The Daily Zeitgeist - Justin Timberlake Returns As A White Man, Propecia Will Kill Us ALL 1.3.18

Episode Date: January 4, 2018

In episode 56, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Carl Tart to discuss Justin Timberlake's rebranding as a white man, country music's origin, China's thoughts on Trump, Hoda Kotb taking over Matt Lauer's job, most anticipated albums of 2018 & more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Per January 3rd, 2018. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jack, I want you to paint me like one of your French girls. Uh, courtesy of Dale Chaplin, sort of. And I'm joined by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Hey! Yes, it's your boy, Ainsley Maitland, Miles of Gray. Thank you for that really hard tongue twister of a.k.a. Marcus Mangan out there, I think in the UK or maybe not. But anyway, that's a shout out to one of my favorite young players.

Anyway, that's a long-winded intro. Dale Chaplin gave me a hang on or never let go, Jack. But I feel like I wanted you to paint me like one of your French girls is the more known Titanic quote. Oh, so you altered it. So I tweaked it a little bit. Okay, okay. I punched you up, Dale, but, Dale, it was a great idea. I love it.

And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the funniest people working today. I always say he's, like, one of the only names that I looked up immediately when I heard him on Comedy Bang Bang. He is the hilarious host of one of our upcoming podcasts, Culture Kings, Carl Tartt. Oh, boy. There he is. Oh, boy. My favorite soccer player is Daniel Sturridge. Oh, former.

Well, he still is at Liverpool. But, yeah, you like Sturridge? I only like him because he was on the BET Awards a couple years ago. Oh, former. Well, he still is at Liverpool. But yeah, you like Sturridge? I only like him because he was on the BET Awards a couple years ago. Oh, he was? Mm-hmm. Oh, so you only know him from being on the BET Awards and that he played soccer? Yeah. Have you seen him do his goal dance celebration?

Nah. It's real goofy. Yeah. It's like a... It looks like... You remember in the Chappelle show where that one dude in the background would always do the robot randomly? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's sort of like that. But shout-outs to Daniel Stur randomly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's sort of like that. But shout out to Dana's Search. Yeah. Carl. Huh? What's on the premier search history that is revealing

about who you are? Let me check. SimCity 4 Green Meddlers. Now here's what this is for. Wait, what? Okay. SimCity 4? SimCity 4.

I was just saying we need more gaming on the show, so here we go. It's a couple years old, so when you start a city, pollution happens because you have to have an industrial area and stuff like that. But you got to set up water. Everywhere needs water.

So there's water pumps in the industrial areas because the industrial places need water. So these what they call green meddlers, which are like Greenpeace type people, come and shut down water pipes because of pollution and stuff like that. Oh, like they're meddling. okay yeah yeah got you and so that like interferes with all the other water in the city right so like in residential areas and stuff like that they don't have so i was googling trying to find on like boards like how to stop these niggas they like they they pissing me off because like that alert keeps popping up because it's like an emergency. Right, right, right. No water shut down.

Even though it's not that serious. It's like when you turn the timing, the speed of the game all the way up, it does it faster. But I'm like, I'm trying to get more money. I'm trying to build my city up. I'm trying to have a metropolis. It's kind of like an anti-environmentalist message sort of like green peace is just a pain in the ass yeah and that's what they they're green meddlers they're just meddling they literally say in the little thing like what's what's wrong with a little pollution right they say that in the

thing like that's so this is what city planners are saying right in places like flint right right it's not that bad we have to save the better water for Grand Rapids. I don't know. Wherever is near. I don't know. What's something that is? I just like that. SimCity 4.

That game came out in 2003. Yeah, don't. It's a couple years old. Yeah, yeah, bro. You just said a couple years old. So I was like, oh, shit. We're only at four. And then I was like, oh, 2003.

So you're still playing it. I'm still playing it. I've used to fuck hard with SimCity 2000. Yeah. When that came out. Because also I used the Mad Chico, Porn Tips, Gazzardo. And you just play playing it. I'm still playing it. I've used to fuck hard with SimCity 2000. Yeah. When that came out. Because also I use the mad cheat code, PornTipsGazardo, and you just play ARDO, ARDO, and then just fill up your money, fill up your money, fill up your money. And you know, because I don't like to play by the rules.

I'm playing it straight up, man. That was just gibberish to me. What did you just say? You could type certain things on the keyboard in the game, and that was a cheat code. So with a certain one, you preface it with, I think it was some it was some weird i'm pretty sure it's porn tips gazzardo or something you said cheat code and that makes sense uh i thought you said something chico i was very confused yes oh jackie not up on the lingo yeah this shit was hella chico uh carl what's something that's overrated overrated i'm gonna say logic the rapper is overrated? Overrated. I'm going to say Logic, the rapper, is overrated.

Oh, wow. Yeah. Mr. 301. Yeah. Isn't that his handle, Logic301 or something? He's cool, but I'm not. I needed something quick, guys. Don't at me.

You're a big Logic fan. What was your first instinct of why he's overrated? Just because I listen to his music and I'm like, oh, yeah, people really give him credit for being a dope-ass rapper in this era of mumble rap and stuff like that. And I'm like, eh, he's not that tight. I mean, he's a decent lyricist. He's not coming with the straight-up mumble bullshit. No, no, no. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, he's okay. I like a couple of his songs. But the one that's real popular that has the suicide hotline. I just want to be alive. I just want to be alive. I like that too, I got to be honest. I like the hook of it. I just saw G-Eazy for the first time on the New Year's Eve countdown.

