The Daily Zeitgeist - Eyes On Iowa, Google Grampa 2.4.20

Episode Date: February 4, 2020

In episode 562, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and Yelling About Pâté podcast co-host Karl Hess to discuss ghost kitchens, the Senate's conclusion to the impeachment trial, the Iowa caucuses, children's books being used as protest, an in-depth analysis of the Super Bowl, Budweiser's Super Bowl ad, and more!FOOTNOTES: Ghost kitchens open up in ghost malls to serve...ghost patrons? Impeachment trial heads to historic end in frenetic week How do the Iowa caucuses work? Saratoga Springs author releases new book Scholastic Under Fire for Children’s Book Portrayal of Trump New Book 'The Pumpkin And The Pantsuit' Explains The 2016 Election To Kids 21 Books Set In a Post-Trump World A colorful children's book tries to explain border walls Watch the Entire Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show, Starring Shakira and Jennifer Lopez 2020 Super Bowl commercials: Rewatch the ads that ran during Super Bowl LIV on Sunday Trump and Bloomberg Super Bowl Ads Provoke Sharp Viewer Reactions WATCH: Budweiser | Typical American | 2020 Super Bowl Commercial Budweiser slammed for using Charlotte 2016 protest footage in Super Bowl beer commercial WATCH: Budweiser Super Bowl Commercial 2017 Born The Hard Way Budweiser uses a Super Bowl ad to tell an obscure immigrant story — its own A Boycott Budweiser movement begins over Super Bowl immigration ad WATCH: Denny Laflare - Number 7 Intro Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 119, Episode 2 of Dear Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say, officially off the top, fuck the Koch brothers and their coke industries on fuck fox news it's tuesday february 4th 2020 my name is jack o'brien aka hey jack o'brien what's it like to be so litty i was looking miles away but then your singing voice it hit me sacre bleu jack main can't keep as well on

tune I swear it's true oh it's crooning Jack O B oh it's crooning Jack O B alright courtesy of Trite Gang just T-D-Z-A-K-A

and I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Oop-a-dee-p-a-plop-a-plop-a-boom-ba-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum. Give it to me, Miles Gray-bee! Uh-huh, uh-huh. And all the dailies say I'm pretty fly for the zeitgeist. Brr-brr-brr. Yeah.

Oh, I've had a few iterations on that one, but thanks to Travis. Trevornovich. Trevornich. 51 on Twitter. Yeah. See? The cold brew hasn't hit yet. Can't even read.

No, I think that is actually, I was looking at his Twitter handle, and that's correct. That's how it's pronounced. Thank you so much. Those three words that you tried. Do you think you'll ever be able to say 2020 normally? No. I've noticed I think every show we've done in this new year, it's been, we've been like 2020.

Because I always want to say 2000 just because I got in that rhythm of saying 2019. 2018, 2017. Because we've been doing the show for so damn long. Yeah. So I am officially, I have my parents note, I am excused from having to say 2020, even though 2020 sounds weird. It does to you? 2020?

Yeah. Yeah, kind of. All right. Just trying to see where you're at. 2020. I don't know. Just want to get in that big old head of yours. Walk around a little bit.

Walk around a little bit. Stomp around a little bit. Miles. Ah. We just came back little bit. Miles. Ah. We just came back from Portland. Oh, man. Had a great time. Great time.

Sold out show. And now we are headed to the great city. I believe it's called the Big Apple. Brooklyn at the Bell House on February 12th. It's a borough. Where the Big Apple at, as Biggie used to say. Where Big Apple at. Hey, spread love, it's the Big Apple way.

Yes. Yeah. Where are we going to be? Bell House. Hey. February 12th. Washington, D.C., February 13th at the Miracle Theater. Minneapolis, February 25th at the Parkway Theater.

Chicago, February 27th at Sleeping Village. And, of course, the grand finale, Toronto. Toronto. Toronto. Sorry, there we go. Yeah, we were saying Toronto, and that's apparently incorrect. I was saying Toronto. Toronto.

I didn't know if I was saying- Toronto. Yeah. We're doing that February 28th at the great hall. One of the best halls. That venue looks, these venues look almost too professional for our show in a way. I'm kind of nervous, but please come out.

Absolutely. Definitely too professional. Although this show is, you know, it's going to show you a side of the zeitgeist you've never seen. There's audio, there's visual, there's audio visual elements. We also, I think. There's visual. There's audiovisual elements.

We also, I think we also reveal some truths about ourselves. Oh, yeah. Yes, we do. So for tickets, go to dailyzeitgeist.com and go to live appearances tab. And by the way, just buy the tickets from the vendor. Don't buy it from any person on Facebook. Third parties. Somebody got scammed at the Portland show.

So, yeah, be careful out there. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented Carl Hess. Oh, my God. Thank you guys so much. Thank you for waiting patiently while we got through all that stuff. I was just enjoying the banter. It's just a pleasure to see. Great day banter.

Thank you. You guys have great voices, too. I forgot how much the banter. It's just a pleasure to see. Great day banter. Thank you. You guys have great voices too. I forgot how much singing was involved with this show. It's just really, I love to see it. That means so much because that is truly my aspiration actually. I feel like now that I nailed that AKA, I can reveal to all our listeners.

How much singing is in the live show? Is there a, you guys? Oh man. Just wait and see. There is an AKA that I smash. singing is in the live show is there a you guys oh just wait and see there is folks you gotta see this show that i uh i i smash it goes he goes out of body yeah it's amazing to the point where i don't even do an aka i'm like you know what yeah that was too good man shine yeah he was too on in the pocket uh i think is how it's been described to me i don't like i said i don't

remember it i go out of body. You black out. You come to covered in sweat. Everyone's cheering and you're like, I've done it again. I've fucking done it again. Carl, how have you been, man? What's new with you?

I mean, just trying to stay sane in this crazy world of ours. Hey, you said it, brother. Yeah, day by day. I think we all just, like any of us, just been spending too much time online It's easy to just Kind of just feel like, wow What am I doing with my life?

Being online is the only thing that I hate But I'm like, better do it for five hours to make sure Yep, okay, still hate it And the day is over Still bad Still very bad Probably gonna do it some more Yeah, well. Probably going to do it some more. Yeah.

Well, we're about to do it some more in a moment. We're also going to get to know you a little bit better. Hell yeah. First, we're going to tell our listeners what they should be freaking out about so they don't have to go online and find out. We're going to talk about ghost kitchens. Miles, you're going to explain what that means to me. These virtual kitchens bro

They're out here for sure Haunting us these damn ghost kitchens We're going to do our latest update On the impeachment Oh my god I didn't even know I love that I love that beat

Let me just say I love that beat Hit em with it And then we're gonna talk about the iowa caucuses i didn't know what caucusing was necessarily i didn't realize how uh like cartoonishly are you with me then come stand in my strange system yeah very strange system Glad it's what we let determine. A lot of power. Just the most important thing ever. All right. We're going to talk about children's books being a new form of Trump protest.

We're going to talk about the Super Bowl. That happened. We're going to give out some winners and losers, gang. Oh, yeah. We're going to talk in particular about the bubweiser superbowl commercial uh but first carl we like to ask our guests what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are um well you know think a lot about politics trump his antics and uh you know i don't think trump is the worst president i think w is still the worst but uh i was thinking how vulgar Trump is.

