The Daily Zeitgeist - Media Controlled State, Yodel Kid Meme Is GOAT 4.6.18

Episode Date: April 6, 2018

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 25, Episode 5 of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist! We're April 6, 2018. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I'm Jackie. I'm feeling glad I got O'Brien in a bag. That's Gorillaz, baby. That one is courtesy of a.k.a. God Chapman Rice. And I am thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray.

Because they like it, Miles Gray. Miles Gray. You can't satisfy their needs. They keep running back to listen to me, miles gray. Anyway, that's an Usher one I just thought of right now. So shout out to me. Ha ha! It's Friday, and I just drank so much cold brew, y'all.

Get ready for just an hour of ranting and sweating. You sound ready to go, man. I am out of breath. Woo! for just an hour of ranting. And sweating. You sound ready to go, man. I am out of breath. And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious writer and comedian, Teresa Lee. What's up? It's me, Teresa Lee, the world's best mom with no kids. Yeah!

Look at me, Teresa Lee! How are you? How arts out? I'm good. I'm pretty good. I'm going to be going on tour pretty soon. Yeah, that's exciting. What city are you going to that you haven't been to that you're most excited to see? Well, I don't know which one I'm more excited because I haven't been there yet,

but the cities I'm going to that I've never been to, I'm going to Asheville, Richmond. Oh, I've heard such good things about Asheville. Yeah, there's a good comedy scene there. But the other cities I've already been to. What city that you've been to are you most excited to go to? I like Atlanta a lot. I've only been one other place. Shout out to HQ.

How's that works? HQ. The mothership. Yeah, you should go by there. Shout out to everybody over there. Shout out to Jerry. Shout out Jason. Shout out Connell.

Shout out the whole crew. Gang, gang. Gang, gang. You're the building. Teresa, what's something from your search history that is revealing about who you are as a human being?

Also, shout out Allison. Sorry. What did I search? Oh my God. Also, shout out Nathan. Sorry. Yeah, if you want me to give him a gift basket,

I can do that. All right, we'll figure something out. Down at HQ. What did I search? Oh, I recently searched is Pitbull married? Because you wanted to. Well, no, I don't want to marry him.

Although, we give him so much shit. And he made some songs that have graced the rooms of the dance floors. Oh, darling. No, I just wanted to make a dumb joke about Mrs. Worldwide. But I also. Oh, you want to be Mrs. 305. Yeah, yeah. But then I was like, why?

He should be. Why? And then I was, he's not. He's not? He's single? Well, it's not. The information's not there. It's not on his Wikipedia.

So maybe he is, and he's very private and nice about it, but I couldn't find it. Oh, wait, Pitbull. Oh, he is married. Oh, he is? Well, then I didn't Google further than the first search. I mean, I just said Pitbull wife, and then there's many photos of him with Mrs. 305.

With Mrs. 305, yeah. Dolly. I hope he proposed to her by asking her to be Mrs. Worldwide. Probably. Yeah, let's take this thing global. Yeah. You know what I mean? He is 37, I would have guessed.

He's older. I don't know. Either younger or older. He seems like he is in a time warp, though. He seems timeless because when you're already bald, then your face really only shows your age, and you're always wearing sunglasses. You can never see the wrinkles around your eyes,

so he's Mr. 305 years old probably. Teresa, what's something that's underrated? Oh, Google Trends. Do you guys know about this? You can just find data, but, but like it's fun. Maybe I'm the only one who likes looking. I used to go on OkCupid just to fill out the quizzes, and they also have like OkCupid labs.

But I was like, I want to look at some graphs. And I found Google Trends, and I just went down this wormhole. Not wormhole, black hole. Okay, up to you. Well, I guess either. Well, what's the difference? They both work. Went down a hole of looking at rabbit hole even yeah oh there you go they're all we should just combine all these words they're all the same um but yeah there's like a lot of interesting graphs and lists and things they just put together like uh they just

put together based on the data and put it in an interesting way. You can see like where people search for symptoms of being sick. And then you can kind of like guess when something is going to come to you because you can watch the search terms. The wave comes towards you. Yeah, it's very interesting. Oh, you can see it geographically? Well, they put it, you have to wait till they Google the size is interesting because they put it out for you.

But there was a sickness one where you can see based on area what search terms are popular and then they categorize it based on symptoms. So you can be like, oh, the cold is going around here. Or like leaky butt or whatever it is. Yeah. Weird that you just called that one out. Is that medical? Yeah. Well, turns out

I had trouble finding out about leaky butt. It's a very contagious symptom, the leaky butt. it's called anal leakage apparently so so do you just go to google trends yeah the google trends has graphs and they put together stuff at the end of the year so i i really went down a uh a hole of any kind right a hole of your choice so i guess i'm done in leaky butthole that's yeah went down a leaky butthole um yeah we we do some Google Trend watches every once in a while here. It is really interesting to see what's on people's minds.

We now have a webpage that you can go to to see the entire country's unconscious or conscious or whatever we're thinking about. What they want to know about. Teresa, what's something that's overrated? I think this might be a little old, but I recently saw Annihilation, and people were raving about it, and I was very excited, and then I thought it was overrated. I didn't like it. I try not to say that about movies, just I don't like it or I like it

because it feels too broad. What was missing for you? I didn't think it was that interesting. I think you could feel like they thought it was very smart. And it, there were like lines in there where I was just like, really? Like at one point she just looks at a wall and it's like, it's like mutating like a cancer. And you're like, oh really? Quite literally.

Is this the motif that you keep hammering on the head throughout this entire movie? Okay, great. So it just felt like, but then it also felt like it was like, no, we're actually really smart, and this is really deep. So then I was like, hmm, I don't like you. Who do I trust?

The director actually comes out in the middle of the movie and is like, wait, so what you have to know about me is I'm super smart. It was the guy who made Ex Machina, right? Yes. Yeah, the director is, I think. So with movies, I'm super smart. It was the guy who made Ex Machina, right? Yeah, the director is, I think. So with movies, I constantly have this fear that, first of all, it's just based on whatever my mood is

at the time, like if I'm in a shitty mood. I went to see Die Hard with a, whatever the fourth, Live Free and Die Hard, with my little sister and my best friend in the world, and we had the best time. Sounds like a kid's book. Yeah, no, it was like- With my little sister and my best friend in the world. We had such a good time, and I was like,

man, I love that movie, and I came out, and everyone was like, that movie sucks, man. I was like, oh, yeah. Context, context. It's okay to like a thing that other people don't like. Right, but it was like, then I watched it again. I was like, wow, this movie does suck. And I was just in a good mood and had a good experience watching it the first time.

