The Daily Zeitgeist - Mueller Hands In Homework, Papa Shaq's Pizza 3.25.19

Episode Date: March 25, 2019

In episode 355, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and Nerdificent co-host Ify Nwadiwe to discuss Papa John being replaced by Shaq, Schraderbräu beer from Breaking Bad coming to life, the Mueller Report being submitted, the House Democrats trying to push out any progress in the party, Democrats wanting Joe Biden, Fox News losing ad revenue due to racist anchors, the Disney/Fox merger, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Neo-Nazis hijacked Papa John’s brand. Can Shaq take it back?2. Breaking Bad’s Schraderbräu beer is about to be real 3. Mueller Delivers Report on Trump-Russia Investigation to Attorney General4. House Democrats Move to Hobble Primary Challengers5. Obama donors prepare to power Biden’s campaign6. Without Major Sponsors, Tucker Carlson's Show Leans on Ads for Fox Programming7. As Layoffs Arrive, Disney and Fox Staff Voice Frustrations8. Hollywood Makes Way for the Disney-Fox Behemoth9. The Disney-Fox Deal Sails Through, a Bit Too Easily10. WATCH: Lizzo - Tempo (feat. Missy Elliott) [Official Audio] Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 75, episode one of The Daily Night Geist! Yeah. The podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Monday, March 25th, 2019. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jackie O'Boy. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray.

Are you all right? Yeah, man, my voice. Yo, I was out real late last night. Yeah, the Mueller report has everybody fucked up. Oh, dude, you know. Well, yes, it's Miles Gray, a.k.a. And I rant. I, dude, you know. Well, yes, it's Miles Gray, a.k.a. And I rant. I rant all side and day.

I couldn't miles of gray. You know that one. Flock of Seagulls. Flock of Seagulls. I didn't know that was a band. I remember in Tommy Boy, there's a thing where I think David Spade calls the person working at the ticket counter at the airport, Flock of Seagulls. Yeah.

I'm the same old Jackson. Oh, I know. That's what it is. Pulp Fiction. Yeah, it goes Flock of Seagulls. Where's the case counter at the airport Flock of Seagulls. Yeah. Samuel L. Jackson. Oh, wait, no. That's what it is. Pulp Fiction. Yeah, it goes Flock of Seagulls. Where's the case at? You, Flock of Seagulls. Anyway, yes, that was AKA brought to you by at Soltis Hanna.

Hanna lies dad. No, the one by your knee. The one by your knees. Anyways, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the very faces on Mount Zeitmar. He is the host of the Nerdificent Podcast with Danny Fernandez. He is Mr. Ify Wadiwai. A.K.A.

Lifty Lottaweights. Thanks to TJ Scott Comedy. He sent this all the way back last year, September. And that's how long I think it's been besides the live show. Yeah, because I've been in this room making these bucks, but I'm back. I'm broke. Subscribe to me on Twitch. We're almost at 100 subs.

Please, take me on. And his rig is not a game. Yeah, it's not a game. Even though he's playing games. I've been getting mad claps in Apex Legends. Ooh. Yeah, ooh, we'll talk about that. That'll be my gamer update.

Okay, all right. But I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm I'm ready. I got a you know, what do you want first? One the over. Oh, wow. Myths. Yeah.

I mean, I'm in the zone. Well, let's not forget Super Producer Anna did rush us before we started. She did. So I've got somewhere to go. I have to. Yeah, it was great. Thanks for joining us. She's going to have like a bris for her dog or something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's what it is. Well, we're going to find you, man. She's going to have like a bris for her dog or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's what it is. Well, we're going to get to know you a little bit better. Check in with your gaming lifestyle. Yeah. In a moment, first we're going to tell our listeners just a couple of things we're talking about today. All the important information you want to know about Papa John's. They are out here finding new people to front their organization. We're going to talk about some Breaking Bad-inspired beer.

Mueller turned in his paper. Whatever. We're going to explain what that means. We're going to throw to Miles Gray, who has an update on the Mueller report. We just don't know. Okay. We're going to talk about why the democratic congressional campaign committee can go fuck itself uh how fox's racist anchor policy is working out for them all of that and much more but first if you what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are oh okay i forgot about that question

i'm gonna just i'm gonna i'm gonna get buck wild i'm gonna just pull it up and see what what i searched recently so in my search history let me see oh i'm going on chrome so it's about to get real uh spicy yeah oh it's it's basically uh actually that's a it's a perfect it's uh that rebel ice cream uh me and uh me and anna were both keto oh right in the keto clan you know uh and uh yeah we found it like because they're so how do i start i feel like most people know what keto is but as a refresher if you don't know it's a high fat low carb diet You know, medium to high protein if you're like me, getting it in. And it's been known to shred pounds, mostly because what you're doing is a scientifically proven plan, unlike many other diet plans, where you're taking out the carbs, burning the glycogens in your liver so that your body now has to burn fat for energy. And since it's burning fat, you're just a fat burning factory there you go and you get shredded up and your

crotch stinks yeah and your crotch stinks anna did confirm that too super producer anna i i saw the articles a lot of people like bill man this keto crotch is not a game yeah yeah you know wife hasn't complained yet but you know uh you know i've always been dirty just just dirty but but the thing about it is all a lot of these keto creations like the how they get you is it's always like something dope for a reasonable price and And then they're like, oh, but to ship it is going to be a lot. So they for for this one that me and Anna ordered, it was like, look, if you get like a few of them, it's going to be it was like 17 bucks shipping. But if you buy like a case of eight, you get like three ninety nine shipping. So I was like, oh, wait, I know another keto warrior I'm about to see today.

