The Daily Zeitgeist - L Presidente, Pumpkin Spice Viagra 8.19.19

Episode Date: August 19, 2019

In episode 456, Jack and Miles are joined by super producer and Ethnically Ambiguous co-host Anna Hossnieh to discuss the right scamming old people, Trump trying to buy Greenland, Trump trying to pump himself up for the election, Fox News polls, insurance companies being very shady, more Jeffrey Epstein crap, best burger in every state, vaping-linked breathing problems, Pumpkin Space spam, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Bill O’Reilly’s Precious Metals2. Greenland's government tells President Donald Trump the island is 'not for sale'3. President Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland4. Allies worry Trump is "running out of tools" to boost the economy5. Fox News poll shows Trump losing to Biden, Warren, Sanders and Harris6. Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops To Investigate Their Own Customers7. Jeffrey Epstein Spent Time Alone With Young Woman In Prison's Attorney Room8. Jeffrey Epstein’s gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell spotted at In-N-Out Burger in first photos since his death9. Where to Get the Best Burger in Every State10. Cases of vaping-linked breathing problems now reported in 8 states11. Danny Masterson vows to ‘beat’ exes in court in Scientology lawsuit12. Is Cleaning Your Ears With Cotton Swabs Really That Dangerous?13. Pumpkin Spice Spam is coming soon to Walmart14. Pumpkin Spice Spam Exists, and Here’s Our Honest Review15. The Bizarre Reason People Are So Addicted To Pumpkin Spice Lattes16. WATCH: Weval - The Weight Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 96, Episode 1 of Dear Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is I Just Spit Across the Room. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say, officially, off the top, hey, fuck Coke Industries and fuck Fox News. It's Monday, August 19th, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. my boyfriend's Jack, and he's gonna be in trouble.

Psych gang, psych, I don't know. Bail, bail, bail, bail, bail, bail, bail, bail, bail, bail. That is courtesy of Christy Yamaguchi-Main, and I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Podcast. Want a song about it? Like to hear it? Here it goes.

I am Miles! Whoa. Got to do. Okay, I'm going to fast forward to... I've got hot takes I share with strategy because I have to answer to her majesty. No, no, no. Okay, thank you to Beth at Curiosity Mod for that En Vogue AK.

That's right, this week I'm looking for En Vogue AKs cause I'm washed and old. Yeah, and also thank you for misspelling my name in the tweet. I'm not offended by it at all. It's M-I-L-E-S. Why? She spelled it with a Y? Why did she do that? I don't know, man.

That's what people always want to spell my wife's name in weird ways. Really? Well, like, they just think she doesn't have the standard spelling. I don't know why. White people think non-white people have weird names. I feel like I've seen so many odd spellings of Lindsay. I've seen ones that have blown my mind. Yeah.

Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the one, the only, one of the Carvers of Mount Zyte-Moore. She is Anna Hosier! Hello. The energy. How are you feeling this morning? She's vibrating. Not great.

This is the earliest we've ever recorded the Daily Zeitgeist. You might be able to hear it in some of our voices. Our voices, yeah. We're still in Orlando. Our flight, we're trapped here. Yeah. Hopefully we make it back by tomorrow's episode. We're making the most of it yeah snowstorm hit orlando and you are your your energy right now in a word is electric why do you have a band-aid on jack uh yeah what happened so went for a jog

yesterday uh and i'm struck by lightning in his arm uh by the way i like shireen's description of the lightning as thick cut lightning uh because it really is very thick down here yeah in florida it's really like steak lightning it's bars it's got steak fries bars of lightning uh yeah so i went for a jog and this uh completely flat surface just jumped up out of nowhere and tripped me. You fell? You fell in Orlando? There she goes.

She's checking. And did like three tumbles. Like, you know when a car like crashes and it just keeps like rolling? You're like, wait, it can't keep rolling, can it? How much momentum? Yeah, that's what I did. Anyways.

You shouldn't have seen the... I've never heard you laugh like this. Is that a real laugh or a fake? Are you turning it on for the mic? It's just really... That is not what I was expecting you to tell me. Yeah, it was really bad. You felt like you broke up a robbery or something? Yeah.

Yeah, these tourists were getting strong-armed. Yeah. No, I'm getting old. Where I have drop foot, which is a bad sign if I do it. Dude, the sweat was the best on our way to the thing. Oh, my God. I met you in the lobby, and I'm like, you all right, dude? And he's like, I just went for a jog outside.

I'm like, what? Yeah, it takes me at least two hours to stop sweating from exercise. Did you take a cold shower when you get back to try and counteract it? Nah, because those are uncomfortable. And I like the warm, cuddly water. I like to feel warm, like I'm being hugged by the shower. Yeah, but if you're that hot, a cold shower feels amazing. All right.

Anyways, Anna, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners just a couple of the things we're talking about today. We're talking about a lot of things. We're going to talk about why the right is so mean to the consumers of their media, why they just like loot them. We're going to talk about Greenland and the president of the United States, I think Donald Trump. We're going to talk about Trump rally at the end of last week. We're going to talk about Trump recession that might be coming, how he's going to try and pass that off. We're talking, this is not a Trump-free Monday.

Let's put it that way. We're going to talk about the latest Fox News poll, which is not looking great for El Presidente. And we're going to talk about this story that came out in BuzzFeed that is crazy and infuriating about insurance companies teaming up with police and basically like paying police to investigate people for insurance fraud. And it's fucked up. Sounds like it's on the level, man. I also saw an infuriating BuzzFeed article last night that said,

funny, crazy, random, out of nowhere text friends have sent. And I was like, this is not real. So this is infuriated. A little different kind of infuriating. Yeah, this is the BuzzFeed news. So there's like three different, there's two different. Mine was the BuzzFeed news as well. Yeah, it was.

All right, well, before we get to any of that and crazy emails from our ariel chiron you never saw coming what that would be amazing if all their like really hard hitting news shit was framed like they're right like the headlines were written by you won't believe what this white nationalist just pulled all right but first we like to ask our guest anna you might know this we like to ask our guest what's something from your search history it's revealing about who you are yeah i'm gonna pass on this segment no no no no fam um in my search history this is very very insider, Ivan Kurslavik, Australia's Got Talent. Okay.

I like the way this is going. That's insider for whom? If you watch- Australians. For Australians. If you watch Bachelor in Paradise Australia. Oh, okay. Got it.

