The Daily Zeitgeist - Inside Trump Jail for Wayward Youth, Nvm Roseanne Totally Not Racist 6.14.18

Episode Date: June 15, 2018

In episode 169, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Ismael Loutfi to discuss Trump's birthday and the Drudge Report headlines that come with it, the rumor that Sarah Huckabee Sanders may be leaving the White House, also the White House showing up at job fairs to get people to work for them, the report the General Inspector put out that claims that James Comey was not politically motivated, a first look into the prison for wayward migrant children (call your senators!!), Jeff Sessions new policy that suggests domestic abuse and gang violence victims don’t need protection, New York suing the Trump Foundation, a check in with Roseanne, a quick World Cup update, and more!  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And the zeitgeist has to answer right down just to tell you once again, who's Jack? That was courtesy of Athena Micah. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Hey! As always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Hey! If they say Miles, Miles, just tell them that it's human nature. Miles Gray, why does he do it that way? Thank you so much.

Timothy Rosa Jr. at Timmy Badger on Twitter. That's what we'll call it for that AKA. And again, guys, I'm really sorry for Jack's Twitter. That's what we'll call it for that AKA. And again, guys, I'm really sorry for Jack's behavior. You know, we're really trying to... And so here's a ya

for y'all or a ya ya or whatever you want. You get your fan service. Get out of here. Hey, man. We're a family, baby. We are thrilled to be joined

in our third seat by a hilarious stand-up comic, Ishmael Lutfi. Hello. Hi. What's up, man? Sorry you had to come in in the middle of all this familial drama.

And German screaming. Yeah. But you're welcome for the singing. I take that as a slight to me because my grandfather in Japan, he was an expert in the philosophy of Goethe. So, you know, German is very important to me. So, you know, that's fine. Maybe it's fan service. Goethe. Goethe. Goethe. Oh, you know, German is very important to me. So, you know, that's fine. Maybe it's fan service.

Goethe. Goethe. Goethe. Oh, the philosopher? Yes. Oh, I know. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Is that true?

Yeah. Really? And he, other fact, you know, he had to go to Germany during World War II because he was one of the few

Japanese people at the time who understood Germans very well from like an academic point of view because he was very into philosophy. Yeah. My grandfather was very trippy. Yeah, man.

Maybe you should be doing the intros then, you know? Oh, wow. Yeah. Welcome to the passive aggressive zeitgeist, everyone. I don't know. Oh, yeah. Maybe. I don't know.

Maybe your name should be Jack O'Brien. All right. We are going to get into the over under with our guests. But first, we like to give a little preview of what we're going to be talking about. We are going to be covering America's newest holiday, Trump's birthday. Sarah Huckabee Sanders may be leaving the White House and how they're going to be filling all these jobs that are opening up. We're going to be talking about the Inspector General report that claims Comey's fuck-ups were not politically motivated, the Inspector General report that claims Comey's fuck-ups were not politically motivated, but also contains a single text message exchange that will be motivating literally weeks of Fox News

coverage going forward. We got our first look into the prison for wayward migrant children, and we're going to talk about Sessions' new policy that suggests domestic abuse and gang violence victims don't need to be protected. We're going to talk about the suit against the Trump Foundation, which nobody saw coming. We'll check in with Roseanne, explain why I'm starting to believe Collargate might have actually been Colangelo's wife, because women, am I right, guys? And we're going to check in with the World Cup. But first of all, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are as a human being?

Just search something right now. No, I had something. Chapter Ar-Rahman. There you go. That's a chapter from the Holy Quran, Holy Book of Muslims. Okay. It is the month of Ramadan right now, and I've been reading the book, reading the good book. This is the earliest I've been awake in about 30 days right now.

Oh yeah, because you sleep during... I just sleep all day, yup. So that I can eat at night. It's cheating. Oh wow. It's cheating. That's what like a lot of younger Muslims do, right? Yeah.

Or even like, especially, yeah, because I have a friend who grew up in Saudi Arabia who's like, no, we just sleep all day. Everyone just sleeps all day. And then we eat at night. I'm lucky I don't have a day job. I can just do nothing. I'm sorry we dragged you out, you know what I mean? I'm sorry. Today's the last day. And then we'll eat at night. I'm lucky I don't have a day job. I can just do nothing. I'm sorry we dragged you out. You know what I mean?

I'm sorry. Today's the last day. Oh, that's right. Today's the last day of Ramadan, so it's kind of perfect. It's like now I gotta fast the whole day. Oh, da-da-da. Yeah, exactly.

So it works out. Wait, what is, is it also referred to as Eid? Yeah, Eid, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah. Eid. It sounds like eat, which is purely a coincidence also.

So you are fasting today, and then that's it? You're good? Then it's done. Done, baby. What are you gonna eat tonight? I don't know. Breaking fast is always more of a letdown than you think. It's never- Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. Just because your stomach shrinks and then you eat like one thing. Take a bite? You take a bite of a burrito and then you're like done.

Yeah. Oh, right. You're like done. You drink coffee and it's like over kind of did you have like uh well as a kid did it like really fuck with you like when you're going through puberty and need to eat like a fucking savage to grow your body i just think about it in that context like at 14 man if i had to fucking not eat i would i don't know i don't know i know it was it was never a big deal for me i was a very devout child i Really? So I was just very into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was like, this is the way to do it. By the way, no water, just for the record. I want everyone to know, no water. I feel like a lot of people don't know that. Yeah. No water? No water. Jesus.

That's why a lot of athletes have problems. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah, I remember that was a big thing with Olajuwon. Yeah. When the Rockets were the reigning NBA champs. Sorry, Knicks fans. Sometimes the playoffs and finals would go into Ramadan.

Wow, man, that is some devotion. Very. Growing up, back when I was still even serious about the Catholic faith when I was like a child, I still couldn't stick to the no meat on Fridays thing, which is really- So you escaped the guilt that easily? Yeah. Yeah.

I guess I wasn't that serious, clearly. Well, because I have friends, too, that are Catholic, and they fucking acted like you literally stamped their ticket to hell. When they ate meat? Yeah, when they're like, I think I should just get a filet-o-fish, man. Yeah. There's something about the Iraq war and terrorism and everything that made muslim kids way more religious yeah i think because you had to like you had to like pick a

side in a weird way so right uh-huh yeah all right man which side did you pick man oh dude i don't want to talk about it uh what is something you think is overrated you know i really considered whether to pick an easy thing or whether to pick a hard thing. Well, go easy first. Go easy first. Okay. Okay. I guess two movies.

Easy was A Quiet Place. Overrated. Didn't like it. Okay. Didn't like it. I know it's a little... Is it too late to be saying that? No, no, no, no.

I just heard someone yesterday say it was the best movie. It sucks. It wasn't that good. They said it was the best movie? Yeah, yeah. Somebody said it was great. God damn. Did you look at them quizzically? I did. I looked at them very quizzically. Or said it was the best movie? Yeah, yeah. Somebody said it was great. God damn. Did you look at them quizzically?

