The Daily Zeitgeist - Gen Z > Millennials At Voting, Arnold > Kendrick? 5.31.19

Episode Date: May 31, 2019

In episode 403, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Maggie Maye to discuss Moby canceling his book tour, younger generations outvoting older generations, freedom gas, Trump claiming Russia did not help get elected, the Democrats needing to impeach Trump, La Croix fading away, Arnold Schwarzenegger's new rap career, the new Rambo movie, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. Moby Reads the Room and Cancels His Book Tour2. Younger Generations Outvoted Older Generations in the 2018 Midterm Elections3. Department of Energy Authorizes Additional LNG Exports from Freeport LNG4. Trump Admits Russia Helped Elect Him—Then Does a U-Turn5. WATCH: After tweeting this morning that "I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected," President Trump tells reporters that “No, Russia did not help me get elected. You know who got me elected? I got me elected. Russia didn’t help me at all.”6. Professor who has correctly predicted 9 presidential elections says Trump will win in 2020 unless Democrats impeach7. Would Democrats Really Face A Backlash If They Impeached Trump?8. La Croix sales plummet as it becomes another failed experiment in hipster design9. Today, friends, is the day you get to hear Arnold Schwarzenegger rap10. WATCH: Andreas Gabalier feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger - Pump it Up - The Motivation Song11. John Rambo Faces His Past in First Trailer For 'Last Blood'12. WATCH: Horsey - Bread & Butter Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say officially, off the top fuck Coke Indus Trucks and fuck Fox News. It's Friday, May 31st, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Facts Kellerman, a.k.a. Stephen Take Smith. This is courtesy of Christy Yamaguchi-Mann, and I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Ray!

I don't mind spending every day with soup, and hoes The tea is spilt and it takes a while On daily zeitgeist with Jack and Miles And he will be stoned He will be stoned Thank you so much. That was beautiful. The silent H after the silent H, I'm guessing that was Maroon 5? That make sense?

That did sound like Maroon 5. Okay, great. Then we're going to land on that one. It had a very Maroon 5 vibe. Yeah, Adam Levine, so fine. My wife, we were listening to the Vampire Weekend album over the weekend, Dressed as Vampires. And she said one of the songs had a Maroon 5 vibe,

and I haven't been able to listen to it ever. Oh, it's ruined? Again, yeah. I was like, oh. That happens. That's no good. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented Maggie Mae.

Yay! Welcome back. Thank you for having me again. It's been too long. Yeah. You were like one of the first guests, I feel like, when we moved into me again. It's been too long. You were like one of the first guests I feel like when we moved into the studio. Oh really? Yeah.

Wow. Yeah, I think. No? Wasn't it 2017? Maybe? It was 2017. I don't know when y'all moved here though. Yeah.

It was in here though. It was here. Okay. And that's all we need to know because we lose track of all these episodes. But I do remember it's been a while. Yeah. So thank you for coming back. Thank you for having me again.

You've grown. You're so much taller. You're so much taller. What grade are you in now? Shut up. Fifth. Oh, wow. So is that division? Do you guys do division yet?

We're the upperclassmen of elementary. I remember when that's how people used to ask you, like, what grade are you in? And they're like, is that division? And I'm like, is what division? Fifth grade? I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Is that division? Long division?

Yeah. Did you learn that yet? Do you know remainders? Can you teach it to me? Yeah. Great. Maggie, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about today,

such as the fact that Moby has canceled his book tour. We are going to talk about the fact that LaCroix is going to be our something between Snap Bracelets and Napster. Slapster. Slapsters. There you go. Yeah, there we go. Millennials, Gen Xers, Z-Kids, Zoomers.

They are more into voting than their elder statesmen, the boomers were. Freedom Gas. We're going to talk about Freedom Gas the boomers were. Freedom gas. We're going to talk about freedom gas, freedom molecules. We need those. Molecules of freedom. We're going to talk about the interesting relationship that President Trump has had to the knowledge that Russia helped him get elected and whether trying to impeach him or starting the process of impeaching him

will help or hurt the Democrats in the 2020 election. And we can now make it official that he is a crazy dictator, officially. Oh, okay. Yeah. We're going to talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger because he raps now. We're going to talk about Sylvester Stallone releasing the trailer for Rambo Last Blood. There better not be one after that. I know.

Or I'm going to fuck them up. The real Last Blood. Then after that, it's like, no, it's for real this time, Last Blood. It's the last drop. Seriously, though. And the egg industry. We will talk about the egg industry. They might be in trouble.

But first, Maggie, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? From my search history? How to get tape off of a car? Tape off of a car. Off of the outside of a car. Like adhesive? Like what's left behind?

Or what happened? Because I got a new car, and they had taped something in the trunk for some reason. I have no idea. When they shipped it over, I guess they taped the trunk down or something. And I never bothered to get the tape off initially, like the gunk off of it. So it's just got that gunk on the back of my car. Yes.

And I need to figure out how to like... Goo gone. I used that and I think I messed something up. Oh no. Because like, I think you're supposed to take the goo gone and like just put it on the actual like adhesive part. Oh wow. Right.

And you just rubbed it all over the whole car. I just sprayed it. I just sprayed it all over. Sprayed it down. I was like, goo gone's gonna know what's goo and what's not. Yeah. And goo gone did not. Oh, shh.

Come on, goo gone. Goo gone just kind of made a little bit of a mess back there. So yeah, I was trying to figure out if uh there was a way to fix it or if that's just what my car looks like so wait are you now at a point where you're dealing with the leftover adhesive and the gugan disaster or we're just limited oh so it's a few things we need to address now okay i'm sure uh the listeners i gang if you have uh tips for maggie may uh how how to get leftover dealer adhesive off your trunk. Or if any of y'all want to just come over and do it for me.

I am down for that as well. We could meet in a parking lot and I'll bring lemonade. Okay, perfect. Christy Yamaguchi, man, that's on you. ZyGang, the Daily ZyGuy says the evolutionary task rabbit. Yeah. It's much better. You may have to drive somewhere, though.

Yeah. Now, I wouldn't be able to keep my trunk closed if I removed the tape. How are you doing that? Is there, like, a latching system that works or something? Oh, wow. There's seemingly no reason why it was taped down. I have no idea why. Like, when it came off of the truck, I was like, what is this?

And he was just like, meh, here are the keys. And you're like, oh, wow, thanks for that great customer service, sir. Yeah. What do I do here? And he goes, meh, meh, meh. I'm sorry, what the fuck was it? You a Dick Tracy bad guy?

