The Daily Zeitgeist - Notes App Clap Back, Alt-Right Summer Anthem 5.31.18

Episode Date: May 31, 2018

In episode 159, Miles and guest co-host Edgar Momplaisir are joined by comedian Jamie Loftus to discuss Dinesh D'Souza's pardon by Trump, Kim Kardashian's meeting with Trump over prison reform, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announcing the trade wars are back on, how Melania has gone missing for a couple weeks now, a Christian movie about Trump and how some guy predicted it all, a new white nationalist song letting you know it's okay to be white, Stockton, California being the first city to try universal basic income, Drake's response to Pusha T in his notes app, and more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We all know something is wrong in our culture, in our politics, and that we need to do better and that we can do better. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Oh, hello, the Internet, and welcome to Season 33, Episode 3 of The Daily Zeitgeist. Oh, you thought I was going to scream it out, but I have a different vibe. Since it is, what, May 31st, 2018, My name is Miles Gray, a.k.a. This time I'm going to let it all come out. This time I'm going to stand up and shout.

I'm going to do things Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray. Miles Gray on the highway. Thank you so much to many people on Twitter for hitting me with that a.k.a. My blood pressure just spiked. Yeah, well, guess what? It's about to get hotter. That was from Walter Chestnut on Twitter and hitting me with that AK. My blood pressure just spiked. Well, guess what? It's about to get hotter. That was from Walter Chestnut

on Twitter and many other people. So I know a lot of people hitting me with that AK. So please, everyone gets credit. Thank you, Zeitgang. And I am thrilled to be joined by my special guest co-host, the unique, the indomitable, the one and only Edgar Montplaisir.

Boingo, boingo. There you are. How are you, Edgar? What is up? The Sprite Lord is here. The Sprite Lord. The low energy God is here. Oh, you are sipping a Sprite.

I am sipping a Sprite. Damn, first thing in the morning. I know. It's 9 in the morning and I got a Sprite in my hand. I am hyped. God woke me up this morning and I'm feeling good. Just kidding. I'm not religious.

Thank you for coming. You know, as people were wondering, where's Jack? He is on assignment right now doing a social experiment to see what it's like to travel with two young children across the country in a plane. And we will get results on Monday. And joining us today in our third guest spot, you might know this person very well. Really needs no introduction. I'm just going to call this person the great all-time guest

of the show. Wow. Jamie Loftus. Wow, hi. Great to be back. Great to be back. We're doing this. A lot of people said, when are we going to get Edgar and Jamie in the building? And this is it. Listen, we're both covered in blood. We were...

It was a hand-to-hand combat that went on immediately. And I didn't even ask for that. No, no. I, you know, I came in hot. I came in hot. And Edgar defended himself. And I did win. I won the fight.

You won and now you got the guest spot. But Edgar, I guess, you know, you got the guest host spot. I mean, yeah. I was okay with it when I walked in. I was like, I guess I can do this. But to have Jamie be called the greatest all-time guest in my face is ridiculous. Look, the numbers don't lie. She got a lot of rings.

You know what I mean? If we're going by rings. I'm covered in rings. But this is a problem with the rings argument. You know what I'm saying? Right, right, right. Exactly. Well, history may prove me wrong, as history does very frequently.

So, guys, I just want to mention to everybody, they've always wanted these two people to be on the show together. We've done it, finally. Throughout the show, we will do some trust-building exercises. Yeah, I think we can get back to... Back to being good friends? Well, I don't think you guys were ever really friends. You guys really didn't know each other until this show, right?

We met on the street. Yeah, we did meet on the street. I was walking down the street, and I saw Jamie, and she was staring at me in a way of just like, I know this person, but I'm not going to say anything. Because I don't know them, right. But I was like, I'm not going to let that shit slide. Okay, you're really making yourself seem like the alpha in this situation.

I think it was really a meeting of two betas in the street. Yeah, both being like, I don't really know him. I don't really know her. I did call out to her after we walked quite a few feet. I was going to say, I walked fully behind you.

And you were like, hey, wait a second. Just all on your, Jamie? I was also walking to like a 4 p.m. screening of I, Tonya. I remember like,

oh, wow. It was the day. Yeah, back when you were watching that movie. Crazy. Jamie, Yammy Lofty. Yeah, yeah, yeah. watching that movie. Crazy. Jamie, Yammy Lofty.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell me something. What's something from your search history that lets people know a little bit about you? Okay. Price of 10 Roombas. I wanted to know if I could get 10. Hold on. Before you do that, couldn't you just search price of Roomba?

That occurred to me later. And then do some simple math? Yeah. You have to end up doing the same math problem anyways. There's no one that is like, don't worry, I've crunched the numbers for you. Here's how much 10 Roombas. Roombas are so

expensive. And there's levels to the Roombas too, right? Yeah, if you want a nice Roomba, you're throwing down like $400. How much is a whack Roomba? You can get a shitty Roomba for like $150. That's still $150. Is that a Roomba though or is it just a robota? You can get a shitty Roomba for like $150. That's not a Roomba though. Is that a Roomba though or is it just a robot slave? Yeah, no, that's just like a singularity boy.

The singularity boy. The singularity boy is in here. No, I was like, whoa, I'm not in the right tax bracket for Roombas, much less 10 Roombas, which is what I wanted. And why did you? Why 10? I was doing this thing where I'm going to compete against Roombas to see who's better at accomplishing tasks. Oh, like a Roomba battle royale.

Yeah, like me versus the Roombas. Oh, you versus the Roombas? Yeah. I don't know if you want to do that, Jamie. Let me see if I can clean a room with, I don't know, my hands and mouth better than a Roomba can. What happens if the Roombas win? If the Roombas win, then I will submit. You leave Earth. I'll submit to the singular. I'll shoot myself into space.

Never come back. I'll be like space trash. Wait, and you're... I got a plan. Your battle is to you're going to hand and mouth clean the floor versus a Roomba? Or are you going to use tools? Yeah, two equally dirty rooms. I cannot have tools. I have to see if I can, on my own, as a woman, outperform a Roomba.

And if not, I will leave. Or ten of them. Yeah, ten of them, and then I would get some help. Okay, so you would get nine other women? I get nine other women. Nine other women. I only see one woman at a time. I can't see multiple. In the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A flock of women. What other women. I only see one woman at a time. I can't see multiple.

In the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A flock of women. What's a group of women called? A gaggle. A gaggle of women. A gaggle of gals. A murder of women.

A murder of women, exactly. That's what it is. A murder of ten women. An assassin squad of ten women. Ocean's 8. Can we clean a room better? Yeah, Ocean's 8. All eight actresses in Hollywood are in that movie.