I looked at them very quizzically. Or were you polite and were like, oh, okay. No, no, no, no. I gave them hell. Oh, good. Because they said it was better than Hereditary. I'm like, die. Wait, what?

You suck. I haven't seen either fucking movie, and I already know Hereditary is the go-to scary movie of all time. Hereditary is so good. Okay, Hereditary is the one that I'm scared of. Right. We're just Tony Collette's contorted face that they use for every article about it. I'm just like, dude, I can't even handle looking at it.

So you saw Hereditary? Yes. All right, this is the second guest this week who is saying it's just terrifying. So good because it's so horrific and terrifying and the mood it puts you in because you're like, I've never been head fucked like that in a movie. Sort of, but it's also just the imagery is like really stunning

it's like beautiful oh no it's cool and it's such a because the whole thing with horror is like doing the genre in a special way

it takes the whole possession trope and it really finds a new way to do it oh hell yeah it's beautiful I know what I'm doing I'm drinking three

Sprig sodas and going to watch Hereditary that is a bad idea yo shout out to Janine from Sprig for coming through with it. I'm about to put to good use, mom. I may have a panic attack at the AMC City Walk, but that could be for other reasons.

I was dumped at that movie theater. That's it. Anyway. That sounds like a real head start. What was your heart overrated? Black Panther. Wow. Okay. Oh, my Panther. Wow. Okay.

Oh, my God. Wow. Here, say your piece, man. For everybody listening, I am not white, and I'm a part of a marginalized community. I would like hearing that you're a white guy who converted to Islam.

They're out there, but they had to like Black Panther. I didn't like it. I thought it was just a fucking movie. I thought it was another superhero movie. It didn't feel special to me i don't like superhero movies and so that might make you go oh then you weren't gonna like it but that's not true because i also don't like action movies and so you just like horribly fucked up scary i just

like horror movies and i like movies that make you ponder and okay postulate and so to you it's not that you didn't like it you were underwhelmed I was very underwhelmed and my point is that I don't like action, but I do, I will like an occasional action movie. Like The Raid, we'll make, that's a great action movie

and it's just great. Well that's just good, yeah, I mean that's a fucking solid. Cool movie! Black Panther, didn't do that for me. Interesting. Have you ever liked

a superhero movie? No, which is why I went into it excited to, I went into it like this is gonna be the movie that like i go damn that was a good super have you ever liked a black person uh hard no okay well that makes sense yeah well then in that case yeah okay i can't really argue no and

that's the other the other thing that annoys me is that it's like everybody has to like it too no one has to like i think people are too well i think twitter will have you thinking that you have to like it. I don't think, I don't go around being like, how the fuck do you not like Black Panther? It's up to you. I mean, like. People have gotten pretty mad. Yes, people do, of course.

But I think it's, that doesn't mean that they are right for getting upset at you. You know what I mean? I think people don't know how to handle things if they're told like the thing that they love, not other people do. Look at every Kanye West fucking album. Right. right you know just that's part of fandom i think with black panther though i think people who may be getting really upset is because it for especially african-american people in this country it felt like oh shit like we're having a moment here sure and i think it's more about the moment than maybe the actual content of the film uh But again, I agree with that. It did represent something.

But as a Muslim, and I've been doing a bit about this, within the first 15 minutes of Black Panther, there are Muslim terrorists that kidnap a bunch of girls. So I remember going into it like, cool, woke movie. And then immediately the movie was like, fuck you, Muslim. Why? Why here are we the bad guys also? So that was my... No, no. I think that's an apt analysis.

It seems like your opinion might be that you just don't like superhero movies, period. That's what people say. Stop trying to save him, Jack. I'm not trying to save him. If he's out here with his chest out saying he don't like Black Panther, that's his thing. But you've never liked a superhero movie. You didn't like Black Panther. You've never liked a superhero movie.

Never liked a superhero movie. I liked the ending of The Last Avengers. I thought that was kind of cool. What do you think about Blade? I have not seen Blade, but you know, I should watch it. I disagree with it in theory. I like the idea of it. To me, it's an allegory about it.

The casting was way off, in my opinion. It's about being biracial to me. Alright, what is something that's underrated two things Survivor on CBS best show ever yes

yes yes dude I love that intro don't even watch the show anymore but I know the intro I just started watching it like six months ago

oh you just started watching Survivor I just got into Survivor season 20 the all stars yeah god damn who are the all stars at this point are they from people six months ago. Oh, you just started watching Survivor? I just got into Survivor. Season 20, the All-Stars. Yeah. Goddamn.

Who are the All-Stars at this point? Are they from people just in the last five years or like rich in there? I think it's from everyone. Season one, season two. Best TV I've ever watched.

I'm learning life lessons. You mean how to properly deceive people? Yes. How to lie to people. How to make power moves. How to make power moves. Finding hidden immunity idols.

I'm doing it all. It has a diehard fan base. So my sister-in-law came in third one season on Survivor. What? No way. Yeah, on the season that they split everybody up by race. Cook Islands? Yeah, she was in the Asian race.

No, no, she wasn't. The Asian race? Becky Lee. Becky. Yeah, Becky is my sister-in-law. Becky. I know her well My wife went

And was like The family member Who visited Oh for real Yeah She got She got shouted out On a little like

Survivor fan board Oh shit Watch this I get furiously Trying to locate that clip now Yeah yeah yeah But The racial season

I know What the fuck was that about It was a different time Who won that Who eventually won that race war Can we I don't want to Spoiler alert Is a Asians won Yes That's right I know What the fuck was that about? Who won that? Who eventually won that race war? I don't want to Spoiler alert Is Asians won

Yes Asians won Asians are the best race Face How do black people do? After what I've said I can't They were very athletic

Let's just say Let's just say the merge Happened kind of early Because they were like This does not look good. That's a good thing when they have these race war type shows. I got two horses in the race simultaneously. So I can be like, well, you know, I guess I'm claiming more Asian today.

Yeah. But Survivor, the one season that I, that was the one season I got really into and it is good TV. Great. Yeah, it really is. I remember when it first came out, I was so intrigued by it because A, because a it was just sort of like yo they literally just have to survive without shit and once that wore off i was a little bit less into it but then it was then you realize i feel like every tabloid when the season would end would be like we're just talking about the fuckery that happened like towards the end of the season and people just getting you know deceived and thrown

under the bus or whatever that's something i I missed out on. Everybody believes they got a bad edit, I feel like. When we came out to the final, because the final was three people. It was still up in the air whether she was going to win or not. And so it was like out here, we stayed in Hollywood. It was a big deal. This is actually where I asked their father if it was cool if I married his daughter. It was out here right before the Survivor finale. How many Survivors have you won?