That dude's not great. He's a fan favorite of people who don't really know rap. Right, right. I don't feel any real hip-hop heads are like, yo, Jeezy. Right. Check him out. And I feel like people flame him constantly on Twitter. Oh, do they?

They say he looked like a bad guy of some Pixar film. I forget what it was. He does, though. But he kind of has that vibe. What's something that's underrated? Underrated. Underrated. In the same genre of music, I'm going to say Young Thug is underrated.

All right. I do think he gets hate because he is a crazy person. But when you listen to what he's saying, first of all, don't take this out of context. When you listen to what he's saying, most of the time, it makes no cohesive sense. But I think he freestyles his shit. Like, I heard that he draws pictures on, like, a pad and then takes that into the booth. Or he just kind of rides the beat. And he changes his voice.

I've been listening to Beautiful Thugger Girls, the mixtape, a lot recently. Because it's just a song on there that I just keep playing over and over again called do you love me and uh he's he's good man like it like he says some crazy he says crazy shit like and it's like it sounds like a rapper who's bringing a drawing into the booth yeah and it's like you kind of got to respect that creatively right he's on some other shit right and it's a lot of like he reverts back to like eating pussy a lot that's usually like one of his like consistent punchlines right but which is like a lil wayne thing and i've always associated them or like at first i thought he was like kind of a very heavily influenced by lil wayne but now I think he's obviously got it. He's one of the most unique rappers.

I remember when I first heard Danny Glover, that song that he did. I was like, oh, this is fucking... It was interesting. It was so different. And I was like, this is someone who clearly just has their own vibe. Yeah. And they're just staying true to it. Which is what I think is...

That's what they want to do. Yeah. I think it's a good thing. He changes his voice up so much on tracks, which I also love. Like, no rappers really do that. Like, he'll be like doing the, ah, I don't do it. And then he'll be like, like, there's a part in this song called Family Don't Matter, which also has some very stupid lyrics.

Right. I'm with the stars all day. Babysit your dog all day. And it's like, what are you talking about? Hey, he's a dog sitter. But he's like, like, family don't matter. It's like, why does that make, like, why does babysitting somebody's dog make it seem like family doesn't matter? But anyway, in that verse, he has a verse on there where he just plays this character named Country Billy.

He's like, Country Billy made a couple milli. Got to park the Rolls Royce outside the Piccadilly. And it's like, what? He's just rapping as somebody else. I love it. And now to know that if that story is true, that he's just like randomly drawing some stuff. He's like, all right, I think I got it got it yeah just like popping in the booth with that you can definitely listen to the song and go he's freestyling this like there's no way this is

written it's too it's too all over the consciousness yeah it's too streaming consciousness but also if he is freestyling that stuff it is amazing he's like the Tony Morrison's beloved. Yeah. So I think he's underrated because I think people loop him in to, although I will say people are giving him a little bit more respect now that we have like even worse mumble rappers like no problem. Right. Like, I think people are like, oh no, Young Thug, he's one of the originals. Right, right. I think that's what that's happening all over culture, right?

Like there's people that are so fucking bad now that people who were normally shitty were like, oh yeah, that. Like Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham is W. But yeah, what's a song to start with? A song to start with? Young Thug. Yeah. Let's go with Beautiful Thugger Girls. I want you to listen to Relationship. It was it was one of the singles off the album. All right. And it is with Future. Relationship Relationship It was one of the singles Off the album Alright And

It is With Future Okay You probably know it It's popular You know that song It's popular right now It's Relationship

By Young Thug Featuring Future And some beautiful thugger girls There's also another song On his album Called You Said And

He He's just like The song starts off with him lyrically like accosting somebody i don't know if it's a man or a woman uh but him accosting them saying like you know so what was all that slick talking you were saying to me over there like like basically like and then the song goes into like what that person said they would do but the lyrics are you said you would fuck me to death. I believed you. You said that. You said that.

You said you're going to do me that worse. I remember you winning. You said that. You said you're going to kiss from my neck to my chest to my navel and digging nuts. And I'm like, he didn't write this. He couldn't have written it.

Right. Matter of fact, do I still get to pick a song for the end? Yeah. That's not going to be it. It's going to be a surprise. All right. Stay tuned. All right all right we're gonna get into format we're trying to take a sample of the ideas that are out there changing the world we talk about pop culture

the news uh the president at times uh we're trying to take a temperature of the global shared consciousness miles what is our temperature today i think we're steady we're still steady it's it's a new year. Actually, no. Wait, hold on. What am I saying? Fucking Donald Trump just kind of turned the knob last night. So, yeah, we're maybe like 99. Right.

Yeah. And we like to start out by asking our guest for a myth, something that the national shared consciousness believes to be true that is actually bullshit. Carl, do you have a myth? is actually bullshit. Carl, do you have a myth? My myth is that Taco Bell Baja Blast is only sold at Taco Bell to drive more traffic to Taco Bell. Whoa.

Okay. So your conspiracy is that they are- They're selling it exclusively at Taco Bell because that's the only place you can get it and that's why people are going to Taco Bell just for the Baja Blast. Even though Taco Bell is delicious. Taco Bell is delicious. Do you like Baja Blast? Hell yeah. Honestly, I can't go to Taco Bell

when I'm trying to cut out the fast food and stuff like that. I can't go to Taco Bell and not get a Baja Blast. I'm also trying to cut out the fast food and stuff like that. And I can't go to Taco Bell and not get a Baja Blast. So I'm also trying to cut out soda. Right. Soda's like that X. For me, soda's like that X that can text you anytime.

And you crumble. And you crumble. Yeah. And you be strong. And you know she's not good for you. What do you think Baja Blast actually tastes like? Because I remember when it first came out, I'm like, okay, cool. It's like a light blue turquoise Mountain Dew.

