The Daily Zeitgeist - Jedi Mind Trump, R.I.P. Elijah 10.18.19

Episode Date: October 18, 2019

In episode 497, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Brandie Posey to discuss Mick Mulvaney blowing the whistle on himself, Wall Street analysts making chess moves, Trumps "victory" in Syria and his letter to Erdogan, his meeting meltdown, Facebook pushing responsibility to the user, a memorial to Elijah Cummings, and more!FOOTNOTES: Mulvaney Confesses to Quid Pro Quo: "Get Over It" Would Trump quit? One Wall Street Firm Looks at the Potential and its Market Ramifications Trump on Syria Ceasefire: 'Great Day for Civilization' Turkey's Erdogan 'threw Trump's Syria Letter in the Bin' Karen Tumulty on Twitter: "Per Dem aide..." Yamiche Alcindor on Twitter: "This WH meeting..." Mark Zuckerberg: 'People Should Decide What's Credible, Not Tech Firms' Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Private Meetings with Conservative Pundits Jennifer Aniston Instagram in First Day Amasses 8.6M+ Followers LISTEN: Just Big Hills - Sick Of This Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Didn't even take my mouth away from the microphone. I apologize if that was really loud. This is a production of iHeartRadio. this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness and say officially off the top fuck brothers and fuck fox news i fucked that up uh it's fuck coke industries oh as in the coke brothers i said I said, fuck Coke Brothers. Fuck Coke Brothers. Coke them. It's Friday, October 18th, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Daily, daily, daily podcast. Jack and Miles go off with hot takes. Woo!

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I think he's back. Oh, is he? I think so. But he's still hitting us for mass warfare. Oh, well, this is from a while ago, actually. Almost exactly a week ago. I've been sitting on this one. Yeah. You know what I mean? And deservedly so.

Yeah. That was fire. Thank you. And it took me on a ride. I mean, you were born again and then discovered cocaine. Yeah, well, you know. Hell yeah. He's one of our great lyricists. Well, we are joined Hell yeah. He's one of our great lyricists. Well, we are joined in our third seat by one of our great lyricists and a hilarious comedian. We're so thrilled to have you back.

Brandy Posey. Brandy Posey. Yes. Hey, guys. Hi, how are you? I'm fantastic. It's great to be here. It's great to have you.

I love your songs. It's good to see your face. Yeah. I was, again, I don't know if I told you, it's so nice to see your name when we see it. Who's the guest in this? Randy. Yes.

Oh, thank God. It's like a soothing guest. Not the other guests. No, no. Take that other guests. No, no. Full disclosure, Jack and I have been traveling. Yes.

And so we're recording later than usual. And sometimes you just want to be like, okay, who's somebody when they come in studio, we just kick it. Exactly. And do it right. And that's always you, Brandy. So I appreciate that.

Brandy Posey is in that pocket. Well, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we are going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about today. We are going to check in with Mick Mulvaney because he just did it. He just said it. He just said it. He just blew his own whistle. We're going to talk. Blew his own whistle.

In line with that, there's some Wall Street analysts who are getting- Analysts? Analysts who are getting very clever. I'm kind of feeling them on this idea. This might be the most impressed I've been with Wall Street anything. Yeah, and the subtle gaslighting? Yes. Yeah.

We're going to talk about Trump's huge victory in Syria that he claimed confusing everybody. We're going to talk about the letter that he sent to Erdogan. We're going to talk about the meltdown. We're going to say R the meltdown. We're going to say RIP to Elijah Cummings. And hopefully take some time to talk about Facebook.

I don't know if you guys have heard about this website. They might be shitty. We've had this on the dock for a while. And it's time. It's time we got to it. Because they just are racking up uh the fuckery more like mark zucker turd yeah exactly yeah fucker nerd uh sucker i mean narc sucker nerd yeah narc fucker turd yes there we go in your face thank you uh brandy

first we like to ask our guests what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I was writing with a friend of mine today And I could not remember the answer to this So I was googling Queen who fucked horses Yes, I mentioned that today You talked about Catherine the Great Yeah, I made a Catherine the Great reference

That's weird Uh oh, where is sync? Synchronous will be in the house tonight And that name came to my mind Much easier than it should have Weird. Uh-oh, where is Sync? Synchronous? They'll be in the house tonight. And that name came to my mind much easier than it should have. So I think we were like pulling from the same. Oh, and it all happened when we were riffing about like hot posters we would have had as kids. I'm like, anybody have a Daisy Fuentes?

And then I went back like Twinkie? No, I was going to say Catherine the Great. I was going to say Catherine the Great. Wait, does she have sex with a horse? No, that's just a, that's just the rumor It's like Napoleon The worst they could come up with about him Was that he was short And then that stuck

Catherine the Great Which is a little uneven If you ask me I've seen that video with Kenny Pignon But it's just like That's how sensitive men are. Yeah, exactly. They're just like, oh, one thing we know will piss him off

is if you ignore that he is of average height. Yeah, exactly. Height. Height. Height than analists. Height than analists. We are on fire. Heifey.

This is when Mike Tyson wants a heifey. Yeah. this is when Mike Tyson wants a high C what is something you think is overrated okay alright this is a little spooky addition overrated

underrated for me cobwebs I think are overrated overrated and your Halloween decorations cobwebs

that shit is overrated my friend Alex will call that shit witch hair. Whenever you buy it, he goes, why did you put that witch hair everywhere? Is that what he thought it was? No, it's just a disparaging term for that shitty cobwebs. Like, fucking witch hair everywhere. He's like, yo, call that shit witch hair.

That shit sucks. Doesn't look like the thing it's supposed to be. Doesn't look spooky in any respect. And it's so hard to take down. There's like one out of every 20 times Doesn't look spooky in any respect. Yeah. And it's so hard to take down. Awful. Hold on. Wow, you are animated. One out of every 20 times I see it done right.

Usually. Well, because you really have to stretch it out. Yeah, you have to stretch the shit out of that. Typically, you do the thing where you just grab it. It's just clumps of it. Yeah, on the sides. Yeah. I used to try to do that with a bush in front of my house.

Yo. Worst mistake. Because again, trying to take it off. It's in there forever. Here's the thing. Also, this is a correlation, I think, between Halloween and Christmas. If you have cobwebs, your Christmas lights look like shit. Well, I'm going to fire that shot.

It's easy to not fuck up Christmas lights. Yeah, but we've all seen it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's the same. My least favorite Christmas light is the bush that someone was just like, lights. Oh, fuck. And it's the same. My least favorite Christmas light is like the bush that someone was just like, lights. Oh, fuck. And it's the same energy. It's the same energy on both of them.

You know what's funny? Because I told you, I put witch hair on a bush. That's where my Christmas lights look like. Fucking lights on a bush. Yes. Yep. I'm going to try, you know, maybe I'll get on a fucking ladder or something. Nah, fuck that.

I'd like you to get in a- Bush life. I'd like you to get in an inflatable this year. That's what I want for you. Nah, because I feel like people in my neighborhood will fuck up the inflatable sand. Yeah? Yeah. I got a skeleton outside my house doing the Air Jordan.

Ooh. Oh. That's pretty good. That was a spur of the moment thing. I just realized I could make it do something. Start driving around the Porter Ranch area to look for that. That's right. I've got on my street, I have a two-story tall inflatable black cat

backed up against a house. And it's back is arched up so it looks like it's like fright shitting on the house behind it. The house is its shit. It's so funny. I laugh every time I see it. I would go so far.

