The Daily Zeitgeist - More Sex Crims And Who REALLY Voted For Trump? 11.29.17

Episode Date: November 30, 2017

In episode 37, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Ify Nwadiwe to discuss North Korea, #MENGHAZI crims aka Matt Lauer, Garrison Keiller, Matthew Weiner, plus Trump's tweet storm, new Avengers trai...ler, Flaming Hot Cheetos Mac & Cheese bites, & more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:19 My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jumpin' Jack Flash. More like Dumpy Jack Trash. That's a free one, Troll. Spur in yourself. And I'm joined by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Thank you so much. It's your boy, the deputy director of the CFPB, Dick Alvaney. Don't worry about him.
Starting point is 00:02:38 It's a medical condition. And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by Ify Wadaway. Hey, hey, what's up? It's your boy coming through fresh to death and never embarrassed by the rest. Thank you, sir. Ify, what's something you've been searching in the not-too-distant past that is revealing about who you are as a human being? Oh, man. I think what I've been searching is prices for shoes.
Starting point is 00:03:03 There's this new, not new, but, like, it's new to me. There's a website called StockX, which treats shoes like the stock market. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. They even have, like, stock market codes and everything. And so you can see, like, the gain or the validity of different shoes and their price range. And so, like, I made a stock x market prediction um on the sneaker
Starting point is 00:03:28 subreddit that is coming true and i'm in like i'll never be good at the stock market that's not me me i gotta just work on bitcoin yeah that's my like stock market is done that that is done but i can be good in the sneaker stock market what uh are you are you betting big on a certain stock betting big on uh beluga 2.0s they are the most produced yeezys to date of the v2 style and you know a lot of people they're going for like you know four or five hundred before they drop because a lot of people will backdoor some early sneakers now they're dropping to just a solid 400 and i think before the end of the holidays we'll see them get to 350, 300. Yes.
Starting point is 00:04:06 And for those of you who don't speak sneaker talk, what he's talking about are the coveted Kanye West sneaker, the Yeezy boost. Adidas Yeezy boost. Adidas Yeezy boost. 350 V2 Beluga 2.0. Exactly. And it's a very coveted shoe.
Starting point is 00:04:18 And, you know, for people who aren't familiar with the sneaker game, a lot of people, there are people like us who enjoy sneakers, who wear them. Then there are people who just buy them to resell them and leave us in the lurch having to
Starting point is 00:04:30 pay exorbitant prices. So guys, if your life isn't consumed by sneakers, good for you. You're probably an adult. And leave that to the idiots like me. Do those people ever come up to you and be like, yo, you shouldn't be wearing those, man. You should have those wrapped in plastic at home. No, there's like a clear...
Starting point is 00:04:44 People know, like, it'll be more on the reddit where people like oh dude un-ds those which is undead stock them like wear that wear that and you got some people was like nah that's gonna be a centerpiece of my collection like it's very much like the action figures uh right but action figures make sense you can't walk around on the street with their action figures in your hands like hey man there's original bo is the original Boba Fett from the original Kenner run. Like, no. Sneakers are meant to be worn. That's why I always laugh at people who are like, no, man, these are going on a shelf.
Starting point is 00:05:12 I'm like, dude, no. Who's going to see it? Your wife's going to hate that. When you're on the street wearing your sock-a-knee dad shoes, you're going to be like, what you don't know is I have Jordan 3 True Blue OGs on the thing from 1988. Sure, I look like a dork in these Tevos with black socks. you don't know is i have uh you know jordan 3 true blue ogs on the thing from 1988 yeah sure i look like a dork in these tivas with black socks but check back home where i have some real heat oh i got the nerd dunks if you do you have any shoes that you uh are especially proud of uh i think my proudest achievement is getting the b redseds retail because they're one of the
Starting point is 00:05:46 more expensive ones. I think Belugas are the hands down most expensive. And I'm talking about the Supply Stripe line because obviously Moonrock. Yeah, okay, so those are V1. Yeah. The V2s, those are one of the more rare ones, so I'm happy I didn't have to pay an exorbitant
Starting point is 00:06:01 price for it. But I'm still on the hunt for my Grails. I got two grails that I'm going to get. One's probably going to be sooner is the Supreme Desert Camo fives, Jordan fives. And with the 94 on the heel and one of the air Yeezys. Oh, any one of them, not red Octobers. Everyone likes the red October. I love the red Octobers, but I'm thinking about it. Like I got these tubular, the red tubular stripe that look like the Red Octobers.
Starting point is 00:06:28 And I liked it because it was like a trial run if I had copped those. Just straight up red, you can't really rock much without looking like you're a member of the Blood Gang. Yeah, exactly. And I'm too big and black to just be mistaken for a member of the Blood Gang. Yeah, people hit you up. They're like, so what? Yeah. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:06:48 Get in this car. We're about to roll. Yeah, exactly. Clap somebody up. You got your burner? I have a prepaid cell phone burner. I have this blank CD to burn. If you want something you think is overrated, besides, let's move out of the shoe spectrum.
Starting point is 00:07:04 Oh, yeah. think is overrated uh besides let's let's move out of the shoe spectrum yeah and then move into overrated i'm gonna say uh what jim carrey thinks of his uh method acting and his all right so this is the second time the jim carrey documentary about the andy kaufman uh performance yeah this is definitely in the zeitgeist yeah this is this is, this is a Netflix documentary. It's like, like number one or two or three. It's always recommending it to me. And what do I do? I watch boss baby. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:29 Hell yeah. Boss baby. I did. I was mad confused last night. I'm not going to lie. Look at my IG story. It's one of those things where it's a documentary where you can like, enjoy it,
Starting point is 00:07:38 like it, you know, feel uplifted, I guess by it, but still like, just roll your eyes the whole time. You just feel like he's just feeling himself. On one hand, I'm rolling my eyes.
Starting point is 00:07:49 On the other hand, I did go and watch Man on the Moon after. Was there something with Man on the Moon during his career, or is that just a reference to the R.E.M. song from Automatic for the People? Because that song is about Andy Kaufman, and it's called Man on the Moon. But the chorus talks about if you believe they put a man on the moon. But that part has nothing to do with Andy Kaufman. Is it just a sort of cultural reference? I mean, look, as a Michael Stipe historian, I don't know what you're talking about.