Fucking meh. Have you ever had to buff out the scrape on a car with WD-40? No. Yeah, that's a little trick that nobody should do without Googling themselves because I might fuck up your car. Wait, you got like a little scratch out? Yeah.

Buffed it out? Yeah, buffed it out. Did a little scratch. How did you know? Where did you learn about that? YouTube. Oh, okay. Are you familiar?

Yeah. You heard about this place? Of course. That's where I learned. That's where the experts go. That's where I learned about how people are trying to race Western European civilization off the earth. Jack must be very worried about that. That's right.

Also, this Steven Crowder guy, he's pretty cool. Yeah. Very cool. Thanks, YouTube. I was just looking at videos on how to throw a Frisbee and I got to alt-right shit

real quick. What is something you think is overrated, Maggie? Celebrity kids. Oh. Which one specifically? You're thinking of somebody. Just all of them.

I've seen a lot of celebrity kid videos recently. Name names. And they're not, I mean, a lot of celebrity kid videos recently. Name names. And they're not, I mean, they're cute, but they're not any cuter than like my friend's kids, you know? Yeah. My niece's nephew, like my niece's nephew, they're out here killing it. They are doing like really great content and it's like.

Oh, shit. Yeah. Like just, they're super cute. They're out here doing stuff. What kind of tent are we getting out of your niece and nephew? My niece, back when she was five, she could read super early. So she would be reading and just reciting. She was three, and she'd be reciting things by memory.

She's like, I'm going to read from Madame Bovary now. Right. Wow. Right. She's doing spelling bees and stuff. My nephew is a sports phenom. He's five years old and scores all of the soccer goals. Shit.

All of them. Okay, I like that. He'll score like 20 goals a game and like no one else will score anything else. Okay. His first time doing mutton busting in Texas, he won. What's mutton busting? Mutton busting is when you've got a lamb and you take a bunch of little kids and you put them on the lamb and you have them hold on.

Oh, that shit. And you set the lamb off and just see how long they can hold on to. It's a little hillbilly shit. Oh, like Bronco Bustin'. Yeah. But Mutton Bustin'. Okay, now I got you. So he just showed up after soccer, and all the other kids were in boots.

Like in a soccer uniform? Yeah, he was in a soccer uniform. Like, what's going on? Okay. And he stayed on the lamb. He was sideways at some point. And the lam had to kick him off to, like, get it. But all those other kids, they had been, like, practicing and training.

Right. Like, since they were, like, you know, knee-high to a grasshopper. And he came in there, kicked everybody ass. He pulled up. He's like, what's this game? Just hold on? Okay, fine. He's like, mutton who?

Here, hold my juice. It ain't mutton to me. Is this, like, basically Little- me. Is this like basically little... Nice. Is this basically Little League Rodeo? Is that what mutton busting is? Pretty much. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Like then what do you do after mutton busting? What's the next animal you graduate to? Wiener dog. Probably. It's got to be a smaller one. I think maybe it would be like one of those, like when the little kids chase like a little calf and then hog tie it. Oh, right, right, right. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's would be like one of those, like when the little kids chase like a little calf and then hog tie it.

Oh, right, right, right. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's the next step. You gotta learn the elements of hip hop, the elements of Bronco Bustin'. Now, when do they start doing Little League Rodeo clowns? Because that's when I would have gotten into it. Ah, yeah. Really sad clown jumping out of a barrel.

Yeah. That's like a five-year-old. Or your whole vibe is just like looking at the bull and just like, whatever, dude, just do it. And you just bum the bull out. If you land on your head after mutton busting, you get to be a clown. Yeah, exactly. You don't have to do that anymore.

With a funny walk. Yeah. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated, the show Tuca and Bertie. I feel like I've only heard good things about it, but I haven't heard enough good things about it. More people need to be talking about it. More people need, it's so, so good.

It's like, I love cartoons, first of all. It's Ali Wong and Tiffany Haddish. How can you ever go wrong with the two of those? It's a kind of irreverent cartoon that you don't see people of color doing and you don't see women doing and you definitely don't see women of color doing. Right, right, right. So it's like I love that like these are women of color in this kind of like, you know, Tim and Eric thing, which is usually, you know, a white boy club. You know, it's and we're all interested in that kind of stuff. Right. We love it.

It's just so good. I feel like more people need to watch it. Y'all need a For Y'all's Consideration. I don't know if it's in time for that. Almost for Emmys. Yeah, we're almost there. But yeah, and also Lisa Hanawalt, the creator, who created all the BoJack Horseman characters.

That's her show. And by her art, too, because I think she's still giving proceeds of her print sales to a pro-choice organization she might not be doing that but i've just bought a print recently from her oh dope yeah like you can get original art from her she has original arts arts she has original there's original arts and there's uh just prints too right so if you just want to you know throw like a 20 you can do that too but she was like really cool you know her art's really funny yeah like money amazing uh and finally what is a myth what's something people think is true you know to be false or vice versa um i guess i'm just on one uh chewing your gum with your mouth open is not terrorism it is wow terrorism it is wow it is it's terrorism yeah what is it about is it the sound is it so it's like

because i've got misophonia so like when i hear like i can't be in a room with a ticking clock it'll drive me insane and just hearing that smacking and like just seeing someone's tongue sticking out like that's like you really need to chew gum that hard? You terrorist. With their tongue sticking out. Who even knows? Wow, the way you do that, I've never seen anyone do that. That looks like a dog eating spaghetti. Yeah, that is. Or like a cow chewing its own,

what is it, cud? Yeah, that's what they eat. There's some people that go hard with gum and it's just like, you know, you're terrorizing people around you. Yeah, what about the popping and snapping of gum?

You good with that? No. Oh. No, that's even worse. It is? That's even worse. That's ISIS level terrorism. Dang.

Well, consider me Al Baghdadi because I'll be snapping that gum like daddy. It's funny. It took me so long as a kid to learn how to do that. I would flatten the gum by hand and then hold it over my mouth. I was like,

is this how it's done? Because I would always see this one bus driver always do it. And then I was like. Blow a bubble? No, like snap the gum. Like, you know, you have to lay it over your teeth and then suck through to do that reverse pop. Right, right. Anyway.

So that's my. Why'd you want to do it so bad? You want to put it on your resume? Yeah. I don't know. It just seemed really cool because I'd never heard it. And when you get those loud snaps, I was like, this is pretty good. Because I couldn't whistle either at the time. So I needed something to make up for it.

I see. I can pop my gum, though. Okay. I can pop the hell out of my gum. But I don't because I'm not a terrorist. Right. Wow. So does that affect you?

