The Daily Zeitgeist - New Kanye Fans, Senate Slippin? 10.30.19

Episode Date: October 30, 2019

In episode 505, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Facial Recognition Comedy co-host Fizaa Dosani to discuss the GOP's nightmare scenario, Katie Hill's unjust resignation, California wildfires, all the wrong people loving Kanye's new album, horrible and insensitive Halloween decorations, and more! Plus Buzzfeed's Impeachment Today host Hayes Brown joins the crew to talk the day's impeachment news!FOOTNOTES: Impeachment Today Podcast: The White House Has A Problem, And His Name Is Alexander Vindman The GOP's nightmare scenario Senate challengers outraise incumbents Brian Kilmeade on Army Lt. Col. Vindman: "We also know he was born in the Soviet Union, emigrated with his family. Young. He tends to feel simpatico with the Ukraine." Army Officer Who Heard Trump’s Ukraine Call Reported Concerns Sean Duffy on CNN on Army Lt. Col. Vindman: "It seems very clear that he is incredibly concerned about Ukrainian defense. I don't know that he's concerned about American policy ... we all have an affinity to our homeland where we came from ... he has an affinity for the Ukraine." Duncan Hunter Boned Lobbyists, Staffers, For AMERICA Katie Hill's Resignation Is an Ugly Mess MAP: How big are the California fires? See size, shape of dozens of blazes Could mass blackouts, Kincade Fire end PG&E as we know it? All the Wrong People Love Jesus Is King  Crime scene Halloween display at district attorney's office blasted as 'insensitive' Backlash continues against Brooklyn Halloween display Local McDonald’s apologizes for inappropriate Halloween decorations Halloween displays featuring lynchings have unnerved neighbors throughout the Austin area Homeowners Hang Mannequin and Confederate Flag in Front Yard, Claim It's a Leftover Halloween Decoration WATCH: Oscar Jerome - Do You Really Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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No matter how hard I try, tie a belt around my waist, use double-sided tape, but my pants keep falling down around my knees. pants keep falling down around my knees courtesy of pod moron and i am thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host mr miles we heard you mayor rudy hang up your phone quit the foolery quit the ukraine for about a month or two got your hands on them crimes boy now you're screwed uh i could keep going but i messed up the cadence and that's okay because we keep it moving we're all professionals here we're amateur rappers as well that's what podcasting is about thank you to act crispy meme donut for that one yes miss new booty as we all know thank you for reminding them that i'm not a professional rapper

because i know that can be confusing after you hear my flow. Yeah, people be holding us to different standards. And yes, I almost became a Japanese crossover hit sensation rapping in the late 90s, but I decided to turn my back on that. So that would have been interesting. It would have been. Sliding doors. They were literally like, you're half black and half Japanese.

You could be selling records. I said, what's a check look like? And it was too light is that true um yeah except for the check part well i didn't walk away the check was light and then i was like i don't know if i want to do this because they were making like singing dancing shit and i felt like i was doing some real like oh really is there videos i don't know y'all never see that shit good luck finding it because i never did a public performance. Only weird shit in a meeting room with executives. Weird.

Oh, my God. Oh, that sounds like a nightmare. Yep. They're just looking at you, like, kind of wetting their lips. Yeah, and I think I was wearing a Dana Barrow Celtics jersey. I don't even know why I had it. I think it was on sale. You put up 55 that one time.

Yeah, I was like, hey, fuck it, Dana Barrow. Let's cut the Dana Barrow spin off. Oh, shit. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented Fizza Dosani. What's up? What's up? Man, I want to come in with a rap, too.

All right, go ahead. I had a rap song I did 13, 14 years ago in Florida. So I'm going to see if I can remember that. Okay. Revel in my glory. I'm a legend, not a story. You a hater, you adore me. I'm hot, got you horny.

Come and lay it out before me. Come and eat it. You'll enjoy me. And I don't remember the rest. Wow. I don't remember the rest, but this was like. Coming on some empirical, lyrical miracle. Yeah.

I was like, that's not bad. Respect my hustle. I do what I want. You do what you can. I own what I flaunt. You flaunt what you rent. Your credit's all bank. Hey, dude. Okay. I forgot. Flaunt what you can. I own what I want. You flaunt what you rent. Your credit's all bank. Hey, dude.

Okay, I forgot. You flaunt what you rent. That's good. Wow. Wait, what was your MC name? Big Fizz Mandingo. Big Fizz Mandingo. Wow.

Hell yeah. Let them know. Yeah. Damn. If they ask. What happened? What happened? What happened to your career?

I also like the specificity of talking about their- It was- Renting their shit. Yeah. It was more of a hobby for me. I had an opportunity. Oh, okay. Because in college, and I had friends who were in the music program. Who wasn't a rapper in college? You know?

You know what I mean? So it was just like I had an opportunity. I wanted to write. I did like some poetry before, spoken word, funny poetry. That's how I sort of got into- Comedy? Kind of like in college. Anytime there was sort of got into comedy kind of like in college anytime there was sort of like a platform to perform yeah it was sort of like a way you know

to right so there weren't japanese business interests riding on you becoming a rapper like putting you through the formula not at the time but you know if they approach me today and the money's right if the price is right I just might I'm quoting Trina that was uh yeah that was impressive really? I didn't just suck horribly

did I? I have no gauge of me thinking it was impressive is like oh did it suck? oh you liked it? But what about you, Miles? What'd you think? That is funny.

And, you know, I... Hey, but he fucks with Wu-Tang, though, so I'm going to take that with a couple grains Oh, shit, and my name's Fizza. Yeah, yeah. I have too many vowels to be in Wu-Tang. That's right. You could be the third. One Z and two A's.

Yeah. Izza. Yeah. The Rizzages and Fizza, everybody know. And SZA. Uh-huh. SZA, yeah. All right. Now we've got a SZAZA We're going to get to know you a little bit better First we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about

Kanye is reaching a new fan base We're going to talk about who they are We're going to talk to Hayes Brown Who is the host of BuzzFeed News' new Impeachment Today podcast About impeachment today. What's going on with impeachment and the whistleblower scandal? We need to come up with an impeachment drop

so that we don't have to keep referring back to the whistleblower. Maybe 112 Peaches and Cream? Yeah. We'll work on it, guys. We're going to talk about the latest witness in the closed-door impeachment proceedings. We're going to talk about Katie Hill resigning. We're going to talk about California burning. Kanye being, like, gone and California burning.

I'm telling you, man. We need him back. No, Lana Del Rey was on it with that greatest song. She references both those things. Little inside reference for the Lana heads out there. The Del-ray-miacs, maniacs. Del-rays? The Del-ray-gers?

The Del-ray-ders. Oh, shit. The Lanites? Yeah. We're going to, Lanites. And also the most fucked Halloween decorations. We're going to check in with those. But first, Fiz, we like to ask our guests,

what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? FedEx office near me. I don't have a printer. Is that telling? Damn, nobody does. How many people? It's weird. Once you get done with college right

that was the last time i was like i need a fucking printer i don't have good luck with printers like i swear like they always just they don't work right i got a printer and it stopped working and i'm like i can't do this and you're like i don't want to deal with it yeah i just it was amazon prime so i just sent it back that's, that's a problem. Today's billion dollar idea because we always just giving these out on the Daily Zeitgeist. Uber for printers. Boom. You know, that's, oh, that's,

wow. I'm not joking. Yeah, we give out real billion dollar ideas. Yeah, we do. It's called Homie with a Printer. Yeah.

