The Daily Zeitgeist - Fox News Not Sure How Movies Work, Hail Little Caesar 10.12.18

Episode Date: October 12, 2018

In episode 251, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Pop Culture Collaborative fellow, and #GoodMuslimBadMuslim co-host Zahra Noorbakhsh to discuss Google trends, Kanye West's meeting with Trump at the White House, how Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp is blocking over 50k voter registrations as he runs for governor, Trump's call to Fox and Friends, Melania doubling down on her #Metoo comments, Bob Corker's comments on the missing Saudi journalist, Facebook shutting down Facebook accounts used to influence politics, LeBron James sharing wine with his sons, Little Caesars giving away pizza to the needy, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. Selena Gomez has full support of her friends and family as she seeks treatment2. Jamie Lee Curtis Claps Back At Fox News For Calling Her A Hypocrite On Gun Control3. "That was quite something": Kanye West steals the show at the White House — live updates4. Report: Georgia's Secretary of State Is Blocking 53,000 Voter Registrations as He Runs for Governor5. The takeaways from Trump's 47-minute "Fox & Friends" call6. Melania Trump: I’m one of the most bullied people in the world7. Khashoggi was murdered, Saudis did it, leading Republican says8. SAUDI CROWN PRINCE BOASTED THAT JARED KUSHNER WAS “IN HIS POCKET”9. Americans are now copying Russia and making hundreds of fake Facebook accounts to influence politics10. LeBron James says he shares wine with his sons — ages 11 and 1411. North Dakota Little Caesars has handed out 142,000 slices of pizza to needy people12. Obi Juan - Grand Exchange Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Good point. So, where are we headed? Into the unknown, and welcome to Season 52, or wherever you get your podcasts. Trust us, it's out of this world. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 52, Episode 5 of Der Daily Zeitgeist! For Friday, October 12th, 2018, my name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I don't usually do this less. I'm Jack or O'Brien, but I'm both right now. Got me talking about Zeitgeist. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray!

Ooh, Miles, things are gonna get easier. Ooh, Miles, things will get zider. Some gray, yeah, we'll get it together and we'll get it all done. Some gray when your head is much zider. And that is from

Hannah Soltis. Coming through with that AKA. Hannah, good to have you here. She good. Thank you for that AKA. Well, we are thrilled to be joined by Pop Culture Collaborative's senior fellow on comedy for social change. She's also a hilarious comedian and writer and co-host of the award-winning podcast, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Zahra Norbash. Zahra. I don't know words

or lyrics. When you said I thought you were doing Ray J, wait a minute. Anyway, that's a deep cut from the early 2000s. Oh, wait. What pop culture collaboratives senior fellow on comedy for social change? You are probably by far the most esteemed guest we've had with that title.

I agree. What is the Pop Culture Collaborative, if I may ask? The Pop Culture Collaborative works at the intersection of activism and Hollywood, specifically. Oh, wonderful. Okay. And, yeah, they're changing the game. Okay. What's an example?

Like, do you guys write articles? What do you do? So I am a fellow, which means that I get money to do things like change the field of comedy. Oh, nice. By March. By March. By March. If it's not it, you're fucking fired.

That's it. I'm out. Yeah, money gone. And it's by appearing on shitty second-rate podcasts and encouraging them to do better. Is that right? This was the first step. Step one to go in the days like this. And there are multiple fellows working on multiple projects. For example, one of our fellows, May El-Hassan, posted yesterday an incredible report on 100 years of Muslim representation in Hollywood.

Amazing. Wow. All good, right? Nothing. Yeah. Just all positive stuff. Oh, my God. representation in hollywood amazing wow which no good right nothing yeah just all celebration celebration after celebration of allahu akbar after allahu akbar and i think they also worked with some of the like moving parts and pieces and organizations that brought the activists working on the me too movement to the golden globes with the actresses that were nominated there were a lot of organizations that were involved,

and I think they were somehow a part of that coordination. Damn. We ain't doing shit, Jack. I know. You guys have an incredibly important podcast that is the first stop to my quest. So for you changing comedy, how do you look at that in terms of your fellowship? How are you approaching that exactly? There are a lot of parts and pieces that i have to like take into account right but one of the things that i'm

focusing on is that like stand-up comedy has no genre and no rubric we have like set up punchline and that's it right but it's actually like building context, establishing context, generating anticipation, delivering a surprise. Right. And leaving a lingering impact. Like there's so many parts and pieces that nobody ever thinks about. Yeah. That actually makes it easier to craft a joke. Sure.

Right. And then on top of that, you have like, you know, reviews of comedy that are like that was or wasn't funny. Right. Right. Which like we never would do with a book. You would never say like, oh, it's a good book. It is good or bad. End of New York Times review.

Right. You know? Yeah. Yeah. That's true. Book good. Right. End.

Thank you for the Bible. My favorite genre of comedy is have you seen this? Have you heard about this? That's a good genre. Have you seen this? Have you guys heard about this? This is why you guys are my first stop. Have you seen this input?

Yeah. Well, have you seen this? Have you heard about this? This is why you guys are my first stop. You see this input? Yeah, well, have you seen this? Have you heard about this one? All right, we're going to get to know you even better in a moment. But first, we're going to tell our listeners what we're going to be talking about. We're going to start off with a good old-fashioned Google trend search, just checking out what the internet's hive mind is thinking and asking about. Right now, we're going to talk about that horrifying meeting, I guess you would call it, press appearance by Kanye in the Oval Office.

We're going to talk about the Georgia governor's race and just how that's totally on the up and up. That was sarcasm. We're going to talk about Trump's call-in to Fox & Friends, Melania doubling down on her title of queen of hot takes and more but first Zara what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are okay this is a really unfair question to ask in the morning I know yeah it's a it's what we do what we do though you know romantic porn do, though. Romantic porn. Specifically.

So that was something from last night? Yes. And that's why you're saying? Okay, I got it. And so to find porn, you just Google it. You don't go to Pornhub or something? You go romantic. Okay, you porn was down yesterday.

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, so was Xvideos. Also, as a part of Xvideos. I don't even know about Xvideos. See, guys have this like- You don't like it. Pornhub, I like because they do stuff with their data. They tell the world about what's going on through porn searches.

Oh, that's useful. Wait, with romantic porn, that's like stuff where people like kiss and believe that these are people in love rather than like some bizarre situation involving someone doing a pizza delivery or something. I would be totally down with a pizza delivery. Here's the thing. Oh, and I have to say this because like i'm in activist land like you porn doesn't pay equitably i feel like that's implied yeah right oh like to stream the content you're saying there

is like equitable paying porn out there that like does actually do a good job by sex workers yeah yeah people who where do you find that like you'd have to subscribe to the site right isn't that part of the thing or is it like a spotify model where they're getting giving people a cut based on all of these things stand between me and orgasm and i'm still working on being a better citizen of the world so that I have these answers. But, okay, I have to filter with romantic porn just so that I can watch something that treats women well. Sure, yeah. And I don't even like the kissing all that much. I usually fast forward past that.

