The Daily Zeitgeist - Mad Mueller, Guac Cheese? 5.2.19

Episode Date: May 2, 2019

In episode 383, Jack and Miles are joined by QAnon Anonymous Podcast's Julian Feeld to discuss guac cheese, the cancellation of Woodstock 50, William Barr being shady in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, what is going on in the QAnon world, Fed reserve nominee Stephen Moore making racist jokes, all the movies coming out in May, Freddy the parrot, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. Get Ready to Put This New Guacamole Cheese on Everything2. WOODSTOCK 50 FESTIVAL COLLAPSED OVER MASSIVE CROWD SHRINKAGE3. Mueller complained that Barr’s letter did not capture ‘context’ of Trump probe4. QAnon Anonymous Podcast5. Trump Nominee Stephen Moore Fails Miserably at Defending Racist Public Housing Joke About Obama6. 10 FILMS TO SEE IN MAY7. Freddy the parrot makes it back to zoo after being stolen, shot and bitten by snake8. WATCH: Shigeo Sekito - The Word II Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet internet and welcome to season 80 episode 3 of the daily zeitgeist even though it's episode 4 we're gonna keep moving a production of iheart radio the podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness and say officially off top fuck coke industries and fuck fox news it's Thursday, May 2nd, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. President Abraham Stinkin, a.k.a. President Fartin Van Uren,

a.k.a. President Stanklin Pierce, a.k.a. President James Pucannon. Those are all Garbage Pail Kid 1800s presidential editions from Christy M. Guccimay. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! I was gonna be first rate, but I got high. Ooh, gonna hear some new hot takes from Miles Gray. Da-da-da-jack, who worked at crack. And I know why.

Hey, hey. Daily's out, guys. Daily's out, guys. Daily's out, guys. Yo, shout out to Palmdale and Afro Man. Afro Man. Although he's done some, I think some weird shit recently. But anyway, yeah, shout out to Paul Garaventa at Paul Garaventa for that amazing Afro Man.

Because I got high AK. Man, now I gotta Google what Afro-man did, like what problematic shit. I think he punched a woman on stage or some shit, didn't he? Oh, yeah. It was wild. This was a few years ago. You don't write, and then I got high without your demons, you know? No. You gotta be driven by some darkness.

I mean, his music already was aggressively lo-fi that it was just a step above Wesley Willis. You know, where I was like, this makes mostly sense. Honestly, though, writing a song that says, I punched a woman and then I got high, not gonna work so well. Wait, who the hell was that? What the fuck? What the fuck is happening? Voice came out of nowhere. Deep state.

We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat. Yes, deep state indeed by the hilarious and brilliant host of QAnon Anonymous, Mr. Julian Field. Thank you, guys. Excited to be on. Hey, excited to have you. Glad to have you. You know, a lot of people, Jared Holt, ally of this pod movement.

That's the phrase we like to use. Heard him on NPR the other day. Yeah, man. Being just like a real NPR type. You know what happens? We were fucking with Jared early on. You know what I mean? I'm not saying we put people on.

We increased McDonald's sales 4.5% last year. I'm not saying we're doing that. But Julian, it's so dope to have you on because I love the conspiracy theory. And Jared was like, you have to check out their podcast. And then I was like, yes. And then I like to tweet. And then this all happened and the internet is a beautiful place. Yeah, the best part is this conspiracy theory we decided to cover

has been eating and absorbing other conspiracy theories. So we have material forever, I think. It's just never going to go away. It might change names. It's the theory that never ends. All right. Well, we're going to get to know you a little bit better, get to know the whole QAnon,

what you've uncovered in your dig get to know the whole QAnon, what you've uncovered in your dig into the dark underworld of QAnon in our second act, and get to know you a little bit better up top. But first, we're going to tell our listeners what we're talking about today. Guac cheese. That's the big headline. Yep, the newest rapper. Yeah, exactly.

That actually wouldn't be a bad rapper name. Guac Cheese would be a dope. Yeah, that's a good rapper name. I hate when people are like, that's a cool band name. Not Cock Cheese, though. But I actually really like Guac Cheese as a rapper. It's also a product that I can't talk about without getting emotional.

No, I don't know why that happened. But that I think actually looks good despite myself. Miles, you're less on board? Well, we'll work through it together. Honestly, I'm so surprised that we're already talking about food and wrappers and condiments and wrappers because the tweet I brought in to read later is very much on brand. Oh, good.

Oh, wonderful. Don't spoil it, man. We're going to keep people hanging on for the tweets at the end. We're going to talk about Woodstock 50, which is looking shaky as fuck. Already? It is. So one group that was in charge of booking it says that it's canceled. The other group is like, no, no, no, no.

We just need to put a couple things together, man. Oh, no. No, no, no. We're still good for it. We're still good for it. Yeah, we're going to talk about that because I do think Billy McFarlane and all the Fyre Festival documentaries might be getting people to pull the plug a little bit early on these sorts of festivals that are occasionally quite half-baked, including the original Woodstock.

We are going to talk briefly about Robert uh not being too down with uh how the attorney general has been portraying his findings uh and you know we've we've had brief statements but now we have a letter that he sent him where he was just like the fuck bruh yeah uh what was that bruh what was that bruh uh we're gonna talk about jacob wall we Wall. We're going to talk about a teacher strike. Hit my back walls. Hit my back walls. We're going to talk about a lot of movies that are coming out in May. So just going to run through those real quick.

And we're going to talk about the hardest parrot in the world. Maybe the baddest MF in the world. I'm shook. I don't even know if I want to touch this story because I do not want the smoke from this parrot. Yeah, this parrot does not smoke. Parrot is not playing fucking games, and we'll talk about that shit later. And then there is a Cave Kids movie already in production, so hold on to your books. Not a kids show about the Thai Cave Kids.

Right, exactly. The Thai Trapped Cave Kids. It's the Larry Clark film kids. Right. But even darker. That would be wild. It's a bankrolled by Elon Musk. And it's just all about how that diver's a pedo.

Yeah, exactly. Right. Yeah. Wait till the counter fill comes out. But yeah, Elon's bankrolling. But first,

Julian, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? My last search, no joke, was best Polish pickle brands. Okay. Yep, go on. Mine too, but go ahead, explain why. I live in Little Armenia, and we have a local store with a huge pickle rack, and none of it is really in English.

So I was trying to figure out what a good pickle was, and it doesn't matter because Google's stupid. They listed Mount Olive, Boar's Head, and Vlasic. Okay. So I was like, okay, fine, maybe Vlasic. But it turns out no, Vlasic is really fake bullshit kind of as well and has been owned by corporations for many, many decades. The result is that I purchased some pickles called Polen with no D. Polen. I assume, hey, almost exactly the name of the country.

It's just a more casual version of Poland. Exactly. Polen. Yeah, Poland. There's an the name of the country. It's just a more casual version of Poland. Exactly. Poland. Poland. There's an apostrophe at the end. But the taste was okay, but they were soft enough that they collapsed when you squeezed them gently. That's why I like half sours. I like crisp.

Yeah. Batompt, half sours. If you guys have some brands to throw my way, maybe after the show or whatever, I'd be down. Batompt. Okay. Half-sour. Okay. Crunchy as shit.

You know what I mean? Batompt means delicious, I think, or something in English or whatever. And also one of the better words to say that I've never said before. Yeah. Batompt. Batompt. And I could be fucking that whole thing up, but it's like B-A-T-M-P-T-E. Anyway, check that.

