The Daily Zeitgeist - For Real Moby? Thrones, Avengers Own ALL The Minds 4.30.19

Episode Date: April 30, 2019

In episode 381, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Kim Behpoornia to discuss Avengers: Endgame and the Marvel's love of China, Lindsay Graham's shameless when it comes to the impeaching Republicans, Beto's climate change plan, Moby rubbing his dick on Trump, how long to wait to spoil a show or movie, Game of Thrones, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Obliterates Records With $1.2 Billion Global Debut2. China Box Office: 'Avengers: Endgame' Crushes Local Records With $330.5M Opening3. Man reportedly beat up outside theater for spoiling 'Avengers: Endgame' in front of moviegoers4. Woman in China hospitalized after crying too much during ‘Avengers: Endgame'5. The biggest plot hole in Captain America: Civil War happened because Marvel loves China6. Iron Man 3 Was Different In China: What Scenes Were Added (& Why)?7. Tibet Supporters Protest Marvel's 'Doctor Strange' over Changed Character8. China Bans Time Travel Films and Shows, Citing Disrespect of History9. Nadler Threatens Barr With Subpoena Over Dispute Regarding Hearing Rules10. Lindsey Graham’s shamelessness11. Every reporter must now ask @LindseyGrahamSC if he still believes in the standard he set for removing a president in the impeachment of Bill Clinton12. Beto O'Rourke releases $5 trillion plan to combat climate crisis13. Moby: The Time I Drunkenly Rubbed My Penis on Donald Trump14. Spoilers: The Official Vulture Statutes of Limitations15. WATCH: Four Tet - Daughter Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 80, Episode 2 of Your Daily Zeitgeist! Yeah! or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. And fuck Fox News. It's Tuesday, April 30th, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Captain Jack Will Daily's Eye to Geist. And I'm thrilled to be joined once again by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. That's right. It's Miles Gray, a.k.a. Graymean Slizzard, a.k.a. Joel M. Weed, a.k.a.

Kahai Leonard, a.k.a. Kyrie Swerving. It's the NBA Grayoffs. Shout out to Christy Yamaguchi-Main for that one. Always finding new ways to say my name. Even updated yours for the second round. Those are all key players who made it to the second round. I think it is, yes. All right.

Oh, man, that Damian Lillard. Yeah. All right. Well. Oh, man. That Damian Lillard. Oh, man. I didn't realize he's the only person to have the record of two game-ending,

series-ending buzzer beaters in the playoffs. Both belong to Damian. That first one was amazing. Disrespect. Over James Harden. Disrespect. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat. Our new show, Old Sports News. Oh, remember that?

Yeah, remember that from last week? Goddamn. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious comedian, Kimia Bepournia. Fuck! So close. You sure did it. Kimia Bepournia. There you go.

Okay. Got the ball for that one. Celebration. Fuck. Yeah, you nailed it. Hell yeah. I just got real nervous as I was heading in. That's okay.

You had an Adele Daseem moment right there. Yeah, I did. Wow. I watched that live and it was amazing. Oh, yeah. I saw it when it happened and I rewound it back and I was like, wow, I'm the only person that found this. It's me.

I found it and it's great. Then the next day you're like, damn it. Other people saw it. Everyone saw it. It was funny because when you watch John Travolta's face, when next day, you're like, damn it. Everyone saw it. It was funny because when you watch John Travolta's face, when it happens,

you can see the moment he just commits to going, I don't care now. I'm just going to say whatever I think right now. He seemed like a little drunk maybe or something or like maybe he was on

some muscle relaxers or something. Hey, look, whatever you got to do to get up there. I mean, that's why I just fucked up your name.

Because a lot of muscle relaxers. Okay, cool. Yeah. I forgive. Can't feel anything below relaxes. Okay, cool. Yeah. I forgive. Can't feel anything below my waist. Well, we're thrilled to have you here. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. But first, we're going to take our listeners through a few of the things we're talking about today.

Miles. Huh? Endgame. Neither of us have seen it. I've never seen it. That's all right. And that's good for you, the listener, because that means we can I've never seen it. That's all right. And that's good for you, the listener, because that means we can't spoil it for you.

That's right. But according to internet spoiler rules that Vulture created via their quiz, 70% of people think that you have two weeks to see a movie, but only 24 hours to watch a TV show. Game of Thrones is on the table. Watch out. Game of Thrones is coming third act.

But we're going to talk about how Endgame made $1.2 billion over the weekend. We feel like a day is enough time to spoil that fact for you guys. And shout out to somebody who's upset that we spoiled what the box office hall was. Like, oh, man. It's getting to Wednesday to hear about that. But it did that by conquering the Chinese box office. And we're going to talk a little bit about how they went about doing that. We're going to talk about William Barr, who has decided to tell the House Judiciary Committee to go fuck themselves, basically.

Yeah, basically, yeah. It's getting a little hot, especially considering the Judiciary Committee has an oversight role over the Department of Justice. But hey, what do we know? We're living in Avengers Endgame, I think, or whatever this escape is. Avengers of the Long Night, I think. Avengers of the Long Night. It's a big weekend for

just fans of culture yeah we're gonna talk about beto's five trillion dollar climate change plan yeah uh that's a lot of money he's gonna pay for it right that's my first question uh we're gonna talk about the fact that moby yes that mooby, once rubbed his penis on the president, rubbed his bare penis. But he was in mourning for 9-11. Right. And I'm not joking. This weird, odd story of sexual assault has a 9-11 tinge.

Yeah. So. Yeah, I know you look confused. This one is crazy, and I can't wait to get there. Yeah, or not. Is this from his memoir or something? Yeah, he's got know you look confused. This one is crazy and I can't wait to get there. Yeah, or not. Is this from his memoir or something? Yeah, he's got a book coming out. He's got a book coming out.

Everybody knows, right? I was just reading another article about how there is just the hyper influx of Trump-based books now. Oh, yeah. That even the publishing industry is like, yo, I don't know if we know what to do with this anymore. So, of course, you got to follow the rules. He's like, I'm sure the publishers are like, do you have a Trump story? Right.

I think I rubbed my dick on him. Great, great, great, great. All right. There. People will read your memoir then, Moby. We are then reserving all of Act 3 for Game of Thrones. We're going to talk about our impressions. We're going to talk just general spoiler rules

like I was talking about up top, but then we're going to give our spoiler-less Game of Thrones impressions and then some disturbing spoiled remains at the end so people can stop listening if they'd like

to. If they're scared of the truth that they didn't have time to watch the show this weekend. But first, Kimia, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Oh, yikes. I've been looking up a bunch of net worths like anybody. Hell yeah. Anyone who I see on TV or look at. So what's yours?

You looked up yours first. Mine doesn't come up. Damn. Me neither. That's when I know I made it. Yeah. Jack, were you worth like $4 million or something? Mm-hmm.

Yeah. According to the internet, I think I'm worth like $2 million or something like that. I did come up on net. It says $500,000. Really? All right.

And it got my birthday wrong. This is all incorrect. Who makes this site? I don't know. A fan. This is all incorrect. Who makes this site? I don't know. A fan. This is not real. Also, what a terrible photo of me if anyone finds this. It says I'm 179 years old.

What did I stumble upon just now? Well, anyway, this is what happens when you look up net worth. It's very exciting. How old are you? Me? I'm 20. Well, 179 what year is that though?

uh oh like the bouncer asks you oh what year were you born? yikes well it also says my date of birth is uh February 2nd

2199 this is so bad this is a weird way of you outing yourself as a mythical time traveler sort of slash Melisandre type figure well everybody should disregard this so bad. This is a weird way of you outing yourself as a mythical time traveler. Sort of. Slash Melisandre type figure. Everybody should disregard this.