But I can never actually quite pinpoint my, like, put my finger on, like, what these flavors are, aside from, like, sweet berry adjacent soda. They're not as much flavors as they are emotions. I don't think there's, I don't know what it tastes like. Pure joy. It just fucking tastes good. It's the same color as, like, when you go to a miniature golf course and they have that blue water. Lagoon, yeah.

Or Barbicide. Right. Exactly. Barbicide. Maybe that's what that tastes like. It's like tropical water. Your barber tried to get you to do the jug. You want to taste it?

My barber used to do that. Have a sip. I bet you he was probably like, that's my myth. Because what I said wasn't a myth. Your myth is that barbicide doesn't. My myth is that. Barbicide is. Every time barbers try to get you to taste barbicide, they weren't trying to poison you.

They were trying to let you experience Baja Black. That's what the Combs said. Right. So Pepsi Cola, they had a real crazy. Their campaign was to basically put Baja Blast all over the country as a precursor to get people hooked. Yeah. On Baja Blast.

And they were like, they went into barbershops and they were like, hey, soak your combs in this chemical mixture. Right. It'll kill the germs on the combs. Also, let little kids drink it and they'll think it's a bit and everybody everybody will have a laugh and it'll be fun like you sure you want to taste then they used to say that that barbers used to drink that stuff like when they were alcoholics yeah oh really yeah is it like i don't know i mean like i feel

like that's like a joke you would hear yeah barb asideaja Blast, Barba Side, two prominent B sounds. Yeah. It's Barba Side, Baja Blast. I think we're onto something. What up, blood? All right. We're going to get into the stories of the day. Justin Timberlake has a new album coming out. And there's this article in a outlet called The Outline where they that's titled Justin Timberlake is rebranding as a white man. So all the promotional photos for this are him in cowboy hats, like walking in the woods. It looks kind of like one of those like rustic Levi's commercials.

And they're sort of associating this with a overall trend that they're seeing, like Miley Cyrus had her big run of appropriation. And then last year, apparently, she released a country pop album where she was wearing her cowboy hat all over the place. And Lady Gaga released a more like stripped down authentic album that was less like poppy and more like piano music. And she was wearing a cowboy hat. So there's like something with this cowboy culture like being seen as more authentic for white artists. white artists and i had actually just read a really interesting uh run on uh twitter from robin panacea uh probably pronouncing that wrong uh she's a writer for wonkette and uh she talks about how there's this like big conspiracy we had actually written about it cracked, but I totally forgot about it, about how. decided he wanted to launch a campaign to give white people a type of music and dancing because he was worried about the influence of jazz and R&B. Which he had an interesting name for that, right?

Yeah, he called it like jungle music with like monkey howls or something. Jungle buggy. Yeah. And so he actually like started a campaign where he tried to make square dancing popular. He basically invented square dancing. It's only like 40, 50 years old and started paying schools to put it in their PE curriculum. Did you guys ever – did you take square dancing in PE? No.

I did. I didn't take it. I remember it was one day, and, like, they brought out a fucking record player. That's one of my memories, because I was, like, seven years old. I'm like, a fucking record player? Yeah. And then it was, like, playing some, like, weird thing, and we were all confused. Like, this is not sports.

That was part of my education, yeah. But for, like, two days in gym class, you had to like square dance and like nobody nobody enjoyed it. Like it didn't really accomplish anything. But so the reason for that was all part of this conspiracy by a racist Henry Ford, the car manufacturer, because he thought that like jazz was a Jewish conspiracy to make black music popular. And so I don't know. It's just interesting that we're associating, you know, cowboy hats and, you know, country music, which also was not originally white music. Yeah, right. That was a campaign by him to sort of make it. He basically backed the type of country music that was more associated with white people and back like white country artists,

but it was an actual conspiracy to make white people like country music. And it worked. Apparently we didn't have the square dance in elementary school, but we did the electric slide. That was pretty cool. Or MPE one day. That was fun. Coach Pat.

Shout out to Coach Pat. Central Elementary School, Pasco, Mississippi. We did the – you also misspoke. You said that square dancing is only 40 years old. You got to remember this is 2018, y'all. 40 years ago was 1978. Yeah, okay. 60-something years ago.

I think Jungle Music had taken over by that time. There wasn't nothing they could do at that point. It's too late. Yeah. I mean, we'll see what this album is like. I mean, it still has, like, Pharrell is in the, like, teaser video for it. So it's clearly going to have, like, I know Justin can't totally abandon his formula. Because, you know, there are people who still, like, want the, you know, the R&B version of Justin Timberlake.

But, yeah, the visuals are very like... I don't know if this is supposed to be his lemonade or something. I don't know why it was so dramatic with him. It was like Gladiator style, him touching the wheat in the field with the rays of sun coming through. What if Pharrell was one of the horses? Jesus. I'm bringing sexy bang. Yeah, exactly. Let's hope not. That's not a new thing. Yeah, exactly.

Let's hope not. That's that's that's that's not a new thing, though, man. You know, like people I think white people love black shit until white people do black shit. I don't know. I feel like Vanilla Ice. I don't know. I'm not gonna speak on that because I was barely born. But Miley Cyrus has done

it. Justin Timberlake is doing it. Like Lady Gaga. It's like they go like they're trying to say like I was lost before when I was making all those millions of money. But now I'm found and I've found my roots.

