The Daily Zeitgeist - Late Life With Mike Huckabee, Netflix And Bill 1.17.19

Episode Date: January 17, 2019

In episode 311, Jack and Miles are joined by Yo Is This Racist host Andrew Ti to discuss the new Gillette ad, Mike Huckabee's new weekly show, Brexit and Theresa May surviving the no-confidence vote, Trump losing support, Karen Pence's new job at an anti-LGBTQ school, Travis Scott and Big Boi agreeing to the Super Bowl half time show, Netflix raising their subscription prices, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. 'You just alienated about half of your customers': Hundreds of British men threaten to boycott Gillette over #MeToo-inspired advert as they share angry #GetWokeGoBroke tweets2. An Open Letter To Men Irreparably Traumatized By The Recent Gillette Ad3. Why Nike’s Woke Ad Campaign Works and Gillette’s Doesn’t4. Mike Huckabee's youtube show is—and i cannot possibly overstate this—the least funny thing that has ever existed by any conceivable metric.5. He had this guest "comedian" on recently. from what i can tell, this first bit is just him saying the word "doile" a bunch of times in a row.6. I'm so glad that some guy tried to steal a bike because it lead to mike huckabee doing the best 15 seconds of comedy that there is. i take back everything that i said. this one is so fucking good.7. WATCH: Jeb Bush: "Please clap"8. Labour rebuffs May offer of plan B Brexit talks after no-confidence motion fails – Politics live9. Trump Is Losing. His Nativist Message Is Winning.10. Trump loses support from key constituency of white people without a college degree: poll11. Karen Pence Is Working At A School That Bans LGBTQ Employees And Kids12. SUPER BOWL 2019 HALFTIME SHOW: TRAVIS SCOTT AGREED TO PERFORM ONLY AFTER NFL DONATED TO SOCIAL INJUSTICE CHARITY13. Disney’s new streaming service will be called Disney+, chief executive says14. Netflix raises prices to pay for original content15. Inside Netflix’s all-out blitz to win a Best Picture Oscar for Roma16. WATCH: Makaya McCraven - Black Lion Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's Thursday, January 17th, 2019. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Domo Brian Arigato Brian, Mr. Roboto Brian. And I'm thrilled to be joined by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Miles, Miles, tell them that it's human nature. Miles, Miles, do they do me that gray? All right. Anyway, that is human nature from at Total Kent from Julia Kent. Very clever handle.

Yeah. Shout out to you. Also, man, remember SWV when they sampled that? Right here. I feel like a lot of songs sampled that. No fear. Oh, man. SWV, when they sampled that? Right here. I feel like a lot of songs sampled that. No fear. Oh, man. S-W-S-W-W-V.

Okay, anyway, so I'm old and born in the 80s. No, I remember them. I just don't remember that they sampled that song. Oh, who did your AK so I can be really happy for them? Trite Gang. Trite Gang. Yeah. Okay.

Happy for them. I've heard of this account. Yeah. Show yourself, Trite Gang. Just TDZ. Yeah. Okay. Happy for them. I've heard of this. I've heard of this account. Yeah. Show yourself, Trite Gang. Just TDZAK. Yeah,

I want to know who's first. Yeah, you seemed impressed by my AK. Just like a long exhale. Well, yeah, I mean,

no, because that was, it sounded like Japanese. Yeah, well, my accent is on point. I don't think we need to mention that.

Yeah, yeah. Obviously, I'm a native speaker. Yeah, yeah. Well, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious host of the Yo! Is This Racist? podcast. He is Mr.

Andrew, here to spill that tea! I thought we contractually agreed to low tea. Yeah, well, I was going to leave low T for you because it's so fire. Yeah, that's my AKA from Mr. Jack O'Brien, of course. Now, is that the opposite of high T or we're talking about low testosterone? I think low testosterone.

What was that? That became a buzzword in a pharmaceutical commercial, right? Yeah, low T. What was it for? It's always on sports talk radio. I think it was fake pharmaceutical. It's like in the... Yeah, low T. What was it for? It's always on like sports talk radio. I think it was fake pharmaceutical. It's like in the... Yeah, it's over the counter.

Oh, like it extends. Non-FDA approved. Hey man, that shit works, man. It's so dope because it's just like, you're like, okay, just needle American men on their like insecurity.

And it's just like, guess what? You can rake it in. No one will ever complain that their dick is still soft. It's low T, man. It's low T. Your wife will thank us. It's the perfect scam.

It's unbelievable. You guys. Good for them. I'm so much looking forward to this weekend. We got the gang together in advance this Saturday. You can stay up all night in the same room with me, with Miles, with Mr. Andrew T.

We are at SF Sketch Fest. Go to the SF Sketch Fest website under tickets and schedule or Live Nation or Punchline website. We're doing the Zeitgeist for an entire year, you guys. Very specific. When the world changed. We won't tell you what year it is entire year, you guys. Very specific. Oh, snap. When the world changed. We won't tell you what year it is.

You have to come to find out. This includes me, by the way. I'm going to find out about four minutes after this. You're going to have on stage, and then you'll be like, I wish you had told me. I could have prepared. If I may get in my plug, anyone at that show, please stay up 14 more hours and come to the Yo! Is This Racist

show on Sunday. I think we're at 1! Is This Racist show. No sleep. Oh, shit. On Sunday, I think we're at 1.30, something like that. No sleep till next day. Damn it. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, just... Yo! Is This Racist. If anyone promises to stay up all night, I'll find a way to sneak them into the after party

that I'm pretty sure we're not supposed to sneak people into. You're having an after party? Oh, shit. No, the festival is. Oh, shit. There's a win. When is it? Adam just mouths to me, it's party? Oh, shit. No, the festival is. Oh, shit. There's a win. When is it? Adam just mouths to me, it's dope.

Oh, shit. If anyone- Too bad. We're going back to our families right after. If anyone buys a ticket and stays up all night and comes to our show, I will do my best. Yeah. But we will stay out after our show for a little while. Yeah.

And then we'll go to Zante's for that Indian pizza. Except for me because I'm way too old. Yeah. That's what somebody was like. Hey, so are you guys going to hang out after? Or is Jack like way too old? Or does Jack have fucking low T? I've got very low T. All right, Andrew, we're going to talk to you a little bit more in a moment.

First, we're telling our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about today. our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about today. Speaking of low-T, the Gillette brand is a low-T brand now because they are cucking it up with their new ad campaign about how we're not supposed to wolf whistle at women. Come on, man. We're going to talk about the controversy over that. We're going to talk about- Controversy? Yeah, man. Just a few very controversial uh gillette is fucked because literally hundreds of people are talking about boycotting yeah so that's amazing that a new story would say hundreds of people are literally talking about boycotting like hundreds come on man we're gonna talk about the dopest new, the Daily Show finally has a spiritual successor.

