The Daily Zeitgeist - GOP Bill Backfires? Bagel Bites Lies?! 5.5.21

Episode Date: May 5, 2021

In episode 902, Jack and Miles are joined by Gangster Party Line's Brent Weinbach to discuss a GOP bill backfiring, the James O'Keefe Project Veritas music video, Bagel Bites committing cheese fraud, and more!FOOTNOTES: WATCH: Dave Koz - You Make Me Smile (Beverly Hills 90210) Dave Koz Cruise Florida Republicans rushed to curb mail voting after Trump’s attacks on the practice. Now some fear it could lower GOP turnout. WATCH: Project Veritas - OLIGARCHY (Official Video) Lawsuit alleges cheese fraud in Bagel Bites Pizza Snacks LISTEN: Beyonce - Still Tippin x DIVA Queen Bey Only V1 (Smochi & Excez Edit) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Don't be stupid. Get the vaccine! Get the vaccine! Get the vaccine! Get the vaccine! I wanna eat corn publicly! But unless you get the vaccine. That's just for me, because I was just thinking about that song that was that dance hit, Call On Me. Call on me. And I do want to eat. I really, again, this has been a consistent dream of mine.

I just, I'm waiting for that day I can eat corn on the cob, mask off in a crowd. That's so specific. And I'm just feeling free, baby. Is there any particular corn on the cob like just like that comes out of a pot a boiling pot are you talking about like some of that good mexican street corn i'm in my mind i'm at a fair you know what i mean so whatever is there whatever they're cooking up there but yeah competitive is it competitive no no no no no it's just not okay it's just leisurely just something i was like, oh, look at this.

Oh, shit. They got the elote with the crushed up Takis on it. Okay. I get that. Okay. Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a fucking legend. He is A, the hilarious, the talented, the brilliant, Brent Weinbach!

Hey, hey, hey, hey. Thanks for having me. I wish I had a song sort of planned to do a parody lyrics to, you know, in relation to something. But you know what did come to mind when you were talking about Elote was I've been ordering food a lot during the quarantine, and I've been sort of exploring options that i normally wouldn't really explore and just to change things up and i ordered from california pizza kitchen a couple

times and they actually have really good elote that they have that they sell for real yeah i mean i liked it i don't know maybe as a connoisseur you might think it's not so good I'm not gonna say it but yeah I'll have some of the homies check it out if they're like oh this is some gavacha elote then I'll be like okay Miles has people for that to test out his elote well you know I just yeah I'm very insecure you know so I want to make sure it's the real thing yeah I mean you know what I don't even know I'm trying to remember if it actually come to think of it maybe it's not even proper I might be confusing it with a different place i did order a lote from but it's a corn salsa of sorts that i thought this is actually pretty it's a white corn salsa actually

and i thought this is actually pretty good and um and then i was thinking to myself that california pizza kitchen if i was going to sing along to going to sing that as a parody song, it would work for a Red Hot Chili Peppers song, probably. Okay. So something like California Pizza Kitchen. I'm surprised they haven't done that yet, in fact. Wow. California Pizza Kitchen.

And then, I mean, there's got to be some hit pizzas from cpk with peppers on them right that oh this can be a whole wave i think that that should be 20 years too late that's the future for red hot chili peppers is doing ads for um yeah or is it exactly on time for where their career is? This might be the moment. Oh, could you imagine? That's the next thing we see from the red hot chili peppers. What I got, I got to get it, put it in you.

And it's the Thai pizza is the thing that they got to get and put in you. Oh, I got to get to put it in you. The Thai barbecue. There you go. CPK, CPK, CPK now. oh I gotta get to put it in you the Thai barbecue yeah or something like that barbecue yeah CPK CPK CPK now CPK CPK CPK now

wow the whole catalog yeah CPTK CPTK CPTK whatever that means CP the K CP the K so California the pizza oh California the pizza kitchen you know CP the K. CP the K. CP the K. So California the pizza. Oh, California the pizza kitchen, you know? CP the K.

California pizza the kitchen. Yeah. CP the K. CP the K. Oh, yeah. CP the K. Yeah, CP the K. California pizza the kitchen.

Which is what the real heads call it. Actually, that kind of works, too, because California pizza the kitchen. Oh, shit. I mean, we all refer to it as the kitchen when we're telling our friends where to meet us. Right, exactly. At the kitchen, bruh. Yeah, bruh. Meet me at the kitchen.

Take me to the place I love. Take me to CPK. Oh, no. This could be the entire podcast, I feel like. Well, once you guys were both singing these songs, I thought, oh, what am I thinking about? Oh, what about, and then you mentioned corn. I thought about the corn that I got from the thing, and I thought, oh, yeah, the future of Brent Hodge's career. Sounds like you've been having a real corn-teen.

Exactly, yeah. Corn-teen, corn-teen. Cool. All right, Brent, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. But first, we are going to tell our listeners just a couple of the things we're talking about today. We're talking about the big lie, what that means now. We are going to talk about James O'Keefe and his new music video. We're going to talk about Bagel Bites, Getting Suit, all of that, plenty more.

But first, Brent, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I mean, let's see. Let me see. I mean, because sometimes it's just like addresses, and that's kind of boring, you know, just like looking up addresses. Okay, well, here's something that I looked up. Like, this is probably one of the most recent non, and I just, I don't know, non-addresses, I guess, is Dave Cause, 90210. Okay.

So I had seen this already in the past, but I was thinking about it recently. And you guys probably don't know who Dave Cause is, or do you? No. Dave Cause is a smooth jazz saxophonist. Okay. And his hit track is called You make me smile or something like that something about smile i think it's you make me smile and there's an episode of beverly hills 90210 where they on kelly's 21st birthday i didn't watch the show but i somebody brought this to my attention and it's so funny they go

to this Dave Coz concert for her birthday and these kids are 20 you know they're supposed to be 21 right whatever and they're going to the smooth jazz concert now look when I was in high school I liked smooth jazz myself but I was an anomaly you know they're all into it including Brian Austin Green's character and you know who was think, probably into hip-hop at the time. But they're all at this concert, and Dave Cause is, first of all, he's wearing these huge puffed-out pants. They look like hammer pants. And he's wearing this vest.

He looks kind of like a genie, almost, a smooth jazz genie. And he's playing the saxophone and kind of doing these funny kind of dance moves as he's playing the saxophone. And it's just funny to see all these young people at this show as if they would be into this and you know and right they're all in their early 20s and they're all kind of you know they're nodding their head do it and they're into it and it just i'm just wondering who which which producer was a smooth jazz fan and right this would be an accurate thing for kids to go to? Oh, this is gratuitous. I'm just watching this scene on mute.