Or The Bachelorette Australia. So there's this guy who was on Bachelor Australia first, and then he went to BIP Bachelor in Paradise for me. Now, you put your answers in the doc. Are you misspelling his name? No. That's his name? That's another level.

So many consonants in a row. K-R-S-L? He's about 6'7". Are you doing old comedy from the 40s? Is that a real name? Wow. Try some culture, Jack. But he's about 6'7".

And he considers himself the Channing Tatum of Australia. In the sense that he's like a Magic Mike style dancer. He's a 6'7 stripper? Well, he's not a stripper. He's just more like his dream is to be like a step-up dancer. What do you mean? Like step up the movie. Oh, like step up to the streets. Like Chan just more like his dream is to be like a step-up dancer. What do you mean? Like step up the movie. Oh, like step up to the streets.

Like Channing Tatum. Or step up to the streets. What's the emphasis? He wants to just be like a fucking like pop and lock. He is one, but he's the corniest one I've ever seen in my life. Oh, no. And he uses it. He'll be like, for one, in The Bachelorette, he like girl i i actually did it i did a routine for you

if you could just like sit there i'll dance for you and most of the time he's dancing to no music oh wow and it's insane and then like in bachelor in paradise he's like so frustrated with like this situation with this girl and this guy like he's like in like a this guy's like i want to ask out your girl and he's like oh you're my friend man then he goes he's like, I want to ask out your girl. And he's like, oh, you're my friend, man. Then he goes, he's like, just, I need a minute. I just need to go like dance this off. No. And he goes and he's like got headphones on and he's like dancing by himself in front of like a sunset.

It's the most insane thing I've ever seen. It's beautiful. And he truly believes he's the most suave, like badass dancer. Like he's like told the girl like, I need about five years, right about five years right in five years i'm gonna or not even like five years i think at that time it was like a few years ago he's like give me a few years i will be channing tatum first you have to go to atlanta because all the dancers go to atlanta and then i will have made it is that where chan give me five years i don't know i don't know where the dancing and i will be making 23 000 a year busking.

Yeah, exactly. Apparently he went on Australia's Got Talent and the clip, it's wild. I mean, he's got talent, but he's a 6'7 dancer, so he just looks... Gangly. Yeah, he just looks like he's too big.

Like he knows how to do the moves, he just puts them together in a weird way. Well, I'll show you guys a video. It's just very... It kills me. And if you guys watch... Seems like he's not motivated by the music. To the Australians.

No, he's definitely motivated. You'll see. I'll show you. I'll put it in the footnotes so you guys can really watch this. It's kind of amazing because speaking of foot, footloose, Kevin Bacon's character at one point

at one point thank you uh at one point he like goes into a warehouse and like because he's mad and like just dances dances it off right yeah and i never thought that like i this is the first i've ever heard of that actually happening right but he probably saw that and was like, that's what you should do when you're a dancer. You gotta get off some steam. That's a movie. And he... Also, Kevin Bacon is dancing most of the time to no music because the music is in his car.

Oh, yeah. He just slams the doors behind him. Anyways, what is something that you think is overrated? Hosniye? I think I'm gonna go with like like tuscany uh explain where is that it's in italy oh shit yeah yeah yeah no i mean like i think enough said yeah i just think like certain people people really play it up. Yeah. You know? I guess like God's land or something. Right.

Yeah. So. Well, I for one will not be baited into such... What the fuck are you doing? What are you doing to me? What the fuck? I don't understand why you're acting like that. What's the Russell Crowe movie it is what the Russell Crowe movie where he like goes to Tuscan under the Tuscan sun yeah that's actually a great movie oh fuck

underrated under the Tuscan sun it's like how can the place be overrated if the whole fucking movie you like is based there right i don't understand the logic but a great a great thing that is totally ruined by a whack movie i guess and i'm just taking your word for it that it's great uh no really it really is great uh i went to one of those phases where I watched all those kind of like older women love romance movies. Wait, that's... Russell Crowe isn't in Under the Tuscan Sun, is he?

There's a Russell... Yeah, that's Diane Lane. Crowe. That's who you're confusing Russell Crowe for. It's Diane Lane. Dude, that's the neat thing about Gladiator when he's running his fingers. Russell Crowe's Tuscan-y movie is called A Good Year. Oh, wait, what the fuck is that about?

It's just about him having a good year. Okay, that's overrated. That sounds like my life, dude. Directed him. Hell yeah. A romantic comedy directed and produced by the person who you've always wanted to see direct and produce a romantic comedy, Ridley Scott. Oh, wow.

Stars Russell Crowe, Marion Cotillard. Nailed that pronunciation. What's with that last name? Am I right? Here we go. Cotillard. Am I that pronunciation. What's with that last name? Am I right? Here we go. Cotillard? Am I right, Patriots? Right.

Anyways. Ridley's. Speak American. So, I mean, it might as well have been Gladiator then. Yeah, it's loosely based on the 2004 novel. Gladiator. The same name. Gladiator.

Gladiator. By Gladiator. By Gladiator. By Turbo from American Gladiators. What is something. By Gladiator. By Gladiator. By Turbo from American Gladiators. What is something you think is underrated, Anna? I'm going to go with a hot take. Orlando cocaine. Wow.

What do you mean? You thought Orlando cocaine was going to be good? No, that's my underrated. It is good. It's better than good. So you're serious right now? No. You do cocaine in Orlando?

No, let's put that on the air. Well, okay. So I went to a few theme parks, right? And in order to hit them all, in the amount of time we were here, I had to ask one of the- The goofy at Disney. No, no. I asked one of the other conference.

There's another, there's like 15 conferences happening right now. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. So I went, I hit up the IRS dudes. I was like 15 conferences happening right now. Yeah, that's true. So I hit up the IRS dudes. I was like, come on, man. They're holding. You're not allowed into the city of Orlando if you don't have a lanyard around your neck. It is kind of fascinating.

It's like, wow, we're in God's country. But anyway, the IRS dudes didn't have any, so I hit up the pharmaceuticals. The guy. There was also a pharmaceutical convention. You went he went to the irs first yeah they party yeah they party they're stealing that's probably true who do you think like what convention do you think parties the hardest real estate probably yeah real estate or advertising yeah because i would say podcasting anything i think podcasters pretty tame, pretty tame. Pretty tame. Not a lot of wild ones in the bunch.

Not at the iHeart party, man. The podcast industry turned up. By the way, the heads want to see you, Jack. Yeah. Mr. Break Dancer. Yeah. Well, you know. You cleared the floor out to do a routine.