Who else are you looking up? I've been looking up the Housewives, the Beverly Hills Housewives. Oh. And everyone on Vanderpump. Do you watch the show and go, does this person have the right to be this stuck up? Let me look up their network. I guess on Vanderpump, I was like, there was some episode where the Toms were like uh one of the toms was getting a bunch of

motorcycles for their tomtom opening and i was like this costs too much money for just an evening let me see how much money this man makes and it was still not enough for him to just drop like twenty thousand dollars on on a motorcycle evening of a motorcycle rentals last sequence of words went over my head about the Toms and the Tom Tom. I knew that there was one person named Tom on that show. Is Tom Tom the GPS system? No, it's a bar. Oh, okay.

The two Toms. There's two Toms on that show. Is it the one who wear the hat a lot? Yeah. Sure. What do you mean the one who wear the hat a lot? I don't know. The only person I remember is Stassi.

Stassi, not the German. You don't remember Jax? Oh, yeah, Jax. Yes, yes, yes. One of my favorite Mortal Kombat characters. One of the most obvious. I've never seen somebody and been like, they have a chin implant except Jax.

Oh, yeah. Jax looks like- He has a chin implant? He looks like he has a- Oh, he's got nose jobs. He's got the craziest lantern jaw. Oh, right. So that might be a got the craziest lantern jaw. Oh, right. So that might be a compliment to Jax.

I don't know. But it takes a while. You have to have a pretty solid 401k game to start buying motorcycles to match your outfit for an evening. Oh, hell yeah. Damn, I wish I could even ride a bike. What is something you think is overrated? Oh, the Arclight. Uh-huh.

The Arclight Theater. Okay. Yeah. I don't think people, not everybody has an Arclight with them, so why don't you let people know who aren't blessed with the Arclight location near them what it's about.

Here's my probably negatively tinged description of the Arclight. It is a movie theater that costs a lot of money because you're paying for an elevated movie going experience and it has like only two trailers before every movie and someone who works at the

Arclight will come out and introduce the movie to you like you're at a play or something and they'll be like the run time is this much and you will see these actors enjoy I will be here to make sure the sound and quality is up to our Arclight standards

I'm like vaping by the trash can it is just a lot I mean I just think it's okay that everybody doesn't have an Arclight because most theaters like the big thing about the Arclight was that it was the first place, I think, to have like nicer seats and you could reserve your seats,

at least in LA. Yeah. And now everywhere does that and has pretty okay seats. So we don't really need to be paying the 20 bucks to go to the same movie that we could go to for like 12 bucks somewhere else and just go to the Arclight

where they filled just like a soda cup full of popcorn and not even those bigger bags. I know. That's the thing that annoys me. the popcorn game is worse at the fancy theaters. It sucks. It's like they want us to respect our bodies or something. Yikes. Well, yeah, because the food there, like, you can't really have a gross movie meal at

an Arclight. They're like, we have a mango sausage link and an artisan baguette. I'm like, do you have a nitraterate filled hot dog for me to destroy my body fill this trash bag with popcorn exactly and by trash bag i mean my body well i think yeah and the other thing i'm pointing to my mouth like fill this trash bag with like sir you don't even have a ticket um the thing with the arc light i guess is the the drinking but now amc and other places are doing that, all the other places are stepping their shit up with the full-on reclining seats. Yes.

We don't have that at Arclight. Yes. So other than that, I'm failing to see what the appeal is. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. It used to be hype, but now every other movie theater is doing that thing, and you need to go pay the Arclight. Yeah.

Those are the ones you have to be really worried about being late, because at a certain point, they won't let you in. They won't let you in. They won't let you in. They won't? No. After like 10 minutes. 10 minutes. You can't get in.

That movie's already begun, sir. Oh, so if you pull up to the ticket taker and they're like, ah. No, and they don't refund you. Yeah, yeah. They don't refund you because they're like, this is our policy. You should have known. What, is my mom running the filming place? We don't want you to disturb the other viewers.

That's right. Yeah. Oh, you know, that's. I think it's all right. I get that. Yeah. No, if someone is a little bit late think it's all right. I get that. Yeah. No, if someone is a little bit late and they paid for this movie,

I'll take the one second to let them cross me in the aisle and sit down. This is really- Yeah, if they step on my shoes, then I'll make a bigger scene than the one on the screen. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But, you know, I think, yeah, I have such anxiety about missing movies, though. That's why, I guess, to me, it's so foreign because, like, there's something about walking into a movie late where I'm almost like you know

what fuck it I don't yeah I missed the first if I miss the previews I get bummed out yeah I like the previews a lot well in the arc like they don't play 20 minutes of previews which I enjoy right previews best part yeah my wife acts like I'm crazy for wanting to be

to movies on time I think it's because it's the only thing that I'm crazy for wanting to be to movies on time. I think it's because it's the only thing that I'm worried about being on time to. Right. It's like, hmm, interesting. I'm never that way with restaurant reservations or something. Yeah, you're like, it's fine. You can pull up 40 minutes after. They're good.

Movies, I'm like leaving her behind. She's like sprinting in. You're like, I'm in the car now. We have to go. What is something you think is underrated? Oh, spooky teen soap operas. Okay. Like which ones?

Like kind of all of them, but I think like right now we're in a time where people are making many more spooky teen soap operas like Riverdale, Sabrina, Pretty Little Liars. Yeah, it's spooky. There's murder and stuff. Oh, I'm thinking like when you say spooky, for some reason I'm thinking ghosts. Oh, no. Like magic. I mean, I prefer the supernatural ones. I guess dark ones, but I'm going to list more supernatural ones.

Okay. Because like Teen Wolf and then I guess Pretty Little Liars didn't have any magic in it. But I don't know how any of that stuff happened if there wasn't a little bit of magic. It is messy. And then like the movies, like Twilight movies. These are just like people love to be like, oh, that sounds like garbage. But it's like, those are the best.

They're so fun to watch. Everyone should watch them. It's just like, it's just crazy. So you're one of those people who go, objectively, not probably the best thing, but there's something about it. So what is the magic that pulls you in? Is it just to feel better than the whack characters in it or something?

No, it just is crazy. It's just like a show where you can watch it. And then my favorite magic that pulls you in? Is it just to feel better than like the whack characters in it or something? No, it just is crazy. It's just like a show where you can watch it and then my favorite thing to do while watching those shows is to be like,

what? Why? So, this is very, very exciting. You're like, I think this adult had sex with a child

and none of the parents are concerned. Exactly. They're just bonkers and it's so much fun to watch but people love to hate on them because, yeah, technically they're bad. Right. But it's like very exciting. Yeah. You know, it's all levels. We all love drama. And I guess, you know, Game of Thrones operates sort of on the same thing of having the same intrigue.

I'm trying to think, is that a recent genre? Because like there weren't. Well, like what was the 80s version of spooky teen? Oh, I don't know how old Buffy is, but. Well, like what was the 80s version of Spooky Teen? I don't know how old Buffy is, but. Yeah, I guess that was 90s. I guess they're all like sort of grandchildren of Buffy, right? There was a Teen Wolf in the 80s too, yeah. Yes. That movie is imprinted on me.

I always say it's a movie that I still can't tell how bad it is, which proves that like my taste in movie is just warped by that. It's a one thing here. It was like one of the first movies I saw that had taste in movie is just warped by that. It's a one thing here. It was one of the first movies I saw that had basketball in it, and so it combined Michael J. Fox, basketball, and just movies. And so I was like, yes, this is awesome. Still can't tell how bad it is, but it's not spooky at all. It's just like corn.

It's almost like it has a Degrassi feel, like one of those shows that you would see in Canada and be like, oh, this is weird. I didn't know this existed. But it's like a whole movie universe that was made for and by Canadians. Yeah. It's not great, but I love it. No, that's the thing. They're all not great, but you just got to love them.

Yeah. And finally finally what is a myth what's something people think is true you know to be false oh no right the myth part hmm the myth of it all you know what uh you know when they say like you swallow a seed and then the the fruit will grow inside your belly true uh you think it's true? No. Because I actually, I have had this fear for my whole life. I like watched one Regrets episode

where a watermelon grows inside Chucky and I like swallowed a cherry when I was like eight and I'm still like searching, waiting for that cherry seed to come out so a tree doesn't grow inside me.

