The Daily Zeitgeist - Firstporn Son, Piracy Is Coming 4.16.19

Episode Date: April 16, 2019

In episode 371, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Brandie Posey to discuss Notre Dame Cathedral, the Lion King remake and what that means for it's original writers and animators, Trump continuing to distract from the real issues, Democrats failing to defend Ilhan Omar, a man suing his parents over his porn collection, why servers drink more, piracy helping Game of Thrones, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Fire at Notre Dame cathedral2. A side-by-side comparison of the new Lion King with the 1994 original3. Original Lion King Writers Might Not Get Credits, Residuals from the Remake4. Disney Writer Linda Woolverton Unhappy About Being Locked Out Of ‘Lion King’ And ‘Beauty And the Beast’ Remakes5. The Dangers Of An Animation Contract6. Dems demand documents on Trump 'sanctuary city' plan7. How Democrats Did, and Did Not, Defend Ilhan Omar8. Man sues parents for trashing porn collection worth alleged $29K9. Study: Service-industry workers drink more because they’re faking positivity all day10. Does piracy actually help TV shows like Game of Thrones?11. GAME OF THRONES DIRECTOR: ONLINE PIRACY DOESN'T MATTER — WAIT, IT DOES12. HBO admits piracy is a ‘compliment’ that doesn’t hurt sales13. Game of Thrones piracy accounted for 17 percent of malware-infested show downloads in 201814. WATCH: The Equatics - Where Is Love 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 78, Episode 2 of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist! The podcast where we take a deep dive into American shared consciousness and say officially, off the top, fuck coke industries, and now fuck Fox News! Yeah, they also apparently tried to advertise on Der Daily Zeitgeist. It's Tuesday, April 16th, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jack O'Brien when I'm gone. Jack O'Brien when I'm away.

Jack O'Brien when I'm gone. And we're always Singing songs anytime We start the day Every time Hot AKAs Woo! Courtesy of Dan Kroyajan And I'm thrilled to be joined as always

By my co-host Mr. Miles Gray! I was like Good grain The shack is bodacious Hot take Is trying to show patience I'm waiting for the right time

To smoke my weed Waiting for the zeitgang To cure ED Woo Please cure my ED zeitgang Did you do an Elliot karaoke? I was like That was really on point

Yeah I could have kept going But no I don't If you do karaoke with me You know my first song Karaoke? That was really on point. Yeah, I could have kept going. But no, I don't. If you do karaoke with me, you know my first song off the rip is Montel Jordan. It's not Jack O'Brien, When I'm Gone? No, no. Is that supposed to be Aino Sunshine?

Yeah. I know, I know, I know, I know. And I know, I know. Yeah, you should have done that for five minutes. Well, we are thrilled. Oh, my know. Yeah, you should have done that for five minutes. Well, we are thrilled. Oh, my bad. Hold on. Let me give the shout-out praise to at Roy Black, Samuel Gnarly, and his wife for working on this hot in her, aka.

Also. Very fire, guys. Should we just explain very quickly why these ads are showing up on the show? Because we are getting rich off of them. That's right motherfucker. Sweet sweet Fox News money. Kesha Daily Zeitgeist right before Hannity. Right. No. We have the way

the podcasting industry works is there are ads that just get filled in when there are spaces and sometimes Remnant inventory. Yes is the phrase for it. Unfortunately we tell the powers that be that there are certain do not advertise on our show because it does not align. Therefore, like the Coke Industries ad that played or this last one for a Bernie Sanders town hall on Fox News. Now, I don't know if the people thought that because it was a candidate that wasn't Fox News-y on Fox News that it was okay, but it's not.

And trust me, this is a struggle we are going through constantly. So fear not. We don't take money from them. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious comedian Brandi Posey. Hello, everybody. What's up, Brandi? Not too much. I'm still dealing with your song intros.

They were really amazing. It's amazing coming here every couple of months and then seeing how your production value, it goes up and up and up and up. I mean, the listeners don't know that they have full costumes and glitter bombs

that go off as these intros. I have a band-aid under my left eye, like Nelly. Yeah. There's like one union teamster in the corner that's working a light rig.

Yeah. And he yelled at you because you tried to plug in your iPhone. And he was like, are you union? Then don't touch the electric. All right, sir, you plug in my charger.

I'm so sorry, Frank. I apologize. Brandy's rocking a dope Simpsons t-shirt. Yeah, Simpsons Mighty Mighty Boston's crossover shirt. If you want to know what year I was born, it's 1984, and this is the proof. Boom. I should have done a ska one in honor of you. That's okay.

Yeah. I should work a message to you Rudy around I love that song Anyway That is such a great song Great song Well we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment Brandy first

We're gonna tell our listeners Just a couple of things we're talking about We're gonna talk about the Lion King remake We're gonna talk about Game of Thrones We're gonna talk about Trump v. Mueller report v. border crisis. And just all the distraction and like the main political news story that's flying around. Seems to be a real game of chess going on.

We're going to talk about how the Democratic leadership is responding to attacks on Representative Ilhan Omar. We're going to talk about the man who is suing his parents for throwing out his amazing collection. Yeah, an amazing collection. But first, Brandi, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I didn't want to admit this, but the last thing that I Googled was Britney Spears birth chart. Okay. Because I was talking to the friend of mine yesterday who's a phone psychic,

and we're talking about there's a lot of drama with where Britney is right now. Oh, yeah. And she was asking, like, where – she was like, oh, what's her sign and stuff? So I was Googling her birth chart. What did you guys find out? She's a Sagittarius. Okay. With an Aquarius moon.

And I don't know what that means, but I do know that that is the case. And that's all we need to know. Yes, exactly. Case closed. So she's fine then. Oh, Aquarius moon? Aquarius moon? Oh, yeah.

She's good. It's a ruse. Yeah. It's all a ruse. She isn't being held against her will by her family. No, she's not in a possibly maniacal legal conservatorship, but I don't know. Yeah, it's fine. You know, it's a full moon next week.

Maybe let's all just burn a candle for Brittany and get her out of there. Yeah. That's right. What is something you think is overrated? Okay, so I did a Game of Thrones version, and then I did a regular version. Oh, yeah. No, that's appropriate. version and then I did a regular version.

Oh, yeah. No, that's appropriate. My overrated, underrated, overrated, Khaleesi, underrated Sansa is my Game of Thrones hot take. And my non-Game of Thrones, overrated, underrated are overrated timeshares, underrated timeshare presentations. Oh, shit. I like all of these. Very quickly.

Why? I get, I guess, let's just go through this. Tell me why you feel Daenerys is overrated. I don't know that I believe that she has earned the shit yet. She's fucked up all the cities that she's been in charge of. I don't know. She's just very entitled in a way right now that I'm like, all right, I know you've been through some stuff.

Sansa's also been through some stuff. But just the way that she's just like, all right, I know you've been through some stuff. Sansa's also been through some stuff. But just the way that she's just like, everybody should kneel before me because of my daddy. She's like, I don't trust it. Right.

I don't trust it. I mean, maybe giving birth to dragons also a reason to kneel before her. But who else has tried to give birth to dragons? Right.

Other people just aren't trying hard enough. Did she give birth to them, though? Or was she just in that fire with the rocks and then came out with the dragons? It's not like she actually gave physical birth to the dragons. Right.

They were those eggs. They were the eggs, right. And then she just... But she... I guess it might be a metaphor for birth. Yeah, of course. A metaphor, yeah. I'm thinking, I'm like, well, hold on.

Did she really push them? No, she didn't push them out of her body, but she is... It's a very intense yoni egg. Potentially lethal. she didn't push them out of her body it's a very intense yoni egg potentially lethal she had to walk around with those shits for a couple weeks let them cook I get the Sansa part too I think people gotta keep their eye on her without spoiling things

is there a spoiler if I say my theory of what's gonna happen to Daenerys how about this? If you don't even want to hear a theory or you're afraid, do the 30. Actually, be safe. Skip ahead one minute. Jack will say the thing, and we won't even give commentary. Go, Jack.