What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false now you know what this one I'm quite proud of but you

that you can't clog a hotel toilet uh-huh is that based on something going on so what stories are we talking about today that myth

because I believe most hotel toilets to have industrial flushing power that could probably suck a baby through I think a lot of children but you're saying that way that's a myth is there a specific hotel that you think no okay we got to get some stories you know oh uh-huh fair enough great I think um you clogged a toilet here is what i'm gonna take that's what i'm getting let's just say the man who delivered my cake seconds after was not pleased dry heathed on

his way out um i would say that the toilets in this hotel are interesting i flushed it this morning and i had like a bellagio hotel fountain situation just shoot up up? Yeah. It was like Vesuvius. They're trying something. It sounds beautiful. Vesuvius. Were there lights? Well, it was only for number one, so full disclosure. Okay.

So don't ask what the stains are on the ceiling. One of the clearest pieces of evidence, something that I look at every now and then, I think I've talked about the fact that I am on the breitbart news uh mailing list just to kind of keep an eye on on what they're up to uh and a lot a lot of the emails are just scam emails just here's one i got the other day a special message from bill o'reilly oh great picture of O'Reilly with a silver coin, like a giant silver coin behind him. And it says, Dear fellow Americans, some experts say a recession could be on the way.

With all the turbulence in the world, it's important to consider putting a portion of what you have earned into an asset that is historically safe, gold and silver. what you have earned into an asset that is historically safe gold and silver uh so these are like these old person like financial scam like they're just looting the elderly essentially because that's who's who watches them i just found a website called bill o'reilly's precious metals and it sounds like he has a whole career in getting you to invest in gold. Dude.

Or you want a Bitcoin IRA? Oh, really? Hell yeah, Bill. Also sounds like it was written by an angry ex-wife. Bill O'Reilly's Precious Metals. So precious he forgets his anniversary. Right. There's also an article in the New Republic recently

about nutraceuticals, gets his anniversary. There's also an article in the New Republic recently about nutraceuticals, and it asks the question, why this scam... Do y'all think they work? Right. Why are they so good at making you have amazing brain power that lasts all day?

No, why are all the top sellers of nutraceuticals right-wing media? I didn't realize Joe the top sellers of nutraceuticals right-wing media? I didn't realize Joe Rogan is a nutraceutical guy. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. I just didn't think he was that far gone.

Oh. I didn't think he was that cool. I think it's, well, because, like, I think inherently, right, like, a lot of conservatives already have this feeling of, like, waning power. So, like, anything that's like that's like hey man fucking let's go back to caveman fucking times right fucking bodies were robust and powerful well but they were talking about the fact that like some of some of the images on the nutraceutical like marketing material are actually like a an exact match of like a drawing from marxist material about what

capitalism was going to do to us like it has like gears and stuff and like it's basically a human turning into a machine like an automaton right yeah an automaton like just how you know you're gonna lose your humanity and these nutraceutical like marketing materials are people doing that and they're like you're gonna be so sick you're gonna be a fucking machine bro a fucking capitalist machine man yeah i mean that's they want us to lose our humanity so marx was warning that that will happen if we go further down the road of capitalism and then it's happening they're they're bragging about it with the nutraceuticals and uh it's basically one of one of the theories put forward by the article is that

you know the reason it's a right-wing thing is because it's all about making you a better capitalist like money maker yeah money making machine and you know when you think about it it's a pretty bleak ethos like the america american right wingers are basically like it's a meritocracy and if you're not making money that's on you bro right right what's wrong with you yeah you got to make yourself better earner for your family or you're a fucking loser and so like oh man one of the people in the article said like the left wing is a little bit more skeptical about the relationship between labor and employer right and so they wouldn't take as kindly to a product that is all about like making you better employee right right that's why we're like let's smoke weed and be fucked up at work

right yeah i guess like he wrote in here but the left on the left wing the people who sell this bullshit gwyneth paltrow yeah there's only one and bullshit, Gwyneth Paltrow. Yeah, there's only one, and it's Gwyneth Paltrow. Well, I guess it's all different versions, right? Because I guess the other, like the holistic, you know, pseudoscience stuff is like the left's version of nutraceuticals. But it's like for a much more, like, you know, it feels more fantastic and whimsical. You want to know what Gwyneth Paltrow's uh nutraceutical is called what nerd alert no it isn't yes because it's like oh you want to use your brain nerd well this will make you more alert

dork I like the rights version is fucking caveman power like I think that was one of the Alex Jones one like caveman brain force or something and then who left this fucking nerd alert nerd alert square alert you want to do you want to do good at work you nerd uh anyways well we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia.

I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurarts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price.

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I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really hear them voice. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black.

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The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really hear them voice. I just come here to play basketball every single day,

and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game?

And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to the making of a rivalry. Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back. And let's talk about Greenland. And we're back, and let's talk about Greenland. Greenland is a semi- or mostly autonomous part of Denmark.

Frozen, mostly. Yeah, well, if you see some of the videos, it looks like it's also fucking like a slushy melting in the sun right now. It's very terrifying. But anyway, the reason why it's been coming up is because donald trump thinks like countries are like distressed businesses that you could just like offer to buy things like a country uh and the wall street journal was reporting that he's been constantly talking about buying greenland so this is from this and this is like behind the scenes right it's not like a media play where no no like this is a funny thing to say this

is him being like this is one of those things that you see come out where he's like not saying it publicly but aides are like he's asking this shit out loud right like in meetings like we come in with something about the economy and he derails the meeting talking about how he wants to buy literally says mr trump has asked advisors whether the u.s can acquire greenland listened listened with interest when they discuss its abundant resources and geopolitical importance and according to two of the people he asked his white house counsel to look into the idea so he got the lawyers to look into it some of his advisors have supported the concept saying it was a good economic play two of the people said well others dismissed it as a fleeting fascination that will never come to fruition and then so basically you know after this story developed the like

government of greenland was like yeah look we're looking like a cool adventure sports destination we're open for business but we are not for fucking sale please go the fuck away now that raises like how does a modern country like acquire like how how did alaska become a part of the united states in the 50s like you the united states did not like invade them and militarily make them a part of the the country is it just like they vote to become a part of the country this is probably uh revealing how stupid i am but it's a we got it from the russians right so i think it was i don't know if there was like uh let's see oh we bought it for 7.2 million oh so you can buy it yeah but it was just through

a treaty and they're like all right fine right pull it pull up with the cash. They had a hashtag Alaskan, Alask-in. Uh-huh. Vote. Like Brexit. Oh, right. They had an Alaskan. Alaskan or out. There you go.

