The Daily Zeitgeist - Internet Dead, Menghazi Lives 12.14.17

Episode Date: December 15, 2017

In episode 48, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Carl Tart to discuss Menghazi crims Russell Simmons, Morgan Spurlock, Tavis Smiley, and then they get into Net Neutrality & Ajit Pai, Google search terms of the year, Omarosa, Paul Ryan, & more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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for december 14th 2017 it's the penultimate episode of season 10 where someone gets killed my name is jack o'brien aka potatoes o'brien and I am joined by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Hello, everyone. I just want to let Ajit Pai know, if I see you in the streets, my man, it's ugly, okay? You're fucking with my internet, and I'm not here for it. But anyway, let's move on. I'm sorry. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat today by one of three people who I've looked up before the end of their first appearance on Comedy

Bang Bang I've mentioned before when we had on John Gabrus who was one of the other ones Lauren Lapkus was the other and now we've got the final one in the studio please welcome Carl Tart oh lord oh lord I'm coming

I don't know can you say nasty things on this show yeah we prefer ejaculating though yeah yeah yeah I'm going. I don't know. Thank God. Can you say nasty things on this show? Yeah. We prefer ejaculating, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going. There you go. Carl, what's something from your recent search history that is revealing about who you are as a human being? Let me check. Brick shithouse.

Yeah. Yeah. Brick shithouse was the last thing. I wanted to know where that term came from. One of my favorite terms. Because my coaches have called me that. Oh, you're built like a brick shithouse. Built like a brick shithouse.

Yeah. And did you have a flashback or did someone recently refer to you as a brick shithouse? Well, I donated to somebody's GoFundMe as brick shithouse. Gotcha. Wait, so what is the root of that phrase? It was, nobody knows. It was just a term to describe people that's built big. So I couldn't find it.

Let me see what else I got on here. Brick Shithouse is good. I think that's revealing. I think people now have an idea of what you were built like physically. I'm built like a damn Brick Shithouse. That's right. Yes. You smell good, though.

You don't smell like a Brick Shithouse. No, I smell like a brick shithouse. No. I smell like a brick rose house. But I, what was the dude's name that ruined the internet today? Ajit Pai. Ajit Pai. I'm built like a brick shithouse. You come over here, you want these problems, bro. He's coming for you.

You can get these hangs. Carl, what's something that's overrated? Overrated? Yes. Poke bowls. Ooh. Overrated. Too much? Yes. Poke bowls. Ooh. Overrated. Too much mush.

Too much mush. Poke bowls are, it's like a Hawaiian dish, right? That's like raw tuna mixed with green onions and rice. And you can get it any way. But yeah, I think those places are popping up everywhere. Like when cupcake stores were like everywhere, like in the aughts. Like now I feel like every fucking place is like, yeah, we got pokey. Yeah, except raw fish is not something you want to fuck with.

Like cupcakes can't kill you. Cupcakes, like if you have a bad cupcake, it's just a bad cupcake. But pokey. You get enough cupcakes, they can kill you. Yeah, that's true. I'm hoping they don't like that. This is the cupcake king. They call me the cupcake king. And what's something true. I'm hoping they don't like that. This is the Cupcake King. They call me the Cupcake King.

And what's something you think is underrated? LeBron James. Yeah. Underrated. I had a feeling that's where you were going to go with it. Until everybody respects him as the greatest basketball player you've ever seen. As GOAT, he is underrated. I don't care how many people love him.

I don't care if people give him the respect that he's the best basketball player right now. But until everybody respects him as the GOAT, he is underrated. Until everybody has nothing negative to say about him. Until there is no criticism, he is underrated. But you personally, you rate him as the greatest basketball player of all time. I do, personally. Yes, yes, personally. But your dream is that people can at least acknowledge that there isn't much to criticize LeBron James about.

Yeah. And what's your response to the rings argument? I think it's stupid. Right. I think it's dumb. I think, like, Scottie Pippen also has six rings. Robert Ory got seven rings. Right.

Right. So, like, get out of here. But what about Michael Jordan? Michael Jordan's great. Or Kobe? Kobe's great. But not GOAT. In your book, Michael Jordan, the second best player ever.

The second best player is Shaquille O'Neal in my book. Whoa. Wow. Oh, yeah. You like players who are built like a brick shithouse. Like a brick shithouse like me. And LeBron, I guess that's true. And LeBron.

I like brick shithouse people. I like a brick shithouse like me. And LeBron, I guess that's true. And LeBron, I like brick shithouse people. I think the most underrated thing about LeBron is that he grew up in the weirdest circumstances of any human being in the history of the human species, with the possible exception of Michael Jackson. Like, he was famous from the time he was in middle school. Adidas and Nike were taking out, like, billboards just advertising only to him. They were advertisements designed just to get LeBron James' attention. And he ended up still being the best player in the world and being as good as everybody thought he was going to be when he was 11.

That's fucking crazy. I guess that is a testament to a GOAT status, right? Because even like when the Dalai Lama, they can identify him as a child. Yeah. Like this, he is chosen. And he came from nothing. Right. Like the dude had nothing.

Wasn't his mom like locked up at his senior game or something? Like, so his friends walked him out. Like somebody made this argument the other day. It was like the Warriors are the, they're the real Cinderella team because all these players were written off. Right. are the real Cinderella team because all these players are written off. Right. And I'm like, LeBron James may not have been written off, but he came from such nothing.

Right. It's literally just he is the most gifted person we have ever seen. And his work ethic, which I'm sure all those players have. I'm not going to try to take away from any of the players' work ethic. But, like, he came from nothing, man. Yeah. And he went on to be who he is and who he continues to be. And the only person in history in the league that gets better every year. Right.

How do you get better? Like, LeBron has become a significantly better shooter. Like, underrated shot. And people just, like, look on Twitter and people just hate on him like literally criticize everything yeah i mean i'm not like a lebron hater i have a different goat but i definitely i'm not like uh i'm not one of those people who's trying to drag his name or be like well he ain't shit because he hasn't won as many rings or whatever oh my god he's a fucking freak and he could play the shit out of the game so objectively you're gonna have to give some kind of you know recognition

the other night he had like a triple doubleouble, a 50-point triple-double or something like that, and this dude posted a video of Jason Terry making a shot in his face. And it's like, it's just to criticize him. And it's like, all right, man. Is he supposed to also stop every other player who are all NBA level? Michael Jordan never did that. People scored on Michael Jordan. The score wasn't Michael Jordan to zero. Right, right, Jordan never did that. People scored on Michael Jordan. The score was wasn't Michael Jordan to zero.

