The Daily Zeitgeist - New Majority, Who Dis? Mike Pence Enters Uncanny Valley 11.18.22

Episode Date: November 18, 2022

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Yeah. Coming in hot. Coming in hot. It's a production of iHeartRadio, and it's a podcast where we take a deep dive into American share of confidence. It's Friday, November 18th, 2022, which of course means... Hey, November 18th, hey, we're doing an auctioneer thing. Hey, November 18th, National Vichyssoise Day. Hey, National Princess Day. Hey, November 18th, Mickey Mouse birthday.

Hey, got over here on November 18th, Mickey Mouse's birthday? Yeah. Miles? I know. Why is that the only thing we're talking about in the doc today? I know, I today? I know. I know.

I know. Apparently, this is a day that commemorates the debut of a lovable mouse that was once a rabbit called Oswald. I did not know that. I didn't either. Wasn't there a Simpsons thing about that? Wasn't it just about how Walt Disney was a Nazi? I feel like the Simpsons jokes about early Disney always just veered into, walt disney was like a nazi probably like those like the simpsons jokes about early disney always just veered into like and it was hell yeah sold his

soul to satan who we were talking about uh before we started recording piss king anyways my name is jack o'brien aka I just really want some cheese. Mott's not Monterey. Get it hot and bubbling up. On that crust today. Pepperoni slice for me. Want it every day. Take me to the place I love.

Red Hot CPK. That is courtesy of Blake Rogers As requested Little RHCPK We're still out here Pitching a concept album From the Red Hot Chili Peppers Called RHCPK

They've given tribute To every other authentic piece of California But they haven't touched on CPK yet Get it done. We've already done most of the work for you. Okay? Mm-hmm. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray!

It's Mr. Miles Gray, a.k.a. Can't stop addicted to the breadsticks. Tied chicken with the sliver scallions. Choose not by me, but imitation. Won't get served without the reservation. Okay, shout out to Fighter of the Nightman for that one. And you will not get served without a reservation at CPK. I'll tell you that much. You better be on that reservation list.

You better know somebody to get on that reservation list. They will toss you out by your collar if you come up in there without a reservation. There's, look, people can't, there's an inexhaustible list right now of RHCPK AKAs. So trust me, I see the other ones, I will get to them. We will get to those.

Miles, we're thrilled to be joined by- Oh, that was by Fighter of the Nightman on Discord. I don't know if I said that. Okay. I think you might've. Okay. Shout out to Fighter of the Nightman. We are thrilled to be joined by a very funny actor, writer, comedian, and director.

Please welcome the hilarious and talented Shannon Coffey! Shannon! Woo! AKA, dreaming of my catification. I want a cat face, okay? I want to get plastic surgery to look like a cat. Oh, you want to be like a cat? Is this a safe space to share that?

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. That's, I mean, what does it take? You just do them some cheek filler. You turn your nose into like a snout.

I want to lose. I just want to lose most of my teeth and have those little tiny teeth. And then like the little spikies and I want the puppy. And then I want the whiskers and I, and I want to pull in a box. Yeah, there you go. Don't we all? I the whiskers you know and i want to pull in a box yeah there you go don't we all i'm like you know cats don't poop in boxes right i mean they have litter box like just these old amazon boxes i like to poop in i'm like yeah is this more about amazon i love when they they started doing that cool thing where doctors were encouraging you to mail your poop

to get tested i was like that's just people cosplaying as cats and not wanting to admit it like let's just be real here i was an early adopter of that practice oh hell yeah yeah you know box shooters they send you those uh litter boxes those human litter boxes with the styrofoam peanuts and uh amazon boxes that's what those are for right i yeah i think it's like that should be normalized. What else are we going to do with all those styrofoam peanuts other than poop on them? We're just trying to reduce, reuse, and recycle over here by pooping in our Amazon boxes. And cover it with the other peanuts just after. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just goes to the bottom. It's a good wrist exercise. Yeah, exactly. Oh, man. it's a good wrist exercise yeah yeah exactly uh man well i made you guys stop having a conversation to start the show because i did say it is the content that we all crave okay so before we started recording you said shannon or i think justin said shannon you rolling i said rolling like fred durst and then shannon you said what you're a more of a west borland yeah i'm more a west borland person i've been obsessed'm more of a West Borland person. I've been obsessed with West Borland.

Like, listen, I was a big Limp Bizkit fan. Like, I had their photos on every notebook, like, I had to bring to school. I was like, this is my band. And West Borland, to me, like, I don't know what it was about, like, his artistry, but it spoke to me as a teenager. His artistry. Yeah, like, his makeup, what was artistry yeah like every his makeup his what he does with like his makeup and i think he's a great guitarist and he's so cool and he's a brilliant painter and i was just telling uh miles i'm like have you seen have you listened to his

solo projects because his solo his solo albums are i mean is it unlike the biscuit at all yeah it's nothing like limp biscuit is it like when frishanti has his own albums like outside of yeah oh he's doing something interesting over there you're like oh okay yeah they're uh it's really good i love it so and i asked you i was like did you see his house flipping show sight unseen i haven't seen it and i want to see it so bad i don't know where to watch it yeah he would it was funny when he worked on he's like dude you're not he's like west borland's actually pretty chill because going into it he hated limp biscuit and he was like i don't know what this is going to

be like and he's like this is kind of interesting and i was like okay okay he's more than just big old contact lenses to me i think like west borland is why Limp Bizkit is good. I think without Wes Borland, there is no Limp Bizkit. And I think he made all the great parts of it. And obviously, there's a magic between Fred and Wes coming together and the entire band coming together. But yeah, Wes is cool. And when you watch videos of him sharing all his collections and all his interests, you're just like, this is an like interesting human right hey what's and it's like the relationship between yeah and he's hot he's the one with the black doll's eyes for people who aren't like followers yeah black eyes doll's eyes

but yeah i feel like similar to the relationship between b Wilson and Mike Love, like Brian Wilson was the singular artistry, like had the sound, the instrumentation, all that stuff. And Mike Love was like, fine, but literally you could put anybody in the Beach Boys to like, his whole thing was like, got to sing about surfboards and babes, guys. And it's like yeah anybody could have done that and dreamy sunsets yeah anyways yeah i think yeah fred fred durst replaceable west borland maybe not yeah i haven't thought about that i haven't yeah i don't know i

think every everyone tonight you know get on whatever streaming service you use and give a little listen to west borland and just do a little come back home. Yeah. Yeah. Just really connect to the man that you should have been looking at the whole time instead of the red cap, dude. Yeah, that's right. Always ignore the white guy in the red hat. I think he's just good.

Yeah. Just look away. Policy. Yeah. All right, Shannon, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We're going to talk about the Republicans going in with a slim majority in the House. So the new structure of it all.

Mike Pence had a CNN town hall that went great. Oh, yeah. No, it didn't. It didn't go good. It didn't go good. Nah, not too good. We might even talk about McDonald's and their weird history with video games. All of that.