Let's just go half. And we uh right before this episode divvying up the ice cream and it was very fun nice and this is and you're feeling optimistic about this ice cream oh yeah i i feel because i looked at the ingredients and it's using like real cream and stuff so it's because you can make keto ice cream it's just the way that ice cream typically is mass-produced uses a lot of just the regular milk that has a lot of sugar but if you just swap the sugar with erythritol which is a natural occurring sweetener okay you get keto ice cream so you can get it because that's the thing where everyone's always like i can't do keto but it's actually very easy because it the like you're just eating cheeseburgers without

the buns yeah and also wing stop yeah yeah still keto oh my god i jam think about that yeah that's when i was like oh maybe i could do it yeah and i'm like jam think about that yeah that's when i was like oh maybe i could do it yeah and i'm like i like fries too yeah that's the thing is that that's the first thing i'll go back when i take a break is i'm just jamming on some fries i really don't bread is like it's cool with me it's helped me find like which burger spots really are as good as they claim they are right because a lot of burger spots i've found riding on the bun riding on the bun i feel like that's a big shake shack thing is the bun the bun that they use at shake shack is what kind of makes it slap and for the price you're gonna need more than that the in and out you go get a three by

three no bun yeah protein style oh still slap just make sure you don't eat it on don't be wearing a nice outfit oh my god i've found that out i've forgotten three times because i've because you know i'm always eating and driving yeah and it'll just drip through and i was like this ain't the type of drip i was trying to do today you know yeah man i would eat it in not burger a lot if i didn't eat french fries yeah um what is something you think is underrated underrated uh just to kind of you of live in the season right now. Brackets about other things. Oh, okay. That is my favorite thing to do around this time because it's around the final four.

Everyone makes brackets. I just did a cereal bracket. Bleacher Report put out a trash cereal bracket. Their seating was trash. The cereals they chose were trash, but I still played out their bracket, and it seemed like everyone agreed with me. Oh, how many cereals did they start with? 64? Oh, my gosh. Are you ready to hear this bracket? Look, I it seemed like everyone agreed with me. Oh, how many cereals did they start with? 64? Oh, my gosh.

Are you ready to hear this bracket? Look, I'll try and do it super quick. Just tell me the top 15. Top 15. It's... Hyper speed. It's super trad. Okay, let me just pull it up real quick.

Is it an Elite 8, or is it... No, it's the best cereal bracket. Number one seed on the left side is Lucky Charms. Number two is Honey Nut Cheerios. Number two is Honey Nut Cheerios. Number two is Honey Nut Cheerios. Honey Nut Cheerios is pretty good. I mean, nobody can say no to the... And then the snub, number three, is Cinnamon Toast Crunch,

which is a one seed cereal. Four is Apple Jacks. So that's on the left side. On the right side, number one is Frosted Flakes. I can rock with that. Number two, Captain Crunch. Regular Captain Crunch. What are you smoking?

Number three. You need some Crunch Berries. Is that what you're saying? This is going to be divisive, but I'm thinking it's too high. Honey Smacks. Whoa. Yep, I knew it. I knew it.

Some people rock for Honey Smacks. For me, it's not a number three seed. I love fucking Honey Smacks. Number four is Cocoa not a number three seed. I love fucking Honey Smacks. Number four is Cocoa Puffs. But pretty much I had Fruity Pebbles take it. Because Fruity Pebbles was a sixth seed, and it beat out Honey Smacks for me. So that's already going to be. Right.

There's just not enough separation in the world of cereals for it to be analogous to the NCAA tournament. I mean, yeah, because if you have Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Puffs, you can't have Cocoa Krispies. Also, Rice Krispies treats needs to be in there. Yeah, dude. Krispies treats cereal needs to be in there. And I would even opt for Kix as a 12 seed. Like the 8 seed, which is the equivalent of a 16 seed,

they did make that intentionally shitty because it's Wheaties and Rice Krispies. Yeah, right. Just straight Rice Krispies. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, that's what we're looking out for. Yeah, that's terrible, man. Yeah, SB Nation.

I said Bleacher Report first, but that was SB Nation. Yeah, SB Nation. And also very lazy. Like, you couldn't come up with 64 cereals? Sorry, this is what I used to do for a living. So I'm like, come on, guys. I invented the listicle. You're right.

There's so many snubbed serials that you could have come up with 64. That's just so random. Also, man, pay your graphics intern a little bit more. That's right. We'll have to feed the graphics on that. Lame. What is something you think is overrated?

Oh, man. Overrated right now is just, I think, game streaming. You know, everyone's real hyped of this Stasia that Google just announced. Oh, Stadia, yeah, right. Stadia. And then now Xbox. Stasia, I think, is the German secret police.

And then also, like, the Xbox One is about to release with a disc-less version that only downloads. And, you know, at first I was like, all right, calm down, guys, because people were getting mad about games going digital. But I'm cool with games going digital as long as you do have the physical copies you can get. Because there is something to, like, all right, what happens if, you know, Y2K happens? Like, all right, what happens if, you know, Y2K happens? Or what happens if, like, think of right now how many Atari games you can play, how many Genesis games. Like, if your company that you're buying game for go under, they're not going to keep those servers up. So you're just out of all those games that you spent real money on.

So I am on team, like, no, don't you dare go full digital. Give me my physical copy because who knows how long you want to keep these servers. Yeah. It's funny because I was able to let go of like DVDs because everything's gone digital. But there's still something about looking at a rack full of games that still sparks my childhood pride of like, look at all these games I got. Yeah, because that's young Miles like, yeah, we did that. Yeah, because I remember as a kid, I'm i only have fucking mario paint yeah super nintendo i was playing a whole bunch of playstation underground demos yeah right exactly not spinning yeah like or you stealing from the newsstand just like rip out the demo disc

that's i played metal gear solid the first time but yeah um yeah i see how that goes i feel the same way with music because that's why i buy stuff on vinyl because I'm like, if we really wipe out electricity, I can like hand crank this little J Dilla rough draft LP and listen to the vibrations on the needle and still get my little intro. And there's something there's nothing like, you know, because at first I was real shooketh because the Amoeba is closing down. But they've confirmed that they're moving to another place where they're going to sell weed on site. And I was like, oh, that's better than this oh wow yeah they just announced and i was like i can't imagine how many baked out people are just going to be going through records all day yeah not buying shit that might actually be counterintuitive for their business plan like high people record shopping i mean i would probably forget what i was looking for yeah i'm not good

high shopping yeah no no no, not at all. It's impossible to make a decision. Yeah, and you lose your, like, focus. Yeah, don't they, like, give you stimulants at used car lots to try and get you, like, they give you, like, coffee. Coffee, yeah. Because then you're, like, more likely to be like, fuck it, man, let's do it. I mean, I don't know.