Now, spoiler. All right. Not a spoiler. Just a theory. Daenerys, I think, is going to get killed by her own dragons. You think? Matricide. Oh, shit.

Yeah. Because Jon now might be the. So if they go at it, the dragons. You think? Matricide. Oh, shit. Yeah. Because Jon now might be the, so if they like go at it, the dragons, you know, they might recognize, you know, who the true king is. Have you guys seen the YouTube conspiracy theory about Game of Thrones that Littlefinger is still alive? Yeah, I'm not really into that one. I know. I just.

It makes nothing, if that's the case, then I'm going to be mad at the writers. Yeah. Right. For being like, oh, the guy. Anyway, more spoilers. I know. I just. It makes nothing. If that's the case, then I'm going to be mad at the writers. Yeah. Right. For being like, oh, the guy. Anyway, more spoilers. I know. I know. I'm just.

Can I ask you about the timeshares? The mask shit is very like Mission Impossible. Yeah. It's just like. I know. I know. Like nothing is real. Fuck off.

I know. I just. He's such a good villain. And I miss him. He is. Already. I guess I won't say it because I do like Mission Impossible. I'll say Charlie's Angels.

It's Charlie's Angels 2 style. All right. Let's talk about timeshares, guys. Okay. Because I have one that I want to tell you guys about. Oh, okay. Great. It's in Mexico.

No, go ahead. I want to introduce you to Wyndham Family Resorts. Yeah, go on. So you said overrated timeshares. Timeshares are overrated. We get that, right? Yes. They're awful.

Timeshares are basically – It's a scam. It's basically just like a lazy river full of racists is what I think a timeshare is. Every time you go to one, you're like, oh, I don't want to talk to anybody here. This is awful. Right. Our parents all – I mean parents just – they're for parents. They're not for millennials because they also know that we don't have timeshare money

nor do we want it necessarily. They're awful. Or that easy for us to split ways with our money. Like our parents might be. But I do love timeshare presentations because my favorite thing in the world is saying no to a man in a suit. Yeah, yeah.

So my dad has one in Florida and every time I'm there, they're like, if you come down for an hour, we'll give you $100 cash. And I'm always like, all right. Watch me take your $100. The last time I a hundred dollars cash. And I'm always like, all right, watch, watch me take your dollars. Yeah. The last time I went to one, cause the way they're there,

they do it. There's always like the one, the salesman tries to be your buddy. And then there's like the bad cop that comes in. And that guy, the last time I went to one and he came in, he was like, I have a question.

Are you a salesperson? Because I've been watching your table and you've been in control the entire time. And I was like, I was like, well, I deal in dick jokes, sir. And I just didn, I was like, well, I deal in dick jokes, sir.

And I just didn't know what to say because somebody had just said dick jokes to him. And he was like, uh, what happens now? He like flips through his like handbook in the index, dick jokes, dick jokes,

dick jokes. Oh, so that was like the third thing on the like branching chart of like what to do is to suggest the persons in sales. Are you in sales? Like appeal to their ego type thing. Yeah.

Yeah. Absolutely. I love if you go, Oh no, actually. And then he turns you like that. Yeah. You get flipped.

Wow. Me. Yeah. I just love, I, I, I think it's a predatory industry, so I love waste.

I love wasting their time. Um, and I love just going, they just, they rile me up in a way. It's my way of being Robin hood. Cause I don't have any money and I don't want to rob anybody. But I will take a time slot away from a poor old couple that might be hoodwinked. You're like absorbing, you're like taking arrows for the others by taking all of this person's attention.

And you get like free trips out of it if you just say no long enough. They'll keep like throwing prizes at you. Oh, really? It's wild, man. I've done one of those where I just like went because they said free jet ski riding. And I don't recommend it because it's a waste of an entire afternoon. Here's what you do. You ask, how long does this need to be? And they're usually like 90 minutes. So what I do is I will set my timer on my phone

and then just put it on the table. And then be like right yeah we're at 94 yeah tick tock dude time to go yeah it's very fun for me but those rooms are crazy because yeah just amount of pressure it definitely feels like a hyper speed like cult recruiting thing yeah like oh yeah bring you in you're on the premises you can't get off that you feel like you like lose all bearings on where you are and then like anytime they make a sale they like ring a bell and everybody drinks champagne and it's just like playing jock jams constantly yeah it's just weird this is a good time to plug my episode of behind the bastards when we talked about trump university because it's essentially the same setup you just

get in your your high pressure closers to get people to give up their money for a thing that isn't really that great. Yeah, absolutely. They even start off with shit like, congratulations. Right. Because you've actually just started something for your family that generations to come will be so grateful for. So I just want to congratulate you. Yeah, yeah. It's looking lay capitalism directly in the eye and saying, fuck you.

That's what a timeshare presentation is. And it feels good. Yeah, I would be great just to, like you say, waste their time, act like a real fucking mark. Now, what would happen if I paid more? Well, let me tell you now, that's our diamond package. Okay, this is very

exciting. Allow me to call my accountant right now, and then just come back and then just be like, I'm sorry, no. Oh, he told me you guys are a fucking scam. Oh, he told me this is some bullshit. I called my accountant Brandy and she said you guys are full of shit. They're like, Brandy? Brandy Posey?

Oh, no. The one who denied being in sales? The name that must not be mentioned. Finally, what is a myth? What's something? The name that must not be mentioned. Finally, what is a myth? What's something?

A myth is that if, you know how they are like, oh, if your windows are rolled down, you're using as much gas as if you're using air conditioning in your car? Yeah. It's wrong. Wait, what's the myth? The myth is that the drag of the windows being down wastes as much of your gas as the air conditioning in your car. Oh, so they're using an aerodynamicism argument? Yeah, and that's not true.

Aerodynamics? Yeah. Like dynamism. Aerodynamism. Aerodynamism. That's how a Scientologist would pronounce it. Try and make it sound more complicated. Have you heard of aerodynamism?

Tom Cruise in the house. Right. You notice the way his haircut actually helps for his aerodynamism. How do you know this to be true? I Googled it. Oh. Now, what is this Google you speak of? Well, it's a corporate entity taking over the world, but sometimes it has some answers.

Right, right. And keeping Chinese people oppressed, maybe. I don't know. If you listen to the people who work at Google and what they're saying. So that's just big air conditioning? Yeah. It's big AC, huh's big it's big ac huh yeah yeah exactly oh so they're trying to say that because of that you should not use your ac

well the the myth has always been like oh they equal the same thing because the drag of the car but whatever but if your window's down they they did tests where up to even like everything up to like 80 miles an hour it doesn't affect like how much gas your car goes through but your air conditioning uh takes off one to four miles per gallon um while you're blasting your ac in your to like 80 miles an hour. It doesn't affect like how much gas your car goes through, but your air conditioning takes off one to four miles per gallon while you're blasting your AC in your car.

So windows down, baby. What about windows down, AC blasting? That's called baller mode. Yeah. Well, it's a ballers. Got a boomer in the house. Balling out of control.

Do you want a timeshare? Because that's timeshare behavior right there. That's some timeshare shit. He just pulls up to you, pulls the chair out. Sir, you look like somebody who goes 80 on the highway with the AC on and the windows down. Hey, man, game recognized game.

You can get right there. All right, guys, let's get into the stories of the day. Off top, sort of a sad story notre dame cathedral in paris is on fire as we are talking right now the internet is reacting at some fucking crazy footage so it's everywhere everybody's freaking out uh white nationalists are saying it's the end of europe yeah the end of the west the end of the west or beginning that narrative of the West. The end of the West. Or beginning that narrative of using like this symbol of a cathedral burning down. And without knowing what the cause is, again, we, as of when we record, we record this, we just know it is burning down. But it's easy for people

to be like, oh, that's a good, a little bit of a red meat for my narrative. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And then YouTube is suggesting, anybody who's looking at videos of the cathedral burning, YouTube is suggesting you might also enjoy these 9-11 videos. Yeah, that's a little... I guess algorithms are so literal. Yeah. It's like building

fire, tall two things near each other, fire equals 9-1-1. Yeah. We do think they got everybody out except for the gargoyles. Yeah. We're, yeah. One hunchback on the top. I don't know.

