The Daily Zeitgeist - Grift-eth Paltrow, Disaster Dogwhistles 9.13.18

Episode Date: September 13, 2018

In episode 231, Jack and Miles are joined by Culture King podcast's co-host Edgar Momplaisir to discuss Hurricane Florence updates, the Trump Administration's transferring al to of money from FEMA to ICE to detain immigrants, Paul Manafort's possible plea deals, new Trump documentaries coming out soon, Norm MacDonald's thoughts on Louis CK and Roseanne, comparisons between Trump and Gwyneth Paltrow and her wellness site Goop, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. Hurricane Florence Live Updates: 3 Million Could Lose Power When Storm Hits2. Trump Administration Transferred $9.8 Million From FEMA To ICE3. Manafort in talks with prosecutors about possible plea, according to people familiar with the discussions4. What’s the Deal With All the New Trump Documentaries?5. Michael Moore Thinks That Gwen Stefani is the Reason Why Trump Ran For Office6. Sundance Film Review: ‘Our New President’7. WATCH: Our New President Trailer8. Norm Macdonald Won’t Go Pundit on His Netflix Talk Show9. No, Gwyneth Paltrow, women should not put jade eggs in their vaginas, gynecologist says10. Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop touted the ‘benefits’ of putting a jade egg in your vagina. Now it must pay.11. Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop pays $145,000 in vaginal egg lawsuit12. Is Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop pseudoscience winning?13. Wearable Stickers that Promote Healing (Really!)14. NASA Calls Bullshit on Goop's $120 'Bio-Frequency Healing' Sticker Packs [Updated]15. What Donald Trump and Gwyneth Paltrow have in common16. Gwyneth Paltrow Thinks the Election Result Is ‘Exciting’17. WATCH: KELELA -The High Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet. Welcome to season 48, episode 4 of The Daily Zeitgeist. For Thursday, September 13th, 2018. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jack O'Brien. Daily Zeitgeist. That did not work out as well.

Yeah. That was Radiohead, in case you couldn't tell. Radiohead. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! As I can see clearly now, the grain has gone. Sightgang sees all obstacles

in our way. It's gonna be a miles, miles, miles, sun, sunshiny gray. Okay, thank you to Wilbo Baggins88 on Instagram. Pond Instagram. My man's down in Australia for everybody out there. Yeah, he's been hitting me up with that one, I think, just recently.

And you know what? He made it in. So congrats and thank you. And thank you, Miles, for saying everything in its right place. Thank you for burning me on that big day. This morning. Yeah, for us. No, for saying everything is radiohead in the office, everything in its right place. That's right.

For people who don't know, we thought the door was unlocked, and I said, don't worry, everything's radiohead because everything is in its right place. Yeah. It's like Cockney rhyming slang. It's like douchey sophomore year college guy who you don't want to be near. Everything's radio head up in here. Everything's Tom York, dude. What?

It's okay, computer. Okay. And we're thrilled to have in our third seat, you know him from Culture Kings, from Arcade Currency. You know him as the skinny dude on Mount Zeitmore. Welcome back. After a long absence, Mr. Edgar Montplaisir. Oingo fucking

Boingo. Baby. Wanda. Shout out to the low energy mob family. Shout out to the Sprite gang. Rise up, children. Obey your motherfucking thirst. Obey that fucking thirst. Hey, have you had the Sprite remix that they brought back at McDonald's? I'm on a diet right now, but I have had it. You are? Sprite mix. Yeah, yeah. Well, back in the day, they used to bottle it. Sprite gang. Hey, have you had the new Sprite remix that they brought back at McDonald's? I'm on a diet right now, but I have had it.

You are? Sprite mix. Yeah, yeah. Well, back in the day, they used to bottle it called Sprite remix. They used to call it Sprite remix. And I only used to sip my lean with that. Another thing I want to bring up. We were just talking about you because we were talking about iOS, and that was the first

time I'd ever seen you perform there with Arcade Currency. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everything comes full circle. There was like four people in that audience. And I was two and three. Yeah, you were. Because I was sitting real flagrant on two chairs like that. We have a joke of like, you know, because I think we're a pretty good team,

but we're just like, we have never, ever done a good show at Iowa West. We have like an 0 for 20 record there. Every time we perform there, we've bombed horribly. Well, Iowa West is Improv Olympics West, correct? There's a theater shut down the past year that is on the same street as a place. Let's just cut all of that out.

We don't need motherfuckers pulling up anywhere near here. IO West is a theater that started in Chicago. Where we will all be come late November early December. That's true. Culture Kings, y'all have the live show Thursday, November 29th. That is true. And then come through for December 1st, I think.

Saturday, December 1st for Daily Zeitgeist live show. You know. Live show. Live show. We have some wild things planned for it. Uh-oh. Yeah. Us too.

I'm going to get arrested. Today. Edgar, we're going to get to know you even better. But first, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're going to be talking about today. We're going to be talking about Florence and some weird racist shit that pops up every time a hurricane is bearing down in the media and social media. We're going to talk about the fact that Paul Manafort, P. Diddy, might be taking a plea deal. And we're going to tell you to get your fucking flu shot, people, among other more fun things. But first, Edgar, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

I googled Fisk walkthrough. And I look okay. First for the Spider-Man game? Listen, okay. You talking about the first motherfucking boss? I didn't understand how to get rid of the turrets, all right? The turrets, I was like, wait, how do I do this? Okay, hold on.

Let everybody know. We just jumped into this conversation. So if people don't know, there was a Spider-Man game that just came out on PlayStation last week, and most people who play games are fucking just non non-stop playing it. Myself included. Yeah, myself also included. So you searched Fisk, how to beat Fisk. I didn't know. Just the turrets. Oh, got you. This is like one

of the first encounters in the game. The first ten minutes of the game. This is like googling how to kill those two mushrooms at the beginning of Super Mario Bros. That's truly what it was. Over them? I keep running into them. What's the secret? I just didn't know how to get rid of it. Look, I was talking about this with Sam Richardson.

Name drop. I think that video games now are too assuming that you know what the fuck is up and how to fucking play them. They really are just like, yo, go in there. You already know how to do this. Fortnite, I remember I had to Google how to play because there was no tutorial or anything in the game.

Well, that's how we're just showing our oldness. Yeah, of course. Yeah. I don't disagree with that. But I literally have to go, all right, how the fuck do I do this? Right, right, right. So there's an assumption you're going to be Googling it and, like, doing the walkthrough. Well, there's a whole industry for people like us to be like, how do I beat this fucking dude?

And then there's a 10-minute YouTube video that shows you, like, there we go. Now I know how to beat a brute. Yeah, exactly. Gotta web the shit out of them. You gotta web the shit out of them. Knock them down, maybe do a little swing kick, you know what I mean, against the wall.

If someone's holding a weapon, you have to airstrike them and fight them in the air. I always fight them in the air. You always take it to the air, especially when there's like 40 fucking dudes. You don't get punched in the back of your head. Take it to the sky. I always fight him in the air. You always take it to the air, especially when there's like 40 fucking dudes. You don't get punched in the back of your head. Yeah.

Take it to the sky. I'm learning that slowly. You got to slide under somebody with a shield and get them in the back. Also, just listeners who figured this out on your own

and didn't need to Google it, Edgar doesn't need to hear that. Like, it's all right. You don't need to tell us how good you are at video games. I mean, tell me how good you are at video games. I'll just remind you

that I'm living my best fucking life. I know. I was thinking, imagine this Twitch stream, me being high and playing Spider-Man because if you want to watch me

just swing around for 40 minutes straight doing nothing, I'd be like, ah! Just going, wee! Yeah, I would just go up to the tallest building and I'm just like,

yo, back flipping off this shit. I mean, that's why I don't do Twitch or anything like that because it would just be people being like, why did you walk in there against 40 people

with no plan? Like, you could have stealth killed people and all that stuff. I'm like, no, let's go. That's where I would be like, yo, don't come for, like, good video game play. No. Come for me screaming while I play. Yeah. A la, like, what I grew up as a kid watching someone else's older brother,

and they'd be showing off. Like, yeah, do that, do that. You're like, oh, this is cool. I finally put it together with, like, why Twitch? You know, because now they have that older brother in their room. Exactly. So come watch if you want to see me have a panic attack after losing to the New Orleans Pelicans. That's a thing that happened to me last week.

