The Daily Zeitgeist - Nacho Dad’s Pepper Spray, Mueller Report To Be LIT 11.27.18

Episode Date: November 27, 2018

In episode 281, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Alison Stevenson to discuss the weekend box office, Melania's White House Christmas decorations, the Mueller Report coming out soon, the US climate report, the situation with the immigrants seeking asylum at the Mexico/US border, Jerry Springer's new show, Google trends and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. Ralph Breaks the Internet2. Creed II3. Melania Trump unveils the 2018 White House Christmas decorations4. Mueller report will be 'devastating' for the president: Frequent Trump defender5. Trump Administration’s Strategy on Climate: Try to Bury Its Own Scientific Report6. U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy7. San Ysidro border crossing closed for hours; U.S. officials fire tear gas at migrants8. US agents fire tear gas as some migrants try to breach fence9. Fox & Friends guest defends use of pepper spray on migrant caravan: "It's natural. You could actually put it on your nachos and eat it." 10. Trump’s Cheerleaders Praise the Border Patrol for Tear-Gassing Toddlers11. U.S. closes major crossing as caravan migrants mass at border in Mexico12. Mexico: Tijuana declares humanitarian crisis over migrant caravan13. Health impacts of chemical irritants used for crowd control: a systematic review of the injuries and deaths caused by tear gas and pepper spray14. Jerry Springer Will Return to TV Reborn As Judge Jerry15. Thicc Strip: A Body Positive Strip Show Tickets16. Daily Zeitgeist Merch on Tee Public17. Daily Zeitgeist at Chicago Podcast Festival Tickets18. WATCH: Letherette - Langsette (instrumental) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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box office reports TV ratings trending on Google and social media it's Tuesday November 27th 2018 my name is Jack O'Brien aka I like pleasure spiked with pain and music is my Jack O'Brien it's my

Jack O'Brien courtesy of's my Jack O'Brien. Courtesy of Hannah Soltis. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Welcome to Mar-a-Lago. This is my dad's resort. Nepotism, no reading. Can't wake him up for the policy briefing. Okay, well, that was born out of the last show we did

With Robot Caitlin, Caitlin Gill Based off a tweet from Nathan Lund And then put together again by At Emilio R. Gomez For your AKA pleasure Still can't get over that, but yes It's so good It doesn't have your name in it

So I'll just say It's Miles Upgrade Oh, thank you so much Well, we're thrilled to be joined by The very funny writer, Allison Stevenson Hi, thank you What's up? I mean, you know

Yeah Life and shit, yeah Life and shit How is life? I can say shit, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah You say it really well, actually. I can't say fuck?

Nah. You can just say shit, though. How was your Thanksgiving, your whole past week, everything about your life? You know, I'm not much of a Thanksgiving person, so I did not do anything. There you go. So you just sat in a dark room? I just sat in a very dark room. I ordered Domino's.

Hey! Did you on Thanksgiving? Yeah. Oh, wow. That's kind of like my little tradition. Did you on Thanksgiving? Yeah. We need them to service. That's kind of like my little tradition. It's my me. It's my self-care or whatever. I just get diarrhea, basically.

Yeah, yeah, me too. Doesn't stop us, though. So good. It really does. Diarrhea is a form of self-care. It can. Because you're on the toilet, you think a little bit. All those toxins.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a purging holiday. Allison, we're going to get to know you a little bit better. But first, we are going to take our listeners through what we're talking about today. We're going to talk a little bit, just checking with the box office, because there was some boffo BO over the weekend. Boffo BO. Boffo BO.

We're going to talk about Melania returning with the fire Christmas decorations. She did it last year, and she has taken it up a notch. We're going to talk, just kind of check back in with the Mueller thing, because there seems to be some things brewing on that front. We're going to talk about how the Trump administration took advantage of the slowest news day of the year to slide in their report on how climate change is going for America. We're going to talk about what's going on down at the border. It's a fucking mess. But we're going to talk about just how various conservatives are justifying that to themselves and each other. And, of course, we have to check in with Jerry Springer.

Oh, yeah. Because his show may be over, but make way for the honorable Judge Jerry. And if we have time, we will do a Google Trends skim at the end. But first, Allison. I also should have said, you're a comedian, too. I don't know why I just said right there. Yeah, that's fine. But we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I think this is revealing about who I am, but it is the most recent thing I searched, so I'm just going to say it.

I just looked up. It was like Frankie M muniz doesn't remember malcolm in the middle yeah yeah and then i just because i heard that right and i was like i don't know if this is a rumor or not i don't know how i oh it got brought up because i i was reading a frankie muniz tweet that made me i mean it's a sad i don't know if you guys know this tweet where he said that it's really sad but i'm laughing uh it's like he's like my whole entire home is destroyed like four of the five levels of my mansion is ruined from what the fires no it's an air he lives in arizona but it's because he was like away for

three days and one of his cats just opened the sink like somehow made the sink like overflowed his whole house is flooded like four or five stories completely flooded because of his cat because he was away from his cat

and it's like it's sad you know take care of your cats yeah because they can do damage too or get a house sitter bro you have a five story man

you think he just did the thing like ripped open the cat food bag and just threw it in the kitchen? He was like, all right, let's go. I really think that's what he did. And he was like, I was gone for four days, which I think is, come on, like two days I get. Two days, yeah. If you have a cat that can handle two days.

Exactly. Yeah. But the cat just destroyed his home and he tweeted it. And I don't know why, but I couldn't stop laughing and sharing it with people because I'm a horrible person. And someone was like, you know, he doesn't remember Malcolm in the Middle. Right. And so I had to Google that. Isn't that from like his F1 accident, like a racing accident or something?

Like he had a few things that have – That makes sense. He's had a few bad like health things. Because I remember when he tweeted that last year, we covered it. And we were like, damn, this guy's got some darkness. I don't remember covering it. So that is where I'm at mentally. And I haven't even been in a car racing crash.

Just normal car crash. Yeah. His Twitter sometimes slips into like Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now territory. Like he had this one Twitter run for like a week where he was just talking about all the scorpions in his house and like how he was like battling them and murdering them. And it was like very like, you know, Colonel Kurtz talking about the snail sliding on the edge of a razor. It's like, oh, your brain is melting, dude. Oh, my.

He had nine concussions. Yeah. No, the article I read said like 15. Oh, so you can't even remember. From Malcolm in the Middle? Damn. I had no idea that that show was so... He did all his own stunts. And then like many strokes too. Yeah, he's got, you know...

Come on, Malcolm. I'm pulling for you, but you know also four or five levels were ruined. Yeah. One of the quotes in the article that I read was like, I'm not a doctor person. Frankie's saying that. So I don't think he's really trying to make anything better. Yeah.

I'm not really a doctor person, so whatever. Anyway, what's the longest you can leave a cat in a house? Yeah. Five days? That sounds like an adaptive malfunction the people who are not doctor people are probably not gonna last that long uh what is something you think is overrated this is something i've always believed for a really long time and i just feel like people get angry at me and i'm not trying to be like I the Beatles I'm just gonna say wow the Beatles get the fuck out you know it's one of those things where it's like it's so I don't want to fight about it but yeah yeah it is really how I feel I don't like the Beatles music is it's it's it's all subjective

you know like you can't really go, I think they're great, but I'm not a huge fan. They're fine. I'm not one of these people who like capes for them. And that's when I brush up, I bristle against people and they're like,

they're the greatest band that ever existed. This is the greatest songs of all time. And I'm like, well, maybe to you. And I get,

that's valid for you. Yeah. I don't, I'm just not on that train. Just like the status they've achieved of like gods, I think is just really too much. It's a bit much. Oh wow. really too much. It's a bit much.

