The Daily Zeitgeist - Jan 6th 2.0? Alaska’s KNIFE Politics 08.16.22

Episode Date: August 16, 2022

In episode 1310, Jack and Miles are joined by MC, producer, and streamer Illingsworth to discuss… Jan. 6th 2.0, Will Sarah Palin Replace Alaska’s (Knife-Wielding) Congressman? And more! Laura Ingraham Says Country Might Be Ready to Move Past Trump: Americans Exhausted By the ‘Constant Battle’ ‘Fox & Friends’ Begs Trump to Make Supporters Lay Off FBI Rand Paul calls for repeal of Espionage Act after Trump FBI search Will Sarah Palin Replace Alaska’s (Knife-Wielding) Congressman? GOP lawmaker once held a knife to Boehner’s throat Sarah Palin will advance in Alaska's wild House special primary election, CNN projects Alaska election tests weight of Sarah Palin’s celebrity – and Trump’s sway 'Another day in paradise. This is a strange day': Trump jokes about FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago while dialing in to 15-minute telephone rally for Sarah Palin's House campaign Trump bashed Alaska’s ranked choice voting, but Republicans likely need those 2nd votes to win Check Out: https://illingsworks.bandcamp.com/ LISTEN: El arca de Mima by MimaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me for I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me for I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry.

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This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Tuesday, August 16th, 2022, which of course means National Roller Coaster Day. National Roller Coaster Day. National Rum Day. National Tell-A-coaster Day. National Rollercoaster Day. National Rum Day. National Tell-A-Joke Day. Hey, three things that go together so well. Yeah.

Rum, getting on a rollercoaster, just telling loud jokes to everybody on the coaster, baby. That just sounds like a thing. You're like, yo, how's that Magic Mountain? This drunk asshole kept telling these one-liner jokes the the whole time i'm just celebrating them all today i i went on a like one of the scariest rides i think i've ever been on at kennywood this thing called the black widow that like swings you up and down create crazy directions uh did not piss myself. But I kept, and I was, like, kind of doing a bit. But I was like, here we go.

Oh, boy. Oh, no. And the kid next to me, who was, like, probably 14, had, like, a shitty little, like, dirty mustache turned to me and was, like, getting pretty excited, huh? Wow. It just shamed me. I was immediately back in, like, eighth grade,, like being like, oh, I'm sorry. I'm such a dork. Oh, you think that's cool, huh?

Anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien. I pissed my blue jeans while riding a tilt to a world that was frightening. Swear they were dry. I'm not lying. Don't think my wife will buy it. Something went wrong. I think I might need to buy some pants tonight. That is courtesy of Christy Yamaguchi, Maine.

I kissed a girl. In case you couldn't tell. My pipes are a little flat. I've got COVID. A little viddy. And I told Jack, I said, man, you can't take too much time off, bro. You better get back on type.

Tough it out. This is my first time interacting with humans that aren't also sick with COVID in four days. So we're going to see how it goes. But you're feeling all right? Yeah, I feel okay. I feel, like, better.

You look very loose. That's what we were saying before. Glassy-eyed, I think. You got a very Matthew McConaughey and Dazed and Confused vibe about you. That's right. I feel like I've finally gotten sleep. Oh, yeah, there you go. That's kind of nice.

Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined be joined as always by my co-host mr miles gray aka the fbi chimed in with a haven't you people ever heard of securing your goddamn doors no it's much better to sell these kinds of things with a sense of greed and opportunity okay shout out to me in the shower this morning. I was like, wait, how can I? I was like, I chimed in FBI chimed. Okay. Hold on.

Oh, yeah. That was a, that was a miles original. I had a feeling it might be sometimes. Yeah. Like you can tell when there's tears coming down my face when I, that's when I wrote from the heart. You're clenching, grabbing the part of your shirt over your heart you should see the tearing it the art the armrests on my desk chair they're like

half ripped off because of the contention when i'm singing yeah so that's what we found out since i've been gone he was trying to sell nuclear secrets i mean allegedly we don't know but he had that kind of stuff and that's valuable to people so who knows hey you know maybe he's got a drop box shared folder yeah uh with the homies on it too i don't know well we are thrilled to be joined once again by a brilliantly talented mc producer streamer detroit's very own it's ill Hello. Hello. I don't have a fancy song to introduce myself, but you could just play like one of your la la la la la la. Hey, I don't know.

How y'all doing? Yeah, there you go. What's up, man? I was just saying before, every time you've been on, Jack has not been here. So finally, we have the show intact with ellingsworth as the what's going on baby you're dodging me what's going on i mean that that very very well could have been the case except last time you had to duck out last minute and i was here and then you came back and i was gone and so yeah so i brought you back this time. That's the reality. I brought you back.

It's my first episode back. I was like, we can't do this again. This can't be a third time. I love it. How are things in the D ever since the game just launched Scud Missiles at the city of Detroit with that weird... Did you see that Black Slim Shady track?

I didn't listen to that at all. Most people haven't because it's tired. I'm old, dude. I'm old in diss records for the most part. I'm just like, I don't listen to that at all. Most people haven't. I'm old, dude. I'm old in diss records for the most part. I'm just like, I don't care. Y'all are growing. All y'all got more money than me. I don't want to hear about it. It was just sad. We were talking about when it came out.

I was like, this is the most transparently thirsty diss track to be like, hey man, vaporize me, please! Over here! I feel like that's the track record for the game though isn't it just to be like i'm stirring the pot y'all yep exactly give me some attention but in madden steer clear of him wait he just the city of detroit he came out he dropped a track called the black slim shady coming after eminem all kinds of wild. Wait, I'm sorry. I didn't know the name of it.

