The Daily Zeitgeist - Ohh Quid PRO Quo, James Dean Reboot? 11.7.19

Episode Date: November 7, 2019

In episode 511, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and Live To Tape host Johnny Pemberton to discuss how many Americans want to be influencers, Gordon Sondland deciding to update his testimony, Lindsay Graham losing steam, Kentucky going blue, 2020 election polls, new Starbucks holiday cards, James Dean starring in a new film, and more!FOOTNOTES: Influencer Nation: 86% of Young Americans Want to Become One Sondland Updates Impeachment Testimony, Describing Ukraine Quid Pro Quo Steve Doocy, Fox & Friends, 9/24: "If the president said, I'll give you the money, but you've got to investigate Joe Biden, that'd be off the rails wrong." "It was incoherent," Sen @LindseyGrahamSC says of Trump's Ukraine policy. Live: Kentucky Election Results GOV. MATT BEVIN REFUSES TO CONCEDE KENTUCKY RACE, EVEN AFTER SECRETARY OF STATE CALLS IT FOR DEMOCRAT ANDY BESHEAR Election Day 2019: Democrats Sweep Delaware County Council For First Time Since Civil War One Year From Election, Trump Trails Biden but Leads Warren in Battlegrounds Poll: 62% of Trump supporters say nothing he could do would change opinion The latest battleground poll tells us Democrats are over-correcting for 2020 — and they can't beat Trump that way Democrats are in danger of going too far left for 2018 Starbucks' Holiday Cups Are Back and They're Very 'Merry' — See the 4 New Designs James Dean Reborn in CGI for Vietnam War Action-Drama (Exclusive) CMG Worldwide WATCH: 1995 - Selfish Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hey. Hey, man. Oh, great doc. Yeah, great doc. Great doc. I think it's on Netflix, or it used to be. Cool thing about that doc is I found out it took her 10 years to make it. Wow. Yeah. it used to be cool thing about that doc is I found out it took her 10 years to make it wow yeah

I feel like documentary filmmaking is just in general like well you're not gonna have an actual living based on this yeah

you gotta really like you just have to you gotta dig in I mean a lot of good documentaries too seem to be like there's always a person in a scene

who just taped everything but really didn't have a reason for it and then someone's like and then i met this person like you have a documentary here yeah yeah it's i mean i guess it's kind of thankless yeah i think back like when i first got like i used to have a lot of cameras and i would always shoot a ton of video on them i'm i feel like in about three years if i go through some hard drives i could put together like a wicked documentary about 2005 to 2012. Or a great, what's it called when you take someone down, a takedown piece?

Yeah, on myself. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, this is me, that drunk at the Standard. Andrew Jarecki made Capturing the Freedmen after he started making, do you know that documentary? Yeah, my old neighbor in Tallahassee was one of the people in that documentary. Oh, really? Yeah.

Well, it's a long short story, but he was a really weird guy, but he also said that nothing weird was going on there, which is true. Right, right. Yeah. But Capturing the Freedoms is a great documentary, but it started out as a documentary about birthday party clowns.

That's what he thought he was making. And then one of the birthday party clowns was like, yeah, I had a really fucked up childhood, and we videotaped everything. Anyways, you don't want to know about that. Birthday parties are a hell of a thing. What can I make for you with this balloon? A severed arm?

Exactly. They've gotten worse, I think. Docs have gotten not as good. Have they? I feel like it because, I don't know, I haven't watched one in a while where I was really just, oh. Yeah. Ticklish was probably one of the last ones I saw

that had a good turn in it. Yeah. But I don't know. I feel like, you know, Free Solo was also good. I enjoyed Free Solo. Yeah. But I don't know. I feel like, you know, Free Solo was also good. I enjoyed Free Solo. Yeah, that was special. I don't feel like,

to me, that wasn't like a documentary as much as it, well, obviously it was a documentary, but it transcended. No, I'm a truther about that guy.

He doesn't really do that shit. Yeah. Oh, I've heard about that. Yeah. Maybe he climbed up the 9-11 towers. He did it.

I'm sure there's good docs out there. I mean, HBO, I always check that little subheading sometimes because I grew up watching a lot of HBO documentaries. Yeah. The trailer for the best documentaries, nominees in the Oscars this past year, there were a couple of them that seemed like they were more tone poem documentaries,

more artsy art films, and less about the content of the story or the subject matter. Right. And that's something that I hadn't really seen, but I didn't watch them. So jokes on them. Yeah, in your face. I want to watch some weirdos like Vernon, Florida. Yeah. That's what I want to see.

Most people think you can only have a one-track mind. You know that bit when he's like, you can actually, if you're shooting a gun and patting your head and then singing the song, that's a four-track mind. And you're like, uh-huh, uh-huh. Every part of that thing is so great. You ever seen a man's brains? What was that? Did you hear that? Yeah.

Some wild lines. Did you hear that? What was that? Oh, Muleskin or Blues. You ever seen a man's brains? What was that? Did you hear that? Yeah. Wild lines. Did you hear that? What was that? Oh, Mule Skinner Blues. Have you seen that one? I haven't. Mule Skinner Blues is about this guy who lives in a trailer park who's trying to create a horror film with people that live in his trailer park. Is that sort of like a American movie almost? In a way, yeah.

But the people that live around him all have very interesting backgrounds. One guy was like a savant guitar player, but because of like substance abuse issues, like couldn't get his shit together, but like can shred. Oh yeah, you told me about that. And then there's like other people. It's a very, very, I don't know. It could be fake, but from what I can tell, it seems very real.

And like the world's, it's one of those like truly like enter this world type of documentary. I like entering a good world. Yeah, yeah. Don't we all? So Vern in Florida was Errol Morris' breakthrough documentary where he just made it about people in a town. I think it was before the Integratron, though. Right.

Which is that device he made using a closed captioning. Not closed captioning, but what do you call it? A prompter, teleprompter. Right. Yeah. So people are looking directly into the camera. In the camera, but they're looking at his face. At first, I thought Vern in Florida was an Ernest film.

I thought Vern in Florida. Oh, my God. I would love that. Vern in Florida. I used to love Ernest so much. We find out so much about him, but what about Vern? Yeah. Where's he at?

Who is Vern? Who is this Vern? That's where he is. You know what I mean, Vern? You know what I mean? He always said that, right? Did we ever get to the bottom of who Vern is, or that was just sort of his colloquial, that was just like his thing, just saying Vern.

Yeah. I think that was just his- That vernacular. His thing. Yeah, Vern. It's the camera. It's us. We are Vern.

We are Vern. You are Vern. The collective Vern. Verning man. I went to verning man oh my god oh my god it's three days of nothing but earnest goes to camp earnest goes to jail heavy drug use yeah no absolutely. It's a dry festival. A lot of chocolate. Yeah. Just eating tons of milk chocolate.

Big gulps. And like bagels and Gatorade. Yeah. It's a very phlegmy affair. Yeah. It's a lot of products. Yeah. Well, guys, I could talk to you about Burning Man all day.

Know what I mean? Know what I mean, Murr? We're also, some things we're also going to talk about. There is a new study that reveals that we all apparently want to be influencers. We're going to talk about impeaching Donald Trump, the impeachment inquiry. Because I'm talking about impeaching this creep. Somebody revised their bullshit story. Yeah.