Oh, wow. Yeah. I think it's a bit much. They're good at what they do though. They were a good little band. Yeah, yeah, yeah. From Livable. They did the thing.

Yeah, they did their thing. And then we're like, okay. And after reading, I think, what was it? One of the Malcolm Gladwell books about how they did their 10,000 hours even prior to like blowing up. Right. At German strip clubs. Yeah.

Just playing live over and over. I'm like, oh, okay. This is starting to make sense why Right, at German strip clubs. Yeah, just playing live over and over. I'm like, oh, okay, this is starting to make sense why they just stepped out. Yeah, and they weren't doing it for very long, only eight years. Ah, the Beatles are great, aren't they, guys? Anyway, moving on. How does that usually come out?

Someone goes, this is the greatest album of all time, it'll be a Beatles thing, and you're like, ah, I disagree. Or you just kind of like to come out with a hot take? I think it comes from a place of being told my whole life that I have to love the Beatles singing, you're like, ah, I disagree. Or you just kind of like to come out with a hot take at some point. I think it comes from a place of being told my whole life that I have to love the Beatles. And then finally listening to the Beatles and being

like, yeah, okay, they're fun songs, but just this feeling like it's something I have to love, like it's a requirement. That kind of pisses me off. That's when I'm like, eh, no, I don't need to. I'll do what I want to do thank you. I'll think

they're okay for the rest of my life while worshipping the monkeys, I will admit Oh, you're a monkeys fan? Monkeys over Beatles? Yeah Woo! That is a hot take. Hot take alert Okay, yeah I have noticed in kind of

re-listening to them now, trying to introduce some of their songs to my son, his favorite song is Yellow Submarine, which is a garbage song. But a lot of their music is, I'd say of the popular music, they are maybe the closest to children's music. Their songs are very simple melodies. Very easy to sing, yeah. They get stuck in your head for years. maybe the closest to children's music. Their songs are like very simple melodies, like just like kind of catchy.

They get stuck in your head for years. Yeah. In that sense, they're, you know, if you don't think Rafi is a musical genius, then maybe, maybe you would agree.

I know. I actually think Rafi. I didn't bring Rafi. No, sorry. Now we get to your underrated Rafi. Wait, so who is the greatest band for you personally?

That's a tough... I mean, I am a big Elvis Costello fan. I think I'll always consider him one of my top faves. But I don't really have a favorite favorite. Like, this is my obsession. Except for in middle school when I was obsessed with Blink-182. There you go. Yes.

They deserve that title. And they've all gone on to do great things. They deserve the title Blink-182. There you go. Yes. They deserve that title. And they've all gone on to do great things. They deserve the title Blink-182. How did they come to deserve that? I don't know. Yeah, I'm still, my circuits are fried from Cyber Monday. What is something you think is underrated? I want to say white chocolate.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Wow. Go on. I'm listening. I want to say White chocolate Oh Okay Yeah Wow Go on I feel like I'm listening Now everyone's just like Fuck her

No This is probably more No these are hot These are boiling hot takes Yeah Boiling Yeah I love white chocolate

Yeah Hate the Beatles Love white chocolate I mean As you'll notice This section is designed To get people to Make some pretty unpopular statements. So don't worry too much about it.

What is your, you know what I really got into for a while there was the Kit Kat white chocolate. Better than the regular Kit Kat, I thought, for a while. The thing that I really got, well, when you eat cheap white chocolate, you're like, yo, this shit is fucking white wax. It's not good. And then you have a Lindor truffle white chocolate. That's what I was about to shout out. Your eyes roll back in your head like the girl eating the Doritos in that old Vine clip. That references for three people.

But then I had Magnum ice cream bars. They make like pints of ice cream now that are just the inside is lined with chocolate. Yeah. And you just like crack the shit. And it basically has broken up chocolate pieces. It's ingenious. Right. Damn.

But they have a white chocolate one that I was surprised how much I liked it. And I was like, this is, I'm starting to, my head's turning. I mean, I'm all, it's not, wait, what is white chocolate? It's not really chocolate though, right? Yeah, I've heard that it's not really chocolate. I don't know what it is. It is a chocolate derivative, which consists of cocoa butter, sugar, and milk solids. And it's characterized, yeah, so it's a chocolate derivative.

Okay. Anyway. I assume they made it in the same factory as Crystal Pepsi. And it was just, you know, they just take the color out. But it still got the essence. It's all in the same facility. Yes. That classic Crystal Pepsi, which I still see around every once in a while.

It made a comeback briefly. But it seems like it's had this petering comeback where they've been trying to get it to come back. And everyone's just like, nah, we're kind of over it. Oh, I'm sorry. Now the Washington Post had an article that says, for those who think white chocolate isn't real chocolate, we got bars for you. What are you, a battle rapper? Really?

They said we got bars for you? Must be chocolate bars. Right. But like, that's a play on the thing. Oh, wait. Let me see the byline. Written by Fabulous. Oh, there it is.

That makes sense. My favorite Washington Post columnist. Yeah. Yeah. No, white chocolate will surprise you every once in a while. Yeah, dipped in a pretzel. We're talking about Jason Collins, right? Yep, white chocolate.

Yeah, point guard for the Sacramento Kings. I call him Collins, but yeah, you can call him Jason. Who went to high school with Randy Moss in that great Nike commercial. That must have been a lot of fun to attend their games. And finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true that you know to be false? And I know you came in here with one that you've been dying to tell our listeners about. Sorry.

I think you said if the listeners are driving, pull over now. Because the gravity of this myth, I mean, just please. Just get ready to have your entire universe shaken to its foundations. And Allison. Yeah, no. I'm pausing for suspense here. Wow, really playing it up, you know? She's got the goods and she knows it.

Everybody sit down. I'm about to tell a tale. You know, actually. I'm about to tell a tale. Are you Googling what is a myth? I guess it's more like a stereotype. Okay, let's do it. But it's about Jews, which I am one of.

So I'm allowed to. Oh, my God. And the media. No. Go on. Just, you know, because, yeah, I was trying to think of something, and I think there's this myth slash stereotype that Jews complain too much. Mm-hmm.

And I think, really, what it is is that everybody else doesn't complain enough. Ah. Interesting. A get on my level kind of thing. Yeah. Advocate for yourself. The Jews are at the right place, and everybody else kind of has to step it up a little.

Mm-hmm. Just about every, like just complain as much as you want. What's a thing you think regular, the goys could start complaining about? Body pain. Yes. And it. Body pain. Yes. If your back hurts, let us know. If you're gassy, let us know. Let's talk about it.

Don't just be the strong, silent type. Yeah, exactly. That doesn't help anybody. Your neck's been hurting, let's talk about it. That kind of stuff. Just little things. Just little things. Just little things here and there. It's therapeutic.

It really helps. There is always something to talk about. Always. There is never an awkward silence in a Jewish household because you always have something to talk about. Exactly. Do you have any pain right now that you would like to talk about? You know, actually a little bit lower back.

Okay. Don't know why. Don't know. Maybe from lying down too much over the weekend. Yeah. I literally just didn't leave my bed. Yeah. And what does your bed consist of?

A mattress. I don't know. A mattress. Yeah. I don't know if you're like, it's egg crates or like milk crates or something. Like a cardboard box. A bed of nails, actually. A bed of nails.