Right. But I also don't like to see women hurt. Right. Sure, yes. Yeah. It sort of kills my mood a little bit. And also, I'm not into the rougher stuff. Right. Sure, yes. Yeah. You know, it sort of kills my mood a little bit. And also like, you know, I'm not into the rougher stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I am 38.

The gel in my spine is, you know, disappearing slowly. Is that what happens? Yeah, it is. That would explain a lot about how I've been feeling lately. See? Also 38. Okay. Yeah.

When you take steps, do you feel the impact like hit from your heel all the way up to your neck? Yeah. Oh my God. The grinding of my vertebrae.

Yeah. So like being thrown around in a room, I'm just like, whoa. Yeah, right. You're like someone like, can I put your feet up?

Yeah, exactly. Can I give you a foot rub while I go down on you? Romantic porn. Yeah. That's romantic porn. Yeah. I like it. I only like a foot rub while I go down on you? Romantic porn. That's romantic porn. Yeah. I like it.

I only like porn where it's just the kissing, and then the camera moves up to the window, and there's flow dissolved to them in bed afterwards, just having a cigarette. That's my kind of porn. Like ABC, like NYPD Blue. Well, actually, NYPD Blue has some wild scenes. Haze era, Haze code era.

1950s sex scenes. Oh, that was like the rules? Yeah. You could kiss, close mouth kiss. Pan up. Tight closed lips and moving your head around and then pan up to the- Smoking a cigarette. To a nice set of curtains.

Oh, you guys needed to watch way more soap operas. Oh, do they do that too? It was like soft core, practically. Oh, nice. Do they get hot and heavy or is it transition stuff? Like, are you seeing a little bit of action?

I mean, in comparison to a blustery window? Yeah, for sure. There's a lot more going on. General Hospital was pretty hot. I don't know. Okay.

I was more of the young and the restless person. The amount of sex, according to the worlds of fiction, that is happening in hospitals is just so unsettling.

Yeah. All right. What's something that's overrated? Any and all investigations or news coverage about this administration in any way, shape, or form. It's a huge smokescreen. Okay. Explain. So are you talking Mueller investigation? All of it. All of it. I guess that is an investigation. Okay. Explain. So are you talking Mueller investigation?

All of it. All of it. I guess that is an investigation. The Mueller investigation. Let's look at how much time we spent on Kavanaugh for one. Yeah. The entire time

it was very clear to me and I think many people that it mattered not at all. Because he was innocent, right? This is going to be a rough show. Wait, what are you saying about Brett? What are you saying about

Brett, dude? He likes beer. Brett? You mean that it was a foregone conclusion that he would be confirmed? Yeah. I think so. I mean, they even slipped him in. There were people who were planning on direct action protests to get in the way of traffic, you know, to filibuster at traffic, basically.

And it didn't matter a lot. They like they practically helicoptered him into the desk. Yeah. And then because there was an investigation, they were like, well, see, this is what's making the voters hate us. That's the one semantic thing. It was a background check. Right. You know what I mean?

Voters hate us. That's the one semantic thing. It was a background check. Right. You know what I mean? And that's what the FBI was also, when they were trying to defend themselves, they're like, yes, the White House asked us to continue our background check, not to investigate. Because if that was a real criminal investigation, it would have maybe done more. But also, the FBI does have the ability to say, this is complete bullshit.

They don't have to walk around like middle management in the show 24. You know what I mean? Like, I don't understand why it's not working out. And then Jack Bauer is like, give me back my daughter. Like, I mean,

it just, it doesn't work that way, but it does when it's necessary to generate buzz and a smoke screen. Right. Sure. Get Bauer out of there. Throw him in prison. That was my impression of 24 middle management have you seen 24 yeah

they well no they just never believed in him every time he would get himself into a situation they would always just be like that's it bauer you're fired get back here so you can give me your badge i never really watched the show was he on heroin at some point yeah well so he was held captive by i think it was the Chinese, actually. And they hooked him on heroin. Wow. Just to kind of be like, yo, you're too effective. That whole country just hooking Jack

Bauer on heroin. Heroin. Always getting guys named Jack hooked on heroin. And that's my excuse. What's something you think is underrated? Underrated. Everything you need to know about destabilization. Okay. Go on.

Explain. Talk, dad, talk. We are in destabilization. Every Iranian knows what I'm talking about right now because we go through it like every two years that the country is doing well. And then all of a sudden it's a circus and nobody knows why. Oh, people with foreign influence have an investment in your country failing. Right. And that's what's happening to us right now. And like all of the things that we say, we're like, I never thought blank would happen.

I never thought blank would happen. I never thought it's like government doesn't matter. That is destabilization. And it's meant the reason why it makes me so angry that like more people aren't talking about this is that the whole point of destabilization is that it's polarizing, that it makes you hate government. It makes you want to see your government fall. And it also feels like a circus. Right. Which is what it feels like right now. Yeah. You know?

And that's the whole point is, like, it's the oldest trick. Trick in the book. Yeah. You know? And that's the whole point is like it's the oldest trick. Trick in the book. Yeah. Trick in the scroll. Pretty much. So that a country, kingdom, empire does itself in. So when the foreign invasion comes, I mean, I don't want to sound xenophobic. Like what's a foreign invasion?

Amazon. You know what I mean? Finally having its win. Right. Then the job has largely been done for them. So are you saying that America is going through destabilization? Absolutely. Everybody should know more about destabilization.

Okay. Where can you point people to learn more about this? Just learn more about Iran. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, destabilization is very easy to look up. Google it, and then all of a sudden it will start to feel like it's talking about your life. Right. And just start there.

Okay. It's the one place where I would be like, maybe start with Wikipedia. Like I wouldn't for literally anything else. Right, right. Including prime numbers. But about destabilization, with wikipedia it's like it's just a good segue to the to your myth to my myth how'd you know i was gonna ask about a myth that's crazy uh what is a myth what's what's something that people think is true that

you know to be false all right iran is not your enemy iran is your only hope. Ooh. Iran is the Obi-Wan. I was just about to say that. I actually, I don't really know anything about foreign policy, but I am Iranian. Or Star Wars. I'm Iranian. I have an investment. No, the reason why I say that is because it's very interesting to me how, like, the Middle East is playing out in all of this. Number one, that we don't hear about the Middle East anymore.