And I'm also always worried that it's based on my own weird movie history. I think that I can still watch Teen Wolf and think it's a good movie and it's not like clearly but because it was like the first movie I saw I feel like I whatever my conception of cinema is for life

is like a good movie should be shaped like Teen Wolf in some way which is like not good wow you should have a movie podcast

that's like me and Zoolander I used to love watching that with my sister and it's like fine it's funny but right it's for a long time it's I used to love watching that with my sister. And it's like fine. It's funny, but for a long time, I would say that's my favorite movie. And people are like, what?

Zoolander, yeah. Just watching it over and over. But then every time you watch it, yeah. I feel like that with Orange County and Kingpin. I watch Kingpin. You love Orange County. I love a lot of Kingpin, though, too. Love Kingpin.

Teresa, what is a myth? We like to ask people. What is something that people think is true that you know to be false? Oh, this was recently. I was just talking with my sister about this, and then I happened to look at an article about it. There's something called the beginner's bubble. There's a lot of other studies, but there's one particular one I read in the Harvard Business Journal. Business Review?

Damn, look at you. HBR? It's not. I mean, it's not, it's just the basic idea is just that people, when they're starting out, there's a period of time

like before you get good at something when you are way overconfident about how good you are. Right. Because in the very beginning, you're very cautious and then you start to sort of learn a little bit,

like the basic surface level and then you start to be, oh, like you start to realize like, oh, I'm making progress. I kind of got the hang of it. And then there's this period of time where um reality sets in no no but first you're just like i got this because you know it's a matter of time you haven't made any mistakes yet or any big ones so then you're like well i must be a genius at this i'm better than everyone else even though it takes other people longer right and then you inevitably

make a mistake and then it takes a little you get humbled and then it takes a people longer. Right. And then you inevitably make a mistake and then it takes a little, you get humbled and then it takes a while again. But they have, it happens in like all industries, like in medical industry too. And it's like a thing with doctors, like new doctors, when they're starting out are very careful

and then they start to get comfortable. And so the first few years, they're actually, I feel like if you want a good doctor, the first, you can get a new doctor, like the first few years are very careful. Very first few. Or're actually i feel like if you want a good doctor the first you can get a new doctor like the first few years or like very experienced or the guy with like 80 000 hours right yeah but the in between is when you get people they're like i got this but they don't

know they haven't seen all the mistakes and they'll kind of fuck up a lot because they start to see patterns and they're like oh i know like every time i see this it's this but then eventually there's one that's like no no, this symptom is actually this. Right, right, right. And you kind of got to get burned first. I mean, it's sort of the Dunning-Kruger effect in the sense that it's like the wisest person in the world is like aware of how little they know. And, you know, people who are just starting out have no idea.

And I think, though, that that can sometimes be a good thing when it's not a medical professional who has your life in their hands. But like, you know, golf is a lame sport, but I just have always remembered this example. My dad like has always tried to golf. He's not great at it. And his best round ever was like the first time he went out golfing. Right, right, right. It was just like he didn't really know like how hard it was. And so he just like. He's like, fuck you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you get it a lot in comedy too. And like, it's a lot of like, you know, guys who've, I mean, and girls too. But usually women are told early on that they're bad. So they get humbled. And there's a lot of men in stand standup comedy who have been doing it for like five months. And then they're like,

I should be on Conan. And they're like, you don't even know. And, uh, I went to have an agent yet. Fuck dude. Yeah.

Well, I went to a networking event recently because I don't know, I, my job is ending. I was like, I should do something. Um, but that's a very good plan.

And it was fine. It didn't get me anything, but it was interesting. Um, but there were a lot of people there. It was mostly it didn't get me anything but it was interesting um but there were a lot of people there was mostly writers who hadn't done anything but it was a lot of over confidence and a lot of like well i've done like two drafts of my pilot and the first one i got good feedback on so why wasn't anything happening you're like you gotta write like 10 drafts right

you don't even just and they're like what your show about? About this white guy who moves back home? Yeah. Okay. It's not even that they're... Yeah, it's like a bunch of friends at a bar. Right, right, right. And it's easy. It's like contained, man. It's like one set. I'm thinking ahead, man, because you know, they're not going to fucking green light some shit that's taking place over different eras and shit.

Just crossing out my different ideas. TV shows. Well, it's also encouraging because I don't think as annoying as sometimes those attitudes are. Some of those people maybe do have some talent. It just means that they're in that in-between phase. So it just means like, okay, once they get out of that bubble, they'll get success. That's like anything.

Like when I left politics to get into comedy in the beginning, I was like, yo, I'm fucking I've been in the lab struggling being like working in lobbying and politics and shit. And I always knew I wanted to do comedy. And then when I did it, that first eight months, I was so motivated. I was like, yeah, look at this shit.

And I look back and I'm like, ooh, boy. Not all that shit was great. But I think, too, I think when you also have a good amount of enthusiasm, too, that helps sort of create this environment. And then you sort of, after you sort of kind of take stock of where you are, where your work is, and compare it to the people that you really admire like oh okay maybe there's a little

more development that needs to happen but it's necessary because if you knew how shitty you were during that first couple years you would quit yeah exactly you need that like sort of dumb confidence i feel like yeah um and we have plenty of that in the world right now yes and at this podcast uh thank you um uh looked right at me though yeah I'm still looking at you no uh actually our annual review yeah this is this is actually your exit interview I do feel like uh this town is very specifically runs on exactly what you're talking about. This town is the beginner's bubble. Right. Yeah.

Yeah. Because, I mean, you think about the amount of people who move out here all the time. Like literally everybody has a podcast and a screenplay. Yeah. That's interesting because I was just thinking about that, how L.A. is such a weird ecosystem where everybody – there are all these other jobs that need to be filled, like regular service jobs and things to keep the economy running, but almost everybody is like an other jobs that need to be filled, like, you know, regular service jobs

and things to keep the economy running, but almost everybody's like an actor or someone trying to be something. Well, it depends on what sort of circle

you're in, right? Yeah. Because, like, you're out here and you're doing comedy and so your world is mostly comedic. Growing up here,

like, a lot of my friends who are from here who are working now, they are, like, you know, nurses or doing other stuff and also some work in the industry. Shout out to Brianna.