Starting point is 00:08:19 Automatic for the People is a great album. I'll put that in my underrated category. He actually referenced the video in the documentary. He said he regrets not being Andy Kaufman for the video, but at the time when they asked him to be like Andy Kaufman in the video, he was like, no, I'm done with it. I don't want to do it again, which leads right into my underrated uh which is jim carrey's actual performance like he thinks so highly of it and you just kind of scoff but when you actually like take a step back and look at it you are impressed like he goes through he does he's a little extra like like his whole relation with jerry the king lawler and like being like mean to him and jerry like it like the confessional with jerry just makes you feel so bad being like mean to him and jerry like it like the confessional
Starting point is 00:09:05 with jerry just makes you feel so bad for him because he's like me and andy were friends you know he was professional all the time he's not but like you then they'll cut to a scene with like jim carrey slapping him and be like hey hey i want to fight you it was like and it and it felt reminiscent of like people who like watch a lot of character uh comedians and comedians who stay in characters and think to themselves like oh they're like that all the time right right right it's like no they're not that's what it felt like like jim carrey heavily emphasized that he was a fan and it was very apparent in the way that he treated being andy kaufman because when you're a fan of someone you're gonna be your favorite parts of them all the time.
Starting point is 00:09:45 Not realizing that there's still a human, you know, they're just going to tone down, but like watching him be Andy Kaufman. And then when he got towards the cancer stuff, seeing him like totally commit to like now not talking to anyone on the set, being sickly on the set, just like,
Starting point is 00:10:03 it was almost as if you watched jim carrey being a character die and like so the reason i went there from the rem thing is i can see how after doing that you're like no i don't want to be andy coffin like i literally just live a life yeah i killed him right and experienced that death uh Did they shoot it sequentially, like with the early scenes first and then his cancer scenes? That's what it felt like. Interesting. But, you know, that could just be – That's all out of order.
Starting point is 00:10:31 Yeah, exactly. Okay, so Jim's going to be really low energy for the next few weeks. And then he'll be back to normal. Don't get freaked out. Well, because most movies shoot out of order. The only movie I've ever heard of other than this that shot in order is E.T. apparently because they just like wanted it to feel because they were like head child actors. They wanted it to feel like they were going on the adventure and experiencing everything. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, I feel like this applies to acting just in general.
Starting point is 00:10:55 Like the performances that we see on the screen that were like blown away by when you see what actually went into them. Like the people are being extra like Keith Ledger spent like three months in a hotel room just like scribbling like shit like as the joker like right for three months before putting in like one of the best performances ever I'm sure I would not want to fucking hang out with Daniel Day-Lewis on the set as Abraham Lincoln yeah yeah you know don't use cell phones don't call him daniel right right exactly see that i think that was the weirdest thing of just like because they had a few scenes with uh jim carrey where like i was like all right jim he goes who's jim i'm andy i'm
Starting point is 00:11:36 like i was like all right you know who we're talking to yeah but but like from the corny actor side i was like i can see where you're like, no, I can't. Don't break this. Don't break this. I'm in my flow right now. I didn't see the movie, but Jamie Loftus was one of our other guests and she brought this up as being overrated. And she said that there was a part where he was like, Andy tapped me on the shoulder. Yeah. Like, I'll take it from here.
Starting point is 00:12:01 I was just like, Jesus. Like, my eyeballs are still strained. See, that's that's rolling all the way back that's so funny because with me i think the corniest stuff is when he talks about the inspiration for like all righty then and his like living color in living color characters like that's what i'm like all right dude chill like like i love in living color but you were not gonna just make it the same level. Don't act like fire. Marshall bill was like a think piece on like the state of fire safety and like how we treat our children.
Starting point is 00:12:29 Low key, like almost walk that line. So I come out of the bathroom and I'm drenched wet. And all of a sudden just inspiration takes over me. And I'm like, do not go in there. Woo. Right. You know, and it's just like, and then I, I slap my shirt pocket where a bunch of water flies out. And, you know, I'm going crazy.
Starting point is 00:12:48 I'm running from from from crafty to the bathroom and running. And, you know, I got to go into makeup for the mask. And I'm like, somebody stop me. All right. We're trying to take a sample of the ideas that are out there changing the world, whether we're looking or not. We talk about politics and the president and the news, but we also talk about movies, supermarket tabloids. We're trying to take the temperature of what's affecting the national shared consciousness.
Starting point is 00:13:14 And we like to start out by asking our guest if there's anything out there in the general zeitgeist that they can correct based on their personal experience. And if you before we recorded. So you're an actor and you were saying that sometimes either as an actor or writer, you get a note from executives that something isn't black enough. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. You know, being an actor, writer, comedian, artist, some may say. Yeah, no. I think artist just overall, right?
Starting point is 00:13:50 Yeah. I often interact with execs. And execs, it's always a mixed bag. You either have someone who's committed to your project and they want to see it be the best and they're honestly giving their honest opinion. And they're like honestly giving their honest opinion. Then you get some execs where it just feels like they just want something to point at the TV when they're with their friends and be like, yeah, I told you to do that. I'm going to wear that wig. But you think certain channels you wouldn't have to deal with certain things. Like you think you wouldn't have to explain music to people at MTV.
Starting point is 00:14:21 You would think on the movie channel you don't have to explain movies. And you would think that writing for a show on BET, people wouldn't ask you to be blacker because they know that you're black. And if you chose to do a thing because of your blackness, that came from a source of genuine blackness. And no, it didn't happen. They didn't. I was working on a show and they, they're like, yeah, you know, we need this to be blacker. And I feel like it's because it went back to that. Cause you know, almost all the execs at BET are black.