And then I remembered this story that I heard, so I Googled it. And it's fucking true. Lyndon Johnson once, while asked why we were in Vietnam, he took out his dick to a group of reporters and said, that's why. And I was just thinking, like, Trump hasn't done anything to match that. Whipping out your dick to a group of reporters. I mean, that is, that's God tier. Yeah. It was like back at a time.

That was something he liked to do. Yes. Apparently he had a huge dick, which he called Jumbo. Yeah. Right. He one time. Wait, his name for his dick was Jumbo? Yeah.

He called his dick Jumbo. Yes. Which like gives off more of a clown sort of circus vibe. It's a friendly name, though. You're like, Jumbo's here. Jumbo, hey. Sure, he's huge, but he's gentle. Right.

He whipped it out. I don't know if I had heard that specific instance. I know that he made a journalist who was critical of him, like sit with him and talk to him as he was taking a shit. Yes, he would do that to aides and people as a power trip. Like he's in the White House presidential bathroom taking a shit. He's like, come in here. I'm going to like dress you down while I'm shitting. And then one time he, during a meeting,

just asked one of his Secret Service agents, I think it was, to stand in front of him and peed on him. Dude, Lyndon, man! But used him like a tree that he was peeing behind. Lyndon. So when somebody was like, what are you doing? He was like, it's my prerogative, son. Yeah, he would whip it out to piss a lot. And he would often be like, if you were pissing next to him, he'd be like, get a look at this.

You ever seen anything like this? It's jumbo, baby. For an extra nickel, you can upgrade to a jumbo. Right. LBJ, on a whole other level. I mean, Trump could never. It was at a time, it was a different time. He was a brazen man.

The media would cover up for a president. Yeah. They had just gotten done covering up for all of JFK's mistresses. They probably thought it was cute. They're like, he's doing the jumbo thing again. We love it. We all love it. What is something you think is overrated? We were talking about this a little bit

beforehand. I think sweet jewel pod flavors wildly overrate. All the popular flavors are sweet. I think there should be savory jewel pods let's get let's get some adult ass jewel pod flavor okay i would fuck with an eggs benedict jewel pod okay you'd be like really taste that hollandaise it's delicious it would be so good why is everything now are jewel pods that uh accurate to like what their target uh taste is

that i like the cool cucumber i'm'm not a huge vaping guy, but occasionally... You're vaping right now. I'm vaping right now. I can't see your face. Oh, God, I'm in flavor country. Here we are. Your head is just a cloud of vapor.

Often I'll hit a friend's and it'll be like cloyingly sweet cotton candy flavor or something. Oh, really? This is disgusting. You smoke this all day? What are you, a child? You want cotton candy flavor in your. Oh, really? This is disgusting. You smoke this all day? What are you, a child?

Do you want cotton candy flavor in your mouth? Are your friends children? You know, I have a disparate age range. I have a great crew. My crew is diverse. They did pull some of those back. I know Juul did because they're trying to be the apple of nicotine. That's the other thing. If you want teens to stop

Juuling, just make liver and onions. They're not going to want to fuck with that. This is heavy gravy. I like this gravy. They did pull it back, right? Mango was pulled off the market. I think it was all the ones except for the ones that taste

like shit. The juul's like shit flavored, basically. Tobacco flavored. You're still going to smoke it. You fucking... Come on, you pigs. I'd love just stuffing, Thanksgiving stuffing. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God.

I would fuck with stuffing so hard. I don't even need it to have nicotine. Plus, it would be great for LA. No one wants to eat carbs. You just vape the stuffing. Zero carbs. Boom. Done.

There it is. But how would they get the flavor right? I feel like you need some carb... That's true. Do you get carbs? How do you vaporize carbs right like my uh that i think the high water mark for like pill form flavor is probably the jelly belly like popcorn yes or like everyone they nailed that yeah the gourmet jelly beans where you're just like you you almost have like an out-of-body weird experience where you're like, wait.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. That one tastes like buttered popcorn? Yeah, it really does. You've never had that one? I don't like jelly beans because usually, it's not even that the flavors. I didn't know you were anti-bean. Okay. No, no.

I'll experiment here and there. But back in the day, it would just be- I experimented in college. Sure, we all did. Flip a couple beans, pop a couple beans here and there. Wait, what are we talking about? Pop a few beans. Oh, okay.

Whoa. So now, no, I mean, the flavors would always just be like watermelon. Just flavors I never liked. Right. The watermelon one was good. I liked. But now hearing that you're both unanimously, you're like, oh, yep. It's just worth having one.

Yeah. It's like a magic trick. It really tastes like it. They nailed that. I'm sure people are going to be like, you're fucking up and there's another one that's better or something like that the bean heads are coming for you online you fucked up uh but where so you have experienced uh the magic that is the butter popcorn jelly jelly belly imagine that in vape form that'd be delicious yeah what where does Juul fall with regards to

approximating that? Because cucumber is a very specific taste. I really only like the cucumber. And yeah, cucumber seems easy to replicate. Does it? So I think the cucumber's good. That's my favorite one. What is something you think is underrated? Lately, I've been really getting into cottage

cheese. I think it's a wildly underrated cheese. And I think it's a wildly underrated cheese, and I think it has a stigma, probably because all our moms used to eat it on a slice of tomato for some reason, or at least my mom did. So you're like, that's a mom thing. What's going on?

I don't fuck with that. But getting back into it, it's so good. It's basically like if it was socially acceptable to eat a bowl of cream cheese. You can't do that because of society, but you can eat a bowl of cottage cheese and that's totally fine. Is it bad for you like cream cheese? I don't think. I mean, sure.

It has like a weird consistency. It's like lumpy. You have to overcome the lumpiness. My main issues with cottage cheese are the consistency and that it tastes bad. I'm saying you've got to revisit it. Right. Okay.

I might have been colored by my early childhood. That was a thing that everything... It was like the 70s had put everything into a Jell-O mold and then the 80s had just cottage. If you eat something with cottage cheese, you're going to be healthy. And that's the thing.

It was like a 90s low-fat thing. So a lot of the cottage cheese we tried as kids or were exposed to was low-fat milk. I'm talking full-fat cottage cheese. It's delicious. What do you eat it with? I do savory. I'm a savory guy. Yeah, yeah.

I figured that. I'm a savory daddy, as we've. So I do black pepper and onions. Yeah, I'm a savory daddy, as we've covered. I do black pepper and olive oil. On what kind of delivery mechanism? Just in a bowl. Straight up, spooning it in. Wow. It's so good.

Wait, black pepper and olive oil on cottage cheese? Now, that might be the thing that I was missing. I was always thinking of it as a sweet thing. Exactly. Like akin to yogurt. We're going to savory. We're going savory. I mean, you can do like fruit, like a yogurt, like a berries situation.

Yeah. And is it cold when you eat it? Yes, right out of the fridge. Right out of the fridge. It's refreshing. It's a refreshing cheese. I don't know, man. Yeah, I mean, try it.

Try it out. I've had so much wrong about cottage cheese. I figured maybe I had the temperature wrong. I'm here to help. You don't want lukewarm cheese. Nobody wants that. Speak for yourself. My recipes are out in the sun.