How selfish of them to be here. But, yeah, but yeah but it's like yeah but it's funny because like whenever people meet actual angelinos they're like whoa and they're like and you're not an actor and i'm like i'm a podcaster get it right uh but yeah it's you know we're out here right but yeah i think it's it all depends on sort of like yeah you're you're running in the world of comedy so yeah you're gonna see a lot of comedians or people who just are working tangentially in entertainment. Right. And, you know, the most average writer in Los Angeles was probably the best writer in their high school class or whatever. So that's also.

Were you the best writer in your high school class? Oh, yeah. By far. Oh, wow. Some confidence. I was not. I wasn't even the best writer in my family. Yeah. Damn. Wait, so you're a twin, right? I am, wow. Some confidence? I was not. I wasn't even the best writer in my family. Yeah.

Damn. Wait, so you're a twin, right? I am, yeah. Is your sister that other good writer? Oh, yeah. Well, she used to do much better than me in school. I think now she hasn't pursued writing, but she's a good writer. But she used to just get straight A's and then would do the thing where when our report cards would come out,

I would be like, oh, I got straight A's. And she'd be like, oh, you did? I got one A minus. I'm like, well, I was counting those. I don't know. She's like, damn, okay, well. It was very passive-aggressive, and she would pretend that it wasn't on purpose. She's like, well, whatever works for you.

Yeah. And you guys are tight now? Yeah, yeah, we're tight. All right, guys. Let's get into the stories of the day we're gonna do another one of those episodes where we're just hitting a lot of stuff uh because there's a lot of stuff that was machine gun uh and there's gonna be a lot of just sound effects too uh throughout the show but uh we want to start out with this uh robert mercer ad that uh

where i guess we recently found out that it was a Robert Mercer ad. Yeah, so we all know Robert Mercer and the Mercers. They are basically very wealthy I guess hedge fund managers. He's a hedge fund dude. Yes. And he puts a lot of money into very right wing causes

and he's up there with the Koch brothers as far as like boogeymen of the right who have much money and they do whatever they can to sort of shift the course of our history as a country. So we found out through Open Secrets, which is like an amazing website. If you're ever curious about where money is going in politics, check out OpenSecrets.org. It is like the most used tool by anybody who wants to see where contributions are going or lobbyist money is going. That is actually, you know, sort of verifiable. So they basically found out that this group called Secure America Now, which is a nonprofit group, was behind a lot of like super incendiary, inflammatory, fucking just overtly xenophobic, Islamophobic, anti-Muslim ads in the lead up to the 2016

election. They sort of portrayed countries like France and Germany and the United States. There were like sort of like these travel ads. So the ad would be like, book your trip to the Islamic State of France. Book your trip to the Islamic State of Germany. And then let's just hear a little bit about the one that was played for America. So this is the ad from Secure America now about the United States of America. Welcome to the Islamic States of America. So this is the ad from Secure America now about the United States of America. Welcome to the Islamic States of America. Weak leaders who have allowed unsecured borders and Syrian refugee immigration enabled our jihadi fighters to infiltrate and overtake America.

The Islamic States of America. Little on the nose. I don't know if they'd say that. From sea to shining sea, reconstructing the American dream into what it always should have been. No hiring. Yeah, they've been a lot of women. Statue of Liberty. Radical Islamic culture has transformed everything. Walk down Hollywood Boulevard among our famous jihadi celebrities. Read about the latest fashion in Sharia law-approved magazines.

Visit our new cultural centers and celebrate our Islamic victories. As our caliphate continues to prosper, we raise our sons to practice jihad and our daughters under the protection of Sharia law. This is just all peppered with different poor photoshops, like the Statue of Liberty with a burqa on. Yeah, so the, I i mean the imagery is insane it's like refugees on boats they're like muslim people outside the white house there's like for some reason like a segregated drinking fountain for gay and straight uh then there's like uh now hiring men only and yeah like the hollywood sign is now reads allahu akbar and shit like that So it's basically trying to scare the shit out of you for a very specific person with a very specific worldview that is based on total bullshit. This would scare you because Sharia law is like the buzzword for all these people. Oh, my God.

Whatever Sharia law exists in these towns or whatever. Yeah. These are very sort of scary, fear mongering ads. And so we come to find out that through a little digging, Open Secrets was able to find out where the money was coming from. So the way a lot of dark money groups work is people like the Mercers, and then on the left and the right, this is employed by both the left and the right, as I have dabbled in the dark arts of the 501c4 nonprofit before. So 501c4 is like a social welfare organization. And you usually have these very

sort of nebulous names like Secure America Now or like Americans for Democracy, just things that you don't know, like who the person is coming from. I mean, that sounds totally harmless. Right, exactly. Because you don't know. And again, these groups don't have to disclose their donors to the public, but they do have to tell the IRS where the money is coming from. So basically, when they were doing some digging, they basically got a tax return sort of thing from the group and it was unredacted. Usually when they get it, it's fully like, you don't know where the money is, but this one wasn't. Just the IRS fucked up.

Yeah. Or I think the accounting company that was the group's accounting firm just fucked up and was like, oh, here, this is it. And you find out that the largest individual contribution was $2 million from Robert Mercer. So, yes, these ads were targeted very specifically in swing districts and very specific swing voters were seeing this through a tactic of using Google ads and Facebook to get these sort of things in front of people. So, you know, good to know that, you know, America is always moving forward. Yeah, I feel like they could do that same ad with just what's happening now. Like, just not even make up, like, this is a fearful thing. Just be, like, a documentary of, like,

America now is, like, all the actual tragedy that's happening. And that's just as, I mean... Yeah, well, yeah, but this is specifically of a kind of person who their only fear are Muslim people and Sharia law. So this was during the 2016 election, right?

Yeah, yeah, this is the buildup to it. So, I mean, in the past, these sorts of ads become famous back when they ran on television, like at least the other side would see them and know, okay, this is what's being run to persuade people to vote for the person who I'm not going to vote for. But I didn't see this ad until, you know, a year and a half after the election right and i mean this goes back to that quote that with social media it's like uh propaganda is broadcast into people's ear with a megaphone like people are shouting it into your ear but nobody else can hear it right yeah because i had never seen these yeah i hadn't seen the ad but i did hear people talk about well well, Sharia law

has taken over. And I was like, what the fuck are you talking about? And they all, and like, whether it's the one where they, there's like a German version, like, but it was all meant for Americans to digest or the French version. It was sort of basically like, hey, we were too lax with immigration. ISIS came through and now they've taken over our country. And the Eiffel Tower is just draped in an ISIS flag. Yeah. Like you said, Statue of Liberty in a burqa. This is wild shit.