Have you guys noticed that? Oh, yeah. Like, what happened to ISIS? Right. ISIS. ISIS. Oh, there's an ISIS drop. That's how much ISIS is talked about.

ISIS just dropped. I think there was one line in the news at one point that was like, and we solved it. Right, as if they're like, hey, we're done. Yeah. Just move on. There's like been multiple reports about Saudi Arabia's support of ISIS and Vladimir Putin's support of ISIS. And it used to be that like what we would watch was destabilization in the Middle East. Right.

And so it's interesting to me that now it's all about like, what does Saudi Arabia have a hold on? Which is like, whoa, that's a shift. Right. Just giving it all to a kingdom. Right. So, you know, I'm just putting it out there. Iran, be friends with Iran.

Right. It's the only other country there that's like holding the opposition. Yeah, right. Opposition is good also because i notice what fans everybody is of handmaiden's tale and that's iran 1980 like if you're into it right just go check out the real deal there were real cloaks real bonnets right and and it's also really unsettling and somewhat entertaining as an Iranian to like watch Kavanaugh play out because the election of the supreme leaders in Iran you know they're

extraordinarily right-wing politic when it came to anything related to women you know and watching that take hold despite the populace's desires you, like 90% of Iran voted for reform. Right. And yet, you know, so just, you know, just putting some Iran plugs out there. Yeah, no, it's good. And when we have Nikki Haley doing like cool book reports pointing at like things, I'm like, that's from Iran, so we have to go to war now. And you have people like John Bolton who are like their singular focus is try to vilify them by any means possible. Oh my God, when you said book report, actually, my esteem went up.

There's a kind of report? Not just a tweet? Getting in front of the class type thing. Remember when they brought up that missile piece and they're like, oh yeah, you see right there, even though it looks like in my handwriting it says Made in Iran. So I think this is enough evidence for us to start looking that way. But, yeah. But, yeah, we've talked before on the show about how Margaret Atwood, before writing The Handmaid's Tale, just researched history of a lot of other countries.

It's like she stole specific – I think she said all of the different details. It's just sort of a collage of different details from history of other countries she's ripping off history man yeah um but yeah and iran like look at pictures of iran in the 70s i think people would be surprised to see like how completely things changed there a 100 shift yeah or just knowing about like mosadgh and how, you know, we were like, hi, we're here to pretend that you don't want this person anymore. Right. Already you're entering into territory I don't actually know about. I just know that I want people.

Of course. No, no, no. I think it's important to know. To be pro Iran and romantic. But yeah, the United States had a hand in like, yeah, destabilizing Iran. Yeah, it's like basic staple. Iran 101, guys. But I have this unique relationship with my history where growing up in the 80s as an Iranian,

your parents did not want you to know anything about politics. Because my teachers would ask me at recess when I was in kindergarten, first grade, third grade, fifth grade, like, what do you think of Khomeini? Do you know Khomeini? Right. I'd be like, this is recess. This is extra credit. You're like, I'm sorry.

I have glue all over my hands. Can I eat it first? Yes. All right. Let's check in with the Google Trends search real quick. Hurricane Michael is still out here. The pictures are coming in from Mexico Beach in Florida, which is where the hurricane made landfall. And the photographs are just horrifying.

It looks like a bomb went off. Selena Gomez is recovering in a mental hospital. And the story of how the breakdown came about is something that I've heard about more recently. And I'm wondering if there's an actual, maybe the Zeitgang can tell us about this, but if this is like an actual, like there's a medical diagnosis for this. So apparently she was,

you know, hospitalized for lupus. She has all sorts of health issues from lupus and she got a bad blood test result. And they were like, you're going to have to stay. And that caused her to like have sort of a breakdown. And I've heard of that happening to people where it's like, you just want to get out of the hospital.

You're so tired of being in the hospital. The hospital is a terrible place to be. And you start to feel like you're a prisoner there. But the test results are nonetheless saying that it's unsafe for you to leave so they can't let you leave. Oh, right. Yeah. So anyways, she then kind of had an emotional breakdown and is now at a mental hospital, which good for her. There are other celebrities who are not getting the mental health treatment that they need, as we'll talk about shortly. But yeah, so she is trending and all the stories seem to be her friends and

family are doing the right thing and supporting her and asking for privacy. Wow. Who'd have thought? She has a support system around her. A celebrity with some problems has a support system around them and not a circus around them. She's got a great support system. One of her best friends gave her her kidney. That's right. Yo, I want Selena Gomez's friends. Jamie Lee Curtis is trending, and I had to look into this. Why is she trending? Is something wrong with Activia yogurt?

No. It turns out Fox News was trying to get a thing going yesterday. They quote, Jamie Lee Curtis wields firearm in new Halloween movie despite advocating for gun control. Okay. What the fuck? Do you know what a fucking movie is?

This set off a bunch of really great tweets. Like, Jason Gilbert tweeted, Tim Allen murders Santa Claus in 1994 movie despite advocating for celebration of Christmas. And just all sorts of other. Yeah. Or like, you know, Fox News presents no news despite being a news organization. Wow.

Well, you know, all that culture war shit. Like, they really have to find a thing to be like, I can't believe she talked about advocating for gun control. And then they're like, how can we get her back? Oh, you're holding a gun in a movie? I think that Fox News just has the take of just like the worst neighbor on the block always. Right. Just a neighbor that like no matter what, even if it doesn't make sense to say, they

have to say it in that tone. Right, right. Of like, um. Right. Should you really be chemically watering your lawn? I mean, we are all doing it. But should we? Yeah, there's this sort of disingenuous cultural commentary coming from the right and from Fox News lately.

So during the Kavanaugh hearing, Molly Ringwald was like, yeah, there was some really fucked up stuff in some of my movies. Like in one of the movies, I think it's Pretty in Pink or 16 Candles, a drunk girl is given to somebody as like, here, have fun with her. And it's just like considered cool. Right. And she was like, that in retrospect, not all right. And Fox News was like, oh, come on. What? People can't do like bad stuff in movies

what so now all movies are just gonna have to be people sitting around and peacefully discussing their problems it's just like i feel like all of fox news should just be that impression oh come on oh come on oh come on like now it matters how the populace votes? Right. Oh, come on. Oh. Now we care about racism? Right. Oh, wow. Now you care about who's your Supreme Court justice at all? You need a bad...

Come on. Oh, come on. Oh, come on. But anyways. Come on. Do we have to explain why that's stupid? That movies have points of view and characters within them are not... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... Do you even... them. No. Do you even explain this out loud?

It's making me die inside. It's very frustrating. I also think it's funny, like this notion that like Molly Ringwald and Jamie Lee Curtis are like in charge of movie. Yes. Right. Hello, I am sitting in a chair.