Right. Right. Right. Shut up. Like people are so dumb with the LeBron argument stuff. Like, yeah, I think going back and watching a Jordan game like from beginning to end, because, yeah, he missed a lot of shots, man. He was not his field goal percentage was nowhere near to what LeBron's was. I still personally think Jordan's the goat, but I think that, you know, it's definitely a conversation for sure. To be fair, my love for LeBron James really comes from the hate.

Like, Oh, right. That's why you're a fan too. Like, it seems like that motivates a lot of it is to sort of like, when you see people go moving one way, you'd like to push the other.

I root for the underdog. Yeah. That's it. It's not all, I don't always go against the grain, but I root for the underdog. Yeah. That's it. It's not all. I don't always go against the grain, but I root for the underdog in most like situations. Like I'm a Saints fan. I think that I've been a Saints fan since birth. Like because we're from that area.

Right. Right. And my dad played like preseason ball for him. But like that kind of taught me to be like, hey, it's the wind is so much sweeter when. Yeah. When people are against you. Yeah. And you have to defy them.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That was the greatest Super Bowl victory, like when they just did everything right that game. When they were the underdogs and they got that onside kick at the beginning of the second half. Yeah. That was exciting stuff. All right, we're going to get into format. We're trying to take a sample of the ideas that are out there changing the world, trying to take the temperature of our global shared consciousness as a species.

I'd say we are a little sick today because the Internet was just murdered potentially. It's hot. We have a fever. We had a fever. Definitely a 100-degree fever. Yeah, 100, 100.6. Let's say that. But before we get into the news stories of the day, we usually like to ask our guest for a media myth, something that people, the national shared consciousness of the species or just like of the nation believes that you think is incorrect. OK, here's here's a battle that's been going on.

People thinking that it's not cold when it's cold. And let me explain this. We live in Los Angeles. Yes. We got beautiful weather. Yes. At nighttime, we get that high desert sometime. It's like 48 degrees.

And you're walking with somebody from the East Coast. Right. And shaming you because you cold and it's like it's cold like i don't care if you grew up in snow i didn't grow up in snow snow would also be cold right if it was in hell it'll be hot right right right i'm from the south i've lived in very hot areas but if we inhale i'm not gonna be like man it ain't hot out here you gotta go from tuscaloosa yeah shut up like and so like what like that's one thing that that pisses me off when people cold shame like it's 48 degrees i'm walking out here in a thin hoodie right i'm cold i'm i'm shivering no i'm not about to die of frostbite no it's not everest no it's not everest college but i'm a i'm cold like let me be cold man like they don't make me weak i think that's just a way for people who are transplants they

get to feel like you know a little bit of pride but that's been back where i'm from yeah that's been true everywhere i've lived i've lived everywhere in america there's always somebody who is proud that they're like wearing shorts in december they're like yo the cold doesn't bother me it's state of mind bro and it's just like shut the fuck up i just retweeted uh this tweet by bella k martinez too uh that she was like southerners snow is so pretty northerners this isn't even a real snow just you wait i was born in igloo and i drove to school on a snowmobile we eat ice for every meal i can't wait to die in a snowbank. Warp, never heard of it.

That's how people from the Northeast, like, yeah, I knew a couple of people from Massachusetts who that was their claim to fame. Oh, really? Yeah. That's so funny because I was in Boston last December. I was doing a video piece somewhere at MIT or whatever, and I was walking through the campus. There were kids straight up in, like, they had just come out of the gym in a wet T-shirt, like sweat T-shirt and shorts. And we're just like, oh, yeah, this is great. Right.

And I'm out here with the fucking parka on with the scarves and mittens shivering. And yeah. And they look at you like you're a freak. Yeah. We did an article about things white people don't understand. And I did research into stereotypes about white people that white people don't know and uh i did research into stereotypes about white people that white people don't know are stereotypes right and not dressing well enough for the weather was one of the stereotypes of white people that like white people will just wear

shorts and like really cold weather well that was like a funny vine that was going around it's like white people when it gets cold it was like a woman eating ice cream like it's like shorts it's just like oh it's great outside and and then they pan over reveal black dude like in a fucking park you're talking about oh yeah i think that brings up a larger one like that that one's my my myth but i think also i'm gonna do something that's gonna cause a lot of controversy as if i already with the lebron yeah no that's fine but los angeles is a great city. And I don't think that. Miles just stood up and is doing a slow clap.

You know what? Change. I'm crying. I'm just single. My underrated. A single tear is rolling down his cheek. My underrated is Los Angeles. All right.

Los Angeles is an underrated city. And I'll tell you why. Of course, everybody knows you can ski and surf in the same day and be comfortable at both be warm in the water be cold in the snow right yeah no i do it every day i surfed my way to work today yeah and then you snowboarding later tonight yeah you're gonna snowboard snowboard home yeah uh i i think every time a person from the east coast comes here and shits on this city i don't like the argument that people are fake because I think most of the people who are fake are not from here. Yeah.

And you build your own community anyway. Absolutely. You don't have to be like, of course, fake people everywhere. But if you're, you know, you make your friends, you make your circle so you can very easily make a real circle of friends. Also, a person in New York bumping into me and telling me to watch the fuck out is not real. That's an asshole. Right. That's right.

And don't think just because I'm from L.A. I won't beat your ass. Right. Quit doing that shit. Fuck out of my way. Yeah. Oh, man, that has happened. Like, that has happened every year. My team, shout out to white women, my improv team, every year we go to New York for DCM Festival.

And some asshole New York person does some asshole shit. Right. And it's like, that's not being real. That's not what you think is... What is fake about out here? Do people tell you that they're going to give you a bunch of money and then they don't? Like, because you're just getting scammed. And that can happen anywhere. Right.