I don't like those as decorations either. The giant inflatables. I mean, I think- They're lazy too. It's a lazy move for sure. But they look better. They look better. But to me, it embraces the-

It's like, it's saying that you're lazy. It's acknowledging and it's accepting. But you're also, it shows you like, for me, I'm lazy, so I do witch hair on a bush. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're like, that looks like shit. Why don't I put something that actually looks nice, but I have to do the plug something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're lazy Fuentes. Yeah, lazy Fuentes. Thank you. Do you have anything going on for halloween nope nah i don't know as i get oh yeah because of the christianity thing that's right yeah i you know well you know it's it's against god's will um but i i dress up like once every three years so it's been about three years so i might have to do something this year yeah what would you... That's what the Farmer's Almanac said is that you were going to dress up this year. Thank you, yeah.

Yeah, even my... Groundhog popped out and Miles is wearing a costume. I don't know what I would be. Probably... I don't know. I don't know. That's the thing. That's when I don't...

I just don't care enough anymore to be like, yeah, I'm going to dress up like this. I always think of an idea. I'm like, oh, that would be fun. I'm not going to find a... What am I going to buy? A wig? I got too many wigs already that I don that would be fun. I'm not gonna find a wig. I got too many wigs already that I don't use.

See, now look at your wig collection and be like, how do I make this into something? Be Wiggy Ramirez from Marilyn Manson. There we go. My family has long torsos, so I'm now on two Batman costumes that I have bought that I just end up looking like Batman

with camel toe. Yeah, we saw that photo last year. Yeah, it's ugly. Are you still allowed to sort of walk around your neighborhood? No. No, that's how I just give out candy, sit in the back and just, you know, my wife does it. Your wife. My wife.

That would be great to do Borat this year. In that bathing suit? You're just desperate to do it I think a Borat costume anytime from now

until the end of time will always be funny because it's too far from the movie and it's so stupid that you're just like that's so stupid I'm gonna laugh

right yeah my wife will always make me laugh my wife every time what is something you think is underrated?

Okay, so in the same spirit of Witch Air, underrated pun tombstones. DIY. DIY pun tombstones. DIY pun tombstones. Because there's a lot of work that goes into that. Here's the thing, you gotta light them. You gotta light them so I can read them at night.

That's what I see. But like, it's hard. You're writing limericks, you're writing poems, you're putting thought into that. Somebody needs to hire you as a consultant. You should open a business around Halloween where you just go around and be like, nah, that's whack. They need to punch up these tombstones. Right. Brandy Posey.

Yeah, and you're a comedy writer, so you can write the punch- It's called Hollow Queen. Yes. And then you go around and just start reading people's houses. Right. Okay, witch hair, no. Inflatable? Fine.

Whack. Okay. I like this haiku sort of structure, but I don't know who fucking Brian Doyle Murray is. Right. Anyway, that's a very deep cut. I think you just told me, I think you just laid out what my- Brian Doyle Murray.

Yeah. What my Instagram story is for the rest of the month is going to be. I'm just going to pick a different neighborhood. Cruise neighborhoods. Yes. Excuse me. I have a couple of notes. Analyze. Yeah. With arrows. well my Instagram stories for the rest of the month are gonna be I'm just gonna pick a different neighborhood excuse me I have a couple of notes analyze yeah with arrow

so every time you tap arrow arrow arrow we got this yeah yeah hell yeah and finally what is a myth what's something people think is true you know to be false

what's the thing that I read I read on the way over here at a red light don't worry sharks don't get cancer is the myth but they do get cancer but just not very often uh which as this might be controversial in this show uh i don't

like sharks i don't trust them get away from me i hear you i don't i don't think you should trust them i love sharks but i don't think you should trust them. I just, man, I don't like a threat. Sharks are the biggest threat in the water. They're just a minor threat. Hey, happy National Edge Day, by the way. Oh, really? Yeah, it actually is today. Sick.

Yeah, I'm the same way because I grew up, like, as a kid, if there was a pool at night, in my mind, there was a shark in there. Yeah. Every time, I'm like, nah, I'm getting in there. My legs will get bit off. I can really freak myself out in the ocean. I kind of don't like being in the ocean anymore as an adult because I just picture my own death constantly.

For whatever reason, I can be in the ocean, fine. Dark pool? When it's physically impossible for a shark to be in there. I'm like, nah, I'm good. The light doesn't work in there? Yeah, I know. Light that pool. That's pretty dumb, man. Yeah, I know. Well, teach their own.

Wasn't the thing with sharks, like in what movie? Was that Deep Blue Sea where they're trying to cure Alzheimer's with sharks and shit? Yeah. That's why they were engineering super sharks was because then their brains are like more human maybe and therefore

ergo yeah vis-a-vis vis-a-vis ipso facto I just saw the Meg for the first time oh how is it very

fine it's fine it's what it is it's the reason why everyone went you go see nasty ass sharks do their thing it should have like

those kind of movies always bum me out though because I want them to like embrace the craziness of what they are more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, it's the same as Snakes on the Plane where I'm just like, no, be like, you need like a writer to come in that's a really bad writer to really give you some bad ideas to

make this movie like not as slick as it is. Right, right. I need a couple of booms in frame, you know, something to give it. Yeah, or just some shitty CG. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was definitely one of those films you knew was a

co-production with like a Chinese company oh my god the way the it's like everything is like American then suddenly very Chinese

and then other things but it was it was like yeah one of those films I just like how big the fucking sharks were yeah big ass shark

sharks yes bro spoiler alert spoiler alert that wasn't the Meg fam oh wow the real Meg is Big-ass shark. Sharks? Yes, bro. Spoiler alert, but yeah. Spoiler alert. That wasn't the Meg, fam. Oh, wow. The real Meg is bigger. I wish that it had been the LL Cool J shark from the music video.

Deepest, bluest. My head is on a shark's fin. But Meg-sized is what I would like to see. What is LL Cool J's role in this movie? I think he plays a little dog who jumps off a boat during a wedding and swims near the shark. That part.

Yeah, that part. Heart was in my throat. I was hoping the dog would die. The cool thing about Jaws is seeing people get bit in half. Oh, they get fucked up in the mag. Yes, they do. There's some people get fucked.

Yeah, there's some good deaths in it for sure of many species it seems more like it would just eat you like a Tylenol like a Pac-Man like

yeah because you're so tiny in its mouth yeah well look so it's just like incidentally like look Jack I can't

I can only take you to the river man can't get you to drink and if you want a drink go to HBO Go what because that's where I saw drink, go to HBO Go. What? Because that's where I saw it.

It's on HBO Go right now. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, ow. Okay, grape stomp. Let's check in with Mick Mulvaney and the whistleblower scandal. This was not supposed to be related to the whistleblower scandal necessarily, but he was out there with his chest out. It felt like somebody who... I asked you multiple times, miles on the way from LAX to our studio,

whether you thought he was on drugs. These people... And you said no. Let's present the whole thing and then talk about what we think is psychologically going on with these people. So he just came out and was just very u like, uber confident

and was just like, somebody was like, well, here, let's just play the audio. Have to spend it. At least that's how it's interpreted by some folks. And we knew that that money either had to go out the door by the end of September or we had to have a really good reason not to do it. And that was the legality of the issue. But to be clear, what you just described is a quid pro quo. It is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the Democratic server happens as well.