And like all the kids in an American classroom, like just pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. So it's less transparent in terms of anybody else knowing about it, but it's way more potent in terms of being able to exactly target who is going to be receptive to this. target who is going to be receptive to this because the Cambridge Analytica statistics and you know all the shit that they stole was focused around fear and like how perceptible you were to fear and uh you know when Trump gave his RNC speech and he was like the world is coming to an end like our streets are bathed in the blood of white people as they're like... People of color and gays run around freely. Right. Like what?

And I was like, this just seems like this is going to be so poorly received by everybody, right? But because they were specifically targeting these people and these people who were shown this ad lived in a different reality than me. He was speaking directly to them. And they were like, yeah, of course. Like that sounded like the most natural thing in the world to them.

Yeah. Yeah. I feel like what you were saying, Jack, about having these conversations where the other side can't hear it is a big thing. Because we use the internet now. So you can kind of go to websites that skew towards your viewpoint. And so you're not privy to the conversations that the other side is having um and especially now i mean i think it's great to take hate speech off the internet obviously but there's people who are creating like you know secret or whatever subreddits and things like that so it's much

harder to find out what those conversations are now and what the big ideas that they're thinking well that's why luckily we have people like Jared Holt at Right Wing Watch who that's like their business to figure out what the fuck is always going on. But yeah, it's true. Like, especially with things like this where they're targeted ads, it would be hard to even come across this

even if you were looking like at things like Drudge or Breitbart or whatever. Because these were basically meant to be like, hi, this is for a very specific person in a very specific region of the country. Like I started subscribing to different Breitbart mailing lists and stuff like that. Oh, your fidget spinner came, by the way. Nice, nice, nice.

But so I am starting to get like some of the things and I like just started getting hit with ads that are like they're trying to take away our Second Amendment rights and stuff like that. But I think Google and Facebook's algorithms are probably confused by me because I haven't created a completely separate reality. You've got to make a shell account. Yeah, exactly. I need to create a fake book. I'm going to be a divorced dad. Right, exactly. What if I do that and just make a bunch of friends and then I'm just –

And that just becomes you. And they're like, hey, come on the hunting trip with me. And I'm like, oh, God, are they going to accept me? And then you show up. They're like, what the hell, Craig? It hunting trip with me. And I'm like, oh God, are they going to accept me? And then you show up, they're like, what the hell, Craig? It was me all along. Teresa, this is a screenplay. We'll talk offline.

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Teresa's script would work out. Yeah. I wrote it in the break. Right. We have some third act problems, but we're working through them. And we were also talking about how there are people on the right who do create fake accounts, as we talked about during Hurricane Harvey, was it? Yeah. Where there were these accounts, the Houston loot crew, where they were talking about, you know, how they were going to go looting.

where they were talking about how they were going to go looting, but it was clearly just some right-wing person who was trying to adopt the persona of a street tough. That's like gaslighting to such an extreme level. People do that in relationships where they will be like, you're crazy for thinking this because if I, I don't know, if you've ever been in a shitty relationship, sometimes it'll be like you suspect them of doing something insane, like creating fake accounts or, you know, doing some mind games. And then you accuse them.

And then the guy's like, if I did this, I'd be crazy. And you're like, you're right. But then you find out. Yeah, you are crazy. Like, if the right side did this, they'd be crazy. Oh, no, but they are. They are crazy. And those posts, of course, went viral.

Oh, no, but they do. They are crazy. And those posts, of course, went viral America's history with diplomacy and how they're like sort of these two camps, these two approaches to diplomacy. And it's almost like every time somebody tries to approach a diplomatic encounter via personality, it goes really badly. Kennedy, when he first met with Khrushchev, thought he was just going to be able to charm Khrushchev and like, you know, just be fucking John F. Kennedy. You're not selling carpet, my man. Rock star, you know, and like, and Khrushchev and like, you know, just be fucking John F. Kennedy. You're not selling carpet, my man. Rockstar, you know, and like, and Khrushchev just like fucking owned him by the end of it. And the same thing happened with Reagan when he met with Gorbachev.

He was like, we seem to see things the same way, but they had no success in Reykjavik when they met for the first time. But then Nixon and Kissinger went to China and they did all the research. They just had this exhaustive preparation and just were aware of every little facet of Chinese culture and what they would want to hear from them and just did all the prep. And they had huge success where like they went

into those meetings where the future seemed like one thing between america and china and came out and it was like a totally different thing and it was like way more crazy fact during world war ii my grandfather in japan he was like one of the foremost experts on german philosophy and he was recruited by the japanese government to understand how the Germans were going to be communicating and like what they mean yeah uh so like that's the sort of shit you need to do right exactly because they were like yo we're in Japan it's like the late 30s we don't really know many German people but I think this guy does uh what are they fucking saying and yeah because it's very important when culturally people go into negotiations very differently or have a

very different mindset of how they're negotiating or even how they see how they're going to achieve their aims. So, yeah. Well, like Kennedy and Reagan are both sort of more traditionally handsome, charming guys. So they probably went through their lives getting things handed to them or it was easy for them to persuade people. So they never had to think about working hard.

And then for Nixon, who literally lost the first time because he was ugly. He was too ugly for TV, just sweating. So he knows he has to like- Kissinger was a dreamboat though. So I mean, that kind of fucks up your- Kissinger now, especially. So fucking- Yama, yama, yama.

Yama, yama, yama. But so there's just this great anecdote that I want you guys to listen to that she reported in this podcast about how we can expect Trump to approach the negotiations. Because the art of the deal had just come out in the late 80s, early 90s. And he was actually lobbying to be in charge of negotiating with the Soviet Union about disarmament and nuclear weapons. And so he obviously did not get that job. And everybody laughed behind his back about the fact that he thought he was, you know, Mr. Deals and could do a good job. But anyways, so the story is that he, Trump, and the guy who actually got the job

and who ended up doing like all this preparation, all this work to actually, you know, succeed in disarmament and, you know, making progress in that direction. They met each other at a wedding and Trump came up to him and told him how he was going to handle it if he had gotten the job. Donald Trump and Richard Burt happened to meet each other at a society wedding in New York. And Trump walked up to him, according to Bert, and said, so you're the guy, meaning you were the one who got the appointment. And Richard knew the story of Trump's lobbying. And he said, yes, I am. And Trump said to him, well, let me tell you what I would have done if I'd been appointed the envoy to the Soviets. I would have gotten them into the conference room.