You kind of made a mess. Yeah. Like an idiot. We of made a mess. Yeah. Like an idiot. We are going to look at the elections that happened last night, two nights ago. We are going to talk about where the president's supporters are with him. How come they haven't abandoned him yet, guys? Yeah. How come they haven't abandoned him yet, guys?

And there's a new New York Times poll that's being used to fully invalidate Bernie and Elizabeth Warren as candidates. So I'm going to look at that. Look at those numbers a little bit. And then we might get to Starbucks Holiday Cups. Thank God. And Walkman. Great band. Oh, that James Dean thing. Oh, Watchmen or Walk God. And Walkman. Great band. Oh, and that James Dean thing.

Oh, Watchmen or Walkman? And Watchmen. Ah, damn. I thought you were talking about Walkman. And also that James Dean story. Yeah. Possibly. Back from the dead.

But first, Johnny, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I looked through this and it's all kind of embarrassing, I feel like. I was doing a deep dive on Jeremy Renner's musical career, which is- As one does. We're fans. Yeah, for a show. It's for a character. Doing a lot of that.

Is the character just a huge fan? Well, it's sort of a character. He's like this character I do who's supposed to be Chris Cornell's son. He's Jake Cornell, but he's not really his son. He has a bunch of money, though. He has a bunch of lofts in Venice, and he's running a real estate, and he loves natural things and holding a mug of steaming tea with both hands. And you're like, hey, a very cool mug.

He's that. That guy rules. Yeah, wow. I wasn't listening, but I heard you. The two-hand mug hold really just cut through to me right now. That's truly, I don't know what that is, but it's a thing. When you see someone doing that, it's like substitute teacher. Right.

All right, so where are we? Yeah. Is that? He's that guy. How was your week? Okay. I'm like, what kind of tea is that? It's bone broth, actually.

Yeah, it's bone broth, but with chamomile infused. I'm like, what kind of tea is that? It's bone broth, actually. Yeah, it's bone broth with chamomile infused. It's also got a proprietary blend of mushrooms, chaga, reishi, cordyceps, and lion's mane with a little bit of turmeric. Wait, I'm sorry. What was the chaga? Chaga, cordyceps, reishi, and lion's mane with a bit of turmeric, sea salt, and also

the chaga. I don't know what chaga is. I'd say it's a mushroom. It grows in the upper region cold climate. It's a high elevation. Yeah, it's harvested. It's fair trade though, so don't worry. Great, great. It's fully fair trade. Whenever I

buy it, I always bow. I always bow and make my purchase. That guy definitely bows a lot. I typically bow before the funguses before I remove them, just to acknowledge their cycle. Every time I use a toilet, I bow. I learned that when I was visiting Tibet to acknowledge their cycle. Every time I use a toilet, I bow. I learned that when I was visiting Tibet.

Never flush. Yes. Never flush. What is something you think is underrated? I think underrated is cold showers. Cold showers? Like ice shower. Wow.

We've had that take recently. I start hot though. You start hot? I start hot. Wow. You turn the volume down start hot no I go in I do the normal shower a warm shower

kind of really hot for about 10 seconds and then you go kind of gradually to ice and then you get to ice and you hold ice for at least 30 to 40 seconds you gotta make sure you lift your arms up and get all around and also get your legs too and your head and your face and what does that do for you? just like invigorating? 40 seconds. You got to make sure you lift your arms up and get all around and also get your legs too. Huh.

And your head and your face. And what does that do for you? Just like invigorating? It just, just drops the hammer on the blood. Yeah. Pops you up. Yeah. Cause you'll get out of the shower and you'll be warm because you're not in the ice.

Oh, right. The ambient temperature now feels warm. Yeah. You're like, ah, it feels good. It's supposed to be really good for your everything, I guess. Yeah. That was in one of those Tim Ferriss books about saying you had to kickstart your metabolism. And I take most of the things he says with a grain of salt.

But that's one of the things of starting off with a cold shower will help you. It's supposed to help your depression, too. Really? I have a theory about it. I think this is probably backed up by science. too really i have a theory about it i think this is probably backed up by science but my theory is that it's it turns on your sympathetic nervous system or i think that's how you say it you know like your fight or flight right so instead of you know how if you're in like a warm bath it's like ah relax but the cold yeah the cold makes you it's basically like attacking you so it gives

you that adrenaline that feels like you're attacked and you get all this adrenaline. So it makes you, it's like basically making you fight for your life. And so you're not depressed because you're like, oh, I have to save my life. Yeah. It gives your life meaning, like this little bit of meaning. But you do it gradually. Well, I do it sometimes gradually, but still when the cold comes, it doesn't matter how

gradually you get there. It's still cold. Winter's coming either way. Yeah. Can't stop it. That's what I think is underrated at least. I mean, it definitely is good at the very least to wake you the fuck up. Right.

I used to do really hot showers to wake me up because I'd be like, oh, fuck. I don't know because I didn't like a cold shower, but I'm like, there has to be a way that isn't just like a continuation of being in bed, but with water. Or you could just like pay somebody to like slap you a couple times. Slap the shit out of you. Yeah. But when you're not expecting it. Have an alarm clock that like urinates in your face.

Yeah. If I don't wake up, I'll get urine in my mouth. You know, some people have a hard time waking up. Right. The only thing that can really get me out of bed is that just the threat of having pee in my mouth. Right. Then I get my shit together. It's clearly a guy who really likes to have pee in his mouth.

Yeah. He's like, wouldn't that be a good alarm clock, huh, everybody? What kind of alarm clock? It attaches to your sewer system and it starts back pumping your toilet. Yeah. If you don't wake up, you have a mainline sewer backup. Or I don't know, maybe I could hook mine up to your sewer main or something to see how that goes. It's like, you know those ones that have the dollar to start shredding money?

If you don't wake up, there's some alarm clock. Yeah. But that's basically what you're doing. If you have like a sewer backup, that's... That's dollars out the window. Yeah, that's like actually a problem you have to fix. Yeah, because then you have to go out and buy your own pee. That would really wake me up if I had to stop a mainline

sewer stoppage every day. Who did that? What was that show that did that recently? Was it maybe, was it a Nathan Free episode? Something where people wanted to stick to their diets and if they didn't, they would email a terrible thing to their boss.

Wasn't that Nathan Free? That's funny. When it's like, say something really fucked up about your boss on camera or something and then like, okay, now if you don't lose this weight by this date, this email will be sent to your boss. That's actually way better than the financial one because the financial one, it's like, it's just money. Yeah, versus your livelihood. Yeah, you can't ever take back the thing you said.

Although one woman failed and then she's like, I got to let you know this video was sent to you. And it was like, oh, okay. But the video was pretty crazy. Yeah, wasn't she accusing him of being racist or some shit? Yeah, the video was wild. What would be even better is if you said something racist, and it's like, you have to say something racist.

I know you're not racist, but you have to say it. Well, that was the other thing too. That's what it was. It was everyone's fear. So it was different for other people. I'm like,

I would want my boss to see something like this. I'm like, please don't send this stuff to my kids. Another guy like posed like half nude as like a hot dog and like, don't send this to my mother. Right. Like, so everyone had their own limits basically.

He also had the escape trick where if he didn't get out of a straitjacket in time, it would pull his pants down in front of children. That's funny. And therefore he would be. You're a bisexual predator. Yeah. Or a pet, whatever you call it. Yeah.