We do that all the time with foreign policy. We were holding up money at the same time for, what was it, the Northern Triangle countries. We were holding up aid at the Northern Triangle countries so that they would change their policies on immigration okay cut by the way right got him first of all yeah though i like how he's trying to equate the same thing right where if you're negotiating you're saying this aid will not come to you because we need you to do these things to ensure the safe that the money's being used probably versus i know russia's knocking knocking knocking at your door you need these javelins i'm not gonna give them to you unless you smear joe biden right so different and i think for him to even conflate the two

is like you go well we do that all the time right and then later he says yeah and people like we're talking about whether there's political aspects of this, to those people, I say, get over it. That's what he said, right? That's what he literally said, the word get over it. All these motherfuckers. Because elections have consequences. Yeah, hopefully this next one does too. But I think, you know, when you look at,

so you think he's on drugs. It just seems like he doesn't strike me as like this super confident, talkative, like talk a mile a minute guy. And he went out there just like saying irrational shit. But he's been Mr. Full of Shit. He has. From Jump Street.

Okay. So I'm not. I think it's the fact that he has the glasses of the guy who looks at the Ark and Indiana Jones. Yeah. That like confused me. This whole administration is real kooky, just in general.

I think, look, give me a second. You call them the super team of bad liars? It's one of those things, right? If you were in Mick Mulvaney's shoe and you knew the president was asking you to say something that was so false,

you're either saying, I like this because of the power, or your ego will not allow you to think. You're like, I'm buying into this person's reality, actually. That helps me feel sane. So let's just do that, and I can trick myself. It's like a super group of, remember all the kids that would tell the wildest lies? Or, you know, it's like the entire administration is that friend you have who's an expert on everything but doesn't know shit.

Right. But will never say they're wrong. Will never admit they're wrong. Even when you corner them, get them to say they're wrong and then reference it. They say, no, but that's not what I meant. And you're like, what? Yeah. It's that.

I think that's it's attracting a very similar type of person, too. And I think the people who know I'm going to look stupid as fuck doing this, they jump ship already. Well, the whole administration is the dude that whacked Nancy Kerrigan in the knee. Right. It's that energy. The conspiracy. All the Galooleys. Chef Galooleys.

Just a team of Galooleys. Yeah, it's fucking all of the Galooleys. It's Galooleys all the way down. It's the whole fucking thing. Yeah. Because his buddy was just like yeah I was a CIA operative and just like believed

it like they believe their own shit so much yeah they just like they there is no other that they create the reality and they believe the reality so much

yeah I can't see the other side of it it's uh I mean that's again you look at that and you go how how could he say something like that

and the the fucking journalist gave him the opportunity. He said, what you're describing is quid pro quo. Yeah. Yeah. You do it all the time. Right. Oh, cool.

And then if you have a problem with that, get over it. Big deal. Then this asshole, a few hours later, puts out a statement that says, I want to be clear. There was, there's no quid pro quo involved. What? Uh-huh. That's what I mean, though though this is what i mean it's that moment right where you say bro i have you on tape saying that your dad is a cop uh-huh and you're like no i never said that my dad's a cop right your dad ain't a cop bro and then he comes around like i didn't that's not what

i meant i mean my dad was arrested by cops my dad was on cops that drunk driving. That is one of the more common lies told in America. My dad's a cop? My dad's a cop. Yeah. Mostly by young people. God, man. I hope so. You mean an elderly man?

Hey, you know my dad was a cop. Hey, my dad's a cop. Dude, get the fuck out of my way, bro. I'm trying to get this avocado. Yeah, I guess now it would not be cool. Now I'm sure kids probably lie and say, my dad's not a cop. My dad's not a cop. What?

My dad's not a cop. My dad's Tiesto. My dad's Diplo. My dad's Diplo. You don't know. Yeah. You don't know. He's not.

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So there's this article that just strikes me as very specifically trying to, like it's written for one person. This article? This article is written. This study was done to try to get inside Donald Trump's head. So the study was what would happen if he resigned, which you, you would think would be the sort of thing that would piss him off.

But these, uh, analysts, piss him off but these uh analysts wall street analysts are trying to uh like jedi mind trick him into thinking that he by resigning he would have won so the report says the facts yes yeah the report says trump would not go down in history as one of the only impeached presidents if he resigned okay his tax returns which he does not want to give to become public while president kind of become a non-issue trump can go make even more money and maybe start his own media network which reportedly was the initial plan so what do you want in the first place it's a really cool way of like hey dude you know be

really chill dude yeah like if you were if you fucking resigned oh shit i should be like one of the sickest presidents wait be pretty cool okay so let's just think about presidents who left them wanting more yeah yeah yeah link it jfk william henry here the report goes on i have done everything i set out to do as president america is great again. We have record low unemployment. The market is doing amazing. We have exited endless foreign wars, and I've stopped other countries like China from taking

advantage of us in trade deals. We passed massive tax cuts and drug prices are down. I'm not one of these lifetime politicians. I'm ready to return to my business and spend more time with my family. They're basically trying to write his resignation speech for him. This harassment of me by Democrats has really hurt Melania and my kids. He doesn't even know who his kids are. No.

He missed Tiffany's birthday. He would not recognize Barron. I don't think this is going to work, but I admire it. Yeah. Yeah. I will, you know, it could. Yeah. Right.

I mean, because at a certain point, right, like you and your ego, most people you know who have that toxic ego, they will fucking quit the game before the game quits them. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. They'll flip the tail and be like, nah, I'm not going to fuck you. I'm gone.

Right. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's like oppositional defiant disorder is like what he has for sure. It's like, oh, you want me to do that? Fuck you. I'll do the opposite. Right.

But that's not even good for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't care. As long as it's the opposite of what you want. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that basically seems to be what- It could be that too. We'll see.

I mean, I definitely think he'll probably resign rather than be impeached if it looks like the Senate would impeach him. But I think he's just too defiant to do it in any other case. Yeah. I mean, if they were really cynical, it's like you would, if you see the recession coming, you like spike the football, Nancy Pelosi's president going into the election, and then you put another Republican up there who could be like, you're going to trust the Democrats with this?

The thing that they're leaving out is that he would probably go to jail if he resigned. Yeah, exactly. That's the thing. He has to run out the clock a little bit. He would have to get Pence to agree to pardon him, right? Yeah. Immediately. Yeah.

Like Ford did. He can't live in America after he is not president, right? He can't live in Russia, baby. He's got to leave the country, right? No, he can be here, right? He's going to move to Cincinnati or wherever the fuck he has his rallies. He'll move to fucking Mar-a-Lago. Right.

He can't be in New York at least anymore, right? I think New York City is like, never, never again. Yeah. Probably can't go back there to it. Small victory, I'll take it. Well, speaking of victories, not small. No. Huge victories for civilization.

Huge, huge victories. For for the united states of america he had a jazz session like a jazz warm-up session before his longer jazz session in dallas on thursday uh where he called uh a five-day agreement uh it was basically Turkish forces agreed to halt the process of killing Kurds for five days to give the Kurds basically the ability to get out of town yeah because they want to have northern strip of Syria yeah they want a 20 mile board like a 20 mile zone near the border that they're like all right everybody clear out right and but it's funny because they're also saying there was a town uh Kobani that was also in northern Syria that Pence was like and they have agreed to not attack that and like the Turkish defense minister was like I never said that yeah we never said that it's a very odd thing and again

he's patting himself on the back for putting out a fire he started. Right. That's the thing. And he didn't even put the fire out, actually. If you really think about it, I don't even want to even characterize this as a solution in any way. Pissed on a fire. Yes. Started a fire, pissed on it,

and then was like, everybody's been trying to put that fire out for years. I was the one who did it. That smells like nickels. This part of the fire is out. It is pretty amazing, though, the quotes from him. This is an incredible outcome. This outcome is something they've been trying to get for 10 years. Everybody.