So I'm like, I don't know if I'm disproving this myth or just confessing that I think this myth. It's like, I wake up with anxiety that this myth might be true. That that cherry pit will begin to take root in your stomach and you'll see a little leaf come out of your mouth.

Yep. Yeah. You get cancer from your weekly cat scans. Yeah. You're just always like, it's gotta be in there. Something is in there. Do you remember who first put that in your head? Well that show did and I do also recall asking my mom like,

hey is this gonna happen? She's like no, it'll come out of your system. And so I just like check the toilet all the time for a cherry seed. How embarrassing. Oh is that why you always ask for gloves when you go to the bathroom? Yeah man.

And you guys don't have plastic gloves in there. I noticed you don't have latex exam gloves. Right. Yeah, I need those. Yeah. Well, I'm glad. I'm hoping you get past that fear. I don't know if I ever will.

Someone else debunked this myth for me in my mind. Maybe therapy is what I need to do. Or there's maybe something magic that we're not understanding. You may be the person who's like, the child who gave life from their stomach. That's right. There was somebody who inhaled a seed of some sort instead of swallowing it.

It went down their windpipe, and they had something growing on their lung. I didn't need to know that. Yeah, so don't inhale seeds. Is that real? Yeah, that's real. I don't need to know that. The reason that it would never grow in your stomach

is because the acid in there is super powerful. It's not a good place for anything to grow. But yeah, there was something with somebody having... A 75-year-old Cape Cod man, Ron Sweden, who discovered that a growth in his lung was not his fear of a tumor, but rather a pea plant. A seed had somehow lodged itself in his lung, presumably after some food found its way

down the wrong tube, and the seed then sprouted. No. What? But you didn't inhale it. No? Just don't inhale a pea. But that's what hiccups are. When the food goes down the wrong pipe and you're hiccuping it up. I have another myth to debunk for you. That's a lung

spasm, isn't it? Yeah, it's just a diaphragm spasm. Ah, dang it. just a diaphragm spasm ah dang it yeah well thank you i just like no that's getting the seeds out your body responding to all the seeds you inhale yeah um my mom always said you you swallow three seeds a night when you're sleeping oh god all right guys let's move on to uh the global record smashing open opening of uh avengers endgame uh we talked about how it was doing really well overseas uh on monday but the records are in uh it made 1.2 bills globally, which just demolished the previous record. Like the comparisons between the records are pretty crazy.

So it had the largest Thursday preview at 60 million. The previous record was 57. That's not that big. Uh, largest Friday opening one 56 million. The previous record was one 19. Uh, it's just insane what it did.

Uh, the largest domestic opening at 350 million. it's just insane what it did. The largest domestic opening at $350 million the previous record was $257 million. Can you imagine besting it by almost $100 million? Almost $100 million. And the other one was Avengers Infinity War. I just saw one write up that was like yeah Avengers pretty much broke every conceivable record possible. Are they taking into account the fact that they did a thing where some movie theaters were open 24 hours to do all night screenings?

72 hours in some places. That's what I mean. It's like, yeah, it's going to make more money. You gave it more time with an open theater and more movie time. I think it's just the demand, too. They had to keep it open because it still had the highest per theater average at $75,000, where the previous record was $59,000. All right. Well.

Yeah. Are you a fan of those films? Did you watch it? I love them. I'm not diehard. I love a superhero movie, but I haven't even seen this Avengers movie yet. But I saw Infinity Wars, and I've seen most of the MCU movies, I think. Except for Captain America.

I don't know why I find that one. I think that guy's boring. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, some nerd who gets jacked one. I think that guy's boring. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, some nerd who gets jacked on roids and then figures it out. Sure. Doesn't that like his deal?

They give him some kind of experimental. Yeah. I remember that correctly then. He's a little dork and they give him steroids. And he's like, what's up, bro? It's really a bad message for young people who are trying to avoid steroid use. Because I didn't read the book. So when I saw that, I didn't know what his origin story was,

and I was like, oh, that's what Captain America is. They're like, yo, just pumped this dude up. He's like good Bane. Right. Exactly. Yeah. But it also had the highest share.

The previous record was 84%. It made 90% of the dollars at the global box office. What? 90% of the money made at the box office was generated by it. Was Avengers Endgame. And in China, that number was 99%. Whoa. So 99% of the tickets that were bought in China were for Avengers Endgame.

So that's something that our writer JM was pointing out is kind of unique and probably the reason that this broke so many global records, at least, is it just demolished all Chinese records. And to just tell you how into Avengers the people in China are, there was a guy in Hong Kong who got beaten up for mentioning a spoiler as he left the theater. Oh my God. One woman was- Wait, do we have any details on the manner

which he was beaten? Did somebody buck 50 him? Did he just get the wild smack around? How big was the spoiler? Was it worth the beating? There's a photo going around on social media that shows him bloody outside the theater. Oh my God. It wasn't like he got pushed around. Yeah media that shows him bloody outside the theater. Oh, my God.

It wasn't like he got pushed around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People, wow. There was another woman, a 21-year-old from Ningbo, China, who started hyperventilating and had trouble breathing because she was crying so hard during Endgame. And they had to give her oxygen and relax her emotions by appeasement was what the doctor said. Relax her emotions by appeasement. Is that our foreign policy when Hitler was in power? Right, exactly.

What the fuck was... Wait, how do you... I'm sorry. You just give them anything they want? Yeah, I've never even seen someone articulate that. And relaxed her emotions by appeasement. This could be a bad translation. I'm not going to lie to you.

Yeah, but I just kind of like that, though, too. Right. Like, that that's a medical strategy. Like, okay, what do you want? We immediately gave her oxygen and relaxed her emotions by appeasement, reducing her hyperventilation symptoms. Maybe the relaxing emotions by appeasement were just like, you know, none of this shit's real, right? Oh, sure. Those are just actors.

I don't know if that would help her she was like oh so he's the iron man i didn't know uh and so movie theaters in china are screening end game every 15 minutes uh like i said 99 of all movie tickets that were bought this weekend were sold there so one of the things that was going around in the media was that the reason the Avengers are so successful is they don't do the cheap catering to Chinese interests like having just a bunch of random product placement, except they totally have done that. They just whitewashed out a bunch of the stuff

that they've done, like Tony Stark using a Vivo phone, which is a phone that is only available in China and is like a burner. It's their version of a burner phone. Like a Boost Mobile phone? Yeah, it's like their worst phone. And Tony Stark is always using that. He's the tech guy.

Why would he have a shitty burner phone? Right. That's exactly right. Okay, great. They didn't even bother getting it right. I'm sure they were just like, who wants to pay us the most money? Yikes. Yeah, the other product placement that without seeing the film,

and I would just see on social media, everyone was yelling about was Audi. Right. People were getting hammered in the skull with Audi product placement. Right. And if that's a spoiler for you, I'm sorry. It's just crazy that all of these diverse people with superhero abilities would all choose audi would all choose the refinement and engineering of a german specialty the other car companies all disappeared right they were all randomly chosen it's just really bad luck yep

but good luck except for audi uh but maybe this explains why it was so popular in germany we were talking on monday how, uh, super producer Anna Hosnia just came back from, uh, Germany and, uh, said it was like this really high culture, like one big Williamsburg. So I was just expressing surprise that it was still, everybody was like, yes, we must go take in the culture of the Avengers. Uh, I don't know. Oh, we love it. take in the culture of the Avengers. Oh, we love it.

Yes. And there's been a bunch of other things. They shot extra scenes in Iron Man 3 where Tony Stark is saved by a Chinese surgeon. And the movie opens against a black screen. What does Iron Man rely on to revitalize his energy? And after a three-second blackout, the answer is a guli duo, which is a Chinese milk drink.

That's how Iron Man 3 starts. Wait, that's how the motherfucking movie starts? No way. Whoa. There's an aggressive pre-roll that's baked into the film that's like, this is an ad for a milk drink. That's so crazy.