Yeah. She's back. Hashtag. Alask-out would be the Brexit equivalent. No, it would be Alaskan. Alask-in or out. Alask-in or out. Alask-in or out.

All right. Did you take your nerd alert this morning? You don't take it, you inject it. You freebase it. $7.2 million is a really good price for Alaska, by the way. It's actually pretty good for a country. It's our biggest country. It's our biggest state by a mile.

Not by a mile, by a large degree, large margin. I think we overpaid. That's pretty cool, actually. I was in Ketchikan, Alaska. Is this the New Tuscany? No, no. I went on an Alaskan cruise with my grandparents a few years ago ago and I was like, maybe. I love cruise ships though. And I ate a lot of crab. I'll just say that. Crab? Shout out to Alaska. No, crab. Oh, okay. Shout out to Alaska and their

bountiful seas. Briefly on Friday or I guess Thursday night, there was a trump rally and just as a we watched a little bit of the coverage together and he really seems like he's trying to like pump himself up like talk himself into the idea that he is going to win yeah yeah it's weird it's it it's so transparent like it's not real confidence it's really like that scene and in the end of Boogie Nights where Dirk Diggler's being like, you're a big fucking star, man. Yeah, right. You're like, whoa, dude, things got dark.

Yeah. He's really, yeah. At one point, he was threatening people's 401ks. He's like, your 401ks will be gone. You have no choice but to vote for me because if you don't vote for me, your 401ks going down the tubes. What what uh yeah that's one way to motivate but his yeah his reasons like the arguments he's using to convince himself that people are going to vote for him are pretty thin

man they're like the stock market went up the day after he got elected and so therefore it would go down the day after if he didn't get elected and then joe biden has uh rallies that are less fun than his and he does like a joe biden impression where he like does a hang dog thing uh and then his only thing about elizabeth warren he was like i did the Pocahontas thing. Nailed her. Hit her pretty hard. Remember when I said that really sick thing about Pocahontas? He was like, maybe I did it too early. But that's all right.

I'll say it again. I can bring it back. Yeah. There's a woman who literally did the yeesh face in the background. Yeah. Well, I think, yeah. I mean, when you look at everything, right, and how his policies have putting the economy in a very interesting situation, a lot of people are speculating that,

look, look, if the economy begins to tank, like in the midst of the elect of the campaign for his reelection, it's going to be fucking lights out or probably because that's like the one thing he's able to be like, well, the economy is doing okay.

At least like everything else is in shambles, but as a society, but money. And I think when you look at everything that's happening uh and most analysts are predicting some kind of some form of a recession to hit between 10 or 20 months it could hit during the election it could before it could hit fucking during the inauguration of whoever the next president is if or maybe it will be trump he's starting to sort of realize he's running out of the tools to kind of fake juice the economy.

Right. And that's sort of the thing. And he's going to have to own this recession because he came in. He didn't come in to fix shit. He came into a very healthy economy. Like the stats were like between 2010 and 2017, January 2017, right, when Trump was sworn in, the economy created 16.1 million jobs. Right.

Five million have been added under Trump. The unemployment rate had been cut by more than half. And then as of June 2009, when the recession ended, the expansion had been underway for 91 months. So, you know, everything that he inherited was healthy. So anything that is fucked up, he will have to own. However, we know that he would never take any kind of ownership of any sort of faltering economy because he's gone from blaming

the fake news media to the fed like he's really trying to set up like uh like fall people oh yeah like to just be like no no it was because of that it was because of the media or some shit um and uh like people also point to like the tax cuts yes gave a quick boost but it was temporary yeah and now the irs is like yo like we have not we're seeing really low revenues from our taxes because of these cuts sugar rush yeah and then plus the and the china thing uh that's also just terrible policy and like yeah robert reich is like uh look you're you have like the two largest economies fucking fighting each other right this is not good for anyone right and then add to that like

the other five economies around the world that are looking a little bit recession-y um so yeah the only people i hear saying like actually what he's doing is really helping are people whose financial interests are tied to like big corporations right because yeah you get richer by having somebody in there who's just doing shit to make rich people richer uh that's really like the only people you hear that and then like trump apologists so i think one of the reasons he might be shook and he did seem the most shook by elizabeth warren like he was just going through and rattling off everybody and then he didn't really have anything to say about her even though she's the one who uh the democratic candidate who is making the most news because her polls are

going going up quite a bit um but so a fox news poll came out uh and found Trump with 39% support among registered voters in head-to-head matchups against Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Biden. In all of them, he was like between 38% and 39% support with them, and they were at like 48 to 45 yeah so they're all fucking smoking him he loses by 12 to biden then like nine and to sanders i think six to harrison warren yeah i mean like he can't he can't crack 38 percent yeah and i think but that's what the fear of a third party candidate is because if you can get

to like you can it's like a six point difference right maybe you can splinter off that little bit with a you know fucking jill stein type candidate um but yeah it's uh he i would be also pumping myself up in the mirror too right if you're looking at this because yeah i mean like on top of that the there's like a majority of Americans are saying that like Donald Trump is creating an atmosphere where there will be more mass shootings. So there's a lot of people,

they already have a lot of anxiety tied to his presidency. But yeah, I mean, the supporters, it's like we've always seen, that's pretty much where it is. 40% of the country is absolutely racist do you see that amnesty international issued a travel warning to coming to america yeah oh really yeah for shooting yeah they're like guess what now america's dangerous and i think even like

they were like yo if you go there it's not looking good for like brown people either right so yeah yeah and one other kind of interesting stat they talked about is trump you know ran against clinton and they both had really negative perceptions and when it was a head-to-head matchup between people who viewed them both negatively people were like well we already know what happens with clinton so let's give trump a shot like what's the worst that happened basically and uh we found out. Right, we found out. And now people, when asked that same question,

because that is like an actual thing people polled about. Like, if you have negative perceptions of both candidates, who do you side with? And they did the same thing with Biden. And they said Biden is destroying him. Yeah, three to one. People are like, well, Biden is an absent-minded loser. Wow.

Lightweight. Lightweight. Look at him. He's so old. Let's talk about insurance companies, guys. They get a bad rap. Yeah. Let's leave them alone.