Exactly. None. But so we got to hang out with all the people from that season, and there was a lot of scuttlebug about, like, yeah, well, I got a bad edit. Oh, that's how they talk to contestants. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you know, I was fucked in the edit. I think everybody on reality TV believes that. 100%, because because at that point you're at the will of the story

producers the producers the editors everybody who's just like no no no no she needs to look angry so we can create this narrative yeah you gotta create a narrative out of reality which is not how reality works so you are gonna get bad what they don't realize is there's someone logging everything that's happening putting into a book for the story producer see the next day like okay well overnight this is what happened These are possible ways you can take that. Yeah. Take that, take that. It's so interesting how it, I know it's good because I'm cynical, but I just, I'm not cynical

a survivor. For some reason, I just believe all of it. Yeah. I'm like, everybody is just doing that. Yeah. Self-preservation. We out here surviving. It's all real.

Yeah. Once, once you start starving people, the truth comes out, right? Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. I'm all about that survivor body they get. Dude, they do get hot. They do get hot.

Finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? One thing, the way to pronounce the name Ahmed. This is something that's been bugging me forever that I feel like I can't say enough. There's no ha. People always say Ahmed as if they're like being extra like, oh no, let me pronounce it. Okay. Ahmed. It's like, there's no Kha in Ahmed. It's a Ha. It's a Ha. It's a Ha. Ahmed. Ahmed. Yes. Yes. Very random thing to

point out. But that bugs me, man. That's a myth. There's no Kha in Ahmed. That's just the ignorance of the Western world, I think. Yes. It's like overcompensating. But do you even hear people who would know better saying it like that? No. Yeah. So it's just ignorant people. It's just ignorant people.

Like me. Like almost everybody. Yeah. No, me too. Hence the myth. Ahmed. Ahmed. Ahmed.

Ahmed. There you go. That feels better. That's more subtle. It's gentle. It's delicate. Yes. Arabic is a very gentle language

People think it's harsh, it's not, it's very sweet Well I feel like I learned a lot Say something sweet to me in Arabic I mean It's gorgeous Beautiful That means death to Israel But it's beautiful when you say it

It's gorgeous The language All the content is pretty brutal, but it sounds great. It sounds great. All right. We're going to get into the stories of the day. First of all, I just want to wish you guys all a happy Trump Day. In the conservative media, this is being treated as sort of a national holiday.

The Drudge Report top headline is, Trump's best birthday! Exclamation point. Economy, North Korea, World Cup, jobless, 44-year low. And, you know. Watchdog slaps Comey. Yeah. Watchdog slaps Comey.

Broke from FBI procedures. Third thing, no political bias. But moving on from that, FBI agent texted, we'll stop Trump from becoming president. So, all true things, but about 30 headlines down. They do mention that he's been sued by the New York attorney general for running a scam charity, which would be the biggest story in the history of conservative media had it

been about anyone with the last name Clinton or Obama. Yeah, literally anyone related to them or who sounds like they're related to them. But yeah. So happy birthday to our fearless Godhead. Fuck that guy. What? All right. Fine.

I love you. Didn't you see that portrait of him at the entrance to the- Oh, yeah. To the child prison? Yeah. That's tight. The child prison has a literal, like what you would see in a church of Scientology to L. Ron Hubbard painting of Donald Trump with like a fucked up quote. I think on the Donald Trump subreddit, they tell everybody to just masturbate into a bag of Cheetos.

Yes. Honor him. Yes, yes, yes. Honor him in your own way. So just some news out of the White House. There is a report that Sarah Huckabee Sanders may be leaving the White House. And Raj Shah, too. Who's Raj Shah?

Raj Shah is the other guy that comes out and has to take bullets when it's too hot for Sarah Huckabee Sanders. When Sarah Huckabee Sanders is having a nervous breakdown. One of her weekly nervous breakdowns. I can't Raj Shah. I literally lied to them yesterday. I can't rush. Go on. Yeah. I literally lied to them yesterday. I can't go three lies in a row. But then she came out or she tweeted basically something to the effect of like, oh, CBS News. Oh, so you know me now?

You don't know me. You don't know what's going on. Which is her general comportment when it comes to the media. Hi, this is Truth. What's your comment? You don't know me. Yeah, exactly. Okay.

Do you think she's going to stay on just to spike the media? That would be so... They lie. And let her fully rot from the inside out? Fine. Like, then that's the L you take. Because, you know, when she broke down a little bit trying to tell that young boy about how they were going to do stuff to prevent school shootings and she was getting emotional, that's when I was like, oh, shit. Like, someone's feeling human in some way.

So I guess it shows that some of the people who we thought were so concrete inside may be wearing down, but who knows? It could just literally be because she maybe got a better opportunity to like work at some, be a pundit somewhere. Right. Who knows?

Who knows? I'm not going to speculate whether or not she has a heart. I will speculate whether or not she's leaving. And I think she is. Nobody should fucking hire her either. Right. Yeah. Oh, she's going to get a job in Fox, right?

Yeah. Immediately. I mean, someone will take that or like the America One News Network. Oof. Yeah. I wonder like the way that we're talking about how we need to get reality celebrities to go to Trump to present all of our issues to him because he will listen to Kim Kardashian or something. I think we need children.

You could have also said Kim Jong-un. Right. All of the Kims. Oh, maybe it's just the name. That would have tracked. Yeah. But I feel like maybe we just need children to ask her all the questions. That might be just like break her down.

I guess it is. Do you find it hard? Well, I mean, your kids aren't really talking like where you have to lie to them yet. But do you ever think about lying to your kids and then it breaking you inside? No. But yeah, it's mainly because they're still at a point where you don't really have to. They're not asking the hard questions. The hardest question my son asked me is to take my earbuds out when I get in.

Like right when I walk in, he's like, out. Out. Yeah. Attention to me. He's never like, what really happened? I cracked. Yeah, exactly. Nobody will ever know.

And you're like. So off of that, there's a report out that White House turnover is so bad. It's 51%. I'm not sure what that figure actually means but they're beginning to post jobs at job fairs yeah that's that's fucking that's bad no that is crazy as the more uh kind reporting of it says highly unusual for a white house to uh try and court talent at a job fair because typically these jobs are so in demand because they can launch your career in politics

by working for an administration. Most people know what the fuck is going on, so they're like, nah, I'm good on that, bro. Right. So yeah, they have like things, the flyers are really, really something else. It just says, interested in a job at the White House? Like, come to the executive

branch job fair uh then it says something like oh there'll be representatives from across the trump administration uh to meet job seekers of every experience level and guess what you could have your pick of literally any old fucking department you want to work it's like they're they're listing stuff like do you want to work at the dod the defense the interior commerce homeland security health and human services nasa energy the treasury i mean do you want to work at the DOD, the defense, the interior, commerce, Homeland Security, health and human services, NASA, energy, the treasury? I mean, do you want to fucking tape back together the documents that Donald Trump rips apart? It's just that is a, did we mention that?

I don't think we mentioned that because it was $70,000 a year job that somebody just left was taped. So Trump got in the habit when he was a killer, baller businessman in the 80s. Once he was done reading a document, he would tear it up just to be a fucking dick. I'm done with it. Yeah, done with this. Fuck the trees. And because he's now the president, you need those documents for posterity and for record keeping so history knows how to judge you.

So they literally have somebody whose job it was to tape his documents back together. And that person has since left. All very normal. All very normal. This is all very normal. This is all very normal. Jesus. Damn.