Yeah. I don't know where this pain is coming from. All right. I love that myth. Complain more, guys. box a bed of nails actually yeah i don't know where this pain is coming from all right i love that myth uh complain more guys uh and guys let's get into uh what what's happening right now into the zeitgeist uh so just real quick wreck it ralph 2 ralph breaks the internet and creed 2 both crushed at the box office this weekend. The Rocky franchise holds a special place in my heart. I did not see it, but the very first movie I ever saw at theaters with my dad was Rocky IV.

And this movie is basically an avenging of Rocky IV because it's Apollo's son avenging his father's demise. Who killed his dad? Ivan Drago. Ivan Drago. Yes. Oh, and then now their sons are fighting each other? Yes. Are these fights to the death?

No, no. Not usually. Oh, I'm so confused. When you have Sylvester Stallone writing the movie, however, Sylvester Stallone is a genius of knowing that you always have to ramp it up. Sometimes he ramps it up a little too quickly, like in Rambo 2. But in Rocky IV, yeah, he had his best friend get murdered in the boxing ring in a friendly fight with a Russian. friendly fight with a Russian as like a,

it was like about, uh, he came in like dressed as, uh, George Washington or like had the big top hat, the American flag top hat and was just like goofing around. And then Ivan Drago literally murders him. Wait, why was it murder?

Uh, because like weights in his gloves or something. No, no, he's just that strong. And he's, then that's not murder. Jack.

Uh, but then he also, he also utters the line, which I feel like would have probably been a bigger deal in the boxing community. He says, if he dies, he dies as he's dying in front of him, which is, I think that is, you know, in this PR age of ours, athletes, their statements are always so carefully handled. He just came with the, if he dies, he dies. But he's a cybernetic organism from the Russian Federation.

So yeah, of course, if he dies, he dies. Anyways, Rocky goes to Russia, wins the Cold War for America. Cold War for America, because by the end, the Russian people are chanting his name, and the head of the Soviet Union in the movie goes and yells at the boxer. He's like, listen to them. They are chanting his name. And then Ivan Dragov lifts him up and throws him to the side, and then Rocky gives a long speech about how- Hey, you guys.

If I can change, you can change. Hey, you know... We all can change. Hey, you know, you guys got rights, you know? Yeah. You gotta fight for them, you know? Like we do in America. I feel like you've only seen one scene

in the entire Rocky franchise. It's Rocky Balboa, where he's in the court, and he just does a... He loses some judgment and just comes back. You don't know how to rise or something? That's all I... Hey, you don't know how to rise. And that'll always stay with me.

Yeah. Nothing else. Anyways, that movie did extremely well. It did even better than the first Creed, which did really well. Oh, it did? Yeah. Oh, good for them. For the first week in box office.

And, well, Wreck-It Ralph had our very own Danny Fernandez. Yeah. A little appearance in there. From How Stuff Works comedy podcast, Nerdificent. Wait, and the Robin Hood movie also came out this weekend? And did not do that well. I think I saw one commercial for it. Yeah, it was laughable.

Yeah. Approximately 25% of Hollywood's economy is built on just rebooting Robin Hood projects. Like there are literally 30 of them in production. So that a lot of people are going to lose their job because this movie did very badly. And yeah, at the top, we had two stellar outings. So, you know, America is interested in the internet and beating the shit out of Russians. Hey, you know, that actually makes a lot of sense. It's a whole, like, you know, franchise.

Yeah. We want to see the internet broken and we want to see Russia defeated. I don't know how that has anything to do with the zeitgeist. Good timing for that movie. Yeah. Well, speaking of none of that, Melania is back with her triumphant return to holiday decorating. Yo, it is. A hellscape.

It is literally a hellscape. Have you seen the photos? I saw like one. Okay, here, I'll just go through them. So yes, this year's theme was. Christmas trees made of blood. The theme was American treasures. And the statement is the the White House says,

decorations include a tree trimmed by gold star families. Okay, that makes sense. An array of topiary trees and mantelpieces featuring the skylines of New York City, St. Louis, Chicago, and San Francisco. And here's some, like, concept designs. Then she's literally walking around blood piles of just, like, congealed entrails

of the downtrodden people uh then uh a really nice like wreath made out of be best pencils which are very you know i guess shout out to yourself it's christmas very crafty there's a yeah like the video that i think was released from her twitter account that we took all these clips from it's just like her just like being in awe of her own you know design prowess and i really did it what do you guys think of this tree topper tree topper is very nazi-tastic yeah it is a golden eagle with its wing spread uh which yeah looks like it belongs in a at the top of a flagpole in a classroom. Yeah, at the Reichstag.

But, yeah, I mean, you know, sure, sure, Melania. That's cool for you. That's how you want to design your house as your house. I don't look forward to being invited ever. So the tree's made entirely out of cranberries, like branches. Oh, it is? I believe so, based on the progression where they show us the cranberry branches

and then the trees. Is that a cranberry? I don't know what that is. Aren't they grown in a bog? Yeah, that's true. It looks like giant elves were buried there. Yeah. Just like their hats sticking out.

Or wasn't it in War of the Worlds where the machines just picked people up and then just shat out weird goo? Well, it wasn't goo. It turned them into ash. Oh, okay. It was a very clear reference to 9-11, actually. Oh, was it?

I think so. Because he's running around and there's ash all over him from disintegrated people. Oh, right, right, right. You remember? What movie am I thinking of where they were leaving behind red webbing

on the whatever? That's important yeah because this is this really looks like don't spoil my my hanukkah decorations it looks like a more dramatic if you like did a freeze frame on the moment after the blood elevators opened in the shining. And then like, because it looks like it's just red cascading down. It really looks. And then there is on one of the trees, there is not the blood trees, the regular Christmas trees.

There's just an ornament. The official White House tree. There's an ornament that just says Puerto Rico. Did you see that picture on Twitter? That when the tree was brought in Trump slapped the horse's ass that was bringing the tree in? There was some horse-drawn carriage pulled up to the White House.

There's just a photo of him as if he were at some stockyard assessing the product. That's just muscle memory for him. He can't not slap something on the ass. Right. He's like, oh, I can't resist.

Yeah. But this is all just a waking nightmare. Do you all have Christmas ornaments you put up every year? Do you still do this? No. I do. Yeah. Okay.

I don't. What about you? Yeah. Do you have a pickle that you put on your tree? Yeah. What is with that? Well, we just got that a few years ago, and I forget what tradition it's from. you have a pickle that you put on your tree yeah what is with that we just got that like for a few years ago and i forget what tradition it's from but i have a pickle her majesty has a pickle that's why we have one and it just says she has a pickle on her tree yeah

somebody gave it to us i mean we just started doing christmas trees because we're uh but we even growing up we did not have a pickle but now my new tree has a pickle. Wow. I think that just broke wide, that tradition. A pickle, yeah. Yeah, explain it to us. Zeitgeist. Because we're too lazy to Google. Like a real pickle? No, like a pickle ornament.

Oh. Yeah. Moldy, disgusting, rotten pickle. Interesting. Use the same one. It's hard as a rock. Yeah. All right, we're going to take a quick break.

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I forgot you forget that shit's going on in D.C. constantly. Yeah, I don't. I forgot about it. And then you look at the president's tweets on Monday and you're like, oh, okay. Because it's a good, we get an idea of what his current panic attacks are about. Right. So this one was when Mueller does his final report, will he be covering all of his conflicts of interest in a preamble?

Will he be recommending action on all of the crime? He just goes on and on hundreds of people close. He's just trying to, I don't know, act as if

don't believe what's about to come out, whatever this report is and because he never asked other people who would tell him that there was no collusion. He's using the all

effective look. There may have been people who committed crimes in my campaign, but think about all the people who didn't. Who didn't. And he didn't ask them if they didn't. Right. So, wow.