It is literally my understanding of movies when I was like four, like when I first saw it. And I was like, I don't like him because he's mean. It's like, yo, like that. But you guys are grownups who are actually covering the culture for a large portion of Americans. So try harder, Fox News. And Kanye is also trending, and that is, of course, who I was referring to when I said that some celebrities need people around them to look out for them because he was seriously on some dude on the corner with a cardboard sign shit. Well, it was just sad.

He went to the White House to have lunch with the president, and there was an agenda where they would talk things about record high black employment and curbing employment and, you know, curbing violence in Chicago and other. Why is Kanye top? Of course. And it was like Jim Brown was next to him. And I mean, we're talking about posting clips of it, but like it's just so clearly somebody who is just all of his thoughts are disjointed. He never at one point really offers a solution or like a coherent or actionable point or about anything are you talking about the president or sadly no and president for his entire administration and kanye for this

particular conversation he just went 10 minutes yeah yeah what is it was odd at moments trump you could tell he seemed a little like he wasn't it wasn't even making sense to him and he would like at one point i remember he looked at the other reporters like smiling like wow okay but yeah again this is like there was nothing about what he said that made any real point it was just it was i don't know it just felt bad to watch and it was so it was just really it was just difficult to watch can i have like a destabilization sound bite for every time i I see it? Just... Is that circus? I don't know. Oh, there it...

Yeah. Yours kind of sounded like a jazzy soft shoe with jazz hands involved. Because of that romantic porn look. Yeah. Right, right. So how is this destabilization? Just explain it to the listener. You know, having people talk about whole pieces of the fabric of our society and its construct, who are rappers?

Right. Yeah. And yeah, now he's not even rapping anymore. He's standing next to the president because also, you know, the representation of African-Americans by this administration has been so good. Right. Yes. And yet you bring him in. And it's odd, too, because Trump seems to think he's like, oh, yeah, it's great for me and the African-American voters to understand what I'm trying to do.

And it's like, my man, he's not moving the needle for you with African-American voters at all. If anything, you have your people and that's not really moving. But I think for him to think that somehow, I don't know what Trump thinks he's getting out of bringing him in. I think it clearly is. He's like, well, look, it's a black guy. He's got a MAGA hat on. I'm not racist.

And I think that's like the optics of it are clearly all he's using to just sort of rationalize. Yeah, that was great. And now I'll be doing great in the midterms. Yeah. But it's a bad look to be the guy exploiting a mentally ill person, I would just say. Yeah. So does he even know what's going on? Right.

I mean, there are rumors that Donald Trump is going through dementia. Yeah. What? Yeah. There are doctors who are actually putting out pieces saying he's displaying all of the signs. Yeah. And his vocabulary is shrinking. Yeah. Even today, he vocabulary shrinking. And yeah.

Yeah. Even today he was on Fox and Friends. We'll talk about that later. But he couldn't even like remember the names of candidates. He was like, yeah, there's a there's a man. He literally said there's a man running. And you're like, oh, OK. OK, we're going to take a quick break.

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And now a lot of people are like, maybe you should step away from that role since you are in an election and you can, you're at the levers of people being able to vote. And he's like, no, it's fine. I'm not doing anything wrong. Like we just got rules and people got to follow them.

Wow. Except now we're finding out that this policy that he put forward, this exact match policy, which basically dictates that like, if someone fills out a voter registration form and it's off by a letter a hyphen a fucking tilde on your name and it doesn't match what the government has sorry bruh we're gonna toss that on the pile and we're gonna have to get back to you very soon and the ap was reporting that there is around 53 000 registration forms that are just sitting on

ice because of this law probably mostly irish people right oh well hey in my case i have brian you forget i have an apostrophe i don't forget it i just choose not to use it sometimes because it fucks up like in uh when it's like going from a word doc to something else or what about the like scottish like mcm. Right. So there's probably some Macmillans. Which one is capitalized? The M. Capital M, little c, then capitalized. And is it Mac? Is it Mac? Is it?

Who knows? But right now they're saying that 70% of these registration forms that are being held are from black voters. Huh. Surprise. Who would have thought? Who would have thought? And, you know, Brian Kemp has not had a good history in terms of voter rights.

Like he's been sued before by voters' rights groups. He even once – Stacey Abrams had a nonprofit group that had – their mission was to register people of color to vote. And he launched an investigation into that group years ago. I don't know if that's to intimidate them or something like that. But, yeah, this is like his shit. And when you think about how close this race is, I'd hate to think that 53,000 votes could swing an election or anything like that. But it's a problem. And I think that more people need to figure out what's going on or he needs to do something about this.

But as it stands, he is doing a really good job of limiting people's ability to vote right now, especially in a very important election that's really close. of limiting people's ability to vote right now, especially in a very important election that's really close. And I've never had it explained to me what being extremely careful about this ahead of an election, like what problem do they think they're solving? It's all, it's that, they're just raising the fucking specter of voter fraud, which is like not even a real issue, but that's their-

No, they're actually like causing voter fraud. Right, no, essentially. I mean, essentially what they're doing is- Defrauding. Completely illegal. Yeah. They're what they're doing is completely illegal. They're inhibiting people's right to vote. This is also where I'm going to advocate for another section, a new segment

to your podcast. Just like, how close are we to becoming Iran? Oh, nice. Keep that meter going as you get closer to the election. Because in Iran, one of the things that happened, because destabilization, was when Ahmadinejad first won. After the people had voted unanimously for reform, they have a feminist party in Iran. There was a candidate from the feminist party in the cabinet.

And then Ahmadinejad showed up and all of that evaporated. In the cabinet and then Medina judge showed up and all of that evaporated. And in the first round of voting, it sounded a lot like Trump's aftermath where people were like, who voted for this? What? We think Russia's involved. And then in the second round, the Iranian media, when the votes came out, because people came out in droves, like 90% of the country votes. Right. They call it Black Tuesday because everybody's cloaked in black or wearing black and is out voting at the voting booths.

And everyone knew they were getting him out. And then the camera, just as soon as the election results come in, straight up pans to a field of flowers. Wow. And music flowers. Wow. And music plays. Oh. And Ahmadinejad's back. And he's just magically back.

So, like, we should do, like, a running prediction. Yeah, we just need to know what those levels are between America and Europe. Yeah, like, how full-blown gaslighting are they going to go? Yeah, I mean, it's every, with every election and every action of this administration. And just I think the government in general, this country, we've been on that slow path from the beginning. So, yeah, I don't know. We'll have to figure out what those those notches are in the meter before they just go straight back to like, it's actually not at all about the name. We really just have been racist this whole time. Yeah. Like, like, honestly, look, this candidate is African-American. not at all about the name. We really just have been racist this whole time.