I'm going to actually do something a little unorthodox because I want to tell some people about something I searched yesterday because I didn't know this thing happened. Have you all heard of the Mariko Aoki phenomenon? No, what is it? Mariko Aoki phenomenon? Okay, so I was with somebody, a friend yesterday, who talked about every time they go into a bookstore,

they got to take a shit. There's something about walking into a bookstore that makes them instantly have to defecate and i was like laughing and she said no this is a thing look up this thing and it's called the mariko aoki phenomenon and it's based off is a japanese expression i guess based off wikipedia but it's referring to this woman who described this sudden urge to defecate once you go into a bookstore. And a lot of people have been trying to understand what this is about. If it's biology or pathology, whatever, what is going on, they still can't figure it out.

Oh my God. But there are people who are like, no, I get that. I've worked in multiple bookstores, and I'll tell you, I've unclogged a lot of toilets. Defecate in the bookstore? Take shits in the bookstore? I used to work at Book Soup on Sunset. Okay.

The toilet never not clogged. When I worked at a Borders bookstore in Boston, I had to unclog... Someone panicked once, shit on the floor,

and then shoved a lemon into the toilet. I had to dislodge the lemon. Did you have to use your hand and your mouth? Versus a Roomba. And then a Roomba had to do the same thing. I won that one. And that's why I'm still on Earth.

Hence the battle. But that was a while ago. I think Roombas have gotten better. Anyway, I'm sorry. I digress. I had to just throw that in there because that was something I was like, oh, if I was a guest, I would say this. Okay.

Jamie, what's something that's overrated? Oh, something that is overrated. Overrated, I watched Evil Genius on Netflix, and I think it sucks. I think it super sucks, and it's a bad documentary, and I didn't like it. Go on. Now, when I first watched it, the first episode is crazy because you understand what the crime is. Right. And then they start zooming out, and you really start seeing how bizarre how this whole thing went is. Right. And then they start zooming out and you really start seeing how bizarre this, like this whole,

how this whole thing went down. Right. But yeah, now your criticism of it. It's the pizza bomber. The guy explodes in the first episode and we're like, now this I love. Watching a guy. A helpless man with a bomb on his neck. A person who is just, he's run out of luck.

And so he explodes. He's run out of luck, and so he explodes. But yeah, then the rest of it is like they're analyzing the woman who is said to have engineered the whole thing, and they're like, she's bipolar. She's off the rails. She's a master manipulator. And speaking as a diagnosed bipolar woman, that does not mean you can manipulate people. In fact, I done it before i'm extremely weak credit yeah look at the swole sauce saga literally attempted to manipulate people and really missed the mark in pretty significant ways

uh so yeah like the whole thing like the way that they characterize mental illness in that documentary is just like lazy and lame and her accomplice, they're like, he was helpless in the face of her love. And it's just like, no, that's not how that works. I liked that they're all hoarders. That's pretty tight. I can connect with that. Suddenly they're like, yeah, I met her at the fishing dock.

You're like, what the fuck? Is this a part of the Duplass brothers documentary deal? Yeah, this is the Puffy Chair documentary series. Some real black man. I don't know. No, I know. It's weird because really, if you think about it, the evil genius they're describing is mentally ill woman.

Right. A mentally ill woman who didn't get help. And then they're like, it's absolute evil. A master. And I was joking with my other friend who's diagnosed bipolar. I'm like, what if we were actually like this good at something? Right. I mean, I guess I'll take the implication that I could orchestrate a pizza bombing, but.

It's supposed to be inspiration. I mean, honestly, I think you're holding yourself back, Jamie. As you wear a Unabomber hoodie. That's right. I did show up in my Unabomber hoodie. We shall see your favorite piece of garmentry. That's a word. Moving on. What's something that's underrated? Underrated?

Drinking an entire sprig and going to see book club with your friends. Sprig. Oh, is that the weed soda? Weed soda, yeah. Yo, sprig. Holler at me. They've been hollering at me on Instagram. Holler at me. You know what I mean? Sprig? We might have a sprig pong party or something. I am so down.

You down? All right, maybe we'll have to make that happen. Honestly, the Sprig was terrifying. Wait, so tell people about the Spriggy. The Spriggy. I've been like, okay, so I'd had only sips of Sprig before. I was like, oh, this is going to be so fun. Is it CBD or also THC?

Didn't check. Did not check. I mean, did it make you high? Yes, absolutely. So it's probably THC based. I think so. I don't... Didn't check. Did not check. I mean, did it make you high? Yes, absolutely. So it's probably THC based. I think so. I don't want to... Okay. No, it is a THC and CBD infused soda. So they hit you on both sides. Okay.

Sprig is strong. I'm not a big weed head, necessarily. I went to Medline. You sound like one. You said weed head? I'm kind of like a bit of a weed head. I'm a potter. I just heard... I just figured out what a jewel pod was yesterday. Oh, wow.

That's not even weed. No, that's like other stuff. Yeah, it's nicotine. It's like for the kids, for the children to pretend to smoke. I want to get the kids hooked on nicotine. So, yeah, my friend brought a sprig, and then we decided to go see book club and almost got kicked out. It turned out we were wilding out at the screening of... The Los Feliz 3?

At the Los Feliz 3, yeah. Wow. Yeah, we were the youngest people in the audience by about 40 years. The movie is so bad. It's like abysmally terrible. Was it in that little room that they have? It was in, yeah, it was in the tiniest possible...

The tiniest, yeah, because it's already a very small theater They shove you in a closet at the Lowe's Field With 12 old people who are furious And you just smash the sprig soda And then I just took an entire sprig to the face We'd also snuck in white wine Wow

And then just watched Diane Keaton Apologize to men For two hours That's what the movie is? It starts out like the premise of the movie is that it's like four old white lady actresses. They have a book club and they read Fifty Shades of Grey. But that's not what the movie is about at all. It's clear that whoever wrote it had not read Fifty Shades of Grey because they're like, it's a love story.

Oh, wow. No, it's not. No, it's not. No, it's not. And then the whole last third of the movie is just all the older women, they go out and they have their adventures and then they go back home and they just apologize to their husbands.

They're like, I'm sorry, I got too crazy. I'm old, I'm crazy. And then at the end, they're like, we're disbanding the book club. Spoiler alert. It's actually pretty depressing. I'm really sorry, Zai Gang, that she spoiled that movie for you. I am so happy someone's making a movie for me.

Yeah. I'm so tired of going and watching movies that don't speak to me. But that speaks to me. Or marketed toward tell your stories. You just want to see Jane Fonda in a bad wig apologizing to a man? I'm waiting for so many women to apologize to me. Oh my God. If you want to see Jane Fonda apologizing in a really horrifying wig, highly recommend

Book Club. Perfect. Now, lastly, what's a myth that people be getting wrong, that's like a lie? Old people, I think rightfully, have a bad rap right now. Just in general. Yeah. For being old. The boomers are evil, et cetera.

