The Daily Zeitgeist - Harlan Crow Simp, Millionaire Scumbag Boo'd?! 05.23.23

Episode Date: May 23, 2023

In episode 1488, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, actor, writer, and host of TV, I Say, Ashley Ray, to discuss… Harlan Crow IS JUST A REGULAR OLD GUY, David Zaslav Delivered a Boo-Filled Commencement Speech, Adidas Will Sell Off The Remaining Yeezy Gear With (Some) Proceeds Going To Charity, The Great Disney Streaming Purge Is Upon Us and more! David Zaslav Delivered a Boo-Filled Commencement Speech Discovery! How CEO David Zaslav Made $247 Million Last Year Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Says “A Love For Working” Is What Will Resolve Ongoing WGA Strike All That Zaz: With Warner Bros. Discovery Merger, David Zaslav Is Angling to Become America’s King of Content Adidas Will Sell Off The Remaining Yeezy Gear With (Some) Proceeds Going To Charity Adidas to start selling stockpile of Yeezy sneakers later this month ADIDAS SELLING OFF YEEZYS... Disney will remove over 50 shows from Disney Plus and Hulu this month Disney slammed for pulling doc on queer lyricist Howard Ashman as Little Mermaid hits screens LISTEN: America Has A Problem by Beyoncé & Kendrick LamarSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Taffy. Woof. Yeah. They're like, do you have a Lucky Penny? Okay, well, now you have that. Look what I found behind your ear. A Lucky Penny. A Lucky Penny.

Oh, I remember that. And literally, I found some taffy. But that was in the couch cushion. It might be from 73, but it's still edible, I believe. Oh, shit. Well, my name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jack OB. Miles of Grey. Read the news.

Yeah. Miles and Jack reading the news. That is Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, a.k.a. courtesy of Pat on the Discord. Ob-La-Da. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Oh, it's Miles Gray, a.k.a. one of the saddest guys in town. The Lakers are looking like we're just crawling to a stop. Arsenal has fully just, we've succumbed to Man City, and now I'm just me.

Oh, no. I come to you. Is that Arsenal weekend? Oh, we've me. Oh, no. I come to you. Is it Mad Arsenal weekend? Oh, we've been falling apart, Jack. I've been not talking about it because I don't pay you to be my therapist. I pay a therapist to be my therapist. And they're like, do you want to talk about something else except for sports? I'm like, it's taking up a lot of my mind right now.

So I want to get that out of the way. I want to make peace with that. Oh, man. Have you seen the show Ted Lasso? The fuck? Yeah. And you seen the show Ted Lasso? The fuck? Yeah, and you know what? They brought that up and I was like, cool stuff to say about sports

and psychology, Miles. Fuck no, it doesn't. Miles, we are thrilled to be joined by a brilliant actor, comedian, writer, podcast host who you know from countless podcasts and her show tv i say with ashley ray which makes all the year endless please welcome the brilliantly talented ashley ray

how are you ashley i'm so good yeah oh my gosh i i love the ted lasso hate from the beginning that truly was my overrated. Oh, yeah. I'm not even joking. I had it rich. Have you seen Ted Lasso? Have you seen? It says so much about masculinity and sports.

Have you seen Ted Lasso? Have you tried it? Have you tried Ted Lasso? I just got an AFC Richmond jersey. I'm like, that's going to look pretty stupid in a couple of years. I'm going to just tell you that right now. But hey, go ahead. Do you, do you, do you.

So cool. Doeth thou. But yeah, I mean, you're on strike like the rest of the writers. Yes, I'm on strike. So I've been catching up on a lot of TV. It's just finally time to sit down, watch 10 seasons of Vanderpump Rules. I've watched all of like the new selling sunset in a day i'm just you know it's time to just really sit down and connect with all the tv

that that i'm not writing or you know because yeah it's it's so much fun being on strike you know you go to the picket line you eat some free pizza that jerry seinfeld brought you right it's great it's fun to see all the celebrities that pull up in solidarity. Like I saw Flavor Flav came up. Oh, yeah, yeah. He brought a bunch of burgers. He brought a bunch of burgers. And I'm like, noted, noted, noted.

Yeah, yeah. Larry David sent a coffee truck. The Daniels, they brought a bunch of Arby's to Netflix one day. Arby's. I love those two. That's like kind of a divisive one. Does Arby's to Netflix one day. Arby's. I love those two. It's kind of a divisive one. Does Arby's travel? It doesn't.

But they're up the street from Arby's. It was very close. To their credit, they stole a tray from the Arby's and just covered it in curly fries and mozzarella sticks. I think they did a disservice going with a lot of the fried stuff. Yeah.

That just like, you know, by the time you make it one loop around the picket line, it's, it's cold. Yeah. Arby's got the meats. They can,

you can have a turkey sandwich from there too. Hoagies and grinders. I wouldn't mind a little. Hey, come on meat mountain. Remember when they used to do that, when they put all of them on one sandwich. Yeah.

Yeah. And now they're doing like sliders or something. Anyway. Yeah. They got like a slider thing. They're trying to really redo things there's like the one arby's of note in la is that one like by netflix so i can all right it looks like it could be the original arby's like the sign that's outside of it looks like it's in the background of the taxi driver movie yeah right right it looks like the one at the original McDonald's. That's the first one. Yeah.

Yeah. Exactly. You you are one of our foremost TV thinkers, writers. Yes. So, I mean, it's a time of prestige television. So I'm glad to hear that you're, you know, getting caught up on Vanderpump and the other things, the other prestige franchises. Oh, yeah.

I've watched a solid maybe two to three seasons of Bar Rescue. Oh, yeah. Love that. Oh, I love it. I mean, Ashley, I feel like we have very similar, like, you know, tastes in TV. You also love the 90 Day Trashiverse. And, you know, you've helped guest co-host 420 Day Fiance. Are you like me where you like that genre of reality show which is expert yells at stupid people like like yeah like tabitha salon

takeover yeah tabitha salon takeover bar rescue like on the evil end of the spectrum like my 600 pound life and like hoarders oh are they. Does Shark Tank count as that or no? When it's good. It can, yeah, when it's good. But sometimes when people are on Shark Tank, it's like, okay, you're smart. This is boring. I want someone who's just like,

they're yelling and they're like, you shouldn't store cat piss in your fridge. Well, why not? Well, why not, Mark? Why not? Why can't I do that? What's the issue? Sounds like an issue with you.

That's my favorite part of Shark Tank is when a pitch goes south and then the person gets salty with the sharks. And you're like, oh, okay, go ahead. Blow it up. Now it's good. Go ahead. Blow it up. Mavericks suck. Yeah, right.