It's like one of those things where in a movie where they somehow just brute force inserted a music performance. You're like, this is fucking up the whole flow of the film right now. But apparently y'all signed some fucked up contract which made you had someone had to sing a ballad right but ballad right now but it's like a two minute clip and they're just showing like the people on all the instruments jamming slapping on bass and then like yeah the young kids are like man this is that sound right it's so funny because they would never be at that show i mean mean, you know, I mean, I don't know. I mean, look, like I said, I'm in a smooth jazz. I was always in a smooth jazz, but that's, you know, these kids are not, they weren't like me, you know?

Brian Austin Green, I will give him credit. He does look a little bit checked out. No, no, look at him. He gets back into it, though. He seems checked out at first, and then he starts, then he. He's right back. I think he got inspired or something for a second, and his mind drifted, but then he gets back, and he's just like, it, though. He seems checked out at first, and then he starts... He's right back. I think he got inspired or something for a second, and his mind drifted, but then he gets back,

and he's just like, oh, yeah. The only one he does maybe seem not as into it is Dylan. He's maybe not into it, and then Jason Priestley's kind of looking at Kelly, looking at her, thinking, so do you like this? She's licking her lips looking at the stage. I mean, it's fucking hot. So one of the producers must have been friends with Dave Cause or something.

Yeah, right. I mean, that's such a such a thing that happens in shows about teenagers that are clearly written by, you know, people in their 40s. Their taste in culture is always very strange. I mean, imagine though, an alternate reality where smooth jazz was the dominant, most popular kind of music, you know, in, you know what I mean? For, for young people. That'd be interesting. Imagine if that was only a young person's thing. In fact, you know, a lot less fights in high school, you know?

Yeah. We're like, Oh oh you bumping that new pat metheny album yeah maybe different kind of fights yeah you know yeah yeah much more expressive i do wonder if dylan was because dylan was you know in his late 30s playing a you know 19 year old what like was he pretending was he the only one who was checked out because he was like aware of that and like yeah didn't want people to like couldn't couldn't be too into it or else it would like reveal his 45 year old heart he's kind of trying to be like a narc but i mean he's not he is a narc and he's trying to not reveal that he's a narc. Right, right, right, right. I mean, within the world of the show or whatever.

So he's over there kind of just maybe like really restraining himself from like really grooving to it, you know? Right. But he's like, if I get into this too much, I'm going to seem too young. Yeah. The cause. Still out here doing it. So, yeah, no, I thought, so that was something,

I mean, I'd seen that already but i was thinking about it recently and i thought what's up with that i want to watch that clip again i want to see or i want to know also what has and does anybody talk about this too does anyone i was wondering if anybody was noticed that and thought that was weird you know no right because like you look at that like on the youtube video of it there's two comments one is someone just being like talking about the storyline from 90210 um and then another person says wow dave plays alto saxophone but out comes a nice soprano saxophone um i think they're wrong about that though because i was looking i think i saw that comment too about this it looks like an alto it looks like an alto yeah i i was looking at I think I saw that comment too, but this, it looks like an Alto. It looks like an Alto.

Yeah. I was looking at that too. I said that that's not a soprano. It's much bigger, but Hey, you know what? Whatever. And I don't,

I have a feeling that when you have a band playing as themselves, the musician will probably bring his own instrument. Cause it's like a very fancy silver saxophone. Right. Oh, Dave. That's what Kenny G plays, right?

He plays soprano saxophone. oh dave that's what kenny g plays right he plays soprano saxophone yeah yeah i'm trying to think of like other examples where the age of the producers was like kind of sublimated onto the young characters and i was just and in congress with like what yeah completely like the fact that the like five to nine year olds in full house were really into the beach boys uh and like it was clearly just like a john stamos and the producers like uh pipe dream yeah yeah what are some other examples of that i'm just i wonder what the yeah that's kind of a funny thing to that's a funny subject you know like yeah people being into stuff that they shouldn't be into. Yeah.

I feel like early seasons of Buffy, the vampire slayer, some of the way that students talk, they talk like they're from the seventies suddenly. And I know it's like slightly campy, but this sounds like some old white dude just wrote all of this dialogue for this young teen girl. But it seems like the slang was probably the top,

like the thing that i most like tuned into i'm like yo nobody talks like that that age right but i don't know also you know there was a show i never watched this show it was kind of after my time but my brother my little brothers watched a show on nickelodeon called hey arnold and it was an you know show for kids i guess but there was jazz in that. I think smooth jazz, in fact. I think there was smooth jazz in that, too, I think. People are going to like in the way that a Mar what kids used to listen to even though it was completely made up for this

by like 40 something TV producers in the early 90s what is something you think is overrated? I would say that the word literally is overrated and no offense to anybody if any of you

say that word but it's a word that gets overused it gets used way more than it should and it to the point where i kind of think that the word needs to go completely even if it's used appropriately and again no offense to anybody who uses it but the reason it's an overrated word is because it's used now to as to emphasize things in a way that makes it's sort of this way that it sounds like people are trying to make something sound more important or interesting than it actually is and so it kind of whatever they're talking about becomes overrated because of using the word literally and and so it kind of whatever they're talking about becomes overrated because of using the word literally and and so yeah it sort of sounds pretentious i guess it's overrated literally let's get right i'm saying abolish it let's abolish the word oh wow you're out of it yeah

one of those words that like yeah i remember once like some older person was like did that literally happen and like i got real self-conscious i remember me like oh fuck right use that shit right and i didn't like getting like pwned by some old person so i was just like i'll use it like very scant but i still like to use it from time to time but that was my first introduction to being like fuck this is well i'm saying even if it's not it's now used even okay so sometimes people use it to mean figuratively but then sometimes it's used now it's now used even, okay, so sometimes people use it to mean figuratively, but then sometimes it's used, now, it's just used all the time,

even not, they use it in a way that it, it's not wrong to use it, but it's just used so much that it, there's no meaning, it has no meaning anymore. It's like the word like

or something like that. And it's just, but also, like I said, it's sort of like this emphasis word that it just makes it sound like what they're about to say that they're saying is more important.

It's just this way to make, try to make things sound more important, but it's not though, you know? And you know, it makes me cringe when I, I used it at one point before it became really popular in the last several years.

And, um, I used it in cases where, um, sorry, that's, they're doing something outside. Oh, that's you hammer?

Okay, yeah, no, all good. It'll be covered. It sounds like the ice blocks setting on the Casio keyboard to me. Oh, that's kind of cool. The ice block sound. Oh, that's cool. It's like the sound. You know that like, tss, tss.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, it's just, I used it in the context of where i was trying to differentiate between something that might be taken figuratively but then you know you're kind of saying oh it's actually really this but now when i hear recordings of that and that it makes me cringe and i think oh i i don't i wish i never i mean it's back it's back before it had become give me yeah but now it's it's become so widespread it's. It's actually more contagious and infectious than coronavirus, I feel like. And a bigger problem. Yeah, and a bigger issue.