Yeah. RIP, buddy. Yeah. You already know there's going to be a flood of inappropriate hunchback of Notre Dame memes. Yeah. This happening. Maybe Esmeralda.

Who knows? More memes for Esmeralda, though. Yeah, that's what I mean. She's like an underrated part of the Disney oeuvre, I think. Because that movie is so dark that I think a lot of people are like, that's not a Disney movie, but it's one of the better ones. Who did her voice? Was it Catherine Zeta-Jones?

I think it was, yeah. The bad guy in that movie is real creepy. It's like a bishop that's got a real big crush on her. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's a real it's real creepy oh wait no is it oh no am i wrong salma hayek maybe maybe okay either way i like that movie because it is probably the most radical statement of disney's overall narrative of noah goes because uh even though it stars the hunchback of notre d Notre Dame, he does not get the girl.

He's like, I'm in love with you, but obviously I'm ugly. So you go with this other handsome guy. Obviously the message here is I'm unlovable. I wouldn't transmit that to children. Sit here and just fuck my gargoyles. The president helpfully tweeted that they should have air tankers dropping water on the, I think he said flying tankers or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just get it very wet. Very helpful. And yeah, I don't know. It's like in terms of cultural legacy, it's been around since 1260, which is a number that doesn't even sound like a year. And it took them 100 years to complete. Sounds like an sat score that

got me kicked out of the house that's all i think of when i hear that oh man uh guys let's talk about the lion king which i had nothing but positive feelings about uh following you know couple trailers and not thinking about it whatsoever but the lion king remake i think it's coming out in july generally positive vibes on the internet and the only problem with it that i've seen other than that it appears to be just a shot for shot remake and so there's very little creativity going on is that they're not paying any of the original artists like behind the storyboarding of the first lion king or the writers behind that which is pretty crazy so apparently the the way that the wga set up uh the writing like contracts the writing guild they didn't invite the animation guild to the original meeting in

like 1982 or something and so they just never included animation all the stuff that you would normally use to protect writers and so like the people who wrote the original lion king and storyboarded it out and are now responsible for like literally the shot construction of this new movie that is going to make probably a billion dollars worldwide are not getting anything. And the amount of money that they got at the time is actually shockingly low. There's a woman named Linda Wolverton who was one of the listed screenwriters on the original film.

She was paid $35,000 for her role writing the original Lion King, and it took her four years. That's $8,750 a year. And then when the movie did so well that Disney felt bad, they gave her a bonus of $100,000, which brings the grand total to $33,750 a year for writing a piece of cultural gold. So that's her writing the actual script, not the storyboard, the screenplay or whatever.

Yeah, she was involved with writing the screenplay. What the fuck? Yeah. Okay. I mean, that sounds like Disney, though, in general. They're notorious for underpaying people and not spending money in places that they should. But that's, especially for a thing right now, too, like with the WGA going to war with the agents. Yeah.

So let's explain briefly what is going on with the writers. So the thing that I've heard is that Hollywood writers, people in the Writers Guild, are firing their agents. What does that even mean? Well, because they're trying to change an agreement that the agents have with the Writers Guild. But essentially, it's all boiling down to the practice of packaging deals where, you know, before it used to be, hi, I'm an agent and I represent Jack O'Brien, the writer.

I want to do a deal with you, Universal. You want this screenplay? This, let's negotiate. Right. And it just used to be, there was little room for conflict of interest because your agent was just negotiating on your behalf and the little sliver that the agent gets. Yeah, they get 10% from that deal, and that is how they make their money. Right.

And then packaging came into it where the talent agencies essentially became production companies where they're like, hi, I rep directors. I got the script. I got the actors. Hi, X studio. This is the deal. I can get you all these people. Boom.

It's a lock. It's a go. But now I have these packaging fees I'm charging, which I'm also negotiating. So first they're negotiating a deal on behalf of their clients, but then they're also negotiating their own fees as an agency. Like that's their other way to leverage all their hot A-list talent to get more money for themselves. Yes. They're usually making – I think it's upwards of like a 3% of the entire budget of a show or a movie goes just to the agency. And then they're getting their 10% per deal.

So they're not working as hard to make your deal as good or as lucrative as it can be. So it's the writers versus their own agents, essentially. Yeah. Okay. There are instances where the agent can waive their 10% fee, but they're going to recoup that in the packaging fee, which is taking a bite of the sources of money

that could be going to the writers. Right. So regardless of how they, you know, they can say like, oh, well, look, forget my 10% because they're going to make more anyway and they can make money on the back end also. Right. So it's basically become just this conflict of interest thing. They're saying, you're not actually advocating for us as your clients.

If you do not agree to to fundamentally changing this business practice, we are going to tell everyone in the guild to fire their agents, and we're just going to figure out how to do this without y'all. And that's what happened Friday night. Yep. They got the notice, like, send up, go fire agents. Right. Bye-bye.

And doing it on their own. So agencies are going to come calling to people who create IP that are not in the writerriters Guild and be like, hey, you guys can just make something up for us, right? You want to come scab for us? Yeah. You want to scab? I mean, that's where it'll be. No, no, no, no, no.

It's not a scab. It's not a scab situation, bro. It's like a wound that's slowly crusted over and become drier and drier on the top. Yeah, you just want to come crust over our wound for us. But I mean, really, the thing that I think fans are into, it's not the writer's work. It's the work of the agents packaging those deals. I mean, I know my favorite agent, like I have an auteur theory of agencies.

Yeah. I'm personally a fan of CIA movies. But we'll see. We'll see where the where this all when you look at just sort of how even if you know nothing about the situation and you were just reading the the rhetoric being used by both sides the agents come off as the corporate overlords who are like i mean even if we do this doesn't mean their pay is going to go up it's actually going to harm a lot of other people and it's like oh i hear this kind of talk all the time when people are advocating for like a more equitable situation yes yeah it's all union busting bullshit yeah so uh we'll keep an eye on that it'll be

interesting to see how it goes because it's going to have shock waves like not just in this country but other countries dealing with like people who are trying to write things from abroad to bring here um but it'll be it's simply you know the, the ATA, they're like, you know, we will fight this thing that could lead to the abysmal death of the industry or something. You know, it's just all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good luck with that. Yeah, yeah. Good.

I'm glad the vultures that worked their way into power are throwing a hissy fit because the actual creatives in this town were like, hey, can you please, you know, the only reason you have any money is because of this. It's because of my creativity you're exploiting for your own good. Yeah, you're a coward vulture and take whatever scraps I choose to give you because you don't even deserve to be in the first place. I mean, one thing that- I'm unwrapped, so I'm just going to put that out there. There you go. I mean, fuck it now.

I mean, who gives a fuck? Yeah, who gives a fuck? You can't get wrapped if you're in the WGA. I will. it does feel good to not have an agent with all of us going down and being like well that's one confrontation i don't have to deal with yeah and what's the thing that'll be interesting to me is just how this evolves i mean maybe they'll i'd imagine they're gonna have to figure some kind of agreement out pretty quickly yeah but i mean like the writer the writer's strike in the late 80s early 90 90s, that gave way to reality TV. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like that's when cops came out because they're like, well, we don't have anything to write. Some content. Okay. So make cops. Yeah. So who knows what kind of next level, you know, trickery they'll think of this time. The big problem too is that I think three of the four main agencies too, like they have

shareholders who like they're beholden to. So it's like you're, you're making sure that their money is going up and up every year. So it's like that, that is the priority. Not your. It's almost like the whole system is fucked. Yeah. Yeah.

Weird. Damn dude. Yeah. Well, anyways, there's a lot of complicated shit that we have to keep our eye on with the WGA, but the,

the Disney Lion King thing is pretty fucking simple. Yeah. My bad. Yeah. Pay these motherfuckers. Yeah, just pay them. For their amazing work on a seminal film. Make Lake Notre Dame and burn it to the ground. There you go. Whoa.