Starting point is 00:14:57 And so I think we went back to that old school blackness where it's like, nah, this isn't my black. Right. Right. Right. Right. Because there's so many different levels of blackness when you think of like regional stuff like oh yeah like if you go to florida you got that donk yeah i got some big big ass rims you know meanwhile in uh new york you
Starting point is 00:15:15 don't have a car yeah so it's crazy i think the closest thing I've gotten to that is I had this joke about, ironically, how I try and feel blacker by rapping along to rap music while I'm driving in my car. And I was telling this joke in New York. I was like, you know when you're driving in your car? And I had to stop myself and go, no, y'all don't. And you know you're on the 6 train. You'd be in the 6 train rapping to yourself loud. But yeah, it was an eye-opening experience and even more infuriating. Because at least if a white person was like, make this blacker.
Starting point is 00:15:53 It's like, you just don't know. Right, right, right. But when a black person tells you to be blacker, you're like, you know you're insulting me. You know you just said something about me. Well, that's interesting too. Cause like, even for me being biracial black and Japanese, like there would, there would be times I have friends who'd be like, Oh, you're not black. Oh, you know what I mean? Cause I'm like, cause I, cause I'm not like, I don't, I sometimes I don't speak with an
Starting point is 00:16:17 affectation or things like that. And it's really infuriating because it's, it's, it's all predicated sometimes on such a one dimensional view of like what ethnic, what an ethnic identity is or what it means to be black and yeah like i get real fucking salty sometimes when i hear that shit because it makes my fucking skin crawl oh yeah like oh like you don't talk black well and it's so funny because it's same thing what happened to me being like african like you know having that african background even though like same thing like my mom's from Louisiana, my dad's from Nigeria,
Starting point is 00:16:46 but like, they know that I have this African name and, you know, they don't, I'm not acting how they expect black people to act. Oh no, you're, you're not black,
Starting point is 00:16:55 you're African. And, and what I think the thing that makes it so bad is they say it as if it's a compliment, you know? Right, right, right. They're like,
Starting point is 00:17:05 excuse you? Like, so that's why you can say some. Yeah it's a compliment. Right, right, right. They're like, excuse you? That's why you say some flippant shit around. It's just interesting that people's ideas of reality are, whether they want them to be or not, are informed by movies and TV and just the idea that how people behave
Starting point is 00:17:22 and perform on screen is affected by some like out of touch persons right just being like heightened that like make it more it needs to be in line with the thing that i know to be black right or that i expect to be yeah i don't know well and also too like i think it goes along because i you know i went to private schools like i wasn't you know destitute or anything like that i had a pretty comfortable lifestyle and i was raised around a lot of white people so and you learn to modulate the way you talk i mean like this is the same thing that happened with obama like you get him in a room
Starting point is 00:17:53 full of like senators he's barack obama sometimes in front of the naacp old barry comes out and people are like whoa what is this and it's like this is a tactic that people of color have developed over time because sometimes you cannot speak a certain way and be taken seriously, or sometimes you try to fit in with where you are because you don't want to other yourself. So, yeah, like when I hear that shit, I'm just like, oh, bro. Yeah, because it's like, you know, we wouldn't have voted for him if he was up there like, yo, I'm going to bring some dead-ass change
Starting point is 00:18:22 and hope to your households when i come true it's your boy barry b it's lit i'm like okay i don't know if we'll go for that right i mean he would have got my vote but i feel like you know he would have got it look please come back barry come back there's a great video of him in the okc locker room where he like shakes a white dude's hand. Oh, yeah. And then goes to shake Durant's hand. And it's like. Oh, it's so good. Very smooth switch. Seamless transition.
Starting point is 00:18:53 Yes. You know what's up. Yeah, exactly. All right. Let's get into our first story of the day. We'll just mention this real quick. So if we don't get to the second segment you'll know why uh north korea is launching ballistic missiles uh into outer space now this
Starting point is 00:19:12 was something that i was kind of blown away by they said that uh the missile went 10 times higher than the international space station which i thought the international space station was like way the fuck out there i didn't know that you could go 10 times higher than than that and not be like at the moon right it's just hey they're flexing on their toys right now yeah like hey so now we can hit the mainland yeah if we sent this thing up you can basically hit everywhere uh and now you know what what move does america have trump was like, like if they keep up at this, oh, they're going to be sorry was sort of the tone you got. And now they're like, yeah, we kept up with it.
Starting point is 00:19:52 Yeah. And that that's why presidents have never been that extra when they're like, you know, engaging with North Koreans. they're like you know engaging with north koreans yeah well what's interesting too is like how russia like this time is kind of being like uh last week or two weeks ago dimitri peskov who is like a kremlin spokesperson was being like you know the u.s is being real provocative with their language with north korea and then after the that huge missile launch they're like yeah this was a little provocative from the north korea I guess we found the line for Russia where they're like, oh, didn't know they could do that. Yeah. I didn't know I couldn't do that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:30 That's it. Like Russia would. Russia is just like the dude standing to the side being like, oh, shit. Yeah, yeah. They're like, oh, I didn't think my homie would pull out a gun. Right. Right. Yeah, Russia would love to see this pop off, I'm sure.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Yeah, just have some crazy, like, out-of-control rogue state just kind of pressing the U.S. constantly. Like, they're loving it. Ba-da-ba-ba-ba. Pop off. No pun intended when I say pop off. Brought to you by Pop-Off Vodka. Exactly. All right, we're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we've got a lot of sex criminals to catch up with. Oh, boy. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who, on October 16, 2017, was murdered.
Starting point is 00:21:18 There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price.
Starting point is 00:21:40 to a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It was December 2019 when the story blew up. In Green Bay, Wisconsin,
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Starting point is 00:24:30 Jamil Zaki. It's really tragic. If cynicism were a pill, it'd be a poison. We'll see that our fellow humans, even those we disagree with, are more generous than we assume. My assumption, my feeling, my hunch is that a lot of us are actually looking for a way to disagree and still be in relationships with each other. All that on the Happiness Lab. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. And we're back. So big, big day in sex, Krem Watch. Benghazi.
Starting point is 00:25:13 Benghazi. Matt Lauer was fired, which I don't know why I was so aggressively not surprised by this, like, because, you know, he keeps it pretty clean and, you know, he has to appeal to, you know, huge segments of the American population. And so he, uh, you know, is always outwardly friendly and very safe. Uh, but there's just something about him that like, I've never seen him be an asshole on TV, but when I try to picture a hypothetical interaction between him and someone else, I can't picture anything but him being an asshole. Like, I don't know if it's like micro gestures or something that I'm picking up on, but yeah, he just seems like a shitty person. He has that vibe.