You know, after Jon Stewart left the Daily Show, some people still like it with Trevor Noah, but some people think it's not quite up to snuff. We now have the heir apparent, the best comedic news show. And we're going to talk about that. Listen to a couple of clips from that. It's hosted by Mike Huckabee. We're going to talk i'm so excited

we're going to talk about the brexit agreement not really we're just going to tell you that everything's fucked trump's numbers are sliding but uh the wall is also becoming more powerful and we're going to talk about karen pence's new teaching job all of that and more on today's daily zeitgeist but first and, Andrew, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay. My most recent search history was just, I guess it would be Wendy Dang.

I don't want to give away the third word because it gets into one of my other things that we're going to talk about. So Wendy Dang something. But I was doing a little bit of, you know what, fuck it. I searched Wendy Dang biopic to find out if anyone was working on one okay because i i had a a moment where i was like i'm gonna write that motherfucker oh okay and then i ran it by my chinese writer friends and they were like uh for sure the murdoch family has spiked that for eternity.

Right. And also, you can decide if this is, like, pursue this. And honestly, you're really, like, looking at the line between career suicide and life suicide. Oh, wow. Yeah. Because it's just like, right, of course. But Wendy Dang, for anyone who doesn't know, is like a Where's Waldo of the worst people on Earth.

Yeah. Always kicking it with the... It's incredible. I mean, Jared and Ivanka, of course. She's married to Rupert Murdoch. She had an affair with Putin. Oh, for real? People are pretty sure.

And Tony Blair. And Tony Blair, yeah. That was a big deal that she had an affair with Tony Blair. Like, wow. It's fucking awkward. And she like... And they think she's a Chinese spy.

I hope so. If she's not a Chinese spy... That's the biggest letdown. Imagine if she was doing all this insane shit she was doing and she wasn't a Chinese spy. Yeah, she's like, I was just trying to catch the vibe of all these people. It's just my... Anyway, I might still do a fictionalized version of this but uh wendy dang uh probably like the woman who has more leverage over people who have more power

over a larger population than anyone who's ever lived ever right you think she's got that compromise on everyone yeah even Putin. On literally everyone. It's wild. She's like, I know you got low T, Vlad. Yeah. I'm just like, she's so powerful. And she was just like, you know, born outside of Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution and was like, fuck this.

I'm going to do the opposite of all of these things. So when you said people were telling you like career suicide in suicide in that world, like, you'd just be blacklisted for even attempting to shop a script? I mean, they were basically like, you can write it, but for sure no one will ever, ever, ever, ever touch it. Right, because of all the other forces at work and showbiz. Just Fox, yeah. Yeah, yeah, basically. Plus, a good thing to know is that Andrew's endgame for his career is being a Fox News analyst. That's right, yeah.

That's the top, yeah, yeah. I guess I could write a glowing biopic of Wendy Day. So sanitized. She's like the it girl. Well, maybe, I mean, she left Rupert Murdoch, didn't she? So maybe they're like, nah, fuck her. It just feels like that can't be the case.

Because it would still, it would be mostly, any movie about her would mostly be about that time, I would imagine. Right. Or at least have a big part about it. Yeah. So regardless, it's like, you know,

you'd have to do it like succession style. Right. Where it's not clear, but it is clear. Yeah. And just make it like inspired. Or the master. Inspired. But yeah, exactly.

No, just call him out by name you know what i mean yeah that's what you want yeah dang daniel is that a good title yes that's a good title for anything back at it again with those powerful the literary classic dang dang daniel anyway so i searched for wendy dang what is something you think is underrated uh okay well Well, can I do my myth first? Yeah, please. Any order you like. Well, they sort of dovetail, which is that the myth that there's a big hunger for biopics is such fucking trash.

reason so many biopics get made uh or i think from what i understand in this dumb town is that they are one of like the easiest ways to get a script on the blacklist oh interesting because they like and then it just kind of like hollywood like it just gets its own momentum right um is it just because the creator of the blacklist has like a real sweet tooth for biopics? That I'm not sure. I think it's just like, you know, like in sort of classic Hollywood fashion. It's a thing that makes people seem smart liking biopics, but for no. I get why this person's history. This story is like, you know, the authenticity is very important.

I don't know if you've heard of this Freddie Mercury. Yeah. So that's, I mean, like, it's just like, yes, of course, there's some audience for biopics. But compared to the number that get made, it's ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like you have to see what they were like as a child to fully understand what they're like as a adult. But so many people I know have been told by their reps that are like, oh, yeah to get on the blacklist fucking write a biopic right which is why which is why i

was researching for people who don't people who don't live in this town right right that's like the most hot unmade scripts list yeah right yeah in town i think what it is is it's a good way to not a blacklist of like we don't fuck with these people yeah yeah right it's a good way to get attention reps meet producers this kind of shit without really, I don't know, without working that hard. Right. You just like read like two biographies, pick out like scenes, put them in some usually just chronological order. You don't have to worry about structure by and large as much as you would with like a wholly invented thing or a narrative thing. Like so many biopics are just like, here's a bunch of shit that happened.

We're going to make sort of a through line. Good enough. And the ending will be, and the rest is history. And it's always about the actor. As far as writing goes, it's just like the good ones are a good acting performance, the bad ones are a bad acting performance.

That's honestly kind of it. Right. You have your Malcolm X's and your Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher's, like those sorts of great seminal works. But then, yeah, sometimes it doesn't work as well. What is something you think is underrated? So my over and under are also linked. God, I'm sorry.

I'm like, I'm doing this my way. This is like a college thesis from somebody who like really knows how to write doesn't have to stick to the paragraph format he's like all over the place i got it teach weaving it together i just put this shit together well so uh on my way over here i had two realizations which is like actually cooking meals is uh hugely overrated. But you love to cook. I do, but I have the meal right before this one. I had a quick lunch and then many of the meals this week. I think partially it's because, as y'all are probably familiar with this feeling, I'm going to be out of town for a couple days starting tomorrow. So I'm trying to clean out my fridge.

But I've just been like fully, I've had multiple meals this week that have been standing up eating component ingredients over the sink you're like oh man you ever eat like a whole handful of cilantro with a bouillon cube yeah it was really on that level of shit which gets me to my underrated

which is something I did literally 35 minutes ago eating a mozzarella ball like an apple. Wow. Fucking incredible. Like the huge, like big ass. Wow. I didn't eat the whole thing.

Because you're not an animal. Yeah, but I'm going to finish it tonight. But yeah, I was just sitting around. I was like, shit, I have like, full disclosure, I was about six minutes late. But I, at the time, thought I had about six minutes before I had to go. Oh, so you were late because you were biting a big ass mozzarella ball. Yes.

Did you even season that shit or you just went fucking pure as the snow? I had loose salami and just like a bite of mozzarella held like an apple, eaten like an apple. Okay. The salami is important. Couple slices of salami one more bite of the mozzarella put it back in a ziploc no crackers nope nope standing up salami he's on a diet man no carbs standing up dog it was glorious though it's so fun to do that you feel like a crazy person yeah right and it's to eat it you're both you have to be both single, and that mozzarella has to be finished probably within, I'm guessing it's got 10 more hours before it's utterly rotten.