Too soon? Nah. Fuck that. No. Alright, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.

My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhearts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti.

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I don't know. I've never said that before, but I've definitely heard people like Jake Tapper say that. Yeah. But yeah. What's that? I'm being informed, actually, that I even misused that. So producer Nick Stumpf, who is from In the Beltway, says that it's actually inside the Beltway. And by saying In the Beltway, I'm actually suggesting that people are doing business on a highway. I prefer suspenders.

Yes. There you suspenders. Yes. There you go. Good one. Just a real whimsical little joke before we get into this. Love it. Yeah. Need more of that. But anyway, so people are abuzz about, once again, what the Mueller report might contain

other than what Attorney General Barr told us in his very brief conclusions. And the other big news story that seems somewhat less substantive is Trump is planning to try to bus undocumented immigrants from places where they're being held by the Trump administration and the ice and shit to other cities, to what are called sanctuary cities. Well, yeah, it started off as just kind of a report of like that leaked that, oh, Trump was floating this idea of doing it. Right. And then it was confirmed. Crazy thing Trump said in one meeting. Right. And then Monday was like being like, I'm thinking about it. Yeah.

I'll take them to sanctuary cities or states. Yeah. Don't mess with me. Which, again, on its face is so transparently partisan and cynical that his whole idea is I've created a humanitarian crisis on my own at the border. Pointing this out to me and pointing out the inhumane treatment of these people who are holding me accountable that, well, guess what? I'm going to clap back by then just dropping off these detained immigrants to these sanctuary cities as a ha-ha. Right. Deal with that now. Yeah.

When most people from, like, most mayors of these cities are like, please do bring them because the way you're, the way you're treating them is fucked up. Yeah. We'll take care of them. Yeah. Like we then, okay, come through. Yeah. But again, it's just one of those things where it's so, first of all, he doesn't even have the legal authority to do this.

Right. No. But this is something we say, I'm pretty sure every fucking week with this administration, I'm like, what the fuck is going on? Yeah. He's got a spineless Congress that won't put him in his place. That's fine. Yeah.

No. And essentially that's hands over here. No. Yeah. But it's the, but that's, that won't put him in his place. That's fine. Yeah. No, and essentially that's – Just crushing cans over here. No, yeah. But that's sort of what's going on. And when you look at – even, again, the Daily Beast just pointed out there is like a weird stealth detention tent city that the Border Patrol set up at one of their stations near El Paso. Where they're almost like concentrating this population of people into a camp-like environment. But like it's using just...

It's in a space where they were trying to keep the media away and the Daily Beast got photos of it using a telephoto lens from like a quarter mile away and showing like, oh, you guys just set up this little camp right there in there. So clearly this whole border crisis thing and even him talking about moving uh

migrants to sanctuary cities obviously consumed a lot of the news cycle because people were like this is absurd but again then you have more reports coming out that this was part of a plan to distract because the muller report the impending release is also something trump is trying to take as much steam out of because i mean i don't. I thought he was fully exonerated, totally, fully, completely exonerated. Right. But I guess not. So again, you know, just keep your eye on that because it's very clear that he has a very cynical tactic of just using the border or whatever, creating some controversy to

always sort of, hey, look over here, look over here. When potentially even the redacted version of the Mueller report could put out some things that could be damaging. But again, we just don't know what's in the Mueller report. We just don't know. Until we know. Although we do know one thing. One thing that we do now know is that there will be so much redacted material that they're

actually color coding the redactions. Oh, wow. Because you can't just have black redacted you have to have different colors of redactions to let people know which of the like 30 reasons they're giving uh this is the russia this is the p-tape right well they had to i mean william barr has come out to say, like, it's four categories, right, that are going to, that redactions will fall under. So that'll be grand jury material, information tied to ongoing prosecutorial cases, matters of sensitive intelligence, and personal information gathered about people deemed peripheral to the investigation. But we'll see how, you know, how elastic those definitions are in terms of being able to just black out just entire chunks of this thing.

Exactly. On its surface, the whole taking immigrants to sanctuary cities seemed like an idea that like would appeal to Trump's base, like on its surface, just like, ha ha, we'll show them by taking it. Yeah, own the libs. Owned them. But when you go and look at like Drudge or Fox News, you can't find anything about this story. And I think it's because of the reason you explained that, you know, mayors of sanctuary cities are like, please, we want to treat them better than you are treating them. People who are on the right are like, that's a bad idea because then way more of them will be

able to stay and we want to kick them back to their country. And then even experts on immigration say that it wouldn't do anything because immigrants don't just stay in the town they arrived in. It's not like the 1700s. They have plans and people who are there to pick them up and take them to whatever town they're planning on going to. The undocumented immigrant population is way bigger in LA than San Diego. And apparently six in 10 undocumented immigrants live in one of 20 cities. And San Diego is the only border town in that top 20. Like New York is the biggest, which you'll notice does not share a border with Mexico. Chicago and DC and Houston, Seattle, San Francisco, like all these towns that are nowhere near a border are apparently like where

the undocumented immigrants end up. And it's like, it's just, it seems like one of those things that like, I think I, I legitimately believe Trump heard that urban legend about, I think it was Giuliani, like bust all the homeless people from New York to LA.

And that's how he like cleaned up New York city. And yeah, he was just like, okay, well, we'll just do that. Well, he also can't imagine somebody doing a selfless choice to be like, yes, we will just treat them better. That's not a thought that he can have. No, no, no. So he's like, well, no, you would also see them as a burden and a nuisance, right?

Like, ha ha, take that. And it's like, no, we want to take care of people. They're like, no, you're fucked up, actually. We'll help them. Yeah. What? Yeah. it's like no we want to take care of people like no you're fucked up actually yeah help them yeah yeah it's like oh what that's not part of my my mental calculus well yeah and who knows if that's also just bad advice from steven miller too who's also in his ear constantly like send them to the sanctuary cities are you speaking parcel parcel tongue? Let's talk about Ilhan Omar and Trump's racist attacks on her. He tweeted a video juxtaposing her remarks at a conference with footage from 9-11. And in case you need any help connecting her with terrorism, there you go. Yeah, just right there. And since that tweet, she has received an uptick in death threats, which she was already receiving a lot of. Yeah, uptick.

That's not from zero, guys. On the charge. And we're not hearing much of anything from Democrats, or at least the Democratic leadership in Congress. Yeah, Chuck Schumer, crickets, Steny Hoyer, I've not really heard anything from him. Nancy Pelosi had a vague thing. Bullshit statement. Using 9-11.

She's saying, oh, we got to talk about 9-11 with respect, not for political attacks. Yeah, you chided her in the beginning of it. It's like, fuck you, dude. Exactly, and it's really, she later on, I guess, tried to come out more in defense of her, but more just saying like, I'm taking her safety seriously. Yas, queen.

