The Daily Zeitgeist - Ivanka GETS IT, Both Sides-ing Science 2.27.19

Episode Date: February 27, 2019

In episode 337, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Billy Wayne Davis to discuss R. Kelly posting bail, McDonald's Spicy McChicken sandwich, Colorado attempting to change the electoral college system, Michael Cohen testifying against Trump, an update on the state of emergency situation, Trump's meeting with Kim Jong Un, Ivanka Trump's ideas on minimum wage, Fox and Friends misinterpreting AOC's words, the new UN ambassador believing in the 'both sides of science,' and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. R. Kelly Posts Bail for Sex Charges, Immediately Hits McDonald’s2. Spicy McChicken3. Colorado governor will sign bill aimed at bypassing Electoral College4. Cohen will tell Congress of alleged Trump criminal conduct, source says5. Murkowski 'likely' to support resolution to block Trump's emergency declaration6. I support Trump’s vision on border security. But I would vote against the emergency.7. Trump on brink of defeat on border emergency8. Seeking North Korea Deal, Trump Seems Willing to Ease U.S. Demands9. Ivanka Slams Minimum Wage Provision In AOC's Green New Deal10. Fox's Pete Hegseth, talking about @AOC: "If you don't believe in kids, and families, and the flag, you're effectively admitting to civilizational suicide."11. JFC, he found someone less qualified than the Fox nitwit to be UN ambassador12. WATCH: Thundercat (feat. BADBADNOTGOOD & Flying Lotus) - 'King of the Hill' Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 71, Episode 3 of The Daily Zeitgeist! Yeah. The podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Wednesday, February 27, 2019. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Yesterday. I like that one.

Jack O'Brien seemed so far away. Now it looks as though he's here with Gray Oh, I remember Just Jay That is courtesy of Trey Gang At just T-D-Z-A-K-A's And I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! The best part of graykin' up is miles in your cup.

Folgers. Thank you to Andrew Thomas, at AP Thomas, for that one, because I love 80s jingles. Just a quick poll of the room. Do you remember when the Ford car motto or, like, jingle was, Have you driven a Ford lately? Do you remember that? That was from the 80s when it used to be that woman with the long blonde hair

would just walk around a tourist and be like, This is a great car. I just now remember that because you sang it. And you're taking me back to my childhood. I'm having a childhood memory that makes me realize that I was very unhappy as a child that's right, you were saying your childhood was in a light state of panic attack the whole time

yeah, I was like everybody else can't get a deep enough breath in ever, right? you just feel like you can't, your chest is too tight we all have that anyways, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious stand-up comedian Billy Wayne Davis!

Hey, you guys. Hey, what's up, man? What's up, Rip City? I'm about a month into this newborn. Things are good. Yeah, good. Yeah, that's when it gets fun. It is like when the test comes. Yeah. Yeah, because the newness wears off. Does that mean like a newborn baby like a newborn animal where their skin's real thin

and you can see all their veins? A little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's tight. Their head is still not... Super soft, right? Yeah, like there's a part of the top part of their head, I think still at one month, where the skull has not closed yet. So you can like poke and their limbs will twitch.

No, that's not... You should not do that. I can make them kick. I know that's on the left low. I can make them kick. No, you should not do that. Oh, so wait, you're born with your skull top still kind of trying to meet each other at the top?

Yeah. Through the birth canal, your head can squish. Malleable. I'm so fucking ignorant about this stuff. Malleable. That's why I'm glad I have father friends like you. It's wild. Yeah. You all. And it's in there. Malleable. That's why I'm glad I have father friends like you. It's wild. Yeah.

You all. And it's in there. You know it's in there. Also, if you poke- The brain's in there. What I've learned about the brain through this process, if you poke any part of it, it makes them cry. All that's connected.

Ah, Fontanelle. The Fontanelle is my super producer next to another father. Which is also the name of Barbara Mandrell's estate outside of Nashville. Is that true? Yes. It's a beautiful word, by the way. It is. For such a terrifying weird thing.

And it's a weird thing to name your estate. Fontanelle. Because it's, and she named it after that because it's fascist or some bullshit. Because it'll blow your mind open. Cocaine 70s. Cocaine 70s Nashville must have been a fucking time. I think it was a good time if you were a white person. Right.

Yes. I thought there was some etymology that was sexy. It was first a thing like that, but when you just search it, it's straight up talking about your skull soft spot. Shout out to the Fontanelles. It does sound nice. It does. So if you're all coked out, you're like, we named it Fontanelle.

The Fontanelles would be a good name of like a rock band that's all women. Yeah, like obstetricians. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they dress as obstetricians. Obstetrician, barbershop, trio, or quartet. It's a niche market. All right, Billy Wynn, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about today.

First of all, we're going to... Jesus. So there's a new R. Kelly tape, and we now have details about what is on that tape. And it's almost... Sex. Is it sex stuff? It's sex stuff. And it's horrifying.

But it's almost comical how incriminating it is. It's just the most incriminating thing you could possibly imagine. Then as a palate cleanser, we're going to talk about McDonald's spicy chicken sandwiches. Because those exist. But only in Canada. Yeah. We're also going to talk about all sorts of political shit. Colorado trying to mess with the electoral college a little bit in a fun way.

Might get it real high. Michael Cohen's appearance on the Hill. An emergency update about where the president's emergency is in its legislative process. And then we're just going to talk about the fact that the president holds their fate in his delusional hands once again, now that he's meeting with Kim Jong-un. I mean, kind of. Yeah. Well, we'll see. But first, Billy Wayne, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are?

Does a baby arm grow back? Oh, no. Is a baby like Piccolo from Dragon Ball? Yeah, I mean, actually, that is, there is a, I had to look up a, whatever, Pikachu Pokemon. Yeah, there you go, nailed it. That's what I had to look up. Detective Pikachu.

Wait, why did you have to look it up? You're like, what is this Pikachu? Because my son wanted to show me one that he thought I would like, and it was like me, and I was like, yeah, let's see it, and it's pretty accurate. Which one was it? If I say the name, it'll be offensive.

Because he's... It's Japanese and another word mashed up, and then with my accent, people are just like, I don't like what you just said. They're like, I don't even know what that word is, but I know it's bad. But it seems to have negative connotations. I don't know enough about Pokemon to know what,

what were the qualities that your son's like, you know, Dad, I think you would vibe with this Pokemon. I don't ever really know. Right, right, right. So this is your nine-year-old? Yeah, yeah. This is your nine-year-old. So we're having a good, right, right. So this is your nine year old? Yeah, yeah. This is your nine year old. So we're having a good time.

All right. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated? Sleep. Ah man. Just so, I mean, when you don't get it consistently, I think you realize like, I'm someone that likes it. Yeah.

My wife is not, she was never that person. She was always like anytime i woke up she was like awake looking at me right you know we're doing something i'm like do you not sleep she's like no it's up great right for an hour yeah for like an hour and a half and i'm ready to do everything i'm like i'm gonna sleep for 10 more hours yeah get up lazy bones it's 4 a.m yes that kind of vibe right that is exactly right. Yeah, like at 9.30, she's still buzzing. Right, right, right. I've been almost asleep for two hours at 9.30.