Before it self-seasons. Yeah. But I'm going to go home and just- Well, please try and keep your focus throughout the show. In my mind, I just see a fucking thought bubble with that little piece of mozzarella. Miles' head is just a talking chunk of mozzarella. With just a little perfect bite mark out of it. Yeah,

Miles Arello, what's your, I mean, oh shit. Damn it. Anyway, I want the Zeitgang to give that a shot. Yeah,

try it. Have it. Your friends, your loved ones will be impressed. Not even a little cracked pepper, some like a vinegar, some balsamic. I'm not against it.

I just think I'm not combining two ingredients this week. Right. You know what I'm not doing? Putting one thing that's a food with another thing that's a food. But you could take a bite and then just do the pepper milk into your mouth from above. That's fine. Or just like a couple shakes of balsamic. There you go.

All right, guys. There you go. masculinity. Masculinity. As we now pronounce it. It's a soft C. Right. Like a Romanian last name. Too masculine. Yeah, I mean, it's real. It's a commercial. I don't think it's the most mind-blowing thing, but I like what the message is.

It's sort of like, hey, men, do better. Can we all just? Yes. That's not really the story. I mean, like, yes, we've seen commercials like this. Not like not specifically like this, but, you know, commercials around, you know, the progress that we're trying to create in society. But, man, it was more the response to this that is just partially saddening, but mostly hilarious to read what people's feelings are. Like in the Daily Mail, Pierce Morgan had some shit to say.

The Daily Mail was like, oh, you see, this is what happens when more women are in the boardroom. You guys, by the way, obviously pay more attention to the Daily Mail. What the fuck was his disease? Did anyone figure that out yet? Oh, his rare disease or unusual disease that put him in the hospital? No. I don't know. Just being a total cock.

Just doo-doo too hard. Too hard. I think, just in general, the message was clear, but many creatures from the conservative webosphere came out with their takes. There are a lot of angry tweets of people being like,

oh wow, this is one that says, this is absolutely shambolic stuff, a cheap and disingenuous attempt to win favor with today's PC culture. Men are not like this is one that says this is absolutely shambolic stuff a cheap and disingenuous attempt to win favor with today's pc culture men are not like this and sexual harassment and bullying have never been part of what masculinity is about now any bloke worth their salt should boycott gillette products now this was from a british ad agency which seems like why the reason that it's becoming like a big british story Oh, is it from a British ad agency? It is from a British ad agency. Because I was unclear on why that seemed to be the locus of all the controversy.

Right. But yeah, that seems like maybe that's the reason. But literally, the headline is, you just alienated about half your customers, colon, hundreds of British men threatened to boycott Gillette. Yeah, the hashtag of hashtag get woke go broke yes uh yeah i mean good luck with that procter and gamble i think can weather this storm did you see that like bbc story about this like alleged like the alleged right-wing online outrage where it was basically like they were quoting clear twitter eggs like oh really like you know they

were like this guy says he's gonna boycott you know and and you know like quote tweeting him what's his handle at one one three three four no yeah it was like like you know lads like eight five oh five five blah blah blah i'm just like yeah all right like have some fucking standards the bbc well and like the imagery too is very, it's just like, you know, there's, there are moments of like men catcalling or like boys watching television where a character, like it's normalizing sexual harassment or, you know, man talking over a woman in a boardroom or whatever. It's like, yeah, okay. We can see what's going on here. But the reaction again, one of my favorite was someone on Reddit who just goes, the first one of these comments on Wonkette, they put together some reactions and this is one of my favorite was someone on reddit who just goes the first one of these comments on wonkette they put together some reactions and this is one of my favorites first this one user says

that's a shitty commercial like what the fuck a guy was about to go talk to a girl passing by and his friend said not cool seriously what the fuck then the reply to that yeah welcome to 2019 next stop 2020 where it's literally illegal to have a dick now that first comment about the guy going to talk to a girl passing by and his friend said not cool seriously what the fuck like that does seem to be what happens is like the guy doesn't isn't like yeah or like he doesn't like grab her anything it does appear that he's trying to just go talk to her, and his friend is like, hey, not cool. Well, based on that, I'm going to say that that character has a backstory. Right.

Exactly. You know what I mean? Where he already knows. He already knows. His homeboy's like, hey, yo, yo, yo, not cool, bro. In which case, that person should not be free to roam the earth. Right. Probably.

That actually, though, is probably about like a statistically significant number of dudes so yeah yeah so i would say uh the intelligencer uh the new york magazine blog pointed out you know they're they're like yes we agree with their message but it's not an effective commercial because it doesn't clearly communicate like like well if you just look at people's response like the nike ad that was supposedly controversial is seven likes to one dislike in terms of ratio on youtube whereas this is four dislikes to one like on youtube and they were just kind of suggesting that maybe it's because it it does seem like it's not the most clearly drawn argument. It's like, I don't know, the way that they are addressing it to men, it's sort of like, look, guys,

it starts with showing like shitty male behavior, then it shows the Me Too movement, and then it's like all the men rethinking their behavior, and it's like, look, we were sexually harassing and assaulting women, and now it's time to change, which is like, well, that's not necessarily, maybe you were, but a lot of people weren't, which are the responses that I've seen. I don't know. I think racism is just easier to get over for some people than misogyny yeah you know i think that's definitely it's just like yeah fine man i know some cool black dudes or whatever but you're like a woman excuse me a

woman is better than me or the same yeah well there's a lot of misogyny too because it's like it's of the like how could i how could i be a misogynist i love fucking women you know what i mean it's like lots of well that's what i'm saying bro lots of misogynists have intimate relationships with women that doesn't mean they're not misogynist right yes um and i think that's the harder for people to understand it's just like there's no like my mom's a woman yeah there's no analogous version of like the kkk for you know which is like even that of course the ignorant extreme example for racism it's like a lot of people you can't be racist unless you know yeah right crosses and shit but even the worst misogynists really can't approach like completely separating from women

forever you know what i mean like there's it's just like people don't get that yeah the other thing i wanted to say though is that that likes and dislikes measure is like the same like statistical massaging that's like the media only has like a 30 approval rating right like you know everyone hates like house democrats and it's like yeah but the reasons for hating these people are almost diametrically opposite right you know like if you hate nancy pelosi you could do it from almost anywhere on the political spectrum right yeah like and it's yeah it's meaningless to say i dislike this ad. Well, and also with YouTube, too, as being the party place for toxic masculinity.

Sure, sure, sure. You put a video up there that's trying to hold a mirror up to anything like that. Like, fuck this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why? What are you saying about YouTube? Let me get back to commenting cunt on Amy Schumer videos. Right.

All right, guys, let's talk about Mike Huckabee. He has a, what seems like his answer to The Daily Show 25 years later. It's a weekly show on TBN. What is that? Trinity Broadcasting Network, baby. Oh, okay. My bad. They were playing fucking TBN at the gym yesterday.

Really? Yeah. I think it was all right-wing shit. I was like, what is this? I think it was TBN. Right. Were they playing Sid Roth's It's Supernatural? I don't remember.

VeggieTips? I only noticed because all of the ads were for like- Low-tip? No, it was for like, call in or buy this Trump commemorative coin. Oh, yeah. Like shit like that over and over. Challenge coin, sure. I was like, what?