Okay, just go after the people that did. That's fair. Right. All 12 of my interns. Right. Clean record. Yeah, but it does seem like, I don't know, people in the know, and I'm going to include the president on that because he is the president and the subject of this report, but there seems to be something bubbling up. There's a lot cooking.

Alan Dershowitz, who has always been on the president's side when it comes to this report, came out and said, I think the report is going to be devastating to the president, and I know that the president's team is already working on a response to the report. He said that on this week yesterday with George Stephanopoulos. So I think people are vaguely aware that Mueller has his report about to drop, and it's not going to be good for the president. It's going to make the story of Adidon even look, it'll make that look tame.

But yeah, like, because there are other people around the Mueller investigation that are also like just saying all kinds of stuff, like Jerome Corsi, who was like the former DC Bureau Chief for Infowars and birther conspiracy theorist and John Kerry Swift boat guy. Like, he's out here like doing on one America news,

which is like the fucking even zanier non news thing for right wingers. Right. They were like, like we can exclusively report that Jerome Corsi is going to like reject his plea deal with Mueller and then sue him. And then also drop a book about his, quote, Gestapo-style tactics. Yeah. Wow.

Okay. So that can't be – I mean, clearly that man is in a tailspin. Like the idea that he's going to have a book or something that's going to exonerate him, I'm not sure what's going on there. Then George Papadopoulos, he had to go to jail Monday and was like asking – and the last minute he tried to push back and be like, yo, I actually shouldn't be going to jail. And the judge was like, see you Monday, man. You're going.

And I don't care what you think the law is, but you are going. So, yeah, we'll see. And then also there's going to be a report that Mueller puts out on Manafort's cooperation. It's a status report. So we'll know just how cooperative and, you know, easy to work with Mr. Manafort's cooperation. It's a status report. So we'll know just how cooperative and easy to work with Mr. Manafort has been. Oh, that'll be interesting.

So there could be, who knows what's going to happen. But one thing I also did read is that as more and more people leave the White House, especially for general counsel for the White House, they're like, oh man, the White House is so horribly ill-prepared for like the coming subpoenas

and all these other things Democrats are about to go ham on in terms of investigating and things like that. So this can't be, add that to the pile of the Mueller report coming out soon, maybe? Dropping soon. Yeah. You almost make it sound like it's gonna be like on SoundCloud

or something. Yeah, exactly. Link in bio, link in bio. It does seem like Mueller is using sort of the, I don't know, like the recording artist timing thing where you go silent for a while and then people are like, oh shit, no, I can't wait to find out like what he's about to drop. Oh, whoa, the Mueller report came preloaded on my new iPhone? Nods is coming.

Yeah, yeah. By the way, just speaking about people, stories coming out from behind the scenes of the White House. The story wherein somebody asks Trump how much he thinks the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman earns, and he says $5 million was one of my favorite things from over the weekend. $5 million? He just assumes everyone's like a millionaire around him. And that was probably him thinking of like a low number. wait how did that poor guy uh just someone on the spot like

hey how much do the joint chiefs make i don't know five million all right moving on chief of staff john kelly has told others about watching tv with trump and asking the president how much the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff earns trump guessed five million dollars according to people who were told the story by ke, startling the Chief of Staff, Kelly responded that he made less than $200,000. The president suggested he get a large raise and noted the number of stars on his uniform. Oh, a star for a million dollars a star. For every star.

Look at all those stars. This guy deserves millions. At least four. Yeah. Why isn't there five? We're not in war? Okay. But yeah, he's just not a...

This is the... Wait, so someone quizzed him, basically? Like, you're like, hey, Mr. President, how much do you think he makes? Well, Kelly comes off as like an annoying asshole in the story, too, because have you ever been like talking to somebody and they ask you a question that you think they're like genuinely curious about, but they know the answer? Oh, just to try and fuck with you? So you were just just quizzing me?

Right, right, right. Fuck you, man. But instead, Trump just started talking about all the shiny things on the guy's uniform because that's how his mind works. He's like, what's that one? The American flag? Oh, yeah, that's pretty cool.

We're going to have stars in that one. So he should get 54. Probably like 30, 35. So you should get 54. They're probably like 30, 35. So it's always fun to look at the news cycle over the long Thanksgiving holiday because, first of all, the news is – we talked on today's episode, I think, about how the news media has these stories that they just rerun every year. And one of them is like black friday stampede and one of the other things you'll see is that people try to just like you know offload a bad news story sort of like andy defrain leaking dirt from his like pant leg in shawshank redemption

ah yes like you know quietly like don't don't look over here. I was going to say Leslie Nielsen and Naked Gun 33 and a third. Also that. When they're playing baseball. I'm sorry. So the Trump administration decided to take advantage of that slow news day to inform us of our impending doom. They dropped a 1,656 page national climate assessment, which is, they only did because it's required by Congress, obviously. Waste of paper. I know. Think about it. Right? It's making things work.

It's just not very promising. You mean because it's a real assessment of climate change? Yes. I don't know if we can keep acting surprised. Yeah. and I don't know if we can keep acting surprised. Yeah. I mean, somebody even speculated in the New York times article about this,

that this could have some legal precedent or some sort of legal implications for the administration, because now you have clear evidence that they know about this. So if they continue with policies where it's like, you are not doing the bare minimum to help prevent problems that are actually hurting Americans. Like that's somewhat of a dereliction of duty. You know, they have this incredibly detailed report to point to, at least in courtrooms going forward. Well, yeah, I mean, I think the Pentagon warned W. Bush like 14 years ago.

They're like, hey, this will fuck the world up. It's like, eh, come on now. Right. Strate like, Hey, this will fuck the world up. He's like, come on. Right. Strategy. Yeah. I mean, we talked before,

you know who else dropped news a day before Thanksgiving was Facebook. Also admitting they're like, yeah, a lot of the stuff you read in that, uh, New York times piece was true. So we did direct them to take the sorrow sangle. Right.

On, uh, trying to defend our fucking negligence as a company uh-huh so yeah i guess that's just a note to anybody just if you want to announce something just just put that out there on the wednesday before thanksgiving right but yeah i mean i i think people are probably familiar with the very straightforward repercussions of climate change like the hurricanes and the flooding from the hurricanes and right but there's also they point to in this report you know flooding from thunderstorms and like things that aren't like huge national news stories but that are still you know smaller

weather events that are still going to cost people you know over the course of the next couple years hundreds of billions of dollars uh like basically, you know, it keeps getting worse and worse where it used to be 25 years from now, we're all fucked. And then earlier this year, it became 12 years from now, we're all fucked. And then this report's like, actually, we're all kind of already fucked. We're currently fucked. We're being fucked right now. We're fucked. That sensation that you feel.

That feeling when right so uh and one of the stories that has been pointed to as like a less straightforward thing is just the conflict in syria was at least partially caused by yeah drought yeah drought caused by potentially climate change so i mean there's going to be all sorts of national security issues that we, I don't think, I'm going to go out and say it. I don't think this president's taking it seriously enough. Oh, whoa, whoa. Hey, whoa, whoa.

What the fuck, Jack? I've just, I'm up to here with this guy. I'll tell you what. Well, it's also funny is when you hear people like on the right too, I think it was Rick Santorum's whack ass being like, oh, it'll like dealing with climate change will devastate the economy. Right. And you're like, OK, capitalism. What are we like?