Because he knows you're asking, wait, who the fuck are you talking about? Which everybody? Your mom? Everybody. The whole world. Your aunt? And they couldn't get it. Other administrations.

And they never would have been able to get it unless you went somewhat unconventional. I guess I'm an unconventional person. Yeah, he was like, it took a little tough love. Yeah. No, you fucking idiot. Have you guys ever hooked yourselves up to blood pressure machines during this show? Nope. We broke the last three.

I mean, man. At one point, he even says Turkey was trying to get that region cleansed out. Cleared out or cleaned up. Cleared up. And it's like... What does that mean to you, sir? Ethnically cleansed. Are you talking about ethnic cleansing?

Yeah. It's not like a Windex situation. Right. No, and he uses these really lame sort of metaphors. And again, he's like the type... Again, in his mind, it's all about the optics, right? So if he can say like,

they agreed to some, I got this person to agree to something, then it's fine. He could have been like, I got Erdogan to agree that the Spice Girls were one of the great, the best pop groups from England in the nineties. Yeah. And that'd be like, and that was a great victory for me.

Obama tried to do that. Yeah. He got it done. But it's just like, he needed to be like, I got this person to agree to something. It doesn't matter what the effect is. He would like probably feel better. Like if he got a diagnosis from a doctor, he's going to get it done. But it's just like, he needed to be like, I got this person to agree to something. It doesn't matter what the effect is. He would like probably feel better.

Like if he got a diagnosis from a doctor, he's like, can you print me something out that says I don't have that? Yeah. And then he's like, okay, then I'm cured. So just anything for a victory.

I'm thinking these Wall Street analysts are onto something. Maybe. It's just a really, again, it, this was such a terrible, terrible fucking mistake and the damage is irreversible at this point so yeah lives are lost like this is fucking this is just

absurd and i guess that's where you when you watch it you're like how are you saying this well and it's also like all this shit happening with ukraine it's like this is also happening and it's like well this is like loss of life that's happening currently like what the fuck yeah well you know it really felt to me like that this clip and it's too long for us to play here but i i highly suggest people it's one of the more like it seems like he's just out there playing president like on tv right which it i don't know it had like sort of a made me realize like something that i can't put to words about the presidency that like he doesn't like i don't think he even believes that it's real anymore it's almost just like he's in a tv show that he oh god can you imagine if that's can you imagine if that's what's actually happening and then like when the world falls

apart and like we tell the story it's like he actually thought it was a TV show. Right. Yeah. And he just would say stuff and felt good and be like tough guy. It's sweeps week so I decided to. Wasn't that cool when I surprised that grieving family with the woman that killed their son? Yes. In the other room.

Great TV. He thinks he's on a TV show and he's trying to get like top Yes. In the other room. Great TV. He thinks he's on a TV show and he's trying to get top ratings. But the way he was talking, you're right, it had that thing, I think kids do this when they're young. When you're a kid,

did you ever pretend to do a post-game interview? Oh, hell yeah. Oh, for sure. Or you were a musician talking to your fans on stage. He's giving an Oscar speech. Yeah, he was doing that thing

that young people do. That's exactly what we said, actually. As it started, we were playing it and we were like, it sounds like he thought he just won an Oscar. Do you think we should just give him an award? Do you think if we just gave him, let's go to Hollywood Boulevard. Well, the Nobel Peace Prize.

Let's give him some fucking fake Oscars. Well, yeah. What? No. Oh, misspell it so it's noble. Yeah. Give him the fucking Nobel Peace Prize. Just give it to him.

That award means nothing well it means a lot to people who win it what do we let's just let's throw him a parade a resignation parade

and then at the end he can have no cause then he's like then he has to it's like I'm a loser okay I mean I think there's something to

giving him a shiny object of some kind. Yeah. I mean, he loved that orb. Yeah. Yeah. Early on. Give him another orb.

And a sword. It might just be that simple. I mean, so other countries have more experience dealing with these sorts of leaders. Right. And they're like, oh, yeah, all you have to do is give him a shiny orb. He's like fucking loves you. In Saudi Arabia, he showed up and they put his picture on a giant building. And he was like, these are my people.

Go ahead. Kill as many journalists as you want. Let's just call him the king of the universe and give him a crown and then take away all of his power. And I think he'd be much happier. If we give him his own TV channel and a crown, I think he goes away. And just put him in like a... Just make a really like red

prison for him but like Escobar style yeah yeah Mar-a-Lago yeah absolutely if we turn Mar-a-Lago into a prison yeah and put some TV cameras in there he'll never leave anyway he doesn't like going anywhere yeah you know he's not intellectually curious

it's sad that like the solutions to this the most heinous of this president are like, sadly, these are believable solutions. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. Give him an orb in a park and name a fucking building after him and maybe it'll end. Yeah. But except the second you start doing something that he wants, he'll just start pulling more. Be like, no, I don't want a park.

I want every airport. I want Jurassic Park. I want every airport. I want Jurassic Park. I want every airport in the country. Let's try to give it to Obama and then he'll really want it. Right. Let's give Obama an orb. Oh, okay.

And then he'll be like, I want that orb. I want Orbama. Yeah, you can only have, thanks, Orbama. Yeah. Well, on this same subject, there seems to be a running theme here. I mean,'s he's consuming this whole he's having enough because it's he's having a fucking okay so i

we he claims flawless victory over turkey because he quote unquote sees fire yeah uh and then we found out a couple days ago that a few days after he gave the okay call to Erdogan to invade Syria, he then sent a letter because he was like, oh shit, people don't like this? Okay, fuck, let me try something. Oh, I don't know what it was. And he wrote, y'all already seen the letter, but he wrote the following letter to fucking President Erdogan of Turkey, His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of the Republic of Turkey, Ankara.

Dear Mr. President, let's work out a good deal! Exclamation point. You don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don't want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy, and I will. I've already given you a little sample with respect to Pastor Brunson. I've worked hard to solve some of your problems. Don't let the world down. You can make a great deal.

General Mazloum is willing to negotiate with you and he is willing to make concessions that they would never have made in the past. I'm confidentially enclosing a copy of his letter to me just received. History will look upon you favorably. If you get this done the right and humane way, it will look upon you forever as the devil.

As the devil. As the devil. If good things don't happen, don't be a tough guy don't be a fool i will call you later don't be a full exclamation point i will call you later is a great way to sign off sincerely child scribble yeah it's like don't be a tough guy don't be a fool being compassionate is really cool your vegetables's like that weird PSA shit from the early 90s. Don't be a tough guy. Don't be a fool. If you pulled out of

Syria, that would be cool. The world will look on you forever as the devil. Not me though. This is actually a letter to myself. Yo. Don't be a tough guy. Don't be a tough guy. The fucking devil.

Don't be a tough guy. Anyway, the moral of that story is when Erdogan got the letter, he literally threw it in the trash. Yeah. Right away. What do you do if you get this? Because they've all figured him out at this point. Yeah. It's so obvious.

