The Daily Zeitgeist - "FOX-itis" Caused Jan 6? Trump's Blog Incomprehensible!?

Episode Date: May 10, 2021

In episode 905, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Brodie Reed to discuss Jan 6th defendants claiming they have FOXITIS, Tucker Carlson's attempt at prolonging the pandemic, Floyd Mayweather versus the Paul brothers, hard seltzer companies gearing up for a war, Domino's The Noid mascot making a comeback, and more!FOOTNOTES: Lawyer blames 'Foxitis' for his US Capitol riot client's actions, as another defendant derails hearings with profane outbursts Did Tucker Carlson Say Forcing Kids To Wear Masks Outside Is ‘Child Abuse’? Tucker Carlson: How many Americans have died after taking the COVID vaccine? Tucker Carlson's Fox News colleagues call out his dangerous anti-vaccination rhetoric Tucker Carlson’s worst vaccine segment yet Tucker Carlson's blatant lie about the COVID-19 vaccines, debunked ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ Sheds More Major Advertisers as Boycott Grows Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tucker's streaming show SEE IT: Bedlam Breaks Out At Floyd Mayweather, Logan Paul Exhibition Fight Press Conference In Miami Sorry, Snobs. Hard Seltzer and Canned Cocktails Are Blowing Up Domino's brings back the Noid to destroy robot delivery vehicles The Noid gets back into video games with Crash Bandicoot crossover An Oral History of the Noid: a Tale of Pizza, Guns, and Madness Death And Pizza: How Domino’s Lost Its Mascot 6 Obscure Facts About the Noid Domino’s is bringing back the Noid, a mascot that once drove a man to take hostages Pizza Workers Can’t ‘Avoid Noid'--Held Hostage 5 Hours AS DOMINO’S NOID RETURNS, THERE’S AN APPETITE FOR MORE BRAND MASCOTS LISTEN: DJ B.Cause - Tee Shirt (SpottieOttie Edit) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I don't, I don't think it's that bad. CPK is it forever now? That is courtesy of Chrissy Yamaguchi-Maines. R-H-C-P-K. Continues. Continues forever. It's forever. It's a movement.

R-H-C-P-K is forever. Yeah. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! I had a different AK, but I want to keep the R-H-C-P-K trend going with something I've been annoying Her Majesty with in the home, which is, spinach dip just came too hot. Burned up my whole damn mouth. And that was,

I kept trying to do the scar tissue and I said, spinach dip. And she's like, no. She doesn't. And I played the episode. I played the episode with Brett. I'm like, you're gonna love this part. She's like, I don't want to listen to this. But then she did kind of laugh.

She was like, okay, low key, CP the K, CP the K, CP the K now. CP the K, CP the K, CP the K now. That's why we're still meant to be. But shout out to Hermadis. Yeah. Put up with that one. Shout out to her. We should say up top.

I'm not drooling because I'm so sloppy. I should say up top. I'm not drooling because I'm so slobby. We're both dealing with Vax brain, Vax, a night of Vax sleep. We got vaccinated yesterday as we're recording this end of last week. I woke up every three hours on the hour. I'm just a little bit tired. You have like the chills, all the bad shit. I have the chills.

And I'm going to say this, y'all. Don't get vaccinated. Yeah. Thank you. I'm just going little bit tired. You had the chills, all the bad shit. I had the chills. And I'm going to say this, y'all. Don't get vaccinated. Yeah. Thank you. I'm just going to say it. It's not worth it, y'all. I almost had to not do this podcast today. And if that's going to get in the way, no thanks.

No, but I feel really lucky that I don't have the uber flu that people have gotten. So I'm feeling, I mean, honestly, aside from being uncomfortable, we still... Shout out to DJ Daniel, who's got it worse than both of us. Got it same day. For some reason, we all got our second

dose on the same day. For some reason. It's the bro cycle. Bro cycle. Well, we, speaking of the bro cycle, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the brilliant, the talented, the hilarious

Brody Reed! What's up, fellas? Good to be back in the bro chair. It's me, Brody Reed, aka Fly Away on my pepper. I've tasted more than cheddar.

Do you guys like that song? Oh, hell yeah. Alright, CPK, man. We're here. We're here. It's good to be here. Don't listen to Miles, everyone. Don't get the Vax. Definitely get the Vaxx just get the first one it's funny how many people i've actually had to convince to get vaccinated yeah me too um i am

friends with like a bunch all of my close friends are just like hella old people. They come over, we play cards and we play chess and they tell me about the Tuskegee experiments and stuff like that. I have to show them a PowerPoint every single time. Okay. That's fair. That's fair. That's fair. That's fair. And I'm going to start off by saying that's fair. Absolutely. So I've had to convince people in my life to get first shot second shots third shots yeah but they're getting them i'm holding them down i'm putting them in their arms i got i got a friend to to get vaccinated because i said we wouldn't be able to go to a laker game oh uh-huh and he was like oh for real he's like oh okay yeah i should probably get that then

then i was like oh my god it's only i couldn't but i got real mad like i didn't tell him but i was like the fuck bro it wasn't everything else it was merely the thought of you getting embarrassed walking into staples center when they're like you've been vaccinated my man and you're like was that friend lebron james by the way because he doesn't seem to want to get vaccinated yeah which i understand because he does seem to be the only indestructible human being on the planet but still man you could be passing that shit around right i understand it from like a comic book level but not a reality based level where you still are human lebron they said i can't go to anime conventions anymore unless I get it.

So I also had to get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. We were also talking before we recorded about the difficulties socially of emerging back into the world. It's not easy. It's never been easy for me. I worked from home for four years just in a kitchen where my wife was going to medical school, so I barely saw her. And then we moved to L.A. from Columbia, Missouri, and I didn't know how to talk to people anymore.

I was like, I couldn't even be in a public setting. It was wild. I mean, some people would argue that you still don't know how to talk to people. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why is he only looking at my shoes? Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, be patient with yourselves, everyone.

We're all going to be a little awkward here at first. Yeah, we had to literally change full on our way of life rapidly. So, yeah, it'll take a minute to thaw. Yeah, start off simple get some um have some like board game parties before you have full-blown parties you know play some apples to apples or something yeah like stuff yeah you want to prevent like people getting so fucked up they start getting emotional phase of partying like that's like about a month in for me i'm gonna be like yo yo we're not no no we're not drinking like that we're not drinking like that no we are at a pool party right now yeah exactly we're chilling we're

chilling we're crying in the pool i'm my turn up schedule has me turning up in about six weeks so yeah people experiencing social anxiety for the first time like that that will make you drink too fast do not uh don't do that because you're like oh i gotta gotta get as many of these and in the old uh body i'm gonna have my first house party is going to be strictly martinelli's no alcoholic beverages just champagne low sodium food just very you know like let's carrots you know straight and narrow yeah exactly right i drank so much apple juice when i was a kid and like now when i taste apple juice it's it's like fucking maple syrup that is like the thickest sweetest shit um yeah it truly is not healthy yeah for that much sugar to be in a child's body

yeah no but for whatever reason that was like the thing like my mom thought because you know my mom only, I think from her perspective as a Japanese immigrant, was like, sodas are bad. Yeah, yeah. So you're not drinking soda. But this glass bottle that is all sugar? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just down those. Because at a certain point, I really could not get off Martinelli's apple juice. Yeah.

