The Daily Zeitgeist - MyPillow Autobiography, Pence Doesn’t NEED Protection 4.30.20

Episode Date: April 30, 2020

In episode 620, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Blake Wexler to discuss Mike Pence not wearing a mask at the Mayo Clinic, Justin Amash wanting to run for president as a Libertarian, Trump forcing meat facilities to re-open, Steve Mnuchin claiming small business loans over two million will be audited, the MyPillow guys autobiography, and more!FOOTNOTES: Leaving Off Mask At Mayo Clinic, Pence Said He Wanted To Look Workers 'In The Eye' Rep. Justin Amash to seek Libertarian Party nomination for president Workers in States Quick to Reopen Would Lose Unemployment Benefits Even if They’re Too Fearful to Return Yet Small business loans above $2 million will get full audit to make sure they’re valid, Mnuchin says Lakers got money from loan program, returned it oh -- and i cannot stress this enough -- my god WATCH: Luiz Carlos Vinhas - Ye Mele Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Fuck the Koch brothers. Fuck Fox News. It's Thursday, April 30th, 2020. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I'm all out of shade. This is how I deal. Ultraviolet right penetrating through my pores. I feel so estranged.anged bleach is now a meal

time to open nail salons my manicure looks worn uh that is courtesy of pence and sensibility um probably should have listened to that song before I did that one because I lost the thread about halfway through I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray please don't kill your family for a bag of Taco Bell. I might kill my family for Doritos local shell. Bulls getting ate.

All right. That was me hitting that Zach vocal because I'm just really into the Taco Bell Bulls on Parade mashup. Thank you to Christy Yamaguchi main for that one. That song. I was listening to that one. That shit still goes. And on the tweet, he wrote in parentheses, insert mouth guitar. I think most of us know how to do the Tom Morello.

Whoa, kick-wop, kick-wop, kick-wop, kick-wop. Guitar solo on that part. So, yeah, shout out to him. Shout out to everybody. Shout out to Tom Morello. Yeah, shout out to him. Shout out to everybody. Shout out to Tom Brolin. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the agent of chaos,

the resident Daily Zeitgeist agent of chaos, the joker himself, Mr. Blakey Wexy Wex, Blake Wexler. Hey, guys. This is Blake Wexler, a.k.a. The COVID Kid, a.k.a. The Quarantine Tween, a.k.a. The Face of Shelter-in-Place, a.k.a. The Al Capone of Stay-at-Home, a.k.a. The Dish Soap Dope, a.k.a. Don't touch me, Julia.

a.k.a. Oscar the Fouch. Guys, it's so nice to be here. Thank you for having me. I missed you all. I did miss you. I have legitimately missed you. Yeah. Beautiful. Really? Prove it. I missed you all. I did miss you. I have legitimately missed you. Really? Prove it. Get a tattoo. Get a tattoo. Get a tattoo on this server. On your eyelids.

One eye says Jack, one eye says Miles. Easily. Where do you want it? On your eyelids, I said. Each eyelid. Coward. Do it, because I'll get matching ones. That's fair. I'll get the insides tatted. There are some great AKs in there. Were those all your

yours? Blakey Blake originals? I don't want to give you too much of a behind the scenes look but I did use my $1,200 in stimulus money on writers for that one AKA. It's money well spent stimulus money on writers for that one AKA.

And it's money well spent. Yeah. I mean, we need writers for our AKAs. I mean, and Blake, I appreciate you trusting me to write that for you. And I did definitely give you a cut rate on those AKAs. But either I get it. It was kind of you. Yeah.

I didn't want you to embarrass yourself. Well, it was a union gig. And I did give you union pay for it. Yeah, and I'm not even in the union. I appreciate that. I should appreciate that. You son of a bitch. This is the job that gets you in the union. It is.

Yeah, right, exactly. It's a huge tree, man. William H. Taft Hartley or something. Isn't that how you go? Taft Hartley it in. isn't that how you go isn't that the rule uh blake how have you been with uh how has quarantining uh gone for the quarantine kid honestly my days are uh indiscernible from uh life before a pandemic they're completely the same and then my nights are just more relaxing because i don't have stand-up so uh yeah a lot of digital stuff um yeah really i've just been like biking and hiking you know

but without trails i've been biking yeah what i've been hiking around nicer neighborhoods than the ones that i live in so elevated hills i've been walking around and i'll dress up a little bit and wink at the neighbors yeah that's like yeah dude a lot of digital stuff right now you sound like a 90s media exec like going into the 2000s yeah I'm still looking at a lot of digital stuff right now man a lot of digital it's all digital

I interpreted that as a lot of finger stuff yeah that too oh like digits yeah yeah yeah I mean the shame about the octopus is it has all those fucking legs but no fingers yeah am i right and no hideous beak that awful beat oh come on come on leave that hey leave that octopus i'm sorry edit that out uh what that beak do. What that beak do, though.

You don't want to know what that beak do. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. You really don't. It's fucking terrifying. You do not want anything to do with the beak. Pray to God. Our listeners, what we're talking about. Mike Pence gave us an explanation for his going raw into the Mayo Clinic. Yeah.

We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about Justin Amash, Trump's meat policy, why he cares more about dead animal meat than live humans. We're going to check in with what Mnuchin is saying. We're going to check in with the Lakers, and we are going to get to the MyPillow CEO autobiography. I swear it's happening today. Damn it. But first, Blake, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? So a recent search that I had was strong legs dangerous um because in my quarantine

uh i've been working on my legs a lot a lot of squats a lot of uh as i mentioned earlier walking up hills um biking and it's gotten to the point where i am quarantining with my girlfriend and my dog and i don't want to put them in danger with my legs because they've gotten so massive and strong so i've been looking up just ways to arrange my apartment make sure they don't the other day i walked by a tree the tree's gone the tree's gone i thought i left enough distance but one of my one of my thighs knocked it right over so i am worried about knocked it over you just kicked the shit out of it with your new leg power well someone the issue with so if i was to kick it down that

would um imply premeditation and that's the problem is that without even thinking these things happen someone drove could be self-defense yes someone uh drove by and cat called my legs and uh i turned quickly and they knocked over a tree so what if that was a loved one you know so that's what i'm good yeah right whatling. So what's your regimen, basically? You squat for three consecutive hours straight? Well, you know frogs? Are you slandering French people? Miles, do you know frogs?