It's like, why don't you defend her? Well, and even like, and when you look at some of the people who are even running for president, there was a mix of people who could outright say Ilhan Omar's name and defend her and people who were just like, I'm just going to say a vague pleasantry. Like Pete Buttigieg had an interesting thread, which I was like, oh, maybe this is, we'll lead with him then naming Ilhan Omar. But it was vague. And then 20 minutes after one of the last tweet in that thread, he then tweeted again

to attach her name to the thread. Because I think people blew up his mentions and were like, hi, are you serious about this? You seem like the kind of progressive who would unequivocally just be like, what is happening to Ilhan Omar is unacceptable rather than the other points he was making. Beto had it was like a zoomed out photo

of a defense. It was so vague. You couldn't find the right thing to stand on to do it. Elizabeth Warren had a good, she said this Congresswoman, didn't have to use her name, but it was a little more specific. Bernie straight up

used her name. Yep, dropped her name. Bernie does not give a fuck about what you think. That continues to be true. Right, and I think,

but that's where you can kind of see how leadership is even looking at it or people who are worried about being as centrist as possible is looking at Ilhan Omar

as some kind of third rail rather than saying nothing she is doing. Okay. I understand there were some, she, she could have chose words a little bit better in certain situations, but to, to paint those remarks as antisemitic is completely disingenuous and total bullshit. Completely. So I think what the, the leaders aren't willing to do is to say like, look, this person is making, is standing for what they believe in. I may not agree with that. You can say that, but you cannot go and then attack this person or try and make her somehow connected to 9-11 and ramp up the danger she's in. Someone from Trump's camp, I forget, someone who I think is

working on the campaign said, you know, her remarks are just putting her in danger. That's how that's how someone from the Trump world is trying to spin this whole thing rather than we're not slowly, very quickly ramping up this rhetoric. And who knows what kind of reaction is going to come out of people because we already saw people like to send bombs and already shoot people. Yeah. So what do how do they think this ends? Right. If they don't actually get a hold of it or take it seriously that this is not serviceable rhetoric in any way. No. This is a person's life.

Yeah. The one place that Pelosi was very specific was in stepping up the security around her. So it's like, hey, look, I'm not going gonna like politically get involved but we don't want her to die i will say that specifically so we're gonna like protect her physically from being attacked and it just shows you all the things that are brewing underneath in this country especially when you look at the democrats that's where you know the leadership ain't shit because you have an outspoken woman of color hijabi who is just talking the truth or sure she might be a little spicy but she's not really coming

with something that's like so inflammatory and indefensible got ever reason to be a little spicy right exactly yeah and then and then they want to act like it doesn't matter that's what's really disconcerting about this is that look america is getting browner by the minute or less white and there are more people who are becoming more aware of the political situation in this country and how the world works just outside of the TV world some people live in. And to treat her like that is bullshit,

especially not to defend, to just be silent. Like Chuck Schumer was cracking jokes when he was at APAC. Of course, he's going to not, you know, cape for her there. But at the same time, this is where you're starting to see the real divisions in the party. We're like, oh, this old centrist bullshit. And also just how rigid they are in not being able to look at a woman of color who's a different religion from maybe theirs. And being like, oh, OK, maybe this person is saying something real rather than, oh, my God, how do I – this is upsetting certain people and I don't want to say anything despite the intent or sentiment.

Yeah, exactly. Like the leadership right now is still just like patting themselves on the back for gay marriage. You know what I mean? They're still just like, no, but we did that. So that should give us – that should buy us another 10 years, right? That's good. We did that.

We're done. It's like, no. Yeah. And then even how dismiss're done. It's like, no. Yeah. And then even how dismissive they are of representatives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Rashida Tlaib or Ayanna Pressley or Ilhan Omar. You can tell that even like Pelosi knows like, oh, that's – they know that this group of freshmen are – seriously have the ear of a generation of people. Yeah. And they are animating people. And they don't like that shit.

No, they don't. I think because it's a direct threat to business as usual as how it's been for the centrist Democratic Party. Well, yeah. They're corporate Dems. They want to keep making the money the way they are and then have their couple issues. They can be like, see, this is how we're different. And it's like, well, no, but your checks are still getting cut from a lot of the same people.

Right. Yeah. I mean, there is a tension in that the Democratic Party is feeling like America does not have a leftist party anymore. They have or ever. They have a centrist party that is now growing to incorporate some leftist people. And the Republicans and their opponents on the right are seeing that and trying to just like, you know, pick at that wedge. Pick at that, like the distance between the two. And, you know, so division.

And the mainstream media does love to talk about how the dems are infighting um that does seem to be a story yeah we're having but we're having good problems right because we're trying to figure out how we actually get better i mean as a as a ideology or whatever the american left is there's an identity crisis that's trying to be solved meanwhile on the right it's like well when are we just going to change from an elephant to a swastika? Yeah. Right. Yeah, exactly.

That's the only infighting I think they have is just being like, when are we going to just fully out here with our chests out be like, yeah, we like racism. Yeah. We love it. Let's abandon all the quote principles that we had to begin with. Like the idea of conservatism is just like doesn't exist anymore whatsoever in the party either. You know, and there's a bunch of bullshit to begin with that to begin with. But it's so funny that they were just like, no, no, no. We'll just we're just going to move it towards the actual logical end of that train of thought.

Right. Yeah. All those principled never Trump Republicans. A lot of them have come around to Trump's way of thinking. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because at the end of the day, no one is about shit except to stay in office. Yeah.

And if they're like, it's like getting, you know, they got their sheet music and they're like, well, I guess this is the track we're playing because that's the only way we're going to stay on the charts. Well, yeah, because they know that they're like, if they were to argue on principle, it like wouldn't stand up against, you know, logically at all with anything. You know, they have to keep going after the fear. Like, well, this is what's getting the ratings. Right, exactly. And then meanwhile, when they're like, we're going to repeal obamacare and then people like what's your replacement plan they're like we got nothing check back in a couple weeks yeah yeah because we don't know and but then you do have a couple of

republicans who to get the existential threat that the party is facing and they're like sorry we cannot go into 2020 without an actual comparable solution to what we will replace obamacare with yep right and meanwhile be like ah come on don't worry we're just gonna run on this islamophobic rhetoric yeah and just drum up i mean i guess you know we'll see how many racists they can turn out yeah well and it's an easier soundbite for the mainstream media to find is like that kind of stuff versus like actually a substantive debate between like the two different ideas yeah you know and it gets more clicks so you know they're they're more you know they're more interested in that direction as well yeah you know they're not putting the more substantive republicans on tv to kind of talk about their ideas and stuff right you know so

they could be being like hey well how about you since you're not an out and out racist come on and like talk about what you're thinking and stuff yeah and move the window in that direction but they're not interested in that yeah they've fed too much red meat to their base and they their diet will not change anymore no and so it's you know i'm pretty sure they're at the point of no return yeah that colon is full of shit yeah all right we're gonna take a another quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.

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I want to talk about a house divided, a court case that is rocking Grand Haven, Michigan. Yeah. That's what I was going to guess. Yeah. So a man is suing his parents uh for basically destroying his collection yeah that he had worked so hard i mean building up comic books uh baseball cards we've we've all had it happen to us yeah you come home you're like mom where's all my jason kidd rookie cards right thrown away

what about the stackhouse rookies what man what Man, the Stackhouse rookies worth like 45 cents. What about my Damon Stoudemire rookie cards? What? What about my Michael Jordan electric court upper deck card? Electric court gold, by the way, and Beckett, that was worth 125, mom. And it's gone. Yeah, we all know this same feeling. I'm still putting all my money into baseball cards.

I don't care what people say. That's still where all my retirement is. Good as gold, baby. Good as gold. So this case has been moving its way through different courts. Certain judges didn't feel like there was an actual case to be tried here. But I want to let the listeners decide the tale of, to keep this person anonymous, the news has been referring to this gentleman as Charlie. So behold the tale of, to keep this person anonymous, the news has been referring to this gentleman as Charlie.

So behold, the tale of Charlie. His parents allegedly telling him they destroyed the stuff he's looking for. That stuff being 12 moving boxes full of pornography. Unable to work it out with his parents, he calls the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department, declaring his collection worth about $29,000. The prosecutor's office eventually declining to press charges in the matter. Just a month later, Charlie begins reaching out to his dad through email according to the lawsuit saying, if you had a problem with my belongings you should have stated that at the time and I would have gone elsewhere. Instead you chose to keep

quiet and behave vindictively. His father apparently responding, believe it or not, one reason for why I destroyed your porn was for your own mental and emotional health. I would have done the same if I had found a kilo of crack cocaine. Someday I hope you'll understand. Emails continue, some bringing up Charlie's alleged past, recalling him being kicked out of high school and even college for selling porn to other students. calling him being kicked out of high school and even college for selling porn to other students. Dad allegedly saying, I also warned you at the time, if I ever found pornography in my house again, I would destroy it. Oh, Charlie.