Because I was just- It's a sippable drink. It's strictly sipping. And then as I got older, I would drink the whole apple-shaped bottle and then my mom would get mad at me. This is when she was trying to change me, but the sugar fucking already had me.

Yeah, no. I feel like our whole generation was just like juice was a health food, no matter what. Remember Juicy Juice? No, that's just straight up capri suns yeah remember that girl alex mac yep it was on the news yep it was on nick news uh yeah totally get that because i'm your age uh all right let's take a quick

let's uh tell the people what we're uh talking about and we'll get to know you a little bit better after that. The Jan Sixers, not to be confused with the 76ers who are closing in on that one seed in the East. The Jan Sixers, we're getting to see a little bit more of their defense, like as they get into these courtrooms. and it's bad for Fox, I guess, mostly. Who knows? I mean, that's, I think, the larger question. When they used your product as a straight-up defense for somebody to commit treason, that's pretty wild. So we'll talk about that we'll talk about stay on that topic talk about tucker carlson's uh latest attempt to kill people with his uh show and we'll we'll keep talking about tucker because uh he and marjorie taylor gobles are using homophobia uh on uh liz cheney you know i also want to just check that i i checked uh trump's blog for the first time from the desk of donald trump and it's uh it's wild how how badly uh he transitions to any format that's not twitter he does he does not work and so this ain't getting in mcsweeney's not

no i don't know i mean mcsweeney there's probably going to be a really good McSweeney's piece about this. Yeah, written in this format, but it's wild. I want to talk about the hard seltzer wars, the Noid. I would love to get Brody's take on all the hot anime that is storming, taking the globe by storm. You got it. Yeah, all of that, plenty more. But first, Brody, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? Something from my search history?

Man, there's so many things. Recently, my best friend he's had on the podcast, Cody Ziegler, he just got an arcade cabinet, or he's getting one, so he he's gonna assemble it in his house and he tweeted that he was looking for rugs you know to go with his little man cave so I spent like a long time googling x-men rugs

with my favorite x-men on them and let me tell you they're hot these are good rugs um i'm trying to get trying to get some beast mode rugs for sure trying to get some gambit rugs like which like which which illustrators version of the x-men you remember in the 90s when they were selling like x-men tins at like kfc or something sure sure when all the when all all the 90s aesthetic all the uh x-men versus street fighter aesthetics stuff like that oh like so the capcom e version of them capcom e version

for sure and then you know that's been around for such a long time that you know i'm trying to i'm trying to see if i can get some etsy rugs with a wolverine on them or something like that i feel like i see so many like again when i'm on tiktok i see a few channels where they're people just making custom rugs and they look really dope but they're just they're just making rugs of things you normally probably wouldn't where they're like oh yeah here's a charizard rug uh that's like looks really on point um but yeah x-men rug i would fuck with like a big ass sentinel yeah just to like lay on top of just a huge one take me to genosha baby right yeah take me there

the uh yeah there's a lot of cool ass x-men wait which so which cabinet did he get he got the the arcade x-men game he got um or it's like one that has 900 games built in because that's how they are now i think you can mod it to have that many games put in but he got in um an x-men versus street fighter one i'm definitely in that same vein of like i want to get in a cabinet and just because i've seen them where people mod them yeah and they put the entire neo geo library in it and i don't know what it is but me and a lot of my friends in the last couple months have been just getting into like older fighting games so i really just want to have people over and have like a mini tournament where we're all scrubs and we're

all like beating each other down to like samurai showdown or something yeah or king of the king of fighters or some shit yeah exactly i love king of fighters yeah me too what's your favorite one all of them 94 95 96 97 probably like one of the first ones i just remember my cousins used to take me to the art like the gaysen as they say in japan the game center the arcade and just i would get so much secondhand smoke as a kid being in those arcades while my cousins were just fucking people up on those machines that maybe that's why i smoke now yeah every single day i think about selling my house moving to japan and just being like a barcade fly yeah i mean it's a it's a lifestyle

i mean people have found a way to just like live most of their time and you know sitting down playing you know capcom fighting games that's my retirement plan there it is and plus if you become a citizen i mean they'll take care of you you know yeah they got benefits they got social security net did they never go away or are they like kind of diminished in terms of popularity of the arcades like with home gaming so i mean they've been hit by economic stuff as much as um anyone like there have been like a couple big ones that have like shut down but i there's some still going strong so yeah nice what is something you think is overrated something i think is overrated is um production values in music and that's that's a salty thing to say because i'm currently working on um an ep just like as my quarantine project like right now we're kind of in like this

back to school sale vibes of just like stuff is about to come back this summer so like we're all trying to like rush to finish our projects and stuff and i've been working on this little like just a lot of goth ep and stuff just home recording and every other day i'm like googling how do i make my tracks um not terrible how do i make this not sound like trash what are you playing so are you what are you recording it in i am recording in logic and i have this like interface where i just like put my microphones in and i am like recording guitars and like vocals and then i'm like programming drums and bass and stuff like that and i'm the kind of person like i was a punk when i was a kid and i love it when something sounds like it was recorded through like a boombox and then re-recorded through someone's phone or something like that

right um so like that's kind of what i wanted to sound like but then i also i'm every time i listen to a track i'm just like oh this sounds terrible compared to everything else um so i kind of just want stuff to sound bad again i think it's kind of yeah i mean there's like a lot of hip-hop productions going sort of like there's there's kind of a few ways i hear production going and one seems very like we're down with 8-bit sounds good just 808s and like even mixing it to the point where like it's kind of become an aesthetic where like bass drum hits like blow your like they sound like they're blowing your speakers out like to kind of evoke that sort of feeling i wouldn't know my speakers are just broke

like this style like oh no no no they're just completely if your speakers are actually blown out it actually sounds perfect yeah right right but, right, right. Cancel yourself out. But yeah, I think, I mean, I think like everything, like it's definitely just, as people are able to make stuff more at home, like it definitely changes

like what the standard is or what people like or don't like and stuff. So, yeah. Let us know when you got the EP out. I will in about a month or something. Yeah.

Just call us up and say, hey, you know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this. And put your phone up to the thing that sounds like it's being recorded through. Oh, shit. It is.