Conceptually? I don't know the intelligence level of the podcast. Oh, fuck off Conceptually, yeah. I don't know the intelligence level of the podcast. Oh, fuck off. Hey, man. So you know what I'm working with here. Hey, bro, bro. You know frogs, right? Right, right.

Okay, so just before I go on. Okay, so frogs. Yeah, I know frogs. The way they move around is how I've been moving around, in that it's mostly a squat and leap situation. So I haven't walked normally in a month and a half. Well, I'm glad. But they aren't dangerous right for the record no that's the problem they might be they are so i'm they're dangerous i'm just trying to uh figure my life spatially in order to uh basically cut down on the casualties of these this sounds This sounds like a stupid-ass TLC show

that would happen after the quarantine about people who like... My big fucking legs. Yeah, like my way-too-strong-legs life. My 31-year-old legs life. My one really strong leg. What was the cat call? What was the cat call that you got

when you had to turn around quickly and knock down a tree with your thighs? They screamed oh my god I think I'm going to have a heart attack. Look at those things in between his knees and his hips. Oh wow. Yeah. Because it's the thighs mostly. The calves are fine.

Right. They didn't know. They didn't know the word for thighs. I understand why now you're asking us if we've heard of frogs you spend your time around people who aren't completely basic things look at those things between his knee and his betwixt his knees they know betwixt yeah betwixt her summary it's a very confused time traveler they're up through the shakespeare era but they haven't learned any of the words that shakespeare actually invented exactly exactly uh what is something that you think is underrated uh underrated i do i'm not besides your thighs oh no those i think have gotten their uh their their due um underrated uh songs with

whistling in them i think that like i was listening to blues music today and then they had a guy like the guy was just whistling in the song and i'm like i really like this as an instrument i think it's underrated okay i mean yeah how much whistle music are you listening to? Well, it's a song, but then like instead of, you know, like a guitar solo or like a violin or something, he just like whistles, you know, the part. Right, right, right. Have you ever seen that video of the guy who appears on a daytime talk show during like the 80s or 90s and he's a whistling performer and he whistles and the camera like cuts away to the crowd and it's just perplexed

kids and parents like there's something it's completely innocent but there's something so wrong about it like yeah that sounds familiar but oh i can only imagine someone just like and this is a virtuoso whistle soloist uh who's gonna now do and the guy looks like a professional whistler if and so then do you just love young Folks by Peter, Bjorn, and John? It was pre-Young Folks, but probably an inspiration for that song. Yeah, or like, don't worry, I'm really getting a Bobby McFerrin. Yeah, I like it. I mean, the late 80s had some whistle jams.

There was Patience by Guns Nian guns and roses walk like an egyptian yeah that other one you just mentioned bobby mcfarren you know yeah all the hits all the hits man all the hits yeah big fan i think it's something don't forget joel santana there it go either the whistle song oh yeah that's a jam man that was huge in my mind I was thinking of the hood internet version of that remix I don't know why just a glimpse into my mind

hey Blake what's something you think is overrated overrated and this isn't completely negative but I'm a Thunderbirds guy, and I think the Blue Angels as a decorative flight division is completely, completely overrated. I don't like the F-18 as a plane. Yeah.

The colors are also kind of bullshit where it's blue and gold. It's like, are you flying for Sweden? What country are you flying for? So what country are you flying for so thunderbirds f-16 though an inferior aircraft i think aesthetically much more impressive and cooler yeah more difficult what about that rumble when it tears across the sky who's got the better rumble i mean that's the question i'm gonna say to say, just like old, and this is, of course, not based off any information that I have, but the F-16, this is true, is an older aircraft. So I would imagine older cars are louder than newer cars.

The muffler on the F-16 is notably bad. They got whistle tips on them from that Bub Rub video from the early 2000s. The F-16 would not pass a smog test uh in los angeles let's put it that way um i love the idea of somebody who's like a a flyover connoisseur right it's like boom fuck the blue angels i'd roll my eyes but i don't want to look at them. The whole time? Yeah. Because you're referencing how they did that flyover in New York, the duo Thunderbirds, Blue Angels flyover.

Yeah, both of them? Come on, make up your mind. But I just like if some asshole, right, who's out there with all the other people who are like kind of taking it and going, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, what, what, what? You know, the fucking Blue Angels are fucking... They suck. You know that, right? What? You can't hear them because it's so loud, right?

Hold on, man. I'm trying to show my kid these jets. Yeah. What the fuck is this? You go to the Super Bowl and leave after the flyover? It's like, I can't. You leave because it's the Blue Angels? You show up very late. You're the one person throwing their their hands yeah like oh exasperated it's not

the thunderbirds we gotta go i'm sorry yeah i don't care if i don't care if we paid three thousand dollars for these tickets nothing uh is more diminished by television than the flyover in person one of the great things to see. Oh yeah. Uh, just shocking. And just, you've never seen anything move that fast across the sky. Uh, just imagine, just imagine what it's like to be on the other end of that thing,

man. If you cross one of our mega corporations, bro. Woo. That's right. Creepy man. Wow. Wow.