You're not going to do shit? No. It's like you're just a real estate tough. That's all it is. It's like, no, dude, you don't. Yeah. You don't matter. Everyone knows how to read you. All they have no, dude, you don't. Yeah. You don't matter. Everyone knows how to read you.

All they have to do is give you a compliment. Yeah. And then you're not a tough guy at all. He talks such a big game, but then he's so non-confrontational. During his victory speech where he was talking about how he had solved the Middle East, I think, is what he thought he was taking. He also said, I defeated ISIS. I did. I went over there.

You're Obama. You're Obama. Went over there and lost. But he was talking about how the reason that people were now coming to their senses is the fighting was very nasty. It was very nasty. And then he started doing this hand thing where he was. Yeah, it was like cartoon fighting.

Old-timey gentleman boxers yes miming uh two cartoon characters fighting each other as he said the fight is very nasty very very nasty they don't like it they don't like it um also he's maligning the devil the devil fucking rips yeah exactly, exactly. How dare you? He's like, keep my name out your fucking mouth, punk. Exactly. The devil's just like, excuse me? The devil is so funny to me because it's like the devil is not, like nobody's referred to Satan like seriously as the devil. Like the devil is a Halloween costume. Exactly.

With like a red pitchfork and like a goatee. Absolutely. And I think a concept. It's like a red pitchfork and like a goatee. And I think a concept. That's like a very Christian concept. Very much so. He's like, the what? Hey, president of Turkey. Yeah. You don't want to be the devil.

What? What? Throw that shit in the trash, man. What the fuck was that? You mean the devil? Don't be a tough guy. He threw it in the trash because he didn't think it was real because Because it doesn't, like, journalists who got that were like, this is fake. This has to be fake.

This can't be real. How is the onion functioning in this administration? Because it's like, what do you do? It's like, you can't top writing that. That's real. That's a real thing that's in the Library of Congress forever now. Right. Oh, boy.

God, everything is so embarrassing. I know, and that really underlines just how much the U.S. has become a laughingstock. Yeah. You know, that someone goes, okay, President of the United States, why don't you fuck off? And I'm going to go ahead and do this invasion I told you I was going to do for years. What will history books look like with him in them? Because it's so... How do you write about it in an academic way?

This dude was a motherfucking fool. Look at this letter he sent. The fact that his face is going to be in every classroom in America makes me sit up straight in bed sometimes with rage. Yeah, even at airports, international airports. I wonder if what we perceive as funny will have to change because he's so self-evidently ridiculous that we won't be able to find the same things funny anymore. Like Michael Scott won't be funny anymore because this dude is too much like Michael Scott. anymore because this dude is too much like michael scott yeah so yeah i think it's a bit of like we laugh because we have to deal with the fact of how seriously fucked it is yeah and i guess

if i have to choose between a binary of like just just like self-employed just imploding over the stress about it yeah i'd rather be like let me just take this part as the funny part and then we can just fucking hopefully something. It's been a lesson in compartmentalizing, for sure. Yeah, 100%. About being like, okay. And also just like, this is why I need humor. It's because I got to be able to laugh at this because I can't live.

I got to let that balloon just a little bit. Yeah, yeah. And then I can acknowledge what this is really going on. Well, and the meltdowns just continued. He's making weird threat letters. Mul, and the meltdowns just continued. You know, he's making weird threat letters, Mulvaney's not having a good time, and then he really had to dust up with Democratic leadership.

What if we dressed up somebody as the devil? Scare him? Yeah, and we're just like, Donald Trump! Oh, yeah, like in Big Daddy when he does Scuba Steve? Yes! He's like, I hope you're behaving. I think Adam Sandler as little Nicky.

Oh, excuse me, sir. Get in the flask. It's cool. Everybody cool piece of pants. Oh, good. Thank you, devil. Very cool. Consider me President Erdogan.

Yeah. Maybe that'll work we'll try that possible solution Adam Sandler if you're listening Adam Sandler dresses the devil

give him his own theme park whatever I will forgive you for Jack and Jill if you can end the fucking national nightmare

that we're in what's wrong with Jack and Jill where do we start I was named after that movie retroactively yeah

Jack I gotta tell you something kid you're named after that movie. Retroactively? Yeah. Jack, I got to tell you something, kid. You're named after this now. What? I'm an adult. That's just what we wanted. Not to talk about it too long, but have either of you seen the movie Jack and Jill? Yes. I started watching it and I turned it off.

Okay, so you missed the end of the movie where Al Pacino does a Dunkin' Donuts rap song about a Dunkin' Donuts product called Dunk-a-chino. I gotta go. See, this is what- Anyway, Adam Sandler, if you're listening, save the world. And I know you are. Yeah. Gali-hoo-hoo, sabba-doo.

Shabba-doo. Trump, okay, so this meeting with the Democratic leadership that happened at the White House was just amazing, because it, again, he had another fucking M down. Yep. It was supposed to be about Syria, but had another fucking M down. Yep.

It was supposed to be about Syria, but it just turned into a shit show. The second he came in, apparently, he just slammed his fists on the table, and then they were like, what the fuck is this going on about? Then started throwing insults around. He called Nancy Pelosi a third-grade politician. Now, there's differing reporting on this. Third grade? Yamiche Alcindor said that it's third grade. Other people are saying it's third rate. I believe he would say third grade politician. Now there's differing reporting on this. Yamiche Alcindor said that it's third grade.

Other people are saying it's third rate. I believe he would say third grade. I think he probably thought third grade came out that way. Yeah. No, no. I believe he thinks he has always thought third rate was third grade. Oh yeah.

You know how like some people, like you'll catch them saying something and you're like, wait, that's not right. Say that one more time. Right, right, right. No catch them saying something and you're like, wait, that's not right. Say that one more time. Right, right, right. No, you've thought that was a different grouping of words your whole life.

Oh, yes. Could be. Right. Like the Mr. Malapropism, the president of Malapropism. Yeah. So then he also made remarks about how the Democrats like communists. He says at one point they said he contended, quote, communists are now among the Islamic state group's ranks, telling the Democrats, quote, and you guys might like that. Oh, very chill. Then there was also this exchange.

This is what Schumer says to Trump. Is your plan to rely on the Syrians and the Turks? Trump, our plan is to keep the American people safe pelosi that's not a plan that's a goal right and then it just further spiraled out eventually they left yeah then nancy pelosi comes out and explains people like what happened she's like i just had to storm out let me tell you what the fuck happened really sad about it is i i pray for the all the time, and I tell him that. I pray for his safety and that of his family. Pray to the devil.

This was a very serious meltdown on the part of the president. I expressed my appreciation for what our troops have done in Syria, and by all accounts from the generals, they have just really done the job very well that he's now pulling out. The explanation for that is what we asked for all members of the House to hear. Anyway, that... She's like, I pray for him, he needs help.

That was a meltdown. There's something wrong with him. And Trump then immediately went and tweeted, Nancy Pelosi needs help fast. There's either something wrong with her, quote, upstairs, or she just plain doesn't like our great country. She had a total meltdown. She had a total meltdown. She was the one. I didn't meltdown.

You melted down. She melted down. He's very sad to watch. Pray for her. I mean, look. That's what she just said about you. Something's wrong with something's wrong with her upstairs what the fuck is that oh yeah he doesn't pray for her she is a very sick person

she basically said he just pelosi just said and turn is like actually she had a meltdown i pray for her she's sick i'm worried about her what's up with her downstairs the downstairs isn't working anymore somebody needs to spank him. Because he's a... I mean, I don't... You shouldn't hit kids. But you should hit the president. Yeah, he needs...

