The Daily Zeitgeist - Nike: 3 Billion, Racists: 0; Free Them Aliens 7.15.19

Episode Date: July 15, 2019

In episode 432, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Danielle Radford to discuss Nancy Pelosi versus women of color, Alex Acosta resigning, Nike's stock going up after the Betsy Ross flag design being pulled, the storming Area 51 Facebook event, what the dudes are into right now, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. ‘Outright disrespectful’: Four House women struggle as Pelosi isolates them 2. CBC lawmakers rip Justice Democrats for targeting black lawmakers for primaries3. Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigns amid pressure from Jeffrey Epstein sex traffic case4. Julie K. Brown: Acosta's press conference was didn't help him with 'inaccurate,' 'twisted' statements5. Colin Kaepernick Spurs Nike's Stock After It Pulled "Betsy Ross Flag" Sneaker6. Hell yeah, it's finally time for the people to rise up and storm Area 517. listening to money by the drums meme8. Meet the millennials pretending to be baby boomers on Facebook9. WATCH: The Frightnrs "All My Tears" Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.

Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 91, Episode 1 of Your Daily Zeitgeist! A production of iHeart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness

and say officially, off the top, hey, fuck Coke Industries and fuck Fox News. It's Monday, July 15, 2019. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I Get Knocked Down. But I am Jack O'Brien, and you're never gonna keep me down. I Get Knocked Down. But I'm a Sixers fan, and they're gonna take the fucking crown. Fucked it up at the end there, but it was a good effort at Rich Ramey. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray.

No song today going with straight anagrams. From Assoltus Hanna, Miles of Gray, a.k.a. Smile, Ya Frog, a.k.a. My Ogre Fails, a.k.a. Forge My Sail, a.k.a. Sir Glam of Yeet. Sir Glam of Yeet? Not yeet, but yeet. Or yay, but I want to just say yeet. I love it. Yeah.lam of Yeet. Sir Glam of Yeet? Not Yeet, but Yeet. Or Yeet, but I want to just say Yeet. I love it. Yeah. That's really great.

Thank you. See, I added the O-F of Miles of Grey makes many more combinations. Oh, shit. Nine letters name. Yeah. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented Danielle Radford. Hi. What's up?

Welcome back, Danielle. Hey, good to see ya. There's a dog. I'm happy. Yeah, there is a dog. How does this dog rank? Oh, this dog? All-time dog. Actually, no. Let's not go there. It's a 14 out of 10 dog. Fluffy, attentive.

It's pretty cute. It's a pretty good dog. Yeah. There's been some drama this week as I rolled over his tail. Oh. Not the bony part of his tail. Just the fur. But then he jumped up and fur was left behind. Oh, he big man.

Yeah. He's good. We're on better terms now. We worked it out. He's very trusting because he will put his little puppy head underneath the wheels of your office chair. And to the point where before I even move, I like always scanning around me i'm like i don't want to crush ace ace biscuits about adorable dogs that get underfoot and cause accidents oh see oh gotta watch out for them dogs man keep your eye out uh all right daniel we're gonna get

to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to take our listeners through a few of the things we're talking about today. We're going to talk about Nancy Pelosi and the ongoing feud with the freshman Congress people, Congresswomen. The squad, as it's known. The squad. Squad up. We're going to talk about Alexandria Acosta resigning and... Did you say Alexandria Acosta? Alexander.

Oh. Is that his name? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alexandria Acosta Cortez. I noticed, by the way, Drudge Report started to refer to AOC as Cortez, which I think is like, you know... Their way of trying to be disrespectful.

Yeah. Sure. Anyways, Acosta resigned. We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the fact that Nike is living their best life out here despite the conservative outrage. Never lost. We're going to talk about some disturbing shit about ice. We're going to talk about the storming of Area 51.

Yep. Lil Wayne almost quitting the Blink-182 tour at the end of last week. Man, those are a lot of words. And I know what they all are separately, but together, they just don't make sense. I know, right? It sounds like we are in an alternate dimension. I mean, that is kind of his point, to be fair, to Lil Wayne. He's like, this isn't really my thing.

Like, what am I doing here? Yeah. Essentially. Yeah, we'll talk about that. And then we're going to have a nice rousing session of what we're fucking with. What you're fucking with. But first, Danielle, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, geez.

So I actually tweeted this a while ago. There was a day where I was trying to look up how to twerk when you have a bad back. Oh, because I would like to learn, but my back is, you know, it's,

it's all like flimsy sticks and marshmallow. Don't get hit by a bus. Yeah. And so I was like, how to twerk with a bad back. Can you twerk with a bad back? Will a bad back hurt you? And then I,

cause I'm also playing Stardew. And so then my other search was, why is my Stardew Valley wife mad at me? Okay. What's Stardew? Stardew Valley is, did you ever play Harvest Moon? Harvest Moon was the game that Farmdale or Farm, whatever. Farmville ripped off.

Oh, okay. But Harvest Moon was way better. And then it started getting bad and it's later incarnations. And so just this like random indie studio made a game that was basically Harvest Moon, but really, really good and combined some elements of Animal Crossing. Okay. And so you can get married. There are several single people.

You can marry any gender. I married a lovely lady. We adopted two kids. They are brown. It is cute. Oh, wow. Where is your spouse at? My spouse?

Is this a computer? A computer spouse? It's in-game? It's in-game. Oh, okay. I was hoping maybe you could You don't interact. It's not like a live world.

It's like second life. No, no. I think that that would weird my boyfriend out. Yeah, probably. Derek would not like that. Shout out to Derek. Derek would think that

that's really fucking weird. Although he does occasionally just be like, hey, me and my Stardew Valley wife adopted a dinosaur. And he'll be like, I don't know what you're talking about. Are you cheating on me? Wait, and you said you had to Google

why your wife left you? She was mad at me because I guess I'm supposed to give her a gift every day. I guess I gotta make her happy and shit. I don't know. A gift every day seems like too much. And that seems almost sexist. And your bitch only likes diamonds. Oh my God.

Well, she likes diamonds. She likes strawberries, which are very hard to get in game. And she likes batteries, which you can only get by making lightning. Damn. When will it be enough, ladies? Is that a vibrator related, the batteries thing? Maybe. She does build robots.

Oh, okay. that's why i married her because she's in stem yeah damn that's dope uh wait so did you go through a did you like feel go through a field of possible spouses oh yeah and you're like no this person is a little too blue collar for me yeah there's like a super hippie there's um one dude who's like dealing with ptsd from a bad childhood there's another dude who's like a whack drunk oh so it's fucking it's real in the field yeah it's real on these fields okay wow and stardew valley where is that a fictional location is it does it take place on earth it is on earth yes but it is a fictional place all right yeah um what is something you think is overrated oh something that i think is overrated is y'all

gotta stop talking about new shit killing your childhoods i get it we all hate remakes we all hate reboots i understand and we all know the studio is doing because that's the stuff that people are going to see but the discourse around this new lion king is like that's cool you don't like it that's great but so many people are like mad. Yeah. You don't have to go see it, my dudes. And the other one is just sitting there right there waiting for you to love it.

Right. In that soft VHS case. Yeah. With the padding on it. Oh, I had them shits. Yeah. Sure did.