But, uh, but then like on TV, it's just so shitty yeah it's just yeah wow improv doesn't really it's like trying to take a picture of the moon wait so you're like uh you're like a guy who like uh is an advocate for vinyl like when you watch jet flag you're like nah i can't i can't handle video i gotta be. It's just really not the same. It's not. It's really not worth it. It's the only part of NFL football that's better in person.

Everything else is better experienced on TV. Maybe, dude, Blake, you should just, you know, devote your life to following the Thunderbirds wherever they do their flyovers. They're too fast. Yeah. No, but. Oh, you mean to the the wherever they perform yeah and like

you just get so many patches and pins from every show they've been to you're like i don't know man i lost track after about the 43rd 430th one sorry what what if i misinterpreted your advice there and i like just trained my ass off and bought a plane and tried to literally chase them down? And you're tragically shot down because people think you're some kind of intruder enemy aircraft. Or tragically awed by how impressive they are as flyers compared to the Blue Angels. So I'm just like, what's the point? Yeah. Oh, wow.

Well, we'll workshop that. We will. I think it's fine the way it is. Maybe it could be like some news outlet, Blue Angel or Thunderbird correspondent. It's like, man, those things are fast, and now to Blake Wexler. Well, you see they're in the diamond formation,

which is, as we all know, the riskiest formation. And some guy comes in he's like that's actually not true man i don't know why you have this guy talking on your show he has no aviation experience it has nothing to do with the military nothing he's saying the wrong stuff all the time next for it on flyovers uh that's like i, there are royal watchers who devote their entire lives to the royal families, various appearances, and there's literally nothing to be an expert on. They're the most boring human beings. I was a Royal Air Force watcher in my teens and now I've obviously moved on to domestic flights. And now you're just a thunderbird.

Thank you. What is a myth? What's something people think is true that you know to be false? Going off my plane obsession, the Blue Angels are not a part of the Air Force. They are a part of the Navy. So even though they're planes,

not in the Air Force. Hence the color palette. Yeah, exactly. Just leave the flying to the professionals, all right? Thunderbirds, Air Force Division. Do you ever watch those Red Bull stunt plane videos? Oh, that would stress me out too much. Those are so fucking ridiculous.

I don't even know. I don't understand how you... I wonder how many tragic crashes there are when people are like i'm just gonna fly through this like knife's edge canyon here just go completely vertical anyway shout out to any stunt pilots can i tell you something wild this will be very quick my um one of my best friends growing up his dad was uh and continues to be a pilot and like small planes and he was a trick plane pilot as well and this is gonna sound made up but i swear to god it's true he took our friend uh his

dad up in the trick plane with him and like another one of our friends dads so he didn't tell them that it was a trick plane so he was flying the plane and then went into a sharp dive and started screaming at the top of his lungs. And then like they thought they were going to die because they didn't know it was a trick plane. And then he like pulled up at the last second. And it's they weren't friends going forward after that. How fucked up is that? But how fucked up is that? That's so that's like one of my worst nightmares.

That's actually the thing I'm thinking is my worst nightmares. You can't do that. That's actually the thing I'm thinking is going to happen when I, I'm like, fuck dude, not a tiny. Yeah. Anytime. Watch this shit.

Yeah. Watch this shit just fucking fall straight out. And then it happened. I'm just kidding. I'd be like, dude, I'm going to, I would fucking kill you,

but we'd both die. Yeah. Just leave me, just get me out of here. That must be, I think that's what makes somebody a pilot is thinking that's funny like because that seems to be something that all pilots have is like people really like whereas other people are afraid of plummeting to their death

i think it's hilarious uh right is that like engagement video that they like where the guy was like honey we're running out of gas like quick look at this thing and then it was like the emergency guide was uh like a proposal video it was like him her being like okay it says here will i marry you oh you got me it's like what the fuck is wrong with you oh my god because it all depends on how afraid of death you are you know yeah yeah proposing isn't exciting enough you know you gotta mix death in with it just yet i wonder how many tragic like small plane crashes are born out of pilot stunts, pilot pranks gone wrong. Right.

People doing pranks and then they just never pull up. Oh, oh, oh. And they're like, oh, fuck, oh, fuck. Like, oh, you asshole. You fucking asshole. Just kidding. No, I'm not. Yeah.

Oh, my God. That is so dark. That's so fucked up. It's so dark like you're like oh guys you're free no i'm just kidding guys we're going hold on oh fuck jesus what you said it was a prick no more bits no more bits yeah yeah okay and then oh when you you kept saying trick planes, and for some reason I kept thinking of a plane that explodes, but it bursts into confetti. Like one of those trick golf balls or whatever. It bursts into snakes. I thought you meant like a trick plane who pulls up on the block looking for a sex worker plane.

Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah. I like that. All right. Well, we're I like that. All right. Well, we're going to workshop some more trick plane material during the break, and we'll be back. That's an adult swim commercial or adult swim cartoon where a bunch of planes are people, and there's the...

Anyway, all right, never mind. That's actually one of my son's favorite TV shows on Netflix. It's called Plane Guys. that's actually one of my son's favorite tv shows on netflix is called like uh plane guys probably came up with a better name the plane bros remember the plane bros in like world war two they draw just naked women on their like bomber planes it's like yeah i want to like bomb the enemy but i'm horny too you know like what is what is, I want like anime porn points. Sex and violence, baby. Sex and violence. Same thing.

Yeah, man, I remember that. Yeah, do you remember that? Those were the days. Hey, you know war, right?

First naked woman I ever saw was on the, on the Enola Gay. That I was, yeah. I was, I don't even know the name of a specific crew position

one can hold on a B-2 bomber. Bombardier? All right. Pilot? Yeah, yeah, it was the Bombardier. Yeah, that would have saved the bit if Jack would have known one position on the plane, then this whole thing would have gone better.