Charlie. I would have gone elsewhere. So you just moved home as a choice? You had multiple options? What had happened was, Charlie moved into his parents' home after going through a divorce. So Charlie is not a young man. I mean, I don't know how old he is.

A woman left this guy? Yeah. No way. And so he stayed for 10 months in his parents' home doing housework in lieu of paying rent. Oh, man. And he was asked to leave during a domestic situation in 2017 and then that precipitated

all this other stuff going on with his porno collection being thrown out it later on in the in the report they're talking about he's making the case he's like i have video cassettes uh they were video cassettes of material that is so rare uh that it cannot be found anymore like and not even the production studios that made the content have dissolved. And these are like some of the only remaining remnants of this work. So his bespoke porno collection is some shit.

He's making the case that he was a one-man moving box porn museum that the culture is now worse off because we are without his collection. It belongs in a museum! Yeah. Just yelling that at his dad. I mean, on one hand- Indiana Jones of butt stuff.

Right. On one hand, I'm like, all right, dude, do whatever. Yeah. But then when you hear the emails back and forth, I'm not trying to shame anybody who collects porn. Do whatever the fuck you gotta do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the way the emails back and forth, like, I'm not trying to shame anybody who collects porn. I don't do it. Do whatever the fuck you got to do.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like the way the dad was writing back, it seemed like this was negatively affecting the dude's life. Yeah. When he was like, I did it for your emotional, psychological well-being. Yeah, man. Yeah. If you're just watching porn.

I just assume like he uses the boxes. He sets them up as a chair and he take like that's like all of his furniture is made of his porn boxes. Right. Like sleeps across them with like a cot mattress he takes like that's like all of his furniture is made of his porn boxes. Like sleeps across them with like a cot mattress. Like a porn fort. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Pitches his own tent every night. It seems like it's been a long term problem.

They said being kicked out of high school and even college. Oh, what if this guy is your roommate? Dealing like for selling pornography. Like, yeah like is that really a thing you kick somebody out of a high school I get

because you're probably a minor and you're like you're fucking around with this material that's only for adults or whatever but in college

like what are you doing in college where college is like hey Charlie we got a talk man what the fuck you're running an odyssey video

out of your talk man he's got a trench coat that he opens up and inside of it it's just like lots of just pictures of just buttholes. But he never sells them because they're way too expensive. And he's a snob about it. That's just how he flexes on people.

He's just like, look at all these buttholes. He's like, what do you mean? Oh, you don't know this Gage video from 1998? No, sir, you can go elsewhere. Why don't you go to Pornhub.com, sir? I refuse to sell to you. I mean, it seems like literally everybody who's known this guy since he went through puberty has known him as the porn guy. Like the guy who is constantly talking about porn, trying to push porn on you, trying to sell you porn.

And I know everybody in this room right now knows somebody like that from their upbringing. I'm not. Okay, let's talk about two people. There's one kid named Ryan in my elementary school. He got in trouble because he would cut out the underwear ads from like the May Company newspaper shit and being like showing us in first grade. We're like, yo. Right.

He got in trouble for that. Yeah. Another kid. I'm not going to say his name, but we have the same first name. He lived with his grandfather who has so many porn tapes at his house like that like he was the one who like you'd be like yo did you get that new tape from him and like we would and it was like one of those mixed tapes that were clearly just like he the grandpa was doing 2dcr editing and shit um and he was like also selling that shit people were like be like yo let's put

like 10 bucks together yeah Yeah. Get that tape. Let's pull it. Pull it together. For the internet. Yeah. Oh my God. Shout out to Ryan. Yeah. We had a guy named Tucker that, similar thing, but then he also had a screen name.

He was the NY charity tickler that he like would message all these girls in marching band and be like, I'm raising money for a charity in New York. If you send me a tape of you being tickled. Oh, my goodness. And we were all like, no. And then we all found out on like a bus trip to a band competition that NY Charity Tickler was hitting up all the girls in the brass section. And we were like, who is this?

And then we figured it out. It was Tucker. I think he's in jail now. Oh, no. I thought you said he just got a show on Fox. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're the same thing. It's a form of prison.

Wow. Yep. I like that. It was so specific. He's like, I want the ladies from the brass section. I want to see tickle videos of them. Were y'all just giggling too much? And he was just like, ooh, I need a video.

Swedish is one step more specific than the dude from Ticklish. He's like, they have to play brass instruments. They're like, I need to see their embouchure as they laugh. Oh my, yeah. Did you saw that documentary? Yeah. The tickling one? No. On HBO? Uh-uh. Yo.

Everybody listening right now now if you have not seen that it's called tickled tickled the hbo documentary it starts off about a thing that you it's about a tickling tournament or something yeah and then they they peel this motherfucking onion so many layers you're just like what the fuck is going on and it's one of those documentaries that starts like oh it, it's about this, and then it just expands into this whole other thing. Oh, man, I gotta see it. Yeah, it's wild.

A quick check-in with the service industry that I wanted to do. Service workers, a new report has found, drink more if they have to fake being happy at work. Right. If you're having to put on a fake smile, you, on average, will drink more than somebody

who gets to just be a shitty crab ass like me at work. Yeah. Well, yeah, they did a phone survey of almost 1,600 American service workers and, yeah, found this link between, they call it emotional labor. Yeah.

Which is the effort it takes to fake a smile. And they said that researchers found reportedly faking or amplifying positive emotions at work while suppressing negative emotions was linked to heavier alcohol consumption after work. Overall, surface acting was robustly related to heavy drinking, even after controlling for demographics, job demands, negative affectivity, consistent with an explanation of impaired self-control. So it's just i feel this yeah i feel that's a hundred percent yeah we've all had to smile at like a real asshole before for jobs right and just been like uh-huh yeah it's fine i can't wait till this is over yeah yeah yeah yeah and yeah they say that it wasn't just the feeling badly that was fueling the alcohol consumption it was the more that they have to control negative emotions yeah at work uh was like made them less able to control their alcohol intake yeah i mean

that energy goes somewhere yeah it's gotta go oh yeah well and you're you're not allowed to stand up for yourself if someone's an asshole right because the customer's right service with a smile uh-huh right things are great that. Absorb all this abuse, sexual or otherwise, or whatever, depending on wherever you're working and the clientele. Because even thinking of how we don't even have a way to deal with customers who are sexually harassing servers, that there's coded language now. It can't just be like, hi, so you got to get the fuck out of here. I'm not talking to my servers like that versus like doing like 22 at that table.

Right. You know, like I think we're, I think this is sort of showing how just terrible we treat even service workers of just being like, you're doing this work that is causing you to treat your emotions in a way that is insincere, possibly fueling alcohol consumption or just negative emotion. But please do it with a smile and for very little pay. Yep. And don't ask why you don't have health insurance. Right. Yeah. So I don't know, man. It's a shout out to you, service workers.

Yeah. And I don't know how, I mean, even when I, when I was a teenager and I used to do kids birthday parties, that was like a thing where I was having to absorb the stress of a parent having like a kid's birthday. Yeah. And like, why isn't this here? Why isn't this here? And I'd be like, okay, I'm going gonna get your domino's pizza now yeah thank you

i'll put this out here for the servers that are listening if you see good old brandy posey at your place of work and someone's being an asshole to you come over give me a wink and i will spit in their food there you go i'll take care of that i will do that for you yeah let me know let me know whose food i gotta do some shit too and tell your servers if you like when you go to a restaurant be like hey look i got your back yeah right just so you know yeah yeah if you want me to fucking fight somebody i will right yeah if you're having a bad table somewhere else come talk to me about it yeah bitch about it because guess what i'm the customer i could start some shit with this other customer yeah exactly because guess what i'm also right

right right he's right but i am also right oh, well, who's right in this case, manager? Uh-huh. Guess what? I am your manager now. Yeah, exactly. I own this bitch. Boom. Also, tip.

Tip them more. Yeah. Tip everybody more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, guys, I found this great new money-saving technique. Oh, you saw that video? Tipping 10%. Shut the fuck up.