I mean, 51% turnover is a fucking bad number. So what does that mean? The Brookings Institute has been keeping track of like the turnover. So in this study, they're looking at sort of two metrics and contextualize the turnover. The first is they look at the turnover among senior ranking advisors in the executive office, which isn't cabinet secretaries. And then there's a second set that tracks turnovers in the cabinet. And I think just based off of that, you're seeing like roughly 50%. Suffice it to say that it blows out the turnover

of every other administration. Right. It's wild. It's another one of those things where, you know, we've dropped our expectations for this administration so much that this like doesn't really register. But when you compare this to other presidential administrations, if this was Obama, if this was Bush, if this was first Bush, Clinton, people would be losing their fucking minds about something must be going on behind the scenes. But here it's just like, yeah, we know something's going on

because fucking everything leaks to us and it's a fucking dumpster fire yeah and usually the higher turnover ends up like towards the end when people are like leaving the administration to take other jobs and things like that and to have it this high up top you know just shows you just a fucking toxic dump in there all right we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back i've been thinking about you i want you back in my life it's too late for that i have a proposal for you come up here and document my project all you need to do is record everything like you always do one session 24 hours. BPM 110. 120.

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This has been coming for a while. People knew it was coming. I think there was a lot of fear on the left that this was going to come out and say, were conspiring against him because there were these like text exchanges that people that had leaked to the media that seemed to suggest that there were two, I think, FBI agents who were having an affair who were, you know, like the rest of the country, extremely worried that Donald Trump might become president. So the report does have an exchange that gave Sean Hannity a small orgasm. So Lisa Page- Did you get sort of hung up thinking about him having a small orgasm?

So- Oh, yeah. Yeah, that is what he would look like. So Lisa Page wrote, she's the, I guess, a FBI lawyer who was having an affair with a guy named Strzok. I think they had been saying it's Strzok. Okay. But it's that fancy spelling.

Yeah, with a Z in the middle of it for no reason. She said, Trump's not ever going to become president, right? Right. And he texted back, no, no, he won't. We'll stop it. So that's not good. Well, also, good job stopping it, asshole. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So fuck off. I mean, that's the other thing He's the president So sure this sounds like a guy Who like tells you he can get you a discount at Foot Locker And is like so I really want Can you get me that discount Oh yeah I got you

Just pumping up his ego He's having an affair with her It wasn't an affair they were just in a relationship Oh I thought it was an affair I think if you're in the FBI it's an affair It's't an affair. They're just in a relationship. Oh. I thought it was an affair. I think if you're in the FBI, it's an affair. It's always an affair. It's always an affair. Yeah, but he's an agent.

It's always top secret. She's one of the lawyers at the FBI. She's not an agent. But yeah, they work texting. Look. But no, no, he won't. We'll stop it. It is such just like pumping up his ego.

Like, you know, I'm a serious FBI man. Just me. Just me. Watch. Gerard Butler is going to fucking play me in the Lifetime movie about this. Right. Now, the overall conclusion from the inspector general explicitly is that it was not politically motivated. All these fuck-ups that happened that were consequential to the election, and they call out Comey for his handling of the Clinton email investigation.

They say they were not politically motivated. That's the overall conclusion. The inspector general in 2003, George W. Bush chose him as a member of the Federal Sentencing Commission. And then he was appointed to his current role by Obama. So he's like has credentials from both sides. has credentials from both sides but you know he was the guy who spearheaded the investigation into fast and furious where people under the obama administration were like smuggling guns and lost track of all those guns and one of them was used to shoot a u.s agent i think so he's come for people during a democratic administration before uh he's not just like an anti-Trump guy by any means, but I'm sure

his credentials will be questioned, or at least his conclusion that there was no political motivation will be either questioned or just completely overshadowed by a focusing on that. They'll scream about, oh, James Comey uses personal email. These other FBI agents use their personal email. Hillary uses her personal email. Motherfucker, all y'all been using your personal emails too. I mean, can they make a big deal about using personal email at this point? I don't. Trump uses his fucking Gmail.

Yeah, and he also refuses to let go of his personal phone. Right. Whatever. Yeah. Really? He hasn't gotten rid of his phone? He has one, but they're like,

yo, please use this other one, and he's just doing him. Man. He cannot be told what to do that's the same he will not listen to people or really consult with people the same reason why he saluted that north korean general at the summit like and north koreans are loving that because they have a photo of him just straight up saluting this north korean general and they're like you see the respect because he's a maverick miles right respect our president this i mean that's a mistake but usually they say like someone a military advisor be like he's gonna maverick, Miles. Right. Respect our president. I mean, that's a mistake, but usually they say like someone, a military advisor would be like, he's going to salute you, but you don't salute him back.

Right. That's him showing you respect. You don't have to, you just don't salute him. It is a bad look. I didn't even consider that. I think he's just a, oh, guy in a uniform, got to salute back, got to be polite. That's exactly what I would do. And to you, sir.

Yeah, if you feel awkward, if you're not used to it, you're like. If somebody salutes me, I'm going to salute back yeah even if i'm president yeah right amazing so i don't know this will be a big clusterfuck it does not look good that that text exchange happened this is going to be the focus of conservative outrage for uh presumably decades well there was good timing because we just got our first look into that child immigration detention center. Right. And you need all the distractions you can get

because that is the most, I mean, my God. The fucking, so Jacob Sobroff, who's the homie, friend of the Zeitgang, an MSNBC reporter, we used to work together,

shout out to Jacob, shout out to the Valley Boys. He was part of the first group of journalists that were allowed into that detention facility in brownsville texas which is like that old walmart that jeff merkeley from the senator from oregon tried to get into and they called the cops on him because like oh someone's trying to look what's going on in here apparently kicked him out uh and did a bunch of cleaning up i'm sure a lot of cleaning up made up a nice press packet, and then allowed these journalists in. They were not allowed to record anything while they were in there. But based on the thread that he tweeted immediately getting out, and then also as he was talking to other reporters over the last few days, the descriptions of this place are just horrific.

First of all, when they come in, the people that worked at the facility asked the journalists to smile more at the children because, quote, they feel like animals in a cage being looked at. So they're like, hi, can you help make them feel more human? Because we've dehumanized them. So please, can you counteract that with smiling? Maybe don't split them up from their parents.

So, yes, he noted one of the first things you walk in, there's a huge fucking mural of Donald Trump with you walk in there is a huge fucking mural of donald trump with the quote sometimes losing a battle you find a new way to win the war uh and it's just like straight out of just some did he say that i i don't know who knows it's really it's it's a fucking disheartening thing to look at and it just, it feels like a straight up prison camp at this point. And granted, you know, he was very clear to say, this is not, there are no jail cells or like, you know, metal fences or whatever.

But let's be clear. These kids are being incarcerated. They have 22 hours a day inside and they get two hours of outdoor time. They have one hour of structured time outside and then an hour of free time. And then the rest of the time they get to hang out on the hours of outdoor time. They have one hour of structured time outside. Like a prison. And then an hour of free time. And then the rest of the time, they get to hang out on the inside of an old Walmart. Everything is just like, you know, they have their little rec area in their really nicely shot package. They show kids playing PlayStation and playing pool or whatever. But, you know, they don't mention that, like, this place is nearly at capacity.