Honestly, look, this candidate is African-American. I have a feeling a lot of people of color are going to turn out. So we are going to have to try and kneecap people of color voting. While they're holding a crowbar on Fox News. At the booth, they're like, no, you better vote for Brian Kemp. But it's so easy just to

throw their ballots out. Why would you need the crowbar? Yeah, well, they. Vote for Brian Kemp. But it's so easy just to throw their ballots out. Why would you need the crowbar? Yeah. Well, that's, man, they have their underhanded ways of staying on top. But, hey, well, who knows? I mean, hopefully enough people turn out that that won't be an issue. But still, I think definitely there are lawyers in D.C. from other voting rights groups who are like, this has to be addressed. Like, what the fuck are we doing?

Like, we can't just sit here and act like this isn't a fucking issue. But we'll see. I mean, what is the consequence? I don't know. Go to a Supreme Court where you can go to a... See? Exactly. And then they're going to be like, hey, he's chill, dude, Brian.

He aimed a gun at a kid in a campaign ad, so he's fine. Right, right. Welcome to Iran. Welcome to Iran. Well, all of this seems somewhat confusing but fortunately the president of the United States called into his favorite TV show and talked for a long time so I'm sure he like explained all this right oh yeah yeah made sense of the universe sense of everything you know he called in and basically just rambled on about how hey the muller thing it's oh it's a witch hunt and had to do the thing again and goes actually hillary colluded with

russia to beat herself for some shit oh wow it was wacky the the the hosts were even like okay because then he started talking about jeff sessions and trump was talking about a maybe after midterms maybe i'll boot old legal Smeagol's ass to the curb and put in an attorney general who will fully just obstruct justice like I need it to be obstructed. And also, again, admitting that he was thinking about obstructing justice,

but what are the consequences? Wow. And then he said something about Devin Nunes should get the Medal of Honor. Now, that's very confusing to me because the Medal of Honor, isn't that supposed to be a military award? From what I understand,

I've always seen that blue ribbon be put around the neck of someone in the military. But yeah, it's always the highest decoration for someone in the armed forces. And he thinks Devin Nunez should get it. Well, yeah, he's in a different kind of army. He's in the MAGA army. So he's the colonel. He's a, he's in a different kind of army. He's in the MAGA army. So, you know what I mean?

He's the colonel. He's a street corner colonel, a.k.a. Spliffstar. And he's out here trying to fuck up all kinds of investigations and breaking the law and just letting himself rot by the soul. But, yeah, he said that. And then he ended really nice with, like, someone, like, one of the hosts said, can you wish my dad a happy birthday? And he did. And then they were trying to be like, all right, let's wrap this up. Because you, like, literally the guy said, okay, now go run the country.

Right. Rather than talking to us for however long. I think it was almost an hour or something. Right. So, you know, he likes his favorite Collins show. Well, Queen hot take. We had King hot take, Go on Fox and Friends. And Queen hot take, Melania, has doubled down.

Yeah, I think we can just play this clip just so you can hear the hottest fucking take of 2018. I could say I'm the most bullied person on the world. You think you're the most bullied person in the world? One of them, if you really see what people are saying about me. Okay. I mean, saying about me. Okay. I mean, sure. Interesting. Maybe.

I don't know if you are the most bullied person on earth. I think, yes, you've been on the receiving end of a lot of anger. Also, you don't get to leave a detention center of children in cages by known sexual abusers with a jacket that says, I don't care, do you? And then be like, I don't understand why I'm bullied. Why are people mean to me? Well, I think that's the whole thing is that, yeah, the right is looking at criticism of their like amoral, just shitty actions as being violent or it's bullying. When it's like you're fucking around and we're calling you out right that's what is going on we're not being like oh ramp all your fucking nose looks fucked up

right you know i mean it's like you're out here caping for russia and then you're like one of the few senators that didn't sign on to that letter that was like oh we need to actually reprimand saudi arabia i don't know what's going on ramp all right now but anyway i feel like she should just say what it is that she wants to say which is like people don't know what's going on with Rand Paul right now, but anyway. I feel like she should just say what it is that she wants to say, which is like, people don't know their place. I will be queen. Right. Oh. Yeah. Do you think she wants to be queen? Do you think she likes... Yeah.

Her husband wants to be like king with absolute power. That's the only... That's what he thought he was winning when he won the presidency. I mean, also, they both participate in pageantry. Right. Yeah. But it's just funny to think like the reports of like on election night when they won, she just began sobbing. Right. Right.

And I think he also was crying. He was terrified, but then convinced himself that he could do it. And so this just makes sense of because her whole campaign has been no online bullying. And what she meant is no saying shit about me online. Just keep my name out of your mouth. Who cares if I don't want to hold my fucking husband's hand because I think he's nasty. Right. I don't know.

You know, if you're the most bullied person in the world, shout out to you. I feel for you. But I think there are many other people who are in much more vulnerable situations that you could be shedding light on. But hey, put your pith hat on the table when you do your fucking interview and just look like the colonizer you want to be. The only way she could have made me somewhat sympathetic to that statement is if she had then followed it up with, I mean, look who I'm fucking married to. You think I don't get bullied every day? Like that guy, you think I want to have sex with him?

You're just catching heat. Right. You're fucking up. Yeah. So you mentioned the little hot water that Saudi Arabia is in right now. I don't know if it's going to be hot, but. Yeah. It's something.

So more and more details are coming out. I mean, it's still the main detail is the bone saw, I think, is the main detail. Yeah, the most grim detail of it all. The murder of a Washington Post reporter. Yes, Khashoggi. He went in, then never came out. He's not in there anymore. And people walked in with like a hit squad shows up with bone saws and empty luggage and boxes and

shut up yeah and then they left with bone saws and boxes and luggage and the reporter is no longer in there like fuck like intelligence intercepts like and oh they do this shit when they want you to know the laws of physics say that that dude got murdered and cut into pieces like that's just the only physical explanation unless they have a some sort of transportation beam right in which case we should also find out about that because that would that's not the case because right they had a forensic pathologist was part of this 15-man hit squad that came. And they're like, let me see your luggage, sir.

You're here for 32 hours. And your luggage is a bone saw. Okay, welcome to Turkey. Oh, my God. And you guys came on private jets from Saudi Arabia? Okay, and you're leaving tonight? Yeah, it's just one of those things where now – and, you know, again, Trump was asked.

They're like, have you talked to them? And he was like, you know, Jared and John Bolton talked to Mohammed bin Salman. And like Mohammed bin Salman literally was like, oh, I don't know. I don't know what happened. Yeah, that's crazy. And they're just like, they're just acting real, like brand new about it. And then when they asked Trump, it's like, well, something should happen, right? And he's even like, I mean, it doesn't look good.