Wait, but they have Polish pickles at the Armenian grocery store? It turns out even Armenians appreciate the Polish pickle. Okay, do your thing, Poland. But there was also Lithuanian pickles. And some other countries I can't remember, and I'm just going to sound racist if I try that. Okay, yeah, no worries. What is something you think is overrated? Michelin star restaurants.

That's right. We recently were in New York with my wife, and're like, okay, maybe like we, you know, have like a special date night. And so she found this Japanese place called Torishin. That's right. I'm actually putting them on blast for this because it was so bad. Wow. And it was like, okay, it was like affordable.

They have like a set menu thing or whatever. Not like most Michelin star places, but the twist for them is it's all chicken. So most of it's chicken and it's all on the little sticks. Yep, yakitori as we call it in Japan. Yakitori, yes, from Japan where we're at. Where we're at right now. Currently. From Kichijoji.

So about seven minutes into my meal, I literally had had like a couple of bites. I started feeling like I had the flu, like actively accelerated flu. And we had to leave before the end of the meal, basically. She was okay still. And then violent food poisoning. Wow.

Yeah. That's quick. We looked into it, and it turns out they've had a lot of issues because they don't store the chicken at the correct temperature, and they had like a C grade and a D grade even. And they have a Michelin star? They have a Michelin star. Get the fuck out of here.

When we went online a little bit, we actually hooked up with someone else who got poisoned that exact same night. And the guy actually got like a heart infection development from his food poisoning. So that's it. Fucking Michelin stars are done. Right.

And that guy has a podcast about the deep state, right? He absolutely does. They tried to get him. Right. Did he say before someone touched you with an umbrella tip outside the restaurant, right? He absolutely does. They tried to get him. Did he say before someone touched you with an umbrella tip outside the restaurant or something? Correct, yes. Someone lent me their pen for a second and then there was a drop of blood on my finger.

Wow, damn. That's terrible. Dude, a heart infection. Man, food poisoning is one of those terrible things. I'm sorry, I've got to put firehouse subs on blast. But the mushrooms at your bar bank location, my guy had one of those terrible things. I'm sorry, I've got to put firehouse subs on blast. But the mushrooms at your bar bank location, my guy had me on my deathbed a few months ago. I mean, that's why I don't let firemen make my subs. Oh, man, you got to.

Firefighters, Jack. Firefighters. Firemen and women. Firepersons. Firefighters, man. Wait, so isn't health grade and all that shit, doesn't that take into, like doesn't Michelin stars take that into account? No, the French don't care. It's about the food.

Right. Yeah. Wow. They're just there to be like, the food's great. And then if like everyone around them is literally dying from the same food they're eating, they're like, ah, who cares? I'm just like, fuck the Michelin game because like they always want to act like the West Coast ain't shit. Right. I'm like, you know what, bro?

LA. That's right. And what was it, Andrew T who says, expensive meals? Fine, New York. But cheap meals? LA got everybody fucking beat. He did say that. Above $35, New York has the better food scene. Below $35, LA has the better food scene. Yep. We're for the people.

We are for the people. And I'm so fucking upset that a Japanese yakitori place got you like that. It's one of my favorite foods. I know. It's tasty. I like it too. I'm going to call them and speak to them in Japanese and give them a real earful. And the New York authorities are still in contact with my wife about this. Really?

Wow. There's like depositions. Take them down. Oh, yeah. Yeah. What is something you think is underrated? I'm going to go with Hardy Bucks. Hardy Bucks.

Oh, the Irish show? That's correct. Oh, and the fucking Skyline. Fucking Skyboy. Yeah, Skyboy. Cannot recommend it enough. It's a show that we discovered on Netflix, and it's basically like an Irish trailer park, boys,

but not at all derivative. I want to emphasize it's not just like a copy. It is so good, so touching, so fucking funny. And yeah, you should check it out if you've never heard of that. Zambezi Nights, man. It's on Netflix. Zambezi Nights. Take her folk in handy.

That's right. I learned a lot of, you know, the slang is so funny to me. I love. Viper. Yeah, the character, the Viper is so funny to me. They designed all this music for him. He has a theme and shit. It's incredible.

Oh, man. Yeah. I recommend that, too. Because I love, like, mockumentary shit from the UK. Or just not that Ireland is part of the UK. But that region. European mockumentaries, I fuck with. They're not part of the UK?

Ireland, no. Okay. Going to shut up now. Yeah. It's its own country, yo. You don't have to find that Union Jack over there. When you take me out of my podcast

recording booth I just get stupider sorry guys it's my people Julian it's fucked up man oh yeah Jack you gotta apologize

you gotta get in with your people man I thought hardy bucks were like money you earned by eating a lot of Carl's Jr. and Hardys

and like could only spend spend there so my Irish culture isn't exactly top of the line. How many Hardee bucks you got in your card, man? I don't know.

I think I'm due for at least a free large fry. But they have like a web series that is like so, and if you put it together, like the whole thing is basically two and a half hours and they've compiled it on YouTube.

Super worth like checking out. And then if you want some higher end stuff, then yeah, three seasons on Netflix. Oh, so there's a YouTube show before that? Oh yeah, they were doing it before they had the money to. Oh, fuck.

It already feels so lo-fi and low budge. Even the TV version, I'm like, yeah, dude, this shit's grimy as fuck. I love it because even the ancillary characters, it feels like sort of Portlandia vibe where they're like, yo, just get the homie in town. And they're not an actor, but it'll be great because it'll just make the character like mad awkward.

Right. Yeah. There's a guy called Salmon and it's unclear whether he even knows he's on camera half the time. Right. It's pretty amazing. Oh, wow. I can't wait to watch this.

What is a myth? What's something people think is true, you know, to be false? I struggled with this one. I wrote a joke at first and then I was like, no, you know what? Let's go serious with it. Okay. I struggled with this one. I wrote a joke at first, and then I was like, no, you know what?

Let's go serious with it. So one thing that even people who don't consider themselves anti-Semitic sometimes think or posit is that Jewish people are kind of naturally good with money, that somehow their prevalence in the financial sector developed as a result of their nature or their culture. This is absolutely false, because during medieval times, Jewish people were considered responsible for Jesus's death, and they were seen as a kind of necessary evil, and they weren't even allowed to own land, so they were pushed into money lending or tax and rent collection. All of these were considered lower-class occupations, because Christians considered money lending to be sinful. They were also forced to live separately from the rest of society, often in ghettos,

and we're talking medieval times, so that's how far back this range is. They were required at times to wear clothing that distinguished them as Jews, so the same kind of like Golden Star vibe. And the conspiracy theories around blood libel, which posited that Jews ate Christian babies, were rife at the time. And then even Martin Luther, that dude who inspired the Protestant Reformation, wrote a cool book called On the Jews and Their Lies, which, you know, you don't know where he's, you don't know what his stand is until you read the rest of the book. Right. Yeah. You don't know what he's going to say on that subject. He just says it's about that. Exactly. And I mean, most people wouldn't be like Jewish people, you know, but like,

I think this hangs in the back of the head of even some people who aren't like outrageously like racist or anti-Semitic. And really it's just a result of interpreting the back of the head of even some people who aren't like outrageously like racist or anti-semitic and really it's just a result of interpreting the results of anti-semitism as the factors of its origin do you know what i mean yeah totally damn sorry i came through that myth it's funny because some comedians come through and they're like hey man i'm gonna tell you right now myth bust jews aren't good with money or jews are good with money i'm poor and i'm jewish so what's good? I heard that one come through. So I'm glad you came through and actually we went back in time. You actually dug into history and gave us the real reason that one's wrong. I wrote a paper in college about the beginnings of the othering of Jews in the New Testament

and began with the stoning of Stephen. And I was like, I was all into that shit. Stoning of Stephen? What? Who's Stephen? Stephen was not... He was just, yo, I can't even remember.