I think each kid has about maybe 40 square feet of living space and it's just the problem is not going to end because of jeff sessions shitty shitty policy now these facilities are being ran by this non-profit and we just saw a newsweek put out a report that the ceo of this non-profit he makes over 700 000 a year according to their most recent filings i don't know why this man needs to make that much money. From the nonprofit? From this nonprofit. They operate, I think, 26 other facilities just like this.

But like one of the people working there said that these places are licensed. Like they are licensed people to take care of children. Like they understand what they have to do. But the newest thing that's being floated around is that the trump administration is looking for literal fucking tent cities to build uh like on bases on military bases to handle this just horrific practice of separating children from their parents and in places like texas or wherever it's going to be very hot and one of the people who worked for this non-profit pointed out that those 10 cities will not have to be licensed. Like they won't – like the caretakers there, they won't have to be a licensed company running those things.

So I just don't understand who this is for because isn't Trump like whenever you show him like a child, doesn't he kind of care weirdly about kids? Like I remember in Syria, the first time he did anything was because of the babies. Right. And he said that he's like for did anything was because of the babies. Right. And he's said that he's like for the dreamers kind of in a weird way. I think he half is but also at the end of the day

doesn't really give a fuck. Like I think he says it if it feels like it's an opportunity to look human or humane. But I don't think that would help him with his base

and he knows that. Right. Exactly. So he, I feel like they must be coming from a real place because if he just wanted to pander to his base

he'd be like, fuck him, you know be like, fuck him. I hate these kids. Like I said, we're looking at literal fucking prison camps for immigrants. Yeah, which is specifically for his base. I mean, the number one issue that his base ranks above economy and all that shit or like to their first or second is immigration. Right. And a lot of them live in places that have no immigration.

Yeah, of course. But it's weird because you have people like Paul Ryan or even Hugh Hewitt asking, they're like, yeah, I don't know about this separating. Like, why are we doing this? And it's just, it's meant to be as a countermeasure to dissuade people from wanting to enter illegally. But that's some straight up abuser shit of just like, well, I wouldn't have to fucking be so harsh if they weren't breaking the rules right so that's what

they get yeah and that's fucking awful it's inhumane and again i've read a lot of pieces on the internet it's very true like we've slowly it's been this whole thing remember when trump first started like we can't normalize any of this we can't let this shit happen we can't and we've slowly boiled the frog and next thing you know they're talking about oh we need tent cities for these immigrants oh they right they're locked up in an old walmart and it's i know it's tough to everybody listening to this show and who is trying to stay aware of the news every day that there is so much shit that will just crush your fucking soul and sometimes you just for your own sake you're like okay hold like let me take a break from this but that's a luxury we have because we live in a place. Most of us live in a place that we want to live in. And most of us

are in a situation where we are not living in constant fear of our lives or the threat to our families. I know some people are, and my heart goes out to you, but I know a lot of people, especially in the Western world or people who are living in the United States elsewhere, that is a luxury for us to be able to be like, let me ignore this shit for a little bit. But this is bad. This is very bad. Like, I mean, this is when we really have to start taking action. Yeah, this is worth your outrage.

Yeah, no, and we have to really stay on this because the other side of it is just being like, oh, that sucks. Yeah. And we can't do that. So please, please check out our footnotes where we are going to have some links of things you can do. Really, the easiest shit you can do just call your senator yeah you can call the switchboard at the senate and you can just be like let me talk to joni ernst or let me talk to jeff merkeley let

me talk to whoever your senator is you can call 202-225-31212 2-2-5 3-1-2-1 Please, I know like everybody who listens to the show is a very empathetic person, is a nice, kind person. You don't listen to the show because you have a cold heart and you don't give a shit about humans who are trying to better their situations. Please call them and to support or co-sponsor these certain pieces of legislation like the Keeping Families Together Act, the Protect Family Values at the Border Act, the Help Separated Children Act. There are many things that our representatives need to get behind because there's only so much we can do with our outrage. And we have to let people know who are at the levers that this really can't stand anymore. It's fucked.

It's just terrible, man. And like, you know, most of us have parents who have immigrated to this country and it was in a different situation where luckily there was a humane look at people trying to enter this country and it's very heartbreaking to see like you know you're reading stories a father this honduran man he hanged himself when he was separated from his family because he was the despair was just overwhelming and this is a systematic dehumanization of these people. And there's no regard. There's no regard for the humanity. It's disgusting. So, I mean, one of the reasons people keep coming, even though, you know, this horrible shit is happening, is because of, you know, domestic abuse and gang violence in their home countries.

violence in their home countries. And naughty elf Jefferson Beauregard Sessions has decided that those two types of violence, the ones that are kind of the most common ways for, you know, asylum seekers to be killed, are no longer justifiable reasons to grant asylum. So not only are they doing horrible things to people when they come across the border, separating them from their kids, but they're also making it easier for them to throw those people in jail and separate them from their kids. Right. So yeah, The Daily had the New York Times podcast that is a worse version of this one, had an incredible...

No, sadly, that's a first-rate podcast. Worse than ours, a second-rate podcast. Exactly. Weirdly. But they had an incredible interview with a woman from a small African nation. Oh, Burkina Faso. Yeah, Burkina Faso. And she came here because she was escaping a situation where her ex-husband was just abusing her, beating her, literally stabbing her.

She went home back to her family family and he drove his truck through her bedroom and like mangled her leg all this crazy shit and when the police were called they told her she needed to be better at obeying her husband so like that is where she was coming from she decided okay i can't live here anymore this dude's definitely going to kill me. And, you know, under Obama, she was able to gain asylum. She now has like a normal life here in America. But were that to happen now, she's escaping domestic violence, domestic abuse. And I mean, domestic abuse is not a fucking joke. It's no, I feel like part of the reason that we underestimate or we're able to sweep some of the shit under the rug is because you know when we watch a cbs show the murderer is always like some mysterious person that the victim didn't know and that's not what happens like 90 of the time people get killed by

people they know their husband you know their significant other that is the shit that ends up killing you so yeah how domestic abuse is a precursor to so many other violent crimes too yeah this administration has clearly shown the administration has does not value women at all from whether it's embracing rob porter and his abuse scandal and shit trying to defend him and sort of i think the dwindling of they barely i don't think they've hired any female U.S. attorneys. There's a very distinct misogynistic anti-woman attitude in this administration. And now we're seeing it at this level, too.

We shouldn't be surprised because now Jeff Sessions is like, oh, domestic abuse. Now that's not really real to us here. Right. Or your reproductive rights or things like that. We're not here for that. your reproductive rights or things like that. We're not here for that. I mean, a lot of the problem that I have with conservative values is it's a lot of men thinking that, you know, women shouldn't be able to disobey their husbands type shit.

