The Daily Zeitgeist - Goop > Science, Knife Party! 1.29.20

Episode Date: January 29, 2020

In episode 558, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Billy Wayne Davis to discuss the new Batman production, QAnon figuring out the cure for Coronavirus, more on what we have learned from John Bolton's book and the strife it's creating on the right, the Trump hotel, Kobe's last game, the new Goop Netflix show, and more!FOOTNOTES: Production Begins on ‘The Batman’ as Director Matt Reeves Shares First Photo From the Set QAnon-ers’ Magic Cure for Coronavirus: Just Drink Bleach! Trump Tied Ukraine Aid to Inquiries He Sought, Bolton Book Says Lou Dobbs: "John Bolton himself has been reduced to a tool for the radical Dims and the Deep State" Tucker: John Bolton has always been a snake Trump Hotel Sale Has DC MAGA Groupies Scared About Losing Their Safe Space ESPN Re-Airing Kobe Bryant's Final Game, and Fans Are Tearing Up Gwyneth Paltrow Calls Goop’s $75 Vagina Candle ‘Punk Rock’ Because Words Mean Nothing Experts fact-check health claims in Netflix’s ‘The Goop Lab’ Netflix’s Gwyneth Paltrow show is a gateway drug for the Goop circus What The Goop Lab gets right (and wrong) about sex Our crappy healthcare system is to blame for Goop WATCH: Puma Blue - Bruise Cruise Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Rudy boy, boy, boy, let's go get it drunk. Rudy boy, boy, boy, go on, flip on Trump. Say it, say it, say it, say it. Rudy boy, boy, boy, that's it, give him up. Rudy boy, boy, boy, let's just fuck you up. Maybe, maybe, spit it, maybe. Tonight I'm gonna fucking flip on you.

I just made that part up. Anyway, thank you to Crispy Meme Donut for that one. Crispiest. Rihanna, ex-Rudy, rude boy. I mean, I think we'll see if he gives us some good sound bites this week. I feel like we're due for another just off-the-rails Rudy interview. What's better, Rudy Jazz or Trump Jazz? Rudy Jazz is more...

Trump Jazz is just racist and offensive. Rudy Jazz, I get a kick out of where I'm like, yo, this dude won't shut the fuck up, man. And he's fucking it up. You can hear his brain dissolving. Yeah. Miles, we are going on the road with our time machine in tow and super producer Anna Hosnier.

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We already did the first of the live shows at Sketch Fest. It was so fun. We went out, hung out with y'all afterwards, and it was awkward and fun, just like you would expect from us. From all of us together in one place. Yeah. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the very faces on Mount Zeitmoor. He is the hilarious comedian, Mr. Billy Wayne Davis. Hey, you guys.

What's up, man? Welcome. That was good. I like Rudy Jazz, too. Yeah. Rudy comedian, Mr. Billy Wayne Davis! Hey, you guys. What's up, man? Welcome back. I like Rudy Jazz, too. Rudy Jazz Jazz. He's fascinating. Rudy Jazziani. I mean, it's something else. It's just that Fox thing really made me so excited when you can see visibly how nervous the Fox and Friends hosts were last week

trying to be like, please stop talking. Do you think they can just smell the gin or do you think it's just like they get the sense like as he's like getting moving that it's just like an unstoppable force? I think they know it's going to be a disaster the second they know he's coming on. Right. It's just about how quick can they be to try and like guard themselves and the narrative from blowing it up.

Yeah, they're thinking we can ham this dude in for two and a half minutes. Right. Cut to 45 minutes later. Nice try, asshole. And he's making up racial slurs that never existed. Do you think he... You're like, I don't know what that is, but I know it's not good.

Yeah. Do you think he's coming in knowing they're going to try and stop me? Like he's like a basketball player who's like, they can't stop me. They can't hold me in. Yes, because comedians do that when you used to have to do morning radio,

you would come in. Because some of the DJs, we don't even know why they would have comedians in because they would get mad if you were funnier than them. Right. So you would have to go in being like, you have to take this show over

to get your shit on. So I imagine that that old drunk lawyer is like, oh, I know what these guys are going to think. The Rudy show. Yeah, and he's drunk, too, in the morning. So I think, too, he's like... In the morning.

Welcome to my world, motherfucker. So I think, too, he's like, he knows that I know how you guys operate and I'm smarter than you. Yeah, yeah, totally. Meanwhile, he has his AirPods in upside down. I don't know why those morning zoo radio shows don't have the sign that says must not be funnier than the hosts like we do here at the Daily Zyker studio. That is a good hint.

And you guys hit it hard. And it just points to it with a yardstick. We will edit you out if you are funnier than us. You just hear yourself. One episode we had a parna on. It was so funny. We had to cancel it. Yeah.

Have Jamie Loftus come in and record another episode. And just we were like Jamie be 50% as funny as you can be. Please. For our egos. Yes.

She was still funnier than us though. Unfortunately. A parna's a beast. Yes. I remember that's a joke. We only say that because we almost had

a parna on one time and then she canceled. She'll be back though I swear. She will. I hope. Nope. Not a joke. We only say that because we almost had a partner on one time. And then she bailed. She'll be back, though, I swear. She will. I hope. Nope. Not a chance. You guys fucked up.

Yeah, okay. All right, Billy, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We are talking about The Batman, which is coming to a theater near you. What? In the not-too-distant future. March 2021. you. What? In the not too distant future. March 2021. Yeah.

But yeah. Oh, okay. Not too distant. They've just began filming. Or June 21. We will. Okay. See, you guys said it like I should know about it.

No, no. They just started. Yeah. It's just an interesting, it's an update. One update. Who is it again? Robert Pattinson. Okay.

Have you seen Good Time? No. You got to see that. And then you'll... I don't dislike him. I don't care. I think that's the thing. When it comes down to the Batman,

they're like, did you see that? To me, Christian Bale's in My Uncle Keaton. Yeah. That's my Batman. Wow. Total Val Kilmer and George Clooney erasure. Yeah, kind of. I mean, I didn't erase them, but I said favorites.

Right. I haven't seen the Ben Affleck ones. Nah, I thought that was like a bit from a movie. Yeah, it seemed like an SNL sketch where Ben Affleck was Batman. Yeah. Like a digital short, and they got Ben Affleck to do it,

and it's funny because it's Ben Affleck. And Clooney's got nipples, so it's like, I can. Right. Come on. That's not his fault. But Ben Affleck looks, like if there were no acting and it was just a photographic, like Bruce Wayne and then in the Batsuit, I feel like he wore it well.

Oh, because he's like Cinderblock head? Yeah, yeah, Cinderblock head. Exactly. He's got that jawline, but didn't work out so well because those movies were directed by... Zack Snyder? Zack Snyder. We're going to talk about QAnon. They have, first of all, they hacked the truth.

They got in. They know... What's going on with coronavirus? They revealed all about the deep state, and now they're revealing all about the coronavirus. It's exhausting knowing everything. I know, right? But someone's got to do it.

We're going to talk about the continuation of the Bolton factor. He's loving this. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I think when that was happening, I'm sure his mustache just grew three inches where he was like, oh, this is good. This is good. This is good um but he has more to reveal about how trump operates behind the scenes uh he also is uh

the target of some attacks from people who used to be his friends yeah he does look like he talks like this he does right he looks like he should talk like Yosemite. You know what Trump's like? He's like the Tasmanian devil, but dumb. Yeah. We're going to talk about Trump Hotel in D.C. We're going to talk about The Bachelor for a moment, just because there was a highlight, a high point of cruelty.

People came screaming. The highlight of cruelty is what it is. I don't know how cruel. They're both chasing fame, and that's what happens. We're going to talk about why I feel like the most watched NBA game of the year was one that was four years old last night. We're going to talk about the new Goop show on Netflix. We're going to talk about all that and plenty more

But first, Billy Wayne, we'd like to ask our guest What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, I looked up how my watch works a year after I bought it In what sense? Like the mechanisms within, how it's powered, how... I know how it's powered, how... I know how it's powered. I knew that. Like what it does.

