The Daily Zeitgeist - John McCain’s Posthumous Trolling, GOP Spreadsheet Of Fear 8.28.18

Episode Date: August 28, 2018

In episode 221 Jack and Miles are joined by actor Behzad Dabu to discuss John McCain's passing, changing the name of the Richard Russell senate building, GOP's fear of the blue wave, Roger Stone possibly being indicted, the Jacksonville, Florida video game tournament shooting, fantasy football season, True Detective season three, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. John McCain: Trump not attending late senator's funeral2. John McCain's final message for the President3. Ward Saturday On McCain Ending Treatment: ‘They Wanted To Have A Particular Narrative’4. Senate office is named after a virulent racist. Schumer wants to change it in honor of McCain.5. 1 big thing ... Scoop: Republicans secretly study their coming hell6. Stone Defense Fund7. Lethality of Suicide Methods8. Jacksonville shooting suspect underwent psychiatric treatment, purchased guns legally in Baltimore area9. Your first look at the long-awaited new season of 'True Detective'10. WATCH: Stimulator Jones - Soon Never Comes (Official Video) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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For Tuesday, August 28th, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. O-A-O-A, O-A-O-Y, O-A-O-A, O-A-O-Y, Brian. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Everybody get up, it's time to grain now. We got a real Miles Dam going down. Welcome to the Zeit Gang. This podcast here to last with the Zeitgang.

All right, all right, all right. Come on in, gang. Okay, I added that part. That is from at Ange M. Kemp. Angela Kemp, shout out to you for that space jam. Little ditty right there. One of the first CD soundtracks I bought with my own money as a child. One of the first CD soundtracks. I think my own money as a child one of the first cd

soundtracks yeah i think mine was above the rim it was my first cd soundtrack oh you know what was soul food before that i had the soul food soundtrack too anyway whatever who knows it could have been one of those things i got through the columbia house scam where you put all the stamps for one cent and then your parents are like why are they charging me 12 bucks a month right and i'm like but i got that foxy browns. Anyway. All right. Well, welcome back, Miles. We're thrilled to have you again. Yes, yes. My AKA was courtesy of At The Miami Sound Machine.

Is that what that was supposed to be? That was actually, yeah, that was supposed to be. I got a gift, man. I know, baby. Voice of gold. You have a way of turning songs into your own. Uh-huh. Yeah, that's good.

That's how I look at it. That's kind of how I intended it. Well, we are thrilled to be joining our third seat. We have the actor, producer, and activist who you've seen on How to Get Away with Murder as Simon and on The Shy as Amir. Thrilled to be joined by Bezad Dabu. I got a song, too. Yeah, here we go.

Here we go. Sitting on the dock of the Bezod. Oh, yeah. There we go. Welcome, man. That was good. I don't appreciate you showing me up like that. People could totally tell what yours was supposed to be.

Wait, what song is that? From Miami Sound Machine. Super producer Ana Hosnier last week was doing Miami Sound Machine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rhythm is gonna get you. Rhythm is gonna get you. There we go. Rhythm is gonna get you.

I thought that was Gloria Estefan. But it is Miami Sound Machine. Yeah, that's Miami Sound Machine. I was giving a little credit to the sound machine. Yeah, you got to. My AIM screen name was Down by the Bayazad. Oh, shit. Okay.

What was your AIM screen names? Oh, man, I had a few. I had Hobo Parade. What? Why? Because I remember it was a line in The Simpsons where they said something about like, oh, there's going to be a Hobo Parade.

And I did that. And then there was another one. I had Hobo Sex Slave was another one. I was a fucking weird kid. And that came from a sketch on SNL where I think it was Ray Romano. It was like a bit where people were like in the trenches of the war. And they're like, what are you going to do when you get back home? And like the first guy was like, I'm going to marry my girl and blah, blah, blah.

I'm like, what about you? He's like, I'm going to open a restaurant. And then like Ray Romano's character is like for the game of the sketch. He's like, I'm going to have an army of hobo sex slaves and everyone's like what the fuck and I was wait you had two hobo based jokes that were from separate source material yeah I'm look you know I was a problematic 11 year old yeah what are you gonna do uh and I was ob cool j on and I have another one that I won't reveal because that is my Reddit username, and I like to just creep on Reddit. I don't want people knowing how I get down.

Well, obcoolj is my password for everything. Okay, great. And my social security is... Your is 867-5309. 5309. 5309. Beza, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment, but first we're going to tell our listeners what we're going to be talking about today. We're going to be talking about the passing of John McCain and how the president of the United States is dealing with said passing.

We're going to talk about the potential changing of the Senate building to John McCain's last name from the last name of a guy who I didn't know a lot about until Miles brought him to my attention. We are going to talk about how the GOP, the grand old party, is preparing for that blue wave. We're going to talk about Roger Stone, who appears to be in disguise currently as a character from the Hudsucker proxy.

Wow. Yeah, he's got these weird circular glasses that he just breaks out like... Was that a widely released film? I don't know, man. Or was that just for HBO, right? Yeah. With Tim Robbins? I saw half of it. Yeah. I saw half of it. I just remember someone hopped out a building with the ticker tape. Yeah.

Anyway. And there was that real fast-talking. Oh, yeah, baby. Yeah, baby. Which, did people really talk like that? Or was that just a... Anyways, we're going to talk about Roger Stone. We're going to talk about the shooting at the Madden Tournament. Fantasy football season is upon us.

And so is season three of True Detective, or at least the trailer of season three of True Detective, so we're going to talk about that. But first, Beza, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Yesterday, I searched anxiety blankets. Those are like weighted blankets. And I had heard about how they feel really great.

I live alone. Sometimes I want to sit on my couch and have an anxiety blanket, I thought. And I was like, okay, I'll buy an anxiety blanket. They are expensive. Fuck yeah, they are. Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah. They're hundreds of dollars.

Yeah. If you want like a wild 25-pounder or something. Yeah. Because at first, you know how I realized- Or one that covers your whole body. Yeah. Because they have little gym towel-sized ones. body. Yeah. Because they have like little like gym towel size ones. Right.

Okay. And those are like $100. But like a full blanket that would cover my body and be enough weight that I felt like would be legitimate was like a couple hundred bucks. Wow. Yeah. Like a 15 pounder, 72 bucks. And you probably want like, I would want something fucking heavy.

Yeah. Like I want to crush my chest. And I think that one, if I remember, is only like three feet yeah i mean they i want one that's gonna get my whole body yeah like for what like if you're a hunt between 170 and 230 pounds they say you need about a 20 pounder so and one that's probably like six feet long yeah oh yeah yeah that's for the right one and that's like what a hundred and something yeah and just to put it the whack one i did buy it you did good all. Look at you. Doing well.

Haven't you? Or just that anxious? Yeah. A combination of both? Yeah. So what are they made of? It's like the lead blankets that they give you. It's like a quilt, but then in each like pocket is weighted beads.

Yeah. Got it. Glass fill, whatever. Whatever you, however you want to fill. Sleep under them or just like watch TV under them it all depends like you know it's good for anxiety insomnia can be good for people with autism or ADHD like there are a lot of people

just the feeling of it is just very it's settling that's why like yeah it's weird when you put that lead vest on for like a dental x-ray I was like oh shit I'm like yo can you keep this on a little bit I fuck with it they go so far away too the dentist will put that on and then they'll go to like four buildings over Oh, shit. I'm like, yo, can you keep this on a little bit? Like, I fuck with it. They go so far away, too. The dentist will put that on, and then they'll go to, like, four buildings over.