I don't understand that real fake argument. I don't like it. It's bullshit. Bullshit. LA is a great city. You can do everything here. Every dream you want. This city has so much industry. It does have culture.

And guess what that culture is? Television and film. That is a culture. Believe it or not. Always got culture. And also, go down to Olvera Street. And it's got me and moms. Yeah.

I agree. me and miles yeah uh i agree i i lived my 20s being living in new york being like the anti-la guy uh because i like spent a single summer here like doing an internship in the film industry at miramax which i'm told was a toxic environment maybe uh but yeah once i got out here you just you need to be around the right people i think yeah all right let's get into the stories guys because we got a lot of mangazi updates um so russell simmons uh some very serious charges coming out against him uh three women have accused him of rape from 1988 to 2014 was the span of the accusations. And just the weird thing to me is that he, I don't know, like he legitimately seems to be astonished and like taken aback. And granted, like, you know, a lot of people pretend to be innocent, but he just I don't

know, there's something about the way he's kind of just being like i am this shakes me to the core of my being right that i'm not a violent person in my heart and miles you were saying that people who know him say that he's well there were like some one of the articles i was reading that uh one of his accusers was saying like he's just deluded you know and like he believes that you know he like to try and say, like, there's no way this could happen because I'm an advocate and I have love in my heart. I advocate for nonviolence, that there's no way I could perpetrate this violence. And yeah, one of I feel like I think it was one of his accusers was saying, like, that's sort of how he's rationalizing, like how all of this is going down. Like that in some form that him being so namaste now,

like has absolved him from ever doing anything. Cause he's like, well, there's no possible way. Like that must've been consensual because I am, I'm the light now. So I don't know. I mean like if that's either him at the peak of his delusion or he's,

or like, you know, there's truth to what he's saying. I, it's hard to figure out, but based on like these accusations, I mean, these are not fucking,

these are not pretty. Like he's straight up predatory in the way that he like does some of this shit. Like he invited a woman over to his house and said that it was for a birthday party for his girlfriend to like catch her off guard. And then when she showed up, it was just him. Dark shit, man. And he's been famous since like 1984, which is never good for someone's mental health. Privilege. You come from a place of privilege.

And he also is old and he don't understand that rape and sexual assault is many different levels and layers. It's not just some dude jumping out from behind a bar. Right, right. Raving somebody. It's not like that ain't just it. And also he comes from a place of thinking that he can have whatever and whoever he wants. Exactly. And maybe some women did throw themselves at him, but not every woman does that.

Right, right. And he just, yeah. I mean, you probably did some bad shit, dog. In fact, he talks about how much he used drugs. Right, right, right. So it's like, you probably did some trash shit, bro. Yeah, flying off that cocaine. Who knows?

Yeah, the fact that he doesn't remember it is not really an excuse if he was just like constantly fucked up. Morgan Spurlock. Yeah, Morgan Spurlock. From Super Sesame? Yep. not really an excuse if he was just like constantly right fucked up um morgan sparlock yeah morgan sparlock from super sazami yep he came out today and he sort of got ahead of things it seems like he was like it's not a question of if i'll be accused but when uh they will come for me damn and uh he talked about a situation in college where like he thought it was consensual. The girl, you know, midway through started crying and they like, you know, stopped. And but then like there's much more recent things where he's like verbally abusing his assistant in like ways that are like fucked up, man. It's just like it's like, yo, this is who you are now.

How are you writing this essay being like, this is not completely separating himself from behavior that he was doing as a professional human being very recently. So that's fucked up. I don't know. Good that he's kind of owning it because he does seem to be at the other end of the spectrum from Russell Simmons and that he seems to be fully aware of how shitty his behavior was. And saying, like, I am the problem. Yeah. Most people don't say that. Like, yeah, you are.

Okay, good. So you know you're a sex crime. And then – They ain't going to save you, Morgan. That's right. And then Blake Farenthold or Fold uh is how it should be pronounced i'm just mad that yeah it's he has a th in his last name and he tells you not to pronounce it as like that fernhold anyway he looks like a that's my main complaint yeah he looks like a pixar bad

guy he's looks like a i don't he just looks like a clown this guy he, he's a congressman from Texas. Basically, this guy was doing dirt for so long. He had a sexual harassment thing come out in 2014, but just recently he said he won't seek re-election because of all the shit he's done. He verbally abused his staff, calling them fucktards. He was telling female staffers he was having wet dreams about them. Also, this dude used to own the domain blowme.org. So he was never – Did he talk about that, or was that just a thing that somebody found out about him? I think someone found out and then probably asked him about it.

He was like, oh, no, I don't have plans to re-register that domain. They'll probably be able to sell that for a lot of money. Yeah. I guess the reasoning was before he was in Congress, he had a computer consulting company that bought domain names. So, yeah. Well, that's cool. Because, yeah, blowme.org was going to be a real hot, you're going to retire off parking

that domain. Ruben. Kewin. Kewin. Yeah, he's another congressman from Nevada. Yeah. Democrat. He's sexual, more unwanted sexual advances which he

half denies i feel like we're just going down a list right yeah like we used to talk and now we're just like all right so who are we who we got today i thought you were saying ruben steddard yeah no no ruben kewan he is a gentleman so we cross him off the list and then we get down to warren sapp uh who was caught in the nfl network scandal we were talking about earlier this week uh with one style one stylist i feel like it was the one female in the entire nfl network building because she was just you know forced to sit through all this awful marshall falk exposing himself really yeah this is this out earlier this week so then warren sapp he this same stylist apparently he just like started peeing in front of her and would show her

nudes like nude photos of other women on his phone to her and then he gave her sex toys as Christmas gifts three years in a row and then he put out this tweet with a picture of it and he's like I thought it was okay because I thought they was cute like the vibrators were cute so he thought they made great sex toys

so that was his sort of defense of that I just got a fake SportsCenter article saying, Warren Sapp blames his CTE acting up. My CTE acting up. Yeah, we'll see. He thought it was cute, though. They're adorable. But yeah, and also, too, there was one of the NFL Network executives

had to delete his fucking Twitter account because people found all this shit. He was tweeting escorts and porn stars and stuff. the nfl network sounds again not that we're surprised but like yo like a fucking awful place to work if you are not about uh you know being treated like total shit yep and one of the sex crimes kentucky state representative dan johnson killed himself uh after you know one of his teenage daughters, uh, friends accused him of molesting her when she was over at his house for a sleepover. And,

uh, it's, you know, disturbing story, but his like last Facebook post is, is super disturbing, but it's also the ravings of a madman. So,