Miley Cyrus even took it a step further. I doubt Justin Timberlake would do this because he already got an asterisk by his name with black people because of what he did jenny jackson right but um miley cyrus even was like hip-hop is bad you had some of the songs like you're fucking mike will yeah real and you're like i'm in the club with mike jay's on yeah my homegirlanna, was one of those girls with the big butts dancing for her. Oh, really? We went to high school together. Like, that's my friend.

Yeah. She was a part of that twerk crew that- Oh, that everyone was like, oh, look at your black female props that you have on your chest. Exactly. Yeah. Even when she was doing it, it was like- Yeah, people were like, ooh. Super problematic.

It was just like you could tell she wasn't regarding it in the right way. No. But yeah, it's true. Because think about like, what? Remember Everlast? like regarding it in the right way. Yeah. No. But yeah, it's true because think about like what? Remember Everlast? Wasn't he in House of Pain? Yeah. And then he was like, then Whitey 4 sings the blues. They really know what it's like.

Yeah. I guess the pendulum does swing the other way sometimes. Just get that yarling. Because they know what pop culture is, man. Popular culture, hip hop culture is popular culture. And it has been since I would say probably the mid to late 90s yeah like yeah it's crazy how i would wager to say like the early 2000s when it really when it really like because like to me like when get rich or die try and came out yeah that's when i was surprised at how many people were like yo man i fuck with 50 cent and i

was like what you know what song is like the the ultimate white dude song that I don't even know the lyrics to? Forgot About Dre. Oh. I don't know the lyrics to that song. I don't know how it goes. I just know the hook. Right, right. But all of my white male friends know all the lyrics to Forgot About Dre.

Jack, do you know all the lyrics? I know most of the lyrics to Forgot About Dre. Yeah. That's my favorite song, Carl. Okay, so maybe we can – I believe you. That can be the year right there. 2001, I forgot about Dre came out. That was when it –

That's it. That was when hip-hop culture became – Yeah, because I guess also Eminem came. Eminem, yeah. He really – I think he really mainstreamed hip-hop for a lot of white people. Yeah. I was going to – I mean, this kind of of brings back to our overrated because it does seem like there are some average ass rappers who get very successful because they're white people i don't know i mean i think there's just just as many mediocre black

rappers too yeah yeah i guess but but it's how we can be mediocre that's this rap is the one thing that black people can be mediocre at everything else you gotta be great at you gotta be lebron in the nba you gotta be cam newton in the nfl but you can be kodak black yeah hip-hop you can be you can be take off you can be from egos take off is tight is he your favorite i think he's the weakest one uh he's not he's not i promise you listen to his catalog listen to take off essentials on apple music or wherever you get your music and he i get there's no takeoff essentials but there is a list of of of like songs that he is the feature rapper on right he's tight and it's just a different like he raps like offset except offset is like records on records i got it like and then take off

yeah that's a different typical like it a different... It's a different tone. Different cadence. I like them. All right. And then the other big pop culture news from last night is that Hoda is the new Matt. Hold up. Hey. Kobe.

Kobe. How do you say your last name? What is Kobe? Kobe? Kotbi. Kotbi. Hoda. Hoda Kobe. Kobe. How do you say your last name? What is Kobe? Kobe? Kotb. Kotb. Kota. Kota Kobe.

Was officially named as Matt Lauer's replacement, which is great news. But then this was immediately overshadowed by the fact that I think the Hollywood Reporter got a scoop on what Matt Lauer was making and what the new hosts, like this is the first time that the Today Show or any, I think, morning show has been two female hosts and both female hosts are making a combined... 14 million, I think? Yeah. Reportedly. So yeah, these are from an insider. We don't know if these are 100% true, but the two of them, they're making about $7 million

apiece. Yeah. That's from a Hollywood report. What was Matt Lauer making? $25 million. $25 million. So combined, they're still making $11 million. Was he making $25 just hosting the Today Show?

Yes. Yeah, that was his Today Show. Okay, well then pay the ass. Yeah, that was his Today Show. That was the bag he was getting from the Today Show. Yeah, pay him. Well, yeah, because it also brings up the story because in Iceland, they basically made it illegal for there to be a gender pay gap.

Like they legalized equal pay in Iceland. So this shit would not be happening in woke Iceland because, yeah, they – I mean shout out to them. They literally just said you will be fined if you are paying men more than you are paying women for the same job. Yeah. So it's already like considered one of like the most gender equal places. So it's continuing that trend over there. People always talk about those Nordic countries as being this thing to aspire to. But they're all –

Pretty homogenous. Yeah. They're just all white people who are like three degrees related to each other and are super racist the second that anybody who doesn't look like them comes into their country. Hey, but equal pay for equal pay. I mean, there's not there's nothing saying that we can't take good ideas from them. Nazi Germany had some of the most progressive smoking laws. So that's really.

Yeah. What do you mean? What is a what's a progressive smoking? They just knew smoking was bad for you before everybody else. Oh, really? Yeah. So they made it illegal in public. Yeah.

So I'm just saying, you guys. Yeah. Despite the genocide, they were really looking out for the health of food servers from secondhand smoke. Yeah. You could actually hear everybody backing away from me when I just said that. Yeah. You could hear all the wheels. I'm outside.

