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Episode Date: November 11, 2019

In episode 513, Jack and Miles are joined by Alchemy This regular Joey Greer to discuss Kanye West for president, a new book by Anonymous about Trump, Bloomberg preparing to run for 2020 election, Coke entering the seltzer game, the Watchmen series, and more!FOOTNOTES: KANYE WEST I WON'T HAVE TO RUN FOR PREZ IN 2024 ... I'll Walk, with New Name!!! KANYE WEST Book by ‘Anonymous’ describes Trump as cruel, inept and a danger to the nation Bloomberg makes preparations for 2020 run Michael Bloomberg Actively Prepares to Enter 2020 Presidential Race Mike Bloomberg Should Go Away The e-scooter boom has caused at least 11 deaths since the beginning of 2018 AHA to Bring More Fizz, Flavor and Fun to Coke’s Sparkling Water Portfolio 14 Big Questions From Watchmen’s Premiere Episode The Brave New World of HBO’s Watchmen The Right-Wing Troll Backlash Against HBO's Watchmen Is Hilariously Stupid Some Watchmen fans are mad that HBO’s version is political. But Watchmen has always been political. Like It or Not, Damon Lindelof Made His Own Watchmen And he’s pretty sure Alan Moore put a hex on him for doing it. WATCH: TNGHT - FIRST BODY Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What the fuck? Cut me in on that. It's Monday, November 11th, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Super Jack O'Brien, the pod hostess with the mostess. Even though the state of things is something quite atrocious. Make the hot

takes hot enough, you'll sound smart and ferocious. Super Jack O'Brien, the pod hostess with the mostest. All right. Christy Yamaguchi, man, and I'm that, a.k.a. with courtesy of Christy Yamaguchi, man, and I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray!

I'm hitting this bomb! Tuscany for the first time! Soon Trumpo we go! Yeah, yeah! LeBron James! Now I get what I want. A thicker headband. Thank you to Jacob Velu or Jacob Velu or Jacob Velo.

I don't know, but at Jacob underscore Velo. Was that song from the perspective of LeBron James? I don't know. I think it's just a combination of many things. Me hitting bongs, loving Tuscany. It's kind of cubist. It's not from one perspective. No, thank you.

Also, happy Veterans Day. Yes, happy Veterans Day to all the veterans out there and all the people. Of Earth. Of Earth. Well, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented Joey Greer. How are you doing? Welcome. Can I get a song?

Do you mind if I get a song? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's do it. I'm just going to do it just- Something about you, though. Something about me. It's on my brand. Yeah.

I like to wear socks. I like to wear shoes. I wear tiny hats and I take two poos. Daily movement is good for your body. Make sure to moisturize all the cracks. That was beautiful. You ever have a dry butt?

All the time. One time in a winter my ass literally got chapped. I had like a weird dry patch on the top of my ass cheek. I remember it was the winter of 2009. Obama had just been inaugurated. Just one of them.

That's the forehead of the butt. Yeah, it was weird. I neglected it. It was weird. I was always itching it, and then someone was like, you try it. Hey, man, you got to moisturize that ass. Yeah. And I was like, thanks, bus driver.

Hey, you're welcome, man. I saw you fidgeting in the seat. He saw some flakes coming out maybe from your pant leg. He was like, hey, man. Hey, you fidgeting in the seat. He just knew what was on. He saw some flakes coming out maybe from your pant leg. He was like, hey, man. Hey, sir, before you leave. They're like, you pocketed a bunch of coconut shavings? Or is that a bunch of dry ass skin? Dry ass skin.

I'm eating it either way. I just want to know what I'm doing. Just want to know if I'm going to season it or not. Gross, Joey. Sorry. Welcome, man. Yeah. Thank you for having me.

A little improv off the top from one of our sister shows. Yes. Alchemy This. Joey is a regular on Alchemy This. On the reg. Very, very funny dude. Well, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment, but first we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about today, such as the future

and always president of these United States, Kanye West. We're going to talk about his. Yeah, we're going to talk about him. Everyone had that reaction when you say that. We're going to talk about the anonymous person who wrote the book that bravely points out all the reasons we're fucked. And how brave they are to be anonymous throughout all this. Yeah, a lot of that.