Yeah, I would just offer them a hit of whatever drug they wanted. Right. Like, hey, what does it take to get you in this Dodge Ram? Yeah. It's just like. Yeah, because you're just sitting up there just thinking of all drug they wanted. You're like, hey, what does it take to get to this Dodge Ram? It's just like... Yeah, because you're just sitting up there just thinking of all the hypotheticals. You're like, man, if I get this Charger, man, yeah, I'm going to be dipping in everything.

But what if I have a kid, man? I ain't trying to roll around in a van. Baby seat and my gaming PC. Good Kid, Mad City, that cover was tight with the van. I might just go with the van or something. Oh, no, my wife sent me here to get a car. I like the idea of someone who uses the Good Kid, Mad City album cover to be like, you know what?

I'll fuck with the van. It's time to get over here. That was it. I mean, that van was very useful to his family. Yeah. Everybody was wanting it, you know? Man, I could keep going on the van thing. It sounds like you had like another hour of van material.

Oh yeah. Vans, if you throw them, they land on their bottoms. I could keep going on the van thing. It sounds like you had like another hour of van material. Oh yeah. No, I definitely, if you throw them, they land on their bottoms. Well, that's my pitch for the next house stuff comedy podcast is high, high van talk,

you know, get people high. And we just show a van to all our guests. What'd you think, man? Oh, that shit hard, man.

Yeah. Every week you go to use car a lot. See if you can test drive a van, just hot box it. And then just talk, record from inside this van. And then just like use all the, wow, that's a good show. Brought to you by Carfax. What is a myth?

What's something people think is true you know to be false? Oh, man. For me, and I think it's just been just with the movies and the nerdverse right now, the idea in the saying diversity for the sake of diversity like that is a period point blank myth there's no such thing as diversity for the sake of diversity because the world is diverse so if you create a diverse world you're just only grounding your world in realness when you all these shows that take place in new york and are full of white people it's like what is this only taking place in manhattan because you know Spider-Man, when it's supposed to be in the Bronx, I saw no Caesars, no Dominicans, no bodegas.

Not until the new one. The new one, then I was like, that looks like New York. Were people wearing Timbs, at least? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they were wearing a Tim, but they were cut like Birkenstocks. Right, or the Colorado brand boots. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Toby Bukhara had Birkenstock Timbs.

That's a really good point i mean yeah it's more like white supremacy for the sake of white supremacy because like all the when you go back and look at movies like from past eras and everybody is white and it's just like first of all that's unrealistic second of all that is not good for the bottom line like now people as you can see like by making your movies more diverse more people want to go see that yeah third of all like there's so many reasons who's been shouting this on podcasts but i guess some people use that diversity for diversity's sake as when people so clearly are just sort of like empty-headedly just diversifying not to say that

it's bad yeah but there are some people who just feel like without actually understanding the importance of diversity just trying to do it because it's like well i guess i gotta do this well i feel like there's two fatal flaws when people are introducing diversity if you're just going to make it diverse to make it diverse cool but don't like write a back pat in there a lot of a lot of people want like back pats for diversifying so it's like no you just wrote a well-grounded story and i think another thing is like making a diverse character and not really thinking about i like like it's not even like you know because we talked about this on nerdificent and like i had like you know a couple of like writers was like i'm a white guy and like you know i want to be diverse but i don't want

it it's like no you can you can write person of color characters uh you know minority characters but you do have to take into consideration how the world is is different for them like don't write a story where something happens in the hood and they're calling the cops because that just won't happen that's not a thing we do like right and and just like i'm a white character from 80 yeah and and don't only go to bet or well bet is getting better so i'm not going to drag but don't don't go to the shade room comments for how for black dialogue like you know just know that black people aren't a monolith you have like black nerds and you have, you just have relationships. And I, and I'm going to just say it here. Like I said,

on Nerdificent, if ever in doubt, send your script to a person of color friend and see what they say. Like if you have black people in it and you're like, I don't know if this sounds corny, not send it to a black friend. And if you ain't got black friends, uh,

send it to me. I'm a roast you first. And then I'll tell you, uh, get some black friends, uh, go to your local basketball court. Oh, shit.

No. God damn. And he dismantled his own record. I know. Go to – you can find – it's so funny because there was this idea. I remember I set this statement a few years back. I was like, get a black friend. He was like, so we should just get friends because they're black?

And I was like, yeah, just don't tell them that like you know like like really you should expand your world of experience because yeah there's nothing like talking like i like one thing i like doing is surrounding myself with queer folk and black women because they view the world differently and talking to them about issues to it gives me a whole different perspective and you know i'm not going up to them like, hey, I'm looking for a gay buddy. Can we flick it up one time? Hashtag ally. Yeah, we're going to find, like, some common ground

and where, you know, and if we connect, we connect. But I do think, like, don't be afraid to use the word that I'd say is a myth. Don't be afraid to diversify your friends for the sake of diversity. Like, it's always good. You'll be surprised how many good conversations you have. don't like come out the gate with these hard combos though definitely like build up the friendship first but when you do get to that point where you can

have someone like i love a situation where i feel a certain way and i feel like it might be like you know it'd be good to have a different perspective on it yeah yeah totally all right speaking of a different perspective papa john's has replaced papa john himself papa john shnattery or shattery or whatever whatever the fuck his name is uh are you okay how's your voice my voice i will say yeah that uh i'm advocating for the listeners who listen to you every day and go that zeitgeist was mad scuffed but you I was going to let you finish it. Were you screaming at us last night? Yeah.

No, I have a cold. Oh, okay. Shit. All right, if you want to go over here. Yeah, I want to go over here. It's not anything cool. My two-year-old sneezed into my mouth. Oh, man.

You just tell people you ate a bunch of ass. That's a lot cooler. Much cooler. Ate a bunch of ass in my throat. In my throat. You know that ass, man. Sound like Miles Davis. Yeah, that's why Miles Davis.

Yeah, motherfucker. I don't count eating a bunch of ass. I'm sorry, but yes, Papa John. Papa John has replaced John Papa himself with Shaq. Shaquille O'Neal. Yes. Before you finish that, I was just going to be, because I didn't know this was coming, I was going to be like, you should replace it with a black guy.

Well, they did. I guess you did it, Papa John. He's rolling in his grave. Great PR move, replace the racist white guy with a lovable, gigantic black dude. Yeah. And, you know, NBA Hall of Famer. You want some pizza?