Right, right, right. They go so far away. Yeah. I know, right? They're like, okay, you stay in here. Let me put this on your fucking mouth head. Right. And go.

Go to the other room. They're like, you okay in there? Yeah. Yeah. Right. It's like, is something going to blow up? They're like, oh, shit, you don't have earrings on, do you? And I'm like, is something going to blow up? They're like, oh shit, you don't have earrings on, do you? I'm like, oh wait, what?

My wife works near Floro, and so she has to have one of those, except the very strong type that covers all the parts. And she had to have one when she was pregnant. But she wanted to get a stylish one, and they all just look like the wetsuits from SeaWorld. Wait, what are you talking about? It works in your floral? Yeah, it's like when you're doing certain procedures. It's basically x-ray. Why did you say that?

We should know. I know. Because I wanted to sound smart. And then force this question out of me, so he's like, oh, I'm sorry. For the lay person. Actually, she always just talks about it like, oh, yeah, I work near Floro. So, you know, it's come up a lot around like why she wasn't doing procedures during certain parts of her pregnancy. And I just assumed that other people knew what it was because she speaks like they do.

And I actually have never looked it up. So I don't even know what it's short for. But she rocks like a Hurt Locker style thing, basically? Yeah, exactly. Hurt Locker style, but it looks like SeaWorld gear. It looks like things that people who ride on the backs of killer whales. Fluoroscopy is an imaging technique

that uses x-rays to obtain real-time moving images of the interior of an object. That's more research than I've ever done. Brought to you by Wikipedia. There you go. Well, that's good to know. I will brought to you by wikipedia there you go well that's good to know i will now use the whole uh my wife works near fluoroscopy yeah and uh anyways baza what is something that you think is overrated overrated um believing in god oh hot. Hot take. No, no. Wait, let me rephrase that.

Okay. That you're better because you believe in God. Got it. I see. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Things are happening for you because you have God on your side.

Yeah, that. Believing in God is cool. Believe in whatever you want. But another thing is overrated, horoscopes. I think horoscopes are overrated. Damn, you're taking shots at all the gods right now. No, it's because people will be like, what I think is overrated is, oh, you know, the reason why I've been such an asshole this week

is because my Virgo is in moon or something. My Virgo is in moon. I love it. Okay, but maybe you're just being a dick right now. As Kelly Oxford famously said, this guy's Mercury's in Gatorade right now. I also had a family friend, and this guy is like Cornell educated, like super hardworking, really great work ethic, really smart. And he got this amazing promotion at work, and he literally gave all the credit to his horoscope. And it offended me.

I'm like, not you, your whole life, everything you've put into this, the networking you've done, like the work you put into it, the education you got. He's like, nope. Nope. Susan Miller. It's just like you're fucking where the moon is. Yeah. I just looked at my, you know, Susan Miller. I pay her a little extra to get that personalized horoscope, that astrology zone hookup.

So that's what's overrated. Or every athlete after why they won the game is because, well, God was on their side. Like I don't think the God cares. Well, I think, yeah, for sure. If whatever you need to motivate yourself, but at the same time, you know, there's things that we do personally that help us get there. But yeah, I think it's important for people. Like, I know many people who are religious and they're able to not become self-righteous about it.

But yeah, I think when there are also those people, especially on the evangelical right at the moment, who are like, well, we can see Satan a mile away. And all are Satan. And you need to buy my doomsday buckets of food. Exactly right. Exactly right. Yeah. Man, fucking astrology had me fucked up for a while though i won't i know like when i was fucking mad hopeless like right after college i thought like susan miller was gonna tell me when my dream person was gonna show up i know you were talking about a really smart person who believes in astrology

and i was looking over at miles hey man the shit they say about virgos is true though right yeah i don't think what's overrated is your belief in the thing I think what's overrated is crediting that thing for your success or failures Sure Well, what is something that you think is underrated? Solo international travel

Ah, okay I think it's important to leave your comfort zone solo A lot of people do it with their friends or cousins or family, and that's one thing, and that's great, but I think everybody should take at least a five-day trip somewhere by themselves and stay in a hostel or something. Where'd you do that?

I've done it all over. I had this amazing job where I worked for Columbia College Chicago where I went to school. I had this job where I would go to countries, and I would get a suitcase from this guy, and then I would have to bring it back here, and if I did, I'd get $ College, Chicago, where I went to school. I had this job where I would go to countries and I would get a suitcase from this guy. And then I would have to bring it back here. And if I did, I would get $20,000. I worked for a college where I would go and help other students interested in the arts learn about United States options in the arts.

Okay. So it was sort of like with the Department of Education in conjunction with private art schools. That's fucking awesome. And so I would go to all these different countries. But that kind of gave me the travel bug and learned how to travel. So now I sort of just like, I'm like, oh, I have a week. You go to Google Flights and you can put in a number and be like, what does this get me?

You can literally say the airport you want to leave from without a destination and the whole map pops up of where things are and you'll be like, oh, I can go to Helsinki tomorrow for 350 bucks round trip. Let's go. What are some places you've seen because of this kind of habit other than Helsinki? I actually didn't go to Helsinki. I thought it was a funny name. tomorrow for 350 bucks round trip let's go what are some places you've seen because of this kind of habit other than helsinki i actually didn't go to helsinki i thought it was a funny name

you know this summer i literally just did that and it was like barcelona was cheap hell yeah stayed in the hostel went to barcelona um i'm thinking about doing athens um i did bali um vietnam um quito and ecuador really cool spot. Sometimes you're just like, I don't know anything about this place. Five days, you realize how resilient we are and how much we can do by ourselves. And how it actually, you do meet people because you have to meet people. You can't just keep to yourself in the corner and be like, leave me alone, I'm on a journey.

I think the most growth I've had as a human is because of solo travel, and I think I see that in other people too. Damn. I think I haven't done the full-on solo thing, but the times I've had huge growth are when I go to places that are not the kind of like, kick back and relax and just vibe out type of trips. I think that's definitely true.

Or where you go somewhere, it's like a country or culture you're completely unfamiliar with, and you have maybe preconceived notions about it, and you go somewhere it's like a country or culture you're completely unfamiliar with and you have maybe preconceived notions about it and you go there and they're fucking shattered and you're just like wow that just kind of going like you know realizing the things you believe that are different it really

does help man. Another thing I would say is if you're going out with a group of friends or family and you do this like huge week long vacation somewhere take a day or two and do your own day trip. So even if you're already there with your family and you're doing this thing, take a day trip because I love the idea of I'm stuck in a country,

I don't know the language, my flight has been canceled, I don't know what I'm gonna do. And you figure it out because you have to figure it out and you get it done and that's a lesson for like, it'll work out. Yeah, right, just in general that you put yourself in positions where you're like, I know how to navigate an obstacle. It gives you a sense of like, oh, cool. I can figure things out when I'm in situations where I didn't think I could.

Yeah. I think just in general, forcing yourself outside of your comfort zone on a regular basis is like, you know, that's something I've definitely struggled with is, you know, just getting too comfortable and, you know, avoiding discomfort as much as possible. And, you know, you're not growing when you're just completely avoiding discomfort. So, you know, whether it's travel or, you know, finding new places around you that you can get to without spending any money, you know. to without spending any money you know you'd be amazed like the second you push back against your comfort to do something uncomfortable how that decision can end up being something so fun or so unexpected we're like sometimes i can get in a pattern of like you you go you do your work or whatever and you come home like you just don't want to do shit and then sometimes you're like hey let's go out or like here come check out this thing or whatever and normally be like hey man i

it's tuesday you know right. I can't really do shit. Then the times when you just do a little bit something different, you're like, wow, I went out, I had a nice experience. You stimulate yourself in such different ways that, yeah, it's a very, very beneficial thing. There's an old Hebrew parable about the lobster. As the lobster grows, the muscles get bigger and bigger, and it gets really tight in his shell.