I wish they got to start coming out with a vaccine for the word literally because people, they get addicted to using it, and they use it all the time. And people who didn't even use it a few years ago are using it now all the time and i think it's just i think it's just like the non-swearing version of just saying fucking before you're like he's a fucking asshole like he's a literal asshole or like totally literally i fucking hate this i literally hate this thing right like you know what i mean i think it's fucking for cowards i think that's what we've just realized and people start with it too they'll say you know it doesn't even you know it's just they'll say literally why is this doing this or whatever though it just they use it in these fucking why is this and you know and look granted i have been tried to become accepting of

the way that well this is just how language evolves and people you know this is just what people are doing but at the same time let's just cut it you know yeah let's just cut it huh look at you yeah when it becomes reflexive it's probably time to try to replace it with something more expressive and creative yeah let whatever you're talking about speak for itself right yeah you know like let the importance of it speak for itself and if it's not then you know do that work with your body language a lot of uh heavy pointing on the table in front of you and eyes wide open maybe yeah but it is this thing that kind of makes things sound overrated so it's kind of related to overratedness and that it's it's an overrater oh wow so you hear it it

immediately it like it doesn't get through your filter because you're like it was it was launched with literally yeah literal and now i realized it might not be that severe right it might not it might be overrated whatever they're saying it's an overrated right be weary when people do like it's literally the best show you've ever seen literally go then if you guys that does sound like the kind of suggestion i wouldn't take they're like oh you don't like that band they're literally the best band out right now i'm like well i don't know about that anyway but what and that's a little too aggressive on your end yeah any any statement that starts

with literally like question mark and then they say the thing that right yeah i had somebody say that about weed like homies like yo this is literally like the the this fucking pre-roll blah blah and i was and it wasn't right but it was only subjectively what if people start saying figuratively though too that'd be kind of interesting just to spend on it you know like well figuratively that's the best thing i've ever seen in my life it's about it's the best corn i've ever had in my life figuratively it's the best white corn and blue corn chips i've ever seen right i've ever tasted and seen and tasted figuratively figure what is uh what's something you think is underrated a lot of underrated stuff you know but probably uh video game music from the the third

and fourth generation of video games so mainly like the sort of mid to late 80s to early 90s to sort of touching on the mid 90s a little bit but yeah video game music up to 32 bit no beat before 30 16 max 16 bit max 16 bit max yeah So we're talking just Super Nintendo, Genesis, and also Nintendo and Sega Master System. Yeah. Some of the greatest, figuratively the greatest compositions ever composed. No, some of the greatest compositions ever composed

are pieces of video game music. Okay, so that's already kind of underrated. And then within that sort of world, maybe one of the most underrated composers is Junko Tamiya, who did the music to Gunsmoke and Street Fighter 2010 and Bionic Commando for Nintendo

and Little Nemo the Dream Master and Strider for Genesis and Arcade. And she's just brilliant. it's the capcom goat yeah she's one of the best her i mean the whole sound team actually i want to make a show out of this actually but it's just there's the whole sound team in the late 80s at capcom where they were all women in their early to mid-20s and um they were responsible for so many soundtracks that you that if you're around my age you were ingrained into your psyche and like the music to megaman the original megaman was by one of these women at capcom and street fighter 2 let's call it rock man you know out, out of respect. Right, Rockman, exactly.

Yeah, yeah, exactly, Rockman. By the way, you know why it was called Rockman? No. It was because there's two reasons. One, it was supposed to be kind of like rock music, you know? Like he's like rock music because his sister's name is Roll, and so it's like rock and roll. And then he had this also sort of brother named Proto Man, but in Japan he was called Blues Man.

So there was these genres of music were kind of involved in the game. But also because the way that when you, this is, sorry, this is getting so specific. I know this is- But I hear you, I'm Japanese, so we can go there. You can edit this out if you want, but it's the way that the game works

is when you beat a boss, you get their power and then you can use that power against another boss and beat the boss really easily. And it's kind of like playing rock scissors paper where you, you know, in the original one, there's a scissors kind of guy named cut man. And you can use that power against something else. And there's another guy who kind of resembles actually rocks it's guts, man. He's right. And you can use his power against scissors. It will beat scissors and and so forth but there's actually six different things and so you want to know which power will beat another boss easily so rock scissors paper that concept was part of it and that's why he's also called rock man yeah okay sorry i'm ever sorry for uh rochambeauing with

you i'm definitely uh not throwing the paper because you put scissors before paper when you describe it i've only heard it as rock paper scissors but you go rock scissors oh what did i say what do you wait what do you see here it is usually i always hear it as rock paper scissors and you said rock scissors paper so yeah i think i maybe say it like that yeah rock scissors i mean but i mean everybody everybody goes rock first though you know what i mean yeah remember rock live remember that show rock live oh hell yeah yeah he was also named after that he was named after that as well yeah the producers of that show were big mega man fans and then what something in america they're like

ah fuck it's called mega man they're just like fuck rock man yeah well and along with that the i don't know if you guys ever again getting too specific here, but the box art for the North American release compared to the Japanese release is so ridiculous. It's like some, isn't it like some fucking Flash Gordon type shit? Yeah, it's like, first of all, it looks like a real man. Yeah. Mega Man actually looks like a boy. And I've always kind of thought, oh, they call him Mega Man, but he's actually more of like a mega boy, you know? Yeah.

Or a rock boy. Mega adolescent. Right, right. Rock pubescent, you know? Right. But, you know, it's cartoony looking and kind of, you know, whatever. It's kind of based on Astro Man, actually, the design of Mega Man or the original Rock Man.

But then for the box art for North America it looks like a man you know it looks like a real man and he's not even wearing the right colors you know he's wearing a yellow kind of outfit and it's sort of just like what is this it's so weird I'm sure there's like a conversation where like the Famicom people and then like Nintendo America were like that ain't gonna work here okay they don't want little anime guys they want a muscular fucking freak with a blaster arm he's not even that uh he's not even that muscular he just looks like a regular man with just this yellow suit which is it's supposed to be blue and and he oh he's holding a gun also he's not oh that's right and he's not he's not he doesn't have an arm

cannon he's has a just a gun i just a handgun yeah yeah it really looks like the winner of like a seventh grade art competition it does it does not look like this is a professional work of art it's just funny because it's so it's just like the proportions are all here it's also though when you play the game the game you know the characters look like the way that the box art looks in japan you know which they're cartoony and you know look more anime-ish you know, the characters look like the way that the box art looks in Japan, you know, which they're cartoony and, you know, look more anime ish, you know?