A bad guy. A bad, bad guy. Bad person. What is something you think is overrated, Johnny? Oh, I just thought about this today and it really hit the spot. Like really nice toilet paper, the kind that's like super fluffy and thick. Yeah. You mean like a hand towel?

Basically a hand towel, like the hand towel version of a roll on a roll. Yeah. That stuff is so bad. I can't believe it. In terms of what? Like how thick it is? It's bad. Like it's too much.

You don't need that much. It's like it doesn't do a good job of cleaning because it's too soft. Sometimes you don't need a cloud to wipe your eye. No. You need something. You need some Scott. Right. You need a frillo pad.

It's got some grit to it. Yeah. Yeah. I've been recently, yeah, I've hit both sides of the spectrum before. Just pillow soft toilet paper, which in a way doesn't really have the kind of structural integrity you need to. Yeah. For like if you really have one of those shits where you have to keep wiping. I mean, the good stuff does.

Yeah, I guess so. Maybe I'm just buying. I guess it's cotton. It's old witch hair. Cotton nail. No, it's one of the old Halloween decorations, that spider web stuff. But then like if it's too papery, then it's a little bit of a torture job on your sphincter. It's definitely more uncomfortable, but I actually don't know which one is technically better at wiping.

I'll tell you. Okay. The rough stuff is better. The rough stuff? Yeah. The stuff that basically feels like the toilet seat cover? Yeah. I was about to say I've used toilet seat cover. Yeah. I've actually, I was about to say, I've used those many times.

Yeah. I've used those so many times recently. What's the thing where I didn't even think twice about, oh, there's no number of toilet paper. Right. There is something here provided by the management for my protection. Right. That I will use for my terminus.

I will protect my underwear. Yeah. Exactly. That stuff is better. It's technically better because it's better to have a clean anus than it is to have an unscathed anus that is dirty. Yeah. Yeah.

You got to give your anus some character. Yeah. I think that's one of Benjamin Franklin's sayings from Port Richard's Almanac. That's why Richard's so poor. Yeah. Exactly. Well, I think that's why the bidet really, because i always think about you know sometimes you get those ones it's a never-ending wipe yeah any w yeah you know or it's the piece of paper the pop

those are my favorite somehow when you're like how did this come out clean yeah jettisoned i fully evacuated and there is no skid wow god works in mysterious ways if you have tips if anyone's professional with this on how to do that let me know how do i keep that going when that happens do you point off at the sky oh i get down on my knees and pray oh you trickster yeah all right when i thought you abandoned me old son of a bitch wow and i head right to church and i thought it was gonna be a bad day. Yeah. And they're like, sir, sir, you need to come out of the dressing room.

Well, it's breakfast now, I guess. A vote in favor of waxed assholes is that happens to young kids all the time. It's just one wipe? Yeah. No wipe. No wipe. No wipe. Like you just don't. Fuck.

Just slides right off. It's waxed assholes or something in my diet. Let me know. There you go. And finally, what's a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Man, I think that everything I could think about was like, I don't know. I honestly just don't know anymore.

What is a myth? Wow. Just don't know. I think that, I don't know about this, that sharks are dangerous. Okay. Not all sharks. Not all sharks, yeah. Right.

Some. Do you like sharks? I love sharks. Oh, you do? I love animals. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love animals that get a bad rap. Oh, wow.

Any animal that's like people don't like, I'm like, I like it. Yeah. Oh, yeah? That elephant named Osama bin Laden? He don't like to trample those people? them. I like it. Yeah. Oh, yeah? That elephant named Osama bin Laden? He don't like it? Well, I like it. Is there a favorite shark? Do you have a favorite shark?

Probably the, well, I guess it's not a true shark. The whale shark's not a true shark. The whale shark is so cool. Yeah, it's pretty cool. What about hammerheads? Hammerheads are pretty great. Yeah.

Remember shark bites? Oh, my God. You can't eat the best flavor. I used to just always, I remember when I ate shark bites, just leave the great whites for the end because that was the best flavor to me. Oh, my God. You can't eat the best flavor. I used to just always, I remember when I ate Shark Bites, just leave the great whites for the end. Oh, yeah. Because that was the best flavor to me. Yeah, me too.

Yeah. I haven't thought about Shark Bites in a long time. I think about them every fucking day, man. Shark Bites. Yeah. That and Ecto Cooler. Is Shark Bites still available? I'm sure.

Because, I mean, Fruit by the Foot's still available. I have a feeling a lot of those things. I mean, it'd be funny if you say that around a kid. Like, what? My grandpa ate Shark Bites. Right. things, I mean, it'd be funny if you say that around a kid, like, what? My grandpa ate shark bites. Right. Oh, I don't know, because when you Google shark bites, it's some shit I don't want to see.

Oh. Literal shark bites. I got an actual myth. Okay. Oh, wow. When you cut down a guava tree and grind the stump, it's not dead. Huh. You think it's dead, but it's, next thing you know, it's coming up everywhere.

It's coming through the fucking driveway. Oh, really? Really. Huh. So what happened? You got an unruly guava tree? Oh, yeah. I had no idea they were that invasive.

Oh, wow. That's incredibly invasive. No clue. I can't believe it. I'm just blown away by the persistence of this root stock in the ground. Yeah. Yeah. Just can't kill them.

Can't kill the guava tree. The unkillable guava. Can't kill the guava tree. The unkillable guava. Can't kill the guava. All right. Let's check in real quick with this poll that asked the question, why become an influencer? And do you want to even? Yeah.

Do you want to become an influencer? They asked fucking 2,000 people from age 13 to 38, just so you get Gen Z and millennials, would you be interested in influencing? 86% of people said, I'm down to try out some influencing. 86? Yeah. But only 12% of the respondents considered themselves to be influencers. Okay.

Wait, isn't that literally 86 and 12? Isn't that 100? No, that's 98. Okay. There you Isn't that 100? No, that's 98. Okay, there you go. Just checking. 99. Wow, that was cool. I just literally did some...

98. Wow, I can't believe I failed at such a simple math. Jesus. Publicly failed at simple math. Oh, boy. It's right. It's close. Yeah, yeah.

Well, I don't know if that's necessarily this. I don't think the question was, would you want to or are you? But I'm just saying within that group, only 12% consider themselves to be influencers. When you look at the reasons why, the biggest reason, the driver for Gen Z was to make a difference, which was very interesting. Millennials, only 48% were interested to make a difference. When it came to flexibility, like flexible hours, that's the thing where millennials were most interested in, were the flexible hours of somebody who just posed most interest. Oh, no, millennials. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Gen Z was interested in making a difference. And they were pretty much, there were a lot of, I mean, there were slight differences between the two. But 50% of Gen Z were only interested for money. 58% of millennials were interested because of money. And then when it came to fame, less than 20% for both. They weren't interested in the fame. I solved the puzzle i know what's going on here okay i don't think this is generational so much as literally the age of the people being asked right right

like yeah if you're under 18 you do want to make a difference right because you don't you haven't lived without a job for 10 years yes you know what i mean yeah you're like i'm trying to make a difference in my fucking bank account yeah it's like, I'm trying to make a difference in my fucking bank account. Yeah. It's like, yeah, I want to make a difference too, but I need a little help first. Yeah. Well, I think at the end of the day though too, like just because I think it's a combination of not, no one has a realistic like plan or a good vision of what their future can be

work wise. And then influencing seems to be the one that we're most bombarded with if you're really on social media right that like that has become like like the new rock star yeah i'm sure if you ask baby boomers right like my dad would have been like i wanted to be a fucking rock star yeah yeah and that's why the 80s like everyone was like oh the fucking rock star you know that was that shit whereas now it's like i just want to fucking travel for free yeah and maybe get some free drinks yeah something look like i'm having a good time for a living yeah like what it is uh i'm sure because that's what everyone it's the mirage of influencers but i guess when you also look at how like uh advertisers are slowly like realizing traditional shit isn't working then maybe that

is just like i mean because we're also in this, both millennials and Gen Z, we're of this idea of like we're commodifying ourselves now. Right. And that's part of that process, I guess. What, what technically, because money seems to be such a big part of it is what's the average income of an influencer? It depends on how big you are.