I've been wearing it for like a year. Oh, like what features are aside from time? Time and mostly just time. What else you got on there? There's an alt... There's a barometer. Not this one because the one I'm talking about makes a lot of noise and I don't know why it makes noise sometimes. Right.

And somebody was like, oh, it's because you're changing altitude. And I was like, I don't think I'm talking about makes a lot of noise, and I don't know why it makes noise sometimes. Right. And somebody was like, oh, it's because you're changing altitude. And I was like, I don't think I'm changing altitude. Yeah. Right. I just got out of a car. You just jump, and the thing is like, what? It never does it when I'm in an elevator, and that feels like that should be when it beeps.

Right, right, right. Oh, so there's like a digital thing? Yeah. It's a big one of those big ones. Yeah, for diving too? Can you dive with it? I'm sure you shouldn't. Probably.

What are the skills your watch got? Are you going to use a barometer, altimeter, any of that stuff? Parametric pressure? I haven't for a year, but I just looked it up to be like, why is it beeping? Right, right, right. And I still don't know. Well, good luck on that. I think that says a lot about me.

What's something you think is overrated? Overrated? Elon Musk. Okay. I think he's just a little too much. What happened? Anything new? No.

Just overall. Yeah. Just fucking cool it. Is overall yeah just fucking cool it is a lot just cool it we'll do what you were doing but like you just shut up about it stop it i think our culture was starting to view him with the proper amount of skepticism and then tesla like went on this run at the stock market where everyone's like i proved all the haters wrong. And now people are forgetting again that he's a rich kid who grew up with diamonds in his pocket.

Yeah, and PayPal sucks. That's right. That's his thing too. That is his thing. Because my underrated is also him because of Tesla and he is one of the few people who are like, let's take care of the fucking fossil fuel problem.

Right. Which is like a cool thing for a billionaire to do. Because everyone else, including him, seem to be trying to get off the earth and scorch it. Right, right, right. And he's like, let the poors have a couple years after we leave. Yeah, right, right. Give them some renewable batteries. They can use Wi-Fi.

That's secretly Tesla's mission statement. Let the poors have a couple years after we leave. They can use Wi-Fi. That's secretly Tesla's mission statement. Let the poors have a couple years after we leave. They'll have fun with it. After him and Bezos are up in the stars, what's happening to each other? Can you imagine? Did you see the stuff, the things that Bezos was getting from the Crown Prince MBS? It was just like memes. Right.

One of them was a picture of a woman who looked like his girlfriend. Like Lauren Sanchez, yeah. Yeah. It was not public information. So they were just doing some sort of reconnaissance and being like, this will appeal to his desires. But it was like arguing with women is like the end user agreement. You just, there's like too much to read and then you end up.

Just hit accept. Hit I agree. What? Even that joke is. I know. It's so whack. And that is, that was their strategy. That's like an elder Gen X joke.

But you'd think for someone who comes from a country that's so misogynistic that you wouldn't even have to exist in a world where you argued with a woman. It'd be like, arguing with a woman is like throwing trash away. I just do it. Period. I don't think about it. What's the problem?

I don't do it. But maybe he's like, this is how I'll appeal to his western brain or something. I don't know. It just, I really, like, I would love to read a long read work of journalism that digs into how they came up with that. Like their intelligence agency crafting that as the ultimate thing to get Jeff Bezos to click on. And it worked. Right.

It worked. It's just there's a whole branch of the Saudi intelligence that's like the meme division. Yeah. They're like, okay, what's his age? Who are the women who he is interested in? What is going on in his private life? We know that. What's his wife like?

Right. And he was going through a divorce. So were like you know I love this yeah I love this joke hate joke right he has a terrible sense of you yeah this is barely a joke how is it also that he went from like he's you know supposed to be one of the most technologically sophisticated people he clicked on this link and his phone the the amount of data that was leaving his phone multiplied by 300 like 300 times as much data was suddenly just like leaving his phone just like it's like a fucking i'm like picturing a fishing reel like once like right once it like gets a hit

it's just like and he like just didn't notice got everything yeah they just got everything i love you i'm sure there's arrogance involved in that man yeah where he's like i can do my phones right i'm jeff very few people realize that he is uh refers to himself as i mean his ex-wife just dumped a bunch of her stock, just made like $400 million. Oh. Good for her. I would have done that right away.

I'm like, you know what? I'm getting on my spaceship. She dumped some stock, too, and made like a billion. Right. Billions. Yeah. She dumped his stock. Yeah.

That was a good dump. That was a good dump. That was a good dump. One of the top dumps. And maybe the best dump of all time. I think it was the best dump of all time. It made me one of the richest people in the world. Top three dumps.

Elvis' last dump. That one. I had to feel good. I bet it felt good. Oh, I know. Release. The dump that ends to end all dumps, literally. I'm sorry.

What is a myth? I'm so sorry. I'm not sorry. He lived a good life, you guys. And'm sorry. What is a myth? I'm so sorry. I'm not sorry. He lived a good life, you guys. And still does. People still think he invented rock and roll. Allegedly. What is a myth?

What's something people think is true that you know to be false? That you can fix a hybrid battery from YouTube clips. No. No. Are we coming full circle on this? It's a myth. Oh, yeah. Are we coming full circle on this? Oh, yeah. I'm getting rid of this.

I'm just like, someone's going to pick it up. So for people who don't know, I remember maybe about four months ago. No, it was longer. Was it a year ago maybe? I hate that it was longer than that. I don't know. You come on so much, it's hard for me to keep track. But yes, very early on, you came out saying, I got a Ford Escape Hybrid. I need to figure out this battery.

I feel like there's a way to fix this. It was like eight months ago. Okay. You got some help. You got some help. You got some tips. Yes. A lot of people send me a lot of great information, but there's skill involved that I don't have,

and patience. There's a ton of patience. It's like the more I was like, because it's like dudes figuring it out, and they're like, can a dude do this? And then there are simple tasks, little steps.

Right. There's a lot of them. they're like, can you do this? And then there are simple tasks, little steps. Right. There's a lot of them. And also, like, if you fuck up, shit could go really wrong. Right. So you're like, oh, you guys are kind of glossing over that part. Right. Yeah, or it's like it's a video probably made for other mechanics versus. Yeah, or just dudes, like you notice, like, they live in the woods.

Right. So they don't, their time and my time are different. Right. They're on wood time. Yeah. And they don't have a little Jewish woman just yapping at them. Has that been their story? Well, maybe they did, and that's why they live in the woods.

Is that the conflict with you and your partner as you are fixing your car? Well, she was not happy that I just let the car sit in the driveway for eight months. Oh, right, right. We're becoming a bit of an eyesore. She's got, she's totally right. Oh. She's 100% right. Yeah, it got to the end of that user agreement.

Well, it was just more like an eyesore, and then for me, I travel a lot, so I don't need my car that much. Oh, right, right, right. And so for me not to have a car is not a huge deal. Sure, sure. And for her just to have a car sitting in our driveway is a huge deal. So you've now officially proclaimed. So she'd yell at me.

I'd be like, what is wrong? What is wrong? And then finally I was like, I'll look at it from her perspective. You know what? I'm an asshole. Right. All right. And so RIP the Ford Escape, we're saying, officially.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. Oh, I'm the asshole. Oh, I'm the asshole. Oh. That's one of the great realizations that happens to me at least once a week. Oh, yeah. It's once a week. We're like, oh, I see why this isn't moving forward.

Right. But also, hey, look, a mark of a good self-aware partner, too. Yeah. Yes. How many people do you know who will never have that realization? A lot. They're like, no, man, they're fucking wrong. I fucking hate them. They're a hater. Fuck that.

And they live alone in an apartment. Or in the woods making YouTube videos. Where sometimes you need to be like, hold on, put the focus on me. Let me look in the mirror. That's an asshole on my face. I'm an asshole. I'm looking at an asshole.