Right, yeah. So that's where I'm at on sleep. Yeah. I'm glad you raised that it was underrated. I think a lot of people didn't realize how important it was. I don't think they do. Well, I think it's true. It is really one of the most vital parts of your overall health,

like when you actually get the time to regenerate and rest your body. Stop your mind, too. I think that's why I also like weed so much is because when I don't smoke it, I dream very vividly every night, and that shit is exhausting. That's so weird because I'm one of those people, a lot of people are like, when you're high, you don't dream. I fucking dream like wild shit constantly. I'm so thankful I don't.

Man, so many times I'm trying to punch a bully from my childhood and my arms are mad slow. I can't even get a push to connect. I'm like, what is this happening? Trying to run and your legs don't really work. I have another one where I'm in my uncle's house in Japan and there's an earthquake. And he used to live on the 13th floor of this apartment building and the shit was going to come.

I'm always in the thing where the building's coming down and the second I splat, I'm like, here we go. I'm up. Oh, man. Yeah. That was a good description because I got scared at the end. Yeah, see? Thank you.

Any dream interpreters out there, let me know if that's part of having to do with my ED. Maybe. Yeah, because it's a building that was erect that is collapsing on itself. Also, I'm unable to even attack or punch. You know what I mean? There's a lot of inhibited. Yeah, the fear of just letting it go, man.

You guys ever dream that your teeth are falling out of your head? I don't have that one. I've had that. I have ones where I feel like I'm grinding my teeth so much my teeth break. Yeah, I have that one. But I don't grind my teeth because I ask the dentist because I have these dreams. I'm like, do I grind my teeth or is there any evidence? And they're like, no, no, no, no.

I think I'm just, yeah. All right. Anyway, this is called Dream Talk. Yeah. With three dudes. What is something you think is overrated? Sleep. Okay. Perfect. Now, think is overrated? Sleep. Okay.

Perfect. Now, why is that, man? Because I also know that I don't need as much as I want. Right. If that makes sense to you. Yeah, yeah. You're a glutton for sleep. It's a sad realization that, like, also I understand as you get older that thing in your brain lessens.

That you need less. Yeah, that you need less sleep. There's like a chemical in there. But if I get three or four in a row and then I'm up for an hour and I get two or three after that, I'm pretty fine. Yeah. It's like it's not ideal. I'd rather sleep for like six hours to seven hours straight.

Right, right. But I also know I have this weird thing that a lot of people don't is I know I'm going out on the road soon, and I'll get to sleep for 12 hours one night. Right, right, right, right. I mean, it's more health wise. People are like, oh, that's luxurious. It's like, no, I'm really tired when I do that.

It's not like I go to a spa or anything. It's like I got off a four hour plane ride and I haven't slept for a month and a half, and then I'm in the middle of nowhere in a Hampton Inn, and I'm like, yeah, slept there for 12 hours. Now, does traveling on planes get you sick? Like, do you ever, like, get a cold? I feel like you're putting a hex on me right now. I don't like it.

Yeah, yeah. Well, I told Miles this morning he was having shoulder pain, and I was like, oh, are you sure you're not having a heart attack? And that was, I don't know, for some reason I am just like putting a heart. That's not back there. That's not a heart attack. Well, first of all, I come in and I'm like, yo, I'm about to go see this. Like I go to this Japanese physiologist sometimes to take a look at my shit. Not like a chiropractor.

Anyway, I slept weird, and I was like, it felt like one of those times. Is it because the Japanese have a different physiology no it's just like no it's just you know we got that one extra muscle in the triceps it's because your body's different no it's just like this dude who like i don't need to go through insurance who like for like 60 bucks he'll just kind of look at me you know what i mean i'm sorry i had to no but yeah my dad has a doctor like that yeah yes anyway so i go in i'm like yo, yo, this shit's hurting. And then I kept touching my shoulder. And then out of nowhere, this dude just looks up from his computer and goes,

you think you're having a heart attack? And I'm like, yo, it's in my right arm. I thought that's in your left. And he goes, could also be your right, though. And like tried to WebMD me in my mind. Yeah. And then I wasted 20 minutes. I know.

Thank you, sir. It could be anything. You sent me down a fucking spiral. Does I know. Thank you, sir. It can be anything. You sent me down a fucking spiral. Does your heart hurt? Oh, terribly. That's the number one sign. When I touch it, I don't feel nothing. Moving.

Right. That's pretty cool. I think I'm running on vapors. That's great. Just inertia. You should go into politics if you feel nothing in there. That's the first sign. You could be our most gifted politician.

And finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Oh. That you need sleep? Yeah. A myth? Yeah. That they're trying to win the drug war.

Right. I think that's a myth. They're just trying to keep it going. I think it's a business at this point. Yeah. And it funds a lot of black ops and all that other stuff. So it's like a- More defense spending kind of shit.

All that stuff. Economies we're not even aware of, if that makes sense. Right, right, yeah. Yeah, I think that that's- Yeah, it's a huge new, not new, but at the time that it got started, it was a new sort of dimension of the military-industrial complex. It's like, yeah, now we get to build tanks for Oklahoma. Yeah, or like Compton.

Right, yeah, exactly. Just pull those fucking houses down. Yeah. Because someone might have drugs in there. Yeah, you never know. You never know. Now we have more property. Yeah, Yeah. You never know. Now we have more property. Yeah.

That was huge, though, that the Supreme Court came out and said that they can't. Seize shit. Yeah. State of Tennessee was doing that. They have like a couple semis. The state patrol does. Right. Wasn't there like an interview with the guy where they're like, y'all have a really nice fleet of cars.

It is. We deserve them. It is insane. Right. It is like it was like you don't carry drugs in your car in Tennessee. It was always a thing. Oh, right. Because that will be their car now.

It was, yeah. If you have anything. Right. They're pulling up with nicer shit than like the Dubai police. Yeah, exactly. They're like, oh, you see our Bugatti squad car? Like, what? Yes.

Yeah. We got hover bikes on the way, too. And it'll help usher in legalized marijuana and hemp and that will help because it's not

a revenue source anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that will help that and which will help in turn help. Just hop on John Boehner's hemp cannabis

scam train that he's trying to get people to buy into. What a scam train. Well, the way his, the way he's doing it. The way his is sold, it's like,

it's, you know, selling people dreams. Like, now's the time to get in. The time to get in. No, the time was like 10 years ago.

It was the time to actually get in. So now he's trying to find dummies to be like, yeah, give me 50K here and there. And I'll, like, we're talking thousand percent

return on investment type shit. For me. Right. Yeah. For me, John Bainer. Yes. No, the time would be to start a tobacco company about the turn of the century.

Right. But yeah, the civil forfeiture stuff is wild. There are some just incredible stories of like small towns that just happen to have a highway running through them. And so they're just like, yeah, that's our income stream. Just pulling people over. Oh, right. Just grabbing their shit.

This is a boss hog shit. Yeah, it's boss hog. It is exactly. It's Dukes of Hazzard shit. There is a literal boss hog. It's like somebody grew up watching that show and then got involved in politics and made some laws. Yeah.