I don't even know what an, what is an influencer? How do you become an, like at what point are you, oh, I'm an influencer? Right. I mean, we're all influencers when you think about it. When you think about it. Yeah. I'm an under the influencer. How much do you influence?

I just upload videos of me fucked up to Snapchat. You like that one? I'm a scrap chap. But the fame part, I realize, it's interesting to see that not as many people because like i don't know when i was a kid i thought i wanted to be famous as fuck right i wanted like i was like yeah that'll be fucking sick and then as you get older or around more people whose like lives are like that you're like i just don't want to talk to anybody and i don't want anybody to like be like hey dude right dude what's up man yeah although

that just seems like also like what you would admit publicly like that you know you don't want to be famous yeah no it's not it's not about fame it's about making a difference I want to travel to exotic locations to make a difference dude I want

to go to the Maldives and be in one of those sick-ass bungalow hotels. Right. I heard something maybe last year about how there's some Maldives bungalow floating hotel owner who is like, stop asking me for free stays, influencers. Yeah, I'm sure. Like, stop. No one.

You're done. Everyone's done. I think if you distilled the influencer's life down to one photo, it's a person doing like the hand behind them, like pulling the camera with them towards like a plunge pool in the Maldives with like a big hat on and an away bag. Yes. Boom. God.

And I got one of those things already. So hit me up for that SpawnCon. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. When you think of Mexican culture, you think of avocado, mariachi, delicious cuisine, and, of course, lucha libre. It doesn't get more Mexican than this. Lucha Libre is known globally because it is much more than just a sport and much more than just entertainment. Lucha Libre is a type of storytelling.

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What? That's what you're saying? Yeah. I just became so aware that I'm such a loud chewer. My husband's just like, sometimes I'll be eating and he'll just be looking at me. I'm like, I'm just eating. Like, I don't know how else to chew. Table for Two is a bit different from other interview shows.

We sit down at a great restaurant for a meal and the stories start flowing. Our second season is airing right now, so you can catch up on our conversations that are intimate, surprising, and often hilarious. Listen to Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast and we're back and it's time to check in with the impeachment inquiry i'm talking about impeaching this creep so gordon sonlin uh who is the guy who donated a million dollars and became the ambassador to the eu uh and then came out uh very strongly in opposition to the very implication that donald trump was uh exchanging no quid pro quo, quid pro quo.

Right. Right. Okay. Yeah, no. So that happened. So yeah, that for sure. What did he think they said? Well, I think the problem is, right, prior to this, like with the Mueller stuff, a lot

of people were testifying in public. So it's kind of easy to coordinate people's testimony. But when everything's behind closed doors, it keep people, you know, they weren't quite sure because once Sondland went out and everyone else contradicted him, he's like, Oh fuck.

Okay. Fuck. I think he realized too. At first he was like a great fall guy for Trump that they could just be like, yeah, I don't know what this guy was doing. But then this guy,

Gordon Sondland, he's, I think he's in like hotels or something. Yeah. He realized there's life after this racist shit show. So I was like, maybe I shouldn't totally fucking self-own like this in light of Congress.

And then, yes, ended the no quid pro quo argument, pretty much. As he was questioned, they were saying, there were demands, weren't there, that an investigation take place of 2016 or Burisma? Ultimately, those were demands, were they not? His answer, ultimately, yes. But I think you said, Ambassador, that over time, things got more and more insidious. I think those were your words. It started out with no condition, and then there was a condition for investigation into the corruption, and then there was a

condition of an investigation in 2016 and Burisma. And then on the call itself, it became clear the condition was investigation of 2016 in the Bidens. I think you described that as becoming more and more insidious, correct? That's correct. Then literally went on where he was just basically being like, yep, that happened. And then essentially said, I now recall speaking individually with Mr. Yermak, who is a Ukrainian official, where I said resumption of U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks. Oh, so it was just he just had his memory jogged.

Had it fully jarred. Yeah, there it is. Jogged and jarred. Oh, shit. You guys. Oh, okay. Hold on, hold on. Oh, I just is. Jobbed and jarred. Oh, shit. You guys. Oh, okay. I just. Hold on, hold on.

Oh, I just remembered. Burisma? Oh, Burisma. Burisma. I thought you said barista. Yeah, I was like, no, I don't know anything about that. I don't drink coffee. I remember you thinking about Starbucks.

Oh, yeah. And you guys are over here talking Latin. I don't think Hunter Biden works as a barista. What he should have just said is, I'm sorry, I haven't had my coffee yet. Guys, don't even talk to me. Don't even talk to me because when we did that other thing, I hadn't had my coffee yet. Yeah, sorry.

So I'm liable to say just about anything until I get my coffee. Full D, disclosure, I needed my cough. Okay. So yeah, that has basically put an end to the no quid pro quo argument. But that has not stopped. All Republicans have then turned around and been like, oh, sorry, we were wrong. Well, it's funny. If you think about it prior to this, right, when the story first came out, it's interesting

to see how Republicans are threading that needle because they thought, I'm sure they didn't know what the full facts were and probably figured, ah, whatever, we can dance around this thing. Because on Fox and Friends in September, they said this. Because if the president said, I'll give you the money, but you got to investigate Joe Biden, that is really off the rails wrong. Right. But if it's something else, it would be nice to know what it is. Oh. Huh. Until today, when they had kellyanne conway on and they were sort of like what do we what do we do kelly like in the thing he said there was

and she's like well there was no quid pro quo wait really that's what she said huh but again that's because they're they're being very very narrow about how they're looking at it they're really holding on to kurt volker's uh testimony where he said he was not aware of a quid pro quo. And because of that, they're saying like, well, he said there wasn't. It's like, no, no, no. Stop cherry picking this shit. He said he was not aware.

That doesn't contradict what these people who are all up in it are saying. So it's a little bit, it's a little murky. So there's no smoking guns still yeah it's like well there's a smoking gun but is it i i'm gonna go well this is the thing because lindsey graham now is fully just burying his head in the sand when he was asked about it because they're like uh gordon solomon basically just completely contradicted the white house and essentially threw the president under the bus he said i've written the whole process off i think this is a bunch of bs and will not be reading any transcript wait what's the what's a bunch of bs the the gordon sonlin's testimony i guess this

is in response to that they're like what do you have you read the transcripts like no and i won't because he's like i've written the whole process off there's a bunch of bs oh it's a part i forgot it's part of the hoax right i just remember yep yeah this is all a hoax guys i don't even talk about this and then when he was pressed even more about that this is where you know where he's at right now in his uh defense of the president's strategy this is what his response was i've read the transcript for myself i made up my own mind volker the special envoy said there was no quid pro quo. Sunderland has changed his testimony to say he presumes there was. What I can tell you about the Trump policy toward the Ukraine, it was incoherent. It depends on who you talk to. They seem to be incapable of forming a

quid pro quo. So no, I find the whole process to be a sham and I'm not going to legitimize it. The best part of that was he did call it the Ukraine. Yeah. Yeah, the Ukraine. We were down in the Ukraine for a number of years. But yeah, to be like, they're too dumb. Yeah. That's-

Incoherent. That's where we're at, I guess. Yeah. We're running out of rope here. They're too dumb. That's why. They're just too dumb, you know? It's not a bad argument in terms of like effectiveness though.