Agree with that. However, yesterday I saw an all senior citizen stand-up show. Oh, Caitlin's thing? Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah. It was at the LGBTQ Center in West Hollywood. Right. Saw 10 seniors do stand-up, most of them for the first time and it was like

they fucking like buried me dude they're so good oh wow for people who don't listen regularly if not shame on you uh caitlin geronte who is your co-host on the beckdell cast who's been on before she was talking about this how she was teaching yeah like a class uh stand-up class for for senior citizens yeah and so they came with the heat? They came. Yeah, I saw their final show. What was the best joke? The best joke, I don't know if it was supposed to be on purpose or not,

but one woman's closer. This one woman peed. No, I'm joking. There were a few trips. I'm not shaming the incontinence people. This woman kept asking for her husband. He had died 20 years ago. There were a few stumbles. There was one person whose hearing aid got too loud.

Oh, and it was like screaming? Yeah, it had this shrieking hearing aid. That was your favorite joke. This was the best joke. It was a woman who in her set had referenced the fact that she had been a teacher for 42 years several times. And then she closed out with a baffling line she's just like so in conclusion if your kid comes to you and says they want to be a teacher tell them don't do it and it's a terrible way to spend your life good night

hey truth and comedy you know what i mean it was just there was no commentary there was no punch line she's just like being a teacher was the worst thing that I've ever done. Goodbye. Bye. My home planet needs me now. That's so dope. Stand-up classes are weird, though. They're a weird concept.

I took a stand-up class at Flappers because I worked there, so I got it for free. Oh, you're a Flappers U? Yeah, I went to Flappers U. A Flappers U grad? Yeah, I'm a Flappers U. Well, I didn't finish the class because it was fucking weird. You were a Flappers U dropout? I'm a Flappers U dropout Yeah, I'm a Flappers U. Well, I didn't finish the class because it was fucking weird. You were a Flappers U dropout? I'm a Flappers U dropout.

My album coming out soon. Stand up, school dropout. Flappers U dropout. But there was an escort there that like, well, she was like an escort who decided to quit it and start doing stand up. And it was weird because like you were talking about with the teacher thing, all her jokes were about being an escort, but they were so specific to the escort business that none of them landed because we don't know

anything about being an escort. But I don't know. It was weird. I don't know. What kind of material were you doing? The escort's doing her material. What were you doing? I was just trying to find a way to be Hamilburrus when I clearly couldn't be. Oh, really? Yeah, and that was the note I kept getting was like, you're not Hannibal Buress. Do you know who you are?

Your name is – Hi, Edgar. So can we agree on something? Your name is not Hannibal Buress, correct? Okay, moving on. So knock that shit off. I used to teach a – whatchamacallit – a sketch class when I lived in Boston, and I had one student who dropped out once,

and it was my fault, and they told the school, they were just like, Jamie was just, I just couldn't stay in her class because he was a Zamboni driver, and I kept interrupting class to ask him about his job. Are you serious? Yeah, I really played myself on that. Like, this only Zamboni driver who ever, like, spoke to me was just like,

I feel like I'm singled out too much in class because every time I'd be like, well, Jimmy drives a Zamboni. We should talk about that. And he, like, requested to get transferred. You made him so uncomfortable. Wow, you are consistent, if anything, Jimmy. Yeah, the email literally said, like, I come here to get away. Wow, you are consistent, if anything, Jamie. Yeah, the email literally said like, I come here to get

away from Zamboni. Not to be reminded of them. Wow. This is how you remind me. Alright, well, let's get into the stories. See what people are talking about today. I think to start off, we found out that Donald Trump, he's trying to send a message

to all the homies who might be in some legal trouble uh by pardoning dinesh d'Souza who is a political commentator who you may or may not know we talk about him from time to time because he's a i guess conservative activist if you want to call him that uh really he's just a big fucking troll uh who would love to hate on obama and pushing shit like he's a Muslim and, like, you're retweeting memes like Michelle Obama has balls and all kinds of weird stuff, a lot of false flag stuff. I think he called the shit that went down in Charlottesville, like, staged. So he's, suffice it to say that he is a scumbag with some terrible ideas. I fuck with this.

I fuck with this choice by Donald Trump. Yo, you do? Yeah, I do, and I'll tell you why. Okay, here we go That's some real shit You know what I mean To like send a message like that Like I don't know

That's some That's some gangster shit This is by far The most transparent Partisan Transactional Bullshit I've ever seen

And what's crazy right Is we're like in a time Where we're like Bruh I gotta worry about Nuclear war and shit I'm fine Pardon this fucking dude But yes I mean a lot of the The analysis The speculation around this Like in a time where we're like, bro, I got to worry about nuclear war and shit. I'm fine. Pardon this fucking dude.

But yes, I mean, a lot of the analysis, the speculation around this is, you know, showing people that, look, if you get in a little bit of trouble, your boy got your back. When you kind of look at the past people that he's pardoned, you have Joe Arpaio, who basically got in trouble for disobeying a judge's orders. You have Scooter Libby, who lied to the FBI. And now you have Dinesh D'Souza who was breaking campaign finance laws. You know, he might have some homies that are in similar situations who could benefit from this. But, you know, that's why it seems like

a lot of people are trying to make a lot of state cases against some of these people to put the pressure on him because the president can only pardon federal offenses like that. And then we find out later on today he also talked about he's also kind of thinking about commuting the sentence of rod blagojevich from illinois uh and also martha stewart as i say martha stewart new judge on chopped is she a judge on chopped yeah really yeah see that's why i fuck with this dude man i don't know dt out here making them gangsta moves And y'all are disrespecting it I've been left

To hang by so many of my homies So many of my homies have let me down To see a dude being like nah I got my boys But those aren't even his homies That's what I'm saying That's like him just trying to gaslight people Into not cooperating with the thing But I get it maybe you need some more loyal friends

Does Martha Stewart require pardoning at this point? Just for her record. For her record. None of them do. That's what's so wild about it. That's so stupid. None of them do. They're all already done with their sentences.

They're all chilling, and he's just flexing. Yeah, he's just like, oh, that never happened. Yeah. Sorry about that. He's erasing history. Brave.

No, I think Blagojevich is, wait, I think Blagojevich is in prison. Oh, okay. Yeah. think Blagojevich is... Wait, I think Blagojevich is in prison. Doesn't he still have... Oh, okay. Yeah, he's still... Rod Blagojevich is in prison. So, yeah, he would be... I'm not cool with that one.

That one, that's where I draw the line. Yeah, you can't be... Don't pull the white people out of jail. No, keep them in the jail. Especially not after Kim Kardashian went over there yesterday. God. So, moving on. I don't know if you guys saw that really

weird photo of kim kardashian straight up photoshopped right so weird she's dressed as like a hip fashion ghost and like he's just sitting at the table with that big old grin and i think iffy on twitter was saying like watch this is gonna be the album cover for kanye's album i wouldn't disagree but yeah kim kardash Kim Kardashian was there talking to the president about prison reform. I don't know where we are, but hopefully she'll solve it. I don't get it. She's been talking about that for a while. That goes back, I think, to late last year.

Yeah, because she saw a Mike video on Twitter and was like, oh my God, this is so crazy. Y'all are disrespectful. Y'all are being so disrespectful right now because y'all keep coming for Kim Kardashian and being like, how do you care about people of color? And now she's out here doing the working. I want to disrespect her. No, I'm not disrespecting her at all.