Plenty more. But first, Shannon, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? So when I was looking at my search history, the last thing I searched was actually I was looking up my friend. Because I had just texted her to my old friend from college, I feel like we've been friends for a long time. Feel pretty close. I sent her a nice message. And then I was like, yeah, I hope you and your husband, Eric, are doing. I didn't say husband.

I was like, hope you and Eric are doing well. And then I was like, oh, my God, is her husband even named Eric? And then I was like trying to Google like them to confirm his name. And then I was trying to Google them to confirm his name. One of my most common searches that has never come up on this is trying to figure out the spouse's name. When I'm like, hey, hope you and blank are doing great. It's so like, I feel so guilty. But it's like, he's just a guy.

He's a guy that makes her so happy. And I'm so happy that they found each other in their marriage. But i have like one uh one gigabyte brain like i don't have room for this you know like we gotta move this info around and like what's the reason for not knowing the your like friend's partner's name is it because like you just haven't met them so you only know them through like social media posts like i feel like that's when i've been caught got caught up wait what the fuck is their partner's name again i don't fucking know you know i've hung out with him like uh like probably like twice and it's just it's just tough like i did you know like i i should know his name but every now i think it's like when someone's name is like eric i think i panic because it seems too easy, right? Like when someone's name is like Bill, I'm like, holy crap. Am I actually just like plugging in a random like normal guy name?

Like I get like this. It's probably just anxiety. Like I probably know his name, but I don't trust myself enough. And I'm like, oh, my God, I just said Eric. And it's actually Walter, you know? It's actually Derek. Wait, you don't identify with that at all, Miles? Because I've always suspected also that I just have a bad brain for names.

You know what? I think what it is is I've completely liberated myself from the stress of not remembering people's names. And my tactic is always introduce the person I'm with by name. Right. And then let the social contract do a thing when you're texting someone and they're like hey hope i say you and the family you and the family got him see even if they don't have tools i have tools to escape my own accountability what if the rest of their family all died in a tragic incident and they only have their one partner you're gonna be like hey hope you and uh the the other that your other

half like you get like poetic then i lean into that so it feels like a joke but really i still don't know the name and i'll send a voice note you're better than us because i just i make a get i'm like go with my initial gut instinct send the name then immediately panic and i'm like how do i unsend and then google and i'm like oh my gosh okay i got it right yeah the i guess the most stressful is like when it's someone you know you can google and you see them across from you like shit let me google that shit before they come over here. What's up, Jarek? Shit, that ain't it.

Yeah. I feel like 80 to 90% of the time I have the name right. But that 10% makes it so that I'm just like, I can't risk it. I'm just going to say, what's up, man? Even if it's a child, you know, that's just what I'm going to go with. And I mean, confidence does it all right. Like I've had people come up to my face and be like, hey, Janet. And I'm like, oh, cool.

Yeah. And I'm like, you know what? Hey, they hit it with confidence. My name is Shannon, not Janet, but we love it. I got acknowledged. Your name is Janet now. OK. All right.

Do people miss hear your name is Janet a lot? Because I could now understand that. Yeah. I think saying my own name is one of the weakest things I could. I am incapable of saying my name. Me too. I can't say it. I'm sorry.

You said Shaniqua Barkley. You're like, what? You said Saquon Barkley. Your name is Saquon Barkley too? Wow. What a coincidence. So I get Janet. I get so many things.

Like growing up, people couldn't say my name in Puerto Rico. Even though my best friend's name was Sharon and they could all say Sharon, they couldn't say Shannon and they would just call me Chalmel. And so they were like, Chalmel. And then they made this joke about how my parents named me Channel because they were having sex on the couch when they were making me and they kept hitting the remote and changing the channel.

That's really good. They thought about that. Shout out to a nickname when it speculates the scene of your conception as part of your conception yeah channel you know fucking on the couch and kept messing with the remote come on you're like damn these uh these people had a lot of time to think about my name yeah they really worked on this type five on just

my name yeah yeah i i also don't say my name with confidence and people usually hear it as jake wait so if hers comes out of sharon barkley well how are you saying your name when someone goes hey good to meet you i'm frank i'm jack i think yeah brad yeah i could tell that i could tell it like halfway in i get the j and the a and then halfway through you're like i'm out i'm out i'm also busy running out of the room at that point. So they, yeah, that jag guy is pretty cool.

That guy just jumped through our front window. Wow. That was weird. Brand for that guy. Jog. Just jog. It's named after the act of jogging. Uh, what is something Shannon you think is overrated?

Okay. I think, I think smooth ageless skin is overrated all right and the reason i'm saying this is because i'm being bombarded i'm being harassed constantly 24 7 with like every product that's like don't you want to get rid of your nasty crater old woman's skin and i'm like whoa jesus what is happening and it's like black friday is coming up i don't know when it is really but it feels like it feels like every year now it's getting longer. It used to be like a day.

Now it's a week. Now this year it feels like it's a year-long event. And I'm getting so many Black Friday deals for all these lasers and things. And I'm just like, you know what? I'm annoyed. I'm annoyed about it. Leave me alone.

I don't care. I'm about to take a knife to my face and give myself the deep lines and just be like, look, look, it's fine. You know, like, I'm so happy. Yeah. It's OK. Because it's a little intense. And like, we're all in the same age group.

Are y'all getting harassed on social media with this stuff? I see. I see increased like men's skin care things pop up. But yeah, I'm i don't know i think again i i just try and ignore as many ads as possible unless it's like a gigantic blanket i can wear and i'm like hold on what's this yeah i'm in the market for that i don't need things it's like your pores look like the surface of the moon and i'm like what the fuck i'm like okay yeah like i like i want a blanket i'll buy so many blankets yeah i'll buy a blanket for my face but like stop sending me these ads

where it's like we know you're dying yeah we know you don't look all sexy and tight the fact that you're dying from everyone else i'm like i think the fact that i'm dying is cool okay like i'm i'm i think it's relatable that we're all aging and i love it like i love my face right yeah i think it's just fucked up when the marketing is like hey you should be in denial about your mortality yeah like because that's the most unhealthy shit like because if the second you go down that road of like oh i can prevent like me having to be visited by my own mortality when I look in the mirror. I feel like that's where, you know, you can get a little bit too invested in that. So, you know, but I say that as somebody with basically no wrinkles, baby, because genetics

have blessed me. So for all y'all out there with the prune skin, you know, I feel for y'all. Miles is sponsored by one of these firms. You should know Shannon. He's not allowed to say it, but I do have to say on his behalf that he's... Okay, yeah, so it's not total payola. Yeah, but I do inject human growth hormone directly into the corners of my... He has a proprietary serum that he's trying to

push. You're one of them. This Black Friday. I mean, Shannon, I mean, like, I'm sure you don't feel good, you you know knowing that you're just a rotting corpse every day right so yeah i don't know i think it's kind of fun like i've always felt like this body like i've always felt like oh man i can't wait to just be like an ethereal gas again like yeah you know like my body has always kind of just been like quite clearly like designed to keep me grounded and

i'm a pisces with a scorpio moon oh listen i want to float i want to be in the sky so like i kind of think part of our human journey and like the fact that we are slowly decaying and eventually going to die like i think that's the coolest part about life it's like let's enjoy this this is fun and at the end we get these this like ultimate, ultimate release, this, like, cool transformation, this level up. Like, you know, I'm not trying to heavens gate it. But, you know, when it organically. Shall the opportunity arise. Yeah, but if it organically happens to me or, you know, or if I see it happening slowly, I'm not going to fight it.

