The Daily Zeitgeist - Michael Cohen Flips? World Coup 2018 6.13.18

Episode Date: June 13, 2018

In episode 168, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Billy Wayne Davis to discuss Michael Cohen and the fact that he'll probably most likely flip, Rod Rosenstein calling on congressional Republicans to investigate themselves, more Scott Pruitt shenanigans, a look at the upcoming World Cup in Russia, a quick primary watch, pop culture recommendations, and more!  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's not unusual to have fun with Jack O'Brien. It's not unusual to have fun with Jack O'Brien. That is courtesy of Zinc Addict at Zinc Addict on Twitter. Hope you get help. Yeah, man. And I'm thrilled to be joined by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray!

Miles so happy cause to Gray I found my friends in my head. I'm so happy cause too great. I found my friends in my head. I'm so horny cause I have ED, but I can't get it done. I need my meds. I just made that second half of the song up, but shout outs to at Chewable Sarcasm for that Kurt Cobain or Vaughn inspired, AKA. What's that song called?

Lithium? Is that lithium? No, it is. No, yeah, it is lithium. It is. Right? Yeah. I was just going to say lithium.

I'm sure one of the side effects of lithium is... Is impotence. You do. So there you go. So in a way, I fucked that up. Those were the honest lyrics that Miles was singing. Yeah. What did they treat lithium for?

Like depression? I think it was for depression. You got it. You got it, pal. God, what a time. Yeah. They were just like pulling shit off the table. Oh, man, feeling less energetic?

Do this cocaine, man. Have we tried silver? Yeah, sure, try silver. Colloidal silver. Yeah. We are thrilled you have entered the third seat. One of the all-time great Zeitgeist guests and also one of the great stand-up comedians working today,

he is Billy Wayne Davis. Hey, you guys, I'm not doing this thing. Oh, damn it. Sorry. Fuck, man. Leaving us out on this limb all by ourselves. What do you think of Jack not screaming out Der Daily Zeitgeist in the beginning

of the show? You know, a lot of people use that to wake themselves up. Not doing it? Yeah, because he's been doing it like speaking voice. I heard it on an episode and it seemed annoying to me. Well, that's if this show isn't for you. It never has been. Great point.

See? Alright. This isn't about you at all. It'll be back tomorrow. Maybe. Yeah. We'll see. We don't know. This isn't about you at all. It'll be back tomorrow. Maybe. Yeah. We'll see. We'll see. We don't know. We can't really commit to anything here. All right. Before we get into your search history, overrated, underrated, Billy, we like to tell our listeners what is coming up on today's episode. This is a new feature, so you can get your bearings. We're going to talk about the fact that Michael Cohen is expected to flip. We're going to talk about Rod Rosenstein and his little feud that he's having with Nunez. I don't think there's a tilde on that N.

I don't think it's an N-ye. I think it's just a Nunes. When you're from where I am. Yeah, I don't think a lot of these dudes. You over-ethnicize. Over-ethnicize. I think if you ask those dudes what their end game is, they'd be like, what do you mean?

What's that? End what? Okay, I'm sorry. Go on. We digress. I don't know how I'm going to die. More Scott Pruitt fuckery. We're going to take a little preview of the World Cup and just talk about World Cups in general.

Miles is a soccer, a futbol aficionado. Fútbol. Futebol. We're going to potentially talk about the emoluments lawsuit against Trump, which, yeah, pretty interesting. Seems to be pretty open and shut, but we'll see what's unfolding in that lawsuit. We're going to take a look at the primaries that occurred yesterday, and we're going to do some pop culture recommendations. Because, you know we've turned you on to some good shit in the past so we will attempt to keep that streak up but first off we like to ask our guest Billy what is something that

you have searched recently there's revealing about who you are I searched how to get lime deposits out of your refrigerator. All right. There's lime deposits in a refrigerator? Yeah. Where? Where you have like a, if you get water out of the door, you have an ice maker. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, see, I just joined that group of people. Me too.

As I put an ice maker in my house. And I feel like I have nowhere else to go up in terms of, I think I've hit the ceiling. No, there is some days where I just sit where I don't have anything to do. I'm like, man, I've got everything I really need. Yeah. I got an ice maker now. But it was slowing down, and I looked it up, and it's like it's a thing that happens in Los Angeles because of the hard water.

Right, right, right. The lime deposits. And if you don't maintain it every year or so, you're going to have to get a new refrigerator. Oh, shoot. So how do you, well, I'll ask you off mic. Yeah, it's not easy. One ice maker owner to another.

Now I'm in the decision, do I hire somebody, or do I just do it? Yeah. Well, you know what, I'm sure, you know, like, I was having trouble installing it. There are many people in the Zeitgang that were willing to help, you know, so maybe you can get some pointers from somebody out there, because we have many experts in the Zeitgang that were willing to help you know so maybe you can get some pointers from somebody out there because we have many experts in the zeitgang from everything from uh

augmented reality to uh genome projects i've seen a lot of people's twitter bios there's some interesting people out there and plumbers whoever anything we're out here that's community and i enjoy learning how everything works and it also like i know enough about myself where if i do these tasks i also think about like jokes and I get creative while I'm doing these. If you do this, this works, so you don't have to think about it creatively. You have to follow instructions. Yeah, mindless tasks are the best. Yeah, just watch out for if you have filtered water that is making the ice, make sure you change that filter.

A lesson I learned the hard way. It is gross. This message brought to you by Frigidaire. Calorie series. Billy Wayne, what is something that is overrated? Being affiliated with any political party. Okay.

I think that's overrated at this point. Because what you're allowing is someone else to make very important decisions for you. Mm-hmm. And you're being very tribal about things. And at this point, both of them have been hijacked. So now everyone has to really think about shit.

Think for themselves. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. That sounds like a lot of work, man. It is. I know. So just let us tell you what to think.

Yeah. On this second-rate podcast. I mean, I am promising people on this upcoming tour, if you give, it's $10 to come see me do stand-up, and if you come to the show, I promise, I will guarantee you will get into heaven. Wow. Okay, great. That sounds, I'm into this will get into heaven. Wow. Okay, great.

That sounds, I'm into this. The videos are coming soon. This is something I guarantee. And if you don't, come see me. I'll give you your $10. Yeah, if you don't end up in heaven, you end up in hell. You could be like, yo, Satan, give me one second. And if you end up in purgatory, if that's real, I'll give you $5.