I'm pro-Kim. I mean, I'm just whatever, Kim. But I'm glad because the woman she is out here trying to advocate for, Alice Marie Johnson, she's a grandmother serving a life sentence for nonviolent drug offenses. And yes, that is a fucking problem. That is something here trying to advocate for, Alice Marie Johnson, she's a grandmother serving a life sentence for nonviolent drug offenses. And yes, that is a fucking problem. That is something we need to talk about, about prison sentencing and prison reform.

That's some real shit. So I'm hoping maybe because Trump is willing to bust out a person of color and Dinesh D'Souza out of some trouble, maybe he'll do right by other people of color. That's what I'm saying. Who would you want to send over there? Somebody qualified? Someone who's been in the trenches and working and stuff like that?

No, you want to send someone who just picked it up off of a YouTube video from a company that makes articles like, is your boyfriend cheating on you? Like, of course that's who you want to send to fight for your prison reform. Y'all are being disrespectful. Well, the thing is, too, I think, you know, because he recently also parted in Jack Johnson, the boxer. Oh, it was like the famous indie one who doesn't wear shoes? Yeah, he went to jail for making banana pancakes. Oh, shit.

Boxer Jack Johnson. But he also had Sylvester Stallone there with him. So I guess it does help to have celebrities there to advocate for you. You know, I think that, like, that's genuinely i i fuck with kim kardashian a lot of the time uh and and she's clearly doing some pr cleanup here uh but if she can accomplish a good thing and doing that oh if she can accomplish something great yeah i'm just more like the optics of it is really like this idiocracy kind of thing where it's like yes kim kard talking to Donald Trump about prison reform. That is a sentence five years ago would have been like a great tweet.

But now that is an accurate description of our world. And then also, finally, we'll talk a little bit about, I guess, the trade wars are back on because commerce smiegel Wilbur Ross announced in his very low, old dying voice that the trade war is on motherfucker. Because hitting Canada, Mexico and the EU with 25% tariff on steel, 10% on aluminum. That's right.

We'll see. I mean, this, what do you mean? That's right. That's right. That's what they deserve. Like Edgar's involved.

I was there. I pitched 25% cause they were talking about 20 and i said add an extra five wow i was in there i was like i got five on it you're out here trying to be like i've been in those meetings yeah i have been in those meetings uh but yeah we'll see what happens i mean those are our close allies so i'm not sure what will happen here. It's definitely causing some tension. But again, this is the kind of stuff Trump was talking about, you know, about reworking NAFTA and things like that. We'll see what happens here. I know some people are a little bit nervous in certain states because trade wars do not always help us. And, you know, starting this shit up with Canada, Mexico, the EU, not the best plan. Miles, I'll tell you a story about why you're wrong.

Okay, please do. One time I was in the car. It was me and my friend Alejandro. We were too drunk to drive. So my friend, Lacey Mosley, who you're familiar with. I'm familiar with Lacey Mosley. Gave us a ride. There you go.

That's responsible. But Lacey was saying some shit that I didn't like. Now, Alejandro needed this ride, and I also needed this ride because we were both broke. We couldn't afford a lift. But Lacey was saying some shit that I didn't like. Now Alejandro needed this ride and I also needed this ride because we were both broke we couldn't afford a lift. But Lacey was saying some shit that I didn't like. So what I did was I told Lacey

shut the fuck up you're saying some stupid ass fucking shit. And she's giving you a ride home? And she left us on the side of the road. Yeah she should.

And we had to walk home. But do you understand that we walked out of no no no I didn't learn anything but my pride was there and that was what's most important. Did Alejandro and I have to walk home in't learn anything, but my pride was there. And that was what's most important.

Did Alejandro and I have to walk home in the cold? Absolutely. But my pride was intact. And that's what was most important. Yeah. But did your pride keep you warm walking them cold streets? Absolutely. I mean, I was sick for the next week, but I was chill.

Yeah, there you go. And that's what Donald Trump is doing. He's like, yo, fuck these niggas driving the car. Yeah. Let's make sure our pride is intact. Yeah. America first. Until the Lacey Moses of the world ditch our ass driving the car. Let's make sure our pride is intact. America first. Until the Lacey Moses of the world ditch our ass in the cold.

You would take that ride. You would get home safely being disrespected. I don't know if it's not even about disrespect. I think it's not a binary. It's not as simple. But I guess in this situation, no. If I was getting tucked in, for sure, if someone was making me hot chocolate and tucking me in,

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Now, I just wanted to talk a little bit about Melania Trump because I don't know if you all noticed, we have not seen her in a very long time. In fact, we have not seen her since May 10th when she was welcoming home the freed American prisoners from North Korea. And then later on, you know, she had to go into the hospital for a to treat a quote benign kidney condition and was there for over five days when most doctors say that the procedure she had would usually have you home the next day so many people were kind of like yo what's going on and then trump had like that weird tweet where he said like melanie is back at home resting and everyone's like yo melanie my wife melanie which and then people were like oh no it'srect. I'm like, his wife's name isn't recognized by his phone? Yeah, right.

At the very least. I know sometimes the stories about how his tweets are constructed, they intentionally put in bad grammar or misspelling to make you feel all down-homey or whatever. But at the very least, don't fuck up the wife's name. That's whatever. No, yeah. You can't make make there's no auto correct argument but i'm sure it probably is an auto correcting and they just probably don't care

he's just never mentioned his wife on his phone before right and then like later on on like on may 25th so the speculation began after that tweet like jokingly on twitter they're like who's melanie he's like is that the droid that was sent to replace her because the real one perished or whatever offensive did you hear did you hear that rumor that melania trump is 10 room bus taped together maybe that's why i was googling uh maybe yeah oh you might be onto something uh but then like so after all this stuff was going on a lot of people were like yo what's going on melania donald he was outside in the white house and goes points up she's like she's doing great she's looking at us right there and points off to a window and everyone looks. Ain't nobody in that window. But like everyone was like, oh no, like what is going on? Because the speculation

even started fueling more because that's what we are want to do because we like to pretend everything is more dramatic than it really is. So then yesterday she tweeted out something like this. I see the media is working overtime speculating where I am and what I'm doing. Rest assured, I'm here at the at White House, way to tag it, with my family feeling great and working hard on behalf of children and the American people. This is the most sus tweet of all time. Oh, yeah. Everything is good.

Right. Well, because a lot of people are like, yo, what's going on? Like the funny version was she has been replaced by like a droid. Then other people are kind of like, you know, she really hates being first lady and she hates being in D.C. And it's just done with all like just everything that goes along with people being like, what do you like? You know, having to question how she feels about her husband's indiscretions and all these things that are coming to light. Which I think is understandable. But at the same time, you know, this is who you were married to,

so you got to work with it. But then a lot of people started analyzing that, like, sort of the vocabulary, the construction of that tweet. And working overtime is, like, a thing Trump really likes to use, like, in his thing. So a lot of people began to say, like, oh, this clearly wasn't written by her. But I think we all know that because I don't think she's ever written a tweet really herself. No. But I think, yeah, there was some speculation that she was going to move back to New York or whatever.