I mean, this dude clearly wasn't well, what'd he say? Uh, I mean, like he said, a madman. So, I mean, this dude clearly wasn't well. What'd he say? I mean, like, he said everything from, like, I'm innocent and, like, conservatives need to stand up for me to 9-11, 2001, WTC, NYC. PTSD 24-7. Just, like, rambling. It was crazy. So, I don't know. And then he killed himself. And then he killed himself. How'd he do it? Shot himself. Oh, just like rambling. It was crazy. So, I don't know.

And then he killed himself. And then he killed himself. How'd he do it? Shot himself. Oh, damn. Guns. We need gun control. Yeah.

Guns are, that is the number one way that guns kill people is suicide. That just doesn't get talked about because it's a fucking bummer. And then finally, Tavis Smiley from PBS. Oh, that one hurt. Yeah. That one hurt. It's a weird one because his defense is like, you know, he tried to be as forthright with PBS as possible. He had his own witnesses.

He wanted to know, like, you know, who they were talking to or whatever. And he's claiming PBS never shared that with him. So he's out here saying, like, everything is absolutely false. But according to PBS, they have multiple credible allegations. So, I mean, I don't know. I don't know what to say, T don't say tavis saw tavis smiley at the arc light one night really he was out on a date she was mouthing the words like get me away but uh he was cool we all looked yeah i know and it was like a bunch of white people and like these five black dudes like he was like what's going on fellas how you doing and the white people were like is his name travis yeah it's like no it's

travis all right man just because i said travis no it's not you no it's not you that's his name travis with many people are yeah they're like i've never heard that name it's like well you haven't heard most names right uh all right we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back where are we going Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was murdered there are crooks everywhere you look now the situation is desperate my name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhearts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks.

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We spent the morning in our office, or at least I did, detailing violent fantasies about what I'd like to do to him with his wacky novelty mug. I don't know if you guys have seen. He has this giant coffee mug. It's like a Reese's coffee mug, and he just breaks it out at all these press conferences. And like, it's just like, he's like a fucking pretty funny,

like a prop comedian. Yeah. He's like stupid. He is the worst. And, uh, look at his dumb ass in, in keeping with his,

uh, just awful, awful conservative sense of humor. Uh, he released a, a viral video today on the daily caller where he basically the premise was he's going to show you all the things you can still do on the internet after he kills net neutrality and he was like you can still take pictures of cute puppies you can still gram your food yeah and buy fidget spinners.

It was just like, hey, kids, over here, look at these trendy things while I fucking knife the entire Internet. And then the biggest insult is at the end, he's like, and you can still do the Harlem Shake. And they revived that old fucking thing from, what, 2012? Wow. So, yeah, it's unbelievable, unbelievable like how we got here like there were millions of comments that were like spam there were ones that were straight out of russia and he ignored everything still pushed this vote through and that's why i think a lot of the you know there will be lawsuits right after this to try and block this because this is completely out

of the ordinary like this was the most commented issue at the FCC. And I think I'd imagine a lot of the real comments were about, you know, maintaining these rules. Right. Yeah. I mean, there were, it was a big, hotly debated issue online. And I think a lot of the debates that were pro killing net neutrality were, yeah, like you said, from Russian bots, but the deal is basically, you know, currently we have a rule called like dumb pipe Internet where like the pipes are controlled by, you know, the Internet service providers. And they're not allowed to determine like what goes through the pipes at what speed. The pipe is just a pipe that the Internet flows through and they have to just ignore what's going through it. Like it's a utility, like it's water or, you know, any or electricity or something like that.

And now what they're now going to be able to do is be like, you know, because AT&T as your internet service provider or whatever, AT&T is not going to let Netflix flow through their pipes because they have their own streaming service. Yeah, they want you to direct TV or whatever. Yeah, or you'll have to pay 20 extra dollars for Netflix to like flow on the internet. And that's how it is in other countries, which is the warning that everyone's been giving is like in Australia and like in stuff like that. It's like, okay, do you want to use Reddit? Okay, that's like two bucks a month.

Do you want to use text messages? Right. That's another a month do you want to use text messages right that's another three do you want to stream video that's another five and like now they're basically just breaking it apart like i mean not that this is the immediate future but that is what you know countries that don't have these regulations look like what is he like what's good about this in his mind so he's coming from a place where he was the legal counsel for different Internet service providers. So he's from that industry. Civically Verizon. He's arguing that because the Obama era net neutrality laws are actually regulations on these Internet service providers, they're actually like getting in the way of competition because their rules.

But it's like the whole argument for deregulation, like just let the market sort it out. And the market sorting it out usually ends with giant companies making consumers lives shittier or has often resulted in that. The one thing I will say is that so you have the internet service providers like on one side, the Comcasts and the people who own the pipes. And then on the other side, you have the Facebooks and the Twitters and the people who actually create content, the Netflixes. And there was a lot of propaganda being created by those people like by Netflix and Facebook and stuff. Like there were images of what the Internet is supposedly looks like in, you know, different countries.

I think New Zealand was one that I saw. And it was like, you know, Netflix, five dollars, Yahoo, two dollars and like all these different things. And those were actually like Photoshop's that were made up by someone like that were, you know, basically somebody trying to trick people into fearing net neutrality more than – and that is a thing that could happen, but the fact that they were falsifying images is just – Oh, so I got Russian-botted? Yeah, you got Russian-botted a little bit on that one.

Oh, my God. But there are shady people on both sides, and I will just say that when people are talking about net neutrality, they're usually holding up this idea of the internet when it first started, like in the 90s, when there was all this freedom to innovate. And we don't really have that internet anymore because of Facebook and Google and Apple. These giant companies are squashing everybody who tries to compete with them. So we're not really in a place where, you know, everybody's free to innovate. Like Facebook still controls so much of the Internet that, I mean, basically you are sort of choosing sides in a fight between giant behemoths who are already stepping on, you know, competition in a lot of ways. So it's not like Ram. It's not super clear.