What is something you think is underrated? Something I think is underrated, which is sort of in the same vein, is old video game soundtracks. This is something that I've just been leaving on all day when i'm like working when i'm writing it's been very therapeutic for me i've been listening to like uh old snes soundtracks like uh like earthbound and stuff like that i've been listening to like playstation one like ridge racer soundtracks oh my god oh fuck yo they go hard break beats if you like break beats um you got to get on this playstation one and it's also like

new jazzy too that ridge racer soundtrack like almost dennis chambers kind of thing absolutely so much relaxing stuff so many great composers in that like 16-bit era that i feel like these days we're just so used to like stuff sounding like a sympathy uh symphony i mean yeah i just feel like we kind of like lost a bit of an art form a little bit but uh yeah that's what i'm repping just go through your youtube uh search history uh we've had a very VGM heavy couple of shows. Yeah, Brent Weinbach was just both. Of course. Yeah, I asked Brent, I said, what's the limit for you?

I was like, you go 16-bit? He's like, no. I'm topped out at 8-bit, fam. 8-bit. 16, too busy. 32, get out of here. Get out of here with that. I've had real-life conversations with Brent about this subject,

and I didn't realize how deep that he went. Yeah, no, I mean, he was, he's, I mean, I think it's like any, that kind of music really has, it's sort of in the same way. I got really into Japanese BGM background music. And just because it's easy music to play and it's not distracting like it's a good sonic texture to have on like in your environment but like yeah with video game music too like i find myself just kind of if there's a comfort i think in that familiarity because someone so many songs i like they they like revive my memories of them when i start listening yeah there's such a there's

such a vibe for sure yeah i'm just gonna to make a TikTok. It's just that. There it is. I also am more and more into hearing people who are bad at singing sing. Hell yeah. Christy on Gucci Mane shared this video of Jay-Z singing Wonderwall, and it's definitely my favorite rendition of Wonderwall. Is that weird Twitter account where someone is faking Jay-Z's voicez's voice do you know i don't think so if you know it's not it's it's it's because he like keeps like stepping away from the mic yeah it's really him because he like knows he's not that

good but like when he comes on it's like jay-z's voice but he's singing and he's trying to sing wonderwall and it fucking rules great if you love singers that aren't good i'm definitely going to hit you up by my ep yeah we'll feature it yeah all right let's take a quick break we'll come back and check in with those jan sixers this summer the nation watched as the republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president.

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They were just disorganized and like nobody was ever really in any danger. But if that was the case, why do they like why are they so desperate and seem so completely guilty every time they step into a courtroom and like immediately disavow everything they they've done? Yeah, because it wasn't just a larf. Yeah, it wasn't. Yeah, it was yeah they were like no we are here to tip the scale the racial power and we're here to prevent the racial power inversion uh by all costs by any means and yeah like we in the beginning it seemed like a lot of people were just saying like we're trying to blame trump they're like i was i was honestly like

i was doing i was following the president's orders that's what i was doing we saw a lot of shifting blame to trump but now it seems like lawyers are coming up with this new like fucking thing look this guy this this one lawyer was uh representing his his client in court who again was someone who stormed the capitol and was disorderly and you know the the usual charges getting violent and shit. And he says, quote, that he lost his job at the beginning of the pandemic and then and for the next six months watched Fox News consistently. The lawyer says my client developed, quote, Fox itis and, quote, Fox mania and believe the lies about the 2020 election from Fox News and then President Donald Trump. He believed what was being fed to him. So that's why I believe, I don't know if my, you know, what's going on with my client,

he have Fox-itis. And I don't know if this is like some weird, new, fucked up, like gay panic type defense where they can like just immediately shift to this thing. Like it's Fox-itis, it's Fox-itis, you know, like it's just, it's open and shut, y'all. It's Fox-itis. But in the logic of this defense, right? If that did work and, in fact, a judge or a court was said, yeah, you know what?

Fox did. I accept that defense, that Fox had completely warped this person's reality and made them do that. Then wouldn't you hope that, again, there be a like a real examination on whether or not fox even needs to be on tv at all but that's why it's like these weird disingenuous sort of lines are like they're not really expecting people to believe it but they still want to throw it out just in case it's you know a usable defense first of all fox itis specifically is when your stomach hurts too much from laughing at malcolm in the middle um and it doesn't stand for anything else doesn't want to point that out yes oh fuck yeah i mean so this is i just hope i mean i mean i hope but i don't know what it's all for

but again if we're gonna let people say these things in court like then and and if they even remotely factors in to a sentence being lessened or whatever the outcome being lessened because of this defense then certainly you would need legislators to immediately begin the thing of like oh well if this thing is we're saying legally we believe that it's causing people to do whatever the fuck the box is saying then what the fuck are we going to do but i don't know it's just a just an interesting sort of road they're going down yeah yeah i'm all for throwing fox news under the bus though i mean on if it if it leads to consequences consequences hell yeah if the fox executives and tucker carlson like face jail time i'm all for that yeah yeah i just don't i don't see it happening yeah

i mean because we'll see what how a lot of these sentences even end up there in this like article they were talking about other people because like now there's just so many zoom hearings that people's like families like defendants families are just zoom bombing the fucking like hearing and like it's it's set up so poorly that it allows people to just disturb a fucking court proceeding over zoom how does that work do they i'm gonna put you on the thing and there's no moderator or something or i guess so there's no like waiting room it's just like a link because i think what they do it's like it's there so people can view the hearing publicly whether that's media or whatever but on the other side they're not even doing the shit where it's like

oh yeah you can't talk in here but it's allowed people like come in with like really flagrant display names and like start playing audio and shit over the fucking uh the zoom call so which i'm sure endears their uh family member to the judge i'm sure absolutely yeah absolutely i mean i gotta respect that i do too the homies Yeah, the homies came through. The homies came through. You know what I mean? If you're going to make it possible to Zoom bomb a fucking horn hearing. I mean, this is a very easily solved problem. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. But also, obviously, if you were in their position, you'd be like, damn, y'all didn't even come through in the Zoom. You didn't Zoom bomb my hearing? Yeah. Okay. I thought we were fucking down. All right.

Well, on the subject of Fox, let's talk about Tucker Carlson's latest attempt to kill more people with his show, I guess. So last week he likened children wearing masks to child abuse that people are more- That was two weeks ago. Okay. Two weeks ago. We're getting all of our controversy. That one are more two weeks ago okay two weeks ago we're getting all of our controversies but that one went to two weeks ago yeah so yeah he he compared uh children wearing masks to child abuse uh said that people are morally obligated to attempt to prevent children wearing masks by literally calling the police immediately and also said it was like if

they tell you to wear your kid to wear a mask at school, it's like saying a teacher's going to punch him out every day. Yeah. And that's how you should be responding. Yeah. So that's cool. I mean, that all makes sense. So last week now he aired one of his most dangerous

segments yet because you always got to top yourself. Yeah. Straight up suggesting that the covid vaccine is killing people. And he phrased it because this is like how he does his job. He phrased it as how many Americans have died after taking the covid vaccines. I'm concerned. Yeah. Just like putting it out there.