Anybody claiming that they were like subtle or you know did anything better than other movies is probably uh wrong or at least they did it as bad as other movies uh dr strange had a less kind of ridiculous or like a more problematic one because the main antagonist the ancient one is typically a tibetan character but because tibet doesn't exist according to the chinese government they just turned that character into a british woman played by tilda swinton oh so they acted like tilda swinton and shitty yellow face was was just some random British woman? Yeah. Wow. Oh, boy. They're even like, yeah, and that is just the white lady.

Yeah. And a screenwriter actually said it in an interview. He said, he originates from Tibet. So if you acknowledge that Tibet is a place and that he's Tibetan, you risk alienating one billion people who think that's bullshit and risk the chinese government going hey you know one of the biggest film watching countries in the world we're not gonna show your movie because you decided to get political so yeah there's out of here with that though jesus um that's like sort of the darkness too of dealing with like the capitalism being like well there's a market there right Right. And it's like, okay, so is Google going to help them suppress internet information from people?

Or is Marvel Films going to deny the existence of Tibet to get those dollar bills, y'all? It's very authoritarian because it's super flaky what they choose to ban and what they choose not to ban in China. and what they choose not to ban in China. Like their official censorship guidelines technically prohibit movies that promote cults or superstition, which is just a holdover from the Communist Party's secular ideology. But they also banned Christopher Robin because people have compared President Xi to Winnie the Pooh. Right.

Whoa. And it's a lighthearted joke because he kind of looks like Winnie the Pooh. Right. Whoa. And he, like, it's a lighthearted joke because he, like, kind of looks like Winnie the Pooh, just, like, in his physical stature. And he has a smiley face. Yeah. He has, like, a nice face. He's like, no, that movie's not allowed.

Oh, that's cute. Why? Just because it's a stuffed bear he doesn't want to be compared to? Yeah. Oh, somebody's mad. Somebody's, oh, you tight, huh, G? Yeah. Mr. Winnie the Pooh.

Wow. But, yeah, for instance, they've also banned movies about time travel because they think it's disrespectful to history. But apparently Endgame has all sorts of time bending stuff. I think any movie with Doctor Strange would have time bending shit. I love that. Don't fuck with time travel out of respect for history yeah I know all right Christopher Robin can fuck right off and it it works apparently whatever they do

it is working in China because they are wild about it uh all right we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back Defne 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 My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere,

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and we're back and william barr has apparently just decided to be officially the villain of modern american history yeah mr full-blown cover-up i mean so you know the house judiciary committee is like we want to have william barr come here to explain a lot of things around the muller report like like what's up with the weird letter you wrote that has a lot of inconsistencies with what is in the actual Mueller report? What about when you're screaming no collusion, when that's not really even a legally defined term having to do with the Mueller report? It seems like before your pre-Mueller report launched spin party, when you were just saying all the things the president would like to hear. There's a lot of, again, it just seems like you're obscuring the truth. So we want to have you explain things to us a little bit because there's a lot of murky shit going on.

And on the Senate side, William Barr will testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, but that's led by Mr. Passive himself, Lindsey Graham. And he's made it very clear that the purpose of this hearing is not in any way to press William Barr. His whole thing is like, well, you know, the report came out. He says, there's really nothing to charge. I'm just tired of it. We just need to move on. And he's just trying to just spike this and be like, can we just forget about this? But again, many people have been pointing out with Lindsey Graham, about this. But again, many people have been pointing out with Lindsey Graham, not even in 2019, for years past, right, that he really only saves his energy to talk about impeachment for Democrats. When it comes to Republicans, suddenly he lost all his spine pills and it just like

turns into an invertebrate sack of jelly and is like, I don't know, we figured it all out. So again, you know, a lot of it to do, especially when asked about impeachment, he's like, well, I don't really see a reason to look into this because no crime was committed. And really, if there was, then maybe we should impeach him if they can prove there was a crime. Allow us to just revisit his comments when Bill Clinton was going through his scandals. So the point I'm trying to make is you don't even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic. This body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role because impeachment Impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office.

Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office. Hell yeah. Oh, wait, no, that was 20 years ago. Yeah. So everyone's like, um, what happened to that energy, Lindsay? And again, he's just weaseling around. So because of that, Jerry Nadler, who's running the House Judiciary Committee, he's like, look, this is what I want to do. You need to come up here. We're going to ask you what we need to know. And I don't care about what you – William Barr's trying to be like, I'll answer these questions.

And they're like, you have this the wrong way, sir. We are summoning you because we have an oversight role, and you have to explain to us what is going on. And there's a lot of, you know, like, I don't know, blah, blah, blah, back and forth. We are summoning you because we have an oversight role and you have to explain to us what is going on. And there's a lot of, you know, like, I don't know, blah, blah, blah, back and forth. And Jerry Nadler has now insisted that or at least the rumor is I'm sure that's actually just being fully reported now that the the way he wants to run this hearing is members will get a chance to have their questioning. And then they'll allow the like the lawyers for like the for each party to then engage in questioning for 30-minute rounds. Because we've seen these kinds of hearings before where it's all over the place and people aren't really hammering effective lines of questioning in. And it can get a little disjointed and doesn't quite render the answers. Because when you only have five minutes, it's easy to run that fucking clock out. Especially when we saw,

was it Dick Toilet who ran the clock out recently? Like, I think your time's up. Yeah. Matt Whitaker, who was just straight up like, hmm, I'm going to talk this slow and maybe like, so the point of having lawyers is you can give them, they are well-versed in questioning people and they can have a very focused line of questioning that they can commit to the record. William Barr does wants nothing to do with that. And he's saying like,

well, I agreed to speak with the committee. So I mean, I intend to speak with the members, not the lawyers and acting like this is unprecedented. A cut to, do you remember Brett Kavanaugh when they had that lawyer in there to do to handle some of the questioning with christine blasey ford this is not new this is not out of the norm yeah this is part of

effectively checking the powers of certain branches of the government and this happens to be a moment where you're looking at the attorney general and everything fucking stinks about him and all he's doing it seems to be just in service of whatever the the president's narrative is around this report so we'll see because it's a big deal especially like to have an attorney general just straight up being like nah i'm good that's not normal and so nadler is now i think saying that if he doesn't want come i could subpoena you, and then we can do it that way. But this is a time, it'll be very interesting to see how the leadership on the left handles this sort of like outright insubordination. Yeah. And it's also worth noting that they don't need to argue or prove that you don't need crimes to impeach, since the Mueller report openly gives all the evidence that the

president committed the crime of obstruction of justice and then was like I can't charge him with it but Congress sure can. Right. Yeah. So. Yikes. I feel a bit naive because I'm sort of like how do you get so many people in on the wrong side

and also they're winning. Yeah well I think you know when it's about money and power and like your end game of like, how do you get so many people in on the wrong side and also they're winning? Yeah. Well, I think, you know, when it's about money and power and like your end game, Avengers, is all about maintaining that, then you'll get your by any means on whenever there's a drought. Get your umbrellas out because that's when I brainstorm. Yeah. Yeah. So you're on the Ari Melber podcast now, right?

Injecting random rap lines. As my friend Jay-Z once said. Get your umbrellas out because that's when I brainstorm. Okay. Flyer than a piece of paper bearing my name. I got the hottest chick in the game wearing my chain. That's right, Hov. We're just going to do the rest of this episode.

We're just going to recite Black Album. Oh, and i cannot participate oh i know it's better that you just look at us like what the fuck is going on just a lot of to check on our delusional power yes yes yes yes um yeah and just in in the context of like other impeachments like this is i don't know when you when you look at what the Mueller report says Trump did both in the first part when he's openly taking aid from Russian intelligence sources and also in the second when he's obstructing justice like it's I don't know I was reading an article from our sponsor, The Economist. Ah, The Economist. The Economist, where they were just kind of laying it out kind of a thousand feet away, like the macro view on it and just comparing it to like U.S. history and who's been impeached. And it's really not a good case that they have to make. And also like what Barr said and how carefully worded it was is just wild.