So, like, you know, lasers are cool. But, like, lasers that are meant to shame me, I don't think lasers should shame. Okay. I don't think we should be engaging in shame, especially not revolving around appearance. And especially when, you know, the comet Hale-Bopp is about to do another perihelion by the Earth.

In which case, you gotta catch it this time. Yeah. Well, don't miss your chance this time. Don't mess it up like those dudes who were following Marshall Applewhite did. Did they mess it up, Miles, or are they partying right now on the tail of Hellbot? TBD. Shannon, what's something you think is underrated? Ooh, underrated.

I'm going to go with fluffy, cozy socks because I'm obsessed with them like i had a couple pairs and then i feel like during the pandemic i just like you know like my boyfriend started buying me a bunch and like literally like go to the dollar store and get yourself just like a pair of dollar fluffy socks and i swear cozy socks are equal to like five weeks worth of therapy like the mental health level up like it's like self-soothing you know it really makes everything easier and better i mean it's it goes back to like you know the blanket like get yourself a good blanket like that kind of stuff i i feel like it's never we can never praise it enough cozy stuff makes me feel good 100 you know you have any of the fluffy cozy pjs

like the ones that are oh like made of the sock material any of the fluffy, cozy PJs? Like the ones that are... Made of the sock material? Yeah, made of the big sock material. That's big in Korean culture. I went to K-Town and got my wife seven of those last year. She was like, alright, you're overdoing it a little bit, but this is great.

One for every night. Yeah, every night she has one of those. Swag. They're a little warm for los angeles but they are lovely when it when it's cold outside i i recommend you got you got a you got a pair like you guys don't know i just i run way too in the pair i spoon the pair and i also run way too hot for that sort of thing like even in the dead of winter i'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt oh really yeah yeah yeah wow good for you oh no that's terrible i'm so sweaty all the time it's brutal oh actually yeah never mind bro yeah well maybe the sweat is hydrating though for your skin that's why you look

so young and all the bugs that live there yeah yeah i know doesn't that make you feel good when you're just like hey you know what i'm never alone there's just tons of like disgusting bugs on me every time yeah you're talking about like rotting it's like anytime you have like a burp come up it's like ah yeah there's a lot going on down there there's just things things decomposing inside me right now breaking down yeah i read once and i don't know that this is true because who knows where where i'm reading Just things decomposing inside me right now. Breaking down. Yeah, I read once, and I don't know if this is true, because who knows where I'm reading stuff,

but I read once that it was like, every time you get a food craving, that's what's currently decomposing in your stomach, like in the deep lining of your intestines. I don't know if that's true. But I was like, now when I get cravings, I'm like, do I really want this, or is that just what's fucking rotting in a little hole in my gut?

Oh, okay. And there's like a little civil war being fought there where they're like, this is our new leader. Give us more of this. Yeah. Yeah. Last night I had a little mug of Cheerios with vegan eggnog and some cinnamon sprinkled on that. Wow. And it was a some cinnamon sprinkled on that. Wow. It was a holiday snack. I recommend that.

But I feel like it's going to be rotting in my gut soon. What kind of eggnog? I just bought almond milk eggnog. It was all right. I think I want to try oat. I did the almond milk one because I couldn't find the oat milk one. It's always out. Oat milk is tough to keep on the shelves, man.

I know. I know. We have an keep on the shelves, man. I know. I know. We have an oat milk problem in this country. I know. I know. Well, thank you for leading into our first news story. Yeah. All right.

Let's take a quick break. We'll be right. By the way, that does sound really delicious. It's just classic Cheerios? Yeah, just classic Cheerios. And you add the cinnamon and you add the whatever your version of eggnog is. I went with the almond milk one. It was good.

It might be good. You know, I'll go full dairy for that, actually. Yeah. Completely give up with my big blanket on. Yeah, we just buy real dairy without the lactose now because my kids are all lactose intolerant. As are most humans, I think. And it's a great, you know, evolution that we have, that you can just do full dairy without the lactose,

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I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? I mean, the Boone County rebels will stay the Boone County rebels with the image of the biscuits. It's right here in black and white in print. They lying.

An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch is a leader. You choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I'd just take all the other stuff out of it. Segregation academies. When civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools, these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot.

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Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask as part of My Cultura Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. And we're back. And yeah, so the Republicans did win the House by a slim majority. But courtesy of, what's that word?errymandering yeah gerrymandering yeah courtesy of gerrymandering they have won the house that ronda santos map in florida really is i think was the difference maker there because they're just like how about we just

fucking vaporize these blue seats there we go There's our majority here and they can't do anything about it. But yeah, I mean, like prior to the red fart, there were like a lot of talks and screams from the right about like, y'all better buckle up because when we sweep the nation, you guys are in trouble. And now that the reality is set in

that it's a pretty slim majority, they're a little less confident about that vision but they're still very much invested in fucking up the entire biden agenda and administration and i think you know the atlantic is sort of saying like there it looks like this is going to be quote benghazi times infinity because it sounds like they're just going to go on impeachment palooza like for like against anyone they don't like in the administration you know like for example marjorie taylor green has already said she has plans to quote investigate speaker nancy pelosi in the justice department for their treatment of defendants jailed in

connection with the january 6th attack on the capitol wow what a valiant effort that's yeah that one dude asked for a vegan diet and it took them like three hours to get a vegan like a vegan meal. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Google how many people died in Rikers this month. And then you talk about people with fucked up treatment while they're being held before trial. But anyway, you know, I think it's probably this is going to be the case because Republicans have zero desire to legislate. the case because republicans have zero desire to legislate plus their tiny majority is basically guaranteed it just makes it impossible even if they actually wanted to address things like inflation to do anything but they don't because they in the like the midterms are like we got to focus on the inflation the gas prices and now i think one of the first things they've said since

the majority was like confirmed is like jim jordan's out here's like we're gonna investigate hunter biden so okay sure like yeah of all the things to to prioritize hunter biden seems ridiculous but i am so tired i i mean i'm so tired of hearing about hunter biden like as if they act as if democrats are protecting him and that we're like no he's one of us we're gonna i can't i don't know a single person who cares about Hunter Biden. Take the man. Do whatever you need to do. If he did something bad, if his laptop is weird, he sold some guns and lied about it. I don't care.