But he's, so he's not, he's what, just like a brand ambassador? Right. He's going to be a brand ambassador. Oh, and also joining the board of directors. Yeah. Okay. So, like, it's kind of, it's more than just, like, he's in one of our commercials. Right, right, right.

Yeah. They put him in the company. Yeah. Hey, man, it's too much. Y''s in one of our commercials. Right, right, right. Yeah, they put him in the company. Hey, man, it's too much. Y'all doing too much with these. So the first thing I want to bring up is your door's too small. I keep coming in with a bubble gum. Pizza's too sweet. Pizza's too sweet.

I think that's what I hope. I mean, look. That's what's next. They've solved their PR problem. Are they going to solve their pizza problem? Shit's too sweet. Yeah. The sauce is too sweet.

With me, I'm always dunking it in that garlic sauce. One thing I will always give them. Hence Shaq. Yeah. That garlic sauce is slaps. And that's why it hurt to have this trash dude in charge. Because I was like, that's the one thing y'all got right. Well, I'm back.

Now you can get down with Bobby Johns. Go ahead and smash Shaq. Jack is wildly speculating about Shaq's health, though, too. I just worry about his health. I don't know, man. He's big. He's doing now, too? What's that all about?

He's doing dubstep, dude. I love Shaq Diesel, the DJ. But yeah, I mean, what did we say? You said in 2004 he was what? He was 370, I think they said. Oh, my God. 340. So, yeah.

I mean, players don't necessarily tell the truth on that publicly available information. And the dude has blown up since then. So, I'm just saying, you got to watch out for your health, man. Yeah, please don't do an Andre the Giant on us. Yeah, exactly. Please don't do Andre the Giant on us. Yeah, exactly. But at least he chose to go with the pizza brand that has a candy bar's worth of sugar in each piece. Yeah, but it's got that sauce.

That's the one thing again. Also good for your health. Yeah, that's just like margarine with garlic flavor. I didn't really know what the story was about, Miles. So Breaking Bad is making one of the beers. I don't remember this beer. Okay, so every time I would watch Breaking Bad in a blunt-induced haze, I would always fantasize about eating a three-piece dark meat combo from Los Pollos Hermanos

and washing it down with a Schrader Brow, which was Hank. Remember, if you remember, towards the latter seasons, Hank was starting to make his own homebrew beer. Okay. In his garage. Yeah, exactly. And that's when I, yes, in his garage. So now God has proven that he is real because it has been announced, like,

Sony has given the okay along with the dude, whatever, Norris, the dude who played Hank in the show. They are partnering with California Brewery, Figaro Mountain Brewing Company, to bring legit Schrader brow to life. And it's, quote, brewed to silky perfection in 22-ounce bottles

with a healthy 6.3% ABV. Coming in May. Dean Norris, that's his name. Yeah. So, yeah. I remember the scenes where he was trying to put the caps on his own beer

and do all that stuff. So, you know, I like when anything from a movie or TV show becomes a real product. Oh, yeah. I'm still trying to put the caps on his own beer and do all that stuff. I like when anything from a movie or TV show becomes a real product. I'm still trying to buy that Nokia Matrix phone. I really want that. I think it was supposed to come out by now. Yeah.

6.3 is the healthiest ABV, right? It's very healthy. I don't know what the hell they mean by healthy. I guess because it's a little higher octane. It gets you a little buzzed on. What are some it's, you know, a little higher octane. Get your little buzz going. What are some other like movie things you think you'd want?

Well, like first of all, the Air Mags from Back to the Future. I mean, those exist, but they're dead expensive. Yeah.

I mean, that's a shoe that like, I was like, and then they're low key trying to roll them out, but the looks are not popping. I'm like, and the price is not popping. I'm like, and the price is not popping. I'm like, wait until it's cheap.

Like, we don't have to rush this. The Marty McFly sneaker. I always wanted a Turtle Com from Ninja Turtles. It was like their communicator device they had. It was like a half shell, but that never came out. Kit from Knight Rider? Yeah, Kit from Knight Rider would be cool. I'm ready to go full minority port and have

computers in my head oh i'm totally ready to just what was that drug clarity yeah yeah i would do some wild hits of clarity operating system like the way that he scrolled through shit oh yeah with like the gestures that was like my prediction i was like that's what's gonna be happening with the ipad is that how you're going to like scroll through it. And I was wrong. You're like using it way all wrong. What's with the wild hand gestures? My thing though is like,

it's only like, I feel like on the forefront of new technology, the smut comes way too quick. Like people are going to be weird with the minority report technology. There's going to be a guy mouth agape sitting on the sidewalk and you already know what's going on you're like oh come on man right out here yeah right i think also good burger i would like

to have a good burger oh yeah you can i can't no from good burger home of the good burger man take your order i can hook you up with a mondo burger oh there's a place called monster burger in crenshaw and their burger patties are so thick that it's like crazy. I was like, oh, this is what a Mondo burger would be. Do a background check before you get it? Ooh, I put it next to my DS stacked up and it was taller than that. I was like, this is too much. I might die. Here it is.

Oh, no. It takes like a good like 30 minutes or so for them to cook it. That put a couple inches on your biceps. Speaking of flock of seagulls, Big Kahuna Burger always looked good to me. Oh yeah, that's that Hawaiian burger joint. Yeah, that's right. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We will be right back.

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And we're back. And Mueller, Robert Mueller, has turned in his paper. James Bond, Bond, James Bond. The world was on the edge of its seat. Bond, James Bond. The world was on the edge of its seat. And so as we record this, guys, the attorney general has just received the report. He is reviewing it. He has said that he thinks he will probably give the main conclusions over to Congress

this weekend. But yeah, as of right now, the main thing that this has caused is for everybody on CNN and Fox News to repeatedly say various versions of the phrase, we just don't know. We just don't know. Yeah. And no one's known because we only know as much as we can from court documents from certain people being indicted right and even then everyone was like but you know we don't know what robert muller knows right but it seems like at the very least right you know even though i'm sure many things have developed since we've recorded this but what we can say definitively is that his probe is basically over his probe is over trump's kids

were not indicted kushner was not indicted When it comes to Like Mueller based Russia stuff Q probably was not right Because the Obamas And the Clintons Never got arrested by Mueller And a shirtless ripped Donald Trump

But Jack I have to just stress We just don't know We just don't know And We just don't know. And that's the one thing, despite all of this, you know, knowing, I know a lot of people maybe thought, is there something with Julian Assange left to talk about? Are there other threads that we don't know about Donald Trump Jr.? But again, we just don't know. And it's amazing how these news channels are filling up hours and hours of coverage at this time of being like,

oh my God, we have the report. It could mean this, it could mean this, doing like all kinds of different permutations of what could happen or what this probe could look like or what the report could look like, and then undercutting it all by ending it with, but again, I just have to stress, we just don't know. Yeah. I mean, so the thing, a couple of the things that people have talked about that, you know, this could mean basically that, you know, the fact that there aren't more indictments doesn't necessarily mean Trump is not implicated by the report because Mueller has said, wouldn't indict a sitting president, or at least that was the— He would respect the guidelines. Yeah, he would respect the guidelines, which said not to indict a sitting president. But we just don't know. We just don't know.