Like if you chew gum for even a moment, is it resonating in your skull and you're like? Um, if I do chew gum and like I crack it in the back of one of my teeth, I'll just throw it away. Wow. Okay. Because if someone is around me and they don't like that sound, then I'm empathetic to them. Oh, wow. Okay. You're very considerate.

Yeah. This is bothering me. I don't want to bother anyone else. I'm not a terrorist. So let me throw this away. And it doesn't matter where you are, right? You'll just spit it on the ground right there? Right on the ground. Yeah, this is bothering me. I don't want to bother anyone else. I'm not a terrorist, so let me throw this away. And it doesn't matter where you are, right? You'll just spit it on the ground right there? Right on the ground. At church or at the White House.

I don't care where I am. Anywhere it is. What are some other sounds that are like, that people don't realize are super annoying to you as somebody with mesothelioma? No, that's ridiculous. Misophonia. Misophonia. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, you don't have a... Listomania. I'm not a fan of like... Well, actually, that didn't bother me that much. I guess... What about sucking your teeth? Yeah.

Not a fan. My grandmother used to do that all the time. While she was judging you? Or just all the time. I was sucking her teeth. While she was judging you? Yeah, she was like, my mom does that. Or she was just always judging you. Yeah, well, you know, she's a black woman from Chicago, so she would do some shit.

She'd be like, I knew someone was up when the teeth were being sucked. My mom does that. And then I think the usual, I think I've developed one recently. I've really not been able to fuck with the fork and knife scratching on a plate it used to not bother me a lot of people have but recently it's starting to like fucking shoot up my back when I hear it it's like a nail on the chalkboard kind of thing and even nail on the chalkboard didn't really bother me it was weird at only the last seven months I've noticed myself like even when I was eating something out of a bowl with a spoon like I was being very careful not to like scrape, scrape it because it was getting too...

Yeah, yeah. You know, I think it might be the, like, the, what's that? The low versus high. I'm blanking on the word. The... Threshold? The frequency range? Sonic range?

Yeah. Because, like, I don't even register low sounds. Like apparently I live next to a train. My friend was at my house and she was like, oh, you live by a train. And I was like, what? And I listened and I was like, well, I'll be damned. All your plates are like rattling. I'm just like, huh?

You're like this damn misophonia. No, you just live by a train. Right. And I just, I don't, I don't notice the train sound unless like someone points that out. Oh, interesting. I've always found like, yeah, like low sounds like the subway in New York City for some reason that always like chills me out. Like it doesn't, it doesn't bother me at all. Right, right, right.

Like to hear like a. That low hum. Yeah, a little low hum. Because I guess low sounds kind of have a bass kind of rattle to it, and that's kind of satisfying. Do dogs hear low sounds very well? I know low sounds, don't they travel the furthest? I have no idea.

Than higher frequencies? I don't know. Some audio engineer will tell me otherwise. They might feel it. Yeah, well, it's weird because my dog will, like, if someone, if a chain link fence, am I right, DJ Daniel?

Right? Yeah, low frequencies travel further. Yeah, longer waves, so they travel longer. Anyway, so when, like, someone will open a chain link fence

near my house, my dog goes wild. But I'll have the subwoofer on and I'll play What Happened to That Boy? Uh, brrrr. And when that bass hits the dog is asleep doesn't even care huh so that's what i'm like i think dogs just don't care about bass or

maybe my dog is just about that cash money life about to say i was like he might be like hey when that bass hit we put a clap into that boy i'm like okay wow didn't i just speak rimby uh all right let's talk about Moby. You know, we all had our tickets for his upcoming book tour to hear what was going to be revealed by people who had made it even further into his book. Yeah. Because it seemed like every couple months we got a new revelation

from somebody who had, you know, made it past page 20, and he has decided he's gonna go away for a little while yeah i think all the takes from people being like dude this dude's creepy as fuck he was lying about all these relationships also trying to act like natalie portman wasn't just turned 18 when he was hitting on her right um but it's funny on his website it says moby is canceling all upcoming public appearances for the foreseeable future. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. All tickets will be refunded at the point of purchase, and Moby is happy to provide signed book plates to everyone who bought tickets to these events. The funny thing is, this was announced, I think, yesterday.

He only had, like, four appearances left in Europe. So, sure. But he said he needs to go away for a while, was the quote he said. but he said he needs to go away for a while was a quote he said that's very uh i don't know like circumspect of him to know the exact wording that we were all using i should go away for a while i'm like yeah he just scrolled through his comments he's like okay the consensus is go away it's either fuck off forever or why don't you go away for a minute? Yeah, yeah. So I've decided, yeah. Why don't you sit this one out,

Moby? Yeah. So things like his book, Then It Fell Apart, he's at that point with his book tour where then it fell apart. Very fitting. Yeah, he's just not the right type of creepy. Like, I would have been okay if he was like a weird creep, like a Tom York-ish

type creep. What do you mean? He's like a fratty creepy dude. Which is not what I was expecting from a Moby. Like a fratty or a fratty? Fratty. Frat boy. I was just crushing brews

with my homies. Rub my dick on Donald Trump, dude. Yeah, that's right. And, yeah, I was expecting him to have more of an artist vibe, like just be like a weird, you know, scared of people. I mean, he just seemed like a real regular frat boy. I mean, if you wear Vans slip-ons with bootcut jeans, boy. You're cool, right? Yeah, you're number one.

Your drip is out of control. Turn on the regulator, because I mean, my goodness. The thing about Moby for me is he kind of, to me, seems like he's trying just a little too hard to be notable or noticeable.

Right, right, right. Because, like, yeah, we get it. You're Herman Melvin's, like, great-grandson or grandson or what. Oh, is he? Yeah, that's why he goes by Moby. Oh, shit. Is that true? Yeah, like, his name is someone.

Herman Melville's great- Melville is his middle name. Herman Melville is, like, his grandfather or great-grandfather, one of the two. Okay. And so, like, to choose a name Moby when Melville is in the name that you use is like, well, okay, cool, we get it. Ahab would have been tight.

That sounds more like a dubstep artist. But then he, like, had to double down so hard on, like, oh, that's weird that Natalie Portman said we weren't, like, to double down like that. Yeah, it's, like, clearly, like that. Yeah, it's like clearly. And then like on his Insta, he posted something like, oh, well, geez, who would have thought that people would have paid

so much attention to a middle-aged guy? They paid attention because you went and opened your mouth twice. About Natalie Portman. And led off though with, I rubbed my dick on the president. So everyone was like, what is in this book?

Yeah. And then he was like, oh, look, I was getting over 9-11. So already it was like, what is going on in this book? Pulled the Tobias. Yeah. I'm not going to blame it all on 9-11, but it certainly didn't help. All right. We're going to take a quick break.