I'm sorry. I laughed so loud. He's talking about gunplay. He's talking about kidnapping Haley. Then they had this little white girl back. Dad, I'm scared. Like an Eminem track. Listen to the Friends episode. The FBI probably couldn't raid Eminem

like they just did the former president of the United States. What are you talking about? You're not doing nothing. You're not running up. OK, no. But then he said then there's this other part where the conceit of it is he's taking an Uber to M&M's house. But the Uber driver is Stan's younger brother from the Stan song. Who's like, yeah, my brother was a really big fan of him.

It's like so, yo, the shit is so all over the place. brother was a really big fan of him it's like so yo the shit is so all over the place it sounds like it's just like he had a daydream about an eminem song and like just wanted to write it like right it sounds like he's like inspired by eminem more than he i'm sure in a way yeah like a lot of the the rhyme like the rhyme schemes and stuff are very marshall-y right but it's not at the level of him so it just sounds like a school project. Oh, my God. Yeah. I was just going to say a creative writing project from like right after the second Marshall Mathers LP dropped. Exactly.

Yeah. The description of that is so goofy that I never want to hear it. I just want to live off of people describing. You know how long it is? Seven minutes. Ten and a half minutes oh my god it sounds like it's worth every every second anyway it's wild i'm like that's pushing it shows you too like even the audience that's for like older millennial hip-hop fans we're even like

yo bro we're too we're we don't have energy for this i want to listen i listen to a funkadelic song that long right and i think we think we've grown out of the beef. Yeah. Transparent beef phase as adults. You know, we have my, my, my ego is not like,

uh, you know, driven by like the, the reputation of either one of these guys. It was just like, I don't, y'all got more money than me, man.

Give me some money game. Right. Eminem. I'm trying to survive. Please. Care about y'all beef all right well we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about today we're gonna check in with january 6 2.0 the raid on mar-a-ago. Top secret document being smuggled, maybe planted. Probably, if you ask me.

I've been mostly tuned into Fox since I've been out. So, yeah. But, yeah. So, we'll check in with that. Miles is going to tell me everything I missed. I'm going to brush your hair and tell you all about it. We're going to check it with sarah palin because she is back in the news trying to run for congress to replace a house representative who died last year and who once held a knife to john bainer's throat

yo he don young regularly keeps a blade on him he wants once pinned former speaker John Boehner against a wall and held a knife to his throat during a heated debate about earmarks. Pulling a knife out and holding it menacingly is... I don't know. I wasn't ready for that little detail in the story oh yeah wait when we get there i'll i'll you gotta hear the recap in a moment too it's it's wild this shit is wild all of that plenty more but first illingsworth we'd like to ask our guest what is something from your search history oh my search history uh recently what did i look up i looked up uh stuff about the

aces quiz the aces what is it what how do i describe it uh adverse childhood experiences i've been you know i've been doing some some self soul searching yeah and i i recently like started back in the therapy and i was like, I heard about this ACEs quiz. I was like, let me, let me take the ACEs quiz. And, uh,

let me tell you guys, I passed it. I got a six out of 10. So that means I'm, I'm, I'm real fucked up. This shit looks adverse. So,

you know, you came in first. We on, we on, we on that wave, baby. We on that wave. But you know what?

That's the, That's step one. You know, most people want to be in the fucking dark about the shit they've been through and then act confused when they act like patterns out constantly. They're like, I don't know what's wrong. It's like, well, let's look back in time for a second and forgive certain things about our past for sure. Yeah. I mean, it got brought to my attention for me.

I was talking with a friend and like a conflict came up in the conversation and I kind of like became ultra defensive and shut down. And then I was like, oh, like later, like, damn, I shouldn't have stopped going to therapy like a year ago. Right. That wasn't that wasn't smart. So now we back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what's in the search history. I remember when I took the alcoholism test, like it's like 21 questions. And I thought it was going to be drinks. Yeah, 21 drinks.

Can you finish all these? Let's see what you tap out. I did decide to take a drink with each question, you know, just to loosen myself up, get myself ready for it. And I was like, ooh, this is going to be a nail biter. Like, I think, you know just to loosen myself up get myself ready for it and i was like this is gonna be a nail biter like i think you know it's been and then i looked at the results and i was like 16 out of 21 and they were like if you've answered more than two of these uh you you have a problem i was like oh no and that's when i stopped drinking yeah those are the moments yeah those are the moments well honestly you know when you get like hit with that like self-awareness hammer like straight to the

dome and you're like yeah yeah i mean i knew but i was like yeah yeah this test was like like somehow i was like fingers crossed i was like oh, definitely. I definitely have a problem. At the end, you're like, okay, click here for results. And you say, come on, man. You know. You know what it is. You know. What's something you think is underrated? Definitely Jordan Peele's new movie, Nope.

I feel like it's underrated. I think that movie is super dope. I was in the theater doing finger guns the whole time. So many parts of it because it has so many cool mergings of influences and genres and styles. I was like,

oh, this movie's great. But at the same time, when the lights went up, I could audibly hear people talking about I don't know about this one. What's going on with this one? And I'm just in my seat seething because I about like, I don't know about this one. What's going on with this one? And I'm just in my seat seething because I'm like, yo, it's not supposed to be Get Out. It's not supposed to be us. It's a whole different movie.

