because the last two daylight savings times feel just like it's getting dark way too early. I think our sense of time

is just so skewed now compared to every other year that now it's like, what the fuck? Because you're pretty much in the same place versus having all these markers of like when the day is ending or beginning and things like that yeah but johnny sun's right it's 4 p.m it's dark that's too early uh anyways we'll talk about that and probably some other shit nah just kidding it's election day we have some good news about mail-in ballots. We got some things to keep your eye on. We got some bad news about robocalls. We got a general timeline of when we're going to know shit.

If we know anything, really. Right. Yeah, yeah. If is probably the operative word. L.A. is reacting like a hurricane is coming, just with grocery stores' shelves just being cleared the fuck out and yeah so we'll talk about all of that plenty more but first we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious the brilliant yes open mic eagle wow thank you that was those are great adjectives.

I love how you all commit to those songs that the people send in for you guys. Yeah. You guys really put your heart and soul into them. Even if you don't all the way believe in the material, I can feel the commitment. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. That's good.

That's what the professionals do. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of the material material you have a new album that is fucking great thank you dude yeah yeah it's called anime trauma and divorce and it's half sad and half me trying to make jokes about sadness and um yeah some people say it's timely yeah it is very it feels very timely uh yeah You talk about being exhausted. At one point you say it's October and I'm exhausted.

Yeah, say it's October and I'm tired. But the wild thing about that is I wrote it in October 2019. That's the scary thing about that. Wow, wow, wow. Yeah. All right. Well, Mike, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are?

Oh, let me look at my search history real fast. Let me see what I got here. Best graphics card is the most recent one. I've decided I'm going to build a PC. Okay. As a way to give my hands something to be busy with so that i can process all my dark thoughts right right are you have you uh had a gaming pc before this is your first foray into the gaming pc adventure it'll be my first uh gaming pc when i was a teenager

i used to fuck around with my pc all the time and add shit to it and upgrade shit and fuck it up by accident. So I have like a basic understanding of how everything fits together. And now there's like literally 10 million YouTube videos telling you exactly what to do. So it's pretty, it seems like it'll be pretty easy. It'll be a nice meditative activity.

Yeah. Are you strictly PC or do you like fuck with consoles too well i'm i am a console junkie but i can't get a ps5 because there's not enough of them apparently so um i'm just gonna build a pc and pretend it's ps5 maybe i'll put a little anime costume on it and you just buy like the outer skins that they have for ps5 you just put on the sides of your game and try like yeah i got that ps5 i mean honestly it probably performed better anyway so probably probably you know probably i do want a ps5 though but i am i am quite tired of knocking my head against the wall of trying to pre-order one

when they seemingly just don't exist yeah dj daniel on our show he he tried to put the cart in his cart the pre-order and the controller checked out only got the controller oh that is all he's been doing is flexing on us with stunting on us with his ps5 controller there he is my clockwork i mean it looks so cool it looks cool man oh so does that go cool. It looks cool, man. Oh, so does that go to your PS5? Oh, never mind. Never mind. That's a cool controller, though.

He just Twitch streams himself pretending to play. Yeah, he's like, oh, is my gaming feed not coming in? Oh, I'm crushing it. Oh, shit. God, it's crap. He's like playing Dig Dug. PS5 controller. Oh, shit. What is something you think is underrated uh fargo i think the television show fargo is underrated i think it's always different every season but it's always really

fucking good and um yeah and i think this season is really fucking great so i think it's it's being underrated because nobody's talking about it like they was talking about uh tiger king and that that sort of bullshit right right it's i feel like yeah that's the one show i always hear i'm always being told to watch and i just haven't gotten around to it and i feel like you know tonight might be the night yeah it's rough i mean if have you seen any of it at all no well and yeah since it's completely different every season, I think it can make people feel like it's hard to jump in. Oh, I don't mind anything like that. Life is chaotic enough.

Yeah, man. It's real good, though. And I recommend it to people who like good things. When you say every season is different, you're saying that it's a whole new set of characters and an entirely new story just but it's still in Fargo? Well, it's not always even in Fargo. Oh, wow. It's all in the Midwest in various places. Got it.