And they're like, let's just do that. Yeah. Hell yeah. All right. Let's talk about r kelly real quick guys because i feel like this is what do you do so i feel like this ought to close the book on this one michael avenatti is involved unfortunately uh he has turned over to authorities a tape that r kelly has apparently been trying to have destroyed for uh over a decade and it's just been in circulation uh among among

people uh because i mean you know like in the black market in the black market i guess because it's child pornography because it is r kelly having sex with a 14 i thought it was like evidence they had and no one had it this is some shit going around like yes and here's my it. This is some shit going around. Yes, and here's my question. If it is child pornography, how are the people that have had possession of it for 10 years also not in trouble? Right. You would think that, I mean, maybe that's part of the reason why it was hard to get anybody

to hand it over. But anyways, Michael Avenatti has turned it over to authorities, and it has- I thought I was waiting for him to pop up again. Right. It has the young woman repeatedly referring to herself as a 14 year old and R. Kelly repeatedly referring to her like body body parts as your 14 year old body part, including he instructs her to give him that 14-year-old booty hole and other things. Just the most incriminating thing you could literally imagine. I am R. Kelly. Like if he had been fingerprinted.

I'm trying to make light of a terrible situation because that's what I do. I don't want to hear comments from people being like, keep making fun of that. Yeah, I am because I'm a comedian. I'm trying to make light of a terrible situation. No, of course. Because that's what I do. I don't want to dwell on it. I don't want to hear comments from people being like, keep making fun of that. Yeah, I am, because I'm a comedian. I'm sorry. It's fucking dark. Yes.

It's very, very how we deal with shit. It's also hilarious how he's going to get caught just being such a motherfucker about it. Yes. That's funny. On wax saying it. He might as well have said his social security number, birth date, everything, the location, her social security.

Right, right. I didn't realize it. Yesterday we were talking at the time we were talking about how he didn't have the money to post bail right uh because he's going he's has such financial problems because it was like a million dollars so he didn't even have the hundred thousand and then someone magically appeared someone from the suburbs a woman posted his bail it's a weird description someone made a good point was like it could it be a suge knight situation where someone comes in as like once you give me those masters oh right or those oh right i'll get you out right the implication i think in the

headlines because they keep saying that it's a woman from the suburbs is that it's like one of the women who he like controls or something. Oh, like. Is sort of, I think, what the subtext is of the headline. At least that's what they're trying to convey, right? We want you to live in this house because of when this happens, we need you to have $100,000.

Right, right, exactly. And I don't know if that's the um and i don't think he's that calculated case but it sounds like he's that calculated right yeah so uh we'll see he's out on bail uh and it's gonna be hard to beat that case yeah i can't you're on fucking tape bro and he's gonna put music out about this yeah he has already right i know but it's gonna get crazier right yeah yeah i mean look if roger stone is out here selling roger stones like what r kelly the only thing he has his voice to try and make money off of now right so well so i think that should close the book on that one but uh i'm sure you will. You never know, man. You have money.

It will not. Shit can get crazy. But let me just pivot real quick because I want to let everybody know I'm moving to Canada. Oh, shit. I've had enough. Well, Miles. I've had enough of McDonald's. Well, let me finish now. Okay.

I've had enough of this hot and spicy McChicken being taken from us in the United States. And we no longer have a spicy chicken sandwich option, like a real one, like we used to. At McDonald's. At McDonald's. Okay, I was like, Chick-fil-A has it wonderful. Yeah, Chick-fil-A's, man. Come on now. Chicken, man, don't get me in trouble.

Now, is that something that they giveth and taketh away, like the McRib? No, it was on the menu for a long time. Bottom line is, I'm just reading now that Canada is, okay, one of my biggest gripes with fast food is i like spicy food and shit they always market as spicy is never actually spicy it's like they put pepper on it right because they know it has to be like palatable enough that they don't lose money on it because people are like holy shit this is spicy what the fuck that's why you're not gonna get

like the wendy's when it first came out was, their spicy chicken was legit spicy as fuck. And then it slowly got blander and blander and blander. Right, because people were complaining. Yeah, because even I like spicy stuff, too. I was like, shit, this is fucking... Here we go, right? Anyway, so now they just put out three, fucking three hot chicken sandwiches with varying levels of spice. So if you know where you are in that Scoville meter, you know what kind of units you like, you can pick.

So they have a spicy jalapeno McChicken, perfectly breaded seasoned chicken. Is this McDonald's? Yes. This is in Canada with a creamy jalapeno sauce. Okay, fine. Whatever. Spicier habanero McChicken with a creamy habanero sauce. And then at the highest, pan high,

is what they call spiciest ghost pepper McChicken. So they are using like actual, I guess ghost pepper for their sauce to give you that burn. Is it on the, is it just the sauce? It's just the sauce. Yeah, yeah.

Because McDonald's doesn't have the infrastructure. Like everything has to be sort of, you know, a module where it's like the chicken sandwiches, those patties will stay the same, and we'll dress it with sauces or buns or whatever. Is that what their spicy chicken sandwich has always been,

or did they have an actual spicy chicken patty? That one, I think the patty was actually hotter. And I think that's probably why they pivoted away because they have to manufacture. I don't know. Look, I don't work for McDonald's right but i'm going to move to canada uh so if you guys have like a bedroom for me to stay in please let me know because i think there's a lot of people that would in canada like we do thank you great please let me know because the spiciest february 26 to march 11th it's only while supplies last so maybe i'll have to you know take a winnebago tour real quick up to bc get that that sandwich and dip out dip on out yeah sorry and dip it in that spicy ghost pepper

there we go chicken sauce so shout out to my overlords in the north for holding it down but uh zeitgang canadian zeitgang taste test that shit for us let us know on twitter yeah what it is how spicy it is. It's fine. That's probably going to be the take. It's not bad. Give me a little more description. It's like good-ish. Had better, had worse.

Or someone send a video of you eating the spiciest ghost pepper McChicken sandwich and then maybe we'll play the audio on the show if it's funny enough. There you go. But don't hurt yourself. Because I know some of y'all can't handle the heat. Or do. That would be funny, right? No but don't hurt yourself because i know some of y'all can't handle the heat or do that would be funny right no no don't hurt yourself don't do it don't put it in your if you work at it just it's a myth right ghost peppers they they don't burn at all right it's a myth ghost pepper eye drops uh all right we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 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. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden.

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President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as sarah jean moore the story of one strange and violent summer this is rip current available now with new episodes every thursday listen on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and there's some news out of colorado yeah jared polis the governor i mean look this isn't like a thing that's a for sure thing that was going to happen but we talk a lot

about how the electoral college is fucking useless right talked a lot about that after the 2016 exactly when i think everybody was you always just think if we should have direct elections of the president, meaning that the guy or woman or whomever gets the most votes becomes el presidente. Right. But we have the electoral college system, which is based in a bygone era that no longer is necessary. Anyway, so there has been a pact of a few different states,

12 different states and the District of Columbia. They've all sort of passed a popular vote bill, which basically says that the winner of the popular vote will get their electoral college votes. Not breaking it down that way, which makes more sense. Right now, with all the participating states, there's about 181 electoral college votes accounted for. So if they just get to 270, like enough states to get there that you have 270 electoral college votes there, which is what you need to become president. Right. Then you can basically make the electoral college move. Right.