I gotta pull up the fucking paper. But it was like one of the first instances where the Jews began to be seen as like this force of bad and they were taking

a Christian person and being like, you know what? Stephen must be stoned. And that's when the tone started changing a little bit. When we got rid

of the Roman Empire, they couldn't protect the Jews anymore, you know? They were just such good Samaritans, those Romans. Yeah, agreed. Thank you. And let's get into guac cheese, guys.

Let's talk about that. So, Miles, where did you find this shit? Sorry, what? Where did you find guac cheese? Oh, man, guac cheese. I mean, I was looking on that website, The Takeout, but apparently this is being offered at the Fresh Market chain. That's a real grocery store?

I guess so. I don't know about it. I've never seen it. I know they have a website, thefreshmarket.com. They must be some stuff that's sent to your house maybe? Having moved around a lot, I know that no matter where you move, the grocery stores at that place are going to sound fake to you at first.

Right. Like the fact it's like in Massachusetts, it's like Stop and Shop or something like that. It's like a weird and it has like a stop. I thought Publix was fake. Yeah. I was like, yeah, all right, Publix. Right.

It all sounds weird. The same way when I tell people like, oh, yeah, Ralph's. And they're like, yeah, Ralph's. Sure, buddy. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. way when I tell people like oh yeah Ralph's and they're like yeah Ralph's sure buddy yeah okay Southern California has a man's like ordinary first name bias because Kroger is named Ralph's and Hardee's is called Carl's Jr. I'm thinking about this is the cheese cold I mean guac is not

good hot so right so this is the deal okay this guac cheese it's a mix of Gouda style cheese and a blend of avocado lime juice touch of chili tomato onion and garlic Gouda-style cheese and a blend of avocado, lime juice, touch of chili, tomato, onion, and garlic. Gouda? Not even queso fresco or some fucking cheese that might actually match it? And it looks like just this green green glob. Oh, it's like the shape of a cheese, but green. No, it's a cheese. So, like, you can cut

little cubes up and, look, if you want to melt it down and put it in your queso, so be it. It just looks like green ass cheese. Now, I know when I look at the flavors that they're describing, I'm like, okay, yeah, yeah, I think I've been there. But looking at it, it makes me, there's something a little weird about it.

This is the result of fucking healthy foods being just injected into non-healthy foods because somebody like lists them on like a kind of like power food website. I don't know, we needed this in everything now. The American understanding of nutrition is that you can eat your way to skinniness. You're just like, we just need to eat more guac because avocados are healthy. There's not enough guac in our cheese. I can't

stop. I'm going to eat like three cheeses a day, full cheeses. But if we could put some guac in it. I wouldn't have my fourth meal, but unfortunately I haven't hit my daily recommended dose of superfoods. Anyways, I think it looks good, or it doesn't look good, but when I found out that it's a blend of avocado, lime, chili, tomato, onion, and garlic, I like all those flavors together. So I'm going to fuck with it. Yeah, look, I mean, I would eat a sandwich that had Gouda and all that shit on it too, but it's just weird when you look green cheese and like avocado in my cheese it's just guaranteed that it's better separate right yeah you know so just sell me the two

products separately i'll combine them in a sandwich i don't need you to mash them together in advance well everything is about all these the company's pre-mashing shit like mayo q and i want i want a bread that's made of mayonnaise let's go that. That's the next line. Just bring it. You see that bread that is peanut butter and jelly? Bread and eggs. Yeah, you got to eat it with a fucking spatula or funnel. Woodstock 50, just moving on because there's no way to transition between those two. The Wine Mom Festival. Yeah, there you go.

It's something we talked about when it was announced because it has a pretty dope lineup. The primary investor has said it has been canceled. Who's the primary investor? A company by the name of Dentsu Aegis Network. Oh, Dentsu, yeah. Yeah, Dentsu Aegis Network. Right, right, right. They're owned by Dentsu, which is like the fucking advertising PR master like master conglomerate in Japan.

Right. Like you cannot escape Dentsu. They basically got canceled by an algorithm. Right. That doesn't even sound like it's remotely connected to human beings. Right. That boardroom is literally just robots. Dentsu Aegis.

Yeah. We have determined unviable investment. I was canceled by a Final Fantasy character. Right. Actually, you cut me off halfway through saying the name of the thing. Detsu Aegis Network's Amplify Live. Oh my gosh. So it's just like five different things that have been...

Right, a subsidiary of... Amplify Live was won in a chocobo race. From my Final Fantasy fans out there. I don't know, it just sounded funny. Yeah. I know that,. It just sounded funny. Yeah. I'm glad you just like the word chocobo. So it's kind of weird because the reason that's being given

is that in order for them to break even, at least 150,000 people would have to be able to stay there for the weekend. And Woodstock has a population of 2,000, and their campground had enough space for 75,000. for the weekend and Woodstock has a population of 2000, uh, and their campground had enough space for 75,000. So they were halfway there. And that's usually where a corporation is going to be like, fuck it.

We'll like build tree houses or like something, something terrible that is going to like kill people. Yeah. Or FEMA tents. But I do wonder if all the fire festival shit has like pierced the zeitgeist enough that these robot algorithms are like, oh, like this is this is a bad. We better pull the plug before anything bad happens. Right. Because like that's a problem.

Like having 75000 people on the campground. Like, yeah, just bring Andy King in. I mean, yeah, he's going to figure that shit out. yeah, just bring Andy King in. He's going to figure that shit out. Look, I just feel like off the top, just from the pure mathematical standpoint, it's just logistically impossible.

You'd be like, yeah, that's not going to work. Are they just unable to just sell the exact amount of tickets? Am I stupid? Well, I think they have to sell 150 to cover the talent, all the fees they're probably paying out and all the other expenses. So it has to be 150,000 just to break even on everything that they're probably paying out and all the other expenses. So it has to be $150,000 just to break even on everything that they're seeing

as being the cost of the festival. Wow, they've only had 50 years of practice. Right. And I mean, they have had 50 years of practice of fucking this up because basically every Woodstock Festival, including the first one,

was a disaster. Like they almost put the first company that organized it into bankruptcy. It was organized by like an advertising agency. It wasn't like this just random, you know, free love movement. It was an advertising organization being like, yeah, we can really make money off these dumb hippies. Jimi Hendrix put him on the last day. I never heard of that guy.