And so it's, it's, it's almost as if the box art of the North American version is this, is the Dave cause of, you know, of the game in a way, you know what I mean? It's sort of incongruous with what the game should have.

Right. And some other person thought they knew better to be like no don't use that use this monstrosity right the kids love it that's so interesting about the team being an all women team i mean it was like oh i would say like half the composers the prominent composers at least in during this era were women but that might have been for not as cool of a reason as one might think i think it might it might have had to do with like pay wages and stuff and yeah japan is pretty misogynistic so it might it might have been that but then again some of the greatest compose video game composers are also male too but um a

lot were women though and it was a half of them you know i mean everywhere too it at uh konami there were some great female composers and nintendo had great female composers also just anyway it's great music underrated get into it is it like something about the fact that they were working with like a limited yeah uh palette absolutely 100 it created a new genre almost of music that working with those limitations or those restraints, I mean, sometimes some of these loops are 30, 45 seconds sometimes, and you hear this full sort of musical narrative expressed in the composition. And it's done with just sometimes just three voices. Right.

And sort of the interplay between the voices and just the harmonies, it's, it's, it's really dynamic music and it's done with just very limited means. It's, it's pretty cool. It's really amazing music, you know,

uh, that, that's more like the eight bit stuff, but in the 16 bit stuff too, which is, has, it's not as limited, still,

still amazing compositions, you know? Yeah. And very cool. And complex music, you know? and very cool and complex music you know nice uh all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about the big lie when you think of mexican culture you think of avocado, mariachi, delicious cuisine, and of course, lucha libre. It doesn't get more Mexican than this. Lucha libre is known globally because it is much more

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literally no evidence right figuratively yeah um but yeah voters you're gonna be thinking about there's zero evidence literally in a literal sense there's mathematically zero yeah evan mathematically impossible indubitably no evidence. So you can even say actually as an alternative, there's actually no evidence at all. Right. People might start getting annoyed by that. There's fucking no evidence. Yeah, exactly.

That's what I like. Yeah, take it back to that. But yeah, the voter suppression, it's all over the place because of Trump like insisting off of his own like fever dream that the election was stolen. Right. And yeah, Georgia is getting a lot of the shine. consisting off of his own like fever dream that the election was stolen. And yeah, George is getting a lot of the shine. But Ron DeSantis, he's like going all in. He's like, yeah, man, I get it. Because, you know, those mail-in ballots, they're all fucked up.

We got to do something about it. So he's basically setting the mail-in ballot procedure on fire in the state of Florida. His bill is equally shitty you know also barring people from giving like food or drink or water to people who are waiting out in the hot sun um and very you know it's transparently a voter suppression bill aimed at keeping people of color from voting but it's just so fucking poorly thought out that now we've entered like the comedy phase of what these republicans are trying to do because mail-in ballots, right? It's like, it was the star of the 2020 election, all this stuff where like, they were spiking. It's like, yeah, we got this. And then it's like, well, hold on.

We haven't counted the votes that were mailed in yet. And then it's the blue shift happened. And because of that, the Republicans are completely forgetting how much they rely on mail-in ballots themselves, just because of what happened in 2020. It's a huge part of wins for the Republicans in Florida. So right now, they're trying to be like, okay, we got to make sure no illegal voting is happening. So this Senate Bill 90 is going to require voters to reapply for mail-in ballots every two years rather than every four years as what the current law is. And it also prohibits drop boxes and things like that. But again, because this is a huge part of the strategy of Republicans in the state of Florida to use mail-in ballots, they were like,

a lot of other operatives like, no, no, no, don't do this. Don't do this. You can't make it harder for old people or the military to vote in florida because we need them to be able to just mail in their ballots whenever and there's one uh a consultant who was speaking on a condition of anonymity saying quote donald trump attempted to ruin a perfectly safe and trusted method of voting the main law that we pass when we pass election bills in florida is the law of unintended consequences so they are self-owning with this bill it turns out or like they're just as equally going to disenfranchise their voters because now they have to do a lot of work to the elderly in

florida to make sure they're all registered and then if they're like well i don't want to go out and physically vote they're like well fuck i guess you can't vote today but i mean i feel like anything that is getting in the way of pure democracy of like letting people vote is good for them just because they don't like they don't have the numbers so like any way they can mix it up like sure but here's the deal is though yeah black and brown voters are used to waiting in line for hours to exercise their democratic right to vote yeah old white people are not they are used to mailing in their ballots or all the elderly community in the senior citizens florida are not they're not built to stand no fucking line for a fucking three are you kidding me so that's where they're like a lot of these operatives and consultants are like no no this is such a bad idea like it it's a less work to know that these

people with the mail-in ballots are like reliably going to be conservatives and like letting that always factor into it but now it's just creating more work for them in terms of outreach you hate to see that you know absolutely they work so hard and then they just don't bother thinking thinking through how they're fucking things up yeah it's it's all stupid but you know something i was thinking about just now is we're talking about maga stuff what if some kind of younger people were trying to like get maga stuff going and they created a zine and it was you know about maga stuff and it would be called a magazine magazine and it was just you know they're kind of like distributing these little like you know

things about like what's what's in for like the maga culture and stuff and like which which smooth jazz artists that they're into and stuff at the time or whatever. Yeah, there's going to be the Niagara Rally. Yeah. Cause is opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers. Yeah, exactly. Like you guys eat at K. I mean, but has no one, I'm surprised that there hasn't been a magazine yet. You know, what's up? You know, when are they going to do that?

Well, this is a thing we always talk about, the crisis of like no creativity on the right. Like maybe, I think like Jonathan Schwarzwelder from the simpsons is probably like conservatives greatest contribution to comedy but like right now they can't even do those that's an easy pun right and they completely and i think because a zine is too like urban city things like well they can just not even make it a zine, but just make it a magazine. Just a regular magazine, too. If being an independent zine is too independent and urban, then just make it a regular magazine. Right. A magazine.

A magazine. Right. Has anyone ever made that pun yet or what? I think you got to mail that to yourself right now. Write it down. Get that locked in. Post it. I got to mail that to yourself right now. Yeah. Write it down. Get that locked in. Post it. I got to sell it to the,

I got to sell it to the, you know. I mean, we've always joked about just starting a consulting firm for conservatives who have just zero ideas and then like just charging them to hell for the worst ones. Obviously we're not going to do that, but it seems like it could be an easy grift to like be the smartest creative like in a neocon consulting firm like brent comes

through with like the best slogans for these attack ads it's unbelievable yeah we'll get we'll get red hot chili peppers to do the music yeah but they would turn them down you would come with the maga man poster that was like right you know a mega man there you go poster but then they just be like well we already have this one where trump's head is uh photoshopped onto rambo's body and we think that's sick so uh right get out of here with your mega man wordplay bullshit yeah wow that's that's actually that's a good idea actually you know you know it's mega man and it's like it's yeah it's trump it's a it's a sort of anime version of trump with uh any but instead of you know blue it's orange you know it's all orange he's wearing a whole orange outfit man we need to copyright this entire episode we've already got

this we're gonna mail this out just mail the episode to ourselves before Before we upload it, Justin, mail it to yourself. We got the CPK, RHP, RHCP, CPK. What would Trump have instead of an arm cannon? Or like for an arm cannon? He'd just shoot out a bunch of Diet Coke, I think. It was like so useless.