There's one asshole on my face. You'm looking at an asshole. There's one asshole on my face. You know what I mean? Because to me, it just wasn't a problem. Well, because in your mind, you know that there's an end point

that makes sense to you and it just needs to play out. Yeah. And that's all you're thinking about. It's like, no, but what I'm doing this is for a good reason.

Yeah. I haven't explained that to you, but it's like... The way our brain was designed, like there's no evolutionary benefit to realizing you're wrong when you're arguing with another person.

Because those people would just fight you until you died or something. Look how it's playing out on a national stage right now. Yeah, we're just meant to figure out what our team is and fight on that team. Preserve. Kind of. I think we're more evolved than that. We're getting there. We give ourselves.

Well, we have those old habits. Yes. And that's why sports are good. Yeah. And I think those outlets are good because we figured out avenues not to just team up and be like, we're going to kill that group over there. Yeah, yeah. No, I'm not saying that we should do that.

Well, a good joke my wife had was about the truck. She was like, you know those commercials you hear? You got a junk car? And she's like, oh, he's not like, you know, donate it. She's like, who the hell has a junk? Oh, my God, we have. There it is. Oh, so you're donating it?

Cars for kids? No, I sold it to a junkyard. Oh, okay. There you go. Because you can get money. They're just going to pay it. Yeah, you got mouths to feed. I also, in addition to the behind-the-scenes look

at how they came up with that meme to fool Jeff Bezos, I also want to find out the behind-the-scenes ad agency work that came up with those Cars for Kids ads. Oh, wow. Yeah, 1-800 Cars for Kids. It's so strange, man.

And they're always strange in the exact same way. They've done multiple iterations over the years. And yeah, it really feels like you are having a horrifying acid trip. I just don't like that the keyboard player, his shit is not plugged in at all. No, none of them. No power cord. I feel like my man on guitar does have at least a quarter inch going from his guitar to the amp. Right, but he's not even touching any part i don't know what i don't know what mode he's in based on those

fingerings i'm saying uh all right let's talk about the batman real quick it is exciting to me because of the cast i don't usually get excited about superhero movies based on the cast i usually get i get cringe fever when i go here we go another fucking superhero for whatever reason i think because what you're saying billy like i really liked the nolan bale batman films that when i hear it's a non-asshole joke version like the affleck ones now i'm like look at this i'm like hold on okay so you got colin farrell as the penguin jeffrey wright as commissioner gordon zoe kravitz as Catwoman, Peter Sarsgaard, they still don't know, they think maybe it could be Harvey Dent, and Robert Pattinson as Batman.

I'm like, and the director from a lot of the Planet of the Apes, the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes films, I'm like, this could be pretty good, actually. Yeah, and it's Matt Reeves is the director who has directed it. He did Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which was pretty dope. Yeah. I just said that, Dad. He did...

He disagreed with you. God, calm down. No, see, now you're seeing it. He's so... He doesn't listen to me. But yeah, I don't know. I think we got a shot at a good one. So I'm excited.

Do you care? I think it's weird. For whatever reason, Batman still has an effect on me. I don't care about many other superhero films. I love the X-Men. I'll always watch X-Men. But Batman is the one DC one I'm always like, hey. Man, I don't care about any of them. Yeah, yeah.

I'm down to it. You named that cast. And I was like, hey. Man, I don't care about any of them. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I'm down to it. Like, what you guys are like, you named that cast, and I was like, oh, that sounds good. Yeah, yeah. But that's it. That's all right. Right, right, right. I think it's because I've been,

it's like since the Tim Burton, Michael Keaton one from the 80s, I've always been, that was the one. I love that one. That one blew my face off. I loved it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not even that I'm like, I'm stoked for this. I'm just saying for the first time, my reaction isn't like, man, get this one blew my face off. I loved it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not even that I'm stoked for this. I'm just saying for the first time, my reaction isn't like, man, get this shit off my fucking browser.

No, I... Yes. That's the difference. I would probably agree with that where it's like... Oh, I might see that one. Yeah. Right, exactly. There it is.

Yeah. I might see... I might see it. They can put that on the poster. Did you guys grow up liking the Christopher Reeve Superman movie? No, I don't give a shit about Superman. At all? Ever?

I think that if the... Okay, I have a problem with Superman. If he's just... There's no problems. Dramatically, from a filmmaking and as a fan of movies and storytelling, I fully get that. But because that was imprinted on me at such a young age that like when i was three i was running around with like a towel tucked in the back of my shirt like that i i just always have like i will always watch a superman movie regardless it didn't you know it's weird i think

i i did watch a lot of them as a kid but batman was just i don't know i think it was just grittier to me yeah and i think it had more appeal than sort of like, because I would also watch the Adam West Batman show. Yeah, me too. And I was like, yeah, this is fun. It's funny. It's fun. And that's what I felt that Christopher Reeves,

the look was similar. Like, look at your little Lycra jumpsuit on. And then fucking Batman had all this gear and shit. My thing with Batman was that he was not super. Right. He was not super. He was the only one where I was like, oh, I could do that. Right. And that's he was not super. Right. He was not super. He was the only one where I was like, oh, I could do that. Right.

That's achievable. Yeah. Except for the rich parents thing. Yeah. But like- He was like, I have trauma. I can put a mask on. Yeah.

The rest of them was like, I never- The only thing I ever wanted to do was fly when I was little. Right. And that was it. Yeah. And then I thought if I could fly, I couldn't fuck with me. Yeah. And I still think Right. That was it. Yeah. And then I thought if I could fly, like, couldn't fuck with me.

Yeah. And I still think that. That's true. My only concern about this movie other than all the normal ones is the fact that it's called

The Batman leads me to believe that it's like, okay, we're starting all over. This is a fully, like, we're gonna have to introduce

who Batman is again. Like, give you, if I have to watch his mom get shot again the Batman exactly and like watch his mom's pearl necklace

like get pulled again like I'm going to freak out so you don't want to dance with the devil wait what happens to his parents oh man wait seriously oh that explains so much screwed up to his parents? Oh, man. Wait, seriously? Oh, that explains so much. I screwed up.

That's why he's so mad. Oh. I'd fight crime too, probably. Oh, I gotta start going to movies on time. Yeah. I'm hoping they start maybe a couple movies down the line. Right, assume that it's like... Fully formed, fully imagined. He's over it.

He's like having a period. I don't want this anymore. Yeah, just be your gut. And then Zoe Kravitz shows up and he's like, you know what? I'll fight her. Yeah. And maybe kiss her too.

The Superman Returns was a movie that like didn't do that well, so I'm sure they won't do that. But it was like, all right, this is basically Superman 3, and we're just starting with Superman 3. I really liked that movie, actually. The Brandon Routh one? Yeah. Alright, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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It's a dance. It's tradition. It's culture. This is Lucha Libre Behind the Mask, a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of Lucha Libre. And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, the emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar. Santos! Santos! Join me as we learn more about the history behind this spectacular sport

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or wherever you stream podcasts. I'm Dr. Laurie Santos, host of the Happiness Lab podcast. As the U.S. elections approach, it can feel like we're angrier and more divided than ever. But in a new hopeful season of my podcast, I'll share what the science really shows, that we're surprisingly more united than most people think. We all know something is wrong in our culture, in our politics, and that we need to do better and that we can do better. With the help of Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki. It's really tragic. If cynicism were a pill, it'd be a poison. We'll see that our fellow humans, even those we disagree with, are more generous than we assume. My assumption, my feeling,

my hunch is that a lot of us are actually looking for a way to disagree and still be in relationships with each other. All that on the Happiness Lab. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm Renee Stubbs, and I'm obsessed with sports, especially tennis. On the Renee Stubbs Tennis Podcast, I get the chance to do what I love, talk about how tennis and other women's sports are growing and changing and what the future holds. I think I just genuinely loved what I did.

I loved this waking up, putting on my sports gear. I still believe it was so rewarding. Maybe you can relate to it as well. As a woman, I think it's a very powerful feeling to have a job at which you're able to see improvements in real time. And we're back. And QAnon is also back to save you. They never went away. That's true. I mean, the conspiracy theory. Back in the headlines. They wanted you to think they were away.