Got it. And characters have like implied generational relations. Sometimes they're overt generational. Oh, this is this person's dad or, you know. Right. But it's not a continuous story in any sense it's every season is kind of its own thing oh i like that yes yeah okay it's like the wire if they were even less related like you you can hop in on a season and feel like you're

just watching a standalone thing okay then you can go back and watch the other seasons and feel like oh okay i see how this all ties together i just re-watched Top Boy completely out of sequence again, and I was like, eh, it's still fine, because I was still kind of remembering bits and pieces. So I'm fine with a little chaos watch. Yeah, yeah. What is something you think is overrated? Beer.

Yeah? Yeah, I think beer is overrated as a concept. Oh, conceptually. Yeah, I think people like it too much. I think it's not as i think people like it too much i think i think it's not as good as people say it is and we should all get real about how beer is nasty yeah what like just drinking a just any old beer yeah i think it's like a stupid way to drink is to drink too much of some low level thing right that just fills you up yeah

you're like oh yeah you're just fucking pissing all night man that's not fun right efficiency efficiency exactly exactly i think the only thing yeah because the more i have started like when i buy beer i'm always like i think i'll make a michelada or something or like i'll drink it like that because that feels like a more of an adventure but it's gone are the days when i'm like, yeah, man, grab a fucking 18 rack. Also, gone are the days in general. Yeah. And also, yeah, it feels like a bummer, too, when you see somebody bring it over.

Like someone's like, yo, I brought a fucking. And I'm like, bro, I don't. Also, not in the drinking mood. Like I'm mostly smoking now. But sure, I guess I'll have one beer and then be like, I don't know. I think I'm done, bro, I don't. That's too much. Oh, so not in the drinking mood. Like I'm mostly smoking now, but sure. I guess I'll have one beer and then be like, oh, I don't know. I think I'm done.

It's gross. Yeah. It's like eating a loaf of bread. For fun. While you're getting drunk. Hey, you want to come over and each eat like three, just eat bread until we can't anymore? Some dough balls?

Yeah. All right. Let's get into what is happening right now. As we speak, it is early afternoon, East Coast time, late morning, Pacific. We don't know shit yet. Just in general. We just don't know. We just don't know shit,. And just in general, don't know. We just don't know shit period.

We're dumb people. Um, no, we're, so it's still well before, uh, any results are coming in. 7.

PM. Eastern is the closest we're going to get to knowing anything about anything until then. It's just, you know, a lot of projection. What are we going to know then around like seven Eastern? Well, cause then we'll get a better idea of when they start, you know a lot of projection what are we going to know then around like seven eastern well because then we'll get a better idea of when they start you know when the polls close and we start seeing

some semblance of what vote counts look like and then begin the extrapolation of whether there's going to be a shift or whether or not you know who's outperforming who and then the panic analysis will begin all around so this is this was helpful for me to know is that there are three hours and 40 minutes where we didn't have like any of the battleground states called yet it was just like low-level panic so at 7 eastern they closed my last time yeah talking about in 2016 they closed the polls there was like some bad early exit poll data. But for the most part, we didn't really know shit. And then the first sign that when it was openly like,

oh, Trump's probably going to win was 1040. So there's three hours, 40 minutes where you actually don't really need to be paying attention. You can just tune in at like eight o'clock pacific 11 eastern and just get all your panicking done in in one fell swoop uh you know that's assuming that it goes the same as last time it might be even slower than last time or you know the fact that some of these states have been collecting and counting mail-in votes for the past couple weeks might make it go faster but then that might

be misleading so who the fuck knows they say florida's a big deal right because they've been counting already and it's a pretty big swing state that has the potential to go to Biden. And I guess if it does, then Trump's kind of fucked. Yeah. So it's in that group of Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, and Iowa are these toss-up states that Biden doesn't need to win to win. But if Biden wins one of those, that is going to begin to be a problem for Trump in terms of the wacky, fucked up electoral college that decides. Those states are like the low level scratchers where you're just like, OK, if I get even if I hit just one of these, I'm still in business. Yeah. Yeah. Like, you know what? OK, this is good enough to buy another scratcher. Yes. Yes. Yes. Keep going. Keep going. Keep chasing the dragon.

