The Daily Zeitgeist - Mueller Can’t Save Us From Schultz, ‘Ariana’ Means ‘Idiot’ In Japanese 2.1.19

Episode Date: February 1, 2019

In episode 321, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and artist Anna Salinas to discuss the Rams male cheerleaders making history at the Super Bowl, the half time show analysis, the Mueller probe apparently coming to a close soon, Howard Schultz comments on his CNN interview, disappointing follow ups to games and movies, Ariana Grande attempting to fix her tattoo, Cardi B getting back together with Offset, the best cold weather content, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. Rams’ male cheerleaders make NFL history at Super Bowl2. Four ways to guarantee Super Bowl halftime show success. You're welcome, Maroon 53. Mueller closes the circle of Russian collusion on Trump4. Mueller investigation is ‘close to being completed,’ acting attorney general says5. The Top 432,698 Reasons Acting AG Meatball Is Full Of Sh*t About The Mueller Probe Being Almost Over6. Acting AG Whitaker sounds guilty as he stammers through his Mueller announcement.7. Cooper to Schultz: Do you know how to beat Trump?8. Ariana Grande Updated Her Japanese Tattoo Typo — But It's Still Not Quite Right9. CARDI B BACK WITH OFFSET ... He Vows No More Groupies!!!10. Woman’s hair completely froze in gravity-defying style in subzero temperatures11. It's so cold in Minnesota, these police uniforms froze!12. WATCH: Kari Faux - Lie 2 My Face Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Or Lacey gets into it. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 67, Episode 5 of Dirty Zeitgeist! Yeah. The season finale. This is the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Friday, February 1st, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. O-B-R-I-E-N, man.

That's courtesy of Joe Bocanegra. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host and a lawnmower that's just slowly starting up. Mr. Miles Gray! I love drugs. Baby, Miles of Gray. Miles of Gray. I love drugs. Baby, Miles of Gray. Miles of Gray. No more. I love drugs.

And that's just all I'll leave it to. I really was focusing on my vocal fry at the very beginning. And that is from Hannah Soltis. I took some liberties with that, but, you know, Hathaway, Hathaway with music and lyrics. Hathaway? That's the name of the person? Yes.

What is love? People always just go like, oh, it's the Steve and Doug Butabi. They have the rock. Roxbury. Well, they have names. Steve and Doug Butabi. Yes, that's what people are always saying. Yeah. Oh, that's the Steve and Doug Butabi.

Steve and Doug Butabi. Remember Michael Clarke Duncan? Oh, from S. Andell? Yeah, and he goes, you got brothers? No. Yes, ma S. Andell? Yeah, and he goes, you guys brothers? No. Yes, man. See? I had nothing going on in the late 90s, early 2000s.

I, for a long time, wrote for that as an underrated movie. Night at the Rocks. You did? Still do, kind of. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in on third seat by the hilarious and talented performer and artist, Ana Salinas. Thank you. What's up?

Hi. How art thou? I'm good. Yes? Yeah. That wasn't convincing. Okay. It's raining.

And I keep three umbrellas in my car. Oh. Because I just have- That's a weird flex, but okay. Yes. No big deal. I have three umbrellas. I have three umbrellas. I have three umbrellas right now.

Like a year ago, it rained. And in a course of like two days, I ended up with three umbrellas because I kept forgetting them and losing them. And I bought one for my boss. And now I have three umbrellas. And today's the one day I get to use them. So I have like a weird calm come over me when it's raining outside. And I take one of my umbrellas and you almost look at your umbrellas be like which one today yeah well there's the little one and then there's two big

ones so I always want to have a guest and it's raining you like to bring like a golf umbrella basically yeah okay uh yeah so so that felt good I don't have rain boot I know this is a podcast where you talk about important things and pop culture in the news but right i have another 40 minutes of umbrella material good good uh i don't have rain boots yeah but i'm doing good guys yeah oh if you kept talking i was about to play rihanna umbrella just because damn it why didn't i well i know're going to get to know you a little bit better. But first, we're going to tell our listeners. First of all, go rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. You guys were severely under-reviewed for the number of listeners we have.

Emaciated. Help us find new listeners. And second of all, we're going to tell our listeners what we're talking about today. We talking about the super bowl a couple things that are happening this coming weekend oh uh first of all it's the first super bowl with male cheerleaders uh second of all usa today released the most usa today article ever uh so we're gonna talk about that reviewing uh past halftime super bowl like just Like just so vanilla, you want to diary it. Yeah, just so vanilla. It was amazing. We're going to talk about the Mueller probe being almost over, allegedly.

We're going to talk about Howard Schultz. We're going to talk about Facebook. All the hits, guys. And then we're going to have some pop culture conversations in the third act. Oh, wow. That just could be describing. Pop culture conversations. Yes.

So stick around for that. Describe what a podcast is in general. It's a kind of pop culture conversation. Yeah. Well, Kingdom Hearts 3 is out, so we're going to talk about. Oh, yeah. You're a big fan. I'm not.

Oh. I'm not a big fan of any video game. But I've just seen people kind of being disappointed on social media. So we're going to talk about our biggest pop culture disappointments. But first, Anna, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay. The last thing I searched was how to cook a steak and how to cook a salmon.

Just a salmon. A salmon. Entire salmon. Just a salmon. A salmon. Entire salmon. Yeah. I guess the most revealing thing about that is that I'm dating someone who's been on this podcast a few times, Edgar. Never heard of him. Edward? Yeah.

I think he goes by Eduardo Mumps. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Mumps. Mumpy. They call him Mumpy for short. Oh, wait.

Mr. Oingo Boingo. Yes. Oh, yes. Oh, mumps. Mumpy. They call him Mumpy for short. Oh, wait. Mr. Oingo Boingo. Yes. Oh, yes. Don't entertain that stupid catchphrase. Oh, I love it. Oingo Boingo is not a real... Oh, God damn it. Look what happened.

You're feeding the monster. I feel like I need one, and it should be Shoingo Troingo. No, we can do better than that. We'll figure something out for you. No, I think that's as good as it's going to get. Shoingo Troingo. Shoingo Troingo. Shoingo for you. No, I think that's as good as it's going to get. With wax. Shoringo, troingo. Shoringo, troingo. Shoringo, troingo.

I'm like a knockoff version of Eduardo Mops. We are dating, and yesterday I was like, do you want some salmon? He said, no, I want steak. And I'm a vegetarian or a pescatarian. And I did it. I went and bought him a steak, which I groaned the whole way because they're expensive. Yeah. I didn't know how to cook it.

He didn't pay for it? No. You should have been like, if you want a steak, then go buy one. Well, I was like, will you go pick up my birth control from the pharmacy? Nice. Do you pay for the birth control?

It's free. I'm on that. Oh, yeah, yeah. There you go. Yeah, but he went and it was closed so just failed i say that sometimes i'm like oh yeah when i went to the library it was closed that's why i couldn't get you exactly and it was like he was like yeah it closed at 10 i was like we left at like nine what were you doing he was like i didn't realize i was in a rush which means he was

sitting in the parking lot on twitter just going through. He was going through his drafts. He was like, damn, which one can I do right now? He didn't realize there was a hurry. Yeah, I made a mistake, and I didn't do it good. I Googled a recipe. Here's the thing about Googling a recipe. You can't just glance at a few and be like, I have an idea of how one cooks things. Did you let the meat rest?

Did you let that get to room temperature before you put it in the pan? Was the pan screaming hot? Okay. No. The rest thing I think I might have done on accident because I took it out and then didn't get to it for a while. I salted and peppered it. But it didn't look the right color. I think it was too raw.