State Farm, Farmers, Erie, which is apparently a car insurer. So there's an article in BuzzFeed. It's actually BuzzFeed News. It's an investigative report where it looks into this practice. It feels a little bit like the relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical companies. It's the relationship between local police forces and insurance companies. the relationship between local police forces and insurance companies. Basically, you know, insurance companies are these huge multi-billion dollar companies. So in America, they're going to have a shitload of power. And in the early 90s, they made a couple changes. So they realized that

they were losing money to fraud claims. There was a study came out that said one in 10 insurance claims was fraud experts think that is a wild over exaggeration but uh they still like that was what i think it's closer to they didn't give they're just like 10 is ridiculous 10 they say is probably not true it's funny because 100 of these companies are a scam. Right. It's an internal study for the insurance industry. Right, to be like, this is a problem. Yeah. So to address that problem, and it succeeded. It's made them way more profitable.

They did two things. They pushed this legislation where people aren't able to sue insurance companies who accuse them of fraud. sue insurance companies who accuse them of fraud so basically they can accuse people of fraud and you know basically bankrupt people like a lot a lot of people end up like homeless or uh you know just it you know out on their ass basically yeah death by court fees you know if you're a contractor then like being accused of insurance fraud which is one of the stories they tell, the person lost his job and lost all this work. He had 50 employees, and he had to fire most of them.

Because he was wrongly accused of fraud? Because he was wrongly accused of fraud. What was the claim that he had, and they're like, no, that's fraud? The way he worked was people would come to him to fix stuff and the reason he was really popular is because he would deal with the insurance companies basically go and adjudicate the situation with the insurance companies and he had a relationship with them so you know he figured he could do it more effectively than like letting the people themselves deal with the insurance companies but because he was you know getting paid out on so many insurance claims uh the insurance companies

were like the this is not good this is a money loser for us so let's fucking take this guy down yeah and so they wrongly accuse him of fraud and they wrongly accuse him of fraud and they in some cases the insurance companies are providing the evidence to the police officers and like it's a report on like arson or something they'll be like yeah this there's traces of gasoline and fire accelerants in this uh fire like you need to like accuse this guy he he started the fraud or something yeah yeah hashtag medicare for all but they're but these like the the evidence that they're providing them is coming from their own like from their own biased investigation yeah right and it's not from a fucking even a law enforcement investigation like hey we say there's

proof of this right so the other thing the insurance companies are doing is they're subsidizing local law enforcement uh they're giving them money to hire investigators for insurance fraud because it used to be a thing that like law enforcement just didn't have the bandwidth for so like when an insurance fraud claim came in they were like well we don't really have the time or energy so the insurance industry started investing in these investigators and like providing law enforcement with them and it became this like cozy like pay for play like we give your police department like a bunch of money and allow you to hire these investigators and in return like you use our data you to charge these people you help

us charge these people with fraud and it's just it, like, they don't have a lot of stats, but it seems like there's a lot of false positives. An expert on the situation said it's kind of the equivalent of tuna nets catching dolphins. It's like, yeah, you're going to catch some fraudulent claims, but you're also catching a lot of real people. And you're, like, destroying honest people who spent money and like to trust your company yeah to be insured and then just because they're like oh we're losing money we're gonna accuse you of fraud and are they just like celebrating yeah yeah so people are then losing their job because they're arrested like this one this one woman like she wasn't even a contractor it had nothing to do with her job she worked at walmart but a house she was renting burned down they arrested her for like arson for arson uh she was

facing 20 years in prison and then she just like desperately wrote all these letters to any lawyer who would take her case pro bono was like i'm like out of options. I'm going to go to jail if you don't help me. This lawyer, just out of the kindness of his heart, took her case and found that they were using, like I said earlier, they were using a study by the insurance company that just was provided to them. And it was bullshit.

It was based on faulty science. And her case was thrown out. But she's still homeless from all the losing her job and shit. So they still didn't pay out? I don't think they did, no. So they didn't pay out, and she's destitute and has nothing. Yeah, there's one instance. So this guy who was clearing all the claims because he was a big contractor

in, I think, the Indiana area, the thing that ultimately caused them to really get pissed at him was this big contractor in i think the indiana area the thing that like ultimately like caused them to really get pissed at him was this big hail storm that had like just damaged all these people's homes and cars and he you know was doing a lot of repairing and getting paid by the insurance companies and like state farm had an investigator like go after him on all these different fraud claims. And when they got him arrested, the State Farm guy sent around a drawing of a stick figure getting raped in prison. And was celebrating the fact that he got this guy arrested. It turned out to be falsely accused. He was facing a lot of jail time because of this work.

And that guy who sent around that drawing like won an award for being the best like insurance fraud investigator in the country. So it's like this is happening. And that's like them thinking that the system is working. I wonder if they're like the evidence they gave was like, yeah, look, officer, I don't even know what hail is. I'm here to debate what is hail. Like, yeah, there are these dents. I don't see where it came from. Yeah.

But I mean, it's just how American capitalism works. Yes. And like the way that this story came about, this is one of those investigative reports where they were like, if you have a story, just like email it to us. Right, right, right. investigative reports where they were like, if you have a story, just email it to us. And so just enough people had emailed them for them to be like, okay, it seems like there might be a thing here. Because otherwise, you just don't find out about this stuff. It's just like a consumer advocacy story.

But consumers get fucked by multibillion-dollar companies. It's just such a mismatch in America because for the same reason that we're allowed to drink Mountain Dew and the European Union is not because the Pepsi Corporation

has a shitload of money Like lettuce poison people Yeah, lettuce poison people because this thing is delicious Did any of these insurance companies comment back about this? Yeah, they just deny it. They just deny it. Yeah.

So is there any way, like, how does the pendulum swing the other way so the insurance companies are accountable? Or this is one of those things where they're like, we just need to draw people's attention to this practice in the insurance industry. It didn't seem like they were referring to many other mainstream media reports on this. Yeah, because they're fucking commercial. These motherfuckers are advertising on all of them.

So I think people need to really push for some sort of reform. I think the main thing they need is, because the insurance company has been doing this for years and because they have so much money to pay lawyers, all 50 states have these laws where people aren't allowed to sue them

if they're accused of fraud wrongly. So if your life is ruined because you made an insurance claim, there's no way to sue for damages at all. The one thing that is interesting about that BuzzFeed article is that when you get to the end, it actually tells you

which Harry Potter character each insurance provider is. I thought that was really interesting. Yeah, I was surprised by, you know, they're all slithering, it turns out. I'm Hufflepuff. I'm a Hufflepuff, too.