You're saying let's put that off and then we'll just shrivel up and die in fires and floods or whatever. When you can't just do the bare minimum to try and like get a hold of this thing. Yeah. I love all those tweets. I see that conservative. I think even Trump tweeted it. That was just like the coldest this thing. Yeah. I love all those tweets. I see that conservative. I think even Trump tweeted it. That was just like, the coldest winter ever.

Oh, God. Yeah. Global warming my ass or whatever. It's like, wow. Oh, my God. Where's global warming now? Yeah. Global colding.

Yeah. I was just in a meat freezer. Where's global warming now? Take that. So another thing that has been going down over the weekend is just the fucking mess at the border. Yeah. The caravan.

Which doesn't stop all this bad news. I know. Yeah. The caravan finally arrived, or at least part of it. Yeah. Well, and there are a lot of people just currently at the border, specifically at the San Ysidro border crossing, where there are, I think something like 5,000 people camped out near the sports complex. And they're all trying to apply for asylum because the administration's like, if you're going to do it, you do it the right way. And you present

yourself at a point of entry and apply for asylum there. And there's a couple of problems with that. You have 5,000 people who are trying to do that. And right now the agents at the border are processing less than like 100 a day. So do the math on that and tell me that you don't have people trying to figure out what the fuck is going on. So there was people protesting about how just slowly they're like processing asylum claims and things like that. And that protest turned into this showdown between the border patrol and some people who tried to cross the border, like breach a like a weak point in the border on Sunday.

And they fired some tear gas at them, like into Mexico, the U.S. Border Patrol. And then like the gas was like carried downwind. And like you had a bunch of there were like awful images of like like parents running with like shoeless kids, like clearly choking on like all the tear gas and things like that. And this is like one of these really fucking it's just a shit situation because the u.s laws if you make it to u.s soil you are entitled to ask for asylum so you can't even even if you didn't cross at a point of entry so they're changing the rules constantly trying to make it harder and harder for these people who are not again here to fucking take over your aunt's lake house in minnesota or fucking get your free use, slow up the wifi in your neighborhood.

People who are fleeing violence and just a lack, total lack of economic opportunity. Some people who are coming from Honduras are like sort of like business owners who are just could not stand the violence in their country. So they're not, you know, again, this is a situation where typically the U S was a place of refuge for people. And now it's like, I don't know, Trump's talking is a situation where typically the U.S. was a place of refuge for people. And now it's like, I don't know, Trump's talking about trying to completely shut the border down, which legally he cannot do. And even Fox News just told had to tell him they're like, you legally can't just shut the border down, Mr. President. But they also had some pretty hot takes on the tear gas that was being shot at people on Fox and Friends.

I think it was a guest of theirs said that the tear gas is all good because it's all natural. And I think that it's so natural you could eat it maybe. Yeah, you put it on your nachos. Yeah, let's just hear this hot take. There was a small hole they were able to puncture through the border wall, and they hurled all sorts of rocks, et cetera, at the Border Patrol agents, and then they fired the tear gas.

Is that warranted? Absolutely. And to clarify, the type of deterrent being used is OC pepper spray. It's literally water, pepper, with a small amount of alcohol for evaporation purposes. It's natural. You could actually put it on your nachos and eat it. Uh-huh. All right, so let's see that.

Yeah. Let's see that. CS Nacho Challenge. We really should feed this motherfucker. Let's see that fucking GOP. I want to see all y'all just fucking. This is Ronald Colburn, who is Border Patrol Foundation founder. Uh-huh.

And just to have to state the obvious, and I wish that our world wasn't where you had to state the obvious, but the chemicals that combine with the pepper can cause adverse cardiac, respiratory, and neurological effects, including arrhythmias and sudden death. That is especially true of children who come into contact with pepper spray. I mean, you probably knew pepper spray was bad, but just it's I feel like at a certain point, the only thing to do is just take each of these arguments one at a time and just kind of bat them down. Well, yeah, because I mean, all people on the right are trying to do is rationalize what like why everything is OK. Why you can treat these people like this. To rationalize pepper spray.

Yeah. As a nacho topping? First of all, what are these nachos that you're eating where you're going to put pepper? Spray on them? Even the idea of just putting pepper. Right. Because I think he was trying to get at that. Like, oh, you know, how you pepper your nachos?

Right. Which is like... Oh, like black pepper? Right. Someone comes around, some fresh ground you pepper your nachos. Right. Which is like, what? Oh, like black pepper. Right. Someone comes around, some fresh ground pepper on your nachos? Uh-huh, yes. No, I actually brought my own CS gas that I'm going to spray on it. Please wear a gas mask.

Alyssa Milano tweeted, you tear gassed women and children. S-Wipe and Tommy Lauren quote, bum rushing the border is a choice and has consequences. Quote, bum rushing the border is a choice and has consequences. Watching the USA finally defend our borders was the highlight of my Thanksgiving weekend. Prayer hands, prayer hands, prayer hands. Wow. What a monster. And then there was breaking news live showing a report. U.S. military helicopters are currently heavily patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border near the border city of Tijuana as illegal immigrants try to storm the U.S. border.

And there's a picture of a person from the caravan or, you know, an immigrant who's, quote, trying to storm the border who is in a wheelchair. And Derek Hunter from The Daily Caller tweeted, I'm sure the guy in the wheelchair will be net positive to the economy. Oh, my God. And then hashtag shut it down. So, yeah. Like the proudly unsympathetic, unempathetic response to this is just, you know, it's nice. It's like getting an ice bath of just conservative shittiness

like that gets us back into the news cycle. Right, yeah. We were too comfortable over the news cycle. Right, yeah. We were too comfortable over the weekend, I guess. It's funny because no one can ever acknowledge what these people are fleeing. They can only sort of frame this as the barbarians at the gate, so to speak, of just people trying to break in,

mash the gates up, breach the border. And I think even the Mexican officials, it was maybe 30 at the most people who were actually part of like trying to breach the actual border or whatever. There were people sort of like in this dry riverbed part where a lot of the sort of showdown was happening, but it's never acknowledging what the situation is that these people are fleeing.

It's always just like, Hey, they're trying, they're coming for whatever. Our lake houses, our jobs, whatever, not high. Have you ever had a child and had to worry about what their future was going to be like? You had daughters, you had to worry about sexual violence or people getting killed in gang violence and things like that,

and your only option is to fucking leave your home? Nah, nah, nah, nah. Yeah, it's like coming from this, if you want to leave your home, the place you're from, there's obviously something going on that you want to leave your home the place you're from like you're obvious there's obviously something going on that you need to get away from like people don't like i'm sure they're not like yeah i get to like leave my home country like it's not a stoked thing it's like i gotta

i have to do this i literally have to do this and to not see that and just think that it's like a fun thing that's like yeah yeah they just want they just want to live here. Okay. Well, that's the comfort of not having any sort of, any realistic existential threat to you. Like the closest thing you'd be like, there weren't enough steampunkers in my town in Idaho, so I had to move to Seattle. Right. Yeah, exactly.

And you're like, I left. Yeah. A bad situation. And those people who fled Iowa to live with more steampunkers in Seattle are the people who the conservatives all hated. And they're like, fuck you. Don't move to my town. Also, just to dismantle some of the excuses that conservatives are using to go to sleep at night, they've been talking about how Mexico offered them asylum, but they refused to accept the asylum.

That offer of asylum was made on a, quote, rural stretch of highway where the caravan was blocked by over 100 cops dressed in riot gear. And there was no guarantee that they wouldn't immediately be deported after asylum was granted. So it wasn't great. Like just the term asylum? Yeah. You'd be like, okay, asylum. And now you have to go. It wasn't a great offer that everybody on the right is making it out to be.