Then the shell has to crack open, which is painful for the lobster, but then he gets a new shell as he gets bigger. And if the lobster doesn't grow, then it'll never get bigger, but he has to crack out of his shell and go through the shit first. Right. And then they get big enough, a motherfucker eats you. Yeah. With butter. Yeah.

For $100. So in a way, stay small so the fishermen have to throw you back because you don't meet the standards of an edible Humane lobster My man See I just took That fucking parable And I flipped

Lobsters never stop growing So if you've ever eaten A really big lobster That's like an Old ass lobster How old do you think They've found lobsters That are like

As old as Very old humans And even older Holy shit For real Yeah Lobsters live a long Time

I have respect for old things So maybe I won't eat Lobsters anymore Yeah maybe stop real yeah lobsters live a long time i have respect for old things so maybe i won't eat yeah maybe stop eating giant lobsters every day but you know what that's my lifestyle baby even though um you know her majesty says we're hemorrhaging money because my lobster habit but i tell her this is have no choice yeah but this is a great underrated everybody because i feel like we rarely get underrated where people are like and this is the reason i am who i am and like this has been the best best thing that happened because yeah like being by yourself around people who don't know you that also like builds character because what your character is what you do when nobody else is looking i think that's like an

american proverb from like one of the founding fathers or something but i think that's true that you're like figuring shit out. Awesome, man. And finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true that you know to be false? Something that people that I know to be false or that people just get wrong about life in general that you feel like is a myth that's perpetuated. Oh, man, it's going to be controversial.

I better say this right. Um, I think there's like this myth that people reward good behavior and kindness. And I think that we should have good behavior and we should be kind and we should show up on time and we should do all those things. But not because it's going to be rewarded because people won't reward it. People reward bad behavior all the time. Right. In my industry especially, good behavior gets you nothing but a shittier contract the next time around. Right. In my industry, especially good behavior gets you nothing but a shittier contract the next time around. Right. So like, honestly, like.

As I've always been coached in my industry is like, man, as long as you're kind and you're a good person, good things will happen. As long as you're kind, you're a good person, you work hard and you work on your craft. Right. You're going to succeed. No, you're not. The examples do not support that. Right. The stats don't support that. You should be a good and kind person so that you're nice to be around. I agree with that. But I think it's a myth that like, because let's be honest, what often gets you ahead is Instagram followers, whether you're an asshole or not.

Right. Or your agent. Right, right. Or whatever it is. You know what I mean? So yeah, you should be a kind of good person so that you're lovely to be around. But I think it's a myth that it's going to help you get anywhere. Yeah. So that you're putting more good out into the universe than otherwise.

But yeah, I mean, the more you learn about history, and like history is the thing that I'm most interested in learning about, the more you realize that history tends to not have a Hollywood ending shaped like story arc where people do good and are eventually rewarded it has more of a Game of Thrones shaped story arc where it's like oh I love this dude and then his head gets squashed by a grape or like a grape not by a grape that would be a much different story

alright that's isn't that the way like kind of that like with even Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong it's cause Neil Armstrong was like yo I'm fucking being the first dude to step on the moon fuck out my even Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, it's because Neil Armstrong was like, yo, I'm fucking being the first dude to step on the moon. Fuck out my way. Buzz Aldrin.

Like, wasn't that really what happened? Like the reason why he is the first person of shit. Like, but we're always like, yeah, Lance arms were like, no,

this motherfucker was like, hold up. Yeah. We're up here. Yeah. I'm going to, I'm about to be this first. I've got this line written about being one small step.

All my heroes have turned out to be flawed. I mean, I loved Kevin Spacey. I loved Kanye West. I loved Kobe Bryant. I loved Michael Jordan. All my heroes, they all have problems. I love Eminem. They all have downsides.

You know what I mean? And so, yeah, I don't know. Oh, you know what it was? It was the structure of the Eagle landing craft that put him there. And there was also a third dude who just stayed back in the shuttle, right? Who didn't even go down on the – There is a fascinating, fascinating story about that guy. Yeah.

So while the two guys were down on the moon, the third guy had to, like, be in the ship. And when he was in the ship, he had to sort of stay in the moon's orbit. And when you're on the other side of the moon, the moon is blocking the radio frequency back down to Houston. So for

that three hours or whatever, he didn't know what... He was literally the most... Masturbated he was literally the most masturbated he was the most isolated person in the universe

right in the history of the universe he was literally and he wrote about it it's called The Other Side of the Moon or something like that but he was like

on the other side and he just he was like I couldn't contact anybody if I wanted to I could scream nobody would hear me like literally

I was so isolated from the entire universe and then he came back in and he had and all all of a sudden it was like, oh, now I can contact humans again. Right. And it was sort of sad. Yeah. He really enjoyed that three hours. It's a really beautiful thing to think about.

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We knew that he had stopped receiving medical treatment. And then over the weekend, he passed like almost the day after that announcement was made. It was really fast, but he's getting, I think lionized is probably the proper terminology. the proper terminology. And I think he's like a complex figure who owned up to his own complexity. Like I feel like he owned some of his failures. Like he was pro-Iraq war and he... He was frothing at the pants for the Iraq war.

Yeah, he beat the drum for every war we've had during his lifetime. Yeah, and he also i think his decision to bring palin in was an early precursor to trumpism and the whole mega movement because on like his campaign became all these rallies where palin was out there talking about the lamestream media and you know just basically presaging presaging all the shit that would go down during Trump's campaign. Yeah, like, you're not going to get me with gotcha questions. Right.

Like, have you read a book? Right. Oh, you're not going to get me with these gotcha questions. Right. Just one magazine that you've read an article from. Oh, that's what it was, right. Yeah, a magazine. But then he eventually came out and said the Iraq War was a bad idea and that Palin was not the right decision.

And the thing that I think he deserves a lot of credit for is trying to reform campaign finance the way that the government has financed. It didn't end up being effective. Well, that basically put large donors in the driver's seat for policy essentially. Right. Well, what he did? I mean, McCain-Feingold. No, no, but now that's all changed now. They were trying to stave off the influence of large donors. Right, which is one of the main problems with our whole political system.

Which is a corporatocracy. Right, and he was trying to solve that, But I hadn't realized that the reason he was trying to solve that is because right when he became a congressperson, he was implicated in a scandal where he passed legislation that was favorable to somebody who had donated to him. Right. There was the bad and the good on all sides. And I think that's important to keep in mind. And like even at the end, his last speech was like, I lived a good life, but I wasn't perfect and owned up to his own failure. And also acknowledge something that I feel like

it's important for really successful people to acknowledge, which was how lucky he was. So yeah, sorry to cut you off, Miles. No, no, I'm just, you know, I think, yes, there were a lot of, you know, there are these hagiographic descriptions of his life, basically. But on the other side, you see a lot of people just sort of being like, this is why he's so evil. And yes, I think you can give credence to those things. I mean, being the biggest cheerleader for the Iraq war, which basically destabilized an entire region and caused massive loss of life and was a total waste of money, can't be overstated enough.

But I think really what the people are seeing is I feel he acted honorably according to what his own political beliefs are and who he was as a person and his experiences as a man. I can't take that away from him. I got into it with my mom this weekend. She was like, I hope to see McCain up there one day. And I was like, what are you talking about? Like on the political?