You know what I mean? However, when you have all these people who are smart enough and know what happened and have all this like, you know, all this information about it, it seems like they're just too dumb to do it in a sneaky way. Well, I've stopped paying attention to that. Yeah. It's all BS. I don't know. That's what he was saying he's like well i've read kurt volker's testimony and i will just focus on that volker's testimony wasn't like that good for the president either no it's just because he wasn't willing to commit to like really they're being painting like drawing those lines because

that's the most they've got right i didn't witness him actually pay them in order for them to do this other thing yeah and now we're moving into the public testimony phase so wednesday we'll see bill taylor and another guy testify and then monday or friday of next week marie ivanovich will testify publicly so we'll start gram of those? No, it's in the House right now. Oh, right, right. He's a senator. Which is also really wild because when you think Lindsey Graham is the fucking chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Right. Okay, he's a lawyer apparently. Yeah, I stopped paying attention to it. And would also potentially be a juror in a Senate impeachment trial so to completely abdicate your responsibilities in this way. It's like, what? What planet are you on? I stopped paying attention once the facts started. Senate impeachment trial. So to like completely advocate your responsibilities in this way, it's like, what, what the fuck? What planet are you on?

I stopped paying attention once the facts started. This is the thing that we're now seeing though, is that like, you know, they're only like whistleblowers unless it's calling something out on the left. There's no like they're, they've completely in this,

we've been seeing this. There's no such thing as like objectivity or truth, because if there is, then they would have to begin to look at themselves and they're just completely unwilling to do that uh let's talk about election results yeah uh from election night a couple nights ago uh what happened miles kentucky uh matt bevin the incumbent governor he was voted the fuck out so he was very unpopular he was very unpopular to begin with like he pissed off first responders fucking teachers they like and at that point the deck was stacked against him a

little bit but then he made it about trump and impeachment and how the the democrats were corrupt and trying to impeach your president yeah and then trump went to uh kentucky the night before the election and basically told people that if they didn't if matt bevin loses matt bevin lost it would be the all-time biggest loss for anyone in the history of the world and then he begged them he's like don't let them do that to me right which is did he win no sadly it was the it was the worst election in the history of ever. Really? No, not really. I mean, it was close.

But the fact is, when you think that that was a Trump plus 30 state, like he won Kentucky by 30 points. Oh, he did? Yeah. That in this election, you know, the Democrat edged him out. You can look at it a couple ways. First, pump your brakes on the RIP Mitch McConnell shit because Republicans across the state did pretty well. They did not underperform. In this specific race for governor, it was a different story.

However, if you look at the trends, though, like the suburbs, though, are moving to the left. And a lot of people pointed to like in northern Kentucky, like the Cincinnati suburbs. That was sort of like a Tea Party stronghold 10 years ago. Now that's trending blue. So if you're in the Republican side of things and you're looking like these are there's been three elections or. Yeah. Basically, there have been huge GOP losses since Trump has taken office and no gains. So that's where I think they're going to have to begin thinking about what their options are.

But Matt Bevin, who is an upstanding Republican gentleman, is not willing to concede. Oh, that's crazy. I love that. Yeah, because he essentially, even though the Secretary of State called it and saying, yeah, this seems like Andy Beshear is the clear winner. He's like, no, there's irregularities. Right. But we don't know what that is.

Did you see all those people who didn't vote for him? Yeah. That was not irregular. That's very strange. Because I should have won based on the vote fraud we were committing. Are you sure? Could you imagine that's what it was? He's like, hold on, dude.

We were committing massive voter fraud and nothing happened. But yeah, so right now, because Kentucky doesn't have like an automatic recount mechanism, he can either ask for a recount, like a full-on recount, a re-canvas where like they go to each polling place sends in their results or contest the election and go to court or whatever but he's calling up amazon i i sent those shoes back he's wearing them yeah like the ones right sir no i no i've returned these are different i returned them yeah yeah yeah yeah well yeah and then over you know there was a a lot of big wins uh even in virginia in the midterms came very close to taking back the state legislature and Senate, but came up a few seats short.

And then they finished the job on Tuesday. So it flipped? Yeah. Flipped it fully in Democratic control. Virginia. There's a New York Times poll that basically pitted Trump against Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders in battleground states, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Florida, and some other ones. And they're basically saying that Warren did really badly in this polling.

She's very unpopular compared to Biden and even compared to Sanders. And they're kind of treating it like it's a referendum on the leftward tilt of the party. I saw it being described as like Democrats are going to lose because they overcor over corrected after Trump. And I don't know. I get the point that like Biden is doing better than Bernie and Elizabeth

Warren, but basically just off name recognition, right? Well, it's partially name recognition, but they, they found that it was also a lot of sexism with Warren. Oh yeah.

Yeah. Uh, that, that seemed to also a lot of sexism with Warren. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That seemed to be like most of it. There was some poll that said like 40% of Americans felt that America wasn't ready for a female president. Yeah. Like or some really interesting fact like that. It was like a poll on Xbox. No, sadly. It was like on planet Earth.

no sadly it was like on planet earth they should just i think the democrats should do a thing where they purposefully lose but they do it in a way where it allows them to guarantee a win next time trying to think how this makes sense this is like some sort of weird like jungle warfare shit yeah some machiavellian shit yeah you like you basically have a candidate who rope-a-dopes trump into doing some sort like you basically get Trump to murder somebody publicly. You get him to say a bunch of shit. But we know his supporters would still like him, though. I don't know. I'm just trying to think.

I'm just thinking on my feet here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Okay, you're going to lose the next election, but if we lose it, how do we lose it in a way that will, like, be like a springboard? You know what I mean? Like, up against the rope so you bounce back. back well i think people are hoping that that intentional loss from the democrats last election right might be the thing here yeah hopefully yeah but uh you never know you never know with this party i got no hopes i mean so this well you're not alone actually there's another poll that said like 56 of americans think trouble will be re-elected

yeah i mean it's like it's like the whole expectations thing, right? If you like expect something, you're just bound to be disappointed. Right. To where if you like, if you kind of like go into it, like, okay, it's probably going to happen. Then if it doesn't, it's like, wow. Well, I think, yeah, I think it's good to try and imbue a sense of confidence and enthusiasm

around this next election. Because like even in that Kentucky election, when voter turnout is high, Democrats do better. Right. And that's the whole thing. That's always been the case across the board. We got like,

there's like about to be 7 million kids who are going to be of voting age next year. Right. Like that are going to come into the fold. But doesn't that happen every year though? Yeah. Yeah. But I'm saying in general,

there's there, but when you think of the sentiment generationally, there's a lot of, I mean, they're definitely going to be leaning much more left than they are to the right. The left is gaining voters, and the right is losing voters. They have to vote. Right.