So that's, to me, that's overrated where it's, it's okay to be like, I don't like this and here's why it doesn't work and blah, blah, blah. Most people have not seen the movie yet. And you would think that that to be like, I don't like this, and here's why it doesn't work, and blah, blah, blah. Most people have not seen the movie yet,

and you would think that that movie, that's not what ruined your childhood. Your fucking dad abandoning your mom is what ruined your childhood. Leave Lion King out of this. Abandon the gang. Gang, gang, gang. Leave the Lion King out of this.

It's a bunch of people. You either like it or you didn't, and that's fine, but people get so angry over this shit people are angry about mushu not being in milan and obviously black ariel or whatever and it's they're just movies my dudes literally just movies and this is coming from somebody who is a film critic yeah and yeah so you you care about uh movies but my brand is to critique this shit right literally like hi but this is a bad version this is a bad critique find a new find a new angle guys yeah just literally anything a couple people were god i don't remember what it was i saw like one tweet

that was like um someone okay this is immediately funny tweeted that godfather gift that's like what have they done with my boy? Oh, they massacred my son. Okay, that's funny. At least be funny. But people are just legitimately, my mentions were garbage when I showed that I went to it. And it's not that I like it because I like the Lion King. If you like the Lion King, you will like this.

It's National Geographic-y. The mouths are kind of weird. These are all things that I talked about. But just, why are you angry? Go run. Like, I never want to be one of those, like,

go outside people, but some of it. Also, just in general, to be so angry, just energetically, it's a waste of your time. It's a waste of your energy.

If you, like, if you have the bandwidth to go, you know what? I'm going to take the time to focus all my energy to be negative about something. It's going to poison your whole, your, your energy. Is it true that the mouths are done like those old Conan bits where it's just a photograph

of the lion and then a human mouth where the mouth is? I kind of, oh man, I wish it was. The problem with the mouths, legit, this is a real critique, is that they make the mouths move the way that the animal's mouth would move. Right. But it's still making human noises in the way that a human mouth works. Right. So sometimes you're watching it and it's like, Zazu, that's a really funny thing you just said,

but like you can't, the tongue's not hitting the teeth on that. So I don't know that you could say that. But then it's just doing like animatronic mouth. It's like. Oh, I love it. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like with Jungle Book, it was, I don't know, I got tired of it after a while.

I was just like, yeah, this is not as interesting. I think it was like a neat trick that they pulled with Jungle Book. But now it's just like, I don't know how sustainable it is. And yeah, it's hard for you to, like, emote or get the... Yeah, I'm hoping with Little Mermaid they go a little closer to, like, Aquaman, where it was under the sea, but it was still, it felt magical and it didn't feel... Because if not, it's just going to feel like a bunch of Billy Bass fishes singing, and that might be a little awkward. I was born on a river.

Like, just flapping on a wall. Flapping on a... Take me to the river. Oh, that's what it was, yeah. What's Flounder going to be like? like just flapping on the wall flapping on the wall uh yeah flounder oh that's what it was yeah what's flounder gonna be like I don't know

it's gonna be Jacob Tremblay doing something yeah is it just like a yeah oh nice

a realistic crab like as Sebastian like what the fuck is that gonna be like that's a talking rock yeah let them be a little exaggerated yeah yeah you have mermaids mermaids aren't real I think in that one if straight up eels are like yeah man It's a talking rock. Yeah. Let them be a little exaggerated.

Yeah, you have mermaids. Mermaids aren't real. I think in that one. If straight up eels are like, yeah, man, we'll get the fuck out of here. I was like, no, dude. Well, I don't know. Eels are pretty scary looking in reality. Yeah, but I want to see a little cartoony.

Well, something you should look at, and I've been obsessed with this since I first found out about it a couple days ago. If you can find clips of the Broadway Little Mermaid show, the way they did that was they put everyone on Heelys. Oh, really? So you'd just be gliding around? Yeah, so at some points they'll be dancing and then all of a sudden they'll just start going because they're all on fucking Heelys. It's amazing.

And did this show predate Heelys? Did they create Heely technology or they were using Heelys in the show? I imagine they went and bought a bunch of Heelys, but if I found out that this was the genesis of Heelys, Did they create Heely technology or they were using Heelys in the show? I imagine they went and bought a bunch of Heelys, but if I found out that this was the genesis of Heelys, that would make me truly delighted. I would love that. We're like, excuse me, Heelys founder? Let's get the idea.

It wouldn't happen to be the Little Mermaid on Broadway, would it? It starts shaking. The eels are like, they're hands, so they use the arms as the eels, but you can still see like the face moving. No, it looks weird. Oh, no.

It looks like someone's sleeves are talking. Oh, okay. Because the way you're doing eel arms right now, I'm like, okay, I'll buy a ticket to this show. Oh, I want to see it so bad. Because there's a part of me that as a film critic who knows what good movies are. And then there's a part of me as a Danielle Radford

who loves bad movies. Right. I want to see this bad team. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you think they're probably going to go for the eels a part of me as a Danielle Radford who loves bad movies. I want to see this bad team. But you think they're probably going to go for the eels with the human arms moving? I hope so. Just go for it. With googly eyes on the hand? Yes.

What is something you think is underrated? So many things. Empathy. Paying your freelancers on time. That's fucking underrated um oh you're on a net 180 you don't get to tell me that you are at net 90 i know that when i submit no no no no i've read my contract my dude my sweet bitch you don't get to suddenly tell me that you are that i'm on a net 90. Yeah, it's awful. What else? What else is underrated?

I mean, those are the things. And squirt. I just do want to shout you out because you brought a nice squirt into the building and I was like... We have a refrigerator that is full of so much soda that it's become a problem.

Like we can't fit anything else in there. And you are the first guest that brought their own soda. You are a connoisseur. She knew what she was getting. She's like, they ain't got squirt here. They ain't got squirt. This is not a squirt place.

Look, I told y'all, it's refreshing. It's grapefruity. Squirt walked so that Pamplemousse could run. That's all I'm saying. Say that one more time. Squirt walked so Pamplemousse could run. Thank you so much. Squirt walked so that Pamplemousse could run. That's all I'm saying. Say that one more time. Squirt walked so Pamplemousse could run. Thank you so much.

Squirt 2020. Yes. Squirt 2020. And what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Oh, so going back to my original thing, there are some people that are genuinely angry at things and genuinely mad, and that's exhausting.

But we've also got to really pay attention to which one of these, like fake accounts, which are people who are doing it on purpose to get us all to yell at each other. We got to do a better job of paying attention. Screening those out. Yeah. Cause with the aerial thing,

there were at least two accounts that everybody I saw, everybody, every big blue check, all of my friends, everyone is yelling at this person. The one that had the man hands holding the video and the picture yep that was one there was another one of people just you know taking photos offline and you know we all know about the the bots and the other people who pretend to be black and we know it because they don't use aave well they don't understand

that it is an actual language and that it is like it has linguistic properties that follow a set of rules so it's always like as be downs to street what the fuck did you just watch Fat Albert

I watched an old Fat Albert cartoon I know how they talk yeah as black and as is a black is yeah it's like you gotta

please yeah like that old dude who like probably self-vandalized his property oh yeah and just wrote Crips oh I didn't didn't see the crypt i think it was the same same neighborhood yeah it was like black's rule black's rule is the one that i've seen oh i didn't see black's rule i just saw the crips one which i thought was like a hilarious bit that somebody was doing where they

just wrote crips and like flowery cursive yeah yeah like what neighborhood though okay and then it's just black's rule. Yeah, black's rule. Black's rule. Those are totally sentences that black people say. To that Ariel thing, there was that account that everyone was like, this girl, she's saying like it ruined my childhood. The photos, none of them match.