On 2K? Yeah, at 2 in the morning. I had, like, this. Because I'm playing my GM, and it's real. It's so, like, legit. And the owner came into my office and said, Edgar, promise me that we're going to turn this nine-game winning streak into a ten-game winning streak. And if you do, there's a bonus in it for you.

And I said, bet. I got this. And then fucking whatever that point guard's name is on the Pelicans just hit a three at the end. I was up one, and he just hit a three with the buzzer and won that shit, and I lost my winning streak, and I had a panic attack at three in the morning. Maybe this is a new podcast we could have where people talk about their game-based anxiety as if it is real life.

Yeah, no. And I'm like, today I have GM Edgar Montplaisir in and he's going to tell me about a little thing that happened with him. Drew Holiday? Drew Holiday. Fucking trash, man. You got to cover him. He's got a good...

I didn't know. I let him loose. I let him loose and he fucking hit that three. He had like 30 points in that game because I just kept underestimating him. I'll just tell you now, I wouldn't have let that happen. What do you think is something that's overrated? Overrated? Man, y'all are not going to like this, or some people aren't going to like this.

I think articles about comedy have gone too far. They're just overrated now, and I'm specifically referring to that post-comedy article that Vulture Comedy did. And I want to be clear, I'm a comedy nerd. I love breakdowns about comedy. I have fucked with Splitsider from the beginning, now Vulture Comedy. Oh, that became Vulture Comedy now? Yeah. Ah.

Wasn't it Adam Frucci started that? I don't know. I think he's like a New York UCB guy. Probably, probably. I mean, he's probably rolling in dough now. He was in a fucking American Express commercial, I remember. I was like, what the fuck, man? I mean, a digital ad.

Okay, well, then that's not Moose. Not a national. They bought him out with $1,000. But, like, there's these people. It's true. It's true. $1,000. That's what it is for digital.

It's a buyout. They're not gonna give you no residuals bad times for websites definitely is but like that article was trying to be out here

being like comedies don't have to be funny anymore and I have a problem with that take I mean I have a problem with people critiquing comedy in this way

in general but I have a problem with that take because it's talking about like Atlanta isn't a funny show that's one of the funniest fucking shows in the world like it's so hilarious and to me if you're watching it and not laughing

it's because you're a white person brand new to that kind of experience okay and you're just like oh what cops treating black people bad i feel bad they're like is this a drama yeah but it's like to black people i think and people of color in general they're watching the show and they're like having like a relief A little catharsis. I do feel like the last season of Atlanta, as the white guy in the room, I would like to stand up. I would have voted for Obama a third term. No, but two of the most acclaimed episodes this past season were- Barbershop and Teddy Perkins.

Right. Woods was also- Woods was also very was also acclaimed and now that one was just kind of scary woods is very scary teddy perkins is very scary but teddy perkins and barbershop are the two episodes that are nominated right for an emmy for writing and barbershop is one of the funniest yeah barbershop is funny as fuck i mean that's so that bibby is like that's how that's. I agree with you that there's very dramatic moments in it. But this idea that Atlanta isn't bound by being funny is like, shut the fuck up. And then people taking these articles seriously also bums.

I just think the whole thing is overrated. Like, let's let that blogger say whatever they want. Let's not treat it like law. Yeah, they're not redefining anything. No. And like, let's leave them the fuck alone. Let that blogger say whatever they want. And let's stop everyone retweeting it and having a take.

The digital pitchforkery is at peak level right now. Super peak. Super peak to now, we're asking Norm MacDonald what he thinks about things. I really don't care. That's the last man. He tells jokes in at least 20,000 words. That's not someone who I'm expecting a very intelligent take about anything. I'm not surprised that he said something fucking stupid.

No, I'm not either. So let's stop looking at these people for, like, I don't know. That's overrated is, like, taking comedy too seriously. Oh, and your response is a lot to seeing, like, how other people have just taken these articles and been like, what the fuck is this? Yeah, and it's just like, man, it's a blogger.

This person probably doesn't even do comedy. They just write about it. Like, let me see his name uh jesse davis david fox uh what is something you think is underrated the original nike equality ad all right everybody's hopping wait which one everybody's just showed me the other one i just showed you the original oh the original that came out before the col Colin Kaepernick one? Yeah, that was like last year, during last year's finals. Oh, I thought this was new. And listen, I get it. Everybody's all hyped. Colin Kaepernick is making money.

Yeah. That's great. But I think that Nike has been on this equality trip for a while. Oh, they always have, yeah. We should give them their due on this amazing Nike ad. I mean, you got Alicia Keys playing some Sam Cooke. So beautiful. It's in beautiful black and white.

I think, Miles, you pointed out that they crushed those blacks to give LeBron a fresh hairline. That hairline is unimpeachable. I mean, you got Kevin Durant. They have a Nike hijab in it. I mean, it's a fucking great commercial. The commercial is interesting, yeah, because it's all about sort of them painting sports courts or the lines for a court, a tennis, basketball, race, you know, like whatever, track, all over, you know,

urban areas and just in the city to show that, like, yeah, if you can be equals and coexist in harmony on the court, why can't we do that on the court of life? Exactly. So, yeah, the sentiment, yeah, I think I totally understand. But, yeah, something about the Colin Kaepernick one, I was just like, I was feeling a lot. I mean, it came out at such a politically charged moment. Yeah.

And I think we saw the picture first, and everyone was just like, fuck that, fuck that, fuck that. So that when the ad came out, everyone was like, oh, hell yeah. Although I think I like the Serena with her dad one actually the best. That one really got me. I like the Serena with her dad one actually the best. That one really got me. I'm like, I love seeing really great people at a very young age.

It's always nice to see where they started or just that mentality and just like, damn, and you did it. There was another one with the kid. Was it Seth Curry? There was one with Seth Curry as a kid. Seth Curry? No, definitely not Seth. Seth Green. It was one like Seth Curry watching his dad. Seth Curry? No, definitely not Seth. Seth Green. It was one like Seth Curry watching

his dad play or something like that. And he's like, that's going to be me someday. I think there's one like that too with Seth. Right, right. Shout out to North Carolina again.

Didn't Del Curry play for the Hornets? Yeah, yeah. And he, Steph grew up in the Carolinas. Yeah. Yeah, he did. And he was not heavily recruited coming out of high school. No, he was not And he was not heavily recruited coming out of high school.

No, he was not. No. He'd let everybody know that one tournament. That's when I was like, who is this? And everyone was like, Del Curry's kid? And then the NBA was like, still didn't pick him first. All right, string boy. Yeah, Nike is in the just nonstop giving me chills business, basically.

It's because those jackets are real thin though. Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Why would you think I was talking about that? It's just our air conditioning. Always complain about their windbreakers. There's also that Mexican ad we were watching. Oh, from Nike Mexico? Yeah.