Exactly. Yo, man, you're ruining Luca's career, bro. You're ruining Luca's career. Anyway, that's fine. I mean, I can see that. Sure. You don't want to buy my cat piss containers, but at least i know what to do refrigerated cat piss container you never know when you're gonna want those refrigerated well i'm sorry man you started

your pitch saying what doesn't yeti make that everyone's asking for something that keeps your cat piss cold something that keeps your cat piss cold explicitly specifically for uh but yeah that's that's the love the brand of reality tv i love i've been diving back into all the trash did all of uh i am jazz seven seasons watched in three days it's a problem what's i am jazz uh it's this tlc reality show yeah it's about and it's about intramural intramural jazz done by this girl jazz jennings who was like the youngest first trans woman to like be like on tv she did like 2020 when she was like six years old and then her parents were like oh we can make money off of this for a long time and they put her on a reality show that has gone on from basically when she was like

12 to now 22 and in college and most of the show you're just like please let this girl just live a normal life and get her off of tv please just like let her leave her alone and then you see a mom who's just like no no and it's i prefer not to actually yeah just her mom being like yeah i see what you're saying about maybe how she could use some privacy. But have you ever considered that I like being on television? And it's great. It's so good.

That sounds amazing. All right. Well, Ashley, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, a couple of things we're talking about later in the episode. We're going to check back in with Harlan Crowe. The Atlantic hit us with another puff piece from our boy graham wood graham wood knock on wood graham yeah he yeah he's still a fan you won't believe it so he finally got the invite that he's been dying for this is the guy who's harlan crowe is so

fucking sad to me yeah and he's like a lifelong harlan crowsip he's like i've peered through the gates of his house and wondered what it would be like to be inside there and so therefore the atlantic has made this my beat me the strangest person to like the person with the strangest connection to the story possible i'm now the authority on that uh anyways Anyways, we'll talk about that weird story. We'll talk about David Zaslav, Warner Brothers Discovery CEO, the Zaz. The Zaz. Zaz.

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would hit the Selling Sunset universe. I think by the year 2028, every TV show will feature one of Nick Cannon's Baby Mamas, and this is the first. That makes sense. And she like... Oh, Brie? Wait, Brie is one of Nick Cannon's...

Brie! Brie is Nick Cannon's Baby Mama. And she is six weeks post-baby. Oh my God. And basically is six weeks post baby. And basically all of these women in the Oppenheimer group are like, how can you be with him? Like, is he a good dad? And she's like, that's my man. That's my family.

I stand by him. We're in an open relationship, but he's my man. And then she finds out two days later he had a baby that she just did not even know was coming. She's like, wait, there's another baby no idea and she's talking to all the other women and she's like well in california if a man has more than 10 children they can just be like he can't afford any more child support so like nick cannon doesn't have to pay anymore because he had so many kids uh but this kid is baby number eight so makes it in the window but then a bunch of people were like she's wrong that's not how california child support laws work so i had to google it for myself

to really get to the bottom of this thing and it turns out that's not true at 10 kids in california they can like re-look at your financial status and be like hey let's like across the board bring the amount down for all your 20 children. But there's never a limit where it's like, you got too many kids. Anybody after 12, we're sorry. That interpretation of the law seems like it was written by Nick Cannon. 100%. I think 100% Nick Cannon.

The law offices of Cannon and Cannon. He has a copy and pasted text he sends to these women that's like, but just so you know, in California. canon and canon he has like a copy and paste of text he sends to these women that's like oh yeah but just so you know in california he's like oh let me put you on the phone with my lawyer which is me who i'm gonna gaslight you with a bunch of legalese right now speaking in a silly voice but let me tell you girl and literally by the time they finish filming the season apparently he already has three other kids after brie's kid it's like within five months it is wild wow wow wow brie okay that may i'm like reading things like she found about child nine like on the set on the set like she's just hanging out trying to

sell a house opens her phone and is like what whoops oh and the other girls are not nice about it no i mean yeah just so you know they are not supportive no i've seen yeah because they they they they move in a certain way like i i remember like amanda when she was struggling and i was like are y'all even like the brown woman some some problems here selling sunset because that's what it looks like to me that's what it is yeah and it's yeah and and we have some new big bads this season so my search history has just been dedicated to understanding all things child support and real estate law in california oh shit i just love that he's treating like paternity like a subway punch card he's like i got to 10 man there's no such there's no such thing as child support after 10 you're good yeah after 10 you're good he also did a big interview where he said his favorite

like he was like my favorite child is onyx and he was like three days a week i make sure to be with onyx which is the child born right after brie's kid oh and their child is called legendary love yes legendary love who does not make his favorite not onyx is the only one he's like i go to bat for her he's like because i fucked with the rap group onyx back in the day named you after that house of pain he also was just the subject of an la times article that was like, everybody like pigeonholes him as guy with lots of kids. But what you don't know is he's like clearing 50 million dollars a year, which sounds like it's going to sounds like he had the wrong interpretation of the child support law when

when he did that story. Because sound. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's like you don't want people to know how much money you're making i think like nick this is going to be a tax issue in the future like i just he's not making good choices here right unfortunately i don't care how many hair wraps you're wearing he might want to google some california child support laws because he clearly doesn't know what he's working with he said like my honor i will represent myself today. And I do believe section 220 sub cold three.

You have 10 shorties. Did you say sub cold? I don't know. Look, my honor, it's been a long day. I have 12 kids. Damn right I did. I have 12 kids. I have been in the court of wild and out all day.

So tired. Do you have any idea how many colds I've had? I've had all the colds, every flu, every variant of flu currently traveling through the public school system in California. What is something that you think is overrated? I truly had Ted Lasso written on my list. I do still watch it in this third season the finale is in two weeks this last episode i thought was one of the corniest things i've ever seen on tv and then i get on twitter and everyone is like i cried for 30 hours after that episode of ted lasso that was yeah that's just that was

the most beautiful thing when they had the mean guy play violin while a woman did a monologue and you were like oh my gosh humanity is beautiful i just i was just like sitting there like am i having a stroke like am i just have i become the world's meanest hater that i don't understand what people are saying in this what right what is what is it i'm and i i know i always just joke a lot that's i say this as a joke i'm like but what is it about because i get everybody loves it i watch it and for whatever reason it rubs me the wrong way for some reason i'm not and i'm not and i went into being like yeah fuck with soccer yeah go ahead and then i was like i don't know man i think in my mind i was like i'm too

far gone for this show is how i sort of described it like i'm damaged goods and i can't it's interesting because the first season is incredible like i will give the first season all that credit if you're gonna watch it just watch the first season it started as the sharp 30 minute sitcom that was you know about like enemies becoming friends and you're pretty standard tropes but in an interesting way with soccer and then somewhere along the way they were like how about instead of 30 minute episodes we make the episodes an hour and instead of a funny sitcom we turn it into like a drama rom-com and actually it can just be like 10 different genres all shoved together so sometimes it's like a sports show and