She's like, I'm throwing away the video. It was like a grown man's hands. From like an unboxing video. Oh, okay. That was, yeah. Or whoever this person was took from that. another photo from instagram just created this dumb backstory that and if you even just look at the timelines of some of these accounts they're never consistent they're all over the place and like sometimes they just they fit they fan both sides right because what they're

doing is typically because they know that we're looking for something it's like oh you started your account yesterday these whoever the trolls or whatever whatever these people who are doing this are they have been doing the long game so these are accounts that have been around since you know 2014 2013 2010 these are the same accounts where if you remember that hashtag your slip is showing where there was a bunch of accounts of black women that were, what was it? They were trying to do like hashtag cancel Father's Day because fathers suck and it's only about mothers. And it turns out it was a bunch of 4chan trolls. Yeah.

Like these. And so the smart ones delete old tweets. Yeah. The other ones don't because they know you're not going to go back that far. Yeah, because you're just interacting with the tweets. Yeah. So we just got to be a lot more careful about spending our internet energy and quaints on these fake accounts. Oh, zero followers following 15 people.

You've had the account since March 2015, but you only have two tweets. But you keep deleting them every time I see you go back to Facebook. We were talking about this last week with regards to the Jason Momoa dad bod thing. Where did that happen? Who was saying that? Everyone's like, people are saying that. Where? I was looking for it where we were trying to figure that out and could not find

the original person being like look at this fatty i'm gonna be a dad because of that photo sign me up all right let's get into something we wanted to cover uh off the top. One of our former guests, Yusef Roach, has been accused of abuse and manipulation and just all around horrible behavior. So yeah, we wanted to take a minute here to address the situation. It's been kind of, it's been difficult to try and kind of talk about this for a few different reasons. One, I definitely found myself and I think others in this office, this room, personally manipulated by his behavior. I was. And were made to believe that there was something very troubling going on with him.

And it turns out that that might not have been the case. So, yeah, I think, you know, a few of us in this room have definitely found ourselves manipulated by his behavior. And it was very sort of tough to deal with because on one hand, you know, just I think off the top, I think it's very clear to say that as a show and as people, we believe the women and these allegations that they've come forward with.

Absolutely. You can absolutely count on the fact that he will no longer be on this show. And we removed the episodes he was on last week because it's not appropriate in any way to monetize those appearances. And just we're not interested in platforming anyone who has any kind of abusive agenda. But yeah, I think one of the things that was really difficult to grapple with personally was the amount of concern that I had at the beginning and how that that soured very quickly. Yeah. And the knock the thing that aside from the people that he has harmed personally, I'm also it's it saddens me to see

how many people were taken advantage of by the language he was using on Twitter. And that could even potentially dissuade someone from taking someone seriously who is, you know, threatening self-harm or something, or has these cries for help that were seemingly cries for help. Yeah. Yeah.

And I think the only way to do it is just to continue to take them all seriously. And, you know, when somebody is threatening self-harm, you know, just do your best to be there for them. And in this case, it was just, you know, we were being misled, but that's going to happen. And you just have to kind of push forward and continue to be

empathetic but yeah it it's really brutal uh and i i just feel and i think everybody here feels horrible for the victims and you know we we don't want to be a part of anything that legitimizes or furthers you know how they felt abused by him so or how they were abused by him so yeah i don't know does anybody else have anything else you want to talk about um i know that there are some gofundmes out there yeah and other things to help the victims so um if you can find those that's especially like I gave Yusuf money we were you know we were people that talked and so now I'm going to go and at least match that

since I can and I know that not everyone else can but I'm going to make sure that I match that donation over on that side and yeah I mean that's all I don't know that's all we can really it's hard because you don't want to lose that empathy. Yeah, exactly.

You just got to pay, like, just push that empathy forward and onto the people that really need it. Exactly, I can redirect that very easily. And I think, yeah, it's just, I wish I had more to say. Well, I don't know if I wish I had more to say. I wish I had more to say. Well, I don't know if I wish I had more to say. I really don't have much to say because I only know as much as what I think most people do based on what's out there on the internet. And I mean, based off of that, I'm rest assured that this isn't the place for that kind of shit. All right.

We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is

desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price.

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without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil.

I ain't really near them boys. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained?

This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke.

I'm Carrie Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them boys. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.

Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better.

Listen to the making of a rivalry. Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back. and we're back and nancy pelosi is feuding with uh the freshman members of congress aoc rashida talib ayana presley and ilhan omar uh and it's it's been like a slow boil where she's just been kind of like passive aggressive in comments. Like the green dream. Oh, their little plan. Your little whatever.

Yeah. You beat what? Okay. Their little green dream. It's been very, yeah, there's been a lot of tension there. Especially like, you know, I think in the beginning she met with, Pelosi met with AOC to try and get her backing when she wanted to get the gavel to be speaker. And she did. And then slowly, I think things began to change because on one hand, you have Nancy Pelosi who's trying to keep her majority in place, wants to keep her party in line to be able to pass legislation.

Hasn't happened. legislation uh hasn't happened uh and also you know we then we on the other side we have these new members who are seeking to change the way politics are even being done on the hill and and rightly so because when we like they're calling for aggressive action on things like the climate the the economy health care immigration and. And constantly Nancy Pelosi likes to take the view of like either being completely dismissive or laughing them off and just further sort of like isolating them as like that's just that group of kids over there. All of her instincts seem to be political caution, just like going the middle road. Don't don't impeach because we don't know how that's going to play. And that could like give him some fodder to work with. And so it's just inaction, essentially.

It's really, really frustrating, especially because you watch and so many people will jump in their mentions and say, you've got to be more respectful and you're not being where are they not being respectful? You've got to be more respectful and you're not being, where are they not being respectful? I haven't seen anyone who hasn't said anything, who has said anything except for to respond to her comments. Yeah. Right. I haven't seen anyone, you know, Ilhan Omar's out here just like, gong, gong, gong, gong, fuck Pelosi. Right, right, right.

Like none of that is happening. Yeah. You know, and the reason why these, and what scares people is that how popular they are, obviously, popularity and folks don't. The more that you kind of discount them and treat them like, oh, they're just babies and they're kids and they don't know what they're doing and they're little whatever's and they're green whatever's. You think that you're being cautious, but what winds up happening is you are alienating the parts of the country that do think that they have something to say, that do wish that the Dems would do literally anything ever. Yeah, and this is where you see sort of that generational gap show very clear. You know, like this generation, the Pelosi Schumers of the world, they, and even Mitchconnell they stay in power by like just keeping it low keeping it low keeping it low keeping it low don't ever put your foot out there don't ever come out with your chest out about something hugely controversial i mean like the probably most

like with nancy pelosi you know the obamacare that's like her thing and i think a lot of that was that was a moment for her to sort of show her leadership in the House. But since then, there hasn't been that much to hang your hat on, aside from just keeping it low, like, oh, we don't don't do this or that. And then we have now we have an incoming group of Congress people who are who came to power because they are the exact opposite, because they are vocal, because they are willing to criticize the the infrastructure, the machinations of the system and say, wait, how is this working for people? Because it looks like it's only working for the Congress people to stay in office and it's working for their wealthy donors. Right. I fail to see the connection between that and our constituents. That seems like the key difference is that this new group of politicians are not in it.