Well, yeah, these people aren't loyal to the office anymore. They're loyal to the power of the office. And that's why we have perversions of the power like this, because even the people who are meant to check them are like, man, but you know, it's kind of a different game now. We're just trying to like cheat our way into keeping power. So I'm just going to keep my mouth shut, even if it does mean I'm bringing on the downfall of this representative democracy. Okay, got to go. All right. Let's talk about hope.

Let's talk about Beto. Hope solo? Hope solo. Okay. Yeah, Beto O'Rourke. Yeah. He's got a plan. Yes, he's got a plan, it seems like.

Yeah. He's been kind of the guy that people were accusing of just having a bunch of broad platitudes, but not really having any of those policy ideas that Elizabeth Warren has been putting out there and Bernie has been running on for five years now. But he actually put something together. Yeah, an aggressive climate change plan. Like five trillion. We're talking about over 10 years. And a lot of it harmonizes with the Green New Deal and a lot of stuff is pretty aggressive. I mean, first, it's like, look, we got to get back in the Paris Climate

Agreement. Okay. Yeah. I like that. That makes very much sense to me. Then also setting a net zero. Oh, shout out to net zero. Net zero emissions carbon budget for federal lands by 2030 and adding more national parks and to protect the land. Okay. I like that too. Then we're talking about the $5 trillion over 10 years is to upgrade infrastructure and

put $250 billion directly into research and development. So, okay. Look, I like that. Putting money into science again. We've de-emphasized that quite a bit. What's that? Don't worry. It's like the shit with people. We used to do it, but we don't do it anymore. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Then there's another plan, $1.5 trillion investment from... So basically, the revenue is going to be generated, according to this plan, by structural changes to the tax code that ensure corporations and the wealthiest among us pay their fair share. Okay. And that we finally end the tens of billions of dollars of tax breaks currently given to

fossil fuel companies. All right. Yeah. I'm seeing the money there. I'm seeing some money there. And then also wants to make the United States a net zero emissions country by 2050. Oh, wow. And try and create a legally enforceable standard in his first 100 days if he is to be elected.

And then taking on sort of the immediate effects of wildfire floods and things like that, proposing a federal crop insurance program, increased spending on pre-disaster mitigation grants, legislation to make sure communities affected by disaster build back stronger after storms. Puerto Rico, please. Right. Help them. Help them. Help us because we're all Americans here.

So, you know, again, it's the first sort of concrete little plan that he's put out for people to kind of sink their teeth into. And, you know, it's a good, just nice, feel-good one because it's climate change. It's not specifically dealing with, like, other heavier topics, but one that I think is good because he's trying to put that at the forefront because it is such a pressing issue. So, yeah. I mean, it's pretty heavy, but it's not controversial, right? It's not like everybody wants to address climate change. Well, it's not like he came out with a gun control bill. You know what I mean? Exactly. That's. I mean, it's pretty heavy, but it's not controversial, right? It's not like everybody wants to address climate change. Well, it's not like he came out with a gun control bill.

You know what I mean? Exactly. That's what I mean. It's like, it's easier to be like, okay, this will get centrists on. This will get my progressive people to be like, okay, he's thinking about that. And even people who might be moderate or like, you know, independents who acknowledge climate change. Like, okay, this is a plan. Yeah.

I think it's just like $5 trillion is the only thing that people would be like, where's that from? Where? Yeah. Right. It's like- I ain't gonna pay for that. Yeah.

It's like, what about the trillions and billions we've given away from the tax break? Whatever. Yeah. Yeah. You're not worried about us paying for their tax breaks. I still like that dude's answer in the Fox News trip to Middle America's diner where he was just like, well, we paid for world war ii we didn't like have a big like yeah we weren't crying about that yeah we didn't have a bunch of money set aside in

case hitler came along we figured out a way to address a global crisis that was like threatening the safety and lives of all of humanity well maybe we can relax the climate's emotions through appeasement. Yes, maybe. You're like, what do you want, a blood sacrifice? Just want some water. We'll give it to you. Yeah. I would ask how you net out at zero emissions.

Is there something you do that sucks the emissions back? Because you can't have no emissions, but net zero, I'm assuming, means there's some sort of machine or trees. Yeah, or probably just emphasizing replanting things and addressing deforestation and things like that. And I'm sure even carbon credits or something, whatever that is. Yeah. Does Mother Nature honor carbon credits?

We're going to find out when I pull up with all these carbon credit gift cards uh at a volcano when the magma is consuming my body anyways we could talk about uh bullshit like that but we have to talk we have to move on to uh what is i think the story of uh the day maybe the millennium maybe our generation uh we're talking of course about and maybe our generation. We're talking, of course, about Moby's coming memoir in which he brags about having rubbed his dick on Donald Trump in the aftermath of September 11th

for some reason. Yeah. This was published in the Daily Beast, like this excerpt from his, as you say, his memoir called Then It Fell Apart. I guess it's about his career. Oh, wow. We'll keep this standing. Oh, Miles. as you say his memoir called then it fell apart i guess it's about his career um and oh wow

oh my for mobian here come on i mean look i think he's chill i mean i've never been to his vegan restaurant yeah to me he's just a restaurateur yeah he's exactly a vegan visionary that's right um but you know uh again look this is about him rubbing his dick on the president. So he starts off this excerpt with like this, I guess, context. So this is how it starts off. He goes, after September 11th, 2001, the only way in which I knew how to process my grief was to stay drunk, do as many drugs as possible, and throw myself into whatever degeneracy flowed out of New York's perpetually degenerate spigot. Sometimes the degeneracy was gritty and old school. Cheap drugs and dive bars and sex and tetanus-y bathrooms. Tetanus-y bathrooms.

Yeah, he created a new adjective. And sometimes the degeneracy was gilded. Helicopters to Staten Island and parties with billionaires. And then he goes on to sort of set this up and then sort of say, like, at the time I was super drunk and I'm still not, quote, I'm still not 100%

sure it actually happened but even though this happened almost 20 years ago I'm still perpetually stunned by the fact that Americans elected as president a dim-witted con man whose only claim to fame is that he once hosted a mediocre reality tv show so then we get into the meat of this excerpt uh first of all is he trying to establish himself as the cool, eligible bachelor bad boy of 9-11? Sort of. I guess. I don't know. He was like, yeah, dude, 9-11 was crazy, man.

9-11 was crazy times, man. Drug-filled sex wrongs. Man, I took it harder than anyone else, man. He's talking about it like it's the summer of 69 or the summer of love. It's just a weird context for a story. Anyway, so we go into it he's talking to this woman clarice uh it says hey i said once we were inside the party this is where i met david bowie clarice's eyes widened you met david bowie actually now he's my neighbor we wave

at each other from our balconies what come over later and i'll show you i told her she smiled inscrutably uh then we go on some dude dude named Dale comes up. Dale, I said, once we had ordered drinks, tell Carissa about knob touch. First off, you're beautiful, he told her. Why did he add that detail? He didn't need any of these details. That's Dale, dude. I don't know. And then she goes, I think I'm worried that if you continue this story, I might become a Trump supporter.

Well, hold on to your butts. She's a Miss USA runner up, I said, proud of my new friend. Okay, Dale continued. Knob touch is when you take your penis out of your pants at a party and brush it up against someone. Ew, Clarice said, grimacing. And that's sexy? No, no, he said, seriously, it's not sexual. It's just stupid and funny and sexual assault.

You only knob touch their clothes, and the person you knob touch can't know they've been knob touched. Clarice turned to me. Have you done this? No, I admit it. Okay, then they go on. So at this point, you know, he's talking about like he's been drinking. He's just all over the place. 9-11 happened.

So he's not, doesn't know what to do. He's legitimately like that Tobias Fugate moment in Arrested Development where he's like, I'm not going to blame it all on 9-11, but it certainly didn't help. So they were at some party, right? And they see Donald Trump. Right. So then they go on, Moby, go knob touch Donald Trump. He said, really?