Starting point is 00:26:00 Yeah, it's a vibe. It's a vibe. Yeah, it's a vibe. So and I guess this is a bigger deal than I had given it credit for, because apparently the Today Show just completely pays for most of NBC's news program. The Today Show is probably the most profitable show on TV other than Good Morning America. Wow. Yeah. Matt Lauer was paid twenty five million dollars a year what yeah which seems just to fucking be matt lauer just to be matt lauer was he like writing news on the side like uh it's just
Starting point is 00:26:35 a million that's how much money is on that that comes to that show you can pay those people 25 million 25 million i will say i i used to work at ab ABC News, and that is a nightmare to work on those morning shows because all those people get up at like 3.30 in the morning every morning and are just a complete wreck. So it is worth 25 million. Yeah. So, I mean, he definitely deserved that. I know the people who wake up at 3 in the morning and go to work, too. They're not getting 25 million. Yeah, no.
Starting point is 00:27:00 And there's no real off time for them, huh? You're working year round. Yeah. Yeah, no. And there's no real off time for them, huh? You're working year round. Yeah. But so apparently he was working in other ways year round because – As a sex cream.
Starting point is 00:27:12 Yeah. Apparently we're going to know the details in the coming days because there was a New York Times and a Variety investigation going on for the past couple months. a variety investigation going on for the past couple months. It was basically an open secret that Matt Lauer was about to go down because of some pretty disturbing sexual harassment allegations. I love that these outing articles are dropping like mixtapes. Like, hey, you heard the word on the street, variety. Variety is about to drop some hot banger. Sex Creme 3.
Starting point is 00:27:44 Like that New York Times Louis C.K. article. Everyone was up on Twitter like, who's up right now? Yeah, and I mean NBC, the version that I heard first today was that they found out about the sexual harassment allegations last night and fired him by this morning i was like wow nbc really you know because they had uh killed the ronan farrow story about harvey weinstein so it seemed like they were really moving quickly on this uh they're probably trying to change the optics a little bit well except the variety reporter who's been working on the story for the past two months is like oh no nbc knew about that the whole time they've known about it for two months is like, oh, no, NBC knew about that the whole time. They've known about it for two months. And what was his co-host this morning?
Starting point is 00:28:27 She was crying. I don't watch the show, but I remember just overhearing the clip where, what is it, Savannah Guthrie? Yeah, Savannah Guthrie. So she was playing a character who was shaken. She was gathering herself on the air. I did not totally buy her performance uh as being like upset about this right and i don't know i you know if you work with somebody who's a shitty person like um i don't i don't know how you how it could be totally yeah and
Starting point is 00:28:58 and matt lauer even like by watching the today show passively you could see like moments where he was acting like you could you could see the potential for passively, you could see moments where he was acting. You could see the potential for foolery. Yeah, you called out this Anne Hathaway interview that we're going to play the audio from. I don't know. He comes off as a real creep. So in this interview with Anne Hathaway, she's trying to promote Les Miserables. And I guess prior to her appearance, she had a wardrobe malfunction,
Starting point is 00:29:27 and her nipple was exposed. And so off top, she's coming to talk about Les Mis. His first question, he just wants to talk about her nip slip. Right. Anne Hathaway, good morning. Nice to see you. Morning, Matt. Seen a lot of you lately.
Starting point is 00:29:40 Sorry about that. You were. I'd be happy to stay home, but the film. Let's just get it out of the way. You had a little wardrobe malfunction the other night. What's the lesson learned from something like that, other than that you keep smiling, which you always do? Well, it was obviously an unfortunate incident.
Starting point is 00:30:00 I think it kind of made me sad on two accounts. One was that I was very sad that we live in an age I think it kind of made me sad on two accounts. One was that I was very sad that we live in an age when someone takes a picture of another person in a vulnerable moment and rather than delete it and do the decent thing, sells it. And I'm sorry that we live in a culture that commodifies sexuality of unwilling participants, which brings us back to Les Mis because that's what my character is. She is someone who is forced to sell sex to benefit her child because she has nothing and there's no social safety net and i yeah so um so let's start so let's get back to the most creative turns of a question i have ever heard and i'm gonna take it at that that's fine that's fine
Starting point is 00:30:40 fucking roasted oh boy like that is look, that is. Look, Anne Hathaway. Professional. Fucking destroyed this dude. Like, that Anne second thing was just straight up him. And you could tell he felt it. Oh, my God. And he was like, whoa, shouts to you for that pivot. You can see the smoke from that burn all the way to New Jersey.
Starting point is 00:31:03 She destroyed this dude. I was in a fantasy football league with Anne Hathaway, and she was real good. Really? Yeah, but I beat her to win the championship. There you go. You hear that, Anne Hathaway? Yeah, so if you're listening, Anne, come see me. And I know she is.
Starting point is 00:31:16 But yeah, see, so Matt Lauer, even on the fucking air, right? He's like, yeah, I've seen a lot of you. I know. I've seen a lot of you lately. Yeah. I guess it could have gone in two directions but but he but the follow-up was like let's get this out of the way wardrobe malfunction right gosh yeah that's yeah because he literally implied that he looked at the nitpick he could have just done it like straight up more awkwardly he's like hey anthony saw your boobies right and that was cool anyway late mizorab like she would have been like okay yeah yeah matt so and even that
Starting point is 00:31:50 also what was it katie couric too was on uh i think uh bravo and talking to andy cohen saying like oh yeah the thing with matt larry like he likes to pinch my butt all the time like so it's hard it's hard to believe he's fun like that it's hard to believe. He's fun like that. It's hard to believe Savannah Guthrie knew absolutely nothing. Right. But you saying Savannah was on air by herself today? No, she was with Hoda. Okay. So they filled his position.