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Yeah. So there's a couple of things we wanted to talk about. One is a conspiracy theory that our J.M. McNabb found, I guess, in the New York Times publication called the New York Times. Never heard of it. Times publication called The New York Times, where so Donald Trump, one of the things that his fake physical where his doctor was like, he's the healthiest person I've ever seen, like definitely written in Trump's handwriting, admitted that he is on Propecia, which is like the hair loss drug that I guess has some sexual side effects. It also apparently causes chronic depression and brain fog. I guess it doesn't cause it, but that's one of the potential side effects. Which when you think about how many times Trump tweets end with the word sad or just the word brain fog and how much he completely embodies that phrase uh i don't know it's you start to wonder whether whether that's related or whether that could be at least a contributing factor also when you look at that tweet yesterday at kim jong-un

like literally basically pulling his dick out and being like at the end like my button works like that he's legitimately talking i don't know how much clearer he had to be that he's like yo i'm impotent right and i'm losing my mind and i'm also willing to kill us all like in the process he ain't got that much life left to live so he probably really on that diet who knows that's what you would think that's what you think yeah i mean it also so the the way that this drug started out was as a prostate drug it like treated people's enlarged prostates and they just noticed that those people tended to keep their hair uh and they first found it because there was a town in Dominican Republic. Portland. Yeah.

Known as Portland, where this doctor had heard that little girls turn into teenage boys. And they were like, well, that that seems strange. And so they went down and looked at it. And it was actually little boys, people who were born boys. But they had like tiny micro penises that like you could barely you couldn't see so they assumed they were little girls and then at a certain point like when they hit puberty they turned into boys but it was because the thing that uh this drug blocks was missing in these people and that's how they discovered that you could like basically take this chemical out of older men and stop them from losing hair. But it is like a micro dick related thing.

So it is it is interesting that Trump immediately starts tweeting about how big his button is. His button is bigger and it actually works is just a very strange turn of phrase. I'll get a button. though. That's not good. My button works. He's talking about the detonator button. Yeah. Also talking about the dick. I mean, I think that hit me.

I got a big old mashy thing on my desk. It's big. It's falling off my desk. It's so big. And I'll push it. You have to punch it. You can't just touch it. Got to drop a 50-pound weight punch it. You can't just touch it.

Got to drop a 50 pound weight on. Yeah. But yeah, this is part of a larger trend of there's a article from The New Yorker that's talking about how China is viewing him and our country by extension. And it's not very reassuring. He wasn't the article, just all the laughing cry face emojis? Yes. It was just three pages of that in a line. No, but so it talks about how at first they were.

And I think this is actually a good sort of description of how everybody viewed him. At first they were like, wow, he really pulled it off. He must be secretly like a genius. And they were like really worried. They thought he was going to take it to them. And then they met with him. That Mar-a-Lago visit where Trump came out and was like, I think she likes me. Was that the chocolate cake time?

Yeah. Yeah, it was the chocolate cake meeting. Lovely chocolate cake. And his response to me was, I think he likes me. I think so. Maybe he hates me, but I think he likes me. think so maybe he hates me but I think he likes me it was like what the fuck man why are you so sweaty you can't pull up to like a sit down

with that kind of energy and Xi Jinping left the meeting being like wow he like takes everything literally he doesn't yeah they were like he's like I got these fortune cookies for everyone in honor of you Xi Jinping they were just like taken aback by how like simple-minded and like

how simple his view of asia was like how little he knew uh and like the fact that he came out of the meeting was like wow this north korea thing is really complicated they were like what you didn't know that? I feel like there's been an article like that for everything, right? Right. He was like, wow, health insurance is actually pretty complicated. Yeah. Wow.

This immigration thing is pretty complicated. Right. What the fuck did he think? Right. I think that's what appealed to so many people. Because he's a simple, he's a simple. At least it's relatable. Yeah. Right.

Yeah. This shit is, this is complicated. It's like, yeah, but we've been trying to tell you that for years. They don't want to listen to you. Right. Right. Yeah. And I mean, it's very easy to identify with.

I certainly didn't know how complicated all that shit was. Backs away from Jack again. I totally identify with trump and his views i've always said that but so they're they're now viewing the trump presidency as like a huge opportunity to become the leader on the world stage because we're asleep yeah essentially and uh it's sort of a national mood that's like sweeping through this past summer they had their most successful movie in the history of Chinese cinema. And it's just like a action movie. It was actually part two of the franchise.

It's similar to have you seen Rambo 2? No. OK, so Rambo 1 was like a decent sized hit. Rambo 2 was this monster hit. decent sized hit Rambo two was this monster hit. And it was like, because, uh,

it like in it, Rambo went back and won the Vietnam war. Like, Oh, and like just defeats the entire Vietnamese army, like North Vietnamese army, uh, by himself. And so it was like clearly like dealing with a wound that America had in their unconscious.

And like so it became like five times as successful as the first one. And this seems like a similar thing. This is a sequel to just a standard action movie that became their most successful movie ever. And its climax is this Chinese action star beating an American to death. It's about China taking a bigger role on the national stage. They're like, he goes into, I think it's an African nation where there's like a uprising where they're

trying to kill, you know, diplomats on the ground there. And they make a point of like, they, one of the people they're saving is counting on the Americans to come through and save them. And they call the American consulate and it's closed.

Like that's like a big point. So like everyone in China was like, fuck, yeah, they're super excited about this. I hope when they get to the American consulate and it's closed, like they're ringing the phone and you cut inside of it and all this is just like a black dude with headphones on mopping the floor. You can't hear the phone ringing please open up i need to get in please he's just like whistling to himself i'll be stroking um well that's interesting because like also china's been like they've been way more active in africa than the u.s too like investing building infrastructure like you know china's definitely they know that america is asleep at the wheel They've been way more active in Africa than the U.S. too, like investing, building infrastructure. China's definitely – they know that America is asleep at the wheel and now is a better time than ever to kind of reestablish – or not reestablish but fully establish themselves as a leader because that's already kind of happening. It is.