My recipes are out. I actually love warm cheese. I like to have somebody hold it in their mouth for a little bit. Just bring it right up to body temp. Is it room temp? All right, hit me. Room temp or body temp? And finally, what is a myth?

What's something people think is true you know to be false? I get into this discussion when I have a few drinks at a party and someone brings it up. I've had this argument so many times, but I'm here to have it yet again. Different types of alcohol do not affect you differently. It's not true. It's never been true.

Everybody thinks it, and it's just wrong. Ethanol is ethanol. It's the same in any intoxicating beverage, wine, beer, liquor, whatever. It's processed by your body exactly the same. The only thing that changes is the rate of absorption, which is mostly affected by how much food you have in your stomach. Because alcohol immediately crosses into your bloodstream through your stomach lining. So what you have in your stomach actually is the biggest factor for how fast and how drunk you get and how fast you get drunk.

But does it affect hangovers? Because in my experience, it doesn't. There is no physiological basis for different types of alcohol being broke. They're all broken down exactly the same. Alcohol is metabolized in your experience. No, it doesn't. It doesn't? There is no physiological basis for different types of alcohol being broken. They're all broken down exactly the same. Alcohol is metabolized in your liver. It doesn't matter what it's in. It's metabolized exactly the same, no matter the source.

That's weird. But there is the question of the placebo effect because we all know the placebo effect is real. People can take a pill that does nothing and actually get better because they think they're going to get better. So if you go into drinking tequila thinking, oh, I'm going to get crazy because I'm drinking tequila, then you might get crazy because you thought you were going to. You're just sort of framing your experience a certain way before it happens.

But there's no physiological basis. But we have to allow for the placebo effect because it's real. A lot of strip clubs don't serve tequila. Sure. For that perceived wildness that it inspires out of people. Rate of absorption has to do with ways that you take it in. So wine, if you're sipping it, you're going to absorb a lot slower than if you're taking a tequila shot. A lot of people have a night in college or when they're young where they do some shots of tequila.

They get hammered because they're doing shots. And then they're like, tequila makes me wild. It's like, no, just taking shots gets you very drunk because you're taking a lot of alcohol. Take a shot of anything, you're going to get fucking drunk. Huh. I've heard that vodka gives less hangover. So that is, there's something called congeners,

which are in dark alcohol, which comes from the wood. Right. You know, whiskey is brown because it's aged in barrels. If whiskey comes out of the still, it's clear. And it's aged, and it mellows the flavor. So there are people who are susceptible to the congeners. So that is a factor if you're drinking clear alcohol versus a dark alcohol. So more broadly, it's the idea that alcohol is processed the same no matter what.

And then, then we get into these variables underneath. But the congener could affect your hangover, not how drunk, how drunk, how you would act while you're drunk. There's not different types of drunk. Right.

Oh, I got on a whiskey drunk last night and can't, can't be trusted for what happened. And you know, it's, it's fascinating. And there's actually not a lot of hard data about it because it's like, I guess scientists aren't, you know it's it's fascinating and there's actually not a lot of hard data about it because it's like i guess scientists aren't you know devoting themselves devoting this stuff

this important work it's a perfect liquor to drink uh but it is it is fascinating and it is people have all these preconceived notions about how they act on different alcohol and it's fascinating yeah um gin makes me sad it's like you might just be sad. It's not the gin, my guy. Well, yeah, and I'm sure there's also complex issues because you're taking a psychoactive substance and then bringing in all your preconceived notions about what that substance does to you. It's the power of the mind. Right. And then also, yeah, placebo effect and also what your experiences are. I've had this argument drunk at a party so many times.

Like, you're fucking wrong, man. The science isn't there. Right. But yeah, it's a fascinating subject all around. It is. All right, let's talk about ghost kitchens. Miles, what the fuck are those? Okay, if you ever use,

you see them a lot on these delivery apps, like Seamless, Uber Eats. There's this whole thing where it'll be seemingly a restaurant you've never heard of, but they're offering you all kinds of food out of this thing. So this idea of a virtual kitchen, basically a restaurant has a lot of overhead because you have dine-in guests and your rent and stuff all factors into opening a restaurant. Whereas a virtual kitchen is purely built to just send food out of. There's no dine-in guests. It's just there to be a kitchen that churns out all kinds of food. And because a lot of these food delivery apps have become so popular, a lot of people are like, maybe my business makes more sense just to be

sending food out than actually having dine-in guests. And this has become the idea of the ghost kitchen, virtual kitchen has gotten more and more popular. But I think one of the reasons is a flexibility in like the kind of rent you have to pay because you don't need a storefront. And also you can cook like all kinds of cuisine out of one kitchen. Right. Like you can have, like, there's a spot by me that is normally a Thai restaurant, but they also send wings out of there too. And like flatbread stuff. I love that though. Yeah. And it's just, it's a smarter way to like use your facilities. But now it's like, it's getting to the point where the rent's low, these buildings or these businesses are becoming more popular.

People are like, okay, how do we like also go into places that aren't being used and just start building out a lot of test kitchens? So there's like SBE who has a lot of restaurants, a hospitality company, and then this other retail developer called the Simon Property Group. So there's like SBE who has a lot of restaurants, a hospitality company, and then this other retail developer called the Simon Property Group. And there's like a hotel company. They're basically- They own the Indiana Pacers. Oh, they do? Fantastic. So we're all in the same picture. Dark money is getting into ghost kitchens. Into ghost kitchen, big ghost kitchen. So they're planning on opening like 200 delivery only

kitchens by the end of next year. And they're looking at places like unused retail spaces, storage areas, mall parking lots, abandoned malls. Storage areas is so bleak. They're just like, here, get in there. You're in there plotting out your conspiracy, and next door they're making pad thai. You're like, I'm trying to do my red yarn in here, guys. Come on.

It smells great. What is that? Galanga? my red yarn in here guys come on that's right it smells great what is that galanga what's is is there like a ghost kitchen success story that's like they started out in a sewer drain i mean the first time i read about like a year or two ago it was like i was reading about restaurants in san francisco that were basically the rent was so high for them they're like we still get a lot of orders but we don't there's it's hard for us to survive as a dine-in location. Yeah, labor is a big part of the expenses when you're doing restaurants.

So it's like, you know, ghost kitchen model makes sense if you can do it. Depending on, yeah, what it is. And I think, you know, more and more, like, I just see restaurants I've never just heard of. It's so weird when you go on those apps. You're like, what is this place? You're like, I don't know. Suddenly like I need to trust like pizza and shawarma.

Go on. When the, uh, when the Thai restaurant buyer place, uh, sends out or like advertise their wings and their flatbread, do they do it under a different like heading? Right.

It will. And then there'll be a note saying like it's actually in partnership or something with this other restaurant ah i've also heard about someone was telling me about like restaurant poaching where uh so a customer called this restaurant was like oh like where's my order i order it and they were like we don't we don't like do orders like this is a dining only restaurant and apparently someone had taken that restaurant's name was using it on these apps with a totally different menu. Wow. Just, I guess, because of the name recognition.

What? So then the guy called the actual restaurant. He's like, where's my order? And they're like, what are you talking about? He's like, I ordered from, you know, on Seamless or whatever. So now there's like weird shit going on out there. Yeah. I'm sure there's all these like just- Spooky restaurant stories.