Just if this is what's going to bring you joy, you little weirdo Republicans, just take the dude and lock him up and don't give him his vegan soda or whatever it is he wants. I don't care. Like, it's such a distraction. and i'm so tired of these games and i just want democrats to like not engage with this well i think that's what the next that's what that's the difference this time right is because you know right now it's clear we're gonna probably gonna have these like weekly political dog and pony shows or jim jordan or james cormor is gonna act like they found some smoking gun evidence of the demon crats real agenda and you know and i think the one thing they learned during like the benghazi

stuff was like get people on those committees who can like actually rhetorically rebut the bullshit like don't just don't just put people on committees because of seniority. That's not a good tactic. Put people on those committees who you know are going to hear some bullshit, be able to call it out in real time and just at least be able to present a counterpoint in real time.

That's sort of like the sort of beginnings of the strategy. But it also turns out there's also like an entire rapid response infrastructure that the Democrats have developed because of what the fuck went down, you know, with, you know, the midterm sweep in 2010. It's called the Congressional Integrity Project Initiative. And it says basically it'll include rapid response teams, investigative researchers, pollsters and eventually a paid media campaign to put congressional Republicans, quote, squarely on the defense for all the distraction nonsense they're going to do. So, we'll see

how that works. I think, honestly, the biggest strategy that Democrats should take is to not treat these people like they're fucking humans. You know, it's a fucking clown show. Totally. Or like they have any like there's anything you can do to satisfy them or reason with them. out totally or like they have any they're like there's anything you can do to you know satisfy

them or reason with them obama made that mistake like when the tea party came in is he tried to act like these were good faith actors right or not they're fucking christofascists who are just going to use like the the mechanics of the congress to try and you know exert some sort of weird hit piece or whatever to just keep the MAGA momentum going into 2024. And I mean, we can't do that anymore. It's it's that I feel like is one of the things that makes us not only look weak, but it's a huge distraction eats up so much time and energy. And to me makes me feel hopeless. And like after this past election, I'm feeling a little hopeful. And like, I think someone that I saw, I saw Ruben Gallego from Arizona, congressman.

He was like on all in with Chris Hayes. And Chris Hayes kind of like asked him this question about like, well, what are you going to do if, you know, like if Carrie Lake is saying that that that that election was rigged and that was stolen? And I loved Ruben Gallego's energy because he was just like, we're not doing that. Like, if you lost and you're going to fight this, you're an ignorant loser, and we don't have time for that BS. We're not falling for it.

And I was like, this is the energy we need. Like, I want every person to just look at that interview and embody that. It's like cutthroat. Like, we don't have time for this. We're not playing games. Like, these people are just throwing tantrums. let them scream from the sidelines because that's all it doesn't and it doesn't move the needle for all the screaming and shit that was going on during these midterms and everything they're like it's just it's not a winning message when at the at the like the

foundation of it is we believe some people are subhuman that's straight up facts for our platform that's just not you know you're only going to get a certain amount of people that are intensely hateful. But yeah, like Ruben Gallego was also like going off on cinema too. And he was like, yeah, I was, I don't know where this fool was at all campaigning either because she's in it for herself. And that's the kind of trash we don't need anymore.

And I think, yeah, it's just, we're slowly, I think hopefully just seeing more people with their fucking shit together, actually being able to be in Congress. But it's still a fucking long fight because with the House like this, I don't know what is going to actually get passed, you know, because it's going to be you're going to have people on the right, the far right, like the Marjorie Taylor Greene Freedom Caucus type people who would probably never want the Republicans to ever do a deal with Joe Biden because they don't think he's the president. Yeah. So you're going to like so the Republicans have a real hard time being in the majority and like having to please these people who want to quite literally just hit the brakes on everything. And then other people who are like, well, dude, we have to figure out a way like to do some legislating or at least be able to keep budgets or the debt ceiling going. And there's a lot of talk of Democrats just saying like, you know what? Fuck it. We're going to kill the plan to even have to keep raising the debt ceiling.

We'll just get rid of it so we don't have to fucking be held hostage by the Republicans and we can just do as we need to. And a lot of Republicans low key are like, that would probably be the best thing to do because then you can just do it and there doesn't have to be so much infighting. Right. And is that something they're going to be able to do? I mean, in this, like, while they still have both chambers, they could in the lame duck Congress.

Lame duck. Yeah. So we'll see. But I think these are all the things that all the ideas that are swirling around right now is to A, be like, okay, we have to brace for fuckery impact in January and then, you know, slog it out for two more years. Yeah. Well, at least they're bracing for it and they have some kind of plan put together because I feel like I know I feel like that's the first time they're doing that. I feel like in the past they've been like, oh, what? Oh i didn't know this was gonna be difficult yeah right the bad faith the bad faith like how bad faith everything was took them by surprise for

for like a whole decade oh only took them 12 years yeah right to be like hold on and even then i'm not convinced right because who knows what the fuck happens with like CNN and fucking the New York Times and MSNBC. And they're like like breathlessly covering these fucking stupid committee hearings and investigations. And then you're like, well, it doesn't matter if the media is also like, I don't know, is did Hunter Biden like smoke crack with fucking Kim Jong Un? With fucking Kim Jong-un? I don't know. Can we just, I do like the idea of just giving up Hunter Biden, even though, you know, he's a lot of fun and he seems like just a party wherever he goes.

Yeah, it's not personal. I don't think any Democrats are going to be like, oh no, not our Hunter. And I feel like the Republicans would probably feel mostly the same about Donald Trump Jr. So like, could we do like a reverse hostage exchange where like we just get to take both of them down like you like sacrificial hostage exchange yeah where it's just like because you know they're both easy to like they could easily be put away

for years on drug charges both of them but i didn's thinking like a mob boss. He's like, man, I might give up my son, bro, to shut these people up. Yeah. Keep it moving. It's like,

it is kind of like a Aikido move. It's like they're, they're pushing all this energy in one way and then you just let it give. And you're like, okay, have a seat now. Let it give. But then also I need Donald Trump Jr.

on, on cocaine charges. It's messy because the second you start being like all right you're right jim jordan no that's that's what's next wait is that jim jordan's he he also wants to take out donald trump jr no no but i'm saying jim jordan is hell bent on taking down hunter biden right yeah yeah yeah like i'm saying the second word even allowing him to seem like someone who's reasonable i mean like we already have. Maybe it's a loser, but I don't know.

I don't know. We'll see. Hunter, call in. Are you willing to, you know, give yourself up? Yeah, I feel like, you know, he could he could have fun, you know, locked up. Like, I don't think like you just said, you know, he's a fun guy. He'll find a way to make it work. I could see him finds a way to make a party wherever he is.

He finds a way to make it work. I could see him. He finds a way to make a party wherever he is. If he's at a rehab clinic, he's going to turn the flotation tank into a party. Yeah. Well, speaking of maybe it's a loser, Mike Pence had a CNN town hall and it went super good. Yep. I know. He's compelling.

He did not. And there's a lot of energy for him, from him. He's compelling. And there's a lot of energy for him from him. He's he's good. He is a stale hot dog bun of a human being. His eyes are so full of life. Don't you agree? Like a dog's eyes. I just love looking into his beautiful, full of life eyes.