I fear it's going to happen to me It can happen to literally any of us That sucks so bad I don't get it You do a bit in the office where you keep saying You got an injury at work That's not a bit Well you know I have some investigators

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Listen to The Making of a Rivalry, Caitlin Clark vs. Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And more Epstein news. This story just every day, there's something just incredible and outrageous. The latest is that he was just sitting in a meeting room with his lawyers for eight hours a day just because he didn't want to be in his cell. Most other people, you could maybe get an hour with your lawyer, but it was a scarce resource, like getting this meeting room. And there were only two meeting rooms for this entire-

There were two meeting rooms for that section of the prison i think there's 10 in a different one but for shoe special housing unit there's only yeah there are only two and like so people were being turned away from having like people who needed to actually meet with their lawyer yeah well you're gonna have to wait for the other one and there's like a two-hour wait right so the lawyer would just have to sit there right and wait and one of the uh people one of the lawyers for another inmate who like witnessed this uh reported a very young pretty woman being one of the people who sat with him in the locked room like that was his attorney or they think she might have been a first year associate

or something? She was very young. They said she was in brunch attire. They were like she didn't necessarily look like she was dressed up as. I don't know. They were just very casual. That's how they described it. It's such a weird bourgeois dig. They were in brunch attire. I don't think they were a lawyer.

She could have been a first year associate. Like a lawyer. She wasn't't like dressed right right like a lawyer she wasn't carrying any files or anything like they were like it was just weird right and apparently though so like david patton who's executive director of the federal defenders of the new york which is like a non-profit that does you know like low cost or free legal representation for people he said it's very unusual and that 80% of all federal defendants are represented by his office or assigned private attorneys who are paid statutory

amounts and they're sitting there waiting and that's basically just like our taxpayer dollars. Right. Paying. Paying so that Jeffrey Epstein can just like chill with a pretty woman. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean,

there's this every day. There's like always a new piece and then Ghislaine or whatever. Ghislaine. Ghislaine. I remember at first people were like, she's cooped up in Massachusetts or something. Oh, that was me.

Right. Well, no, but that's what a lot of the reporting was. And then she just emerged at an In-N-Out? Yeah. So she apparently- Oh, In-and-out yeah so she apparently she left she left that boston mansion that we thought she was at uh apparently a month ago and now she's been in la uh and was eating a an in-and-out burger just chilling hey speaking of

burgers where's the best place to get a burger in your state you can find out on trip advisor that was a great ad i know that sounded like an ad didn't it so trip advisor used user feedback to publish an article of where to get the best burger in every state okay uh yeah what's funny is even these states i've been to i've never been to these places so So what? California's is Pearl's in San Francisco. I've never been. Is that good? I've never been. No?

Yeah, I don't even know. Oh, what else? What else? Jack, you've lived in Kentucky. Yeah. Did you go to Mad Mike's Burgers and Fries? In Newport? No.

You've been to? Massachusetts. Flipside in Columbus? Look, I'm just going to read a couple off. And Zyke, can you tell me if these are real? Okay, and if it is that good. Arizona's Cheeseburgers. I don't know.

Connecticut Gold Burgers. Summerhouse in Delaware. Florida. Brooks Gourmet Burgers and Dogs. The Midtown Grill in Clarksville, Georgia. Black Iron Burger on 38th Street in New York City. West 38th is New York's best burger, according to us. I have not.

I like in Iowa City, Short's Burger and Shine. So far, I like that name the best. That feels like a good thing to me. Burger and Shine? Yeah. Like you can get a shoe shine there? Maybe. Or moonshine?

No, probably a shoe shine. Nah. I like that. Yeah, just a really diverse business just have a really good burger and also you know have someone you know spiff up your penny loafers your wingtips it kind of makes me feel better that like all the burger places are places that we've never heard of you know yeah so you don't know what you're missing out on yeah but also just like knowing that it's it's not like a chain.

Right, right, right. It would be funny. Alaska, McDonald's. Like TGI Fridays. Well, one of the images, it looks like Chili's is one of the places, but I guess that's just their paper in the food basket. We got a health alert, guys. There is a mysterious health problem happening.

It appears to be like a lung infection, but it ends up leaving people on ventilators. They have reported in eight states so far, including California. And the only thing that they can trace it back to, the only shared thing that all the people have in common is vaping. That's bad news for Leonardo DiCaprio, as we discussed last week with his horrifying cloud he blows out. I don't believe it because vaping's sick.

Vaping's tight as fuck. Right. I don't know, dude. Prove it. How many cases are we talking, dude? Anna, why aren't you reading your comment from the doc on this story? That was a bit. How many cases are we talking, dude? Anna, why aren't you reading your comment from the doc on the story? That was a bit. How many cases do you think there are?

It's only a handful, but it's still. And also, how many of them had sick-ass cars? That's true. AirPods, too. Probably had girlfriends because they looked so cool doing it. Yeah, yeah. But they had sleeve tattoos, too. Yeah, yeah. Those, yeah, you know. But they had sleeve tattoos too. Oh, sick.

Hell yeah. No, if you have a sleeve tattoo, that actually protects you from a lot of lung issues. Oh, so you want to get one. Yeah, dude. Danny Masterson is being sued. Speaking of vaping, Danny Masterson, I just have to assume,

the dude from that 70s show, Hyde was his name, I think. The guy with the sunglasses and curly hair. Sex crim. Yeah. And he's being sued by four women. He allegedly sexually assaulted. This case is brought because the defendant, Masterson,

was trying to cover up these sexual assaults and basically intimidated these four women. Isn't Scientology implicated in this too? Scientology is also implicated. They went after these people's families when they accused him of sexual assault. So, you know,

Scientology may not be as cool as we all thought it was. I thought Danny Masterson was already facing justice, but I guess the only thing that happened was he was kicked off the ranch on Netflix. Right. Or what we call justice in this country. And he wasn't getting his DJ gigs.

Right. Oh, fuck. Yeah. That really fucked with that bar mitzvah that I was planning. You're a DJ? Yeah. DJ Danny Masterson. DJ hashtag me too.

I don't know if I even want to do this next story it really fucked me up uh but guys we're apparently not allowed to put q-tips in our ears anymore we've known that forever i know so i've been hearing that like it's been a small background like chatter because you can't hear it due to all the wax buildup from using a q-tip as you impact it more well that's the thing it's like that's like the thing that came out that we were like no yeah like it's the thing like okay doctors right remember it wasn't flossing the other one where it's like you know it's fine and people like well we're still doing it wait really yeah there was a whole thing about flossing flossing like uh like, you know, I mean, it was beneficial, but not in the way that, like, the dental industry was telling us.