Exactly. Because that's the way of QAnon. QQ. The way, you know, the conspiracy theorists who have been showing up in larger and larger numbers at Trump events who believe that Trump is actually working with the deep state to take down the deep state because of child sex rings. Right. It's very convoluted, but basically. It is not.

Trump ain't in trouble. It is not convoluted. It is very simple. It's very convoluted, but basically... It is not. It is not convoluted. It is very simple. It's very straightforward. And I am doing a deeper Southern accent because I do feel like that probably represents most of these people. Oh, you'd be surprised.

I remember one of the rallies, they had a... I think it was for The Daily Show or something. They ran into a few cute people, and oh, boy. It was interesting how quickly some of them, when asked to just think slightly one or two steps deeper than they already

were, they began to kind of be like, huh, well, hmm. Well, they do seem like easily led people. Absolutely. You have to when you're looking constantly at dates and times of any tweet and trying to extrapolate some meaning about it, like, oh, this came out this time based here because this all these numbers mean this anyway they're

now taking on the uh coronavirus head-on yeah they have been people like prominent yes a lot of like the prominent people in that community like on youtube like this one guy jordan say that he's saying i'm going to have to get home and MMS the whole state. MMS the whole shit out of everything. Another account is like, I'm going to start using my 20-20-20 spray. These are all MMS, like these are all concoctions related to the, quote, miracle mineral solution, which is something that has been promoted. I know what it is.

I've done it behind the bastards on that moment. Yeah. Yeah. A miracle cure, which is basically like, drink bleach, y'all. Right. It's not, hey. It's a little bit.

It's a little bit of bleach. That's what they don't want you. It's watered down. Okay. Is somebody selling this, like making money off of this drink? Oh, I don't know if there's, I'm sure someone's making,

I guarantee you someone's making money off it. I don't know if they're selling like the bleach solution. Got it. But I think what they do is like, there's like a fucking recipe and all that. And they say it because, you know, the claims are like it can cure autism, HIV, AIDS, cancer. And the cure to that is death.

Right. Exactly. And a lot of like the FDA is like, absolutely not when this, there's like, there's no research, even any like remotely close to, what is it? Yeah, when no research even remotely close to confirming these claims. The official statement was... A deep sigh.

Who's deeper state than FDA, guys? Come on. Exactly. It's the deepest of the deep state. As Chief Police, a prominent anonymous QAnon account on Twitter, put also one of the movies I'm looking forward to, Chief Police 2. Yeah. It's going to be great. I'm selling 21, 21, 21 Sprite.

Oh, right. It is 1%. Be careful now. You might end up being – you might get some followers like that. Yeah. Great. But yeah, they're also saying like, look, you're talking about, you're drinking in these 20-20-20 sprays, they're like, at a minimum, you're ingesting 3,000 times more than what

we consider the safe limit to interact with bleach like that. Yeah. You know. But do your thing. Any. Right. Any bleach in your body. Not good.

Don't. Spray it, because they spray it, they drink it, they clean it. It's just, all right, big bleach. There's big bleach, if you ask me. Right. I think even big bleach is like, no, no, no, no. Yeah, like, what? No.

What? No. What are the other, I mean. That was the bleach companies. Yeah. Their statement was like, they're doing what? Oh, Jesus Christ. Drinking it.

Let's talk about the latest revelations from John Bolton. Or at least the latest leaks from his book, and then we'll talk about how Trump supporters are responding. I mean, the New York Times, they did it on Sunday. They said, basically said an excerpt from the manuscript that allegedly says, everyone seems to believe that it says, that yes, Trump instructed Bolton to keep freezing the aid to Ukraine until they cooperate and announce an investigation into their political opponents.

Ukraine until they cooperate and announce an investigation into their political opponents. The newest little leak is that he privately told Bill Barr, the attorney general, that he had concerns that the president was basically exchanging favors or doing favors to the autocratic leaders of China and Turkey. And then Barr responded like referring to a pair of Justice Department investigations of companies in those countries and was like, yeah, I'm a little bit worried that Trump made it seem like he had influence over how these independent investigations would actually work. So and then even to back that point, according to this manuscript, Barr said Referenced conversations Trump had With Erdogan of Turkey And Xi of China So you know That's cool

We all suspected I feel like he's guilty You're really going out on a limb I just feel like that's my hunch Because of all the things I keep hearing and reading the way he's acting. So you believe him? I believe Bolton. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of. And so that's like sort of the strategy now that's being employed on the right. Yeah. That it's just basically like, oh, so you believe him? Right. Oh, you're going to believe this guy?

A political appointee that most of the Republican establishment considers a good person. That two days ago you guys were saying was a good person? Yeah. You like him? Okay. You believe him. He's one of us. And you believe him.

It really is high school mean girl shit. Even the defense is like that They're like Adam Schiff What an asshole Yeah basically He eats his french fries with mayonnaise on them Yeah he might be Dutch Fucking weirdo Yeah even Alan Dershowitz defense

With the first Bolton revelations Was like even if everything was true in there The president can't be impeached. It's like, what? No, he can't. That's your argument? You just can't say stuff. It's like a nine-year-old testing how to argue.

Right. That's all of them like, I'm going to try to say this and see what happens. That's where they're at because they have no logical or legal arguments anymore. It's just like, it's just devolved into schoolhouse shit. It is like they say their argument and then their eyebrows go up like,

did you buy that? You want to drink some bleach? It's like Tomorrow they're just going to bring in Shaggy and just play the It wasn't me You're the second person to bring that up That's the defense

It's like we even caught you on camera It wasn't me Instead they just play it They just sit there and like. Yeah, just from the beginning. And Rick Rock is still doing the opening part. He's like, hey, man, what's up? What, man? It's Shaggy.

It wasn't me. I feel like that would be where we're headed. He's a veteran. Right, exactly. And they would probably smear him because that seems to be the pattern. After they get done with him, yes. With Bolton's revelations, again, terrible news for senators in the GOP because there's more pressure for them to call witnesses or subpoena John Bolton,

who himself has been like, I will come, just subpoena me, and I will show up, and I will tell the truth. Did you see the Fox and Friends, though, when they were trying to – I just saw some clips. It's just that the one tall guy, I don't remember. Steve Doocy? Yes. That dude, he just – you could tell even he was just like, how do I – I don't – you want me to do what today?

Yeah. I can't – ah. But to do what today? Yeah. I can't. But that's what they have to do. I mean, when you look at how the relationship between Trump and Bolton even began, like Trump didn't want to hire him at first. Everyone's like, get John Bolton. He's a fucking hawk. People respect him like on the right. And it'll give you some it'll air us.

It'll lend an air of legitimacy to this administration's uh foreign policy goals but he was like i don't like his mustache yeah it looks weird hawks don't have mustaches exactly show me a hawk with a mustache i dare you go and and they never saw eye to eye and now it's sort of kind of coming back because now former cabinet officials are even taking sides now with john kelly saying like well i believe what john bolton says because i felt similar things were going on when i was all like okay what they're doing well yes i think they're all like who's gonna say something first who's gonna be brave right and then when someone says something first then we can all be like yeah fuck that guy and we'll all be heroes but if we don't he's dangerous. He can ruin one person very quickly.

Right. But he can't ruin the whole cabinet. Like, everybody would need to agree together at the same time. Like, okay, everybody, get ready. We're all going to jump in the pool together. Yes. Ready? One, two, three.

Oh, shit. It was only me. You motherfuckers. There's that one dude who didn't jump in. He's like, oh, my bad. I didn't think y'all were jumping. Right. Bolton's just under the water being like, fuck, fuck,! There's that one dude who didn't jump in. He's like, oh, my bad. I didn't think y'all were jumping. Right. Bolton's just under the water being like, fuck, fuck, fuck, help me, help me.

Mustache is wet. I hate everyone. I'm moving to Iran. That's how much I'm mad at you. Yeah. Yeah, so I mean, as that, and then even with Mitt Romney saying, you know, this John Bolton thing seems to underline the need for witnesses and evidence for this to be a fair trial. Even some of his own friends in the Senate are being like, I don't know her.