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This is Rip Current. Available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're back and we covered a couple days ago how mike pence went into the mayo clinic without a mask on just showing off that uh lantern jaw of his and uh he you know he saw that there was some pushback and he was like ah there's liberal media and so he had he had an explanation yeah i mean everyone was the photos again as we said horrifying you're in a fucking hospital where they're treating and researching covid19 he's talking to someone in a bed receiving treatment presumably for for COVID-19 or something. I don't know what, but this is his logic. Now, listen up, fucking snowflakes. As vice president of the United

States, this is a quote. As vice president of the United States, I'm tested for the coronavirus on a regular basis, and everyone who is around me is tested for the coronavirus. Since I don't have the coronavirus, I thought it'd be a good opportunity for me to be here, to be able to speak to these researchers, these incredible healthcare personnel, and look them in the eye and say, thank you. Which is the same logic. As everyone knows, you look people in the eye with your mouth and nose.

Yeah, exactly. And breathe onto them. And that's a good, yeah, I knew that guy respected me because when he was talking to me he didn't actually look me in my eyes he just coughed all over me i mean the logic of sort of like we get tested all the time is like some shit like why the fuck would i wear a condom i don't have stds you fuck fuck that i get tested i'm good i don't need to do that shit like easy bro it's not just about that narrowly like it's a it's a it's a courtesy even under normal circumstances his face is so unsettling as a face he should just be wearing a mask anyway if he visited a hospital where these people are in

fragile health and just gazing upon that man's just stone just ghoul face it's just not it's not good for the heart it's always pulled and contorted like if i was in a hospital bed and he's like yeah i would be like something's wrong with me i have minutes to live something yeah like oh no like it's all over i'm not gonna lie to you guys i think his face is the only thing he has going for him like i think i do i think he's like going for him. Like I think going for him, like, is this a beauty? I think he is entirely vice president because of his face.

Like he has, he has no intelligence. He, but he looks like a, somebody that would be like if there was stock footage and you had to cast some random jc penny model as the president like that's who you would cast yeah like he i think he knows that that is what he has and so he's he's he knows he can't he can't put uh something in between his money maker and and the rest of the world, or else he loses

all his power. That makes sense. Then he just looks like a weird old white hair. Right. That would be like if I went into public with something covering my legs. That's really all I have going for me at this point. Right. So that's why I wear...

Yeah, I leave them out. That's why you only shop at Fashion Nova now. Exactly. Just accentuate. I told you that in confidence. Well, it's pretty obvious from the IG pics, my Exactly. Just accentuate. I told you that in confidence. Well, it's pretty obvious from the IG pics, my man. I'm sorry.

The Pence stuff, it'd be funny if he really thought his face was the only thing. So if he was like, all right, well, if I cover my face, I got to do something

with this hair, man. And he did some wacky-ass hairdo and shit. He's like, I need something. I need something. Anyway. Just a big hat. Beautiful, long, blonde hair. It's like, I need something. I need something. Anyway. Just a big hat. Beautiful, long blonde hair. It's like, why?

What? What? This is what I've always looked like. And just like amazing eye makeup. Ooh, yeah. It's like, what? He's like the hot gremlin. Yeah. Oh, the hot gremlin. Who doesn't love hot gremlin?

Yeah. Oh, the hot gremlin. Who doesn't love hot gremlin? Yeah. Sorry, did I get a little audibly horny there when you mentioned the hot gremlin? No apology necessary. No, look. To each their own. Fully understand. And let's talk about Justin Amash.

This is a dude who I was vaguely familiar with because he left the GOP in response to Trump. And so I assumed automatically he's a real one. He's the man. Yeah. And it turns out if I had done like two minutes of research, I would have learned that he's not the man. Well, you know, I think the Overton window, there's no window anymore. It's a big, we don't know what's good compared to anything anymore. It's like, huh?

So like you said, he stood up to Trump and he just did the bare minimum, really, by being like, yeah, this is actually not good objectively, morally. I'm going to leave. This is bad. But before that, he was voting pretty much a rubber stamp for any policy Trump or any bill Trump was supporting or opposing. He was a pretty consistent vote. So he went from like 100% of the time to something like 70-something percent of the time voting

with Trump, even after he became uh even after he became an independent but so now he's basically saying that he wants to run for president but as a libertarian and oh yeah he just wants to be the sane option you know to uh the the president now again like you're saying, Jack, he rode in on this total anti-Obama Tea Party wave. That's how he got into the House. Yeah, I didn't realize that. Yeah, and I understand.

The worst. I understand. You know, props to him at the very least that he did the bare minimum because no one else seems to be doing that. I can acknowledge that. I can give you that. But I think at this point, when you're saying,

I want to run for president and we're looking at your past and you're saying stuff like, you know, at one point he was saying that abortion should be banned three days after conception. So there's only three from conception. You have three days after that. It's a wrap. I don't even know how you do that scientifically, uh confirm when that moment was specifically but uh he also is like voted against just ask justin amash he knows yeah he's the sex doctor he's voted against anti-lynching bills he's not you know he's he's not the refreshing candidate you'd want i get it uh i think from his perspective he's an alternative to the president. And I think a lot of people are trying to understand who this is not good for, if that's worse for Trump or if it's worse for Biden, if he actually ends up running and what that effect is on pulling votes. I don't know. I think if he can turn the head of a tortured Trump voter, I don't know if that's necessarily good for Biden

if they were thinking of voting for Joe Biden. What state is he based out of? Michigan. Oh, okay. Our greatest state. Shout out to the glove. Or the hand. Whatever you call it, the glove or the hand.