Yes, keep going, keep going. Keep chasing the dragon. The one piece of good news we've gotten is that it seems like they're having fewer rejected ballots coming in. Yeah. I mean, I think because there's been such an emphasis on these early votes, these mail-in ballots, the reporting is that usually they'll reject a ballot for any kind of error, like the signatures don't line up or whatever. For whatever reason, now that sort of share of those ballots has been very low oh we know what the reason is it's all the uh the videos the celebrities being naked uh right right right yeah motivating us to vote yeah of course they taught us how to how to sign our names properly because because mark ruffalo told us how you know thank you mark everybody was scrambling to see Mark Ruffalo naked.

I've been pushing for that for a long time and it finally happened for me. And you finally voted for the first time. So I think it all worked out. But yeah, so, you know, a lot of people are saying like, that's a good sign that, you know, they're not seeing just massive numbers of votes being rejected.

Because I think a lot of what we've been hearing, especially from the Trump and conservatives of like, oh, you know, these not seeing just massive numbers of votes being rejected because i think a lot of what we've been hearing especially from the trump and conservatives of like oh you know these ballots are flawed they're going to get thrown out blah blah projecting you know trying to say this is going to happen but what we're seeing is the trend that is not the trend um so that's that's a decent bit of good news along with like you know in harris county those drive-in ballots are also being counted even though there's a conservative bush appointee judge looking over that case where people were very scared about that so that's in texas yeah that was in texas so wait so what's the so i it seems like we had a couple court this feels like obamacare going through the court and it's like yes we fended them off again and then it's like two weeks later

they're like okay now now's the real test for obamacare and the supreme court like what what is going on with the harris county votes i thought we had won that one yeah well the officials in harris county actually closed the drive-through polls they closed nine out of the ten uh because they're just like fuck it we we can't even we don't even want to play with the possibility of getting sued again so let's cut the number down so it can be as above we're not not that it isn't above board but having as full proof uh you know of of a you know a process as possible not to say that there was even wrong with having the but they're so shook by these lawsuits yeah Yeah. They're like, fuck it, man.

Okay, we got through that one. Let's not even. The Democratic Party's like typical shit where they're just like, yeah, well, they made the accusation, so we have to take it seriously. And the Republicans just control them by making wild ass accusations. Yeah. But in terms of where it is in the court system, like there's still yet another chance for a judge to fuck with it no i mean that i think that's settled for the moment but i think it's like anything they're ready to file lawsuits fucking anywhere over anything so it's you know that's why everyone's

like who knows uh what moment they're gonna try something like that yeah apparently there's been some shit with the postal service too right where they're like not delivering all of the ballots it's been slowing down like terribly so you know uh my conspiracy brain is wondering now since um since there's some people on the supreme court that seem to be uh preset to disallow ballots that are received after um election day you know i wonder if that's if that's uh uh gargamel's secret trump card you know i'm saying? Is is to.

Oh, I got the postal service in my pocket so I could just make sure that these votes don't get counted. And I can have my Supreme Court cronies back that dumb shit up. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We're going to come back and find out how Trump kicked off his morning. break. We're going to come back and find out how Trump kicked off his morning. is record everything like you always do. One session. 24 hours.

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talk for fucking oh at least an hour at least we've heard him when he starts freestyling up there and he's like i don't you know saying all kinds of weird shit um he so they're like hey he's gonna be here at 7 a.m 7 a.m he didn't call in to like 45 minutes in and then when he calls just listen to this man so i just want to say on like on some more conservative news outlets they described his calling this morning i'm not want to say on like on some more conservative news outlets, they described his call in this morning. I'm not going to say who, but they were saying Trump begins Election Day with confident predictions on Fox News. Now, I want you to keep that in mind when you listen to him actually call in to Fox News on the morning of Election Day. How do you feel today in 2020 on Election Day as opposed to 2016?