I was like, what the fuck was that for? Just doused the whole room with Diet Coke. RHCPK. Maybe he shoots out diplomas from... Did you say RHCPK? list and was like what the fuck was that for just doused the whole room with rhcp maybe he shoots out diplomas from uh do you say rhcp oh my god stop hey rhcp what rhcp trying to recreate the cnn goonies where he's like, Chester Copperpot. Chester Copperpot. You go, R-H-C-P-K. Very specific. Goonies.

I mean, I actually was just, you know, speaking of Google searches that were recent, I was just looking up the guy, but now I forgot his name, who was in, he's one of the Fratelli brothers in the Goonies, but he was also in the matrix you know because he was in something i saw recently oh i was i re-watched the fugitive recently um

and he was in that movie also wait joey pants joey pantalone yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly yeah also from uh sopranos oh is he in that too yeah and memento one of the greats isn't wow i didn't even realize that he was the younger brother in that. In the Fratellis? Yeah, of the Fratellis. I was overshadowed. In the frat. Yeah, in the frat.

He's one of the frat brothers. The frat brothers. And I just played the original, sorry to bring it back to this, but the original Goonies game on Famicom recently. Was that a good game? It's okay. Yeah. I mean, it's one of these, it's a mid-80s game

that's kind of cryptic and, you know, I don't know, there's a lot of secret stuff that would be hard to figure out on your own, but I did figure it out, so I guess it's doable. Is my memory right that they have the um giant octopus in the video game or like not in that one and i don't think in the other one in goonies 2 which is more people are familiar with that came out because goonies 1 didn't come out in north america but well at least on nintendo but so my my memory is not right. That's all.

But that giant octopus thing, though, that was in the TV broadcast. I don't know if anyone ever saw the TV broadcast of the Goonies. I mean, when you think about the amount of budget they must have spent setting that up, like getting all the effects for this giant octopus, that was like a set piece at the center of it. And then they were just like, oh, this doesn't work at all.'re just gonna cut it out and the movie is much better without it

i think that at the end when they're the kids are talking to their parents about what happened i think you can you hear data talking about the octopus yeah there's a giant octopus yeah something like that or he's saying that there was a there's a sea monster or something like that oh yeah that's right he does say and you know if you're listening you'd think what is he talking about i uh dramatic that movie was so influential on me that i spent a lot of my childhood crawling around in sewers oh really like what yeah we we had a creek that went by our house and then it connected off to all these drainage pipes and

storm drains and shit. But I mean, there were pipes coming in from all over the place. The sewer was not clean. My friends and I would crawl. It wasn't a lot going on in Dayton. Was there pool stuff in there?

I think there must have been. Oh my gosh. I think there must have been. Were there rats? No, no rats. And did you make friends with them like Ben? Yeah. Yeah.

We had a lot of frogs. Made friends with some frogs. Was there frogs in there? Yeah. Yeah. The way you said, I used to hang out in the sewers a lot. I just pictured you as a kid

like going up to a storm drain by a curb and like rolling into it. You're like, peace! And you're like, there goes Jack. But that's how it is in the movie Ben, by the way. You just kind of go roll into the sewer like that. Straight up. Yeah.

It was very much like Bane. Bane's hangout in Dark Knight Rises. Many multi-level. When you said you hang out in the sewers i imagined you to wear like a colored band around your sort of eyes but it's like cut it the eye there's holes cut for the eyes and then yeah for having a shell and eating pizza and california pizza kitchen right exactly yeah listening to red hot chili peppers i guess yeah checking out your magazines but uh i wanted to be data though i thought he was so cool in that movie. Oh, yeah. He was my favorite Goonie, and he was so cool with his gadgets and stuff.

And I don't know. I thought he was so cool. Yeah. Jonathan Kee Kwan was like the fucking goat Asian kid to want to be like back then. Because, yes, I'm Data or Short Round or whatever he's going to be in. And I was so obsessed with Jonathan Kee Kwan. My dad took a photo with him, and I took that shit to school to be like, yo,

my dad met Jonathan Kikwan and it's not even me. I did end up meeting him when I was a kid, almost lost my mind. But he was like 26 at the time. And it was like definitely a different vibe. If you're a Jonathan Kikwan fan, I want to say he's in a terrible martial arts film called Breathing Fire. And I've talked about this on another podcast because it's one of my favorite terrible movies.

And I'm pretty sure the whole thing's on YouTube or Amazon or one of those things. But it's about he's like this kid who is an orphan from the Vietnam War. And this guy who killed his mom, who was a Viet Cong sniper, brings him back to the United States and raises him as his own, like alongside his white child. And then Jonathan Kikwan realizes his like adoptive father is like a fucking just criminal, like robber dude. And like him and his brother try and stop some vague crime syndicate. And then they realize it's their dad. It is wild. And there's like karate tournament aspects to it oh hell yeah

and all kinds of problematic like late 80s early 90s you know shit but there's always ambient karate tournaments going on yeah i don't know how long you want to spend on kikwan but i he i met him kind of recently myself a couple years ago and i was just i i didn't realize it was him at first it was just you know i just he just seemed like a guy you know just like this random guy and then i was like he's but his voice sounds the same still actually right as a kid right i was saying wait that like his accent is still there and i was like that sounds familiar and i was and i realized is that data and i was you know and then anyway and then i was kind of introduced to him and it was him. And it was kind of crazy. I mean, it was the same kind of thing.

I mean, like I wanted to be him when I was younger. And then when I did, then I was talking to him about, you know, yeah, you know, Temple of Doom and stuff. And just, I don't know, it was a trip, you know, to just talk to, talk to him and stuff. And he's getting back into acting now too, by the way. Oh, nice. So you didn't realize it was him until a boxing glove came springing out of his coat until like a some teeth chomped onto my arm or whatever yeah yeah the uh he was like it was weird because they were a group of kids who had like normal kid abilities.

Like one of them was kind of chatty. One of them was one of them had asthma. And then he just had like straight up superpowers. He was like, man, he was just like the greatest fucking. That's my dad and Jonathan. Oh, wow. That is cool. I took that shit to school.