He claimed that there have been a total of 3,362 deaths after getting the vaccine. The actual number is almost certainly much higher than that. Okay, show work. Show your work. Show your work, Tucker. Where'd you get those numbers? Where did he get those numbers? Oh, a fucking self-reporting database where it's not verified and people themselves can just

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You sweating? Go to this website right now. Go to this website. Also, people who get the vaccine uh can die um it has been reported you could get hit by a car right after getting your second shot after the vaccine though even after two weeks even after it yeah well now you tell me um i don't know if i want this thing because i'm trying to be like gene gray off the after the second dose like what the fuck phoenix yeah our writer jam is pointing out that more than 40 of the population received at least one dose so that's that's a lot of people yeah uh according to the cdc 8 000 americans die every day

for you know all all the reasons life yeah because hearts don't always keep going on forever. One in every 41,000 people dies every day. That's kind of fucked up to think about. But if you do the simple math there, that means that of the 135 million vaccinated people, more than 3,000 people who were vaccinated would be dying every day right now. Which is actually way more than the 30 people a day uh tucker carlson is freaking out about so but it's but it's important that he just gets people's minds working this way the ultimate hurdle is like getting that last 30 percent of trump supporters to actually get the vaccine so so we can actually eradicate this thing.

So it's important. That's how you do it. If you just keep keeping it hot and keeping everybody off balance with your misinformation, then that's, you know, I think is their plan is to be able to say like, well, I thought he was ending the pandemic, even though we're constantly feeding a counter narrative to our base to exacerbate the pandemic but we thought it's just so transparent on its face and he's gotten the vaccine right that's the other thing a lot of people like man this motherfucker got the vaccine yeah like he ain't

about that he ain't he's i feel like he'll talk about it but is he really about it i mean he doesn't even claim what he's saying is true he says he's an entertainer so like yeah yeah he's a fucking yeah like you hear you hear his like his real conversations and he's like it's so exhausting man like yeah fuck man i got i thank god i got the vaccine you know i'm so happy i got it i mean i just wish more people would but you know not what i get paid to do more like sucker carlson and thank you let's let him know right. Should we end the show now? Yep. I got him. That's it.

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. Justin, if you want to edit in like a studio applause or something. Bomb drop. Exactly.

Bring back the bomb drop. He would appreciate that. That's the only way that he approves of killing people. Tucker Carlson. One of Fox News' biggest advertisers,

by the way, still fucking Pfizer.'re they're cool get getting the uh getting the hits from uh from fox viewers because they're like we're good bro we're getting yeah are you fucking kidding you see what we made fam even with the patent waiver we're good family we got their pfizer uppercut we can't be stopped right pfizer uppercut man this episode brought to you by capcom their their main concern is you know that nobody lifts those vaccine patents and yeah boxes behind them on that they don't give a fuck about about politics politics politics dude when i sat down and they told me I was getting the Pfizer, I audibly sighed. I was like, darn

it. I was going to sigh no matter what, but... Are you fucking kidding me? Is there another one you want? I don't know. The good one? I want the baby powder one. Yeah, exactly.

The baby powder that gave people cancer. Oh, you've been watching Eddie Griffin's IGTV streams? Always. Keep it long. Oh my goodness, Eddie Griffin. No. Why would he do that? Oh, Eddie Griffin coming so hard with the, I'm a scientist type takes.

Oh, really? He's like, motherfuckers didn't even know how to make baby powder without killing people. What are you talking about johnson and johnson and i'm like okay eddie that's hilarious don't do this but i was like that is a good that is a good point like if you're trying to fool a stupid person like pointing to the baby powder thing with johnson and johnson yeah that's sexy but yeah either way like you know it's that that old mentality i mean listen give us undercover brother two and

then retire you know right please he's been waiting that's all i want let's talk about one more tucker uh it's more of an anecdote he had marjorie taylor uh goebbels uh on his show pick your favorite yeah goring and yeah it was an interesting conversation full of it seems like they've just resorted to going straight up uh homophobia on liz cheney well on well on liz cheney's on a way to get her out so you know right now all of the talk has been because liz cheney refuses to lie right what a what an exceptionally high bar for in this one very specific instance in this one. Exactly. That's I'm like, I'm not saying she should be, you know, deified, but she voted to impeach Trump, you know, after the January 6th thing. She's like, yo, he didn't steal the election. Are y'all for real with this? No.

And she's she's part of the House leadership on the right. So a lot of people don't want her there because they need to go full steam, full momentum on all this big lie nonsense. And so because of that, there's a lot of pressure on Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, to oust her, to be like, yo, you can do this. Like, just fucking get rid of her. You know, she's trash and just like thinking for herself and shit. We don't need that. We need people who deep throat this boot and act like the election was stolen. Can you find us that? We need people who deep throat this boot and act like the election was stolen.

Can you find us that? And he's been dragging his feet as of a lot of like a lot of Republicans, too, because they still see her as a major figure. And they don't really want to hop into this because it's mostly like this MAGA, you know, the new MAGA crew. That's really the loudest. But Tucker Carlson has tried to turn up this pressure campaign on on on Kevin McCarthy first because he pointed out the fact that he rents a room from GOP pollster Frank Luntz. Okay. So he's like, oh, interesting. And also Frank Luntz is not a total Trump shill as well. So it's already like, oh, look at him. He's paying. Is he paying Frank Luntz $5,000 a month? Because based on the area that he's in, that would be the reasonable price. And if he is getting a deal,

then that would actually violate ethics rules. So that's what he's trying to be like. I guess his selective outrage is on 1 million right now because when the shoe was on the other foot and Scott Pruitt was being like, yo, put the sirens on so I get my dry cleaning. Let me get this mattress. Can I stay at a fucking energy lobbyist's apartment?

All the same shit, but no outrage. So it's like, come on. So now him and Marjorie Taylor Greene Can I stay at a fucking energy lobbyist apartment? All the same shit, but no outreach. So it's like, come on. So now him and Marjorie Taylor Greene found another angle to try and humiliate him just to kind of get him to do something. And it's, yeah, homophobia. So now they're like painting. He's like, he lives with another man. That's what it is.

Roommates don't exist. Yes, exactly. So it starts off. He has on the show. Tucker Carlson said this from Tucker. Were you shocked to learn they share a toothbrush or our roommates or whatever? Marjorie Taylor Greene says, I was curious, like who gets the top bunk and who gets the bottom bunk? And Tucker says, do we have any clarity on that? Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Somebody should find out, right? Come the fuck on. This is all they got now and this is it's just wild to see them all turn on each other in these very remarkably toxic ways yeah seriously like bunk beds aren't cool shut up right yeah and yeah i'll fight over that top bunk because it's a journey up there i used to that double entendre was old when it was used in big in 88. Come on, motherfucker. Boom. Thank you. Let him know. Let him know. What was his

name? What was the kid's name? Josh Baskin. Josh Baskin. I was going to say Hank Raskin. Who was that little boy? Hank Raskin? Josh Baskin. Hank. Hank. Get over here hank that's that's uh amazing and it's also wild that they're uh you know the shoe isn't really on the other foot because the thing they're pointing out is again corruption among Republicans. Like this is just a thing that Republicans do. They get gifts from other Republicans. And yeah,

McCarthy said, he's like, look, I, this guy, Frank Luntz, his apartment, apparently he bought four penthouse units to make one mega fuck you unit in DC and has 12 bedrooms.