Exactly. You're just picking a side well i think the other thing though too is i mean yes there are those arguments and i think the things that are more scary are like because these regulations aren't there when you want to play these things out to like nightmare scenarios like saying well hey we can make uh you know twitter slower and we're like you know there are communities of like you know people of color who rely on things like social media to communicate and spread news and things like that and may not have the resources like if they have this tiered system of the internet that could actually keep

people from communicating in the way that's most efficient and things like that so i think it's just right slippery like lost kids have been found because of twitter right right and i think that would be a shame like if things start going like that because then you know if if we go into like this more draconian direction of things like and like let's say the government decides like you know twitter is like allowing people to communicate like too cleanly or whatever like you know they're able to uh unify in a way that might be you know counter to what the objectives are of the government or something like that or a company that you could then begin interfering with things like that. That's when it becomes a little problematic from, from where I see it, where it's like,

that shouldn't happen. Like you shouldn't be able to tamper with the internet, but I understand that if, you know, there, there are other ways to like, yeah, we're, we're past the era of like this, uh, the free open internet creating all this innovation, But, you know, what's the dark ages like? And I think that's what that's what scares most people is that it opens it up to being for those things to happen. Yeah, I don't see it being a good thing regardless. I'm just saying that some of the sort of assumptions that people are using to argue for net neutrality are a little bit full of shit.

But I can't imagine a scenario where Verizon and AT&T and Comcast. Hey, it's cheaper and faster and more reliable. Fuck out of here. I've spectrum. Right. Yeah. I can't even like half the time I have to use my cell phone to like watch it. Yeah.

And draconian, like if you've ever had to deal with, you know, internet service providers with like a technical difficulty or just you know trying to change your service it is a fucking nightmare draconian is probably the best way to describe it um hey speaking of giant behemoths google released their search terms of 2017 um which i think is i don't know i google is interesting because we have like a detailed record of, you know, what we are thinking of as a culture, like our hive mind, what we're thinking of.

So like when historians look back on history, like usually they're able to just lie and like tell a more romantic story of like what happened. Like we look back on the old West and we're like, yeah, it was this, you know battle between the frontier and the rule of law and chaos and it was actually just like everybody was drunk and like shooting each other accidentally and like i don't know like when you

actually look at the details but you know you're able to romanticize it when you look back in history and we're not going to have that ability because Google has all the records of everything we were thinking about as a culture. And I don't know. There's some interesting stuff this year. One weird difference between global search trends and the U.S. is that Meghan Markle is one of the top ten search terms worldwide, but she didn't make the cut in the U.S.

Wait, no, she did, actually. When I look at people, she's number two. She's number two on people, but not on overall top ten trends. Oh, so overall as a search? She was Lauer. Oh, I see. Matt Lauer's number two. Y'all are looking at two different lists.

Well, no, for top, just searches, not people. So in terms of search volume, Hurricane Irma was the most searched topic, then Matt Lauer, then Tom Petty, then Super Bowl, then Las Vegas shooting. Where does pog fit? P-A-W-G. I just learned that term, y'all. Y'all know what that is? No, what is P-A-W-G?

Pretty-ass white girl? Fat-ass white girl. Oh. Yeah. P-H-A-T, fat. Yeah. Wow, because I thought it was pretty. I didn't realize. It might be that, too. Well, I guess that makes sense, though, too, because whenever. Yeah. Wow, because I thought it was pretty. It might be that, too.

Well, I guess that makes sense, though, too, because whenever you see that hashtag, it is on Curvier Women. Yeah. I don't know. I follow a lot of the Curve Instagrams, which I'm getting ahead of this right now. I follow the Curve Instagram. But, like, okay, how about this? Who do you think the top athlete searched was this year, Carl? This year?

This year. Tom Brady? No. Floyd Brady? No. Floyd Mayweather. Ah. And you know why that was? It's because people were searching Mayweather. McGregor.

McGregor to try and find that stream. That free stream. Yeah. So he had a... Guys, Jesse's Reddit. You know what was number two? Who? Gordon Hayward.

Oh, because they wanted to see his fucked up engine. His broken ass leg. It's just so funny that I... Who's the top five? Top five, Mayweather, Gordon Hayward. Oh, because they want to see his fucked up, his broken ass leg. It's just so funny. Who's the top five? Top five, Mayweather, Gordon Hayward, Aaron Boone, Paul George, and Tony Romo. Tony Romo? Why is Aaron Boone on there?

What happened to him? Who is Aaron Boone? He just became the manager of the Yankees, I think. Oh, that's why? Oh, okay. That's weird. That makes sense. I guess.

As far as Tom Brady not on there because of all the Trump stuff. Yeah, you would think so. So the one rule of this is that these have to be spikes in searches. So, for instance, Trump is not the most searched person just because last year he was also the most searched person. So it wasn't like a big spike in searches for him. Greg told me they were going to make me the most searched person this year. They failed. They failed.

I was not the most searched person. They're cancelled. That's why he's being the greatest search engine. Why do you think Meghan Markle didn't make the top 10 in the US and made it globally? I'm very confused by that because she is an American. Racist nation and she is black.

Jack. But the second most searched person and the highest searched actor. Yeah. Ain't no black person ever going to be the top search unless it's Cardi B. Cardi B. Which was number two in musicians. I told you.

Yeah, Cardi B. Black people can't never win. So the list of people is actually very revealing because we had a lot of really strong, triumphant women. And then you'll see a trend in the men. So number one person, Matt Lauer. Two is Meghan Markle. Three, Harvey Weinstein. Four, Michael Flynn.

Five, Kevin Spacey. Six, Bill O'Reilly. Seven, Melania Trump. Eight, Kathy Griffin. Nine, Milo Yiannopoulos. And then 10, Gal Gadot, Wonder Woman. So, yeah. It's an interesting group.