The ladies. Yeah, it ends with the greatest shot in the history of advertising. I think just advertising in general. I talk about the fact that when I was growing up, selling out was seen as a bad thing, with the greatest shot in the history of advertising. I think just advertising in general. I talk about the fact that when I was growing up, selling out was seen as a bad thing, and now that's not the case, but I think it's just because they have so much money,

they can just give all the good artists all the money until they're just like, I don't know. I've been worn down by all the good advertising and shit. Guys, I have to stop this. What? I have to give you guys some breaking news i gotta announce it first here i gotta shout out this person anna selena's just got her first writing job yeah so i gotta shout out

that's awesome just texted me i had to shout her out oh dope I don't know a person who works harder yeah than Anna Salinas that you're queen oh my queen you're empress you're goddess I mean a lot of those things

yes can you reveal where the the gig is I cannot reveal where the gig is I cannot reveal only because I don't know

oh you don't so I'll text y'all oh she just went like hey I got a job well I know that she was going out for him but I don't really know all the you don't? So I'll text y'all. Oh, she just went like, hey, I got a job. Well, I know that she was going out for him, but I don't really know all the details yet. There you go. Okay, okay, okay. Hey, we like to see people get their shine.

Yeah. Yeah, amazing. Fucking tight, you know what I'm saying? Fucking tight. So now she's going to flex on you. Yeah, now she's going to, because I was flexing a little bit when I came back from New York. Yeah, you had your writing gig. She was like, hey, can I get some notes on this?

And I'll tell her a note. And she was like, well, I don't know if that works. I'm like, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, what show have you written? And now she's going to be like, oh, so you're going to stay home today playing Spider-Man? I'm going to get this fucking money. Oh, man. All right, Peter.

Yeah, all right, Peter. I'll see you later. I'm smoking that MJ, Peter. Yeah, that's where you were, by the way. That's why you weren't on for a while. Yeah, I was in New York writing on a show. I can't talk about that show either. Because these are all lies.

They're all lies to make ourselves feel better. Well, it's this weird thing that's happening right now in comedy. I mean, in television writing in general, where they're doing this thing where, I mean, this is about to get very nerdy. I apologize. But television networks were realizing that they were like, oh, we're going to buy a pilot for a show. Right. And then they buy the pilot because they like the pilot a lot. But then the season will come out and the show was completely different.

And they would be mad as fuck. And they'd be like, yo, what is this? Isn't the show that we bought or whatever. And the show would fail. So now what they're doing is they're paying these showrunners and production companies to write out the whole season. God. And then pick that up. Like have scripts for every episode.

Absolutely. No like show bibles and nothing at all. Just like the whole season yeah and then like that every episode absolutely no like show Bibles nothing all that just like the whole I want to see the whole first season and how it plays out and how to cover that cost is the room is a lot smaller so they're calling us things mini rooms I think was it variety did an article about it someone did an article about it recently that was really interesting and when I was reading I was like oh shit that's a situation that I'm in right now. so what it is was a network, Comedy Central,

was like, okay, we know that we like the pilot of this and they basically paid us for 13 weeks. I was only there for a month, but they paid the whole room

13 weeks to write out the whole season. Now they have it and then they're going to see whether we can pick it up. It is unit, which is why I was only there for a month. If I was there for any amount longer,

they would have had to pay me the full 13 weeks. We know how we don't like to pay people. Speaking of corporations paying for the best talent, that's awesome. People feel good about mini rooms. People also feel bad about mini rooms because the good thing is you're getting like you can get work really quickly and right like that and like you're getting to see the whole

show play out the bad thing is though like when you're committed to that 13 weeks wherever that 13 weeks may fall right it can fuck you out of other jobs right like that because like you know I mean and it's a lack of consistency because like you know the room that Carl's a lack of consistency because like you know the room that carl's in is going on for months right like he's gonna be in that shit until like february maybe or something like that versus like you know you do this quick room and then you're out and you're like shit like i need to find another job but i can't because when everyone was hiring i was in this room yep aha what's a myth by the way oh man oh i have this myth i have this myth i was thinking about it on the way here i think it's oh i'm probably someone talked about this but i saw j cole talk

about this and the myth is overnight north carolina heavy fucking day absolutely uh is a overnight celebrity uh-huh this idea that somebody just instantly got somewhere. And I've been seeing this take a lot on Twitter lately because, like, you know, people now shows announce someone getting something. The first time I ever saw it was with Larry Wilmore when Larry Wilmore got on The Nightly Show. But he's been fucking. And that's what I'm saying. But people are just like, wow, it's really cool for Comedy Central to give a shout out to this unknown. It's like, this nigga's not unknown. This man created the Bernie Mac show.

This man has been around since the beginning. He was one of the consultants that helped make The Office The Office. This idea that someone just showed up out of nowhere really pisses me the fuck off. I've heard certain people be like, oh, it's nice that they let that person get a shot. It's like, no, they didn't let them get a shot. Right. They earned that shit. I would say the Cash Me Outside girl is an overnight celebrity.

Nah, she worked her ass. You said she's been in these fucking streets being problematic all these years. She's been in these streets being problematic, and that shit finally paid off, Miles. Don't erase her work. She's been yelling at her mom for years, and finally that moment came out, and then she became big. Right. But everyone seems like they came out of nowhere to someone.

Yes. And for the most part, when you're telling the story to a mainstream audience, most people are going to seem like they came out of nowhere because they're not following these people's careers. But yeah, it is incredibly misleading because these are people who have just been grinding in careers that were not going nowhere, but they were grinding out a regular career, and then they kind of broke through. It's not like a thing where it's just some dude on the street. Exactly. I saw people being like that with Megan Amram when she didn't win.

They were just like, well, you know, she's fresh and just started. It's crazy for her to think that she could have won it's just like nigga she's been writing forever like you know what I mean like yeah this is her first project where she's the face of it but like she's a heavy hitter she's like a very fucking funny person so fucking funny and like you're ridiculous to be like

oh well you know she like to think that she could have won it's like shut the fuck up that's just hater rationale hater hater rationale. Hater, hater rationale. People work hard. And then there are people who work their whole lives and it doesn't like pay off in the way that they're expecting it to pay off for like years. And then they're going to come. I think what people said that about Colbert, not Colbert, Carell, like when he was on The Office and like, oh, man, what an overnight success story. He was working for years man he was on the

the dana carvey yeah go back and watch the dana carvey show in like the late 80s early 90s yeah he was like doing seinfeld like do like these little bit parts and he was like just waiting for his big break right but anyway that's my heated my heatedness that's a really good one that is a core myth to our zeitgeist that we like to think that people are, it's like winning the lottery. We like that story. That's more interesting to us than somebody who is just grinding, putting in work every day.

And I, you know, I'm sadly, I believe the myth, but that was mostly because of the twist of featuring Kanye West song overnight celebrity. Well, I,

I was actually just going to bring up... I was just going to bring up Kanye because he's one of the few people who, when talking about his success, actually acknowledges he stayed in on summer nights when other people were out hanging out just making 100 beats a night. Just putting in the work

until he got somewhere with it. And I think there's another dark side of it that we're not talking about, which now you get people, especially me, who, like, you know, coaches improv and stuff like that. I have so many students that, like, will, like, be like, oh, like, how do I get on Harold Knight? Like, you know, like...

You'd be good. And it's like, do the fucking work. Like, you know, like, and they kind of, like, they look at someone like, you know, Carl, right? And they hear this story of, like, how Carl got on, likeold knight without like finishing all his ucb courses and it's just like yeah that's like only one part of the story the man was in amsterdam in amsterdam doing comedy for a year for people who didn't speak a fucking word of english and like busting his ass and he had done second city before that he went to like a performing arts high school where he was

performing the whole fucking time. They wanted us to be like, but I want to just get to that part. I don't want to do any of the stuff in between. I just want to show up and get rewarded. Welcome to the world of instant gratification. It makes me mad. It's like, nah, man, do the work. Put the fucking work in, yeah.

Do the work. And also, there's a lot of people behind each person who seems like they pulled it off all by themselves. We like that myth or every uh all by themselves every music teacher i've had in my life you know how to get to cardenca hall practice right yeah but they always say and that's true too jack i like people who think that they did it on their own right that's a lie i uh yeah like a performing arts high school like that's a huge opportunity that's built on the back of like tons of teachers who are just encouraging you along the way And honing that in over the years

No one has made it on their own except for me Ain't nobody fucking helped me Ain't nobody ever had my fucking back Nobody believed in you You're Drake you know Drake's the only person who did it against all odds Drake do right and kill everything Edgar excuses don't get any results Wow do right and kill everything. Edgar, excuses don't get any results.