But nonetheless, I think, I don't know. It feels like we're seeing her starting to burn out a little bit. I feel like Melania has been hacked a little bit. I think she's going full Shelly Miscavige. I think that that's what's happening. Now, Shelly Mis's going full Shelly Miscavige. I think that that's what's happening. Now Shelly Miscavige is David Miscavige's wife, right?

Yeah, David Miscavige, the world's smallest man who is, I think he's still in charge of Scientology. I'm pretty sure he's still in charge.

His wife, Shelly Miscavige, has been, it was like labeled as missing for a long time. I guess that state police know where she is but no one will disclose her location.

But she's been off the grid for 11 years. Like not been seen, right? Not been seen, made no public appearances, hasn't spoken to anyone publicly. Wasn't there a rumor that she was spotted, though, a while back? They saw her with some handlers out at a general store or something in California? Because she's got to do something in 11 years. But yeah, people were saying that they thought that she like was dead or that like it.

And it also kind of reminds me of that terrible Richard Simmons podcast that came out last year where they're like, where is he? And it's like, he's fine. He just doesn't want to talk to you. Yeah. Wait, wasn't that the thing? Like no one had heard from him for a long time, but it really just ended up as a thing that he was okay and just was like, I'm sorry.

It was like really lowest common denominator citizen journalism i'm just like there's a story here i'm gonna buzz it wide open it's like now you're just invading someone's privacy and you're not you're not a journalist uh but uh yeah i don't know i did it's unclear why shelly went off the grid but a lot of people thought that either Scientology wanted her to fuck off. STFU. Or she wanted to fuck off herself and just like didn't want to deal with David Miscavige's bullshit anymore which could be

a Malani thing. Oh and she got ghost like and just she basically vanished herself? There's yeah there's arguments that like Scientology ghosted her and then there's the argument that she ghosted Scientology and just like doesn't want to deal with it. Like she was J-Lo in Enough. Like she got out at midnight

and learned some Krav Maga. Exactly. Miles, Jamie, I am so disappointed in both of you. Oh, here we go. That you guys don't understand what's happening with this Melania situation.

It is so clear to me what is happening. Uh-huh, what's that? See, Melania and Donald moved to a new neighborhood, correct? Okay. Wouldn't you argue that? That's true.

I mean, it doesn't have to be argued. I think that's a point of fact. So while they were there, Donald was hanging out with his boys, and Melania was hanging out with these women. With these women. These women. And while Melania was hanging out with these women, she realized there's something odd with these women.

And then she tried to communicate that to Donald, but he wasn't really paying attention because he was having fun with his boys uh-huh so then melania just kept trying to figure out what's at the bottom of this and there was a liberal more liberal woman who was around and melania confided in her and was just like hey aren't these other ladies in this social group very weird and the liberal woman was like yeah yeah they are and then one day melania came back to that liberal woman and she was different too and then after that melania had to really get to the bottom of it but it was too late now melania is also part of that group and she's acting weird wow i mean i don't understand how you guys like a plague infection kind of thing sure Sure, that or the plot of the Stepford Wives.

Oh, wow. Okay. See, I didn't follow that at all. I was looking at you like, where are we going? Where are we headed? What are you talking about? It's clear. I mean, listen, I'm trying to help you guys.

You're running this daily podcast. Hold on, your tinfoil is coming off your head, my man. There's no tinfoil. Secure your tinfoil. That's to get my perm going. Your activator? your activator my activator oh my goodness well

Melania's been hacked she's been hacked it's possible I honestly think she's just had enough because it's gotta be very very you know

it's gotta be exhausting when that man trying to grab your hand all the time I think Melania and Ivanka are the same person well I think he may see them as the same Get the fuck away. I think Melania and Ivanka are the same person.

Well, I think he may see them as the same person. No, they are the same person. He's mean to Melania. Guys, now I want to talk a little bit about art in the alt-right world, in the very hyper-conservative world, in the white nationalist world, because we're seeing all kinds of offerings in the realms of film and music and writing recently.

J.M. McNabb, one of our writers, brought our attention to a story about a film that is coming up called The Trump Prophecy. I think it's based off a book written by a man named Mark Taylor, who is a retired firefighter who claims that one day while watching TV, Trump came on, and then God told him that Trump would be president. And this was back in 2011. And, you know, it was a very powerful moment. You know, from there, he was like trying to tell people,

yo, this guy's gonna be president. You should listen up. I have it on good authority, my hallucinations, that he will be president. Man, any like out of work, arrested development writer could have made that same prediction in 2011. Or the Simpsons years ago, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So then he basically co-authored this book, The Trump Prophecies, The Astonishing True Story of the Man Who Saw Tomorrow and What He Says is Coming Next. So basically then he said there's a really nice part where he just – this is just from the book. In November of 2016, the world witnessed the impossible. Nearly every household in America was tuned in to the election feeds, and every update pointed to the loss for the Republican Party. But when the map of the states flipped red in the final hour, there was a select few who weren't surprised.

They had always known Trump was going to win. He was chosen for such a time as this. The prophecy had said so. This prophet, this reserved man of God, was a retired firefighter, Mark Taylor. The word given by Holy Spirit was delivered on April 28, 2011, in the middle of the most debilitating sickness a man could ever experience. Now, you know, despite the fact that, you know, he basically admitted that his prediction was for the 2012 election, you know, for marketing purposes, he was going to extend that to 2016.

I also called this too. So, you know, it still stands. Dumbass Nostradamus. Seriously. But what comes comes next though he was also saying that he's Trump will win a second term and then he will release

the secret cures for Alzheimer's and cancer. Because you know why blow it all in the first term. Why do your grand ending in the first term. So wait that Trump is going to

reveal the cure to Alzheimer's? Yeah. So it's like performance art that he's just demonstrating perhaps having Alzheimer's himself in his first term, and then at the end is like, I actually know how to Benjamin Button this whole thing. Well, the reasoning being, the logic being, that he will basically come after big pharma

because they hold the secrets to solving these diseases because they profit off of people being sick which i agree with i mean i get that part of it that we've seen that kind of shit before i agree with all of it yeah but then he'll say once he comes after big pharma and ends that corruption then they will release the antidotes now honestly i i hope that there is something like that uh because that would be great but again uh i'm not too uh you know, I don't know how optimistic I am. Here's what it is. Here's what it is, guys. And again, please, you guys are supposed to be basically journalists.

And I'm trying to help you out here. I never said I'm a journalist. Miles says he's a journalist all the time. Yeah, he does. Sometimes he'll just group text us at night and say, I'm a journalist. Guys, I'm a journalist. The only time Miles ever came to one of my UCB shows was to get up on stage and interrupt the whole thing to say, I'm a journalist.