So it's not like they are split in a studio. He has like, I don't know, like in one of the wings of the house, McCarthy claims he's only renting a fucking, you know, a 400 square foot room. So therefore it would be about $1,500 a month for him. And Luntz is like the Republican poll guy, right?

Yeah, he's a lobbyist. He's a bad guy. Sure, you can, yeah, like on paper, it's like, yeah yeah they don't need to be living together but it's like this is how y'all get down this is how most politicians get down anyway like or democrats just be smarter to find a way to rent a room from like a distant relative so the paperwork doesn't look as sloppy right i mean even chuck schumer famously um just like stays at a shitty apartment with like three other dudes yeah with dick durbin

exactly yeah and uh forget the other i think george miller but he's retired yeah the basis for that my eyebrows you can't oh no but if you saw it was it was uh that show alpha house i think it was john goodman or whatever was based on this anecdote that they all live together but yo if you saw you can check the video. That's from 2014 where Dick Durbin and Schumer are giving a fucking tour of this place and you're like, oh my god. Y'all are disgusting.

Y'all live like this? It's like a frat house? It's shitty? It's fucked. It's a flop house. I'm not joking. The news crew that went to go do it, they're shady as fuck because the camera person got hit grabbed his own inserts to cut into the story so one of them was like clearly something had been plugged into an electrical outlet and started flaming because it has like the black streaks going up the wall out the outlet there was that there's underwear

just like there's a couch there's a bed in the middle of the room they gotta fuck it the stove isn't clean it's really fucking like it looks like yeah three dudes living together but doesn't matter schumer pays extra for a cold bed which means he doesn't it can't just be somebody sleeping in there when he comes in he gets his own bed whereas durbin uh you know he has to kick whoever's in there out when he wants to take a nap durbin, actually he keeps a big, he keeps a dog bed for a German shepherd in the closet. Yeah. They're like literally living like Charlie and Frank and, uh,

always funny. Yeah. It's, uh, that's what pilots have to do too. They have like a, like kind of little flap houses. What a bunch of losers.

Yeah. Well, I think it's funny too. Like, cause I remember like when I came up, like, well, they have money. It's like, they're not in the, flap houses what a bunch of losers yeah well i think it's funny too like because i remember like when i came up like they have money it's like they're not in the they're not in dc all the time so it doesn't unless you're like stupid wealthy like and you have like coins you're looking at like you're not gonna fucking rent a place year round right you're gonna try and cut

some corners i would definitely fucking live with the homies but we were all in the senate for sure you know fucking the earth over you know leave my shit all over the place and make it gross like i wasn't an adult i'm surprised it never like manifested on the senate floor right like weird sniping it's like and you know maybe there could be an amendment that would remind the good people of the senate chamber to uh not merely just soak their dishes overnight, but to maybe fucking wash them. Right. Fuck. That's that's it.

You know how like they're always talking about like Senate decorum and how like it's a shame that we don't have the same Senate decorum that we used to have. That's what they're talking about is like that. We don't call out each other for the dirty shit that we do around the house yeah they're talking about literally decorating around the apartment all right neon genesis evangelion poster first of all frame it if we're gonna put it up also just wanted to i i finally looked at trump's blog uh it's like i don't know he's just not good at communication guys he's what does he got he's got a sub stack all right yeah it's basically it's like they programmed a website like somebody charged him too much money to be like where is gonna be the best website and then just like skinned a fucking you know for you as someone who's edited

a humor website and has interacted with the the written word quite frequently in fact knows a thing or two about you know what makes a good piece a good piece and a bad one what if you well if this wasn't donald trump what's your first just be scathing where is it where is it all come where is it going wrong i mean it's good in its simplicity like it's fine in terms of presentation it's just he can't write in this format like without an audience and without like somebody to feed off of in his own like little siloed off echo chamber he sucks like he's just not good he can't like he doesn't have the energy so like the one example i wanted to call out is he tried he tried to get the we're gonna call it the big lie it's not a bit it's not your big lie it's my big lie uh in so on may 30 said

the fraudulent presidential election of 2020 will be from this day forth known as the big lie and then a day later a day later uh he because he can't like i don't know if it doesn't let him like quote or like at people like uh pull in other people's tweets a day later he just like has this rambling thing where he's like the fake news media working in close conjunction with big tech and the radical left democrats is doing everything they can to perpetuate the term the big lie when speaking of the 2020 presidential election they're right and that the 2020 presidential election was a big lie but not in the way they mean 2020 election shouldn't even have legislative approvals for

many states he's just like it goes on for like sentences and like paragraphs about how like it was a lie but not what way they mean uh and so now we won't try and call it the big lie because they already got that one so now we'll call it hoax number one the night the biggest hoax cut so wait let me see where where does he end up with he ends up calling it um think of it instead as the greatest fraud in the history of our country uh with fraud and country first and last letter first and last words of the phrase capitalized so he's trying to make it a thing so he's he like gave up after a couple days because he like he recognized he's so uh focused on like what people are talking about and like who is like getting making a big

splash and like so he did the big lie like who is like getting making a big splash and like so he did the big lie thing everyone's like yeah fuck off we're not doing that and then he's like okay we'll go with uh biggest fraud in the history of our country and even greater hoax than russia russia russia muller muller muller impeachment hoax number one impeachment hoax number two or any of the others many scams the democrats pulled uh it's just like he can't do it he can't he needs twitter to fucking first of all cut him off and then he needs those likes like and the retweets and the people that he can uh tweet back at and shit because like otherwise he's just he's off i'm so upset that someday there's going to be a library named

after this man yeah it's gonna get vandalized as shit though i hope so i don't think they put it in like you know like whitefish montana or something it's probably the only place you could go or just in mar-a-lago to see all these little blog things it's it's nice to see that you know there's not like a million likes under them. Right. There's just nothing. It seems very powerless. Yeah.

I like that. It's lost. And again, we were saying about this last week, he's not good with that much runway. No. No. There's no Twitter limit here. Because this whole tweet would have been, you want to know what the real big frat is? The Democrats.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And that would have been the tweet. Right. And then people would have been you want to know what the real big frat is the democrats blah blah blah and that would have been the tweet right and then people were like oh he just flipped it on him or he tried but it's not the it's not like this whole thing it's because he has it's too much room to try and explain things giving him space to complete a thought it won't work out for him it's like a full paragraph about how he's giving up on calling it the big lie in which he repeats the phrase the big lie like 13 times before he mentions that he's coming up with a new nickname right no come on this isn't it he yeah well again it's great to see that this is what he's left to do uh just like rambling on and on but yeah again he's not like he's not a he's not a rapper like he he couldn't have his own album he's left to do uh just like rambling on and on but yeah again he's not like he's not a

he's not a rapper like he he couldn't have his own album he's a feature yeah he's a flavorful track actually he's himself he does ad-libs you know he's take off from migos he does skits yeah exactly right he'll do the angry rapper you know what i mean you know do those other ones the angry president or whatever but don't get him no he's like he can't do 16 bars he could maybe do four or eight and then it gets real dodgy after that uh all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back this summer the nation watched as the republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago, when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today.