sometimes it's a rom-com and sometimes it's like a feminist good time and i don't think anyone knows what they're doing and they just kind of gave in to all the fan service of like oh fans want roy kent to be like nice and funny so let's make him nice and funny now oh they don't want nate to be evil so let's like keep nate not too evil and just make him nice again for no real reason and it just really is one of those shows i don't think we've seen a show like this in modern times that has like lost its way so thoroughly because it gave in to like all of the awards and fan service and just was like yeah let's go yeah like there's no reason for these episodes to be an hour long like you watch it and you're just like why am i still what like how is it still going right

right right you're looking at your watch how is it we covered really we covered how jason sudeikis recently revealed that like ted lasso originally was like mean like every football coach in the world actually is and then yeah like full of toxic masculinity and then he like when trump got elected he had the insight that like maybe people just need a nice person and then it sounds like they have systematically had that same insight about every single character and every like conflict and negative emotion. What if everyone was just happy and they revealed their trauma immediately and then had it smoothed out by just good old-fashioned American optimism?

What about that? Yeah, there's no conflict. Anytime they try to create conflict, you know that it's not real. There's a character who comes out of the closet this season and one one of his friends kind of acts like oh i don't want to talk to you anymore don't touch me and you're like oh no is he homophobic is this going to be an actual issue but almost i was immediately like no his problem is that he can't believe the guy lied to him but he's totally supportive yeah and by the end of the episode he's showing up

flowers like it's not that you're gay it's just that you didn't tell me for five years and it's like and i shouldn't have centered myself in your process of coming yeah and it's like yeah great i'm glad we spent you know four episodes on this just so we can end on them playing video games together and being buddies again okay great right amazing yeah because i remember initially when that character came out it was like a promo for nbc sports and yeah he was like a he was like a hard-ass football coach trying to deal with the this club i think oh the ted lasso character when he originally came as a like a commercial yeah it was like an extended mid-roll, basically, YouTube viral clip. And then they kind of quickly faded off.

But yeah, they figured it out. And I think you can just tell Jason Sudeikis is tired of playing this character. I think he doesn't really understand why this is the show that he's doing that blew up like this. You watch now and he has this sense of, why do people like this? I feel like he's baffled i think they're gonna get it right with the next prestige tv show adapted from a tv commercial character jake from state farm is actually going to be just like a pro a fixer in washington sort of scandal but without any of the conflict or pathos and jake from state farm just like fixes it easily yeah apple tv is working on this as we speak like they have some scab writers who

are getting it down oh yeah fully written by ai what is something that you think is underrated yeah uh a very tv centric list as you know as the as the host of TV, I say underrated. I'm going with Mrs. Davis on Peacock. It's an amazing show that no one is talking about because Peacock doesn't promote their TV shows. The only one they want people to know about is Bubkiss with Pete Davidson, but they have this other show, Mrs. Davis,

that is revolutionary. It is the best show I've watched this year and no one is talking about it. What's it about? After being ousted from her convent sister simone vows to destroy the one responsible powerful artificial intelligence known as mrs davis wait what exactly it is about a nun who is trying to destroy this massive ai system that's taken over the world uh basically it's like you know you put a little airpod in your ear and it scans your brain and knows everything you want everything you want or need it can like help you achieve so everyone in the world is obsessed with this ai product and this one nun blames it for killing her father and is out for revenge and that is oh fuck oh basically the high level story it's damon damon

linloff uh damon lindelof yeah yeah and he's yeah you don't have to pronounce it correctly but with this in watchman i am like he's my favorite he's killing it he's killing it all the performances are so good uh betty gilpin is the lead the guy from greek yeah greek hive uh if you're out there uh yeah evan from creek is the main like guy in it and it's so incredible it's just that only scratches the surface of what the show is about but it is probably the smartest written thing i've seen on tv this year it is one of those shows that makes you go oh yeah human people need to write television. This is why it's so incredible and smart. Right. It's it's so good.

And I wish that I I wish Peacock would do as much advertising for their shows as I do. Like I promote Peacock shows more than their own PR department. And so, yeah, Mrs. Davis, please. Yeah, I can't figure out why the streaming economy doesn't work where you just like make these really expensive prestige shows and then just like dump them in the dark yeah and then in the dark and you don't tell anyone yeah yeah and then you're just like oh but p davidson's bupkis will put up 10 million billboards about it right well i blame i blame the writers personally i think it's they're just too selfish or could you imagine it's at the work of an algorithm and the Peacock marketing algorithm is like, I don't know. Do we need to talk about AI, like someone destroying me?

No, no, no. Let's not promote that one. Let's not promote that. Let's really focus on Bubkiss and the wrestling that Peacock has for some reason. It's okay. Yeah. I mean, because it's true. Like the marketing really is not great.

Like we had Jason Walliner on when Paul T. Goodman came out. And like a lot of our listeners are like, what's this show? And they're like, I have Peacock. I have Peacock and haven't heard about it. Like I check Peacock every day and it won't tell me about like new seasons of shows I have watched on Peacock. Like I watched all of the first season of Killing It and I know it got a second season that I think comes out soon. And Peacock's not like,

hey, that show you watched is coming back. You want that? Yeah. You want more of that? I guess. If you want it, it's theirs. Check it out. Don't be so disaffected.

So yeah, I gotta scream about Mrs. Davis, kill AI, and she's a hot nun. So there you go. There you go. All right. Well, let's take a quick break and she's a hot nun. So there you go. There you go. All right. Well, let's take a quick break and we will be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And Harlan Crowe is just a regular old guy and everybody needs to cool it yeah i don't know yeah do you have to say anything more than that yeah yeah i mean i i wasn't familiar with harlan crow before all of this controversy so i was shocked that he apparently had a stand in this like Graham Wood guy who was just like, oh, I've been into this dude and he's just a regular dude. You know, like all of our grandpas, he's like funding a Supreme Court judge, you know, just a regular old dude. This is the shit he's been caught for.

How else would you unburden yourself with generations of inherited wealth? As he said. Was one of the things that this writer wrote. He's not buying Nazi crap. He's unburdening himself with this wealth by buying historical relics. That's all it is. And if you're going to buy historical relics, why would it be of, say, the country you live in? Or maybe something related. Why wouldn't it be Nazis say the country you live in or maybe something related

why wouldn't it be nazis yeah it's gotta be it's gotta be cool man here's the thing you gotta understand there's so much history yeah but so the first like as people were you know as the pro publica series was being published the at The Atlantic came out with this article that made headlines because the author was like, anyone who calls him a Nazi for collecting Nazi paraphernalia is an idiot. And I think we all know that. Right. The last line was. Smart people can all agree. His last line of the article was something to the effect of like, Harlan Crowe's friends know that he's not a Nazi.