Enjoy the movie for what it is. Right. Let go of your expectations. Get into it, brother. They're like, what it mean? Black cowboy people's like search. It's like, yeah, I'm,'m you know so i've been seeing a whole lot of mixed reviews about it from various sources but i love the movie i think people should go see that movie for sure right right right absolutely yeah i'm i'm waiting to go uh maybe in the next

couple weekends or something i was supposed to go with my wife uh but that's like burning a hole in my pocket if i had a ticket or i was like please let me go to see this one yeah i can't wait and it really has been it's wild i was talking to a group of friends and people were split in that group yeah and people who were like even like i know it's a different film it's like i'm just thinking like could it have been better even as a genre thing i was like okay you know what i i just want to talk to people who are like go see it go see it go see it i saw people immediately in hate mode like fresh out of the theater seat like oh nobody like nope truly nope i don't like this yeah like damn arms yeah it was it was so great i didn't expect that you know but i enjoyed the movie so jokes on them it's so enjoyable

there's so much good stuff in it like I can see a criticism that it's like not as coherent as his other ones because like there's just like a lot of cool ideas but also it like doesn't need to be coherent he's like an artist you know

he's putting things out there but yeah I agree like it people after the movie like walking down the escalator were were like i didn't know what he was saying half the time i couldn't understand him so wait the character or yeah i'm like what are we talking about oh no oh like literally oh wow they're doing that one yeah what dialect was that oh my god oh shit yeah i mean i think he's a good actor but i didn't i didn't know what he was saying but that movie is great everybody should go check it out what else is out in movies i feel like they stopped releasing movies after top gun came out there we did it you were good until nope there

was there was just a like article about how what do you call that august is like very not much going on in august oh yeah wait wait you know what I saw, though? I saw Bullet Train is out. Oh, yeah. Bullet Train came out. I did. I did see that. That was OK. Yeah.

That was aggressively OK. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, hey, that's a perfect description. Yeah. Definitely aggressively OK. Extra medium. I don't know about y'all.

How do y'all feel about Brad Pitt's acting in general? Like what? Like how do y'all feel? He's like a vibe. He's not an actor. he's like a vibes dealer word you know we're on the same page yeah to me i'm never like damn brad pitt fucking body that role yeah i'm like brad pitt has a he contains multitudes and it just depends which one he pulls out of his back yeah my thing is like yeah brad pitt did not ruin this good movie tight yeah and i don't mind because just like hey i'm brad pitt and i'm like fine cool yeah he really is he really is himself at all like we could be in the 1800s we could be

in the future yeah you could be a traveler and snatch i'm like yeah he said periwinkle blue you know i'm brad pitt with a with an accent but i'm brad exactly yeah exactly is he eating throughout this i like that that is one of the things that i usually need him to be doing i do remember some eating i remember i definitely remember some drinking of water he definitely was drinking he was staying hydrated yeah he likes to put things in his mouth that's another one that's super divisive to people who love it or hate it. My mom was like, I love that shit. Wait, meanwhile, Big Her and Steve Hernandez, tough guy of the year. I saw him tweet.

He said he walked out of Bullet Train. Oh, yeah. Wow. Steve Hernandez. He tweeted. I had to retweet that with the tough guy gif because i was like all right homie i see they do there are a lot of things that get wrapped up very neatly in that movie i could i could see somebody like not digging that but like walkout movie like the

last movie i walked out of was like that uh johnny knoxville movie where he was like in the special olympics like yeah oh like like this like this is my god this shit is fucked up i gotta go yeah yeah like i can't be here but uh other than that like damn like i remember after the fact too they were trying to like really act like they were doing everybody is solid they're like yeah but these people like now they they got little careers like really act like they were doing everybody is solid they're like yeah but these people like now they got little careers going they're like they were doing press for the show yeah you're not you're not like don't don't like lay your head at night on your big pillow of i'm an ally and like helped you know better representation no no come on now but yeah the bullet train thing i feel like it looks so campy that i can tell like you you might

either be pissed off because it's so camp or you can accept that and be like, I don't know. Fine. Fuck it. It was, you know, it's an airplane movie. But yeah. Yeah, for sure. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated?

Well, I guess since we're on movies, I'm going to stick with movies. The movie Prey. Have you seen that? The newest? No, not yet. Into the franchise you always come with great record i feel like every time actually i'm remembering ellingsworth every time you come on your overs and unders are usually shit you're watching because you were talking about resident alien last time weren't you no i was talking about uh raised by wolves which they canceled those sons of bitches okay my bad i i don't mean to digress.

No, it's all good. I'm not familiar with that, but I'm going to ask you about that afterwards, probably. Okay. But yeah, that Prey movie, I'm not digging it. Have you seen it, Jack? I haven't. No, I have it downloaded on my phone and

have not watched it. Was planning to. Yeah, well, I won't be like spoilery or anything. Oh, no, I just won't watch it now. There's so much shit to watch. It's fine, man. It's fine. All I need is one person to not like a thing. A lot of people like it, though.

I was going to say, don't just blindly trust me. Don't just blindly trust me. But like, as far as like the Predator goes, you know, as far as like the movies that are ingrained in my mind is it's part one and part two because i am of a certain age yeah but as far as prey goes i feel like it's just like a bad rehash of part one and they even reuse like certain dialogue in certain situations and it's just like man like we saw this movie already with characters that were not this flat. You know what I'm saying? The CG in the movie is

kind of an abomination. It looks like a CW show, and I know for a lot of people, they might be like, what's wrong with that? I love CW shows. But we all know that sometimes we put on the TV for comfort, and we know what we're watching is junk. And Prey is some

junk. I'm telling you wow we got real i feel like yesterday's guests they loved it they were like i love seeing fucking french fur trappers get just mutilated they're like i love that that's fine the execution to me was very poor i feel like that movie could have been done way better. But like not even good junk. Not like Doritos Locos tacos. I made three attempts to watch this. First two attempts I

fell asleep twice. I called it visual night quill to some friends who were asking me about it. I do not recommend if you want to watch a predator movie watch the first one especially if you've never seen anything from the predator franchise predator just go in order just go in order the first one is a great film like if that's not a

criterion collection entry it needs to be yesterday that's a that's like. That's a movie that deserves a second. The ensemble cast, the score, the VFX in the original movie. It's like all of these things were smashing. Prey is not smashing nothing. The action is very middling, predictable. Super producer Justin's coming in saying he disagrees. So maybe I will have to check this out. Divisive.

Divisive films out right now. We can disagree. I still love you. It's all good. Yeah, look. Nobody's bad for liking or not liking what they like. He said he watched the non-English version. I watched the English version.