Wow. Do right and kill everything? Is that what he says? Yeah. That's terrible. Fuck off, Drake. I think he's going to thank me later. All right.

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Like the one that's nighttime where you see the hurricane next to the Florida coast sort of lit up. It's just, it dwarfs the entire state. Right. So that shit is scary. So I like to monitor right-wing media. You could almost call it a right-wing watch. Wow, yeah.

My idea that I came up with. You mean like when I catch you on Drudge Report? I'm monitoring the right-wing media. No, I do pay a lot of attention to Drudge Report because I think it's incredibly impactful on at least half of the zeitgeist is that why when i saw you in a trump hat you were saying that you were undercover yeah yeah yeah okay yeah dredge report is like bossip for the right yeah it's it's huge i mean it gets more traffic than the new york times like it's monstrous and rightfully so well it is crazy though because it doesn't have any

content on it's just a page that filters you out to it's just a bunch of other links that sends you to other articles so i was looking uh yesterday and you know drudge is a very simple layout and you know they have the big headlines at the top but another way that they bring attention to a headline is they'll highlight it red which means that that it's like hot. A lot of people are clicking on it. And I noticed that one of the links yesterday was looting fears on Dredge Report under the Florence section. Just lit up red, all caps. Lit up red, all caps. One of two red links on the front page at the time. And so I clicked through to it. It is an entire article about a single town's preparations for Florence coming.

All the schools are closing down. Businesses are closing down. People are shutting down one side of the highway. All that stuff. There is literally a single sentence in the article that says additional law enforcement will be in place to prevent crimes such as price gouging and looting. So a single word essentially that addresses looting and price gouging is mentioned first. Right. But looting is a huge thing on the conservative side because you know it allows them to create this sort of

it's a disaster dog was yeah it's an apocalyptic like post-apocalyptic movie fueled by racism it's a zombie movie where the zombies are other races and not surprisingly all the comments on that article even though the article only mentioned it with one word, are just the most racist comments and people talking about how we should be allowed to shoot the looters. Obama fans will be out in full force taking whatever they can from the evil rich. Just crazy shit.

And also, it's one of those Facebook comment modules, so you can click through and be like, oh, you're a real person with a family. Cool. Yeah, like that person said to Obama fans, it looks like them blowing out a birthday cake with their grandchildren. Well, racists can, like, click through and be like, oh, you're a real person with a family. Cool. Yeah, like, that person said to Obama fans, it's like, looks like them blowing out a birthday cake with their grandchildren. Well, racists can have birthdays, Miles. No, I mean, I know that, but I'm saying, like, it's funny because it's all, you know, just

chest out racism on Facebook, too. But they're in their bubble, so, you know, they're, like, right under that is, you know, Planet of the Apes. Yeah. Aiken County demographics, 71% white, 25% black or African American. Those are your looting odds. Yeah, cool. Elena, Tabor.

So then the odds are pretty low. Yeah. 25%. I mean, listen, I think that you guys are forgetting the Christian background to this. And I have to understand that why they have this fear. It's because they know that they can't turn around or they'll be turned into a pillar of salt. Oh, yes. That's a good point. here is because they know that they can't turn around or they'll be turned into a pillar of salt oh yes understand that because when uh god burned down sodom and gomorrah for whatever reason you

may believe i don't want to force a reason onto you but you know we all know what the right one is uh that when lot's wife was like oh shit i forgot something she turned around and looked right and she turned into salt so i think that they're just like fuck if i forget something i can't even turn back. And now I have to worry about it getting stolen. Also, very good point. Yes. I mean, I'm just being real.

And I've had it happen to me. I remember one time I had some gum on my desk and then we had a fire drill and I left and I came back and that gum was gone. Wow. And I went to an all black school. Somebody else was showing up. Oh shit.

Yeah. So tell me how showing up. Oh shit. Yeah. So tell me how that works. Explain that. But so we're getting to the point that the Daily Zeitgeist has been on long enough so that we were doing this back when the last like huge hurricane hit the continental United States in terms of Harvey.

But this was like pre-air. Like these are like when we were in the lab. We were in that cookout room. I think I was there. We're still developing the show behind the scenes. But one of the stories that we're seeing kind of replicate is this sort of just putting the looting story out there because racist white people want it to happen, even though there's no basis for it at all.

And Drudge went and found the only mention of looting in any article about preparations and then just threw that up and it started getting clicks. And the thing we saw with Harvey was that people were actually making fake accounts on Facebook and Reddit and claiming they were the Houston loot crew and putting a picture of a black dude up there, and being like, yeah, we're looting over here, we're looting over there, and posting pictures of people looting.

And somebody found in 4chan, where it was just a racist white supremacist, being like, hey, look what I'm doing here. This is funny. I'm making people think that black people are looting in Houston. So, I don't know. I guess that's something to look out for. Yeah, because the black people are looting in Houston. So I don't know. I guess that's something to look out for.

Yeah, because the black people are like, we want to have all of our things, our property destroyed, just so we can steal one TV. Right. That's like the logic. Yeah. And these niggas probably don't even have good TVs, if we're being honest.

You know what I mean? You live in Florence. Florence where? Or this is the hurricane. It's the name of the hurricane. I'm sorry. Where do these people live? We live in Florence. Florence where? This is the hurricane. It's the name of the hurricane. I'm sorry. Where do these people live? We live in Florence, Italy.

Oh, Florence, Italy? I'm looting. I'm looting. And you're a liar if you tell me that you wouldn't loot. In Florence, Italy? Florence, Italy? I'm taking the painting. The David?

Yeah, I'm taking the David. I stole shit out of Florence and the Machine Show. Yeah. But they live in North Carolina. Yeah. Dang, guys. Listen, I don't know if anyone out here listens is from north carolina we have a lot of north cac zeitgang you better

watch out i don't want to diss y'all and say that y'all like you know don't have shit to steal but i mean come on guys like this whole idea of like that these black people need your shit is crazy they don't okay they don't If black people put an investment on anything, it's a great TV. And they don't need your TV because I promise you they have a great fucking TV. I've never been to a black friend's house and been like, yo, that's a whack TV.

I've always been like, yo, I'm very impressed by this TV. I'm glad you prioritize the TV over furniture. But this milk crate is making my ass... Sit on this stack of pizza boxes. Oh, fuck that. My ass hurts so much mama my nigga

this is HD perfection also I didn't realize they were broadcasting in 4k already yeah but yeah I mean this ties into the

whole right wing fantasy of like society breaking down of course you know guns because that means open season you're gonna shoot

people in the street that's all they want yeah that's all they've ever wanted not that they want I don't think anyone really wants that but it's the fantasy that they entertain.

That's the fantasy. I think they actually literally want that. Another thing I want to point out, though, about North Carolina was in 2010, there was a group of scientists that were warning a lot, like North and South Carolina, that their sea level rise was going to rise 39 inches over the next century. And basically, conservative lawmakers and business interest groups, they did not want that report to come out because they were like, oh, it's going to fuck up like all these like lucrative, like real estate developments and

all this other shit. So thanks to conservative representative Pat McElraft, I think I'm saying his name right. They basically put together like a lobbying group to end this and drafted a bill that essentially rejected the panel's findings and barred policymakers and developers from using up-to-date climate science to plan for rising sea levels on the state's coast this is in 2012 they deaded that whole thing and it's just another thing like we have to always realize too that motherfucking like people like in real estate and all these other industries, they have an interest in like obscuring climate change and these other things all because of money for profits. Of course. So please just remember, there's like there are things very little things that not to say that this bill is going to be the difference between life or death for people in that in the States.

life or death for people in the States. But it's just another thing that was interesting to pop up and be like, oh, of course, you have real estate, the industry being like, no, man, don't tell them those sea levels rise because now I'm going to have to fucking break down this thing I've invested in. No. Yeah, no, of course not. Listen, why would people do right? What's the incentive to do right?