On the moon? I don't know. I think she just meant she. Mount Rushmore. That was her just kind of waxing poetic that she felt bad. Because in any way. Oh, like in the afterlife? Yeah, I think so.

I think that's what she's alluding to. Even though she doesn't really believe in that. That's why I was like, what have you been watching? I understand that it's a complex thing. And I'm not like out here celebrating his death or anything like that. That's why I was like, what have you been watching? I understand that it's a complex thing and I'm not out here celebrating his death or anything like that, but I think one thing that's weird is he's sort of being held up as the last bastion of plightness. When this man

called his wife a C-U-N-T in public, he called Iranians monkeys, he literally sang the song, Bom Bom Bom, Bom Bom Iran. He called a teenage Chelsea Clinton ugly, saying Janet Reno was her father. She was like 13 or 14 at the time. So he's done a lot of things that aren't plight and are not the

bastion of plight. I mean, publicly railing against a Martin Luther King day. He's done a lot of weird stuff. I mean, even the thing that everyone is spreading right now about when someone said Obama's an Arab and he said he's not an Arab. He's a decent man, sort of implying that Arabs can't be decent men. And I understand that it was a spur of the moment thing. But let's let rewrite history. It always scares me as a person of color to see us like rewriting history. Like the bar is so low.

Yes, he was like maybe the last Republican who tried at least tried to do some bipartisan things because the Republican Party now seems to be so down the line sheep. And we can talk about that, but I just get a little weary of the rewriting of history. Yeah, or sanitizing it like that, just sort of looking at that. of like the GOP in general of like what it used to look like where these people weren't so caught up in their ideology and unable to look at a problem objectively and not in such a partisan manner and be like this is not a good thing for people not is this good for my party or is this good for my re-election bid or things like that you know there was a shred of bipartisanship to them and I think that's what people are really kind of lamenting to or just feeling that they've lost,

because I don't know who looks like that now at this point. Nobody. Everyone is completely inconsistent. I don't know any people in the GOP. Granted, the mistakes that John McCain made were pretty major, but he later on in life was able to look back and say, okay, that might have been a mistake. But I don't know if anyone has that sort of ability to be certainly not the current leader of that party.

No, Donald Trump. There's a lot of ways that he's like sort of the anti Trump because he did acknowledge his fuck ups in some cases. And he seemed to like drama when it came to like fucking with Trump because he specifically didn't invite him to his funeral and also like the thumbs down thing even though he went on to you know basically undermine the individual mandate like six months later he destroyed the ACA right yeah when the Republicans were very publicly trying to end Obamacare, he did the big thumbs down thing. So it's like I think it's natural that they were set up as sort of different sides of like some sort of conflict at the heart of the Republican Party. And I'm just interested to see like we're already seeing that Trump can't deal with people paying tribute to McCain or anyone who isn't him. And what a low bar for the GOP that we're like, yeah, well, at least he wasn't a public

racist. Right. Only kind of. And like, I mean, with the Roy Moore thing in Alabama, like what a low bar, like like the pedophile almost won. Right. Yeah. It's it's well at least he's not a pedophile is now like the bar for the gop yeah well i mean he did say a lot of stuff mccain that was he spoke out against the president but he voted something like 83 of the time yeah with the party you know

and even people like jeff flake and boborker who don't face the existential threat of being primaried who are talking a good game, they still aren't voting like that. Yeah. And that's the thing that I take issue with. And I realize that's just the way this fucking system works, though. You're not really going to find, even on the left, you're not going to find people like that

because everyone sort of lives in this world where, well, how am I going to stay in office? How am I going to stay in office? How am I going to stay in office? If the polls dip because I back this certain bill or this comment, then I'm going to have to get back in line or whatever. I think that's always something that has to be considered when we look at the behavior of a lot of our politicians. But yeah, Donald Trump, though. Have you guys been watching Who is America on Showtime? Every now and then I watch the clips.

I've probably watched three full episodes. I've watched all three full episodes. I've watched all of them and one thing that's fascinating to me is he went after politicians on both sides. Yeah. And it was amazing to me

that for the most part the Barney Franks and the Bernie Sanders and the Ted Koppels and things like that were all like this is ridiculous and they walked out

of the interview. And the politicians on the other side were not doing that. They fully are going forth and end up doing insane things. And I realize there's editing and I realize there's producers and I realize there's a lot of stuff that goes into that. But it was very telling to me that the politicians on one side were like, this is stupid.

I'm out of here. Yeah. Well, another is like, oh, this is going to be on TV. Where at? Okay, great. Uh-huh. Yeah. They love attention.

And that's why, you know why we have President Pettiness, who's at full, turned Pettiness up to fucking 500 on the knob. Yeah. And he also, his tweet was, my deepest sympathies go to the family of McCain. And also he tweeted a picture of himself looking at, looking very solemn. Yeah, there was like another post.

Yeah, like with that text, it was like him, a photo of him on the side, not even of John McCain. And then the POTUS account just or maybe it was the White House account just tweeted his face with his life and death dates on it. a press release to come from the office of the president that talked about his service as a soldier, as a politician, and calling him a hero. And Trump did not like that and was basically put the kibosh on that. He's like, no, I'm going to tweet something. Right. I'm going to tweet my sympathies to his family. Yeah. So I think it makes sense. Like, I think if as we see people lionizing him, like that is definitely not completely in keeping or fully acknowledging the entirety of his legacy. But it makes sense to me symbolically because we're at this point where the actual head of the Republican Party is just things are going in such a terrible

direction. And one that, you know, after Tuesday of last week, people now on both sides are sort of having to acknowledge like the deal that they made with the devil. So, yeah. Think about how many lives are being destroyed or affected negatively because of one man's insecurity. Right. Trump is the most insecure man I think I've ever read about. And I don't know. We're in Hollywood, though. We've probably had some insecure men out here.

I mean, this man can't. He's the president. He's literally the most powerful person in the world. But yeah, he's a symptom of this sort of system we have where connivers and cheaters win. And so naturally, we get someone like this who ascends to power yeah because that's just sort of been the playing field and i think this is the the the punctuation on what the what i guess old school gop uh politicians look like and now you have this new crew because then you have kelly ward who's running for jeff flake senate seat in arizona she tried to claim that the announcement

of mccain's family saying we're going to take him off, we're stopping the treatment, the cancer treatment. She was like, oh, they did that to fuck with my bus tour. Hmm. Like, really? Like, what the fuck? And that shows you the state, the worldview of some of these new incoming people who are looking to, oh, Donald Trump is in office.

OK, now you're seeing more people of this sort of ilk come forward. Just pathological narcissists. is in office okay now now you're seeing more people of this sort of ilk come forward just pathological narcissists yeah and who are just who are trying to make the announcement of of someone who even you know despite our disagreement with his politics done more for the you know as a as a politician from the state of arizona and you want to just say oh he's fucking up my bus tour with mike cernovich right come on now despite, you know, as we acknowledged the, you know, McCain being flawed to awful in certain circumstances, there's also this idea that's being floated that they should rename the Senate building for him. Yeah. And Miles, you're kind of

behind this idea. Well, yeah, of course. I mean, Chuck Schumer, I think, was the first person to be like, I would like to put forward a proposal to rename the, you know, the Russell Senate building. There's three Senate buildings. So the one specifically named after Richard Russell to change it, to name it after John McCain, which I think is probably a better idea when you look back at who Richard Russell was, who was a Georgia, you know,

straight up Southern Democrat who, you know, let me just read you a quote from the campaign trail when he was running for office. As one who was born and reared in the atmosphere of the old South with six generations of my forebears now resting beneath Southern soil, I'm willing to go as far and make as great a sacrifice to preserve and ensure white supremacy in the social, economic, and political life of our state as any man who lives within her borders. Wow. He said it right there. That's enough. I don't have to go into it anymore. That's enough.