Very brave. Speaking of brave, the billionaire Michael Bloomberg, 15th richest man in the world, has decided to possibly join the Democratic race. Probably will. Probably. So chill. Yeah, because billionaires Democratic race. Probably will. Probably. So chill. Yeah.

Because, you know, billionaires were getting a little concerned. Oh, yeah, bro. Yeah, they were scared. Send your fucking warrior into the arena. He heard the call. He heard that was like when Bill Gates was like, I'm a little worried about being taxed $100 billion. That was the bat signal that told Michael Bloomberg it was time to enter the race.

I'm going to make a request to the Zeitgang. Kind of a morbid one, but I'll explain. We are going to talk about the president. Yeah. Donald Trump, apparently. All right. This is my pledge to you guys. We are going to get to the Watchmen today.

Wow. Watchmen series. Okay. Watchmen series. Okay. We've teased the fuck out of that thing. We mention it every day. It's just been sitting there at the bottom of the dock. It's been sitting there in the opening, and we should have took it out, but we just wanted to let you know it's a good one.

It's a good one, man. But first, Joey, we'd like to ask our guest, what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? You know, I'll tell you what. I don't even use a normal search engine. I use DuckDuckGo. Oh, wow.

You know? Yeah. Because I'm with it. What is that? DuckDuckGo is a different search engine. It's not like Google or anything like that. They're more focused on your privacy. They don't sell your data.

It's all user-based. It's free? It's free. Free download. How do they do it? Honestly, I don't know. Is it like one of those open source things where it's just like good citizens of the internet have built it? Sure, there's a server

in Russia, but I'm happy about it. But it's such a fun name. DuckDuckGo. You can't worry about it too much. Man, sorry to take a tangent, but rainy days and you play duck, duck, goose in your classroom. Those were the days, man. Yo, I remember busting my

shit trying to chase some Lee Postuma, this little girl, first grade. Come around the corner, bro. Because she was within striking distance. And she just got, she had this plant foot that cut so hard, my socks gave out and fucking almost opened my fucking skull. It was like Zion's sneaker when it just like snapped in the hat.

I was like, yeah, I was like, this is the step I have to put it all in if I'm going to get her. Right, right. Boom. Yeah. Out. I mean, it is an interesting, like heads up, seven up, I get. There is literally just people walking around with their eyes closed, like, trying to fall asleep.

But that Duck, Duck, Goose is, like, running, sprinting around in circles. And I never saw somebody play it, like, casually. No. I remember a fucking teacher, like, went, just would never let this, I remember one of my p teachers would never let themselves be tagged no p teacher they had a lot on the line right well because they're all like you know disgraced former athletes or people were like i could have been i could have been on the 88 olympic team because my but my knee gave out and i'm like all right bro just like cool sunglasses tan blow the whistle so we can play fun capture the flag yeah um so do duck duck go doesn't allow

you to even look at your search history? Well, I burn it. So you can burn it up. But I will say that one thing that I, if you look at my search history, you'll realize I'm a bad speller. Okay. That's the way, if you check out my search history, it's just, I'm hoping that the internet auto-corrects me. What words would you struggle with frequently? Consciously.

Consciously, God. Let's see. That's a hard one. For some reason, I for some reason I slip up on that No one's a Rhodes Scholar And is she pregnant? I keep on messing that up How do you know pregnant? How about gorgnot? My Achilles heel is

Matthew McConaughey's last name That's in a proper noun? Yeah Pregnant? My Achilles heel is Matthew McConaughey's last name. I think I've said it before. Yeah. That's in a proper noun? Yeah. If you can- Can never do it. I write about him like every day.

Right. Yeah. Yeah. If you can spell it three times in a row, he'll come to your house. That's true. He will smell it. Without a shirt on, bongo drums, high as fuck. Hey, man.