Well, we feel very good good we have crowds that nobody's ever had before i can say that i think you can agree it's it's been incredible the crowds have been incredible and you know nobody's ever had it before and so i i think that translates into a lot of votes and we're going to see very soon but we're getting very good response you know we're getting a very early response. I don't know. Is he just tilted off the NyQuil or something? He just got through hawking loogies into a bucket for the past

20 minutes before he got on that call. Dire. And he continued to exude confidence with this. I just want to just put this line very neatly. As he's talking, he's very optimistic about his chances,

yet he says things like this. And it's been a great run. It's been a great run? It's been a great run. I don't know if he means like it's been a great campaign, which we'll win, and shout out to everybody. But it seemed like he was choosing his words carefully there too he was like it's been a great yeah i guess i'll say it it's been a great run yeah i don't know man like he he sounds just completely

mashed and then then he goes on you know he does say as he just continues this like very slow lethargic appearance about, they ask him, you know, like what's up. So, you know, when are you going to call the victory? You know,

like they're like putting on a platter. When are you going to fuck this whole thing up? And the answer is with just a very somber answer. At what point will you declare victory? When there's victory, if there's victory, I think, I think we'll have victory.

I think that the polls are, you know, suppression polls. think i think we'll have victory i think that the polls are you know suppression balls and i think we'll have victory but only when there's victory i mean you know there's no reason to play games what is he talking about man i mean i think so it sounds like fox news was teeing him up to be like i'm gonna declare victory when like at midnight if i'm in the lead like trying to you know that was the the hope on the conservative side was that he was going to if he had a polling lead uh in a state like at midnight on election night he was just gonna be like victory i won uh sleepy joe's too sleepy to call me to concede to fuck yeah but instead he sounded just like i don't know he just sounds if i called and and sounded like that like if i called

my mom and sounded like that she would be like i'm getting out on the next right she would be on the next plane out just like, yo, there's something wrong. I don't know. I'm going to go to the hospital now. Yeah. If there's victory, there's no reason to play games. I was basically pump faking the whole time. And they didn't bite.

Yeah, it's grim. It's really grim. And that's the thing. It's so unsettling because last time he was in shock that he had actually won. And then we have sort of this same energy and normally I'd be like, oh shit, okay, so he

must know. He's probably looking at his most up-to-date numbers knowing there's not the same thing, the same sort of influx of new supporters that we saw last time around. But even then, like I was saying before our last show, you know, Rat of new supporters that we saw last time around but even then like i was saying before our last show you know uh rat fuckery is the sixth man for team trump and it can come off the bench uh and completely shift the fucking game so lou williams man lou williams

right we used lou williams as the exact like last time yeah yeah yeah you know what we were talking about it put down the lemon pepper wings. Lou will came in. He said he didn't fuck around to go to the strip club to get those wings. He's ready. He's active. Rat fuckery is the conservative party's Lou will. Yeah.

I don't know. I think his polls and 538 last time for 2016 said he had a one in three shot of winning and he won this time they're saying one in ten i don't know if that's what his internal polls are saying that's what the polling average the 538 polling average is saying but that's still a chance like could you imagine being a person on staff who has to tell him he's fucking losing right every day could you imagine oh here's another thing so you saw uh he had that white house party planned for 400 people yeah you saw it got reduced to 250 today oh really yeah i did not see that i want to know who the fuck those 150 people are

yeah who can't come no more they bought plane tickets like They're just sitting there staring at their bank account like, what the fuck? Fuck, I gave this motherfucker 500K. I told this woman, we're going to go party up in D.C. with Trump. You know there's somebody. It's going to be like getting in the club. And they're like, hey, I'm sorry, big man. You're not on the list. And they're like, no, no, I swear.