That does not have an effect on how I feel about it. Okay. I don't have like so you're saying it sounds like all of the things that you're really you the visuals and the action are like the concept as a predator film is what it felt like it was lacking to you yeah like it was the writing like it was all boring it was it was it has already been done within the franchise is there a predator movie that is underrated like are any of the aliens versus or like the predators are those any good because i skipped those because they kind of

i just i heard similar things that they were like kind of whack but you know what i none of those alien versus predator movies are like i haven't watched any of those in adulthood so it's like right i don't know i can't i can't honestly tell you about them right right and then adrian brody yeah who i immediately think of when i think of the predator franchise yeah it's like who can we get to replace arnold schwarzenegger yeah adrian brody why is Why is he in here? Who would be a match? You know what's wild? And one of these listicles, they have Predators ranked at number two of all the Predator films of all time with Predator at one, Prey at three. Is Predators the one that had Lawrence Fishburne in it?

Yes. Yep. He's a bad guy, I think. You know what? That movie was kind of bad, too. But as far as ensemble cast like i give it some points for that like it was it was it was entertaining yeah mershala definitely caught a couple of the kills like wow wow browsing past it on hbo i feel like it was on hbo i've just

rotation as a kid i've never even when predator came out it was always a comedy to me like i never fucked with predator because i was like this shit is dope i'm like i just want to hear arnold scream like you son of a bitch like there's so many lines in it i'm like predator he's like what are you doing kill me now do it bad idea what are you doing i'm like i remember watching it as a kid and we would laugh we're like what are you waiting for i'm right here uh no that's very valid like everybody's also integral to the enjoyment of that movie yeah people come with their own things and also i love that like tidbit about how uh jean-claude

van damme was the og in the predator suits in a little suit didn't work out yeah little french dude or belgium what do you call a guy from Belgium Muscles from Brussels Muscles from Brussels that's right alright let's take a quick break we'll come back and we'll talk about another divisive thing this raid on Mar-a-Lago I'm not feeling it guys

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An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I'd just take all the other stuff out of it. Segregation academies. When civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools, these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot.

You have to be ready for serious backlash. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and miles you're calling this january 6 2.0 what's going on what's the same shit you know it's they're in a weird spot and they're doubling down on very dangerous rhetoric in the hopes to somehow skirt it or survive this one you know because like right now we saw like trump is ramping up the rhetoric to try and save himself that's clear we saw them like the end of like last week started seeding that story that any evidence that was may have been found was planted.

That was that wasn't there. We were fucking set up. And then Trump supposedly like leaked the search warrant through Breitbart. And Breitbart put out the search warrant, basically doxing the FBI agents that were present at the raid. And people like, oh, my God, what is this? What are y'all fucking doing? And then over the weekend, Trump went he went on fucking pay less twitter or truth social whatever the fuck is called to rile up his followers again to go after the doj fbi and then going full q on us retweeting

or retruthing whatever the fuck amplifying a bunch of q anon bullshit like over and over so like he's it looks like he's trying to unite the five families. You know what I mean? Bullshit to try and ride for him. When you look at this, you're like, this reeks of existential thirst and being shook.

We hear law enforcement over the weekend, they said they're facing an unprecedented amount of threats. And they said they haven't felt this bad since June of 2020. Right. So just to give you an idea of where they're at in their feelings. But yeah, they're receiving all kinds of threats.

So, you know, like when armed goons pulled up to an FBI office in Arizona with their camo and fucking ARs and shit, you know, gave a lot of credence to those people being like, yeah, this looks like the build-up to january 6th like you got you got armed people who are now convinced of some other shit which isn't like hey trump lost the fucking election or hey this dude absconded with a bunch of fucking top secret like documents and now it's all about you know force and trying to get people super scared. And when you, again, look at all the things he did, he reached out to Merrick Garland's office, like, you know, at the end of last week and was saying, basically asking, what can I do to bring the heat down?

Right. It would seem like a clear message, which is like, you don't want me to turn this shit up, right? Like, what can I do to help you out and now he's also saying like i you know we've got to we've got to we've got to be more peaceful but at the same time he's saying he says one thing and does the other so it's it's a very you know chaotic situation at the moment is this i mean this feels like it's less electoral posturing and like trying to consolidate demographics and more like trying to get people who are already behind him to like do some wild shit right yep like oh yeah i mean what is what's his end i mean i guess that i don't know that was hard i think i guess i've

always been escalation yeah right escalation is his only mode is just next level. I mean, cause I think in his mind, he's like, if I stand down, this leads to, I know where this leads. Like if I'm,

if I go along with it, then I have to go along with the legal process versus the other side as well. At least this is like a, a variable I can control, which is external chaos and see where that goes. And he's been- I'm going to look weak. Yeah, exactly.

And he's like, y'all come to my rescue. QAnon, where we go one, we go all. To Truth Social, sign up now, refer two friends, get 10% off your first bag of nutraceuticals from InfoWars. But yeah, it doesn't look great. And again, the messaging is really all over the place like for a while last week a lot of the flunkies in trump's world they were going along with the like shit was planted you know there's no fucking faith in anything it's all nihilism

right election type shit but now there's like little like people aren't kind of sticking to the script like on fox and friends they were kind of being like hey everybody you don't want smoke with the fbi uh donald trump can you do something about this this is kind of fucking wacky sir uh and i'll play you that this is old steve ducey uh trying to talk some sense like Like he's kind of, you know, intimating. Very directly like, you know, Trump, you know, blue lives matter. Right. Right. Right. And they're having trouble with that.