Let's chill, man. Hey, man. A party. What is something you think Is underrated Joey Underrated Phone calls Okay

Making a phone call Yeah Yeah We're all robots We all text and shit But like in a phone call You know we've For I don't know

How many days Our bodies have developed Vocal tones and what not To register feelings And understand like What the hell you're saying And the vibe you're Throwing out there

So that kind of Goes away with text. I don't even use punctuation in text. I'm like, that's too much. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know, it's like, no punctuation. You'll figure it out.

Yeah. I write the thing out with like capitalization and punctuation, but then I go back and delete it and like make it all lowercase so that I look like I give less of a shit. Yeah. Like, I don't know, dude. I'm on my Vespa just texting right now. Yeah. I've heard different like whispers of how to email properly.

Like, hey, just do it in all lowercase. And it's just like you're cool. There's text vibes, too. Oh, yeah. I'm talking like professional shit. Like where am I talking to people? They're like, do it all lowercase. Trust me.

It's better that way. I'm like, who am I dealing with? You're going to look too thirsty with your grammar. What? Yes. Because I put a comma before though at the end of a sentence? Very powerful people are very dumb. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. You ever see how Steve Jobs emailed? No. Just the threat of physical violence. Yeah. Just very mean, but also as few words as possible. It was like a haiku.

Do it or find other gig, fuck face. He's like, okay. That's how he proposed to his wife. Do it or find other gig fuck face. What is he up to? Oh, man. That guy. Probably partying with Tupac.

Designing things without buttons in heaven. What is something you think is overrated? You know, you kind of mentioned this, but the Lowell Farms, that weed cafe, I just don't know why we're not growing our own. Yeah. That's just, I don't get it. It's a fucking weed. DJ Daniel,

the reason why the Watchmen tease has been in the opening constantly is because DJ Daniel has been going to the Lowell Cafe and getting dumb eyes and ending the show and then I don't know what they're talking about. He just went and him and I this morning had a conversation where I was enraged at every single thing I learned about this cafe. For people who don't know, in West Hollywood, Lowell Farms is like a manufacturer of legal cannabis, recreational weed.

They've opened a cafe where you can smoke weed and eat. And it's like Amsterdam come to West Hollywood. Yeah, they bring you bongs and different devices to smoke out of. Do you have to pay for that? Yes. Do you have to pay for the bong or something? DJ Danil paid $30 to rent a fucking bong at a restaurant. No, no, no.

Do they spray it with the shit that they spray shoes with at bowling alleys? They're all in this big fish tank filled with barbicide. They're like in a blue water. They're like, all right, here you go. Here's your bong. Actually, I wouldn't smoke water. Like, all right, here you go. Here's your bunk. Actually, I wouldn't smoke this. It'll give you some kind of lung disease. But yeah, like that, the fucking, there's a tokage fee if you bring your own weed.

Stop. Like a cork fee? Yes. Oh, fuck. But because, right, for people who don't know, for my people in like Washington, Oregon, Colorado, you know, all my legal weed gang gang states, they are charging $150, I believe, for one gram of concentrate for wax to dab. But you can, they'll let you borrow a Puffco Peak, which is an expensive like dab rig that's

electronic for free. But you got to pay $30 for it. They also have a terracotta designer bong you can do. Also $30. Also the- And that's too much right that yes yes yes yes officer o'brien no totally man but the tokens pay that much for some grass come on man get out of here yeah come on bro what time you smoked for naps for dibs

this morning oh wow right yeah, smoked a brisket. So high. The tokage fee extends to every single person at your table. Stop. Yeah, it's not either way, really. You can't pass it? You just have to like everyone? No, if someone brings their own shit, they're like, well, all y'all got to pay. That's fucked.