Right. article is something to the effect of like harlan crowe's friends know that he's not a nazi right and it's like but and those that don't of course they jump to that because they're not smart like his friends and you're like like like oh right what because america is a meritocracy and we can all just agree on that and move on but yeah as we talked about the last time we covered this the guy graham wood is a like he as he mentioned in the first article like grew up in the same town as harlan crowe in like dallas and would like run past his compound and like peer through the gates and like wonder what was so he's he is like a lifelong fan of this billionaire or at least his property yeah Yeah. His property. His mystique.

Yeah. You know. So he's always wanted to just get in there. He's been looking for this opportunity. You know, we all peek over the fence of a villain's mansion

and go, maybe me someday. I wish I could hang out in there and enjoy some canapes. Let me tell you, favorite pastime of black and brown people in the U.S.,

peering over somebody's fence that you don't know. It always ends properly. To the point where I've never done that shit in my life. But anyway, this piece, though, he really got, the first piece got Harlan Crowe's attention. And he was like, oh, shit, okay, this guy's coming up. I have a fan. Standing up for me.

I like, I fuck with this grand he wants to see my nazi member yeah like totally come on over so guess who got a personal invitation to harlan crowe's fucking sculpture garden none other than graham wood and apparently up top he's like look man i'm not gonna talk about this clarence thomas shit he's like oh yeah yeah for sure for sure for sure for sure obviously my guy we will never that's not even important to me what i'm trying to do is humanize you and this whole thing it's about as predictably like a puff piece as you can imagine like it's filled with some really dumb equivocations there's one part where harlan crowe's like i wouldn't be mad if like let's say george soros was friends with like the

head of the world bank and you're like oh y'all you really screamed that dog whistle into the mic okay and let's not pretend like a supreme court justice is some kind of rabid capitalist business person but i guess maybe that's what is being revealed is that these these people are not really here to adjudicate fairly that they're they can you know they're ideological pieces that can be manipulated by people like harlan crowe but again i think overall this piece is a really really cool moment where this journalist completely misses the point in order to like curry favor with a billionaire that he like admires and tries to pretend as if his ties to clarence thomas aren't deeply problematic he's like of course you should disclose that stuff obviously i'm saying that he's like, of course, you should disclose that stuff. Obviously, I'm saying that.

He's like, what was the fucking problem if he bought his mom's house and she lives there rent-free? Or paying his nephew's tuition? Harlan's just a good dude. He's always just helping people who happen to be on the Supreme Court. Okay? Yeah. Always. He knows where to put his money.

The title of the piece is called The Collector. Right. Because you're like, wow, great. I love that. money the title of the piece is called the collector right because you're like yeah wow great i love which is just which i just i like they just wave off the collecting nazi memorabilia so easily like just it's not like collecting lucky pennies okay like in germany people aren't allowed to collect nazi memorabilia i studied german history and i have no interest in collecting like nazi memorabilia like what it's just so fascinating that some of the three leaders during world war ii were all artists i just think there's a fun

story there that's what he says about buying hitler's painting that's just a fun story he said there's a fun story there like okay what's the fun i mean this is where i'm like take it let's ask him let's ask some more questions i think at best right he's so disconnected from what it means to collect nazi shit that he really doesn't see an issue because like oh like i'm not affected by white supremacy or hate like in ways like that plus my money insulates me from that kind of reality so i truly look at it as buying like old shit not even that i don't like i like it i'm just like i can afford it story i don't know what i don't know hit Hitler wasn't that scary. Even when I think of myself, I probably would have been fine.

Yeah. So, you know, what are we afraid of here? Yeah. What's the issue? But yeah, like there's another part, though, too, where like Graham Wood really wants to underline Crowe's like never Trump like bona fides or he's like man like he he hates trump though like he hates him so like huh like it's just kind of like out of nowhere just saying that like so that's got to count for something it's like but at the end of the day he is so invested in the conservative

like legal movement that like what i don't understand why you think that one is different from the other because they're both they're both like trains that are moving in the exact same direction yeah one is impolite and draws attention to itself which is against the rules especially for people who are part of you know the the tradition of collecting and protecting uh generational wealth yeah you know so the trump is bad for those people. There was there was another good quote that was saying how Harlan Crowe, like, actually, he doesn't feel powerful at all. He doesn't get why he's like he's like, I'm actually not that powerful. I'm a little baby. He's like a widow and weak. He's like, he's like they even like in the thing that they're saying,

even President Biden has said he's like how he's like, you think you're going to be calling the shots? He's like, I take more orders now you think you're going to be calling the shots? He's like, I take more orders now as president than I ever thought I would. As like as a way to be like, yeah, because you don't know where you are. Oh, that's why. Because you're part of a Democratic Party that is fucking tied irrevocably to massive billionaires like this asshole. Yeah, exactly. But it's just like it's fun to paint it

as like, he doesn't even think he's he himself thinks he's weak. So, it's okay. Yeah, it's totally fine if I'm not actually because I don't think I have the power. Sometimes I call Clarence Thomas and he doesn't even call me back until like 15 minutes later.

I'm very, very weak. Those 15 minutes, they feel like an hour i gotta tell you man i've told my woke granddaughter who just got back from liberal arts college i i've been ghosted too okay by clarence it's tough out here it's hard for a billy yeah you know what i mean but yeah it's it's more predictable like nonsense i don't know why they're all in on this a campaign to like try and defend Harlan Crowe or like what the editors at the Atlantic are like, oh, you got another Harlan Crowe piece?

Yeah, loaded up in the hop. But again, at the end of the day. Let's go! It's truly to be like. That's what the kids say, right? Let's go! Let's go! Let's fucking go! Atlantic offices. He's like, yo, Graham.