Starting point is 00:32:16 We don't know yet. I mean, maybe they'll bring in Curry back. Well, if he just left a smoke trail running out the door. Yeah. So I don't know. They also apparently had fired his producer who, you know, the way that news works is he probably has like a team of like four producers he works with. They fired the producer he works closest with, who's probably the person who wrote that line. Hey, we've been seeing a lot of you lately.
Starting point is 00:32:43 Right. So, yeah, it sounds like there was like a sort of creepy fratty boys club behind the scenes at nbc news right and it makes sense though too that like it would take this long to bring him down if the today show is their biggest earner oh yeah because again like as we've seen with every scandal and every industry if you have too much power or too many people depend on you staying in your position, it's very hard to bring them down. So I don't know if they found, like, some new sponsors or, like, if something changed. But, hey, Matt, going out with the trash.
Starting point is 00:33:14 Happy trails, asshole. What about this next one, though, Jack? This is upsetting to us old white people. Garrison Keillor is – so he reached out to the ap and was like yeah i got fired for sexual harassment and then he was like it's a and the ap was like who is this hey hey what's up i got fired for sexual harassment um and you are garrison keeler and that is for the youngsters out here can you tell us who garrison keeler is i mean i know his name i know what he does but he's got a very distinctive voice he invented uh prairie
Starting point is 00:33:52 home companion which is a very boring radio show that uh liberal white people seem to really like on uh on npr uh he just retired like a year or two ago. He has like a great voice that we'll insert here. Well, it's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, my hometown. So that's Garrison Keillor. And they have had no trouble finding photographs of him that make it seem, oh, yeah, yeah, of course he's a sexual predator. Yeah, you look at photos. Yeah, he's a goofy looking dude.
Starting point is 00:34:35 But again, we're not here to be physiognomists. No, no. Based off your face, you're a sex criminal. Yeah, it's just the photo editors of the modern Internet are – they were like, oh oh here's the third picture that in in the getty collection makes him look like he's leering uh but uh yeah so we don't know all the details of it but it seems like i don't know it seems like he's maybe trying to get on top of the story by reaching out to the ap uh but again you know when you have somebody who – this is Minnesota Public Radio firing him. He is like five times more famous than the second most famous person who's ever worked at Minnesota Public Radio. Al Franken?
Starting point is 00:35:14 Maybe. I don't know. Yeah, a lot of creepy dudes coming out of Minnesota. But yeah, I'm guessing that they would not have fired him just based on like some hearsay. So we'll see when the details come out on both of these dudes as the stories develop. Our other sex crimps have taken it. We wanted to do just a quick rundown of these are kind of old, but these are the ways that different people have responded to their sexual harassment allegations. We've got George Takai talking, claiming that Russian trolls were trying to bring him down just because he like has a Twitter presence. And he was like, yeah, Russia's after me. And meanwhile, he had like recently been on the Howard Stern show.
Starting point is 00:36:17 And basically they were like, hey, George, how about you? Do you ever sexually harass people? And he was like, oh, no. Yeah. It was either in my home or they came to my home. Right. When they asked, like, oh, did you ever grab someone's junk at work? And he was like, oh, no. Russia. Matthew Weiner's response was to claim that when he had asked a female writing assistant, Matthew Weiner is the showrunner for Mad Men, who was apparently just the worst dude to work for. Even prior to all the sexual harassment allegations, like he was just he would like take people's names off of episodes that he wrote with them just so it may look like he was the main writer.
Starting point is 00:37:02 So it may look like he was the main writer. But he claimed when one of the writers on Mad Men was like, yeah, he kept asking me to like or saying that I owed it to him to get naked in front of him. He was like, oh, that was me practicing dialogue for Don Draper. We were writing dialogue. Yeah. Okay. That's like that's like that's an excuse. Even the creator of Mad Men can't even use.
Starting point is 00:37:28 Like, that's so unbelievable. It's like, oh, that was just trying to get in the character. No, no, no, no. See, what happened is Don Draper tapped him on the shoulder and said, I'll take it from here. I'll take it from here, Matthew. there uh and then there's james tobac who is uh a filmmaker an independent filmmaker who just responded by saying anyone who says it is a lying cocksucker or a cunt or both can i be any clearer than that no you cannot yeah that is about as clear as as it gets my man uh so yeah maybe just don't go in those directions mr lauer and mr keeler yeah just fucking apologize and just fuck off with your millions of dollars and hide in shame you know
Starting point is 00:38:11 what i mean uh but we do want to check in with the world oh trump uh because it's been a while i don't think we've been a while trump uh this week it's been a while uh So Trump has had a sort of eventful morning just tweeting all sorts of stuff. He responded to the Lauer allegations by, you know, mentioning them and then saying that the guy who fired him has like skeletons in his closet and then pivoting from that to accuse Joe Scarborough of murdering his intern, which is just a wild swing. He is insane. He is also retweeting videos by a right-wing extremist leader of the Britain First group, which is like an offshoot of the British National Party. But they're, yeah, they're extremists and they're tweeting. They're not extremists. They're straight-up racist, white supremacist, fascist who only believe white people should be living in the UK or Britain specifically as they like to say.
Starting point is 00:39:14 Right. So they've tweeted a bunch of videos, one of like a Muslim dude like breaking a statue of the Virgin Mary, one of an ISIS attack that killed a teenager and another that they they called a Islamic immigrant attacks a Dutch kid who's on crutches, which it turns out is actually just a Dutch kid with brown hair attacking a Dutch kid with blonde hair. And they're like, oh, look, he's an immigrant. Yeah, look at that dark hair. Look at those immigrants. But so there's this article that I read a couple of days ago that I can't get out of my head that it's called The Nationalist Delusion.