30 bucks? Yes. How much money do we have? I don't have a camera. I like, oh my God. I think it's just one of those things right i guess i'm doing crack okay that's cheap yeah it's cheap that that's that old david tell joke when he's like talking about new york city cigarettes he goes he goes a pack of cigarettes

in new york 11 bucks he's like i'm thinking for a couple bucks more i could be smoking crack it's true it's a better high it's a better. Get more done. But yeah, it is one of those things too. When you're a stoner, I'm a lifelong lover of cannabis. Now we're entering that tourist phase where it's like Disneyland. And I get it. It's a business completely built for cannabis tourism. But then there's some things philosophically I just cannot abide by, like renting a bong. That's why it's like we need to start growing because they're going to take that away from us.

Eventually, they're going to say it's illegal to grow your own thing, just like you can't distill your own liquor and things like that. But if you get grandfathered in, so just do it now. Grow your weed. That's why you want to look at people who put forward legislation that would specifically ban companies like Marlboro from getting in on legalized cannabis and things like that.

But the way it works now, it's very difficult to just be independent and grow, you know, legalized weed without paying all these fees. Is this our future, though, where, like, weed is treated like alcohol? Like, and you have tokage fees instead of quirkage fees? I mean, it already is, right? Because it's under the blanket of, what's it called? Tobacco, alcohol, tobacco and firearms, right? Yeah. ATF, I go see it. Yeah, we'll fees. I mean, it already is, right? Because it's under the blanket of what's it called? Tobacco, alcohol, tobacco and firearms, right?

Yeah. ATF, I go see. Yeah, we'll see. I don't know, man. Why don't you, I think first fucking let people out of jail who are fucking in there

before you start having like, who are fucking in there. Fucking Lowell Farm Cafe. Right. Like, come on. But hey, gotta make money, baby. Money.

That's how it works. My God, money. And finally, Joey, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Medusa was not real. The Gorgon wife of Poseidon. She was not real, dude. She was not real.

Are you fucking- Swear. What is with our guests coming through and busting these myths? Right. Things that we clearly depend on on a daily basis. Wait, who was Medusa's husband? Poseidon. Poseidon? Really? And who was the Gorgon? in these myths right things that we clearly depend on on a daily basis like the belusas husband poseidon poseidon and really the gorgon uh medusa's a gorgon it's like a like a lesser god yeah oh because like in god of war you just had the the lobbed off head you could use to

freeze people right right that was a medusa but that was her thing so she was so ugly poseidon picked her because he was just like look i just want to bang and go to work. Nice. He's like, yeah, I want my girl to have snake hair. Yeah. He loved her though. No real.

Too many of these women got weaves, man. That's why I like Medusa. She got snakes. You can't fake that shit. It's real. It's real. Fucking snake hair. Yeah.

That's a weird thing too. Running your fingers through your girl's snake hair. Yeah. And they're shedding skin as you're doing it. Right. I hate it.

I hate when that happens. Hate to see it. Hate to see it. Let's talk about Kanye, our version of the Greek gods, Kanye West and his family. So let's just listen to this clip. He was at the innovation fast company innovation forum. There was also a clip of Tyler getting an innovator award at like a Wall Street Journal panel or something.

Was that the thing where he was with ASAP Rocky? Yeah. That's all his acceptance speech. Yeah. No, it's cool. But like Wall Street Journal is giving like innovation awards. Are you, it's cool, but Wall Street Journal is giving innovation awards. Oh, yeah. Are you serious, bro?

Fuck the Wall Street Journal, man. Yo, hip-hop was born on Wall Street. Yeah, that's right. We were the first break dancers. For sure. Yeah, the Sugar Hill Gang, they were rapping about Wall Street. I said, tips, stocks, a tippet to the hip thing. All right.

Let's hear what Kanye had to say at the innovation panel. When I run for president in 2024, we're going to definitely... You're laughing. No, what y'all laughing at? Silence. He has a straight face. When I run for president in 2024, we would have created so many jobs that if I could run, I'm going to walk. Like, you can almost hear the emotion in his voice.