Like their main goal is not to stay in power. Right. Yeah. Where Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and the previous generation, it's all about playing the game so you can stay in power so you can continue to be in power. Like the power is the end in and of itself. Yeah. But what's the point of the power if you're not doing shit with it?

Well, it's a power that doesn't benefit most people. Right. But yeah, and it firmly benefits them. And that is another thing where so many people are like, oh, they're going to get primaried or oh, they're going to get beaten in their next election because people will actually come forth with someone who is stronger or a better candidate.

They only won because they went against people who sucked and weren't doing anything. A, yeah, part of the reason they won is because they went against people who weren't doing anything. But also, I get a sense that if AOC, it won't happen, but if AOC were to get voted out,

she's not done. Right, right. She's not done. No, she's going to run for president the second that she's old enough to i'm yeah and she'll be doing things on the ground she'll be you know she'll be doing charity work or she's an organizer she's an organizer she's not going away yeah and i think that's the thing they don't realize is that there is a very aware generation of people entering politics who are not

under any kind of illusion on how this shit works. Yep. Right. The reason why, you know, you have fucking Trump out here. The economy is so fucking strong. It's so strong. But then you also have the same statistics that come out that 40% of people who are employed

cannot pay their bills. Right. Right. So how the fuck is the economy strong? Right. Oh man. I think it was a Dana Gould tweet where he was like, well,

yeah, of course employment rates have risen because we all have like three jobs. Right. Yeah. And I think that's the thing is that like, though. And why is that? Well, because we have a lot of wealth being hoarded in these boardrooms. We have wage stagnation. And that's a function of how the way this system is set up. Enter these people who are trying to change the realities for the people. They are in their communities, their neighbors. And and guess what? Now you've trying to change the realities for the people they are in their communities, their neighbors. And guess what? Now you've got to put the microscope on this system.

And now the people who used to protect it to try and obscure people, like, well, it's not the banks. Let's talk about other things. Now they're sweating because it's like pretty soon like some splaining is going to have to be done. Well, and what's great, and I love this, this just happened, is that one of the big criticisms of AOC is, was the Amazon deal, you know, because of AOC, Amazon didn't come to New York and that could have, you know, that could have brought so many jobs. She ruined everything. Hey, guess what? Guess who's still coming to New York? Amazon. Guess who's coming to New York without all of this beautiful tax package? Amazon. Right. Right. You know, sorry, Jeff Bezos, you don't get to take you and all your rich people and go to space just yet on our tax dollars. Right. No, you don't get to stay right here with us. You don't get to Elysium. It's coming. Yeah. But you don't get to do it just yet.

Yeah. Were you about to say Elysium? Elysium. Should we go? Elysium would be tight. But just for working people. I do feel like there's been a just the way that we communicate and the way that media operates has changed so drastically in the last, you know, 10 years. And there's like an old way of doing things that is the Nancy Pelosi's and the Hillary Clinton's and the new way of doing things that unfortunately is Trump and AOC and more. It's like sort of an authenticity being able to just speak with your own voice in public and communicate your message and have people be receptive to it. And I feel like that's a big difference between the Republicans accidentally had their party taken over by the new way of doing things. And the Republicans or the Democrats are still in this battle between the old way of like, you know, well, if we have something to say, we will issue a press release where it's been carefully vetted and going through all the things.

And AOC is just like, no, I'm going to immediately respond in my voice with what I think about this. Yeah, it's so, it's interesting because it rhymes with a lot of, and it's something that we talk about particularly in communities full of marginalized voices,

is the respectability politics. Right. You know, this is how you have to do, this is how you have to act, and if you're not that way, you can't be taken seriously. And I think people are so used to having to be Eliza Doolittle'd that when they see someone who does just speak with their

chest and they see someone who does just get to be themselves again that becomes something that's scary and i think it bums them out because they had to do all of these backflips to become some weird blank-faced corporate person right that they kind of get it makes them a little sad that it's like no you probably didn't actually have to do all that. You probably could have just been you and still gotten ahead. Does that hurt? Yeah. I was hurt.

I bet that hurts. I used to be you before I got here and then I was poisoned. Damn. But again, you know, this is sort of because these new voices are exactly that. They're a threat to the establishment and to business as usual and unfortunately business as usual has led to the complete vanishing of the middle class uh and protections for marginalized people and workers everything all that shit is gone because of business as usual and now again we have these new people coming in and on top of that we're seeing the the the wagons begin to circle because now that Pelosi has been isolating them, we now have like on Friday, there was a piece that came out in the Hill that was basically saying like the Congressional Black Caucus was like accusing AOC and like the Justice Democrats of going after African-American and Latinx members of Congress, like because like as if it was because they were people of color, like it was no no mention of what it was ideologically that their their beef was with

them as members of Congress. It was sort of like there was a there was a quote. This is from one of the an aide who wanted to stay anonymous said in speaking about AOC. She's only a woman of color when it's convenient. None of the things she's fought for aligned with communities of color and her group is funded only by elitist white liberals she's a puppet the aid then texted an image of a goomba puppet from the super mario brothers video game oh my god like a mom go fuck yourself what are you doing wow yeah this is what the kids like right the kids love the mario and the goomba puppets

see this is what they're afraid of because they don't know how to connect with us. A Goomba puppet? What are you doing? First of all, AOC is Bronx, ah, ah, ah, BX all day. She is always a woman of color in public spaces and in private spaces. So I don't even understand any of that. And how has her fight against these concentration camps and other basic rights not overlapped with these communities? Right.

When, again, when you talk about the people that Justice Democrats and people like AOC, because they're critical of people within the party, for example, like Henry Cuellar, who is a congressperson, who has received, out of all Democrats, the most money from the private prison industry. Okay? And tell me how that person, how their interests are aligning with the community. Because I see AOC fighting against that shit, the very people, the very industry that is profiting from these camps. Right.

So what the fuck is he doing? Aside from taking their money and then voting with Trump 70% of the time? 70% of the time. So how is that person... So don't use this idea that their race is supposed to shield them from these criticisms. I think it's absolutely absurd because the people they're even backing in primaries against them are also people of color. This isn't like some switcheroo thing where they're...

I mean, there's just been a lot of very disingenuous depictions about what is actually happening here. And it's about the accountability that a lot of these new people are trying to introduce. See, and again, that's one of those like, it's, you know, how ethnic is too ethnic? How, what are they saying counts and what doesn't count? And I do think a lot of that is because, again, those, a lot of those members have had to play the game, especially as, you know, black caucus members, especially as black members of Congress. They've probably had to play the game because especially as you know black caucus members especially as black members of congress they've probably had to play the game more than

anyone more than eat a lot of shit that they did not want to and eat a lot of shit that they didn't want to and now it's like oh you're gonna come in after years of me putting in this work and i will gladly say yes they have paved the path like absolutely they have paved the path. Like, absolutely. They have paved the way for all of these new members. But then to pull the ladder up behind you because you're scared. Right. That's not cool. Yeah.

Well, this seems to be like kind of a thing that happens generationally, like on many different levels. Right. There's a generation of people who had to endure things that a newer generation doesn't. And then there's this resentment. Like the same thing comes out when people are like, forgive student debt. Right. But I had to pay.

Oh, really? Right. It's like, no, no, no. We don't care what you pay.