I think it's the mitten. Glove. Mitten. Mitten, really? The glove was Gary Payton. The mitten is Michigan. Yeah. Oh, glove was uh gary payton the mitten is michigan yeah oh it's because you know i think i've heard some rapper maybe slang refer to it as the glove and that's what i thought of it is that anyway uh no he was talking about gary payton yeah he's talking about impeccable defensive skills um or his signature sneaker yeah i don't know i think

with him coming in there it's probably gonna be a problem for biden because either i mean this guy coming in he's gonna be an alternative for someone who is looking at like supreme court math and it's not like justin amash is gonna try and be like yeah we need a liberal uh on the supreme court so right we'll see i don't know that's he's got an exploratory uh committee going so we shall see yeah uh may let's hope we don't let's hope we don't see let's hope i wish i see if he even does if he gets a nomination you don't know yeah um all right And finally, the president is using the DPA, the Defense Protection Act. Is that right? Defense.

Yep. What is it? Production Act. Sure. Defense Production Act to force meat processing facilities. I said protection. Defense Production. I was like, sure.

It was the sure reaction. That was so funny. Sure, who gives a shit at this fucking point? So Trump is using the Defense Production Act to force meat processing facilities to open and start providing the critical infrastructure of give him his meats. He's a meat daddy.

He likes his meats. And so over two dozen facilities had been shut down due to COVID outbreaks. And he was like, nah, fuck all that. So he's forcing them back to work. And he's saying the feds will throw down on some PPE. And also, he'll use his talent and innate ability to provide some tips on ways that they can not get sick, or at the very least, ways that companies can avoid getting sued. You can only imagine the tips on protection that the White House is going to offer concerning the state of some of these briefings, which means probably none that's functioning. Well, probably.

But anyway, yeah. The other thing is the liability protection that he's offering these companies because inevitably, you know, these companies want to put these people back to work. And if things if we don't know who has the illness and who doesn't, inevitably, someone will contract the illness and potentially pass away. So then if there's if they have coverage from the government over liability then they can't go after the employer for forcing them to risk their fucking lives and like the unions are fucking screaming their heads off about this and be like like you gotta you're not even doing the minimum of like giving there are people wearing hair nets as face masks at one point and they're like that's

not fucking even remotely close to ppe that's just a weird face mask um and you know it just we're seeing now that the whole irony of it is that the president cares literally more about dead meat than alive fucking human people that that's the priority and on top of this uh know, act, we're seeing that a lot of the states that or a few of the states that are reopening pretty aggressively are like trying to make it so that you have no choice but to go to work if your employer says, hey, we're open again. Because essentially, if you don't go to work for a health concern, when your employer saying, hey, we're open, then they'll consider that a quit and you will lose your unemployment benefits. This story hit close to home, obviously, because a lot of these meat factories have reached out about using one of my legs to feed Idaho and I think Minnesota. It was to use it, obviously, because the amount that they could get off these babies, I politely declined. But to your point,

the fact that liability coverage is one of the first things that's being mentioned in this... Wait, why even pivot to a serious point, Blake? Maybe I'm about to make another joke. Blake calls his gym the meat factory. Right? Is that correct? Yeah, yeah. Or at least that's what the sign behind you says.

It does. It does. And my God, the electric bill that I am getting for this sign is in the tens of thousands. It's unbelievable. It's blinding. It looks like a leather biker hat and a handlebar mustache. That's right. With this fluorescent light.

That's right. Instead of teeth, it's toes. The person's mouth. Oh, whoa. Yeah. Yeah, everything everything else i like where i'm at um i'm sorry were you gonna make a serious point or a joke about the liability no no i actually uh i was gonna make a serious point but you also made a very good point why make one but i was gonna say that if if the liability uh is just one of the first things that you mention maybe uh there's so many horrible things that could happen that you would be liable for perhaps it's not a great idea uh to open back up is what's the point yeah it's gonna be no it's

true but i think it's it's fucking cruel you know and this is again this is what this kind of class warfare looks like. These companies are saying like, yo, I got meat rotting. I need these people to go back to work so I can sell this shit. But they're all scared of the fuck. So dude, do me a solid here. Cover my ass while I force these people possibly to illness or worse, death. And I can get my money going. And they have no choice because look look if they don't come in then

they won't get uninsurance but they won't get unemployment benefits it's fucking really really fuck the governor of iowa kim reynolds said if you're an employer this is this was her like whole quote on iowa's policy if you're an employer and you offer to bring your employee back to work and they decide not to that's a voluntary quit therefore they would not be eligible for the unemployment money and in texas is a voluntary quit was that a phrase before that sentence uh yes probably in terms of applying for unemployment got it a voluntary maybe not those exact words but if you voluntarily voluntarily leave a job, you can't. Yeah. Yeah.

Voluntary employment at will employment. I've just never heard someone say, that's a voluntary quit. It's like it could be a catchphrase of a blue collar comedian. Yeah. And Greg Abbott in Texas, you know, lifted restrictions, I think, starting the end of this week. And a lot of people are still don't feel safe going back to their jobs and but same thing you could lose your benefits but the state is saying like they're kind of looking at if they can make exceptions and things like that but

again this is like we could only go three fucking weeks when we were like we need to think of people and keeping them safe and keeping them healthy to immediately the fucking billionaires are bitching. And so now it's like, we got to get these people off the fucking unemployment benefits and into the fucking meat facilities and into the hair salons or whatever. Fuck the safety. It's really the change up is so fucking drastic. And this is what happens when you have a federal government that's not on the same page with

the states and when the states are not on the same page with each other. And sometimes the local city governments aren't on the same page as the states either, where there's an interesting thing going on. My parents or my family lives in Charleston and the McMaster, the governor of South Carolina, has opened up, you know, like the beaches, et cetera, et cetera. But on a local level, some of the local towns have not opened up their beaches. So, you know, there is like possibly the governor could take action against these. interesting to see if you have more liberal pockets at a local level in more conservative states, they are trying to take some sort of control, whether legally or morally, over what they're doing. Yeah. It's amazing. It's just so pronounced. You can tell how much a human life is valued based on what leaders are willing to do to protect people it's like it's just it's come directly you