And what you do is you pull up the app and you look for the Homie with a Printer. You email the very, it's a very, it's an encrypted attachment so they can't duplicate it.

Yeah. Well, it's going to get weird because then they't duplicate it. Yeah. It's going to get weird because they can print out multiple. Yo, can I invest or something? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're still in our first round. Hit us with a 20 and we'll... I'll give you 25. Wow. 25 million? Damn. 25 Doritos. You're going to be

quarter owner. No, I will. Yeah. All right. Yeah, we go on a shark tank. We're like sharks, okay. For funding, we have $100. Cash. we're looking for funding we have a hundred dollars cash we're looking for we're looking for a million dollar investment

for a one percent stake in our company we're like this is a hundred million dollar company yes fool it's called homie with a printer you ever date somebody with a printer

yo just for the printer I didn't full disclosure I never dated this person for the printer I thought about going on another date with somebody because they had a full-on office section of their apartment.

That you had already installed on your computer. I had the drivers. You didn't have to do that extra shit. I'm like, what is that, an Epson? Yeah, I'm going to put that printing driver on my computer. Make sure I'm connected to the Wi-Fi. It connects automatically. My wife is a printer queen.

She makes sure that we always have a printer going. Oh, see. That's a keeper. Yeah, that's a keeper. That's why. I'm not saying that's exactly why I married her, but you know. This gives me to something to think about with Her Majesty. Part of the picture.

I'm going to tell my partner, Her Majesty, I'm going to be like, you know, Jack's wife got a printer. That's right. I'm out here single at FedEx office. Getting hit on by one of the tucks, like, you need help? Yeah, right. Fam to hit start i wish i got attention from like someone who actually worked there yeah you start finessing it for some free printing they're like physically i feel like we just go on these dates so you can get like free

printing at fedex office because of my employee discount like no baby what or just yeah because some someone has to get off to it. Someone has to be into it. Oh, right. Oh, I love printing your shit type of. There's so many freaks in the world. They're like, I don't care what size attachments you send, girl. I'm printing everything. You want a collated model? I'm going to beat them all.

You want a double-sided? Printing is interesting. I feel like more products would have adopted the model where it's basically like gouging where they're like, yeah, we give you the printer for a really good price, but then the ink costs like hundreds of dollars. But you can, again, from Amazon, you can get off-brand ink. Oh, really? But that's only if you have a printer that works.

Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good band. Probably goofs it up. Off-brand ink? Yeah. That sounds like a cool MC crew. Sounds like a bad tattoo parlor. Like there's murder ink or whatever? up. Off-brand ink? Yeah. That sounds like a cool MC crew. Sounds like a bad tattoo parlor.

Like there's murder ink or whatever? Yeah. Off-brand ink. There you go. What is something you think is underrated? Off-brand. Oh, I was... God, I'm so off-tuned.

I was going to say murder, but like... It's off-brand. It's murder. I need to outsource for the... Hollow, hollow. It's fizzle. Anybody who wants printer cartridges for a dollar, dollar. And if this was like the DMX, it'd be like...

Yeah. But it's not. Same era. Same era. What is something you think is underrated? I think, honestly, nuts as snacks. Nuts as snacks. It's underrated.

For busy people, yeah. Yeah. I mean, at least for me. Okay. For me, I i think because like i don't know like i go for the chips or the reese's but like you know what like sometimes you need a real meal i'm getting older like sometimes you read real meal like some nuts like nut butters and nuts and stuff it's like a really efficient way to it's efficient source of

calories and they don't go bad you can put them anywhere i found a loose almond in my bag and i ate that shit don't judge me don't that's why your energy is off the walls right now you found that loose almond in your bag one almond no someone gave me cold brew i've been up since four in the morning oh my god yeah i had to put an audition on tape and get it in super early but like i know so they gave me cold brew i didn't um put any water in it i just like let me just take it. Let me shoot it. Concentrate. Drink it the way the Lord intended. Yeah.

Here I am. Uncut. You want to sniff base, basically. Here I am. Just, just. Yeah. I was going to say God, but you have a lot of people. We're all God.

Yeah. We're all God. I'm telling people, you guys need to listen to what she has to say about energy because she has a lot of energy. A lot of good energy. What's your favorite nut as a meal? I like cashews. Cashews are good.

They're luxurious. They're super luxurious. Where I do yoga, she has a bunch of little packets of nuts. I just snag a couple cashews. Cashews are the best nut. Almonds are sort of the easy go-to. Wait, hold on.

Cashews are the best nut? I think so. Is there a certain kind? Not that I disagree, but this is interesting. All right, so the thing, see, cashew hack. You need to always

get whole cashews because the broken up kind, like they really break up a lot. Or they're like slivered. Get the whole salted. It doesn't matter where you get them from at that point.

And you like them roasted? You don't do them, you never had them like, what are they, raw? I just do them. You never had them raw? I do them raw sometimes. I like all of them, but I think it's probably healthier if it's raw, right? I'd imagine. Like anything. The heat or the roasting can put nutrients out.

I don't know. That's what everyone says. And then adding the salt and flavor. I love smoked almonds. Wasabi flavor. Yo, that's what I'm talking about. Flamin' hot. Hey, Blue Diamond Almonds almonds Holler at your boy

I love your smoked almonds I'm saying put that in your glove compartment And you'll never pass out while you're driving Exactly I'm worried about you Did you drive here? You didn't pass out though No no no

Thank god you found that loose almond Did you know that this is what cashews ball. I have, yeah, loose almonds. Did you know that this is what cashews look like in the wild? Yeah. I had no idea. I saw that for the first time, and I thought it was a joke. Oh, it's a tree nut. It looks like a guava is taking a shit.

And then it's like, no, eat the shit. Yeah, eat the guava poop. Is that considered a true nut, then, if it's coming from a tree? Oh, shit. I don't know. Because a peanut, I heard, is not considered a true nut. It's a legume. Oh, wow. It a peanut, I heard, is not considered a true nut. It's a legume. I mean, it does the same thing for me.

It's a cashew seed, the cashew apple, dwarf cashew, I'm just reading Rickipedia out loud. What's Rickipedia? I don't know, man. It's all entries written by a man named Rick. There should be a nutpedia.

What is something you think is overrated? Dogma. Dogma the movie. No, the movie, but like- Kevin Smith's most overrated film. Dude, the portrayal of the Golgotha? Actually, you know what? I kind of enjoyed the film.

I think they could have gone further, but when I say dogma, I mean like rules and regulations when it comes to spirituality. Like this is right, this this is wrong one size fits all otherwise you're going to hell so anyone like you know to me that's that's overrated and like i'm not you know i don't really do organized religion but i was raised muslim i'd love to see like a muslim perspective from like someone who was raised this way but like you know doesn't really sort of you know

align with organized religion sure but um yeah i actually went to mecca um in saudi arabia with my parents because you know i think they wanted you know to save my soul yeah or whatever and um god damn empty ritual man or you have to do this and like i have a lot of baby hair as you can see so you have to cover everything the standard of decency in saudi arabia and i'm not gonna like also say saudi arabia and islam are the same thing it's like but that's where there's levels to it yeah well saudi arabia it's like it's run by you know it, it's the patriarchy, but like out in the open. But with American name brands. Yeah, exactly.

So, you know, everyone was sort of like, oh, your baby hair is falling out. Women would come up to me, try to fix my thing. Cause you know, like it was like forehead cleavage. You gotta have those edges laid, honey. No, you can't have the edges laid. You gotta have them pulled back. Oh shit. If I have them laid on my forehead, oh my God, that's so scandalous.