Yeah. Like, and also education used to be way, way cheaper when a lot of people were, or even people who just paid off their student debt. Right. Right. Like I,

it's the same thing I endured, but now you don't have to. And there's like a little bit of pushback. It's your damn fault you paid off their student debt right like i it's the same thing i endured but now you don't have to and there's like a little bit of pushback you paid off your student debt i'll be deferring for fucking ever so oh that's going to be used against me in a court case someday i will defer for fucking ever that's your bad and i think yeah this is just sort of the thing where uh even like greg meeks who's uh in new york he is on Cruz's list of most corrupt members of Congress consistently. So it's not like this idea that the CBC is trying to present that they're going after just any person of color just because is very absurd. Like the whole reason is because we have an imbalanced system where some people are they vote with their corporate interests, with their donors at the detriment of their constituents. It's very simple. I think they're

just trying to stop this transactional way of being in office. And I think this whole pushback now is just, it's misguided because they're failing to see what these criticisms are of these, even these people. They're like, this person is not fighting for people. And that's the issue we have. We need more people who are fighting. Right. Let's talk about Alex Acosta. He resigned at the end of last week after, you know, putting up a fight, I guess, is what that was supposed to be. When he, like, had that press conference last Wednesday and kind of tried to do his version of a Kavanaugh 2.0 where he's like, I'm, I'm mad.

But his version was just facts are being overlooked. And, uh, sorry, I just fell asleep there for a second. Yeah, me too. Hardcore.

But he talked a lot of shit about, you know, he said facts were being overlooked by the reporting, talked a lot of shit about other people in the chain of command, uh, that he thinks should have like tried harder to convict, uh, Epstein back in the chain of command uh that he thinks should have like tried harder to convict uh epstein back in the day and the reporter of the miami herald story was just like dude that they were below you they reported to you and you're like blaming them um so yeah i don't know. He gone probably, you know, probably to be replaced by some someone else.

Awful. Some other ghoul. But, you know, they he said he claimed his reason for retiring or stepping down was he didn't want his scandal to distract from the great work Trump is doing elsewhere. from the great work Trump is doing elsewhere. He also presumably didn't want the scandal to draw attention to the nice things Trump used to say about Epstein and the fact that he had a party with him where there were dozens of young models

and Trump and Epstein and nobody else. My dude, he literally was like, oh, he loves the ladies on the younger side. Yeah. What are you? Duh-duh. Duh-duh. It's a quote.

Am I right? Words don't matter. I don't understand. Words mean things. When did they stop meaning things? A long time ago. Yeah. And then he was even saying, like, it's interesting.

Just Trump was like, I don't know. There's some island. I don't know. I have nothing to do with that. It's like, oh. You've been to the island, my dude. Yeah. This have nothing to do with that. You've been to the island, my dude. Yeah, this is the thing. Has he been to the island?

We don't know for sure. But I think when Trump goes out of his way to be like, and that island or whatever that is, I'm not sure what the heck. He has a pattern of saying he's not at places or doesn't know about things and tends to have been at those places or does know about those things.

I'm still I'm so flabbergasted by this idea of like, oh, well, liberals, what about Clinton? First of all, you're not fucking dunking on anybody with Bill Clinton. We don't give a fuck about Bill Clinton. Y'all got to stop acting like we give a fuck about the Clintons. We don't. They're done. Well, there's some people who do. And I think maybe that's who they think of. Cause there are people who I'm sure would have a problem being like,

I have to cancel Bill Clinton, but that's not, definitely not us. Nancy Pelosi's daughter tweeted, guys, I think we're going to have to cancel some of our faves after this Epstein thing. Is that how we talk when you're talking about children being raped? Guys,

you know, it really sucks. I had to cancel my fave because he straight up raped a kid. Oh, oopsie doopsie. What? It's people are obsessed and especially the right is obsessed with this idea that we are in love with the Clintons and that they are king and queen and we will do anything for them. Like, yes, it's fun sometimes when grandma clinton is like she does a twitter and it's like oh look at her she's learning how to she's learning how to twitter she's trying right but yeah i don't care who would do they see how quickly we got franklin up out of

here yeah for a dumb picture yeah yeah frank and yeah, so this idea that we would never, you know, we're going to protect the Clintons. No one, I would honestly venture to say, no one under the age of 40 gives a fuck about anybody in that family. Yeah. Except for Socks the Cat. I mean, Chelsea is our future president. I think Socks the Cat had a video game. Oh, really?

I believe. Oh, no. Socks is, like, probably dead. No, you think so? Yeah. Probably. Let's do the math, no. Sox is probably dead. What? You think so? Yeah. Probably. Let's do the math real quick.

He went out as 92. Oh, God. He's dead, isn't he? That cat's real dead. That cat's real super dead. He did have a video game, though. Yeah. Well, I think also, but like you say about the right, it sort of shows where they're at, too.

I mean, obviously, they are playing tribal sports, where it it's like this is the team till the end. The wheels will come off and I'll just be riding on the bones of child abusers. Right. Whereas like I think that's why people who at least outwardly seem to be of principle will look at these issues and say, oh, objectively, no. No. Yeah. Doesn't matter what that is. Like what where is your moral compass if somehow you begin to waver just because of how they vote?

It's like, what the fuck? So, yeah, it's so weird because they always do that. You know, they they did it with more. They do it. They always do that balancing act of, you know, well, it can't have been that bad. Well, what does rape mean? Yeah. Right. You know, having some beers. mean? Well, you know, it's having some beers. It's, it's a version of, you know, that's why when we see all of these things where these judges say, oh, well, what about his future? He has such a bright future. He has a bright future. All of these dudes, it's the, the potential for them and what they can do and how they can use them is more important than the lives that they affect. And that's just, I mean, they can't show it any fucking clearer. Yeah.

Well, and also, too, if you objectively go, oh, rape is bad, sexual assault is bad, and you're doing that like unequivocally it's bad, then guess who else has to come up on the docket is the president. Yeah. Then what? But see, that's where they're like, see, it's a sin if we open Pandora's box or we'll just have to do the most amazing head in the sand act, which is what they're doing now. Which is what they're doing.

They're very good at it. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. So talented. So flexible getting their head down in that sand. Yeah. It's just – and again, too, like you also realize with how long Jeffrey Epstein has been able to cook and we were talking last week about how he was accepted back into society despite these charges that were very public years ago so quickly how many people who are entangled in his web um and also how many

people are involved in this that like i i can only imagine what this network of enablers actually looks like like from the media to uh like the capitol hill to whatever the fuck it is and it's gonna be scary when it comes out and i I mean, Nancy Pelosi's daughter is right. We are going to have to hashtag cancel our faves, fam. But there are, oh God, there are going to be, she made a great documentary once. Do we remember that? There are going to be a series of people that we do like

and whose work we do appreciate that are going to be up out of here. And that's fine. No one has written a book so good. No one has hosted a show so great. No one has written a song so amazing that it's okay that they raped a kid. Period. The quote is from Christine Pelosi, who is a political strategist.

She has multiple daughters, and her other daughter, I think is the filmmaker. Oh, that was an Alexandria, Alexandra, Alexandra. That's the one that I like. Okay.

Well, we'll see. Yeah. Hopefully she doesn't tell me we have to hashtag Pokemon, cancel our faves. It is just interesting what we see when it makes sense that the Pelosi camp would be so terrified of like authentic people who can just communicate their thoughts through social media when when they do it. It's we're going to have to cancel our faves. Our faves.

Our faves because they had. How about brace yourselves for some really damning shit to come out about people even within the own party. Yeah. Right. We will have to act accordingly. Yeah. Yes. Faves.