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Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them. Why is that? Just come here and play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on.

From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically Black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better.

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She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to the making of a rivalry.

Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back. Look at that. and we're back look at that and miles so in the run-up to the 2018 election there are a lot of articles about the disaffected youth uh you know just interviews with various uh gen z-ers or millennials where they were saying you know i don't don't care. I'm still not going to vote because it's not cool. It's not lit. Yeah. And also a bird scooter.

And also, dude, yeah. I mean, if I could yeet. Right. Sure. But it ain't that. Right. True. So fact 100.

Right. So, yeah, that article I think had a lot of people pissed off, especially because the midterms are so important. It's like we have to at least take the house. We got to do something here. And that happened. And it turns out that whole fear mongering or just bullshit they were spreading is very inaccurate because a recent poll and some data about the election shows, let me tell you about this little tidbit of information. In the midterm elections, millennial turnout among eligible voters nearly doubled in 2014. And younger generations,

yeah. And younger generations, Gen Z, millennials and Gen X actually outvoted boomer and prior generations, 62.2 million votes to 60.1 million votes. So that's two over 2 million votes more for the young ins versus our parents and grandparents. So yeah, you know, keep voting my pretties because together we can make something happen, hopefully. But what's interesting is the olds,

they also turned up too because i think they had their highest ever midterm turnout ever was for this election so they they're definitely ready to make america old again you know i mean but now we'll see what happens with you know gen z because gen z they're actually voting a lot better than these other generations. Right now, about 20% of millennials, eligible millennials vote. Yo, we gotta do fucking better than that. Hello. 20 fucking percent? Are you serious?

As broke as this fucking generation is and you're just gonna sit this one out? No. Y'all don't have jobs. You have nothing better to do than go stand at a poll place. Exactly. So Gen Z, what's the percentage on gen z do a third of their eligible voters so good for the good on them and then by the time 2020 rolls around the eligible gen z voters will have doubled so this is like yo fuck talking to these

old people getting your little cousin's ears and their're friends and stuff, you know, or, you know, dress up like a kid, go to a high school and try and talk to the kids where they're at, you know? Or get kissed if you've never been kissed. Never been kissed.

That's a chill thing to do. Is that what that movie was about? She's a journalist who goes undercover as a high school student and ends up making out with her teacher who, like,

always had feelings for her, but, like, he couldn't act on them because she's his student. Oh, Luke Wilson. Just a case study for media ethics. Yeah, exactly. Whoa.

So he, oh, okay, whatever. Shit. It's 2019. We let a lot of stuff happen in the 90s. All right, let's talk about Freedom Gas, guys. This is a good way to, if you're feeling bad about you know using fossil fuels if you're you know driving your humvee to to work you're under age two yeah and or you know and you you feel bad you feel shame that you're doing something bad to the

environment uh you could you know change your ways or recontextualize what you're doing something bad to the environment, you could change your ways or recontextualize what you're already doing and think of fossil fuels as freedom gas. Yeah. So I guess because we are such an anti-carbon bend, as we heard from the man who's running the anti-science crusade, we're vilifying carbon like the poor jews were vilified by hitler right according to him um the department of energy now you know they don't like renewables obviously because they want us to keep using coal and natural gas and everything as much as possible for as long as possible and there's like a new liquefaction plant for natural gas that has come out and the spin on this is so absurd. This comes from the

Department of Energy, like a press release. It says, today, the U.S. Department of Energy advanced its commitment to promoting clean energy, job creation, and economic growth by approving additional exports of domestically produced natural gas from the Freeport LNG terminal located on Quintana Island in Texas. Now, it says, increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving America's allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy. Continue. With the U.S. in another year of record-setting natural gas production, I am pleased the Department of Energy is doing what it can to promote an efficient regulatory system that allows for molecules of U.S. freedom to be exported to the world. What?

I gotta go. Yeah. freedom to be exported to the world. What? I gotta go. Did they rename drone strikes? Molecules of U.S. freedom exported to the world. To the world. It doesn't even, I don't understand. I mean, I guess when it came down to the Iraq war and France was like, most sane people, they're like, oh, we're not for this Iraq war. And they're like, what? not for this iraq war and they're like what yeah

yeah fuck france we're not calling french fries or freedom fries right i got why that happened not that like i understand like i'm like i believe that sentiment i share that sentiment but i saw the logic path there now is this merely just using freedom as a buzzword to make something more desirable i think so this is to trick stupid people right this is a hundred percent to trick stupid people into thinking that like people who are uh you know from appalachia whose kids came home and said yo we need to really stop the environment this and that this is to trick them into not being scared and just saying, oh, no, it's just freedom. It's freedom gas. It's just freedom.

But I'm trying to think of, even if you were believing this, like what you thought, what made this different than other gases? They're like, there's gas and there's freedom gas. They're just trying to start a trend. Yeah. Just throw freedom in front of everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What would be the next thing then?

Freedom nukes? Yeah. Freedom chemical warfare? I mean, you know. Freedom predatory capitalism? Freedom privacy breach? Yeah, right? Yeah.

These are freedom breaches, really. And that's why we have to fight against them. But yeah, I guess we are getting closer to just being like that movie Idiocracy. Yeah. So this is what the Department of Energy is focused on. Yeah. And perry you know he's over there too so he's loving it at a time when you know we could be focused on creating new jobs with actual like renewable energy and you know that that's one of the things that makes people who pay attention to you know long-term trends. Optimistic is that, well, yes, there's a lot of work to do to convert the economy to renewable sources of energy, but those tasks will create huge amounts of work and huge jobs increases.

And instead, we're focused on rebranding natural gas exports. A failed product that is now just really not that useful anymore. So Trump admitted that Russia helped him get elected. So that's done? So that's done, guys. Now let's do something about it. No, I mean, that Mueller surprise press conference really revealed a few things. One, a lot of these journalists need to sit the fuck down because they were out here being like,

he said there wasn't things that would exonerate him. It's like, that was in the report. I was reading things on Twitter. I was like, the shit was just there. Right. But I guess you really needed to hear it out of old Sam Eagle's mouth to get for you to be like, the shit was just there. Right. But I guess you really needed to hear it out of old Sam Eagle's mouth for you to be like, oh shit, right. So there was some dirt going on.