When y'all read the headlines, Kanye's crazy. This is that, this, that. It's like one in three African-Americans are in jail and all the celebrities are in jail also because they can't say nothing. I'm going to tell you exactly when the four wants to call me a centimillionaire and people say it's crass to call yourself a billionaire. I might legally change my name to Christian genius billionaire Kanye West for a year until y'all understand exactly what it is. That's going to be so hard to type. Cool. Good one.

Killed it, moderator. Yeah, moderator came in with the hotness one of the crooked media people I don't know who the what the first of all I don't know how those thoughts are connected one in three black people is in jail but celebrities are in jail they say Kanye is off his shit

one in three celebrities are in jail too cause they can't I'm running for president I get the platform. I'm all aboard. Yeah. It's simple. Yeah, it's great.

I can see that on bumper stickers. I can see it on shirts. It makes sense to me. Kanye West for president. One in three celebrities, if you think about it, also jail. So celebrities are in jail because he can't say Trump is good without receiving negative attention. I don't know. Whatever. Again, just watch just to see him really process that people

straight up laughed at him. He really started pouting though. He's like, why are y'all laughing? And they went, ha ha ha again because they thought it was a joke. And then he was like, when I run for president in 2024. Right. And he's also Trump. Him and one of the other panelists are just holding a shoe the whole time.

I don't know what. I'm sure they were leading into something like, this is my new space age design that no one told me was bad. Right. That I will hold up as like some kind of proof of my genius. Yeah. You know, the thing that I do see, though, I could actually see him getting some kind of support because clearly there are plenty of younger kids who

no matter what he says... Third party vote. Yeah, they're like, dude, I don't know, man. Yeezus is a genius, though. Right. Yep. Some Yeezus are dope. No. Like the ones that look like other Adidas. The ones that look like

Boosts were dope. Like the first ones, like the 350s or whatever? And the Nike ones were kind of dope. And the latest ones look like they're in a Spike Jonze movie about the future

that like is designed to make people to like satirize how stupid people's... It's like if a sneaker got a bunch of ulcers all over it. Right.

Who grew ulcers is what like the new Yeezys look like to me. It seems like it's like satire of like the fact that people will do whatever he tells them to. I mean,

please do not knock these shoes. His focus is 2024 elections. Right. That's true. It's like, look, he's doing the best he can, but his attention

is to change the world. His better shit was at Nike. Let's be real. Those shoes were better. I haven't read October. They have better kids making shoes at Nike. Yeah.

That's true. The children's fingers at Nike are so much like just pointer from like whittle down, you know, it's almost a bone. Right. So the Adidas kids, they get two meals a week. Is that what jobs he's talking about? I've heard it's so many jobs. Right.

In like factories. Yeah. I don't know because he's really, I think they just bought more property in Hidden Hills to like grow food. He's got, I don't know, bro. It could be the new- Okay, he's got that Sunday service thing going on. I mean, he can do a whole revival thing where he's going to have this,

like, hey, come out, live in this commune. Donate your blood to me. Exactly, right? Yeah, exactly. Donate your blood to me. Everybody do a bone marrow test so I can see what y'all rocking with. He's really just harvesting organs for the saints. Just using the Chinese model of success and it's like alright let's just

let's just make the best people we can yeah literally think about that he takes different beats from different artists right to create his own music

he's gonna take different body parts from different people and just do Frankenstein shit there it is wow that's his voting base yeah which I'm for

I'm not against people are like I will give literally my right arm to Kanye West they will if it means building a better perfect human.

You love to see it. Yeah, I can't wait to vote for Kanye. Would anybody, like, is there any possibility that he would make any sort of dent in... It depends on if he ran an actual campaign

or if he was just up there being like, eh, eh, I got these sneakers, eh. And then maybe do some wild shit like slavery is a choice and a privilege. Probably something like that. Then he'd get some Trump voters, maybe?

Yeah, maybe he'd get some Trump voters. Pull off some of Pence's... I don't know. You can just see in the run-up if he's out there in the public that much trying to, I don't even know why I'm even entertaining this thought right now. Because you have to. Yeah, but if he's out there, he's going to fucking gaff the fuck up out of here. Right. But again, he does have people who just like Trump, they'd be like, yo, he can shoot my mother.