Especially with like – they're being like somehow the leaders on climate change and other shit too. Yeah, we've sort of, I don't know, abandoned the throne. Right. And they're – because they're smart and diplomatic about things, they're not like openly coming out and being like, ha-ha, fuck you, America. You're fucking up. They're just quietly like taking over power. And then behind closed doors, this article says they're like acknowledging like China is now the new monolithic power um but this was also being predicted by like economists since like the 80s right like you know like that by this time

that like china would be the world's biggest power like by 2020 it's still pretty lopsided when you look at like the size of the economy right america is still way. And this is speeding up a shift that people were seeing happening. Right. Right. I like I demographics stack out is that they have a great what's called dependency ratio where they have way more working-age people than they have retired and babies. And that usually helps an economy. That's almost a single indicator that you can see how successful a nation's economy is. Because our dependency ratio is not that great, right? Our dependency ratio was great for a number of years because the baby boom was moving from 18 to 65.

So the baby boom was moving through working age. And when you have a huge glut of people who are working through that age, you're going to have a lot of economic success. The Chinese are just coming to the end of having the people who were the parents of the one-child generation going through that stage. So they had like an artificially really strong dependency ratio. But now they're coming into the part where the working-age people are the one-child generation. Right, right, right. So they're going to have an artific artificially low like an artificially bad

dependency ratio so it could go either way but uh this is certainly not helping and i don't know with the north korea stuff it just seems like america's standing in the world like uh there's been a a war of tweets that we were referring to earlier with the the button thing but um you know it it just seems so clear now that uh you know people were always like trump's playing chess and everyone else is playing checkers no not even that just 4d chess my man if you're on some certain subreddits but so kim jong-un is driving a wedge between south korea U.S. by like opening up relations and like opening up communication with between North Korea and South Korea. And Trump is responding to that by like bragging about the size of his button. Right.

Like how much his button works. Because I know like North Korea, they're looking at it like, yo, if we can get America out of the picture, then we can just figure out our own reunification thing. I know Kim Jong-un, his mind thinks if America is out of the picture that he can somehow unite both Koreas and somehow Pyongyang can rule over both, which is a bit of a long shot. But at the very least, I think South Koreans also see a way of like having like a federation while keeping their like total unification agenda at bay. A lot of our stick with like our carrot and stick with North Korea is like sanction based and sanctions only work if you can get everybody else in the world to agree to like withhold. And so if he's, you know, striking up a relationship with South Korea and, you know, having a strong relationship with China, then America is not going to have any ability to negotiate. with China, then America is not going to have any ability to negotiate. Yeah. And we've, I think as a country, we have a track record of showing like, we really don't do shit when North Korea acts up.

Like they took the USS Pueblo when like 1968, didn't do shit. Right. And all we did, all we do now are just like sanctions that China undermines. Who knows? I think maybe that's why they may look at Trump a bit differently because he's just so erratic. But if you look at sort of like the history of like, you know, what the U.S. response is to like North Korean provocations, it's typically just sort of sanctions that can be worked around or undermined. Yeah. And this is kind of part of an overall trend where I don't know.

I've been struggling with this thing where I worry I'm underestimating Trump because I did during the election. But I don't know. And you still see that like in the comment sections of an article where Trump does something stupid. If it's not like on The New York Times, if it's a place where, you know, there are right wing people or Trump's like made his career off of like people underestimating him and, you know, just assuming that he has like a long game that he's playing. And I don't know, there's an article about the 68 election and how, you know, America has a long history of overreading election results. And, you know, we just like really focus in on elections as being these hugely significant things.

And I don't know, I think that might be what I'm doing. And when you look at there's a Politico article called Donald Trump's Year of Living Dangerously, where they just talk about how basically everybody on his staff is just like China, sort of given the benefit of the doubt at first and now are just sort of taken aback and are like finding ways to, you know, work around him and keep him isolated from any really consequential decisions. So it seems like the only people who are still left in the camp of now, just let's see where he's going with this. He probably has a plan are, you know, his supporters and even the people who like work with him and for him are just like, all right, let's find a way to baby-proof this house.

Who was tweeting? Someone did a – oh, Tom Arnold tweeted yesterday that they should just make a fake White House set and gaslight him into thinking he's the president still and just let him exist in this fake-ass reality show. We were talking about this before. We were saying, like, we might get him to step down if we just, like, made, like, a huge statue monument of him. Right. Like, hella buff.

Right. With a big-ass penis. Big-ass dick. A rect, with, like, long-ass hair. Yeah. With, like, a bunch of, like, girls, like, hanging off of it. Right. And they all, like, and they move, like, they swing on it. Yeah. Yeah. With like a bunch of like girls like hanging off of it and they all like,

and they move, like they swing on it. Yeah. Like he might be like, okay, I'll step down. Yeah. Right.

I've got what I needed. I've got what I needed. I got what I wanted. I'm the king of America. I've got to step down. Yo, maybe that's all they need to do is make a fake ass crown and be like, Hey,

actually we upgraded you to king of America. So, you know, you can just chill now and play golf. Cause you're the king. Something about this seems fishy, but I like the crowd. I'll take it it but i love a filet of fish i'm just trying to think of what girls should be on that statue i'm thinking kristen stewart because he had that like big run where he was like you know worried about her and robert pattinson's relationship so

he clearly has like a weird uh or maybe he we need Pattinson in a wig on there because he like clearly had way too much tied up in that relationship. I think we all did. You know we all did. Right. We're all living and dying with the breaks of that. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back with the Pop Culture Roundup.

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Do you guys have anything to say about Jordans or the shoe game? I mean, there's always going to be new shoes coming out, but I think the real stuff is the music. The music! That's what we're really about. Kanye's in the lab. What's this album called? Like, TurboGrafx-16 or some shit? I don't know, man.