It would be great for everybody to tamp down the rhetoric against the FBI because the FBI simply was doing what the DOJ asked them to do. The attorney general is the boss of the guy at the FBI, of all the people at the FBI. So, you know, with all of these threats going around, it would ultimately be great if the former president, who has always been a great supporter of law enforcement, has posed with a thousand police departments coast to coast. It would be great if he called for an end to the violent rhetoric against federal law enforcement and in particular the fbi that was just doing their job you know who else was just doing their job steve the nazis wait so they're bad now wait they're bad now i mean uh blue lives matter but but those guys are cerulean so we don't yeah like them it's wild man like it's like i'm

pro-racism not pro-police we just so that one was hey remember like the police that were like had your back in the summer yeah remember there was like that whole thing like let's remember like what sides were on white supremacy and not completely fuck up the game here and try and turn people's, you know, anger at the DOJ. Laura Ingram, she went on a podcast and she basically said, I'm tired of this. She's like, I think people are tired of this shit. And I don't know if she will say this on her show, but she damn sure said this on the Crossing the or whatever. The Truth with lisa booth podcast the episode's called crossing the rubicon with laurie but listen to this moment this is from

a podcast where she's basically saying i don't know maybe we need somebody else again i think people people conflate trump with with people's overall sense of happiness in the country. I mean, you know, Donald Trump's been a friend of mine for 25 years, and I'm always very open about this on my show. But, you know, we'll see whether that's what the country wants. I mean, the country, I think, is so exhausted. They're exhausted by the battle, the constant battle, that they may believe that,

well, maybe it's time to turn the page if we can get someone who has all Trump's policies who's not Trump, right? Goes on to be like. Maybe Ron DeSantis. Can do that. Does she go on to say that? She goes on to say quote.

And she's. She says. And it doesn't really matter in the end. Whether it's Trump making a populist conservative. Making a populist conservative point. Or whether it's DeSantis. Or someone like him. They're going to come full bore against any Republican.

It does, because you let the monster out. You can't put him back in the box. He's not going to not run. And you think that DeSantis is going to be able to beat him? He's going to demolish DeSantis. You are stuck with this motherfucker, and I don't feel sorry for you because you are tired this is this is the monster that you made and you know why they're tired because like all the pundits

right are smarter than donald trump and they're like this is not the way you play this shit fool but you got me out here because i'm on team white supremacy having to be like this is actually genius this dumb shit that he just said. And I bet you all are very tired of that because you're like, there's such a more tidy way to head towards autocracy than this. Well, they're like middle managers between Donald Trump and their

media bosses and the people who they are supposed to be talking to. And yeah, they're in a tough position yeah you got it damn that that sucks for them it really sucks ah darn it and we had this guy mike turner from ohio on friday dude he had a track who is mike turner he's he's this week's fucking boot licker boot deep thrower is he so he's a politician in his own right oh my god yeah his twitter avatars just be a

mouth around a boot now and like the way he he is out he's like what devin nunes was doing too and he's like yo this man is not smart enough to be trying to spin this shit and also he's not prepared for the follow-up questions when he goes to be like everything's fine he didn't do anything wrong so the first time he came out was on friday and he said oh you know you can get classified shit on your phone who knows what's actually classified anymore and people are like that's pretty good what i mean that is like something that has i have thought well like i could probably get like yeah i can go on reddit right now find some weird shit yeah but give me some missile codes. Right, exactly. That was kind of his

angle to the point that like... Give me 20 minutes. I'll get you some missile codes. What do you want? How many? How many numbers in the missile code? Okay, I got you four. But keep that low.

So, did you just provide the number four as the missile code okay here's the the missile code is four five seven we're gonna roll them out over the next five episodes okay yeah exactly guys listen to the first six seconds of every episode it's i heart radio yeah we're giving out the coats for free on this show but the next time he goes out he goes on cnn and you know he should have known better because on cnn they weren't really giving too much leeway to the people who are out here being like whoa i don't know maybe it was planted i mean some did but this time pamela brown was like hold on on, man. You were really gassed up over fucking Hillary Clinton's motherfucking emails, my man.

What the fuck happened? Who is Pamela Brown? What are we on? We're on CNN. We're on CNN. She's one of the anchors on CNN. And I'm just going to let, she's going to read a quote from Mike Turner when it was, you know, her emails.

And then just a very simple question after. you know her emails and then just a very simple question after um you at the time indicated that you were outraged by her uh the way she handled her uh cost of information saying quote secretary clinton can be held accountable for her extremely careless actions so why don't you share that same concern with donald trump who is now a private citizen, taking 15 boxes of documents from the White House, including classified documents to the White House, to his private residence. Why was it concerning for you with Hillary Clinton and not now with Donald Trump? Hit him with it.

Sure. Well, there are two different things. When Hillary Clinton, while she was Secretary of State, had classified material about her classified communications traveling through her computer server in her house putting it at risk for any counter intelligence or any others who are hacking into her materials putting united states materials at risk in this okay so already you're like what just word salad traveling through uh the what electricity travels through wires through computers story bots uh yeah do you know that they are stealing copper wiring out of homes that's how powerful the wires that are transmitting so in order to have that conversation we're gonna

have to go back to uh what is the internet really even is it a series of tubes uh what yeah right and i that's why i think al gore needs to you know as the inventor of the internet he needs to answer some questions yeah i think he needs to come he's at 100 so he goes back to cnn where they ask you fucking follow-up. And he he had another fucking predictable run in with Brianna Kyler. And this she just she bodied him with a yes or no question. And I just again, this is how unprepared this guy is and how exhausted all these Republicans are to try and be like you spin away something that they were so rah rah about a while back. Do you take home documents marked special access? spin away something that they were so rah-rah about a while back. Do you take home documents marked special access?

No. And yet you're casting doubt on whether or not... I've been in the Oval Office with the president. I'd be very surprised if he has actual documents that rise to the level of an immediate national security threat. Well, the documents, just to be clear, several sets, and you're aware of that because you've seen the property receipt. You're casting doubt. You want information.

You don't actually have that information on which to base that conclusion at this point. But you yourself would not take home documents. He's like, well, you know, you never know at which point. But he even said, she's like, okay, homie, do you take home security documents? Nah.