I asked, should I? Donald Trump was a mid-level real estate developer and tabloid newspaper staple whose career had recently been resuscitated by a reality TV show. Yeah, Dale said. Yeah, Clarice said mischievously. Shit, I said, realizing I now had to knob-touch Donald Trump. Oh my God. I drank a shot of vodka to brace myself, pulled my flaccid penis out of my pants, and casually walked past Trump, trying to brush the edge of his jacket with my penis. Luckily, he didn't seem to notice or even twitch.

How? What? And that's so then it goes on right after. What do you mean there's more? Well, because there's a nice, as we say in comedy, there's a nice button on this little bit here. Oh, please. So it didn't even twitch.

I walked back to my friends and ordered another drink. Did you do it, Clarice asked? I think so. I think I knob touched Donald Trump. After a few more drinks, I asked Clarice, do you want to come to my house and see David Bowie's balcony? That's a pretty good pickup line. Okay. Oh, my God.

So, like, we got in a cab to head down Broadway. Then it goes on. And then, like, he gets that girl or something. Like, he gets, this is the story of how he impressed a woman into sleeping with him by knob touching Donald Trump. That certainly impressed a Miss USA runner up by doing it. So as anybody who's come to our live show would know,

Donald Trump first resuscitated his career with a reality show in 2004. Yes. So Moby is still... Timeline doesn't add up. Still drunk and doing drugs and pulling his flaccid penis out. Talk about putting a button on something.

I'm saying he has a little dick. So three years later, he's still like, 9-11. What happened to him? Did he lose his whole ah. 9-11. The Twin Towers. Wow, what happened to him? Did he lose his whole family in 9-11? No, I don't know. I mean, I get it for being a New Yorker and that happening.

For sure, it's his city. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like, yeah, I don't know the whole thing of like, I don't know if you need to connect that to you trying to justify you pulling your dick out and rubbing the. It's just like bro-y, like frat boy shit. Yeah. It comes off very non-Moby for what my idea of Moby is.

Right. Like this vegan restaurateur. Right. Yikes. Very non-Moby, dude. Very non-Moby. That's what we always say to each other. That's more, yeah.

When people do something, not chill. Well, now that everybody has that image in their mind, we're going to take a quick break. Bleach our ears real quick. 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 unhurts 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. 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 Prudente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions. Like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed?

Or, can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes. Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Saner. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it like you miss 100% of the shots you never take? Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself.

Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese.

I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them. Why is that? I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch.

She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really hear them. Why is that? Just come here to play basketball

every single day and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black.

I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to The Making of a Rivalry, Caitlin Clark vs. Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back

in Game of Thrones, you guys. This is the other cultural event that defined this past weekend is defining the past 24 48 hours on Twitter.

Yep. There won't be spoilers yet, okay? There won't be. So just so you know, you can keep listening to this. If you haven't heard it, we're just going to talk around it, and then we will give you the full warning when it's time to spoil this shit. Real quick, do you guys think, like,

24 hours is enough time for a TV show to spoil it like do you think that's fair to give people like this is such this is an event this is like trying to like not have the Super Bowl spoiled the day after the Super Bowl sure like yeah it feels like that sort if you're interested in Game of

Thrones if you're that into it where a spoiler would fuck it up for you you would drag your belly across broken glass to try and get a way to, to find a way to see it in time. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure.

Wait, so this, are there levels to this when you're asking 24 hours? So 24 hours is TV and then movies, you have two weeks to see the movie. This is what, Vulture,

they polled their readers. They polled their readers and 70% of respondents are okay with talking about a TV show within 24 hours. And then with movies, it's 78% give the okay after two weeks. 60% say one week. So it's... I mean, I think...

I don't know about 24 hours. 48 feels good. Yeah, you need at least another evening evening because people are out of work that day and then they can't spend the day watching the show. It sounds like a lot of like out of work people were responding. Like, yeah,

dude, if you're not watching that, like, because I was saying, even when I like had 12 hour days working like production. Right. There would,

like when Game of Thrones on, there would, I would literally be working from like 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. And then I'll be asleep most of the time. And then I'll have a very small window where I can maybe squeeze Game of Thrones in. And then also trying to avoid like people on the set who had already seen it. But yeah, I guess I think 48 is safe at that point.

Yeah. But I mean, I don't want to like make it hot. I don't want to make it bad for people who have to work or have other time constraints. This episode is coming out Tuesday morning. People will have had Sunday when everybody, most people watch it. Yeah, and then Monday. And then Monday night to get another chance to watch it.

Unless they're, you know, like doing a crazy long shift in which case you have to know that people, like stay off Twitter, stay off social media. Just, you know, like that's the price of not having it spoiled. I also don't give a shit about spoilers. Yeah, some level I do because there's just, you need to have that moment where you truly aren't, you don't know where you're at.

And then you let the thing resolve and you're like, oh, okay, that's how we went with it. I hate spoilers. I can't. I'll be so upset really yeah i gotta be i gotta see it first well yeah we live in the age of weaponized spoilers because like i was seeing on reddit people were spamming like the donald trump subreddit with like endgame avengers endgame spoilers and like people declaring cultural cultural warfare

on each other with weaponized spoilers no but that's what's funny like where we're at now people like i know how to fuck with these people's fun. Spoilers. Spoilers. That was the thing I saw a couple years ago for Game of Thrones. There was a substitute teacher that would, like, if the kids were misbehaving, he would, like, he read the book, so he was ahead, and he knew who was gonna die, and would write

the name of who's gonna die next up on the board, and the kids wouldn't shut up. Oh my god. It's like, this is back when we were behind the books on the show. Right, right, right, right. Mm-hmm. Now we're ahead. Now we know what happens.

So I guess, should we discuss this in depth? Any spoiler-less impressions from the show that we can talk about? No, because that'll be a, I have to elaborate if I'm going to talk. Yeah, I mean. Yeah. All right. All right. Let's just get into it guys.

Look, if y'all look, if you don't want spoilers and you, you know, you're working hard or whatever it is, or you need to log in, skip forward 17 minutes. So the big final scene,

Aria coming from nowhere. I heard somebody compare it to Dame's last second shot from 37 feet. Yeah, just like, just coming out of nowhere, doing the, I also heard it compared to Jordan with the hand switch layup. I was particularly feeling that. Okay, if we want to-

Arya stance. If we're going to talk about that moment specifically, that was cool that Arya killed the Night King. Shout out to you, Arya. A few questions. Okay. Where the fuck did you come from, my lady? I think that she was one of the Ice Knight princes.

So you think she walked in with the lieutenants? Yeah, because they do that shot of the one whose hair wisps past his face real quick right before she jumps in out of nowhere. I think that's just... Wasn't that her? Oh, that's it. I like that theory. Or was that someone like noticing someone running up but not fast enough?

I think that's what it was. Okay, well, forget me then. Because, so one problem with that theory that I've heard raised is that she would have had to have killed one of those dudes who were kind of laying back. One of the lieutenants. One of the lieutenants, yeah.

One of the guys who I think look like Chris Elliott with long hair. Yo, don't take shots at Chris Elliott. I love Chris Elliott. Well, who is that a compliment to? The White Walker or Chris Elliott? I'm failing to see the compliment. No, just like, you know, Chris Elliott looked like a rotty corpse with wispy hair.

When he plays like somebody with long wispy hair. Oh, okay. Sure. He's not trying to be a heartthrob in those roles. When he's Wuganowski with all the breaking out all over the place. Yeah, exactly. So one of the possible issues with that is that we never see her get that close to those dudes. Those dudes kind of stick close to the Night King where they're sitting back in the cut the whole time.