I mean, who knows? Cut to Wednesday morning, is the president being marched out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with handcuffs on? Being marched out? We just don't know. Almost definitely, though. You know, there are so many things we don't know like that. What was really going on with Julian Assange? Was he really, you know, like what was going on with him and Roger Stone?

Is weed smoke affecting my ED? Why did my dad choose March 7th to tell me about him and my mother splitting up? We just don't know. All things we will find out this weekend though. So, yeah. So I guess we'll just leave it there. There's nothing juicy. And I think like everything, like we've said on this show too, we're never counting on

this to be the thing that will save us because we're already living in an environment where half the country believes one set of things and the other believes another. So even if this was the most damning thing would that move the republicans and the senator of the house to actually do anything about it we just don't know i feel like we know oh yeah we know it wouldn't have done i feel like even at this point in his presidency no matter what it could be damning or whatever it's just going to be that well his term's almost over so we'll just see what happens at the election and then hope that people forget. Yeah.

But we just don't know. Right. I guess we should move on to things we don't know. His first term, I should say. Yeah. So what do we know about the Democratic congressional campaign committee? Yo, they can eat their own ass. Ooh.

Fully. That's amazing. Put me on wax, okay, DCCC? I'm listening. The DTRIP, which is shorthand for them. Look, they are a very important resource for anyone who is running for office as a Democrat because they're the committee on behalf of Congress. They help funnel resources and manpower to campaigns, connecting them with consultants, with people who help with strategy or polling or TV, anything. anything anything right and they're also the same idiots who seem to want to prevent any progress in the democratic party because they've just announced new guidelines that basically blacklists

any consultants or firms from working with uh someone who's going to primary and incumbent so they want to basically do away they don't like the aoc ayanna presley's of the world who came in came in with a more progressive agenda and out goes the centrist and they're like oh they're basically trying to get control back so this is from i think the national journal says the new protocol intentionally debuted early in the off year before most campaign hiring begins presents a stark financial deterrent to the country's top firms that provide essential services, and it could cripple would-be primary opponents' ability to entice top talent to join their staff. And so it goes on, the DCCC is often the gatekeeper for consultants and candidates, and unless

you have a steady stream of income coming from another source, it would be very difficult to navigate the house world if you were shut out by the DCCC. So, yeah, essentially they're saying like, look, we were down with business as usual. We're OK with protecting tired ass incumbents who are just like just want to be just left of Republicans and like let it rock like that. Because I think they saw I don't know. and like let it rock like that because I think they saw, I don't know, clearly this is a message I think to progressives that they do not like the energy that we're generating. I mean what's dumb about it and I think is initially going to fuck them in the end is all they're doing is alienating the new core.

We're finding out every day that more and more the younger Democrats are more progressive. So if you want to go ahead and alienate that and then see what happens when y'all get passed up and then just fossilize and get left in the dust, just know that's your own unmaking. But that's par for the course for the DTRIP because every problem we've had so far has been their own unmaking, their soft approach to going up against the, just basically like, you know, that's the only thing i think trump supporters really got right is they have been cucking the democrats for this long they literally we they they do some wild shit we never want to call it out we never want to really make them face the facts of their words we walk around the bush we still try and be respectful and you know as dope

as that speech uh goes you know when they go low go high. That's just not how it works because it's always been working against us. And instead of trying to find new ideas, new ways to do it, they're just hoping to wait their turn. And it just kind of goes to show you, they've kind of revealed this in things that they said in the way that they've been mad at, you know,

AOC and all these other progressives because, because they had the next spot in line. And that's not how politics work, bro. It's not like just some private sector. Yeah. It's how it's been working. And now we see why, and I'm glad we're starting to just rip it apart. So go ahead, keep doing you. But that's the problem is though, if all the machinery of the establishment of the democratic party is working against progress, eventually, is there going to have to be a third party or something? Because that's the thing. There is clearly so much energy for progressive Democrats

that it's scaring all these traditional donors and the status quo. But like you said, it's going to be of their own making. And it seemed like the Democrats were starting to figure out like what was good, like what good messaging was with the way the house, you know, flipped in the midterms. It's like, oh, okay, this seems to be good. We have some progressives out here who are like really energizing districts. They're flipping seats. But then they don't like the people who are so down with progress who are like, we also need to take the numbers of people who are standing in the way of helping working people and doing all these other things, not doing things in service of the financial industry or whatever, where most of the money, a lot

of the money comes from the Democratic Party. But they're hurting the Democratic Party in the interest of strengthening their own, like the DCCC's strength. Yeah, the establishment. Yeah, they're just circling the wagons to their own detriment and they're not realizing where all the energy is right now. Right. It's like they think they're the ones generating the power

rather than they're the ones reacting to people. Right. So this almost suggests that they think what happened is AOC was a candidate who used the system without their knowledge and they just had to clamp it down because it's not a movement to the left of the people. It's just something that accidentally happened that they just need to clamp down. Yeah, they're like, oh, how'd that one get in? Right. It's just such an ass-backwards way of viewing politics. But it makes sense that they view it that way.

It's just not a good thing for, I think, anybody who's progressive. Yeah, and I think it also just underlines sort of where the leadership is, or at least where the traditional leadership is of the party, they're not really interested in actual progress, too. Because there's a report in Politico about all the top donors and the traditional elites of the party are like, they're all in for Joe Biden. And that's another example of ignoring the groundswell of support for progressive causes and issues and basically

saying, oh, can we take can we just take it down a notch? Let's give people the sort of mirage of progress and see if we can win that way. Because when you look at like so in Politico, they were talking to some of like, you know, the traditional big donors for the party and trying to get a temperature of like, oh, who are you interested in? Right. And it's always like, again, just a few quotes from this article.