I might as well be walking around with my titties out. At what point were you sort of, as a child, is that when you sort of realized, organized religion isn't for me? Because it's always interesting. My parents weren't really religious. My grandparents were, and I went to Lutheran and Catholic schools.

And at a certain point, you kind of look around and you're like, I don't know if this is for me. Right. See what y'all are doing doing i think it was my first introduction to sort of like a connection to like you know that sort of energy but like so that part was cool but like all the rules i know was like this is like i don't want to like do this right whatever it bunched up against your like sort of spirit as like a young teenager. But that was sort of my window to,

if you're really going through something, you want to reach out to something. That was sort of my window. But I was the kind of kid who was like, question everything. Because if it's the truth, why not? Yeah, of course. There you go.

All right, Joe Rogan. I'm fucking with you. Hey, Joe Rogan. Get me out of my way. Go on, Joe Rogan. So you're... Hey, Joe Rogan, get me out of my way. Go on, Joe Rogan. He'd be like, you smoke DMT? You know, I'd love to at one point. Of all the profound shit that you just said, my question is baby hair, those are the little hairs

that come out when your hair is pulled back? It's like these little hairs that just do not grow any longer. You can sort of comb down and do like chili from TLC. Yeah, get a little finger wave going. Yeah, yeah. Very, her baby hair is just on point. And finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false?

Well, as someone who was born and raised in Florida, a lot of people think Florida's trash. And I would like to posit that everything's relative and it's not trash if you grew up there because there were moments of joy that I found. And, you know, I couldn't move back, I don't think, except Miami. Miami doesn't count. Miami doesn't count in terms of you could move back there. Yeah, I could live in Miami. If you had to move back to Florida, you have to live in Miami.

Are you a strong swimmer? Yeah, I'm fine. Okay, good. Because Miami's about to be underwater. Yeah. In my lifetime? I think pretty soon. Underwater.

Let's hope. Get your feet wet. Yeah. And also like, oh, like some people say Florida is not the South. And again, I think it is sort of very much part of the South, like Georgia. Again, Miami being the exception. Miami is more South America. What's the most, when you say, look, everything's relative, Florida's trash, could be, could

not be, depends on your perspective. Yeah. To you, what is the most trash Florida thing you'd ever done? Oh, I've done a lot. I've peed on a car out of spite. I carved bitch into an ex's car but he pushed me so he had it coming

yeah right I'm just like wait he pushed me some lady saw me and I think she probably told him no or I think

he lied about that but I think some lady a neighbor did see me do it and I was just like whatever and you threatened her you're like get back in your house

this ain't about you and I actually ended up I wasn't scared about him going to the police. I was scared about him going to my parents. I was more scared of my parents. Most Indian immigrant parents, they're a little intimidating. So I ended up getting a job at Shrimp Shack, like a serving job, just to give him cash to fix his car, and he never did.

He never fixed it? So then you just drove around with bitch written on his car? I guess so. Yo, if the shoe fits. I don't know. Maybe he bought some J's. I don't know what the fuck. I was going to say that idiot is, but I don't want to talk bad about anyone.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, what's your problem with J's? I want a whole resentment. If you see a PT cruiser with bitch carved in the side in Florida, in the Fort Myers area, you know what time it is. Steer clear of that guy. Yeah. Right by the Edison Mall.

Yeah, hey, let them know yeah yeah wait so you so you that's so funny that you even handled it though like such an immigrant kid like upstanding kid where you're like okay fuck i can't my parents are like i'll get a fucking job to pay you back like it wasn't even some fuck you yeah tell my parents right see what they fucking do but you knew that wasn't an option i was like tell the cops oh no i'm gonna yeah here you're having to fill out an i-9 and shit like oh yeah this is where my paycheck can go i was like i just don't want my dad like my parents to know that i had a boyfriend oh shit right right right and they're like damn we're really fucking proud of you you're just out here getting a job but they're like where's all the money? Like, ooh.

How much money do you think you gave this person to make it right? It was probably a couple hundred at the time. I mean, it was a long time ago, so I think everything was a little cheaper. Right. I'm 80. Did you quit the job after? No, I actually kept it for a while. There you go. Because I love – I'm sort of like a hustler by nature and like as a server,

it's very much a sort of a hustle job. Right, yeah. You know, you sort of. Slang that shrimp. Exactly. Like there's not really like a ceiling for what you can make. I love that.

Yeah. Damn. You should be motivating everybody out here. There's no ceiling, no limit to what you can do with these shrimps. And this is like definitely cold brew talking also. It's definitely sponsored by someone's cold brew talking also. It's definitely sponsored by

someone's cold brew. Yeah. Portland Signature. What you said about Florida being like part deep south part like Miami actually being part

of South America is there's this book Caribbean also. Yeah there's this book called The Eleven States of America that like redraws the lines of America

based on like shared values and where settlers came from. And they said that's exactly what they say, actually, is that Miami, Miami and New Orleans are the only parts of the country that they like don't even identify with any other parts of the country. They're just like, yeah, these are more like they share their values and like how they vote with other countries entirely. And it's those both cities are both so vibrant. And there is, you know, there is, of course, that Southern fusion.

Of course there is. But there's so much outside influence and diversity in both cities, Miami and New Orleans, which are both going to be underwater. Right. So it's, you know, let's let's all take swimming lessons

or, you know, like fucking get these people to do the right thing by the environment that would be lovely yeah good one good one back to reality uh all right we are going to take a quick break and we'll be right back i've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you.

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Absolutely not. What was that? You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it. That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year ago.

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by hayes brown from buzzfeed news uh he is a senior reporter and editor on the world desk and the host of the new impeachment today podcast Hayes, how's it going, man? Oh, you know, tired. Yeah. Exhausted. Yeah. Kind of sad. But how else do you expect to do the news in 2019?

Yeah. You guys have a new episode, first thing every morning, that's kind of updating people on the state of impeachment. I have found it very useful. Oh, well, thank you. Necessary assignment for prepping for our show. And you guys managed to make news of the dissolving of our republic somehow fun.

That's what we do here at BuzzFeedNews.com. We make the end of the world at least mildly appealing. Yeah. Hell yeah. So, yeah, one of my favorite parts of the show is when you check in with the Nixometer. The Nixometer, yeah. We love the Nixometer. Yeah, and it's kind of where you figure out where we stand in the broad sweep of history with,

uh, 10 being Nixon announcing his resignation and zero being an ordinary day in another presidential administration, since there are no ordinary days in this one. Uh, probably like I'm thinking George H.W. Bush or Clinton's first term or something since that's the last time things felt somewhat normal. But in that spirit, I wanted to discuss some of the latest developments that seem like they might have some effect in that sort of broad sweep of where this thing is headed.

Yeah, definitely. Yeah. You guys had kind of briefly covered the fact that the Democrats appear to be taking this thing public. Y'all. Yeah. Which makes sense to me. I don't know. It's been said from the start that impeachment is a political process and not a legal one. So I mean, in terms of swaying public opinion, it makes sense that you would want to televise it, turn it into a very boring version of the Jerry Springer show. It will be daytime TV, right? It'll be like during, start at nine on the West Coast and noon on the East Coast. Probably. I mean, they could also run it in primetime.