Yeah. And I will vote for him. Yeah, no, I mean, we're almost in a post gaff world right now that trump has succeeded the way he has where like every gaff he makes dude gaff gaf meaning gangster as fuck right you know what i mean that's how that we we re-branded that but it's just like people pay more attention to well yeah because like being inappropriate or crass we've tried to rebrand as like being real. Right. Beto says fuck a lot.

Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Every time he does, my nipples get hard. I'm so into it. I'm sorry that he's gone, dude. I just want to fuck Beto, dude. Yeah. I mean, Kanye would definitely say some wild shit on a debate stage.

Yeah. But again. And he would be like entertaining too. He could be like, I'm going to just sing for a little bit and be like great that's your time right like i would love that no other candidate can do that right right it's like uh what about the you know church and separation of churches like bum bum bum bum bum bum can you imagine he comes out there squatted with like a whole bunch of people on stage like he went for a concert or something like that i mean just like behind him he's got those dudes firing the uh flamethrowers up in the air like Imagine he comes out there squatted with a whole bunch of people on stage. He went for a concert or something like that. You know what I mean?

Everyone just behind him. He's got those dudes firing the flamethrowers up in the air. The UK. Yeah, the UK. The audience is all his choir plants. Yeah, yeah. They're like, what the fuck? Ken Bone is in the choir now?

Ken Bone. Bring Ken Bone back, you know? Bring Ken Bone references back yeah that's what I'm saying alright let's take a quick break we'll be right back

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They decided to extend that, stretch that out into an entire book-length meditation on their own bravery and why it's totally cool that they worked for the trump administration and they were basically holding america together with duct tape it's a mixture of the most frightening shit you've heard or like it's it's as you would expect but assuming that this person is an actual current or former person who saw these things firsthand it's like you know we It's like the shit we joke about, but they're saying it happened. And then these half-assed explanations of like, honestly, we thought about quitting and trying to do that, but it's really hard because I don't know, man.

If you only knew, it's tough. And it's like, yo, shut the fuck up, man. Either come out with this shit, make a point, and actually stand up for something or just make your money by selling your little gossip i mean i'm gonna play devil's advocate i feel like you're attacking a writer who's very tepid and scared about their voice you know so they went out as anonymous right and then they're just trying to see if this works right you know what i mean if it works new material exactly and they're like all right

people like this then i'll come out with my name i I'll write some more. Hey, it's me. It's your boy. It's your boy. So just again, let's just read some of these excerpts because there are a lot of it is confirming things you already knew. I mean, just bullet points off top from the things we've gleaned. At one point, Trump was just entertaining the idea of like, can we just like get rid of judges? Like was a whole thing that was brought up because they kept losing lawsuits. It's like, can we just end judge? Like, do we

need them? Yeah. Good, good question though. Solid question. Hey, no bad questions. No dumb questions in my, in my lectures. Okay. Students, I want to let you know there are no dumb questions. Uh, he used a, uh, I guess like Mexican accent when he was play acting as an asylum seeker at the border like doing bits racist bits uh pence apparently was down to 25th amendment this dude uh if there was enough support again little whispers little wispies from this book um but here's a couple of things like when they talk about his ability to like learn you know we always talk about how he needs like story books and right yeah this is so real they say um they if they must bring paper then powerpoint was preferred because trump is a visual learner the officials were told that powerpoint decks needed to be

slimmed down the president couldn't digest too many slides he needed more images to keep his interest and fewer words then they were told to cut back the overall message on complicated issues such as military readiness or the federal budget to just three main points. Eh, that was still too much. A little humor in this person's writing. Forget the three points. Come in with one main point and repeat it over and over again, even if the president inevitably goes off on tangents until he gets it. Just keep steering the subject back to it. One point. Just that one point.