Everyone is basically saying Biden, quote, his great strength is he's regarded as a very strong candidate to defeat Donald Trump and unite the party in the country. His great strength is he's regarded as a strong candidate? Exactly.

So it's just a self-fulfilling thing. It's just horse race bullshit. Yeah, they're like, a lot of it is like this thing of, oh, he's the guy who can beat Trump. And also he's the safest person in terms of not like just flipping Wall Street on its head or taking care of like real issues that are going to affect people in these certain businesses. capitalist Steve Wesley and former state controller of this state, California, also said another one that Biden is, quote, the best qualified and has the stature and experience to win the race. Uh-huh.

The stature being the height? I don't know. Or the he's not a woman? Right. I don't know. I think that's what that means. But he has the most foreign policy experience. And he's served in the executive.

Sure. You can get, of course, of all those things. Yes, that's all verifiable. foreign policy experience. And he served in the executive. Sure. Of course. Of all those things, yes. That's all verifiable. Are his ideas stale as fuck? Yes. Does he have like fucked views on things from the past that he really needs to explain?

Yes. Right. But again, I think they just see like, look, we did good with Obama. Why can't we just get the same sort of just the same thing? But it's like democrats are allergic to the actual like the movement the energy of of that like actually drives politics right like yeah i feel like if the trumpism thing happened to the democrats and like there was a like base that was rising up the democrats would for the better of the country

have like squashed that or found a way to knock it down it's just that when it's a progressive upswell of you know people energy and people like wanting to do something good for the country they still want to knock it down right and to a certain extent you can argue that's sort of what happened with bernie sanders too in the run- up for the nomination, because that was someone who was a threat to a lot of these sort of business interests that are typical top donors. Another person, Denise Bauer. This woman's interesting because she became the ambassador to Belgium after raising more than four million dollars for Obama's campaigns. So this is someone who is like just in the machinery you know what i mean right and going oh i've been encouraging vice president biden to run i think the country needs him and if he gets in i will be with him and when they they talked to a few other

people like another guy who like ran some mortgage bank who had to deal with a lot of fines for predatory lending was like i love joe biden it's like, oh, there it is. And even the people who are like not in this line, I mean, the ones who have gone rogue, they're back in wacky candidates like Beto or Mayor Pete or Jay Inslee. But basically, no one who is a woman or someone who has a very strong like economic equality agenda. Right. someone who has a very strong like uh economic equality agenda right uh and and i think that shows you where like the toward the traditional democratic power structure like where what they're trying to maintain and trying to figure out like if this is going to work with the base what isn't

well what's going to suck is it's i hate to call it this early but biden is going to win he because he already has the d trip back at him. And then also I do think there's going to be that element of like, that was the guy who was smiling behind Obama. And I think that's going to go, that's going to go a lot harder than we think it is. Like, I'd love to have more faith in people being as, you know, selective and, and, you know,

as paying a close attention to the candidates, but I think it's all going to come down to like, this is the dude associated with the guy. Yeah. I mean, everyone, like you said, yeah,

the DNC, everyone is basically saying this is the safest choice. Right. I feel like in the, in the, they're using the poll numbers to give them a warm feeling in bed at night, but that's where I hope these debates people turn up because if a few

people, you know, if he gets pressed on that debate stage in the wrong way, things can change very quickly. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So we will see. We just don't know, you know.

We just don't know. And I really want to stress that. Yes. Just don't know what will happen. But that would be a good podcast. We just don't know. It's just 40 minutes of cool ideas. But then at the end being like, but that doesn't matter because we just don't know. It's just 40 minutes of cool ideas, but then at the end being like, but that doesn't

matter because we just don't know. So the Fox News problem with advertisers has continued. Jeanine Pirro has continued to be suspended after her string of Islamophobic comments that lost her a significant number of advertisers. Tucker Carlson's advertising money has been on a downward spiral, basically, since his Dirty Immigrants comment and Media Matters clips didn't help. Yeah. And yeah, they don't have that many advertisers left. Yo, it's really bad.

They're saying since december when he said you know and immigrants are just dirtier and they bring disease that thing from then until about like last week he's lost 26 major advertisers and they're losing more by the minute and basically right now fox is just replacing commercials like that would have been ad space that people would have paid for with just their own in-house advertising. So it's tough because having a primetime news show that is like has a lot of like the top, I think, right. He's like one of the top primetime news shows. I think he is the top or the second behind hand. Right. That is, that is real money being lost on ad dollars. And if you're just replacing that

with your own internal advertising, that's a lot of money. And I think many people are not speculating or just sort of pointing to the fact that if there's a really pronounced extended boycott of his show, Fox is really going to have to do some thinking around that. Because they cannot just be like, okay, free space.

Just eat that. And you can keep rocking in the free world. Yeah, that shit actually works i mean it was public pressure that got them to fire bill o'reilly it's been public pressure that's gotten a lot of right-wing organizations to finally admit to fuckery yeah and if you think about look at the people that are still rocking with the human ingrown hair known as Tucker Carlson, it's MyPillow, MyPhoto, Reputation Defender, some gutter protection thing called Leaf Filter, that like Pods Storage Company, and Purple Mattresses. Purple Mattresses, what the fuck y'all doing?

Do better. And some other thing called Zona Plus, like a health device. But yeah, that's it. Yeah. We got to that's it. Yeah. We got to get those people. We got to let those companies know. Dude, the MyPillow guy is not going anywhere. He loves Trump.

Oh, yeah. He's all about it. I can't wait for that company to go under. I'm sure it's backed by daddy's millions. But sooner or later, the pillow manufacturing. I mean, that and probably the, you know, you have those like right wing boys probably buying up all the MyPillows they can to support this guy. What is it on MyPillow that makes it different than a fucking pillow? I've never. Also, I have shitty pillows, man.

Because it calls me the N-word when I sleep on it. MyPillow is just a bunch of, I just ball up a bunch of towels. Yeah, that's not good. That's my pillow. Yeah, and then you come in complaining about back problems. And neck pains, yeah. I have a terribly compressed vertebrae in my neck, but anyway. All right.