It didn't get a sear. You know, if anything, you're just teaching Edward. Edward. Please, he only is Edward now. Teaching Edgar, look, if you want a steak, don't ask a pescatarian to cook it for you. Yeah. Exactly. Finesse the fish.

That's what you do. I felt so disrespected. I was like, I am offering to make you dinner and part of it is salmon, which is fancy. Fantastic. And you're saying don't give me the salmon. Give me a steak. Give me something that will kill me. Exactly. Instead of the most healthy food that exists. I was so

offended. What is something you think is overrated? Oh. Yeah. I have a few things here. You guys know Mamma Mia 2? Uh-huh. Mamma Mia as well as you? Yeah, as well as you. I think that the movie Mamma Mia 2 is underrated, and here's why. Okay.

A lot of people say it's a bad movie, and in many ways, it is. They're right. Look, they don't have much of a story strung together, but they do. And here was the great challenge with Mamma Mia, too. They used up all the good songs in Mamma Mia 1. Oh, right. Take a Chance on Me, Fernando, Mamma Mia itself. Mamma Mia, yes.

Dancing Queen. And the story was already written. It was a Broadway play when they get to the movie. So pretty easy to pull off. Mamma Mia 1, it holds up. Mamma Mia 2, they had nothing. They had no story. And they had to take the worst of the ABBA songs.

Like, can you even name a song besides the ones I named before? Yeah. When I Kissed My Teacher is like one of them. That's a song? Apparently that's a song. That seems like a tough one to weave into a storyline too. It was a weird choice. Yeah.

But they did it. And I think that that is a challenge that deserves respect. Oh, okay. So you're more enamored with it because you're like, well, look at the shit pile they were left with. Exactly. Level of difficulty-wise. And they still were profit-focused enough to make it happen.

Exactly. Yeah. You know, it works on some level. And I recently really did a deep dive on musicals at the age of 28. I was like, I missed out on being into musicals. And Mamma Mia's great. Okay. Well, Mamma Mia 2. We talked about it, how they're like,

we were trying to figure out if they're time traveling. Yeah, the timeline doesn't make sense, so it is like Lost, a movie where the island is actually purgatory or the afterlife. Maybe I'll fucking watch that just on its own. Because the timeline, none of the timing makes sense. Of like the age of the characters

and things like that. And like when they met, like when the mom met them and stuff. Right, exactly. So the theory, I think, was that Meryl Streep has gone on to heaven maybe, but the rest of them remain in this purgatory trying to figure out, I don't know, something.

That's a phenomenal theory. Now you're like, I will watch it with new eyes. I will too. purgatory trying to figure out something. That's a phenomenal theory. I will watch it with new eyes. I will too. That just makes me love Mamma Mia too. And she's dead. That's not a spoiler. That's some real shit. Talk about a level of difficulty. You have to come up with more

ABBA songs and you have to make a movie that stands up next to one starring Meryl Streep without Meryl Streep. Yeah. Starring Lily James, who is the worst part of that movie. Oh, no. I'm sorry to say. Lily.

Oh, my God. So you just gave us your underrated. What is something you think is overrated? Oh, well, I'm going to say two things and we can follow whichever is more interesting. Okay. Broad City, this new season. I'm sorry. Okay. Broad City, this new season. I'm sorry. Okay.

And Kamala Harris. Oh, I think Kamala Harris might be the one that our listeners are interested in hearing you talk about. Yeah. Look, I really want to like Kamala Harris. And when those hearings were going on for Kavanaugh and stuff, she was so cool and asking so many hard-hitting questions and now now that she has announced it's like we have to look at her in full light and i think that her positions and like her history as working in criminal justice is just so bad. And with every clip that comes out with her talking about or basically defending.

Some of her policies. Her policies. She's so anti-criminal justice reform and doesn't get that that is important. Yeah. Because when asked about it, she just defends the fact that we need prisons and that serial killers exist and should go to prison. And it's like, how do you not see? She has a very hard line attitude about prison in that like crimes need very harsh punishments to deter people from offending. And, you know, I think it's fair to bring her her past as D.A. and attorney general of California like into it, because, you know, you have to look at their past policy positions when you consider them for as a presidential nominee.

I think some things have been a little bit blown out about her, but there are many other things, too, that I think are fair criticisms. But, you know, I think when you look at the hol any candidate, there's going to be a lot of weird shit. And I agree. And look, I will support whoever the Democrats pick. But I think part of why I think she's overrated is because there's so much glowing praise of her, even among my friends. And she's the frontrunner. I think she's going to stay the frontrunner. And she, from the surface, looks like the kind of candidate we want she's a woman she's a woman of color she

is radical on a lot i wouldn't say radical but she's pretty far left on a lot of issues but i see her backtracking i see her as the kind of candidate who will backtrack to the center right that's not what i want i want a fucking radical leftist candidate. Who's taking Wall Street money so she could be compromised there. Yeah, I'm not saying anyone else is great. Yeah, well, I think, you know, this is kind of the deal now as people become more politically aware and things like that. People are actually, you know know looking back and all relevant positions

but you know there have also been people who really try and hammer her like to try and sort of just be like well she shouldn't be running because of this I don't totally agree with that take uh but I think it's important too I mean she has tried to sort of address some of the things like in that town hall she she did talk about it but it wasn't in the most satisfying way. I want her to come out and say, the way I spoke about this is I was wrong. I want her to say, I commit to pushing for criminal justice reform. And I acknowledge that there are nuances in the system that makes the system, I mean, she'll never do this, but the system is broken. And we need that acknowledgement in the mainstream Democratic Party. Right.

I mean, she is when you look at Vegas betting odds, she is the favorite by a pretty good margin. Yeah. And that could change. And things like that always look at Jeb. Poor Jeb exclamation point. Yeah. I think we live in a media environment where we could have a new frontrunner in minutes. Someone has a great soundbite.

Right, right. The thing that kind of put her on the stage in the first place is that she's really good at cross-examining witnesses, which is also where she came from, what her background is. So I do feel like the thing that put her on the map in the first place was her main strength. And so as the campaign goes on, we'll see a bigger picture of her. And, you know, she'll have to earn that front runner status for sure.

I want to like her. I want. I mean, she's done she's done a lot on the progressive end, too. And I think a lot of people focus on, you know, where she wasn't totally up for holding some police accountable for their actions and things like that I mean she she did try and introduce more like rehabilitation versus incarceration programs of like you know if you're a first-time drug offender like get them a high school degree and like give them some kind of tools rather than just blank you just been like okay that's that's a jailable offense okay but I think at the same time yeah there are there are other things that are fair. And again, I think going forward, we'll just see how she speaks about her future and her

past. We'll see what she has in store. We will see. Listen to Serial Season 3. Have you guys heard that? No. Serial Season 3? No, I haven't.

Okay. Maybe it's bad to plug another podcast on this one. No, we didn't know there were other podcasts. I know. We don't acknowledge that. And I'm sorry to burst this bubble, but there is one, and it's screw the rest of Serial. Serial season three looks at the East Cleveland courthouse.

And it's like the story of a courthouse told over 10 episodes or whatever. And I think seeing how broken from top to bottom that justice microcosm is in East Cleveland, it's like, do we really want someone who came up in that? Yeah. Well, I think, again, that's where the debates and things will shed a lot more light. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So I just think it's interesting that it takes Serial 10 episodes to tell a story, whereas we cover 10 stories in a single episode.

I mean, well, look, you know. My biggest critique of it was needs more daily. Yeah. That's right. And 90s techno. Right. And 90s techno. Yeah.