There's shadow economies that are just popping up everywhere because of how fast technology is. Yeah. shadow economies that are just popping up everywhere because of how fast technology is. Yeah. I just like the idea of an old abandoned mall food court just brought back to life. Right. But all the retail space is not being used.

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And you should tune in today for new fun segments like Sister Court and listening to Lacey's steamy DMs. We've got new and exciting guests like Michael Beach. That's my husband. Daphne Spring, Daniel Thrasher, Peppermint, Morgan J. and more. You got to watch us. No, you mean you have to listen to us. I mean, you can still watch us, but you got to listen. Like if you're watching us, you have to tell us like if you're out the window you have to say hey i'm watching you outside of the window just just you know what listen to the amber and lacy lacy and amber show on will ferrell's big money players network on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and uh let's talk briefly about impeachment not a whole lot of uh updates to where we were um yesterday uh there might be some but as of

this recording not not a whole lot new other than that you know the senate has officially concluded that uh he's basically guilty of what the democrats accused him of i don't want to i'm shocked personally i can't believe that was lamar alexander's decision you know yeah he did it but it's not bad enough to impeach. And then Marco Rubio said it might be bad enough to impeach, but it's not bad enough to remove him from office. Uh-huh. So everyone knows it's bad now. Right.

That's the most that's the most Republicans have moved through the entire process when being. Nah, nah. Yeah, that was bad. Right. But nothing else. No follow up. But that was bad. Right. But nothing else. No follow-up. But shrug emoji. Yes, shrug emoji is the official stance of the GOP right now.

And Trump is still on his perfect phone call shit. So that's, you know, three different standards. It really is funny to describe a phone call as perfect. Like, Trump has his moments of being unintentionally like hilarious oh like non-stop the only time that's what's so disarming and like difficult about him is he's just non-stop like the we're gonna talk about the super bowl thing but like that is unbelievable michael scott that's classic shit couldn't do it better i don't think you could the only time on, he's on. I would ever

describe a phone call as perfect. Maybe I was in 6th grade and it was about telling a girl I liked her. Right. Wow. That's a ballsy move. Or be like, will you go to a dance? Landline shit. It was perfect, dude. She said yes. I hung up immediately. I hung up immediately.

What are you watching, Cops on Fox right now? Yeah, yeah. I'm watching too like that's the all i don't understand again we've also talked about this plenty of times that how could a phone call be perfect right uh but you know this is where we are yeah so they're essential essentially they're saying just let the people vote in the election that he is they now admit clearly guilty of cheating at by abusing his presidential power in a manner that exceeds Watergate, by the way.

Yeah. So, which is supposed to be, like, their party's great shame. Watergate was, like, quaint now by, like, modern standards. Like, aw. Yeah. They took up some files. That's cute. Shredded them.

Aw. Yeah. The whole thing with this, though, too, is, again, the actions of the Republicans is just, I don't even know what planet we're on anymore. Because here's the thing. Even if they're all willing to say, yeah, that's wrong, then what are you going to do to do something? Right? It can't just end with, yeah, that's wrong. just end with yeah yeah that's wrong end of like are there you know there have been talks of adding some kind of like amendments something to say that oh actually a president cannot do this anymore we

get it yeah that's basically what they're saying okay we get it but what he did is wrong yeah but that's where you have to say even as like the mechanics of leadership if you're seeing something that is you know uh a deficiency that's occurring within the system, how are you going to address that? Obviously, that's very idealistic for me to think that they would do something about it given the all kinds of issues we're looking at. But if they wanted to have some sense or some semblance of like doing some, having their, taking their oaths seriously, their oaths seriously, that you would say something like, yeah, that's wrong and we should do this to correct that.

Oath breakers, the lot of them. Yeah. Right. The mainstream media is basically covering this or were over the weekend covering the fact that the Republicans voted to not hear from any witnesses as the witness vote tanking, which suggests like Democrats failed to do something. Right. Like they, yeah.

Well, it's politics and one side won. So. I like that phrasing. It's like a movie at the box office. Like, ah, this vote, I don't know. This vote bombed, man. I don't know what happened. Yeah.

Anyway, what's next? What else? What's going on don't know what happened. Yeah. Anyway, what's next? What else? What's going on with Stormy Daniels? Yeah. As opposed to one side just changing the rules of the argument at the end and being like, yeah, but none of it matters. Again, the stakes are it's half long they can legitimately contain their power. Right. And I don't know, maybe that actually the clock has run out.

When you look at all the actions, look at all the, you know, restrictive voter laws and things like that and purging voter rolls. But this is this this whole thing. All of this is motivated out of like this is it like we can't if we give them this then we're done but i also think that like if he was actually i mean we all knew he's never gonna be removed but like just the whole impeachment thing like i haven't really been paying attention to it because it's like i think i knew at the end of the road he wasn't going to be removed so i was like why pay attention but also like for trump's base like he could he'd be impeached like that they're not going to turn against, so I was like, why pay attention? But also, for Trump's base, he could be impeached. They're not going to turn

against him. If anything, he's a martyr now. Oh, the crooked Democrats. There's this unspoken thing in the mainstream media where they talk about how much of a waking nightmare it would be if he were removed from office. Yeah, exactly. Then we have President Pence.

I think they're suggesting, and I think it would actually happen that there would be like armed oh my god uprising yeah people yeah like they would definitely get a lot of think about what the Q supporters would do um but it's like that's gonna happen like do you if you think anyway right it's gonna happen anyway it's gonna like imagine at some point he will no longer be president, and then what happens to MAGA world when they're looking down on him?

What happens when he, during the general election, is like, the Democrats hacked the voting machines. Yes. You know, something like that. Yeah. And also, not to mention the huge risk of life that we incur having a president that is this incompetent.

Oh, he's falling apart. He is falling apart mentally. But he's crushing it at those rallies. Dude, he has like – so that chunk he has about the dishwashers and the toilets, it's like stand-up. He has like a five-minute chunk. He goes into that toilet dishwasher chunk and it is killer. Folks, 10 flushes. People are counting along with him.

Like it is wild. He's up there murdering. I'm like, wow. I don't like him, but I respect the bit. I respect the bit as a comedian. And the bit is just that people take big shits. Right. Like environmentally friendly toilets can't handle it. I love it. And then he's like, not me. Not me. My shits right right like yeah and environmentally friendly toilets can't handle it and then he's

like not me not me my shits are huge right as are your shits people my shits are smooth um he's like it's that uh i think you should leave now sketch where the toilet's only got a fart size hole in him these days he's a huge fan of that show he loves tim robbins yeah yeah loved him funny uh all right so on the democratic side uh it seems like you know it's all over but the caucusing in iowa i just said that like dennis miller for some reason the caucusing well i'm not gonna say who i think is gonna win because it will probably come back immediately by the second well by the time people hear this oh right the caucuses have happened but bernie won there was a last second swing to biden uh by 200 000 transit workers or a transit union with 200 000 people in it that's not good uh on

the basis of electability uh they went from bernie to biden um it's just a it's this weird recursive like what does it even mean like well yeah that's the oriating you need an abstract argument because on the facts you can't really say much yeah you're like well what about your vote on the iraq war right right yeah what about it but even just just the idea that Biden is somehow more electable than Bernie, it's like he's his record. Like we've already seen what happens when you you do an establishment candidate with a terrible record and all this stuff that, you know, Trump can use his fodder. Right. You can't run someone who he can be like draining in the swamp, corruption, all this. He's just going to do that shit again. Right. Biden's a huge liability. Can you imagine the ammo that like the mandate, perceived mandate, Republicans would think they have if Biden was elected?