Let's not forget that back in the 70s during the Watergate hearings, those were aired during primetime. Oh, did they? Oh, yeah, for sure. So this could be like wall-to-wall coverage all day. It could be replayed in the evening. It's just not really clear because it's been a while since we've done this. We've never done it in the age of the internet where you know these clips will be going viral to be spread across twitter as well

so it's going to be really fascinating to watch how the people consume this because it will like saturate our every moment and democrats have always said that eventually they will would get to public hearings right they've been arguing that right now it's the private closed door behind the scenes asking of questions of potential witnesses. The bits that you got to do before you bring your evidence to the public. And Republicans haven't liked that

argument but Democrats have been saying it all along. Yeah. Well and they're also sort of like these are the rules y'all came up with. Right. So we're just going by this is your this is your playbook right these came from 2015 signed off on by a former speaker john boehner so yeah uh sorry that you guys didn't think to write in anything more specific about how impeachment inquiries work then but pelosi has been playing by the rules that she was given and uh they announced that later this week, I believe Thursday, they're going to be holding a vote on a resolution in the House that both, you know, officially says, yeah, all the inquiries we've been doing, Hundo P legit, and also laying out how things are going to work moving forward.

So it's going to be really interesting to see the exact details once that document's released. to see the exact details once that document's released. Right. And that'll possibly help people to sort of maybe obey a subpoena because there's a lot of like legal wiggle room for people to be like, well, is this actually an impeachment inquiry? Is it not? Do I have to take this seriously? That legal wiggle room is less than you might think.

So just blatant fuckery then? Very blatant. Just blatant fuckery then? Very blatant. So on last Friday, a federal judge ruled that she was ruling on a case about the Mueller inquiry and about grand jury testimony that the House Democrats were trying to get a hold of. Now, DOJ had argued that, well, there is no impeachment inquiry because the House hasn't voted on it, et cetera. The judge said, actually, my dudes, there is totally an inquiry. So you have to turn this stuff over. Now, DOJ has already appealed.

And in their appeal, they say they're trying to argue, well, because this is actually about Ukraine, you can't really ask for the Mueller stuff. So we'll see how that one plays out. But to date, the White House has been, like you said, making more of a political argument than a legal one. The White House counsel released a letter that was reportedly dictated largely by Trump attacking the process. But lawyers looked at it and said, what is this? He's one of our top legal minds. There's like no law in this letter, my dudes. So, I mean, you know, just putting it back in terms of the broad sweep of history, I mean, putting the trials on TV during the Nixon administration was something that when public perception of impeachment really started to shift. And then, you know, it became possible that Nixon didn't have the support of the Senate. So it makes sense that they would want to do that. But are there any ways that you guys can think of that this will backfire, kind of taking it public? What we know about what people have said behind closed doors so far, if they don't want to perjure themselves by coming out in public and saying something completely different when they were speaking under oath before, we're going to hear a lot of damaging things.

I will say that during the Clinton impeachment saga, they also had live television hearings, but that didn't really do much to change people's minds on the situation as it stands. I think this is going to be different, though. Right. I mean, it seemed like it was a worse case. Like people people's general opinion of that case was that what he did was shitty and gross. But the you know, the fact that he lied about it did not necessarily interfere with his job as the right commander in chief, whereas this. Right. Meanwhile, here we have multiple, you know, current and former official at the State Department and now White House who have said that, yeah, this really fucked with our national

security. Right. And we said so at the time. Yeah. They didn't listen. But we said we done told said we done told him, but he didn't listen is basically where we're at right now. Yeah, I mean, I guess one thing Republicans are good at screaming their point directly to their base, just like ramming it down their throat, like what their thoughts are, even when the facts aren't necessarily on their side, like we saw with the Supreme Court confirmation hearings last year. So I could see, you know, Republicans during Nixon's time were actively there to find out the truth. And we are kind of in far more polarized times. Well, you say that, but I think it's actually easy to forget that back during Nixon's impeachment, at the start of it, Republicans also did not want to impeach their president. They were willing to go along with it, but they also attacked the process. They also attacked it as

a lynching at times because, you know, much like the president got in trouble for recently because, you know, there is there. It's not like partisan politics is like a new thing in the last 20 years. But as the facts came out, it became harder and harder to make that defense. And we're already seeing it play out where Republicans, aside from like some of the true diehards, are trying to hedge their bets a little, especially in the Senate, where once things move there for the actual trial part of things, they have to be serving as jurors and actually make the decision on whether the president is guilty of whatever the house charges him with. So they're really trying to be cautious as they don't, no one knows what else is coming out. No one knows how much more damaging information is coming out. So except for your like Mark Meadows and Jim Jordans of the world, a lot of them are trying to say either, well, we haven't read the testimony yet, so we

don't know for sure. It hasn't been in public yet, so we don't know. I'm going to be a juror, so I can't say. So the next month or two, if they decide like, oh, this is actually looking really bad, things could shift. Right. I mean, Fox News seems to be the one sort of qualitatively different factor that they didn't have to deal with back during the Nixon trial. Fox News was, in fact, designed specifically by a Nixon advisor who never thought he should have been impeached. And probably in the back of his mind as a way to make sure nothing like that ever happened again. So, you know, the fact that there is a huge base of supporters of Trump who, you know, they can speak directly to will make things somewhat different. It's just a matter of, you know, whether you can keep them in the dark, kind of fool them, have Laura Ingraham come on and just shit on every witness and imply that they're a Soviet spy. Yeah. Espionage, as John Yoo was trying to say on Laura Ingraham's show.

Yeah. You're right. That's going to be really wild to watch play out. And what's interesting is that I was just speaking to one of our reporters on Capitol Hill, and she said the Republicans she talked to are being really cautious about that and that Fox News is going out on a limb a bit, especially with Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who you're referring to just there, who's testifying on Tuesday, so today as we're recording this, because he has a lot to say that sounds really bad

about how he knew things were wrong about the call between Trump and Ukraine's president back in July and tried to say so. So, yeah, like you said, Laura Ingraham attacked him the other night. We had Sean Duffy, former congressman, attacking him this morning. But Republicans in Congress don't seem really like ready to jump on board with that narrative yet. They're more worried about how bad it looks to attack someone who is an Iraq war vet, a current army officer, and won a Purple Heart in Iraq. It just seems like he's a really bad target, but Fox News, they're going to try it anyway.

Yeah, they're going in. I wonder when Senator Ron Johnson is going to come into focus because there's a lot of reporting now showing that he knows a lot more than he was leading on. Like when he first went on, like meet the press with Chuck Todd and was just like regurgitating conspiracy theories. It'll be interesting to see like what other senators who maybe in the beginning started off being very confident and sort of trying to, you know, sort of obfuscate or act like this whole the call was a nothing burger sort of thing. You know who when the receipts come out for them. Right. Right.

Yeah. Ron Johnson's a really interesting case. He even said to The Wall Street Journal, like back when this was kicking off, oh, all of a month ago or so, that he was told by Ambassador Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, that there was a quid pro quo in place about the military aid and investigations of the Bidens. But Johnson said at the time that he asked Trump and Trump said, no, that didn't happen. And that's just kind of the story that ran, that Johnson said the thing, but Trump denied

it. So, I guess it wasn't a thing. But that's been the case ever since before this went public. The president has been saying to Sondland and others that there was no quid pro quo, even when it was clear to Sondland, who was helping negotiate it, that there was. Right, right. Well, Hayes, thank you so much for taking the time to come talk to us. People should check out the podcast.