And then the station ID came up and I was like, what? TBN. I think I have a TBI. Yeah. So he's got, you know, look, we're always saying we knew the conservatives have been praying to the heavens for a weapon in the culture wars to pwn the libs. And, you know, again, let me just read the description of this show, Mike Huckabee's weekly show. It says,

Woof. I don't even know what this means. Yes. with special guests. Each episode closes with a song by a, quote, house band consisting of members of the Fox News staff. Woof. I don't even know what this means. Yes. It is depressingly almost exactly the format of the Yosas Racist pilot I did a couple years ago. Well, there's nothing necessarily wrong with the format. And yes, it was weird that you closed with a song by a house band consisting of members

of the Fox News staff. Oh, they're so good, though. But so we want to just check in a couple of times with what Huckabee has to say as he owns the libs. So let's just check in with one of his takes. But in just their first four days, they managed to set a new land speed record for careening from reasonable impersonation of a rational human being to full-on bat poop loonies. Now, by this time next Thursday, I half expect them to be climbing to the top of the Capitol

Dome while screaming gibberish and waving flaming torches. Here's just a little recap of their version of MAGA, Make America Groan Again. I said, make America groan again. Oh, boy. Wow, if you actually look at the fucking clip, the video clip, the audience is all like septo and octo and nanopets,

genarians. Yeah, very elderly white audience. Yeah. And some of the people look like they even know the shit is bad, though, too. There's also pained laughter who are like, okay, well, this is what it is. This week, he's going to have Alan Dershowitz on.

Oh, yeah? Yeah, so that'll be a litty. The homie. Oh, great. Yeah, but again, we have all kinds of other clips from there. Yeah, we're going to continuously check in with Huckabee. But yeah, that writing style of his translates as well as we all imagined it would to out loud joke telling. Bat poop crazy. Oh, man.

I can't believe I didn't get an interview for this writing stuff. It's fucking shameful. It is lovely to see Republicans or like conservatives finally, like every time they compete in the marketplace of ideas on comedy, it is the fucking best. I hope this show costs a billion

dollars to make. So good. It looks like a million bucks. It looks like, yes. Whatever they spent every penny of it up on the screen. Everybody should check it out. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017, was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 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 unhearts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed

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Their point is just like, in this Me Too era, dude, you got to be careful. You can't even say hello to a woman without a cop around or something. I don't know. Am I right, fellas? They're just like every 50-year-old stand-up working today. That's right. We'll have some 50-year-old stand-up later for you. All right, guys, let's talk about Brexit.

It's at a weird impasse where the populist ideas don't really work. So anytime anyone proposes a version that would work within the government, nobody wants to do it. It's basically the same deal. It's like right-wing populism that people voted for, but that is in no way possible or can in no way be done in a modern society like the wall. So yeah, our government's shut down and they don't know what the fuck they're going to do with Brexit.

I do like how right-wing governments across the globe, they're like the dog that caught the car. Yeah, that's right. In this country, I guess probably the most obvious is they're really going to try to push through overturning Roe v. Wade. They need to talk about it. It's weird that they might actually do it for them. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

So that's, I don't know, Theresa May, there was a vote of no confidence yesterday that didn't get enough support, so she's still there. Surviving. Yeah. It really is a lot like the dog that caught the car where the dog and the car are just there together being like, huh, okay, so now what? What the gonna do what else all the all the right-wing maniacs are like

you eat that fucking car that's right but i i can't digest it shut the fuck up so on the subject of the wall while trump's numbers have continued to slide because of his inability to run a government that stays open the wall continues to become more popular yeah well what's interesting he's losing ground with like one of his core demos, which is uncolleged whites. And they say 45% of whites without a college degree approve the job done by Trump. That was compared to 54 who backed him in December. That's a pretty big drop of nine points. And so that's what's kind of interesting. What I think because too, like,

because these are now things that are affecting a very large number of people in many different ways. Because even if you don't work for the government, you think about all the lost revenue that's coming from people who would be spending money if they had their check from the government. Other businesses, other landlords not getting their money. It's not a good situation, obviously. But yeah, like you said, xen mean xenophobia my god it's way in right now right it's climbing so hot right now yeah well that's that's the weird thing is despite his support going down so uh in another poll it said 42 percent of americans now support the

construction of the border wall a full eight percentage point jump from previous results on the same question one year ago so there's a chance that people are like the ground he's losing with his base is being lost with people who are mad he hasn't been able to get the wall built well there's also there's also 39 of republicans don't want the government shut down over the wall they don't think that the wall is worth shutting the government down right so they still like the wall but they're like well not, not like the wall, not over this shit. I mean,

to continue along with that, there says respondents who said they strongly support the walls construction that increased also from 25% to 29%. Yeah. I feel like we're seeing the real Republican party come out of the, of course we're xenophobic racists. We hate Brown people. We just don't like the way Trump talks. Like that's

sort of maybe also solidifying because it's like oh he's doing this the wrong way like this actually fucks my brand up a little bit i was able to just sort of like operate as like a shadow racist yeah right you don't talk about it the fact that you're fucking over people of color you just do it you just do it and then you act like what they wh whining about? Right. Well, and also I think they're kind of realizing like, you know, as far as ROI, racism ROI goes, the wall isn't really that good. It's just a symbol. If they're going to spend all this money to fuck over brown people, they can do it a lot more effectively so many other ways.

Yeah. Like putting money into Mike Huckabee's TBN show. That's right. Do we have another clip of Mike Huckabee? This time he had a great stand-up on. Okay. Okay? And, I mean, this guy, whoo, he's finally just talking truth about, you know, millennials.

Just get in on it. Just take a big old mozzarella bite out of this one. Grandma and Grandpa's television with a doily on top, a doily. Grandma crocheted a doily, man, a doily. Some of you young millennials, you know, a doily on top, a doily. Grandma crocheted a doily, ma'am, a doily. Some of you young millennials, you know, doily, you don't know what a doily is. Doily. We love you through Jesus. I love my millennials. I love my millennials. Don't we love our millennials? I've got two millennials, you know, and I love our millennials. But may I just say something very quickly? When you're writing my note, be sure to print.

But anyhow. Oh, rip shot. Whoa. Drop the fucking bomb. Because we can't read cursive. So print. I love, though, too, he probably saw some Netflix special, and he saw someone do a bit Where there was like word repetition

About one word Right it sounded like that Hey honey can you get in here If I just say this one word Over and over Doily Doily Millennials doily

It's also just like Part of the reason Like when you're in the audience At a TV show Or doing any live thing They fucking beat you over the head with like laugh yeah heart please laugh now we'll do another take yeah if not the show will be over and they're like okay guys we're gonna need to just get some more laughs on on the mics for this so we can edit this in all right now this one's gonna be a real

big laugh now this is gonna be a 10 out of 10 and then we're gonna get a 6 out of 10 and then a 3 out of 10 yeah they couldn't even get that somehow? It's incredible. The audience response is just like... And he was talking about millennials like they were half black kids. You know what I mean? And he was like, and I love my millennials. I got two at home. I got two miscegenated grandkids.