That's true. He's done the same thing to me a lot. Yeah. Yeah. That's why when we met the first time, you're like, wait, I know you. Yeah. You're that journalist. You're that journalist.

So Barack Obama did something very, very similar, where in his 2008 term, he was pro-gay marriage, but he never said it because he didn't want to alienate his black Christian base. So he waited until the 2012 election when he knew he had them in the bag to say it. Donald Trump is doing the same thing here, okay? With cancer patients? That's right. And he knows that that's a big part of his base and he doesn't want to alienate them wow so he wants to do all the work now so that in 2012 he can be like yo guess what i'm for this and then they'll all hop on the train because

they're already on the train it's the same thing but we want to crucify donald trump for doing the things that barack did and i'm tired of it. Wow. You're really going to have some crazy people coming at you in your mentions after this one. So let's move on. Because another thing that he also said was that he also said that Megyn Kelly fell ill. I don't know if you remember this. Right before one of the first Republican primary debates in 2015, she couldn't do it because she fell ill. And he claims that that was God sending her a, quote, warning shot

to let her know that she should not try to harm his anointed candidate, Donald Trump. So this guy is going all in. So now this is going to be a full on film that's coming out in October called The Trump Prophecy, because I guess they couldn't call it based off the book, The Trump Prophecies. They just kind of made it just like the one maybe that he'll be president. And anyway, this is being made by Liberty University, which is a Christian school founded by Jerry Falwell. And they have a film department. And they have a program where students,

instead of making sort of like a bunch of shorts, they contribute to making one feature film. And they did this before with a film called Extraordinary, starring guess who? Kirk Cameron, you know, our Christian actor. Our best actor. actor yes he's amazing my favorite jerry seinfeld so now they're they're they're working up the trump prophecy uh drop in october you're just in time for the midterms to get people to really wake the fuck up and realize

you know trump is anointed by god but the thing is which makes sense is that there are people there who aren't really quite thrilled about like this Trump prophecy film at the school, because, you know, you're at a Christian school. There's a lot of things that Trump does. It contradicts Christian dogma. Not something that would be considered a good Christian thing to do. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, you know, people still actually read the Bible and follow it. So I think when they see what Trump's doing, they're like, man, I can't get I think that like one of the best bad press you can get is having a student film made about you. I think this is actually going to work in the world's favor.

I'm a connoisseur of bad student films. Oh, really? As am I. And here's what I'll have to say. Those students who are unhappy about it, I know exactly who they are. They're the kind of students who pitched a movie that didn't get picked up, and they're upset that it's not their movie. And that's all this is. Oh, that's what you think. Can I get a student't get picked up, and they're upset that it's not their movie.

And that's all this is. Oh, that's what you think. Can I get a student film rec? That's not what I think. That's what I know. Oh, you want to give a student film recommendation? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's my favorite one. It came out in 2009.

I had to go into the backlogs to find it. But it's called Love, Bacardi, Boston. It's really good. You can watch it on Vimeo. I do some screenings of it sometimes. Was it made by you? No, no. It was before I went to college. Oh it sometimes. Was it made by you? No, no. It was before I went to college.

Oh, wow. But it was like a legendary thing on campus. They were like, oh, if you can get this file, it's the worst thing you'll ever see in your life. It's called Love, is it like Love, comma? Love, period. Oh, Love, period. Bacardi, period. Boston, period.

Wow. It's just, it's beautiful. Will you put this up on your Twitter, please? Yes, I will absolutely post it. We'll also have it in the footnotes. Yeah, you gotta watch

Love, Bacardi, Boss. How long is it? I'm doing a screening of it tonight. Oh, you are? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like legitimately? In LA, yeah.

There's like a few annual screenings of it and people come out and they bring their LBB gear. It's like shot on a camcorder. It's one of those things

like when you're a freshman in film like when you're in a freshman in film school you're supposed to make like a five minute short yes this is 45 minutes long right

autobiographical just some real masterful work from shout out to the director Dane Schubert who still interacts with

because he's like he's like almost 30 now and still dealing with this thing he made when he was 18 what does he do now? Love, Bacardi Boston. He still works in like videography and stuff, I think.

Oh, good for him. Yeah. He's stuck with it. About a man just smashed off daiquiris all day. It's so much more than that. Oh, really? Okay, well, I'm going to assume that's what that is. And, you know, that's film.

So that's what's going on in the world of conservative film. Now, I'd like to talk about what's going on with alt-right white nationalist music because, you know, they're on a wave right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a new song out by one of the members of this group called the White Art Collective. That's what they call it. And it's just basically a group of no-talent Nazis. Whack? Their name is Whack?

Wow. W-A-C-H-W-A-C-K. And it's just they have a terrible website where they share their non-art. I love their Wix beta site. It's so cute. It's really, really something else. And the latest is a certified banger song in the summer called It's Okay to Be White. It's just a fucking terrible song with awful lyrics.

The music video itself is wacky. It's just a guy hand-drawing images that eventually morph into stock photos. Yeah, he's just free-handing, and then it fades into an image he certainly is not paid to use. No, no, no, no. And if he has, good on him. Then that means there's a little budget for this. I mean, well, it is not watermarked. Yeah. To his credit.

So let me just play a little bit of the track and we talk about it. This is It's Okay To Be White. Mmm. Ooh. Getting to bash vibes. Yeah. A little bit of Tame Impala. Yo, it's goth night.

It's goth night at the satellite, baby. Like heavenly blades. Birthing at the surface. The sound of children's voices. I like the part of the music video where he draws a butt really badly. Okay, here comes the chorus, though. Here comes the chorus though Here comes the chorus though, guys Alright Okay Okay

Caucasian Okay, so yeah, that was a big pilot train. Guys, thank you for featuring my boyfriend's music on this show. I really appreciate it. Y'all are being fake as fuck right now. Y'all are being fake as fuck right now. If the chorus had went, I hate the LA traffic. Y'all would have been like, yo, that song is great.

It represents us. Y'all are just hating because that's a good song. That is not a good song. Real talk, that's a good. That's the most derivative garbage song I've ever heard. The beat is hard. the name of the singer is Bryn.

Yeah. So, I mean, to me, it sounds like a ripoff of that song, The Promise by When in Rome. Like, just from like the do-do-do-do-do. Sing it.

I'm sorry, I've been thinking about the ride versus safe. That song. Listen to that song. I think it's at the end of Napoleon Dynamite, actually, when they play that. That is like kind of the exact ripoff. And the reason why his voice is like that is because he's actually a UK-based racist named Bryn Dolman.

On Wonkhead, they did a little digging. They found his LinkedIn profile. We found out he manages a coffee shop and he's a life coach. So, yeah. I know this. He's my international boyfriend. Jesus Christ. So, yeah.

I don't know what it is. He's a manager? He's the manager of, yeah. That's got to be embarrassing, right? Like when they come and like, yo, I heard your track, right? A, B, D. They're like, hey, heard your racist song, boss.