Just energy. Yeah. So, I mean, CNN's been trying to capture more conservative viewers and you know try to keep up in the ad spend wars they've been failing miserably they had the worst ratings ever for an election in their entire history as a network and you know even like the morning show they were trying to push hard with don lemon and some other people that is even getting the same ratings as the older show that it replaced. So they're trying to figure stuff out.

That I had already never heard of. Yeah, right. Exactly. So shifting to the right really ain't it. But that didn't stop them from trying to normalize noted Mulan hater and Christo fascist sack of self-doubt Mike Pence. of self-doubt mike pence and while it may get ratings from the conservatives most people do not give a single fuck about what mike pence thinks because he has no thoughts on anything ever uh except that he thinks mulan is fucking terrible and pure sin and will be the downfall of our entire society that feels like the most pointed take he's ever had and this town hall was surely

his first step to you know becoming a presidential candidate and launching his book. And he fucking crushed it. And by it, I mean his own fucking balls because it was so fucking bad. For starters, I got to give credit to Jake Tapper because he knew Pence was going to walk in there and get caught lacking with the predictable responses to his lack of spine. caught lacking with like the predictable responses to his lack of spine and he was asked like yo why the fuck would you campaign for election deniers like in like with like blake masters and like other people when those are the very people that almost got you got like what is help walk me through the logic here my g uh and this is how that exchange went. I was surprised to see you campaigning for Don Baldock. Oh, shit.

New Hampshire and Blake Masters in Arizona, who was an amateur, who lied about the election, who defeated. One could say one could argue better candidates in the Republican primaries who were future leaning candidates. What's that smug look? He had a cocked eye. Why did you campaign for them well you know i've often said i'm a christian a conservative and a republican in that order what but i'm a republican and once republican primary voters had chosen their nominees i went out and traveled to 35 states over the last year and a half to see if we could elect a Republican majority. Dude, just shut up. He is so strange to watch.

Oh, yo, y'all need to go watch this clip. The way he really tried to look out at the crowd, he's like, yo, man, this guy's an asshole, huh? He's stupid. And then was like, so how do you square that? You're out here twerking for the people who would have been fine seeing you dead. He's like, hey, man, I'm a Christian, a conservative Republican in that order. But I'm like so fucking canned, so rehearsed, so like not human. And all of his gestures are president.

He has like four gestures that he goes between and they're all president face like yeah from from like an 80s movie or something yeah it's just all it's so weird like all the humanity i don't think i saw much humanity in him before but it's all gone and it's now it really looks like it is a it is an animatronic like a mike pence animatronic up there it's very interesting and he's just given like serious brow one gesture it's yeah he looks like it looks like a black mirror episode where like the first ai robot was running for president yeah you know and somehow was getting support because of like these like weird, like human mimicry things that it does.

But then like when it comes to logic, it's like, yeah, but you completely self-owned by like caping for these candidates who absolutely are election deniers. It's like, yeah, it's so weird that he can like portray like a face of confidence when

you're like, you know, you're like a little caca mat. Like people have been pooping on you, bro. And you're just you know you're like a little caca mat like people have been pooping on you bro and you're just loving it and like i don't i don't know how he can find the confidence to even be in public it's bizarre and like the fact that he's just like i don't know and if he him toying with the idea of running is bizarre to me i don't know that anyone would actually vote for him not

even republicans because yeah he's being a simp and it's just weird he's like a soundcloud rapper but like on the right who's trying to run for president and people like bro nobody fucking with your shit like and also it's like those spins are all from like your friends and family like that is not this shit is not popping he's like but I've been on SoundCloud for motherfucking 15 years. But he's got a lot of friends and family because he is the billionaire donor's choice. Like that was always the idea. Like he was behind the scenes, you know, talking to the Koch brothers, talking to like all the big Republican donors, just being like, hey, we're doing our best here with this guy. But this guy's a wild card when he was in the white house. And I can guarantee that this is my prediction.

At least he will run. The mainstream media will take it seriously. They will then like write stories about how it's a surprise that he got like 1.7% of the right. Yeah. Like they'll be like, and I be like and like wow it's really not happening for pence i mean a lot of people were saying and by that i mean we were saying in columns on this website because we're all owned by the same billionaires as mike pence but it's

it's wild truly like it feels like they have been in the lab with him just drilling him on five facial expressions that yeah i don't know it's it's like a a very on the nose like i was trying to think like the black mirror thing is right except it would be the worst version of black mirror it would be the worst episode of black Mirror because there's nothing compelling about Mike Pence. You would be watching it and be like, yeah, but this is... You can't

see people falling for this. The Black Mirror episode would be about how this sad robot realizes he's shitty and goes home and is tortured because he has some level of... He's sentient and he's like and goes home and is tortured because he has some level of he's sentient and he's like, do I suck? And then you're like, damn,

this must suck to be one of these fucking AIs. I feel like it would maybe be the moral of that Black Mirror episode. Like the movie AI. He would then, the Koch brothers or whoever runs their fortune now would take him to a dump somewhere to be like, you just weren't good enough, man.

I blame the programmers, really. If you're an AI and you're lame, that's not your fault, bud. You got programmed wrong, and you should be able to do a little upgrade and a software reboot and get good. Yeah. Another moment came when Mike Pence was like, I've never seen such partisanship on the Hill, especially, you know, with the January 6th committee. Dude, Jake Tapper straight up fucking just just passed the ball right back to him in his face.

Like, oh, really? How about this shit, motherfucker? So this is another sad exchange where, again, everybody knew what his predictable responses would be. So Jake Tapper came a little bit prepared to rebut it. knew what his predictable responses would be. So Jake Tapper came a little bit prepared to rebut it. And that the Democrat speaker of the House appointed all the members of the committee. After McCarthy, the Republican, removed the members, his members. But I must tell you, in my 12 years in the Congress of the United States, the idea of a partisan committee on Capitol Hill, a committee appointed by one party, was antithetical to what the Congress is.

It did happen before that. What happened for the Katrina committee when Democratic leaders refused to cooperate, you were actually on Capitol Hill at the time. It was a Benghazi committee that was all formed by Republicans. So it's not unprecedented. Well, and I must tell you, the principle itself was offensive to me. Okay, see, like, that's the best you got. He just said, motherfucker, you were, what?

You were there. What are you talking about? Oh, but it's the principle. See, you're not saying shit, robot man. You're not. Yeah. You're not. It's also very frustrating because, like, I feel like there are Republicans out there who will only listen to the Pence part of that interview and won't listen to the reality part.

They'll just completely like they can watch a two minute clip and only take away the things that help their reality and their messed up truths. And that's, I think, what's so frustrating is some of these conversations and these call outs are awesome for us and don't really reach the people they need to reach no not at all and i think i mean it's it's all it's all intentional but there was a moment that i'm surely won't even be on fox because one of my one of the favorite moments is jack jake tapper thought he was fucking ian lavan zant and was like i need to save this broken man and get over his toxic past this is like jake tapper playing fucking therapist to mike pence about the bad man he used to work with by the way few people know his name is jack tapper but he just doesn't say it clearly so if i were you i would still be livid with Donald Trump.