I mean... Oh, man. It's so hard because I want to be a pacifist so bad. But I don't know how else to deal with him. It's just like somebody needs to... The photos of that... The photos of the meeting, it was funny. Because as she was saying,

she was acknowledging the work of the generals that were in there. And at one point there's a photo of all the generals with their heads just like down. And Trump is like, this is a fucking disgrace. Yeah. Trump looks like he's like in the middle of what he thinks is a sick burn. And Nancy Pelosi is standing up. Right.

Everybody. The one thing it does make me feel good about is that I feel like he's incapable of a military coup because the military hates him as much. Oh, yeah. Okay, well, at least if you – They would laugh. Yeah, they'd be like, no, we'll arrest you. How about this? Why don't I give you a little spanking?

And then finally I think we just wanted to say rest in peace to Representative Elijah Cummings from Baltimore. He was truly like one of the good ones yeah um he used his position of power to always stand up for just the disenfranchised and came from nothing his parents were sharecroppers yeah and he like integrated uh like one of the first schools in baltimore was 11 years old. People were throwing shit at him. He's just been, he's had a very, very storied life. He had a scar his whole life from integrating a swimming pool through something that like cut his face open. I mean, he, you know, the whole thing, I mean, a lot of people have been like,

wow, he was leading the impeachment charge, but that's really such a fraction. And if not, probably the most minor thing he did. only now maybe people are realizing how he would always speak very passionately about any issue that was about uh infringing on people's rights or further marginalizing people and whether it was you know and he was in the minority you know the democrats have been in the minority from 2011 to 2019 and he spent a lot of that time as a ranking member meaning he didn't he couldn't really do shit except for watch the Republicans fuck around.

And then he would have to be like, okay, now I have to fucking say something. Now, as somebody who has seen some shit and has some perspective and wisdom to bear upon the situation, let me tell you how foolish you are all being. Yeah, exactly. I mean, definitely. definitely i mean i'm from

baltimore this guy is like he's so good to that community he's a legend yeah and go read some of the stuff this guy has said go read about him and uh man r.i.p dude yeah i mean and he had some epic showdowns with people over like the really lame shit like when like uh in obama's presidency when they were trying to say that the irs was unfairly targeting tea party groups he had to be like what the fuck what are y'all doing here right or even like when the benghazi stuff was going around had to like just be like i'm sorry this is happening like this is a fucking this is ridiculous and even recently with the child separation talking about how inhumanely we're treating people and really

trying to level with the officials from customs border Border Patrol, DHS, and saying their kids are like existing in their own feces. Like these are human fucking beings. We would never have our own children like that. And you think this is OK. Like he really spoke truth to power. And yeah, he will be missed. And it's really unfortunate because he was only 68 years old.

Yeah. It's the kind of heart we need more of in politics. Yeah. And it really is, because even though times it feels like, you know, it's the kind of heart we need more of in politics yeah and it really is because even though times it feels like you know it's our efforts seem futile but when you hear someone with that kind of passion behind it and that belief it really does help to sort of reorient yourself a little bit and be like yeah this is actually we need to be really caring about this yeah this is the shit that matters yes absolutely all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back i've been thinking about you i want you back in my life it's too late for that

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There's a headline yesterday wherein Mark Zuckerberg said that people should decide what's credible, not tech companies. Right. When everyone's like, why aren't you moderating these fake ass political ads more? Yeah. Because it's money, fam. It's money. Because I believe in a democracy that the people should decide what's true and false, not tech companies.

So this ties into a larger strand of bullshit that he has been working, wherein he is just a tech company. He's just providing the pipes. And Facebook is this impartial machine that people can use however they want. I'm but a lowly billionaire. They are a media company. That is what they are. They make all their money off of advertising on next to the content on their site.

That's what they do. Miles, you compared it to like tobacco companies being like, well, let the people decide. They'll decide if it's harmful. Or like, imagine if you were, okay, for example, if you had a pharmacy. Right. And be like, yeah, I saw all these things. Are these FDA approved? Well, that's for you to figure out.

Right. You can buy them. What's your illness? Oh, I have terrible asthma. If I don't get my medication, it could be really bad for me. Well, you could try some of these. Yeah, try it. And for yourself, see what they work.

But I sell them all. And I don't care what the fuck happens to you. Yes. Because I don't give a fuck. Right. And that's not my responsibility. No. But I sell them all and I don't care what the fuck happens to you. Yes. Because I don't give a fuck. Right. And that's not my responsibility. No. But I will still sell it to you.

Right. This coming from a company that has revolutionized the ability of brands to know information about people. Right. So it's already like such an unfair match. already like such an unfair match. People are being like, you know, they're creating this incredibly detailed profile of you behind the scenes and then just, you know, targeting you. They're taking away your free will without you knowing it by just, you know, finding out more information about you than you know about yourself, essentially.

Doing psychic profile or psychological, psychographic profiles about you, you know, learning what your, you know, what people who eat your breakfast cereal prefer music, you know, they just like have all this fucking research. It's thanks to facebook because that's the one place where a lot of people's different you know things are united and then he's going to have the balls to be like i don't know man like they they can decide themselves they that has never been facebook's mother to let people decide for themselves well they got a ton of they got a lot of republicans working there now oh yeah so that's another story that's recently come out is that uh mark zuckerberg has been meeting with right-wing luminaries such as tucker carlson other shitheads but it seems like they have basically either they've fallen into the you know the mainstream media thing where the mainstream media is considered left even though they're center right and fox news is

considered you know just balanced balancing things out by giving a right-wing perspective even though they're you know information warfare warfare, essentially. Perspective. Right. Yeah. And I think it's also, you know, we've seen what he has to say about Elizabeth Warren's campaign and the idea of, you know, people from the left coming to break up their monopoly. And it is now more than ever, I mean, it's been important that we break up Facebook and Google and all these massive companies. But three out of every $4 that is spent on online marketing was made by Facebook and Google. Like, that's insane.

We'll do better, man. It's competition, that's insane. There's two companies. Well, do better, man. It's competition, man. Right. Like, I was listening to this Adam Conover podcast where he interviewed this dude who basically studied the four major companies. Like, he, you know, was going into the tech industry and, you know, like, recognized that they were the thing that was driving the economy, so decided to study them,

and he wanted to like the Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple. And he was like, oh shit. When he looked at it, he was like, oh, they've completely destroyed the economy. He was like, there's this reputation in Silicon Valley for the startup community, but there's fewer companies being started now than like during the economic recession during the carter administration like

they have completely made it because they either will buy or kill in the crib any company and usually they'll just kill you in the crib like there's not even a way for companies to like get the momentum to be Instagram and get bought by Facebook anymore, you know? Right. Cause let's be like, well, buy them now.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll buy them out and that's it. And then that'll be a feature on Facebook or we'll just be like, fuck you. Stay away. And the really frustrating thing is that,

so, uh, you know, the, there's, there was the news last year that they had been exaggerating the view counts on Facebook videos by anywhere between 140% and 900%. And everybody was like, oh, shit, this is where everybody's watching video now. Everybody switched all their media buying, all their media budgets to Facebook.

And then it turned out nobody was actually watching those videos. They were just lying. This is what happened at Cracked, what happened at CollegeHumor, what happened at a lot of really good media companies. All the Zoho blogs that you used to like, that you used to read that weren't on Facebook, this is why they went away.