I mean, who's to say what we're experiencing now isn't purgatory or heaven or hell no there's pretty much hell i think we don't know you know now i think we all know who the democratic party has been hijacked by but the republicans seem straight up and down to me they seem like they're they're just on the up and up now uh who are you saying that the democrats have been hijacked by i mean at the same corporate interest yeah it's just not i mean right the way i've always put it is like i like the democrat i pick the democrats because they're like nice to me right before they fuck me right and the republicans are like hey i didn't okay we're doing it all right all right and we're done shit that's that hurt yeah that's kind of how it's been for a long time. Despite the DNC making pledges like, oh, we won't take money from fossil fuel companies anymore or whatever. It's like there are plenty of them.

What about banks and other people? I mean, you know, because we live in a corporatocracy now. Yeah. That's really, yeah. I totally, I'm with you on that. Just figure out what the fuck you want to see in the world. Take that separate from what you think the platform is of each party and then, you know, go from there. Vote your interests.

Now, can you vote in the primaries if you're an independent? I think so. You just declare you're a Republican. There's some trick or something because you know how up front and great our system is. So there's no loopholes or anything. Second to finally, Billy Wayne, what is underrated? I feel like compromise is underrated at this point because, yeah, I mean, the joke is like, oh, so no one gets what they want.

But it's like it's usually everyone kind of gets what they want. Yeah, right. The optimistic view of it is, yeah. Yeah. It will work out for everybody. You're getting less of what you want, but you're still getting something that you want. Yeah, it's like a good competition where it's like the two best people are just competing to see who's the best. Like, you know, I'm sure at one point Jordan and Kobe were in some private gym somewhere just playing.

Right. Or their egos. They were just projecting their egos onto the court and letting them duel it out. Yeah, that's true too. But, I mean, as far as their egos, that's what makes them the most competitive people. But to them, it's not even about money. That's just some weird bragging thing

they can do at this point. But I'm saying that that competition, that's a beautiful thing where you can, that's a compromise where it's like, ah, you won, let's do it again. This is about seeing who's better. My favorite example of this is Star Wars. Uh, because if you go back and look at interviews with George Lucas on the set of the first three

Star Wars, he's constantly complaining about the studio interfering and not letting him do his vision and making him work with all these other people who aren't letting him like execute his vision perfectly. And the first three Star Wars are definitely better than the ones where everybody just got it, misremembered how the first three Star Wars were made and were like, it's all George Lucas's vision. And so they made the prequels, which were exclusively his vision.

And he didn't have to compromise with anybody. He didn't have to take anybody's input, just completely uncompromised vision. And they were the Star Wars prequels boom so there's a good example thanks man yeah and it's funny that we bring this up because apparently today some of George Lucas's ideas for further Star Wars movies have been revealed and they're crazy like they are they know yeah he wanted to create a world of micro creatures who all exist inside

the blood of jedis to give them jedi power like the mitochondrion thing the worst part of the prequels the mitochondrion being like midichlorians jack my god i'm so sorry wow i mean i'm sorry star wars fans the non-male toxic ones he fell fell asleep on Ambien while watching Inner Space. Right, exactly. And he was like, oh, I got an idea. Get Mickey Mouse on the phone right now. Yeah, they're saying, Mickey, you didn't sell it to Mickey. The excerpts that they have from this interview where he says,

the next three Star Wars films, we're going to get into a microbiotic world but there's this world of creatures that operate differently than we do i call them the wills and the wills are the only ones who actually control the universe they feed off the force if i'd held on to the company i could have done it and then it would have been done of course a lot of the fans would have hated it just like they did phantom menace and everything but at least the whole story from beginning to end would be told i mean come on man yeah okay here's the deal you guys when i get a hundred million dollars you can't talk to me and record it yeah how's that okay because i'm gonna i bet i'll say some crazy stuff

yeah i bet my ideas are out there. So disconnected from reality. I'm going to shoot the dog into space right now. What did you just say? I'm going to shoot the monkey dog into space. The monkey dog? And then later on, he probably watched them and was like, you know what? You know what, Disney? You should just take this.

Hey, y'all still want to buy this? I am. You guys have let me been driving, and I am hammered. Yeah. The making of The Phantom Menace, the first prequel, is just an amazing study in arrogance where he's like, all right, we're going to green screen it. You just see him drawing all over everybody else's storyboards and shit,

just totally high on what everybody's been telling him for the past 15 years. him like drawing all over everybody else's storyboards and shit just like totally just high on you know what everybody's been telling him for the past 15 years and uh has no idea not to yeah yeah the whole world is like yo thank you right right well it's just he's like i'm right it's basically the main misconception in american life is this idea we always revise the narrative to be one great singular yeah as opposed to you know hundreds of great people working together you know we like our narratives with a single protagonist that is you know everybody tells him he can't do it and it's like now Rudy got help from tons of people and you know everybody was okay with him playing. You're talking about Rudiger? Yeah, Rudy Rudiger. All right.

Yeah, also a con man. And a con man who went to prison. Oh, wait, for real? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, Rudy. You didn't know that? No, I mean, I didn't give a fuck about the movie. I was like, okay, Sean Astin, cool.

I'm like 10 years old, and I didn't really like football. It's a good movie. Oh, yeah, it's a great movie. It's a great movie. Yeah, wonderful movie. I thought you meant thought you meant like understanding because he was so terrible he was like and he still got on the field right smooth operator no so i mean he did like it's true that he got on the field despite you know what probably some coaches being like you're too small and he was carried off the field but i think think Joe Montana, who was the quarterback at the time,

said they did it sarcastically. Right. They were like, this guy's such an asshole. And he was such an asshole that he then spent the next 10 years pitching his story to Hollywood, just going around. And people were like, yo, man, this isn't that interesting. And then he revised it so he was like more of a badass and then revise it so he was more of a badass and then like finally it got made but i mean think

about the type of person you have to be to be like all right i've graduated college now what let's make a movie about my college experience i did it scamming my way so then what happened with the con man shit uh he was involved in like a pump and dump thing or something some financial crime where he was pump and dump yeah just like. Some financial crime where he was. Pump and dump? Yeah. Just like some. Oh, that's a different thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, that's your sexual proclivity. Wait, what was this you're talking about? It was just like a financial scam. Ah, whatever. Yeah. Some white collar crime? Yeah. I think he also, it was like he was selling sports drinks that were like the Rudy sports

drinks and got a bunch of people to invest in them. Like he was the next big thing. Do you want the energy of an equipment manager who played half a second of a game? And then took their money and never invested in anything. All right. Besides that myth, Billy Wayne, what is a myth? What's something people think is true that you know to be false? Oh, that just working hard is enough.