And, you know, that ties directly into what we're talking about. It's almost like they're escaping to a world that is now run by people who believe the same shit as the police who are like, you need to obey your husband better. It's like, well, fuck, man. We should not be run by those sorts of values. There are people who on Twitter, they like who are commenting on Jacob's thread on Twitter as he was sort of like, not live tweeting, but after the fact. And they're like, well, I mean, look at what the immigrant detention centers look like

in Europe. I mean, this is a lot better. And that's not the point. We're not talking about the conditions that they're living in or, you know, they're like, well, Obama had these people in these places too. This is not what we're talking about. This is specifically about the practice of separate, breaking up families to cause as much emotional distress to them as a deterrent. And then to then, I mean, who knows what kind of psychological effects it's going to have on these kids, like from just being ripped away from their parents them as a deterrent and then to then i mean who knows what kind of psychological effects is going

to have on these kids like from just being ripped away from their parents and be like yeah go chill in this old walmart right for now because you're escaping a situation that oh but ps gangs like ms 13 or 18th street gang those are exports from the united states we invented that yeah that this country and then exported that back to their home countries so it seems so easy to just be like yo let's have a heart but we are looking at an administration that there's levels to humanity to them there's not one human race there's americans white men at the very top then trickle on down based on your military or your melanin count yeah do you think this is just because of the base also like this kind of shit i think i think it's all because of the base also? Like this kind of shit is all to please the base?

Jeff Sessions doing that? Well, Jeff Sessions genuinely is a racist who believes that he thinks these people deserve to be treated as less than human, I think, deep down. And he's just a bad human being who comes from just horrible backwards motives. But I also think it doesn't hurt. He's just a bad human being who comes from, you know, just horrible backwards motives. But I also think it doesn't hurt, you know, that I think putting Sessions in charge of, you know, of the judicial system was for the base. Yeah, sure. But I wonder how many Trump supporters could watch if they saw live uncut with their eyes. Oh, mother breastfeeding their baby,

and then someone trying to take the child away or whatever. And then the woman instinctually, using her motherly instincts will not allow this to happen, trying to fight them and then them having to handcuff this woman. If they go, yep, I'm cool with that. I don't think you could. And I think it's easier for people on the base to actually avoid just what the humanity of this all.

Because you watch, you know, selectively Fox News is going to just show you what they need to for you to not get too pissed off about it. Yeah. Super producer Nick Stumpf just pointed out in our earphones that we're actually seeing part of Trump's base, the evangelical Christian community, starting to for once be like, wait a second. We're on board with everything. But tearing families apart is not cool. Yeah. Well, Pence gave a speech to a group of Baptists, I think yesterday, and they were not feeling, they pulled up for the immigrants over there. They were definitely very clear that they were on the side of these immigrants and that this is not, this is increasingly, they say, any form of nativism, mistreatment, or exploitation is

inconsistent with the gospel of Jesus Christ. And you know what? I'm glad that that's happening because for a long time, I was wondering when these quote unquote Christians would actually find the word of God and apply that to what's happening here. Because I know I was, my family, on my dad's side, everyone was Christian. I went to Lutheran schools and Catholic schools, and I know good Christian people who actually listen to the actual teachings of the Bible, which is about having empathy and taking care of the weak and having gratitude

for what you have and being able to share that with those that do not. And so it's refreshing to see that. But I think more people really need to come to grips with the reality of what's happening. Still one of the most powerful organizations in the evangelical community is Liberty University run by Jerry Falwell Jrr who is just a total trump you know writer so in other better news the new york attorney general uh and this is by the way like the 30th story on drudge and you know mostly being ignored by the conservative media the new york attorney general is investigating the Trump Foundation or was investigating the Trump Foundation since back in 2016 and are now filing a suit against them, basically suing the Trump Foundation, which is run by the president and his idiot children.

Tiffany's the only one that got off scot-free though, huh? Yeah, because Tiffany's great. Because he doesn't even consider her a child. Right, exactly. She's going to be the only one that gets away because he has completely ignored her for the most part. She was actually on Instagram playing a Cards Against Humanity style game

that is just full of insults against her father called Trumped Up. So shout out to Tiffany Trump trump way yeah she's so cool right i guess i love tiffany um but basically they they've just done all sorts of shady shit with this charity quote unquote the last recorded donation from trump to his foundation uh which is what the foundation is supposed to be for, was actually in 2008. Since that time, he has been basically getting people to give charitable donations through him to other charities and taking credit for it.

So scummy. He will go to another nonprofit and be like, hey, I'm putting some money together to give to this police foundation. And they'll be like, okay, what's the check? Right. $150,000, $150,000. He gets the check, puts it in his foundation and then cuts the check to the charity from the trump foundation like right you just re you just

re-gifted that shit right guy that's literally what you did damn yep re-gifted that um so yeah i mean good i'm glad you know someone is you know clearly putting has their eye on this but i guess they must have had to really build this case yeah Yeah, because they're trying to go be like, yo, we need to start paying some restitution and also make sure that none of you ever sit on the board of a nonprofit ever again. Right. So, yeah, just a drop in the bucket. Is that going to have any impact on anything? Probably not. This isn't like a criminal suit, right? It's a civil suit. Right. But I think, yeah, it would break up the foundation. It would make sure no one else could really work for it.

Yeah, I mean, it's going to cause some problems, but is this like anything of real substance that will stop the horrific things in the world? Probably not. I mean, I think some of this relates to the emoluments clause, and that is impeachable, and I think one of this relates to the emoluments clause and that is impeachable. And I think one of the things that is being evaluated is whether there is campaign finance violations, which are felonies.

So I think this could eventually relate back to criminal cases. So, you know, there's always a chance that this might do something other than, you know, be the 3000th entity to sue Donald Trump. But yeah, one of my favorite details from the suit is that he used the foundation money to pay for advertisements for his hotels and multiple portraits of himself. That detail is just so... Oh, because he would use the foundation to bid on a painting of him. Right.

And then buy that. Right. That's tight. Good good for you scam lord right do any of you own trump like any kind of trump paraphernalia oh yeah i i'm a member at mar-a-lago foundation member at mar-a-lago um no i don't i only say that because i've been to a bunch of liberal friends of mine's houses that have like like kind of ironic trump thing like trump on the toilet but that makes me feel uncomfortable that feels very portrait in my uh two-year-old's room with a war quote underneath it but uh well you know that's just american you have that actually on your the ceiling so when he's sleeping he looks up at it that's so crazy no I would never no fuck that yeah I don't even think

he's ironically like fun you know cause he would see that and he would like it he'd be like good yeah I am funny

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rosanne bard from tv uh yeah she is trying really hard uh i guess to try and resurrect her career or save what is left of it but i don't know how much you can save from a pile of burning embers of racist trash but we'll see uh so last night she got on the twitter and did a few things to try and do some pr spin uh for the fallout for her racist bullshit on twitter uh first she was insisting that the planet of the apes thing was actually about the iran deal so all good, no worries. That was never about racism. It was about anti-Semitism and how the Iran deal was racist towards

Israel. So that's why I'm... Yeah, so I don't know. I don't know what the fuck that was supposed to mean, but she was really trying to pivot on that. And then she found a black friend. Yeah, she was then telling people, she was like, yo, check out this. This sounds like a fucking joke.