That's what he was about to say. I love them through Jesus. But yeah, anyway. We just had to hop. Check the pulse of the Huckabee show. I guess let just had to, we just had to hop, got that fire. Check the pulse of the Huckabee show. I guess let's move on before it just turns into the all Huckabee review. Let's talk about mother.

Mother. Uh, Karen Pence is back at work. She missed, uh, her job teaching and she is teaching at a school that is so anti-gay. They, they don't allow LGBT— Anything.

Anything. No students, no messaging. And then even parents have to sign this weird I'll never gay agreement kind of thing. Right. This is in the Huffington Post, too. They have some of the documents. This is a school called Emanuel Christian in Virginia. And this is from one of the agreements that parents

have to sign. It says, moral misconduct which violates the bona fide occupational qualifications for employees, oh this is for employees, but is not limited to such behaviors as the following, heterosexual activity outside of marriage, e.g. premarital sex, cohabitation, extramarital sex, homosexual or lesbian sexual activity, polygamy, transgender identity, any other violation of the unique roles of male and female sexual harassment, use or viewing of pornographic materials or websites. And then the application goes on to say that the school believes that, quote, marriage unites one man and one woman, and that a wife is commended to submit to her husband as the church submits to Christ.

Yeah. That seems exactly where I thought she would teach. And then on the job application, it also has them explain their view of, quote, the creation evolution debate. Ha. This would be so easy to get a job here. Right. Like, if you were smart enough, like, yeah, dude, I mean.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Fuck, dude. God came down and blessed the fucking earth with Adam and Eve. Right. And the rest is history. You know what probably is hard is there's so much in-group jargon with those folks that you'd have to bone up a little bit. Yeah, you would.

You would have to spend some time going to meetings or something, Bible studies. Oh, man, I went to Lutheran and Catholic school. I know all the buzzwords. I could sing. I could jump in on a hymn with them. Yeah, I heard you. You said God and Adam and Eve. You know it all.

Oh, yeah. No, I mean, where were you there when they crucified my Lord? That's a great track. That feels like some very Catholic guilt shit. Oh, yeah. I mean, all the lyrics are like, were you there? Then like, were you there when they put him in the tomb

and put him on the cross? Yeah, Catholics sort of feel bad about that shit. Whereas a lot of the, you know, Southern Baptist religions are just like, we know who did that shit to Jesus. We all know. We all know. Right. It's like, if I'd been there.

Right. This crucifixion wouldn't have gone down. Yeah. Yeah. Go watch The Passion of the Christ. We all know what went down. They have, they say at this school too, in the parent church, it says women are only permitted to teach scripture to children, teenagers, and other women. And they have health classes in fifth grade, which has a, quote, distinctly biblical perspective.

And then they also read this book called The Secret Keeper, The Delicate Power of Modesty for the women in class, the young girls at the school. Wait, so what is excluded from that list of people women are allowed to, just grown men? I think so. They can't speak to grown men about the Bible? No, men have to talk to men, man, I guess. I don't know.

That's kind of confusing to me, too. A man can talk to women if they want, but the woman can't initiate it and act like she knows something about the Bible that they don't know. That's kind of confusing to me, too. A man can talk to women if they want, but the woman can't initiate it and act like she knows something about the Bible that they don't. Right. They're like, oh, I'm sorry. What are you going to tell me about the Bible? Right. I know every word.

Just tell me a page, and I'll recite it from my mind. I'm sorry. Is God a woman? No. He's a man. God is a woman. So don't talk to him. God is a black woman, and we all know that.

Yes. We do. What is she doing there at the school? What is the old mother? She taught there for 12 years when he was in Congress. Yes. We do. What is she doing there at the school? What is old mother? She taught there for 12 years when he was in Congress. So that was her old job and she's just like, I have to get back. But anyway, in this book,

The Secret Keeper, there's a sentence that says, the source of power is modesty. Modesty? A source of great power? Yes, modesty is the source of this delicate yet formidable power, making it a power in and of itself. It's delicate because it can be so innocently given away without your even knowing it. It's formidable or difficult to deal with or control because once you've mastered it,

no man will be given access to the full secrets behind your allure until you so desire. Yeah. And then there's like a weird thing about flapper dresses. Oh, for real? It's like for the first time, dresses were short and women were showing arm. Was it sexual? You bet. Flappers, quote unquote, were known to drink a lot and treat sex casually. Right. Often attending necking arm. Was it sexual? You bet. Flappers, quote unquote, were known to drink a lot and treat sex casually.

Right. Often attending necking parties. So this is like, it's all this wild misinformation in there. And you know what she teaches? You know what she teaches there? Art. Oh, okay. Oh, so the beauty.

With a focus on the work of Georgia O'Keeffe. Yeah. No. So yeah, those kids are getting learnt up. Oh my God. Who writes anti-flapper? That's incredible. Anti-flapper propaganda?

Yeah. Also, that sentence is like, it would be awesome. It's like logic, like so circular. Because they just keep repeating the same premise and conclusion over and over again it's amazing silent being quiet and you know modest is a superpower this is actually in snow white like disney's first disney princess that is the main message she keeps like getting bailed out when she's asleep or passed out and looking pretty people see her when she looks pretty but if she's like making decisions or doing anything showing any agency she fucks it up and like almost

kills herself go back to sleep which right snow right is i mean no white is all right i'm just that's right it's just fucking sad though you know what i mean like this is the fucking wife of the what is it called the second lady is that what's the term for the second second mommy the second second mother is at a school that has such fucking backwards violent rhetoric towards lgbtq people and then like this is just just like kind of like okay and that's fine yeah it's not you know we're not there yet but that's we're not there yet i guess that's really the sadly we're just not there yet we're that's... We're not there yet. I guess that's really... Sadly, we're just not there yet. We're like, this is okay. I mean, but we've always known from the beginning that Mike Pence is just...

Yeah. His whole shit is based on, like, erasing LGBTQ people. I mean, that's where we're at also. It's just like, this is the, like, alternative. This is like, oh, once we get that hate monger Trump out of office... Right. This is what we got in store for us. Yeah.

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And should we just come off the top rope with a little bit more Mike Huckabee? Yeah, fine. I mean, yeah. I can't get enough of this shit, man. I love it so much. I mean, this next one, let me just set this clip up for you.

It was a story about, I think, like a guy who tried to steal a bicycle and was like really stupid about it. I don't know. It was probably from like, you know, one of those like news of the stupid or like dumb criminals websites where I think a guy was just basically

a very inept bicycle thief. And then this is him just giving him the fucking smoke. OK, so just put on your protective belts. I wonder if they can charge him for impersonating a criminal. Or maybe attempted theft without using a brain. Not sure, but he's probably not going to be a big wheel in prison. Please clap. All right, we edited.

Had to get Jeb Bush in there. Please clap. Oh, my God. Do we want to break this joke down? Yes. We've been talking about this all morning. So we're trying to figure out what that big wheel in prison joke

means. Is it that wheel sounds like deal? Yeah. He's going to be a big deal in prison. And wheel because he stole a bike? Oh. Or is being a big wheel like a thing that people used to say? I just assumed

Huckabee is just like, well, that's not a normal bicycle. One enormous wheel and one tiny wheel and you just ride on it with your top hat. Oh, Penny Farthing? Penny Farthing style. Right. That's how he rides bicycles?