And it wouldn party. Yeah. Right. We will have to act accordingly. Yeah. Yes. Faves. I, and it wouldn't, fam, it wouldn't even, it wouldn't bother me if I thought that that was in any way how she talks. Right.

You don't talk like that, boo. Right. That's not how you talk. Hey, we gotta, hey, call in. Call in, Christine. Christine, call in. Christine, call in.

What it do? What it do? She was with you right up till there. Yeah. And then she, what's an it do uh we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back

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They were. An entire half of the country finally had their proof that Nike hated America because Colin Kaepernick, famous Soviet spy, told them that the Betsy Ross flag was racist and they pulled back their, was it Air Force Ones? Air Max One, 4th of July edition. Right. Because, you know, the flag. Was being used by racist groups. And they're like, yo, that shit is backwards.

Don't eat it. Don't put that on your shoe. I'm part of this brand now. Now, I haven't heard much about this since then. Is that because Nike went out of business so quickly? Nike did go out of business. I don't know if you saw. Everything on Nike.com right now is 99% off.

Wow. Yeah, all Nike shoes you saw. Everything on Nike.com right now is 99% off. Wow. Yeah, all Nike shoes immediately exploded on people's feet. It did hit people, but they were bad people because they were wearing Nike. So it's fine. My toes blew off. I just, man. Adidas got Beyonce. Nike got Kaepernick.

Y'all really can't wear nothing but New Balance. That's all racists can wear now. It's great. Well, they can also wear Adidas because Kanye's on Adidas. Oh, right. Don't forget that part. The boost. But, you know, yes, you're right, Jack. The right mobilized

fucking immediately when they found out Nike pulled an American flag shoe and people like Ted Cruz and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey were like, they're done. I'll never fuck with Nike again. Didn't Ducey say that Nike was going to open a factory and he was like, not anymore.

Yeah, we're pulling all incentives. Look elsewhere, bitch. And then everyone else was like, oh, you can look here where? I'm a governor. You can come right over here. Was it New Mexico? Yeah. They're like, we're right here.

We're like the next state over. We'll give even more financial incentives. We're basically the next state. At the expense of our citizens. But the thing is, we go on. So let's say, okay, that happened. Look like, wow, they're in a bad way. Ted Cruz, no more tracksuits. Yeah. Check in now, Forbes. I just read a very disturbing snippet from Forbes and it reads like this, but please brace yourselves. Shares of Nike are rising after former NFL star and activist

Colin Kaepernick convinced the company to pull its Air Max 1 USA sneakers from store shelves. Kaepernick's concern over the shoes Betsy Ross flags designs connection to an era of slavery resonated with investors as Nike, brace yourself, has seen a 2% stock increase and added nearly $3 billion in market value since canceling the shoes. I don't understand. What Democrat is putting so much money into these? Because it can't be real people. Right.

It's got to be like some... George Soros. Not real Americans. George Soros, Warren Buffett. Foreign money. It's Mickey Mouse. much money into these because it can't be real people right it's got to be like some george sorenson george sorenson warren buffett foreign money it's uh mickey mouse wait is warren buffett part of their conspiracy i mean whoever dude just billionaires who aren't like fully on the coke side putin's money you know oh my exactly and that's what we're talking about that's probably robert muller and james comey oh it's all robert Robert Mueller's money. Because he made so much money off of that FBI investigation. Oh, yeah.

Maybe Doocy's shutting down of the factory hasn't hit their books yet. And that's why it's... Right. Right. Well, what's funny is when you talk about Doug Doocy. So all that shit went down, I think, right before the 4th of July, like on the 2nd, right? Right. On the 4th of July, Doug Doocy was pictured at a 4th of July barbecue wearing guess what kind of shoes?

I believe those are Nike Cortez's. They're Nike somethings. They're Nike you full of shits is what he has on. So, okay. I thought those aren't new balances. You have abandoned us, sir. Yeah. I mean, I thought you were a man of principle.

Cut to Friday when this tweet comes out. From Doug Ducey, the guy who's like, we're pulling all financial incentives for Nike's factory. They will absolutely have no place in our state. This is a new he quote tweets thing from the Arizona Chamber of Commerce that says,

we are pleased Nike will locate its new manufacturing facility in Goodyear, a project that will create over 500 jobs with a $184 million investment. And then Doug Ducey's quote is, this is good news for Arizona and for Goodyear. 500 plus jobs. Arizona is open for business and we welcome Nike to our state. Get the fuck out of here. I didn't know Nike made tap shoes.

I had no idea. Wow. I mean, that's a fucking 180 if i've ever seen one and that just shows you money is their god oh yeah that's all it is these people have are full of shit they have no moral anything to stand on high ground compass anything but the lack of effort to even find a pair of sneakers to wear to your fourth of july just he does not they don't take they don't take their followers seriously they don't take their supporters seriously or he just black he just i guess when you're on autopilot and you're like what's what's the culture war about right right yeah okay here okay let me do my little let me signal my side right and then you got your Nikes on.

Yeah, because he doesn't care. He doesn't care about any of this. How did nobody come up to him at that barbecue? That's the first time he's broken through to the national news, and he goes to a barbecue wearing Nikes. Nobody came up to him and was like, yo. You know what? I bet they did. I bet someone came up to him

and was like, you know you're wearing Nikes. He's like, oh, I know, but they're just their company. Oh, that was Nike. Oh, Nike. Oh, that Nike? Wow. Or even just like, yeah, but you know, these are my good grillin' shoes. You know that that conversation came up. He ain't grillin'. Or, no, or plus

they're not gonna call each other out. You know what I mean? Don't make a joke about it. I feel like if he's at an event with other Republicans, they're going to probably just Hey, their money's green too or something like that. Yeah. Yeah, he's like, well, $184 million, 500 jobs. I have to run on that. That's right.

So we'll see. I mean, no, we won't. Nothing will come of this. No, I won't. Nike flexed pawn your grave. Yes. Flex pawn the grave. Flex pawn Yes. Flexed pond the grave. Flexed pond the grave.

Pond the grave. All right. Let's talk about Area 51, guys. Thank God. It's time. Okay. Are you ready? I'm ready.

I got my tactical gear. Danielle, are you ready? I am so ready. I've been prepping. I went and got some water. I went and got some canned goods that don't need a can opener. We can just pop that Chef Boyardee open. Let's get this.

Wait, they have Chef Boyardee with a pop top? They sure do. Man, I like the Star Kiss tuna canned snack joints with the crackers. That would be my Area 51 strong pick. Does any canned good still require a can opener? Yes. They should all be doing the pop top, man. I guess maybe it's more

expensive. It's more expensive. It's more expensive. But, you know, it's better if you need earthquake rations, which is what I bought them for. But now they're going to be used to storm Area 51. So if you don't know what we're talking about. We're talking about canned goods. We're talking about canned goods. But we call that Area 51.

Right. Is what the bathroom is after you eat canned goods. No, there's a Facebook event called Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop Us All. Yeah, they can. Yes, they can. And it's planned for late September, where the plan is basically to pull up to Area 51

and bust the aliens out. This is, okay, I'm going to read you literally from the description of the event. No, no, no, this is not a. Yo, don't disrespect this with that music. I'm literally just imagining Area 51 as a base being like, pull up there. Pull up. Exactly. Just like the actual building.

Pull up there. Oh, yeah. The building's like, are you for real, dog? Be like, no. Say it with your chest then. Yeah. I do imagine. I think people are picturing the Men in Black thing where you just walk through one door and the aliens are right there.