Starting point is 00:40:01 It's in The Atlantic, and I highly recommend people give it a look. But basically, it puts the lie to the idea that people who support Trump are supporting anything other than racism or the aftermath of the election was that it was downtrodden white people who had been like forgotten in the middle of the country. And, you know, they were there's a study that came out that like deaths caused by despair. So like alcoholism, suicide, drug overdoses were shooting up with this demographic of people. and people were equating that with the election of Trump. And this article points out that actually when you look at voters who made less than $50,000 just overall, Clinton won by a proportion of 53 to 41 percent. portion of 53 to 41 percent. So Clinton actually destroyed Trump when it came to the people in like lower income, lower income brackets. And Trump beat Clinton by one percent among people who made more than fifty thousand dollars. So the most economically vulnerable Americans voted for Clinton overwhelmingly, which is pretty much the opposite of how it was portrayed in the aftermath of the election. But then if you just look at white people, so for white people who made less than $30,000,
Starting point is 00:41:37 Trump won 57% to 34%, which is kind of what you had heard. For white people who made between 30 and 50 thousand dollars. He won 56 to 37 percent between 50 thousand dollars and 100 thousand dollars. He won 61 percent to 33 percent. So that's like upper middle class. Right. He won by the highest margin. And then one hundred thousand dollars to two hundred thousand dollars. He won 56% to 39%. So it's like it's all the same.
Starting point is 00:42:07 It's not just lower income white people who voted for him. It's just all white people voted for Trump. And it's just pure racism. It's not the economic story that we've all been telling ourselves. Well, right. And I think that economic story has been pushed so much because I think it's hard for many people, Well, right, and I think that economic story has been pushed so much because it's – I think it's hard for many people, especially coming out of a post-Obama era, that the country could actually be that racist or there are people who are voting who really think like this and that's how they're voting because I think it's easier for people to be like, oh, well, you know, she ignored the Rust Belt and these other things and that's why it didn't work and it purely this like and as many people have been saying anyway before even this data came out was that this was like sort of backlash because obama was president for the last eight years yeah yeah it's like a racist white people felt humiliated by the existence of
Starting point is 00:42:57 obama that's where like the birther thing came from is like you know uh well we can't have him actually have won the presidency legitimately. So they like made up this crazy conspiracy theory. And, you know, Trump jumped on that because he, as a racist dude, understood like how racist people felt. And he was like that. So, like, it's just like putting a lot of things into place for me. Like in hindsight, like the birther thing just seemed crazy to me from the start. place for me like in the in hindsight like the birther thing just seemed crazy to me from the start and so trump being associated with it just seemed like well that's an arbitrary celebrity being associated with a arbitrary like crazy conspiracy theory it might as well have been
Starting point is 00:43:34 like that we didn't land on the moon or you know shit like that yeah but uh it actually like all fits into this broad framework of like how racist white people felt about obama being elected president and you know that is primarily what trump's election has been about and so it also like when he does these things like retweet racists you know extremist right-, uh, you know, white supremacist accounts. Like, I think I, my reaction had been like, okay,
Starting point is 00:44:11 well like surely this now, you know, like even in spite of this, they're still following him. And it's like, no, it's because of this that people are still following. I was thinking about this last night because I was, uh,
Starting point is 00:44:22 on Reddit and I don't know, for some reason i went down a reddit rabbit hole and there was one of these like you know amas for this like uh nude model and she for some reason okay go on but but one of the question was like it and it was like a very old uh very old ama and i was like what do you think of this Trump guy running for president? And she was like, I like him because, you know, he just says it like it is. He's it. And I remember hearing that a lot.
Starting point is 00:44:53 Like, I remember hearing that. And I really like started thinking about like that idea of someone who says it like it is, who is like you voted for someone who doesn't have restraint. Like that was what you liked about it. Is that the fact that they didn't think oh there's a time and a place let's not you know say this or let me say this in a way that's digestible you like him because he is just an asshole all the time and it i don't know it just says a lot about the people who still support him is like oh you think it's like you are one of those like anti-pc people and you think america's too pc and nine times out of ten it's because you're a white
Starting point is 00:45:33 person who doesn't have like a frame of reference of like something being hurtful to you like the most hurtful thing to you now is being racist and you think it's just a made-up claim you know like right like that's the thing is like, you can't even legitimately call anyone racist because they're just looking at it as like, Oh, you're just calling me. I was like, no, I'm saying you're racist and you should stop. Like that's your option is stopping. Yeah. And I think you can tell too that his, like you said,
Starting point is 00:45:59 these tweets and like the way he comes after people of color, like you can, we can rattle off all the people of color that he's come at for being critical of him. And like, it seems like if you're a white person, you have to also be powerful for him to come into his crosshairs where people like even LeVar ball, yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:15 Get your attention. And when you look even at his tweets, right, where he's coming after LeVar ball, the likes, not even like the retweets, the likes on those tweets where he's coming after the NFL or the people of color. Obviously, the NFL is a – you can switch that for black people.
Starting point is 00:46:29 And they're not even being critical of him, by the way. They're just not being deferential and what he considers respectful. But these tweets that put these people in the crosshairs, they get more likes than most of his other tweets. When it's just stuff about like oh i did a great thing at mar-a-lago it's like okay it's around a certain amount of thousands of likes but then it's like lavar ball needs to be grateful blah blah blah oh everybody's liking that shit right and that that should really show you like it's one thing a lot of people will retweet the shit that he does because it's so crazy but the likes really tell you that people who are engaging with
Starting point is 00:47:02 it that's how they're engaging with like yes Like, yes, I like – please tell this person of color or this organization to back down or sit down or whatever. I've always looked at it as like white people have a sense of like ownership of your success where it's like you shouldn't make me feel lesser than you if you have more money than me because, you know, because I'm somehow allowing you to do this. Like, you should be respectful. It's like, why do I have to be respectful to this racist in Kentucky? Like, what reason do I have to be modest for you? Like, why should I not speak my mind? What have you done for me?
Starting point is 00:47:38 Kumail Nanjiani, like, tweeted something about that, too. It was like just something that really rubbed him the wrong way was this idea that many people need to be grateful for their success or that they were somehow allowed to be yeah to experience success yeah and that yeah that's just that's just a thing that like you wrestle with like i was thinking about it because i never is so funny and a weird thing not until capernick started kind of coming out i never considered him being a black guy and the dynamic that is where it's like quarterbacks are typically white and quarterback is like your safest position.