I don't know that. So we're starting, I don't know, maybe a bit of a knife party developing on the right. But we shall see. Oh, I think it's been developing since the jump. Yeah, but I mean, now we're starting to see little pokes now. Like, are they going to start full-on slashing each other? But we'll see. So, I mean, the incentives, because, I mean,

the thing we're all waiting to see is whether the Republican senators, like, whether enough of the Republican senators are willing to vote to hear from witnesses. Yeah. And if they are, then isn't that kind of game over? No, because then they'd still have to vote to actually convict him and remove him. And you need two-thirds.

They love the theater. Yeah, that's true. You need two-thirds. And also we can't trust that Bolton... Love to see all the witnesses. Yeah. And then vote the other way anyway. Yeah, that's true.

That's all they gotta do. And then they don't have to legislate anymore, which is also what they're doing because they're stopping that. Yeah. So if I was evil, that's what I would do. Vote to. So the evil turtle is over there like slowly and then we'll drag this out as long as we can. Right. Then we'll, okay, we'll start hearing some witnesses.

Yeah. They definitely don't want witnesses, though, because they're not, his defense wasn't prepared for any kind of situation where there would be witnesses. There's no defense, though. So in one way, they could be like, yeah, fuck it, because we're just going to quit the motherfucker anyway. But that would look so terrible that for some of the more vulnerable senators, they'd be like, yo, this is putting me in a fucking weird spot. I mean, this kind of comes back to... But I think they can maybe just do a vote to convict, but obviously it won't be enough to remove him, so they can be like, see, I did the right thing.

Right. And they're going to try and do an exchange, right? That's been talked about. I don't think that's... Okay, you get Bolton, we get Hunter Biden. I think that works for trump more than anything to put any biden in the box like that and then start just trying to just beat him rhetorically with whatever your line of questioning is oh yeah that would definitely

so i mean if you know but we'll see where this goes because there's also you know talks that biden put him in there they're not gonna have to have. Yeah. If it's going to be like, look, OK, fine. They get Mulvaney, Bill Barr, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton there. I mean, it's going to by far that coverage will be much more devastating. But I think with sort of the strategy or at least what people are talking about is the group of four Senate Republicans who might vote for witnesses. They're trying to rope more people in because none of them want to be the 51st vote. Right. So they want to be like,

can we get like seven or eight people in? So then we can kind of spread it out. I'll do it. 51st vote. Let's hear how Fox is responding to the, you know, Bolton has been one of their on air personalities. Yes.

He's been one of their main dudes. They regularly fawn over his mustache and his love of starting unnecessary work. I tell you who we need to fight, Orion. Right. Exactly. Like a little weird Muppet. The voice that he should have. It's not the voice he has, it's the

voice he deserves. Yeah, it's the voice he's earned. So Lou Dobbs, he really... Sundowning. Just,'t i look this here's lou dobbs uh on from fox uh angry brain that man john bolton himself has been reduced to a tool for the radical dems and the deep state with his well his uh allegation that the president once told him that the the uh the aid to the to the ukraine was entirely dependent on whether or not uh mr zelinski carried out investigations of his political opponents i'm a broadcast then he referred to weird charts that was basically like, well, you know, James Comey has the same book publisher and so does the anonymous.

So, you know, Lou Dobbs will mumble anything you put on that teleprompter. Yeah. He will mumble his ass off. I mean, if that didn't compel you to change your opinion on Bolton, I don't know what will. Right. Maybe this really amazing opening monologue from Tucker Carlson could change your mind on Bolton. Think back to 2016, the campaign that Donald Trump used to recite a poem about a woman who took a dying snake into her house and nursed it back to health. The snake did become healthy and then immediately whipped around and bit the woman as she breathed her last breaths.

The woman asked the snake, why did you do this? Well, because I'm a snake, was the reply. As she breathed her last breaths, the woman asked the snake, why did you do this? Well, because I'm a snake, was the reply. That's what we do. All of which somehow reminds us of disgraced former National Security Advisor John Bolton. Somehow. Republicans in Washington tonight seem shocked to discover that Bolton has turned

and betrayed his former boss, Donald Trump. But they shouldn't be shocked. That's who John Bolton is. That's who John Bolton has always been. That's who John Bolton is. That's who John Bolton has always been. That's what John Bolton does. And not to brag, we called it long ago. Okay. Did you?

Did you? I mean, when you say all the things, sure. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. When you've said every single thing in any way it could play out. Isn't that kind of more of like a Buddhist proverb, though, about not being upset like when you're holding like a scorpion or something? Yeah's stinging you're like but that is the way of the scorpion but it just sounds like projection to me yeah yeah but it's just funny that it's for sure it's time to

be like oh siddhartha trump please give us your wisdom yeah because that is in the snake's nature to bite ha ha ha trump knew he would bite him it is the the perfect thing. It is one of Trump's perfect things to just go to and recycle, just keep regurgitating because it is exactly a perfect metaphor for who he is and his role in our country. Right. It's like, yeah, everybody who has ever done a deal with this guy has ended up fucked and telling everyone, you know, don't do a deal with this guy. He's as bad as you think. He does deals with these guys that are shady as hell, but he loves being in the spotlight. So he's like, hey, come over here. Let's do deals together in the spotlight.

And they're like, no. What? I don't want to be in the spotlight. We don't do that. He's like, no, come on. It's fun. And they're like, no, that's not what we do. Look, look, look, I'll fire this guy.

Look, you're fired. Yeah, like, hey, look at Rudy and this other weird guy. Yeah. Because I think he also likes that thing for his ego, too. Like, I can hook it up. What you need? Well, he doesn't have shame. And I think that's Rudy Giuliani's gift, too, is he's drank away his shame.

So you can't really beat anybody like that. Right. When they're like, what are you going to do? Yeah. I didn't get to be president. I'm going to burn this whole goddamn thing down right now. I do love the fact that Tucker Carlson is using the fact that the president says it as like, he's like, so we can enter that into evidence, right? Right.

It's a thing the president said once. So who was this woman? Right. So did you know this woman personally that was bit by the snake and died? Has that been resolved? Yeah. Do we want to talk about the fact that Trump Hotel in D.C. is closing its doors? Have you?

I've been there. I guess two years ago I was there doing comedy. You were doing comedy at the Trump Hotel? No, God, no. Oh, God. I wanted to. But I was, you know, around D.C. and there's things you want to go see. I was like, I'm going to that fucking place.

Did you go to the ping pong place? Ping pong pizza parlor? Oh, yeah, I did that too. It's not what they say it is. But the hotel, it's extravagant. And then there's just this giant room because it's an old post office. So it is cool.

Yeah. And it does feel like, I sat there for a while, it's an old post office so it is cool yeah and it does feel like i sat there for a while it's crazy overpriced like it's that place where like a bud light's like 26 yeah the cheapest cocktail which doesn't even have alcohol is 18 yeah what does it have it's like a virgin cocktail i think it's like a mocktail yeah oh no i was like well hold on they have mdma um think it's like a mocktail. Yeah. Oh no. I was like, well, hold on. They have MDMA.

Um, no, it's just a complete, it's the cheapest drink is a mocktail for 18 bucks. Got it. That's where you're entering. How it just looks like the shadiest, nicest place.

He's ever seen. Really must be the worst businessman in the world. So the whole thing is, you know, he has like a 60 year lease or something. He's having, he's having to sell it. It opened in like September of 2016,

but he's now just like, we're fucking underwater on this thing. So they have to get rid of it. Apparently in November, they were reporting that like the hotel could only fill like half of its rooms throughout the year and could never keep up with like hotels that weren't, you know, aligned with racists.

So they've been having a lot of issues in terms of a business. The real victims, though, of this hotel being sold to a new owner and most likely being rebranded is that all the MAGA groupies will have nowhere to go in D.C. That was like their one safe space. Because you remember when Kirstjen Nielsen went out to fucking eat anywhere. Yeah, and everyone was like, boom. They were like, get the fuck out of here.