And the way they solved the fact that the town doesn't accommodate enough people is, well, everybody's on drugs the whole time. Nobody will sleep. Or they will sleep in the mud and think it's, like, cool. Like, people fucking died. Like, at the first Woodstock, one person was, like, passed out in the mud and got run over by a car because they blended in with the mud. You know what this is it's the perfect example of how a shift in demo happened for boomers right they went from like let's roll in the mud and have sex to like we all need to glamp and we're not going to fit in the state

right but i think glamping is like all generations right we just started right off with glamping because we realized rolling around in the mud and taking bad acid was not actually that fun wasn't that fun although Although there were some people, have you seen the, what is it, Soul Sacrifice performance of Santana in that one? So at one point, like in front of the stage, there's like a plywood fence

in front of the stage. There's one dude who's so fucked up, he's just shaking a fucking can that maybe is like a homemade maraca and just banging it against the wood thing, just like vibing so hard. And I remember college watching that go yo that's the fucking wave that's amazing so in a way i could be one of those face down dirt scumbags with an empty can thinking i'm playing along with santana i mean i'm not saying woodstock would not have been fun i am saying all the other woodstocks besides 1969 would would have sucked. Woodstock 94, it was mud and rain and

Green Day fought security guards. That's what it's most noted for. And 99 was like a- Hell on earth. Hell on earth, fires, violence, sexual assault. There is still a chance that this is going to go off the rails in some spectacular fashion because the company that was partnering with it and kind of the organizers of it have already paid the likes of Jay-Z, Chance the Rapper, The Killers, Miley Cyrus, and all these people. They've already received fees of $1 million to $3 million, according to Variety. So the company that is organizing it is like, no, no, no, I'm not canceled. What do you mean canceled? It's not canceled.

So they are going to try to put this thing on one way or another. I know some Saudi princes that are about to have the concert of their lives. That's right. Hey, MBS, man, you a big fan of the Black Album? Oh, man, I love that fucking album, man. That is how you solve this, right? It's just him alone in a big mud field, and then all these bands just playing on stage. In a throne, one giant throne,

and him just looking so distant. He's on his phone. It's made of just Yemeni bones. Right. Oh, my God, for sure. No press coverage either. Right. Yes, exactly.

Strictly for him. Complete helicopter blackout. 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 murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.

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Now, so, you know, yesterday on Wednesday, William Barr, he went to the Senate Judiciary Committee where, you know, a little bit mostly friendly because Lindsey Graham is at the helm and he can just interrupt at any time and be like, you are slandering this man. He was pissed. Yeah, when Mazie Hirono was like, you should resign, fam. He was like, ha, ha, ha, ha. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And did the exact same shit he did in Kavanaugh's hearing where he was like just grandstanding and be like, how can we just slander this man? Anyway, so, you know, it's a usual mix of GOP ass kissing or like them posturing as if like, you know, if they're up for election, they're trying to not look like a total fucking rubber stamp or shit heel. And they're just like,

oh yeah, I think election security is important. And then they'll go back to their constituents and be like, see, I wasn't defending the president. Um, and then various forms of oversight from the Democrats. Um, but you know, he basically came off as the president's personal lawyer, like constantly just defending things things like being like asked very direct questions that like saying hey do you think it's wrong the president uh told his lawyer to lie and he's like well i don't i you know it's not criminal it's like a motherfucker i asked what do you think i needed a lot of he did a lot of time wasting anyway so the the hearing had an interesting spin on it because the washington post uh letter that Mueller had written to Bill Barr after that fucking bizarro four page summary.

And in the letter, it says the summary letter the department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24th did not fully capture the context, nature and substance of this office's work and conclusions. This is from Robert Mueller. There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the department appointed the special counsel to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations. Yeah. Not only that, my man Robert Mueller even called William Barr on the phone, according to other people working the DOJ, and even said, he said, look at what happened, dude. The media coverage of this is completely upside down. Right.

And then so William Barr, when pressed about it in the hearing, he was like, oh, well, I'm not sure Mr. Mueller was upset with me necessarily, but the media's coverage. It's like, but that's based off of your fucking spin, my guy. We're going to lose across the line anyways anyways because even if we uncover what muller originally meant he's a center right spook with a with like he looks like the ahead from easter island it doesn't sam eagle yeah exactly but at the end of the day like this is what happens when you come to the table pre-negotiating yourself into a centrist position it's like the gop is gonna win no matter what, because then they're going to go up there. They're going to hide part of what you're doing anyways, because they have no good faith. And then the result is they look like

they're correct. Yeah. And then you have these hearings where it's like half people asking questions. Then you have people running for president, just trying to show out to be like, oh, maybe that'll be a viral Twitter clip. So yeah, it was very, very, I mean, like a lot of people were just, I mean, Maisie Hirono was straight up. It's like, you need to resign. As of now, I don't know how Kamala Harris took it on because, or Cory Booker, other people who are running and Amy Klobuchar had a few moments to be like, I have a bill where I want paper ballots.

And then it's like, are you going to ask him something? Right. And she was like, do you going to ask him something? Right. And she was like, do you back that up? Amy, just please, just assault William Barr. Yeah, just fucking bring it to him because Maisie Hirono. Pretend he's your intern. She had had it. And then so did Lindsay, apparently. So, you know, it is a little odd, though, too, because despite, you know, these things

coming out, the letter report of the letter this phone call, when William Barr had previously been to the Hill, he was asked a few times, like, oh, is Robert Mueller, does he have any issue with your summary? And he's like, not that I'm aware of. Right. Even though he'd had a phone call and a letter sent to him from Robert Mueller. Spoke to him and he's like, what the fuck was that? So, you know, that's world ruin right now. what the fuck was that? So, you know, that's what we're in right now. Mueller calling out the way the news is covering it based on the summary is a big deal, like officially, because he put the whole report on Congress being able to impeach. That was essentially,

he's like, I can't do this based on these laws, but Congress can. And if the media is covering it in the wrong way, then Congress has no reason to like even impeach. Right. And then even today, like I think it was Robert Kennedy or something asking Barr, he's like, so has the special counsel's office, is their opinion changed on bringing forth an indictment on obstruction? He's like, no, not that I'm aware of. But like completely leaving out the context of, yeah, he can't come to a conclusion because based on his his understanding of the DOJ guidelines, he can't indict the president. Right. So he couldn't make that determination.

Right. So it becomes inherently a political thing. And then the media narrative is a huge driver of how people view the story. And even the way William Barr is like, well, I don't think so. It's like saying like, oh, can you drive a car? It's like, no, I don't think so. It's like saying like, oh, can you drive a car? It's like, no, I don't have a license. Right. It's like, oh, well, it's because I've been, it was taken away by the police because I've

been drunk driving constantly. And but like, sure, that first part, you don't have a license is true, but there's a whole other side of it that you're leaving out that would completely change the complexion of it. People consider Bob Mueller to be this super smart guy, but you're looking at a guy who expected this to go well. Like, what the fuck are you doing, man? You think they're going to take it in good faith. You don't think it's worth maybe like doing a bit of a roundabout and leaking something to the media or something. You're going to trust a guy who was appointed by Trump. It seems to me that if I was an FBI agent and I was this stupid,

I would stop being an FBI agent. Well, yeah, I mean, he did a hell of a lot to try and have the like, I think he was trying to be such a Boy Scout. He didn't he didn't want any kind of he didn't want anyone to be able to be critical of the investigation nearly to his detriment, I guess, at this point. Yeah. Which is so naive because it's like, yeah, come on, look at history. Look at American history. Yeah. And look at Bill Barr's record of coming in and doing this shit. He's like Mr. Iran Contra, pardon hand or outer. Bill Barr'd out. I mean, the media did manage to get the facts right and report the shit out of the investigation.