Right. And what that, how that, I mean, they're going to be obstructionist with anyone. Right. But like, I think it was Joni Ernst or one of them was like, oh yeah, well, we'd impeach Biden right away. It's like, oh my God. Right. What the fuck are y'all talking about?

I think really, I'm more the only part of me that would want to see a Biden versus Trump election, and it's not because I want that reality. I just want to see one debate. Oh my God. Both of them, their brains are coming out of their ears, and it's just like, I can't

even imagine. Watching Hillary Clinton go up against trump with the future of the country painful on the line like almost gave me a heart attack yeah first time it was like the closest i've ever felt like my heart hurt the entire night and the entire next day like i felt pain i was like holy shit which. Which debate? The stocking one? Yeah, the stocking one. I can't survive a Biden-Trump general. I can't survive it. I don't think I could. I can't do it. Oh, I couldn't either.

Any of this. He will challenge him to a fucking push-up. And they'll do it! They'll do it! He'll be like, actually, I need my running shoes. I got my two-inch flats, my lifts that I wear. What's his name for Biden?

Is it Sleepy Joe? Yeah, Sleepy Joe and Crazy Bernie. Mini Mike, I think, is the newest one that I thought was pretty good. Right. That was Sunday night after the Super Bowl. He just went on a tear about how short Mike Bloomberg is. That was his chosen line of attack. The irony, because many people talk about the weird lifts

that Trump wears in his shoes to add a couple inches to his height. He's got to. Definitely has. When you see him next to people that are actually 6'1", you're like, you're 6'1". Such a weirdly shaped man. Right. Oh, is he really shorter than people say? I didn't realize that.

I mean, that's the rumor. I couldn't believe it. I mean, most celebrities are. Yeah, take their height and knock two inches off. Anyways, the caucus. I went into this week, you know, wondering what, like, how does it work? I knew it was like, you could change your vote if, like, your person wasn't getting that much. It's really like the, you know how the trading floor at the stock exchange is like live action capitalism where people are like bye bye so i'm like my finger things yeah

i only know that from uh that's really all i know it from two trading places other movies where yeah they just show cutaways to that but it's like this weird thing that you wouldn't expect to exist other than as a dramatization of like the system that runs our country. Like that's what caucusing feels like to me. It's like, okay, if you're voting for this person, go stand in that corner. If you're voting for this other person, stand in that corner. And then like, if you don't have enough people, then they're like, come vote for my guy. And like, there's- Yeah, they're called alignments. Yeah. It's like kickball teams.

Right. It's like picking teams. So weird. Well, that's the thing that's like also interesting when a lot of people look at the polling about it, the polling about the caucuses aren't a good indicator of how the caucuses go, because after that first alignment, right, when you corner off, then whoever doesn't get to 15%, that viability threshold. Now you court those people who stood for a candidate there. And from there, there's like internal dynamics there. Like, you know, like where, where does a Sanders supporter, where would a Sanders supporter go if they're, if Sanders didn't hit 15% in that first alignment, where does a, where does a Buttigieg supporter go? So it's not,

it's not exactly that, you know, Biden or Bernie will always get these percentages there. It's just that then from there, there's these internal dynamics at play too. So there's going to be a lot of shifting, and there's so many ways that people can get to that threshold that it's a little more complex than I think we all imagine. Yeah. I think NPR was pointing out that both Obama and Jimmy Carter used wins in Iowa to sort of solidify themselves as front runners. It's like I was saying with the horse race thing of people changing allegiances based on who's electable. This is not a diverse group of voters. This is not a representative group of voters. Like when it compared to the rest of the country,

the only thing it has is that it controls the media narrative. And so the media is, again, it's just like this self-reflexive thing where it's like, well, he won the first one. So we're going to cover it as if he's like the winner or she, you know, it establishes the narrative going forward.

Right. But it's like that. I don't know. It just all seems system bad. Does it need a refresher? An update? Right. Anyways.

But shout out to all those people who are going back to Iowa to caucus. Yes. Yeah. Because there are a lot of people I know, like even in L.A. who are going back to iowa to caucus yes because there are a lot of people i know like even in la who are like no i kept my like residency there so like i can fucking go and caucus oh really yeah oh wow there are people who i know uh like are like there are funds to help people go back to caucus even where they're like or people are driving people to Iowa to be like, Hey, you still got your residence there.

Let's get you there. Let's get you in the right, in the right corner. Yeah. So the thing we talked about with like the, the room where people are standing in different corners based on the sorting and yeah, the sorting hat room first alignment. Yeah.

There will be 1,679 of those. Wow. And there will also be satellite caucuses, 60 in the United States, 24 international, with people from Iowa who just can't get back to Iowa. And, yeah, there will be chained to somebody else and have to knife fight them like in the Beat It video. A circle form. Wait, what's going on? You know what to do. One of the guys who's in that fight or in that video is the guy from New York Undercover

Oh really? Yeah, Michael whatever his name is Deep trivia Yeah, he was a dancer back in the day You can see it in the way he moves Just a little tidbit for my New York Undercover fans Michael DiLorenzo, that was his name Turns out that knife fight was not accurate

To how real knife fights actually go it colored our generation's perception of knife fighting more influenced by dance I mean the way they do it the bending graceful

I'm surprised no one's been like let me just stab you the fuck out of your arm right that was some West Side Story shit they have good core strength

four years of tap after the first round you are able to oh back to that yeah After the first round, you are able to... Oh, back to that. Yeah. After the first sorting, you're able to switch sides, go to one of the groups that has more. There's realignment groups that then will express a preference. People courting you to be like, hey, you're a Tulsi person.

Why don't you come over here? Right. They're waving you across the room. Hey, get over here. That's happening live in the room. Yeah, that's like a thing that is illegal in other voting situations. You're not allowed to try to influence somebody's decision as they're approaching the polling. This is like you step into the voting booth and there are a hundred different people

trying to pull you into like one side or the other it's just and there's a lot of people uh that are still undecided going into this situation which i don't know how you're undecided at this point yeah it's just like especially in iowa anyone who's undecided like scares me i'm like i mean look i get if you just like don't pay attention, anyone who's undecided, like scares me. I'm like, I mean, I get if you just like, don't pay attention to politics at all. And you're just kind of like disengaged, but like,

you know, if you're in Iowa, there's so much focus. They're all there. It's just like, how have you not made a decision? Yeah. I don't know.

It's weird. Well, it turns out we're all okay because children's books are here to save us. So our writer, JM McNabb has, It turns out we're all okay because children's books are here to save us. Thank God. So our writer, J.M. McNabb, has... So the books are going to save us? I can take my hands off the wheel. I can stop caring. Good.