Hey, give them some Xboxes or SharpBytes or something. All of this poll data was manipulated in order to make it look like not college-educated white people were a bigger part of it. Because that's what happened in 2016. Like that's what happened in 2016. That's why the polling was so far off is because they underestimated how many non-college educated white people would vote, come out and vote. And so they're trying to take that into account. But I just wonder if it's not going to be, you know, I do think a lot of Trump supporters are going to vote and those numbers will be high. But I feel like all the left leaning voters didn't vote last time. It'll be interesting because on one hand, you have Republicans.

They're going to have like the more circle the wagons energy to try and defend their gains, what little gains they've had. And then the other side, they just have people who are voting for Democrat candidates who just want to end the nightmare voters. Yeah. So there's a lot of, you know, it could be a clash of forces at the polls. There's also articles from right before the 2018 election that Democrats won in a landslide that are saying that they should not tack as far left as they're doing because they're,

they're becoming too extreme to win the election. Extreme. Yeah. That's like, and again, that's like this shit. What was it? The wall street journal.

Somebody put a, the, that piece out. It's like Medicare for all could be, you know, go bonkers. Cause people might get over treated. Right.

And you're like, what the fuck? Yeah. I mean, you're going to do free healthcare. Right. And you're like, what the fuck? Yeah, I mean, you're going to do free health care. People are just going to be, you know, taking that shit nonstop. You might get over-treated. Be careful. Yeah, because a doctor's going to be like, wait, hold on. You want nine more lung surgeries?

Yes. Symptoms of over-treatment are. Yeah. Which is just wild. But again, like that's where you kind of see where the the vested interests are in the next election, especially from a financial like the financial stakes for some of these industries. don't have Fox News assassinating their Democratic opponent, whereas whoever the Democratic nominee is is going to just get smeared nonstop on Fox News. So that's something he has going for him. Fox and friends.

Yes. Breakfast. God, they look weird in there. Every time I see that that it seems like they're it's something they've been there for a long time right on that they're never allowed to leave yeah like they all like live on the individual couches they sit on because they're all kind of like glowing in a weird way right yeah a little bit of a sheen unnatural i'd believe it if they were just robots who's that one guy the guy who's like... Greg Gutfeld?

Not Greg. The guy who's the one who's always saying the stuff that's like, well, you got to think though. The older gentleman? Steve Doocy? Or Kilmeade? I don't even know. I'm glad I don't even know his name.

Yeah, no, it's better. It's healthier if you don't know them by name. Steve Doocy. What a cool man. And Gutfeld. Well, not Doocy. The younger name. Yeah, no, it's better. It's healthier if you don't know them by name. Steve Doocy. What a cool man. And Gutfeld. Oh, not Doocy. The younger guy. Kilmeade.

Kilmeade. I think he's the one who's like, I don't wash my hands. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. What's his name? What's his name? Something Kilmeade? Brian Kilmeade.

Brian Kilmeade. What a great name. Kilmeade. That guy. That's the guy. Brian Kilmeade. Brian Kilmeade. He's the guy who's...

He's always saying whatever he needs to to impress the right. That guy could get at... He's so slippery. He's like a Trump family member almost. He feels like it because he just does that thing where he's like, well, you know, it's an allergy. Some people... Right.

We didn't know she was allergic to broccoli. I just feel like he could just lie to someone's face after killing their daughter or something like that. I think that's one of the... That's part of the job interview to be on Fox. God. Can you obscure this blatant murder? By the way, shout out to Donald Trump Jr. for putting the whistleblower in danger of being murdered by having him on national Twitter, I guess. Appropriate drop there. I like that. Well done. But yeah, I think...

I don't even understand the stupid obsession with the whistleblower at this point. That shit is moot. You have the people that are parties or witnesses to this that are saying like, yeah, yeah, that's all happening. It's a whistleblower. You might want to look over there. And then they looked over there and everyone was like, oh my god, there's all happening. It's a whistleblower. But it's like, you might want to look over there.

And then they looked over there. And everyone's like, oh, my God, there's crimes. Crimes everywhere. We're all on fire. And they're like, that guy who said look over there was biased. Yeah. Like, yeah. It's like, what?

Yeah. And it's the same thing we were saying. It was like, you get caught cheating. And someone was like, oh, well, so-and-so told me. They're like, who told you I was cheating? Right. Were you cheating? Yes.

But who told you? Right. Because that's important because that person is no longer my friend. It's like mob stuff. It feels very much like a mob, like not mob, like group of people, but like mobsters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, man. He's a made man.

The president's a made man. He's a made guy. You can't take down a made guy. He's a made guy. He's a made guy. You can't take down a made guy. He's a made guy. Pauly knew this. What a sad, sad Sopranos type crew. Right. God.

Oh, God. You know those guys watch Sopranos and are like, don't get the comedy of it. They're just like, ah, they're so cool. Yeah. Tony's the coolest. Tony's the coolest guy. I don't know why he likes animals so much. Right.

Whatever. I think it makes him soft. That is weird that Trump doesn't have a dog, you know? Oh, yeah. He's the only guy who doesn't have a dog. He's the only president who doesn't have a dog. Well, the only life form he could care for is his own ego. Yeah.

Right. And he's probably really annoyed anytime he's in the room with a baby or anything like a dog because it's getting so much attention over him. Like the kind of thing like, yeah, when like younger people who don't have kids, like a baby's crying or something. What the fuck is that? Yeah. Or a dog barking out of nowhere. What the fuck is that? Yeah.

He doesn't have a dog, doesn't drink, never has. Right. Yeah. Those are classic. Those are like real telltale signs. Of a robot. There's a lot going on. Something's up. I could Those are classic. Those are like real telltale signs. Of a robot. There's a lot going on. Something's up.

I could definitely see him. Adderall-fueled robot. Right. I could definitely see him like a dog getting a lot of attention in the room and him starting to do like the tricks that the dog is doing to try and get the attention. Watch, watch. Shoot me, shoot me. Bang.

Uh-oh. Look at that. Well done. and get the attention. Yeah. Watch, watch. Shoot me, shoot me. Bang. My favorite is when he ends press conferences and he sort of finds a way to hook stuff back in to sort of like his legacy or like his hotels. Right. Stuff to me is just, it's gold. It's just, you can just see the wheels turning. It's so, it's just so funny to see it.

And bring it back to me. Okay. Actually, you did mention this. So I will, they are quite good and they And bring it back to me. Okay. Actually, you did mention this, so I will. They are quite good, and they are a very good place to go with family. A lot of people are saying. Everybody says it's the best place. Best place to golf.

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It's culture. This is Lucha Libre Behind the Mask, a 12-episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of Lucha Libre. And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, the emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And I wonder, has anybody ever seen footage of trump interacting with a dog oh that's a good one i feel like it would have a lot in common with the video of him giving out candy to the kid and putting it on top of yeah the costume like he would just like yeah he would just like squeeze one of the hind legs right i guess good doggy okay uh fine meat on your bones why did he put it on its head he just did it yeah i don't know it was very

unclear the kid in the costume clearly had a bag for candy but i think because the mint it looked like a trash can right what if i just put it on the flat top of your head it didn't really look like a trash can though it's you. You're giving him the benefit. No, of course. Well, yeah. It was like an alien just was transported here, and somebody walked up to that alien in a costume. Yeah.