Well, look, Sarah Koenig, she does what she can with the little bit that she has. Exactly. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false i think people have this weird feeling that they could get on snl s and l on s and l okay ah savings and loan savings and loan uh the the saturday and living right uh but i think people i have a lot of friends who have been talking lately about like i'm gonna be on snl yeah like i think i'm gonna be on snl it's like no you don't even work in entertainment you're a graphic designer wait what yeah your friends rule i want to hang out with

them very positive people yeah like positive energy my old roommate was like well it's always been my dream to be on SNL. She literally is a graphic designer. Damn. And you're like, yeah, where are you performing right now? Yeah, like that's not how that works. I mean, my mom thinks I do a really good impression of my grandma. Right, right.

Oh, okay. It's going to happen. By the way, the S and L thing for people who don't know, Don Jr. tweeted that something was like an S and L skit. Rather than S, the letter N, and then the letter L. Which is just mind-blowing. As you pointed out before

we recorded, his dad was on that show. That's crazy. Did you not watch? Saturday and live. That's what he thinks it is. Saturday and live. Saturday and live. However you great. Saturday and live. That's whatever, however you want to cut it out.

But how do you go through life never having just flipped through that channel? Back to your myth though. Yeah. Do you have other people too who are this far removed from comedy who are like, you know what,

I'm going to be on SNL too. Well, I have, I feel bad outing people. Well, let's not use any descriptors. You know a person. I know a person. I'm dating a guy. I'm dating a guy.

Who likes shitty steaks. Right. Edgar, you're never getting on. I would never say that to him. I think he's someone who could be. He could be. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Absolutely. But I was in an elevator with someone who I had worked on something with, and they were like, you know, it would be so cool to work on SNL. And he did say work on SNL, which could mean do other things for it as a gaffer. Sure. But, you know, he works in advertising, and it's like, stop. Stop putting SNL on this pedestal. Wow, you just blew this person's spot up. We know it's a man who works in advertising.

Damn it. Who I recently worked on a project with, which really whittles it down. Stop putting SNL on this pedestal. You just blew this person's spot up. We know it's a man who works in advertising. Damn it. Who I recently worked on a project with, which really whittles it down. It's fine. But yeah, look, I think we hold SNL on this weird pedestal. And look at the facts. The comedy, pretty hit or miss. And I hold the dream too. I think anybody who has ever worked in comedy

or likes comedy has had thoughts about participating in Saturday Night Live in one way or another but I think it's just this weird almost cancer especially in the comedy community where people are like SNL is the top of the heat but you get there and it's like

no sketch comedy doesn't just exist in that old outdated live format and no like who is really watching well i think a lot of people they see the trajectory of people that it's like this thing right just like how ucb is for comedians even in la where it's like you get on ucb you get on a you get on a Herald team, the agents will find you, you get representation, you end up on an NBC single camera comedy show, and then you're a star. And now the other track is you get to Saturday Night Live, therefore you become the next Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, and then you move up out of that strata into the next

thing, which is very possible. Some people are just so talented that they can't be held down. And, you know, there are other ways to succeed. There are. And not just that way. Exactly. And I heard this great interview with John Milhaisner. Oh, Milhaisner, right?

Yeah. He was on that season when they took a lot of people like Noel Wells and it was like eight people or something like that. A lot of people had left. And he talks about how he spent all this time really dreaming of being on SNL, being a career sketch actor and focusing so specifically toward that one goal.

And then he got there, had been kind of a star going into the process. Lauren loved him. And then didn't get used at all. And kind of got like blocked out. Right. Where they had made up their mind that they weren't going to keep him. Or they even think of you as only being able to do one specific thing.

And sometimes they don't let you as a performer play to your strengths. Yeah. Like I have a few friends who have been on the cast or on it. And there are times people get frustrated a little bit where they're sort of like, I feel like I could do so much other stuff. I mean, I think part of the reason people think it's easy to get on or that they could be on is because they have all these hurdles that are built into the system. This is just the best they can do in a week, like writing new sketches and throwing something together live. new sketches and like throwing something together live and yeah it's a very specific thing and a very specific skill set that you know not everybody is great at or there are a lot of like

institutional uh things that will lead to success or prevent success that have nothing to do with talent and i mean when you look at the people who haven't like had a ton of success like Jenny Slate and Noel Wells on SNL and then completely are like

super, super talented and gone to prove it. Jenny Slate cursed, right? Right. She said,

fuck. And they kicked her off. Off top. Yeah. Both of whom are filmmakers, Noel Wells and Jenny Slate. Very, very talented., Noelle Wells and James Lake.

Yeah, very, very talented. Talent's far beyond it. Look. Her Majesty did a little producing for one of Noelle Wells' films. You? Wait. My partner.

That would be amazing if Miles referred to himself as Her Majesty. Yes, honey, get it right. That needs to be... I went through that whole rollercoaster too being like, is that?

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Available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. sued for saying Super Bowl? I'm sure people have been hit with the cease and desist. Probably like a local car dealership or something. No, you can't. NFL says you're not supposed to say the word Super Bowl. They have it

like trademarked. If you're like not affiliated or like as a sponsor, you can't say like we have deals for Super Bowl Sunday. You have to be like we have deals for the big game. Right. Oh my God. That's crazy. Because what if you have like a bowl that works really well yes yeah what's up all my smokers super yes it'll get you super hot super bold super bold okay but

it is still stupid right you know there's like some weed meme page it's like this is the only super bowl i fuck with oh my god and it's like a stock pot full of weed. I wish I thought of that. I would love to tweet that, man. That's great content. But you would be in legal jeopardy if you did. But yeah, I mean, that is the difference between the NFL and the NBA. The NBA lets you just clip things and put it up on social media. They do not give a fuck about

protecting. They get their audience. Right. But the NFL, it's like you can't even say the name of our fucking championship game. Don't you fucking give us free marketing. They're setting people up to be nerds. Right.

Who's going to say, you're excited for the big game? Well, no one does. Again, it's the only people who have to, like, who are part of corporate entities. Yeah, doing marketing. We're like, ah. I'm going to start baiting the NFL. Right, you should. And start, like, posting Super Bowl logos, but bastardized.

Yeah. Just with a bunch of weed. There you go. Like, yo, Super Bowl., but bastardized. Yeah. Just with a bunch of weed. There you go. Like, yo, Super Bowl. You got something. You can't see me, but I was doing peace signs. Yes. Like all stoners when they smile.

Like all stoners. Well, this year's Super Bowl is noteworthy because it is the first with male cheerleaders. Yeah. That's great. The Rams have male cheerleaders. Yeah. This year, there was like one of the, there's two men who are on the Rams cheerleading squad. And one of them like is a choreographer and was just sort of like, why don't I just pull up to the tryouts?

Right. And did. And this other man. And they got in because they're good dancers. And like also like in college football, there are men out there doing that. But the thing is like the Rams, they're like, you know, we're all about inclusivity and including people. is like the Rams, they're like,

you know, we're all about inclusivity and including people. So what we did, they wanted to, I think, just not fully hit people with like men straight up dancing,

you know, for all the, I guess, homophobic NFL fans. So what they did was- Can't even bear to see a man vaguely dance. Right,

they're like, what the fuck? Oh man, it's going to make me think about stuff. He's expressing joy with his body, rhythmically.

I want to see these guys fuck their brains out there with the fucking CTE. Right, right. Not this dancing shit. So yeah, these male cheerleaders, they say first they designed a special uniform that accentuated their athleticism

and excluded the pom-poms. Second, they changed some of the squad's dancing moves to feature stronger and bigger arm motions. Finally, they stopped dancing to songs that would seem inappropriate for a mixed gender team. Among the tunes that were cut were Diamonds Are Girls Best Friend and Single Ladies. That is so stupid.