And also, these are people who are fleeing violence, like you said. And Mexico has had a history. People have fled Mexico because of how, you know, certain groups like LGBTQ people are treated or people with indigenous heritage. So Mexico is also not the ideal location to be granted asylum. Yeah, so come to the U.S. where some right-wing terrorist will fucking kill you. But we're not. We're mostly okay. That's the thing.

Yeah, right. And then officers in Mexico encourage asylum seekers to give up on their applications and just get deported. They openly mocked people's fears of violence and actively discouraged them from seeking protection. There's also the why don't they just enter legally? Because, I mean, the clear answer to this is they must just like breaking the law or something. Right. Yeah.

No, they are trying to seek asylum through the proper channels. No, they are trying to seek asylum through the proper channels, and Fox just completely focuses on the people who are trying to storm the border. Like it was like a scene from The Walking Dead, but it's actually, that's a very, very small portion of the caravan. It was like 500 people held a peaceful protest out of the 8,000 people in the caravan, And then like a group of a couple, like, yeah, like you were saying, 30 just broke off. Well, yeah. And then like I was saying, like, why don't they apply legally? It's because the Trump administration is just basically trying to end the practice of granting people asylum completely. So they're like, OK, well, then not just we'll ignore the laws that say if you get to the U.S., then you can apply. It's like, well, now you have to do it through this very narrow channel.

And even then, there's such a backlog that I think it's less than 100. Some are saying less than 40 or maybe 40 a day. Yeah. And the reason some of these people are desperate enough to storm the border is that they're being held in soccer stadiums with two bathrooms for thousands of people. And they're just terrible circumstances that they're living in and they have children with them. And it's a humanitarian crisis. And then there's obviously the argument about pepper spray that we already explained why it's not totally correct, at least. pepper spray that we already explained why it's not totally correct at least again i look there's anybody from fox that really wants to do the cs nacho challenge yeah put them pull up you know

what i mean is that safe pull up i want to see you to hold nachos bel grande and fucking gas that shit right and let's see how how fucking tough your insides are. Right. Oh, my goodness. Someone will do it. I can't wait to watch that video. I have a feeling some troll can be baited into it. Yeah, some teenager. They're like, oh, yeah, I'll show you. Actually, but I don't even know if they would upload the video because it would be taking such a massive L on the internet. Right, and it also may possibly be dying.

So that makes it hard to upload the video. But it's all natural. I can die from something all natural. I don't know. That's the question, isn't it? All right. We're going to take another quick break. We'll be right back.

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I mean, look, it was some dark days ahead because, as we all know, I mean, I don't know about you guys. I have Google Alerts set up for Jerry Springer. But after 27 fucking seasons, I cannot believe it had 27 seasons, the CW basically stopped ordering new episodes. And so the former, wasn't he the mayor of Cincinnati? He was Or Cleveland

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After all that He Yeah, the season is ending So the Jerry Springer show is ending And we all know Steve Wilkos He had to leave He had his we all know Steve Wilkos. He had to leave. He had his own show. Yeah.

The Steve Wilkos show, which is another flaming pile of American garbage. But this one is now, the new show will be called Judge Jerry. And, I mean, you guys already get where this is going. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The show will have Jerry Springer, quote, slide from the stage to behind the bench using law and order to settle disputes. At least they accurately portrayed how he moves, which is just sliding along on a trail of slime, I believe. Yeah, right. But, I mean, it would be interesting what kind of fake conflicts they had cooked up in this show.

Right. Considering how, wasn't all of the Jerry Springer show fake, basically? Or they could find people with enough problems and they could just embellish on the show? I think it was just, yeah, very embellished. I think those were real problems that they escalated. Oh, yeah. I mean, my husband doesn't know that the baby is his brother's. Right.

It's a common theme on that show. Right, right, right. And in life. Right. Or like early on, like every episode was some weird problematic transphobic episode. Right, yeah. Or something. You what?

Yeah. You're not a woman? Right. So I don't know what this show will end up doing, but you know, he's got a liberal streak to him, so maybe he'll do something less wacky. I'm just wondering if there's still going to be physical altercations. Like, are they going to keep that going? I mean, that's one thing these judge shows are missing.

Yeah. Because no one acts up in Judge Judy's court. Right. Because she's too... No, that's terrible. She will fucking destroy you with her words. There are great super cuts of Judge Judy just vaporizing people rhetorically. But yeah, I don't know.

I think it's going to be mostly trial by combat and trial by ordeal. Just those middle ages ways of determining whether you just fight each other to the death. And if you don't die, then you are innocent. Boom. And you get to be the king of Judge Jerry's court. But, you know, good luck to him. This is an NBC venture. So maybe one day we'll be on that show and we can have a dispute settled.

Right. That's a great idea. Okay, great. Well, let's try and book that. Jack, you and I, let's create a – Who books the Jerry Springer show? Judge Jerry show. The Judge Jerry show, yeah.

I mean, brilliant people, clearly. Two podcast hosts argue over the name of their show. They fight over a Casper mattress. Judge Jerry, when the deal came through, I was promised a king size mattress and Jack took that. So what say you? It's also playing that Jerry has any sort of like what he says will actually get be in effect. Right. Like if he's like you, you win.

Like what's going to go from there? Right. Judge Judy is an actual like judge. Like a very successful like hard-nosed you know person from the legal profession.

Right. And Judge Jerry they're just going to be like no, fuck you man. Well he's got a JD from Northwestern. Oh, my bad. Yeah.

And he was a political campaign advisor to RFK. Right. But Judge Judy had a long and distinguished legal career before she decided to become a billionaire. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, her money is so long. I know. It will, your eyes will roll back in your head.

Yeah. Is that show still? Oh, yeah. Okay. I wasn't sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's like, the last deal she signed was some kind of astronomical. What? He's like, good for you, Judge Judy. Hell yeah. I don't sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's like, the last deal she signed was some kind of astronomical. Like, it was like, good for you, Judge Judy.

Hell yeah. I don't know why. I'm like, really, I really want her to do well. Standing. And she really is doing well. All right, guys. Let's check in with Google Trend Search. What was trending?

What is trending over? What are y'all talking about? So yesterday, Cyber Monday was obviously trending. Did you guys cyber any Monday up? Nope. Cool. Nope. Thought about it, but... The closest thing I bought over the weekend was a

portable battery pack to charge my phone with, because it was really cheap. That's pretty dope. But that's about the level of excitement in my life. Yeah. I need one of those actually. Oh really? Hint. Well look. You should have agreed to do a Secret Santa Jack but you said no. I got a leaf

blower. That's my big thing. You did? Plug in leaf blower. Yeah. What? For our backyard. Oh wow. You gonna use it? Yeah. Okay. Hell yeah. That's some real dad shit. Let me borrow that. I am turning into the daddest dad. Yeah, did you order some khaki shorts too? With a belt?

It came with the leaf blower. Yeah, khaki shorts with a brown belt and a white polo you could tuck right in there with sockanies. Or no, Avia sneakers. A couple of days ago, NBA Youngboy was trending, and that is a rapper's name. Who's NBA Youngboy? He's a rapper who was rumored to have been shot three times over the long weekend and who has responded to those rumors saying, I wasn't shot. My name's NBA Youngboy.

I think that's my favorite new rapper name that I've heard. Dummy Boy, also trending. Also, that's actually Tekashi69's new album. Oh, it is? Yeah. Aw, man. He's in jail. He can't do any press for that, huh?