Funny. Interesting, isn't it? Interesting. An interesting detail. Guys, I know the holidays are here because Starbucks holiday cups are here they're already here everyone in a good mood

already? so happy sorry god damn it I think they're usually controversial because they don't like put the word Christmas on the cups or contain any depictions of Christ

on them. But it's... Yeah, these are fairly straightforward. Would it kill them to make the logo Jesus instead of whatever? Being crucified? Yeah. It's so funny, man. Christmas hasn't been about Christ in 150

years. It literally is not about man. Christmas hasn't been about Christ in 150 years. It literally is not about Christ. 2,000 years. Guys, they really yanked our train this year because one of the cups says, Merry Coffee. Like, what do you mean? Like with an ellipsis? Yeah.

No, no. It just says Merry Coffee. Oh, God. I was trying to be like, are they really trying to troll on their cups? Yeah. I mean, they kept it very says Merry Coffee. Oh, God. I was trying to be like, are they really trying to troll on their cups? Yeah. I mean, they kept it very bland. Yeah. It's so funny that this has only become a story because the last couple had evangelicals up in arms.

Right. That now it's like, hey, this here is Starbucks cup. Really? It did? I don't go to Starbucks. Why did it have them up in arms? Because it didn't have Jesus on there? Yeah, it's just War on Christmas.

Like, happy holidays? Because it didn't have Jesus on there? Yeah, it's just War on Christmas. Like, happy holidays? Because it said happy holidays instead of Merry Christmas. And I think another one said, like, was specific to other holidays. I don't know. It's like, what the fuck, bro? I thought y'all canceled Starbucks on the right. Right. People like Christmas, though.

That's true. Everybody likes Christmas. You don't have to be Atheists love Christmas People are trying to kill Christmas though That's what you don't understand man Is out there in the liberal Coast dude

I'm a soldier I'm a foot soldier On the war on Christmas right here I came here to infiltrate your studio It's real man it's real Merry Christmas If you say Merry Christmas. Yes. If you say Merry Christmas in a crowded theater, man, they'll beat the shit out of you. You'll be canceled. I would love for someone to actually care about that.

They do. Who cares about that? People care about that? Oh, oh, oh. People care if you say Christmas? Well, if you don't. See, that's the thing is no one cares if you say Christmas. But people care if you don't. That doesn't make the thing. No one cares if you say Christmas. But people care if you don't.

That doesn't make any sense. Because I love Christmas. Yeah. Right. I love it. I watch all the goddamn Hallmark movies. I watch every one of them. Well, there's, what, 40 days of Christmas movies now this year?

It's already on, man. It's on. It's alarming. Yeah. But I'll watch them. Yeah. Because it's like Valium for your eyes. Oh, it truly is.

It's Canadian Valium. Yeah. It's like it's like valium for your eyes oh it truly is it's canadian valium yeah it's off-brand it's cheap and plentiful and you can summon it in an instant but i'm the chief of the marketing consultant company i have to be at the party no you don't learn to relax christmas is special and time to reconnect with your family oh well we were at Tim Hortons. I mean, Dunkin' Donuts. But we had to be there because Santa Claus... How do I say this? In Canada, what's their equivalent of Santa Claus? It's probably some guy wearing full denim named Jason. He brings you like a new Makita saw. He's just...

Brought you this Makita saw here. Just to work on the barn to get it up to snuff for insulation. They like Christmas in Canada here. They love it. I heard,

I heard tell of a rumor that they also celebrate Christmas up in the north. Canadian Zeitgang, let us know, who's your Santa? Is it Mark Messier? Yeah, what's your version?

Yeah. I'll tell you who it is actually. I think I know. It's this guy named Holmes. I don't know what his first name is. He's like this burly dude with like a shaved head and like a little dangly earring he's like a real like gruff guy but he has this show called homes on homes he does like home renovation for people who've

um like need it badly like an old man who takes care of horses or a girl who has in a wheelchair and he goes to their house and they've done a bad renovation. And he goes, I can't believe they did this to you. Gosh, we have to make this right. Oh, like they did this to you being a bad renovation? Yeah. Wow. They ripped you off, but we're going to make it right.

He's this big, burly, muscly dude, but he's like a real sweetheart. He's really sweet. Yeah. Not to mix my holidays, but do you think homes on homes is an easter egg letting canadians know that he's their actual santa claus because he lands on homes oh that's a good one never thought about that mike holmes his name yeah i just like the sense of justice though that's even in a canadian like fix-up show like in america it's like how do you fucking make a ton of money off this shit? Poor people will never own a home.

And Mike Holmes is like, oh my God. It's about justice. What happened? Let's make this right. Well, I'm actually very curious to hear your take on this, Johnny, as an actor. Okay.

So James Dean, it has been announced, James Dean will be acting in a movie uh a computer generated version of him it's called finding jack i think is that right finding jack finding jack uh it is the story of 10 000 military dogs who were abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Wow. And they claimed that they were going through the casting process and they just could not find the appropriate actor to play this. We just can't find our guy. And then they were like, what is this technological miracle?

And voila, they will have James Dean star in this movie. This is a classic case of his, what's it called? His estate probably doesn't exist anymore, maybe. Or what's that called when something's public domain? Can you imagine you're like, this is public domain? That's basically what's happened here because you can't do that with someone. You couldn't do that with someone who's like recently deceased. Whitney Houston.

And guess what? They are. They are? Yep. She's doing a hologram tour. But they probably sold the rights to that. No, it's the same thing with James Dean. Yeah, CMG Worldwide is like all of the agencies in Hollywood combined,

but for deceased celebrities. Jesus Christ. They have Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Neil Armstrong, all the greats. And CMG Worldwide has James Dean, and they're licensing his image, and the filmmakers are paying the James Dean estate. The really odd thing about this is that these directors have never made a feature length film.

And with their first idea, they want to undertake a production where one of your leads is a fucking CG dead actor. Sounds like Hollywood. Yeah. Or something. Right. I don't know because none of that shit looks good. It has yet to look good. No. Like when they made Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue something. Right. I don't know, because none of that shit looks good. It has yet to look good. No, like when they made Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One.

Yeah. That shit looked foul. People were like, oh, it's cool how they brought him back. I thought it didn't look that bad, though. It didn't look that bad, but it looked weird. I didn't see the theater, but you know what I heard, though, secondhand, but from someone whose opinion I trust, pretty much top bill opinion. How Joe Rogan?

Is that guy still alive? Is the Irishman, that movie The Irishman, that it's really all the stuff they did which is not the same as this. Yeah, because they have humans they can just doctor up a bit. But I mean, just the fact that that looks really good to someone who is a filmmaker

means that we're not that far away from it being close. You're saying because Scorsese thinks it looks good? Yeah, my friend Marty. I was talking to him about his film. Yeah, very subtle there, Johnny. It was his brother, actually, Jason, has a Canadian guy who was...

Jason. And he's Scorsese. Jason Scorsese. Two hand holds a mug of tea. Yeah, two hand holds. He's also a denim magnate. Love it, love it, love it. Yeah, when you look at

the other people that they've been throwing around doing shit with like nelson mandela yeah hell yeah man what are you gonna put him in a fucking pepsi right can you imagine yeah that's where it's getting a little like sure if you're an actor or whatever i don't know like when you start obscuring like the legacies of like historical figures whatever i guess that's just like where we're at now where it's just like back to the future where, you know, you go to the restaurant. It's like Ronald Reagan serving you. I think there's no way to get around it probably. It's just one of those things where by the time the technology is available, it's too late to restrict its use because it's like a – what do you call it? A 3D printer.