Yeah. I think the one thing that I just want to flag is that the top how to search in the United States was how to make slime. Right. What the fuck is going on, America? That's what you are trying to learn. Also in the globe, how to make slime is number one. This is, I think, actually revealing because so one of the most popular genres of video on YouTube right now is how to make slime videos. And it's just kids trying to figure out how to make slime. Yeah.

Like it's basically you use like different cleaning products and make different types of slime. Like put cleaning products in the microwave and some slimy, weird, cool shit comes out. See, that's a different era because I would get fucked up if I tried to cook up a bunch of slime in my fucking microwave. Yeah. The kids sell it at schools. What? Yeah, they go to school and sell slime. Yeah, that's what they're doing instead of drugs.

Oh, so the reason is because it's created an entrepreneurial opportunity? I mean, for themselves and for others. Wait, so how are you so up on the children's slime game in schools? The slime trade? Don't ask no questions. I also know that kids are smoking cigarettes more than ever again now. Is that true? Yeah.

Jesus. Do you smoke cigarettes, man? No, just weed. Not disgusting. I think the younger generations, well, I'm like two years older than you are. I think the younger generation. I don't know. How old are you?

28. My G, I'm five years older than you. i think the younger i don't know how old are you 28 my g i'm five years older than you oh yes okay uh well i thought you were like 26 um thank you so much the kids younger than us are smoking cigarettes again that's crazy i guess truth worked a little bit on our generation yeah we didn't smoking wasn't cool when we were in school is that because vaping is back and are they considering that what it is? Because that's the thing I always see now. It's like a PSA with like a 16-year-old kid is like, I'm hooked on vaping. And you're like, bro, you're already taking an L at 16 like that by being the dude who's hooked on vaping?

And doing a commercial about it. Yeah. You're getting laughed at. No, I mean, the tobacco companies have been working very hard to find other nicotine delivery products. And so they've got vaping. They've got this stuff, Snooze, which is like delicious. You can't even see it. Delicious backy to chew.

Yeah, just delicious tobacco that you can just put in your lip and nobody can tell you're using it. Because you can swallow it, right? Yeah, you can swallow it. So you don't have to spit it out. Really? Yeah. I'm going to go get some of that after this.

I know. Did you ever have teachers who chewed in class? Yeah. I had a teacher who dipped. Oh, my. And he pretended like he was just taking sips of a Coke, but he was actually spitting it. Oh, my God. Yo, the exact same fucking thing.

When I did improv in high school, our theater teacher, Mr. Lawrence, shout out to Lawrence Arms. He had T-Rex arms. He would always be, you know, like when people chew, like they got a pinch right here to get that flavor out. Yeah, yeah. Like under their lip. And then, yeah, same thing.

Diet Coke can because we knew. He'd be like, yeah, so guys – and you can't see this is a podcast, but what I did was take a very weird sip out of an imaginary Coke can and just, yeah, spitting in there. My baseball coach just used to spit. Well, that's baseball. You're on the field. um yeah but i think the whole like that i think that's what will be known for is like the way that culture sort of started being you know songs right now some of the most popular types of songs are by people who can't really sing that well like future and people like that it's like people want to be able to like do the thing so like the most popular videos are like kids making slime because

that's easy to do and like people want to be able to see themselves like doing that thing and people you know that's the type of music we like that's why we like reality tv is because we can compare ourselves to the people um so i don't know i think i think that's in these search trends man just fucking kids with their slime the kids these kids and their slime i'm feeling fucking old as shit i remember when i used to buy nickelodeon gack right remember that shit we just bought our own slime at the fucking store and also the shoes expensive mom was like bought me one and like half of it you'd lose because you'd like throw it like out of a car some shit and then

like you're like well i got half my gack now and there was no internet for me to be like i don't make gack yeah to be honest exactly i like i bet the things they're doing like i bet making slime is way cooler than what the shit i was doing like i was like trying to light stuff on fire that like wasn't that flammable yeah like i was just doing boring shit because i didn't have the internet to tell me how to do all that stuff i was mixed uh I was just trying to find a new solution to clean my shoes with. And I just mixed bleach and acetone into a styrofoam cup. And it melted.

And the cup just disintegrated. Yeah, right, right, right. Like it just, and I was like, science. Right. The cup just like went and no noise.

No like, nothing. It just went, yeah. Yeah, the only, the only things we knew how to make were like out of the like anarchist cookbook like that's where the fuck my head was at back then or like trying to

make fucking napalm you were trying to do that no with like styrofoam and gasoline nope all right never mind see you later that book is banned now ain't it yeah it must be i mean like it was like one of those things where like it was like a thing kids talked about. You heard about the anarchist cookbook, like, tell this thing. And it took some kids, like, wild, like, junkie dropout brother who had it. And, like, we had, like, maybe five pages of it. We're like, this is it. And it wasn't enough to get in trouble, but enough to get our minds going.

I heard if you Google it now, you get flagged. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Right now with the internet neutrality, you know, there is a whole new tier that you can just Google bomb stuff. You got to pay your 10 bucks. Bomb stuff is 10.99. Which package do you want? I want the domestic terrorist package. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Where are we going?

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So a few quick hits on our way out. Omarosa, on her way out, set off some alarms at the White House. So what happened here? It's the best story. Apparently, I think it was at a Christmas party. These are the only facts you need to know. She wasn't doing shit at the White House, and she was getting $180,000 a year just to fucking distract the president. John Kelly, chief of staff, hated it because apparently she knew Trump so well she could just say some shit to him and have him fucking spiraling.

Right. And so over time, he had always wanted to get her out. And then I forget. Omarosa came in third in the first season of The Apprentice. Yeah, she was kicked off. She lost on The Apprentice twice, I'm pretty sure, because I think she also was kicked off Celebrity Apprentice. Sure. Because that's how much Donald Trump is fucking with her.

Right. And now a third time. So she was basically a distraction. John Kelly is like, you're fired. She flips out. She was like, no, fuck this. You don't. She's like, like, think somebody that affected like, hell no, you don't have the fucking power to fire me.