He admitted that much. But then he said, but you know, we have this deal with them. And there's a lot of money involved because we're selling them weapons, basically. And he doesn't want to fuck up this like $350 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia by making it hot for them, by holding them accountable. I don't know that he actually has the power to make anything hot for them. I don't know that the actual mechanisms. Yeah, underneath there, I don't know that he's in charge of much when it comes to, but I wonder if we're looking at all the facts.

I mean, did somebody apparate? Was there a port key? Oh, that's a good point. Yeah. Or like one of those, yeah, like from Portal, one of the Portal guns. Yeah, like maybe there was some flu powder, some evidence of flu powder on the scene.

Also very possible. Yeah. Almost all of the terrorists who did 9-11 were from Saudi Arabia. And yeah, we were cool with that at that time. So there weren't many consequences that they saw. So I doubt that this is going to cause much problems for them. Yeah. Well, also when you have Jared Kushner, who's like the same age as Mohammed bin Salman,

being like, hey, can you be in charge of talking to him? I'm sorting out the Middle East guy who doesn't know how to foreign policy. Right. And, you know, there was a report like earlier this year where Mohammed bin Salman was bragging. He's like, yo, I got Jared Kushner in my pocket. Yeah. He's like, what the fuck are they going to do? Right.

And now you're seeing it. It's just super aggressive. Before, I'm sure it was fine when they were doing all their human rights violations within their own borders. And we were fine turning a blind eye to that. And even now, it's like, oh. And then Trump even said, oh, I don't think he's an American citizen. So it's like, OK, there you go. There you have it.

So, I mean, they are trying to prove a point. And the point they're trying to prove is look what we can do without getting in trouble. Right. That seems to continue to be the point they're trying to prove is look what we can do without getting in trouble. Right. That seems to continue to be the point. Like, hey, check out your new Supreme Court justice. Look at what we can do. What you gonna do? We can reenact a Saw movie

in plain sight. Maybe that's why Melania's like, I'm the most bullied person. Maybe they cut out. Maybe she was like, this country, that man, this Supreme Court. And they cut all of it out. So she's just like, it's not right. Right, right.

I mean, yeah, and it's funny. Jack, the way you had it was talking about Bob Corker coming in and him admonishing the Saudis and Lindsey Graham suddenly finding his moral backbone again. And it was one of those things where it's a gesture. What will happen? Probably not much, especially when the president is being so transparent about what his actual, you know, what the real stakes are for him or how he looks at the whole situation. I know. It definitely seems like one of those situations where he's saying out loud the part that people usually only think. Yeah.

Like, well, this would be bad for us financially. Well, look, we closed a huge deal. We're trying to get $110 billion up front, which I don't think we still have or the government still has. What do billions mean anymore? I've lost track. I don't even know. It's the one that's bigger than millions, but I don't know. Like, I don't even have an impressive gauge.

Right. Like, you know, a gauge of impressiveness I no longer have. Like, what is a billion? I think Justin Timberlake said that the transformation is a million is cool, but what's really cool is a billion. No, but I'm talking in the billion realm. We have hundreds of billions, tens of billions. Right, right.

When does it mean something? Like I don't. I don't know. It all depends on if money is your God, then it means something. Right, yeah. Oh, that's rude. Yeah, I don't worship the dollar like I used to. I used to, you know, rap videos had me fucked up in the late 90s and early 2000s, to be honest here.

But I mean, it doesn't take that much money to impress Trump. There's this experiment that Spy Magazine did in the 80s where they sent all the richest people in New York checks for, like they started at $100 and then went down to $50 and then $25 just to see how cheap the richest people in New York are and who would keep cashing that check, taking the time to cash the check. And the only person who cashed the check

all the way down to like two cents was Donald Trump. Get out. Yeah. Yeah, because he's a broke boy. He just fucking, he loves that money. He's broke, yeah. Cash it in, cash it in. All right, we're going to take another quick break.

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Stabilized. Yeah, there we go. And a story that was just breaking as we recorded this is that Facebook has been removing hundreds of influential political accounts. Basically, they're being accused of doing what Russia did for the 2016 election, but in the run up to the midterms. But they are like Americans or groups of Americans who are doing this so it gets into questions about like first amendment law. Okay I

have not to toot my own horn I'm far from influential. No do this solo I'll give you eight bars now blow that horn I can't get my freaking account to work. Your Facebook account? Yeah. Because?

It does the bouncy boinky thing. Have you guys had this issue? No, I don't really use Facebook. A couple of my friends have had this issue, and now I'm wondering if it's at all related because of my Persian conspiracy brain, but also because I haven't been able to post. Were you running an account or moderating a group or something like that?

I mean, I'm in a bunch of groups. They all say radical. Uh-oh. Is that an issue? Yeah. Were you running an account or moderating a group or something like that? I mean, I'm in a bunch of groups. They all say radical. Is that an issue? They all say Muslim. Is that a problem? Nah, nah. From my understanding.

I'm just going to back out of the room, though, just to be safe. Where are you going? I just want to know. To the bathroom to cry. Wait, so they're just getting rid of American-ran political accounts that it could be like union workers for better work? They've been doing this. I had a couple of friends who had shows like Man Haters comedy show. Their like page got shut down.

Because it was man hate? Yes. For real? Yes. And then I had another friend who posted men are trash. Oh, I remember that whole fiasco. It got shut down. Her account got frozen for a while.

So it's interesting that that's one kind of politic. Yeah, right. And it's not like when Jamie Loftus gets death threats in a private mental group or something. She back though. Yeah. Well, hey, man. I wonder if they're just sort of like, they're so bad at trying to figure out their problem

with fake news that they're just like, just fucking sanitize the whole fucking thing. Like they don't even of like, they're so bad at trying to figure out their problem with fake news that they're just like, just fucking sanitize the whole fucking thing. Like they don't even have like the will or the know-how to properly address their, their major problem on the platform that they're just like, all right, well now you guys don't get nice things. Right.

You don't get anything. But then that has to run into some kind of like, those are real issues. This is like an issue now though. If you're kind of trying to stifle people's ability to express their politics, even on the right or the left is if it's not like violent disinformation, I don't see what the issue is. Right.

Yeah. No, it has to be disinformation. I think they're accusing them of that. But then the people on the right are going to be like, well, how do you define misinformation? Oh, wow. So they're saying, oh, so Kanye was wrong when he said the Democrats created welfare. Okay. Oh, so Jamie Lee Curtis can just said the Democrats created welfare. Okay, well, he said that.