So on one hand, that sent waves through conservative media and the White House, which was really odd because, well, first of all, everyone on Fox News was like shocked that this was happening. They couldn't believe it. They're like, I Robert Mueller is one of those scummy, sleazy Democrats or whatever. Tucker Carlson tried to spin this shit, trying to act as if Mexico was the real Russia. He's like, for all this emphasis on Russia, he's like, there's another country that was trying to undermine our election. It's Mexico. And like went into this weird thing about

trying to get push for Mexican Americans or like immigrants to get citizenship. He was saying that was a way to deal in like voter sabotage or voter manipulation. He's like, not even Russia thought of something like that. It's like, whoa, you're reaching now. You're really just trying to spin the wheel. Not even

Mexico thought of something like that because they didn't. Yeah, you just thought of that right now. That was you, Tucker. Yeah, because you have to sort of like duck and dodge everything to make this president seem innocent. Anyway, the president then tweeted on Thursday morning. It says, Russia, Russia, Russia. That's all you heard in the beginning of this witch hunt hoax. And now Russia has disappeared because I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected.

Hold on. Did he just say that? Had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected? I think he did. He said it was a crime that didn't exist. So now the Dems and their partner, the fake news media, say he fought back against this phony crime that didn't exist. Okay, so everyone was like, oh, shit. By the way, that's not where the sentence ends.

It's just a long run on trail. Yeah, and I didn't even do it. Because then he went on to all this other bullshit. So that was amazing. So inevitably when he actually saw the press this morning, they said, whoa, you just said, it seems like you acknowledged that Russia helped you win. Right. Well, listen to his response now. No, Russia did not help me get elected.

You know who got me elected? You know who got me elected? I got me elected. Russia didn't help me at all. Russia, if anything, I think helped the other side. What you ought to ask is this. Do you think the media helped Hillary Clinton get elected? She didn't make it.

But you take a look at collusion between Hillary Clinton and the media. You take a look at collusion between Hillary Clinton and the media. You take a look at collusion between Hillary Clinton and Russia. Alright, enough of his fever dream of a response. Between Hillary Clinton and Russia. One of these days, he is going to yell at a cloud.

Like a wave his fist at it. Old man yells at cloud. Yeah, man. It's just... Yeah. Yells at cloud. Yeah, man. It's just, yeah. I don't even know where to start. There's nowhere to start. There's so much deflection, but strange. That's like that song by Shaggy when he's like, it wasn't me. Yeah, it wasn't me.

But if Shaggy was like, also because I got high and just throwing in random shit. Right, right, right. That would be like if- If those two songs had a baby. It wasn't me because it was you. There random shit. Right, right, right. That would be like if those two songs had a baby. It wasn't me because it was you. There we go. Yes, yes, yes. You were cheating on you on the kitchen floor.

No, I saw you banging on the sofa. That was you. But I even caught you on camera. Miles, that was you on camera. And as we will see, Ergo, I do like how he's always delivering his most patently full of shit lies

as he's about to get on a helicopter. Yeah, it's always so bad. I think because he feels like he can truly run away after. If he has to walk away, it's too slow. But he's like, I don't know. Deuces. Yeah.

The height of supervillain kind of stuff. I know. This is what I did. And away. And I got to go into my coal powered flapper car. Yeah. I mean, you know,

so the saga continues. Yes. With that one. There's this professor who has picked the last nine elections correctly. I paid a lot of attention to him in the run up to the 2016 election because he was one of a handful of he is now making his predictions about what is likely going to happen in the 2020 election. And he basically says it comes down to Trump is going to win unless Democrats start impeachment proceedings. So if Democrats actually start impeachment proceedings, he thinks Trump has a good chance at losing,

which is kind of counter the, I think, the accepted wisdom on this, or at least Nancy Pelosi's accepted wisdom. Yeah, well, I think for that, their calculus, or at least it seems like, because Nancy Pelosi keeps saying, it's not time yet, it's not time yet, it's not time yet. I think one strategy is just to have as many public hearings in the committees as possible to drag out as much information without going into impeachment to bring all that stuff to light or have people out loud say things. But the other thing is they know if they start impeachment proceedings, it's just going to go to the Senate where it will be a mock trial. Right. Where Mitch McConnell is just going to wave his neck flap at the altar and it'll be over. Right.

deck flap at the altar and it'll be over. Right. So, and then, and then what they want to avoid is them, them having the sort of optics when I guess of saying like, and they tried to impeach the president and they failed. You see,

can you believe these people? That's why y'all need to step up and help the Republicans in this election because we have haters trying to hate. Yeah. But I think that's the logic they're applying. I don't necessarily believe that because I think on one hand, just as a function of the Constitution, you just need to do what is right. Right. But I also get the fear also of a total blowback and we have four more years of this shit and what? The worst case scenario, four more years of this shit and they take the House?

Yeah. So that's why I found what this dude was saying interesting is because he's saying like he has these 14 questions that he asks every time heading into the election. And like how the number of yeses versus noes is what gives him his answer. And he says like this is the thing that will swing it is whether there is like some ongoing scandal that is consistently in the headlines for the rest of the president's, you know, 2020 run. Is there a reason why he emphasizes the impeachment scandals versus the never ending fountain of scandals? I think he's just assuming it needs to be something like very concrete, right? Concrete.

And that's consistently. And I mean, there's just so much there. And so, I mean, I get Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats being, you know, the impeachment overall is not like a popular option. Like it's less than 50 percent, I think. And her deal is like we won the midterms by running on issues that are like 70% popular, like, you know, healthcare and taxing. Yeah. But you can do both.

And also it's just on principle, it's not good to just let him off the hook. Fuck no. And there's also this, I think memory we have that like Clinton's blow job got dragged through the headlines for a year and people were just tired of that story. And so they were just like, fuck off, stop it with that impeachment. And everyone remembers that, being a big, really fucked up, the Republicans. But actually, they won the next presidential

election. They won against Clinton's Vice President Gore. And it was at least partially because Gore couldn't run with Clinton on his ticket. Clinton didn't do any campaigning for Gore, even though he was a pretty popular president on his way out because Gore was afraid of being associated with the scandal that Clinton had made synonymous with his name in his second term. So this professor is like, yeah, it's one of those big kind of checkmark things that could sway the election. And, you know, another, the other impeachment that is at least somewhat recent was Nixon's. And that was one where during the impeachment and congressional hearings and congressional investigations, a lot of stuff came to light that changed people's

perception. So that is the other thing that could work in Democrats' favor if they actually do go through with it, is that, you know, like the Mueller thing, we knew what it said in the report because, you know, we read it, but. People don't read. Yeah. People having him get up and say the stuff that is in the report was enough for people to be like, oh, side show. Right. So like people, I do think that just kind of relitigating some of these points that have like shown up in stories here and there that we're all like what right how yeah how is this yeah allowed uh you know actually

putting that and like having the people involved to talk about that in front of congress i think that will or could have a have a an effect that would taint Trump's legacy a little bit. Taint. Nice. How long of a range would an impeachment process take? Yeah, that's a good question. I don't know. Like the Nixon one took, I think, two years, the investigation.