Never did that. I'm trying to stay out of jail. Moving on. There's a lot of silence here and I don't like it. Yo, just sitting on that. Some things. Security documents. Hey, I like when people start just swallowing syllables when they're like curry documents. Oh, you should have heard when he said the stuff about it being classified.

He kept clearing his throat like it was fucking Robert Durst in the fucking the Jinx. Of course he killed him. Of course he did. I'll just play this for you again. We played it briefly, but I just need you to hear when he tried to be like, I mean, what is classified even? What's the definition of a phone? Depends on what the nuclear information is. You can say nuclear weapons, but there are things that are highly, highly classified.

There are things that are not extremely classified, but are nonetheless classified. The other aspect with respect to uh to access is we don't know what those documents are i mean i'm asking the same question you are attorney general garland director ray if oh that wasn't the clip but anyway that's the same press conference no that was still funny it's like these are diet classified this is big right very very many different classified classified is not always actually classified like yeah that's a tall boy classified you know we're not talking about 40s of classified information but this is the sort of state that they're in and i think and then ran paul the best

he could do is be like maybe we need to get rid of the Espionage Act. It's like, so are you saying he violated it? That's the best you can do. And so these next months are going to be really are fucking weeks. Who fucking knows? But it's clear that there's an extreme amount of anger from the MAGA set. And it's very misplaced. The certain elements of the media are willing to keep going along with this misinformation. That's only like exacerbating things.

And Trump is just going to like double down. We've seen what's clear. Sadly, people are willing to die for the MAGA brand. So it is going to be interesting, like how this all shakes out. Like are millions of people going to double down along with Trump? I'm not entirely sure what that means. But right now, it's absolute chaos. of people going to double down along with trump i'm not entirely sure what that means but right now what the it's it's absolute chaos and i think eventually they will coalesce around some

conspiracy theory to help you know like rationalize whatever the fuck they're going to do but right now they're having a little bit of trouble figuring out what that conspiracy theory is it is a really weird like it does seem to me less and less likely that they're going to let him, like, win the election, which I think he could if, like, he were allowed to, like, just get a, I don't know, disaffected Americans and, you know, racist Americans with misplaced anger. And like, but it feels less and less like that's something that the establishment is going to allow to happen. And so like, there's just a real like blank spot in my mind as to like where this goes, because it does like it feels like a lot of the media right now is like, well, DeSantis is going to come through and people are going to, you know, realize DeSantis is the reasonable option. But that shit is not happening. Like, it's just not happening. Like, he's he's not stepping down. He will destroy DeSantis. DeSantis is, like, not, you know, he's still too much of, like,

all the things that appeal to the media about DeSantis are, like, the things that, like, we found out, like, these people don't give a fuck about, like, the people who vote for Trump. So, like, we're still on this, like, collision course between him, you know, like, maybe being arrested, maybe, you know, just not being a lot like disqualified from voting. And like, what is that going to look like when, you know, like I feel like that's that's where we're at.

I mean, you're you're trying to erode trust in all the institutions. Yeah, you're putting you're installing people who are willing to be like i don't know what an election is i know i like this white guy and that's and i was elected decider of that and that's you know and slowly they want to have enough people to be like yeah man fuck voting on this shit because we know we're right because the thing that's wrong with this place is we don't like that people that don't look like us are being treated humanely yes right yeah and yeah and again i and i keep saying it's an abstract problem that these people are trying to solve like you know inequality isn't an abstract problem i mean it is abstract i guess and you can people point a million fingers in directions on where it comes from but solving it is like you can see a thing and you're like oh these people have less they should have more and there's a way to move towards that legislatively doing some shit

like man i'm trying to legislate that jolly shit and you ain't people like it's fucking weird that's why the people who are not into it look at it with such confusion they're like what the fuck are they doing they're like this is so hypocritical it's like because they're trying to solve some shit with the weirdest tools right like they they wanted to just be full-blown fascism but they still need to use like the levers of democracy so everything looks absolutely upside down and people are scratching their head but it's like no man they're just trying to fucking flip the tables for this new game they want to play um and are doing it pretty well so i think you know it requires people to be very attentive because yeah like it's this this attack

isn't going to stop and i think the more you know people see how like support dwindle or or increase for like third party stuff the actions are only going to get weirder because now liz cheney is talking about running a spoiler campaign in the uh in the 2024 election to split Trump's votes. I feel like she wouldn't split any of Trump's votes. I feel like the only way that a third party thing happens that would be effectively diminishing of his power is if he's not the republican nominee because of some ruling you know and and then he comes as the third party and then like there is a desantis trump you know unity ticket oh god no no i mean like they're both like an election where they're both candidates right right right yeah they're both on the ballot but well we will see we don't know Right, right, right. Yeah, they're both on the ballot.

We will see. We don't know. The Daily Zeitgeist. We don't know. They're talking like we might be dead before then. Right, yeah. I know we were laughing on yesterday's episode. We're like, what if the secrets are already out? The people are like, hey, y'all, I want y'all to see our new thing we've been working on the last 18 months.

Right. But again, I don't know i mean we we live in a world where on tv like cnn msnbc they're all like oh like some shit's about to go down on fox they're like man fuck all fuck justice i don't know like which side wins out but you know msnbc and cnn definitely go a lot they love to go for ratings exactly but you know again i will believe there's consequences when i actually see them play out because yeah because this is america all right well let's take a quick break and then we'll come back and talk about a woman with whom a lot of people say this whole thing started, or at least they saw the they saw the beginnings of the whole the whole fascism in America thing starting with Sarah Palin. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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about in the past we we mentioned that there was this race that was kind of wide open anybody could run in alaska for the house and sarah palin was running and also running was a guy literally named santa claus who looked like santa claus yeah lives in a small town in alaska is a socialist I think he was like kind of cool in a lot of ways. He lost. He got smashed. She is a Hallmark movie villain come to life. So he got smashed. Sarah Palin moved forward and she got the endorsement of Donald Trump.