I was like, yeah. That's looking like almost like Encino Man days. Yeah, or it looks like a fucked up version of like a shelved version of Rush Hour that never came out. But yeah, it's definitely, they were homies for a moment. He looks like he's maybe head of the class. Head of the class. Another classic. Literally a classic. All right. let's take a quick break and we'll be right back

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released a music video where he's like dancing in a way that i think is meant to approximate like sexuality the whole thing as well because yeah the last time for listeners if you're not maybe okay like in the beginning of the obama administration he went after acorn and fucking plant parenthood plant parenthood and like did all these weird gotcha videos we talked about him a few years ago when roy moore was running for senate in alabama and all those young women were like or at the time they were saying like he was like uh like aggressive with me or had assaulted or whatever there were a lot of allegations against roy moore james o'keefe tried to if you remember he created he had some woman pretend that she also had an accusation against roy moore and tried to gotcha the washington post and they like reverse

set her up like on camera because they're like oh hell no this person's with project veritas and he went into the shadows and now he's back because he's been banned from twitter project veritas has been banned from twitter because just all disinformation so he goes to youtube because he's setting up a legal fund to help other grifters who he says have been defamed by the mainstream media or something to help them fight back against the defamation that's happening and And I guess to celebrate that, it's a parody of the Prince track Controversy, but it's called Oligarchy.

For some reason. I'm going to play the video. You can hear the music. It's really, really cool. And we'll talk about it on the other side. They sued the New York Times for defamation. Patrick Veritas just won a major victory in that case. I come to you and offer you $100 million,

and you're not going to sell? I would tell them to go to hell. I just can't believe that my face is on TV. I'm Lee Garkey, and my left and right, M-O-G-O-E. I'm Lee Garkey. Okay. okay so he likes to dance. Yeah. Is that James O'Keefe dancing? Yeah.

James O'Keefe is the main dude. Okay. He was shuffling in all that kind of shoes. It feels weird because it's so like masturbatory. Right. Like it doesn't make sense about for any of what, I don't know what his aims are at all. Well, maybe to dance.

Right, right. That's all it is. To me, I'm like, I think all well maybe to dance right right that's all it is that to me i'm like i think he just wanted to dance with other people like his whole grift has been about him getting a chance to dance on camera like he just wants to express himself through his body you know like there's like all this real dancers in the background like doing coordinated i don't know if you watch some of the choreography i wouldn't call that professional dancing although Although there were people like those people who are leaping in there and that was that was the most legit dance move in the video. and uh expensive and well not well but like uh preconceived than anything he's ever done right is this video right i guess because it's so confusing he's finally speaking through his language which isn't disinformation it turns out it's fucking dance like he looks so happy it's

weird it has that again. That's why I'm confused as to what the aims are of this, because it purely just feels like, thank God I can just dance to one of my favorite print songs. Hopefully just do a parody version of click, you know, claim fair use and put this out there so they can see. Funny that the whole song parody thing kind of came back around here to this,

you know, right. Started with that. And now it's this. I mean, we've always considered ourselves the poor man james o'keefe's of the of the left so absolutely and i mean yeah he's gonna be in an epic rap battles of history i think next up at this rate but what's wild though

after this though is a lot of the other weird right-wing grifters or mainly Jack Posobiec tweeted this, like retweeted the video. And then a ton of bots did, too. But like with all the same copy to like create this sort of perception of this groundswell where every like countless just fucking burner fake ass accounts just full on the exact same copy retweeted over and over and over again so it's got like so there's there's so many nice touches of grifting all over this uh release that you know it's just uh it's quite something else yeah there is a suspicious number of upvotes of thumbs ups on the on the video 51 000 thumbs up to just 494 thumbs downs. And the comments are glowing.

So I suspect the involvement of some bots, maybe. Or maybe I'm just jealous of his moves. Can you move like that? You gotta get back to the studio. I don't know. Yeah, yeah. You gotta start working on your body. I told you you gotta get on TikTok to get your footwork right, man.

There's also like some attempted nonchalance that he's like not pulling off at all. Like there's a lot of you can you can kind of see the counting going on in his head. And then like the fake smile like that's like kind of plastered on his face. I mean, like he's he's hitting the choreo but he has that panic and i know that inside of his mind is panicked when he's doing accounts like three and four five six and seven and like but i think he has to wear glasses because he has black shades on because his eyes are probably like this like wide open he's like one and two and three like just it's like oh shit put these glasses on james you

look a little uh bugged out it looks it looks like uh he was inspired by rick uh what's what's the texas former governor rick uh rick okasik rick okasik yeah uh one of those one of those conservative politicians who was on like dancing with the stars like that that looked like oh rick perry yeah yeah yeah well by the way way too cool a name for him rick perry but it's a cool name it is kind of cool though it does sound like a cool kind of it's like rick perry you know it sounds like luke perry it sounds like yeah kind of speaking of dylan and then also it sounds like Joe Perry kind of a little bit. Yeah.

And Rick is like such a bad name that it's kind of come around for me. Exactly. Rick is, well, but Rick is like a classic, I mean, like 80s guy name. Yeah, Dirtbag. 80s Dirtbag, Rick. Or Hero too sometimes. Well, you know, those can be the same thing know the same thing yeah exactly yeah in the 80s the dirtbags were heroes is the thing so that is something that like week is available to us

in in many iterations the conservative older dude like trying to dance like that's now a thing that is how old is the guy i think he's early 30s mid 30s i'd say okay i mean so he's kind of still young though yeah i mean i consider that to be but he has no swag so like he's he feels like he's 58 years old yeah he's 36 feels like feels like 50 i was assuming 50 because of what he looks like in this video but yeah that's yeah okay so he's a little younger but you know there's also like it feels like you're watching a video from an alternate universe where the nazis won world war ii right there's just a weird like i don't know the culture is all off a lot of like tight black swagless culture yeah they're still

they're still uh watching news on those old cathode ray tvs and they he has the uh classic scene where he hits hits them with a sledgehammer dude because i mean i mean look if he was really he would have smashed up a fucking OLED flat screen. But instead, I see you with those old CRT cathode ray tube TV. Man, you're not balling, James. Yeah. But those are so much easier to stack. I've got three of them.

Yeah, exactly. And you fuck them up on the daily. I got three cathode ray TVs. One 19-incher, one 27-incher, and one 36-inchercher oh shit with the with the built-in dvd vhs combo no no built-in no built-in no built-in combo no built-in combo no but uh you know looking good though i mean that 36 inches looking thick it looks good and it's cool i do this thing where i throw a balloon at it and it'll stick because of the stretch coming off the screen exactly they are so thick that's something that people probably don't they probably think oh they were just like you know a box or something this is like the most washed episode we've ever had

catholic tv would take up your whole fucking room dude this that one this 36 inch one that i have it was so so heavy and it was so hard to get up to the second floor of where in the building that i live in and i was like it took four of us to carry it up and it was just like so heavy i don't like gosh when i move it's gonna well you just leave it some strong well no well, no, I need some strong guys. I got to hire some strong guys to go, and girls, some strong guys, bodybuilders, to lift this thing. It's so heavy. It's crazy. And then you can make a video of your own, just strong guys lifting your big TV for you.