Spraying McCroy all over each other. over this one it's different my god bro this one's busting busting you didn't tell me about this i actually believe he's a normal guy but yeah i mean i think it just shows legacy media is still there they're still yeah the billionaire culture so they're not gonna about to they're not about to point fingers and shit no yeah this guy by the way graduated from harvard and currently is also a lecturer in political science at Yale University. So really in touch with the people, the mainstream media, Ivy League, like that whole insular circle of people just cranking each other off and being like, we're all we all get it right. Like we we can't tell the truth here right we know that there's a an order to things if you know what i'm saying and it like ultimately

comes down to fucking eugenics and being fascists like being wealth fascists essentially i wonder if they like i i can imagine they listen to run the world by beyonce and they go who run the world they're like us we love this one yeah yeah harland crowe is definitely like on his little stationary bike pumping that in his ears absolutely like a headband or he's got those exercise bikes that has yeah oh yeah with the little arms yeah yeah he's got the old timey like workout equipment from nazi germany that's like a jiggle belt that like jiggles your belly until the supposed to just like make the fat melt off he's like this is my gold kettle bell it's from uh it's from stolen teeth from oh never mind don't

worry about it anyway it weighs a ton though all right uh from one billionaire to probably david zeslow's probably not a billionaire yet and that's so i think we can get on his way yeah we're he might be on his way uh which is why we're going to give him the dignity of talking about him he delivered a commencement speech at his alma mater bu he is He is the Warner Brothers Discovery CEO who has done a lot of kind of fucked up shit and started the trend of just cutting all sorts of... Like canceling a movie that had already been completed, canceling a bunch of shows that existed.

The whole family department at HBO Max? Getting rid of the animation department. He came up with the Max idea of joining Discovery Plus and HBO Max to just be Max. Max. Which is one of the worst branding choices in maybe the history of advertising.

Oh man, but the ads, they're really winning me over. Those ads are all over NBA playoff basketball. My favorite part is when they're like, all the TV you love, and it's like, The Wire, The Sopranos, Secession, and then they'll just throw in 90 Day Fiance. And House Hunters International. And I'm like, you know what?

They're not wrong, though. I'm like, facts. I know all of those. Back to facts. So he didn't get very far into his speech. And in fact, people started booing even during his introduction. Oh, yeah. And there was just a constant ebb and flow of heckling throughout his 20 minutes.

So let's see what happens when they brought this man coming to the stage right now. And the boos ring out. Right now. And the blues ring out. Mr. President, I have the honor to present David Zasloff for Boston University's honorary degree. Here we go. Look at him. Look at him.

Wow. So uncomfortable. Yeah. And the claps are just the people on stage. Oh, yeah. Close to the microphone. Just being just guys yeah wow it's really going across the quad man you can hear that yeah he he was definitely he was not i i love seeing that when like these fucking out of touch wealthy people think they're about to be fucking welcomed by a chorus of cheers and so i was like fuck you and they're like just uh boo and then the

the professors in the background trying not to laugh yeah those were my favorite yeah just looking at their knees with like a smile on their face yeah just a smile like yeah like when fergie sang the national anthem at that one all-star game yeah everyone. Everyone was like, oh, say, can you see? And everyone was like, just don't, don't, don't, don't, don't react. Don't react. I'm going to bite my nails. Yeah. But yeah, he, I don't know.

People screamed, pay your writers. We don't want you here. And more to the point, shut up, Zez Lab. That's a good chant. That's not even you just shut up while the strike is bigger than one studio it's pretty easy to see why he is kind of being portrayed as the mascot for the bad guys here not least of which because his compensation last year was nearly 250 million dollars and they are treating writers and creatives like shit just generally across the

board well yeah and also like when you think of how how rigid all the streamers are being about royalties too like yeah look at him and what he's presiding over you're like yeah man there's a lot of shit a lot of roads are leading to you or you know yeah it works like yours well a big part of him like taking these shows down is that you know it it works like yours well and a big part of him like taking these shows down is that you know it is a tax write-off or whatever but it also stops them from playing paying residuals to writers and the actors uh which is residuals on tv oh you'd make so much money broadcast residuals for streaming you may be lucky if you get like a 50 cent check so it's already a thing where it's like the writers aren't making much money off of

this. They're going to fight to get more money on residuals. And his idea is just, well, if we just take the shows off, then you'll never get the residuals and other networks are clearly following suit. So it's just like, yeah, Zaslav, like you, fuck you. Fuck you for giving Hollywood this idea because now every platform is doing it yeah he later issued a statement after his commencement speech saying that he is immensely supportive of writers but he there's also a recent interview in which he said that the thing that will end the strike is not a fair deal for writers but rather a love of working get the fuck they just need this oh yeah you know us right we just love it so much that like uh even if i'm getting paid unfairly i just gotta do it i just love it love it love it love it

love it so much it's like yeah for the people that like are the own business owners they are still so stuck in this mindset where they think yeah like everyone loves to toil i don't understand like i'm making money they make a pittance that they can live off of and have their little bites of bread or whatever poor people eat and it all starts working i love that he thinks that the love of working is going to motivate people because guess what if you can't support yourself it means fuck all to work like but david please let's just let's just check in one more time with the students of boston university just so we can hear them the look on his face by the way like his mouth just turned into like a like completely horizontal line across when they

started booing he was oh yeah yeah and he's also wearing ridiculous sunglasses like he doesn't want anyone to see that he's crying yes, because they're like polarized and mirrored. It looks like he got off like a fishing boat off the coast of Florida or something. Yeah. Like the way that he's got these lenses. Anyway, but let's hear the youth. He thinks he's serving Hollywood, but he's actually serving, yeah, like fishing charter. A guy who just chartered a fishing boat.

You're serving Clearwater, Florida, bro. Yeah. And you're at a boat party where Connor Cruz, Tom Cruise's son, is DJing. That fishing boat you're serving clear water florida bro yeah and and you're at a boat party where connor cruz tom cruz's son is djing that's what you're saying well also dj what's his name the golden goldman sachs ceo oh yeah some people will be looking for a fight like the writers are the writers looking for a fight and he gave thumbs up like yeah i get you i get it i suck but don't be the one they find it with terrible focus on people's good qualities jack was right in my career i've seen

so many talented people lose opportunities or jobs because they couldn't get along with others because they couldn't get along with others such a weird way yeah i think it's gonna be like because they ask for too much in negotiations. Because they asked for too much. Because people weren't ready for their ideas. And it's like, no, they were just very talented and smart, but they couldn't get along with me, an asshole. You should have seen when they said, I was racist. You see, you're being difficult. Now I'm not going to work with you.

People will be looking for a fight, but don't give it to them. Like, that's how he views conflict is like something to be avoided. And just like he's basically telling writers not to strike in his speech yeah or just what your mindset needs to be to be a fucking like heinous multi-gazillionaire is to be like dude don't there will it's basically there will be haters right just know that but don't give them a reason to hate because you will become powerful enough or you can completely fuck the haters over. Just so you know, just so you know.

The idea of like somebody who just got this lucky giving a speech telling people like how to do it. And his speech is like, you just got to not push back when people are mean to you. Just take it, to you just take it that's fine just don't be the person they're looking for a fight for sir you're the one you are it

you can't choose the people that you work with figure out what you like about a person there's always something. And do what it takes to navigate their challenges. We all have them. The reality is most of us don't pay enough attention to our weaknesses. Okay.