Like, right. You can just like, they're like Viennese. It's a very thin membrane of like a gate. And then you get in past the gate and you are at the, the hangar where they keep the, uh,

flying saucer. But area 51 is like, you know, there's a gate and then there's miles and miles of desert and mountains. And then you get to the thing that they're hiding from us all. Yeah. You can't accidentally get to Area 51. Well, read the description because they have a plan.

Okay. This is from the event page. This is literally word for word what it says. We will all meet up at the Area 51 alien-centered tourist attraction and coordinate our entry. If we Naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets. Let's see them aliens. Let's see them aliens is the greatest

conclusion because... How many grandmas had to learn what Naruto run was? Oh, man. Oh, them kids running their arms out like that. That's what that is? Them boomers, man. Oh, man, so many. They're like, oh, them kids run with their arms out like that. That's what that is? Them boomers, man. They're learning some things this week.

Right. Yeah. They're like, Naruto, is that that congressperson? Right. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, look, right now, there's almost a half a million people who have marked themselves as going on this event, with another another near half million saying they're interested. So look, I get the excitement though.

Because we've got all these tic-tac videos and shit and the government's basically like I don't know. We don't know what the fuck that is. The storming of Area 51, if that hasn't been greenlit, somebody needs to write that script right away and get that shit in production. What's very brief, all those people

are mercilessly killed for trespassing on a military installation. Hey, guess who gets to have machine guns and you don't? Wouldn't it be funny though if the Naruto runs

that really did run faster than the bullets? Right. That would be tight. I just think you're unprotected when you run that way. Although you're always

unprotected when you run head first towards Area 51. Right. Yeah. Are they trying to kick it with the aliens? Like what is the end goal? Well, the memes have probably been the funniest thing to come out of it. Yeah.

When it was like me and my homies after we stormed Area 51 and it was like photos of like gang members, but all their guns were like from Halo. Like one dude had like the needler and shit. I was like, yeah, get that shit. But like, yeah yeah i don't know i honestly part of me wants to go because if we're going to see them aliens i want to see the yeah i'm very interested just the mcu has tricked all y'all into thinking you can be part of the adventure and oh is that what it is you certainly cannot you don't you don't get to go to space with

the guardians of the galaxy you don't get to hang out with thor you don't get to go to space with the Guardians of the Galaxy. You don't get to hang out with Thor. You don't get to go to S.H.I.E.L.D. Save up your money. Go to the new Star Wars theme park. That's as close as you're going to get. You don't get to kick it with aliens. I'm sorry. This is one thing where you do have to be elite to do it, and I get it. Yeah.

Right? You're like, we're not elite enough to see them aliens. No, I get it. Normally, I'm like you know everyone deserves things and i'm you know dem socialists and blah blah blah but in this case i'm like nah there's probably a reason we ain't seen them aliens yet right this dude's probably so although i don't i don't know there's like a classification bias or like an addiction to classification in military and in the government that people within the government have talked about

and been like, first of all, it makes the government incredibly inefficient because everything's classified from everyone else. But also, it's just the easy thing to do is classify it. You got to get that Q classification, my dude. Right. If you hit Q level, then you would get to meet them aliens. Right.

Well, I mean, I'm not going to say I am Q, but... You know a thing or two about this person. Where we go, when we go all. He's a friend. Let's put it that way. I wonder if they're using this Jeffrey Epstein thing to further their narrative. Yeah, we need to check in with the Q community.

Yeah, we should get Julian back on. No, but it seems like they are really worried about pedophiles until they're real. And then they like. Oh, no. Oh, they've been all over this. They just ignore all the Trump stuff. Right.

From what I've. I have a hobby. I call it a hobby. I never realized I was doing it until I got older where I am obsessed. Where I make Q merchandise and I sell it on Amazon. And that's how I pay my rent. But where I like to follow weird Internet subcultures and sub communities it's super my thing one day I'll monetize it whatever because I do that with everything else in my life but I've

been reading on the Q stuff and one of their theories is that the reason Trump spent so much time with Epstein was because he was going to take him down from the inside oh my god that's brilliant that's like what i would have told you they're so good at this if i got caught smoking weed by a cop i would say that i'd be like i was with them i'm undercover dude i was trying to bring them down right i'm trying to help you out just let us let us go i've got a lot of data i'm sorry we were listening to bombs over baghdad crazy loud i know it's 1am and we're in a residential neighborhood but i will get them i will bring them to justice just let me finish this blunt real quick that's how they know i'm one of

them go fuck it up man i'm donnie brasco keep it low all right let's do a quick check-in with what we're fucking with yeah yeah just let you know things around the office that we're laughing at or obsessed with and might not even be funny to you i don't know yeah um i mean i guess the first thing i just want to do is i want to put people on to this account called osgd memes now i don't know where i think it's it's from maybe indonesia or something i just thought because there was one meme that fucking i think is just so funny it's not even like really clever. And first, let me just play this for you, Danielle, so you can see it and then we can discuss it because it's visual.

Oh, I love these. Okay. So in this meme, there's a guy. It starts off with a dude trying to hammer something in a wall. He accidentally hits his thumb and he's doing the ouchie like flicking his hand like then in comes another person, put sunglasses on him and a ukulele in his hand and suddenly that flailing hand is strumming the shit out the ukulele yeah it's great clever the just just it reminds me of classic vine almost especially like because they're older

dudes right yeah yeah like those are boomers yeah yeah that's like some old dude yeah for sure yeah um so that's osgd memes i will i guess we'll have to put that in the footnotes for you to actually experience that. And I know that was a terrible thing to describe a video on a podcast. But you know what? That is what we do. I'm pretty sure I conveyed the spirit of that meme. Well, speaking of boomers, we want to talk about the – is it a Facebook? It's a Facebook group.

I know exactly what you're talking about. It's so good. Is it Baby Boomers Be Like? Is that what the- No, I don't know what it's called. I don't remember what it's called. I'm still, but essentially there is a Facebook group where a bunch of us post like we're boomers.

And it's amazing because someone will post something that looks like a Google search result. And then underneath someone will post, you know, hey, Karen, just wanted to let you know that Uncle Miles is doing better and his surgery went great. Like just people posting like our aunts and uncles do because they don't know how the Internet works. Right. And it is a delight. Yeah, it's so good. Shout out to whoever on Twitter was like, please check this out.

And I didn't realize how much i needed that in my veins uh it's just it's the facebook post that really get me yeah when it's like can't believe roger died two years ago today still thinking about him all the time oh god my knee still kind of getting better. Signed, Harriet. The signed is my favorite. Oh, my God. So there's that one. Yes. And then Miles and I, as we mentioned on an episode last week, finally saw End of the Spider-Verse.

Oh, what'd you guys think? That was my favorite movie. I'm aggressively fucking with that. My favorite movie of last year, my dudes. I couldn't believe it. I think it might be the best movie of all time. All time. It is. Next to Toy Story 4. Toy Story 4 was okay it was fine 4k is great i get it i'm also trash it's good i and i

was telling people because i not i feel like not a lot of people got to see it in theaters which is a bummer because that i hope that they re-release it yeah that movie needs to be seen in theaters and so that was one that i got to see early because I was covering the junket. And I came out and even other critics that were there were like, I don't know why I should care about this. It's just animation. What? After seeing it? Yeah.