And by the time that one was over, his popularity was so low that he resigned. I'm thinking that if she's just waiting for there to be a Democratic for us to settle on one and then everything to be cut and dried and

they start campaigning and then hit him with an impeachment right there. Then it's the Democrat running against a man with an impeachment. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And I think also just with like a lot of the court cases that have been won for Democrats trying to get documents and things like that, they're like, that's one thing she's been

pointing to to like for the people who are really focused on impeachment saying, look, we're going to get these documents like we're winning in the courts so there's a way to bring this information out without impeachment that could also be like a controversy or whatever right but at the same time i just think for what is going on just cannot let this president fucking run wild like this that's just like i think just as a matter of principle has to happen and i think because you don't want to look like the party who just sat on their hands when all this shit was going on. I think that's worse or that's the kind of shit that will really get a lot of

the more like aggressive, progressive side of the party to just be like, fuck out of here. Like, what the fuck are y'all doing? Yes. So, you know,

we'll see. But I think, you know, if her like bleed them slow strategy is like what she wants to do i just we'll see what happens i don't i can't think that's really going to help energize people but at the same time when you look at his base right there is that certain base that doesn't matter what the fuck comes out right because there's gonna be like i don't give a fuck but it is i think there is that sliver of those obama trump voters i don't know how the

fuck they did that but those voters who somehow voted for obama and then trump maybe those are people who are a little more likely to have or i don't know at least be more reasonable or open to being like you know clear-eyed about it right i just hope she has something like under her hat because i remember her daughter was talking about oh my mom is sneaky. I mean you don't get anything past my mom and you know by the time she's got you you don't even realize

she's got you. You know she just will you know make you feel like you're safe and then she's got you. And I hope that's what she's doing. I hope she's trying to black widow him like and just smack him with something when he does not expect. Because up to now, he feels invincible. Right. One, I think that's what's interesting, too.

Jack, you're saying this could be the thing that brings him down, which is funny because a lot of the Republicans are like, oh, I dare you to impeach him. Oh, I dare you. Like as if, it's like a bluff, right? Where they're like, oh, you don't know what I've got. But really, you're saying that because you're scared shitless. Because you don't want them to actually got. But really, you're saying that because you're scared shitless.

Because you don't want them to actually pull up with the, okay, then. I'm ready. Are you? And they're like. Yeah. It's just every rock you turn over with this presidency and with just from Trump's life in general. All roly polies. It's just all bad.

From Trump's life in general. All roly polies under there. It's just all bad. It's like you expect there to be roly polies and it's just fucking horrible things. It's not even roly polies under there. It's a rotting hand. I was thinking of the whole thing. Was that Alexander Pelosi who was saying that? Which daughter of hers?

The documentary filmmaker? I don't remember. I'm just thinking of like what if Nancy Pelosi was that kind of mom where she would create a fake party that her daughter wanted to go to just to see if she's like and you better stay home but she's tempting her with this fake party it's like a warehouse party and she gets there and it's just nancy sitting there come on inside dear huh come on in close the door. I was waiting for you. She got me again. And speaking of gaslighting, just really briefly, I had to mention the fact that while Trump was in Japan, the White House demanded that the USS John McCain be kept out of sight for his visit there because uh you know the president gets his feelings hurt

whenever john mccain's name is brought up and it's just snowflake they were hanging a tarp over the name of the carrier because they were you know they were scared of that it would put him in a bad mood so this is not something that like he is for. We are now at the point of toxicity where his just general rageaholic behavior and the fact that he's completely irrational have infected everything around him to the point that people are just throwing tarps over things so that he won't see them. Like a parent trying to hide a treat from a five-year-old. They're just like, oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't look over here. Hey, what's that?

What's that over there, Mr. President? Right. It's like, come on, man. The funny thing, too, is it's named after McCain's father and grandfather originally. Oh, is it? Yeah. And he was later added as a namesake. But when it was first named, it's after John McCain Sr. mccain jr who are the senator's father and grandfather so it's like he's just the name

it's got him all fucked up yeah he's three he's three sticks huh three sticks mccain i mean it's just very it's very like one of those details that you feel like oh i'm gonna be reading about that in history books if i on the off chance that I live long enough to read history books about this time period. Yeah. I just feel bad for the people who work in the way. I mean, I don't feel bad for them because you're consciously intentionally working for this president.

But that you know preemptively, it's like, yo, we got to fucking get rid of it. Only for him to probably get pissed now that this is a story. And he's like, how the fuck did that get pissed now that this is a story. Right. And he's like, how the fuck did that happen? I don't give a fuck. Okay, maybe I do. But it's just, y'all just quit. Just quit.

It's like literally appeasing a child. Yeah. Yeah. Literally appeasing a child. Like my kid doesn't like Elmo. And instead of just saying, walk by the Elmo, it's fine. Elmo's not, just just walk by it's a puppet you're like oh gosh we gotta all

hide this Elmo so this kid doesn't have a yeah and I mean he knows about the USS John McCain so it suggests that they assume that he lacks object permanence that they're just like oh well we just don't want

him to think about the fact that it exists. Right, right, right. So let's just like, you know, literally throw a tarp over the name. He's just not going to even question, like, what is under that sheet? Yeah. He's just going to be like, yeah. Yeah, because he doesn't know. God, can you imagine

the panic that must set in if he goes, what's over that sheet on that ship? Oh, no, just don't? The panic that must set in if he goes, what's up with that sheet on that ship? Oh, no, just don't worry about this maintenance. Paint job. Oh, okay. We're painting it so it says USS Trump. USS big Trump hands. USS giant hands.

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And it's starting to look like LaCroix is going the direction of Napster, the dinosaurs, the dodo, the snap bracelet, the fidget spinner. Yeah, I said it. Oh, hey, come on now. Yeah, I said it, Miles. Come after my spinners. I'm riding spinners pods I'm riding spinners

beanie babies you know those things that were the wave until and you just thought they'd always be there well first of all

fidget spinners I still they're unfuckwithable right most of my retirement is still in beanie babies and I think they're gonna come back around

it's coming back around again right y'all have two fidget spinners in front of me right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're trying to be the first step in the wave of bringing them back. Yeah. Look, I think they're very relevant. And just I guess LaCroix is really – they're not doing well.