That's what Pauline's like, yo, if they want to fucking dance to single, what is the problem? What's the problem? Oh my God. What's crazy is that high school cheerleading is more forward than this. Like in high school, cheerleading is like you go to the competition. It's truly like gymnastics and athleticism and dancing. And there's plenty of male cheerleaders. And then you get to pro football and it's like, nope, it's just toxic masculinity.

I dated a male cheerleader in college. I did. I mean, I feel like college male cheerleaders, I associate them with just having enormous arms. Yeah. Because they're always like holding like three people like just. They're so fit. Casually. And they get all the girls unless they're not into girls. But in my experience, plenty are. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, were you like seeing you're like clocking him from the stands? Oh my God. He was the cute male. He like literally had a reputation as being the cute male cheerleader. Oh. So when I started dating him, it was a huge flex.

You were that chick. It was great. I actually looked him up on Facebook yesterday. I have four umbrellas and I'm with a male cheerleader. Yes. Yeah. Wait, Georgetown had a male cheerleader? He's thinking about his failed.

Georgetown did. I'm thinking about my failed career as a cheerleader. Georgetown had two male cheerleaders. Oh, okay. One of them was crazy. He was too much. He was very excited and very intense. They were both straight and got a lot of ladies.

All right. And the other one was a guy named Josh. Oh, wow. So cute. And he works in advertising and thinks he can be in SNL. Yeah, and he can't. Oh, wow. So cute. And he works in advertising and thinks he can be in SNL. Yeah, and he can't. He can't. So also in preparation for the Super Bowl, USA Today did an analysis of Super Bowl halftime shows.

For what reason? They were like, hey, Maroon 5, you're welcome. Wait, what? Yeah, because here is the guide to how to succeed at the Super Bowl. Oh, they're saying here's how to succeed at the Super Bowl. Don't make Maroon 5 your halftime show. Our only achievement is that. Well, so I was very disappointed

in this year's halftime show, but now apparently they have Travis Scott and Big Boy from OutKast. So I'm actually more excited for this year's Super Bowl halftime show than basically any from up for a while. Is Cardi B, wasn't she gonna or she was out? No, she said no because she's standing

in solidarity with Cap. That's why there was that whole controversy with Travis and Big Boy taking this show, which we covered because Travis Scott tried to be like, oh, I talked to him, and he said it was all good, and his people were like, the fuck you did. No, you did not. Oh my God, don't say that on record.

Jesus. This just is the most usa today article ever their politics are so their advice is to keep it pg jesus and they talk about the janet jackson wardrobe malfunction like it is the jfk assassination like we will always remember that moment when and like they talk about how it like her career. Well, remember by inviting back Justin Timberlake to do his own halftime show. Exactly. They also said that to keep it low effects,

which the other most memorable thing from Super Bowl halftime shows was Katy Perry riding in on that giant fucking lion. Yeah. Did they not like Lady Gaga flying in? They did not mention Lady Gaga once. She was like, I loved it. But they not like Lady Gaga flying in? They did not mention Lady Gaga once. She was like, I loved it. They're like shading her.

They're like, oh, we don't know her. She had such an epic performance. Didn't she have all them drones and shit? Like, wasn't one of the first halftime shows that had all those automated drones doing stuff? I believe it was. I could be mixing that up the last year. Very in the air, it felt like. Yeah.

That was a good show. They also talk about Bruce Springsteen's show being like the best ever, the height. Oh my, so written by my dad? Yes. So USA Today.

Yes. Yeah, my mom pitched in. She helped co-write that article. I remember that year too because that was like what, 10, like no,

no, I was in high school I think when that Super Bowl happened and I remember going to a friend's Super Bowl party and all the parents were fucking psyched. And that's when we took a walk and smoked weed during the halftime show

because I'm like, dude, I don't know what this is. Right. Here, I got to read this one quote because it's... They probably look at the Beyonce halftime show as like a real doozy. Yeah, so let me read this quote for you. Be careful when making a statement is one of the four things. Be careful.

If any of Sunday's artists are intending to incite riots with their Super Bowl performance, they can learn something from Beyonce, who courted controversy by performing her political anthem formation at 2016 Super Bowl, backed by dancers in Black Panther-referencing costumes. Did Ben Shapiro write this? I know. This is crazy. That is such a weird conservative, like, oh, if you want to incite a riot, that is some straight up, you know.

Don't you remember how that Super Bowl famously erupted in riots? Right. Was that the year the blackout happened? I feel like Beyonce should have just watched Bruce Springsteen's performance. And she's going, baby, I was born. She could have just done an entire show of single ladies. Right. She comes out dressed as Steve Van Zandt.

Little Stevie from the B-Street Band. All right. So are you guys going to watch the Super Bowl? Miles, I know you're... I don't care. If it's on, I'll watch. I mean, I don't really... I just don't care.

The one thing that is only pulling me is because there's an LA team in it. So, you know, shout out to the city. That's true. But as a league, I'm like. I'm not a huge LA fan, but I think it's time to jump on the bandwagon. Yeah, I mean, I won't even jump on it. I'll just be like, I'll give it a look. Yeah.

I don't have any Rams shit. You're not going to catch me in any Rams shit. We all watched the Super Bowl together last year. We did. Yeah. At my house. I had't have any Rams shit. You're not going to catch me in any Rams shit. We all watched the Super Bowl together last year. We did. I had a Super Bowl party. Don't think that I'm having one again and you're not invited. No, it's okay. I am not. I am not.

You just won't know about it. I'm still tied up in lawsuits from last year's because we had those decorations that said Super Bowl. Yes, and I did post them all to my blog. And you're just like, at NFL, at NFL. I was baiting that. I said I would. At Roger Goodell. At NFL Legal.

Photoshopped some weed and... Yeah, there you go. Boom. I'm sorry. Let's talk Mueller probe, guys, because Señor Dick Toilet, as he is known in our... I guess Whitaker is his last name. Yeah. I swear we haven't referred to him as anything other than Dick Toilet

ever since we found out that he sold a toilet for men who have too big a dicks that they dangle. Or a ball solo. Right, balls. Such long balls. I thought that that was not real when I saw it.

I was like, sure, there's no way. It is the realest. It's so real. If anything, just make something, an attachment for the toilet where it's a scrotum net. Right. I've just never seen a bigger indication that someone didn't actually have a big dick. Has such a tiny dick. Yeah.

Well, I don't know. Yeah. I'd like to believe he does. What a weird position to take. Well, anyway, yeah. Look, he came out earlier this week and was like, he looked like he was so nervous, man. Sweaty.

I've never seen somebody so shiny in my life who wasn't in the middle of an NBA game. Yeah, I guess, just listen to him. He sounds like someone who's so out of their depth trying to talk about, oh yeah, the Mueller investigation is almost over. So listen to this of Acting Attorney General, senior Dick Toilet Whitaker. You know, I've been fully briefed on the investigation and, you know, I look forward to director Mueller delivering the final report. And I really am not going to talk about open and ongoing investigation otherwise, but,

you know, sort of the statements that I made where as a private citizen only with publicly available information and I you know I am I am comfortable that the decisions that were made are going to be reviewed you know neither through the various means we have but right now you know the investigation is I think close to being completed and i hope that we can get the report from director moore muller as soon as we as possible that gives me such anxiety just hearing him because that sounds like like if you've ever had a conversation where you're like really worried about what you're saying yeah like and you're bad at it yeah which i tend to be like the early episodes of our show right exactly if you go back and listen to the early episodes.