I stopped paying attention to like his like placeholder album titles when like uh life pablo had like was like swish and then it was like something oh that's right yeah yeah yeah uh so we'll see i think but we were talking about this yesterday like do you think because obviously life of pablo was made at like peak insanity right kanye west right and i feel like if this was made in his like recovery period is it gonna be the same is that the same energy like what what i don't know i don't know we'll see what happens like pablo started out like why like when it was swish he had like those uh sort of love songs to his wife and his daughter they were like you know kind of pretty but not

really like good songs and the the one with paul mccartney and yeah it was pretty whack um so i don't know that seems like he was too it seemed like he was too happy to make good music at that point uh so i don't know like now that he's in recovery and no longer on drugs uh he was on drugs i don't know or maybe not drugs but he was he was up for like a month and a month straight for a long time we don't know why oh we don't know how yeah but then he started getting recovery got fat right yeah and they're like yeah just sleep a little bit right yeah yeah chill the fuck out yeah he's in a period of recovery i don't yeah i i definitely don't know if it's drug use or whatever from just like his insane schedule when he was making Pablo and then doing the Pablo tour and,

you know, releasing his fashion line. He seems like he took a, took a breather and I don't know, has he ever taken a breather before? This, this is kind of new territory. He always kind of,

it ebbs and flows with him. Right. You know, he's, he's like so in your face for a long time and then he, he fades to the back and then comes back. Like I personally love Pablo and that was like at at a at the peak of his like manicness so i don't know what do you guys think what's your favorite kanye album favorite kanye album i had college drop out

on cd that i listened to that was my playing cd because i didn't really listen i didn't really walk around with a cd player in 2003 because 2003 because they were a little late at that point. But my mom was like, you don't need no damn iPod. You got the CD. But yeah, that was my playing CD. Anytime I traveled, I listened to that all the way through. I really enjoyed that. But I think late registration is probably my favorite.

Late registration is the second one, right? Yeah. It's like Diamonds Are Forever. Yeah. Wait, which one was Drive Slow on? Graduation? Late Registration. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay. I really enjoyed that one. Graduation was also very good. That one came out. That was my freshman year of college, and we really bumped that in Ohio. Shout out to Wilberforce University. That is a very controversial one. I like basically all of them, but like some people hate graduation.

Like I've definitely heard. I just don't like 808s and Heartbreaks. I've heard it's my favorite. I've heard people say it's their favorite and then people who like think it's his worst. I think 808s is the more divisive one. Like that really. 808s.

Some people, I don't know why, are like, oh my God, it's like the greatest song. I really enjoy RoboCop. That song was fun on there. I really enjoyed. I mean, they played the shit out of... In the night I hate... Right.

He has a couple great pop songs on that. They're not even like... Yeah, they're not like Kanye songs. But anyway, yeah. We'll see. But also, I think, who else? Drake? There have been a lot of weird snippets.

Drake's got an album coming out. Like little Drake snippets leaking. Can't wait for that. What he has. Drake is my guy. Drake's your guy? Yeah. Drake's your LeBron in the music world?

No, my favorite. Well, you know what, Drake? No, Drake's not my LeBron. Because my LeBron, Shaq was my favorite player growing up. Then LeBron came out and I was like, oh, this is my guy. So I would say if Shaq is to Andre 3000. Oh. Okay.

For me. And LeBron is, yeah, I guess it's got to be 3000. Oh. Okay. For me. And LeBron is, yeah, I guess it's got to be Drake. Drake. Yeah. Okay. I think Drake is my, oh no, Kendrick. I'm tripping. Okay.

Yeah, Kendrick is my new favorite. Got you. Like guy. But I love Drake's music. Yeah. Me too. Yeah. He makes good, you know, he makes fun party music.

My top five is weird though. Your top five artists? Top five artists. Yeah. Yeah. fun party music my top five is weird though your top five artists yeah yeah so i definitely got andre kendrick drake juvenile and i don't even know i can't remember what i said juvenile is unexpected after those first yeah yeah juvie is my boy yeah way back i got that fire uh-huh that oscar meyer yeah come on i'll let it play if you want that oscar meyer uh who else oh tune yards has another album.

I really like Tune Yards. Yeah. Just because, like, I think Meryl's, like, an insane creator. No Water on the Water Fountain. Yeah, I think, you know, she's just a beast on that looping pedal and just, like, a very talented musician. So that'll be a dope album to come out, too. Vampire Weekend's got an album coming out. So, you know, us white people are excited about that

okay okay yeah oh and also i mean more importantly like the real sequel that everyone's talking about bright two is happening did you see bright no doc it was so fucking bad that you i had to finish it just from the ads and that damn music video. The music video is absurd. When they hand Machine Gun Kelly that plate at the cookout. Thank you. I'm like, what the fuck is this? Eating a fucking fried chicken drumstick. That was like the first bite he takes. Like, bring this chicken to my mouth.

Bring this chicken to my mouth. We all the same. Or whatever they talk about. I don't know. I actually like MGK. Like, I like him. Right. But that video was trash.

Nothing about the ads. I'm still for the life of me trying to figure out how they got Will Smith. They must have threw a billion dollars. I think Netflix is going to change his name to Fresh Prince next year. Because how did you get him to be in this movie? Right, right, right. I think, I mean, also, they just came out with some of the stats. They said like 11 million people watched Bright when it came out.