I think that's something that I don't think we teach people. I think some people are like, you have to teach. You work hard, good things happen. But you also have to work smart. Yep. And I don't think we're taught that. Give me an example here. I mean, I think people get the misconception

that if they just put in hard work, hard work, hard work, hard work, hard work, hard work, and not even think about what they're doing, they just get up and work hard. Right, where that energy is going. Yes. Right. Yes. What they're putting that energy. I mean, you could just run into a wall for, and some people are like, well, I worked hard. Why is this reward?

And you're like, well, you're not working. You got to stop and think what you're using that energy for. Do you see that a lot in comedy or just in terms of, cause I feel like a lot of people also in creative fields to kind of just have the mentality of just like hustle, hustle, hustle, hustle.

And some people I think succeed purely because of their tenacity. But you know, there are instances where people just sort of work aimlessly and it's not really servicing something. Well, I think a lot of that is the misconception of what they want or what they think the thing is, and then they get in it, and they're like, well, and they're not necessarily sure what it is,

or they figure it, and they're still never sure, but they know if they keep pushing this one button, the thing happens. So that's all they do. And that's what I'm talking about too. You can't just keep just the inertia the same way. You have to stop and look at what you're doing. Just hard work, just that is not going to do it. You have to be aware of why you're doing what you're doing

and where you're going with what you're doing, not just going. Right, yeah. And I think capitalism is, it puts the illusion that if you just get up and get in the machine, Right. it'll happen. It'll take you away. But that's the illusion.

It's like you have to know what the machine is going to do for you before you jump in the machine. Are you riding? Are you controlling the machine? Or are you just working for the machine? Yeah, you're just pulling those levers. Yeah. So it's like that, I think, I think what made me realize that was in college right before I quit, right after I found stand-up.

I was having trouble with the corporate side, this business side of this communications degree I was trying to get. And it was because they were teaching drones, these corporate drones. And there was no critical thinking in that. I didn't realize it at the time consciously but there was something i mean like this is something's off right right right and then i found stand-up i was like i'm getting the fuck out of here i want to do this that makes sense i mean like working in digital media i meet a lot of people who simply by getting into a company that's their end game and then they get really unhappy and i'm like well is this what you want

to do and they're like well i'm not this good company and blah blah i'm like but you see you you didn't even ask yourself if this is what you want to do? And they're like, well, I'm, I'm not this good company and blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, but you see, you, you didn't even ask yourself if this is what you want to do. Yeah. Because yeah, I think a lot of the times people get, especially like what we're taught this pattern of like, go to school, get a degree and then work for X company or whatever. And you're doing great. And sometimes people, they really take their foot off the gas when they get that at whatever

company.com email or business card and like, ha ha ha. I've done it cut to like, wait, I was that at whatevercompany.com email or business card, they're like, ha, ha, ha, I've done it. Cut to like, wait, was that the goal? I'm stuck. What is this? There's this huge expose that New York Magazine just did about Vice. Right. And they said that their model for all those years that they were like having all this insane financial success, which was a lot of it just like bluffing and blustering and Shane Smith being good at

selling the Vice brand to people. But one of their senior executives was like, we had what we called a rule of 22. Hire only 22-year-olds, pay them $22,000 a year, and work them 22 hours a day. And it's like, yeah, they worked their ass off with an idea that they were going to go somewhere on Vice, but they didn't take a step back and be like oh this is just a fucking hipster shell game right right right like yeah yeah it's not worth it man for me to work some of you i know who've worked at vice they were just enduring it because i'd be like yeah they're like i haven't been paid and like blah blah blah i'm freelancing i'm like what the fuck you doing like well it's vice right so like i mean like it's gonna like

open up other doors and i'm sure sure it will, and it did. But, like, for a while, there are a lot of people who just sort of rationalize away, like, why they need to be treated better or deserve more because they were simply like, well, I'm aligned with this brand. That's really popular. My friend Matt Davis says that kind of stuff is called dream profiteering. So it gets – they do it in comedy, too, where it's it's like hey we'll pay you an exposure or just we'll teach you things you're like

that's not how any of this works that's not they're making money but you're not off your product you have played me yeah

alright guys with that let's get into the stories of the day which will mostly be more of that a lot of dream profiteering a lot of dream profiteering a on. A lot of dream profiteering, a lot of greedy people being assholes.

How fast and out of nowhere this fashion mag out of Montreal became a billion-dollar company in five years. I was like, there's something about that that doesn't make sense. Just doesn't seem quite right. Just numbers. Yeah. Yep. So, like we said, up top, Michael cohen is expected to flip which is kind of what

we thought was going to happen what people speculated was going to happen he has not traditionally been the most loyal of people on his on his lapel he so the reason people are thinking this he he dismissed his legal counsel. He has hired new lawyers. It's not like he's decided to defend himself. He has hired new lawyers who have more experience in southern New York. So it's entirely possible that this is just him kind of pivoting. Right. But we'll see.

But, Miles, you were pointing out one other option is that he's trying to maybe signal that he needs help I don't think he I know some people want to really jump on the idea like oh well he got rid of his lawyers means that like one thing it could I mean a lot of other lawyers that I've heard talk about it say like oh well you know one thing is that he may have irreconcilable

differences with them and just wants to change and I think it could be is he could be broke and they just cost too much money. Right. Or he's pursuing a different legal strategy. But I think, you know, right now they're saying that, you know, he thinks the indictment is just imminent and he's just shooketh. But I think with him even get like leaking these things, it's to send up a little bit

of a smoke signal, a flare to his boy to be like, yo, where are you? Because it's getting real for me now and I need your help. Right. So we'll see if, you know, we'll see where that goes. He's going to see that old boy is going to be like, I can't. Yeah. Well, it's tough because, I mean, it's a big week on Friday. Paul Manafort goes in for his arraignment and chances are his, he might end up in jail

on Friday and like, he needs end up in jail on friday and like he likes to be in jail oh yeah and then we'll see how how tight-lipped he is when he has to be in prison rather than being on house arrest because that's a whole different game if he wants to right yeah so yeah michael cohen you know i guess the one good thing for trump is that most of his fuckery doesn't have much to do with the campaign itself, but just many other weird things to do with the Trump organization or just like campaign adjacent things. But, you know, who knows what this man knows? So I don't know. They all know.

I mean, if you read anything about Cohen, it's just that I think what happens with some of these dudes, they're like children to see what they're going to get away with. And when they don't get caught immediately, if someone doesn't slap their hand or the iron doesn't burn them immediately, they're like, oh, I got away with this. You can do it this way. Right, yeah. And then they just keep doing it that way. And then one day someone goes, yo. That's illegal.