So she would have had to have killed one of them to take their face. I mean, another option, aren't they surrounded by whites already? Yeah, it looked like a BET cipher. Right. It was a crowd there. Couldn't she have just killed a zombie,

been one of the people around the... She could have. Right. And then just run up from there. But it feels like you would have wanted to see that moment where you see a white and you're like, oh shit, Arya became a white. Oh shit. Rather than this really bizarre deus ex machina kind of savior moment, which felt, sorry, I'm going to say it, felt a little lazy to me, Game of Thrones writers, because it was a little too neat that in one go, it's all gone like that in a way that I felt could have been played out for a little more drama. I don't know, that's just me.

The reasons I didn't have a problem with it, she knows Winterfell better than anybody. She grew up playing there and is a badass. And so it's like she's on her home court. That's how underdogs always win in battle. Asymmetrical warfare on their territory. Asymmetrical warfare on their turf, or on their own turf so you

know who she might have dug a tunnel or you know not not like live in the moment but there might be like a tunnel that only she knows about yeah she's she's wily okay can we talk a little bit about the battle all right so let's talk about the things we liked first because I don't want to be just nitpicking this shit right away. Okay, fine. What did I like? They were super organized. They were really standing in their straight lines and layers.

They really had it. Good thing all those people of color ran off into the night for them. They definitely sent the people of color first. The slave army and the heathens Yeah, we sent all the Dothraki first. They definitely sent the people of color first. All right, we got the first two waves. We got the slave army. Right.

And the heathens. Right. With the fire swords. Yeah, the fire swords shot, though, when they were all riding off and you saw it from a distance was fucking... I was like, hell yeah, fuck yeah. And then when those all got slowly extinguished,

that was like... Very sad. It was so ominous. Eerie and ominous. Because they raised your morale with millisandra being like hold up your motherfucking sword and it was like oh shit now we got a little boost and then off to it being just like boom that was among yeah like that i think they established like a feeling of dread as good as anything i've ever watched yeah that

whole like build up what else did I like? I liked the battle between the dragon and the little girl. I mean, that was fucked up. Or the giant. You mean the giant? Oh my God. I like the battle between the giant and the little girl. I think I cried.

I did. I had a moment. Yeah, that was fucked up. Because you hear her bones crunch and then she still stands in the eyeball. I think so. I was in denial. I think she got squeezed.

Yeah, she did. Yikes. How do you think they made that sound effect? Oh, yeah. They just collect all the... No, they have Chicken Day on set for catering

and they get all the chicken bones and they're like, all right, here, the Foley guys are like... You're like, is that good? Another take? Here, give me some more bones. Visceral.

Yeah. I'm glad she went out like a G. I mean, House Mormont did their thing. Hell yeah. Shout out to Jorah. That moment actually made me the saddest. I thought Theon dying would,

but he kind of went out like whatever. Nah, I didn't care when he died. I was more moved when he told Yara he was leaving her to go back to Winterfell. I was like, I like that. To go die. He knew he was going to die. He was out here like a kamikaze. Yeah. I will say you point out something that occurred to me in the moment, too,

that his charge, his last charge was not heroic. No. It was like me trying to beat the Golden State Warriors in a game of one-on-five. Yeah. Going straight at them. Yo, that doesn't even look good to the naked eye. No, terrible idea. You don't even look trained at all.

And I was like, look at Lily allen's brother go right totally but with jorah when he died yo i don't know if it was just me like i i felt like he wanted to tell daenerys he loved her but then he just didn't he's done it before i know but i felt like he had that moment too like he just basically fucking acted like as a human bulletproof vest against whites. And then was like, I don't know. That was maybe me projecting on him. I think he was going to tell her he loved her. He just died like that.

Yeah. Desus from Desus and Mero was pointing out that she was still giving him the side hug. Still being like, oh, but you're such a good guy. I wish you weren't dying. Such a good bud. Friends until the end. Friends until good guy. Yeah. I wish you weren't dying. Such a good bud. Friend zone till the end zone. Yeah. Friend zone till the end zone.

Seriously, that's all day. And not the end zone as in scoring. No. The end zone is when you're surrounded by White Walkers. Yeah, and then you die. And you're like, hey, can you fight them really quick? So one question just on the Aria coming in and out of nowhere and Bran being there and the bait in the end that I think is an

unanswered question that if we get an answer to it it could sort of satisfy the question of how Arya came out of nowhere is where Bran was working to. That is kind of weird because he wasn't just in the crows the whole time, right? No, that's the first

moment we see in there. Who knows? Right. Unless he was being a real lazy asshole. Hey, y'all handle this. I'm going to just kind of warg out to a beach. Right. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, a lot of people... I remember early on when we first found out he had warg ability, we were like, oh, man, then he's going to warg into the dragons. But the dragons are better at being dragons than he is. Yeah. Unless he warged into the blue dragon. Oh God.

Like, and it's funny, right? Cause I liked the episode, but it's one of those moments where I'm having to reconcile what happened with what my expectations were because that last episode had me fucked up before this one. I was like,

Oh, everyone's dying. Like they really sold me on that. And for, you know, for not one of like the bigger characters to die, I felt was a little everyone's dying yeah like they really sold me on that and for you know for not one of like the bigger characters to die i felt was a little weird and also like the they were sort of the physics of the fight not necessarily scientifically but like i like gray worm was

literally on the front line and then cut to my man retreating and he's like soloing in the middle of winterfell like still doing it i would love to see body counts for every person. Right. I thought Brienne of Tarth died maybe three times. Oh my gosh. Yeah, she was on my dead list. I made a big dead list and then nobody died. Yeah.

The first time she got pulled down by those walkers, I was like, she's out. She's done. I was like, great. Not like great, but I was like, this is the severity of this battle that I was kind of expecting. That is the last shot you see in a zombie movie.

And then the next time you see that person, they are a zombie. Yep. And they did that like twice with her. I was like, okay, we're going to see a blue eyed. Yeah.

No one even had to kill the zombie version of their best friend or anything when they came back to life. It was none of, none of that. Uh, Jon Snow, terrible general, terrible,

terrible leader. That was bad. What happened to him? Uh, my partner, her majesty, she was like, why didn't they use the dragons first? And I was like, yeah, I get that. But, you know, one of them could have got speared.

And I was like spinning my wheels trying to justify like why it was okay. Despite like when they first pulled up, you're like, I feel like they should have done that earlier. Yeah. I mean, we didn't know what was back there. It was all dark. You know, they could have had like a big giant like anti-aircraft spear thing, like ready to shoot the dragon out of the sky. The only thing that I loved the episode, I thought all the battle stuff. Oh, yeah.

Even though like there's some stuff that you can go back and be like, that wasn't the smartest thing. And the whole cavalry like out there at once and just like blowing all that on the first run like that doesn't totally make sense but it looked cool as shit and it like let them do that thing where they like had the flames going in and then they were all extinguished and like that was badass

the thing I can't get past is the crypt like everybody saw that coming the second they were like you are hiding is the crypt. Like, everybody saw that coming. The second they were like, you are hiding in the crypt. It's safe. The one thing we know about the Night King's power is he's able to raise the dead. Literally go pull up

just bring his palms in an upward motion and he's now weaponized your grandpa's corpse. That's it. That moment was dope on the battlefield when he just turned to Jon. The Night King, I think, had the best episode. He did. Her Majesty.

Yo, she watches it. She watches a little bit. She goes, the Night King kind of has big dick energy. Oh, my gosh. I was like, why? He's just strong, but he doesn't really say nothing. I mean, that he just smirked after those flames. Yeah.