So, I mean, it's they're like there's even states like Oklahoma and Arkansas. They're signed on to this PAC, too. So it's not just like a blue state thing. There's even purple states. I mean, it's like, you know, it's something that a lot of people on the conservative dark money is trying to prevent from happening. Right. Very, very, very enthusiastically. But it's good to know.

I mean, I just want to draw people's attention to this. Like this is like these are the kinds of small movements that we could possibly get towards becoming, you know, having a direct election for a president. So, yeah. Never underestimate what the dark money will do to prevent this from happening. Yeah. I mean, I think we would have another business plot before we... The business plot was when a bunch of wealthy industrialists decided they were going to take over the government right before, I think, World War II.

And they came very close to doing it. And then they got away with it because they were rich people. Because cash rules everything around me. Great. Oh, shit. Did you just come up with that? Get the money. Yes, it's a T-shirt I'll be selling on the road.

With a weird W on it. Do not tell anyone from Staten Island or Long Island about it. Yeah, S-I-N-Y-1-O-T-O-4. But no, the good thing about all those cabals like that is they're all greedy motherfuckers. Right. So one of them will turn at the very last minute because they all think that, yeah, but I'm the best one.

Right. That's the saving grace for humanity is human nature. Yeah. It's the worst part of humanity. Completely diluted. context of Trump and his meetings with Kim Jong-un is just that he's just been led to believe all his life that he is smarter and better at things than he actually is. And yeah, I think that's true of a lot of wealthy people. By the time they are at the level of wealth where they think they can take over the government, they are also at their most deluded yeah well in their

way that things naturally work for us i guess the fucked up thing i think what people i don't think people wrap their minds around like with trump to me is like people are like well how can he never admit he's wrong first of all i think he has mental illness. Right. But I don't think it was that heavy early in his life. I think it's been, you know, like everything, it gets worse as you get older. But I do think no matter what he did, his personal lifestyle was never affected by anything he ever did. Right. So he's not wrong when he's like, I can do no wrong. Yeah.

It's like you or I, like we go get three duis in the next month our fucking life is very it's fucked different yeah i'll be 12 grand lighter yeah and the way you live your life is going to be different for a while is nothing nothing yeah right right you live a consequence-free life without acknowledging the advantages you have yeah you get to a point you're like like, I'm fucking invincible, baby. I'm motherfucking Thanos. Kind of are. Yeah, because perception

is reality at that point, right? And you've never, like you're saying, you've never experienced any pushback to anything you're doing. Yeah. Why continue to believe,

why would you believe anything else? It's like there's people who are like, I can't believe they got Dick Cheney, like Sasha and those guys got Dick Cheney to do that. I'm like, I can

because unless he crash lands in the Hague, you can never touch him. So he's like, yeah, come out here. I'll talk to you. You want to shoot a guy? I got guys you can just shoot. Montana is amazing. Yeah, like that's why he's

having a good time because he knows. Well, with a's why he's having a good time. Right. Because he knows. Well, with a little bit more insight into the mental and just theoretical workings of our president, Michael Cohen is going to testify. By the time you hear this, he will have testified on the Hill. And he is testifying that Trump did crimes while president. No. Which is, I think that's new, technically. As John Oliver always does, bring out the banners in the marching band.

We got him. We got him, guys. Apparently, it's tied to the campaign finance violation of paying Stormy Daniels, but we don't know anything else while we're recording this in terms of the specifics of the timeline and what specific crime he committed. But yeah, I mean, there's all the things like in the previews of the kind of leaked topics that are going to be discussed in that open session. I wish there was something that was new, but I guess now this is one of those moments, just like with Watergate,

it was important to have these public hearings. So you can hear from other people go, the president asked me to lie about this and I have receipts. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because the, the defense for, you know,

people like Sarah Sanders and everyone in the white house is like, Oh, the guy's a fucking, he's a felon liar. And the, the mainstream media is picking that up because they're they need they crave uh you know being both sidesy on this so the mainstream like cbs news was reporting that cohen is testifying that the president is racist and committed crimes in

office and presenting evidence but the fact that he's lied before undermines his testimony i mean here's the thing yeah he wouldn't be testifying to that shit. And a lot of legal experts are like, he's probably going to have a lot of evidence to support that, whether that's other witnesses who can attest to that, like Weisselberg, who was the CFO or the main accountant for the Trump organization, or just straight up like on paper emails. That's what it michael baby you gotta lie for me right use paper y'all and it was it makes me laugh too because it's like when snapchat came out and people were like the picture disappears i immediately was like that's not how information works right that's not how they send stuff it's somewhere right that picture is somewhere it just dissolves into ether yeah

and then it came out like oh they there was a hack in all the people's pictures i was like ah my dick is not on snapchat all right but yeah and i mean to use the fact that he lied to congress before as evidence that he's lying this time like he was lying for the guy who paid him and then that got him put in jail and now he's being asked to tell the truth and he has no incentive to lie at this point his only incentive is i don't want to go to jail for more time yeah i mean he's looking at like what three years yeah or something so i mean I mean, again, I think you can take the shit he says with a grain of salt because let's be real. This dude was doing anything to survive for most of his life, including now if he were. He might want to be like, well, I had a change of heart.

However, I have a feeling based on the fact of like the investigations and things that are going on, He's not going to lie to Congress again. Right. So, you know, again, we'll see if this moves the needle. Don't underestimate a liar. Yeah. Yeah, right. He's like doctoring evidence. Yeah.

I just like lying, you guys. Yeah. And I fell into the right business for a while into it. Yeah, right. And now I can't stop. I should have wrote children's books. Yeah, those are lies, but they're fun. But they're fun and they're harmless.

No one gets hurt. Someone draws your lies. There's never Russians involved. But again, yeah, I also want to say, even though Sarah Huckabee, her quote is, she said, disgraced felon Michael Cohen is going to prison for lying to Congress and making other false statements. Also, Sarah, you've never lied. Isn't that a long list of criminals that you guys keep having to say that you were involved with?

Right. And then you're like, yeah, but that guy's a criminal. I'm like, yeah, but he was your dude. He was working. And also, let's be real. When you have an investigation, snitches aren't the fucking upstanding milk guy. Right. Or your elementary school teacher.

You know what I mean? It's people who are involved in that shit because they have the information that they can reveal from their position as doing some scumbaggery. Yeah, that's called leverage. They've picked up some leverage because of their other businesses. Right. Yes. You haven't seen the case the dairy industry is bringing against me there.

The milk guys. The big milk? Got me five ways. All right. Let's talk about that emergency. Got milk, got money for your legal fees. Yeah, exactly. There is an emergency in our country.