You can't do that. That's not okay. And they're like, no, it's cool. we've been doing it this way for a while and you're like yeah but you that's because no one looked at you yeah right and you're going to jail for a long time and they're like whoa hey hey now what do you mean i can't wipe my ass with these lysol disinfecting wipes they're not for a body use my guy but they look at my fault you guys didn't catch me right yeah that's their i like that's my favorite reaction is like yo hey it's you didn't catch me for a long time so oh and now we're gonna act like this is bad like your son being like it's your fault dad you weren't looking

after me right i mean you fuckhead right yeah um all right And so there is word of a meeting between Deputy Attorney General Rob Rosenstein and congressional the Congressional Oversight Committee, is it? Who where they are basically, you know, they've been threatening him. He's been like, you're not going to threaten me and get away with it. They've been threatening him still, saying that they're going to, you know, if he doesn't give them all of the information about the investigation. Oh, you're talking about the Select Committee on Intelligence. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course. Is that not what I said? You said oversight. No, I just want to make sure, you you know for the wonks out there i'm like first i was like wait who's got letters before so that's all that that comment is like actually it's this before and also independence can only vote in open primaries it's the group nunez is like head of right yeah yeah the house permanent select committee on intelligence is where all the Who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like, who is like he basically was like well you know if you go down this path i am going to have to defend myself by investigating you which would not be good for you right because

the shit you're doing is super fucking shady and so fox news broke this story believing it to be like a we got your Rosenstein scoop. Like this is you're trying to come at Nunes. And people are now taking it more as like, well, yeah, but he can investigate them. And if Nunes didn't do anything weird, then it shouldn't be a problem for him. And it just seems like it's going in the other direction where it will be a problem for him. Oh, without a doubt. Yeah, because he was coordinating with the White House and leading the obscuring campaign of nonsense.

And he's been wrong at every turn. So Devin Nunes is not really batting average is shitty, to say the least. Right. I think everyone's just kind of frustrated because it's like like most people and i would say most people being 60 percent understand that if you're telling the truth and above board about what you're doing at all times none of this nonsense happens you don't have to be like hey you're there's a conspiracy i mean every now and then there is a conspiracy against you. That's how stuff works. But not all of them. Not all the time.

Thank you for shouting out the network, how stuff works. Thank you. I'm getting good at Hollywood. Yeah, you're good. That was seamless. I'm getting very good at Hollywood. Thank you. Thank you so much.

But it is that thing. I think everyone's just like, yo, you guys. Again, it's like watching children. Right. It's the same thing. It's like, we know what you're doing. Stop it. I just feel like Happy Gilmore in that scene with Shooter McGavin

when he's trying to passive-aggressive get him to be in the long drive stuff and off the tour. And Happy just looks at him and he goes, I know what you're doing, and I don't like it. Right, right, right. And that's what I think the whole country feels like right now. Like, listen, i know what you're doing and i don't like it right right and that's what i think the whole country feels like right now like listen we know what you're doing right stop it yeah and we don't know and mueller's just like just chill right i've got it maybe maybe he's like that you think he's like that i think i was saying this the other day i

think dealing with someone like trump and that thing is they're so immoral you have to have everything on them you have to play it so conservatively there's no wiggle room yeah you have like him yeah take all the oxygen out you have to smother them and that's why he's taking his time and he's like we're just gonna slam dunk this because anybody immoral like that with our system can get out. Right. So he knows that. With a fully operational propaganda wing. But we'll see what happens.

He might take all the oxygen out and then out of nowhere, Trump pulls out his little scuba mask and he's like, guess what? I can still breathe, motherfucker. That scuba mask being the Republican Congress. Gets in a U-boat and goes to Argentina. All right. We're going to be right back. When you think of Mexican culture, you think of avocado, mariachi,

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He was still working in the interest of his wife. So, you know, good husband. It was still for him. It's still for him somehow. You know what I mean? He was basically like, she needs to get work because she's spending too much time criticizing me at home and we need money. Yeah. Well, they hit the thing.

So, again, throw it on the list of thousands of dollars being spent on pens, so much money being spent on flights, millions of dollars being spent on security, driving them around finding lotions, finding used mattresses, only getting snacks from Dean and DeLuca, all this other shit, trying to get his wife a Chick-fil-A franchise. Using sirens to get to a dinner reservation. That's pretty smart. I mean, he's not dumb. Which franchise prints money? Chick-fil-A. Yeah, seriously.

He picked the right one. Yeah, that one's smart. Exactly. He did his research. And it kind of sounds like a version of a comedy from the 90s where some outsider becomes the government. It does. And it's like, hey, buddy, put the sirens on.

I'm late for my kid's recital. And I was like, yeah. Doug Kinney wrote this. So this latest one is one of his top aides reached out to the top Republican donors in their official capacity once again at the EPA to try to find his wife a job with one of them. And they succeeded, but then it went away when there was more scrutiny being put on this. But in this Washington Post article, they're talking about how they suspect that a lot of this scrambling and scheming could be because our boy Scott, he's got some B-I-L-L-Z bills to pay. He's got a house in Oklahoma with a pretty hot mortgage on there, like some $5,000

plus a month kind of deal. And he also has a snazzy DC apartment he's got to pay for. And so this coupled with the fact that his wife used to work as a school nurse, he's trying to get her back into the workforce. And so again, yeah, he could be a great husband or a husband that has made a lot of mistakes and needs to make up for it i still don't know which one i mean let's just look at his his job performance he doesn't seem great with money so i could see that transferring into his personal life as well or just bleeding into yeah i mean this guy has 14 ongoing investigations into his behavior and actions while in his post at the epa so i don't think honestly i don't know if it'll ever stop i mean 14 fucking investigations and they're still like

hey man but he knows how to fuck the earth so right we uh we love him yes and he's just shitting on all anything to do with obama era environmental protection well i think that's what i mean yeah that if you do look at it that way if your main goal is to just fuck all that shit up, he's your boy. No, he's your guy. He's knocking it out of the park. I did not know man-made earthquakes were a thing, but this dude is an oil man from Oklahoma. Now Oklahoma has earthquakes like every 30 minutes because of people. Every 30 minutes?

It's crazy. There are certain areas, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The fracking? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The fracking? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a great 60-minute story on that. It's all because you can't

put the groundwater back in there. Yes. And they're like, yeah, you can. No, don't, because it's earthquakes. Oh, what's gonna happen?

Go fuck yourself. We don't live here. Right. Yeah. Yes, exactly. Yeah, those like boom towns, like the fracking boom towns, when you hear about those,

you're like, ooh. Yeah. Some interesting stories. Mm-hmm. All right, Miles. It's your time to shine, baby. World Cup.