Yeah. And they just got fined, you know, a pittance. Yeah, a drop in the bucket for them. And I mean, the episode made the point, like this just, this isn't work. Like the way the current system, like this is why we need systemic change. This is why, you know, millennials talk about socialism and capitalism

not working is because this shit just isn't working. And the latest there's been these Trump trade deals that people have just given a pass in the mainstream media and people are discovering that they have all these protections

for huge mammoth tech companies in the laws that were passed. Right. Like Trump is protecting these huge tax companies or these huge tech companies. So, of course, they're going to do things that favor him and favor the right way. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Well, also, and it's like I doubt there's any empirical data to to prove this but i feel like based on the people that i know everyone i know that is like not active on facebook that is or

left facebook completely are tend to be like left-leaning people or people that are just like fuck this i'm on here the bare minimum possible right you know it's like becomes it's become more and more of a conservative cesspool just over time anyway yeah they're like well that's where our bread is buttered so we're a cater in that direction well a lot of times it's in it's their bread is buttered in other countries like they're growing really fast in other countries but like that's really fucked up because like there's been genocide well yeah i was gonna say there's that genocide because of information spreading on facebook or on whatsapp which is owned by google well it's like yeah mark zuckerberg or no whatsapp is owned by facebook. Well, it's like, yeah, Mark Zuckerberg is... Or no, WhatsApp is owned by Facebook also, I think.

I think it is, yeah. Well, it's like Mark Zuckerberg is a fucking war criminal at this point. He helped orchestrate a genocide. Yeah, well, then he's like, well, you know, those are for the people in Myanmar to figure out what to do with the Rohingya. I would prefer let the people figure it out.

So if they see some fake-ass news story that's sort of meant to fan the flames, then that's I don't know burn this shit down yeah honestly take all of his money and he should be lucky if his head doesn't end up on a spike hey that's fine

I would like that post you know what I mean a dude Adam Conover was interviewing Scott Galloway and they were like asking the question how did we let it get this far? Like we've always had the ability to like stop monopolies in the past. And one of the points that they made that I thought was interesting is the people who are like making all the money off of monopolies have always been dorks in the past or like ugly old guys or, you know, like the oil monopolies and stuff. you know like the guy the oil monopolies and stuff they whereas now like this is the first time that we've had these like young college like recent college graduate billionaires and it just

like plays to uh all these different like american myths and american fetishes of like youth and yeah innovation but and also in the flip side the people making the laws are old people that don't know how email works. Right. So like trying to explain fucking Facebook to Dianne Feinstein, like she doesn't know. Mm-mm.

You know? I mean, does she have email? I don't know. Yeah, she does. I mean, she does, but could she know how to access it

on her phone? Maybe. We'll see. Maybe. Maybe. I've seen photos of her jitterbug and there is an email

button on it. Okay, well there's that. The email button. Uh, shit. Well, there's that. The email button. Shit. Yeah, that's why it's important to have young people or at least young people consulting because it's like our issues matter. Not even consulting. We should be.

That's why we are slowly seeing this push of millennials coming into Congress and stuff. But yeah, that's really why it's important because yeah. Yeah, we can speak the language. Right right it's the language of the future you need to be like as fast as shit is moving now you need to have people that like are are um literate in what is happening coming in on both sides yeah let's put a upper limit on like how old politicians can be and get rid of the lower age or at least a test if If you go like this, this is how you age out this age. Excuse me, Lindsey Graham,

use yeet in a sentence. Yeah, exactly. She's like, yeet yet? He would say that, but he would actually know what yeet is. He's like, I want to yeet on out of here. Yeah, one of the young boys I'm talking to is allegedly, allegedly.

Oh, hell yeah. Allegedly. No. Just kidding. Well, let's talk about something that has nothing to do with Facebook. Jeffrey Epstein? Are we getting an Epstein now? No, Instagram.

Oh, great. We didn't even put these stories next to each other on purpose. It's just Facebook owns fucking everything. We're reading this off of Google Docs. Like they could easily squash us like bugs because that's the world we live in. But this is kind of remarkable just in terms of like public, you know, sentiment and the zeitgeist,

the subject of. The thirst. Zeitgeist. Man, y'all really love Friends, huh? Yeah. I did not realize it was like this. I could not care less. Yeah, I couldn't either. That's why when I saw it,

I'm like, what the fuck is wrong with people? It's really... I think people just need something nice right now. I'm sure. Yeah, you can regress a little bit. You can go into the past. Remember when Trump was just on TV? Yeah.

So Jennifer Aniston, who's been famously absent from Instagram, just joined recently. And her first post was such an old person photo. Like the quality is beyond potato. I don't even know what the fuck this is. It sucks. But it's a selfie with all the fucking, you know, all the friends cast. And it basically broke a ton of records.

She got 10 million followers in, or no, 10 million likes in 24 hours and 9 million followers like within a day. I like that million people that decided, I'm gonna like it. I'm not gonna follow it. Yeah, yeah. They're like, nah, I'm good with that. Also in the picture, Matt Perry. She was at 13.1 million followers.

That's what she said, yeah. She was at 13.1. Damn. Also, Matthew Perry might be doing cocaine in that photo. Did you guys see that? You zoom in. He's got like weird white shit. Oh, yo.

There's like white stuff on his phone. And it's like, are you doing coke in this picture? That's a pop socket. If I didn't know Matthew Perry any better, I would think that... What is that? Yeah, it looked like he chopped up some... I mean... Right? Sloppy-ass lines on his phone.

Yeah. And also, like, you're doing coke off a phone? I know. I thought rich people have to do it off, like, a crystal orb. Right. Or some shit. I mean... I'm just saying.

It just looks like cocaine. Oh, my God. Oh, this is what happened. They were all doing a bunch of coke. Yeah. And they're like... Jennifer! You're not on IG yet?

You gotta get out. No. Right. Watch. Watch what's gonna fucking... Oh, my God. You're gonna fucking break the watch watch what's gonna oh my god you're gonna break the internet

it's gonna feel so good when you get those followers is Janiston is Jen Aniston available fuck it's available fucking do it do it but it's wild

when you actually compare the numbers she hit it's already more than Jennifer Garner 7.4 million but you know who cares are there that many

Jennifer Garner fans Julia Roberts 6.8 Nicole Kidman 5.5 Charlize Theron 4.5 Shane Lee Woodley

4.4 but you know cool Charlize Theron like legitimately seems like she fucking rules I'm surprised she has that

from what I've heard from people who have been like around her in a non she's a real one industry thing like she's a very like

she shows up to comedy shit and yeah we'll be legitimately funny yeah she can hang yeah oh yeah what do you mean like i've seen her i've heard her on like podcast like comedy podcast like yeah people people wouldn't be like hey uh katherine heigl come come on comedy bang bang with me because you're so cool in this movie we were in together but like Charlize Theron was in that movie with Seth Rogen and he brought her to comedy bang bang and she was pretty funny

oh she was on CBB she was on something where I was like yo Charlize Theron well she did that her and Patton Oswalt were in that movie together and they got along really well, too. She just seems like she's a real person that can actually hang out. Right.

Yeah. I like Charlize. Just be a real person. Don't be one of these fuckwit, sucker fucks. The fact that Julia Roberts. Don't do cocaine with Matthew Perry. Julia Roberts, 6.8 million. Yeah.