Dude, tip pre-tax and don't tip on alcohol. Right. And cut all these other things. I mean, yeah. Just pay it. I try and tip 20% at minimum. Yeah. Pretty much everywhere. Even when it's bad. You don't know their days.

Maybe they've had to smile at a bunch of people that were pieces of shit. Well, just knowing how many layers there are to service, even in a restaurant. Like, what's happening in the kitchen? What's happening with your front of house staff? It's not always just the one person you're like, oh, well, I saw them talking by the serving station. So I'm going to watch this tip. I'm writing in, nah, fam.

Oh, good. All right. In our remaining time, let's get to the dessert let's talk about game of thrones returned on sunday night we also wanted to talk about how it got so huge because not that many people uh subscribe to hbo like a lot of people do but not enough for it to be as big as it is oh right yeah it is i thought you were gonna like, I don't know how it got so big. You just got the content and you're like, yeah, I don't know. What a thought. Not a fan.

It is apparently the most pirated show on TV, maybe in the history of TV. Last season was pirated over a billion times. With a B. With a B, everybody. HBO has fought back traditionally by asking internet companies to send out polite notices informing people that they may not realize that you can pay money and subscribe to HBO through your local cable company.

People know. Yeah. And people think that HBO does this because they secretly know that it's actually good for them because it builds up the word of mouth and the show couldn't be nearly as big as it is without piracy. Even though they've now built up enough numbers that

hundreds of millions of people are watching each episode of Game of Thrones legitimately. Who knows how many of those people pirated the first couple episodes because you're not going to subscribe before you've seen a thing oh hell yeah oh yeah or if you're a striminal yeah as the streaming services call it when you're using someone else's login yeah to watch the shit that's uh pretty funny and i think all of my friends are striminals yeah what's funny is that i like that the industry is creating vocabulary around this now because we have to identify this is a problem for our money and we're labeling them as criminals.

Yeah. There's something, speaking of creating new language, there's like shadow competition that takes place with piracy where like you add a sort of shadowy line to the supply and demand chart that is, you know, the black market. And that prevents HBO from jacking up their prices any more than they already do. What do you mean? Because they know people can pirate it and that that is an option out there. They can't jack their prices up too high because at a certain point people are just going to be like, I'm going to go watch it. I'm going to go pirate it. Go fuck yourself. Yeah fuck yourself yeah like me with direct tv now they push me too far and i'm out um and they also don't have tlc anyway that's a whole other uh but yeah hbo's

uh subscriber base 26 million in the u.s 60 million worldwide uh and they said that they estimated that the first episode might be watched a billion times. Wow. For real? Yeah. Downloaded a billion times? Or they think there'll be a billion sets of eyes on that? I read somewhere a billion viewers, but that seems like too much.

And it definitely can't be concurrently like a billion people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think like since over the last decade, a billion people have watched. Which is, what, there's like seven billion people on the planet? Something like that sure the demand for this series though

is like like some of the shit they say Game of Thrones season 2 was released to record setting DVD sales like that was long after people

stopped watching DVD but like people give a fuck about Game of Thrones man well you just want those sets yeah

at a yard sale literally this weekend I saw a guy selling his full Game of Thrones DVD man. Well, you just want those sets. Yeah. At a yard sale, literally this weekend, I saw a guy selling his full Game of Thrones DVDs and a guy bought all of them because he hadn't watched the series yet. Because the dude

that was selling them was just like, yeah, I've got HBO Ghosts. I can watch it all digitally now. I don't need these anymore. And I was like, oh man, well, there's a new Game of Thrones fan.

Also, oh, what you do on the internet, Sal? Yeah, I know. That's why you gotta have some hard copies of shit. You got to keep a couple of things that you really love. I think, I don't know if I mentioned this on the show, my mom almost threw out a signed copy of Song of Fire and Ice by George R.R. Martin.

I don't know if you talked about it on the show, but yeah, that's wild. I was going through shit in her house she was like throwing away in very much an instance where I was like, where are my Jason Kidd rookie cards? And she's like, there's a box of shit, go through it. And then there was a box of other things she was throwing away. And I saw it and I was like, where are my Jason kid rookie cards? And she's like, there's a box of shit. Go through it. And then there was a box of other things she was throwing away. And there was a, I saw it and I was like,

Oh, this is cool. I opened it. It's signed. I'm like, what were you going to do with it? She's like, I don't know.

I was going to probably throw them away. And I was like, you possum loving mother of mine. God bless you. Possum loving mother of mine. Sounds like a, like one of those things they dub in over a swear. Like in Die Hard. Hey you possum loving mother of mine. like a, like one of those things they dub in over a swear. Like in Die Hard.

Hey you possum loving mother of mine. Probably a, yeah, a replaced Sam Jackson line for sure. Hey possum loving mother of mine. The TNT version of this podcast. So any, any other additional thoughts other than my wild prediction?

That's probably not going to happen. Just the first episode. How are we feeling that it it's back i just feel so good that it's back yeah i just want to be again i just want to be freed yeah from this journey i've gone on where i've been twisted and turned too many times just i guess this is one thing i want to ask without spoiling anything randy how do you wish the series will end? What are you holding out for? I mean, I don't trust George R.R. Martin whatsoever. So, like, it straight up could just be

like the Night King flossing on the throne. It could end that way. And honestly, I imagine I will stand and deliver a slow clap at the end of the last episode, whatever happens. Or probably the second to last episode. I bet the last episode is going to be like the wrap up, kind of like that last episode.

Right. The end of the last Lord of the Rings movie. I think the last one will kind of be like the slow let down. And this is where everybody that's still alive is. Although that might not happen. Yeah. I wouldn't mind a Sopranos type ending. Yeah, yeah.

Where you're just like. And you're like, ooh. I wouldn't mind a. Itranos type ending. Yeah, yeah. Where it's just like, and you're like, ooh. I wouldn't mind a Sharp Objects type ending. Where you think it wrapped up the way you were expecting it to wrap up. Yeah. And they bring it. Well, they've said, what, Gurm said that it's going to be a bittersweet ending either way, which is probably the more generous way that this can go down.

Bittersweet? Yeah, bittersweet. It's like, okay, well, that's not my heart on the floor sobbing. This isn't like Oberyn Martell 2.0 or anything. Did anybody ask him what his definition of bittersweet was? Because that scene with Oberyn might have been his definition of bittersweet. But on the other hand, I mean, good for the mountain. Bittersweet, like when you bite into a rotten lemon. Yeah, yeah. lemon yeah yeah what oh god no you know it's a little bitter and a little

sweet yeah torch man yeah i don't know i'm just i'm happy i'm happy to have it back and i will be happy when it's over because this is the i don't like watching shows week to week i prefer binge because i have an addictive personality right and i just will spend the entire week obsessing and reading everything and listening to all the Game of Thrones podcasts at 1.5 speed because there's too many. So I just will get jacked up in between episodes. So it will feel good when it's over. Yeah.

One way or another. Freya, George. Miles, what are you hoping for? I just want everybody to die. Everyone? I want everybody to die. Including? Everybody.

Including the dead? Yeah, fuck them. Because what including everybody including the dead yeah because what is dead cannot be yeah what is dead cannot be killed or whatever cannot die uh i don't know part the cynical part of me is almost just like because the show was sort of built on like oh you think just because of the like narrative habits of other storytellers certain characters cannot die so i don't mind playing that all the way through. I like that, but I can't abide a version where it's the Night King winning, because, I don't know,

like, every time they've done that, it's been like, yeah, but that's how history works. But, like, being like, and zombies win, is like, oh, that's not really anything. Give them more than zombies, Jack. Okay. They're white walkers. They're white walkers.

One thing I'm just wishing is I'm like thinking of weapons that they should be using that could help them. Right. Like a gigantic weed whacker made of dragon glass. Yeah. And then so, yeah, try and get near that, you clumsy motherfuckers. You get chopped the fuck up. That would be sick.