World Cup 2018 is about to begin in Russia. That was a vuvuzela for y'all. World Cup 2026. That was like a DJ version. Has just been announced to be happening in North America. Will we all be getting along by then? Yeah. Mexico, United States, and Canada?

We'll see. No border. There'll be no border. There'll be no border. Right. We'll be the West. It'll be two years out of the Trump presidency, so we'll have time to do some cleanup. The mutants will be destroyed. Right.

Or the mutants will take over. Oh, either way. Either way. I think both of these stories are interesting in the context of the way that a World Cup or an Olympics just changes its host country and is treated by the local government. If you remember, Brazil was turned into a police state from a Judge Dredd comic. Right. And London, too. London locked down the entire city with closed-circuit cameras, put rocket launchers on the sides of buildings, and built a wall right through the middle of the city, which required them to just knock poor people's homes down. Yeah.

Yeah, poor people just get so fucked whenever you bring a big event like this to their town. 100%. Because all the resources go to these infrastructure improvements, and then everyone's looking at you like, what the fuck are y'all doing? We have real problems here and you want to build a fucking track and field. Right. You could have just stopped that sentence at poor people just get so fucked. Yes. They get especially casino coming in. Like,

you know how Lincoln suspended habeas corpus for the civil war. It's like that level of emergency, but it's just taken towards fucking poor people. Because they will preemptively arrest you just because they don't want you around. Yeah. Which happened in the Ukraine. Yeah, for the Euro Cup. There's a lot of stuff that happens to get these games ready. And Russia is definitely a no-go.

Yeah. Oh, man. What is Russia doing? I mean, so before, Jack, you're like, well, you know, what do you want to talk about? What's some stuff to look out for? I'm like, okay. Perfect impression to me. Yeah.

I didn't know who he was talking to. Hey, Miles. Boy, you want to talk about soccer today? And I'm like, okay, Jack. You guys are freaking out in here. Yeah. Take it away, man. So, you know, there's so many things. I was like, well, what. You got them freaking out in here. Yeah. Take them home. So, you know, there's so many things.

I was like, well, what do you want to talk about? What are the things to keep an eye out for in the World Cup? Terrorism, homophobia, racism, hooligans, animal cruelty, wasted money on stadiums, or instant replay? Those are the first things that came to mind. I don't know. So I guess to start off, you know, Russia basically stole this World Cup. A lot of people in England believe from them because, you know, FIFA is a corrupt fucking organization.

Right. So they know how to grease the wheels. Absolute power corrupts. Absolutely. Yeah, exactly. So if you want to read into all that darkness, there's plenty of articles on how Russia jacked the World Cup. But again, there are many concerns. So just watch the John Oliver 20 minute piece about it.

Right. Yeah, exactly. That's a great cliff notes so i guess uh point by point there are all kinds of things that are concerns for people going to the world cup not that i don't know i personally this has been like i don't think there's been a more politically contentious backdrop for a world cup since like maybe argentina in the 70s till cutter yeah right till Qatar. Yeah, right? Oh my gosh. Oh my God.

So for now, it's this considering all the doping, all the annexations and invasions and aggressive acts. This is controversy like popping its neck. Yeah. Qatar's like, we're getting ready. Oh, get ready, man. Yeah, so this one, you know, there are many concerns. I think first and foremost, security's been a huge concern for Putin because he knows that all eyes are on Russia.

And he absolutely does not want anything to go down, especially in terms of terrorism. Because, you know, a lot of people have been, like, focused, have made threats about attacking the World Cup. But he, like, made it very clear to the security forces there, there, this is not the time to fuck up. If anything, this plays to his strengths and his country's strengths. Locking it the fuck down. Yeah, just locking shit down, being a fucking strong-arm authoritarian, making people disappear who you don't want around. That is his bread and butter.

So another thing, homophobia and racism. In the stands in russian like the russian league my goodness the ultras there are racist like nazis like they there's it's a different sport nazi iconography they're playing a different sport well the yeah the ultras are definitely which are the the mega fans are definitely on some other shit uh and obviously you know in a country like Russia where there's state-sanctioned homophobia and oppression of LGBT people,

yes, it's going to... That's one thing to consider. And even, like, there are people like Danny Rose who plays for the English national team, who's black, who was even telling his family, like, yo, let's just stay at home. Just watch on TV. Because a lot of people are concerned because, yeah,

a lot of shit has gone down in those games, and it's not the most inviting atmosphere, to say the least. The hooligans are still another thing. So the Russians last year, or two years ago at the Euro Cup, they got in a massive altercation with English hooligans or fans in Marseille while the Euro Cup was happening. So, you know, there's a lot of money being spent on trying to monitor these ultras and these hooligans like they're spending money on, you know, all kinds of facial recognition

technology, having facial recognition drones like fly around to, you know, ID any tomfoolery. There's one city where there will be like 300 Cossack paramilitary officers on horseback to help aid local authorities and shit goes, goes off too much. Who are the Cossacks? These are the same guys. I mean, you may remember them.

Is there a hedge fund I should invest in that backs all this drone footage? It seems like that's all going to the Chinese. I'm pretty sure. The Chinese have the best facial recognition technology because they can just feed billions of people's faces into their algorithm because you know the government controls everything yeah they recently caught some people at a concert just using facial recognition technology like by just having cameras at the gates and they found people with warrants they're like oh there you are but yeah so you know the cossack paramilitary forces, back in May, there were some anti-government protests going down.

These were the dudes who were horse-whipping the anti-government protesters. And they also pledged to report any gay stuff they see. Like any same-sex anything, they're going to report them. I don't think they're going to enforce their draconian laws, but they have made a point of like, we'll also be reporting any gay stuff. Hey, officer, I saw some gay shit over there. Yeah, exactly. Gay bashing is an actual, like, national pastime in Russia, like, literal gay bashing.