Right. But she straight up tweeted, one, I want you all to know I'm fine. I've been using this time to reflect and to gain insight. When I say to, I mean, she's literally putting the number two in. Okay. Gain insight on what I said and how it was misunderstood. Okay. I'm sorry.

How, what I said and how it was misunderstood. Okay, I'm sorry. What I said and how it was misunderstood. No, you misunderstand society. Right. My lady. Okay. Needless to say, I'm not what people have accused me of. I've never practiced racism in my life and never will. Practice?

Yeah. You're talking about practice? I'm in the game of racism. I don't need to practice that shit yeah shut the fuck up roseanne okay and then next says meantime i've been watching this new doc called malcolm x an overwhelming influence on the black power movement directed by my dear friend thomas muhammad my campaign manager in 2012 who called me immediately when my show was canceled then she puts a vimeo link but I guess it's password protected.

So then she gave you the password to the Vimeo link? Come on. And then she says, if you have any questions for me, direct them to Mr. Muhammad, please. Be sure to watch his brilliant movie. Thomas Muhammad has agreed to speak for me as he knows the work I have done in civil rights against racism all my life, all caps, and understands my tweet was about iran's regime not race the website is bbunity.com uh and then finishes it up with much love to you all thanks for helping me it worked also listen to kanye west new album about mental illness it's the

greatest thing ever about so i mean i'm i think i believe her yeah she said she got a black friend who made a malcolm x movie so he's not some regular old dude. He's a real black guy. I mean, did you see his Twitter avatar? His Twitter avatar. So I did a little sleuthing because I was trying to be like, where is Thomas Muhammad going to be speaking on her behalf? Right.

Because I looked for a website. What website I could find was very vague. The website for his movie, it's just about the movie. And he's really just like, hey, you want to pay me to come screen this at your school and then I'll talk about it? The trailer is really poorly put together.

I'm a little bummed out. But yeah, if you need proof that he's a straight up brother man, he's on the beach putting up his black power fist in a very grainy photo

and his Twitter has not really been active for a few years. I'm not sure what is going on. But again, if your defense against accusations of racism is, I have a black friend who will tell you I'm not racist. Right, who will speak on my behalf. You already lost the game, huh?

I mean, come on. Okay, see, this is probably bad for me at this point, but I feel like Roseanne kind of got shafted a little bit. What do you mean? It was so fast I just that's my only concern I was asleep and I got a thing on my phone it said Roseanne in trouble and I was like whatever and then by the time I woke up it was the show was gone it was like canceled he cancels it so what is it about too fast it felt like it felt like I didn't have and nobody had any

time to process any of what was going on. Well, what do you need to process if she's out here straight up comparing women of color to Planet of the Apes and saying, oh, you're the Muslim Brotherhood plus Planet of the Apes? Right. Of course, it isn't saying that she would say that. It's fucked up. But I feel like she should have had time to make excuses and apologize and be like, I'm sorry. And then like let – I just felt like as a consumer – I've never watched her show. I would probably hate it. I don't like anything. But I just feel like she – I and then like let i just felt like as a consumer i've never watched her show i would probably hate it i don't like anything but i just feel like i don't like this i don't

like how people should be allowed to be like fucking wrong sometimes though i know she's there's probably a million super racist tweets for years yeah but she deals in very dangerous racist conspiracy theories and just pedals just really fucking right damaging ideas and her rhetoric is the exact opposite of how a civilized person would behave so i guess if you are normally civilized yes then maybe we could give you time to explain yourself because you have a track record of being civilized she has a track record of being racist xenophobic and like you know islamophobic and so already people were like how the fuck should you get a show right you know well i mean because there's a big portion of the population that probably doesn't know that about her that doesn't know that she's fucked up yeah well i look either

way i don't think you have you get a shot to explain yourself you already you already have shots before people get shots it's it just it feels like it my only concern is that it's the kind of thing that's going to inflame the right in a way that's unnecessarily. We don't need to make them mad about their show getting canceled. Yeah, but who gives a shit? I'm not worried about people. I'm not worried about people who have no empathy. Sure, sure, sure.

Why should I have empathy? They don't exercise that in any way. Somebody's got to have empathy for somebody. This is a country. We all live together. Yeah, well, I do. I have it for these fucking immigrants who are getting split up at the border i don't have time to worry about some motherfucker who's worried because their racist fantasy show was taken off the air i don't have time for that

you know what i mean that's and i guess that's where i have to think about where my energy is and i don't mean to get all you know pumped up no no no no but i just have i know i'm on the wrong side of that that's not that you're on the wrong side i get that you feel that if we're like going to exercise this kind of justice or whatever that yeah there's a way to do it yeah but i think some offenses are too egregious that you extend somebody that kind of understanding especially when you were on a show that is this big and right you know that only normalizes her talking like that yeah and that's sure that's where i'm like nah you can't that's why i think there should have been a little bit more time just to and then event let it get canceled the next day or something.

But to me, it felt like if I was a supporter of Roseanne and liked the show, and then just within four hours it was gone, it would seem like some liberal media bias shit. For the purpose of appearances, it was fast. Yes. All I'm saying is like Louis C.K. said some fucked up stuff and he had the biggest show on FX for a while. You know what I mean? And he was like, nobody cared. Nobody cared at all. Right. Right. It just seems like a, I don't know. Well, we're slowly.

I agree. Of course. Trump has created a world where now we are extra hyper aware of this kind of shit because it's brought out the worst in other people. Right. hyper aware of this kind of shit because it's brought out the worst in other people right yeah and now we're combating a world where people are emboldened by this president to say hateful shit like that and try and make that you know the normal day-to-day discourse in this country and i think some of us do not see how dangerous that is sure and don't have time for it yeah and i i generally am somewhat skeptical of like mob justice online like but this is

just people have been pointing out that she's been you know just saying awful indefensible things for many many years and that's the real thing yeah for her I guess at the end of the day she's been consistently like this I don't know I have a soft spot for Roseanne

I'm gonna tell you something she don't have a soft spot for Roseanne. Yeah, but I'm going to tell you something. She don't have a soft spot for you as a Muslim. Hey, hold on. Hey, Malcolm X. Muhammad, Thomas Muhammad. One of the episodes of Roseanne. The episode of TV. She was racist against her Muslim neighbor, but then turned out he was a good one.

And she liked him. And she was saying i'm afraid of you right you shouldn't be afraid of me i'm afraid of you right right whatever so we all out here human uh-huh and most of us are trying to treat each other with respect yeah true fucking this administration makes like smart points like don't apply anymore because of just how bad everything is. Hey, the World Cup is happening. I know. We had a fucking energetic show.

I'm hyped up, and it's not because the AC is off. I'm sweating like a madman. But, yeah, World Cup kicked off today in a showpiece match with Russia versus Saudi Arabia in a battle of whose team fears their leader more uh and it was wild watching putin and muhammad bin salman being like yeah boy you're like like really dapping each other up and then like putin would be like hey i don't know bro y'all suck uh because russia won five nil uh and i'm gonna chalk that up to ramadan you know what I mean?