What a dick. Him and his generals walking into that final scene in slow motion what like it reminded me of the shot in mean girls where they're all like walking down the hall and just like feeling themselves and like you're like man that's what i wish i was like in high school like they looked like the cool kids in high school walking in there he was just like kind of even the way he was swinging his arms was big dick energy like yeah it was just funny that they were like they almost made it like hey maybe this show is about the whites from now on and how cool this dude is uh yeah he's like making jokes like oh you're so funny right but he was he's definitely feeling himself i thought they did a good job with the

night king because like that's you know that he's's not the best enemy because he's just like a monster with no facial expressions. But I don't know. It was still cool. It still worked for me. The Crypt should not have surprised fucking anyone. The cleverest person in the realm. What did people think of Samwell's fighting? Because my man checked out and I'm a little upset at him

he was literally like on a pile of dead bodies on his back I feel like one of you like yo my man that's a regular dude who's already dead what the fuck are you doing that's still my guy I think because I totally

that's what I would be doing in battle, is faking dead and then just stabbing anything that moved next to me, even if it was my brother in arms. Not on purpose. Yeah, yeah, I get it. Even though, yeah, I remember when I was watching something at the sink

and I turned around and you had a knife like this and you're like, oh. Nothing, just watching some Game of Thrones. I guess looking forward now. This is what I asked for. Do we think now, I mean, because Jon Snow does not look like he's ready for that throne. No, man. And so at first I was like, oh, no.

Are we making it look like Jon's going to end up on the Iron Throne? And now I feel like Daenerys kind of has a claim to be like, you know what, bro? I know I am rooting for Daenerys to take his ass out that would be great I have a weird thing where I have called Sansa as the winner and I got nothing on it but that's my

that's my big twist cause Sansa wins the whole thing when you think about the show like from beginning to end it's sort of the story of the Starks so I I mean, that would, if they're going to do a traditional like happy ending, like everybody gets what you were hoping they would get or like some version of it. I feel like that would make the most sense.

Either Jon Snow or one of the Starks ending up on the throne. And we already got one of the Starks killing the main bad guy. But I'm so invested in Daenerys being on the throne and we already got one of the starks killing the main bad guy but i'm so invested in daenerys being me too oh yeah fucking the whole thing the whole show has been about her moving heaven and earth oh yeah to get there and if they play her like that i don't that that could be a i don't know i mean i'm sure it's like any show like it's never going to be the way you think it's going to end but yeah yeah it would be a shame to have a character that's like so dope and has like a very clear mission for to

fall apart but man she can't die i'll be so mad yeah well look now that i got what i want well well no we thought that like i thought so many people were gonna die last night and then they just didn't so you know i'm happy we have softies three episodes to play the game of thrones but uh at least we get clegane bowl now yeah we get oh yeah i'm like seriously is a great character when she's like fucking people over and just like you know doing smart like she does earn her reputation as being very canny and clever oh yeah um so i i like her fighting against Jon, fighting against Daenerys, like those being the three sides.

It's going to be interesting. It does make me think, there was a question for me after the show outpaced the books, we stopped having those really visceral, horrifying things happen to characters we liked. Oh, right, right, right. Like the Red Wedding and the mountain,

and now the mountain dying and then being brought back. I mean, we all love the mountain, right? Oh, love a zombie. Love a zombie love story. What he did to the dude who was like the- Poked his eyes out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What was it called?

The Sand Snake? The Sand Viper. The Sand Viper. There we go. Was that called the Viper in the Mountain or something? It's all about combat. I guess one question I've had is whether they're going to sort of bend things more towards Hollywood ending because now they are just trying to satisfy-

It's not George R.R. Martin anymore. And now it's a global phenomenon. So you can't just like have, that's what, and the fact that every character we like have an investment in survived last night. And that was, so the crypt.

And then the other thing was that we would see like Jamie or Brienne just like being piled on. And then they'd just like, somebody else would come up and just be like, slash, slash, slash. And they'd all fall away.

Yeah, it's like, what were they doing on you? Like just hugging you? Yeah, right. slash, and they'd all fall away. Yeah, it's like, what are they doing on you? Like, just hugging you? Yeah, right. It's actually not that bad, guys. They just want kisses. Right. But yeah, because I saw people write them like,

yo, they're cowards. Yeah. Because I think they were thinking that the showrunners were considering the pushback from viewers if they were to take out a Tyrion or a Sans, like a main character. No, we're here for them to die. It's like motherfucker

if we were here after the Red Wedding where the fuck do you think we're going? We're here. Right. The thing that's great about this show is that anything can happen and I guess my question is whether anything can still happen. I'm with you. And look into that all I can say is guys we just don't know. We just don't know

how this will end. This is the latest Mueller report. This is our Mueller report. This is our Mueller report. Well, Kimia, it's been a pleasure having you talking Game of Thrones with you. Oh, yeah. Where can people find you?

You can follow me on Instagram at childclown. That's right. Don't forget. And then Twitter, same thing, childclown underscore because some other freak decided to be childclown first. Who's squatting on that? Have you checked the profile? They have like,

there's still the egg photo. It's like a nobody. I got to kick them out. I don't know what to do. Yeah, what are you going to do? So, so that's that.

Oh, you can also watch Abby's on NBC. Hey. Thursdays at 930. Yeah, yeah. It's a fun comedy.

Yeah, we got, look, we got bonafide TV actors in here. I. Thursdays at 9.30. Yeah, yeah. It's a fun comedy. Yeah, and we got, look, we got bonafide TV actors in here. I know. Look at you. Raising the status of this show. We just went from second rate to in between first and second rate.

Right. First and a half rate. First and a half rate. Wow. Honored. Thank you so much. All boats will rise. Move this up.

And Kimio, is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh, it's not a tweet. I don't actually think this is a niche account, but 41 Strange, I forget the handle there. I'll find it right now. They are just posting crazy weird facts or like pictures of birds,

which I brought up last time I was here. It's, yeah, it's at 41 Strange. Like the last thing I found from them is during the Victorian era special cups were made to keep your mustache out of the tea and then they have pictures of a cup that literally has a mustache shaped guard

over the sipping part so that you can still drink the drink but your mustache doesn't get wet it does look like a sippy cup but they'll post like a bunch of crazy stuff like weird art or like you never knew this animal existed. Now check, look at this. Wow.

Dragons. Yeah, it's fun. They're just weird fun facts. Awesome. You always find the coolest stuff, yeah. 41 Strange. Yeah. Miles, where can people find you?

Follow me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. A couple of tweets I like for people who actually guest hosted in the last couple of days. First from Andrew T, at Andrew T he says my sole takeaway from Avengers is that true heroes drive an Audi yeah and then another one from Lacey Mosley at Diva Lacey uh she said a guy I met on a dating app who I've never met in real life insisted on coming to my improv show with his sister they left five minutes before the show was over because his sister was too high. I don't have a take. My life is just weird.

Yep. What a weird ass thing to even hear. Like, what happened? Like, oh, my sister got too high. I didn't give you five minutes before. So weird. Although that's kind of understandable given the show, right? Like, doesn't everybody get super high at that show?

It wasn't that show. I don't think it was that show. Oh, it wasn't even that show? No, it was just a bangerang show that she was filling in for. So weird. I know. Then it makes you think of what that was like before. They're like, we're going to go see comedy. Let's get fucked up.

And then so uncomfortable that we have to leave. Sometimes for those of us who have panic attacks when we use cannabis, you can accidentally get that fucked up. Yeah, I'm sure. Sure?

Yeah. I'm just glad people are proud enough, are owning it enough that they're just like, I gotta get out of here because I used to just be like in my own skin like everybody knows. Oh yeah, yeah. So many people who just toughed it out

and they're like, yeah, that was the worst time I've ever had. I'm like, oh really? What? I'm like, oh, I just thought you were in love with the corner of the room. Right. All right.

Some tweets I've been enjoying. The volatile mermaid tweeted, behind every great woman, there's a man calling her unlikable. Dan Parzyk. So Charlotte Wilder tweeted, Arya Stark with the dame from 37 foot shot. And Dan tweeted, Night King. Honestly, it was a bad shot because that's what Russell Westbrook said.

And Doug fuck at big bag of keys tweeted, Wolf checking out a caveman. Bet if I turned into a tiny little idiot, that guy would give me food. 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 the daily zeitgeist is a production of iheart radio for more podcasts from iheart radio visit the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows

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And this song is called Daughter. Shout out to all the daughters out there. Aria's and Kimia's and Ana Josmie's of the world. Yeah, yeah. Sansa's, you know, doing her thing. But yeah, this is Quartet, Daughter. All right, we're going to ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast.

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