No, the ones that are in the vault that no one ever hears. So Miles. And I'm like, yes, and this story comes from this news source. Yeah, he was making it up as he went along. He was sweating so profusely. I think he was like, what, afraid of? I don't know. I think he has to gas up Trump.

Yeah. You know, A, so he's talking because he knows he's going to hear it and is trying to be like, yeah, don't worry. It's almost over. Like, and then the weird line was like, I'm comfortable that the decisions that were made are going to be reviewed with the, it's like, what are you referencing? Right. Yeah.

So I think he had a few nuanced points he was trying to get out there, but just couldn't. But I mean, again, a lot of people on the right, you know, jumped on this be like, yep, see, it's almost over and this is all they got. But there I think, you know, there are many schools of thought in regards of the Mueller investigation as to where it's headed, what phase it's in and what it could bring. Well, especially because he seemed to imply that he is basing this on just information available to all of us as private individuals. Well, no, he's saying I've been fully briefed,

meaning that he's been briefed as being head of DOJ. Right. Because he was supposed to recuse himself. All the ethics people were like, recuse yourself, my man. Before you took office, you were like, oh, this is a fucking witch hunt. Fuck this. This is so dumb. And they're like, ah, da-da-da-da. You should probably recuse yourself my man you came before you took office you were like oh this is a fucking witch hunt fuck this this is so dumb and they're like ah that that that you should probably recuse yourself meaning who he's probably also telling that if you recuse yourself of course well the first step of yes uh fright club is do not recuse yourself um but yeah again a lot of

people took this as like okay good it's probably ending or whatever but there, a lot of people took this as like, okay, good. It's probably ending or whatever. But there are a lot of reasons to think that it's probably not. I mean, for example, I think a few weeks ago, Mueller extended the grand jury like another six months. So there's probably at least that much more time he needs with the grand jury. Roger Stone, if you recall, it was only one week ago, about a week ago, that he was indicted. I don't know if we remember. That felt like years ago. It does feel like years ago. Already, I feel like there's been a parody movie about him.

Oh, yeah. Because Steve Martin came out looking kind of like him with not a great performance on S&L. And then, you know, the investigators then made a statement saying that, you know, when they when they raided his home, they said they, quote, have terabytes of information that spans years. So they're going to be digging for a little bit there. Let's see. What else? What else? We don't know still about Jared and Donald Jr.

Right. Because there's a lot of things to indicate that a lot of people in Congress are saying, well, you know, Michael Cohen and Donald Trump Jr. people in Congress were saying, well, you know, Michael Cohen and Donald Trump Jr. gave congruent presentations about like what had happened in regards to the Trump Tower meetings and like the Moscow project. And if Michael Cohen pled guilty to lying about that stuff. Oh, yeah. That's then maybe Don did, too. Right.

So I think now there are some people now kind of thinking like, OK, well, is this going to be the finale, like a grand finale? Finale. Yeah, grand finale. I'm sorry, the finale. But like the cynical version is what, Jack? The cynical version is that it is winding down and either he found a bunch of smoke

but couldn't find the smoking gun, to mix metaphors, or that he's about to drop, like that he's just been playing his cards close to his vest, which he clearly has been, and is about to drop a whole bunch of bombs on us and indict a bunch of Trump family members. The indictments have been pretty big so far. Well, the thing is, right, this whole time,

if the people you look at, like Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and George Papadopoulos, a lot of these people have been charged with what they call process crimes where they were just lying to the feds and congress and trying to you know obscure their involvement in things by being dishonest them trying to impede the investigation which is the guiltiest shit that you can possibly do everybody's like all you got is them trying to cover up you got them it's them covering it up right oh well what's it and that's the thing it up. Right. Oh, well, what's it? And that's the thing a lot of people point to is like,

well, no one's been charged with this collusion or whatever. However, Robert Mueller did charge a bunch of Russian agents at the GRU and elsewhere, those people with conspiracies to defraud the United States. Right. And that's the hardcore shit. And a lot of people are saying,

okay, then you have the hardcore shit. And a lot of people are saying, OK, then you have the hardcore shit, the Russia end. Then on the other side, you have the Americans that he's indicted for process crimes. And now we're starting to see the WikiLeaks piece come into it. Right. And so the theory is that the next round of indictments are the ones that fully close the circle. I'm saying you're the Russians on this side with their conspiracy to do it. Here are the Americans who helped. WikiLeaks is the connective tissue. And here are the other people who we have dead to rights on helping to further this conspiracy. And now we can actually charge people with like the real conspiracy here that I'm sure if we have the optimistic version that Robert Mueller is trying to prove that conspiracy.

Yeah. I mean, he's been so judicious. Yeah. There's no reason to think that won't continue. Yeah. And I think like even with the way he's been indicting people, like it just sort of got closer and closer and closer. But then it sort of leveled off and then we started getting more and more information about what might be happening. So there's a lot to imagine that who knows what Michael Flynn still had to say that we don't know about, what Michael Cohen has said that we don't know about.

And then we'll see. I mean, look, let's not hold our breaths. Right. I think the part I'm cynical about is the degree to which there will be consequences. Sure. I think this will be a really damning result. Right. Just in terms of what they find.

But I am cynical that certain people will have to pay anything yeah well especially when you have a political party and the republicans who would i mean they would literally have to have like the p-tape like tattooed on somebody's back or something and even then they would be like it was faked yeah and they're like well i mean when you think about the watergate investigation and like what Nixon had to resign over, it was basically cheating in an election and breaking laws to cheat in an election and then lying about it to cover it up. Right. And that seems like stuff that we're probably going to find out about Trump. But I still think, you know, the fact is somebody is going to need to beat him in 2020 to get him out of office. The fact is somebody's going to need to beat him in 2020 to get him out of office.

I think he has too much pride to leave. And I think the spin that's happening in the vortex of right-wing news is kind of hard to surmount. Right. Well, you know, we may have a savior to save us in 2020. Howard Schultz, baby! Yes! So, Anna, I know you're all in on Howard Schultz. You're not really fucking with Kamala Harris. You know when I was like, I want someone more radical,

more left than Kamala Harris? Who better than the CEO of Starbucks? Of Starbucks. I don't know. We keep having to talk about him and I hate talking about him because it's so apparent to me that he has no business running at all or even talking out loud about running. That announcement was just like, yeah, I've been hanging out with the same six rich people who are like, you should do it.

Hey, you could be on SNL, dude. Yeah, you could be on SNL. No, man, let me run for president first, and then I'll do it now. Maybe president is the SNL for billionaires. It is. Now they're like, yo, I could do that president first, and then I'll do it now. Maybe president is the SNL for billionaires. It is. Now they're like, yo, I could do that. Right. And I'm about to.

That's it. Watch this sick policy brief I write. But rich people, this is their new favorite candidate. Like very wealthy people or people who work in finance, they're like, hey, I like this Schultz guy. I think he's got some interesting things to say. Well, because he is not going to raise any taxes on him. Right.

No. Never. So CNN wanted him to explain basically why he thinks he should run. What makes him different from centrist candidates who are running as Democrats? Or possibly running. Right. Running as Democrats. And also Bloomberg made the calculation that if he ran as a centrist independent candidate, he would basically get Trump elected. He's also a billionaire just like you.

And he like he's like, I did the math, man. So, you know, they were like, what do you know that we don't from the outside like see about you? Let's let this elder statesman speak, Jack. Let's let his words speak for himself. Are you that different in terms of your policies and your politics than Michael Bloomberg? And wouldn't he also be appealing to a lot of those Republicans who are dissatisfied with Donald Trump? And even though you can make the argument Joe Biden as well is probably more centrist. Well, Anderson, this is not about Michael Bloomberg or Vice President Biden.