What? Yeah. Okay. Well, it's just animation. I'm like, how is this not the most innovative Western animation you have ever seen? It doesn't look like anything. Anything you've ever seen. It doesn't look like anything. Anything you've seen before. And so I'm really glad, you know,

when it started going to like dollar theaters and it kind of started picking up, I was rooting for it aggressively for that Oscar. So I'm really happy that people are starting to see how good that is because so many people downplayed it because it is an animated movie. And to me, that is my favorite Spider- and to me that is my favorite spider-man movie yeah it is my favorite movie of last year it is my favorite spider-man movie i cannot

wait to see what they do with the sequels peter ramsey is god i'm not like always on top of superhero films so that was sort of like the first hurdle i had to get over there's too many well exactly and i'm like oh my god but then everyone was like every person whose opinion i respect is like it's fucking good and i was like so in my mind i was like okay i'll get around till i get around to it thank god for airplanes that's when you can get around to shit and i is that would do you think it's better to see it in theaters or on an airplane on a seven screen i think it's definitely better to see it on an airplane it's a more comfortable experience airplanes are never uncomfortable no no that is your middle seat that's the ideal comfortable experience. Airplanes are never uncomfortable. No, no, no. Especially in your middle seat. That's the ideal viewing experience.

Every director, and they'll never tell you this, specifically makes movies tailored for the airplane experience. Yeah, yeah. Especially if it's on your phone. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely.

I couldn't, yeah, again, it was just, it really was one of those things where a lot of our animations in the US are merely just sort of like, it's this thing, but it's animated. Where they really took the opportunity to introduce this surrealism to it that was like, I was like, okay, I like this. And for that reason, I will also, big ups, if anybody hasn't watched it yet, Tuca and Bertie.

Yeah. Tuca and Bertie also is an animated show. It is done by Lisa. Hannah Walt. Hannah Walt, who she was, and a lot of people are like, oh, it's a BoJack ripoff. No.

She is the art director for BoJack. It is based on her art style. That's her whole swag, yeah. Yeah, and that's why it looks like that. And I had to explain to some people because people were like, no, they're ripping him off.

It's like, no, well, you know how all of Seth MacFarlane's stuff looks the same? Yeah, right. Because it's based on his art style. That's what it is. Tuca and Birdie is,

once you, it takes a while for you to get it, but once it clicks, because they also, it is also a show that knows that it's animated and plays a lot with the conventions of animation. Yeah. And also a plant has titties and you see them. Yeah.

Wow. Shout out to Netflix. But yeah, I mean, if you like movies, I feel like I'm at the point where like, if you like film as a genre, you should see Into the Spider-Verse. Because animated movies don't do enough with their animation after watching that. And also, I don't know, all movies should be as good as that movie is. Guys, it's Lord and Miller.

It's fucking great. It's Lord and Miller. Yeah, yeah. And also, you get nick cage's fucking spooky voice in there too and john mulaney like there's so many good things that like as i was watching i didn't know and i was like fucking nick cage is in this yeah and i was like john what the fuck that's when i was like damn i'm fucking stupid i waited like nine years to watch this shit yeah no i agree even if you don't fucks with animation or with superheroes, it just tells a really,

really good story. Yeah. And now it's streaming on Netflix. And I was even, oh, I won't even spoil it. Yeah. They had me twisted up emotionally watching. Well, Danielle, it's been a pleasure having you. Thank you for having me.

Where can people find you, follow you? You can find me at Danielle Radford on Twitter. I was the first one to get it early adopter so it's just that on yeah on insta I didn't so I'm Danielle underscore Radford it's fine I'm still the one with the most followers underscore gang underscore gang so yeah you can find me there if you fucks hardcore with the wrestling I have a wrestling podcast with max fun called tights and fights I am also on Screen Junkies, which is where most people

know me from, where I do some hosting of some panels and I'm one of the writers on Honest Trailers. And so, if you like the Honest Trailer and you're like,

that line sounds like Danielle, I probably didn't write it. You guys just think I did. I wrote one of the other ones. People always do that because sometimes we'll put a little stank on a line

and everyone's like, that's Danielle. And it's like, that's Danielle. And it's like, no, not every time something sounds like A-A-V-E, it's me, you guys. I just co-signed it. Oh, God, is that what they do? Oh, they do. They do. We had a line in our latest trailer was the Game of Thrones six through eight season trailer.

And we had one line that was, oh, gosh, what was it? Or will she 420 blaze it because she ain't getting that nephew D no more? And everyone assumed I wrote that. Wow. And I was like, no, I didn't fucking, we all wrote that line. Right. Like, stop. Like, I wrote also other things that you guys like very much.

Just because something sounds a little urban doesn't mean that I wrote it. Right. 420 blaze it, though. Yeah, yeah. Shout out to Major League Gaming parody videos. and is there a tweet you've been enjoying there is and at the risk of being too horny on main um because this is very horny but i thought it was really funny you know how everyone's doing the bottle cap challenge so there is someone at flash man wade who said k y'all can't stop with this hashtag bottle cap challenge a series of emojis retweet dot dot dot i don't care who judges me or hates on me i find

this hilarious because i'm comfortable with myself and then you go on it and it's a dude who does the bottle cap challenge with his big swinging dick oh really yes wow just his very his very large dong um well now i have to see that that's can't be real yeah i'd like to see that yeah sure no way it's yeah it's real it's that's that's his dick wow i'm hearing all of the keyboards going right now. And that's what's making me super happy. Miles, where can people find you? You can find me and follow me on Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray. A tweet I like is from Katie Delaney,

which has said my mood today is my foot hurts. Can I go to the nurse for all my clueless fucking gang out there? That's what Elton says. That's great. And I was, I remember watching that scene as a kid, and I was like, damn, that's how high school's gonna be. You can be like, I need to go get my cranberry CD in the quad before someone snags it.

My foot hurts. Well, you can find me in the bathroom trying that bottle cap thing, but also on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien, some tweets I've been enjoying. Josh at I wear a onesie tweeted, wife, why is your back all scratched up? Flashback to me chasing a raccoon

after she told me to leave it alone. Me, I'm having an affair. That's great. Flashback to me. After she told me to leave it alone. That's great. I just begged him. After she told me to leave it alone. That's great. And then at Vlad Chalk tweeted, Math problem.

I have three apples and I'm traveling towards you at 17 miles per hour. It's not really a problem. More of a warning. Apple time, bitches. And of course, The Onion tweeted, Paul Ryan lauded for inspiring millions of young, gutless fucking cowards to take on leadership roles.

Ugh, Trump didn't know about government. You kind of let us know. Yeah. Oh, hi. Thanks, man. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website DailyZeitgeist., where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information

that we talk about. I'm just looking at the guy doing the bottle cap challenge with his dick. To be fair, I mean, he doesn't really unscrew it. It was already unscrewed. He knocked it. It's more of a knockoff than a spinoff. Spinoffs only. You want to unscrewed. He knocked it. It's more of a knockoff than a spinoff. Spinoffs only.

You want to be legit. We got rules. Yeah. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we write out on Miles.

What's that going to be today? Let's do the Frighteners All My Tears. You know, just some All My Tears. Just some reggae, you know,

or dub, Rocksteady, I guess we'll call it. Okay. Yeah. But they're from Queens. They're like hip, but their sound is very good. They're definitely using some throwback recording equipment because they're on Daptol. So, you know, they got that sound. So, you know, hopefully they'll have a new album called Pondigrate, but I don't think so.

All right. We we're gonna ride out on that we will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast and we will talk to you guys then bye

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