Here's my email confirmation. I'm here. He's like, look, man, you're not on this list, man. I hate to do this to you, man. You're also fucked up, man. You came in here with three dudes. Your girl can come in, but your girl can come, you know, miss, if you'd like to come in, you're more than welcome. It's like, Robert, I thought you said it's fine. Just fucking go. Fuck it. At least one of us can go. Yeah go yeah that that'll be interesting to see that'll be the vibes well it'll be interesting to track the vibes as as things come in but yeah because it's yeah it's so it's so funny just to look at like pollster twitter right now and just the non-stop conniptions that are going into even just by like trying to be like okay i'm just

looking at some early numbers here and like oh okay and this part of delaware it's like okay ease up man like you know like don't just not yeah i'm not gonna do this diarrhea panic fire that we're already witnessing because cnn has like this this uh a poll camera up at this spot in iowa and it's hilarious because every time they cut to it there's just like one grandma and they're voting it's like not matching any of the energy of the ticker or the energy of the host it's just like one you know little old lady filling out a ballot and yeah the the little like and this uh you know the new hampshire town where there's like six people and they their votes are locked in at midnight they're the first place that we know the the votes from every year and all of them voted for biden so like i woke up and read that i

was like all right all right maybe a good omen and then like there was some uh cookie poll in pennsylvania that has called the last six presidential elections and trump won that and i was like fuck then i just decided to get off of the like yeah stupid uh you know individual small piece of data uh predictions and just ignore that shit until uh until we have something that shouldn't be ignored you know um there are some things going on uh some just speaking of rat fuckery uh there are robocalls uh that have apparently reached 10 million people telling them to stay home for their safety uh they're saying it may be foreign in origin this kind of happens every election but this one in particular people are a little worried about because of the pandemic that we're in the middle

of one text said a typographical error meant that people who are intending on voting for joe biden instead had to select president trump uh so hopefully nobody's falling for that they also misspelled federal bureau of investigation when uh signing it they didn't spell bureau right yeah which understand why b-y-r-o-w oh no no but i mean they spelled it like i was gonna say euro is kind of hard to spell but like they spelled it b-e-r-u-e no that is not how i have misspelled that word many a time in anywhere that i didn't have spell check but uh that was not one of the ways that i've misspelled it baru baru from fucking star wars okay the fuck you know what amazes me and and has continued to fascinate me in this whole process is like who knew there were this many ways to fuck with an election and like who knew that it was like like this is this isn't illegal none of this shit's illegal right like you can just put a fake box that says

drop vote in here you can just put that there and like nobody gets in trouble for that it's it it is like it it seems very like snidely whiplash like very like cartoon villain kind of uh acme uh paint paint the paint the highway on the side of the mountain type shit that see like i just i just never would have thought in a million years that none of this shit would result in like federal jail time for people to do robocalls that essentially be like yes means no and no means yes go vote you're like what the fuck yes means no biden means trump and trump means what the fuck is this yeah it's a typographical error man sorry yeah it just happens like off man yeah i mean the snidely whiplash ness of of the whole republican party is pretty like it's getting

just straight up like did you guys see that video somewhere in california uh where like a bunch of trump people like a caravan of trump people surrounded a woman uh and bakersfield for having a yeah bakersfield for having a black lives matter flag and we're it was like straight up like you know they were like fuck you like just real in her face, like, inches from her nose, like, trying to slap her phone out of her hand. But it was like, yeah, it was like, oh, this is what it would have been like

if we had smartphones during the rise of Nazis. Like, that's what this shit looks like. It's just straight up aggro people trying to do violence to other people. And, like, a dude, like a dude like had like the strap on him it looked like and she was like dude you're gonna fucking what are you talking for a feet like you're trying to fight a woman and he's like he took his vest off like he was gonna square up to her and then

another woman's like well i'll fight you bitch and it was like whoa whoa whoa whoa and then the the end part of that too is when she tried to talk to the police yes and they were acting like mariah carey's being like oh i don't know her i don't know what's going on oh did something happen oh we don't know oh yeah we'll let those people go that you just said bear maced you yeah and then they bear maced somebody in her group of friends and the police were like yeah well that's not there's nothing we can do about that that's crazy and i think that's what the future probably is more what our future looks like is where that is just the norm of these people being protected because they got their blue lives matter stuff on and like, yeah, all right, we'll turn we'll turn our fucking eye to this. I mean, it's been happening.