Yeah. Oh, no, that wasn't me. Yeah, do you think he plays it in the shop? Of course he does. ABD they're like hey heard your racist song boss yeah oh no that wasn't me yeah do you think he plays it in the shop of course he does because it's a banger he's a barista

baristas will always try and let you know what they really got going on yeah I'm here right now but check him out mixtape yeah if you wanna

check this out hey you look white you look white there's a chance that he's gonna grab somebody who's not but i mean there's some you know i don't know what it is about like you know like art inherently like to be a good artist you have to you have to have an ounce of empathy and and be willing to challenge

yourself right like personally and like the way you think philosophically like that's how you like really have genuine self-expressive art that connects with people. And I guess it's no surprise that people who have the mentality of they're very xenophobic, racist, whatever, what have you, just hating their heart, can't really get the art to flow. But who is the person who's hating right now, Miles? Let's be honest with ourselves. Who's really hating? I think that you guys are hating on this very, again, that beat goes hard. I'm not even joking right now.

That beat goes, and when I was listening to that beat, I was like, yo, I kind of want to flow over this beat. And like. Okay, we'll try and get you the instrumental. Get me that instrumental. I'm going to drop a remix.

I'm going to drop a remix to it. It's okay to be wild. You should just still do the same chorus. Yeah, same chorus. You can make that rap. I'm going to rap over it. Yeah. You'll look like,

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It's okay to drink Sprite. There you go. That's it right there. Yeah, you will no doubt get that Coca-Cola deal by aligning yourself with a Nazi track from the UK. And, I mean, nobody knows this, but Coca-Cola wanted to sell their sodas in Germany, but not turn them off to the fact that they were an American brand and invented a soda called Fanta just for the Nazis. Look it up.

Oh, wow. Wait, is there really a dark history of Fanta? That's where Fanta came from originally. That moment of wokeness. Brought to you by Edgar Montplaisir, the man who was caping for Melania Trump and other Trump figures earlier in the show. Amazing how you came back, brother. So to start off, I just want to talk a little bit about something that is a pressing issue, I think, in the world at large, which is sort of income equality. The wealth gap in this country is enormous.

which is sort of income equality. The wealth gap in this country is enormous. And we are increasingly seeing the middle classes wither away into nothing as the haves have more have and the have-nots ain't getting shit. You can see that with how CEO pay has exploded over the years. But Stockton, California is doing something pretty interesting. They are going to be the first city to test a universal basic income. Now, what they are going to do is they're readying plans to deliver $500 a month in donated cash to around 100 local families with no strings attached. UBI, universal basic income, is a term that gets thrown around a lot, but it's essentially about that the government distributes cash to everybody, rich or poor, if you need it or don't, just because they want to remove

the stigma of traditional welfare schemes while just making sure that everyone is taken care of, which is a thing that is not really being addressed in this country at the moment. So we'll see. They say the program could run for almost about two years, possibly, and see how that does. I mean, I think that's something that a lot of people have been discussing over the years about like, what do we do in terms of like the income gap or wealth gap increases more and then automation threatens people's jobs more and more. Like, what does the world look like in that sense? And a lot of people have been talking about, you know, getting a UBI as a way to sort of

help you. I keep hearing UTI. A UBI, UTI, yeah. So I went on Splash Mountain at Disneyland and I got a UBI. On a log flume. Kind of, yeah. You ever get a flume UBI? Log flume UBI.

It's when you go on a log flume and then at the end you get $500. It's actually pretty amazing. You get a UTI, you're hurting for a minute. Yeah, you get a thing of cranberry juice and a $500 gift. You get azo cranberry juice, $500. it's a ubi uti so i think that's something you should push when you run for office yeah like hey everyone who gets a uti i will personally give five hundred dollars a lot of people be holding in their p uh or other things so now i really want to get to one of the most pressing stories of this week, the Pusha T and Drake beef, because it is it's really is ramping up.

I'm not caught up on this. OK, well, basically Pusha T, who's a rapper formerly of the Clips, now his own solo rap guy, has been coming at Drake. You know, they've been going back and forth on tracks. at Drake, they've been going back and forth on tracks. The last shot that was fired was from Pusha T where he loaded a picture of Drake, the album art of him in blackface

and the accompanying freestyle was scathing. He basically said his mother was a loser because she's never going to get married again because his dad abandoned them when he was five. His friend has MS and is going to die eventually eventually he's a deadbeat dad who has a love illegitimate child he just went in he was just fucking but what's crazy was it wasn't even that lyrically slick no it was more that it

it really just felt like he was like so what your daddy bounced on you your mom's a loser ovio 40 about to die and also you a deadbeat fucking dad like it wasn't there wasn't like the there weren't like real good clever like setups and punch lines whatever you could anything is on the table but also you can look like a tasteless dude who has you know could at least have a modicum of decency while also flaming somebody um so anyway drake had to clap back and oh my god guys we were waiting we said well drake, come save yourself. Come show this man who you are. Come clappity black.

And yo, he did it in the most hip hop fucking way possible. He posted a statement from the Notes app, a screenshot. Let people know what was going on. Now, because a lot of people were like, yo, what is going on with this photo of Drake in blackface? They're like, you know, and at first Pusha T was trying to take shots like, you know, he needs to answer about this because, you know, his blackness is in question. It looks like young Drake, right? It is.

Very young Drake. Like Degrassi era Drake, right? Yeah, very young Drake. From 2007. So it was 11 years ago. Oh, okay. So yeah, Degrassi. So he's like probably what?

Is he about to turn 30 or something like that? Anyway. Yeah, I think he's around. He's hovering around there. Either way, he was probably in his late teens or early 20s um and again a lot of people like especially pushy t was trying to come in from this image at the same time i still don't understand why no one's been like yeah but kanye is producing like beats and like yeah absolutely aside from the hypocrisy again my friend at kev chestnut check him out has has been on this tip the whole time being like, why are we coming at

Drake for wearing blackface when Coon and Chief runs Pusha T's whole sound? Right, exactly. This is what Drake had to say. He really puffed his chest out in this Notes app screen grab. This is like, maybe we should put a beat over this.

I know everyone is enjoying the circus, but I want to clarify this image in question. This was not from a clothing brand shoot or my music career. This picture's from 2007, a time in my life where I was an actor

and I was working on a project that was about young black actors struggling to get roles, being stereotyped and typecast. The photos represented

how African Americans, well, you're Canadian. Anyway. He slipped, he forgot. Well, he is. His dad's American. His dad's American. His dad's from Tennessee. We'll let him rock with that. He're Canadian. Anyway. He slipped. He forgot. Well, he is. His dad's American. His dad's American. His dad's from Tennessee.

We'll let him rock with that. He's Canadian. Yeah, but the struggle is the same. We're once wrongfully portrayed in entertainment. Me and my best friend at the time, uh-oh, way to distance yourself, Mazin El-Siddiq, who is also an actor from Sudan, were attempting to use our voice to bring awareness to the issues we dealt with all the time as black actors at auditions.