This is about the American people. And what I'm saying is, and the American people agree with me, is that our politics and our government is broken. Do you feel like you know how to run against President Trump? I know you said you don't, you know, you're not engaged in this Twitter war. You're not paying attention to that. But I mean, there were a lot of very qualified Republicans who were running against him, and he beat them all. Do you know how to beat him? DAVID BROOKS, Former U.S. Secretary of State for the United States of America, Well, I have spent the last almost 40 years building the kind of company in which we serve people,

100 million customers a week. We employ almost 400,000 people. I've spent my entire career building consensus, creating imagination and innovation and working well with people on both sides of the aisle. President Trump, to me, is not the litmus test for the presidency and not the litmus test for what I'm going to try and do. I'm going to speak directly to the hearts and minds of the American people. So, I mean, first of all, he sounds convinced. He's like, I'm doing this. Yeah. And he's just one of those people who has had success

in one very specific thing, and you just can't talk to them anymore because they now don't listen to other people. They only listen to the thoughts inside their own head because they've gaslit themselves into thinking that literally every thought that comes out of their head is fucking genius and they can do whatever they want. La, la, la, wait till I get my platform right. Whoa.

Fucking can't tell me nothing. I have to say, I'm a little conflicted on this one because, Miles, you brought up a good point. The eggs who feed bites are really good. And I mean innovative. Imagine what he'll do for rejuvenating urban centers that have just been neglected for years. If you could translate egg bites to policy, public schooling, we would fix poverty. I know. I know.

Because it's like they're not just eggs. Right. And they're not just anomalous. Yeah. They're just a self-contained world of wonder. And it's just protein. Right. Well, look.

He created imagination. He created. I mean, I don't think I even knew about the concept of imagination before he came along. Have you walked into a Starbucks? It's bursting with color. He's also conflating the fact that people drink coffee with his finger being on the pulse. The only thing I would trust you with are maybe trends

in how people are drinking beverages in the coffee industry. And also, Starbucks is bad. It is killing independent coffee shops, which are good. Starbucks, I think this whole idea that, well, yeah, he gave his employees health care and benefits. Have you talked to anyone who works at Starbucks? Yeah. They hate it. Yeah.

And they love it. Some love it. I think it all depends on how you're wired. I have a friend who works at Starbucks. That was the best job for him. Oh, really? Yeah. I worked at the Georgetown coffee shop.

What do we call that? Second wave coffee? Ground round? Or what is it? Uncommon grounds. There it is. We were anti-Starbucks. That is a Howard Schultz-esque pun. Well, the funny thing is that because of all this, I think a lot of employees at Starbucks have been catching heat on his behalf

basically because he's running, like, people are, like, so in one of the uh like newsletters that goes out to employees like the weekly memo that goes out to the different chains they basically bring up how to discuss howard schultz's candidacy and it's so dumb it says oh like for baristas who are just catching heat from people like hey man so you think fucking howard schultz is gonna win he's He's going to get Trump reelected, asshole. Right. Double half-calf.

Right. Half-cap or whatever the fuck this is. Anyway, I don't know. But you want to talk about racism? So anyway, so they write in this thing, in this little memo, employees may be asked questions

by customers or hear media speculation about Howard's potential political intentions. We encourage you all to take a moment to review the talking points below with your partners, aka employees.

If a customer asks if we are selling Howard's book at Starbucks, you respond, no, the books are available at bookstores and online. You don't have to say where it's available. You can just say, no. But available in bookstores and online. Another question. If a customer attempts to investigate or share aggressive political opinions, attempt to diffuse the situation by sharing,

we respect everyone's opinion. Our goal is simply to create a warm and welcoming space where we can all gather as a community over great coffee. That would be really satisfying to hear as a response. But also, like, leave these people alone. They work for Starbucks. He's the former CEO, you know what I mean, and chairman. They're so separate.

And also, what the fuck does your barista have to do with this billionaire's wacky dream of being president that is not going to happen? Yeah. At the same time. Cut to 2021, and President Howard Schultz is taking the oath of office. Yeah. Never. There are historians who say that like the spread of cafes and coffee are like a big cause of the spread of ideas like alongside the printing press.

Oh, they're the salons of our time. Right. Exactly. The salons of our time. But they do not point to Starbucks. Like Starbucks just makes it shittier and, you know, makes everybody like puts all the independent ones out of business. And also his point when asked about, you know, do you know how to beat Donald Trump?

How will you deal with Donald Trump in an electoral atmosphere? His statement was that Donald Trump is not the litmus test of presidents. That's weird. Hmm. He is the president. Who you will be compared to. What the fuck is he talking about? To then.

He's who wins. He just has that glazed over, just, I'm doing this, guys. I've already decided it's happening. He hasn't talked to anyone except the same six people. Right, right. That's the look in his eye. It's like, okay, where are you compared to this thing? This is the litmus test to determine where you are.

Right. Well, I don't think litmus tests are the litmus test for. Yeah. We need to light up his Twitter. His whole thing of like running as an independent, like his logic of being an independent is he looks at being an independent as like, there's the left, there's the right. And right in the middle is what we call an independent centrist without actually considering what a person means. He's like, well, if I get every independent vote, then I'm good. Oh, he's assuming all, all people who are registered as

independent. Angus King is an independent Senator. He is not a centrist. Bernie Sanders is an independent. He's not a centrist. People who have crazy militias are independent, and they're not centrists either. There are centrist independents. There are also extremist people who are just like, I don't fuck with either of these parties because they're not to the left or to the right enough of where I am.

But he's assuming he gets all independents. Yeah, good for you. Independent woman. All right. Bet he is. We're's assuming he gets all independence. Yeah. Good for you. Independent woman. All right. That he is. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Just hearing you say that is so enjoyable for me. You love the game. Yeah. No, it's a great game that I was really looking forward to. No, I've just been seeing people talk shit about it or just seem disappointed by it on social media. And I thought it was a good excuse to talk about our most disappointing pop culture experience.

I think, yeah, I mean, some people like Kingdom Hearts 3. Yeah, no, it's getting good reviews. I've just seen a lot of people. There are a lot of, yeah, purist people who are just like,

what is this? Because what, it's fucking 14 years between games? Yeah, they've been waiting 14 years. How is it different? I mean,

I remember when one came out, that was like, oh, there's going to be all this crossover between Disney characters. Disney and Square Enix characters. So how is 3 disappointing?

I have no idea. Look, I never played because it wasn't violent enough for me as a kid when that came out. It was not Grand Theft Auto. No, sir. It wasn't. That would be amazing if it was with Disney characters. Well, I think we know what Kingdom of Hearts 4 needs to be. Right.

Kingdom Hearts. Not Kingdom of Hearts. Yeah. Right. Oh, I Not Kingdom of Hearts. Yeah. Oh, I'm so sorry to the otaku that are listening right now. But yes, what are other things we were disappointed by? Is that what you want to talk about? Right. Like Star Wars prequels is like the go-to answer.

Disappointing follow-ups? Yeah, disappointing follow-ups that like there's this video you can find on YouTube where they interviewed the people who were like waiting in line for the first Star Wars prequel. Oh no, the worst one. For like days and like you see them before and they're like, we can't wait.