But at that point. But the other way that facts are being leaked is by a gentleman or a woman by the name of Q. And you are an expert on this source of information. Ah, unfortunately. What? Yeah. Yeah, let's – I mean, I think we've talked about QAnon and, like, that movement, but you are sort of an expert. So we wanted to take some time to – He's right. He's right. So we wanted to take some time to...

He's right. He's right. So we wanted to take some time for you. Julian is Q. Y'all don't know that? Podcasting sort of is radio. Yeah. So just kind of take us through the basics and sort of what you think is missed by most people who talk about Q, but don't know as much as you know? Sure, absolutely. So just a quick rundown for listeners who haven't really heard of Q before. He's an anonymous poster and has remained completely anonymous. Started October 2017 on 4chan, which is a kind of trash image board on the internet. And then it migrated to 8chan.

The posts that Q lays down there are called drops, and Q claims to be high-level military intelligence and have a direct connection to Trump. One of the proofs to show that was a picture of a pen that was supposedly sitting on the executive desk. Wasn't another one like a shot out of an airplane window or something? It was a shot in a room supposedly on Air Force One that was then shown to have been just a cropped version of another shot that they just kind of turned around. That was like available online. Right. Yeah.

The other thing that makes me feel like they're not fully on the up and up is their personality of like a social media intern. They're like, oh, look, this person's reposting Q. Q is really out here, guys. We're really doing it. And it's like, like, that doesn't strike me as high-level military intelligence. I don't know. How could they know if they weren't high-level military that Trump

is heroically fighting a deep-state cabal that runs a child-trafficking ring, which of course has roots in Satanic Panic and then Pizzagate, the old conspiracies. The Great Awakening is the collective opening of minds to this stuff. And then QAnon followers are waiting for the storm.

And they think, you know, Hillary Clinton, Obama, George Soros, John Podesta, they're all going to Gitmo. Even the Bush family is going to Gitmo. And they're going to be executed up there and they can't wait. Now, of course, you probably know this, but white nationalist bullshit is just absolutely interwoven throughout. Blaming the world's woes on the Saudi royal family, the Rothschilds, George Soros, like all the mainstays of kind of hiding your white nationalism in a critique of these rich elites. But, of course, you leave out all the huge families in America that control almost everything that are Christian. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, don't worry about that. Yeah. I just want to make sure we all hate Christians here. But anyways, the Q Drops, as of late, I have to admit, have been very social media intern. They are so lazy. It's just like reposting another person's tweet or reposting an article and saying three words or whatever. Is Q getting lazy, you think?

Absolutely. I think Q is like taking meetings and has an agent. Is what I get the sense of. Can you imagine fucking someone like at one of these agents like, dude. I was Q. Hey man, like you guys interested in a show with Q? Right. I got fucking Q, man.

He's ready. Or she. I don't know. They're ready. They're ready for a podcast and I'd love to do it with you guys. They are in the top 10 leaderboard of PUBG. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Welcome to 17-year-old.

He's got a spec script for Ace Ventura 4? That's going to blow your fucking mind. Yeah, he knew that 3 was going to be a flop, so he just moved straight on to 4. Right on to 4. But, you know, it does not matter what you feed these people, because QAnon is the car from Back to the Future. You can just jam garbage into it it and it'll run just fine. Mr. Fusion. Totally fine.

Exactly. Mr. Confusion. Exactly. So lately, for example, the Mueller report, which we just discussed, they think this will lead to FISA documents being released. Unclear how. And this would expose the FBI and Hillary Clinton malfeasance, which would lead to the Gitmo stuff. Right. Doesn't make any sense.

And it's all military tribunals usually, right? They always love the military. They want everybody up there executed, but they are not fascists. This is not at all a fascist sentiment. Julian Assange, their take on that is that he's about to reveal the good stuff now that he's being captured. Of course, he won't. Christ Church was a false flag is another amazing and unsurprising, uh, you know. And what was the purpose of that false flag attack in terms of their ideology?

There's a lot of like MAGA overlap and they all love guns. And so I think it's like, yeah, they'll take your guns and then the deep state will like take over because no one will be armed. The militias, the patriots are the only thing standing between the deep state and a country being ruined. Because America right now is going great. How did they respond? Because I remember the last time I was paying detailed attention to Q, and not very detailed, but I remember people were having kind of panics because they were like,

when's the Mueller report going to drop so we can be proven right? Yeah, but they did take it as them being proven right. How? No collusion. No collusion. It was a deep state hit the fbi is in on it with hillary clinton and guess what now that we've proven that wrong then we're going to move to the next step which is they were uh obama was wiretapping uh carter page and spying and blah and tapped his wires in fact obama is going to be arrested yeah hill Hillary's going to get mo' like. So they, of course, they have an expression in QAnon, think mirror, which basically allows them to take in any information that is exactly opposite to what they believe and still make it true.

How do they square the Seth Rich stuff in the Mueller report? Because I know recently in your last episode, you were talking about how the the mother report doesn't help their seth rich shit out like so how did they look at that because of for and for people who don't know about seth rich is the dnc staffer who was murdered and everyone says it was because uh he was working wiki leaks maybe well actually julian assange said that yeah so he went out there and was seeding that stuff we had sean hannity on it we had all kinds of mouthpieces for the right um and yeah no i think in general they just don't care it doesn't matter what they do is if one of seeding that stuff. We had Sean Hannity on it. We had all kinds of mouthpieces for the right. And yeah, no, I think in general, they just don't care. It doesn't matter. What they do is if one of their proofs is mistaken, they just gish gallop. They just keep moving.

Gotcha. Yeah. It doesn't matter to them. It's all about velocity, right? These people have big brains and they are moving very quickly through space. The thing I love is that they think MS-13 is Hillary Clinton's hit squad. Yeah, they killed Seth Rich. Right. And I just, have these people ever even met gang members? Because they're not the kind of people who are pulling up to any kind of meeting on time

and be like, okay, so what are we trying to do? Hillary Clinton famously soft on crime and loves gangs. Yeah. Brings them on in. Didn't just call someone a super predator just because they happened to be black and in a gang. Yeah. Oh,

and even the Seth Richards thing is so bizarre because, you know, as they say, he was on his way to the FBI to rat out, but in the middle of it or like very late at night. He literally ate chicken wings, had some beers and then walked for three hours in the night because he was considering a move to New York.

Or he walked for three hours in the night on the way to the FBI, which is totally open at night. Right. Yeah. That makes sense. To blow some whistles. Yeah. Sure. Okay.

But really, the QAnon community has experienced a lot of internal news, too, and they're not always just reacting to the external world. One of the big things was that a Q book came out, top of the Amazon list, and then it split the community. So people were making money off it. Some of the pieces that were put in there were so ridiculous that some of the other more legit QAnon people were like, oh, you're using my material to like credit this other – it's just a mess. So they're all fighting about it. At the same time, end March, we had a very high visibility moment for QAnon at the Grand Rapids, Michigan Trump rally.

Apparently it's all right again to wear Q shirts because there was a rumor or maybe it was true that Secret Service was asking people to remove their Q shirts. Right. To which Q famously responded, buy two shirts.

Oh. Right. Hell yeah. You gotta think around. Hell yeah. Just buy two. Wear an inside out one underneath the other one.