Great sell. Do I sound like I'm uh emergan up in arms uh yeah so the house is voting to overturn the president's declared emergency the senate may have the votes to do that but then it will be vetoed by the president and they do not have veto proof numbers no because they need they need two thirds in both chambers to override the veto. Right. And I mean, I think someone was writing only time there have only been like 111 moments in the history of the United States where there's been something that was overridden. Right. But anyway, I think right now what it's about is trying to see which Republicans are up for reelection in 2020 is really kind of what this whole thing is. I mean, aside from the part that this is a, this is just sort of spits in the face of the constitutionally guaranteed powers of

the Congress to appropriate funds. Uh, you'd think, uh, you'd think that most, you know, people in both chambers would be like, yeah, that's terrible because he's actually meddling into our powers, our designated powers. Uh. So right now, Tom Tillis from North Carolina, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska and Susan Collins from useless have basically publicly declared that they will be voting against it. So if all, if with those three Republicans and the 47 Democrats, if they all vote,

no, but you never know. But like people like Joe Manchin and Doug Jones and people 47 Democrats, if they all vote no, but you never know about people like Joe Manchin and Doug Jones and people like that, they only need one more vote to actually get this thing to actually get to the Oval Office to get vetoed. Right. So you'd think a lot of people are walking that Jeff Flake walk, but will they talk that Jeff Flake talk and then vote yes?

Can we be... I mean, I'm not a fan of his, but Trump's... He's really calm in an emergency can we just be honest about that yeah cool calm and collected yeah it's just it's like it's not even happening right that's how calm he is yeah he is i mean the the steady hand of leadership yeah oh yeah i think we can all agree guy is just uh smooth sailing he's he's who I want driving the boat. That's right. Well, there's a lot of Republican senators who are, you know,

because moving this like military funding around is not a great thing if you represent an area that has military bases who like those funds would actually help stimulate that local economy. So that's why you have people like Lamar Alexander basically saying like it's unnecessary, unwise, even Marco Rubio is like, I haven't read itar alexander basically like it's unnecessary unwise even marco rubio's like i haven't read it but i don't like what's happened and i certainly don't like using military money for it and mitt romney says he's quote getting closer to making a decision but said he could not divulge which way he's like that guy but just the he's he's greasy baby but

yeah i mean again we'll see what happens. I think it's good though, that you have, you know, the Senate, at least, I don't know, fuck it.

It's really, I don't even know if any of the people who have even said that they will vote against this, like, or vote to override the emergency declaration, actually understand like the jeopardy that it puts things in that you're just allowing a president to be like, all right, now I can just do whatever do whatever yeah i think they probably understand it i just don't think

they give a shit we'll see what those final votes check us versus them yeah right because they're like fuck i'm sorry man i'm on this team yeah which is why adam schiff's letter from last week was like come on guys yeah you talk all this shit behind his back. Sir, have you no dignity, sir? It's just like trying to get all official. I have no dignity, but I have a lot of home payments. Yeah. And I guess the other possible good thing that could come out of delaying this or this vote against the emergency declaration is that it can slow

the role of the allocation of the funds while the courts decide whether this violates the law, which that's going to be another... I mean, 10 out of 10 children agree that it does break the law. Right. There you go. And I mean, presumably the fact that Congress voted against it would be taken into account in any legal evaluation of whether what he's doing in overriding Congress is, I mean, he's already overriding what they've been willing to do, but I guess this would make it more stark, even if they don't have a veto-proof majority. It's funny hearing the other senators being like, I remember when Barack Obama declared an emergency for certain things, not for allocating funds. You were up in arms.

And this one congressperson was like, yeah? And they're like, so why aren't you now? And it's kind of like, well, you know, I agree with the president that we need border security. And I just don't agree with the way that he's going about it. So you don't agree with the emergency, so you would vote against it. Well, and it was just this really labored back and forth. I was like, dude, you already know how terrible you sound right now. He couldn't even come up with a good pivot.

I'm not good at my job right he's being slippery if barack obama had tried some shit like this there would have been a at least small military coup like an attempted no without a doubt i mean the coke brothers would have done something yeah yeah there would have been a business plot let's talk about our president who as we record, is over holding the fate of the free world in his delicate, tiny little hands because he is meeting with a nuclear armed dictator who he thinks loves him because he's completely susceptible to flattery. When you say it like that. There's only. So North Korea's policy there's been a lot made of the fact that well they were they were going to bomb us and then he came in

and now they're not going to bomb us there's been only okay one change to their policy they used to threaten america with annihilation while making gestures towards you know making future concessions around their nuclear buildup, and were willing to negotiate, all while just building up their nuclear arsenal secretly. And now they're doing that exact same thing, but instead of threatening to kill us, they're flattering our president,

because he's almost comically susceptible to that. I know. Not almost. He is comically susceptible to that. I know. Not almost. Like, it is comically susceptible. Like, the Saudi Arabia thing was one of the funniest fucking things I've ever seen. Yes, it was like satire.

Right. They made, like, the mirrors in his hotel rooms, like, augment his face when he looks in their flexes. Like, I don't know what it is about these Saudi mirrors. Right. I look great. But this is... i don't know if like i'm not as terrified this time as i was when the first time he met with well because he neutralized the threat last time so what is there to be afraid of i think it's just the constant

bombardment of just the news of corruption that threatens our national security uh that this is just another at least this one doesn't seem like it's being hidden from me it's like oh everybody's got their tv cameras here as he meets it's like a we're in an abuse i mean it's not like we are in an abusive relationship with this man and he keeps anytime he's in trouble he will bring up in north korea is one of the things he'll bring up he's like but remember that time bring up, and North Korea is one of the things he'll bring up. He's like, but remember that time I took you to Monterey Bay? Yeah. And I saved us and we had that, and it's okay.

Remember Singapore, babe? Yeah, remember when I, yeah. It's like that's, it is that transparent kind of when he does stuff like that where it's like, oh, he hit us last week, and now he's like, but remember? And the thing that he's bringing up isn't even good though. That's the thing. Because he's not, there's no Monterey Bay. It was just like one time he took us to the Hampton Inn over in Hermosa Beach.

What happened with you at a Hampton Inn? I like Hilton. I like a Hilton. Is that a part of the, is a Hampton Inn part of the Hilton family? Yes. I like a Hampton Inn because it's not fancy, but they're not going to short you on anything. Okay. You get what you're paying for.

It's a good economical hotel where you're not going to get bugs. That's the bar for you. You ever had bugs? Yeah. Bugs are the worst. Change your whole weekend. Oh, I mean, one really cool thing, though, is that Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, he just pulled up to Hanoi. Oh, I mean, one really cool thing, though, is that Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, he just pulled up to Hanoi. Oh, yeah?

Out of nowhere, and people were like, hey, what the fuck are you doing here, bro? I like it. It's fun this time of year. He's like, oh, you guys are—wow, that's weird. No, he came out and was like, oh, Trump asked me for advice. That's why I'm here. So he's there, according to him, he's there because he says the U.S. has asked for Moscow's advice in dealing with North Korea. He's just so easily misled.

And I can just see Putin or one of Putin's guys just being like, yeah, no, this is good for you. This is what you want while carrying him by the arm into a room. Or just sending that dude down there and being like, just say this. Right, yeah. We didn't even tell them. They're probably fighting over who gets to fuck with Trump. Yeah.