She got the endorsement of Donald Trump. So that has been a good thing for Republican candidates in these midterm elections. So I think, you know, I haven't looked at the Vegas odds on this race, but I would say if she's not the favorite, it would be smart to bet on her because she, I don't know know has name recognition and trump's endorsement but just to step back they're running to fill the seat vacated by don young who died in march and is best remembered as the congressman who kept whipping out a knife and threatening to stab people in the house of representatives. Yeah. Don Young. This is a direct quote from an article from The Hill. Representative Don Young once pinned former Speaker John Boehner against a wall and held a knife to his throat during a heated debate about earmarks.

This is completely blown out of proportion, man. Don Young, when he was alive, he went on this other congressperson, Sean Duffy. He has like a podcast. He went on this podcast to talk about this moment. And when he talks about like what happened, he says, first of all, the blade was not open. So it wasn't a direct threat. That's what that was. Don Young's explanation about putting the

knife to to bainer's throat okay that's it that's a good point because i was wondering if he did like the tv show thing where he put the blade on the neck and wet a little blood yeah just a little bit i like yeah it's like oh you can't test it me oh you're leaking a little bit my man you don't want to win a wet t-shirt contest. But then he goes on. So the guy Duffy was like, okay, well, what happened? Young re in the podcast. He, he, this is from this article. It's a quote.

Young reached into his pocket, retrieved a knife and reenacted the incident using the bemused Wisconsin Republican as a stand in for Boehner. He crossed me and I had a knife. It was like this. Young explained holding the closed blade to duffy's neck it was 10 inches long and i went up to him and i said don't you ever do that again the blade was not open so it wasn't a direct threat the second time second time it would have been more than that oh my god that's so funny he did the reiterating uh the again the blade was not open so it was not a direct threat reminded me of a tim robinson sketch like the wild thing is

this is what's even better him and bayner are really good friends sure okay don young was the best man at john bayner's wedding in 2015. That's because John Boehner is scared. And he was like, if I make you the best man at my wedding, will you not kill me? Yeah, he says that. He's like, Young's like, I'll consider it. Takes the blade away from his neck. Oh, man.

Best man. All right. Makes me feel like they got the classic, like, chaotic friendship where it's like behind closed doors. It's getting even more chaotic oh yeah exactly this is vernon maxwell uh trying to stab hakeem elijahwan with a bottle in the locker room that we find out years later but he said this is how he describes his relationship with john baders and quote this was some of the friendly back and forth banner john and i had over the few decades there it was never anything serious had it been i'm sure you would have heard about it a long time before now banter involves knife play in alaska yeah do you want to you want to hear more knife play with don young okay one time yeah i kind of do i definitely do

actually someone was like yo we heard this story you went to like a dinner and like brought like multiple knives and the guy is the same podcast host says, quote, do you actually carry your knives on the house floor? Don Young, quote. Oh, all the time. I don't go without them. And then Duffy pressed him. Duffy. So you're breaking the law every day.

Young. No, I'm not breaking the law. I think it's what you call survival law. Duffy or keeping the Congress safe. Young. Keeping the Congress safe. You're absolutely right. How much do y'all want to bet there is a knife in his coffin laying across his chest? Oh, he got it. He got it. He was definitely. Yeah. Crossed across his chest like some fucked up superhero in a sarcophagus yeah you know how like in sarcophagus the sarcophagi like on the outside they got like the two things like the

you know like the pharaoh they're always got their arms crossed with two objects don young got like two fucking qvc knives it's like trejo and machete he's just down there with all the blades. Yeah. Yeah. So big, big, big, pointy, knifey shoes to fill. Absolutely. This is also weird because they're so on the same day that people are voting as to who replaces him for the remainder of his term.

They're also voting for who should win the election after that like the and conceivably the two races could yield different results which is very weird first they have to decide who's who takes over for the rest of the term? While also, who are you going to vote for in November to then fill the upcoming term starting in 2023? If you didn't vote for Santa Claus just to run the remainder of the term, come on. That would have been so perfect. Just give him a little runway. See what he could do. Give him a little taste.

Yeah. Just give him a little taste. Man, you guys fucked up. what he could do he's not gonna give him a little taste yeah let's give him a little taste man you guys fucked up so the the media has cast this election as a test of palin's celebrity and trump's influence since he endorsed her this is actually like you you probably heard that trump was like calling into rallies while while his house was being raided uh it was a palin rally when he made the quip just another day in paradise as his house was being raided he also thanked her for her time as vice president because you know all your hard work as vice president. He said something to her that had an effect, and I was like, all right.

But, I mean, she did really, like, get it started when McCain gave her that little foothold. And she was, like, off her game until they were like, all right, you can be racist. And she was like, all right. And that's when, like, they started seeing numbers jump. And if McCain had just been willing to, you know, fully lean into it, they probably could have.

I mean, he's, he was, he was willing enough to be like, well, it doesn't bother me most of the time. Right. I mean,

there was that one moment though, where you could tell it was like, he really realized, oh, this party's getting real sloppy. Was that one town hall? And that old woman was like he really realized oh this party's getting real sloppy was that one town hall and that old woman was like i don't trust obama because he's a muslim and he's like whoa whoa whoa he is he was not a muslim man i mean i have a lot of respect for him and you know you don't you know you don't just call somebody a Muslim. That's a story. Yeah, exactly. It was so funny how clearly he equated Muslim with the Christian. He fucks with Jesus heavy, okay?

Right. Back the fuck up. He's a good Christian, man. Yeah. No, no, no. Oh, no. What a hero. That was my favorite part.

Oh, no. No. Oh, no. No. Yeah, no. No. Oh, no. No. Yeah. No. What the fuck? You realize he was looking around like, what the fuck is on TV right now?