Right. It's like we're not there yet, but, I mean, people are going to be able to start to print stuff that they shouldn't print. So you can, like, say what you can. All you can do is ban the plans for it, right? Yeah. But it's like all that stuff. That's it. Now the technology exists.

Right. You can't really ban information that well. It's like trying to take down a YouTube video that everyone wants to see. Right. It's like it's just a matter of time before. Unless, like, people start suing, suing the shit out of people who make likenesses,

but that'd have to be like a, you know, it'd have to be like a, they should, they should do an Expendables type film with all these people. Yeah. Like imagine,

Christopher Reeve, Neil Armstrong, Amelia Earhart, Nelson Mandela, Aaliyah, Maya Angelou. Oh yeah, that is. Genghis Khan. Yeah, Aaliyah, Maya Angelou. Oh, yeah. That is.

Genghis Khan. Yeah, fuck it. That's public domain, though. She saved some money on that one. Bing Crosby. Bing Crosby. Didn't they have like a, wasn't there a Dirt Devil ad with Bing Crosby like dancing with a. I think it was Gene Kelly.

That was Gene Kelly. Yeah, from Singing in the Rain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. That's who it was Gene Kelly. That was Gene Kelly. Yeah, from Singing in the Rain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. That's who it was. Yep. Anyways, you can look for this movie to be out soon. Oh, no, was it Fred Astaire?

It was Fred Astaire. Fred Astaire. There he is. But yeah, I mean, it just, it seems like this is probably, they realized that they could do this for not that much money, and it would get people like us, real dummies like us talking about it. And so now you know about a movie called Saving Jack, Finding Jack. I mean, let's be real.

An idea of such a bizarre story that is acted by a computer-generated James Dean, I may have to see it for the lulz. Yeah. Sounds like the book I want to read this book. Yeah. Because, you for the lulz. Yeah. Sounds like a, like a, the book, I want to read this book. Yeah. I mean. Cause you know, dogs are cool. Yeah.

I guess I'm going to tear up my spec script finding Jack. It's all about my personal journey. Yeah. You as a boy going through puberty. But it's Seth Rogen, huh? They said it could be because we don't know who's voice. We just don't know. Yeah.

We don't know. Right. It just don't know Yeah we don't know Right It's not gonna be James Dean I'll tell you that much So they'd have someone Who looks and sounds Nothing like James Dean You're tearing me apart

You're uh You're uh Tearing me apart Yeah Wow it's crazy How you just uh Tore me apart Well my goodness

You are tearing me apart Did you just uh Tear me uh Wow Whoa I'm stoned uh did he say that why don't you rest your thumbs what's that when he's like playing piano isn't there a line where he says i want you to rest your thumbs let me do the driving something like who does

uh james dean in a movie i don't know anyway i don't even know if you watch turner classic movies let me know am i conflating this with something completely different i just remember from earth girls are easy uh because one of the aliens sees it on TV and then pretends to be human by saying that line. That's a deep dip. Well, Johnny, it's been a pleasure having you. It's been a pleasure being here.

Where can people find you and follow you? You can follow me on Instagram at Johnny underscore Pemberton or you can go to YouTube and watch all the hilarious videos I post. YouTube.com slash JustMyNipples. Is that really it? That's it. I didn't get my name

in time. He's not laughing, Jack. I think it's some little British guy who got that. It's a funny name. He should. Oh, the real Johnny Pemberton? I think that's what happened. All the Pemberton stuff has been taken by young British folks. Or you can also go to our show, our play at the Yard Theater. Oh.

It's the Dicker. Dicker and Josh have a play. Nice. Dicker's a character I play. Dicker Troy. Dicker Troy, yeah. Dicker. You can do all that stuff.

What's the play about? It's about two friends who see each other at a train station after being estranged for many years. Nice. Two friends who see each other at a train station after being estranged for many years. Nice. It's sort of a take on an old style play, but it's like a sort of a meta, weird, bizarro thing. Are you ever going to bring back your character Peanut Butter and Kelly?

Oh, my God. I haven't thought about that. I mean, I don't know. There's no plans to. Yeah. I was just thinking about that. Yeah. That was a funny. On the old Foon show.

Yeah. That was a funny thing. Like the Disney Channel. Yeah. Wasn't it you and a hamster was your best friend or something? I think I was named Kelly and the hamster's name was Peanut Butter. That was funny. All that Disney stuff.

I think it'd be funny to play like a super grown up Disney Channel kid who's maybe like, I don't know. I'm thinking out loud. It'd be funny if like- Hey, don't give your ideas out for free. Yeah. I'm not going to. I just thought of it. I'm not going to it'd be funny if like hey don't give your ideas out for free yeah I'm not gonna I just thought of it I'm not gonna say it though

coming soon coming soon to Disney Plus is there a tweet or an Instagram or an Instagram you've been enjoying Twitter's my name

one I enjoy I enjoy my friend this guy Everett I don't know how to say his last name Barnum he has a Twitter

called rad underscore milk he posts a lot of dumb funny stuff he posted something the other underscore milk he posts a lot of dumb funny stuff he posted something the other day that I laughed a lot at he said oh shit

the dogs that the Baja men asked about getting let out are probably dead now his stuff's very absurd rad underscore milk it's very funny the absurd

it's that old style of weird Twitter oh yeah that I still think is great. Yeah. Miles, where can people find you? Find me. Follow me.

Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. Three tweets I like. First one is from newplayerhasjoinedpodcast at newplayerpod. Check out my episode. We're talking about Guitar Hero. It's actually good. Guy1, I just got a new Xbox. You want to come over and hang?

Guy2, yeah. Guy1 cries over a box of his ex-girlfriend's pictures. Guy2, quit hogging it. Another one. Devinfield, at that Devinfield. Had a great pitch with Crooked Media. Just sold them all of the following. Our Lord thy pod.

Our pod is an awesome pod. Are you there pod? It's me, politics. What if pod was one of us? Pod is dead. And Satan at S8N. Have you heard the news that you're dead? Love it.

All right. Tweet I've been enjoying. Kelpie at Kelsey Buckles tweeted, Y'all want permission to say the N-word because it's in the lyrics, but we'll change the pronouns in a love song so you don't sound gay uh you can find me on twitter jack underscore o'brien 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.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode,

as well as the song we ride out on. Miles, what's that going to be today? This is an interesting remix. It's called 1995 from a producer called Corey Yayo, but it's that song Selfish that had Kanye West and Slum Village, I believe, was the original, and it's kind of pitched down with John Legend, and it's kind of like a reflip. So if you like that sample-based hip-hop, check this out.

It's got a good rhythm. It's got a good flow. It's got a good sample. It's a soothing balm for your ears. Rhythm and flow. I've heard those are important. Two raps. Those are some of the biggest parts.

Those are big. Some of the biggest. Those are real big, actually. When's your hip-hop podcast coming out, John? It's going to be dropping any day. Oh, shit! Check that out. It's going to drop. The PEM is mightier.

The PEM is mightier than your words. Oh, shit. Let's keep that one under wraps. You've been warned, guys. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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