Right. They're like, I want to fly down there. No, no, no, no, you got to do it last time. You got him to believe Montenegro was going to start World War III. You're right. You're right. All right, I'll get to go. All right.

All right, what's the game plan? Dude, do whatever the fuck you want, man. Just say anything you want. Hey, just give me some headlines. Anyone fuck you want. Just say anything you want. Hey, just give me some headlines. Anyone ask you a question, say anything you want. Well, exactly. Because remember when Trump was pushing back against the intelligence community's assessment that North Korea still had nuclear weapons and all this other thing,

and he was like, I don't believe it because Putin told me that it wasn't true. That was in the past week, right? That was like in the last month or so. Or no, no, I think it's something that came out. I think it just happened. I think it came out with Andrew McCabe's book. Okay, right. But it was around the time he was there.

He was saying like when they were talking about this threat, he's like, well, you know. But there's evidence that that's still going on, right? Like Pompeo, like Trump is tweeting that he doesn't think they're a nuclear threat. And then Pompeo is like, no, no, no, he doesn't think that. He doesn't, but we just. We know, we've talked to him. And I think it was Jake Tapper was just like, yo, here's a tweet. Yeah.

Here is him on video saying that he doesn't think they're. Come on, he doesn't mean all that stuff. Yeah. But, you know, so that's why it's a very interesting moment. And again, yeah, like you were saying earlier, very dangerous. When you have a guy who thinks, you know, I bet he really thinks that it's like, we're going to the lobby bar at the fucking, you know, at the whatever the fucking Palace Hotel, and we're going to close this

fucking deal. I'm just going to be like, what do you like? You want steak? Yeah. Try this filet mignon. All right, we have a deal here? Yeah, like he's going to build a golf course. Right, exactly.

Yes. And you shake hands, you have, you know, he'll, he'll drink his diet Coke or whatever and they'll keep it moving. And Kim Jong-un sister will hold the ashtray while he smokes cigarette. Right.

That was a very cool video that I saw on the news. The Japanese news had like a telephoto lens of Kim Jong-un. Like it was a very long distance shot. Like they just caught him outside smoking a cigarette. His sister's holding like a crystal ashtray as he smokes a cigarette. And talks to somebody else. Some other advisor or something. And he kind of looks like a comic after a set,

like outside of the club. Like, you know, like he's just kind of gesturing. They bought all that shit. I can't believe they bought all of it. Yeah. What'd you say? I just told him we'll knock it off. Right.

I said, knock it off I said knock it off He was like hey good looking And he was like hey I love this guy He goes in yeah he has a crib sheet Kim Jong Un's like have you lost weight? I've been trying a little bit Trying keto out It's pretty chill actually

I already do it because when I eat pizza I just eat the good parts The cheese and the toppings It actually turns out it's keto It's not really worth talking to people who still think he's good at this but i mean look at the way like our enemies treat him they like change decades-long policies to just be like oh this guy is fucking yeah amazing we can just like talk to him it's like when you have there's like an old phone that's never rang right and then 2016 then in 2016, yeah, just dust flew off one day. It started ringing.

They're like, what is that? It reminds me of like in school when you would get a substitute teacher and they were wild old. And you were like, yo, I'm fucking around today. Usually I am against this. Right. But you see, you're like, oh, like I would say something and you could tell the teacher it was hard of hearing. Then I would just yell shit out. Like I used to do this shit. I'd just be like, oh, like I would say something and you could tell the teacher it was hard of hearing. Then I would just yell shit out like I used to do the shit. I'd just be like, come!

Yeah. And then everyone's like laughing. What happened? Right. That's what Trump is right now. And everyone's just yelling come. Yeah. And he's just thinking he's killing. Yeah, and just flattering. He thinks they're all laughing at him. Oh boy. Anyways, and I mean

if anything, this is, this meeting is more terrifying. I don't have the energy or the willpower to still be as scared as I was last time, but all the people that we were counting on, like the generals who we shouldn't be, like JFK and RFK had to hold back a room full of generals from starting World War III during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and those are the people we're counting on to protect us. But even those people now are gone who protected us all along, and now they've been replaced by John Bolton, who is just fucking so hard to go to war with North Korea. The other thing with Sergey Lavrov, it's important to note,

who knows what he's actually there to communicate to Trump also? Right. Because he's also talking about, he said that Russia believes the U.S. ought to offer Pyongyang, quote, security guarantees for the disarmament deal to succeed. And we know that's part of something Putin wants is like, he's like, yeah, like move all that military infrastructure off out of Korea so we can puff our chest out a little bit more. So again, we don't know what kind of concessions could be made again in this meeting too. But, you know, something to think about. And, I mean, there's the very straightforward conspiracy that seems to be true reading of this, which is just, you know, the Russians are dictating his entire policy. They send Lavrov because they're like, yeah, you're going to have to remind him. He doesn't seem to be able to stay on prompter. And it is hugely in their interest to get the United States off of the Korean Peninsula. And Putin has said that's his goal and that's what he thinks America should do in order to bring about a, quote, peace treaty. Yeah, because then that would also make Russia just a huge power player in terms of diplomatic

activity in East Asia. And then that means that opens North Korea up to more economic activity between the two countries. Just because they've surrounded China at that point. Right. Yeah. Just from a geographic standpoint, that's their goal. China at that point.

Right. Yeah. Just from a geographic standpoint, that's, that's their goal. Yeah. Well, I think aside from that,

I mean, there's also like the, the way to make America look stupid too, like through all this, like if America totally concedes to Kim Jong or whatever the fuck that is, like there's so many dimensions to what like Russia actually gets out of. Yeah. And I don't think like, like Jack was saying about the,

I just think that there's some big business and intelligence apparatus kind of protecting us at this point. Right. It's my only true, I mean, deep down, I think that's my hope. Right. Because I think if we were more vulnerable, then there would be more attacks and stuff on us. Right. Because I think Putin couldn't hold himself back if he saw real vulnerabilities. Oh, yeah.

I mean. And I think right now he's just, I think that Trump, as much as everyone thinks, I think, I don't think there's a P-tape. I think there might be a P-tape, but I don't think that's what he's scared of. I think he's, he just wanted that tower in Moscow.oscow yeah yeah i really think that's all this was and i think still think that's kind of what he's trying to do is get that and i think i think putin might have told him hey when this all hits the fan you can come live here right but i don't think he understands that that's probably not gonna to happen. Right. Yeah. I mean, the thing that I think we've learned is that you wouldn't need a P-Tape because

he's so comically susceptible to manipulation. Yeah. If you're like, hey, we're on the same side. They could literally just be like, hey, bro, we're on the same side. I don't know why people are tripping about me. Dude, it's me, Vlad. You know me. Vladimir, dude. Yeah. Don't listen to fucking, Vlad. You know me. Vladimir, dude.

Yeah. Don't list the fucking haters, dog. We love each other, bro. And then when they're in the elevator alone, he's like, you do what I say. Don't fucking embarrass me. And he's like, okay. Okay. Okay.