Okay, let me just say. Even white supremacists don't say white supremacy. Boy, that's a dated term. They try and use dog whistling now. That is unreal. But he filibustered a federal ban on lynching twice and called the Civil Rights Act a short-sighted and disastrous piece of legislation. And he was sort of basically really was one of the leaders that led the Southern charge against the civil rights movement. He got to go.

Yeah, I mean, that's old. You know, I think one of the reasons, though, why the building was named after him is because he was a very effective politician. Like he knew how the Senate worked and he knew how to game it. And he was a very astute student of politics and would read all the agendas and things and understand what the next day was going to look like on the Senate floor and really played the game. And I think in that sense, maybe that is why they were able to overlook these other things and be like, well, he was a very effective senator.

He knew how to get stuff done. I mean, people believe that now. He was born in 1897. So a lot of people believed what he was talking about back then. He probably had the majority of support. And a lot of people say it makes sense. Chuck Schumer, looking at the optics of it, is like, oh, change the name of a building who is someone who is a Democrat and now name it after a Republican. And probably everyone will be behind that because he was very well liked amongst his peers.

Right. So, yeah, it's like anything when you look back at half the buildings and the statues that we have erected of people who are like, these aren't dating well at all. that we have erected in people who are always like, these aren't dating well at all. While we're talking about politics on the hill, the blue wave that has been predicted by some, you know, 538 has it currently at five out of seven, the chances that the Democrats will actually take the House. That's what they had for the election too.

That's exactly what they had for the election. 538 didn't do very well. I don't know if I trust 538 anymore. Yeah, so I think a lot of people remember them just straight up predicting Clinton would win and kind of lumped them in with the people who were saying, like New York Times and a lot of other people were saying like 99%.

They were still giving Trump like a one in four chance to win. It's just, and they basically said like, here's the scenario where he wins. And I feel like right up until the end, because I was like desperately hoping he was wrong. Like Nate Silver was saying, no, it's a very real chance that Trump could win the election. It's one in four. I don't know. It seems like it's a very real chance that Trump could win the election. It's one in four.

I don't know. It seems like it's about the same, maybe a little bit leaning in the direction of the Democrats this time. But it is still a possibility that things go a little stronger in the other direction, because I think one of the big reasons that there was an upset in the presidential election was because of turnout. Yeah. And I don't think that is going to be in the Republicans' favor this time. No, Democratic enthusiasm is true to roof, as they say. So, yeah. And, you know, on the surface, though, it's so funny that a lot of the politicians in

the halls of Congress are like, well, you know, we'll see if there's a blue wave. I don't know. We'll wait to see. I think, you know, some people even said, you know, we'll see if there's a blue wave. I don't know. Let's we'll we'll wait to see. I think, you know, some people even said there'll be a red wave. OK, but are you going to vote, though? Huh? Are we going to vote, though? Oh, I've never voted.

But what is the blue? What's the point? Is the blue wave going to vote is my thing, because there might be all this excitement. But just in the last California vote, I mean, no one's voting. Yeah, well, I think the difference is this is such a comfortably blue state. That's one thing. But when you look at a lot of these special elections where normally people don't give a fuck about a special election, the turnout has been really significant, even on both

to be fair on both sides. But there are a lot of things when you look at some of these other special elections, like where Conor Lamb won in Pennsylvania and even the one special election that just happened in near Columbus, Ohio. There was huge moves from things that went from solidly red to suddenly purple and nearly in the case of Conor Lamb. And Beto O'Rourke in Texas right now has a shot. Yeah, he's only a few points behind. That's wild to me. So when you look at that, there is definitely that enthusiasm.

that there is definitely that enthusiasm and i think that's why now secretly republicans are kind of shitting themselves because axios was reporting that there's like this spreadsheet circulating amongst uh republican uh members of congress where they're kind of like these are the possible probes investigations subpoenas that the democrats will probably try and get when they have the control of the house because that means they're going to be running all the committees now and all the times that they asked for shit and we just stonewalled them they basically wrote that down they're like remember when they asked to get documents about the president's tax returns and we're like no we're not going to do that that might be a thing that'll probably happen if we lose power uh what about uh the stuff about the travel ban and how that happened maybe that'll be a thing now that they're going to look into or the firing of U.S. attorneys. This list is over 100 entries long.

Do you think if you work for the Trump administration right now that you, how do you prioritize the fires in the beginning of the day? You're like, okay, so we have this Russian story. We have this story about Stormy Daniels. We have this story about Cohen. We got this story about Kavanaugh. We got this story. It's like, there's so many massive fires. How do you prioritize which one we're going to try to put water on? I think people are just drinking bottles full of Imodium because of all the stress diarrhea everyone has. I can't even, I'm just looking at the news and I'm like, yo, this is too much. And I think it comes down from the top that his whole philosophy is he looks out for himself. So I think that tends to be, like, that's what we keep seeing.

We see his lawyer, the White House legal counsel, is working with the prosecutors. Roger Stone is now getting very worried. He issued a statement to his fellow patriots that... Yeah, blast, email blast. Robert Mueller is coming after me. Yo, read the letter, though, because this is an email blast robert muller is coming after me yo read that read the letter though because this is an email blast that he sent out to his legions of loyal fans and followers

stonedefensefund.com yeah fellow patriot robert muller is coming after me president trump's personal attorney michael cohen just made a plea bargain with the fbi after months of intense pressure and i'm next on the crooked special prosecutor's hit list because I've advised Donald Trump for the past 39 years. That's all bold. Right. All bolded text. It sounds like the beginning of Mission Impossible movie.

Right. I'm being targeted not because I committed a crime, but because the deep state liberals want to silence me and pressure me to testify against my good friend, President Donald J. Trump. Okay. So you're getting indicted this week. Right. So it's going to be an interesting week for Trump and his White House because he's going

to, you know, on one side, there's the Mueller investigation and just not a lot of good news coming in from there. And on the other side, in the media that is usually focused on like lionizing him they're going to be focused on john mccain so i could see him kind of having it's a bad week it'd be a bad week to work for him do you think the people that work for him i i had this conversation with friends the other day the sarah sanders and the kellyanne conways and things like that i believe that they don't believe a word they're saying yeah i agree i'd say that. I'd say probably 70% don't. I think there's a good chunk that are sociopaths. I mean more like Sarah Sanders and Kellyanne Conway

because they get on and I can tell they're so good at what they do. They're so good at deflection. They have to be incredibly intelligent people. And I think they know that every time they get in front of the American people, they're lying. And then my question is, what's worse?

Being like ignorant and blindly believing the dumb things and having that job or knowing that you're lying every single day to the American people, but you're doing it because you're at your job? I think consciously being deceptive is by far the worst. Well, then they're evil people. Yeah. And I think there was even like I think who was I think the Washington Post wrote that little article about like what the at home life of the Conway family, because, you know because her husband goes on Twitter and just flames the president. And they're like, what's going on with that? And she's like, well, he has to realize

the president is my boss and that is my work and blah, blah, blah. And he scoffs in the background the way this article is written. So you know that on some level, that is a stress in the home because he's probably like, yo, I know you're better than this.