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This message is brought to you by the Ad Council. And we're back. And speaking of Fox, Disney and Fox have merged. Not Fox News, unfortunately. That would be an unqualified good thing if Disney, if anybody took over Fox News, but they did not. And they just like melted it down. Yeah, they just replace it with Mickey Mouse. Yeah.

Right. Mouse News. There you go. But the Disney-Fox merger is basically joining two companies that are now responsible for, I think, something like 35% of the movie industry. Yeah. It's massive. It's, I mean, you you know this whole merger a lot of

people were like i think on one hand if you're a comic book fan you're like oh are the x-men finally able to enter the fray so here's it was funny that just last week i was on collider heroes and we were talking about the merger but we were talking about the possible cool stuff that could happen and then uh you know coy he gave this uh this upfront where he's like, look, there's a lot of shitty things that are going to happen with this. This isn't that show. So now I'm on that show. Talk about all the shitty things. And it's going to be super trash.

It could be. I mean, it's already like there are executives losing their jobs left and right. Not that I care about them, but there's estimating anywhere between 4,000 and 10,000 jobs being lost. Oof. And on top of it, Disney, man, they are stingy with that motherfucking money.

They're like, when they're talking about severance packages, they're saying that employees have been told they will get two weeks for every year served with a two-year maximum.

What? So you could have worked there for 10 fucking years and they're going to give you four weeks of severance. Of severance. Yeah. Jesus Christ. years, and they're going to give you four weeks of severance. Of severance. Yeah. Jesus Christ.

And also, they're not really being upfront or clear with anybody of what is going to ultimately happen with their job, which is a terrible place to be in, especially after a merger or any acquisition. Like, you're already, you're unsteady. You don't know what the fuck is going to happen. They're just playing the cards very close to the chest. I'm like, well, things will become clear, you know, as the year goes on.

So they say in a year they'll figure it out. So that's one element of the shittiness. Another thing, one of the first Disney decisions, they basically shuttered Fox 2000, that studio that was an offshoot that did, like, cool movies like The Hate U Give, Life of Pi. They were making, like, sort of not the huge tentpole films, but films that, you know, let's tell some different stories rather than like are just mega blockbusters. The continued death of mid-level movies that don't cost $100 million. Exactly.

Aren't supposed to make $100 million. Right. And that's now the concern because with Fox and Disney, like you're saying, that's 35% of the movie market. And it's odd because, you know, a deal like this big, the DOJ, like antitrust division, has to sort of like go over it. But it only took like half the time to actually vet this deal than normal. And everyone's like, what the fuck?

And their whole thing was like, look, the biggest thing we're concerned about is like these two like 22 regional sports networks they're like get rid of those uh and then we'll feel like you're not actually like harming competition in like local sports programming markets right but it's just like okay well hold on who's what's going on the congress didn't even have any hearings about this trump is like i love this he hated the at&t one oh yeah wait is that cnn oh wait but this is fox rupert murdoch right so he's like yeah get your money baby yep i'll make this easy rupert murdoch talks to jared kushner every day and trump like nearly every day on the phone. And there is reporting in the New Yorker article saying that Trump was specifically trying to block the Time Warner merger.

And who knows how much he put his foot on the DOJ from stopping this one. Right. I mean, not if anything, he was like kicking them to approve it. Right. Remember when we were really worried about the nuclear war uh yeah nuclear climate change but that uh that other conservative news uh sinclair sinclair yeah and

that got shut down by the fcc yeah so that's another deal that they're pointing to probably like coming from rupert murdoch's close relationship with the trumps is that he you know shuttered that because sinclair is they would be competition to fox right so in that respect it actually helped us but yeah this is one of the respects that it's going to actually make the entertainment industry a shittier place well yeah and also like with them controlling like the movies like they have the power like to really shift the movie industry like in significant ways like for example apparently like when the last jedi was out they were fucking aggressive with the movie theaters basically saying it has to be on the biggest screen for at least four weeks or

we will not give you the film right and then also like uh having like penalties for theaters who like fell short of the four weeks or it wasn't their biggest screen so you know there's like consent decrees that sort of protected the uh this sort of thing like there's the paramount decree it's like from 1948 was basically saying break up studio and movie theater control that way studios can't be like making movies and owning the theaters that they play them in that way there's a little like it can be they can be separate but just rock a little bit more uh independently of each other yeah and now that if that's scrapped and like it's being i think the doj is like actually reviewing this now

disney this new disney fox thing could really expand like their influence that would hurt us uh as consumers yeah disney has been making pretty great stuff for a couple decades now and so people are kind of have a okay feeling about how how disney operates but like there was a time when they basically had a monopoly on animated movies like they were the only company that made animated movies and their movies fucking sucked for like decades and then like other people started making animated movies and they started making classics like the little mermaid but during the 70s and 80s man the disney was not making good movies and like that's what happens when you don't have competition.

People, all the animators who went off and founded Pixar, they started out at Disney and they were like, this place sucked to work at. You couldn't get a good idea made. So they had to go off and start their own thing. Right. Now we have Disney basically becoming a monopoly of all movies. yeah, probably is not going to be a good thing. But it seems like at the end of the day, like Disney isn't as hell bent on like dominating the film industry as they are just trying to take over Netflix. Because now, you know, when they launch their streaming service pretty soon, they have the entire Fox library as well.

So, you know, that's I think their eyes are more like they want the entire fox library as well so you know that's i think their their eyes are more like they want to take over the streaming game from netflix but we'll see the one if i look at the positive thing is i would like to see the x-men yeah you know hop up in here oh yeah you know with some x x-men x-force type shit you know get it in like that so what what is the like fox owns x-men right so the storyline that you guys have been wanting to see is the x-men basically join the avengers universe yeah because basically within the x-men uh within the mcu the marvel cinematic universe because the properties were so split up there was no crossover available that's why we it's taken so long to get this spider-man

included in the avengers so that's going to be cool like it's still bad but i thought i thought their share of the movie market was a lot higher than 35 and you know knowing there's guys out there like blumhouse a24 who won't budge to these folks and And I think that it sucks. That's 10,000 jobs. And I only hope, and I think it really is, I hope the new wave is making sure we get these unions involved because that union wouldn't let a company pull some mess like that. They're about to make how much money? And now they're trying not to spend it. You know, now I'm like kind of regurgitating almost WGA type stuff.