Daddy. The other reason you might not need a pee tape is because this Moscow Trump Tower deal would have been, by everyone's estimation who looked at the specifics and the figures that have been thrown around, would have been the biggest business deal the Trump's have ever done ever like it would have every deal that Donald had done in the past it would have been bigger than all of those combined so of course that's a fucking carrot you could get him to do some wild shit to close that deal and one suspicion is that he did some wildly illegal shit that they're like, yeah, we can, you know, hang this over your head and now you're fucked.

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and we're back and you guys it's the showdown of the century. Ivanka versus AOC. Ivanka came out guns blazing yesterday commenting on the Green New Deal and saying, poor people don't want to be given stuff. Yeah, I mean, just listen to this. Okay, because this is, again, a woman of the people, Ivanka Trump, basically saying, she was asked to like, well, I mean, there are parts of the Green New Deal that you might agree like a federal jobs guarantee sounds great and then this is her

assessment. I don't think most Americans in their heart want to be given something. I've spent a lot of time traveling around this country over the last four years people want to work for what

they get. So I think this idea of a guaranteed minimum is not something most people want. They want the ability to be able to secure a job. They want the ability to live in a country where there's the potential for upward mobility. Where should we start? Well, I want to know what pockets that she visits where people are like, I don't want to be given stuff. Right. Because I've toured the country for well over a decade, and people love free shit.

Right. That's what they love. Including her father. Yeah. Her father received $413 million from his father for being born. Sure. That's it. And I mean, that's a lot of work, though.

You got to come out of that hole. Right. Yeah, that's true. I get it. She goes to Kentucky two times, and she's a woman of the people. It's like, I know what they want. Right. They want my handbags made with slave labor.

And again, I would love to know, I mean, has Ivanka Trump ever actually even applied for a job? No, no, no, no. You know what I mean? It's just such a bizarre statement to come out of, like someone's so unaware of who they actually even are. Right. You know, to be like, I don't think people want to be given.

I think it's worse than that. I think it's very conniving, and she's aware of what she's saying. Oh, right, sure. Yeah, I don't think it's, I don't think she's naive to be like, oh, people, she knows that his stupid-ass base liked to be told that. Right. But they're also the people who are like, I'm taking my job.

And they're like, no, well, they moved them out, so you want to do their work now? No, I ain't doing that job. That's that person. That's who she's talking to. I mean, it's smart. She's the most articulate, intelligent one of all of them. Right.

And I mean, there is a part of the American ethos and self- self mythologizing that that does i think inherently object to like when you term it as like a free handout and like right you know they they'll probably paint it as like people lining up in the street for their daily i'll tell you this yeah it's like substance substances, that's fucking welfare. Right. But they don't call it that. Right. They call it subsidies.

Subsidies. But they call it welfare when poor people need it. Yeah, to stigmatize it. Right. Well, I think the other thing, too, like in talking about this jobs guarantee, it's like they don't want to be given something. I'm sure there are plenty of people, though, too, who might be looking for a job that pays a living wage, which was part of like what this whole federal jobs guarantee is about. And I'm sure if you gave people the choice, you want to walk away from something or have an opportunity to create some kind of financial stability for yourself. They will most likely take that deal.

Now the capitalism machine defense system is in full fucking force right now trying to be like – trying to take down any fucking idea that has some semblance of people talking about like what about income equality? What about we address this disparity in wealth? The homie, the Dutch dude, the historian, I've been reading some more of his stuff because of the way he handled himself. I was very impressed. On Tucker Carlson? Yes the way he handled himself. I was very impressed. On Tucker Carlson? Yes. It was very impressive. I love that dude. And he makes a point that I hadn't thought about because I don't think about the economy as much as I should or want to.

That capitalism needs rich people to pay their taxes or it won't work. Yes. Or it won't work. Yes. And that fascinates me because greed has taken us so far in capitalism that it's going to destroy capitalism. Right. Right. Right. Because they're going to hoard all the money and wealth eventually because that's the only end to the way they're going right now. entire goal of entire like chunks of industry in the United States is finding ways to help rich people not pay taxes. Right. Yeah. And she's, she has the fucking nerve to get on TV and say that people don't want to be given stuff when that is the entire game of being rich is just get free shit, get your money free, right? Keep it free. Don't give me less taxes.

So give me that money back. Right. I mean, and then you go on just to kind of go around the, you know, everyone had a take on AOC. So then on Fox and friends, you have Pete Dick hands,

Hegseth, you know, he never washed his hands. Oh, allegedly. Then goes, so AOC, I was picturing a guy with dicks.

Yeah, I was like, this is flopping around. Whoa, who's this guy? So this, AOC went live on Instagram and said, basically a user asked her like, yo, is it chill to have kids like with climate change and looking at like the resource strain? And she just, her answer was sort of talking about how, you know, climate change is going to adversely affect

the world that kids are going to live in and it might it might very well be a much different reality for young children like the world that they inherit when they come get to be in their 30s or adulthood or whatever or even maybe who knows in fucking 10 years from now be a very different thing so that's just something she was just saying like it's going to be tough for kids if we don't get a hold of climate change cut two dick hands on fox and Friends basically going like, oh, she's telling us to fucking, to cut our dicks off and not have kids anymore. Saying it's like just immoral to have children.

Because it rains a little bit. You don't want me to fuck. Is that what she's trying to say? So this is, so listen, again, this is more of a conservative montage of people's takes on, you know, AOC. Considering our economy is $20 trillion, what they're attempting to do would bankrupt it. And if you listen to what she has to say, she's saying, don't have kids because it's going to hurt our country. So if you don't believe in kids and families and the flag, you're effectively admitting to civilizational suicide. No, really, she's saying don't have

kids because it's World War II and we're not going to be around in 10 years. When you stop believing in your own country and your own values and free market economics, you give up what made you special in the first place. She is the clear view of what the left believes today. I love this is my favorite thing they do is they take someone's quote and instead of taking exactly what they said in the context never tell you what they just said right and then they'll go here's what she's saying right yeah yeah where you're like no that's what she said right heard what she said no but you gotta really hear what she's saying civilizational suicide is what's a suicide the i buy uh here's what she's really saying the lizard people are going to come steal your medicine If communism happens

But this kind of full press Just campaign against AOC It's going to backfire I've seen it working with like Middle of the road people being like Yeah well I mean she fucked up that Amazon thing That was all her And like they're starting to

I think it's wearing off like people are starting i think it's like anybody in that fame cycle right where at first they're like yay and they don't even know right and then i'm tired of her right and you're like they still don't know right but the cool thing i do like about her is like, she, like when we watched the state of the union together, she didn't play the, she did play the theatrics that you have to play a little bit, but hers wasn't the raw,

raw thing. Like she sat there, it was like, this is all bullshit. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Like her and Bernie, they're not going to play their left and right game. They're just be like, this is both bullshit. Yeah. I think everybody on that left side of the chamber was like, fuck out of here. Especially shout out to that one pastor who was slouching in that front row.