Wow. Yeah. You're saying a lot already. Okay. Cool, man. Yeah. Okay, buddy. Dave.

Big D. Yeah. There's also. Dave. Big D. Dave. There's also that Vanity Fair profile. I don't think we've covered yet, but there's a Vanity Fair profile where the subhead is... He's just a regular guy. After 15 years running Discovery,

the media mogul for Main Street opens up... For Main Street. Opens up about his upcoming battle with Disney and Netflix. He's a reflection of his audience says nancy pelosi he's a regular guy the arbiter of nancy pelosi the most normal guy just the most uh nancy pelosi knows normal guys yeah oh yeah yeah uh and i think my favorite part of that whole thing is there's like a story

of someone on a yacht yeah the fleabag story where like david is on a yacht with all his friends and they put on one of his own properties i think it's like fleabag yeah i've been hearing good things about this fleabag have you guys seen this should we check it out which at this point came out like fucking what five years ago like this is so past the prime right right right and then there's this sex scene and he truly is like stop everything like pause we either all have to decide we're turning this off or we're all just gonna sit like sit silently and stare ahead and not look at each other he sounds like a youth pastor trying to navigate that moment right like what's the quote in that one?

The group found itself in the midst of a hot and heavy sex scene. A minute into the first episode of Fleabag. Pause! Exclamation point. So I put my hand up, recalls Zaslav. I go, whoa. So they stop it. And I said, okay, here's the strategy.

Bang. And I said, okay, here's the strategy. Bang. We either shut it off or we put it back on and everybody only looks forward. We don't look at each other until it's over. It sounds like he was telling them not to look at him so he could jerk off. Jerk off, right? He wanted to jack off. It sounds like he's like, everyone eyes forward, jerk off.

I'm going to cross my legs for a little bit. And nobody, when you hear something weird over here, you don't look over at me. You definitely don't make eye contact, which I've said about this whole trip. No eye contact. No eye contact. Don't look at me. Especially not when I'm jacking off to this scene that we're all going to. We made a fucking bow, Kevin.

Eyes ahead, you fucking loser. Come on, man. We made a fucking bow. This is so weird. Stick to the strategy. We don't look at each other we don't look at each other during a which also the fleabag sex scenes like aren't sexy no like they're all like awkward uncomfortable which i get that that's the thing you could comment on after if you're like man that

was awkward to be watching that with you my workmates my workmates but instead he's like we're all gonna jack off to this, right? Don't look at each other. Don't look at me. So is that, because strategy is the operative word here. I'm like, what are they, what is the shared aim

they are trying to achieve with said strategy? Just the CEO brain of thinking you have to say, okay, here's the strategy. Here's the strategy. During a sex scene. In his mind, he's like,

he's like, David, you're getting a boner. You're getting a boner. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Tell him to shut it You're getting a boner. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Tell him to shut it off. Whoa, pause, guys. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Here we go. Okay.

Here's the strategy. What? What the fuck are you talking about? What are you talking about, fool? Yeah. And I just need to know what it is like watching so many shows with him. Like, how is he getting through Euphoria?

Like, let me watch an through euphoria? I like, let me watch an episode of euphoria with David Sosloff. What's that strategy? What is the strategy, buddy? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah.

It's, it's, it's terrifying. And again, it's so terrifying to think that these are the kinds of people that are at the helm of these massive networks that make the decisions that come down. What kind of creativity we see like manifest on the screen some guy who is so like sexually repressed or whatever the fuck's going

on here that he has to go whoa pause everyone look ahead no no no no no oh my god what did i get into with this hbo crap like right like what what did you think you were buying but even with that it's like you have discovery plus which is like you know a lot of your shows are like 90 day fiance you me and my ex like yeah like the Darcy Darcy and Stacy where they're just like half naked all the time especially now like where they're like leaning into showing more like intimate scenes and it gets like way more salacious to the point. So yeah, I've been more uncomfortable with certain depictions of like sexual

encounters with like cast members on 90 day fiance than I ever have been with anything like normal. Yeah. Like script or anything. Yeah. Like 90 days of single life when they had Deb and that old guy just like straight up, like groping each other and making out on screen.

Oh, come on. That, come on. That's come on. So pause. Yeah. Pause. Strategy. Here's the strategy.

We need to strategize. I'm going to hit myself in the head with a hammer and don't call an ambulance for at least 15 minutes. Yeah. But that's that's just mainstream America. That's just he's a regular guy. Regular guy. Yeah. The regular guy says me.

Nancy. A hundred thousand dollar ice cream freezer. Pelosi. Yeah. The regular guy. Says me. Nancy, $100,000 ice cream freezer Pelosi. Pelosi. We got to have a second freezer for your ice cream, right? Yeah. I mean, just. Well, it's got to be that drawer kind. You're not going to open it like a French door.

It's like a door. What am I, four? That's stupid. You want the slide out. You want to see all those Jenny flavors that are $14 a pint or whatever. Yeah. And yeah. It's all good.

All good. He's normal. He's normal.. It's all good. He's normal. He's normal, folks. He eats Breyers ice cream. He's normal. It'd be interesting to see if he doubles down now. My guess, CEO mentality is this is

his villain origin story. He starts joining like that was the white house white house correspondence dinner yeah he starts like joining the elon musk chats that he's been inviting him to where he already is you don't think he's been talking yeah already absolutely yeah if he's not already but again it's not just even this like look at where because he's also in charge of cnn and like look at what happened with that trump town hall and like how much they're trying to court donald trump back onto cnn for their just for ratings ratings baby we made the news and that is our job as people

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All right. Here's the strategy. Strategy. All right. So I paused the Kanye interview. I said, all right, here's the strategy, folks. We either pretend it didn't happen or we watch it and feign ignorance after the fact. They went with both.

Right. Yeah. So, yeah, after belatedly cutting ties with Kanye, Adidas is stuck with a ton of Yeezy merch. And we're worried that they'd lose a lot of money if they couldn't find a way to repurpose all the tainted products. Their solution seems to be just like to sell the leftover Yeezy sneakers

which apparently they're valuing at $1 billion. We'll see what the market says about that. I don't think anybody wants to be wearing Yeezys right now. I've been on the Yeezy subreddit where fans of the shoes like all congregate and they it's like manna from heaven time for these people oh they're like oh yeah because i mean they're just good shoes i'm telling you if you were if you were fucking rocking yeezys you never gave a fuck to be yeah you didn't so

like you were so mesmerized by his so honey you're not letting go with that because and also i mean i think every easy thing i've seen is ugly as hell so if you're wearing that like you're just into him yeah it's it's a good way to like out yourself as someone with like not great style sense or can't read like the tone of society at the moment they're like you are wearing air himmlers. Okay, do that. But yeah. Yeah. So they're vowing

at it worth $1 billion. Proceeds will be donated to various anti-racism groups, including the Anti-Defamation League. Good. Yeah. So it's...