Starting point is 00:48:11 You have less likely to have CTE because you're not taking as many hits. And I, and then I went, once I kind of finally realized that Kaepernick was one of the few black quarterbacks, I had to wonder, I was like, if Kaepernick was Kaepern if caper Nick was caper Nick,
Starting point is 00:48:25 but he was any other position, would he have gotten that much flack or is it even more, is it even more heavy that no one, people already have an excuse to keep another black person out the quarterback position. And oh yeah, we talk about that a lot here. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:39 That's that specific theory because I mean the black quarterback is a much like more controversial and like despised per like figure in american culture than people realize to the point that we've talked before on the show that warren moon has a like support group for black nfl quarterbacks like which you know you would think well these guys are millionaires like why would they need a support group they could afford all the therapy they need. But, like, unless you're a black NFL quarterback, you don't understand how much hatred is out there. Yeah, I think I absolutely think that the whole Kaepernick thing and the NFL players kneeling, it's at least partially got started because people do not want to see a black man play quarterback.
Starting point is 00:49:27 Yeah. got started because people do not want to see a black man play quarterback yeah the yeah and and it is also like that that's a interesting story because that's another one where i think white people don't want to believe that they're mad about what they're really mad about and so you know they say it's about the troops. They're not respecting the troops. Or when Trump got elected, it was about, you know people's downward spiral stopped and started going into recovery. But people of color and non-white people who are in that economic bracket kept going down. But it's seen – I don't know. That just kind of puts the light of the idea that they are specifically you know being targeted by the modern economy in any way and i mean this article also talks about a civil war general who like prior to the civil war was like you know specifically talking
Starting point is 00:50:38 about white supremacy and why this little war of white supremacy but after the civil war was like i would never say it's about it was just about states rights and it's like there's a long history my friends there's this long history of cognitive dissonance where you know white americans can make a thing about you know and yeah make a thing not about racism when it's absolutely about racism and they're just not willing to admit it to themselves so the one time this phrase works but let's just call a spade a spade well i feel like that's how they get their kind of uh for lack of a better term dumber followers on board because i feel like there there are some followers who kind of if if pressed was like yo you support police brutality they're're like, no, no, no, no. But when you can flip the narrative for those people who would not support police brutality and be like, no, it's about the troops.
Starting point is 00:51:31 They're like, yeah, yeah. I feel like there's a level of washing the guilt away from ignoring racism yet again. Where it's like, no, we have to fight for these troops. But you're supporting a party that specifically fucks over the troops like you right everything they do they take funding from the va there's all this military budget that goes towards the none of the veterans you know and up to the companies that make the yeah the toys the weapons the equipment and but no one thinks about that like that's where you're like i feel like people only care for the troops when they want to negate, uh,
Starting point is 00:52:08 yeah, black people. It's a defense. It's the same thing with all lives matter where like, there's all lives matter. What about all lives? And then like a white person is killed by the police and it's silent. Right.
Starting point is 00:52:18 And then you have black lives matter carrying that torch and being like, all right, here we go. No, this is wrong too. Where's all lives matter. And then they still want to try and make the argument of like, because black torch and being like, all right, here we go. No, this is wrong, too. Where's all lives matter? And then they still want to try and make the argument of like, because black, I'm like, what are you talking about?
Starting point is 00:52:30 At this point, black lives matter has not supported way more than black lives. And you've done nothing like you've supported no one. So you don't get to say anything, but they'll still hop on Twitter talking shit. Yeah. And I think this is actually becoming specifically whether it's openly acknowledged or not behind the scenes. I think that like we're seeing a tax cut that is going through the House and the Senate right now. That is the most openly just like targeted to the very, very wealthy. Like they're taking taxes away from like billionaires, like inheriting money from their parents and putting it on like the middle class and upper middle class people. And I think they know that they can do that now because they know that 30 something percent of the population that voted for Trump are just not going anywhere. So it's like they're like, well, all they care about is that he is acknowledging and,
Starting point is 00:53:27 you know, normalizing their viewpoint and like making them feel OK about being like, you know, having these fears and this like rage. So they're not going anywhere. So we can just take care of our donors now. And then we also have this. So they're like kind of it's like a twotiered approach that I feel like can't be accidental. No. They just like know now that they can just take care of the very richest people who support them.
Starting point is 00:53:54 Well, I think because some supporters probably mistake their race as being a class. Right. And they don't realize that when push comes to shove and all these – it's time to pay the tax man and come in like the next decade, people under – who are making under $40,000 are going to get crushed. Right. And they're going to have to pay so much because they're taking like away Medicaid funding and things like that. So people also need to be very aware that taxes will touch you at any level, like unless you're super rich. At any level. Unless you're super rich.
Starting point is 00:54:31 And I feel like the silver lining in this for me is that I feel like people of color are so used to struggle. They'll make it. It'll suck, but they'll make it. But these poor white people who are just already in their position or feeling like the world's against them are just going to be completely destroyed. Well, yeah. I mean, I think there are white people who are just going to be completely destroyed. Like, well, yeah, I mean, I think there, there are white people who are just as poor as black people,
Starting point is 00:54:48 but yeah, I think there are people who are like on the cusp of maybe being like lower middle class or something will completely fall. No, I feel like there are white people who are just as poor as black people, but their perception of their poverty is way different. I feel like being poor and black, your world is way different than being poor and white.
Starting point is 00:55:04 And it's because there's this modicum of hope because everything you're ingesting in media and everything is telling you, like, don't worry, you can make it. Shit's out here for you. Black people have to be told they can do shit. Black people had to, like, wait till Obama came around to believe they could be president. So black people, when they're poor, they're like, this is my life. This is what it's going to be. And even though that's shitty, on the flip side, they're not as
Starting point is 00:55:30 kind of wrecked as being in that position. Yeah, it's a double-edged sword because it's sort of a resignation into accepting that, well, this is just our lot. Whereas now, even when we saw during the recession like you know uh the suicide rates
Starting point is 00:55:48 and depression rate and white people went up like the concept of failing when you were told the world is yours wrecks that the psyche so that's that so that's what i mean when i say that like if this were to happen and it goes down like know, black people have that unfortunate idea of like, well, this is life, you know, life is struggle. Like it's even in the religion. Like you go to a Baptist church, like one of the kind of themes is like, you know, God loves you because he's testing you by putting you through these trials and tribulations. So that's, that's what I mean when I say shit like that.