Well, it just costs more money. Yeah. And speaking of money just getting shifted around in ways that don't make any sense, around June of this year, $10 million were shifted from FEMA's response and recovery budget to ICE. So they could fund more detention beds for immigrants. I mean, that's only because Donald Trump is doing such an amazing job. Right. With Maria.

Right. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's something I wanted to bring up. Like, I keep saying, you know, what if an actual national catastrophe takes place under Trump? Because I'm mainly talking about like if a terror attack happens and, you know, my fear being that he's going to consolidate military power. had what by any rights would be a political career defining catastrophe with Maria. Yeah. And, you know, it took specific advantage of his racism. And it was a actual like it was a Katrina level or Katrina exceeding disaster. Yeah.

With 9-11 levels of death toll was incomparable. Yeah. When Obama was in office and there was the oil spill people kept referring to it as obama's katrina because they wanted to have like a scandal that was like would define his presidency that's how desperate they were and now we literally had a katrina well now we just call it trump's administration right basically the whole fucking thing yeah that's an administration defining failure yeah and we have another one of those on the way. And he's literally bragging about what a great job he did with Maria.

How do you get that confidence? Can somebody tell me how you get that kind of confidence? Because I need it. I don't know, man. You're just gaslit by your privilege over the years. Some manner of mental illness. Because nobody's never shook the shit out of him. Right.

And be like, are you fucking serious? Except a military leader, a military general in military school, and that's why he respects them. Right. But only generals, though. Right. Everybody else are losers. Look at these bone spurs. The thing is, when you look at, though, what ICE is doing, right, because now they're talking about creating real straight.

They're even calling like internment camps for children, you know know putting kids behind razor wire because of this family separation policy and you're like well 10 million what the fuck's going on if you really think about what it costs to house these people we're looking at 775 dollars a night to house uh like kids in these like tent cities and it's something around like 150 a night for just any other person in a normal detention facility. We're just shifting money away from aid for people to just the prison industrial complex and being like, yo, yo, yo, here. Yeah. What's the rate?

Yeah. And that's why I got to talk about someone that should be doubly offended by this, who is consistently defending Trump. And I've wanted to talk shit about this person on this very podcast for a long time. The fucking idiot Ben Shapiro. Oh, my God. One, these camps, in that being internment camps, and for you to be of Jewish heritage and still defending Trump is fucking crazy to me.

Yeah, but it's- That's so crazy to me. And two, you always talk about that you about the money, right? That's his whole act. Right, right. I don't support the racism. I don't support the racism. I'm just looking at it from a fiscal point of view.

How much money you said a night? $7.75 if you're in a tent city. $7.75 a night? That's more than fucking the four seasons. That's more than... I mean, I could go on Hotel Tonight right now and get three rooms for that price from the four seasons. And you out here talking about, oh, it's about money, it's about money. This nigga's wasting money on some dumb shit and you've mouthed it and stayed completely silent're gonna go and attack a woman for not wanting to debate you man ben shapiro he's a

clown listen i've i've always wanted to debate him and i'm telling him come debate me and i promise i won't bring up your small penis that is my guarantee ben shapiro i wonder if it's normal for his body though because he's like five foot yeah so like would it look normal on his body it's small even considering his body. It's small for his five foot body. That's crazy. I like to imagine he has like a goat bottom. Yeah.

Right. Like a foreign or foreign or whatever that mythical being is where you take your pants off and it's like cloven hooves. Cloven hooves. And if anyone's wondering how I know, QAnon told me. Well, yeah, but again, when you talk about about the fiscal if you are a fiscal conservative why don't why not just immediately put that money into just sending people back if you're like well nobody's getting in don't then go don't go the extra step to cause more trauma and pain to jail

these people and separate them they're not going anywhere they're here they're in texas that's what's so worth about this whole thing is it's like they're just making a money-making industry right like they don't care about sending them back and you're like send them back send them back they're not going back they're just going to prisons here because they're trying to and we're fucking paying for it but you know they don't care about that they just i saw this guy on twitter talking about that we at least democrats in the senate always fall for this whole like rhetoric from them being like oh we're fiscal we're fiscal and the being like, oh, we're fiscal, we're fiscal. And the Democrats are like, okay, cool, you're fiscal, we're going to pass fiscal policies. And then the Republicans are just like, no, just kidding.

I think he was talking about the deficit, where it was like, the deficit, the deficit. And then Democrats took that bait, and then Republicans proved to us that they really don't care about the deficit. No, no, no. And then it came to like, I forgot what else he was talking about, but I think that his main point was that we got to stop just listening to these bullshit arguments from them. Right. And realize that they don't care about rhetoric at all.

They're just fucking with us. Right. They're saying all these things, but it's just a mask. Yeah, the Democrats. So they can do what they really want to do. And Democrats keep trying to be, you know, the best student and being like, okay, yeah, well, me too. What are you guys talking about? No, you're right.

Okay. They're going to kick your ass, man. Yeah. And it's like, no, you got to talk about. No, you're right. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Kick your ass, man. Yeah. And it's like, no, you're getting your shit beat out of you, man. Don't believe the bully. Democrats act like the side piece that's been the side piece for years. And the person's like, I'm going to leave them. Don't worry.

You're going to be the main. Right. And we're like, okay. And it keeps happening over and over. There's a couple on Are You The One that is exactly like that this season. Where the girl's just like, no, no, no, no, no. He's not going to go back to her. Yes, he is. And you're going to look like a fool every time no, no, no, no. He's not going to go back to her. Yes, he is.

And you're going to look like a fool every time. And you're going to cry. And I'm going to laugh because that's what I do. But stop it. That's all I do. Play Spider-Man

and laugh at people on Are You The One? Laugh at people on Are You The One and play Spider-Man. Yo, reps, please get me a job. Speaking of people

who are going to cry, Paul Manafort might be taking a plea deal. Yeah. It looks like he's in talks with Mueller. What would that entail, Miles? We don't know. That's the thing.

All the reporting has been like, there looks like they're talking about what a plea deal could look like. You'd imagine any plea deal that Paul Manafort is going to get from Robert Mueller involves him just fucking pulling all the receipts out, bringing all the dirt out. But who knows? I mean, because yeah, he's about to start his second trial. He's already looking at 10 years for the conviction he got in Virginia. So looks like the pressure getting to him a little bit. Hey, those legal bills, man, they'll kill you. They'll kill you, man. You know what else will kill you? Medical bills.

Yeah. One of the details I didn't know from Fear that I just read in one of the excerpts. I actually bought the book, so I'm going to read the book, and then we'll have all of the things. But I keep coming across amazing excerpts, and I have to interject them where I can. Dowd, the president's lawyer, thinks that Mueller,

basically there's that whole early part of the investigation where he was just like, sure, give him the documents. He's now like, oh, yeah, he suckered me, and he definitely has something. He like has, he said that specifically. There's another little scene from that book where John Dowd, when he's quitting, he's like, yo, I feel bad, Mr. President, I failed you. And he's like, I know you're, I know you're stressed. He's like, I should have never brought Ty Cobb on because Ty Cobb was like, oh yeah, we're ready to talk with Mueller. It's fine. It's all good. And blah, blah, blah. And Trump was like,

yeah, I was cool with that. But then John Dowd was like, look, yeah, we're ready to talk with Mueller. It's fine. It's all good and blah, blah, blah. And Trump was like, yeah, I was cool with that. But then John Dowd was like, look, the thing you don't understand is Ty Cobb is an employee of the government. Like, you don't have attorney-client privilege with him. So he could testify and be a witness, and that's that. You're not protected at all. Yeah, you're not protected. And then Trump is like, oh, damn, for real?