Cathode ray TVs. Yeah. Make it, yeah, to another Prince parody or something. Let's talk about what's in bagel bites i think we've been dancing around this long enough isn't bagel bites literally not mozzarella or not enough well that's the question that's the question right is enough yeah they advertise it as having mozzarella real mozzarella in it. It has like the real cheese seal on there too. And Wisconsin

has some questions. Because that's the cheese capital. That's the cheese state. They wear fucking cheese heads. I understand the energy that these people are coming with. Because yes, this woman is suing because I'm being misled around the mozzarella cheese.

Now, this person's lawsuit is saying that they're claiming, look, Wisconsin and federal regulations require any, quote, any purported mozzarella that contains added food starch in place of milk to be labeled as imitation mozzarella cheese. to be labeled as imitation mozzarella cheese. Now, what's happened now, before this, Heinz Kraft, the owner of Bagel Bites, said it's all good, really, because what we say is we do have some real mozzarella cheese, and we have some that is kind of that other one with the food starch. So what we call it is a cheese blend. And so we're okay with that because we're not saying, we don't have to say imitation because there is real shit.

So don't you back the fuck off. You still eating it. Aren't you stupid? So the lawsuit goes on and it just I love the way this is sort of worded. But essentially, this person is suing on behalf of anyone who bought bagel bites in Wisconsin. Okay, you are part of this class action lawsuit now. And they're all they're asking is like, just correct the packaging. You know what I mean?

And there's unspecified damages i don't know what what kind of swing you take when you're trying to sue heinz craft over bagel bites and what what are the damage i have unspecified so far yeah but i just want to read this quote from the lawsuit quote wisconsin consumers want real mozzarella mozzarella cheese and pizza because they one value its soft moist texture two it's milky yet tangy taste. And three, its high protein and relatively low calories and sodium compared to other cheeses. So this is a viral stunt by Big Mozzarella Cheese, it seems like. Big Mozzie.

Big Mozzie. Because she pulled up in that Mozzie, you know what I mean? I don't know. But it does seem to be part of like a, on one hand, I understand the cheese passion of the people of Wisconsin. But there's also this same lawyer who's filing this lawsuit is also representing someone that's suing an ice cream company for not using real vanilla flavoring. So this this this kind of falls in line even with like the Subway tuna thing, which, by the way, the tuna that was just nonsense. the subway tuna thing, which by the way,

the tuna, that was just nonsense. What? There was a, these people in Northern California sued subway because they claimed it wasn't tuna in the tuna. They're like, it's not tuna. And that's why we're suing.

It's a lie. But then like, if you like magazine outlets were like, let's just go get this DNA tested to see what the substance is. And people were like, yeah, this is tuna. But I don't know.

Like, I guess we haven't heard where that lawsuit has gone, but it got a lot of people to talk about it. But this seems like a thing where these are like sort of easy to win or like worth getting a settlement for because you're kind of being like, oh, shit. Okay, I'm going to hit them with the that's not real mozzarella cheese. And then they'll give me like a quick settlement.

And boom, boom, I've got me a, I got a new fucking charger or whatever. But then they do the DNA testing on the cheese and it turns out it's true mozzarella it turns out it's tuna right yeah and then we're all fucked up literally it's from sicily it's literally sicilian oh side note you know every time you're saying mozzarella cheese i just kept on thinking mozzarella cheese because there's this commercial that tommy davison was in for this um from a living color tommy davidson yeah tommy yeah living colors we're holding this episode down for people of the 80s and 90s go on man so you popped on your crt tv and he uh is it's he's the spokesperson for this item called the pizone

which is it's it for i guess it was maybe maybe it's pizza hut i don't know some pizza chain right and he said and and then he was he's like tantalizing topic he said at one point he goes mozzarella cheese and the way he says mozzarella it just sounds funny to me it says mozzarella instead of mozzarella cheese i mean it sounds like he's saying mozzarella at least because the balsam is the pizza you eat like a sandwich it's mozzarella cheese it sounds like he's saying mozzarella cheese he's getting queer he's speaking very quickly it's mozzarella cheese oh it's mozzarella cheese tantalizing toppings it's funny how those like weird words stick out in your mind from a commercialist from 19 years ago but it's still like i feel that way there's like things i can't

shake from my mind from yeah like like there's like a i'm stuck on band-aid brands there's like there's one there's like a four-year-old that says like band-aid brands doesn't actually say band-aid brands and i laughed like this kid's stupid get him off the fucking tv and i still think of that shit now so i see that pizza mozzarella sticks so hardcore yeah definitely gosh tons of stuff do we think the wisconsin's like i i had we had a house guest from wisconsin a couple years ago and they brought us cheese curds from wisconsin i had that one i had that once yeah and they were like good you know they were but they weren't like any i i'm just wondering if wisconsin's like cheese aficionado thing that they're going with here is overdone or if i just haven't had the right sampling of wisconsin cheese that like because i i'm a fan of all cheeses like

i feel like other states have kind of nailed the cheese thing to a certain degree dude this might be a case of like oh what's overrated is wisconsin the idea of wisconsin cheese you know right i'm also somebody who thinks craft singles are pretty good so i might be the wrong yeah don't don't if he ever invites you over for charcuterie be prepared to be very disappointed baloney and craft singles with ritz crackers but it's on a really nice style huh my boy you're just in italy man can't you relate i'm like what if it was all really nice meats and stuff though but just the cheese was just craft singles like you, what? What if it was all really nice meats and stuff though, but the cheese was just Kraft Singles though, you know? It was just everything

else is all really nice, you know? Like, bro, couldn't you have at least taken the plastic off of these and set them up nice? Oh, no, because then your fingerprints get embedded in the cheese slices and you could tell. So maybe Kraft Singles for you is underrated. Yeah, yeah.

I think and speak only in over and underrated that's how my brain works brent it's been such a pleasure having you man where can people uh find you and follow you i understand you have a new podcast coming out on this very network it is okay yes that is right on iheart radio there is a... It's not coming out, or it is in the midst of coming out, I guess. There's three episodes out. It's coming out every week. It's coming out, yeah. It's coming out currently, and there are three episodes out already, but it is based on this video that I made years ago called The Gangster Party Line. Gangsters call in and

the premise of the video was for was the gangsters can talk crap to each other there's a hotline gangsters can call to talk crap to each other and the number in the video is real and so um you know it's it was a google voice number and people still call that number to this day all the time and so this podcast is just random people calling in and then me and some comedian friends talking crap with these people i mean i don't really talk i'm not really a great crap talker myself but i like to watch you know right and uh i like to i like to yeah but yeah we get we have different comedian guests on and um some really good people calling in and talking crap. And the season finale is going to be cool.