Because these were the two lowest ranked teams going into this. So it wasn't going to be like a barn burner. But yeah, there was a 5-0 was a score. And I'm very disappointed at the commentary on Fox already. It's just so aggressively American now. And like they got rid of like a lot of like the real actual commentators from England who knew the sport. Right. And now it just sounds like they're like, oh, I mean, the pressure, man.

He just smashed that near post. And you're like, oh, God. Please talk a little more about tactics or something a little bit more than like, oh, he went for a cool move there and was talking about an elastical flip, which if you like soccer, that's like Ronaldinho's signature move, the flip-flap. Anyway, I was just like very checked out so I'm probably gonna go

switch to the Univision feed the decision to have the main commentators be Joe Rogan and Hulk Hogan is really weird dude Rogan Hogue

Rogan Hogue Rogan Hogue at the World Cup and the other thing too is they have a lot of the commentary teams broadcasting from LA watching a feed and then doing their commentary from L.A. in a studio.

It really gets that energy up. That is a violation of the rules of sport. The commentator should be in the venue because half the fun is them trying to speak over the crowd. And when goals are scored, they have to get loud, too, because it's just, I don't know. I'm still, you know, I'm going to watch. America, we're just,

we're having a tough time with soccer. Yeah. Just like consuming it. Then there was like a commercial for MLS where it's like, our soccer.

And like Miguel, like the singer, is in it. And I was like, okay, I guess Miguel is an ambassador for soccer now.

Weird. It's just an odd, odd look. But you know, he's an LA boy, so shout out to you um all right well that's gonna do it for today's episode we're gonna try something new out uh as we go out we're gonna tell you about some of our favorite uh tweets i was realizing that the uh

when we give out our twitter handles gets a little rote uh so we are, as we do that, going to tell you about some of our favorite tweets or pieces of media that we came across in the past day. And, you know, we like to start out with our guest. Ishmael, it's been a goddamn pleasure having you. Oh, yeah, thank you so much for having me. Where can people find you, follow you? What do you have coming up? And what is your favorite tweet of the past?

Okay, you can find me at follow you. What do you have coming up? And what is your favorite tweet of the past? Okay. You can find me at Ismailian, I-S-M-A-E-L-I-A-N, on Twitter. It's like ATLians. Yes, exactly. I love it. Yes. I love Atlanta. What about Instagram? Instagram, Ismail Y. Lutfi. So just, if you type in Ismail Y, it'll be the first thing.

L-O-U-T-F-I. Yes, exactly. Now plug something. Tomorrow on ComedyCentral.com, I have a web series coming out. Oh, dope. Hey, hey. A short digital series, yeah. Nice.

Three episodes, three to five minutes long each. They're about a fellow trying to keep up with his New Year's resolutions, and then it fast- fast forwards six months later. Nice. To June. I like the way you described it as if you were selling like three episodes, three to five minutes. Well, one episode is three, one is four, one is five. Oh, okay.

So you're like each one, you're like, we'll see what they say. I heard it's going to be three to five. We'll see how it turns out. I actually had nothing to do with it. Dude, shout out to Comedy Central. They're doing some cool digital shit. They got Jamie Loftus doing some shit over there. They got Ishmael doing some shit.

This one? This one to my love. This series? This young man? I've been called that before. Which one? This one? Hey, come with me, man. So now hook us up with a fire tweet. Let me get you a funny tweet.

Okay, so here, I guess it's kind of a sad one but hey that matches this show this has maybe been our saddest show to date

yeah this has been some heavy shit anyway so it's from Roseanne no no it's it's a sub tweet CNN

this is from four days ago I know this is sad sorry but tonight in a special tribute we remember and share the legacy of chef storyteller and colleague It's a subtweet, CNN. This is from four days ago. I know this is sad, sorry. But tonight in a special tribute, we remember and share the legacy of chef, storyteller, and colleague, Anthony Bourdain.

And then it says, remembering Anthony Bourdain. It's a subtweet, and it's my boy, Ahmed Weinberg tweeted, wait, so you just had a documentary called Remembering Anthony Bourdain lying around?

Jesus Christ. They were just waiting to throw that out there the day of. Right. That is crazy. Wait, they had that the day of? I think it might have been the next day, but it was fast. Turn around on this fucking documentary remembering this guy everyone loved.

Wow. Miles, where can people follow you? You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. Also, shout out to Alan at Nike. Shout out to Janine at Sprig. Shout out to Goethe, who wouldn't have called himself a philosopher. I have to say that because he was really real particular about that label. Anyway, the tweet that I wanted to shout out is a tweet, I guess, more about a video

because Zach Galifianakis put out a new Between Two Ferns today with Jerry Seinfeld and Cardi B and it is ridiculous and it's hilarious. And if you fuck with the Between Two Ferns video series, you're going to like this. It's on FunYourDies Twitter and also just out there on the internet. But I prefer to send people maybe some video

because I'm a video guy. Watch that and enjoy that. And you can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. And I want to shout out a tweet that was retweeted at me from Jack Kevorkian. And I think it was originally from AtPitchJokes because we've been talking about how whack LaCroix is. AtPitchJokes wrote,

New LaCroix flavors. Transported in a truck near bananas. Hint of hint of lime. Single skittle dissolved in water. At Pitch Jokes wrote, new LaCroix flavors transported in a truck near bananas. Hint of hint of lime. Single Skittle dissolved in water. Shy watermelon. Imagine like a strawberry, but with low batteries. A lot of people hit us up with that.

Yeah. I got high risk pregnancy hit me up with that. Tron 0905. I feel like Homegrown Casey hit me with that. A lot of people. A lot of people coming through. That's a great tweet. We are going to bring in Super Producer Ana Hosnia, who is going to tell you one of her favorite tweets.

I just want to let you know my all-time favorite tweet tweeted by Andy Kindler in 2010. Oh, you went all-time? Wow, I would have loved the format. He tweeted, I think, therefore, am I right, ladies? And that's how you do it, baby. And that's how you do it.

Oh, by the way, my show is called Resolutions. I left that out. It's called Resolutions. You know, if I was a better host, I would be like, hey, man, what's the name of your show? But I am bad at my job. All right. You can follow us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information in today's episode, as well as the song that we ride out on. Miles, what's that going to be? Oh, shit. Man, I was so caught up in feeling down about everything that i almost forgot a song okay so this one is uh from jameson who's like a producer performer kind of funky r&b guy uh this song is called so badly and again it's kind of like in

that con and moccasin vibe just a little vibey tune just to decompress a little bit uh because you know the weekend's almost here and guys please please a shout out to jose antonio reyes on twitter who's also sending us some resources for people uh how they can get involved with these kids and many other people on twitter who sent all kinds of resources please check those in the footnotes because uh we can't just sit on our hands i can't yep all right we're gonna ride out on that we will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast talk to you guys then Thank you. Oh, you know me You know I love you so badly

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