know they're saying the people who have too much pressure on them are caving and they're like fine whereas other you know you you want to hear someone act like they're your parent or knows better than you or knows more information saying yo i'm gonna be real with you this shit is still out there like i'm not why risk no it's not worth the risk. It's just not worth the risk. No one's life is worth the risk. Other people are like, Scott, we got it. It's worth the risk. It's worth the risk of losing your life. My jeans don't fit anymore because my legs have gotten so goddamn big. They burst through the denim, which was supposedly a strong fabric fabric so now i need to go shopping for new pants i can't just order them online they show up they don't fit i'll be fucking naked

from the waist down yeah right i mean i've never yeah you made those jinkos look like they were painted on yes yeah yes i did impressive truly and i will again for the for the photo of this episode should i just draw a face on my thighs and like blakewetzler.com i don't want to give that away i'm not going to do that okay yeah uh okay and mnuchin last story before we get into the less serious news mnuchin whose name i have totally forgotten. Steve? Yep.

Steven. Steven. It doesn't seem like a Steve. Stevie. Stevie Mnuchin. Mnuchin is saying that they will audit any SBA loans that are over $2 million. He announced today, Jack, that actually it's just all SBA loans. So not just the $2 million anymore.

Like he amended that and said all of them. Oh, even more oversight. Great. Well, yeah. I mean, we were talking about how the weirdest people ended up with millions of dollars, including my Los Angeles Lakers, which is I think the only fucking team in the nba to get this ppp money

well miles in their defense they do need all of all of those millions of dollars to buy a weed whacker strong enough to knock off whatever is above anthony davis's eyes oh so i think that's why they needed the money. They need it. Burn, burn. Oh, man. Miles does not do well with criticism of Anthony Davis's unibrow. Do not talk about AD's unibrow. It's powerful. He'll resign. It's powerful. But yeah, I think it's just like so,

they were like, the logic behind the Lakers getting is so stupid. They should be embarrassed when they applied for it. But then they said they only like after they learned that the funds were low, they were like, OK, maybe we should give them money back. Why did you fucking apply for it in the first play? You don't you don't need it. You don't need it. Right. I think people just look at it like, well, we could lose so we should take it rather than like is it ethical is it moral given the revenues or that we're valued

at like over four billion dollars or some shit as a club whatever but i mean the rules of capitalism that like we are learning like the more out in the open this shit becomes the more we learn that it's like you cheat until you get caught and then you act like if people are looking at you you act in a superficial way like you're good good guy uh but then yeah you cheat as much as you can you take the money because everybody else is taking it because everybody is a thief. The president of the United States has won at capitalism by being a grifter. So what are we going to do? We're going to suddenly start holding ourselves to high moral standards?

Everybody for the past three decades has won the game of capitalism by you know being predatory and cheating so that's just how it's gonna work right i'm not saying it's good i don't i don't forgive the lakers uh you don't forgive them not yet i haven't apologized to me directly yeah um not since they took a little text message and they It was just a little text message. Yeah, exactly. Fuck that. All right, guys. Let's take a quick break. And then when we come back, we have an important piece of literature I want to share with you guys.

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The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current. Available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're back and uh the the book of the year nay the decade uh is probably uh just been released and it is the autobiography uh from the my pillow ceo mike lell. He is telling a tale of his struggles, how he got to where he is.

You might know Mike Lindell because Donald Trump just brought him up on stage at the COVID-19 briefing a couple weeks ago, and he talked about what a great job the president is doing he's a vocal uh trump supporter and sort of a figurehead in the uh business community uh among trump supporters i mean he's doing a great job like you could just say this guy's a business god just leave it at that yeah and so he uh he has a more interesting backstory than I had given him credit for. And we learn all of that in what I think is the greatest infomercial of all time. It's for his new autobiography. And we're just going to listen to some audio from it.

Hello, I'm Mike Lindell. You know me as the MyPillowGuy, but what you might not know is my story. I've spent years writing my memoir, and it's finally done. Before this terrible pandemic came upon us, I had already wrote, I dedicate this book to anyone looking for hope. Well, right now, we're all looking for hope. And I've always used mathematics to prove that God exists. In our lives, we've had things happen that are one in a million or one in a billion, or we might say that's impossible. Well, when do we say it all has to be a miracle?

My life has been like living inside of a movie. And in my book, I have pictures that are going to validate everything that you're going to read. Okay, hold on. I'm just going to pause it right there. So far, what the fuck is this guy just saying out loud right now? He's amazed that he said, dedicated to people who need hope, the most general statement possible.

But he's like, I mean, if that's not a sign from God, I don't know what is. He could have said that to distraught Patriot fans because Brady left. He's like, and it's crazy because I actually wrote in here before any of this to anyone seeking hope. It's like, yo, God, I'm telling you, God exists because of math. First of all, Yang Gang. Right. I've always used mathematics to prove the existence of god and there's just

going just like saying that off the cuff like is the most cocaine yeah statement anyone's ever made like just i don't know i drug mania there are people in uh who i know who I'm acquainted with, in my extended family, who speak like that so intensely, will say stuff like, Oh my God, look at the moon right now. The sky hasn't looked like this in 700 years. And you're like, what? How do you prove that? They're like, I'm telling you it hasn't because it didn't. You're like, okay, okay.

All right, pillow guy. My life You're like, okay, okay. All right, pillow guy. My life has been like living inside a movie. And I have pictures. I got pictures. I got pictures that'll prove it, that correlate with. Oh, no. You ever hear a song and you're like, whoa, what if this is a soundtrack for a movie, man?