And if you don't want to do it, I'm just letting you know I'm going to get spicy on Twitter because that's just what I have to do. But yeah, I think the other thing with Roger Stone to remember is his longtime aid was just granted immunity to testify in front of the grand jury. And this was a guy who was stonewalling Robert Mueller. Cause he was like,

no, I'm just, I don't have to cooperate because this whole thing is unconstitutional. And then a judge was like, my man, I will hold you in contempt of court. If you fucking keep, if you go on with this,

like you're in contempt of court right now. And so he was like, Oh, okay. Okay. He got right. Now he's got immunity and now he'll testify. And now Roger Stone is like sending out emails being like,

I'm about to get deep stated. Now I need some money. I know. The other thing to keep in mind about Roger Stone is he has Richard Nixon's face tattooed on his back. What? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.

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Yeah, he's gaining. And just his, you know, there's that video of him talking about the right of NFL players to protest during the national anthem, not protest the national anthem. It was so well said.

But it was just so well said and just like, so like, oh my God, a politician who seems like he is a human being. And doing that in Texas where we have Jerry Jones saying his players are going to toe the line or be behind. And like that, I love this dude. Yeah. And if he wins, I mean, how afraid will the GOP be if he beats Ted Cruz?

Yeah. It's weird. A lot of people are writing like, you know, he's kind of slowly emerging as sort of like a new leadership voice despite not even being in office yet for Democrats. But Ted Cruz has already weaponized that video and an attack at I think this week that's coming out. Oh, like using it as like a bad thing? Because it's all I think the only thing that the GOP has right now is culture war talking points. Right. And talking about immigration and other stuff when all the polling suggests that is like near the bottom of the list of things. Health care is at the top. And so what are you going to talk about right now? How you're

trying to fuck the ACA one more time this week? I saw a great screen capture from the Laura Ingraham show and she had the bullet points of why Ocasio Cortez is so bad. And it was like all the things Ocasio Cortez is looking for. It's like healthcare for all. Yeah.

Affordable education. And the GOP was like, this is horrible stuff. Equality. Oh, you know was like, this is horrible stuff. Yeah. Equality. Yep. Oh, you know, super producer Nick Stumpf. He just held up a sign that said Mars Volta.

I'm like, what? And then I realized, you know, because Beto O'Rourke, he's kind of a punk. He had a punk bassist past and played in a band with Cedric from At the Drive-In to Mars Volta. And they were in a band together. That's crazy. And there's a video of him skateboarding in a Whataburger parking lot, too. He's got their show.

He's got a little bit of cred out there. He's like, hey, I get the young kids. This is the liberal version of the pictures of Paul Ryan lifting weights. Yeah, with the backwards hat. He's like, bro, you fuck with At The Drive-In, Mars Volta? Bro, I used to play with him. Like a red backdrop, like a red paper backdrop

he's lifting weights didn't he have head backwards hat on yeah backwards cat he's just a normal guy just like us pumping iron and going to keg parties where he talks about repealing uh entitlements yeah exactly just like the rest of us in college so i did want to talk about another mass shooting that happened in florida this was at a Madden video game tournament. Yeah. And I saw the picture of the dude this morning, and he just, you know, he looks so fucking young. It's crazy how young he looks.

He's 24 years old, I think. And allegedly, and like there are details still coming out, but allegedly it was like a spur of the moment. He lost. He got real mad and, you know, went on a spur of the moment. He lost. He got real mad and went on a shooting spree and then killed himself. And just as somebody, I haven't played video games in a long time, but when I did play video games, I was known to throw a controller once or twice. I would get into fights with my friends, usually not physical fights, but people get heated when they play video games.

Or in any competition. Yeah, just any competition, but especially video games where you're just sitting cooped up, all the adrenaline and shit doesn't have anywhere to go. You're not burning off the calories. But I don't know. This seemed like- So you're blaming video games? Yes.

No. I wasn't sure where you were going. No, I'm just saying this seems like such a clear case of a thing that everybody's experienced that they just didn't have a gun in their hands when they experienced that little moment of stupid, short-sighted rage. It's the same thing I talk about with why suicide is almost the better argument for gun control is because when you have a gun, like you're locking in a permanent decision that would have been just a passing thing otherwise. Like firearms in the case of suicide are 82% successful in terms of people who attempt suicide with a firearm succeed at killing themselves 82% of the time. People who use knives succeed 1% to 2% of the time. So it's like the same, I don't know, people are like, well, like bad guys will find a way to do what they want to do. And like they always talk about like stabbings and stuff. And it's like, well, no, it's not really the same.

One is 82% effective at killing people, and the other is 1% effective. It's all about means reduction. Right. I think about the Orlando nightclub or the Denver movie theater shooting in Aurora. And I think about, they always talk about good guys with guns. And I think about if good guys with guns

all pulled out their guns, both in Orlando and in the shooting. And then the SWAT team comes in. Yeah, you know, how do they know? Who are you shooting? Right. The good guys with the guns? I'd have to be like, no, no, no, I'm the good guy with the guns.

I don't even understand that concept that you just bullets flying everywhere. And I don't want people who haven't shot a gun in 10 years whipping out their guns, trying to be tom cruise shooting at bad guys like just stray bullets flying everywhere i don't know that's why yeah that's why i think the nra has done a good job of completely misinforming the public or obscuring what the actual facts are around gun violence and even you know the government itself has kept

the cdc from actually doing meaningful research on gun violence and things like that to keep the actual stats out of our hands when clearly it's very clear to us that the issue is that a lot of people are have very easy access to weapons that shouldn't have it and what those sort of costs are especially to human life yeah and now we have you know we have things like classes where people are being taught how to administer first aid in the case of like a shooting. Right. You know what I mean? Like that's what we're doing.

Like there are more groups out there of like concerned individuals who are like, well, fuck. How about we show people how to at least try and minimize the loss of life once a shooting has happened? But the government is still, you know, sitting on their hands in terms of trying to figure out some kind of real meaningful gun control reform, rather. The classes that kids are having to partake in this year in American schools because of how common school shootings has become is an example. And the fact that I'm having to argue against video games. I'm having to argue against video games like that's video games are obviously not the problem. But if there is a gun added to the conversation or to the situation like that, that makes a lot of situations really fucking deadly. Yeah. And I think one another really sad fact is, you know, we talked about how Florida is real. Like, you know, the NRA has a really strong hold on a lot of the

more powerful politicians in the state and local government in Florida. And Pam Bondi, I think, or Bondi or whatever her name is, who is like the NRA-backed attorney general, she went on TV right after this thing and was warning about video game geotagging. Like, as that was the spin from the AG of that state. Right, exactly. And it's like, wow. You can't even really give a proper analysis and a solution to this and just say, oh, it's game geo-tagging that would have prevented this.

All right. Let's talk about other fake football playing because it is fantasy football season. This is just something we were talking about at work today. I had a fantasy draft last night. Miles, you were saying that you were at a restaurant. I was at a restaurant, and I don't really fuck with the NFL in general, but I don't know about fantasy culture. I used to try and do it when I pretended I liked football.

But there was his dad. I was at dinner. I just see this family eating, like three young kids. It looked like maybe a mother and a grandmother or like another elderly family member and the dad was at the end of the table not saying shit the whole dinner just the fucking phone glued to his face just like this like really scowling at the thing like just swiping and typing and then i just i was i was just like yo this dude hasn't said shit and then then suddenly one of the, I think it was the mother or the woman that he was with said,

what are you doing? What's going on? What are you doing? He goes, I got the draft coming up. And I was just like, what the fuck? This dude has been ignoring the family the whole time because the draft is coming up? I don't even know if it was happening at that time. He wasn't in the draft.