What's the response, essentially? And he was like, yeah, because I told him a lot. I've been talking a lot to him right like wow yeah that book is fucking do y'all think that book's legit

causes fear yes 100% do y'all think it's more legit than that other one yes than Michael Wolff's book yeah

yeah Bob Woodward is has much more credibility and he has everything backed up with literal recordings of the conversations

that's so wild man I mean look I really hope that this shit ends cleanly mostly because i want to be staffed on the show that talks about it later on but i don't know man there's a part of me that just thinks that this man has one last trick up his sleeve yeah like i'm a part of that conspiracy theory group that he's queuing on you already told me yeah of course i am. IMQ. IMQ. I believe that he has something to do with that op-ed, man.

I'm on that level. Oh, right, right, right. Well, it did bolster his deep state argument, for sure. And it's given the right of being like, well, you see, that's why he sucks. The only thing that leads me to believe that he wasn't involved is that it didn't mention how big his dick was or how good he is at sex.

Yeah. That would have, that is something that he likes to leak to the press. wasn't involved is that it didn't mention how big his dick was or how good he is at sex. That is something that he likes to leak to the press. One of the things that somebody, the top trending article on The Hill today is an op-ed piece pointing out that something that Trump might have up his sleeve is a November surprise where he refuses to accept the results of an election where the Democrats take back the House. And he was pointing out, look at all the times during the 2016 election where he was talking about how he wasn't going to accept the results of the election if he lost. We just never had to cross that bridge because he won the election. But now he's already seeding ideas that the Russians are going to help the Democrats because he's the hardest on Russia.

So I think that's a possibility. I don't think there's any way he's leaving without some sort of shocking shit tantrum. Yeah, of course. I mean, I think, yeah, like in the article they say, like, prepare yourselves for him possibly just being like talking about the quote fake congress as it's like attack on it but yeah yeah um it'll be a very real he's going out swinging he's going out swinging yeah there's a bunch of uh trump documentaries actually jm mcnab submitted this story about how just there's this one called active measures that just premiered on itunes and all these different places that's supposed to be a really, you know, solidly reported story about like Trump having connections to the Russian mob

going way back. Right. Michael Moore's movie, Fahrenheit 11, nine. Hey, you get it? Because nine,

11, 11, nine was when. Are y'all into that movie? I'm going to watch it. Fahrenheit 11, nine. Yeah.

The new one. Are y'all like into the idea of that movie? Can I be honest Fahrenheit 11.9? Yeah, the new one. Are y'all into the idea of that movie? Can I be honest with y'all? No, I haven't even seen or heard about it, really. I was in the theaters. I was at the Vista. Well, you can find me

a lot of times. And that trailer came out and people started cheering and going wild and I was like, I don't like this. Right. I think that there's

a little bit of Fifty Shades of Grey type fantasy with people watching that kind of shit where it's like, oh, Michael Moore's going to. And it's the same way I feel about the look for the piss tape show on Viceland. Right, right. Tom Arnold.

Yeah, it's like this kind of gratification of like, oh, we're going to take him down, but it ain't really doing shit. It's liberal wish fulfillment porn. And that's why I think we always talk about, too, that's why we don't really have all our eggs in the Mueller basket. I think some people do who just need, they're like, I just need Mueller to come on. What's going on here? It ain't going to happen like that. And it's not how it goes down.

But the one detail of the Michael Moore documentary that I do like is he says that Gwen Stefani is the reason for all of this. Right. Because Donald Trump, when he had The Apprentice, found out that Gwen Stefani, as just a judge on The Voice, was making more money than him. And he could not take the fact that a woman was making more money than him. going to show them I'm a bigger star than Gwen Stefani by running for president and having a couple rallies that like show how much I can get an audience behind me and then once he was out there in front of an audience and they they were just like mainlining like the shit that feeds his narcissism like right into his veins he was like oh I can't quit this this is like the best thing that's ever happened and so and here we are so even though that like that's not a significant detail i fucking love that i just love that yeah that was a wild theory wait when stefani's making what but gavin rossdale's ex-wife but i agree like trying to cover the trump presidency in a single documentary

is insane like Like I think, like I think we're going to need at the very least like a Ken Burns sized documentary series or like a, a game of Thrones sized, like fictional, like depiction of the presidency, maybe like 30 years from now to like completely capture it. Picture what that box. I don't know.

Like as a kid, I always remember seeing the Ken Burns civil war box. I had a video story being like, capture it picture what that box i don't know like as a kid i always remember seeing the ken burns civil war box i got a video story being like i can't afford that right but how big that was i'm like there's that much shit in there or this shit would look like eight fucking times right are the roots box yeah yeah that roots box was yeah this will be our roots my grandparents had that at the crib but yeah there's there's a bunch of documentaries coming out one is uh the the ones that I think are most interesting that JM was pointing out are kind of the ones that have sort of a slanted angle on it. There's one called Our New President, which is just a collage of assembled clips chronicling

the rise of Trump, but they're all clips from Russian media. Right. Which will be interesting. Yeah, just to see how they're taking it. Yeah. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist

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It's mostly I like the way he trolls hosts. Right. Like with his bit of being ignorant of things and just frustrating people. Like him on The View where he just keeps talking about how Bill Clinton murdered a guy and upsetting The View. Like, well, I fucking most of the time I do not agree with his politics. There's just that his goofy shitheadedness that I like but well he usually doesn't have politics no right no no not at all but but he's come out and you know said some shit over the years i'm like nah i'm not really into it but right yeah he had an interview with the hollywood reporter where he basically was

like yeah you know i got louis and rosanne on the phone together i felt like they could they could give each other some words of encouragement. And then the shit that got weird was when he was like, you know, I just feel bad for them because they lost everything in a single moment. And he's like, and I know what the critics are going to say. They're going to say,

well, what about their victims? And he was like, but you know, they didn't go through what they did, which is like, oh my God, Norm MacDonald, please wake the fuck up.

And then he later on gave a half-assed apology on Twitter. He's like, I'm not defending their actions. You know, I'm just, like, Roseanne gave me my first gig. Louis wrote the foreword of my book. Like, you can see where his allegiances lie, obviously, and got, you know, he lives in his little bubble, so he didn't realize how everybody else is going to take it. And then he got his appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon canceled. Right, because Jimmy Fallon is scared as fuck of being associated with anything. Jimmy Fallon, you're not going to get no points from me.

No. Not after the hair tussle. Right. But yeah, I don't know. Norm Macdonald, it's not surprising. It's not anything where I'm like, oh my God. But it was a moment where I think he realized what everyone else's attitude was around it. And he had to be like, oh, oh, okay, we're not doing that.

And to a person who has had a successful career in entertainment, the scariest thing they can imagine is losing their career all at once. So, like, that's, yeah, of course he's going to identify with that. But not people who have been, like, you know, victims of their sexual deviancy or fucking, not even having a fucking career ever at all. Because you get bullied out of it by some masturbating creep yeah i don't know anything else i mean i mean here's what it is man

and this is what it's clearly shown me and it is uh it's made me think about some spaces in my life that i have to fix the fuck up this man doesn't hang out with women he doesn't hang out no like everyone in his circles everyone around him is white dudes right that's who he's chilling with that's who he's joking with so that's his take right i mean it's easy for him to be like not seeing victims pain because he has never had to fucking deal with that like you know i know what his staff looks like like it's like you know like oh on that on the netflix show i mean yeah like it's he's chilling with a bunch of white guys and that's where his humor is going to come from.

He's not being challenged in any way. Right. In the same way that, like, you know, a lot of these niggas on Twitter and stuff like that, they're, like, being like, I'm going to say nigger and all that stuff. And they think it's funny. They're not saying it to black people. They're saying it to all their white little friends. You put a black person in that circle, see if you act that same way. Right, right, right.