I would have made sure they were comfortable, very comfortable. And then I would have stood up and shouted, fuck you, and walked out of the room. The end. Oh, shit. What? And you know it's true because of the, and I would have made sure they were comfortable. Very comfortable. Very comfortable.

It's like that is word for word. What happened in that conversation? That's how he won the election. He got all his fans. Right. And then he got in the White House and went, fuck you. Exactly. Yo, fuck you diplomacy, man. That's dope.

Hey, that's cool, though. You know what I mean? That's like some hey that's cool though you know what i mean that's like some that's baller but it's not it does not work when uh the fate of i don't know most of the human world depends on it but there's nothing to indicate that he is going to do anything other than that uh in this north korea discussion but you know but here's hoping that would be dope if they just laughed at him. They're like, all right, bro.

We already knew that though. We already listened to pod, save the world. Um, this was coming. So that woman kind of sounded like Elizabeth Warren. Uh, a little bit like a much flatter Elizabeth.

Yeah. Elizabeth Warren, the timbre was there. It was like, they're, you know, look, Elizabeth Warren,

I digress. Very animated when she comes on those shows. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Let's move on. People are finally asking the White House whether Trump is influenced by Fox News because he clearly is. Somebody did a chart where they basically charted his tweets throughout a 24-hour period and then showed the period of time that Fox and Friends is on.

And you can see that there's just an incredible uptick in the likelihood that he's going to tweet during the hours that Fox and Friends are on. So it's obvious. He is determining what he's going to think and talk about and dictate policy on on a given day based on what happens on Fox and Friends. Why can't he listen to our show? Right.

Swap out the tape. Exactly. Or you know what you do? You do this. You play our episodes. You dub an episode of Fox and Friends but it's just your daily zeitgeist. Problem solved y'all. We saved the world. When CNN asked about this, Sarah Sanders was like, I'm sure you're disappointed that he's not watching CNN. And then just like said some other bullshit that didn't address the question.

And then turned to actually booking guests on Fox to say things to the president if they can't uh get an in-person meeting because they know he will listen more when it is said by somebody on TV uh-huh that is happening okay great I know they say like what janine piero apparently was like the most effective one yeah like he really fuck with judge yeah tiffany trump has to go on fox and friends be like hey hey dad uh hey dad uh i'm your daughter it's almost my birthday yeah who the fuck is this freak who's this terrorist get her off the screen. But yeah, Justice with Judge Jeanine can really, really catch his attention, apparently. So I guess between all of them, you can have a pretty good attack on his brain to get the...

I don't know. Do they think it's working, though? Because he seems increasingly less and less attached to reality. It's not like the White House aides are in charge of the programming. They can just sometimes get people booked. But, you know, Fox and Friends is determining that they're going to show this caravan. And if they show a particularly like worrying piece of news, he's going to, you know, freak out. And that will be the thing that he focuses on for those 24 hours. So it might work, but it's not a very straightforward way of presidenting. Somebody, a guy named Richard Jeter, who used to write on At Midnight, tweeted something to the effect that people talk about Fox being state-controlled media, but we have a media-controlled state. And that is really true. And there has been state-controlled media in the past. true and you know there has been state controlled media

in the past I don't think there's ever been a media controlled state like a state that is just being determined by somebody who just it depends on whatever the fuck they watch on TV maybe there is I don't know didn't George W. Bush watch

some play that actually helped influence him to declare war. I forgot the name of the play. Phantom of the Opera? Yes, that was Hamilton. No, but I mean, obviously all these things, for most politicians, it's not just one thing. It's more like the, I don't know, there's a metaphor that I'm trying to get at that I can't think of.

You know, the thing with the cartoon with the Wile E. Coyote. It's just, there's never been such transparent, like one-to-one situations where it's like, this was on Fox and now that's what he's thinking and talking about. So, shit, man. Yo, so, yo, Jeff Bezos, stop fucking around. Buy fucking News Corp. Right. You know what I mean? Just buy Twitter and just shut it down.

Just to save the world, bro. Flex your fucking big bank account and help us, bro. So you also had something you wanted to talk about behind the scenes

at the warehouse. Well, look. I mean, everything is so messy in that fucking place right now. And it's great from a soap opera standpoint,

but fucking terrifying from an existential standpoint. But let's get into it in the section I call When It All Falls Down. Because so now that basically the child managed daycare center that is the White House is completely devoid of reasonable human beings. You know, Trump has got all kinds of really cool ideas. So the latest one this week that has most people worrying, especially his military appointees and people at the Pentagon, is that he just wants to get the fuck out of Syria right away because he just feels like it's a waste of money. It's not doing shit. And, you know, fuck it. We shouldn't be there.

And, you know, everyone was like, no, that's actually a terrible plan because I remember the last time we pulled out of a country too early that created a power vacuum created ISIS and you remember that and they're also being like you know it will also create a vacuum that will be filled by Russia and Iran and we're like in America's more and more out of the picture in terms of diplomacy and figuring out what the fuck to do in Syria so

the experts are like no and he's still fixated on like getting out he's like he doesn't even want a timeline. He just wants it done. And it's just crazy. I don't know why. That's just sort of his main thing right now. I'm just throwing this out there.

But if Putin could request a single piece of strategy on the part of the U.S. in Syria, wouldn't that be exactly what he does? Right, because he's like, because your toys are fighting my toys there. So if you take your toys out, then mine can just roll the whole fucking country up. I don't know. Along with Turkey and Iran, because they had a real cool unity meeting this week where it was like a panic attack in a photo. But anyway, moving on, the next thing, just to sort of show how his brain is sort of like

he just thinks everything is a movie. He was shown by by the cia some footage of a drone strike on a target uh in the middle east somewhere and in the in the video that was shown to him the target was leaving his home and traveled some distance to create some space between himself and the home he left and then the attack was initiated and then after he saw it the first thing he asked them was, why did you wait? Because he just thought, why don't you just blow up the whole fucking house? And they said,

well, because there were innocent bystanders in there and we didn't want civilian casualties. And he was like, why? And again, he's been saying this since the beginning. Like he's always like,

you got to kill their families and shit. He said that like on the campaign trail. So he definitely still thinks like, it's like a dirty Harry movie or something. It's like a video game for him. He's just like, oh yeah, those aren't people. Right, exactly. And I mean, I don't know if he's played

the Death from Above level in Call of Duty, but that might have affected his sort of perception of how that goes. Also, it's just boring, all that waiting around. I'm sure, you know, he likes his TV shows, bang, bang, bang. Boom, boom, boom. I'm pretty sure he fast forwards

to the fight scenes in movies i think we heard that somewhere right so again he it's a very disconcerting especially when you pair that all with his fuck you style of diplomacy yeah he's clearly has no consideration for civilian casualties uh which is probably why he doesn't mind such an aggressive stance with north kore, because I guess it's so abstract. I don't know any Korean people. Yeah, he said that. Also, like with China, he's like charting the he wants to do the tariffs. And he said something like, oh, well, there might be pain, but we'll win from that.