Books got it. So one of our writers, J.M. McNabb, has a son who is in junior kindergarten, and they pick a book once a week at the school library. And the one he picked was called Bully. And it was about a frog with a bunch of wilting flowers for hair that are sort of orangish. And it turns out it is explicitly influenced by Trump. Oh.

And it's a big metaphor. Pro-Trump. Yeah, yeah, exactly. He had the most beautiful flowers on his head. It's a perfect book. Look at this frog. Kick every other frog's ass. Go with the winner.

Look how big my fucking frog feet are. But yeah, so he kind of did some research, and there are a bunch of different sort of ideologically influenced children's books being published in 2018 scholastic published a book called president donald trump as part of their rookie biography series and uh it you know was just a very straightforward book that was like he became a president millionsions of Americans are counting on to improve their lives. And, uh,

there was this. Yeah. And it worked out. I mean, cause if you were to be honest about it, it would be too explicit for a children's book. Right. That's true.

It's like, he has been credibly accused of sexual assault. Right. Yeah. What do you do about that? Right. They're going to have enough time in their life When they're like scared and in pain Let the children just be children for a bit

Just don't make the book Says a poem about Donald Trump His buildings reached into the sky His businesses just grew and grew Then Trump became our president People wanted something new The end That's in the book

Wow His businesses just grew and grew uh there's also the pumpkin and the pantsuit so that this is a story that is wildly um but discouraging to me this is a ridiculous the cover art we're looking at the pumpkin in the pantsuit. It's just it's really something folks mind altering. I don't want to see that. They somehow made Trump actually look like a wrinkled pumpkin with weird

eyebrows and I'm guessing they've reduced Hillary to a pantsuit. Yes. Yes. Look, we're still going to be relitigating 2016 in like 40 years. These kids are going to have time to go through this pain. Don't do it to them now. Let them just play for a little bit before it descends upon them.

There's Liza, Jane, and the Dragon, where a dragon with an orange mane is hired to be Liza's new parent. And then she realizes that the dragon kind of sucks. The lying king. Wait wait i'm sorry king was hired to be a new dragon yeah hires hires a dragon is that like a job opening where you're like all right dragon you're hired to play my father you don't need like a subtle analogy to teach children to hate the things you hate that's the point of having children right you teach them to hate the things that you hate and it's point of having children. You teach them to hate the things that you hate, and it's very easy. You just tell them, this sucks, and we all hate it.

And they're like, okay, got it. They're screwed up for life. Yeah, they're screwed up for life. They spend the rest of their life trying to undo the presences of their parents. And we have a good system. We don't need subtle analogies in books. There's also The Lying King about a warthog who lies in order to gain power, and The King Who Banned the Dark about a king who installs artificial sun, but citizens revolt when nobody can sleep.

Actually sounds kind of cool. Yeah. What is that? What's the met? Okay. Because he doesn't like the dark. Yeah. Oh, so it's about getting just like vilifying things we don't know. And he's also a rapist. That part's pretty on the nose. Yeah, I think't know. Oh, so it's about getting just like vilifying things we don't know or afraid of.

And he's also a rapist. That part's pretty on the nose. Yeah, I think that part too. And then a book called The Wall. I mean, it makes sense, right? Like people feel very powerless to try and effect change with people who are fully formed adults. So if you're making kids books, you're like, well, the way I can fight back is to have these things and indoctrinate them with these

kinds of stories. That makes sense. Yeah. I mean, I don't the other thing is, I don't know how many kids are going to go wait a second, the pumpkin in the pants suit. This is about Donald Trump, right? What are you trying to tell me? So in a way, you don't need to go this sort of hard on those images.

As long as you're the lessons there? But what the fuck do I know? I'm not a child development expert. I want to see the pro-Trump books. Right. They got to be out there. The Perfect Phone Call. Daddy, read me The Perfect Phone Call again.

Right. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. whole generation of like nine to 17 year olds who are currently being uh you know turned into conservatives by youtube videos so maybe this is like the the generation coming up behind them but if this is what uh progressives have instead of youtube videos uh progressivism might be in some trouble yeah and yeah i mean there's there's also deeper lessons than like it's bad to be a instead of YouTube videos, progressivism might be in some trouble. Yeah. I mean, there's also deeper lessons in like it's bad to be a bully, right?

Yeah. And I think I'm sure there are plenty of books that aren't so narrowly trying to be like, I got this kid's book in the form of a Trump diss. Yeah. But like truly like stories about empathy. What's there? I've read books like that.

Sure. Giving Tree. That actually achieve that. Yeah. Classics. Giving Tree is dark as fuck. It is dark as fuck. Holy shit.

A lot of children's books are fucked up. It's just a metaphor for being a parent that is like passive aggressive about how selfish children are. It really is. And then they die. Yeah. It's actually a good lesson. And then you die. It's actually a good lesson. It's a good lesson for parents.

I don't know if it's a good lesson for children. Well, it's like if you have kids, they're just going to use you up and then you're going to die. But what do the kids get out of that? I don't understand why that's a good lesson. Maybe people will stop having children and it'll help with overpopulation. Just don't have kids.

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That's the end of that one In depth analysis Did you guys watch the big game? I ate a bunch of mofongo Puerto Rican food Passed the fuck out by the third quarter. I did catch, I saw the last 10 minutes. I did not see, barely after,

all my energy left me digesting food watching the halftime show. That's how it should be. Most of your energy should be digesting food. I watched the end. I would love to see the ratings, what actually happened to the ratings after the halftime show. Like if people turned it off?

Yeah. Well, like everybody I'm talking to is like, yeah, and then I stopped kind of paying attention after the halftime show. That really seems like Pepsi is knocking it out of the park. That's one of my winners, gang. Pepsi. Pepsi Co. Crushing it. Generation Next, am I right?

Well, so I'm going to say a big winner. Shakira. Wow. I feel like went up in the estimation of everyone who isn't a pearl-clutching conservative mom. Very specifically moms. Sure. We're the only ones who had a problem. And the Spanish government.

Jeb Bush was about it. Oh, was the Spanish government upset? Well, apparently she's being accused of- Tax dodging? $12 million tax evasion. But she paid it off right away. Well, was the Spanish government upset? Well, apparently she's being accused of tax dodging. $12 million tax evasion. But she paid it off right away. That's a baller move. How much?

I got you. She peeled off the bills and cut the check. How much Spanish government? Oh, I got you. I got you right here. I got to go to the Super Bowl fucking halftime show.

Did you see Jeb Bush tweet it? Best halftime show ever. It's like, yeah, we can hear your boner through your tweets. Please clap. Please clap. Please clap.

Please clap for these women. Also, there's... Go ahead. No, I was just thinking, like, you know, obviously J-Lo did her thing, like, on the pole dancing. That was definitely something I feel like people were like... That was one of the... What the heck?

And I remember, you know, a lot of... It just makes me think of Janet Jackson. You know what I mean? Yeah. She went through the breach first. When were All Nation atoned to what happened to mean? Yeah. She went through the breach first. When were all nation atoned to what happened to Janet? Never. Totally unfair. Never. Because, you know,

I think, who was it? Jemele Hill or somebody said something like, you know, Janet was sad to sacrifice so J-Lo could do the work at the halftime show. It's true. It's fucking true. That was one of the more impressive athletic feats of the night, was J-Lo on that pole. Effortless. Dude. Unbelievable.