So there's a Gizmodo article called Is Cleaning Your Ears with Cotton Swabs Really That Dangerous? I'm going to be honest with you. I fully clicked on that because I expected the answer to be like, nah. The way the headline's written, you're expecting it to be like, no, it's actually fine. It's not as bad. And...

There's a real life horror tale that they kick things off with because a woman, her skull got infected from basically using a Q-tip improperly. They're just like, you should never ever stick anything into your head yeah your ears are incredibly delicate like compared to your other

bodily orifices and you just like aren't supposed to be putting anything in there uh also don't fuck with ear candling uh Apparently that's not good. Why is it not good? I think just generally it's like it can puncture your eardrum. What does ear candling do? It's like you put a candle in your ear and the lit end basically pulls, creates a suction, I think. Yeah, it draws earwax out of the ear.

It draws earwax out. I ear. Draws earwax out. You see it? I saw it the first time in India or something. That's crazy. I've never even, I don't even know anything about that. I one time had, I thought I was going deaf in college, but it was just a wax buildup in one of my ears. Had you been Q-tipping?

I mean, probably. I'm a normal person. Yeah. I'm a human being. You don't use pens? No. So it would have been impacted in there. I don't know, but it was really weird, and they had to use one of those water guns in

my ear. Right, right. Oh, really? Well, first they had me put- Mineral oil or something? No, like the E, the vitamin. Is it vitamin E? The fish oil?

I don't know. Those fish oil tablets, they prescribed this to me. They were like, pop them open, and then pour those in your ear. Oh, really? Because it'll soften it up. Yeah. And then it created up, it turned into my,

like the wax into a giant wax ball. And then they, I came back a week later and they like power shot my ear with like a water gun. Yeah.

Pressure washer. So that's something you can do at home, guys. Just fire a pressure washer into your ear. It was pretty intense. Fire if you have a gas-powered. It came out, and the wax ball was so big.

Really? Did you save it? Well, okay. It's in a glass case in my home on a mantel. For history. But it was insane. I was like, how is that in my ear? And my doctor was like, next.

So I didn't really get an answer. No, as I was reading it, I was like, damn, is this true? And then a lot of people are like, next. So I didn't really get an answer. No, as I was reading it, I was like, damn, is this true? And then a lot of people are like, yeah. Like if you, if some people, like they say, just simply the water rushing from a shower can help take it out. And also the way your skin grows in your ear can like actually just bring the wax out naturally.

Yeah, they say like the movement of your jaw from like talking and chewing, like gently like kind of works the wax out of your jaw from like talking and chewing like gently like kind of works the wax out of your ear. You're not grinding your teeth while you sleep. Does that help? I don't know. You know, I actually still use Q-tips and No, I do too. I'll die with

a Q-tip in my ear. Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna stop. I'm telling you, it's the one thing. Even despite this, that too jack skull infection. Yeah, I don't know, man. It's one skull infection yeah i don't know man it's it's one skull infection uh and hours of pleasure so is it pleasurable for you to yeah it's really pleasurable mine's strictly business i'm not getting no pleasure you fucking no music on no nothing you do it in the dark you're like no i'm in i'm fucking out but yeah i was that was it was

weird to like read from numerous like health things where it's like yeah i mean you could but if you really if they're saying if your wax buildup is like pretty significant then yeah going to a doctor is probably the best option to like protect yourself but yeah it's just like i don't go to the doctor for a lot of stuff yeah Yeah. I know. This seems like number one. That arm wound is starting to stink, dude. If you guys could see it. In Japan, though. That arm is starting to stink.

It's like really bad. It's getting pretty cheesy, dude. In Japan, you use a bamboo pick. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. Where it looks like a fucking like coke spoon basically and like that's how you that's how you take your your earwax that's safer than a don't put anything in your ears fully fuck your ear and i remember my mom when i was a kid

whenever she would try and clean my ear with that i was like nah like i didn't like it because it was so i could hear it just like fucking scraping in my ear with that, I was like, nah! I didn't like it because I could hear it just fucking scraping in my ear. And then she's like, American people have different earwax than Asian people. She's like, you have your dad's earwax. I'm like, what the fuck? Well, there are different types of earwax, but I don't think it's racial.

Well, look, it's old-timey racism. We should do a segment called Mom Myths. Right. Like things your mom told you. Old wives' tales. And dads, too. Like weird stuff. Like things your mom told you. Old wives tales. And dads too. Like weird stuff. But yeah.

Wet versus dry. Earwax. Doesn't matter. You're not supposed to clean it out. And I will continue to do so and probably go deaf.

Okay. And finally we got to talk about pumpkin spice spam. It's a thing. God help us all. Wait. What?

Spam. Spam that's. God help us all. Wait, what? Spam. Spam that's fucking pumpkin spice flavored? Yeah, Spam, the company that makes artificial ham, wet ham. I think that's the tagline. Spam. Artificial wet ham. We just got a report we lost all our listeners in Hawaii. Oh, I love Spam.

That's why I'm upset, actually, because fucking I love fried spam. Right. But pumpkin, how do you even square that with the flavor? Apparently, it's a mixture. It tastes a little like breakfast sausage, like that salty, sweet, meaty-ness. But yeah, some people are looking at this as proof that we have a problem

with pumpkin spice. We have a pumpkin spice problem. It's fucking weird. I think it's just maybe a fad, but I don't know if it's going to go away. It's been here for a while. Slowly, yeah. But I feel like it's crescendoing, here for a while slowly yeah yeah but it's but i feel like it's

crescendoing but will it peak and then taper off or are we just gonna is it gonna hockey stick at some point and we're gonna be in spice world pumpkin spice world spice world one of my favorite movies i love it especially when the aliens come down oh so good great bit um spoiler alert what there's even a study that says that pumpkin spice like the pumpkin spice smell is actually arousing to men they did like a sensory test uh-oh dj daniel and found that i think pizza made people hard like this is literally how it's described what hard what i think that's actually how our writer described it but uh made people hard five percent of the time uh pumpkin spice was the like the other scent i think bacon 10 percent uh pumpkin spice 40

percent of the time wait what do you mean hard like they're like you sit there with a flaccid dick and they hold a fucking latte under your nose and you're like what about this pizza that is the sound. So yeah, in the late 90s, Dr. Hirsch set out to investigate the impact of ambient olfactory stimuli upon sexual response in the human male, measuring penile blood flow on smelling different fragrances. It turns out that men were aroused by every scent. Not shocking. Fucking cornball. Though not equally. Only 5% of men got hard from this.