It's called Impeachment Today, and it's from BuzzFeed News, and it tells you where we stand with impeachment every morning. Thanks a lot, Hayes. Appreciate it. Glad to do it. All right. So before we completely move on from impeachment, one of the stories that jumped out at me off of the front page of Drudge when I'm keeping an eye on the conservatives. They said that

there's growing fear among Republicans that they will get just completely cleaned out in 2020. That's just a wave. They think a wave is going to come? They think a wave is coming for them um the it seems like the thing so there's a narrow but very uh clear path to uh for democrats to take

the senate yeah um and i mean fundraising not good yeah fundraising is The polling is not good. Fundraising is bad. Polling is bad for senators. And everybody keeps quitting. All the Republican incumbents keep quitting, just deciding not to run. And they're getting, yeah, like some of the fundraising shortfalls, like places where they're losing to Democrats is like first in a generation bad. And yeah, I don't know. This seems to relate to the impeachment. If, you know, Mitch McConnell is very shrewd. That's the one thing we know about him.

And he's all about doing what's best for the party and the conservative cause at large. And if it's looking like the party would be better off with like Pence heading into the 2020 election, I don't think he would hesitate to push in that direction. Right. That's a long ways off, but it's just, I guess, a potential path to senators actually deciding. Well, yeah, we're talking about this last last week too, the pleasure principle, right? Where like the negatives are starting to outweigh

the positives of aligning with them. And I think that's what you're seeing too. And yeah, the fundraising, I think they should be concerned about because that shows a lack of enthusiasm to get behind these people. And I think also just because rhetorically they're in such a fucked and just terrible place right now.

They don't know what to say. They can't say anything. Like they're having trouble reconciling like their allegiance to maybe the president and their allegiance to reality uh where like they they aren't as totally comfortable just telling outright lies to try and defend the president so that puts them all in a very tough spot and you know you hate to see it you hate to see oh you hate to see it. You hate to see it. Oh, you hate to see it. But and it's only going to get worse because as we were talking about with Hayes earlier, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who is like the Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, testified in front of Congress. And, you know, again, a lot of people with every person who's tried to testify who wasn't saying like, oh, I didn't know there was any kind of quomo. Those people.

Quiproquomo. Wow. Another great merch idea. I think like with him, you know, they've already been trying to do these smears on him already. Just for the record, this man is a decorated war veteran. He survived an IED blast in Iraq. Right. And he's just, he's about serving his country.

And he happens to be an expert on Ukraine and Soviet Union because he's from Ukraine. But that did not stop the ghouls at Fox and anywhere. Any Republican who has, like, whoever got the bat signal to tell GOP lies. They're all on the same page. There's an unscrupulousness there. You know, it's just pragmatic ruthlessness. Well, when you listen to what they say, like for example, Fox and Friends, they took a stab at this one

and immediately are calling into question his allegiances. So if you look at this Lieutenant Colonel's background, he's got a purple heart. He got hit by an IED in Iraq. We also know he was born in the Soviet Union, immigrated with his family young. He tends to feel simpatico with the Ukraine. Also, if he's been in that position for a while and says he's apolitical to me, it must upset him much more how the previous administration handled the conflict with Ukraine. When the Russians came in and carved up the country and took Crimea, and we responded by giving them MREs and sleeping bags.

This administration gave them money. What bothered Lieutenant Colonel reportedly is a July 10th conversation between Ambassador Gordon Sondland and a July 25th call, which we all know has been transcribed. So we'll see from his point of view. But I don't know how much color he can add to this since we already have the call. The first thing is so odd because how can he simultaneously be upset at the

previous administration? Right. Like the motivation would be the same, like, Oh, he's, he must really love Ukraine, but he didn't like the other thing that happened. And he also didn't like what he, whether or not he did or did not like is irrelevant. You got to choose one, bro. It's the fact that-

Pick a side. If you are the expert, right? And you say, this is a strategic ally. This country is placed in such a way and Russia is very interested in annexing this part of the country. We are trying to prevent that from happening from them just sort of invading this sovereign territory.

That is an issue. And we're holding up their defense aid because he wants to do a smear campaign against Joe Biden? Yes. That's the problem. But again, they're like, well, and here we go with the what about shit. Well, you know, then he must be mad about Obama, too. So maybe he'll blow the whistle on MREs.

It's like, really? You know, I just think what's being shown to us is such, it's theater. Oh, yeah. It's political theater. Well, at this point, because you can't, the facts are completely against you. So let's make up a fantasy world where this person is a spy. Yeah. And this happens now.

They just put, you just put whatever out into the zeitgeist. Hey. That's right. And then we talk about it. Yeah. We talk about it. And it goes into people's brains and we're killing the world, Miles. That's right. And then we talk about it and it goes into people's brains and we're killing the world, Miles. Thank you. I will fly away in my electric

helicopter now. Thank you, Coke Industries. But even on Laura Ingraham's show. Even Laura Ingraham? Yeah, Laura Ingraham did have John Yoo on and immediately raised the specter of him being possibly from another country. They specifically said I think that's called espionage yeah like when talking about this dude who like when you read his written statement it's

just like yeah we had these meetings and we were all just alarmed everybody who wasn't the president or rudy giuliani right was like talking to each other like yo what the fuck exactly and the other thing about vinman is that he had raised this issue twice yeah people being like this is fucked up yeah and nobody did shit yeah and then so yes like you said his opening statement is bad for gordon sonland if you remember the week before he was like i don't know anything if burisma meant biden that's news to. I'm just here to do a good job. And can I go? So he was playing dumb, you think? Oh, yes.

The man who paid a million dollars to be an ambassador, 100%. He was playing dress up, spy, or whatever the fuck. It's all so juvenile. Yeah. Well, you know, this is what happens when you have the focal point in this president

is someone who's just so self-serving and has just a very narrow focus and is short-sighted only about their immediate satisfaction whether that's plaudits from the press or just being able to like well you see all those people that came out they're not interested in policy they just want the the feeling of being up in it so then you get all these goons together well it's so crazy because it's just like that's why i don't take it so seriously because it is theater but then also there's like repercussions that hurt people yeah which is extremely problematic yeah war yeah for example yeah and leaving people defenseless against a very well-armed aggressor nation in russia and then saying like well you know you look, we look into Joe Biden. Yeah. It's irresponsible.

Yeah. Well, and then in his opening testimony, he basically explicitly says that Gordon Sondland said all this shit in front of these representatives from Ukraine. And he was like reprimanded, like on the spot by Fiona Hill and him to be like, yo, that is inappropriate. Right. Like you're bringing up the Bidens when we're talking about military aid. And he said in his,

this is where it gets tricky, which is why he probably committed perjury, is that when he was giving his testimony, he was like, no one had ever raised any kind of objection to anything we were doing. As far as I knew, it was just about this company.

Right. And meanwhile, people were saying, no, sir. No, you actually talked about it. We pulled you the fuck aside and said, you literally out loud are saying Joe Biden. Right.