I would be so furious. And I know you're a measured man. But are you still angry? He has a grumpy little boy face. Well, I must tell you, the president's words and tweet that day were reckless they endangered my family and and all the people at the capitol nothing nothing behind i was angry wooden but you know my christian faith tells me quick to listen oh my god slow to speak and slow to become angry and just generally slow in the christian faith forgiveness is not optional.

We literally pray in the Lord's Prayer to forgive those who trespass against us. And in the days that followed, when the president asked to meet with me after he'd made the right statements to the country, he'd committed to a peaceful transfer of power, he'd condemned the people that rioted at the Capitol. Did not. We met. We sat down. And I prayed for God's grace to meet that moment and that spirit. And it wasn't easy. And to be honest with you, I'm as human as the next guy. Nope.

Incorrect. I still pray for the president. Weird thing to say. And I pray for the grace to forgive say and i pray for the grace to forgive him and all those responsible for that tragic day that's a good point shannon it is a weird thing to say i don't think i've ever heard someone i'm as human as i am as human as the next human what sir i was saying like my the thought that kept going through my head was, like, fully synthetic. He has become a fully synthetic human being. He's Bishop from Alien.

Yeah, like, but if the replicants were less convincing. Yeah, milk is still his blood, though, like Bishop. And then he just does, I'm as human as the next human. Right, fellow homo sapiens wow thank you like i mean again this is the thing they don't really get either is like this is the same shit that happened with ted cruz except way worse right this dude just straight up disrespecting your spouse and you're like well you know just you kind of try and everybody was like bro that shit like every most people were like i would not move like that if i was in a situation like that and that hurt him ultimately the same would happen with mike pence and conservative voters because if he didn't come back and was like

this motherfucker put my life at risk not that he would ever say that but had the energy of he's like it's unfathomable and maybe i forgive forgive him. But what he has done is, is beyond the pale, blah, blah, blah. When he goes back, and he's like, Yeah, actually, I'm a love on him to and pray for him. That's not the thing that is going to elevate you at all. You're just again, adding to the pile of, oh, the little boy with the fly on his head just wants to close his eyes and pretend nothing bad is happening. It's also bad too because i feel like for ted cruz at least i could say when he was turning the other cheek like a little weirdo like then it felt like trump could do no wrong within the republican base like they were like this is still our number one guy for mike pence to come now when

you know the tides are really turning like the republican republican party is trying to distance themselves from trump so for mike pence to be like this is i forgive him it's like no bro you can come out strong respect yourself and stand up for you and your family and also it's like you don't need to like go for this guy anymore like other people are coming out and saying he sucks too you know what's the most fucked up part? We're trying to give Mike Pence a fucking pep talk right now. Yeah. Like, bruh. Come on. He did look like a grumpy little boy.

I don't agree with a single fucking thing. Yeah. But, please. Like, that is the only human face he portrayed during the thing was when Jake Tapper was asking his questions. He had a little moment of grumpy little boy where he, like, had his hands on his knees

and was just like, hmm. Yeah, the way he's sitting in that chair looks like kind of like either a marionette or a little boy like he's like towards the edge of it kind of looks like his legs are sort of dangling for a second you're like oh weird yeah yeah is he a tiny man mike maybe he's given tiny man vibes like what do you mean so what's the energy but uh he is he's 5'10 no yeah 5'10 okay yeah he's in there uh i do want to play just one last one this is a moment a lot of people are sharing on twitter because this woman's asking a question and he calls her the wrong name and she corrects him and like his whole his brain fucking shorts out this woman is named uh andrea barber dansby and she's asking a question and

then he he doesn't care that her name is andrea and this freedom based on roe also continue barbara thank you i've represented madison county in congress for many years that's andrea it's nice to see you Andrea It's nice to see you Oh, oh, oh, oh, find it Oh, oh I thought the video paused I thought the video paused

That was him That was him pausing And it's good to see you Yeah, he needs to get rebooted He's not connecting to the Wi-fi like it's too slow unplug the router this was the convergence of so much money so much training so much like this was the attempt to launch the mike pence 2024 train like so many republican donors worked together with the billionaires that they know who run CNN to make this happen. And yeah, it looked like he was last legs right there.

That was. God. I mean, how could he debate Donald Trump on his stage when this woman merely said, no, my name's Andrea, not Barbara. Yeah. If that KO'd you. Good to see you. Good to see you good to see you okay yeah yeah i'm worried for mike pence i think he's gonna need a lot more pep talks like yeah yeah just just let him go wither away in the darkness now leave this man alone he's not even good at doing fascism you know what i Like, what's the point here right now?

You're, you're like, now I'm getting mad. I'm like, this guy can't even fascism good. They don't like the, the very rich people need somebody to invest in. And he, like, he's impressive to them because he is a cartoon of very rich person from the 1980s. Like, doesn't he? He seems like they've put some. You made fun of me the last time I brought up Caddyshack because old ass reference. But the the bad guy from Caddyshack, Judge Smales or Smales or whatever, like it seems like they added a little like 30 percent of that into his programming. Right, right, right.

Yeah. He's just missing the hat yeah i see that he can't but they they need somebody and they're also incapable of seeing the world as it is you know there there's so many layers removed from any objective version of reality they it's just hard man because it's basically like though how messaging is working on both parties is people's grandparents are trying to convince their grandkids like what works. You know what I mean? Like that's like the divide there. And like they're not willing to be like, you know what, man?

I didn't know Blueface got arrested for attempted murder. You know, that's that's the news world. That's just the news reality i'm operating in not to say that that's important to all the younger people but like there's just this whole other there's just this entire lived reality that older generations are completely like flummoxed by like they do not understand why millennials and younger are like looking to the left more than they are and they're like what the fuck's going on and we talk about this all the time but you need some more people who are have you know not been wealthy forever to maybe help you get in touch but anyway uh keep berating mike pence out there because we love the clips love them yeah no holy shit that is it is one of the most uncanny valley things i've ever seen that was being passed

off as reality you know like that's sitting down face to face jake tapper i mean come on mike if i was you brother right i would still be mad at this man he tried to hurt you this is the first time i've ever wanted to like interview jake tapper and just be like what was that experience like sitting across from him did you smell like dust burning coming out from inside his ears like what was that shit like like yeah old wood chips smoking all right that that was wild holy shit if people haven't seen that clip like it's just worth taking a tour through through there because through the mind of him a madman yeah all right we'll take a quick break we'll talk mcdonald's

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And like but it has it's not like sprayed with Teflon but it is like is it our home i think it is yeah yeah i think it's called like the it's our home like everyday pan or something like that or always pay it's just like fall like the stuff just falls off of it it's so wonderful and i'm just like yeah this should be what we're doing with technology and science right like creating new yeah create new like surfaces that are grease proof for places where greasy ass hands go you know but if you do heat it up it does create a chemical byproduct that could cause brain damage anyway but but that was the problem with teflon yeah Yeah. But this pan doesn't have that, which is awesome. Right? Because I have that same pan.