Oh, so Jamie Lee Curtis can just have guns now. Oh, I see. Come on, come on, come on. Come on. So our office this morning is talking about LeBron James. LeBron. LeBron on Wednesday had his first, or not his first appearance as a Laker, but it was a preseason game where he looked really good.

And finally, super producer Sophie Lichterman was excited about it. She was like, I was thinking for the first time that this could be a good thing for the Lakers because she's a Kobe stan. And she is in that group of Lakers fans who think that there's some sort of conflict between liking Kobe and liking LeBron, just because LeBron's better than Kobe.

Oh, he's a sex cram. Dissonant. Yeah, there's also that. But also, a thing we're just learning, other than that LeBron is still good at basketball, shocking Laker fans, is that he's apparently that cool dad who lets his kids drink. He said that his kids are super mature, and he was like, they drank wine.

Yeah, they're 11 and 14. I mean, I don't know. A lot of people, I think, took it immediately because they want to vilify him as like, these kids are drunk off wine all day. Right. And I don't know if it's more like the European angle. Yeah, I was going to say like, you know, every kid in day. Right. You know, like, and I don't know if it's more like the European angle where, you know. Yeah, I was gonna say like,

you know, every kid in France. Right. And like, even my mom, like, you know, she traveled a lot in Europe. When I was a kid,

I would be like, I want to taste your wine. She's like, yeah, whatever, you're not gonna like it. And I didn't. Right. Or like drinking the foam

off my dad's beer or some shit. I wasn't like fucking twisted at four years old. That sounds dirty. Right. Sipping the foam off my daddy's beer. But, you know, I think, at four years old. That sounds dirty. Brett. Sipping the foam off my daddy's beer.

But, you know, I think, I would like to know what the amounts are before we have any judgment. Yeah. If he's cutting it with water. I think that's totally fair. I also do wonder, like, what are the goals as a rich parent? You know what I mean?

Like, do you want to be like, hey, like, this is how rich dad is. Get drunk. Right. You want to know how good we're doing? Get drunk. Go drive dad's car around. See if they can do anything to us.

Yeah, it's interesting. There are those parents who are like the cool parents who everybody drinks at their house. That's different though. Right. You're talking about like Saudi Arabia? What do you mean? Everybody gets drunk at their house yeah what what well i think yeah everywhere else has rules not here not here guys

go wild okay i'll turn my back to everything right uh but i don't know yeah like that's right like i don't know parents who are just like i'd rather have my kids get super twisted at home right then go out somewhere else and do it like there's an an argument of like, you know, you can demystify like the taboos around alcohol. If early on kids realize you can responsibly drink or whatever. But like, I don't know about the shit of like party at home. How do you feel about those parents? Because like I always hear those parents in response to their kid. But then I always wonder what it's like for parents whose kids hang out with that kid.

Right. Yeah. There is a dad who's like, get drunk at my house. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I think it's just more like sort of it's the fear-based parenting where they're like, well, it's better here than just some party in Woodland Hills.

Right. Which I knew people like that. I don't know. I think that's a slippery slope a little bit. Did you guys go to high school parties? Were you those guys? Yeah. I went to high school parties were you those guys oh yeah yeah I went to high school parties

ragers yeah there were some ragers and there were some the ragers were always at the house where the parents were cool with the rager happening yeah exactly

which was wild there were always the kickbacks were for yo my parents had a wedding come through you know what I mean that was the kickback the rager

it was like at homegirl and I'm gonna say her name Katie Sanfilippo's house her mom was there shout out to Sean Nato cindy nato she was fucking out there being like you guys need more blah blah blah like yeah i get that but again those kids i don't know i mean not all of them ended up odd but i think yeah i know like i know a couple of parents who were like the cool parent who let the parties happen at their house and their kid ended up in rehab. But then, you know, it's not always that way.

And I know plenty of kids with really strict parents who ended up in rehab. Right. These are like all the reasons that my dad and mom growing up as like devout Muslim parents were like, you will not have friends. Right. Yeah. There are no friends. Friends is where the problem starts. Friends equals ideas.

Exactly. We don't want you to have ideas. So you didn't go to any ragers? None. Well, unless you count the sleepover where we watched The Shining and I was the only one that stayed up. Ragers. Wow. What, like everyone was asleep?

Yeah. Because everyone falls asleep during that movie and then wakes up to all the blood. Right, right, right. That's usually how that goes. What's going on in that elevator? But I was like, I will not sleep. I will see this the whole way through. I barely get out of the house.

I'm enjoying every moment of this. Let's talk about Little Caesars, you guys, because they've been in the news for a couple reasons lately. Yeah. Well, first, yeah. On Twitter. First, they had a very unfortunate photo op where somebody, a manager of a Little Caesars, was spotted pushing a cart of DiGiorno into the back of the Little Caesars. Yeah.

That was not great. Shut up. Not a good look. And Little Caesars account was like, which location is this? And the guy was like, you have to pay me and I'll tell you. You guys, he's going to get hired to work for this administration. Give it some time. Oh, you need information that will be beneficial to you?

You can pay me for that. But apparently someone did a deep dive and found out it was at a Walmart. And the coolers at the Walmart were malfunctioning. So they had to throw out a lot of those DiGiorno pizzas. And what they were trying to do was move that stock out of that one freezer and move it into another one that was in the back where the Little Caesars was. Oh, my God. So like it wasn't – they weren't serving, as we thought,

in the most twisted capitalistic fantasy that they were just serving DiGiorno's at the Little Caesars. You would know the difference between those two also. This is a DiGiorno ad right now. Right. We do so many free ads. It's wild. Would you know the difference?

Would you know? And that's what we tested on today's show. Everyone knows the superior quality of Little Caesars pizza pizza. Now, this story is interesting because we talk about fast pizza all the time on this show, at least three times a week, I would say, because we're very invested. But there was a Little Caesars location that we found out in Fargo, North Dakota, that was giving away, like they found that they realized someone was going through their dumpsters, like during the when the restaurant was closed. And then the next day they posted a sign that said to the person going through our trash for their next meal, you're a human being and worth more than a meal from a dumpster. Please come in during operating hours for a couple of slices of hot pizza and a cup of water. No charge, no questions asked. Those Little Caesars? I will buy from them forever.