Like, we interviewed a guy who just, like, went there on vacation, and he arrived on a Friday night, and one of the activities people were engaging in was, like, getting in a van and going around to fuck up, like, people who struck them as being gay um what kind of tour was he on he he was actually going to fly a mig into space uh wow that's why we interviewed i'm going over to russia i'm gonna fly me into space i'm gonna punch a gay right i just got some stuff to do no he he wasn't there to do that they

just he incidentally was just like oh and by the way if you go to Russia this is the sort of shit you see it's like when you go to some of those countries and they're like do you want to shoot a goat with a rocket launcher right and in Russia they're like well you can punch one of our gays for $10

and there's just a gay dude like punch me I mean the other thing like obviously we were saying the money that is spent is another huge thing. They spent $11 billion on infrastructure improvements for, you know, either building new stadiums or improving existing ones. And a lot of these stadiums, you know, their plan, like we've seen in, like, Greece, like after the Olympics, like how all the infrastructure has just turned to a ghost town, how Sochi became a ghost town, how a lot of stadiums in Brazil, like people were just paying to be like, can I have my kid's birthday in this empty fucking thing? Right. They, you know, their plan is to remove a bunch of seats to shrink the capacity, but, and like let smaller teams play there. But a lot of those teams don't have the numbers to fill a stadium like that. And also this comes at a time where around half or over half of Russians consider themselves

to be poor, like when they're talking about the wage gap or the wealth gap in that country, which is pretty significant. Important note, the United States is also, I think, at a similar structural wage gap that's comparable to Russia's. rushes so could it be that if you owned a bunch of or loosely let's say allegedly loosely associated with these construction companies that need to build these stadiums wouldn't it be like oh where where should where can i make a bunch of money oh who has the most money right the public right right so let's go right their money and i'll just get richer and richer like i did in sochi right right i'm just saying like if i was the president of russia that's what i would do yeah uh yeah vladimir putin is estimated to be

the richest person on the planet earth richest person in the history of the planet Earth, but he's just so corrupt that he keeps the money in people around him. There you go. Which is how you become. Yeah. Exactly. The other thing about those stadiums is like a lot of the- Charles Koch is like, I'm coming.

I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah. I'll see. I'll see. A lot of the international press has had to sort of spearhead the outrage around these kinds of things because Russia, you can't really go out there with your chest out and be like, what the fuck is going on here? Yeah, it doesn't really work out that way. And another thing that's really kind of fucked up, aside from just the litany of things, I mean, there's articles or just a list of fucked up things that have happened in the buildup to this World Cup, is the animal cruelty aspect.

Now, I don't know if you've been on the internet, but like Russian stray dogs are kind of like mythical on the internet. they're amazing. Like you've seen the, like they've learned how to use the subway system to commute into cities and stuff like that. They've evolved to understand traffic lights to not get hit by cars or like cross the street when it's green.

When they beg in packs, they put the younger, cuter puppies. The smart ones make math. Yeah and fake passports yeah like they're into some shit yeah they are fucking smart and like yeah they put like if they beg in packs they put the younger cuter dogs at the front because they've just realized that that's gonna be like oh let me give is that real or did you just make no no that's like you can see all this shit. Like, there are videos of this. That's why dogs are better than cats.

Right. Yeah. Well, I'm not going to get into that argument. Russia's stray dogs just destroyed that argument. Right. So estimated about, like, there are 2 million stray dogs in the host cities that they have to address. And the way they've been doing that, according to a lot of people on the ground in watchdog groups is that there's just basically this policy of poisoning them or shooting them

and the government is like no no no no no there's nothing like that going on but there are pictures on social media of like dogs just like clearly dying in the street from some kind of poisoning you know they say other people are just like just straight up shooting them or putting them into like shelters quote unquote but really are just sort of like dog like death camps essentially uh so they're trying to solve that problem by literally just exterminating the dog problem when a lot of people are just like this is clearly the most inhumane way to do this but i guess when your budget is only to have like four bucks a dog they can't really properly shelter them or anything like that.

And it's a shame. These dogs are very intelligent. And yeah, it's pretty disturbing. They need to get a job. They need to build their infrastructure. Yeah, I mean. They figured out how transportation works. Yeah, because they're dodging the cost of a ticket on the subway.

They're fair dodging. And then lastly. Smoking a cigarette. Like, hold on, hold on like hold on hold on hold on and go this is my stop the uh the interesting thing will be instant replay this will be the first world cup this year to use the var feature which is just fancy talk for video reviews so like offsides calls or penalties and things like that will be used to make sure that everything is by the book and you know maybe players aren't getting yellow cards three times in a game like that

happened in 2006 to this referee, Graham Pohl, who gave a Croatian player three yellow cards, usually get one. And then the second yellow is a red card. He gave one to three because he was like so fucking like out of it. Anyway, so yes, those there's a lot of flopping. Will that stop the flop? yes, there's a lot to look at. What about the flopping? Will that stop the flopping? Well, that's the thing. So for penalties, like anything that could be

a penalty, that's like in terms of getting a penalty shot, that would fall under the VAR thing because they want to make sure people aren't doing any, no simulation is happening. I mean, in the middle of the field, look, baby, this is soccer, so this shit is going to go down.

But I think other than that, it should be a pretty interesting tournament. I like the chances of Germany and maybe France if they can get their shit together. But spiritually, I think I'm rooting for Brazil because I just love their energy, the ginga that they got down there in Brazil. They have so much fun together as a team. And the best flip-flops. Oh, yeah, wonderful, wonderful flip-flops. Oh, yeah. Wonderful. Wonderful flip-flops.

But, yeah, I think it'll be fun. And I think Egypt and Nigeria from Africa, definitely keep your eyes on them. Keep your eyes on them. You were showing us footage of the Brazilian team just, like, hanging out before practice or something. And they all have, like, one percussion instrument or another. They all got, yo,

they, they just know that's part of like their kit when they travel. Like you have balls, you have cones, jerseys, and also bring a whole thing of percussion because they, there's like, it's just like a drum circle.

Yeah. Yeah. And they're singing. And they're singing in rhythm kind of. Yeah. Yeah. No, 100%.

That's a smart thing. And if you look from whenever, like, you know, very early on, you can see this is like a thing that they love. And it's part of them. When I show you this video, I'll, we'll put it in the footnotes. So you can see, you know, very early on, you can see this is like a thing that they love. And it's part of them. When I show you this video, we'll put it in the footnotes so you can see, you know.

I already got the flops. I got the flag on there. That's all I needed. That's all I got. And now you're Brazilian. And now I got the percussion. I can get in a rhythm. Let's do it.

Yeah. It's hot. Let's do it. Jack, without knowing anything, who do you think is going to win? Nigeria. Boom. for sure. Boom, good. Definitely.