And I think, like, Norm, when faced when faced with women like he's just like oh I don't think that right yeah yeah it's like nah they don't get it that's not what I mean you know

he's not trying to explain his no and it's because he's not being challenged and like the only reason why I know that is because

I know somebody who worked on that show and like they had that same energy too and then like they would say that kind of shit

around like you know the girls in the room and they would say that kind of shit around like, you know, the girls in the room and they would be like, nah, shut that the fuck down. Shut that the fuck down. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Like,

and I was like, Oh, he's not from a world where he's like, you know, facing women. Like he's in a world where it's a bunch of dudes in the room all joking. And he can say shit like that. And that's why we need that kind of like, I mean,

not saying that it's anyone's job to educate any of these people, but I don't want them in the room for educating. I think that we need to diversify our room so that these trash ass takes are challenged. Face on. Well, it's the same thing like we said with Trump. It's like, how come? It's like, because no one's ever been like, excuse you? What? The fuck? Exactly. And if they have, maybe

their own ego won't allow them to actually take that criticism in and be a little more self-aware. And they'll just be like, oh, this person's a hater or whatever, which is usually an easy way to dismiss someone. I like to keep bad energy out of my energy field. Yeah, it's just all about vibes. So I like to be around other like-minded racist misogynists. Right. It's very toxic to my...

Yeah. I mean, the way I compare it is like it's what I've always said about only children like i feel like only children have like this uh uh looseness to them like where they're just like oh i want to do this and like it's because ain't nobody in their lives ever been like nah like since i was a kid i've always had to defer all of my actions and things that i've said through two other people in the room like me my brothers and stuff like that and i feel like only children because there's no one else to be like, you can't watch this show right now, I'm watching the show. When they want to watch the show, they'll watch

that show. And I think it works the same way with men. If a man out here making rape jokes and there's only men around, who's gonna fucking stop him? Who's gonna say, no, don't do that, no, don't, that's not cool. He's around other people who are verifying his beliefs. And I'm not preaching from a fucking mountaintop. This is coming from someone who is in those spaces.

And I was, like, making gay jokes and stuff all the time because every nigga around me was straight and nobody was stopping me. Right. We were like, everyone's like, yeah, hell yeah. That's funny. Like, you know what I mean? You know who's the only child? Who? Me.

I mean, who stopped you from saying shit? My mother. Your mom smacked the shit out of you. Yo, fuck yeah. I think it's a little different yeah well i don't know and that could be cultural too i'm both my parents if i acted fucking dumb they were like yo do not fucking embarrass me here right but i know what you mean i have long pointed out eccentric ass people and being like you're fucking only child yeah no i think yes yes i think mine comes

out of maybe more like entertaining ideas that i have or something like that or indulging myself in ways i think other other people might not but i don't yeah I can see how also too I know people who are like runaway only children like where their parents was like yeah you're number one in the world and they really fucking they only exist in their own world well I wasn't talking about like that discipline thing I was just talking about like yeah of course like yeah I'm talking about like siblings like right fact that that everything I said, Jonathan or Alisa would come at me. There was always that energy to it where I feel like an only child doesn't. The thing was, I was such an only child that I would never be at home. I would always be around my friends who had siblings. So I would get it there and be like,

oh shit, right, reasonable behavior or whatever. They're like, damn, y'all share the fucking playstation controller the amount of times that Jonathan and I have beat the living shit out of each other over that playstation controller where Jonathan's like I said one more level

I'm like nah I'm not done the level you just died you said next life and then a swing immediately then my parents come in and they start crying this is not Christian yeah my older sister used to beat the shit out of me it's true though over that nintendo controller they're like pull up jack yeah miles isn't that no just because i walk around nude and i'm like what's y'all problem right i work here too you still wear that dr seuss hat with the big feather

in it yeah who's gonna tell him no exactly i mean they try and i'm like y'all just haters and i don't like that energy near me right but i say that's what this norm mcdonald thing is it's like who the fuck is checking it's his bubble yeah speaking of keeping toxic energy out of your energy field guys i want to talk about gwendolyn patro um because so goop got hit with a lawsuit because they were selling people 50 to 60 dollar stone eggs to put inside your vagina that was supposed to cause you know was supposed to like help with your feminine energy in general and hormonal balance and vaginal muscle tone it would activate your heart right and according to gynecologists, it actually caused bacterial vaginosis or even toxic shock syndrome. So they were basically forced by a court to no longer make health claims. And she also had to pay over $145,000

in civil penalties and offer refunds to women that bought the vagina egg, which isn't that big a deal because goop is worth a reported $250 million. But as a result of the suit, like I said, they're now barred from making any claims about the stuff it sells without reliable scientific evidence. But they said that the flower essence would cure my depression.

Right. Which is a real thing they fucking said. Yes. I can't mock these people. I put garlic up my butt. So I feel like, you know. Oh, you put garlic up your butt. Yeah, so I feel like these people understand where they're coming from. Hey, no, that's cultural. That's cultural. Don't you put that on

Haiti? Don't you put that on Haiti? No, because Charlotte Laurison was also like, yo, I had a Steinmeier, put that garlic on there. Oh, right. It is a very, like, Haitian thing to be like, garlic fixes everything. And we can't be fighting, not after Naomi Osaka. No, no, no. Hey, it is a very, it is a very like Haitian thing to be like, garlic fixes. Like I am, I am. We can't be fighting.

Not after a Naomi Osaka. No, no, no. Hey, listen, we got to come together. We got to say,

which means go, you know, give your best in Japan. Absolutely. I like that. Hell yeah. I'm way more willing to believe that, uh, putting garlic up your ass cures hemorrhoids than that.

Goops, $124 sticker would rebalance the energy frequency in your body. Wait, what? They sold a sticker that you put on your body. They said it was made of NASA spacesuit material. Stickers. And you would put it on your body

and it would rebalance your energy. They sold that for $124. So our writer, J.M. McNabb from Canada. So he's able to view our culture from a bit of a distance. And he made a really good point that Gwyneth Paltrow may be Hollywood's Trump. Because scandal does not seem to harm her. She's just like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry. I'm going to pay you $124,000 and my business will be unharmed.

She actually throws these rallies, these goop summits that cost $500 to $4,500 a ticket. Goop is actually huge in middle America. It's actually really big in the heartland. Oh, shit, because it's like that coastal elite cultural you can like you can get a piece of that right vis-a-vis goop yeah and like these secondary markets as they're called in shitty marketing circles they also like rally their base effectively by stoking fears with trump it's fear of immigrants and with gueneth palt, it's capitalizing on people's health fears. The pseudoscientific shit that she peddles is basically identical to the stuff that Alex Jones sells. It's just, you know, put in a different wrapper. But the actual ingredients in the shit and like what they claim to do are exactly the same. And also, so this was news to me. She refuses to say who she voted for in 2016, but she was surprisingly uncritical of Trump. And after he won, she wouldn't reveal who she voted for,

but she called it a, quote, exciting time to be an American. Well, she's a white woman. Gwyneth Paltrow, after Trump won, said it's an exciting time to be an American. You know what, though, feminists? She's supposed to be. That's crazy to me. Yeah. But she's playing these women out here being like, yeah, buy this $500 sticker and put it on your asshole and your husband will stop cheating.

I have a feeling that if it's like really she's doing big business in Trump country, though, maybe it's more of a marketing thing where she can't come out with that for trump still not okay of course not no no i'm just trying to i don't give a fuck either way because uh she's like a real odd creature i mean again like it's hard for me to come at this sticker thing too because like i used to drink i used to drink powerade and think i could dunk like that's what i would watch a commercial and if you would drink powerade and all of a sudden he was like sweating blue and then dunking and shit and i was like oh that's how i do it yeah and did it work you know what it did powerade jack no uh no i've never dunked in my life oh hey we can work on that i don't know man i mean it's also because trump also has the school shit too he's selling people fake dreams to the Trump school. They're just fake dream sellers.