Yeah. But to see it like that, to see how casual they were, they were like looking at each other like, hey, you got anything else you guys got? The cops are talking to each other like when she's trying to, you know, this crime and be like all right i think we're good y'all we're leaving and they're like uh can we get your badge numbers like yeah three four five just like muttering it while they fuck off yeah it's dark that's wow but i mean that that is like there seems to be a coalition between like whether trump wins or not there seems to be a coalition between a lot of local police and the Trump supporters around America. And that's a pretty dangerous coalition, I feel like. All right, let's take one more break and we'll be right back.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and one thing that we might have talked about on yesterday or this morning's episode but just it bears repeating that the democrats have won the popular vote six of the last seven presidential elections um the only one that they lost was john kerry lost to w by like two percentage points after 9-11 a uniquely bad candidate but that's going back to 1992 republicans have won one of seven right um and that you know they have pretty much dominated legislatively, judicially. It's pretty wild. I was just looking at a poll that was putting how much Biden would need to win the popular vote by next to what their chances of winning

the actual election are. chances of winning the actual election are. And if Biden wins by six to seven points, it's 99% chance. But if he wins by four to five points, Trump has a 10% chance. If Biden wins by three to four points, 30% chance. If Biden wins by two to three, Trump is more likely to win. Wow. Two to three percentage points and Trump is is more likely to win wow two to three percentage points and trump is the more likely to win that's how just fucked up this whole system is like with this electoral call like oh yeah man you're actually second place but we're going to give you the gold medal because of these loopholes we created to award or reward minority power in this country. Because it's like, you just think people should, I mean, again, they need the electoral college because the conservatives in smaller states are like, that's the only way we can fight

back against progress, which is so fucked up. Because at the end of the day, a majority of the country is saying, this is how the country should be led, or this is the party that should be in power yet we're we're still like clinging to this bizarre you know just violent fucking system we have yeah have you guys been to the grocery store in the past like i went by a trader joe's and did a u-turn because the line was out the back i uh i've been addicted to instacart lately man it's yeah it's a terrible addiction i get like four bags of groceries and it costs like 125 dollars yeah yeah it's it's pretty expensive but grocery stores are preparing like people are preparing for this election like a

hurricane's coming so that's how you know yeah man the ralph's by my house uh which is kroger in the rest of the country right like the the shelves are empty like it looks like that very first time when the pandemic hit yeah and the shutdown happened and like there was like lines wrapping around through the parking lot and then once you got in the the shelves were empty. Is this happening in other places too? I just wanted to get some milk for my two-year-old. Oh, God. Yeah. We found some. We got the last carton of milk, but it's fucking wild.

You checked the date on that. You got it on StockX. Yeah, exactly. It's chunky, but it's been untouched. It's got to squeeze a little. It's dead stock. So, yeah, I don't know if that's happening elsewhere uh i'll be curious to hear from zeitgang uh if they're seeing that elsewhere but i mean that's that's pretty wild well yeah it seems like a lot

of people preparing for some abstract disaster that they're not sure how to prepare for like so it seems like some people like i'll prepare myself by having so many canned goods and Gatorade. And other people are like, I'm going to buy a gun. Other people are like, I'm going to watch Fargo and smoke a blunt. One of those is healthy. Yeah.

Well, it's just so weird because I think everyone, it's like a fuck, you know, everyone's bringing their own neuroses, fears, hopes, dreams to this thing. And it can, you know, project bringing their own neuroses fears hopes dreams to this thing and it it can you know project itself in so many different ways for people and there's the unique thing about that grocery thing too i think we all learned in the beginning of the pandemic is like that thing kind of feeds itself like when you go to the grocery store you see that there's no toilet paper it makes you start panic buying shit right you know even if you