And you're like, yeah, but you're actually your decisions will actually affect people. Like you can't just be like, oh, suffer through the pain. Because it's like, well, the crazy thing, thing too is like it will disproportionately affect a lot of the states that voted for him yeah so that's just a fucking weird move also because he like he has his ego but he doesn't he can't reconcile that with like what how shit actually works and what those effects would be he's just so impulsive so yes we're in good hands. Yeah, it was a Sunday Times article that recalled an occasion in the 90s when Trump wanted to watch the John Club Van Damme movie Bloodsport. But it was 92 minutes, which is too long for his attention span. And so he made his son fast forward through all the exposition and dialogue until it was just 45 minutes of just people getting the shit kicked out of them.

Holy shit. So that's how – it sounds like that's how he likes his – He only likes the sexy parts. CIA videos. Yeah. The same thing he eats his pizza, just the toppings. So he only likes the good part. That is so gross.

That part. That part. Mm-hmm. All right. So we are going to take a quick break and then we're going to come back with a bunch of shit that doesn't involve the Trump White House.

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And we're back. And we wanted to bring on super producer Ana Hosnier because it seems like a lot of stuff is happening in the world of TV and Miles and I are too busy taking care of children to be caught up on our TV. I'm taking care of not even my own kids. Right. Taking care of all these children out here. Hey, guys. Hey, Ana. Hi, are you okay? Yeah. I'm taking care of not even my own kids. Right. Taking care of all these children out here.

Hey, guys. Hey, Anna. Hi, are you okay? Yeah, I'm great. Your energy is so high right now, I cannot imagine what you did this morning or last night. Well, we'll get to what I did. It involves a little yodeling boy.

Oh, yes. We will get to that. But so, first of all, there was a Jersey Shore reunion that you did not watch. No, I didn't. Super producer Sophie talked about apparently the situation has been sober for a while. Which can I

say, boo! Boo! Damn. This man's trying to get his life together. I know. But also, no, boo. How old is he now? 76? Oh, he looks great. No, but good for him. He's, you know, trying to get his life together. Yeah, of course, man. Is he like, how old is he now? 76? Oh, he looks great. No, but good for him. He's, you know, trying to get his life together.

Yeah, of course, man. Come on. He's trying to bounce back. Tough challenge. I feel like that would be the hardest place to try to get sober in the world is on the Jersey Shore. That is a true test. But they're family. Oh, yeah.

That's the olive. I mean, I'm going to have to get into it because as some of y'all who listen know, we fuck with the Jersey Shore in here because I'm pretty sure the tweet that you did that went viral of us holding the banner of the note spawned so much secondary content of other people getting the people from the Jersey Shore to talk about the note.

And so, you know what? We're making culture here, guys. That's true. We do. The only piece of art on our wall is a giant house-sized rendering of the anonymous note. From Snooki to Sam. But Miles, you were saying you have a friend who works in reality TV. Yeah, yeah.

The original Jersey Shore. The homegirl. A friend of a friend. An anonymous source. An anonymous friend who, yeah, worked on the first couple of seasons and said that the Jersey Shore was by far like such a different kind of reality show to produce. Like typically with things like real world, you'd have to kind of like spur on like some sort of narrative and things like that. Whereas they just sort of sat in the control van and they were just like, we're out of booze. We need more booze.

And they would come in there and they would just wild out and they're like, we're going to karma. And they would just go and they didn't have to do shit. Because these people are so legitimately these people that there was really not much engineering that had to be done. I don't know if that's the same for the later seasons. But initially, the thing that captured everyone was unadulterated, pure Jersey Shore energy. The cast is just waking up the camera crew in the middle. Hey, guys, get this. It's going to be good. You're missing some good shit. Pauly D is up the camera crew in the middle of the night. Hey guys, get this! It's gonna be good!

You're missing some good shit. Pauly D's gonna boof a whole fifth of vodka. Yeah, apparently they're still in that form because Snooki has children now but got after it and had to pee and just jumped in a pool last night

fully clothed and took a pee. But yeah, so they are the goats when it comes to reality TV casts. Reality debauchery, yes. They are the greatest that has ever lived. So Atlanta is having a great season and had a great episode last night that I did not have a chance to watch, but Ana, you watched it. Tell me what happens. It was wild.

Apparently, they aired it with absolutely no commercial break, so it was like 41 minutes. It was this surrealist world where Darius, Lakeith Stanfield, goes to pick up a piano that he saw for free online at this mansion in the middle of nowhere in Georgia. I don't know how far out of Atlanta. And the person he encounters is a Michael Jackson figure. It's a man who's clearly bleached his skin, had a lot of work done, who is dealing with a lot of stuff. And it's so creepy and it's got like get out vibes. And it surreal and it is like layers of horror going on you don't know where it's gonna go and it's just wild i feel like it also comments a lot on um just like celebrity upbringing like parents like abusing their kids for to get you know make them famous and make

them stay in line and just do everything they can to be a celebrity. And it's very intense. Like Michael Jackson. Yeah, like Michael Jackson specifically. Like Joe Jackson has admitted to beating him because he said it made him a better performer in person and kept him in line, which is levels to that. Yeah, no, that's how it works. But it's also very interesting because now you can see that

Donald Glover has the power at FX. And that's really cool to see that he's like, here has the power at FX and that's like really cool to see that he's like, here's what's going to go down. Right, right, right. Yeah.

And so that's kind of cool to see an African American man be like, and it'll also have no commercials and we'll air like 40 minutes and it will just be so like anything can happen, which that's the greatest part of Atlanta. It's just so out there. I didn't see that episode, but did you like it? I loved it. Oh, so it was surreal in a great way, though, too, for you.