Yeah. It's your running mate, fool. Yeah. Oh, shit. He also Trump would only referred to the state's ranked choice crap voting because they do rank choice voting. ranked choice crap voting because they do ranked choice voting. And Palin is claiming that ranked choice voting leads to voter suppression because it's so weird. And that's just not true in Maine, ranked choice voting. I mean, it is weird for sure, but it has been in place since 2016. There hasn't been a higher rate of incomplete or spoiled ballots nor has it impacted

turnout but she's also employing the trumpian tactic of trying to discredit voting altogether inferring all votes are being corrupted by the dominion computerized system oh which might sound familiar because there is no hand counting, which also isn't true. There are 131 precincts, predominantly rural and Alaska Native communities that employ hand counting. But they're just they're doing the thing where they've given up on democracy and normalizing that for their followers. So, you know, you lean on that explanation enough, it'll be reflexive to them after a while. And that's going to be the lead up to every, like, it does seem like Trump, Biden was really close. And he was already in the lead up to the election being like, this shit is rigged.

Yeah. So, like, that probably hurt him right like he might have won the thing if he and like same with her she's basically saying the whole thing is rigged like ahead of the election like that can't be good for them right i don't know that's just that's that's the new normal you know that's uh we saw it like with a lot of the other primaries too there were candidates who were like uh like behind when the results started coming like because this shit's rigged and then they won they're like never mind right so it's like reflexive now it's like whatever man this shit this shit's a joke anyway and it's like well then why are we all invested in this

whatever just trying to solve a very fucked up problem with your with the tools of a so-called democracy just and you get this circus well illingsworth truly truly a pleasure having you yeah on the daily thank you for having me back again third time's a charm yeah where can people find you follow you hear you all that good stuff? Well, I'm Illingsworth on everything. I'm Illingsworth on Twitter. I'm Illingsworth on Instagram. If you put in Pimpenstein5 on YouTube, you can see some really old YouTube videos of me. I got a band camp, illingsworks.bandcamp.com.

Yeah, those are my things. Those are the places. People can get with me. Nice. Is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? Oh, you know what? I kind of been sort of getting into. I feel a little bit embarrassed.

It's not usually my type of thing, but I kind of been getting into like stuff relating to the tarot. So there's like this Twitter account called the moon tarot that has like these little like daily affirmation things. And I like to read them in the morning because it kind of gets my day started off in a real nice, wholesome way. So if you go to like, what is it? The moon tarot underscore or the Twitter, uh, just every day they got a little like, like they're called energy readings, today's energy reading. So I'll give you the one that that was uh for today it says you're figuring out what works dear one your daily routines create the reality you live it as you move through the day remain mindful of how you spend your attention emotions and overall energy you have great potential for

success there you go yeah and like younger me would be like, that's corny. That's whack. How dare you try to say positive things to yourself in the morning. But like current me is like, oh yeah, that's cool. Like I can, I can succeed today.

I like that. If, if your voice was reading them, I would, I would be into them. I need, I need your voice reading them. Not because every time I read,

like here at Tarot, I just hear like, you know, some white lady in Santa Monica. Yeah, I don't know who's running the site. It could literally be that white lady in Santa Monica. And they definitely sell stuff. So they're making money. So maybe they can hire me. You all of us.

Yeah, we got we got some energy readings for people. Miles, where can people find you? What is the tweet you've been enjoying? All of us. Why not? We can all read some energy readings for people. There you go. Miles, where can people find you? What is a tweet you've been enjoying? Find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. Oh, man. Well, so you can find me, obviously, and Jack on Miles and Jack got Matt Boosty. Matt Boosty.

If you like basketball, and even if you don't, you want to hear some fun banter, that's where we go. To be not serious. And also, if you want to hear me just rant and rave about 90 Day Fiance, check me out on 420 Day Fiance. That's the other podcast with Sophia Alexandra. Okay, so some tweets that I'm liking.

Okay, first one is from Jasmine L. Watkins at Jasmine L. Watkins, past Mad Boosties guest. She just posted a picture of like, you know, George Gervin, MJ, players from the 80s wearing gold chains in the NBA, and said, I miss players wearing chains in the NBA. And I was like, that's a... Did they make that?

Let them play with chains. Did they make that outlaw? Did they outlaw? They must have, right? I don't know. Or people would be out here like Mr. T, I feel like. Oh, yeah, yeah. I feel like David. Or people would be out here like Mr. T, I feel. Oh, yeah, yeah. I feel like David Stern may have had an opinion on.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like once the second Allen Iverson was drafted first, he was like, we need to take a look at this rule book. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I just, oh, the swag of just having a couple rope chains underneath your jersey is oh i mean i have one on on in in the uh mad boosties logo because i modeled myself after that mj iconic dunk iconic except i made myself facing the wrong direction so another one at isabel steckle tweeted when people write memoirs it's like how do you remember all of that true like come, are you making shit up?

And then at Drake, that's be tweeted. Playing the succession theme song at ear splitting volume as I print out a return label to mail back my ASOS order. The deal is off, I mutter to myself. Fuck off. Fuck off. Fuck off. Fuck off. All right.

Alien skier tweeted. And this is from a while ago, so you might have used this already, Mom. Cashier, do you want the receipt emailed to you? Me, I don't even care if I die. I did not get that one. Oh, my God. Yeah. I don't know.

That one really got me in the middle of my covid puke crying laughing at that you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can find us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes. Where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do we think people might enjoy? Oh, just, you know, some soothing, like, electro-folky music from Puerto Rican artist Mima.

This is a track that came out, like, last year. Super dope. You know, her work is pretty political and you know i was looking at the lyrics and just translating them because i saw an article about what she was talking about and just the you know cycles of colonial strip mining that happens there but the song couldn't sound more vibey and beautiful it's called el arca de mima and just just it's a it's it's a fantastic song uh so listen to it enjoy it and uh yeah take that to your ears take that to your ears the daily zeitgeist is a production of iheart radio for more podcasts from iheart radio visit the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen

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