What does this mean? Who are you? Are you with Giuliani? Yes, you are. By the way, speaking of juvenile, I want to give a shout out to the Jimmy Kimmel show for, is that who? Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel did side by side of Trump's announcement of the al-Baghdadi mission and obama's announcement of the bin laden killing and it's just like stark how he he's like and then we you'd think we'd go into the through the front door but we went through the side door we came in and it was big blow big things blowing

up and it was just like it was like listening to a child describe something that happened in a movie. Like The Rock. And in fact, he did say, it was like, we could see it like it was a movie. Again, like this is our best form of conflict resolution. Yeah, right. Really? Well, and again, and also like to revel in it too was really a bad look. And I was a little bit disappointed, Jack, because you said speaking of juvenile, I thought

you were going to start speaking. Right, the rapper. You know what I mean? When you said side by side side i thought you're going to say you're going to put trump's thing side by side until the moment you expire anyway all right shout out to juvenile shout out to him that's you with a bad ass band uh real quick i did want to talk about the katie hill resignation uh terrible i don't Because I don't understand it. Okay, so Katie Hill, who is a new member of Congress, is resigning. She rode that midterm wave in with a lot of new freshmen.

But the right-wing, I guess, publication, I won't call it a newspaper, whatever, Red State, they basically launched this smear campaign that sort of coincided with her estranged husband, I think ex or soon to be ex-husband, who released a ton of just like nude photographs and things, like basically revenge porn. She didn't do anything wrong then. She didn't do. So this is a story that on its, if you distill it down to its bare essence, revenge porn was used, was weaponized against this woman. She was violated.

Yes. That's what happened is the crime was committed against her. Right. To then use this sort of idea of slut shaming culture to be like, oh, I don't know if that what that means for Congress or whatever. Nothing to do with whatever her, what she was doing as an actual Congress person, but this combination. Right.

And I think that's what's, that's what's really fucked up about this whole thing. Because also because they're from California, California, even though California is one of the first states to enact revenge porn laws, it's a misdemeanor. And like maybe it's a thousand. It's only a misdemeanor? Yeah, it's a thousand dollar fine and maybe six months at its most extreme. And is it out there still? Do they do what they can to collect it and take it off?

Well, in her, as she said in her resignation letter, she is exploring every legal avenue possible to bring her ex-husband to justice. And she has more resources than, let's say, you know, just someone off the street who gets violated in this way. Yeah. So what happened was she was in a consensual, like sort of polyamorous relationship with her husband at the time and campaign aid. And yes, but it was consensual. I understand that is a terrible choice to like engage in a romantic relationship with a subordinate,

but that's not illegal. Yeah, it's just also, it's like, of course, you know, people can have a field day and condemn that as just being immoral, but it's just like, I don't think there's anything wrong with that either, honestly.

No, and again, but there are a lot of people pointing to house rules that were passed in 2018 that said it's's absolutely just off the off the table to even have any kind of relationship with a campaign with a staffer congressional staffer so if you want to go by the letter of the law she didn't break that law it was a campaign aid whatever then her husband like in a facebook post tried to allege that she was having an affair with one of her like policy uh people on her on her staff she was like that is not happening

but that created an ethics investigation into her based off of her whatever her ex-husband said but again a lot of these people are just focused on like look at her she's she's nude with a bong right like what the heck is this it's completely devoid of any sort of real it's again this person her husband ex-husband had a revenge plot he's trying to enact and use this culture of like, you know, trying to come at women for having relationships, maybe outside of their marriage or whatever to say this is disqualifying, whatever. That's how is that disqualifying? Well, this is the difference. Why is she resigning? That's what I'm wondering.

Well, I think it's just shame. That is traumatizing. What happened to her, that is traumatizing. It's just like we're so, like those two values are so closely wired, especially among like people who grew up in our culture of like being, you know, sexually exposed and shame. And so, you know, it just feels, we were talking about how narcissists are happier because they don't experience shame. Like, if you look at this versus how Trump would respond to something like this. Well, and again, many people point out just the inherent double standard that we have in our culture, right? Because you even have, again, if you want to play the, you're fucking around, you need to resign card.

Right. Then that shit, you should slam the fucking deck on Duncan Hunter's head. Right. Who is a congressman from California. This motherfucker had multiple affairs with staffers, with lobbyists. This isn't uncommon. Right, and was using campaign funds to fund the Uber rides, the fucking hotel rooms, the dinners, all that shit,

which is illegal. That's illegal. It breaks my heart that she's resigning and i mean and that's you know what you know it didn't help that like nancy pelosi had things like quotes to say that it's like i forget was like it was poor judgment or whatever there wasn't any defense like you'd feel like judgment yeah why is she judging personal you know yeah well you think about how many people percentage wise that engage in sexting right a lot of people how could have the fucking guillotine right above their head at any time

so it's like they want like i mean look we're millennials and the sexting that's sort of like the currency of relationships these days maybe i don't know depending on euphoria so i'm gonna go with it i like the show but i think that's what the kids are talking about, right? Yeah. I don't know. It's just like at some point, at some generation, we're all going to have compromising pictures. Right, and I think that's where it needs to be is we need to de-weaponize, take the fangs out of this shit. Because we still exist. We're like, oh, I can't believe that. But this poor lady, man, to have like, you know, to be exposed that way.

Completely against her consent, too. Absolutely did not. He was just like, yo, check these out. And then the Daily Mail publishes the shit. And then here you go. You got this whole thing. Publishing revenge porn is, that should be illegal. Yeah.

Oh, it is. The Daily Mail put this out? Yeah, the Daily Fail. Of course they did. Oh, my God. And she said, so she's probably probably did she make a statement what's going on she did i mean she just said i'm it's just pains me to say this but i'm going to be resigning i don't want to cause any more like any more pain to the people that have supported me nothing

really to say that like yeah i really fucked up that's what really makes it so shitty is that this was just a really you know i i i can't see this from being anything else from just her ex-husband had a bone to pick and but in terms of this whole revenge porn shit to how has her work been in office the only thing she was in an ethics investigation because of this facebook post her ex-husband put up yeah that's the only thing she's new she's been like a lot of people very good yeah a lot of people have been excited about her being such a loss for yeah absolutely such a loss yeah it really is so it's again you know this is sort of this is also why too the culture on the hill right you have nancy pelosi who's an older woman probably looks at it completely different

than let's say if the leadership was closer to our generation no one wants to look at her porn well because I think maybe if the leadership was different, they might be able to be like, hold on, what the fuck is this? And also all these old ass dudes are like, you know, they're sending dick pics. Come on.

Am I? I don't know. No, I'm sure. Who is everybody sending dick pics? Why aren't those out? See, now I'm thinking, I know revenge. I'm thinking of revenge for the revenge porn. I'm like, everybody's sending dick pics. Why aren't those out? See, now I'm thinking, I know revenge. I'm thinking of revenge for the revenge porn.

I'm like, well, put that motherfucker's balls out. Yeah, let's just bring them all out. But we don't deserve that. We're going through enough in this country. All right, we're going to take another quick break. We'll be right back. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life.

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There's entire major arteries of the city closed down. Yeah. Well, and then there's also like what's funny too, even a lot of these areas where wealthier people are living, they're so self-centered and self-focused. They haven't been telling people that work for them. Oh, really? Yeah, like nannies

gardeners people who take care of their homes their children they're like oh yeah we it's evacuated don't come here yeah and people are showing up like what the fuck's going on uh and also in the kinkade fire up north guess who may be responsible for that one pg and e yep huh they're like uh the cause of the kincade fire is still unknown. PG&E reported the equipment on one of its transmission towers broke near the fire's origin point shortly before the blaze was reported.

Power had been shut off in the area, but not on that specific transmission line. Yeah, we covered in an episode last week that PG&E was like they had the option of fixing their infrastructure, which would have cost money.