Like, I was, like, talking to myself through all of it. Like, oh, my God. What did he do? And the whole skin bleaching thing is something that is actively happening, like, right now. Like, if you Google Sammy Sosa. No, no. I wouldn't recommend it. Don't bring up Sammy Sosa. No, no. I wouldn't recommend it. Don't bring up Sammy Sosa.

Poor Sammy. Okay, but in the show, Darius calls Donald Glover and Paperboy, and he tells them to Google Sammy Sosa. Does he really? Because they're like, what are you talking about? He's like, no, Google Sammy Sosa. I don't understand what I'm dealing with right now. It's crazy the bleaching he did. It's pretty crazy.

I cannot believe he went from Dominican to Dominic from up the street. So, also, you say Roseanne is fire? Yes. You're the first person, although I don't watch it. This is a brave take. And I'm only reading hot, angry takes from people on Twitter. Look, I grew up with my Persian-ass family watching Roseanne. I have been a Roseanne fan.

I mean, not the person that is Roseanne Barr. I don't care about her. The show Roseanne itself has always spoken to me. I'm sorry to say it, but Persian people, we spend our whole lives watching like perfect people on television. It's funny to us to just see a normal kind of like quote unquote trashy which i don't think they're trashy they're just you know people from the midwest family just doing what they do yeah and i love it and i gotta say laurie metcalf is an amazing actor she every scene she's in i thought i was dying she's so good and to just bring like this oscar nominated actress and just put her in this role she used to have

it's amazing she kills it she knows what she's doing and it's not all trump propaganda i mean yes roseanne barr extremely problematic but it's not just about her the entire show is carried by all these characters that are pretty funny like john goodman still got it baby when you had in one episode how many times do you go like this because it's problematic how many inhale through that much i mean the jokes are more like dumb than anything right because every time roseanne says something that's like right wingy like she has all the other characters in the house being like oh shut up like everyone's aware that she's just like this yeah like out of touch old lady and also in terms of reflections of reality like people have conservative relatives people have conservative heads of households and like yeah that's what like immigrant parents are

also you know tend to be very conservative very conservative yeah so it's only because Roseanne is a Trump supporter uh that it has that conservative character I think it's a reflection of reality in a lot of cases yeah but you were also saying that her theories on QAnon make a lot of sense. Right. Right. And I have also asked QAnon to DM me. To DM you, yeah.

No, but I think it's interesting. Laurie Metcalf's character, Jackie, actually wears a nasty woman shirt just to bother Roseanne. Right. Like, it's her whole thing. She wears, you know, the pink pussy hat, which we, you know, let's not getting into how problematic that is. But I think it's interesting that she's also

this kind of weird white feminist vibe where you get it from her too. So they all have their sides, but it's just their people. They're people we see every day in our lives. They're taking the piss out of white feminists and Trump supporters. Oh, it's a piss take then. And there's a boy,

Darlene's son, likes to dress like a girl and they deal a lot with if he's going to get bullied or not. So it's like real things that these conservative grandparents have to be like, I don't know how to deal with this, so I'm going to do my best. Here's a knife to protect yourself because I've never dealt with this before. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just an old conservative man. Right. Oh, Jesus. I come from an era when a feller threatened you, you stabbed him.

Yeah, and so it's like this funny connection of people trying to be like, oh, like Darlene being like, dad, just don't. Don't get involved in this. And it's interesting. And you know what? Gives me a few belly laughs here and there. All right. I'm sure like the writers and there's people behind it that are all pretty liberal and not at all.

Well, yeah, the entire writers. So, I mean, they probably are doing what they can to make it more representative. Roseanne's the real problem. But everyone else. Yeah, right. I think probably the main issue people take is that someone with a show this popular right now has these crazy theories about governance and how the world is working. That maybe that's the knock-on effect of this show. But the nostalgia is so strong that I can't help but enjoy it.

See, I'm going to have to watch it because I have no connection to Roseanne. So you might not like it. No, I know, but I mean, it'll be, I don't know if I'll like it or not like it, but I think I'll have a different, I don't know. Fuck it, I'm going to watch it. I'm going to get fucking, I'm going to get melted.

Three episodes out right now. You can find it on Hulu. I don't know. Fuck it. I'm going to watch it. I'm going to get melted. Three episodes out right now. You can find it on Hulu. I can't afford Hulu, but somebody DM me with their pass and I will shout you out on the podcast. I can give you my password. I want the Zach game to come through. I make 300k a year here. We are running low on time, so we only have time for

a two-story Bloidwatch. Miles, it sounds like on time. So we only have time for a two-story Bloidwatch. So, Miles. It sounds like, I mean this time, according to the cover stories, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt are definitely getting together. They are moving in. It's a cover story. It says they're moving in together.

How can they bullshit that story? Yes, that's what I said. So you look inside it says Jen is finally moving in. Then you open up the magazine to read what the facts are. And the facts are that according to some sources, she's talked about moving in with Brad Pitt. So again, wild speculation. My new favorite show, Wildly Speculating. According to anonymous sources, she has talked about moving in. So yeah, that's that. The next story that we also saw that Teresa read was about, it said like, Diva Adele,

a waiter's worst nightmare. So what the fuck are they trying to say about Adele in this magazine? This is kind of a silly story because it's basically saying that she goes to these restaurants and then asks for a lot of things because she doesn't want people to see her eat. So at first it's like, Adele asks for a lot when she goes to the same restaurants we all go to, Soho House and Nobu. Right, you know, the same restaurants we all go to, Soho House and Nobu. Right, yeah.

Nobu. I don't go there. I don't have money for Nobu. Right, right, right, yeah. So already it's very unrelatable but then she's, they're like, she makes people move the table

and she's never happy but then there's like an afterthought which is like, that goes, oh, yeah, you know, she might just be looking for privacy.

She doesn't like people watching her eat. So then the first, they're like, she's a bitch. And then they're like, but also maybe she just doesn't want to be bothered. But also I get it, man. She's very well known. And you don't want people gawking at you while you're eating. All right.

But, yeah. Well, again, great. But see, that caught my eye. But I just have to quickly say that while I was reading that story, I saw that Justin is now dating a new model. Very shortly, Bieber, after the breakup with Selena, which was supposed to just be a break. Selena?

And this girl is named Baskin. Robbins. No, Champions. Wait, what? Baskin Champions? That name is fucking... No, that's fake. That's her name.