What a wasted album. Is there any update on him? Is he trending? Is he safe in jail? He's the child molester, right? He was in a video where I think someone was having sex with a 13-year-old in it or something. Right. Which was like very...

Anyway, yeah. Okay. So that's what... And he only got probation for that. Oh. Yeah. I mean, come on. I mean, get a good lawyer, I guess.

We've all showed up in the wrong video. Wrong place, wrong time. Wrong place, wrong time. Your background of a video where somebody's, you know. Having sex with a 13-year-old child? Okay. Okay, NBA young boy. Let he without sin throw the first stone.

I don't know how that saying goes. Abandon this one. A lot of NBA stuff tweeting or trending. Dwight Howard, there was a big story that I think ended up being a hoax, but it was basically his former girlfriend, who is a trans woman, came out and alleged that he had abused her when they were in a relationship, and that gave NBA Twitter the opportunity to just be incredibly problematic. Yeah, it was interesting.

I thought there was going to be a thing where we had like a star athlete kind of be outed and see how he dealt with it and the world dealt with it. But it looks like this might be a hoax because the person who outed him apparently did the exact same thing to Playboi Carti last year, like around this time. Wow. Homophobic hip-hop fans. Do you believe it? Wild. What can we do? Wait, what was the thing with Tiger Woods playing Phil Mickelson?

I saw that training. Did they just do like a weird trick match or something, like a charity game or something? What the fuck was that? It was not a charity game. It was a pay-per-view. They tried to boxing-ify golf. They did one-on-one Tiger Woods versus Phil Mickelson, where the winner would win $9 million.

Oh, that's why I saw memes of Tiger Woods looking up, like literally a mountain of cash, and it said, definitely when you lose $9 million. Yeah. Wait, so, oh my, wow. Golf, come on now. What is going on? How many people paid for that shit?

Nobody. I think a lot of people initially paid for it, and then there were technical difficulties, and the parent company had to just turn that whole shit down. Oh, and just make it free? Yeah, just refunded almost everybody's money. Damn. How'd that go?

So that's a bad day for them. Anybody watched any football over the weekend? Michigan versus Ohio State? No, I saw that LSU-Texas A&M game go to like nine overtimes. Yeah. Or just towards the tail end of that. And that was the first time I've watched college football in a long time. And I didn't know what was going on. You know how people like make fun of fans of sports by being like, oh, you root for the laundry. You just cheer for a team even though the player leaves the team, but all you care about is the logo on the thing. I literally root for Michigan because of the laundry.

I just like their uniforms, and I've always rooted for them ever since the Fab Five. Always been a big Wolverine fan? Always been a big Wolverine fan since the Fab Five. I mean, if you're actually a fan of a team or a club, it's because you actually like the team and not the players in it. Right. Yeah, yeah.

You know what I mean? Yeah, and I've just heard that logic attacked by people being like, oh, you're just a fan of the laundry. Oh, well. Yeah. My laundry's looking great. I know. You're just a fan of the tattoo on your hand.

Yeah, well, what are you going to do? Yeah. Well, those are a couple things that jumped out at me from the trending searches. I couldn't contribute to anything about sports. Oh, I have to ask one thing because it was a long weekend and everybody had a lot of time. Did anybody watch movies over the weekend? They actually watched something new? Because I finally saw A Star is Born.

Oh, wow. And I didn't realize Lady Gaga is in the movie. That was really tight. This was a bit that you told me you were doing the whole movie. Yeah, I was pissing off Her Majesty. We were watching with some friends. Shout out to Jason and Andrea. But I was like, wait, so that's Lady Gaga?

Damn. That was it. Although Bradley Cooper, a lot of people had the take of like, yeah, Bradley Cooper was like, whatever. I didn't think he was bad, but I guess his character could have been played by, I think, any actor. I didn't feel like it was something that only Bradley Cooper could have played. His ultimate decision, his character's most important decision, I will say, feels unearned. But I thought his performance was pretty cool. Maybe just because I've seen him be so different that I was like, man, he really changed his voice. Right. That's pretty cool. Maybe just because I've seen him be so different that I was like, man, he really

changed his voice. Right. That's pretty cool. Ain't gonna look anybody can talk like this, Jack. Nope. See? Nice track. Piss myself. You're no Bradley. Did you see Starsmore? No, I haven't seen it. Do you care to? Is there any no gravity? Did you not know that Lady Gaga? Well, now that

I know Lady Gaga's in it, I'm gonna have to check it out. I feel like they should have led with that. Yeah. They should have definitely promoted that more. I thought it was just Bradley Cooper like a solo show.

Yeah, me too. I thought it was his life story. Also, shout out to Shangela. The drag queen was in the movie. Very heavily featured. And they called her Shangela, so yes. Okay.

Hallelujah. I like Shangela. I only watched a movie by the name of Rules of Engagement that was on so I finally got cable uh after after moving a few weeks ago and just went into a you know just watching whatever shitty movie was on on stars at like 11 o'clock at night and Rules of Engagement was it in which Tommy Lee Jones defends Samuel L. Jackson for like slaughtering a group of people in Yemen, I believe.

And it is the most Islamophobic movie I've ever seen. And I assumed it was like in response to September 11th, but it was like a year before September 11th. They're just like, yeah, you're going to want some justification for why. Wow. I thought you were talking about the David Spade show, Rules of Engagement.

No. Yeah. I've already seen that. Great show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can't believe that show was on for six years. So producer Anna Hosnier watched a ton of movies, like an impressive number of movies,

and she said the crimes of Grindel Mild. Grindel Mild? I think I nailed that. Gryffindor. Candlewood. Candlewood was hard to follow on edibles.

Her most cogent critique of the movies she watched over the weekend. Yeah, I heard that not many people were feeling that one. Yeah. Or the Robin Hood one. I think I want to go see the Robin Hood one. Nah.

I'm a little curious. I kind of want to see it. I think I need to see it. I think I need to go. I like to be in a movie and get so angry at the movies. It's a good feeling. I don't know. It's a chase, I feel.

I think it's better to go into- 14% on Rotten Tomatoes? Oh, okay. Anna just pointed to me. 14% on Rotten Tomatoes. For, okay. Anna just pointed to me. 14% on Rotten Tomatoes. For the Crimes or Robin Hood? For Robin Hood. What is it on Metacritic?

It's like three. I don't know. It's hard for me to hate a movie. Really? I feel like a movie has to do a lot for me to hate it. Or don't you ever watch a terrible movie and just turn it off?

You're like, okay, no, you're pushing me too far. I can't believe any of this yeah like if I'm bored I'll like you know be like they try

I don't know it's hard for me to be like this I need to walk I've never really walked out I think I've only walked out of two movies my whole life oh wow

even if it's bad I'm like I'll just watch it well a movie I paid for I'm not gonna walk out of yeah what'd you walk out of Safe Haven

I actually wrote about walking out of that one. Which one's Safe Haven? It's like a Nicholas Sparks joint. One of them. It's so bad. Sounds like it wasn't a Safe Haven for you. Wait, so what took you to the point where you go, I cannot physically be in the same space as this film right now?