That's going to make Kanye angry, you know? They're going to give a solid, what, 5% probably? Oh, yeah. That's the thing. Not all the money's going.

Not all of it. A portion of. I've seen portion. yeah that's the thing not all the money's going there not all of it a portion of i've seen portion i've seen the word chunk i love when a significant amount will be donated okay direct quote how about you assign a dollar amount to that word because it's a little nebulous family which amount we talking here let's talk a percentage of sales instead of a chunk a set what are we doing here adidas yeah right exactly they're like well actually after costs and things they're like wait hold on now what how just how much money are you giving that's the thing i'm really curious by because if they're part of their calculus is we're about to take a l we're about to eat a billion dollars worth of product that we can't sell some of that has to be like how much

can we make to be okay with it not well the best version is just to give this away and then you know this this is how we make amends for basically looking like we stand by this bullshit yeah because they're still basically making money off of these products designed by an anti-semitic person who probably will still get some money out of this like i don't see a way where they sell all this stuff at a discount and kanye is not getting like some kind of percent of that right like yeah yeah yeah i wonder if like a lot of the negotiations like the reason it took so long for them to come up with this here's the strategy was because they were trying to get him to sign off on like a strategy like this yeah you know we we have to make it look like we are not racist man like come on how do you last price

doing we're at the same time they cut their deal with beyonce and ivy park so they they just maybe they hate black people and when are they gonna discount all the ivy park that's what i'm that's the sale i'm waiting for like really the last thing i heard about ivy park was that it was like dropping and everybody was like clamoring oh no no like there was a big wall street journal article that was like yeah ivy park does not sell adidas has lost like billions of dollars on this deal with beyonce because no like none of the like collections she put out ever recouped the money they spent to like do it and promote it oh right right right yeah and people were just like there was no clear idea of like what these clothes were even for like people were just like when do you

see people out wearing ivy park it's like gym wear and it doesn't make sense uh there were a lot of drops happening that i had like very similar clothing but it would just be different patterns i know because i would buy all of them and i would just be like oh cool these are the same pants it's just instead of like pink you know ivy park logos they're orange ivy park logos Okay, Beyonce, sure. Here's my $80. Right. And they ended the deal. They were just like, we're done.

And everyone is just like, well, when is that going to go on discount? When are we seeing an Ivy Park? We're actually going to burn the product. Yeah. And now she has like a designer deal that I'm like, I'll never be able to afford that.

But like, where is my Ivy park in the adidas like outlet mall yeah right exactly coming to a ross near you yeah oh i have that cow print skirt too yeah oh yeah becca's becca's yeah but i love that that was my favorite collection she did a whole like denim cowboy cow print collection that was like the. I think that's maybe the only one that like legit sold out and had good sales. And then after that, it was just downhill and people being like, where do I wear denim chaps, Beyonce?

Right. And like, that's also not what I look for from Adidas necessarily, right? Yeah. It's like denim. Yeah. Well, I think that's the other thing too, is like, I mean, look, she's a capitalist.

Her and Jay-Z have said as much. They know they're there to secure baggage. Like, shout out to them for buying a 200 million dollar house in malibu cash money over the weekend wow only lines they cross is dollar signs and also picket lines yeah oh yeah i'm gonna do a party at chateau marmont yeah no problem wasn't that wasn't that him wasn't that that was jay-z and then back in like 2007 it came out that they were like uh the grammys were happening during the last writer's strike and they were like hey musicians you shouldn't perform like the grammys aren't going to get a waiver to do it and beyonce was like i just straight up came out and was like i don't care about the strike i will perform at the

grammys no matter what i'm beyonce i'm an unsolvable force it was just like because you did not have to say this it's okay it's okay why i yeah just fyi and like the strike ended the week before the grammy so it was fine but i just love that she was like just fyi i don't care yeah hey just in case it was unclear to anyone oh yeah i don't care yeah i will break a ticket line nobody and i mean disney is streaming uh is purging a bunch of streaming content and i feel like we would be remiss if we did not use this opportunity ashley ray to ask you like what so what are we losing willow we're losing why the last man uh we're losing the turner and hooch reboot uh the ask jeff goldblum or something with like the world according, according to, uh, which came out at a weird time.

Cause it was also when there were like kind of some cancel him things coming out with like young women being like, Oh, he's kind of weird. And so that show didn't get a lot of promotion. Uh, but I think what a lot of people are missing is that there are a lot of Hulu shows that are being purged in this Disney Hulu blend.

Cause that's basically what's happening is they're going to combine Disney plus and Hulu into one app. And then Disney said, well said well hulu you have to get rid of your like dirty stuff that isn't disney aligned uh so they got rid of the premise which is a really funny show that bj novak did that looks like gun control uh there's like the best episode is about this guy who designs the world's best like anal dildo. And obviously Disney was like, no, thank you. But if you get the chance to see it before it's taken off forever on like May 26 or the 24th, go watch all the premise. They also took off Maggie, which was like a sweet little rom-com, you know, modern day girl dating. Same with Everything's Trash, which wasbe robinson and was basically about like a

trashy dirty slutty black girl we don't get that kind of representation so it felt really cool and i think they also took off oh what was it it was the premise maggie oh and doll face which that one was shocking because hulu fought to keep Dollface, canceled High Fidelity, which people that was like the TV version of the movie had so many Zoe Kravitz in it. Everyone was like, this is going to be a hit, but it was so expensive. They were like, we don't want that. We're going to focus our money on Dollface. They made two more seasons. It had like Kat Dennings. It was pretty funny. And now they're just like, screw that. Take it all off the Internet. No one can ever see it again. funny and now they're just like screw that take it all off the internet no one can ever see it again so yeah and we're out it reminds me of the latest season of barry where they like debut that series

on like some streaming platform and it's like number one for a night and then the next day they cancel it they cancel it's not performing with the right algo the right algo yeah and it is a lot of this is like shows they didn't promote like i know people didn't hear about maggie and so it's like you could still promote these things and have people watch them and have them become cult hits but then guess what they get popular and you're paying residuals to people because people are watching these shows and that's not what they want so right yeah it's just yeah and it sucks i have so many friends who have written on these shows and then also wrote on like the hbo shows that are coming down and now i have multiple friends who are like the last three shows i've worked on you can't watch anywhere

like they don't exist right they don't exist like you you they're not on illegal streaming sites usually unless they kind of were big enough i think doll face because it had multiple seasons you could probably watch on an illegal site but like the premise nobody paid attention to that show when it came out like nobody knew bj novak did a whole show like i felt like i only knew about it because you were tweeting about it initially yeah i was the only person tweeting and talking about it and it's really good it has tracy ellis ross iota berry like so many good people in it and i thought for sure like oh the fx bj novaks it's gonna ride that wave of like the bear and all of this and instead it's you know them just kind of taking away shows that also make the history and culture of these dating

apps and or of dating apps of these streaming apps and of what people are interested in unclear when you just take these shows off you don't see like oh there was a resurgence of like female-led rom-coms during this time where we got doll face high fidelity everything's trash and instead it's just oh it never happened yeah and in the future when it's like oh why aren't there these like female-led comedies why is everything so male focused and it's like oh because they erased it right they're gonna be like did nothing get made between 2020 and 2023 yeah it's just like actually everything got made between those years everything got made and just was erased.