Yeah, you've got to assume. I think what he's doing is actually very genius. It works on two levels. He's saying, you're not going to be a big deal in prison. Right. And then he's also specifically calling out the big wheel. Oh, a big wheel.

Like a big wheel. Remember that as a kid? And that makes sense that he would say he's not going to be a big wheel in prison. Yeah, that's called a fucked up joke. Terrible, stupid joke. Is that really possible? I don't even know.

Holy shit. It's just so weird. Like many of his tweets, when he's trying to be funny, it hurts my head, kind of. Yeah. I do think, I have to assume that he's writing to be funny, it like hurts my head kind of. I do think, I have to assume that he's writing all his own material. Like there's no way that he has a writing stuff.

But like he has to. No, he has. Doesn't he have that dude that writes his tweets? Oh, does he? Is it just him and that guy? But there's a dude that was like on, I mean, maybe he's just a Twitter right wing bullshitter, but I think he says like you know contribute jokes to

like at there is a dude who I follow who is always claiming that he's Mike Huckabee's writer and is like brilliant once again Mike but I think it's another perfect bit but I'm pretty sure that that dude's joking but I mean it's a

little bit like Mad Libs like he kind of has the delivery of a type of stand-up. Oh, yeah. Wait, hold on. You're right. From the 1960s. He has a... In 2017, someone was bragging about being his joke writer.

What's his name? Chip Hinkleman. Oh, okay. I think that might be the dude. Fake? Yeah, I think he might be joking, Chip Hinkleman. That sounds like the sound, because it sounds so on brand for a person who would write Mike Huckabee's jokes. Yeah.

We're just at the perfect nexus, though, of like, could be real. It's also like, that's exactly. Yeah, no, because he does Dennis Miller, too. Oh, okay. But I like the idea, though, of Mike Huckabee being so protective with his art, where he's like, I'm sorry, I can only trust me to write these jokes. Right. And he's like, people try and give him notes.

He's like, I said I got it. And then he writes, he's like, gonna be a big wheel. I'm surprised he didn't say something about being in chains. Right. being in chains. Right. It's, I mean,

that type of humor is like the dumb, stupid news, dumb criminal humor is like inherently very problematic. He got the gold pedal

in robbery. I mean, that's also like, that is approximately the same level. I'm trying to come up with these shitty puns

and we're crushing it. You guys should have a segment where it's just like Huckabee's Writing Room. Just punch it up. Yeah. Huckabee's Punch Up. Is that a whole new podcast? I think it might be.

Oh my god. Just take the monologue, we break it down, and we rewrite it. Every week, punch it up. Yeah, because it is a weekly show, so that can become a new regular feature. I think it needs to be. I think maybe now I'm just going to have to start watching TVN every fucking Saturday. Jesus Christ.

That is... Because you could have done so many... You can go in so many ways. You could have done something about Hillary Clinton being a criminal or something. Well, I feel like that is... What was that other Fox News one? This half-hour news hour or something like that? Right, right.

Is that the one? That one did have a thing where it's like, because, I don't know, correlation's not causation, but somehow it just happens that every time there's right-wing comedy, it's always the hackiest, boringest bullshit. Right. They got into whitewater material by act three. They were nominally a topical show and were, were cold out.

Right. In like 18 minutes. It was unbelievable. And you're just like, you guys have nothing else. Right. The fuck is, how is this possible?

And I don't know about you, but this hanging chant. Yeah. It's just like, like they haven't had a fresh take. Right wing thought has not had a fresh take since like 1785? Yeah, it's been a while. It's been a while.

I mean, it's tough. Then after that, it's all Jennifer Flowers jokes. I mean, that's like the barrel they're in. Yeah. But I don't think anything that he said technically counts as a joke right like it doesn't qualify well that's a pun right but that's not if it even is though big wheel big deal i just don't i know because saying a big deal isn't necessarily something that tracks you're talking about someone prison like what does that have to do with any i i would

i'm gonna push back a little bit because i just i'm not fully convinced that's even what he's getting at right right yeah like or maybe he just thought he'd say big wheel yeah yeah i think it's just i think he was like you can be a big like you know a big a big deal you can be a big like something else metaphorically we'll just call him a big wheel that's the thing people could say. Jesus. I think it's just he's having trouble writing jokes. Anyways, let's- He's like, yeah, I mean, just this cycle of criminal behavior has to stop.

It's too good. It's too good, Miles. You're going to get poached. Yeah, I know, right? I'm just, oh my God, I just go evil. But I'm like, yo, I'm sorry. The checks are crazy. The Koch brothers gave me my own fucking just white slave.

I was like, give me a white slave then. And they did. Right. And it was Stephen Miller? I mean, they're Irish, but. There's no way that it would take you more than 15 minutes a day. Yeah. Well, okay.

I guess we'll have to watch that. Get at him, Mike. I'm going to watch this week's episode, and I'll come back with some punch-ups. Here's my 100% genuine pitch for this, which is I think you only have to listen to the monologue. Yeah. And I think you could honestly, you guys should backdoor pilot it, but I'm serious. I think you all have a full 45-minute show. Terrible, terrible show.

Like a podcast, just like a companion. You know what would be funny, though? You'd probably get a lot of people on the right to listen because they're like, thank God, this is actual funny shit about the left. Yeah. It's unbelievable. All right, well, coming to a— Plus, you could—

I heard a horseshoe theory that you could get some Comptown people getting on it. It's going to be slam dunk. Slam dunk. Hey, speaking of sports, fuck yeah. Run it back around. Uh-huh. Hey, Nick's fingers get worn out in there. So Travis Scott and Big Boy are going to be joining Maroon 5.

Is it still Maroon 5? It must be, right? I just wanted to make sure because every time I read the articles, they never said Maroon 5. Is it still Maroon 5? It must be, right? I just wanted to make sure because every time I read the articles, they never said Maroon 5. They're saying, Travis Scott and Big Boi agreed to do the Super Bowl halftime show.

I know that Maroon 5 is part of the Super Bowl halftime show where that was like that headliner. It's headlined by them. Wow. Then they have the two black artists supporting this group. Interesting. In this era? That's how it's been for like a decade. headlined by them and then they have wow and then they have the two black artists supporting this group interesting in this league

that's how it's been for like a decade well maybe Beyonce had her shit right and then Prince Prince was

fucking melted this shit down no it it used to be like this that's why I was asking if MTV was producing it again because the last time MTV produced it

was I think the wardrobe malfunction and prior to that it was I think the wardrobe malfunction and prior to that it was like always a mashup of like Britney Spears then Aerosmith then Justin

Timberlake then like you know all these different people would come out and that was like the a true ratings grab right but lately it's just been like you know Katy Perry's out here just riding a giant lion it always feels like Brooke Hogan featuring Slim Thug. It just always feels like that, whatever it is.