Then what? I guess the dragon will come through and vaporize it. But you had it for a minute. Yeah, for a minute. It was cool for a second. That's why I know I'm a reasonable human being, because then I realize the lameness of my ideas. How are you powering that thing?

Just a bunch of motherfuckers cranking that shit. Just a bunch of cranks. You know what I mean? Yeah. Okay. There you go. Cranks on cranks on cranks. Cranks on cranks on cranks on cranks.

I just want to see Aa do some cool shit. Me too. I'll be happy. She's my girl. I'm team Arya. I'm team Sam. Those are the two people that I don't want to see go down. You would be destroyed if Sam went out like a sucker though, huh?

Yeah. But also, I've seen Serenity, and I know what can happen and how much it can hurt me. Yeah. So it's like, all right. I think of, I, that I think of, I don't know if you guys are, are Firefly Serenity fans at all, but like,

I think of there, there's a character, I don't want to spoil it. It's a decade old movie. There's a character. A beloved character. Yes. A very beloved character that dies.

And like it. At the end? Uh, no, right at the beginning of act three. And it is a punch in the gut. And it's so good though, because it changes all the rules and you're like,

Oh, anybody can die. And it's after he has just done something heroic for everybody and it hurts even more. And yeah, I talking very vaguely about it. Yeah. But it's,

it's a, Oh man, it hurts. And that, that changed the way that I've thought about all of these kinds of shows forever. And that's the model. Yeah.

Don't trust anybody. Anybody can die. The motto of the entire Game of Thrones series is anybody can get it. Well, Brandy, it has been a pleasure having you as always. Where can people find you? I'm on Twitter and Instagram at Brandazzle. Yeah, Brandazzle.

I'm a stand-up comedian, so I tour a little bit. I have dates at brandyposeie.com. You can also follow me on Bands in Town, where I post all of my tour dates, if you use that app. And I have a podcast called Lady to Lady with Barbara Gray and Tess Barker. It's very, very fun. Listen to that every week on Wednesdays. And yeah.

Oh, I have a monthly show that I do in L.A. if you happen to be in L.A. Or we have it in New York, too. It's called Picture This. And it's comedians paired up with animators and we live animate your jokes behind you during your show. It's real fun. We have crazy good artists. We just had Pendleton Ward has been on it a bunch of times

and the creator of Hey Arnold was on it a few months ago. Yeah, we get some pretty good people. Football head. Yeah, it's very fun. It's my favorite thing to do. I've been doing it for like seven years and it's a blast. So come out to that and say hi. Also, if you're a server and you see her, let her know.

She'll spit in someone's food. Let me know. I love like a whimsical vigilante justice is what I'm all about. You know, timeshares to spitting in strangers' food. Like it's, you know, I don't want to commit actual violence. It's what we call the Lord's work. Yeah. Thank you so much.

God is a woman. Brandy Posey. There she is. Brandy, is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yes, actually. I need to play it. I don't know if you guys have seen this or not. Have you seen the tweet of Soft Synth Bear is the person on Twitter who posted this.

And it is, there it is. It's, um, Jonathan Frakes telling you you're wrong for 47 seconds. And it's just this. No way. Not this time. We created it. Not this time.

No, not this time. It's totally made up. Pure fiction. It's fiction. It's fiction. We made it up. We made this one up.

It's a made up tale. It's a total fabrication. It never happened. It never happened. It never happened. What the fuck? This one was invented by a writer. Not this time. It never happened. It's false.

It never happened. That's great. It's fiction. It's an urban legend. There's 20 more seconds of it. It's so, and it's just, I don't even know what show this is from, but he's so smug. I love Jonathan Frakes. It's not from Star Trek? No, no, no.

It's just the... It's a compilation of... Yeah. It's just him narrating I don't know if there's some sort of... Oh, got you, got you. I didn't see the visual. Some sort of sci-fi. Yeah, some sci-fi show that he's doing. And it's just him just being like, I don't know, but we made that one up. That's a fake. That's a fake. You're wrong. You're wrong. Oh, it's Beyond Belief Factor Fiction

is a show that does. That makes sense. Okay. But every time I say, nope. Nope. Nope. That was a fake. Not gonna happen. Complete fabrication. You're wrong. Beyond Belief Factor Fiction is a show that does. That makes sense. Okay. But every time I say, nope. Nope. That was a fake. Not going to happen. Complete fabrication. We lied to you. Everything is, nothing is real.

I'm waiting for somebody to do like some sort of musical remix to it because it's been very fun. Remix God's Way. It'll probably put something out. Yes. Miles, where can people find you? You can find me and follow me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. A tweet I like. You know, I like you.

The Zeitgang's been CCing me and us on tweets. This one was brought to my attention by unapologeticmagic at FKAnerf. Okay. And this is actually a Quinta Brunson tweet. And it's very appropriate concerning, you know, the Game of Thrones weekend and the world we're living in now a Quinta Brunson tweet. And it's very appropriate concerning the Game of Thrones weekend and the world we're living in now. Quinta wrote, I tweet for the people who stopped watching

Game of Thrones the first season because they watched it with their boyfriend, but they broke up and you were too emotional to keep watching without him, so he got custody of the entire series. Oh, damn. Girl, take it back. Yeah.

Take it back. Take back the throne. Yes. My wife tried to start game of thrones last night like in terms of watching from here oh damn it was i was trying to like because i want her to watch it like be up on it so i'm like how do you even i was answering every time she asked who's that who's that's that? So why do you say that? And then even she figured out. She was like, this is comically. This is impossible. So she's not going to go back and watch it.

Also, I feel like every episode that she jumps in on, there is a gratuitous four-way sex scene. Yeah. It's just like, while we do this exposition, four of us are going to fuck this dude. What you watching, Jack? Game of Thrones? I'm going to time.

What is this show about exactly? That's right. I do want to say this. Something that I would like everybody doing tweet threads to start doing now that Game of Thrones is back is just end your tweet thread with a picture of Bran in a wheelchair.

Because my favorite moments at this first episode were just like a scene would end and it would just cut to Bran. And it made me laugh every single time. He looks like he's started smoking weed or something. That's the age he's at. He's like high on a lot of mushrooms because he's just living in the universe.

He's like, I'm sorry y'all, I'm literally not even existing on the same plane of existence with y'all. I gotta go. I'm the three-eyed raven. Somebody who's taken too much acid. Yeah, exactly. And it's just like, I'm seeing in eight dimensions. It's like, nah, you're actually not.

Someone make a meme with him wearing a drug rug. Yes! In a chair and like packing. He's like, y'all don't even see what I'm seeing right now. Ugh, game of memes, it's back. Yeah, they said nine out of ten trending topics worldwide last night during the show were Game of Thrones related. Yeah. That's like a record.

Yeah, I've started yelling at every time I get cut off in traffic. I've started just yelling chaos as a ladder at people that cut me off. It feels good. Speaking of yelling shit, Charlene de Guzman tweeted, Looking forward to shouting, You are an eternal being of light having a temporary human experience over the birthday song of my one year old niece's party

Shen the bird tweeted I like that having attended so many one two and three year old birthday parties over the past Shen the bird tweeted me arriving in heaven so did anybody cry at my funeral oh actually your body is still in the ball pit and So did anybody cry at my funeral? God. Oh, actually, your body is still in the ball pit.

And Zach Barron tweeted, the golf dad energy in America right now could power the sun. Shout out to Tiger. Golf dad energy. The world was very excited. Come on, Tiger. Yeah. I like the Tiger. All right.

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Oh, I mean, you know, just with everything that's going on in the world, it makes us wonder, where is love? And that is a song I want to play by The Equatics. You mean, what is love? Well, baby, don't hurt me. Don't hurt me no more. Okay. But, yes, this is from The Equatics.

You know, a little throwback vibe, but just, man, good, good people on instruments just rumping and a tumping so check out that work from the rhythm section too they're getting their check we're gonna ride out on that we will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast and we will talk to you guys bye until i find this thing called love I'll search for it in the daytime I'll look for it late at night

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