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And we're back. Do you guys give a shit about the Logan Paul, Floyd Mayweather fight at all? Of course I do. I lost hundreds of dollars on that. Brody and I have been going to boxing classes just to get ready for this the sweet science am I right fellas I mean yeah I want to see Floyd Mayweather beat the fucking brakes off

I just want to see him get humiliated so bad like I don't know I don't know if I'll even be able to watch it because I want to see that happen so bad but didn't Jake Paul like FaceTime or something recently with Donald Trump or someone like that? Yeah, over the weekend, I think he hollered at him.

They're straight up. They're, you know, he's code whistling, coded, like working on white supremacy on some level. He's the great white hype about to fight Floyd Mayweather. That's how they're billing it. That little tussle they had was fucking, i don't know if that was real or not but i mean his brother jake paul looked a little shooketh yeah he came out of it with a black eye but he was like it wasn't it wasn't the uh floyd didn't hit me it was his bodyguard so uh i won um but like even when you look at like the rhetoric that he was using,

Jake Paul came up, Floyd Mayweather and his brother were on stage, and Jake Paul came up and was like, your shoes aren't tied, dude. It's like, wait, what are you, like a 60-year-old fucking Vietnam vet? What the fuck are you talking about?

Hey, your pants are sagging. Right, and then tried to take his hat. house sticks and stones can't break my bones but these fists will yeah anyways let's let's hope they do it's yeah it's uh if there's i mean i mean fuck floyd mayweather too on oh yeah like a horrible atrocious human it's just like that's why i'm like fuck uh i don't know the amoeba versus the parasite like okay yeah i but i definitely want the noisy dude they're both noisy but if there's something you you want to see the guy who was out here being like yo i'll fucking fight anybody like learn what it means to fight somebody who's like undefeated professionally i want to see a third guy get in and beat up both of them right right after yeah like right after the fight when they're drained kimbo slice comes

back from heaven right just knocks him the fuck out yeah all right let's talk about the new cola wars the uh hard seltzer wars they are upon us there is a lot of lobbying money flying around with seltzers at the moment. We talked about a few weeks ago about how like White Claw had like their new like surge level, like fucking White Claw that had like more alcohol or whatever. But a lot of this has to do with like new players entering the game. So first of all, White Claw, the seltzer shit is not a flash in the pan. I mean, I was like, okay, this is cool. I'm sure it'll level off.

They upped their sales by 160% in 2020. And it's not even just because people were at home more. They did over $4 billion in sales. They did $2.6 billion the year before, overall in the market for seltzers. And they're now got nearly 10% of the beer category. And what's that's doing is creating a lot of ripple effects. The first one is that craft beer brewers are now all having to make seltzers because they're looking at analysis and they're like, seltzers are going to take over the craft beer segment. Like they're going to be a bigger segment than craft beers.

beer segment like they're going to be a bigger segment than craft beers so you have people like stone who does stone ipa and all these other like craft brewers getting in the fucking seltzer game because they can't miss the fucking wave and isn't the goal of a seltzer to like taste like nothing so like what is that they're gonna be like ours tastes extra like nothing like the memory of a dark cherry yeah yeah essence of nothing called father's promise it's this like but they're the way stone is doing it is they're putting it in a glass bottle like they're thinking like they're trying to fuck with consumers i'm in like glass clear bottle not the fucking slim can like we want to show people that it's clear we want to show people like and give it this like it's called like buena vida or some shit so they're really trying to sell you on this healthy life shit

um but it's not just them there was a a letter that was being written by the head of boston beers who makes sam adams and they also make it at boston beers head of boston beers that's how these ready to drinks they're gonna fucking they're gonna they're gonna get us all fucked That's how he starts every letter. Guys, we got to get agonized. We've got to get agonized. These ready to drinks, they're going to get us all fucked up, bro. So they're trying to get agonized because the spirit makers are now like, well, hold on, hold on, hold on. Seltzer's on the come up? Well, what the fuck? We should be there too because I think a lot of people think of seltzers already as a quasi like vodka soda type thing. Right.

Yeah. They're built on a lie. They claim to be like seltzer or like I think people assume they're seltzer with vodka in it, but it's actually like a malt liquor. Exactly. Yeah. Which brings us to the lobby. So the reason they have to do that is for taxes, right?

It's taxed differently if it's a malt liquor versus a spirit because of prohibition. Thank you for that temperance movement. And the whole thing with the, like the lobbying is around, they're arguing saying that we need to change the tax codes actually, because it's the same ABV. And that used to be sort of part of the logic. And we shouldn't, by like, it's blurring the lines now with these seltzers that they feel like we should be able to hop in. No problem. And we can use spirits now to turn these up. And it's turning into like not even like federal level, but even like local level where states that have like, you know, monopolies on selling certain alcohols. They're even being lobbied to to like consider their you know their whatever their rules their regulations consider the poor vodka bottlers won't you yeah um what will smirnoff do because i think crown royals like already in the game and they're they're doing well so it's not just a interesting thing to watch all these treats turn into like momentary like meme drinks and

now just being like nah because the other thing too is they point in in this article in the daily beast was about how a lot of people like certain drinks were fads because people just would drink something because that was the thing to drink like ipas were very popular because people were just really i don't know we're in the ipa era so we just drink ipas and now so many of those consumers have shifted to seltzers because they're just sort of on the same thing of like i drink what's kind of what of the moment right and now i think that they're really trying to hit them with the healthy right like a real hoppy seltzer you know one that just really a japanese drink called hoppy with no alcohol uh and sciences. Actually, you would like to do a Japanese drink called Hapi, where there's no alcohol.

And you add shochu to it when you eat an old man yakitori or izakaya type place. That sounds sick. I mean, I'm all for seltzers, even in a bottle, as long as they put a little marble at the top and you can play with it. I'm an actor. Yeah. Oh, man. a little marble at the top and you could play with it i'm an actor yeah oh man but yeah let us know if you're still on that seltzer train you know because i definitely saw i saw the wave die

pretty quickly like in my friend group yeah i don't know because i don't know i feel like the the kids who are raised on soda you know what mean? I think seltzer has a strong influence on them. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I feel like they'll stick around for a while, at least comfortably. But I wonder what's going to be the next thing after that. Do you guys ever see gin coming back or something? I don't think so.