He needs a medal of honor. And then just one last clip, just to let people know, we might be having a new UN ambassador. Oh, nice. Yes. Kelly Craft is her name. And I mean, she's probably going to be, I mean, we'll see. Anyway, she used to be the ambassador to Canada. I'm sorry.

But her husband is sorry. The sorry. I'm really sorry. Her husband is a third largest coal producer in the East. And they gave a lot of money to the GOP during these like past election cycles. So naturally that's how you become an ambassador to Canada or now the un possibly her name's being floated around so her husband's like the best at mining coal he's like really great knows how to just

fucking crank out the rocks he is personally a coal miner personally coal miner of the year right third largest producer 89 wheelbarrows full mountaintop removal baby uh so this is her being interviewed where someone asks her you know because like you know if you're gonna be at the un you got to deal with global shit for example climate change and listen to her answer when she's asked uh do you yourself believe in climate change do you yourself believe in climate change i believe there are sciences they're both on both sides that are accurate. You believe that there's science that proves that man is not causing climate change? Well, I think that both sides have their own results from their studies, and I appreciate and I respect both sides of the science.

Both sides of the science. Now we're at the point where both sides of science do you guys understand why that uh i should have lost my accent uh about 15 years ago oh man the battle i've been facing to say smart stuff with this accent this will hopefully go down and if it doesn't like go down in history at some point historians in the future will find it and be like okay that was the point at which everything stopped making yeah right because both sides ism is killing our society and both sides of the science is is amazing i mean it's the logical next step well they don't believe that when they say that either yeah but they don't believe rhetorically effective i guess yes you know it's a tactic they don, oh, well, this science and in the way my head believes because of Jesus and stuff.

Right. Like there are two sides to this. No, they've learned I can say this both sides and you can't come at me with facts anymore. I think that's true and I think this is true. Right. Sorry, I'm just – Sorry. Can't nail me down.

I think this is true and I want this to be true. And it's economically beneficial for this to be true. Right. Sorry, I'm just. Sorry. Can't nail me down. I think this is true, and I want this to be true, and it's economically beneficial for this to be true, so that's what I'm going to go with. I feel like this is true. Right. I just feel it. It feels like. It feels truthy.

Yes. But, you know, she was a real big advocate for Kentucky horse racing and basketball. Yes. Cash rules everything around me. University of Kentucky. Yep. I love Lexington. It cracks me up. That whole city's economy is based

on horse cum. They sold their soul to John Kyle Perry, but that was a smart move, actually. Turns out. One of the smarter moves they've ever made in Lexington. Alright, guys. I think that's gonna do it for today. Billy Wayne, it's been a pleasure having you. It's always fun.

We're all going to go now work on our nuclear fallout shelter. Yeah. No, no. I just want it to hit right on top of my head. Right on your fontanelle. Directly upon your fontanelle. Before that happens, can you guys come see me do stand-up? I'm going out again.

Yeah. I haven't been out in two months. I'm getting ready to record something in April. And I'm going out hardcore. I'll be in Seattle. There you go. Yeah. I haven't been out in two months. I'm getting ready to record something in April and I'm going out hardcore. I'll be in Seattle. There you go. March 15th and 16th. It's a Friday, Saturday. My friend just opened a cool little club in Capitol Hill

on 15th Avenue. Please come to that. It's really fun. What's the date? 15th and 16th. It's Friday and Saturday. We've got four shows. It's a little, it's a cool little venue below. It's in little It's a cool little venue Below It's in the basement Of a Thai restaurant So it's got like that

New York City club feel Yeah yeah yeah It's great Alright well Zeitgang Pull up Support the man What about social media Where do they find you

Billy Wayne Davis Just type that in To any of them It'll come up Or if you want tour dates BWDtour.com All that comes up And is there a tweet

You've been enjoying Yes Oh it was WD tour.com. All that comes up. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yes. Uh, Oh, it was, uh, Barry Rothbart.

I don't know if you guys know him as a very, very, the, these two in particular this morning was, uh, people aren't giving Tom Waits enough credit for his performance in the ballot of Buster Scruggs. Holy shit. He was fantastic.

Someone please agree. Anyone. And I agree. Like my favorite part, my favorite part is telling people afterwards, like, have you seen that? of Buster Scruggs. Holy shit, he was fantastic. Someone please agree. Anyone. And I agree. Like, my favorite part, my favorite part is telling people afterwards, like, have you seen that? I'm like, yeah,

that Tom Waits part is amazing. They're like, Tom Waits is in it? I'm like, he's the prospector. He's the prospector? Yes. Holy shit. See?

That's crazy. Did you not know that? He's really good. It's amazing. Yeah, that part is really good. So that was like, I was like, I was the same way

when I saw that this morning. I was like, yes! And I tweeted him immediately. I would love for Netflix to just keep giving them money to make like an anthology movie like that, because that's the best. Just like 15-minute short stories by the Coen brothers. Fuck yeah. And the greatest artist around.

Yeah. And then the other one was, this guy said, you'd think this news couldn't be any better, but this is happening during CMA Fest. Wu-Tang is playing Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. Oh, shit. During the Country Music Awards Festival. Oh, ooh. I'm going to that.

Are you? Yeah. I don't know how, but I'm going to get in. Awesome. When they say clan in the front, I hope it's the Wu-Tang Clan. That you're like, here, I'm here. You hope they clan in the front. I hope it's the Wu-Tang Clan. That you're like, here, I'm here. You hope they... Clan in the front.

Oh, shit. Not that one. Yeah. Torches go up. Careful. Careful. C. Clan with a C.

Miles, where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. A couple of tweets I like. This redactress headline says, dainty little compass tattoos that say, I am terribly lost. Love a good little compass rose tattoo. Another one is sort of, you got to look at it.

It's Ify Wadaway's birthday, turn 31. Happy birthday, my man. Oh my goodness. And he is out here thirst-trapping on Twitter. He has a photo of him on a bed, and it's an overhead shot of just him basically it's implied that he's nude underneath this blanket yes i don't think it's i don't think it's implied he's definitely got nothing on although i like to have him think that he like wears like set underwear set underwear like one of those little socks yeah uh and then

uh barbara gray uh commented on this photo because it's him just with his arms behind his head and stuff like this. She says, you making your wife hang off a ceiling fan for this shit? That's a good point. Whenever I see photos like this, I'm like, who took this? Or is your timer game so on point? Right. But anyway.

That he just threw it up in the air and put his hands back? Boom. Got it. Boom. Go wish that man a put his hands back. Boom. Got it. Boom. Go wish that man a happy girth day. Yes. You can also find us, that meaning Jack and I, and Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus, a.k.a. Lily Zambonski.

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You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. A couple tweets I've been enjoying. Megan Amran tweeted, God made boys wear pants so their legs wouldn't touch each other because each of their legs is boy, so touching two boy legs? Gay. And then Shen the Bird tweeted, Detective analyzing chalk outline. Why were his dicks so big? Forensics. Those are his legs. Detective. Oh. Forensics. Wait, Why were his dicks so big? Forensics. Those are his legs.

Detective. Oh. Forensics. Wait, did you say dicks? Leg-based comedy today for you guys. You can find me on Twitter. I think I already said it. Jack underscore O'Brien.

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