This was a franchise owner in North Dakota. And apparently since they posted that, they have given away over 142,000 slices of pizza to needy people, which is amazing. But again, I would say this is another story of late stage capitalism sheathed in a feel good story where this person is having to pick up the pieces because there are people who are unable to eat the slices. I mean, this is our lives right now

is what we're talking about. Like people with billions and billions of dollars and then we're like, thank you for the pizza slice. Thank you for you for that little slicer that is a lot of hungry people yeah well it was over many years and who knows you know if there are a lot of people they're doing good in the community listen trump is gonna institute a rations box right yeah and it's gonna include a slice one slice and it might be rotten as fuck by the time it gets to you because they're doing it now uh but what's interesting too is like we were talking about, I don't know if we talked about this past,

but Mike Illich, the guy who was the founder of Little Caesars, he did a lot for the city of Detroit. Some people, you know, they say he did a lot of land speculation. That didn't help. That's true. But another little known story is that he was like paying Rosa Parks' bills for like a long time too. No kidding.

Yeah, and just was sort of like, you know, she had moved to Detroit and she had been like robbed at one point known story is that he was like paying Rosa Parks' bills for like a long time too. No kidding. Yeah. And just was sort of like, you know, she had moved to Detroit and she had been like robbed at one point and he's like, let's get her into another apartment. Some people sort of nitpick this story and say like, well, it wasn't for a decade because most of the stories are like, he paid her rent for a decade. Others like it was probably nine years and with a group of people who paid. But the bottom line is Mike Illich, the founder of Little Caesars, did step up to help us. Oh, it wasn't a decade?

Then I prefer Papa John. Yeah. Oh, boy. The man was really standing up for people of color. Right. Yeah. But, you know, feel good story. That is really, though, just a late stage capitalism story.

You guys ever had the pizza that tastes like SpaghettiOs sauce is the, like the tomato sauce? Which pizza is that? That's like frozen pizza, I feel like, tastes like that. Yeah. That's just like watery red water for pizza sauce? I just got really nostalgic for it. Oh, but you can't remember what kind of pizza that was?

No, it was like a box pizza. It was like a frozen one, and it tasted like- Red Baron? I think it was Red Baron. Yeah, because Red Baron was like the Trash... Tridash pizza. That you could get like five boxes for a dollar or something, I feel like.

It had that like tangy citric acid-y like... We call that umami. You might call that E. coli. It might taste like you're licking batteries, but in the aftermath that is what we call umami. coli it might taste like you're licking batteries but in the aftermath that is what we call umami

it is actually umami here in broke ass late stage capitalism America Zara it has been so much fun having you

likewise where can people follow you I'm gonna be here every day alright well just pull up a chair

love having you I'm gonna be performing this Sunday at the facial recognition show. Yeah. Check out my Facebook, facebook.com slash Zara comedian, Z-A-H-R-A. Come to the facial recognition show.

Everyone on the show is named Zara. Really? Yeah. Dang. I know. That's amazing. Six of us. Come see my show on behalf of all Muslims in San Francisco.

Or follow me at Zara Comedy on Twitter. Or find me, if you can, if Facebook lets you. Facebook.com, Zara Comedian. All right. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? I mean, I've been loving all the retweets of my friend Mayah Hassan's report. Oh, yeah. On Muslims in Hollywood dating back 100 years.

That's been pretty rad. I've been following that. Yes, so go retweet that. Yeah, go retweet that. Miles, where can people find you, follow you? Oh, you can follow me on Twitter and instagram uh at miles of gray and a tweet i like is someone someone took video i hate to bring up connie west but someone took video of uh connie in the white house and at one point he pulled up his phone because he said i want to show you a gif of a

plane that i'm designing with apple it's called the iplane he literally said this and when he pulls up his phone they zoom in and they do like lmao kanye's iphone password is zero zero zero zero zero zero because he just does like the wild uh zero touch i don't you know i feel like when you have a password don't think of a password don't just do all ones or all zeros give yourself a solid password because you know your, your data is, you know, precious. Before I talk about a tweet that I've been enjoying, I just want to say shout out to Alex Schmitty, Schmitty the Clam. He is, I've been telling you guys, he is a dangerous assassin all along. Dude's super smart.

And now he is proving it to the world by fucking dominating Jeopardy. It's crazy. The last three nights. Jeopardy's still on? Yeah, Jeopardy's still on. And this dude who I used to work with at Cracked, just very quiet, unassuming, just went out there and has been demolishing people. It's scary. It is.

Because I'm like, I've talked to this dude. Right. What does he know about me? It feels weird when you meet somebody who has that much knowledge that they don't reveal to you. I mean, he's very intelligent.

That was never in doubt. But then you watch him on Jeopardy. You're like, motherfucker, what has been going on with you? Like he has glasses. We get it. He's smart. Check out the brain on Schmitty.

Check out the big brain on the clam. Also, he got a question wrong about clams. And I was like, come on, dog. That's the nickname that I randomly gave you. Have some respect. Anyway, tune into Jeopardy. Watch Alex just assassinate these other. And he also doesn't.

You can tell he sort of feels a little bit bad for the people whose scores he's doubling. What do you mean he feels bad i don't know he's just like it was last night's game last night's was like super embarrassing he he wagered zero dollars on final jeopardy because it was like impossible for him to lose oh that's a flex i know if you you went negative you're a whole amount that would be the super flex and then you're like and I still got the fucking question right my joke is that he's a heartless assassin who enters every room he walks into cock first

but the truth is like he's such a nice person that I bet like part of him feels bad that he's like beating people that badly hey man you got the you got the knowledge but in an educational way don't all men walk cock first? Not really.

Well, not if you have an inverted penis. That's a thing? Oh yeah. Or micro penis. Well, the thing is, Alex has priapisms. It's very painful. Some tweets I've been enjoying. At Yay Son tweeted Person, it smells like up dog

in here. Me, always too embarrassed to ask questions ha ha ha yeah oh i fucking love that literary hub at lit hub uh einrand's atlas shrug was published 61 years ago today and since then has served as an excellent way to weed out potential romantic partners. Love that. And finally, Doug Exeter, quote, super genius voice. The Nazis were left wing because they had socialist in their name. Also, a nurse shark is actually a nurse. You can find me on twitter

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the song that we ride out on you can also find that information in the show notes. Sh-notes. And Miles, what song are we going to ride out on this week? You know, when I play tracks before and Jack goes, what's that? That's how I know it's going in the show. And this is a track by Obi-Wan called Grand Exchange.

It's like lo-fi hip-hop. So if you like people sort of mumbling over lo-fi beats, this is for you. And, you know, I kind of like the production. It's got like a reversed bass drum in it with some soft clicks in it. I think I like it. Oh, Obi-Wan. The Iran of the Middle East.

The Iran of the Middle East finally dropped a hot tape. And we're loving it. Featuring Gourouche. Alright, we're gonna ride out of this week on that. We'll be back on Monday for more Daily Zeitgeist. We'll talk to you guys then. Bye. Bye. The miscellaneous rags are so wet They got these shawties trying to bathe in them Before they spend forsaking them

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