It doesn't have Teflon. It has a different thing on it. Yeah. Oh, okay. It's like a ceramic nonstick pan. Yeah. Someone gives me that pan for when I moved and I was like, I was not sure about the height, but I think it deserves the praise we're talking about right now.

Because I use it every single day. the praise we're talking about right now because it's i use it every single day the vitamix is also similarly made out of something that just makes it super easy to clean you just like put it underwater and all the stuff comes off of it and like that so they've got the technology i don't know if it's just more expensive or whatever but this chair annoyingly is only like a one-time thing they made it once and annoyingly as a prize i want this shit now sell it burger warmers on both sides come on yeah i think like you know like make it like bun warmers for the burgers but also for your own buns like i think all seating should be grease proof be able to warm up food and your body i mean i think it's yeah we gotta we gotta get futuristic like this is the time has passed i'm tired of sitting in the chair that i'm

sitting in right now which is a crap chair it's just a dumb office chair and i feel like a peasant i shouldn't be living this life look right the one thing that i think we can take from wally like forget all the environmental messages. We could have better chairs. Yeah, exactly. Thank you. Once that moved me everywhere and as a toilet. Please.

Thank you. Do they ever mention that? Are the chairs toilets? They must be, right? Because nobody's stood up in years. Yeah, they must be. Oh, yeah. Do you think they still have to push

or do you think the chair sucks out the way has like a soft a gentle vacuum yeah so you barely even know joy of pooping you know feel productive when you when you when you remove your bowels i feel like if you took that efforting out then like truly what are we doing are we even human anymore yeah i don't know i mean i feel like humans are able to find self-worth in the weirdest ways. You know, like Mike Pence, he's surviving somehow. And so, like, maybe without being able to push our bowels, we'd find some other kind of way to figure it out ourselves. But, you know, his secret, Shannon, is because of his belief as a Christian.

I love organized religion. It's really great. Yes, it's absolutely not the reason why i'm so repressed as a human being god i really want to see what the behind the scenes training of him over the past like two years has looked like like was it like clockwork orange with the things holding his eyes open and he goes just like watching successful old white men from the 20th century just like footage Who do you think you are? I am!

Yeah, but anyways I mean McDonald's marketing strategy they're doing a couple other like gaming things. They tried to capitalize on Friendsgiving by doing like a Friends Gaming event with FaZe Clan?

Grandpa. Friends Gaming? I know, I heard you. That's why I groaned. Look, fellow millennial, we've all heard of Friendsgiving, but what about Friends Gaming? Yeah, I know, Dad. Are you winning, son?

are you winning son they also have like video games that are meant to recruit people to work at mcdonald's there's one that's called mcdonald's crush the rush which showcases how fun it is to work at a stressful job for no money when everyone's a cartoon and you can turn the game off at any time wow it's like i looked up this game and it like it's like a lot of app games that you play you know you hit some buttons you complete the tasks you get the endorphins it feels good yeah right it's nothing like working in the fast food world though like it's just like making fries isn't hitting a button and there's no part in the game where you have to go take a disgusting smelling mop bucket into the bathroom and like mop up someone's random diarrhea spot that they couldn't get into the toilet so i'm like let's

make this game realistic please exactly exactly where's like the manager who's like fucking gaslighting you and trying to fuck with your sense of self-worth because they ain't shit yeah that's like one of the bosses you have to defeat it's like maintain your sense of self as you go through your assessment with your manager. Yeah. How did they get diarrhea on the ceiling? You'll never know, but you're going to have to sleep tonight thinking about that after you cleaned it off. I think they like put it in a bag and then blew air into it and then smashed it up top.

I've had to actually think about these things because i've been in some bad bathrooms and i'm like i don't know who did that and i'm gonna come up with an idea yeah when i worked at an arcade there were times when like you knew you were just like what you felt like that guy ain't super bad he's like fuck my life yeah yeah once you get children into the mix because like they can be pointed in any direction and they don't know what's happening inside them. So, you know, you're like trying to change it. That's always been my theory is that someone's trying to change a baby and but pointed up at the ceiling and then it just goes off. But wait, so he was changing the baby face down, ass up.

Yeah. I mean, when you're changing a baby, you're like moving it around and all sorts of like, if you don't have a changing table, it's a it is just. Oh, OK. Because I thought you were putting the baby face down on the change on the changing table. And I've read studies about how disgustingly dirty those things are and how many like there's more cocaine on there than there is drugs. So when you put your baby face down on a changing table you're getting them high and that's yeah that's i mean maybe they're gonna like

changing their diapers from now on because they're gonna be like hit me with a good stuff yeah you're talking like fucking tony montana and shit right after and you're like what the fuck is this yeah you can't even have my little fucking baby man what the fuck they also had a long mutually beneficial relationship with nintendo they released super mario 3 happy male toys and even produced an nes game mc kids which was basically mario if mario was constantly trying to sell you greasy food and the goal of the game was literally to kill the Hamburglar. No, not kill. Just defeat the Hamburglar. Oh, okay.

I was like, oh my gosh. It doesn't seem like a crime worth death penalty. It's just some burgers, people. He's just trying to eat. Stand your ground, Shannon. Have you never been to Florida? But yeah. Anyways, I mean, it's pretty...

It's not surprising the McDonaldcdonald's is going after gaming but they just every fast food always is yeah yeah i think that's like the that's their go-to audience right it seems like it works well like like yeah when i'm spending all day on the couch playing video games i don't make you know the most great food choices i'm not like let me go make a salad or a delicious spinach wrap i'm like well it's easy i gotta i gotta get map completion okay but i do think there's something to this chair design and like just trying to like couldn't just contain the entire like current humanity to WALL-E pipeline of like video game chair and McDonald's, like all of that coming from the same company.

And they just like keep pouring the technology that they developed back into making it easier for people to just like kind of scoot around, float around on their little hover chairs. people to just like kind of scoot around, float around on their little hover chairs. One of the car companies makes car seats for kids, which I guess is like more of a one-to-one. And they also make a crib for kids to like help kids get to sleep because kids sleep better in cars. So like probably something with the car technology and like getting cars involved in there somehow. I love that. I love products that kind of pile on and have multi-uses like there's that eye mask company i think it's called like manta manta i don't know how to say words but like they have all these like really cool sleeping eye masks that are

kind of like padded with like a little hole for your eyeball for your eyeball so you don't crush your eyeballs or your eyelashes oh yeah yeah and then they have like beaded ones and heated ones and cooling ones and now they have some that are like the eye mask with all of those other features and in addition to that it has like aromatherapy and it also has headphones so you can go to sleep listening to asmr or whatever it is you want to listen to this podcast and doze off into the sweet dreams of night yeah i'm like that's great one product just takes care of everything it's like weird that one's like i know fuck this earth fuck this world you got this mask and then the next step is going to be a euthanasia feature where it's just like right yes it's okay you found the light you found it don't be afraid walk right through walk right through we're like here mike try these try these on

oh wow mr pence is that you wow just and unplug him unplug him it's the kindest thing we could do oh man it's really like hard to picture him going to sleep other than just being like sitting in a chair and like booting down following oh yeah following that town hall that town hall where they're like we need something to uh humanize mike how about how about a town hall and make sure he says he's human just like like any other human. Okay? That's the most important line. Mike, talking points to hit. You are human. He probably goes to sleep, like, in a, like, honestly, I don't know if you've ever, there's, like, this documentary about this guy, Rocky Erickson, who is, like, the singer of, like, the 13th Floor Elevators.