But like they have that money. It's sitting there, but they won't pay it if they don't have to because when you get that rich, you just tell yourself, oh, the reason I got this rich is being frugal when no, it's just because it's been handed down from generation to generation

through shifted gears and fucking over lower employees and lifting ideas and claiming them as your own. That's how you got that. Not from being frugal. So it's always just interesting to see these moves and like, we'll see how long until Bezos buys them.

Right. And he's like, bigger flex. Yeah. Amazon, Fox, Disney, Afazvini right or whatever he would call that uh i hope uh they they do well because apple is about to step in too because i think uh today monday uh they are in the midst of announcing their or probably having the event where they're going to announce like their new streaming platform platform yeah and again that's another thing like the muller report we just we're not we really don't know what it is.

Right. I mean, the one thing we can say about the Mueller report, just to kind of get back to that, is there are no additional charges coming from that. No additional. But we'll see what that means. Because in the end, I don't know. We just don't know. Right. We just don't know.

Q was not right. And also the people who were hoping that Trump would be marched out of the White House in handcuffs aren't right yet. We just don't know. We just don't know. And that's really the theme of the day. Well, Ify, it's been a pleasure having you, man. Yeah, yeah. Where can people find you?

Well, you know where y'all can find me. Ify Whiteyway, I-F-Y, N-W-A-D-I-W-E on Twitter and Instagram. If D's on Twitch. A lot of zeitgangers been rolling up and I truly appreciate it. If you have Amazon Prime, you can give me a sub for straight up free. I'm like six subs away from 100. We're trying to hit 100 this month. Let's get this sub going. If you like playing games too, come play with me.

I play on PC though. But if enough of y'all come through rolling and and and repping that that console gang i'll hop on the console and play with y'all uh and besides that you know now i'm officially partnered by corsair so definitely if you need any rgb keyboards mice or mouse pads yo uh click the link on my twitter there you go there you go I'm living these game dreams, baby. I'm a fish. Is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh, man. A tweet that I've been enjoying has been this scene from, look, I'm going to bring it back to myself because, you know, I have no shame.

But it's been a scene that I've shared from Teen Titans. I don't know if y'all saw it on my Twitter. But, you know, it addresses racism in a way I did not expect. I'm a, I'm a blast it, uh, just through the, I think it's going to be loud enough to,

uh, for everyone to hear, but just, uh, I just want you to peep this clip. So he's calling you a terrible name. And you know that if you punch him out, it'll just confirm all the bad stuff he thinks

about you i should point out that this is cyborg saying this and he's a black black half black half cyborg a bliborg yes you know what it feels like to be judged simply because of how you look of course i do i'm part robot missed the point on that one yeah really, I really missed the big one. Oh, I laughed so hard. Yeah, we live in a post-racial reality here. Of course I do. I am half robot. Oh, my gosh.

It's my favorite thing I've seen on the internet, and so I tweeted it out to share it with you all. All right. Miles, where can people find you? Find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. And, you know, cast DZ in the DZ in the dark zone. Because I think I'm going to have to put together a Division 2 clan for a Zyke gang. So we can mob out in there.

I know I've been talking a lot of shit about playing with y'all in the video games. But I'm grinding out on PS4. And we'll get something going. Now, some tweets I like. One is by, you know, former guest, Blair Saki, who says, my whole vibe is has a separate freezer of meat.

Because I don't know why that really came up. Another one is from Shane Moss. It says, most of my material comes from after shows when audience members give me jokes

I can use for my skit. Love when people come out, hey man, here's a joke for your skit. And another one, finally, it's from Fl come out, hey man, here's a joke for your skit. Yeah. And another one, finally, it's from Flirt Russell, you know,

Katie Delaney, who was crushing it with those Engineer in the Booth rap videos last week, or the week before. She quote tweeted Shawn Mendes,

who said, wow, I love Italy, and hers was like, Diane Lane be like, wow, I love it a couple tweets I've been enjoying

oh no she twittent tweeted who decided to call it being anti-vax instead of Jenny McCarthyism which I like and stay popular tweeted lord grant me the serenity of an older white man who's passionate about cycling

they're everywhere you ever see those like middle-aged like washed packs of like cyclists yeah all in the fucking year yeah the thing that kills me about it is people dressing up so over the top for that shit right when they do not like yo you're not really cutting down the drag already. Exactly. You got to, anyway. But, look, if you want to cosplay like Lance Armstrong, do your thing. Yeah, that's basically what it is.

It's Lance Armstrong cosplay. But I like, though, that Lance Armstrong gave, like, middle-aged people, like, men to be, like, see? That's a wave I can hop on. It's basically, like, baseball managers wearing the uniform. The uniform, too. Yeah too yeah like why do y'all do that yeah that's fucked up that's mean to baseball managers because they shouldn't do that it's like these dudes do it to themselves yeah like i remember just looking at tommy lasorda when he was managing the dodgers like as a kid and being like why does he wear one right like he's gonna get out there and play i think basketball coaches Should do that shit That would be Hilarious

Oh my Wearing the fucking warmups Or a jersey Yeah That's what my friend Chris Oh wow He thought coaches should Yeah doc

I think just make it a whole rule Well think about like Jeff Van Gundy When he coached the Knicks Like in a Knicks uniform Is like My favorite one to imagine Anyways

You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song right out on Miles West. Hey, could you imagine Stan Van Gundyndy though in a full uniform yeah that is oh yes how hairy do

you think his shoulder i would have loved yes let's just make this a rule whatever if you're a coach you have to wear the same uniform as the players yeah great it would only make bill belichick's uniform or like sideline gear. It would make sense. Yeah, it would make more sense. Whatever, you know, it might work for some people. Anyway, the song we're going to go out on, because we just don't know much about anything right now. We just don't know.

At the time of this recording, maybe a lot has happened. And anyway, I just want to leave you all with some music that will make your big toes shoot up in your boot, pop through, and go hit the moon. Because this is a track from Lizzo featuring Missy Elliott called Tempo. And if you want to talk about generations colliding, this is the fucking song we needed. So this is Tempo, Lizzo featuring Missy Elliott. Get it in.

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