If they take that one off, buy three. Yeah. Fuck it. Buy 12 packs of T-shirts online. Hand them out. Tell a friend. There's a general split between MAGA purists recently who are embarrassed by q anon

and a bunch of these guys who are pretty not good people they're like the pay pay meaner memers that were like you know doing a lot of attacks around 2016 but now they're attacking q anon which you know what hells yeah let's go oh they're oh MAGA is attacking QAnon? Yes. Got it. Yeah, yeah. They're pissed off at these guys called MAGA Coalition, but then there's also a bunch of these kind of MAGA foot soldiers of the 2016 Pepe era that are now sick of MAGA being associated with something as stupid as QAnon.

So they're trying to take it down. Oh, so they're reasonable enough to be like, this makes us look fucking dumb, guys. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It only took them two years to figure that out. Yeah, sure. And then also, Minecraft inventor Notch endorsed QAnon.

Now, it's possible it was a troll, but he did it about three or four times and never recanted. Yeah. Cool. He's got 3.2 million followers, a lot of them under the age of 18. Right. Cool. So that's cool. If you do that, you basically did just endorse it, even if it is a troll, right?

Yeah. It doesn't matter, right? I mean, yeah, you've done the damage. A fantastic thing that happened recently and probably a lot of people know about is that somehow QAnon led to the killing of a Gambino crime boss called Frankie Calley in New York. And that guy at his arraignment or whatever had all that Q stuff written on his hand, right? That guy? Exactly.

And now he's pleading not guilty. And the lawyer wants to examine his online radicalization and QAnon related beliefs. So they're going to go and look at like 8chan, Instagram. So this has got to be the first time that being red pilled is used in a not guilty plea. Hmm. Okay. It's an interesting future. And so, and that murder was motivated by his perception of the mafia that was intertwined with Q?

Because I know what, he was dating the guy's daughter or something? So that's actually unsubstantiated. It was one of the early rumors. And I think there were a couple of outlets, but none of them very credible. And then later, a lot of the research showed that, no, the kid's got an oxy problem. He had mental illness issues. And then he got red pilled. And we actually found his Instagram account.

And he got red pilled some point like November last year. And then it was a steady slide until by the end he wasn't even putting like words in his posts. Like you can see the mental deterioration of this kid. But, you know, I mean, he's between a rock and a hard place. Like if he doesn't get off, he's going to jail. If he does get off, the mob wants to kill him. Yeah. Not good.

Yeah. And prison I hear is the mob can get you in there. They can. What I hear. Especially if you're like literally you live in the same area as the mob boss. Oh boy. So how does Q respond to something like that? Like that's in all other contexts, that would be kind of a bad PR thing for your following to...

Think mirror, my friend, because this is a false flag to discredit QAnon. Got it. You can tell that this guy is being paid by the deep state to do... Got it. Exactly. To make his family entirely relocate a day afterwards. I'm sorry Jack asked such an embarrassing question. Yeah, it's okay.

Come on, dude. We don't, you know, podcasters, not the best of our society. No. I know because I run one and, you know, my co-hosts are just rock dumb. So what's new now? What's popping in Q World now? So yes, this is a really fun one. So a QAnon believer is now running for Congress unopposed in his Republican primary.

Now this guy's name is Matthew Lusk. He's originally a Florida bookseller, and he's campaigning for the House of Florida's 5th Congressional District. I hope I didn't screw that up. The point is, his platform is absolutely fucking amazing. He's running on the elimination of alimony, so classic divorce dad platform.

Right. The federal decriminalization of cocaine, because if you're divorced, you know, I'll do some cocaine. Also, how are you going to keep doing all that Q research? That's right. Sober? The legalization of cocaine because if you're divorced you you know i'll do some cocaine and also how you gonna keep doing all that q research that's right sober the legalization of prostitution because you know yeah mexican sex work legal i'm down to this point it seems like libertarian shit right reparations for people who are affected by the legacy of slavery in the united states okay i stay in a woke god i know me too libertarianism with reparations and Q.

It's amazing. Some of his quotes are absolutely amazing. But by the way, even if he wins, and he probably will because he's running unopposed, he's not going to win against Al Lawson, the Democrat. It's just it's not very realistic. But nonetheless, it's scary that he's running and it's probably a precursor of things to come. Some of his quotes. I can't imagine the globalist deep state not putting up a challenger in the primary.

I can't wait to grind them into sawdust. The primary will be a bigger sword fight, but I don't see a problem overcoming that either. All right. Mixing metaphors violently. Yeah. Because in a sword fight, you rarely grind something into sawdust.

But that kind of attitude is something that can only be powered by cocaine. Exactly. Like, I'm ready, man that can only be powered by cocaine. Exactly. Like, and I'm ready, man. I might be fucking overly confident. I don't know,

man. I feel like Superman right now. I would love to see his first campaign video. That's just in a strip club. Right. His other quotes. I'm a dapper Dan man. I don't like pomade and I'm not going to ride a bicycle to a motorcycle race.

I consider libertarians and reformers to be conservative. Uh-huh. And then, oh, and then, like, there's some other quotes, but basically he goes, I'm not suicidal or accident prone,

and he's saying, some of my issues have gotten people Arkansas-ed, which is the Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton body count conspiracy theory. Wow.

Yeah. Arkansas. Arkansas. Wow. So that's, yeah. And he's not the first politician, but certainly the first running for for such a high position. Yeah. Federal office. How seriously do you think we should take? Like, how worried should we be about the Q movement? Are the people just rock stupid and we don't need to worry about them?

Is it or are they rock stupid? We do need to worry about them. Is it or are they rock stupid? We do need to worry about them. Think of the president, though. I mean, we should probably be worried about rock stupid people that are running for offices they shouldn't be able to win. Yeah. You know, I mean, that's a bad precedent. But I don't know.

It's a mix. You know, I think they overlap with more dangerous groups. And certainly we've seen them, like, capable of becoming violent. But I think that's part of a larger movement of white nationalism and radicalization. So I don't think we need to put the QAnon label on that fear. We can deal directly with the stuff that's at its roots. Yeah. All right. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. And before we get off of politics, we just wanted to check in with the Fed nominee, Stephen Moore, who has just continued to have difficulties with the scrutiny that comes with being the Fed nominee. Yeah, I mean, look, last week we talked about how some of his old columns popped up and it was a fucking mixed bag of misogyny and all kinds of other weird shit. He was furious that there was a woman ref in the NCAA tournament.

Yeah, and it was like, what's next, man? Right. Whatever. Fill in whatever misogynistic soundbite you want there. Right. So this time, my goodness, he was on PBS's firing line, and he found himself in an actual firing line because the host basically hit him with some old jokes he had. Because, you know, Steve Moore is a joker.

You know, he always likes to be like, ah, you know, I didn't mean it. So, I mean, I just want to have a warning for people. This shit is so cringy. You may just need to pull your car over or like just take a seat wherever you are, because prepare for your insides to turn inside out as you hear this man try and maneuver around a joke he made about the Obamas. Another statement that keeps coming to light is a joke he made about the Obamas. Just after the election here, I'll play it. By the way, did you see that there's that great cartoon going along that New York Times headline first thing Donald Trump does as president is

kicks kick a black family out of public housing and it has Obama leaving the White House I mean I just love that one but uh it's just a great one so you know that that is a joke I always made about you know uh Obama lives in you know the president lives in public housing but I didn't mean it like a black person did. I just meant that, you know, being in the White House, you know, for example, when I was working with a lot of women and families who were involved in the education voucher program, you know, here in D.C., and people would say, well, you know, and these were blacks who would say, you know, why does Black woman get to send his kids to any school that he wants to and we can't?