And obviously, a lot of the shows that are getting cut are shows that feature a lot of diversity that come from people of color. A lot of the HBO Max shows that got cut had to do with, you know, Gordita Chronicles, Latina showrunners. And I think with Disney, the biggest thing that shocked people was that they wanted to remove their documentary, Herald, which is about the guy who basically created the Little Mermaid and made Disney like this huge animated movie, like hit destination studio. And he was gay. And then Disney was like, with the Little Mermaid reboot coming out was like, take it off. We don't want it. The Little Mermaid reboot is dedicated, was like, take it off. We don't want it. The new Little Mermaid reboot is dedicated to the memory of Howard Ashman. And then the documentary Howard is being taken off.

They reversed course because they recognized this as a bad look. Yeah, so many people were like, do you really want to get rid of the one documentary about a gay guy right before Pride Month and also when you just put a movie out dedicated to him right right dedicated to his memory which we are trying to erase which we would like to erase because now to the memory of him yeah that's all just to the memory but not to anything that could hurt our stock price if, you know, some conservatives see gay in our content. Right, exactly.

Of course. They're like, I told you. They're, ugh. Anyway, but yeah, good luck to them as their ongoing fight against Ron DeSantis. Like, we're like, oh, Jesus Christ. That battle where everyone loses. But hey, we'll see where that ends up, too. Ashley, such a pleasure having you back on the show.

Where can people find you and follow you? Follow me at the Ashley Ray on all the platforms, Twitter, Tik TOK, Instagram, whatever. Uh, and if you're in New York,

June 6th, I'll be recording my debut album at union hall. Uh, yeah. Ice cream money. Get your tickets. They're on sale. And yeah, gotta be good shows.

I can't pull up. Cool. Catch Ashley there. It's going to be a good time. Gotta, are you. I can't pull up. Pull up. Don't catch Ashley there. It's gonna be a good time. You have an outfit for this stand-up special? I think I'm gonna go full Ivy Park. Full Ivy Park. Yes.

There you go. Let them know ahead of time. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Oh, I gotta give it to the Randall Scandal documentary that just came out on Hulu today. It is about Randall from the Vanderpump Rules universe. I know everyone is talking about the Scandaval issue and that whole affair. But the Randall scandal is about Lala's husband who like cheated on her, was super abusive to all of his assistants.

And then it comes out that he like stole money from 50 Cent and was part of the whole like elder abuse against Bruce Willis and also is involved in Vanderpump rules. And I had no idea about any of this and it very good. Oh, just makes the Vanderpump rules watching experience even better. The Randall scandal. Oh yeah. The Randall scandal.

Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work in media you've been enjoying? It sounds like a, like a new influencer or kind of like Joanne, the Randall scandal. Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work in media you've been enjoying? It sounds like a new influencer or kind of like Joanne the Scammer. There's Randall scandal. That accounts for late. Randall scandal. Find me at Miles of Grey, wherever they got

at symbols. Find Jack and I on our podcast. Not sad boosties, but Miles and Jack got mad boosties. It's still mad boosties. It's not sad boosties. Cont Not sad boosties, but Miles and Jack got mad boosties. It's still mad boosties. It's not sad boosties. Because look. Contemplative boosties.

Contemplative boosties, 100%. Because yeah, the Celtics are also in a way as well. So I can go to sleep with that on my mind. Also, Sophia Alexandra on 420 Day Fiance. Right now we're talking about Love is Blind because I'm catching up since the baby. I've been so behind, but I'm getting it all in. I want to be able to talk your priorities straight

gotta be able to participate in the discourse because that's oh yeah oh wait i'm sorry can i also say and if you want more tv talk for me please listen to tv i say on earwolf wherever you listen to podcasts exactly the most important place they pay me to say that to people look we smoke weed it's it's easy to to not get caught in the stuff right i'm like i talk about tv like every week tvsa oh yeah that's what i do oh right right that part right that's what i do uh and then let's see uh do i like a work of media i don't think so uh what did i see i saw something recently no no no miles saw all your tweets and found them lacking yeah was not entertained even a little timeline yeah what can i say at extra napkins tweeted a picture of a big

like family-sized m&ms package and it says it it's just like on the side it has the blue m&m with sunglasses on it with like sticking his finger up in the air like he's vibing out or something. And it says, electronic music brings the energy for a summer full of fun. And Extra Napkins tweeted, why is M&M saying this to me?

That was for 30 years that was the entire marketing strategy of pepsi was just to be like we all like music right music's fucking cool anyways drink pepsi fuck are you talking about man hey are you talking to me right now people who make music drink pepsi you should drink pe Pepsi. But I think they gave up on that strategy because they no longer have the Super Bowl shows this year. So I'm wondering, maybe M&M's is trying to step in and be like, we like to dance, right? And when you think of dance music, think of M&M's. Think of M&M's. Yeah, when you're turning up on Molly, think of M&M's. Yeah, they are like little... Nothing better in your mouth than dehydrating M&M's. Think of M&M's. Yeah, when you're turning up on Molly, think of M&M's. Yeah, they are

like little... Nothing better in your mouth than dehydrating M&M's. Oh my god, the best. 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 all of the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what's the song you think people might enjoy? Well, we were just talking about the demise of Ivy Park. So allow me to resurrect Beyonce one more time, because over the weekend, she dropped a track with Kendrick Lamar. And his verse is wild on it it's called america has a problem yeah but you already knew that the remix with

kendrick kung fu kenny so yeah check this one out it's uh it's fun like it's like the second time they've hit a track on lemonade yeah he's on lemonade yeah so hey great collaborators uh just letting you know you, they're still here. New Kung Fu. Despite the Ivy Park not being on the show. Yeah. All right. Well, The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio.

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