didn't feel that way coming in you know yeah no yeah there's something about damn do i am i stupid because i have like three carts full of toilet paper and lima beans shit all right i guess i need to get on your page oh i started pushing old ladies down the second i saw the line but that's just it's always how i my two-year-old needs milk lady yeah how are you guys what one of our listeners shared this self-care routine for the evening they have work meetings all day uh they already voted so they're just gonna go straight home take a leftover sleeping pill from a surgery they had a few months ago and wake up in the future um which i fucking respect the time travel yeah i guess but that's the thing like if you go to sleep is that really

then you're gonna wake up like fuck what happened i know i know what's better this fucked up story uh this this friend of mine worked on a reality show. And one of his coworkers, super staunch, super very pro gay rights, super staunch feminist. There was an accident on set. And she got hit in the head with some shit. Oh, no. And so she was in a coma until after the election. Wow.

And so like when she got hurt, like, you know, everything looked like Hillary was going to win and she woke up and fucking Trump was president. Wow. That's got to be fucked up. Absolutely. Yeah. Well, you know, that's why I'd like everybody's got to protect themselves how they want to. If time travels your thing, I guess throw another banana peel in the Mr. Fusion and take off down the street and come back and tell us how it is. But, yeah, I mean, again, you won't know anything until at least 7. Or we won't even begin to know some semblance of anything until 7.

Because I know a lot of people, there's a lot of exit polls and projections and things. And we're like, oh, we think Milwaukee's going to have 89% turnout or whatever. You're not going to really know until these numbers start coming in. That self-care plan is from a person on Twitter by the name of I'm more tired than a big-dicked bat. So shout out to them. Okay. Damn, all right.

I guess that would be exhausting. Flying around carrying a big bat. Yeah, carrying a big dick. And then when you're hanging upside down, it just hits you in the face. Oh, that would be bad. That's the part where you're like, yo, bro, honestly, I know everybody's like,

oh, I would love to be like that, but you try sleeping with your own dick in your face. Oh, that's terrible. Yeah. Do you guys have plans? Mike, do you have a plan for what you're doing for the election? I'm going to get really drunk, hang out with my lady.

There you go. We're going to get hammered. Not on beer. That's smart. Yeah. Miles, how about you? How's your day shaping up? I don't know. You know, just, well, probably watching 90 Day Fiance or something. Doing this, looking at stuff.

I think really, though, because we're kind of in an interesting situation where it's kind of our business to know everything that's happening. So part of me, like I'm trying to do it in a healthy way where like, I'm just going to check in like probably not for another three hours. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to try and check out for a little bit. I've already been fucking myself up. This is important. Yeah. I've been like oh man what's

happening clark county nevada at noon what are the numbers like dude this none of this shit matters right yeah again i think the other part is more than anything i think is having to remind myself that this doesn't end no matter who the the winner is you know what i mean if biden wins you still have 40 of the country who's on this trumpism shit yeah and that's still something we're gonna have to navigate and we still have a fucked up violent inequality in this country so that's the thing is like the nightmare while yes it's the nightmare will continue unfortunately on some level for a lot of people and i think that's the part i'm just reminding myself is like i don't know if i really can have a sigh of relief with the outcome of it i'll tell you i'll tell you why

i think there's one really important reason why um i think trump being removed or replaced would be important and that's just in terms of his temperament filtered through the position that he's in i think his twitter account stresses all of us to fuck out you know i mean i think that the way he handles anything and he gets on tv riffing and talking crazy like it's just i think we need a return to something that's a little more fucking composed and classy even if even if there's some amount of of evil behind it um i just think in terms of how especially like we have all this shit going on we're still in a pandemic that the second wave is is rising right now i think we we just kind of need to feel steady we need some semblance of leadership and sometimes that just

means saying something positive to everybody right and allowing us to fucking deal with our day rather than yeah hurling bullshit at us fucking our day up yeah absolutely yeah i'm thinking of it as like this biden being the president as opposed to trump would allow people to focus allow us to focus on the important things the things that we can, you know, actually affect. Right.

Um, and not just, you know, this, uh, smoke screen of chaos that he throws up everywhere. Yeah. It's just hard to,

hard to work in these conditions. Um, Mike, it's been a pleasure having you, man. Where can people find you and follow you? Twitter at Mike underscore Eagle. And you can find portals to my podcast stuff, my music stuff.