He's like, yes, I do. And you're fired. And I'm not Donald Trump telling you this. You're fired. And she was like, wasn't having it. She apparently called Ivanka. Trump was like begging her, like, I don't know what i'm gonna do for work or whatever the fuck it was and then finally she had enough that she stormed into the white house into the residence part of the white house not like the

western where they work but the residence which is a completely like like you can't just run up in there right like you're at a house party your It's like walking into your boss's house. Yeah. And so it triggered alarms because you cannot just fucking stroll in there. So it was like a whole ordeal. Some accounts are that the Secret Service had to fucking drag her ass out, kicking and screaming. She was like, this is bullshit. But then fucking like the next day, the Secret Service Twitter is like, we did not have anything. You know, we did not have to escort her out or whatever. All we did was, you know, deactivate her badge that gives her access to the campus.

But then Sarah Huckabee Sanders earlier in the day was like, no, she's resigning and she's going to leave on January 20th. I think as a policy on this show, we can just stop saying what Sarah Huckabee Sanders said just because, like, it's never even, like, remotely true. It's just she just, like, gets up there and just says whatever the fuck. And has to say whatever Trump needs her to hear. So he has a shit as a diaper. It's just like a complete – it has no bearing on the truth. I'm so tired of her. Yeah, so she says January 20th, but then the Secret Service is like, nah, we fucking – we killed her ID badge.

So, I mean, if you're leaving the 20th, why are you getting your key card taken away so quickly? And, again, then she shows up on Good Morning America today and was just just like the narrative it seems like now is that she's like you know as a woman of color there was a lot of things that were really disturbing to me in the white house but it's like get your ass out first of all it took you this fucking long like what were you a fucking alive during the campaign like did you think this dude like come on don't do that don that, Omarosa. Don't start playing that woman of color bullshit.

No, I mean, you had your chance. You had your chance. But I mean, if it gives us a great tell-all book, because that is one thing she said. She said, I have a story to tell that I think the world is going to want to hear. For a $300,000 advance check. Lovely. That is very exciting to me. But there's nothing better than a woman of color

scorned who was in the white house watching all this racist shit happen because i'm sure she has a fucking spicy one to tell well this just goes back to trump being the easiest person to manipulate that has ever been president so he's gonna have people around him who just are good at flattering him. Yeah. And so like when they, you know, a lot of people who, you know, are just there to manipulate him have access to the White House. So that's going to come back and bite him in the ass. And I mean, Roger Stone also has announced that he's now writing a book about the downfall of Trump already. Yeah, already.

That is interesting. I think Politico reported that this book is in process and then he came or the hill one of those blogs and he came out and was like well that's just one of the directions it could take but like that seems to be the direction it's going when you're yeah when your opportunistic ass is already preparing to bank in on the downfall of the president like what, what the fuck do you know? And you were his main advocate. Like, that's not good. You're like, no, I've seen it. We've buried bodies before.

Right. So I'm going to start writing this down. Damn. I think everybody should read the autobiography of Gucci Mane. Oh, yeah? What's it called? The Autobiography of Gucci Mane. Doesn't it have something?

Is that? I thought it had a weird subtitle. No. Is it an actual book that came out? Yeah. I thought it had. I just got done with it. I listen to the audio book. I don't like to read. Is it read a weird subtitle. No. Is it an actual book that came out? Yeah. I thought it had a... I just got done with it. I listen to the audio book.

I don't like to read. Is it read by Gucci? No. Oh. It's read by this actor who is so funny listening to him say... He's like one of those black actor dudes. It's like, hey, the autobiography of Gucci, man. God.

As read by me. Right, right, right. I listen to The New Yorker sometimes on audiobook and like they have actors who just can't say words that aren't like specifically in the dictionary. I wish that's who had read it. That would have been incredible. He's like, he found that John, like at the party, like the John, read that word. at the party like the john the john i don't know how to read that word uh another unconfirmed rumor uh that seems like it's probably true uh is that paul ryan is going to resign after 2018 good good

or just you know get the fuck out of washington rocks after 2018 yeah yeah so 2019 or no i think he is his term up in 2018 i think so yeah so Yeah. Yeah. He's just not going to run for reelection. And then he's going to go and retire to doing P90X. P90X. Do women think he looks good? I don't know how they could. They did. He just has a horizontal line where a mouth should be.

He doesn't. Those Kenneth Branagh lips. Yeah. We see you, Kenneth Bran brana non-existent lips um but at first yeah i think that women loved him because he was like oh he works out and he's young and he wore a backwards hat once right and then like then as you actually like his politics really came out you're like oh this guy is a fucking fuck bag like Yeah. No, his whole, he talked about how back in college he used to, like, stand around at frat parties fantasizing about reforming taxes in America to, like, take away entitlements

from poor people. Yeah, yeah. I think, yeah, because that's what he's saying. He's, like, coming after Medicaid and stuff next. I feel like Paul Ryan claps when he hoops. Like, when you got the ball, he's like, hey. Oh, hey. Over here.

Oh, I thought you meant the kind of guy when you're playing D, you try and clap when they take a shot to distract him. Oh, no, no, no. Probably does that shit. He probably does that too. But like a lot of clapping when he's on the court. Like, hey, come on over here. Hey, ball, ball. So we've just found out from super producer Nick Stump that Paul Ryan is a Rage Against the Machine fan.

How the fuck so this dude is being eaten alive by an inner conflict between like his tastes in like anti-establishment shit and just being the most establishment motherfucker who has ever existed yo tim 2k tom morello zach i forget the drummer's name go find this man and shake the shit out of him and be like yo you're you look like you're born without a face. Holler back. Like, I don't know what the fuck. Paul Ryan, I mean, again, I think one of the reasons, too, is I think once these tax cuts are passed, he'll be like, oh, well, I've done it all.