So this is the actual description in BTR today. Got hard from the scent of cheese pizza. 6% pitched a tent for peppermint. While 40% saluted all-American pumpkin pie, particularly in combination with lavender and donuts. So this makes sense to me, which is a weird thing to say but uh i am incredibly aroused by pumpkin no it makes sense to me because so there's this uh study where they looked at the like the highest preponderance of birthdays and it's nine months after christmas and like that the theory that i have formulated is that christmas

is basically you know naturally a holiday like even without all the religious connotations because it's the human mating season it's the time that like we're driven indoors by the weather and it being like the middle of the winter and so it kind of makes sense that a scent that we culturally have like sort of grafted onto our mating period would be like tapping into like this cultural part of our brain that like we can't deny and people are there's like black market trade of pumpkin spice now what yeah people are like what's the need for black because because they're trading like big jugs of the um like syrup the syrup yeah a black market for a pumpkin spice syrup has formed on ebay where devotees sell

jugs of the viscous flavoring for as much as a hundred dollars so i mean it's not a black market like oh just like for people who are trading yeah it's like yeah bitcoin it's like we're gonna use like bitcoin to buy this shit right silk road i just like the idea that like uh all all scents arouse the men it's like yeah an old tire your mother's grave and it's like yeah i don't know well i'm sure they were like showing them something porn with it yeah porn with it and then it was like this this made them like more aroused or something like the combination i'm assuming because it can't just be that they like put peppermint under people's nose and they were like... But I just do like...

To me, that's the funniest image. People in lab coats and just dudes in smocks sitting down and they're like, alright, and this? Also, so then now, if you ever see a dude order a pumpkin spice latte, look at him very suspiciously. Oh yeah, for sure.

You're having trouble in the bedroom? You doing it because you're part of the 40%? you know maybe it's not trouble maybe it's just added you know he's a freak yeah uh he's a freak he likes the girls with the boom he once got busy in a starbucks bathroom uh anna it's been a pleasure having you as always uh you don't seem like you believe me uh where can people find you here yes you are but even more than more than ever having you on mike the whole time is a a treat uh where can people find you in the air yeah a little a necessary evil it's a q-tip in the air etha and where can people find you and is there a Q-tip in the ear. A necessary evil. It's a Q-tip in the ear. Anna, where can people find you and is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Go.

I am on Twitter at Anna Hosniah A-N-N-A-H-O-S-S-N-I-E-H Follow me for a live tweet of everything corny jacked up. Just joking. I'm not joking.

It's great because you talk shit about me, which is fine because we work next to each other and you're allowed to, but then everybody, all these strangers pile on and they're like, what's Jack saying in this picture? What's he shitting his pants?

You don't know me. There was actually some good ones of people being like, the thing you didn't say about the coal gas study right when i worked at cracks yeah yeah thanks guys uh i'm creating a bad we're creating a toxic atmosphere anna where let's be nice nice is there a tweet you've been enjoying uh yeah there was a really great one that andy beckerman tweeted where it's bernie Cardi B. And he tweeted, it's like me and his wonderful fiance, Naomi Ickparigan, in two years. And he's Bernie Sanders and Naomi is Cardi B.

And it's so spot on because, you know. Yeah. They're a great, great couple who you can hear hosting couples therapy on this very network. And I liked another one by Nicole Byer retweeted the NBC Washington talking about how a former Navy SEAL is training dogs to basically attack school shooters. Like they run towards the sound of gunfire and they're not distracted by people and they can take down the shooter. And she retweeted and wrote, LOL, how about gun control? Miles, where can people find you and what's a tweet you've been enjoying find me on twitter and instagram at miles of gray uh a tweet i like is

from molly lambert and it was she's been talking a lot about once upon a time in hollywood on twitter and she said tarantino fanboys Manson-splaining in my mentions, please go away. Oh, wow. Dude, Manson-splaining. You gotta know about him. His racism was like, anyway. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore

O'Brien. A tweet I've been enjoying. Somebody said, I swear nothing in this whole entire world smells better than the person you love. And Anderson at XV King tweeted, have you ever walked by a Cinnabon? And then NotClickBait at Crayola Wanderer tweeted,

everyone gets one famous Scientologist they're allowed to pretend isn't really a Scientologist in order to fully and purely enjoy their work. And I think that is fair. Who's yours? Probably Elizabeth Moss. Hmm. How about you?

Back. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. Anna Danny Masterson. I'm going to say Tom Cruise. Just joking. I don't care about anybody. Yeah, Tom Cruise might be mine actually

the fuck why would you steal mine I'm sorry that's my he's my Scientologist I gave a pass to you can find us on Twitter

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and our footnotes. We link off to the information we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on. Miles. Yeah, it's Monday. You know, let's get our necks snapping and make more money for the machine, shall

we? And take our brain force pills. But this track is by Weevil. W-E-V-a-l uh we played a track of his i think last week but a lot of these tracks are really good and this track is called the weight i thought we were gonna let anna sing a uh sing one of her improvised songs about how our family is missing oh yeah anna did you want to do a live improvised people don't know the we have a lot of office bits that we don't people don't know about and it's not even a bit that we do it's a thing anna always does is talks about how her family's

every time she sings the song uh it ends up being about my trauma yeah with songs with song and sometimes it comes out like details come out that you know our people sing and i can't find them look my family's been missing for years oh yeah that's what it is missing for years and that's just kind of i i deal with it yeah that's just ambient around the office that's what you hear uh i do think about that a lot you really do well we hope we find them yes that's funny you're google search where's my family like oh yeah i think you might have to be more specific but it's like you're like the dude from uh australia's got talent like he uses dance to blow steam off

i love the idea that that's how you like deal with it is just quietly singing a song we're like oh my gosh uh should i tell the police yeah i actually never involved law enforcement like a vigilante on your own situation yeah it's like no the law failed me i have to deal with it on my own yeah yeah well it's because of that one time i made that like fraud insurance claim yeah i really cannot deal with that fake claim that your family they will use that against you they will use that against you by the way alright so we're gonna ride out on

the original song that Miles was talking about we will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast and we'll talk to you then

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