So a lot of the people are lamenting. There's one guy, one of these Trump personalities on Twitter is tweeting. He's like, what will happen to the MAGA networking and social scene in Washington, D.C. then? There's nothing like the Trump Hotel, nor will many places be as accommodating to racists. So I think they are, a couple places are like some lower level bars that they could go to, but I think the Trump Hotel was one of the few places you could wear a suit and felt like,

ooh, we're highfalutin. That's what it felt like, and it looked like a place where it was like criminals acting like people. Right. If that makes sense. Right, right, right. They're like, hi, we're legitimate business people.

Hey, we made it. Look at this place. Right, right, right. I mean, that's what it was just interesting. I was wearing like sweatpants walking through there. Were you asked to leave? No. No.

Yeah, they actually were like, here, we have a suit for you. Well, I've also traveled enough and i've i give an air of any any place i'm in i'm supposed to be there right oh yeah so they don't especially hotels of course comfortable in hotels so they don't act like you know if you don't act like you're not supposed to be there they can't say shit yeah so yeah i think the whole people are kind of uh a lot of uh people who were spending time in dc like with that maga crowd of saying like this scene's just different now man huh it's like it ain't the same yeah just like because you know they're we've we've constantly brought up

articles about like the the the the sad existence that trump supporters who work in dc have like going around like they can't date. Nobody wants to fuck them. Nobody wants to talk to them. Nobody wants to be seen with them. Yeah. So, I mean,

it is diminishing, right? Like, I mean, it just, when you look at even people who are willing to work for that administration, but there's a ton of fans, man.

Yeah. You know, when you're in DC, you still see those people who were just like, Oh wow. Where are you? Especially at the airport. It's a trip. still see those people who are just like, oh, wow, where are you? Especially at the airport, it's a trip. Really? Like, all the gift stores are just like, yeah, they got MAGA shit that you

can buy. The gift stores, dude? Oh, yeah. At the airport? Yeah. Are you fucking kidding me? You're in D.C. I don't give a shit. It's a capitalist enterprise. Well, there's blue and red. It's just, it's all of it. It's not just, it's not just, like, MAGA. It's just all of it. And it's wild when you're like, it's funny, I was just comparing it. I was in D.C.

like a few months ago leaving that out. I'm like, look at this bullshit in here. But I'm like, I get it. This is what we do. We sell shit to people who want it.

Well, most of that town, like half that town is a gift shop. Yeah, exactly. Right. And then comparatively,

Burbank, if you go to Burbank Airport, like the shit they sell and there's like CBD stands. Yeah, that's it. Well, that's everywhere.

Yeah, it's a gaffer area burger. Yeah, right. Yeah. Burbank Airport's the shit they sell and there's like cbd stands yeah well that's everywhere yeah it's a gaffer area burger yeah right yeah um burbank airports is shit yeah oh number one it really is stunning though because i mean they were allowed to like this was a place where he just did crime he was like yeah you can like come in and uh stay there and like foreign leaders would stay there and just like give him so much money just so that you know he would like them like he was a record label owner right exactly like Paola

yeah like where he's just like the Hyatt house is where all the fucking Yahoo stay yeah and we you deliver cokes on the fourth floor yeah meths on the fifth floor and the hookers are on the third floor right male or female because you know it's modern day It's power

And they were able to stake themselves Like millions of dollars up front With the inauguration Which is another thing That's being investigated For overpayments ProPublica did a great thing And they were like

This is wild How much were you charging? Yeah. How much were you paying yourself? And then the government's like, thanks. We'll take it from here. We'll get yelled at for acknowledging it. All right.

All right. Let's take one more break. We'll be right back. It was December 2019 when the story blew up. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, former Packers star Kabir Bajabiamila caught up in a bizarre situation. KGB explaining what he believes led to the arrest of his friends at a children's Christmas play. A family man, former NFL player, devout Christian, now cut off from his family and connected to a strange arrest. I am going to share my journey of how I went from Christianity to now a Hebrew Israelite.

I got swept up in Kabir's journey, but this was only the beginning. In a story about faith and football, the search for meaning away from the gridiron and the consequences for everyone involved. You mix homesteading with guns and church and then a little bit of the spice of conspiracy theories that we liked. Voila! You got straight away. I felt like I was living in North Korea, but worse, if that's possible. Listen to Spiraled on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. When you think of Mexican culture, you think of avocado, mariachi, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's storytelling. It's a dance. It's tradition. It's culture. This is Lucha Libre Behind the Mask, a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of Lucha Libre. And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, the emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar. Santos! Santos! Join me as we learn more about the history behind this spectacular sport from its inception in the United States to how it became a global symbol of Mexican culture, we'll learn more about some of the most iconic heroes in the ring.

This is Lucha Libre Behind the Mask. Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask as part of My Cultura Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. I'm Dr. Laurie Santos, host of the Happiness Lab podcast. As the U.S. elections approach, it can feel like we're angrier and more divided than ever. But in a new, hopeful season of my podcast, I'll share what the science really shows, that we're surprisingly more united than most people think. We all know something is wrong in our culture, in our politics, and that we need to do better and that we can surprisingly more united than most people think. We all know something is wrong in our culture, in our politics,

and that we need to do better and that we can do better. With the help of Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki. It's really tragic. If cynicism were a pill, it'd be a poison. We'll see that our fellow humans, even those we disagree with, are more generous than we assume. My assumption, my feeling, my hunch, is that a lot of us are actually looking for a way to disagree and still be in a relationship with each other. All that on the Happiness Lab.

Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm Renee Stubbs, and I'm obsessed with sports, especially tennis. On the Renee Stubbs Tennis Podcast, I get the chance to do what I love, talk about how tennis and other women's sports are growing and changing and what the future holds. I think I just genuinely loved what I did. I love this waking up, putting on my sports gear.

I still believe it was so rewarding. Maybe you can relate to it as well. As a woman, I think it's a very powerful feeling to have a job at which you're able to see improvements in real time. On the show, we dissect everything going on in the game straight from the biggest players in the world. Plus, serve up recaps of all the matches and headlines in the game, including a rundown of the US Open every Monday. Listen to the Renee Stubbs Tennis Podcast every Monday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One,

founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. And we're back. And real quick, something happened on The Bachelor two nights ago that everybody except Miles and I were talking about in the office today. I wasn't talking about it. You knew what everyone was talking about the second you walked in. Damn it. So they set one of the contestants up. you knew what everyone was talking about the second you walked in damn it so they set one of the contestants up on a date

with the bachelor which is Peter and he was with Victoria F and they were going on a date to a live show just for them I mean there was a big crowd there but the performer was a big crowd there, but the performer

was a country music singer who was her ex-boyfriend. The guy she broke up with to go on the show. It was just a mess. It was one of those things, you saw them walking, they're like, oh, you're hearing some music playing.

And it's a trope they do on that show. It's always the weirdest thing where they have some up-and-coming singer do, like, just sing to them, like, in this concert setting, but it's just them. It's always the weirdest shit. Or a crowd, but they're on some risers above the crowd. It was just funny. It was one of those things. So they knew in their head, they're like, oh, this is our thing.

We're going to, oh, I hope it's Brad Paisley or something. And we can make a mess. But when you see Victoria put together, she's hearing, they're like, oh, this is our thing. We're going to, oh, I hope it's Brad Paisley. And we can make a mess. But when you see Victoria put together, she's hearing, she's like, wait, I think this is my ex's motherfucking magic. The fucking life leaving her eyes. It made me uncomfortable. It wasn't like the kind of mess. Who is it? Yeah, and she's like, no, who is this?

Wait, who? What the fuck? She's like, it's my fucking ex. And people were like, ooh. Apparently the guy Chase Rice was not very happy about it. I wouldn't be either. Yeah. He just said he didn't want to be involved in the drama.