I like that one. Yeah. They haven't been in the tournament for a minute, but they have the best jerseys. Yeah, their warm-ups and jerseys are fucking dope. Yeah. Yeah. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. No. Oh, there was this HBO documentary series about this famous brothel in Nevada. The guy who runs it, that pimp, he won the nomination for our state legislature. Oh, really? Yeah. He calls himself the Trump of Pahrump. Anyway, but yes, there was all kinds of fun stuff going down yesterday. The main takeaway seems to be that uh the guy mark sanford who disappeared to what country was it uh argentina oh yeah argentina for a while with his mistress and

nobody knew where he was and he was like basically missing for a couple days and then came back and was like i was just down there for nothing shady don't mind me what. What's up, dudes? He got beat. He was a both anti-Trump congressman and also a House Freedom Caucus guy. So he was both far right and anti-Trump. So people are taking this as a referendum on, well, you can't be anti-Trump if you're going to be a Republican

because this guy came out as anti-Trump. But he was also far right. And I just feel like those two Venn diagrams, like being far right and anti-Trump, don't overlap that much. Right. So we find out that in these Republican primaries, at times you think being principled might work or whatever in terms of his principles and being like, well, I don't like Trump, so I'm not going to say that because it's politically beneficial. But I'll say all this other weird shit. Right. It just, yeah, it don't like Trump, so I'm not going to say that because it's politically beneficial. But I'll say all this other weird shit. It just, yeah, it didn't work out for him.

So, you know what, Mark, you had a good comeback story, but how'd you go? Sounds like a bad politician. I mean, no, there's nothing about him that's, like, masterful. I remember when he was trying to explain that affair, like, it went all over the place. Oh, my God. It, like, wove into how he used to call his buddy's basement Jurassic Park. And, like, he just said all this weird meandering shit. Jesus.

So. Yeah, there are some people you just look and you're like, oh, you're not good at this. Right. But, yeah, the other thing that went down in Virginia is a possible nightmare scenario for the GOP. scenario for the GOP. Corey Stewart, who is the far right fascist loving neo-Nazi friend and literal defender of Confederate monuments

who tweets stuff like, I'll be damned if the Yankees are going to tell us about how to do with our Confederate monuments. I think Homeboy's from Minnesota. First of all. Well, but Homeboy does understand a certain group he's talking to. Oh, 100%. When you hear someone say Yankee, you're like, okay. And not in a sports context. Here we go. Yeah. So, yeah, he won the GOP nomination for the Republican seat. So he'll go up against Tim Kaine in November. And a lot of GOP operatives are sort of freaked out a bit because, you know, that's going to be the top of the ticket is the Senate race.

because that's going to be the top of the ticket is the Senate race. And to have this guy is really mostly energizing for far-right voters, not to kind of swing vote. You know what I mean? It's just going to depress a little bit, or they feel that it could depress turnout in the area, especially because they have three very competitive House races happening in the midterms. They need to circle the wagons.

And with this guy at the top of the ticket, they're afraid, oh, shit, he might put other people off from even coming out uh so you know we'll see but that just makes the electoral math a little bit more complicated in virginia uh the other thing people seem to be taking away is that california might be split into three yeah different states gonna well it's not gonna happen because this is literally the and moving people have tried it over 200 times to split the state up. And like the argument is like, well, we need more electoral college votes. We'll get more senators.

Like, you know, people can actually advocate for the local needs in the state. No, us being the biggest and being one of the most powerful economies in the world is where our power lies. Right. And a quick little fact from super producer Nick Stumpf. The head of the California secessionist movement lives in, you guessed it, Moscow.

Weird. Yeah, that's weird. No, I mean, you know. Yeah. Moscow. You mean Moscow, California? No, no, no, no, no, no. Moscow, Russia?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, okay. Oh. That's not good. I see. So I'm sure there's all sorts of shady reasons that he's- We would like California to be Russia. Right, exactly.

Strategically, it helps us out. Come on, you guys. I mean, he's kind of legendary. He was one of the first investors in the blood testing startup Theranos. Oh, yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. How'd that one turn out?

Oh, man. Oh, I think... Indictment? Charged with massive fraud by the SEC. God, I can't wait to watch that documentary. That's gonna be so good.

Oh, yeah. It's all short-sighted dingbats screaming, I mean, Alaska, they have a party where they're like, we wanna be independent and everybody's like, I mean, we kinda are

so just chill. We get the federal stuff. Right. We make, no one cares what we do so just, but there are always those people that, that's why they live in the federal stuff we make, and no one cares what we do. But there are always those people that that's why they live in Alaska. They're like, ain't nobody telling us what to do.

And I think people have that here in Texas the same way. Every time I go to Texas, there's somebody like, we need to be your own country. And you're like, you guys are your own planet. So just chill. Right. Yeah, so I don't see that much happening there. But again, you know, these are the kinds of things that can happen when you have these voter-initiated ballot propositions. That's good. It's good.

Yeah, no, I mean, it's a double-edged sword. You can get stuff like this, and then you can also get stuff about, like, loosening laws on, you know, marijuana. It's like that free speech stuff where people are like, I want free speech, except for what that guy's saying. Right. Yeah. You're like, no, you gotta hear everything. I want free speech, except for what that guy's saying. Right. Yeah. You're like, no, you gotta hear everything. I want free speech to say the awful shit that I believe. I want speech free of consequence.

Usually what it is. Yeah. By the way, you mentioned California being the fifth largest economy, and it occurred to me that I'd never hear what the other, the four largest are. So it's United States, China, Japan, Germany, and then California. So it's United States, China, Japan, Germany, and then California. And California just passed the UK to be the fifth after falling as low as 10th. Thanks, marijuana.

Hey, right on. It's only going up, baby. All right, guys, quick pop culture recommendations. Boom, Miles. Oh, me. You had a great piece of art that you wanted to tell us about. Yes, I have a piece of art of culture that people need to get on. And that is the amazing two men

scissoring during a Major League Baseball game. Now, Jake Bowers and Carlos Gomez, they fucking literally were going for a foul ball, and they scissored the fuck out of each other. It's like an insane sports fuck. It's just amazing. It shouldn't have been physically possible, but somehow. It's like an insane sports fuck. It's just amazing.

It shouldn't have been physically possible, but somehow. It's the most violent thing here. Let me just show Billy Wayne, because I don't know if you've seen this clip. But just so you can, I know you love baseball. I do. And here he goes. They're going for it. They're both hunting it down.

Oh. You've got to watch the replay, because the replay is... There's a lot of pressure there. Ah. There it is. Oh! Full-on sizz. Yeah.

Did they come out of the game? Or were they both... No, I mean, it took a second. I mean, right after they were just, this is another angle and smash. Call them... They're the new face of Fiskars. Dick on dick.

The trusted scissor brand. Yeah. So, yeah, that is... Lesbians for men. Another amazing piece of culture that you should see. We'll put that clip up for you to check out. And also, oh, Safe on Netflix. I watched that and I was not as disappointed as I thought I would be.