And I guess Shakira, according to super producer Sophie Lichterman, Shakira was out searching J-Lo 5 million to 1 million during the Super Bowl halftime show. Well, everybody knows. We're all familiar with J-Lo. Shakira, you're like, oh, I kind of maybe forgot about Shakira. Might have forgot. What's up? Yeah.

And she was here to remind you. She was, what, 43 and J-Lo's 50? My goodness. What demon did they do a deal with? Right. I mean, they are very rich. Yeah. And at a certain level, not having to work a stressful job to exist can do wonders on

your skin. What's your secret? Not having any stresses. That happens so much on Twitter where people post something. They're like, how does she look? It's like, they are extremely well made. It's actually pretty easy. Yeah.

But they did look good, so shout out to them. The show, though, one thing I will say is I was like, from end to end, I'm like, this is a fucking show. Right. There was something. It was a whole thing. It was not just like, and now this band at the other side of the field, and this guy will walk among the crowd.

Everything was just like so. I was very cynical. I was like, all right, here we go. And I was like, wow. Right. Shakira opened your heart. She opened my heart. You didn't expect it.

Yeah. Absolutely. Meanwhile, the conservative site Drudge Report is calling it the Super Bowl ass time show because- That sounds like an endorsement to me. I don't know. That sounds good. Butt on display.

Oh, yeah. At first, I was like, what is her assless chap situation? And I'm like, what's the weird silver underneath? I didn't realize she had multiple costumes on. Of course. And then I found out because I'm a lame brain. You were thinking one costume and you were fooled. You idiot.

I'm jailing where one fucking thing? Get away. I got five on right now. In terms of ads, I feel like Mike Bloomberg had, it was basically, so Trump ran during an early part of the Super Bowl, he ran an ad that was basically appropriating a older woman of color who is a supporter of his and

being like, hey, look at this one black woman who I did a nice thing for so I'm good, right? That was the Alice Johnson one, right? That was the Alice Johnson one and right? That was the Alice Johnson one. And then Mike Bloomberg had one that was like very reminiscent of that later

on in the game, which I feel like was probably a bad look for Bloomberg. I mean, I don't, it's, it's weird just for the Alice Johnson one, right? That wasn't a thing that Donald Trump wanted to do.

That was something brought to his attention. And he was like very opportunistic in, in hearing this case out. So in the end, they took very narrowly her being grateful that her being like in prison wrongfully, like had been, you know, rectified by this president. But they were just being like, yep. And that means all people of color, all African-Americans also stand by our president. That means we're good with everybody, right? Cool. Okay, cool.

And remember how he treated getting A$AP Rocky out of prison? Yeah. You better thank me. No, I will not. Like he made him swear an allegiance. And then A$AP Rocky was like, no, I'm not going to do that. You can keep calling. That gratitude soundbite will not be coming.

But who knows what kind of deals went on behind the scenes. I mean, I'm not cynical about that because I understand, you know, her situation and then Kim Kardashian somehow being the broker of this whole deal. But, yeah, I think it's just very disingenuous to just take that example to somehow be like, yeah, and who has your back? Right. Trump, baby. Like, no.

Get the fuck out of here. Yeah, the Bloomberg one, too, was, I mean, look. Yeah. It's just interesting because it's Fox, though. There was even like that Fox Nation. There was all kinds of weird Foxy ads. This is just the beginning of terrible ads. Right.

We're entering a nightmare, which we cannot conceive. The Google ad that seemed to to break through on social media. The Google one was like, Google, remember that she used to love dancing in the dark or whatever. Oh, yeah. What was that? Kamal Nanjiani was like, never thought a Google ad would make me cry. I saw a lot of people saying similar stuff. And that just,

that ad bummed me out, like just broadly as a culture and a species. There's something so depressing about this company that just stores all our communications and hive mind and learns and just drinks up our intelligence and uses it to sell shit to us. And in this ad they're not even they're not like hey look over here at our like sexy uh musicians by our brown sugar water they're like we will replace your memory like yeah what was the point was is there

a feature i don't know about right i'm not even sure what the hypothetical example is supposed to be here. He's saying stuff out loud to remind him to remember stuff about his wife that the videos and pictures are reminding him of. And then, like, there's a Google is represented by, like, an Alexa-like voice or, like, their, hey, Google assistant. But, like, what is she? So then she just, like like repeats stuff back to you when you i don't know i mean i think it was one of those things where it didn't matter what the technology was they were pitching it was just this idea that most people have seen an older family member go through some kind of yeah it seems like pretty exploited and that's all it

was it was working you on that level oh god and you know i've you know lost my grandmother recently like to in similar circumstances and part of me was just sort of turned off by this though too because it seems so apparent yeah what they were trying to do i'm like nah don't try and fucking hit me from that end yeah they're trying to get the heartstrings going but i could see i could i can easily see why you could watch that, though, and be overcome. It's like the This Is Us of commercials where they're just like, let me find something to go straight into your heart and blow it the fuck up. Oh, God.

Facebook had a bunch of ads where they tried to align themselves with fun subcultures instead of monolithic destroyers of communications and the internet. The best, though, was that Sly Stallone cameo at the end. Yeah. He's like, yo, who's next? Hey, what about me? And you're like, yo, you're plastic surgery. You're Botox, my man.

Looks great, right? Who is your guy? Because the work is strong. Also, did you notice that those Procter & Gamble human centipedes versions of commercials where it's like nine brands in one and then like it would leak over into the next one it worked for avengers so why wouldn't it work for yeah i was i was confused and then i'm like nah this is just remind people that like four companies own all the things you buy and that's why they're all under one commercial. of the protesters hugging a Charlotte Mecklenburg police department officer

as like a sign of, you know, that was like the moment of bravery. I'm not against that guy cashing in on that because. Well, did they cash in or did they just say, well, we bought the rights to that news clip and we'll just maybe. I was assuming they got his permission or they had to get his permission by law to put it on TV. He has said he's good with it. Maybe free beer for life.

Right. I don't really particularly like Budweiser. Budweiser hangovers, man. Have you ever had those? It's because they have rice in them. Ah. Uh-oh, here we go. Wasn't that last Super Bowl when Bud Light took the shot at everybody and was like,

we don't use rice. Or corn syrup or whatever. Oh, yeah, whatever. Yeah. Yeah. In 2017, they made an ad chronicling the immigrant story of their founder and, like, the hardships he faced for being German. Like, people were like, you're not wanted here. Go back home.

And then it was, like, sort of pro-immigration. Like people were like, you're not wanted here. Go back home. And then it was like sort of pro-immigration. And that caused like Trump supporters to start a Budweiser boycott that. They can't sustain that. That crippled the company. Right, exactly. Sadly, they've gone in bankruptcy.

Right. But yeah, I don't know. This ad seems deserving of the controversy it's generating. Has a conservative boycott ever been effective? I think just when they, I don't know. No. Yeah, I don't know. When they boycotted human decency.

Right. That one's a longstanding. That one's going pretty well right now. But I think you think of like, remember, it was going to be Nike, RIP. It was going to be Kruig, K-Cups, K-Pods, gone. Volvo, decimated. Starbucks has never recovered.