Right. Yo, keep Slim Thugger out of this. But yeah, on TMZ, they were saying like that Travis Scott, they were like, you know, that he had actually cleared it up with Colin Kaepernick before and that Cap had given the blessing. And then Colin Kaepernick was like, I said nothing of the sort. And in fact, this is disappointing. Yeah.

And again, I mean, I don't really care about the NFL to begin with, so it wasn't really hard for me to stop watching it just based on all the shit going down with the kneeling controversy and stuff like that. But it's weird because you see people on Twitter who are like, man, like fucking Travis Scott, can't believe he's doing a fucking halftimeime show yet like their avatar is like a buffalo bills fucking logo and things like that and you're like it's weird this has been one of those few

controversies that have like people i'm sure there's there's a very small group of people who i think are actually willing to follow through on being like i can't support this and that's your prerogative to fucking you know watch whatever the fuck you want but it just seems a bit odd when i see people who are like disappointed in like the them doing this halftime show yet still watch the league right like you can't have it both ways hey i did my part i clicked like on the nike ad when it was on youtube that's the most important yeah that is and you would have voted for obama i mean this is this is the same as the the statistical yeah this likes versus dislikes thing. It's like people are boycotting the NFL, nominally boycotting because they're not doing more about people kneeling.

They're boycotting because of, you know, CTE. It's just like it seems like there's a vested interest. And I know it's just the media. I'm sure someone's done the statistical digging. But like to just say like 83% of Americans disapprove of the NFL, and again, it's for wildly different reasons. No one ever publicizes or talks about the breakdown or puts it in real terms.

Half the people think that's because black people aren't treated well enough, and half the people think black people are treated too well. Yeah, right. Exactly. You could easily say that, but no one ever does. Yeah, well, you know, we'll see what happens. You know, a lot of artists said no.

You know, like Rihanna said no, and who else said no? Jay-Z. Jay-Z. Like a lot of people said no. A couple years ago. Yeah, but again, I think at the end of the day, like a lot of people are just too, like they're addicted to the NFL in a certain way. Like it's part of their ritual culturally yeah yeah it's i don't know what it would take for like an actual sizable

group of people to be like i'm literally turning this off and never watching i mean i think it's a little bit generational and we're at the start of it because it's like it's all these people that are you know whatever even if realistically it's like i don't know let's say super optimistically maybe 10 fewer people are watching actually watching the nfl who actually would have before right so those people's kids are not watching it you know so then that sort of starts to become like compound interest but still generational we're talking like right i don't know eventually it'll 100 years yeah and they also talk about generationally like nobody's going to be allowed to play because of the brain damage.

Yeah. So that just participation is going to inherently be lower. Yeah. But yeah, I agree. Like at the beginning of the season, on both sides of the media, it was like nobody's watching the NFL. Like look at how low the ratings are.

And now quietly the stories have been like record ratings for the NFL so it's like just people kind of forgot about that story. I think it's mostly the media was I think it's a media created thing too because I functionally don't know many people who have actually stopped watching the NFL or at least who weren't like me where like I didn't really

watch it anyway so and not that I'm like going out of my way to not watch the NFL I just I didn't really even watch the inlet but right yeah yeah yeah no it's it's really hard to think of people who've like changed their ingrained behavior yeah for sure on any subject all right guys let's talk about ingrained behavior and netflix oh man an impossible business model. Yeah. So Netflix is raising their price. I think it's 18%. It's the most that they have ever hiked their prices in the past, like to this point. Right. So this is the thing that's confusing to me because the two things I'm always hearing about Netflix is that that they're just doing amazing their stock is like

going up up up and that they are like 30 trillion dollars in debt like just an insane like a gdp of a nation in debt i think it's like 12 billion but that seems like a lot of debt but maybe i don't understand how money works well yeah i mean the biggest reason right that they're hiking the prices is that because like disney and fucking mbc and all these other studios are starting their own streaming platforms that means netflix is no longer going to be like the exclusive carrier of those things right so part of it is they realized like apparently the disney was going to be really cheap so i think some of the thinking was they couldn't raise the prices after Disney comes out with a cheaper product. And then they say, well, ours is now more expensive. I think they're getting ahead of it now, raising the

prices. So when, you know, cause a lot of those Marvel shows are going to end up on the Disney one. And then also when you think about it shows like their biggest performing shows on Netflix, which are friends and the office are going to eventually be on NBC's streaming platform. Right. Like NBC Universals. So I think they're bracing themselves for a huge loss of viewership. I don't necessarily mean people are going to stop using it, but those things that people are watching a lot of are no longer going to be on Netflix, and they're going to be

on these other ones. So they're also counteracting that by spending massively in their original content because now they're like, well, we got to keep people on here. And the only way we're going to do that isn't just from licensing other content, but making our own. I feel like though, I mean, speaking of habituation, I feel like they're just banking their free money because, I mean i i so rarely actually like watch netflix i realized i just as the story came up i was like i sort of feel i think i've probably

paid a dollar per minute for the amount of netflix i've watched in 2018 like i watched so little of it right by time because i don't know why i'm just like but i you know i just have the the subscription i genuinely think i may have paid a dollar or more per minute of material as it because I don't know why. I'm just like, but I just have the subscription. I genuinely think I may have paid a dollar or more per minute of material. As it breaks down, right? Yeah, like seriously. But I'm not canceling. I'm clearly too lazy to cancel after this.

And it's the same business model that HBO employed forever, which is just like- Like, what, are you going to stop subscribing? Yeah, they make it just hard enough to unsubscribe and not enough people do it. Right. Like to counterbalance the game. I'm sorry. So, sir, you'd like to end your subscription to HBO? That's great.

Okay. So I'm going to give you some coordinates for you to reach our special customer service box. You'll do a handwritten scroll on parchment paper. But they don't even need to do it. They just need to be like, like oh just mail in the card that says you don't want to do it and yeah that's a big enough barrier and you're like how with a stamp oh fuck that all right oh fuck it i guess we're gonna keep hb the other thing about netflix that probably like all it's so weird the the short and long-term like things like incentives that these companies have because

it's also like netflix i would guess has you know except for the fact that their user data is probably kind of corrupted from multiple people using the same account like has so much info on everyone right yeah i think people are counting on that because yeah wall street is certainly gambling on their business model. Yeah. Because it keeps going up. They're kind of like low-key the Westworld. It's like, you know what else they could do?

Just blackmail everyone statistically. Right. Oh, my God. Even their Twitter account hints at that where they're like, hey, person who's watched The Grinch 80 times in a row, what the fuck's wrong? Who hurt you? Yeah, who hurt you? Yeah. It's like, ha-ha haha that's funny you know way

too much about us yeah yeah man it's interesting and now they're also spending money on an oscars campaign they're spending for the movie roma which is like a black and white foreign language film with a good shot of winning yeah good shot of winning best picture uh but they are spending more than anyone has spent on an oscar campaign since the social network they're spending 25 million dollars on the just the marketing awards campaign yes for the movie 25 million dollars is the tab yes what was the production budget of the film 15 million sounds good great and and also how many academy voters are there right like. Like a couple thousand? Well, no, that includes Golden Globes, too, I'm sure.