But the movie is my life, man kind of memoir requires like proof you know like what kind of insane things are you saying during your pillow your bed memoir that you need pictures to prove like what kind of life is this guy like no no no blake pictures he's got pictures oh oh like like water receptacles. Yeah. I'm sorry, but if you can't properly say pictures when you're trying to say something as important as saying, like, my life's a movie, and I'm a god, and I can prove it through these pictures, I immediately go, hmm, pictures, Stetter? We've got Nolan Ryan.

Roger Clemens. Yeah. Tim Wakefield. Tim Wakefield. I keep bringing up Tim Wakefield the last three weeks. It's a funny reference because he throws the knuckleball. Yeah, I know. I just love a good off-speed pitch.

That's really why you bring him up. It's a technique. You know what I mean? Shout out to Daisuke. Okay, now. We'll go back. Let's go back into his pitch because we haven't even scratched the fucking surface. I believe that my story is

going to bring inspiration and hope to everyone by the time you're done reading my book you will believe that with god all things are possible mike spent the last seven years writing his book to share his life story in this difficult time we are in mike's book will bring much needed inspiration and hope to everyone who reads it. But now the game was over. The house had won. I was going to die right here on this deserted street. A small item in the news. American tourists goes missing in Mexico.

Whoa. Wow. So just to, just to turn of events, let that just got really let that sink in. Y'all really? I mean, I fell out of a third

story building woman's voice yeah sorry god i was with a i was with an i was with a buddy of mine we were drunk on an atv he busts an endo and i go flying off the back of that thing head straight into a light pole there's the headline when my head hit that airbag, I knew. Mike has spent the last seven years straight writing nonstop so he could bring you the story of his life. This guy has been awake. He is already giving off very kooky vibes. Oh, of course.

He's been writing nonstop so he could share the story with you well when you get the when you get the vague pitch where it's like oh my god this book's gonna bring inspiration to people who need it it's like i don't know what the fuck that means that doesn't mean anything it's gonna prove to you god's existence and I make things possible through God. Okay. God of the pictures of God out. Okay, now let's go on to hear some more.

Call now or visit mypillow.com to purchase What Are The Odds from Craig. Okay, I'm just sorry. One last thing. Go to mypillow.com

to purchase the book What Are The Odds. What Are The Odds. I mean, he's got the e-commerce infrastructure built into MyPillow.com. Why throw the money away on a separate website for your kooky biography? It'll put you to sleep. Hold on.

Let me pull it back a little bit because the title, we got to hear the full title. Call now or visit MyPillow.com to purchase What Are The Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO. Enter the promo code and you'll receive free shipping. Mike will also include a free $25 MyPillow gift card. Mike shares his incredible story of addiction, divine intervention, and hope. In his new memoir, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO, learn how mike's 14 near-death experiences and heavy crack addiction led him from a place of total darkness into the light 14 near-death experiences is the funniest the most unintentional funny thing, but the funniest thing. Yeah. No comedy writer can write anything better than Mike's 14 near-death experiences.

He just can't stop having near-death experiences. But also just the really leaning into his addiction. He went from this crack addiction to a C. From crack addiction? Also, he had 14 near-death experiences. I'm sorry for anybody who wanted a third season of the oa this book might be it right if you need more ndes just comparing these motherfuckers being through it instead of sheep before he goes to sleep he counts all of his near-death experiences

oh my so this is what's amazing right i? I don't know if you, I don't think we need to hear any more of it because those are the best parts. No, those are my highlights. As I said, if you purchase the book now, you go to mypillow.com and you purchase the book, you'll get a $25 gift card with your purchase. So what's funny is the soft cover, I'll go from the most expensive.

The most expensive version is the hard cover for $39.99, the soft cover for'll go from the most expensive the most expensive version is the hard cover for 39.99 the soft cover for 29.99 and the digital download for 19.99 so basically he'll give you five dollars to download the digital version i love it i love that i mean they did their math they ran the margins on this easy i'll give'll give them a $5 off. They got to spend it. We call that a loss leader. The jacket of the book. So when you do a little research into Mike, he spent decades railing crack, just doing loads and loads of crack. There's one point in an interview I heard where he talks about being up for 14 days in a row. And he was also at this time, like just convinced that nobody had made the best pillow yet.

And like that all the pillows weren't good enough. So like he was just like high out of his mind, obviously couldn't sleep. And he was like, nah, man, these pillows see the it's the pillows and then he just like rode that crack energy straight into like making this pillow and i mean this is if if like if all the uh covet 19 like disasters that have happened one day after the next have been like a depressing illustration of how capitalism doesn't work. Like this dude is the most entertaining illustration of how capitalism doesn't work.

It's just like pure blind cocaine energy translated into human form and he's become a billionaire. It really seems like a sketch that would have been written that whole commercial plays out so comedically and my god 14 nds truly my man something you're doing for if you have encountered death 14 times you you need to step back and trying to try and find a pattern in your life what what's going on that keeps bringing you to death's doorstep yeah and that's also the kind of person you can't tell them about covet 19 right they're like i had 14 near-death experiences when I went from crack addict to CEO.

Okay? Like, I'm not afraid of a flu. Are you kidding me? I had to fight off a bunch of fucking bandits in TJ over a pillow. I mean, also, again, like you said, that pillow energy. I love blaming that the crack wasn't keeping you up constantly. Yeah. It's your pillow.