Wait, Volvo is- I think one of those, there was one company, it might not have been that explicit, but it was one of those companies that was teetering with the Tucker Carlson advertising. Oh, right, right. Because when Keurig went out, they're like, fuck Keurig. Oh, yeah, they threw the coffee makers out the window.

Or they found two people on the internet that did. I feel like even then, even if you are a conservative with Trump brain, you're going to be like, dude, that's not fucking expensive. I can't just throw that shit away. Yeah, exactly. Culturally, I do think the Starbucks thing has broke through because one of the women who went viral being like, this is basically porn about the

halftime show right if you looked on her timeline she was like sometimes i feel like good about myself for claiming that i don't go to starbucks but then later that day i go to starbucks like eye roll what was their problem with i don't even what was the problem with starbucks again i don't remember it's like any any number of things where they said, I think it was like they were going to hire dreamers or something. Right. Or they were going to give jobs to people who were trying to gain citizenship. It was something that was showing that they were being empathetic towards

people who were trying to get citizenship, I believe. And that kicked it all off. Sure. Sure. Awesome. Yeah, that's plenty. Not the big game. Go ahead. I was just going to say,

Wilford Brimley came to life on Twitter yesterday. Yes, I saw that. He came to life on Super Bowl Sunday because people kept mistaking him with Andy Reid. Oh, my God. And someone tweeted, is the Chiefs coach the diabetes guy? Right.

And then Wilford Brimley will quote tweet that. He goes, no, I'm the diabetes guy. Wilford Brimley's continued cultural relevance is just so fun. It's just good to have him around. I'm like, what did he do before the diabetes shit? He was in mad movies. He used to be in tons of movies. He was in Walker, Texas Ranger.

It's time for a Brimley resurgence. Cocoon. Yes, Cocoon. A Brim-a-sans. A Brim-a-sans. We need a Brim-a-sans stat. It was Andy Reid. It was good to see him finally win one.

He's like one of those dudes who doesn't. Long suffering. Long suffering. Looks like, I don't know his personality type is walrus but he actually like when you see him interviewed seems like just kind of a big teddy bear guy uh and he it seemed like when he won his body just immediately made him drunk because he was just like in the post-game interviews he was like it's great man it's all great and the guy was like yeah yeah no we got we got that but like he wasn't like hearing anyone's question uh overcome talked about how he was about to eat

the biggest cheeseburger you've ever seen and said he didn't spend the night with the trophy he spent it with his trophy wife hey which is kind of a dick thing to say about your own wife. Your wife who you've been married to since 1981 and with whom you have five kids. No, that's a compliment though. Because I've reduced you to a trophy but only winners get trophies. You see, that's why. But his general vibe, you assume,

is going to be one thing. Also, he is the... If you haven't seen the image of him in the pump pass and kick competition as a child, where he looks like a grown man compared to all these children who come up to his waist. Wait, Andy Reid was? You haven't seen that? I see the still image.

It looks like an adult man with children. It looks like someone is lying about their age to get on a Pop Warner team. Yes. That's Andy Reid as a child. That's Andy Reid as a child. Big boy. Big boy from day one. On the national stage as a child, just dwarfing everybody else.

Dude, he could rip these kids' heads off. Yeah. No, easily. Wow. They called him the walrus. In it for the love of the game. Wow. They called him the walrus.

In it for the love of the game. Anyways, that is going to do it for today's episode. Carl, thank you so much for joining us. It's been a pleasure, guys. Thank you so much. Where can people find you, follow you? I have a comedy food podcast that I host with a chef. It's called Yelling About Pate. You can listen to that on iTunes.

And we're on Instagram at YapPod. That's Y-A-P-P-O-D. I'm on Instagram and Twitter as well, at Carl Hess, K-A-R-L-H-E-S-S. Tell me your thoughts on different types of alcohol. There you go. Is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yeah, so I've been really loving the Bernie asking how it's become a meme, where it's like this still of Bernie in the jacket.

And it was like, you know, asking for money, but now people are putting in, uh, all, all kinds of fun stuff. And,

uh, Corey Johnson on Twitter at Corey T. Johnson had a fun one where it's, I'm once again asking, can I hit your jewel? It's just great. It really made me laugh out loud when I scrolled by, which doesn't happen a lot on Twitter.com.

I laughed out loud, and it's just, the Bernie meme is just, it's been bringing me joy. Miles, where can people find you? Twitter, Instagram, at Miles of Grey, and on my other podcast, 420 Day Fiance. We talk about the hit reality show, 90 Day Fiance, with Sophia Alexandra. Some tweets I like.

Just because we were talking a little bit about these commercials, Desus Nice tweeted, you can tell how evil a company is by how touching their Super Bowl ad attempts to be. Very, very, very true. Astute. There's another one that's from

Jen underscore Tisdale. It says, this morning I received an unsolicited dick pic via instagram from a man i do not know what follows is a beautiful story i wove about an app i made up that should exist enjoy so the first pain is clearly cropped off there is some kind of dick pic you don't know but you see right enough uh then it says then her response is sorry whatever image you sent isn't coming through i have a photo blocker on IG. And it said, ah, okay.

And then her response, it's very useful for women. The man responds, sorry, it was basically a really shitty joke. Then she responds, yeah, because sometimes very sad men, and I mean the saddest men. And it goes, and the pic was the punchline. She's like, men so, so sad that women never touch them. You know the kind? Men so incredibly sad and unfuckable. They try to send inappropriate pics. So I downloaded an app that blocks them. And he responds, you're dead right. They're animals. She responds, it's called cock block, which is funny because that's what happens to those dudes in real life,

which is something I cannot identify with because I am beautiful and terribly smart. It must suck to never, ever fuck. And then she puts a bunch of shrug emojis to the guys. And he goes, if that's the actual name of the app, the creator needs to be given a Nobel Prize. And she responds, it's also very intuitive. He's like, it's brilliant. She says, it immediately sends the image and profile to the local police i will get a call from local law enforcement asking when i can come in to

file a sexual harassment report oh my god and then it's then her last message to the guy is men who have sent me dick pics have been arrested it's LOL, one guy lost his job and his wife. Technology is wild. It's like a whole fucking thing. I saw that and I want to know the follow up because I would love to know if he messaged her after that. I also tried to look at his Instagram profile and he has it protected.

I want the update. Jen, give us the update. Some tweets I've been enjoying. Sarah Beatty tweeted, when I see a girl tie a cherry stem with her tongue, I put a whole fish in my mouth and pull out the skeleton, then I leave with her boyfriend. And Dana Schwartz tweeted, Timothy Chalamet is so beautiful,

I don't know if I want to have sex with him or feed him dry seed with my open palm, which is something I can picture. It could be both. Yeah. You find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at the... Oh, you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on. Miles, what song are we going to ride out on?

We're going to go out on a track from Denny LaFleur, who I don't know what this person's about, but I started listening to their album. It's like a lot of cool instrumental sample-based beats, which I'm a huge fan of. And this one is, it's just very easy. It's just called Number 7 Intro. And it's just like the whole album's very easy to listen to.

But if you like a little bit of little boom bap in your life, this will help scratch that itch. I like boom bap and easy listening. Will this do it for me? It's a little bit of both. Yeah, but it's not too aggressive. You know what I mean? Hot damn.

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