And they say, he lives in public housing. And it was just kind of a joke. The optics, though, of a conservative white man talking about picking a black man out of public housing have a particular resonance, especially in this moment. Yeah, so I shouldn't have said it. Again, you can find, if you go back 30 years, you're going to be able to find clips over and over and over again about me. I have a long paper trail. I mean, there's no question about it. And I say things that are kind of jokes that people want to pick them apart.

Then I probably won't, you know, get on the Federal Reserve Board. Incredible. He just gave up by the end of that explanation. At the end, he literally just like, yeah, maybe I'm saying problematic shit that should actually keep me off the Federal Reserve Board. All right, got to go. Oh, man. Listen, I shouldn't have said it.

I still think it's fucking funny. Right. Let me explain another context that I said it. He's like, well- But this was to blacks. Yeah. I was talking- Well, see, black people said it, so-

Right. Therefore- I was working with women, and then one of the blacks walked in, and he was like, thank you, sir, for your beautiful service and your great jokes. So that's why I said it. Oh, man, Stephen Moore. And shout out to Margaret Hoover, the host of Firing Line, because she's just like looking at him like, do you need a shovel? But the issue is not the optics here.

Why is she fucking talking about optics? It's not the optics. It's that he's a profoundly racist human being with a long paper trail by his own well that's the media's soft touch to racism that we see so many times because oh god obviously you're not racist but no you could see how it would appear the optics of the blatant racism here that we can see so you know he's gonna have i i guess a interesting time trying to get into, get confirmed. At least many women in the Senate are like, even on the GOP are like, I don't know. You thought Herman Cain, he's not getting in here.

And you think this guy, old racist jokes, Mc-fucking-misogyny is going to get in? Yeah, come on. Realistically, he's not going to get in. He's going to be our 2024 president, but he's just not going to get into this. Yeah. I mean, going back, I thought he was going to be like, you look in 30 years into the past of anybody,

you're going to find some messed up stuff. But he was like, you look 30 years in my past, and yeah, there's going to be bad stuff, man. I'm not a good guy. Maybe I shouldn't be on the Fed board. Do you have that, oh no, did you find that clip of me

dressed as Mr. Bojangles? Just giving him shit they don't have. Yeah, it's like, what? Yeah, wait, wait. Oh, no. I was in the, it was not about blacks in the public housing. Maybe I shouldn't be on the federal zone. You know.

Who was that idiot who got caught with like wearing either blackface or a Klan robe and then was like, oh, by the way, also here's me in blackface doing Michael Jackson. Like this is not, is this this really the best way out? It was Ralph Northam. Ralph Northam. To just give him more. And then I was like, you want to moonwalk? His wife's like, no, no, no, no, no.

He does not want to moonwalk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bad timing. Bad timing. Also, his response. Not the timing of my moonwalk, because I still hit that shit real slow. His response to that picture of Blackface and clanhood was that he didn't know which one he was at first.

Yeah. So it's like- One is definitely better than the other. Guys, let's play a little game. Which one would you rather be? Right. Oh, man. I mean, luckily for me, it's impossible for me to do blackface.

So I'll just go with that one. Yeah. There we go. Yeah. All right. Let's go a little lighter here guys it's may and there are tons of movies coming out that i didn't think came out for a while for instance we've got uh rocket man the elton john movie uh aladdin which i thought was coming out a long time from now it's coming out in may okay uh john wick three

okay uh this movie book smart that probably isn't uh as big a deal as those other ones, but it was apparently a big, it was considered the best comedy at South by Southwest. It looks funny. Olivia Wilde's debut as a director, and it's apparently really good. Knock Down the House is an AOC documentary that won the audience award at Sundance. is an AOC documentary that won the audience award at Sundance. So this movie, Long Shot, to me seemed like a self-parody of Seth Rogen's career being ugly guy who gets beautiful girl and they're just calling it out and being like,

yeah, right, no way. But it's apparently directed by the dude who did 50-50, which was a solid movie. It has an amazing cast. It's based in the world of politics, and Bob odenkirk plays a trump like president so i'm not as hostile to to that one as uh i might have initially been um but that's also coming out in the next couple days so yeah i don't know we were talking earlier about how uh the box office was lagging was on pace to be worst ever, and

now it's probably in pretty good shape after Avengers. Well, not after that fucking endgame. Yeah. Yeah, you know, at the end of the year, there's even more. I mean, we've still got Lion King and Star Wars. Lion King's in the summer. Star Wars coming in December. After playing the Genie, Will Smith is going to play Scar.

Is he? No. Oh, damn it. Who is playing Scar? I don't know. Don't they have all that characters? Is he? No. Oh, damn it. Who is playing Scar? I don't know. Don't they have all that characters? Is it Jeremy Irons again? Yeah, right.

That could be fun. Yeah, right what? That it would be Jeremy Irons. Why? Oh, it's Chiwetel Ejiofor. Oh, there you go. You know what they're going to do? They're going to do the same thing they did with the genie.

They're going to leave the actor's face, but it's actually just a lion's body. Could you say disturbing that would be? Right. Oh, yeah. Not worse than the Sonic trailer. So, yo, people were fucking upset.

Somebody enlarged his eyes and like fucked with the pupils a little bit. And it looks like a hundred times better if you just like make that change. Oh, like the goggle eyes? Yeah. They didn't even do goggle eyes.

They just made his eyes a little bit bigger. Oh oh rather than like a little more human-y realistic yeah look do what you gotta do uh you got you guys excited for any of those rocket man john wick three i'm down for john wick three i mean they're entertaining yeah yeah i mean you know i watch i catch them like on video yeah not i don't I can't get to the theater all the time. Rocket Man's a tough sell because I just don't like biopics. No matter how much I like the person involved, I'm always like, okay, so it's a two-hour thing where you just basically feel like you're being read off the top-line Wikipedia stuff. Yeah. Like, I love Queen's music, and I still haven't seen Bohemian Rhapsody because of the clips they showed during the Academy Awards,

seemed like they could have been from a satire of Bohemian Rhapsody. Just watch the documentary. Yeah. We will rock you. But Rocketman I want to see because it posits in the trailer that he can make a room full of people fly. Oh, shit. Elton John can do that.

So, I mean, that's pretty dope. To cocaine. Yeah. He sprinkles them with the magic dust like Peter Pan. So, I mean, that's pretty dope. To cocaine. Yeah. He sprinkles them with the magic dust like Peter Pan. And everyone's like, woo! And farting. Yeah. Cool.

And farting. Yes, that classic cocaine side effect, farting. Well, Miles came up on, tried some that was cut with laxative. They're all cut with laxative. Oh! They're all cut with laxative. They're all cut with laxatives. And I don't want to sound like fucking Freeway Rick Ross over here,

but it stepped on to all kinds, they stepped on to all kinds of shit. It's meth, it's fucking baby laxative, okay? And take this down because I already have two strikes. Yeah, it's okay you shat your pants in Arby's, man. You don't have to.