No, I think he was just trying to figure it out. So, I don't know, Jack. I hope your family's okay with you going down this fantasy football black hole, but, you know, do the very least and look at your kids during dinner. I play FanDuel, which is a daily basketball NBA thing. Yeah. Daily with a group of friends. We have, like, a group chat that's, like, 15 deep, and we play.

But on the East Coast, the game started at 7, so it locks here for me at 4 p.m. Right. So during the season, wherever I'm at at 3.55, if I'm driving, I pull over. You've got to get it done. And I've got to check. I've just got to check, make sure everybody I pick, no one got injured, no one's a late scratch, no one's going out in front of the game. And there's been plenty of times I'll have friends in the car be like,

I've got to pull over about 3.57 and make sure everything's cool before it locks at 4. What I like about FanDuel is that once it locks at 4, there's nothing you can do about it anyway. Yeah, you just have to let go. Let go and let God. It's already done. Right, right. Bazog, you're like sort of an NBA head. You win money on NBA shit. NBA, I'm an NBA

like fanatic. I don't follow any other sport. I couldn't tell you 10 players in any other professional sport but I'm an NBA. I can tell you every player in every roster. Who were co-rookies

of the year in 1995? Co-rookies of the year in 1995? I could probably do this. Well, we talked about it earlier. I think you do, John. Yeah. You're a boy. Sure boy.

Sure boy. Is it Penny Hardaway? No. Is it Jason Kidd? Eh? Okay, it Jason Kidd? Eh? Okay, so Jason Kidd and

is it Alonzo Mourning? Grant Hill. Oh, okay. We were just talking about that. Anyway, I don't want to put you on the spot, but yes. But you totally did. But yes, so follow my podcast

called Nominal Knowledge about NBA. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you like fantasy football? Whenever I play fantasy sports, I play fantasy Premier League sometimes, but it fucks me up because I have such strong rivalry beliefs that sometimes I hold my nose in draft players because I'm like, I guess I want them to do well for me. It kind of fucks me up, but it does get me to watch every fucking game.

Yeah, it definitely makes the season fun, and it's a good way to kind of keep in touch with people who I don't have tons of conversations with on a regular basis. So I have one league with my high school friends, one league with my college friends, and one league with Soren. It's just you and Soren. It means two team league it certainly makes you care about a game between

the two worst teams in the league yeah that's already over but you care about the spread and you're like no yeah yeah but yeah i view it as a vice like that is absolutely wasted energy, wasted time. And now that I have kids, I spend literally no time with them. No, I spend literally no time preparing or following up on shit. At the expense of being that dad I was just describing. Yeah, exactly. And I haven't seen it hurt my production at all. So that's the one thing that I would say about fantasy football is it's such a crapshoot. And there's so many injuries that, I don't know, it just seems like trying to do that much preparation, guys.

Because I'm assuming that guy listens to the podcast. It sounds like he would. He must. He must. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I i mean he had headphones in too during the dinner so yeah he's probably listening to daily zeitgeist i am wondering because fantasy has been this sort of underrated thing that or it was underrated for i'd say like a decade in the early 2000s and then now like all the apps have caught up like the apps actually work for a long time. The apps, like, didn't even work. And it kind of broke through, and now they've monetized it.

And to the point that I have to imagine that, like, fantasy has something to do with gambling becoming legal. But I do wonder if gambling becoming legal is now going to kill fantasy sports off. Why? No. Because you still can't live, like, you can't flex your, like, knowledge brain. Because I think that's what it is, too. Right. You can reaffirm, you know, you're like, oh, I know everything about the league. Yep.

So I'm going to show you through my fantasy selection that I can do that together. You're not going to get that from, you know, from gambling aside from, like, losing money. Right. Unless you are like Bayzod over here who's claiming he's, you know, the gambling, he sees the matrix and shit. It's not that. Honestly, I'm going to tell everybody right now. I hope everyone's listening. It's not because I'm smart. It's because y'all gamble

with your heart. Stop gambling with your heart. With sports, right? Yeah. It's you guys. You win money every year off of friends from Chicago. Yeah, I lived in Chicago for 12 years. I have a lot of Chicago Bulls fans, friends. And they, no, not this year, this year, this year, this year.

And I'm like, okay, fine, put money on it. If you really believe it, put money on it. Let's go. I want to pay my rent in May again. Will they make the playoffs? If anybody out there wants to at me, the Chicago Bulls will not make the playoffs this year, even though LeBron James has left and that's opened up one more spot.

The Chicago Bulls will not make the playoffs this year. You can bet me any amount of money. It doesn't matter. I'll pay you April 25th. Let's go. And what does Jack East feel? I haven't talked about Jack East yet on this, but I'm sure he thinks they're going to make the playoffs.

Jack East is actually smarter than the average Bull fan, though. Jack East has a good head on his shoulders. He knows how to. But I got friends, man. No, no, no, no, no. Chris Dunn's the best point guard in the league. Zach Levine's the best two guard in the league. Laurie Marconon should have been rookie of the year.

No, Wendell Carter's going to be rookie of the year. It's like, oh, you guys are just wrong on every aspect. They don't have one player that's top five in their conference at their position. Not one. So at the man. At me. If you believe in this year's Chicago Bulls. Real quick NBA question. Do you believe in the year's Chicago Bulls. Real quick NBA question.

Do you believe in the curse of the Kardashians? Do you think that Ben Simmons is in trouble this year because he's dating one of Chris Kardashian's children? Before I say this, I have zero proof of what I'm about to say. Perfect. This is totally speculation. Real caveat. I like that.

But I heard that that whole relationship is fake. Really? I heard that that whole thing is set up, that they don't even talk. It's just bullshit. It's like a whole set up thing. Weird. Okay, but you heard this from somewhere, or you just believe this? No, I heard this from someone who is a music manager who's kind of in the industry, sort of.

And I heard it. And again, I don't know that I don't have any proof of this but I heard that they don't even like they're not even a thing wow well as a Sixers fan

I hope it is and I hope he's been all the time wait wouldn't the curse be bad? the curse is bad he's hoping what you're saying is true I'm hoping what you're saying is true and all the time

that he was like fake hanging out with her he was secretly in the gym working on his jumper. But what that curse didn't do anything to Blake Griffin. He had a career year last year. Oh, really? Yeah.

Blake Griffin's doing really well over in Detroit. He had that summer where he— Yeah, James Harden led the league in scoring last year. But he came back in such bad shape and played terrible for like two—and it's the only time he's not been one of the three best players in the league. But yeah, he led the league in scoring last year. Blake Griffin had a career year statistically. And Blake Griffin just signed a $30 million a year contract for the next four years. So he's about to make a shit ton of money.

Hey, how's Chris Humphries doing though? Yeah, Chris Humphries ain't doing great. He wasn't doing great before. And Tristan Thompson is in a bad situation. Yeah. Very bad. Tristan. Tristan. Did you guys see situation. Yeah. Very bad. Tristan.

Did you guys see the True Detective Season 3 teaser? I did. I said to you guys earlier, like, have you ever had to make a Season 3 when you know nobody watched Season 2? Yeah, right? It's like they're making a new Season 2. I got through a few episodes of Season 2, and then I was like, I don't know about this one. I forced my way through to the end. Was it? It was more of like a hate watch by the end.

Not hate watch, like just sort of morbid fascination. And also I really like Colin Farrell and I thought Rachel McAdams performance was really good. Yeah, at first I think that was the only thing that was keeping me into it and then I was like, but the whole, I'm not invested in any other dimension of this.

Yeah. Aside from some moments of great cinematography. Cinematography. Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Yes. But yeah, I think Mahershala Ali looks fucking great. I don't know what's going on with multiple timelines going on, but I'm here for it. Yeah.