I think it was my state of mind. I was really hungover. I wanted to go into like a cheesy rom-com sort of romantic movie kind of being like i just need this right now because like everything sucks and then it just made everything worse instead of being like the sort of heart fluttery like oh maybe love is out there or whatever it was like fuck this and i just had to walk out it was so bad it was like there's a you know i don't want to give too much away i think people fuck it i can't i get just do it

it starts off kind of almost feeling like it's like a like a crime thriller where this woman the spoil. Holy shit. Spoiler alert. There are opening credits. But it's like you feel like it's like a crime thriller and it's like woman is escaping town and you're like why is she and then she lands up in this little town and meets this guy and they fall in love and then you finally find out why she

was escaping and like she's supposedly wanted for murder but it's just her crazy alcoholic ex-husband who's trying to find her and he works for the cops and he's like framing her for murder so he like can get her back home and then this whole time she has like a friend who she meets in this town and you find out at the end that this friend is the ghost of her new boyfriend's ex-dead wife. What? Damn.

I just walked out. Fuck that. Miles just walked out on that summary. I can't for this. Too much. They just packed every plot twist into that movie. It was very Shyamalan-esque. And then it turned out she was also dead.

And turns out I was dead, too. Right. On the inside. Yeah. Godzilla 1998. The only movie I've ever walked out with. And I was... With Jean Reno and Matthew Broderick?

Yeah. Oh, come on. Come on, Jack. Garbage. I don't know what the fuck I was expecting. I think it's because it's in the same genre as my favorite movie, Jaws, and so I go in with higher expectations than I should. Godzilla is like Jaws?

It's a monster movie. I guess my perception is so based in Japanese culture, I'm like, oh, I'll just habitually see every Godzilla movie. Yeah, no, Japan ripped off Jaws. Oh, for sure. I've always said that. I know, and I apologize to. Oh, for sure. I've always said that. I know. And I apologize to you every day for that.

Yes. But the thing that really got me is because of the Taco Bell promotion with Chalupas. You had to get the Z to win a million dollars to spell out Godzilla with every Chalupa you bought. Right. I had Godzilla and I fucking could never. They didn't say, that's good enough? No.

That's good enough, man. You win. Yeah, because it's the, what is it, boardwalk, basically, of game't say that's good enough? No. That's good enough man. You win. Yeah because it's the what is it boardwalk basically of like game pieces where like that's the one for McDonald's if you ever want to get the full like board you would never get boardwalk. God that story was amazing. They don't do those anymore huh? Yeah did you know the story

behind that? No. The dude who was like in charge of security for that was scamming the whole thing. What? And like he basically was giving out the winning pieces to his friends and family. And they were cutting him in. And they were cutting him in. What? It's an amazing story

that they're gonna make a movie about fairly soon and I'm gonna walk out on that fucking movie because, uh, It should've been me.

Yes. Well guys, this has been a blast. Wow. It really, truly has. Allison,

where can people find you, follow you? Oh, i uh i'm on twitter and on instagram at just about glad that's where you can find me all right and is there a tweet that you've been enjoying oh yeah i saw i i i'm organizing a strip show what a body positive strip show that i want people to come to if you you live in LA. Oh, where is it at? It's at DAF Creative Studios in Echo Park-ish. Echo Park, Filipino town. And yeah, it's just going to be like this huge,

we're going to have a bunch of body positive, plus size girls stripping. And it's going to be a fun time. There's vendors, music. It's going to be a big day. Do you need like a permit for that? Oh, my bad. I don't want to be big hot. Yeah, maybe let's not ask that. It's going to be a big deal. Do you need a permit for that? Oh, my bad. I don't want to be big hot.

Yeah, maybe let's not ask. All right, never mind. This is the thing Miles does all the time in LA is we'll be walking around. There will be a student film being shot on the street. And I'll walk up and be like, hey, let me see those permits. Hey, who's the producer here? You got a permit? Oh, you don't?

Okay. Should I call Film LA right now? All right. Cool. It's a cool move. Should I call Film LA right now? No? All right. Cool. It's a cool move. Wait, what's the show called? It's called Thick Strip. There you go.

Thick with two Cs. And when's it at? Yeah, it is. December 14th, 8 p.m., $15. That's a Friday. It's a Friday. No excuses. Yeah, you don't got anything to do the next day.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can come, get drunk. Spend a lot of money before Christmas, you know? Yeah, 100%. It'll be good. It'll be fun. I want people to come. I mean, with all these deals people are getting on Cyber Monday, you'll have money left over.

Exactly. Any extra singles. This episode is sponsored by Cyber Monday. Just the day in general. Allison, is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yeah, you know, there is this tweet that I liked. Cool. Miles.

It's from at Rachel. And it's, ladies, if he never texts you back, always interjects with unsolicited advice, reads your personal documents. Constantly tries to help you format paragraphs.

Is a sentient paperclip. He's not your man. He's Clippy, the Microsoft Word Assistant. Clippy. Miles. Yeah. Me? Yeah, where can people find you?

Oh, wow. I want to tell you guys. I can be found on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. You can also find us doing a live show at UCB Sunset this Thursday. Shit is sold out, man. Well, hey, there's still a wait list. You can still get on the wait list because people flake. So I'm not going to discourage people.

I want to jam this thing out the back doors. I know. I just want to mention that it was sold out. Well, yeah. We reflect, but okay. I want the fire mars thing out the back doors. I know. I just wanted to mention that it was sold out. Yeah. Well, yeah. We're flex, but okay. I want the fire marshal to come through. Did you guys get a permit for that show? Hey, whoa.

We're making an Allison. Shh. There will be some stripping also. And also, if you are in Chicago on Saturday, December 1st, we will be in Chicago at Chicago Theater Works for our live show. And it'll be a fun time. We'll have one of y'all up, maybe be the third chair. No, I keep saying maybe.

You will be. We will have somebody come. We will have one person. I guess technically the fourth chair because we will have an official third person. But you will give us an over-under myth. And if it's garbage, prepare to be eviscerated by the panel of three. Also, they're both our live shows. You said also on Saturday, our live show.

Like you put emphasis on a weird way. It sounded like the first one was not our live show. I just want to make sure people are aware. This is why we have to go on Judge Jerry. I just want people to know we sold out the Thursday show. So no big deal. What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh, a tweet I like always comes from Reductress.

And there are two of them. One is a woman holding her cell phone. It says, woman thinking of what to say after starting InstaStory? Because, yeah, what the fuck are you going to do? And another one for all you lazy-ass boyfriends out there. It says, how to be impressed by the little things he does, because he definitely won't do big things. All right. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

A tweet I've been enjoying is from the very funny comedian Mark Little, Mark Mark Little on Twitter. He tweeted, As a child, I was intrigued by Rudolph, the overlooked reindeer underdog turned champion of the skies. As an adult, I have put aside such childish interests and turned my attention to Vixen. Why did you name that one Reindeer

Vixen, Santa? What the hell's going on, man? You good? And then he has Santa naming Reindeer. Dasher. Fast. Dancer. Nimble. Prancer. A bit much. Vixen. I want to fuck this reindeer. Comet. Fast. Cupid. This reindeer will

help get Vixen to fuck me. Donner. Who cares Blitzen? Who cares Rudolph shit? Anyways, Mark Little is a very funny dude. I like that observation. Why did he call

one of the reindeers Vixen? You can follow 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 we ride out on. You can also find that information in the show notes. Shining. Shining.

Miles, what song are we going to ride out on? We are going to ride out on a track by Leatherette, a little sample-based music here. The song is called Lang Cet. And I like it because it has that Bobby Caldwell sample from Sky is the limit and you know that you can't keep on. That Notorious B.I.G. featuring 112 song. But it's just a little rework of that.

And just a little nice, easy beat to, you know, get the week rolling. We've got a lot of work to do. Oof, do we ever. All right. We're going to ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. And we'll talk to you then. Bye.

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