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Starting point is 01:00:14 All that on the Happiness Lab. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. And we're back. So we wanted to talk about some pop cultural things, some pop cultural happenings. The new Avengers trailer is out. Thanos looks like Steve Austin with a chromosomal disorder in the trailer uh but everything else looks exactly like every other avengers movie that i've ever seen just buildings getting destroyed i mean yeah when you watch the trailer and you see it's like everybody who's like
Starting point is 01:00:57 who's ever been in a marvel film and you're like to me they just call this movie you know everybody getting the check because i was like whoa whoa, whoa, it's everybody. I don't know. I'm interested because I did like the idea of the Infinity Gauntlet when it was a comic book. Yeah. I still haven't quite pivoted into the movie part yet where I'm as excited, but I don't know. I could be like a... Here's my thing.
Starting point is 01:01:19 I think I'm finally getting superhero fatigue. I watched Guardians of the Galaxy on the plane. I still haven't seen Wonder Woman, and i got the screener sitting in my house i think the last superhero thing i saw it wasn't justice league um you haven't seen justice league now and you're already fatigued and yeah because there's just so many shows so many different things so many tapped and it's like even like black panther if this was like two years ago you would see me dressed up in black panther shit cosplaying every day but like now it's like yeah let's let's get to it and like i don't know like i'm trying not to be that nerd
Starting point is 01:01:57 but like seeing everyone get hyped about black panther when like reading back black panther i had to just stop because they stopped running it because not enough people were buying it and it's like all right yeah especially like white comic book nerds who are like black panther's like fuck you dude like you weren't buying it like you know of course people of color get a free pass because it's like yeah this is our this is going to be the first because it's like if you don't read comics then yeah this is 100 one of the first few people of color heroes you get to experience so live it up but if you're this white comic book nerd who like especially wants to like uh knowledge check folks and you're talking about your excited it's like no fuck you you weren't buying the books yeah you were there yeah i mean i didn't even read i i was all purely
Starting point is 01:02:43 x-men and sometimes Avengers reader. Yeah. But yeah, I'm the same way. I think I got fucking comic book fatigue when they had the third Spider-Man. I was like, dude, this is, I'm, no, I can't, I can't. Homecoming was pretty good. I think I could still watch it, but I think it's harder to get me to go to the theater for it. Right.
Starting point is 01:03:04 I think they need to start, just every movie needs to be, yeah, like Homecoming was a sort of genre exercise. Like what if it was a teen movie? And Iron Man 3 was dope because it was like they were like, yeah, just we'll give it to Shane Black and like let him do a Shane Black thing. So it's like a Lethal Weapon 3 but starring Iron Man or something. Lethal Weapon 3, but starring Iron Man or something. But yeah, I feel like you got to do that or else it's just going to look like it's cobbled together from spare parts of other superhero movies. Like that's what this trailer looks like to me. Like I was like, yo, I've seen that shot.
Starting point is 01:03:35 I know I've seen that shot before. We're like, did you guys just cut together trailers from all the other Marvel films and try and make it like a coherent narrative? Right. Which could be very possible. And since this was kind of a bummer episode, we're just going to talk about two other things that are making us happy right now. An Onion article, probably my favorite Onion headline in a long time. It is, The Onion has obtained exclusive information from Jamie Phillips about Roy Morris' sexual indiscretions.
Starting point is 01:03:59 And it's based on that sting the Washington Post exposed yesterday. It's just they're so good sometimes. And, Miles, you're going to take us out on some music? Oh, actually, before that, I wanted to also say, guys, this is another uplifting news. Dog the Bounty Hunter, his wife Beth, cancer-free. Yay! So shout out to, actually, Dog the Bounty Hunter is problematic. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:25 But Beth didn't ask for that. And I did like season one of Dog the Bounty Hunter is problematic. But Beth didn't ask for that. And I did like the season one of Dog the Bounty Hunter, I'll be real. But yes, let's go out with a track. Today, I would like, you know, yesterday was some just old trash, the new Vaudeville band. But today is the Elkin and Johnson remix of Abran Paso by DJ Harvey. Now, this track I heard on the radio, and it was one of those moments where I just started nodding my head, tapping my toe.
Starting point is 01:04:52 You looked down at your body with surprise. I looked down and I'm like, whoa, what's going on here? What's happening? Oh, shit. Yes. What radio station are you on? This was on KCRW. Okay.
Starting point is 01:05:00 Of course, they have their really great F-No remixes on there. So this one is just dope. It's got a little acoustic guitar just driving the thing. And then the rhythm section is so locked in. As a musician, I really love any songs where the rhythm section is together. So this will get your toe tapping. You could probably play it for your babies if you've got young kids out there. They'll love it too.
Starting point is 01:05:24 So we're going to ride out on that. But before we do, Ify, where can people follow you? Oh, you can follow me on Twitter at IfyWadiway, which is the same as my Instagram. And sometimes if you like watching people play video games, you can catch me on twitch.tv slash ifd's. Ifd's? Yeah, ifd's. And how are you spelling your name there? Oh, I-F-Y-N-W-A-D-I-W-E.
Starting point is 01:05:50 All right. Miles, where can people follow you? You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at MilesOfGrey. You can follow me at JackUndersquareO'Brien. You can follow us at TheDailyZeitGeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page. Just search thedailyzeitgeist. You can follow us on Twitter at justdailyzeitgeist.
Starting point is 01:06:10 Know the. And we have a webpage that is also dailyzeitgeist.com. Know the. Where you can find our episodes and also our footnotes. Footnotes. Where we link off to all the sources of all the stuff we're talking about today. You can read that Atlantic article. You can see that onion headline uh watch creepy matt lauer clips yeah
Starting point is 01:06:29 you can see matt lauer just creeping on and halfway and and halfway being a complete pro and that's gonna do it for us today iffy thank you so much this was a blast always great to have you here uh and we will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. Talk to you guys then. I want to ask you I want to ask you Thank you. ¡Venga, venga, venga! Hoy yo les voy a ayudar Thank you. Abrazo Abrazo Caballero de mi paso Que yo vengo bien caliente Abrazo Abrazo
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