Everything is there in. Yeah, yeah. And is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? Is it social media? You know, I've just been finding myself on instagram looking at artists lately like there's just so many talented brilliant illustrators and graphic designers and tattoo artists on instagram and like rather than looking at a feed full of other people in their houses i actually get like some some inspiring drawings and shit and that that that feels good yeah miles where can people find you follow you what's a tweet you've been

enjoying find me twitter instagram fuck your playstation network i'm up on their shit right what you play what you play i play red dead 2 i play ghost of tsushima the multiplayer that's been really fun sick you know what else fucking GTA FIFA what's knock

fall out fall guys fucking anything fall guys yeah fall guys is tight fall guys is also very therapeutic because you're like

fuck man I just gotta stay on this motherfucker and you're like for that for like that very tense two minutes you're like completely

engrossed in it so yeah find me there fucking wherever let's see you're like for that for like that very tense two minutes you're like completely engrossed in it uh so yeah find me there uh fucking wherever uh let's see a tweet that i like oh man i don't know vote motherfuckers i don't know just fucking yeah just just just watch out for yourself you know what i mean and i think i think the one thing is, you know, more than anything, it's like focusing on how we can affect our communities around us as positively as possible and keep track of those things as well. Because, you know, be a be a source of good to to those around you. And I feel like that's like the one way I can feel good about, you know, coming through with going through these days like this. But, yeah, we just need to have each other's backs. So yeah. Yeah. Keep that in

mind. Jack East Neal reminded us of, uh, something called pizza to the polls, uh, at pizza to the polls where they basically deliver pizza and food to polls with long lines. Um, which is something that is unfortunately necessary. So that that's something people can check out and a place people can contribute. And then Parker Malloy retweeted this picture of a sweet green that is like all boarded up in preparation for any unrest. And Parker Malloy tweeted,

trying to imagine a sweet green being looted, people taking random vegetables, handfuls of croutons, jugs of dressing. Like, yeah, just somebody serving cilantro. Like, the flowers there. It's my kind of revolution. I got bundles.

Just got arms full of kombucha. Yeah, right? I mean, that would make sense. That feels like the proper robbing the bourgeois, like rolling out kegs of kombucha, like loading them up on a truck. And then people are like, man, this shit sucks, actually. I don't even know why I sold this.

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the song we ride out on. Miles, what are we riding out on for the next four hours? The next four hours. Let next four hours. Let's go out on a track by Tierra Whack called Wasteland, which is what this

country is starting to look like a bit. But hey, we can be the people that clean it up. From the wasteland comes 2.0, right? So yeah, just check this out. Come back, check in with us later today. We'll be sweating so you don't have to. We'll be here.

I'm going to be just walking very slowly on the treadmill and cleaning up my kids' toys. That's what I'm doing with my hands. Keep my hands busy. Oh, you know what I would love right now is to put a bunch of stickers on kids' toys for them. You know, like some kids' toys. Oh, that's tight. Oh, that sounds so great i would love be like yo bring fucking 70 boxes of gundam models i don't give a fuck i've been fucking with uh lincoln logs a bunch lately like not because of anything

political just because we have them and i was fucking with them a lot during uh during the dodgers world series i'm like my kids are. Not really. Just like the same log cabin over and over again. Go check out this cube I made. My kids are sitting there. My kids are just like, oh, it's another house. Another house. Cool, Dad. What's this one?

It's a room. Very therapeutic. Very therapeutic. Yeah, yeah. I'll be building a PC, man. I think we all got the same spirit. Yeah, tactile activity is truly like art. It just helps with your presence, your state of presence because you're in that moment.

But I don't know why I said the sticker thing because I think that was like some of the times I stressed myself the most out with some detail-oriented work as a kid. It's like, don't fuck the placement of this fucking sticker or you're going to fuck up the turtle van for your Ninja Turtles place set. You put the Decepticon logo upside down. Yeah, and you're like, fuck! Like crying to your mom. You're like, I didn't know what I was doing. I need a new one. All right.

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