It's going to be tournament champions. I've heard from Super Producer Anna Hosnia the actual energy that is put into figuring out, ranking these people on the merits is like a whole other Herculean effort. That's a whole, yeah, that was a whole thing, doing the lineups and the matchup for the brackets for for that but but yeah we the ones that are out right now we have frankie

quinones is a guest on on the first episode and uh and uh brian rebowers is in the newest episode that just came out so um that's it yeah gangster party line podcast it's called so yeah you can check that out as far as me i mean you know um it's brent weinbach on most stuff but brent weinbach comedy on instagram and and but on youtube that's where my main stuff is is brent weinbach is that's the youtube channel everybody needs to go right go there right now i have to say just to the listeners i like there's few times people come on like where jack and i like, know so much of the like the work that someone has done. But your videos are so fucking funny.

And I can't recommend enough because most of them you're not in. So people wouldn't realize you're making all these. And I'm like, sometimes I'll watch it. I'm like, I think Brent made this shit because it's so much. That happens so much where they get stolen, you know, and re-uploaded by people. And I'm not in them and there's no, like, association that I have with them anymore after they re-upload. And they end up, like, a lot of times they'll go viral without my, like, my upload won't be viral. But then their re-upload will.

On, like, Russian YouTube. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. Or just, like, weird random instagram accounts and stuff and and it's interesting that it's like it goes beyond me like it's like this thing that i made and it's like i'm not even connected to it anymore you know but yeah but yeah um check out the work it's fantastic yeah thanks and i do want to say gangster party line so fucking funny the like because a lot of these people are calling up just based on having seen

the viral video and the fact that you put a real number in the viral video and then they they just come up assume like not knowing what they're gonna get and some of them are so fucking good at just like the the woman who was like you sound like you're speaking with your whole body right oh right right right right yeah that's on the first episode, yeah. Devastating. Yeah. Anyways. Yeah, no, it's been fun, yeah. Get it on iHeartRadio app or you can, wherever you get

podcasts, Apple Music, wherever you get podcasts. Is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been doing? I wish I, I don't really re, like, check that stuff out that much. we can also just tell them miles and i can recommend a specific video from your youtube page but yeah well what's yeah let's yeah mention something i don't even know what i wish i could give people like what the fuck is

i know that i was i just don't don't really i don't really look at look at tweets and things that much no no, no worries. You got to keep your head in the game, baby. I'll say just go to Brent Weinbach's YouTube page. Okay. Because, I mean, it's, look, you can watch past guests Ryan Singer give birth. Okay? Well, yeah.

Actually, that for that, to see the full video of that, because even though that doesn't really violate guidelines, it really doesn't. There's a lot of reasons why it doesn't violate guidelines but what so that's the other thing about your videos some aren't on youtube right very censored ultimate drumming technique you got to find that one well you got to go to the website for that one just ultimate if you want to see the real the uncensored version the ultimate drumming technique nsfw nsfw yeah and so is kind of this one, but man gives birth. It's on Vimeo. If you want to see Ryan Singer

give birth, you got to go to my Vimeo channel, which is, you know, Vimeo.com slash Baron Weinbach. And you can see the full version of that. And gangster party line is, you know,

one of the first videos you see. Yeah. Yeah. That's on YouTube. And I have a good, there's a very good chance the listeners, you have seen this video because it was fucking epic when when that came like 20 was that 2013 14

they're 2013 yeah exactly yeah um but yeah that one that one's one of those ones that just got re-uploaded a bunch and stuff awesome miles where can people find you what's the tweet you've been enjoying twitter instagram at Miles of Grey, and also the other podcast, 420 Day Fiance. But check that out at twitch.tv slash 420 Day Fiance. Now, when I'm talking about some tweets I like, let's see. When you're talking about tweets you like. When we're talking tweets, man.

Let me hit you with one of these. Talking tweets. Carter're talking tweets, man. Let me hit you with one of these. Talking tweets. At Carter Hamley tweeted, every year I'm given no warning that the Kentucky Derby is happening. What if I wanted to go? I feel this. I'm like, oh shit, that's right. Oh shit, the Derby is happening.

In five minutes, the horses are leaving. Fuck. I guess next time. Keep forgetting to fucking write that down. And one more is from at please be nice, but G-N-E-I-S-S. It's like a quote of someone saying, we don't know

the long-term effects of the vaccine. And then in a parenthetical, get sunburned at the pool every weekend. Yeah. Well, I'll claim one of those, you know, so I can you know say oh yeah that one yeah that one's good oh yeah yeah oh that one right i was into that one at roast malone tweeted uh something that we were talking about in this episode she said tv shows

love to cast 29 year old men as high school students and 29 year old women as moms. The little piece of reporting from Megan K stack on the Gates divorce. She said, sometimes there's that one small detail about a famous person that sticks with you for years. And for me, it's been that Bill Gates negotiated into his marriage the right to take an annual beach house weekend with his ex-girlfriend what whatever that that guy was flying with epstein so like yeah can you really be surprised and then aaron that way that's for real like can that be backed up i believe so damn i mean what a fucking weird guy like to be like and i legally yeah yeah i'll do the ex-girlfriend smash annually people were asking that and uh she dug it up in the tweet right below it she said thanks for

digging this up so now i know this has been in the back of my mind for more than two decades uh that that piece of reporting was two decades old damn real was it what's the dude who made dilbert he's got similar vibes to to guy. Oh, yeah. Scott Adams. Yeah. Yeah. Just call him Dilbert. Yeah, Dilbert. 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, where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song we think you should go check out miles what piece of smooth jazz are you going to recommend to the people oh man god showing it i gotta i gotta think long and hard i mean i would i would probably pull up maybe some like japanese city pop or something uh but what i want to do is hit people with a remix look

still tipping and diva queen is beyonce and mike jones together and this one fucking really works well together it's by x says e x c e z it's only going to be on soundcloud but it's the it's the still tipping diva queen b only v1. And I know that doesn't make sense, but you'll have to check the footnotes for that link. And, you know, just bump that out of your car. Bang, bang. All right. On the smooth jazz tip, Super Producer Justin pointed out in the chat, there's a Dave Cause cruise in Europe that we will be linking off to.

So you can sign up for that. That we will all be going on at one point. Yeah. So we'll add that to the footnotes. We just invade some other guy's thing and call it the Daily Zeitgeist Cruise. No, we're not here for Dave Kaws.

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