It's gonna be amazing. It's gonna be better than the originals. And then they interview them coming out of the movie and like part of them has realized that they have been like fully let down but like their mind hasn't like caught up to that so they're like yeah it was it was better than we expected but like their eyes are like dead and they just look like so it wasn't for them it was for kids yeah i actually meant to menace out i was hyped on yeah you know what i mean darth maul was

tight we saw people using the foresaw like wild aggressive like I'm gonna lift this shit and throw it at you those were my favorite moments but yeah I think as a whole

the set of prequels was pretty yeah I would also add to that list of disappointing follow ups the band Aqua who did the

song Barbie Girl what are you gonna say about Aqua you remember Aquarium the 1997 album that Barbie Girl was on. Then they put up their follow-up album, Aquarius. Not good. Wait, when was it? 2000.

Three years later. I'm just talking personally of disappointing follow-ups. It's hard to come close to the perfection that was Barbie Girl. Anyway, I don't want to get state-focused. Well, you know, one follow-up that really delivered, I don't want to get state focused on that. Well, you know, one follow-up that really delivered, I think we can all agree, Mamma Mia 2.

Right. Yes, thank God. Yeah. And Dumb and Dumber 2. Dumb and Dumber-er. Dumb and Dumber-er. Yeah. Oh, well, that was a prequel, actually.

Oh, right. Different cast, yeah. They were all wildly disappointing. Right. Yeah, that's true. What else? Oh, I wrote here, the Enter the Matrix video game. I was really stoked for this Matrix video game to come out in 2003.

Yeah. Because it was promising to be like, you were fucking Neo. You could slow down time and shit and dodge everything and do all this. It was terrible. But you know what's great? The VR Matrix game. Really? Have you played that before?

Yeah. I mean, it's pretty simple. The visuals are maybe intentionally very minimal. But that is the next level of the Matrix. Because you're literally killing the guys and everything and picking up knives. What platform is it on? PlayStation? Oculus Rift.

Oh, it's on Oculus? Yes. Oh, see. I don't have a gaming PC. I did it at someone's house, and then my friend tore her meniscus playing it. Really? Yeah, because you totally lose sense of where you are. They're like, she fucked her, yeah.

So she fell on the couch and tore her meniscus. Yeah. What's another disappointment for you, Jack? I mean, Dark Knight Rises was, I feel like every Nolan movie for me, I just have such high expectations now after his, like, after Batman Begins, Dark Knight, and, like, the prestige that, like, Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar. I was both disappointed by both of those. Did you have high expectations for Interstellar?

I did. I always have high expectations for Christopher Nolan movies. The Ann Cotillard. Did you have high expectations for Interstellar? I did. I always have high expectations for Christopher Nolan movies. The math just didn't deliver. I feel like in Interstellar, like once you get towards the end and it's like, yeah, didn't you see?

It was another dimension where he was communicating to her and it's like, no. Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. I've never seen it. It's been out. Because I was so afraid

to be disappointed by it, I didn't even bother to go watch Interstellar. You would have been disappointed. I know never seen it. It's been out. Because I was so afraid to be disappointed by it, I didn't even bother to go watch it. You would have been disappointed. I know, because everyone was like, nah, I don't know. It was very weird, soft sci-fi science at the end. But yeah, Marianne Cotillard, her performance in Dark Knight Rises was particularly something else, where she's like, these are my last words, and I will die.

But also, that's on Nolan for being like, yeah, this is what I want. I have the worst most troll take on the Nolan Batmans. Oh no. They're bad. All of them? Good moments, but I think they take themselves too seriously. Well, that's what I was going to say about all of these actually. The Star Wars prequels have really good moments

and Dark Knight Rises has really cool moments every time Tom Hardy's on screen. It's just that like they don't like hang together. They don't live up to like the perfection that is, you know,

Dark Knight or Spider-Verse. Perfect movie. Right. Like it's just, it's hard to recapture that. I mean, Godfather 3. They say that's the best Godfather, right? Yeah. What? The best. 3. They say that's the best Godfather, right? Yeah.

What? No. But so many things need to go right for a movie or a piece of culture to be awesome. Right. Yeah. It's rare. You should never expect that to happen. Right.

You can't always get the magic of Mamma Mia 2. I get it. Just to sort of shift gears really quick, I do need to give an update on Ariana Grande's Japanese tattoo. Oh, shit. What's going on? She added more characters. Oh, she fixed it?

No, man. She fucked it up even more. Really? And I don't even want to talk about it. She also was weirdly defensive about it. She was like, well, whatever it means, I still think that's cool. Right, because she then added a character beneath it and now

it just says like barbecue finger so she just added finger because she needed the finger in front of the other character that is rings to like add some context yeah to modify that one but she put it below and if you read it

vertically it's a mess. Barbecue finger. Wait, she read it like she's reading it the wrong way? It's just an aggressive modification. If she really wanted to literally say seven rings, it has to say nanatsu no yubiwa. And she just added a character of finger amongst her. Because she had seven and ring, but together that's shichirin,

which is charcoal grill. She is so rich. Why did she not have the resources to fact check this? Every famous person needs to be assigned a tattoo advisor. Again, like when Marcella was on yesterday,

you just need to hire a real one. Someone who's going to keep it real. You don't hang out with them. They're just a person who's just a normal person who's going to just a real one. Right. Yeah. Someone who's going to keep it real. You don't hang out with them. They're just a person who's just a normal person who's going to just keep it real with you. Right. And be like, what do you think about this? Mm-mm. Right.

That's not it. You're Italian. Maybe don't get those characters. Yeah. That's pretty cliche. Hey, that's your karma, though. You know? Fuck around trying to be like, this is cool looking. Right.

And then now you look like an asshole. Can I just say something while we're on the topic? The tan is a little too much. Is Ariana Grande... You're saying she's beige facing? Yeah. Brown facing? Look, the amount of people I've talked to who are like, Ariana Grande is Latina, right?

It's not. She's Latina. I was that person for a while. Right. I remember I was like, no. At what point, especially this, what's her latest video? Seven Rings. The Seven Rings video, yeah.

Especially that one. You look at that and it's like, at what point does she cross the line? Right. Yeah. She's playing an interesting game. Yeah. Of browning up. She is.

I mean, that's the thing. That's why it's the weird weird it's diet blackface in a way you know when you just brown up and it's left and i think she's leaning into the latina space which is a little like more accepted to like appropriate latina aesthetics especially with like the hoops and the super tan, pronouncing her last name Grande. You're going to tell me she really in school was like, yeah, my last name's Grande. Her grandfather pronounced it Grandy. I feel like that wouldn't be quite as good.

Hey, Ariana Grandy. Right. Ariana. Right. I mean, you know, she's lost. I was definitely surprised when I found out she was just like a white girl from the... You did a spit take. Yeah, I did.

Of course you did. We had to replace the microphone. Have you seen her in Victorious? She was so pale. Oh, yeah. And just even the way she talks now. Even early on in her career. What do you mean?

Does she have an affect now? She has a little bit of that like... I don't really know. It's not that great. It's not that extreme. This is me. Her know. It's not it's not that it's not that extreme. This is me. Her Majesty. It's not that extreme.

Yo soy Ariana Grande. Yeah. She just she actually only speaks Spanish. Yeah right now. She's here in an interview. It's just crazy.

Gracias por tu apoyo for all my grande what are the fans called? Arianers? No way. The Arian race? I don't know what

the Arian master race is what they're called. That is what they No way. The Arian race? I don't know what I'm going to call it. The Arian master race is what they're called. That is what they're called, yeah. And then, yeah, just another update, right? Yeah, we have one more update. We were right. You were right, I believe.

I think it was, yeah, I think this was something Lacey and I both predicted in the 2019 predictions episode earlier this year. Cardi would get back with Offset.