I think it does, yeah. Because, man, the Netflix party at Golden Globes, they were handing out fucking milk crack pies. They were offering me boxes. They're like, hey, do you want to just take this home? What's a milk crack pie? A milk bar at the bakery. They good.

They have a crack pie, which, you know the name, whatever. It's bad. But it is definitely highly habit-forming, like cigarettes. Right. Called cigarette pie. Nicotine pie. I feel like that would be less popular. Very delicious.

But, I mean, like, you go to those parties, and, I mean, those things alone cost, you know, millions of dollars, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. I mean, yes, millions. You think millions? I think, depending, right, if you're going to rent out a huge section of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, then build all the infrastructure to tent it to make it look like not the Beverly Hilton. Yeah. And then from there, you have all the catering, the cost of the DJs.

I'm going to give you half a million. I could pull that party off with half a million dollars. Okay. I'm just saying. No, no, no. For sure. My math could be all wrong but like for example the amazon one that was upstairs they fucking completely like they built a new floor

they put all this other shit in and i think when you i think yeah maybe a million i guess yeah yeah on the order of a million sure but i think also when i guess you consider all the printing that has to be done all the extra parties and events that are around every single thing, like in every city probably having events. All I'm sort of implying is they basically just give 10 grand to every Academy member. Right. There you go. Worth a shit. Like, what's the difference?

And those gifts, man, those gifts cost money too. But I think that's only the, yeah. Anyway. Yeah. But again, Miles got to go to some pretty cool parties. I know. 25 million. Yeah.

Well, look, guys. He's just a normal guy like all of you. Sure, you want to do the 10-year challenge 10 years ago? Yeah, I was just punching up jokes for Mike Huckabee. You know what I mean? And now look at me. I'm at the Golden Globes. I'm shoulder to shoulder with Anthony Scaramucci.

I mean, he was there, right? He was there, and I was like, what the fuck are you doing here, bro? And shame on the dude who snuck your ass in here. I think this is good for both your resumes. You will be punching up jokes for Huckabee, and Andrew, you can be an event planner for Netflix. Oh, perfect. I'll do any streaming.

Also, quick thing on that 10-year challenge thing, because someone at Wired Magazine wrote a little thing, just flippantly had a tweet about, everyone on social media is doing the 10-year challenge, like this was me in 2009. This is me in 2019. Had a much darker view of it and was saying like what if you know because i think it started on facebook like what if they were trying to train their algorithm to understand aging yeah and you just make it much easier because a lot of people are like well the

information's out there it's there anyway it's there anyway it's like but what if you had everyone organize side-by-side photos for it yeah knowing that it was a fixed date range, 10 years. Yeah, right. And then, you know, play that out. And it's human selected to be sort of representative of two eras. But it's all about a person clearly identifying themselves as a thing. You know, there is human information going in there. This is a slightly off topic.

going in there i i this is a slightly off topic but every time the internet starts going in on a celebrity look-alike thing every single time that happens i do a photoshop of me and whatever app or website it is and mickey rooney from breakfast at tiffany and every time i post it viral on instagram or twitter and i say look at what i just got for celebrity lookalike shaking my damn head and every time I feel so guilty because so many people are like this is fucked up so racist and I'm just like guys I've done this every single time

also he probably is my celebrity lookalike but it also shows you how people would believe that though too I can see that happening that shit happens still Mr.unioshi.jpg is i i have to download it every single time you white motherfuckers decide you want to do a celebrity lookalike thing oh because you did that for the twinning one i do everything but that's when you did it the most recently right art thing too yeah oh yes i did it for the art thing i've literally that's in a museum somewhere

well they had film stills actually i i made the effort to go with little like white 40 transparency print and write film still on the bottom of the thing wow consummate troll i have too much production value involved in that but it is just, that is the thing that I feel most guilty about because I'm like, I always fool a bunch of very decent, well-meaning people. Yeah. And also, though. People are ready to burn PopSugar the fuck down. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Isn't that who was behind that? Sure is. Sure is. Anyway, I will never do one of those lookalikes. Also, when they did the Mad Men lookalike thing, I downloaded it and I made a little rice patty hat on my character and slanted eyes. And people also were like, holy shit, outside adoption. I'm like, guys,

though corporations are bad and racist, usually they're not that on the nose. Well, Andrew, it's been a pleasure having you, man. Where can people find you? Oh, snap! The people of San Francisco! Who are the only people I care about, can come see me at the Daily Zeitgeist

at 11.30 p.m., whatever date that is. But yeah, the next day people can find me, January 20th, 1 p.m., Yo, Is This Racist? will be live in San Francisco at the Gateway Theater. So yeah, genuinely, stay up all night after Daily Zeitgeist

and if you come to the show, you know what? Just buy a ticket. I'll find a way to sneak you to the after party. Do it. Wow. Maybe? I don't fucking know. But also, Yo's is racist. Just listen to the podcast. It's a great show. And is there a tweet that you've been enjoying? Oh yeah. So a tweet

I've been enjoying. It's from this guy called The Hype, T-H-E-H-Y-Y-Y-Y-P-E, and it's one of the dialogue-driven one. Me, Tommy bullied me at school today again. Dad, holds up fist. You know what this is for, right? Me, yeah, I guess, later. Me, it didn't work. he didn't want a fist bump I love the hype in general he's great at dialogue he's real weird I assume he also I'm an asshole yeah that's fucked up it could be algorithm yeah I hope so hey I have a Gillette ad

remind me to show it to you miles Miles, where can people find you? Find me, follow me at milesofgray on Twitter and Instagram. One tweet, I like a few tweets. One is actually from one of the Zeitgang, at deadreca, display name casting creator, just tweeted at us, Dwayne the Swamp Johnson. I thought that was very clever when we were talking about the supposed Fox Newsness of the Rock.

And then a couple other ones from Reductress1. It says, How to play bass so well you become a female bass player. And another one from Reductress1. Bridget calling just about anything a mood these days. Oh, that's a mood. Oh my gosh. Some of you were like, oh, that's a mood that's just oh my god so many people are like oh

that's a mood that's a mood uh all right and tweet i have been enjoying donald trump's spokesperson for the 2020 campaign katrina pearson tweeted going through tsa pre-check at dfw and a man in front of me started apologizing to agents five five of them, for the shutdown chaos and said, Congress could end this tomorrow. The agents, nearly in unison, replied, Yes, but the Democrats are all on a beach in Puerto Rico. Flames. And Paul F. Thompson replied,

When you made up this story, why didn't you cast yourself as the one who apologized to the agents? It's a great part. You can find me on Twitter, Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website,

DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we write out, and we'll also link off to where you can buy our tickets for the upcoming live show. Miles, what song are we writing out on today? This is from an artist called Micaiah McRaven from Universal Beings. This song is called Black Lion.

And, you know, just a good live instrument. People who have mastered their instruments. There's some xylophone or vibes in there uh good uh old drumming which i like uh bass you know i'm just naming instruments now but uh look i like instrumental music and this one is a little bit of a toe tapper so relax to this one black line all right we are gonna ride out on that we will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. We'll talk to you guys then. Bye. Bye. Peace. Thank you. woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts.

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