So that's pretty significant. I guess even if people did like hate watch it. But that's wild that even 11 million people bothered to watch it. The racial allegory in that shit is fucking wild. It's insane. It's racist. The allegory is terrible. They did let the writer max landis go uh some would think it's because uh

it was a terrible script but apparently uh there were sexual assault allegations coming out about him and there's uh suggestions that there's like a big cover-up campaign involving his dad and just all sorts of problematic things. So, yeah, I wasn't even I had heard that he was like a really shitty guy, but I didn't know there were public allegations about him. So it's good to see that people are kind of. I want to read you guys an excerpt from a Facebook message that was being passed around on Twitter from Max Landis. And he says something very funny in it.

He says he's talking about one of his friends that he's cutting off. He's cutting off a friend in this message. And that friend that got cut off posted it. And he goes, keep in mind Tiku has in the past been nothing but very very rude to both me and my friends. I know that you enjoy him for your own reasons but I do not like him. And if he's sitting on the

couch talking to my ex-girlfriend who's already being a prat to me, I think he means brat, because I won't kiss her, then yes, there's a strong chance that the Bacardi Hurricanes and Smirnoff Strawberries will have a nigga unloading on his skinny ass.

What? He said that? He said that in a message. Max Landis? I turned a flip in my bed. Wow. All right, Max Landis, don't let us catch you in the street, my man.

But I think, hold on. Like, read that, how he said it. The Bacardi Hurricanes. On the niggas ass. Like, unloading on the niggas ass. He meant that in a G way. Yeah, that ain't the ER. But you know this.

Yeah. I doubt that I'll be talking to you very much in the future or ever again, but I want you to be vibrantly aware of the fact that I do not dislike you beyond these recent actions. Wow, he's a weird cat, man. He's a weird cat. He had me on Facebook. We had to kick him out of the cracked forums many years ago. So we know. There's also apparently a very terrible interview.

Super producer Anna Hosnier is now letting us know there's a terrible interview Max Landis did about sex. They're coming for him right now, as you can hear the sirens in the background. They're sending a fire brigade. But yeah, so we'll talk about this further probably because it seems like there's a lot more to this story. But also

he wrote a terrible, terrible script. A racial allegory that is among the most racist, misguided things that's ever been put to film. So fuck Max Landis, I guess. And we were going to talk about the movies coming up, but we're out of time. So we're going to talk about that tomorrow. Carl, it's been a goddamn pleasure having you listen to Culture Kings, which is coming out when? They fucked up and gave me a podcast.

Episode zero drops today, apparently. Don't listen to it. Don't listen to it. Whatever you do. Whatever you do, don't listen to it. And episode zero is like a preview episode, right? It's a preview episode that Anna made me do 14 times. Don't listen to it.

But if you must, if you must. It's actually very funny. People should listen to it and go subscribe because it is, you know, it's the first show we're putting out as part of our like comedy division of the How Stuff Works Network. And I couldn't be happier about the show. It's three just funny fucking dudes. And yeah, that was a terrible blurb. Look, I mean, I'll say this to you guys. Don't be taking what we say as serious as you take what Miles and Jack say

because we don't be reading. I'll be sitting here. When I do this show, this is the second time y'all have had me. And I'm very grateful for it. And I just want to say, these dudes are smart, man. I'm not like them. The last thing I read was the autobiography of Gucci, man. It's my favorite.

It's my new favorite novel of 2018. It's my favorite novel of 2017 because it's the only novel I've read. And I just be talking shit. But some of y'all may relate to that. Oh, yes. I think everyone does. Everyone does.

Friday's my birthday. Hey, happy birthday, Carl. I'm going to be old as dirt. 29. Yeah. So old.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen. Right now, it's the new year. Happy 2018. I hope everybody is blessed this year. I got a song recommendation for you. Earlier in the show, I was talking about my boy, Young Thug, who might be taking the fifth spot on my top five. That fact check required. Asterix by that.

This is a song he did with an English music producer named Jamie XX, and it's called I Know There's Gonna Be Good Times. That shit is dope. He samples a great gospel song from the 1950s. It's a really dope song. It's featuring Young Thug and Popcon. And it's dope. It's from three years ago, but we're making it the anthem of this year

because I know there's going to be good times in 2018. So check that out. I know there's going to be good times by Jamie XX featuring Young Thug and Popcon. Outro Music I used to grab on that ass when it was about that wood time. It had to be walk up trip and she get that much time. I don't waste time. I don't waste time. I don't have patience, baby. She gon' get on top of the dick and she gon' squish it like squish. She can go fast.

She speed racer. We go wild, wild to pay time. She my boss like a presser. Come here, baby, I'm molested. I let her write me my suggestion. Pop quiz, it's a pop quiz. All my money coming clean, you can't pop this. She got that pussy locked up like last year.

Watch out, come to my lights like a reindeer. Me and Papi on the same pills. My diamonds could never stand still. Where you going, can't come here. I always take you back for your sex appeal. We'll be right back. That's gonna be good I say what I did, you know, bro That's gonna be good I'm riding that pussy like a stroller I'm surviving the motherfucking quarter Let my motherfucking water like the loyo And I'm coming red like Coca-Cola

I'ma have a very good time For the girl, I can never Sound out of choice She like all of her nigga rhymes Where is my phone I want you to Even in the summertime I swear to God Baby girl sit it down

You not know what I told my mama I don't mind what my teeth do I would have controlled you like voodoo. I'm starting streaming free on phone and doodoo. Every time I have a good time, doodoo too. Good time, baby. Come on, my good time.

What's up, buddy? One. You say you want to give me something long time. Me dream with you, see no something like crime. My baby, see me fly. I know there's going to be good time. Good time. Good night. We've done this before We've done this before We've done this before We've done this before We've done this before

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Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017, was assassinated. Crooks everywhere unearthed the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti.

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