I know last time we talked about it, it was because the owner, the CEO, sent out one of his classical, wacky Microsoft Word clip art letters to investors where it has all these weird graphics, and it's like, don't worry, it's the strongest it's ever been. There's evildoers in the world who are trying to bring down the name of LaCroix. And it was just like, no. I think it's just that there are many other people who have stepped into the arena now,

and you haven't done anything different since the beginnings. It's like, no, I think it's just that there are many other people who have stepped into the arena now. Yeah. And you haven't done anything different since the beginnings. Yeah. So since that time, sales have been in free fall. So sales fell 6% in February around the time that the bug spray rumor was starting to make its way around. And their CEO was making the news for just sending out wild letters to investors. Then in March, 5% drop. Then in April, 7% drop. Well, May is over guys. And it fell 15% in the month of May. Do they have any idea if that's just like the

non-soda carbonated water industry is kind of taking a dive or like other people are taking that place? No, other people are taking that place to the point that Coca-Cola company just bought the Mexican sparkling water maker Topo Chico in 2017. Oh, wow. Smartwater just introduced. Smartwater just introduced. So I think probably individual sellers might be seeing a dip because there are so many options being thrown on the market. But LaCroix itself is, you know, they overextended. They released 3,000 flavors. Their CEO is Groping Pilots.

Right. Their CEO started Groping Pilots. They managed to still only have two good flavors. Pompomousse. Pompomousse and pommabaya. What is that? Pommabaya is a cherry lime, I think. Oh, okay.

One of the little narrow cans. Yeah. Kurite or whatever the fuck. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't even know why the fuck. I guess that was the most, that was the next evolution. Right. Iteration of the soda

or drink where they're like, put in a thinner can and use cursive on it now. Yeah. And use weird French words. Yeah. Because I don't know

what the fucking flavor is. I have to look at the pictures because I don't know what the fuck these things are called except in English and Spanish. And pamplemousse is only good because it's fun to say.

Yeah, pamplemousse. Yeah, pamplemousse. My French pronunciation is on point. On point, yes. Whatever competitor at Coke or Pepsi, whoever it was who came up with the idea to sue them for having cockroach spray in their drink, even though that's not really true. It's just the same chemical that exists in both things.

That was... Oh, you're calling that corporate sabotage? Oh, for sure. Oh, wow. I like this. I mean, and the speed with which that spread, that started in 2016. A woman named Lenora Rice brought the lawsuit, and that shit just was everywhere.

Lenora Cola. Right. First out. Yeah. So now. Yeah. I mean, hey, Nick Caparella, you know, I can't wait for this next letter. Yeah.

Because that shit is going to be, it's like numbers aren't real. Free fall is actually falling up if you turn your head upside down. That's right. Yeah. Because that shit is going to be, it's like, numbers aren't real. Free fall is actually falling up if you turn your head upside down. That's right. Flip those graphs upside down. That's what's actually happening. So he started Strong as fuck. Look at it. He started blaming

the parent company, which I'm sure they loved. He also said that managing the brand is similar to caring for someone who becomes handicapped. That's right. Yeah. So he's flying high.

Yeah. And that was from the last letter. Yeah. Before the 15%, 7% vibe. I was like, wait till this one. How does that make your brand sound good? Like bringing LaCroix to you is like bringing a handicap yeah right it's an invalid in a can LaCroix right y'all fucking with it no

okay back to the drawing board a roach spray drink okay sorry should just come out with a roach spray flavor just you know people would buy that yeah because if they were looking i'm you know i i would have like steer into the curve wow yeah you have to yeah just embrace your mistakes and be like yeah this is raid flavor the collabo oh talking raid instead of talking rain uh all right let's talk about the song that is bumping in everybody's car right now. It is a song by the Austrian singer Andreas Gabalier. Yeah. And I don't know.

Should we just play it? Yeah, I mean, it's just one of these. The song is called Pump It Up, the motivation song. Uh-huh. And it's featuring another famous Austrian, Arnold Schwarzenegger. And first, I want you to hear

Andreas' just Euro talk rap style that only European rappers do so well. He was born in Austria He had a dream to become a star A poor young guy but never shy Said here I am, hold on He started counting lifts when pain comes on

Pump it up, don't bring it down Okay He's the man from Austria Who likes to pump the iron throne Or whatever the fuck that is Anyway, so that was pretty tight That sounds like someone's trying to teach somebody about multiplication Right That's that kind of like Yeah, got that schoolhouse rock flow Divide by three So that was pretty tight. That sounds like someone's trying to teach somebody about multiplication.

Right. That's that kind of like. Yeah. Got that schoolhouse rock flow. Divide by three. Any number divisible by three can divide by three. What? Sorry.

Yeah, like not even bothering to make shit rhyme. Yeah. If you just say it in the same way, it'll rhyme. So then, so the video's really fun, pleasant. I mean, you could hear that beat was like, sounded like church music. It sounded like a mega church praise song a little bit. Yeah, actually. With that little acoustic guitar and little drum pattern. And then, I mean, y'all, get your lighters in the air because Arnie then steps into the booth and sets it on fire.

And I just want you to say, I don't know, fuck Kendrick Lamar. Yeah, I'm saying that. Because have y'all heard Arnold Schwarzenegger? Roll the tape. Hey, I'm Arnold Schwarzenegger. Listen carefully. Dig deep down and ask yourself, who do you want to be? Not what, but who, if you believe success will come to you.

Work like hell, trust yourself And all your dreams come true Break some rules, not the law Don't be afraid to fail You have to think outside the box I say no pain, no gain I don't wanna hear it can't be done Give always something back

My name is Arnold Schwarzenegger I'll be back Woo! He rhymed back to back Fuck it, bar! Wow! think back. My name is Arnold Schwarzenegger. I'll be back. He rhymed back. Bars! He's got fucking bars. He's a better rapper than Blueface currently. Yeah, bust down, Tatiana.

Yeah, bust down, Tatiana. Bust down. That's what I need. Is he being bad on purpose? I don't know. I would love to hear him actually do some covers of modern rap songs. By Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah, he would do Drake, you know.

Yeah. I've got my eyes on you. You're everything that I need. But I was getting a little nervous with his last name. I didn't know if he was going to play a little, you know, for all my, where my Schwarzenegger's at. And that would have been wildly problematic. But respect to you, Mr. Austria, for not taking it there.

Yeah, man. He's, like all things, he does. He's great at it. He's a great rapper. Just terrible governor. Terrible fucking governor. Well, since we're checking in with Arnold Schwarzenegger, we should check in with his counterpart from the 80s,

Sylvester Stallone, who has just released a trailer for Rambo Last Blood, the fifth Rambo movie. He is now 72. That's true. Oh, really? Is that how they frame? No, no. Well, I mean, that's how old Stallone is, and it doesn't seem to

take place in the past. Well, he's on that human growth hormone. Yeah, but it's interesting because Stallone's always about mining the zeitgeist like he had Rocky win the Cold War at the height of the 80s and 80s cheesiness.