And David Milch was rumored to be basically the co-writer on this season. David Milch is the creator of Deadwood, which, Miles, I know you're a fan of Deadwood. Love me some Deadwood. Apparently, when it was all said and done, he was just co-writer on a single episode, so I don't know how that collaboration went. Apparently, the writer of True Detective

and basically the showrunner, Nick Pizzolatto, is difficult to work with, but it's still good to have his influence in there. And the trailer looks intriguing. Yeah. He looks like a haunted man, to say the least. Also, Sharp Objects had its season finale, and I'm not caught up yet, uh we will talk about that eventually but

have we did a lot of sharp objects talk on here we talked about it i think when it first started yeah we just mentioned that it was good and so in case people want to know our take i don't have it yet i don't know i feel like people who read the book were like nah okay or like it did a fine job at doing of being a finale I will say the first three episodes I thought were like, damn this is incredible. And then the ones I've seen since then have not been on that level. But we

will see. Definitely better than True Detective season two. Yes, that is for damn sure. Much better. Yes. Bazod, it's been a pleasure having you, man. Thank you so much. I love chatting with you guys. This is a nice, free-flowing conversation. Yeah, yeah.

Please come back. Where can people find you, follow you? Everything is my name, and it's all the same tag, but it's a hard name to spell correctly. Yeah, why don't you do that for me? So it's B-E-H-Z-A-D-D-A-B-U. That's my Instagram. That's my Twitter. That's my Facebook page.

All that is there. You'll get a lot of me doing lip syncs. I do lip sync videos in the car. Oh, do you? On my Instagram. While driving? While driving. Yeah.

To 90s R&B jams. Oh, shit. I promise you'll enjoy. There's a lot of funny videos and social media activism, and that's about it. That's what you'll get. All right. And is there a tweet that you've been enjoying?

Yeah. I'm going to shout out two tweets. Can I shout out two tweets? Yes. Okay. So first one is from the cousin of Molly Tibbetts who passed. Whose body was found and then the right wing used her as a racist talking point. So this is a – do I do the Twitter tag?

Yeah, you can Twitter tag and read it out. It's at Sam Lucas with three S's at the end. So Candace Owens, who is a horrible person, tweeted, tried to politicize that death. And this said, hey, I'm a member of Molly Tibbetts' family. She was my cousin. And we are not so fucking small small minded that we generalize a whole population based on some bad individuals. Now stop being a snake and using my cousin's

death as a political propaganda. Take her name out of your mouth. I love that tweet. I did too, yeah. And then also this is a tweet from Heather Matarazzo who is an actress and activist and just won the Human Rights Campaign Award for something.

I don't know what. I saw a picture, though. So the Washington Post tweeted this about the shooting. What we know. Multiple fatalities at a mall in downtown Jacksonville. Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said a suspect is dead. Shooting took place during a Madden 19 tournament at the mall. And then she retweeted that with comment and said, what we know.

Thoughts and prayers tweets coming soon tweets about not politicizing this shooting coming now nothing will change we'll forget this shooting happened in a few days because there'll be another one

somewhere else in the school a movie theater etc ain't that the truth Miles yeah where can people find you

you can find me checking my blood pressure because I ate half of a fried chicken last night from Pollo Campero. Whoa. And three sides. I like the Campero beans. You know what I mean?

I had to have me some Pollo Campero. If you don't know about that, if you're not lucky enough to have one near you, go get into it. But anyway, I'm at Miles of Gray on Twitter and Instagram. And now this leads me to my tweet because I ate a whole, I ate like, you know, a bunch of fried chicken last night that was delicious and I thought my salt intake was too much. And it is. But this is from Minerva Zimmerman at Grumpy Martian. You know why I quote everything tastes like chicken? It isn't everything.

It's just all the animals that have dinosaurs as ancestors. Technically, they all taste like dinosaur. So, you know what? I like this idea that I'm just having a finger-licking good time eating the dinosaurs. All right. And you can find me at Jack underscore O'Brien on Twitter. Some tweets that I've been enjoying. At a whale fact tweeted, whales are pretty fucking big.

I just enjoyed that. Wait wait are there other facts on there one tweet that is the only one that i uh have witnessed they got a blowhole yeah yeah you guys keep reminding me that nelly song you can find me in st louis rolling on dust i know a lot of people be like why don't you say that yeah why don't you say that because there's like four things i would do and then it would get annoying but But I am going downtown, baby. Yo Street and the Range Rover. Street sweeper, baby. Cocked.

Ready to let it go. Shimmy, shimmy. Coco. What? Shimmy, shimmy. Yeah, light it up and take a puff. Pass it to me now. Also, there's that video from dude who retweeted the NBC announcement of John McCain passing.

Oh, wow. Yeah. And then they're like, okay, back to your regularly scheduled program. And I don't know, is it like America's Got Talent or something? Oh, yeah, and it was like sharks or something? It's two dudes wearing dolphin masks and no shirts, like pretending to masturbate. Making fart sounds?

I don't know. It was a very – It's wild. It was a parody of itself. And, yeah, our most solemn condolences to the McCain family. Now we go back to our Resurrectly Scheduled program, and it was just shirtless buffoonery. Also, some shit that I learned over the weekend

is that I've been mispronouncing Appalachia. I was calling it Appalachia last week. And a good way to remember that is if you pronounce it Appalachia, we'll throw an Appalachia, we'll throw an apple at you. At you. Oh, shit. I am dumb. Yeah, you better stay out them hollers.

Also, I said that my wife went and saw Crazy Rich Asians and I stayed home and babysat. And people were like, it's not called babysitting if the children are yours. People were like, it's not called babysitting if the children are yours. So I was trying to get by on the low expectations for fathers out here and trying to be like, yeah, I babysat. So I'm going to never say that again. What is it called? I sat home and watched my children? Yeah, or I was a parent. I stayed home with the kids.

Babysitting seems like it's outside the sphere of what your responsibility is. I totally get that, but there should be a verb. Right. Watch the kids. Minding. I stayed home with the kids. I totally get that, but there should be a verb. Right. Watch the kids. Minding. I stayed home with the kids. I stayed with my children and was a parent, basically. Yeah.

But I mean, and parenting. And parenting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just be like, yo, I mean, you know, Shorty took off to go see Crazy Rich Asians. Right. Right. And I showed them how to properly do a fantasy football draft. Shorty is a teen.

Teen. Tony is a teen. We. Shoney is a teen. We're good. You can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page on our website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode,

as well as the song we write out on. You can find the footnotes in the information about the episode wherever you're listening to it. And Miles, what song are we going to ride out on? Okay, you were talking about 90s R&B. I just heard this album by Stimulator Jones last week. It's an album that just came out, but they're really finessing these 90s R&B songs.

So this track is called Soon Never Comes. If you are a 90s R&B person, you're going to listen to this, and my goodness, it will put Stimulator Jones, Soon Never Comes. It sounds like the tagline and the topic for a vibrator at a sex club. Yeah, Stimulator Jones. I got the new Stimulator Jones and soon you never come. Because it always comes.

This track, it's just I don't know. It felt like some soul for real. I don't know. Andy Reign. I don't know. It blew my mind. But like I said, honey in my hips, big toe, just jumped up in my boot and I didn't know what to do. So guys, take this with you. Some little 90s R&B

and just relax with it. All right, we are going to ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. Talk to you guys then. Bye. Later. You feel that? Feels crazy, right? Try to occupy my time And keep you off my mind But I can't stop thinking about you You've got me wide awake

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