Right. Or just coming up with a half-assed solution, like turning the power off to huge chunks of the state. And they went with the half-assed one. Yeah, just, yeah, shut the power down

and then maybe it'll go away. And then look what happened. But yeah, it's, man, the air quality is not good right now in the city yeah yeah global warming huh they're not letting uh my kid play outside at school because of air quality yeah well i mean like what the there was a new study that said between some point in the 70s and like last year the area that had been affected by burn like increased five fold yeah i mean smoke is not good to inhale period no and i mean but when you just think of like our boom and bust cycles of like like rain drought heat yeah create a bunch of brush thick brush for fuel for the fucking wind. Right. Like, it's really disturbing. Fires were not rare in California.

Right. But now this shit, like, full on, like, half the state burning, like, around this time of the year, it's becoming the new normal. It's really horrifying. It's legit, like, a season that you can count on. Like, you can count on there being generational fires, like, every year now.

So. I mean, that's, God, can you imagine living in an area that's prone to that? Yeah. Yeah. Like,

this one? This one, but like, you know, like, the people who live further west. Oh, yeah.

You know, where, because, I mean, the fire is not coming down to Hollywood, generally. Right. Like,

look at the smoke. Yeah. No, there's no, there's not enough fuel to have, where, because, I mean, the fire is not coming down to Hollywood generally. Like, look at the smoke. Yeah. No, there's not enough fuel to have, like, a full-on city fire. Yeah. But, yeah, and, I mean, also, a lot of people develop, like, in these areas more and more because it starts off with the land being cheap. Right. And then you start over-building.

Yeah. But even the rich areas where, you know, they have options. Well, I guess you have options, so it's like, well, we'll just go to the other house. Or we'll just hire a private firefighting company to save our home, which is what a lot of people do. Speaking of which, one person that did that was Kanye West. Yeah. And our next story is about him. This is the Lana Del Rey segment of the show.

For all y'all out there who are still Kanye West fans. Yeah, you got some good company. Get the fuck out of here. What is wrong with you? Donald Trump Jr. is new president of his fan club. He tweeted, Kanye West is cracking the culture code.

At Kanye West's new album, Jesus is King is the epitome of fearless creativity and quote dangerous unapproved ideas. He said, what's the name of the album? Go on. Leftists always try to silence those who are speaking truth. They're waging a war on our family and culture. Kanye is a pioneer.

I haven't heard the new album. Oh, you don't need to. What's the focus? Listen, I'll find you a YouTube video that's fart for 10 hours straight loop. And that's better than the 27 minutes of whatever the fuck this album was. I haven't listened to it yet either. It's empty. It's empty.

It's empty. It doesn't even come close to being anything like gospel music aside from using buzzwords. But again, because Kanye has come out here again being like democrats have brainwashed black people abortion is killing people i'm maga all day they realize okay they someone from the you know left side of the spectrum or people they like they're like let's really just put our capes on and be this man's number one fan right um and then again you have uh who else oh pamela geller who is a very famous islamophobe and obama conspiracy theorist, said this about the album. It's everything.

Undeniably tremendous. The left is going to rip it because it's all God. Akhani West is a visionary. He either walks alone or raises an army. Either way, he walks on. I mean, his concept of God, it's very specific. Again, remember we were talking about dogma earlier. Yeah.

So, you know. The dogmatic traditions of the Church of Yeezy are, whoa! Yeah. I mean, if you want to see the reason there is dogma, and I totally agree with everything you said about dogma. But, you know, I think like the Catholic Church would say that dogma exists so that Kanye West West or people like Kanye West can't be like, I'm God. Everybody follow me. Well, he's not saying he's God. Would you go to a church of God?

I mean, unless that's the Yeezus album when he said, I am a God. I am a God. He's found Christ, though. Would y'all go to a service? Sunday service? Fuck no. I want nothing to do. I think he's such a...

I would, but only for the reportage. Fuck no. I want nothing to do. I think he's a, he's a such a, he, I would, but only for the reportage. I would be a undercover source. Sure. Okay. I would not go. I think I would just be so pissed off because he is going there to find yourself necessarily.

No, no. I've, I've, I've already found myself and I love what I see. I do not need Jesus to show me any kind of truth, but yeah, it's he, he's, we've talked about this yeah he's gone well i mean his ship has set sail the number one source that we look to for uh our rap reviews yeah the source oh no i'm sorry the washington examiner oh yeah

gave it five mics i gave it five mics said with such a long build-up to the album's release the hype could have overshadowed the album itself. That is if the album hadn't delivered. Furly fam reactions or any indication. It's a hit. Millennials will be captioning their Instagram photos. Closed on Sunday. You're my Chick-fil-A for years to come.

Oh, hell yeah, Benzino. Yeah, that is. Let them know. Benzino, man. Wow. The fucking. Again, I'm sure kainé doesn't want these plaudits if you looked at it he's like what would a complex say right or like you know

things where music is actually talked about right rather than oh i've just created like a culture war he could play when pitchfork gave life of pablo nine or nine stars or whatever right a nine he was like what where's the, where's the other one point? I mean, it's funny to see. There are people, you know, I'll go on the Kanye West subreddit because I like to see what his true fans are thinking. That's like your drudge report? No, definitely not.

You follow the other side. Yeah, sometimes. No, that's when I go on C-O-Y-S for the Tottenham Hotspur subreddit just to see what's going on. I'm going to check on my enemies. The coys. But, yeah, even there, it's funny hearing some people post like, oh, look what Needle Drop gave the thing. And then some people are like, yeah, fair.

Other people are like, I think people got it. And then it's funny. There's also this recurring theme that you always see people go, I really think I'm one of the only people that actually likes this album. Right. And everyone's been saying that, but it's like, no, fam. Everyone's trying to say that because you know it's bad and you're trying to find a silver lining. So it's a Christian gospel album? That's what he calls it, yes.

Okay. All right. Yeah. Jesus is King is the name of it. Yeah. Yes. All right. He says someday want to yondi until Jesus Christ did the laundry.

To each their own. I don't even know what that is. I don't know what that bar means. Well, he was going to release an album named Yondi

and then Jesus Christ. He prayed and his laundry was done. It was a miracle. He prayed and then he was inspired by Jesus

to find a new way to launder money. Yeah. There you go. Boom. Fantastic. And that's where his cult is going to come in. Yeah.

See, like, we know bars out here. You know what I mean? Hell yeah. We're looking at these and we're like, what is this? What is this? What's he doing? My bars. And then I want to talk about some Halloween decorations that are, I did not know this

existed, man. But yeah, people are depicting lynchings in their Halloween decorations. Like in aggressive ways. Yeah. There are some people, like there was an attorney's office in Atlanta who did like a mock crime scene, okay?

They put a skeleton outlined in tape, like a crime scene. Yeah, that doesn't seem like it's the same thing. I don't know, if you're like but again like it's a legal office someone can trip do you have liability insurance you know like it's just it's just not it's just kind of dumb yeah especially when you're a district attorney but anyway yeah i think it's more like tasteless rather than offensive right and then there was this another one in brooklyn uh like in bedside there was some home outside of a school just had these depictions of like brown, like black caricatures hung in their window.

No, like no variety to it. Oh, yeah, I saw that. I mean, they look like those dolls. It looked like, yeah, like a golly, like a gollywog doll. Yeah. But being hung. So I think that image, you know, it's questionable, but I think there's still some plausible deniability. But as I was going further and looking at some of the other pictures, those are explicitly people hanging by the neck.