Jennifer Garner. How mad is Julia Roberts? Oh, yeah. How furious. I feel like Julia mad is Julia Roberts? Oh, yeah. How furious. I feel like Julia Roberts is in her own lane, though. I feel like she'll be like, I don't know her. Her daughter is probably more like what, right? She has kids.

She doesn't have kids. I don't know. Wait, who? Julia Roberts? Her niece. Okay, yeah. Emma Roberts? I think she has kids, though.

I think Julia Roberts is also not very nice. I think I've heard that she's not. She isn't? No. What about Geena Davis? I've never heard anything bad about Geena Davis. Oh, she has three children. Hazel, Phineas, and Henry Daniel.

Henry Daniel. HD. All right, Phineas. The guy Phineas fought and came to town. Not to slander Julia Roberts, but... This little line that you always say, it's very disturbing. Because it's from The Sopranos? Well, it's from a really creepy part of The Sopranos, I know.

Because Finn DiTrollio saw Vito giving a head to the dude at the construction site. Right. And then when he saw that he was caught, oh, man, anyway. Phineas Fogg. Phineas Fogg. Phineas Fogg. Came to town. Okay.

All right, bro. I'm trying to go. Anyway, I think, I think this plays into people's hopes that celebrities are what they are on TV. So like, you know, Jennifer Aniston and the friends are being friends.

Who do coke. Who do coke off their phone like us. Just like us. Yeah. I mean, it's also like she's for sure got some movie coming out or there's something like the only reason she started this was because like I bet you Netflix is going to announce some sort of reunion thing. That's my theory.

Like because like, well, she didn't do this for free. She definitely like somebody is like, I'm going to give you a lot of money as part of your deal for whatever. She has that Apple TV. So she has since posted. And the pictures are adorable, by the way. So this picture, I think there's something charming about the fact that it sucks, maybe. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

But the other thing they've posted is a clip from her upcoming series where she plays basically like I guess it's supposed to be like me and Katie Couric or something

where she's like morning show yeah post oh right right right look at this I mean little baby

the newest picture her as a kid and then oh she's wearing the same shirt same hat that's her yeah wow yeah she Oh, she's wearing the same shirt. Wow. Same hat. That's her? Wow.

Yeah. Wow. Yeah, she's. Yeah, she's doing it. Wow. I mean. No, she looked like ethnic when you swiped over. Yeah.

For a second, I was like, that ain't Jennifer Aniston. Well, she's got. Does she have Filipino in that photo? I mean, I think there's some face tunage going on. Yeah. Some tunage? She's definitely. Tunage.

Tunage. I didn't know she had freckles either. She's a VSCO woman. Yeah, VSCO woman. Yes. VSCO elder. Yeah,

VSCO mama. VSCO mommy. That's why VSCO mommy is in that building. Brandy, it's been such a pleasure having you. Oh,

thanks guys. So good to have you back. Such a fun way to go through the news just with you guys. I'm like, okay, well at least I'm here with my pals. we learned something. We good to have you back. Such a fun way to go through the news just with you guys. I'm like, okay, well at least I'm here with my pal.

Yeah. We learned something. We don't have to bear our head and then we'll bury our heads. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Till the morning. Where can people find you?

I am on Twitter and Instagram at Brandazzle. Brandazzle. Yeah. I tour a bunch. I've actually, I've actually got like a Southeast tour coming up. Can I list some dates real quick? Yeah, do it. Okay. This is a bunch bunch of them if you are in any of these places please

come say hi um bradyposie.com has all my info for my tour dates are but also if you use bands in town follow me on there and then you'll get updates when i come to your town october 22nd richmond virginia october 23rd augusta georgia october 25th, Huntsville, Alabama. October 26th, Nashville, Tennessee. October 27th, Asheville, North Carolina. October 28th, Knoxville, Tennessee. October 30th. Yeah. October 30th, Charleston, South Carolina.

October 31st, Halloween. House party in Jacksonville, Florida. Going to be fun as fuck. Wait, house party is the name of the establishment? No, it's an actual house party. I will send you a private address if you message me. Are you serious? Yeah, yeah.

It's going to be really, really fun. It's going to be a really fun house party that happens every year. So people have to message you. Yeah, I'll give you the address. Yeah, for that one. On Halloween night in Jacksonville, Florida. What else do you do in Jacksonville? November 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, I'm in Gainesville, Florida doing shows on Fest.

It's going to be great. November 4th, Atlanta, Georgia. November 5th, Ch's going to be great. November 4th, Atlanta, Georgia. November 5th, Chattanooga, Tennessee. November 6th, Columbia, South Carolina. And I've got some Pacific Northwest dates coming at the beginning of December as well, but those are still getting worked out. So follow me and all the shit to hear that.

And then I also have a great podcast called Lady to Lady. Yeah, you do. Yeah. And we've had everybody on now because we have T everybody on now because we have tess on we have oh nice my sister from another mister barbara oh babs gray babs gray my girl bg what is a tweet you've been enjoying uh it's a gal on twitter that i follow called a

wealthy gay and she had a tweet that said uh yeah yeah exactly uh no one and then nothing and then forever 21 t-shirt I eat pizza for a living and fuck your dad it just made me laugh hell yeah honestly I'll wear that shirt yeah right

it made me laugh I was like that's great ooh let's make it though let's make it though how do we make that real yeah

Miles where can people find you and what's a tweet you've been enjoying find me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray a tweet that I like is from Jen Statsky

at Jen Statsky it says is there a rehab for gossiping I don't need it but I'll tell you who does I like that I like that some I like that.

Some tweets I've been enjoying. Kermit the Frog tweeted a picture of himself in a black leather jacket that said, as a frog, I don't know the first thing about fashion, but even I know when an outfit looks good, exclamation point. And Healy fan account tweeted, That means you do know about fashion, you stupid fucking frog.

Fuck you. I really like this tweet. This tweet from Steve Hernandez at Big Hearn tweeted, Life was so much more simpler before the internet. It was a big deal that Jewel was from Alaska. That was like a thing to know. That was her identity. You know she's from Alaska?

You know she won't fix her tooth because she's like an artist. That was another thing too. They were like, when's she going to fix that tooth? Exactly. And then Lawboy Esquire tweeted, oh, you trust the government to run healthcare? That is incredibly naive. I only trust them to build roads, deliver mail, and destroy and rebuild entire

nations. Yeah. Hell yeah. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com

where we post our episodes and our footnotes where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we write out on. Miles, what's that going to be today? Miles, you just played it for us in the studio. Oh, no, no, no. It's trippy and has a vibe.

Oh, dude, you already know, dude. It's a vibe. It's a wave. Get your surfboards out, dude. Get your wetsuit on because it's just a wave, dude, you already know, dude. It's a vibe. It's a wave. Get your surfboards out, dude. Throw your wetsuit on because it's just a wave, dude. Surf's up. Shaka, bro. This is a track by Just Big Hills. It's called Sick of This because I think we're all sick of this. But, you know, it's actually

a very gentle track. If it's raining where you're at, you know, just spark one up to this. That's really my favorite environment to weed in when there's rain coming around on a tinder roof. Yeah. It feels like it should be played after a character shoots heroin in a movie.

Yeah. It's definitely like some kind of dark episode ending, like a cliffhanger ending to an episode. You would go out on this. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. It's the new Whatcha Say. Whatcha Say. All right. The Daily Zeitge Say. Whatcha Say. All right.

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