Yeah, blame cocaine for that. No, no, it's okay you shat your pants in Arby's, man. You don't have to blame cocaine for that. No, no, it was the cocaine. No, it was this fucking, yeah. Sir, your Meat Mountain, you're not finishing that there? It's cocaine, it's cocaine. All right, guys, let's talk about this motherfucking period. This is the wildest shit. So I will just read you the beginning of this article

that's in The Guardian, and it is the tale of a fucking bird that has lived a life. It says, An Amazonian parrot called Freddy Krueger has made headlines in Brazil after managing to find its way back to the zoo from which it was stolen

while recovering from a four-year nightmare that saw it shot in a gun battle abducted by armed thieves and bitten by a snake what okay so the tale of freddy krueger is first okay so apparently four years ago the parrot was brought to the zoo because it was caught up in a shootout between police and gangsters and it caught a fucking bullet straight to the upper peak. So it was like, and it was blinded and like had fucking, it was just, it caught a bullet to the face or a fragment or something.

But why was it flying around during a gun battle? So what I suspect is I was also reading that a lot of gangsters in Brazil, they train parrots as lookouts. Oh, okay. So if they see the, the ops coming, they're just like, got the cops! Or whatever. The cop just took a shot at it. Watch out!

It's 12! Brazilian cops are usually so even-keeled. Yeah. So there's, you know, I suspect that's why it was involved in this kind of...

Sure. Or, hey, it could have been the wrong place at the wrong time. Straight bullet. But, I mean, his name's Freddy Krueger.

Well, that's why they gave him the name. Because he came in with that mangled-ass face and they're like. But I mean, his name's Freddy Krueger. Well, that's why they gave him the name. Because he came in with that mangled ass face and they're like, oh, he kind of looked like Freddy Krueger. So he came to the zoo after the shootout. After the shootout. And they're like, okay, here, little name of Freddy Krueger. Let's get Freddy's life back on track.

Got it. That's nice. Then earlier this month, the parrot was bitten on the leg by a snake and injured it a little bit. Not venomous, but still a little weird moment. They just got snakes just around the zoo, just getting it out of cages. But it was like bleeding profusely apparently from this fight, I guess. And then so then right only days later after the snake bite, Freddy was stolen when three

armed raiders burst into the zoo, overpowered the security guard and made off with Freddy, another parrot and a cylinder of gas. Huh. And then two days later, Freddy returned and it was discovered by the zoo staff at the foot of a pine tree

beside his cage and they believe he bit his way out of, like, confinement from the robbers and is like, fuck that,

I'm going home. Amazing. And I don't know why these guys were like, yo, yo, get the gas, get the gas. Right. Get them two parrots. Right. And the parrots. Yeah, gotta get the gas get the gas get them two parrots

and the parrots yeah gotta get the parrots gotta get them parrots the classic two parrots and some gas which is why because then that got me reading I was like wait so is the parrots have value and that's where I saw like another article about how cops were like yo they're using training parrots to be very effective lookouts

so you know Freddy man get your Freddy tats. I gotta say, though, you receive a parrot with a disfigurement and you're gonna call it like Elephant Man. Right.

Like, come on. Give him a normal name. Hey, where's Ugly Face? But he's like, that's not even him. He just got shot and he's being brought in somewhere. It's like,

ah, what's up, buddy? Also, wouldn't Scarface have been better or Leatherface? He's more badass. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, buddy? Also, wouldn't Scarface have been better or Leatherface? He's more badass. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, fine.

Look, man, take your beef up with the zoo people then. I know. If they'd called it Scarface, it would have dined of an actual cocaine overdose. Its story is like that. It's just going to adapt.

Right. Can take a bullet and has a scar on its face. Yeah. I'm just saying. Yeah. All right. Well, Julian,

it's been a pleasure having you, man. Where can people find you, listen to you, follow you? Well, you can follow us on Twitter at QAnon Anonymous.

So we do, yes, repeat that word. And yes, it's on purpose. We're aware that Anon stands for anonymous. We're basically a comedy history politics kind of podcast

with a focus on conspiracy theories and post-truth. But then we mix in something that other people don't really do in our category, which is docu-fiction storytelling backed by music and sound effects kind of thing. And then we'll do deep dives that are just historical and journalistic research. But yeah, you can find us at QAnon Anonymous on Twitter, and then you can look for us on any platform. We're on SoundCloud, we're on iTunes, we're on

all these different podcast things. And thank you so much for having us on any platform. We're on SoundCloud. We're on iTunes. We're on all these different podcast things. And thank you so much for having me on, guys. Oh, yeah. And please, guys, if you like our show, you will definitely like Julian's show. It's fucking good. I listen to it. And it's got just a good balance of humor and facts and analysis. And it's not like you're not overwhelmed by it.

And it's very entertaining. So, yeah. Yeah, it's fun. Awesome. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying oh absolutely i saw this tweet the other day uh by steph davidson and she just wrote inspired by hip-hop music and i was like okay and then the the photo is of a lays chip bag called flaming hot dill pickle remix and at the bottom it says inspired by hip-hop music no yeah just brands being brands

man just having a good one i love getting inspired there's nothing in it that's hip-hop except they just flaming hot dill pickles and they added just remix at the end because you know black people like spicy shit they like remixing inspired by hip-hop hop. Inspired by hip hop music. Who the fuck was like, we have to tell them it's inspired by hip hop music. There are no creatives in any of these companies anymore. It's just suits designing, coming up with the idea,

doing the copywriting, approving it. Doesn't matter. What did they think? People. I just, I just can't wait to eat the inspired by jazz ones. Inspired by classical music.

Right, right. Baroque bites. Sponsored by chamber, or inspired by chamber music. Augustine chants. Yeah. I'm a fan of Gregorio's. The only cookie inspired by Gregorian chanting. Miles, where can people find you, and what is a tweet you've been enjoying?

That was a reference to Enigma, the early 90s electronic band. They would put, Or Return to Innocence. Remember, anyway. Love, emotion. Damn, that shit is taking me back. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. Now, a tweet that I like.

Oh, okay. This one is from at Cole Escola. It says, should my Tinder bio be A, Oregon boy in the big city, shy at first, but can be a spaz when you get to know me, podcast enthusiast, and grade A goofball with a big heart? I don't know, man. Those are both really good. I mean, yeah, they both work. Depends on who you're trying to attract. You know what I mean? At Dances With, Tamis tweeted,

Oh, yeah. Yeah. on a track you know what i mean at dances with tamas tweeted if i had a dick the first thing i'd do is put a donut around it oh yeah uh which yeah yeah that was the first thing i did when i noticed i had one it's a security thing when your dick falls into the water you want to toss it a donut right there you go uh and then pixelated boat aka mr tweets tweeted uh i'm not happy with how they changed the plot of sonic and he screencapped a moment from the trailer where Jim Carrey's talking to that military guy and said, I am Dr. Robotnik

and I'm going to destroy my son Sonic who was turned into a rat monster by vaccines. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and the daily zeitgeist is a production of iheart radio for more podcasts from iheart radio visit the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows uh we also have

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Miles, what's that going to be today? Today, let's do a little Japanese track for people. Expand your mind a little bit. This is from an artist

from the 70s. Sekiyo Shigeo. Dedicate this one to Yakitori food poisoning. Yeah, Yakitori food poisoning. If you got it, you know, get your, put your, put your lighters up for this one. And this one's called Zawardo 2,

also known as The World 2. And actually, Mac DeMarco, if you like Mac DeMarco, you might recognize this little riff in there because Mac DeMarco was very inspired by Sekio Shigeo. So check this track out. I think he's playing on like a

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