Time to go. Or maybe he's afraid of, like, possible Democratic wave in 2018. I'm not quite sure. I'm not an expert. But we shall see. I'm an expert. What do you think? Why do you think he's an expert? As our political expert. I'm not a political expert. I'm just an expert but we shall see i'm an expert what do you think why do you think

as our political expert i'm not a political expert i'm just an expert yeah what's in your expert opinion on this what do you think why i think he's leaving i think he's leaving because he might have some sexual assault shit coming out but also usually the women they get sexually assaulted by these conservatives seem to have a back at times for some reason right but uh and i also think he's leaving just because maybe his bed's not comfortable i i think he got into this for like idealistic reasons that like his ideals are fucking terrible but you know that's why he got into it and then he's just been forced to eat shit for the past uh you know year and a half and you know he's he's starting to feel like

what kellyanne conway and like some of these other conservatives look like who like seem like they're you know dying on the inside because he's had to go back and forth constantly one second he's for something he's against something he's for something he's against something it's it's fucking tiring right and now to know that he was fantasizing about tax cuts at frat parties you know this dude just straight up jerks off to youtube clips of like bush announcing the tax cuts or something like that. Right, right, right, right. Well, he'll have plenty of time to do that now.

And finally, there is a rumor going around out there that – I almost called Marco Rubio Ricky Rubio. Marco Rubio. Don't bring good Ricky's name into this. Disrespect Ricky Rubio like that. Marco Rubio is potentially a no on the tax bill. So the tax bill might get interesting suddenly. But we don't know for sure.

Well, right, because Bob Corker does not like the plan because it doesn't address the deficit, which is one of the reasons he voted against it in the first place. And then also you have to remember that there are two congressmen who are out right now on leave, medical leave, John McCain and Thad Cochran. So those are two votes that aren't even present and you need 50 votes and so i mean yeah this could cause a bit of a delay for this thing to get uh you know to have a final vote on it and maybe doug jones will be in the senate by then uh who knows i mean it could be an interesting next week for sure it might be in there for a long time they're gonna need a snack poke bowls oh for the conservative yeah one of the uh i was hoping you had a business name for that one of the talking points that we mentioned yesterday was that the democrats waited for

scott brown to get into office before uh they voted on uh obamacare and uh i've seen it pointed out by conservatives that you know that's not necessarily a fair comparison because uh the whole scott brown election was about obamacare whereas like this tax plan wasn't like the main focus sure well how about then they can still talk about how about m McConnell not fucking nominating or letting a Supreme Court justice get confirmed and blocking that. Right. So they could fucking put in crazy ass Neil Gorsuch. Right. Like if they had made it the focus of the reason it wasn't a focus or, you know, that much of a focus is because they had a pedophile that the Republicans were running like that.

You're going to make that the focus regardless. That's not a priority. Right. Exactly. So we'll see. But, yeah, the tax bill might not be as much of a slam dunk as people thought before. Carl, it's been a delight having you. Is this it?

Yeah, this is it, man. Man, I wish I knew about all the stuff that y'all know about. Well, it's hard, man. It's what we do for a living. Keeps me looking young. That's why you thought I was 26. Yeah, it, man. Man, I wish I knew about all the stuff that y'all know about. Well, it's hard, man. It's what we do for a living. Keeps me looking young. That's why you thought I was 26. 26, man. This stuff keeps you looking young.

Yeah. What makes you look old? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. That's ridiculous. And I don't intend to find out. Right. Carl, where can people find you on social media?

Check me out at, damn it, Carl, on all things social. Check me out at, damn it, Carl, on all things social. That's D-A-M-M-I-T-C-A-R-L on Twitter and Instagram. Follow up. Hit me up. Do you Snapchat? I don't snap like that. Okay, because I'm telling you, follow Carl just for his Instagram stories.

Yeah. Because I'm telling you, one of the funniest stories I fucking saw this year was just Carl laughing at a Little Caesars commercial. It's so funny. You don't realize how absurd a commercial is until you have Carl's laugh behind it. And Carl, do you have a podcast? No, I don't, Jack. Okay, cool. Let's give him one.

Hey, we're going to give you one. Oh, shit. You are? Yeah, you and Edgar and Jacquees, who will be on the show in the not-too-distant future. I think I'm going to call it Culture Kings. But, Jack, I can't just release a podcast without a trailer. Right. Especially when Anna made me record it 30 times. And so the trailer, I'm going to release that on December 20th.

Okay. How's that? Does that sound good to you? Sounds perfect. And then the first episode, I think I'm going to release on, hmm. Tell me the right date. Tell me the date. Tell me the date.

Let me just think of a good date here. I need it to be on somebody's special birthday. And I think I want that birthday to be Gucci Man's wife, Keisha K.R. Her birthday is on January 10th. Okay. So they're going to release the first episode

on Keisha K.R.'s birthday, which is January 10th. It's five days after my birthday. January 5th. I'm going to be four years younger than Miles. Oh, wow.

Until he becomes a year older, which I will be. And then Balance will be restored. Balance will be restored. And for anyone who's thinking this was a bit, no. Carl, you on a new show called Culture Kings.

Who would think that was a bit? I don't know. That was so believable. Just let people, yeah. January 10th, guys. January 10th, Culture Kings right here on HowStuffWorks Network. It's going to be very funny. You guys like Edgar.

You guys like Carl. And I think Chuck Heese will be in here next week. Yeah. Yeah, so by that point, you'll have heard everybody. And it is going to be very funny. You guys like Edgar. You guys like Carl. And I think Chuck Heese will be in here next week. Yeah. Yeah, so by that point, you'll have heard everybody. And it is going to be the funniest shit out there. Shout out to all the Edgar's haters. Because I don't like him either. Does he talk about people?

You don't like him either? So they have a point. Yeah, they got a point. You guys are right. Miles, where can people follow you? You can find me probably watching Carl's Stories on Instagram But if you're trying to follow me I'm on Twitter and Instagram at MilesOfGrey

You can follow me at Jack underscore O'Brien on Twitter You can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram We have a Facebook fan page that you can find Just by searching Daily Zeitgeist And we have a website DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post episodes and footnotes with links off to all the sources

of all the stuff we're talking about. And that's going to do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with our season finale. And before we go, Carl, do you have a music recommendation? I got a music recommendation for everybody. I'm going to do this like a black DJ in Atlanta, because that's what I've always wanted to be. I love the radio.

So take us out of here. At the end of the show, the penultimate episode of season 10 of Daily Zeit. Guys, right here on How Stuff Works, coming at you right now is Miguel, a new hit off of his brand new album, War and Leisure, and it's called Pineapple Skies.

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