This was to highlight and raise our frustrations with not always getting a fair chance in the industry and to make a point that the struggle for black actors had not changed much. Now, yes, that is very true. What he's talking about is true. And I think to go with the way that Pusha T showed that picture, it's part of a photo

set. So on one image, he's, like, you know, really, really hamming it up, Mammy style, like, which is the cover art for the story of Adidon. And then, but the other picture of it is him, like, frowning because the whole photo spread was about, like, this sort of duality about it. Yeah. So, yeah, without context, it looks bad. Again, yes, like, he's not the first african-american to put on blackface to make some kind of political statement not at all it looks yeah fine in that image yeah sure you're it's going to be a head scratcher but drake i don't know how he was going to really respond to this in a album because he was in a tough spot like

that image with everything else it's like how you gonna wrap your way out well what's so fascinating is that black twitter is giving him no points at all because they don't care for him to respond to this part. This isn't the part that they want him to respond to. Right. Everyone wants to know, is that your fucking kid? Is that your kid? Yeah. And it seems like he's dodging the question, which is why I told Drake, I said it on Culture Kings yesterday.

And he listens to Culture Kings. Stay the fuck out of it. It's a trap. And he fell right into the trap. It definitely looked like Pusha T set him up. He's Sun Tzu'd, as I say that incorrectly. Art of Ward him into that one. Because now it looks like it's definitely his fucking kid.

Because he's not addressing it. And now it's like, you know what I mean? To address the blackface thing, like you said, artists do this all the time. He couldn't in a verse be like, man, it was 2007. My eyes towards heaven. Trying to get a message out to the kids since I was 11 type shit. No, he couldn't do that. But also, nobody really gave a fuck about that part. I think Pusha T is masterminding this shit so hard right now.

Now Drake is like, you're fucked, dude. Everyone thinks that you're a deadbeat ass dad because you responded with the wrong answer. But who knows if he can have a super track? There just wasn't enough room in the notes app. Maybe he does address it, but it looks like he kind of runs out of room at the bottom. Yeah, maybe. He fully addressed it.

It just didn't fit in the screenshot. But also, this rap battle is so weird because it's middle-class fake drug dealer versus sensitive Canadian guy. Yeah. It's not like the traditional battles we're used to. Hip hop has changed, bruh. Yeah.

And also, like, this is the kind of shit, you know, Drake is very self-aware of, like, his emo side, too. So, like, it's not, like, the most hard-hitting way to come at him for a guy who, like, already owns it. You know what I mean? It's not, like, as if he pulled the curtain back on 50 Cent. He's like, yo, 50 Cent's actually a broken man. He cries all the time and blah, blah, blah. Can't wait for that. All of Drake's raps are very melancholy.

Absolutely. So we'll see what happens. I think, man, he should stay out of this. He should stay out of this. I think that's how he comes out the bigger man is not even dealing with it. Because like I said, Scorpion's going to quadruple the sales of Daytona. I'll say that right now. No, no, no way.

And that's what you want. You already won. Why are you digging yourself deeper into this shit? But you know there's a part about hip hop, though. He can't just let it be the end of it. You know what I mean? He has to. Because Pusha T, I think Pusha T has something nasty.

I know. Pusha T has something nasty waiting. You think there's more? Oh, 100%. Well, the way that it happened is like first i think the you know we talked about yesterday he baited him with that song infrared and which got this other freestyle and that yeah yeah and then over the weekend he was just saying like we'll deal with in truths this summer so i have a feeling that he already had that picture on lock he already

had the story made out i feel like he probably already has the responses already recorded. You know what I mean? This is just like Captain America Civil War. They're walking into this thing and they think that they're on top, but this shit is set the fuck up. It's just as complicated, too, because you have to see fucking 20 movies before to understand what's happening. You're just like, wait a second. How many years does this come back?

Oh, my God. Some pro wrestling shit. Yeah, it really is. It really is. We'll see how it plays out. We'll see how it plays out. Well, Jamie, thank you so much for coming through. Hey, thanks for dealing with the fact that Edgar and I got into a fight before.

Yeah, no, it was fine. I mean, I just turned the other way, although I did record on video. I did it slow-mo. You did. Yeah, you had front cam over your shoulder, but you were facing the wall, so in case anyone asks. I'm still hurt, but it seems like nobody cares about how I'm

feeling. It's okay to drink Sprite. I clodded. I'm good. I clodded. I'm good. Poured a lot of salt in those wounds just to get it clodded. Jamie, where can people find you? You can find me on the internet at jamieloftishelp

on twr.com and you can listen to the Bechdel cast every Thursday. Our episode with Andrew T. came out today. Oh, Andrew T. People love Andrew around here. Was the episode racist? Well, that's for him to decide. Oh boy. We'll definitely have to tune into that one

Edgar Thank you so much for coming here To be by my side Tell people where they can find you You can find me on Instagram At Awfulgram and on Twitter Also be on the lookout for Sad Boy Edgar coming soon

What about Culture Camp? I mean I guess if y'all want to listen to that Edgar Morpheus here. Also be on the lookout for sad boy Edgar coming soon. What about Culture Kings? I mean, I guess if y'all want to listen to that. Oh, wow. Okay. Okay. I see how you do it. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

Listen to Culture Kings. Please listen to it. Oh, man. He said the dumbest shit on the last episode. I want you guys to hear it. He said, he asked us if chips were dessert. Oh, he asked that on the pod? Well, I brought it up on the pod because that's such a...

Yeah, because what the fuck is that, dog? He asked that while we were eating lunch. I was like, huh? Please drag the shit out of the geese for that because that's so wild. Well, yes. Wait, where do you stand? Chips are not a dessert. I don't know how...

I said, the only time a dessert can be a non-sweet dish is if it's sort of contextually when people are like, oh, and I'm going to drink this scotch for dessert. Or like, and for dessert, I'm going to smoke this joint. You know what I mean? Then fine. And for dessert, I'll be chugging this Sprig. Yeah, exactly. But if you look at like, if you pull up to a 7-Eleven, you say, hey, hop in there and grab some dessert.

And if someone comes out with chips, I will scream at you. It's not what I want. It's on the episode that drops tomorrow. So be on the lookout for that. Also, if you're looking for me, you can find me at Miles of Grey on Twitter and Instagram. You can find us at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram,

at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter. You can find us on Facebook. You know we got the website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where you can find all kinds of links to the stuff. You know also when we have all the footnotes there too. Footnotes? See, I had to do that for myself. And also where we will link to the song that I'm about to hit y'all with.

Today, I just want to play a nice little beat uh from this man a producer called kofi it's called florence uh just gotta you know i just like it just some beat music with a nice little piano going into it uh and just vibe on out to this thursday uh guys we will see you tomorrow because i guess it's a daily show all right later We'll be right back. Thank you. Thank you. The End Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was assassinated. Thank you. Matthew State. Listen to Crooks everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Two women did something no other woman had done before, tried to assassinate the President of the United States. One was the protege of Charles Manson. 26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed Squeaky.

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