That's a Russian bot name. So anyways, I'm very disappointed in that relationship. That is a freshman creative writing class name. Yeah. Baskin Champions walked into the room. Watch me bask in champions. All right, now we want to move on

and go out in the world of music. Of course, the Cardi B album is out today. For sure, we all know. We have not had a chance to listen to that yet because we have been too busy listening to what I think is your finest work in a while, the internet. So it's three compounding works of genius. So some young genius from the holler was on YouTube just yodeling it up in a Walmart.

Yeah, so he's killing it. He is fucking dope. Young man in boots, huge ass belt buckle, red bow tie, and there's like an old woman who's just having her heart melted as she watches Manny Yodel. So first, this is the original video of the young boy yodeling in the Walmart. Peep these yodeling skills. Lord, I don't know what I do.

All I do is say hi, hi, hello. That last song did, she said goodbye. Well, Lord, I thought I, oh, Lord, that last song did she say goodbye. Well, Lord, I thought I would cry. She do me, she do you, she got the kind of lovin'. Lord, I'm glad to hear when she got this way. Daddy. So, yes. Suffice to say, this young man is killing this Hank Williams tune,

and his yodel game is on about 3,000. Panties are soaked. Panties are soaked. Panties are soaked. The woman next to him, the janitor from Walmart had to come through with a mop. Anyway, so now cut to the internet doing what the fuck it does when something goes viral, right? So that's the genesis point. Then we get the fire fucking EDM remix of the Yodel Boy, who we have not stopped playing this song in the office. This song is so fucking good.

So just drop the beat, Nick! All that you said fly high Oh, that last Go! Woo! Oh, yeah. We are fucking dancing right now. Y'all can't see, but this is woo!

Miles just jumped into the pool i just put it in a full split now so this this uh edm remix everybody is loving now phase three uh i don't know how many y'all follow daequan on instagram if you don't follow daequan on instagram get your fucking life together because that's really the only meme account you really need to be following. I think it was last night. I think Anne and I both probably saw this last night because our significant others were so annoyed that we just kept playing this 15

second Instagram video on a loop where it's just called I think it was something where it says when you hear the EDM remix of the Yodeling Boy. It's hard to explain, so I guess we'll have to link that in the footnotes. I don't even want to explain it you just have to watch this evolution i guess we'll tweet it out from the account the song starts playing and somebody just matter-of-factly like very business-like just jumps off of a balcony and like begins falling like what what would be

to their death yeah like eight stories yeah like eight stories and then it like smash cuts to this person like dropping into splits it's just doing a dance hall death drop split drop and just smashing the ground with his booty and in here we've i definitely tried to force myself into split and i may have torn my hamstring now miles has been limping all morning yes uh but totally worth it. Yeah, but you do kind of have to see it. We'll link all that stuff. Look in the footnotes or just start following Daquan on Instagram.

Yeah, and that is what's going on in the Zeitgeist today, guys. Teresa, as always, it has been such a pleasure having you. Where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter at Larissa, T-L-E-R-E-S-A-T-E-E. And I'm going on tour. So if you want to see me, go on my Twitter. Oh, come on. You got to sell it better than that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's going to be great. I'm going to be in Atlanta, Boston, New York, a bunch of other places, San Francisco. Yeah, go to my Twitter and you can find my dates and ticket stuff there. Do it. I highly recommend you do that. Miles, where can people find you? Oh, you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray.

But you already know that. And also, please, guys, follow me. You know what I mean? I'm trying to get my followers up so I can become an influencer and get free socks. Especially on Instagram. Yeah. And you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Yeah, follow me too.

Yeah. If Miles is going to get his numbers up, I still need to get my numbers up. No, your numbers are fine. You don't have a finite number. I have like 4,000 something something. You got like the 23.4K thing. Yeah, but I got to keep that difference the same. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let them know. Let them know. It's important to yeah that's true yeah yeah yeah let them know

it's important to our dynamics yeah yeah uh alright uh Anna Hosnier where can people find you uh you can find me on twitter at Anna Hosnier a-n-n-a-h-o-s-s-n-i-e-h and you can listen to my podcast

ethnically uh ethnically ambiguous um on the how stuffuffWorks Network. Great times. It is a great show. I'm just joking. I know. Yeah, hit him with that. That yodel.

That's going to do it for today and this week, another season in the books. Miles, what are we going to ride out on? Yo, shout out to, I don't know how to say your Twitter avatar, at Angel1A, I don't know, or it's John A, or it's Ellipsis Comfortable.

But you stroked my ego and said you like the music. And I said, what genre do you want to hear today? You said G-Funk. So get ready. Today, this is for all the old heads out there, but if you don't know, G-Funk is like West Coast rap that's like wrapped in, like a lot of like Parliament sort of influenced samples and sort of production style.

Now, the track I'm going to play is Rodney O and Joe Cooley called You Don't Hear Me Though. And that's just like, if you grew up in LA, the West Coast, we all know this song. It's like our national anthem. And if you don't know, now you know and you can listen to the same music that an old washed hip hop

head would listen to. So, enjoy that and enjoy your weekends guys all right that's gonna do it for this season we will be back next week talk to you guys then bye but you don't hear me though Outro Music because the fool's making dead precedents. Rodney O and Joe Cooley don't play that. And you know we never come off whack. I'm only down with my homies from the get-go. I ain't down with OPP in a sideshow. If you don't like it, then I'm throwing up my finger. Rodney O's keeping one in the chamber. Who you pulling, damn sure, not Rodney O.

Back to the hook, fool, but you don't hear me, though. We'll be right back. Singing in front of China, add a rap on there for a bit You know what I'm talking about, that stuff's not real rap They tried to add my hip-hop flavor and it's still whack We're rockin' in Yo-Yo, cool, they got the gangsta track Comin' on strong, we're not givin' no slack Kickin' street lyrics cause I know it would stick I got the hoochie mamas, yeah, they jumpin' on it Sit back, a rap lover's been smiled The beat is about to be your entertainment for a while You love it, you like it, it's a straight-up rap show

Until you aren't me fans, you don't hear me though Time for me to kick another fly, funky verse And if I die, put a sound system in my hearse You don't hear me though, it's a title, bro I'm calling money when I slam down my domino Fever in the funk house, yeah And if you play, then you know what I'm talking about Who you fooling when you say that you can fake a O? I got a New York critic in a chump hole

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