Hey, ringing endorsement. Yeah, well, I guess more because, like, I hear that Michael C. Hall is going to be speaking, like, with an English accent. Like, what that looks like. It was fine. It wasn't distracting. But the story itself was intriguing, if you like a little murder mystery, a little intrigue in your life. So check that out.

Hey, speaking of murder mysteries, the original murder mystery documentary, The Staircase, is now up on Netflix. This is one that I had heard so much buzz about from people that I went and bought it on iTunes or bought the first two episodes. But it's really intriguing. It's like one of the solutions. Wait, so it's a murder mystery.

So a woman is killed at the beginning. It seems pretty obvious that her husband did it. And then the more you learn, the less you think he did it, then the more you learn the less you think he did it but the more strange he becomes and then like there are these other competing theories like i i believed by the end of the second episode that an owl did it okay so i'm gonna watch that not like a cartoon out like you'll see you should watch it yeah it could have been a cartoon now we don't know from the we don't know from the Tootsie Pop commercial

I also want to say Westworld I was like okay with the first season but the first half of the second season has been really dope I don't know

it feels it feels almost Inception-y and it's you know written and created by Nolan's brother and I don't know it feels like a

TV version of Inception, just popping between different levels where different metaphysical laws exist in the worlds and just also a shitload of cool violence. Hashtag cool violence. Cool violence. Billy Wayne, you got anything for us? I like that Lily Allen,

her new record that I think came out today. I like her just in general. I think she's fascinating and interesting. And then just ZZ Top. Maybe just go back and listen to ZZ Top, you guys. Check out ZZ Top. It's really great rock and roll. Hey, kids, gonna love that ZZ Top.

Some of you are like, what? Just go listen to ZZ Top. This is good. For people who are like, Lily Allen, why? If you like Game of Thrones, her brother, Theon Greyjoy. Yeah. Oh, shit. Yeah. She's also just a dope lady. Kind of does her own thing.

She's interesting. And finally for anybody with young children, so I was recently traveling with my two-year-old. It was a nightmare. He's at the age where he's not quite entertained by movies yet uh like or he will be for 10 minutes and then he gets disinterested showed him coco i showed him sing

uh the findings both nemo and dory uh frozen by the end of the trip i was like desperate and then we got off the plane and uh well my wife was waiting for me to pick up the car from where we had parked it she was with him and she just threw on Pets, which was like the last movie we had on the iPhone that we hadn't played for him. And he was like belly laughing the whole way home. Wow. So I think they must have like just aimed jokes at this particular developmental level. particular developmental level. So if you have somebody who is almost exactly two who you need to keep entertained and in a good mood

for a set period of time, I would suggest Pets. And Wreck Liam for a dream. Yes. Also Eraserhead. Yes. That's good. They love it. And if you want to give your son some culture,

how about Snow on the Bluff? Have you seen that one? That like sort That seemingly real crime documentary? No. It's fucking crazy. I'll show it to Ramsey tonight. Great. Someone took my child away.

I mean, I showed them. They were robbing a child's house. Billy Wayne, it's been a goddamn pleasure as always having you, man. We love having you. Where can people find you? Ooh, ooh. Just Google Billy Wayne Davis. All my stuff comes up.

I'm going on tour, like I said earlier in the episode. The heaven tour you're calling it. If you come to my show and give me $10 and watch the show, I guarantee when you die, you will go to heaven. Okay? I don't think anyone has a guarantee that good for any of their shows. You don't have to do, no, definitely not in entertainment, and I don't know many churches where the deal is that easy.

Yeah. They usually require a lot of bullshit. They do. People should know he does not guarantee laughter. Right. Oh, no, that'll be part of it. That's like, no, you'll get to heaven, but you'll laugh, and probably about some stuff that will make you uncomfortable.

All right. That's what I will promise you that. So, working people, what are your upcoming dates? In two weeks, June 21st through the 23rd, I am in New Orleans with Lou Easy, and I'm doing a show every night. That's all on Billy Wayne Davis, the Tumblr. It's just Billy Wayne Davis Tumblr. It's on the tour stuff. It's on Twitter at Billy Wayne Davis. It's on Instagram at Billy Wayne Davis, the Tumblr. It is Billy Wayne Davis Tumblr. It's on the tour stuff. It's on Twitter at Billy Wayne Davis.

It's on Instagram at Billy Wayne Davis. I'm going to be in Dublin at the end of July, which is really exciting. And then I'm going through the South. I'm still adding dates through July, too. And then I'm going to end up in Dublin in August. And then I'm adding dates September and October. So I'm going to just tour through the summer, basically. And through the fall, yeah. And then I'm going to and October so I'm going to just tour through the summer basically through and through

the fall yeah and then I'm going to try to record a special in November oh nice October and November so pull up and represent

oh I'm on Twitter and Instagram and miles of gray which I already knew that find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien you can find us at Daily Zeitgeist

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and our footnotes. Footnotes! Where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song that we ride out on.

Miles, what's that going to be? Oh, well, you know, we were talking a little bit about Robert Mueller, and I was just kind of thinking of a vibey song to come out to. Here's his jam band. Here's his jam band band this is a track from Condon Moccasin who's a dope

artist I actually had the pleasure of opening for when I was still playing music for a little bit of money and this track called I'm the man that will find you because hey mr. Trump if Robert Mueller is that man he will possibly find you but we don't But we don't know. We don't know. But listen to this track because, oh, my goodness, just put it on the bedroom, put it on the kitchen. Something's going to start smoking.

Not in the living room. Not in the living room. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Mama will kick you out of the house. No, no. But shit will start smoking with this song. So just feel it in your blood. Feel it in your veins.

All right. We're going to ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. We'll talk to you then. Bye. Hey, I never get it all right, get it all right on Be my better, and I will wear you all night, wear you all night long Gee, if it ain't, I've been waiting long time for you, you know You'll be here baby, cause I've been waiting long time

I, I'm the man that will fuck you All the time, you're the one that can I, I'm the man that you want you Oh, the night, the heaven on the day I'm the man that you want you You'll be a heaven, cause I've been waiting long for you. Gee, I never, you're never gonna hide those legs, so I am. I'm never gonna hide those legs So I'll have

Maybe baby Cause I can wait till I'm gone Ah, ah Ah, ah I'm so damn little fuck you Oh, I'm a dragon I'm feeling all the time Ah, ah

I'm so damn little fuck you Oh, I'm a dragon Thank you. I'm the man that put you I'm the man that put you Listen to your heart When it feels right from the start Your ending comes straight, when your voice is full of love Listen to a hand, when you try your best I'm the man that will want you I'm the man that will want you I'm the man that will want you I'm the man that will want you

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