You guys been to a for-profit school graduation? I've been to a for-profit school board meeting. I just went to one for a school. I should not say on air. Southern New Hampshire University? Let's just say it was in Florida, and a lot of people go there to learn about music. But their whole thing was just being like, oh, man. And not only are you guys great for doing it but you guys did it in two years what takes most people

to do in four you did it in two years and that's a guarantee you can't get anywhere else and i was like i was like oh my god this is scary to like look at like this whole process of like well especially with like mi and places like that too or they gas people up who are just like so desperate to be in the music industry. And they're like, well, this is how you do it. This is how you do it.

MIT. I know musicians Institute, but like you look at most people who work in the music industry, like they've fucking did not go to MI. They do it out of a, just a love for music or whatever. There are people who do, obviously you need skills.

Maybe if you're engineering or things like that, but it is a way to sort of exploit people's dreams and just desires for these things. Like, oh, you do it like this. And I'm very worried that there's going to be a lot of, like, these kind of things with comedy now, too, where, like, they'll be like, I mean... I mean, bro. I think you should be kind of, like, barking on that door.

But I didn't say it. I didn't say it. I'll say it. But they're not giving degrees, though. But I think, like, you know, like, comedy as a degree is something that's coming out now, where people have been like, this is how you do it. Well, you know what the degree is, is ending up on that performer's page on UCB.

Of course. That's sort of the degree that you then- It's the only degree I have. Yeah. But yeah, they make big bucks. For-profit colleges, I think we talked about this on an episode in the past couple weeks, but they are literally like industries of despair. Like when the economy goes down, they shoot up along with alcohol and all the other shit that is just destructive,

self-destructive. For-profit colleges are among the most monstrous capitalist institutions out there. One thing I just want to, I have just a story about Gwyneth Paltrow because she has this air of being like, it's all about sustainability and wellness, blah, blah, blah. I worked with her on something, and she brought lunch to the shoot just because she had her own diet or whatever. And she had this really nice reusable container, like glass, new-agey food container thing.

Ate her lunch. When it wrapped, she took off like left a bunch of the containers there and i ran out like to her reps like yo she left her containers and they're like oh no no she she doesn't reuse those and i was like reusable you pull up with the fucking reusable container like that wasn't just like on some you know kroger generic just tupperware kind of thing like these were like fancy like you know no whatever the weird plastic is that leaches. It was all that just super healthy thing. Just left them behind.

So you're not living the life that you tell people you're fake. Got you, Gwyneth. Isn't one of her kids named Apple? Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, that's the one cool thing she's done. She one time had this post on, I think it was Instagram, or maybe it was twitter where she

said this is what 29 get you at the grocery store what families on snap have to live on for a week and it's like all these like whole foods ass like she she bought eight limes for 29 no no that's like one of the things she bought though. Right, right. Snack families are not buying eight limes from fucking Whole Foods and bok choy. She didn't buy any rice.

She didn't buy any of the staple things that fill your stomach. You're like, when you have one of my mojitos, I'm not using that fake ass lime juice. Right, exactly. Ridiculous. Edgar,

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whatever. Don't worry, your time will come. Don't worry. I mean, I guess I just got to go on Instagram. And you know what

they're going to say? They're going to be like, yo, where'd this dude come out of nowhere overnight? Like, I haven't been on Sprite since day one. exactly. Don't worry. Like, when my mom was gotta go on you know what they're gonna say they're like yo where'd this dude come out of nowhere overnight like i haven't been on spray since day one exactly don't like when my mom was just like hey i'm trying to breastfeed i'm like nah don't put that milk from your breast on me give me some sprite give me the sprite and what is a

tweet that you've been enjoying this is from mark mark little i believe he is a writer yeah yeah he's very funny and this is a tweet that Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a very funny dude. And this is a tweet that he put out recently that fucking destroyed me. He said, I'm not impressed by centaurs splitting their horse and man parts evenly down the middle. Show me a creature that's half horse, half man, but all the parts are jumbled up. Man nose, horse eye, man ears, horse neck. Show me this travesty, this humble wretch. Show me sin. Ooh. he just got hornier and hornier

as that tweet went along uh mark little is one of the funniest dudes out there yeah that shit really fucked me up miles ah where can people find you and what is the tweet you have been oh you can find me on twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. A tweet that I'm liking is from, you know, predictably, I love Onion and Reductus headlines, but this one is from The Onion. There's a couple of them.

I just like this one. 22-year-old gets job at website. And the other one is, sensitive scientists report five in five women don't know how beautiful they are. Thank you. Thank you, sensitive scientists. You can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

Oh, a tweet that I've been enjoying so many. Paul F. Tompkins tweeted. So apparently this is something we didn't talk about, but Paul McCartney details in a new profile the time he masturbated with John Lennon. Paul F. Tompkins tweeted, well, yeah, you know, John and me wanked together one time. And the journalist says,

okay, well, your publicist said you had a very limited amount of time. Here are all the details. That's fine. I don't. Paul sits down at the piano. Here are all the details. That's fine. I don't. Paul sits down at the piano. Here we go. Here we go.

In Livable. In Livable. And then Nick Weiger wrote, every all-male improv team has jacked off together. Standard warm-up. That's true. And then Tilda Swinton, Prim Fandango, not the Tilda Swinton. Tilde Swinton, I'm sorryango, not the Tilda Swinton. Tilde Swinton, I'm sorry. Ah, Tilde.

Tilde. Hellendale tweeted, if Pompeii happened now, and tweeted this profane sculpture with a woman with her ass in the air. And Tilde Swinton tweeted, you mean the respectable ancient city where they unearthed graffiti saying, I screwed the barmaid and weep you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's arseholes. Goodbye wondrous femininity. Because, yeah, all those ancient towns had just the wildest graffiti. That was the graffiti in Pompeii?

Yeah, in Pompeii. All right. Shout out to Mount Vesuvius. Yup. Hey. And you can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram We have a Facebook fan page and a website

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Miles, what song are we going to ride out on today? I want to do a track by Kalila, who is an Ethiopian artist, you know, from D.C. This is from her album Hallucinogen, and the track is The High. This song is fucking dark, but it's got a real thumping little drum track to it. And I just like the little bit of modulation going on there. It's a very nice track. So this is the high from Kalila. A nice track.

All right, we're going to ride out on that. Also, something for you guys to look out for. One of the great episodes of Behind the Bastards is out this week. Right now, it's about how Hollywood was on board with the Nazis. It's shocking, surprising, all the things that are great about that podcast, Behind the Bastards, hosted by Robert Evans. And so, yeah, check that shit out. It is out this week.

Also, we are going to be at Chicago Podfest on December 1st. You can get tickets. I think they're up now. Yeah. And, yeah, so will Culture Kings. And it's going to be a great show. Oh, man, he's live. Fucking crazy.

All right. We will ride out on the nice song, and we'll be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. Talk to you guys then. Bye. nice song and we'll be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast talk to you guys then bye My lips are creeping up your neck You shiver and try to pull back and forth and back and forth with it. You're a star, that's what you said. And I'd do anything for the high. And I'd do anything for the high That's what you said

And I'd do anything for the high 🎵 Your hands are firm around my waist They're moving south, my safe and grace Patience was wearing, oh so thin, a surge of adrenaline. And I'd do anything for the high. And I'd do anything for the high High High I am all alone All around All around Thank you. Terima kasih telah menonton! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I want you to know

I want you to know I never knew, I never cared I wonder how it came to this I play it over in my head You're watching video instead Radio instead And we do anything for the high Must you leave now? I don't know Why must you leave now? That's what you say.

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