No. And sources close to the couple tell us Cardi is returning to the, quote no and sources close to the couple tell us Cardi is returning to the quote the Atlanta home they shared before the breakup we're told this is the first time

she's been back since December and now you know what they say just to let you know they say that he proved himself

as a husband and now has a no groupies rule and has a phone that is only for communications with him, between him and Cardi and his business management. You should not need that much guidance. If you need that much, you're going to cheat.

Also, my prediction, he's going to cheat. Of course. Even if they said it, and now he's wearing iron underwear. Basically, that's what they're saying. He has a chastity belt. He has a no groupies rule. What does that even mean? That's very specific.

I won't fuck groupies. It's impossible. Specifically. I won't fuck groupies. I will fuck people who work at Chick-fil-A. Right. There's no way. I will fuck my-

I will fuck people who aren't that fond of me. Groupies, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. No groupies rule. She has been posting, though, when she was at the AVN Awards. Right. Those were directed at him she's been posting very sexy sexy pictures it's totally her right to do but i've just felt they were

she's just being like she was thirst trapping at him being like look at me this is what you're well look he's proven himself by saying i will get rid of my other cell phone i'll have a new number and no groupies rather than than, I'm so committed to you that I can tell you, I can give you my word as a man that I'm not interested in any other sexual partners. Even if I am around groupies, I don't, it's unnecessary.

He will be. The amount of situations he'll be in. I mean, that sounds like a lot. That sounds like, we're not trying to recreate the wheel here. You're right. Well, whatever makes her happy. She loves him.

As it states in the bylaw of my no groupies rule. But it puts all the responsibility not on him. Right. You know what I mean? It's not like I'm accepting that I'm a philanderer or whatever. He's like, okay, this is what I'm going to do. There'll be a no groupies rule. So they will not activate my desire for other women.

Yes. I will then use a cell phone because that was the issue. It was the cell phone, Cardi. It was the cell phone. And even though I embarrassed you when I came on stage and I was like, take me back. And you were feeling it. But it was the cell phone the whole time. I did it again. And they're going to be apart so much.

They're both on tour. She's definitely going to be on tour, right? I assume, even though she's got the baby. Yeah, I mean, I think she'll have to go back on the road at some point. All artists do when they have albums coming out. You know what they could maybe do? Like, just not. Just break up.

Just not. See, that's where you need a real one in the group to say, you don't need him. Right. Look what he did. Right. What's going on? He's like, I believe that he changed. But you don't need to be famous to make that mistake.

Yeah, shit. Everybody knows somebody in this situation. She should cheat. Right. I think it's time. Just fucking blow the cycle up. If you're listening to Daily Zeitgeist right now, which I assume you are. Always.

Cardi, is that you? Yeah, that's me. It's Belcalis. I'm inside. Just take this opportunity to cheat on him. You earned it. You earned it. See how he likes it.

See how he likes it. Exactly. Yo, I have a friend who is a cheater, okay? And I'm not going to put any other information about there. And then the person he's dating cheated lost his shit yeah and was unable and I was like yo you cheat too my man I feel like cheaters are oftentimes cheating out of insecurity right like well you know I have to have this counterweight because if they ever cheated it would kill me right and then that was the thing was like I

can't believe it I'm like right, this is a fucking mirror to you. Offset would be so mad. He'd be like, oh, she's such a slut. He would be like, Offset, I'm upset. Yeah, looking forward to that song though. All right. Well, hopefully it's warming up wherever you guys are. There's some amazing pictures of the cold.

We're thinking about you Midwest, the woman who put her hair upside down for a minute and came back in and it was standing straight up because it was frozen. The police uniform standing straight up because it was frozen. The frozen waterfalls in Chicago. And I think I saw a picture of a lake that was just like,

it was frozen in its place with waves on it and shit. Which I don't think I've ever seen yeah so shout out to you guys hopefully this weekend is uh warms up for you Anna it has been a pleasure having you

as always it's been a pleasure to be on guys I've had a lot of opinions about what we talked about it felt really cathartic to get them out

that's what this is about I'm glad everyone now knows to go back to Mama Mia 2 I think I think that is the one thing everybody learned from this episode to get him out. That's what this is about. I'm glad everyone now knows to go back to Mama Man 2. It's important. I think that is the one thing everybody learned from this episode. Where can people find you?

You can find me at Bad Comics by Anna, Comics with an X, Anna with two Ns, on Instagram and Twitter. I have a webcomic. Check it out. And on Twitter,

sometimes I get into some feuds with Edgar, who we've dubbed Eduardo Mumps. Just back me up. You know, I like to have people on hashtag team on it. Oh, yeah. On a gang. We're the on a gang. I'm the on a gang. I feel like you usually win those.

Yeah, people are weird. They'll be like, yeah, Edgar, that's stupid. Anyway, team Edgar. Yeah, that's stupid. Come in your shorts, man. Yeah. Hashtag team Edgar. Don't listen to her. Speaking, Team Edgar. Yeah, that's stupid. Come in your shorts, man. Yeah. Hashtag Team Edgar.

Don't listen to her. Speaking of clothing that can stand up on its own. Oh, yeah. Get some of those Frozen photos from Twitter and be like, Edgar, is this your police uniform? I've got it in trouble for outing some of those things. Like, you know, it's all in good fun, but I wish I had more stories for you, but I can't.

Keep it, you know, keep it democratic. Keep it diplomatic. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? There is this thread on Twitter of people getting, I hate to do this, Starbucks. Okay. And giving it to their dogs. Like the barista gives it straight to the dog and the dog gobbles it. And it's a whole thread.

It started with one of a dog gobbling drink from Starbucks. And then everyone started posting their own dogs gobbling Starbucks. And it's like, it's hundreds. It's hundreds. Is it coffee? I think it's whipped cream. Oh, got it, got it. I think it's whipped cream.

But it's hundreds of dogs eating, like being handed coffee or coffee cups and eating it and it's so cute. And I, you know, the internet has a lot of bad stuff. But that's the best thing on the internet right now. That's right. Shoals 2020. I'll post it so everyone can see it. I have it in my draft because I'm like, what's the caption? Have you seen Dogs Eating Spaghetti?

No. You gotta watch that. That shit's amazing. Why? Because they just like don't know how to manage the doodles? Yeah. They're like, I just really try. It's very funny. Idiots. Fucking stupid dogs. They probably can't even slurp.

Right. Have you seen Lady and the Tramp? Yeah. Like, please. Miles, we're good people. Find me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. A tweet I like actually reminded me of a tweet by past guest Miel Bordeaux. Miles, we're good people. Find me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. A tweet I like actually reminded me of a tweet by past guest Miel Brudeau,

who came on from Pump Up the Jam and many other things. She said, this is from July, but she says, we are getting two Mamma Mias and exactly zero Papa Pias, and that's how I know feminism is working. Yeah. So let them know, Miel. I love that tweet. Yeah. Hell yeah. Feminism. I love that tweet. Yeah.

Hell yeah. Feminism. I think that's been one of my featured tweets before. Oh, really? I was with you. Oh, yeah. Great. I went back into some old episodes. I enjoyed a tweet from Joe List at Joe List Comedy.

He tweeted, keep this between you and me. And then attributing that quote to me to 25 different people. Because you know that. Okay. You can find me on Twitter, Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com,

where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link to all the information we talked about today, as well as the song we write out on Miles. What's that again? Let's do a song by Kari Faux, a really great MC artist. This is a song called Lie to My Face because I just feel like we're dealing with a lot of that right now. People just lying to their faces.

Lying to our faces. Whether it's Offset, it's people in the Trump administration. There's just so many lies going around. So this is Cardo. Lie to my face. All right. We are going to ride out on that. We will be back on Monday.

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