Right. Let's talk about the Noid real quick. I don't know if you guys might. Were you too young to remember the Noid real quick i don't know if you guys might were you too young to i avoided to remember the night you did congratulations uh that was the goal i had that the nintendo game oh yeah yeah so his whole deal was domino's uh spokes mascot that would he was an antagonist uh so it wasn't he's no ronald mcdonald here more more hamburglar than ronald mcdonald he would try and disrupt delivery of pizza when like pizza delivery

was a new uh concept yeah and the thing they were trying to this is kind of amazing the thing they were trying to like communicate to people is that uh your pizza like what domino's was the only place that could avoid like this character who ruined pizza deliveries and like one one of the problems that people kept having with pizza delivery is the pizza would arrive smelling like smoke uh which is so fucking gross like ciggy smoke yeah cold and smelling like cigarette smoke because the delivery person would just be hacking butts on the way over, taking his sweet-ass time.

Also, I always bring this up anytime early pizza delivery is mentioned, but the movie E.T., they don't understand how pizza delivery works yet, and they give him money to go to the end of his driveway and tell him to get them a pizza with lots of pepperonis on it so when they wrote that movie they thought pizza delivery was someone driving around with an oven in their car and like just had all the ice cream man yeah they just thought you they had all the pizzas. Oh, like the ice cream man? Yeah, they just thought they had all the pizzas in the car and you went out and told them what was on the thing. I'm just imagining an Italian man driving a car and also checking his pizzas at the same time.

And the car is very poorly built and cumbersome. So if he takes a corner too hard, it'll just flip over. So he's like, oh, flip over it has to be that whimsical and then et comes out it's like one with a lot of wait they were asking et to get the pizza no who got the pizza drew barrymore uh no it was like the teenage the older uh brother's friends oh god i who i picture is still being older than me even though i think they're like 13 right and then uh they're telling elliot because he's like the right they're playing uh dnd which i think was also kind of groundbreaking damn i haven't watched that

movie with adult eyes since classic ever i think i watched i was in high school i learned about pizza delivery from movies too. And I learned that you could deliver a pizza to a sewer in New York. Yeah. They'll slide it right under. Yeah. You're spreading to the storm drain,

right? Or were they getting a manhole cover? I think it was a manhole. Cause then he had to get like change through like a grate or something. So it was, it was like a great. Yeah.

Has anyone ever tried to make a pizza that replicated just the even the consistency of the pizza from the teenage mutant ninja turtles people have tried the cartoon sloppy yeah the cartoon it was like slow wet and like it would like stick to your mouth yeah from like uh all dogs go to heaven style animation pizza yeah um yeah i i think tucker cheese um got kind of close yeah but not quite yeah it's like if if your pizza cheese was all burrata it's like so wet and like right and the crust was just like a dish sponge yeah or the goofy movie you remember the cheese from the goofy movie yeah dude yeah that's how we started our experience that's how we started our pandemic was uh a rewatch of the goofy movie uh-oh uh so anyways dominoes is trying to bring the noid back if you've never seen uh the noid it's like he's wearing like red pajamas with like weird floppy bunny ears on top and so they they have a new commercial with Noid disrupting

a self-driving Domino's delivery truck because they want to be whimsical about the fact that there are robots rolling down the street. Replacing people's jobs. Yeah. And he's also a mini boss in a Crash Bandicoot mobile game. What did he just get out of jail or something? Yeah, right? He's like, I'm home, y'all. Crash, man, let's collab on a fucking game.

Dominoes, man. I've paid my debt to society. 7up.com out of retirement. Yeah, exactly. One last. We eating. We eating. Also, I was surprised to learn that J uh jm wrote this story for us by

the way shout out to jm crushing it today but he uh pointed out that the noid and the california raisins which were both like terrifying but like somehow just uh zeitgeist defining uh creations were both made by the same claymation artist will vinton genius truly a genius the reason that uh the noid went away and that there was also a saturday morning cartoon called the noids uh that they almost dropped on the world that was just going to be a pizza commercial uh disguised as children's entertainment but the reason the Noid went away was because in 1989, a man with a mental health condition who happened to be named Kenneth Noid

took two employees hostage at an Atlanta Domino's and believed that the company was basically antagonizing him with the character, the Noid, and owed him money. And his demands also included a private plane to Mexico and an extravaganza

pizza. And so he's still brand loyal. Yeah. So eventually the hostages were able to escape and he surrendered and was found not guilty by reasons of insanity. But like, that was, that was it.

They were just like, it became like front page news because it was such a strange story. So he claimed noiditis? Yeah, he claimed noiditis. Wow. And the headlines from the time, like just reading news from- I can't imagine how insensitive they are. Yeah.

The LA Times, one of the greats to ever do it. Pizza workers can't avoid noid. Held hostage five hours um like the fact that that's how they really wrote that shit is as well but yeah so uh jan was also pointing out that this is part of a like overall renaissance of dumb corporate mascots. Apparently, the generation, like millennials, for some reason, have affinity for them.

79% of American adults enjoy seeing brands use mascots. So we can expect to see old mascots be mascots. I love old mascots. Gen Z kids rock old promo shirts that have old marketing shit is kind of like the the vibe for a lot of younger people so i can see how bringing these like are kind of resonating on that i mean honestly like we had so many mascots back in the 90s i mean like in the 2000s we only had

carfox and like the general from that commercial subway yeah exactly Subway. Yeah, exactly. In the 90s, we had everything. We had freaking like Busby. We had everything. We had the Hawaiian Punch guy. There was like that Sprite dude with the wavy hair, the drawing for the Sprite thing. There was the fucking

Coca-Cola Bears. You know what I mean? Seven Up Dot. I mean, even like I wonder if they're gonna bring back ronald mcdonald mcdonald ronald mcdonald as i call him uh and like his whole cast of characters they will eventually yeah bring back gromit make gromit the face of mcdonald's because yeah grimace clowns have like i thought they're gonna we're just bringing Wallace and Gromit over I mean out of the box thinking but I like it I

yeah because I think children generally don't like when I was a kid I found clowns terrifying my grandmother collected clowns also did not like me my grandmother did that too my great yeah it was like your coulrophobia yeah and now my kids like just are agnostic they're just like i

don't what the fuck is that why does that person have shit all over their face what's wrong with that guy's face like shit on his face with What's wrong with your nose? Go to the doctor. Get the fuck out of here, you sloppy-ass makeup, man. There's that sad clown in Toy Story 3, and they're just kind of confused as to what his deal is. They're like, wait, why is he not smiling? Okay, whatever. Why does he look like that? So, yeah, I think it's time to replace Ronald with Gromit.