elevators and there's this documentary about like when like how he was like living after the band and he had this contraption of all these tvs and shit that just created a cacophony of sound and the only way he could sleep and he just sat upright in a chair and just like i feel like that's how he's he has something similar like a like a just i sit upright with some kind of terrible sound blasted at me white noise yeah yeah but shout out to the shout out to the mcdonald's chair which i feel like honestly is the like manifestation of like bread and circuses as a consumer product right everything in one yeah yeah all right well shannon a pleasure as always having you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? You can find me on Twitter, on Instagram.

On Instagram, it's just my last name, C-O-F-F-E-Y. And then on Twitter, add an S to the end of that and you'll find me that way. And a fun thing to share, I wanted to say I directed and also did a part in a short film written by Nikki Osborne and Jay-Z's A Peta. And it's called Happy for You. And it's in a couple of festivals. I won Best Director in the Latino Feedback Film Festival. But if you happen to be in Palm Springs in December, go to the official Latino Film Festival.

And you can go to the Palm Springs Art Museum and see a screening of that film and I'll be there, hopefully, fingers crossed. And yeah, I would love you to see some of my work in a theater. Congratulations. Thank you. Is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying?

Yeah, you know what? The way I've been using social media is like really dipping on, getting a couple of fun stuff and dipping out. And my Twitter right now, we all know what's happening at Twitter. It's just chaotic. But I really love what I've got going on there because I go on and they just show me that Robert Pattinson is trending at all times. And I just get, you know, like fan cams and funny memes of Robert Pattinson.

And he brings me joy. I love his work. Like the mug i'm using is just a good time slash twilight you know meme where it's like this is a skin of a killer bella but um the tweet that showed up on my feed was by someone's uh their handle is robert's penis and it's them sharing a little fan art where it's like the Last Supper, but it's all the different like Robert Pattinson characters. And it brings me so much joy because he's one of my favorite actors. I think the characters he portrays are insane and awesome.

And it's made by some user called Nicole Two Dogs. I want to give credit to the actual artist who made it not just the person who shared it but yeah i like his his body of work brings me so much joy him as a person is so weird and random he brings me joy he's a you know he's a fun tourist and i need that energy so okay you got to pick one has to go west borland or robert pattinson oh I'm sorry. West Borland. Goodbye. Rest in peace. Okay.

We're choosing Pattinson. Yeah. That was quick. Okay. Yeah. West Borland is really cool, but Robert Pattinson, like, I just like. You don't have to explain it to him. He's gone.

He's gone. There's just more future there. Okay. Great. Yeah, there is like so many good roles. I want to be an actor like Robert Pattinson. Like that's, that's the goal. He really is a great actor. All the, all the haters, all the Twilight haters back in the day. There's not much you can do.

He's undeniable on screen. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. This podcast took a stand and I'm loving it. Miles, where can people find you? What is a tweet you've been enjoying? Find me on Twitter and Instagram at Milesagrey Find Jack and I on our basketball podcast, the number one top rated 100% basketball podcast, Miles and Jack got Mad Booskies

Fantastic show, had Sean Keen on the most recent episode, it was a fun time and also check me, and actually Lydia Popovich, helping me guest co-host on 420 Day Fiance. If you want to hear us talk about that 90 day shit. Some tweets I like. Man, there's a one.

Is this from Mr. Soak at Dangling Hemi tweeted this thing. It just says, I love modern commerce. And it's a it's like a fucking Amazon ad, but there's clearly selling tweak pipes. Okay. Like unique straw for, for milkshakes, frozen drinks,

smoothies, and bubble teas. You're like, bro, that's a stem to beam up with the fuck are you talking about? And then you look at the individual pictures. You're like, that's okay.

I get how they have to do it. And this is customers who bought this also bought a bunch of motherfucking torches. You take torches. Come on. I get it. It's wild. But it's the same thing when you buy herbal grinder or whatever, you know, like it's just for my shit works.

Exactly. Then another one is from Jack Cocchiarella at JD Cocchiarella tweeted. exactly then another one is from jack coquillarella at jd coquillarella tweeted uh there's nothing more mitch mcconnell than voting against interracial marriage while being in an interracial marriage yeah uh yeah and then reverse cowgirl reverse cowgirl 69 at botticelli bimbo tweeted jesus she was she had this viral thread uh because i think she's a like a like a dancer at a club and she's saying like bro i know the recession's coming because all my wall street people have not come in right fucking months yeah and that was like that was like back in april or some shit and everyone's like there's there's wisdom when you like you gotta there there has to be like another market

with your eye on the like exotic dancers and what they're saying out there as well but she tweeted swifty's developing class consciousness because they couldn't get any tickets is my favorite tiktok trend and there's this video where this woman's like giving like a monologue to the thing and uh the what it says is quote the ticket master debacle was taylor's capitalistic circus on full display that's why it was so upsetting regardless of whether you got tickets or not so many rich and powerful people are deeply invested in taylor bringing in as much money as possible including taylor and this time there was no hiding it urging fans to buy a million

different versions of the same album non-stop merch dynamic pricing for concert ticks it all truly seems irresponsible at this point i'm going to say i'm officially turned off by taylor and then has some circus shit so i was like wow look at y'all okay yeah okay you know take your time and we all we all get there in different ways wow amazing some tweets i've been enjoying john millstein tweeted i think this guy loves elon musk and it's just a tiktok video of his day in my life as a reply guy for elon musk that is just oh yeah yeah it's very good and then our writer jm mcnabb predicted that the that the new tim allen disney plus santa claus series was going to have some mega vibes to it And just based on the trailer and Scott Weinberg tweeted,

saying Merry Christmas to all has suddenly become problematic. Actual dialogue from the new Disney plus Santa Claus series starring Tim Allen. Yeah. Looks like they know. Should have never given up. Yeah. And then Maria Garcia tweeted, work it.

And it's just a great video of somebody taking all these things from their yard and turning them into high fashion and doing like a very convincing very convincing catwalk like fashion walk so i'll link off to all of those in the footnotes but you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can find us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're at 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 a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do we think people might enjoy? This is going to be a track from you know la r&b artist shout out to la uh destin conrad who i think like got it sort of first got his start like on vine and like over over the years has been kind of evolving as an artist this track off his new album satin is really dope it's called nobody knows and it just it just feels like some nice 2022 grown people r&b so you'll you'll definitely like this this is satin by destin d-e-s-t-i-n

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