Right. But you signed up to sing on The Bachelor. Right. Knowing that your ex-girlfriend was on that season of The Bachelor. Did he know that yeah because that he i'll then fuck him she specifically said that uh he did not want her to go on the bachelor that was one of the things that she said he says well who knows he said he had no problem with her but he knew that she was gonna be on the show and flagged it to his team

quote i told my manager my publicist they were like don't even worry about that they're not but he knew that she was going to be on the show and flagged it to his team. Quote, I told my manager, my publicist, they were like, don't even worry about that. They're not going to do that to you. That's a weird coincidence. But they're not going to. There's no way they would do that to you. They've never brought somebody else in like that. Surprise the guest on the show.

Welcome to fucking reality television. Man, that is. And now that is a very calculated thing his team did to him. Right. And then now they're like, but look, Spotify's going nuts. Yeah. And he's like, son of a bitch. You never know.

Well, you can. I'm going to write a stupid song about it. You ever been on The Bachelor and then your ex-lady's there and your publicist lied yeah because that song from that thing country lyrics do get here's all my money and pussy uh all right well you can hear more about this on will you accept this rose the uh bachelor podcast oh yeah you know your country music is just they just say what happens right exactly yes that's all he's gonna do and all and all the Bachelor fans are going to be like, that's from the thing, remember? Right.

Here's $1.29. Oh, boy. Super producer Anna Hosnier literally just left to go record that show about what just happened. And then I wanted to talk about ES espn re-aired kobe's last game the night before last uh and i feel like everybody i i couldn't look away from it i watched the whole thing uh it was fun to i don't know it was kind of riveting because he was already being treated like he was going away and his family was courtside

and watching him perform beyond anyone's expectation they were just like you know it was pretty wild and like an almost perfect thing to watch to deal with you know the loss of somebody like if everyone who dies should have a night like this that's like shot from every ankle and can be watched putting uh their heart and spirit on the line and succeeding uh with their family there uh i don't know it was it was pretty cool i couldn't watch anything i still can't really yeah like i heard shack talk on his podcast and i was i, it was, he was, he's, he is so just sad and upset. His sister had just passed recently.

And then adding on top of this, like you could tell he has a lot of regret about him. Really. I don't think ever fully patching things up with Kobe. It's just, again, I mean, I fuck,

I talked to my dad for like 45 minutes yesterday. Yeah. We were just like, because it activates not even just him passing away. Like, you connect the Lakers. For some people, there's a lot of history between my father and I with the Lakers, and that brings shit up, brings mortality up. You know, we've had people pass him, our family recently. There's just all kinds of shit that things like this drum up for other people,

and sometimes it's not even to do specifically with that but it's still a very uh uh interesting time it's raw yeah yeah no it was it was fascinating to me because i wasn't necessarily a kobe fan and like i don't think celebrity deaths have always like moved me or anything like that um but like i didn't grow up here right so to see the city do what it did i was like oh that dude meant a lot to this place in a way i didn't understand and i don't think people outside the city understand yeah yeah like when he was retired i remember that being like just being like yall are going a little nuts over this motherfucker. Yeah, it happens. He's fine, all right?

Relax. But now, like, when he passed, I was like, oh. Like you said, it was like families and stuff. Like, you were like, oh, this is, like, so much deeper than. Yeah, because your memories are tied to, like, victory parades and things like that or winning championships or, like, buzzer beaters he's hit. And even when I was not

The biggest Kobe fan even as a Laker Fan just know like You would scream his name when he Because he would give you something to Yell about or feel good about as a sports Fan or whatever or as a Proud Angeleno and shit like that And yeah I mean I cheered hard

Against him yeah and I think that's A compliment now that you know as you As you get older, you realize, oh, that's because he's really good. Yeah. Yeah. And he knew that too, which is funny, like, because he loved hearing that shit. Yeah. Because he's like, let me fuck you.

Well, and that just feeds your hatred of somebody. It's like, I'm a Duke fan. Uh-huh. And so people hate that. Right, right, right. And that makes me like it a little bit. Yeah, yeah. You're a Kentucky fan.

I know that. No. I hate Kentucky. Oh, good. Oh, wow. Oh, right, right. And that makes me like it a little bit. Yeah, yeah. You're a Kentucky fan. I know that. No. I hate Kentucky. Oh, wow. Oh, good. Good. But I traveled with a band that all love Kentucky, and they hate Duke in this way that I don't understand.

I'm like, you guys let a pass that was like three-fourths of the court go. That's true, man. Like, so stop. Yeah. That's on us Should have guarded the inbounder It's crazy Who would have thought What we're talking about with Kobe

Goes to my tweet of the day Can I go to that? Yeah go for it It's just perfect It's from Matthew McConaughey Kobe reminded us all that we can work harder

get better do better be better our family prays for grace and courage to the Bright family and to others of those who moved on today

JK Livin JK Livin? he can't stop with the thing what is JK Livin? Just Keep Livin that's his the name of his production company.

Got it. But it also reads joke. It's great branding. Yeah, living. Yeah, just kidding. JK, I live in it. Just kidding, you shouldn't have died. Ha ha.

Wow. It's just so weird. So funny to me. It's just like a perfect McConaughey thing. We were like, that's beautiful. What? Then you branded it at the end? No.

Well, just at the end, you're just like, that's a perfect McConaughey thing. We're like, that is beautiful what then you branded it at the end no well just at the end you're just like that's a perfect mcconaughey thing we're like that is beautiful now i'm confused right it was also fun that everyone that one of the things you notice first of all like it was an incredible performance by kobe in his last game because you can tell like he athletically he's not there anymore yeah you can tell like it's the last game of the season. He's run down. But as the game goes on, people are like, I had a dream he was going to go for 50. Yeah, and it kept going. Yeah, and then it keeps going and going. And he starts hitting threes down at the point where he shouldn't even be able

to reach the rim. He's so tired and old and ends up scoring 60. But it was also noteworthy how bad the rest of the Lakers were. Like people on Twitter. I think it was a revelation to people just like taking a game out of time and looking back that Roy Hibbert was an NBA player. His name was trending. I love Roy Hibbert as a guy.

He's like a super sweet guy, but he is a 7'3 center who can't rebound. Honestly, I think Dr. Hibbert from The Simpsons would be better basketball player. It was brutal, man. Anyways, let's talk about Goop real quick. I tried to watch a little bit of the show. Anyways, let's talk about Goop real quick. Goop. I tried to watch a little bit of the show. Yeah. I watched about the first four minutes.

I didn't. And I was like, wait, this is genius. Gwyneth Paltrow got Netflix to pay for her and her staff to just do a bunch of shit. Yep. And they made it a show. Yep. I don't know what. And also, there's a card very explicit at the beginning. It's like, none of this shit is based in science.

So don't act like anything is real. Yeah, that's how it starts or ends or whatever. I think that every time you turn on the television, when you push on, it should be like, none of this shit is real. Just so you know. So stop acting like it's real. Read a goddamn book.

She recently has called her $75 vagina-scented candles punk rock. Yeah, yeah, $75 candles, so punk. So punk. Because so many, wait. Hold on, can I defend her on this one in a weird position? Go ahead, go ahead, please. Go ahead, please. There's nothing more punk rock and ballsy than making a candle that costs 35 fucking cents worth of wax at most.

Saying it smells like your vagina. And then charge a motherfucker 75 bucks. That is, I agree with her, that's some punk rock shit. I guess it would be punk if it were coming from a source that was a little more subversive than Gwyneth Paltrow being the main beneficiary. But from her world and the way she sees that as punk rock as hell, what she's done. Right. And I agree with her. I guess that is the equivalent of throwing a cup of piss across a crowded stadium.

And I don't like defending her. It's not easy. It's not easy. It is not easy. But people forget her mom is Blythe Danner, and her dad is a paltrow, which is a type of pelican. Wow. Her dad is a pelican? It's a very smart type of pelican.

Yeah. But he's still a bird. Yeah. And then her mom is Blythe Danner. That actually makes a lot of sense. She's doing really well, you guys. Elton John also announced that he bought a ton of

the vagina candles. We know he's into candles. He sings about those candles when celebrities die. Maybe all those candles smell like one of Peppertree's. Well, it seems to me I can smell your box like the candle in the wind. I think he gives it as a gag gift to all his gay friends.