Yeah. Or Sean the Sheep, one of the two. We can to replace Ronald with Gromit or Sean, the sheep. One of the two. Call that Ronald and Gromit. Yeah. All right. Before we,

uh, let you go, I do want to just ask you for your thoughts, uh, as a anime fan expert, you know, the, the number one movie in America last week, the number one movie of 2021 globally is demon slayer

hell yeah and i don't know i was i was kind of caught off guard by that because it had always like been treated as something that was like sort of niche in like my experience but so i first of all i want to just get your thoughts on like this kind of breakthrough success why you think it's breaking through and then also just like what's a good way into uh for people you want some gateway and i want some gateways i watched avatar last airbender loved it um but it was like okay yeah yeah it's animated okay similar it's got to be japanese though you know yeah i'm actually not surprised at all that this movie did that it actually it broke records in japan last year um it was the

highest grossing movie there i can definitely see that it's sort of a surprise this anime got really popular in the last um couple years and it's for like a a couple reasons like it's sales uh like it's manga sales shot up once the uh anime came out it's a very well-made anime it's a very well-paced show the just the promotion around it has been really good and this movie um which is kind of pretty rare for anime movies is is canonical, actually. It just, as soon as the episode, as soon as the season one ends, this movie picks up and just like turns one of its like mini arcs into a two hour movie. But yeah, I saw it with my friends. This is the first movie that I saw in theaters in a year.

Me and all my black anime friends um we saw the dubbed version which i i gotta say i did not love the dub i'm a subs guy i literally um taught myself how to talk japanese in the last like couple years so i i like a sub but like there's so much actioning that's happening i I can't blame people for not reading it, but I would suggest this movie on its own. But the season itself is a ride. I would suggest that. Some stuff to get into that you can... These days, honestly, there is a wealth of stuff.

If you have a Hulu account, if you have a Netflix account, you could watch stuff like Hunter x Hunter, which is a really good one to get into that might subvert some of your expectations. You could watch stuff like Tenshi Muyo on Hulu, one of my favorites. You could watch anything from... What else is getting a Netflix adaptation soon? Gundam is getting a Netflix adaptation soon. Cowboy Bebop is getting a Netflix adaptation soon.

is getting a netflix adaptation soon cowboy bebop is getting a netflix adaptation soon you might recognize that from uh you know watching cartoon network when you're a kid toonami there's a good one i think it is pretty new it's called tokyo revengers it's on um crunchyroll it's got kind of like delinquent vibes but also kind of like inception vibes where someone is like traveling into their past so like change the future it seems kind of oh that's cool cool there's all kinds of stuff and even if you just like sailor moon and stuff go back and watch sailor moon like you can enjoy this stuff at any time yes i got all fun old ronma tapes i had in my mom's exactly i should say i watched m night shamalan's adaptation of avatar the last airbender which I'm pretty sure is anime so

really into that I love this anime love that shit man love it no that's dope thank you I knew you would be the right person to come to dope man well it's been awesome having you as always

where can people find you and follow you um you could follow me at aobrobro on twitter instagram you could listen to i guess three of the other podcasts i do right now which is um the male gaze where me and my comic friends talk about current events the dark weeb where me and my friend cody talk about nerd stuff yeah yeah and uh there's this new one i have called the dumb posers where me and my friend jack um write songs based on suggestions and just like goof off and have a really fun time and have guests on and yeah you can look out for my uh really bad EP, genuine music EP that comes out a month from now. Nice.

The Boo Hoos, yeah. It's going to be called The Boo Hoos? The band that is just me in it is called Da Boo Hoos. Da Boo Hoos. That's awesome. We're ready. We're ready. Is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying?

Yeah, absolutely. There is this guy who i've been following for quite a while his name is chris caligaro and he is kind of like a front facing comedian but he is like constantly doing impressions um that just like make me laugh my ass off like um like whether it's like fighter pilot who doesn't want to shoot a Godzilla and just wants to go home or whether it's just like a investigator who's obviously finds a ghost in their house or something like that or like little kid who like has a secret and doesn't want to tell you like he's so funny I retweet his stuff all the time Chris Chris Calagaro, he's on, I guess, Twitter and TikTok probably.

Nice. Miles, where can people find you and what's a tweet you've been enjoying now? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. Also, twitch.tv slash 420dayfiance to check out Sophia and Alexander and I talk just nonsense about reality TV tweet that I like first one is from Blair Saki at Blair Saki all caps said I want my egg salad nasty as hell onions fucking up and

down and all around bitch kind of turn into Jesse Pinkman at the end there but it does help I mean even looking if you don't like white onions cut up a little green onion and if you keep it in the refrigerator that flavor will go throughout your egg salad okay go throughout um and then the second one is from uh katie delaney at katie delaney uh tweeted a picture of like a remember like when theme parks used to have like those cartoon maps

and shit so she tweeted an image of that and said if you didn't used to longingly stare for hours at cartoon maps for water parks you'd never actually attend we are not the same yeah and that resonated with me because i used to love picking up brochures i tweeted underneath it like how like a hotel lobby brochure rack was like a newsstand to me as a child i was like oh yeah i'm getting this i need that i need to know about this because it's all like printed shit you can put in a bag and then act like you can read and shit. You can't. Right. You can't. Miles knows you. Stop trying to act like you can't. You can't read. That's why you listen to this show.

So we can tell you what's happening in the news. Yeah, when my kids get something new, the brochure that comes with it, that is like they usually come with, like a toy usually comes with an advertisement for like a bunch of other toys. That's, they just go right for that they don't pay any attention to the toy they're just like but what don't i have what didn't you get me let's look at that you're like no but the thing

right here in the box plan for the future later yeah yeah yeah i'm on that later asshole let's see a tweet i enjoyed dan mentos uh heir to the mentos fortune tweeted uh if they lift the mask mandate my ventriloquism career is ruined and uh julia claire tweeted edgy comedy is so cool you just state an opinion the ruling class had in 1954 which i that is kind of wild that that is what is edgy now is, uh, just white supremacy and, uh, retrograde politics, but you got to shrug after.

And then it's right. But I mean, well, we're not allowed to say that anymore. Oh, I guess I'm canceled now. No, you're just out of work and you won't succeed as a comedian because you lack

empathy or any ability to creatively come up with jokes. Uh, 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 even a website, DailyZeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our

footnotes where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song are we putting in people's... I mean, yeah, I mentioned Migos, and I'll honor them. Migos. And another Atlanta-based group you may have heard of called Outkast.

This is a mashup from DJ B-Cause on SoundCloud, and this is the Migos track T-shirt, but on top of the Spodeody Dopealicious beat, and it's called T-shirt B-cause Spodeody edit. It's just dope

when you hear a thing like that really just be such a flexible instrumental track, and i'd like it more for the novelty more than like damn i've been waiting to hear white t-shirt to fucking hear t-shirt on spody od dopolicious it's just one of those those mashups that make this how are you spelling outcast because when i spell it the normal way it just comes up as a word there's a k in there oh okay cool out and then there's a crown over all of it check your CD did the woman with the afro

have her nipples out or her babies yeah that was big that's how you knew if you were real if you were day one ATL hits disc with the boobs out yeah alright yeah bro you'd have to put it backwards so your parents wouldn't see what it was.

Real bro. All right. The Daily Zyka is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for this morning. We're back this afternoon to tell you what's trending, and we'll talk to y'all then. Bye.

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