Yeah, from trees. A McDonald's in Massachusetts put up a decoration that included a limp black body hanging from a tree. Is it all in silhouette? Is everything in black? It is all in silhouette. Okay. I just want to, like, make sure, just want to make sure all the factors are there. But who wants to fucking eat at McDonald's and see someone hanging from a tree?

Right. Yeah. Well, I think because it's one of these things, right, where people think, well, what's spooky? But their personal experience has probably never intersected with lynchings or the horror of lynching. So it's abstract. People are like, it's freaky. Yeah, so is rape. The same way people can make

jokes and shit like that. Certain things, again, I have a feeling the benign version is someone goes, well, it's freaky. People swinging from the trees. You have an African-American customer coming in like, this is horrific. This is not spooky.

You do zombies. So you think it is from a place of ignorance. I think there are people who are ignorant. And then I think there are people who are really just trying to gas themselves up and be like, watch this shit. My black neighbors are going to hate this and do that kind of shit. Because I think. I mean, there was the example that's kind of undeniable on here is like somebody who hung what was like a lifelike mannequin from a tree and put a Confederate flag up next to it. That's pretty explicit.

Yeah. But she was like, what? Huh? I have no idea what you're talking about. What do you mean? That's the flying ghost of Robert E. Lee. Speaking of, I grew up in Lee County in Florida. Oh, did you?

Four Myers is in Lee County, I believe named after. Bobby Lee? Yeah. Stand-up comedian? Yeah, named after Bobby. General Bobby Lee. General Bobby Lee. Wow.

Yeah, that actually, wow. That works out. That does work out. Robert E. Lee, Bobby Lee. Yeah. Again, I think, well, to the point, right? There are people that, again, even how casually the president or even Joe Biden back in the day was like, this is a lynching. It's like, not enough historical context. You need to read up a little bit.

This is just a terrible, it's just, you know, it evokes some of the darkest shit in this country's history. And not even for black people, even for like white people who like protected black people. And they got lynched too. Because that was the shit that happened also. So it's a very, yeah, it's just a very disturbing thing to see. And again, I wonder if how common this was or if this is something that people are becoming more sensitive to

just given the like the tension in the country or the recent news about people talking about lynchings carelessly or things like that but i don't think i've ever seen that in person as a halloween decoration so i didn't even know that was a thing so it is like i'd be like yeah if i was sitting in a mcdonald's and saw like that it it stands out it doesn't seem like traditional halloween spookiness yeah there was a dude in my neighborhood growing up, and they had animals strung up from a tree. Yeah. And everyone was like, ugh, this is fucking weird, Dave. Like stuffed animals?

Or animals that looked dead? They were obscured. They looked like they were mummies, but the forms of animals, but hanging. Yeah, that's hella creepy. And this person's front yard was always like on some next level horrific shit though

for Halloween. But again, it was kind of like, like, was it supposed to be like a spooky haunted house type of thing? No,

it was like spooky get the fuck away from my house. Oh, like, and then in the back, it was like a backyard butcher. Uh,

no, but they did have a pond with flames that came out of it. Oh, that's very metal. I think they worked in that industry. Yeah. Well, you know, people go too hard with their decorations.

Just stick to witch hair, you know? Yeah. Witch hair never hurt nobody. It just looks terrible. There's this writer, George Saunders, who wrote Lincoln and the Bardo and a bunch of classic short stories. And one of his stories is called the Semplica Girl Diaries. And it's like this future he he writes about like these like kind of fictional versions of of the future uh where

people have living lawn ornaments that they hang from trees like that they you know you you go up and basically reenact a lynching that's like somebody's job uh to like be a lawn ornament in people's yard essentially but i like that i always think about that because he always has spending money for this right he always has this just like i don't know it seems like he has an eye for like the sort of shit that could happen in our culture like one of his other stories is about a guy who starts a website to rate college freshmen's looks and then ends up destroying the world destroying the world no an amusement park based on civil war reenactments and i was like damn that seems actually really shit yeah isn't that a dolly parton civil war land uh in sharp decline

yeah well then what was uh what was her dixie stampede? The Dolly Parton medieval times if you were in the north or the south? It's like every once in a while I'll see a thing that shouldn't exist in culture that this dude basically predicted. And I'm like, oh. Right. And it's dark stuff. Yeah. But Dolly switched it up. Yeah.

The stampede is no longer about, I think. Right? I think maybe she might have changed it good to be slightly less problematic oh you know what now it's just called dolly parton stampede dinner attraction is that really true yeah it's called deep the website is dp stampede.com and it looks like now yeah yeah this looks more like conestoga wagon type shit it's's not like on some, like, hey, man, what y'all think about these guys in gray? You like the guys in gray or the guys in blue? Who should have won?

Well, Fizza, it's been a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you and follow you? I'm on the internet at Fizza Dasani on the social media platforms, Instagram, Twitter, et cetera. FizzaDasani.com. I'll spell Fizza. Don't expect social media platforms Instagram, Twitter, etc. FizzaDasani.com I'll spell Fizza don't expect you to know how to spell that. F-I-Z-A-A-D-O-S-A-N-I

So just note that Fizza is spelled with one Z, two A's. Yeah, yeah. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? I was going to say facialrecognitioncomedy.com that is a comedy brand

and comedy tour and weekly podcast that you should check out. Who do you host it with? Pallavi, Gnalen, and Zara Ali. And I believe

Pallavi's been on here. Yeah. Yeah. So shout out to my girls. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Or was that the tweet you wanted?

No, that wasn't the tweet. Let me pull up. Let me look at tweets that I've liked. Actually, let's look at Pallavi's because she just popped up. I'm sure she has a tweet that. Are you guys particularly freaked out by facial recognition technology? Is that why you're called facial recognition? Oh, well, okay.

So people would get like the brown comics mixed up, the women especially. And there were only a handful of us at the time. So I made something called the Facial Recognition Guide so people could refer to it before they spoke with us. Right. And then like when we started the show, I made a flyer that has six faces, like the six comics who are going to be on that show. And it says says we are not the same person on our foreheads that kind of went like viral in the comedy community and that started the that started it so paula v says maybe love is not caring that they're horribly

unfunny oh damn that's fucked up but like you know i'm glad that's not my significant other. Yeah, I mean, I prefer, you know, a partner who's funny. Yeah. No, there ain't nothing worse than being with somebody whose dreams you don't believe in. Oh, God. Oh, God, if you're not funny and a comedian? That's tough. That's a deal breaker, ladies.

Yeah. But yeah, I do remember I saw that and I'm like woo Miles where can people find you oh man find me and follow me on

Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray a few tweets I like life man I can't speak you know why didn't have my cold brew

that's what the problem is at sick of wolves what if instead of booing rich people at sporting events we made booing rich people at sporting events we made booing rich people into the sporting event i would love that shit hell yeah uh a partner rich person booing yeah a partner at a parnapkin modern life in one act me i am lonely you i am

lonely we heart each other's posts oh That was mine. The loneliness. And then last one, at existings, home is where you trust the toilet seat. That's real. Yeah, that's real. That's really real. Anna Dresden tweeted, when an intern is tall, that throws me. Anna is so funny. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

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We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on, Miles, what are we gonna ride on? This is a track from a UK artist, Oscar Jerome. And he's kind of a cool dude.

He plays the guitar. He's a guitar player. But also, his style is very worldy. You'll hear some Latin rhythms, African rhythms, a little jazziness, hip hop. It's a song, and I like that. Yeah, it's a really great track. It's called Do You Really. I just found a tweet of mine I wanted to share.

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