Right. He's like, I bought you a pussy candle because you hate it. And in a way, because it's $75, that would be a gag gift. It's like, yo, fam, you gave me a $75 vagina candle? Yeah. Okay. Weird flex, but okay. He he's like you didn't go see my movie um but the real story is

the show which is now out uh and is just completely full of bullshit oh I was about to say what there are some what as is the want of goop there are some like really cool things that the show does like there's a whole episode about human sexuality and like people accepting the

vagina and their own vaginas and uh you know debunking myths about like how you need to do use special products to clean your vagina. No, you don't. Right, you don't. It's just a human body part. Three guys. Yeah, take it from us. You don't.

Don't need it. I have two at home. They clean themselves. But they have experts on sexual health who are like, yeah, no, that's... Right, because those are doctors. Right, they have doctors. Who have science-based degrees. On the other hand, they have a person by the name of

Wim Hof, who is known as the Iceman, because he's... Has he killed a bunch of people? Yeah, I was gonna say, he's a famous Richard Kuklinski hitman. But equally medically valid opinions. He says,

a cold shower a day keeps the doctor away, which isn't a thing. That's not. He's known as the Iceman because he can like- He means apples. God, he's dope. Right. Ah, shit.

You're right. It's apples. Like the whole cryotherapy thing is under a lot of scrutiny from the medical community. Well, yeah, you can say there could be benefits versus, hey, a cold shower a day, you'll be healthy forever. Right. And that's it. That's the maximum.

Nice and tidy. They advertise a diet that tricks your body into lowering your, quote, biological age. Using blood tests, they can tell you your biological age. That's not a thing. What? By any- Hell yeah. Yeah.

Hey, you eat these magic beans, you'll be 21 forever yeah biologically your blood they look like pinto beans i know i know what you're thinking and you still look like shit as hell and they're a hundred dollars a bag yeah uh they had a medical uh professional look at all the episodes They say the energy healing episode is ridiculous and baffling. At one point, one of the people who has like a Reiki, like energy healer pass their hands over their body. They say, I had an exorcism.

It could not get any goopier. Okay. Yeah. And then he has to live with that. Yeah. On the internet forever. Right. The video of him saying that.

Yeah. Yeah. It's such an odd mix of like, you know, on one hand, we're like, you're like, there's this part that's useful. Right. And then like, they'll follow it up with like, Gwyneth Paltrow eats 500 calories a day. Right. And that's why her blood is 13 years old.

And she's 1.7 years younger now. Right. That legitimately is something that happens. I think it was said out loud, right? 500 calories a day. She can drop her jaw down and eat fish whole. Right. She can store them in there and fly home.

And deliver babies. There's also a thing. That's a stork. Where they talk about how our body is filled with fascia, which is connective tissue that can bind up and store energy. Oh, no. No. No.

The energy flow formula can return the energy to a free-flowing state. We've already figured out what calories are. We know what that is. The doctor says, that's made up. I don't know what that means. Well, that's because you're looking at it through your very rigid Western lens. Looking at it with your smart brain. You need a dumb brain.

I mean, I will say, though, there is something to Eastern medicine at certain points that sort of don't jibe with Western medicine. Yes. But I think, yeah, going out there and being like, yo, man, I'm going to touch your back and, like, a fucking demon's going to come out your ass or some shit, and then you will forever be pain-free. That's when it gets hard. Or you could have a stroke if I do it wrong.

Or you will never walk again. Yeah, I mean, that's kind of the point the mix of pseudoscience and actual science is what is so dangerous because there you can point to the uh actual science and as like a reason that this should be believed but then there's bullshit pseudoscience mixed in there um you know uh that are you shouldn't it's like any rich white lady if you gave her a tv show right like if you took any rich white lady that lives in silver lake or santa monica and you were like show us what you do in a year it would be all this nonsense i just work on my inner peace that's my job just getting my inner peace right it would be like a lot of blankets that are mostly furry stuff yeah yeah

yeah mohair yes and then you know there's a lot of tesla driving i'm sure and it's better for the environment and then you go to these little shops that when you or i walk by them you're like what is that nonsense and they're like oh that $300,000, and they suck all your fear out of your nostrils. Yeah, with crystals. Oh. No sphere. No sphere. Anyways, a lot of outlets are pointing out.

I just wrote that down. Salon and Truth Digger have made the claim that this is what we have because we have a broken healthcare system. That absolutely makes sense. I don't know. It's just rich white ladies. It's not because we have a broken healthcare system. That absolutely makes sense. I don't know. It's just rich white ladies. It's not because we have a broken healthcare system. I know people who are not rich white ladies who are just as susceptible to like trash remedies that make no sense.

But that's why they made this show. Because they walk around and they're like, there's a lot of other white ladies like us. Well yeah, that narrow demographic for sure. I think there's a tremendous overlap. But they're also also you know i i hear all kinds of weird cures and shit that from people i'm like well it's yeah but yeah that is an interest i don't know if that's the cause but that's definitely that gives people a bit of a way to you know be like well i could go to the doctor and possibly look at medical bills that i don't know i can afford or i can roll the dice on

something that's a fraction of the cost. Well, the placebo effect is real. That's why we do that. And if a fucking crystal makes you feel like you feel better, do it. Now, if you've got 100 crystals that you carry around, that's another problem you probably need to work on. But I think there's a crystal for that. Yeah, there's one crystal to rule them all. There's one crystal to get rid of all your crystal yeah yeah uh well

that's gonna do it billy wayne it's been a pleasure it's always a pleasure you guys uh where can people find you follow you uh just google billy wayne davis twitter and instagram all that comes up um i'm going on tour hey soon bwdtour.com. The ones that are up right now, I'm going to Petaluma, California for Valentine's Day. Me and my wife will be there. All right. Doing a show together? Yes.

Nice. Yes. With another very funny couple, so look that up. And then I'll be in April. I'm doing a nice little Midwest run. I'm going to Wichita, Manhattan, Kansas, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City And then I'll be back in Seattle in April And

Some other stuff that I'm forgetting But it'll all be up there You managed to say that Without saying I'm going to Wichita Which I find impressive I just have been there so much That that is not the first thing I think of BTK Is that the first thing I think of.

BTK? Is that the first thing? Not even that. It's so much weirder than anyone could ever understand. And you already told us the tweet you've been enjoying. Anything else you want to share on social media? There's not, I mean... Yeah, I mean, not really, no. Okay.

Miles, where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also on my other podcast, 420 Day Fiance, where we talk about another messy, trash reality show, 90 Day Fiance. So check that out. They would never do anything as dishonorable as what we saw. No, they'll just, oh, man, it's even crazy. I haven't given it time. Oh, man. Really? Really'll just, oh man, it's even crazy.

I haven't given it time. Oh man. Really? I mean, look, if you got healthcare, you got health insurance, then you can watch it. Otherwise, it might be a risk to your health. The tweet I like is from Kate Jones. It says, straight women in lesbian bars

think everyone wants them when we're really just staring because we can't figure out whose ex you are. Boom. That's good. That's good. That is good. Phoebe Bridgers tweeted, I want to marry a man who is never on time so I can refer to him as my late husband.

That's really funny. I like words. Yeah. And then John Dyes at the end, Jason Pardin, wrote, Most Americans can't point to Ukraine on a map. Uh, quote. Yes, they could. Maps have the names printed right on the countries

because that's literally what a map is for. I'm not sure it even qualifies as a map if it doesn't have that. An unlabeled map is either a geography test or a prank. Uh, yes. It's funny. That was like kind of, is that in reference to the mike pompeo thing yeah because

yeah when this uh npr uh journalist had the audacity to ask him about ukraine he flipped i was like america's can't you can't even probably point to ukraine on the map yeah it's like yeah bring it over here right and pointed to it yeah and now has been removed from covering the state department because that's what's going on. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com,

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