See, it's your pillow. That's fucking committing to a fit. yeah that's what it is it's a fucking pillow if he was smart he would have uh the soft cover of the pillow or of the book actually be two pillows binding the pages together so you could sleep on the book after you're done reading it but i don't want to give advice i mean yeah and the information will go straight into your soul yeah oh and there's crack instead of feathers in the pillowcase may cause a bit of may cause a bit of a rash right well shout out to what's his name mike lindell that guy rules uh i i hope he is back for many uh happier returns on the daily zeitgeist because i holy shit man what just 14 near-death experiences is my favorite thing honestly also like the cheerful way that the woman he hired says hopeless crack addiction to like it's just so her voice is so soothing and like syrupy sweet but right like such a perfect

match for that it's almost to the point where like he's now his addiction he's just commodified it as like a sales point it's not meant to really actually inspire any kind of like sympathy or any other empathy it's like it's like and guys he did crack huh look at that you know how we look at addicts and addiction he was that yeah and yet he's here almost to the point where i wonder like how i mean i don't want to question the validity of his history but i wonder if he like he plays that up too he's like uh yeah you're sure i had 14 near-death experiences yeah look i i was on a zipline once in costa rica and i for a second i thought it was i wasn't buckled in it was scary right

non-crack related yeah yeah right still i felt like i was gonna die that's a near-death experience so you know but based off that that's the type of person who you encounter in recovery who is uh first of all like just pure confidence in the truth of their experiences the whole time including when they were out of their mind on drugs right they still just believe everything that they've ever experienced and also just pure unsinkable confidence that they are in the right at all times. It's like just the and you know we'll speak in a straight line for four hours if you let them. Our president.

Our president. My pillow. Our president. Our president. My pillow. Dude shut up. It's this damn pillow honey. That's why I haven't been able to sleep. Right. Why are your lips on god damn your fingertips might burnt this shit it's the fucking the friction on that fucking pillow has anyone i mean in all fairness what's different about

the fucking my pillow what the fuck is different fuck is different? Because the website looks like it's trying to lie to my grandmother. That's the energy of the website. That's exactly what it is. And so I'm like, what's in there? I remember in the 90s when they're like, the Sobacawa pillow from Japan keeps your head. I remember that was like the hook point i don't know what this is except for a dude with like a cross dangling from his neck is hugging the shit out of a pillow yeah that's that's the important thing is that he has commodified

his christianity and uh recovery has a cross around his neck in all pictures uh well blake it has been a pleasure having you on the daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you and follow you? where I give my take on a current event each week from the four subjects of politics, sports relationship, and leisure. So that's every Wednesday on Friday, I post topical jokes. And then on Sundays, I've been doing a thing called Save the Last Dance, where right before the last dance documentary on ESPN,

I'll do a pregame show where I discuss uh it's like julia styles related trivia um the last save the last dance related uh movie trivia and we talk 90s basketball on it um as well so nice yeah those are two blakewexler.com at blake wexler uh and is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? Yes, there is. So one of my favorite tweets recently is from Katie O'Brien, who's a very funny comedian, actress, and at Katie C. O'Brien. And it says me on every Zoom call. And then it's a screen grab of E.T. in the grandma outfit with the wig and all the grandma clothes on. I just forgot how funny that image is because it is us.

We try to make ourselves look good, but we still look like aliens. Right. I have given up, in case you guys couldn't tell. I am unwashed. I haven't shaved. Just threw a hat on ahead of this call. Your beard looks good. Hey, thanks, man. I haven't shaved. Just threw a hat on ahead of this call. Beard looks good. Hey, thanks, man.

I appreciate it. Also, my face is scratched under the beard, so it's more... It's covering things up. It's from that rough pillow. Dominating her face. Damn pillow. Miles, where can

people find you, and what's the tweet you've been enjoying huh so you pawned off the kids bronzed first pair of shoes because the pillow was uncomfortable okay uh-huh yeah okay so the tv's missing because the pillow is uncomfortable okay um so yeah you can find me twitter instagram playstation network miles of. Also my other podcast for 20 Day Fiance talking about the trash TV show 90 Day Fiance. It's a hit. Now, a few tweets I like. Actually, I like a lot today. So buckle up. We're going on a tour day tweet. So buckle up. We're going on a tour day tweet. There's been a whole sort of new, you know, on black Twitter, a form of tweet, which is basically an acronym of some kind of long string of words about, you know, typically you. And it just says IDGAFWGASYBSYMFAITGDH. And that translates to, I don't give a fuck what Governor Abbott said. You better sit your motherfucking ass in that goddamn house. All right.

Then this one is from at Trippie Yelly. It says, y'all don't like using paper plates? I'll use a paper pot if i had the option fuck them dishes another one from at at dasani underscore bottle you are not alone there's bugs just a nice thing while you're dozing off you're not alone there's bugs there's bugs don't worry

Brendan O'Hare retweeted this headline from one of those things that you get randomly push notification of. The headline is, The Daily Show Makes History by Airing Longer Episodes During Coronavirus Pandemic. And Brendan O'Hare retweeted it and said, History buffs like myself live for stuff like this. retweeted it and said history buffs like myself live for stuff like this uh and then somebody tweeted a uh screen cap from animal crossing which uh i don't i don't play but i'm familiar with it

and it's from a airport in in the world of animal crossing and one of the signs shows uh that the like a liquid container with like the red cross through it and it says see that little sign in the hall they don't allow liquid containers on planes that implies 9-11 happened in animal crossing uh which is a fucked up thing that is so long oh that's from fat gordo and then kate berlant the great kate berlant tweeted something that's true and depressing she said so many

corona wedding vows coming if we can get through quarantine we can get through anything also i love that you are goofy you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can find us on twitter at Also, I love that you are goofy. 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, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we write out on Miles. What is that going to be today? Something Brazilian today. Something light, fun. This track's called Ye Mele. Y-E space M-E-L-E.

And it's by Luis Carlos Vines, who's like a pianist, Brazilian pianist from back in the day. Great, you know, fun track. Light. Keep it light. Keep it bright. Great, you know, fun track. Light. Keep it light. Keep it bright. Light. Light.

Light, baby. Light. Resilient. Here we go. Pianist, baby. Here we go. Here we go. Well, the Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio.

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