He had Rambo go back and win the Vietnam War. Let him do over. Right, let's do a do-over and just have him use exploding arrows to kill every Vietnamese soldier that survived the last war. And also he gave a lot of white boxing fans, a white champion, uh, in the seventies, which is, you know, it turned out they really wanted, but apparently, uh, his read on the zeitgeist right now was the same as Lil Nas X because Rambo's rolling around in a cowboy hat, riding a horse.

And then he actually has like the movie trailer eyes version of old town road yeah it's old town road the dramatic score version which is not as good as the original you know what i wish he would have used little nas x's voice but instead he went for the remix with billy ray cyrus because i guess he needed you know, he knows who his audience is. Because there are probably people who are like, this ain't country. Get it off the charts. Oh, Billy Ray Cyrus. Now I'm back in. But yeah, the whole vibe was like

old, it's like, he was like, it's like Home Alone, look at his booby trap in his barn or some shit. Right. Well, the original Rambo First Blood, not Last Blood, has a lot of booby traps, because he's like a creature of the Vietnam War and the Vietnamese jungle. He learned how to kill people Vietnam style. So he knows how to do booby traps.

But yeah, now they're coming after his house. And so he's booby trapping his house. And it's very, yeah, very, very reminiscent. You think he'll die in this? No. Could John Rambo die? I don't know, man. Do you think that You think he'll die in this? No. Could John Rambo die? I don't know, man. You think that's how he'll retire the character?

Like natural causes. Right. His head got too big from all that growth hormone? His head is enormous. It's too big. It's too big. It's too big. It's too big.

It's really taken on a very strange shape. His hat size is nine and three-eighths. I don't even know they made fittas like that, but that's what it is. I think it would have been so much better. If they're going to really mine the zeitgeist and see what the time is, he could be, because we said last blood,

I thought he was going through dialysis or something. Well, I mean, that's what Rocky in the Creed movies. He could be fighting healthcare and just being like, yeah, I paid a copay. They could have made it that way, and then he could just be tearing up bills. He's fighting guys who are stealing Bitcoin. He's like, Bitcoin thieves.

Well, this again appears to be Rambo in a foreign country, He's fighting guys who are like stealing Bitcoin. Right. He's like Bitcoin thieves. Well, this again appears to be Rambo in a foreign country, like continuing to fight other people's wars. Nondescript brown people. Right. But I mean, the thing that was great about the first one is that it was the tale of a Vietnam vet who comes home and like has to kill a corrupt sheriff and stuff. So it would be cool if he fought the system. Oh, that's how the first Rambo is? Yeah.

Brian Dennehy is like a corrupt local sheriff who's like, get out of here with your long hair, hippie. And then he just takes a flashback. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. He starts wrecking shit. Don't I got rights? Hey, you know, I could blow this whole fucking town up right i got a little x blasting in my truck but are like cowboys is country music having like a a moment because obviously there's been country music but like now it's having this crossover

with old town road and uh stallone the zeitgeist master, was presumably already making a Rambo where he was wearing a cowboy hat and killing people out on a ranch. Right. Is this like a Western throwback moment? I don't know. Maybe. What is it, Deadwood?

Yeah, Deadwood just came back. Yeah. I feel people, you know, know cowboy that kind of scene just makes people especially dudes feel like strong and manly yeah so that's like a that's like the final frontier everyone thinks that like i'm gonna retire and go be a cowboy without realizing you can't do any cowboy shit and you're 70 right yeah just try and ride on a horse for 15 minutes. See how your butt feels after that. You can't start cowboying now. You got to start when you're little with mutton busting.

Yeah, that's right. That's right. Get in with it. And that is what we call a full circle. Yeah. Are you starting to see that trend take hold in Texas? People wearing cowboy hats? People have always worn cowboy hats.

Is that caught on? We started that. I just saw one of those things, though. Cowboy boot remover tool? Like to take your boots off? Oh, like a boot, yeah. I saw that shit for the first time. Because I've never, you know, I don't have much experience with cowboy boots.

But for those who wear them often, they have a special, it's like the opposite of a shoehorn. Exactly. You know what I mean? It's the get your boot off tool. And it goes like on the heel part and it just makes it very easy. I might start wearing cowboy boots. Flap that thing right off.

Exactly. Do you wear a lot of cowboy boots? No. Okay. Great. But you're familiar. I'm familiar. I know what they're about.

Is there a proper name for that? Like a shoehorn? Like a boot scoop? I don't know what the fuck. It's a boot scoop boogie. Hey, hey, hey, thanks a lot. Let me get a boot scoop here. Alright, I'm done.

It's been a pleasure having you. Where can people find you? I'm on Twitter and Instagram at MaggieMayHaha. May is spelled M-A-Y-E. Is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Of mine? Sure. Of anyone's.

Marcel Arguello had a tweet yesterday. She said, Anytime I watch AOC go back and forth with someone who disagrees with her, I'm reminded why I never got into politics. I could never be as poised and diplomatic as her, because if it was me, I'd begin every retort with and diplomatic as her, because if it was me, I'd begin every retort with, first of all, bitch!

That was a delightful, dramatic reading of that tweet. I would be so... Oh my goodness. I mean, most of her replies to people are like, thanks, bitch. She's the woke bully, you know? Miles, where can people find you? Find me on Twitter and Instagram at MilesOfGrey. A couple tweets I like. First is from She's the woke bully, you know? Miles, where can people find you? Find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray.

A couple tweets I like. First is from Miles Klee at Miles Klee. It says, don't ask me to explain this, but a golden retriever is like the 1990s in dog form. Very true. And then Henry Zebrowski said, everybody wants a daddy, but some of us need fathers. said, everybody wants a daddy, but some of us need fathers. Tweet I enjoy.

Megan Amran tweeted, if you can get the pronouns right for a boat, you can get them right for a person. And Jenna Friedman tweeted, I'm calling my uterus John McCain so Trump's government keeps away from it. I love that one. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

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And The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Miles, what song are we going to ride out on today? I don't know much about this band. I just know they're called Horsey. Okay?

Okay. And the song is called Bread and Butter. They're called Horsey. Okay? Okay. And the song is called Bread and Butter. And it is and will be a toe-tapping boot shooter. Toe-tapping boot shooter.

Yep. All right. Well, we are going to ride out on that. We will be back on Monday. Have yourselves a great weekend, everybody. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. So the haircut and the flirt face Staggers tactless biology

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