Because you cannot focus the commander in chief's attention on more than one goddamn thing over the course of a meeting. Okay? Do they curse in it? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. And they say, then they go on to quote him. What the fuck is this? The president would shout looking at a document one of them handed him.

These are just words, a bunch of words. It doesn't mean anything. Oh my goodness. His what the fuck is this is why are you handing me something without pictures? Yeah. That's what that was. It's a bunch of words. It doesn't mean anything.

To be fair, it's probably like a secret document. We don't know if it did mean anything. What is this? It's all ASDF, JJJKK, QR, QWERTY, QWERTY. Someone's just banging the keyboard. I can't do anything with this. I mean, I wonder if they... Maybe he's like, you know, what they say, a picture's worth a thousand words.

Right. So it's much more efficient to use pictures. Right. Yes. Therefore, facts and logic. Ergo, vis-a-vis. Then they say, they compared like sort of corralling him and trying to Ergo, vis-a-vis. Then they say, they compare like sort of

corralling him and trying to manage him like dealing with an elderly uncle. Quote, it's like showing up at the nursing home at daybreak

to find your elderly uncle running pantsless across the courtyard and cursing loudly about the cafeteria food as worried attendants tried to catch him. You're stunned,

amused, and embarrassed all at the same time. Only your uncle probably wouldn't do it every single day. His words aren't broadcast to the public and he doesn't have to lead the US government once he puts his pants on. Then they talk about his mental state. Wait, that wasn't the part about it? No, they go on. I am not qualified to diagnose the president's mental acuity.

All I can tell you is that normal people who spend any time with Donald Trump are uncomfortable by what they witness. He stumbles, slurs, gets confused, is easily irritated, and has trouble synthesizing information, not occasionally, but with regularity. Those who would claim otherwise are lying to themselves or to the country. See, this is where you see the shit. shit where like, this is really bad, right? And you look at all the reverberations and repercussions of having a president who is so ill-prepared and disengaged from what the stakes are from his decisions, that it means shit ends up real for people, whether it's in Syria or in this country or Puerto Rico, whatever.

His stupidity, like, you know, we, again, it's fun to be like, wow, this motherfucker's out his depth. But when you realize what that means and when you see this, this is where I get a little pissed off about it because if you see this as being that much of a grave threat, you know, what the fuck? You should be coming out with this. And they did say that at one point everyone had like resignation letter let like every person who comes in has drafts of a resignation letter on their

computer just trying to figure out when they're gonna do it and they had discussed like doing a saturday night self-massacre right where like they all quit at the same time yeah to make a point but like he'd probably just like you know launch a nuclear war or something who knows what but then that's when you're like y'all like you're making money off of this anonymous first of all but if this is that real then shame on you and i get you know on certain jobs i understand like you can't lose your job or whatever but bureaucrats at this level you could find another fucking job i'm not worried about you if you're a cabinet member like but you know at the end of the day I think this is where I'm not really quite sure

What the intention is of these people Are they trying to absolve themselves of something So if it does come out They can revive a career I was anonymous actually I knew it was bad so please vote for me for Senate Please clap Mick Mulvaney or whoever this person is

That's what it sounds like already We've already seen that so much with Scaramucci Who's the guy who did the dance with the stars Sean Spicer Mick Mulvaney or whoever this person is. That's what it sounds like already. I mean, we've already seen that so much with Scaramucci and everyone else. And who's the guy who did the Dance with the Stars? What's his name? Sean Spicer. Sean Spicer. I purposely forget their names.

I just do not want them in my fucking head. To come back into the zeitgeist. And America's like, yeah, it's all fine. Forget it. Fuck it. You know what I mean? Yeah, you fucking stabbed me in the stomach and ripped it open. But whatever.

It's chill. Yeah, you're just obscuring this president's racism or trying to make people think it isn't what it is. Which is chill. Which is chill. Right. Chill, dude. Watch me do this Roomba dance. Oh, that's nice.

Yo, he can shimmy. He's so good, though. I mean, you guys seen him? He should win. He's so great. Yeah, well, you know, it's an interesting state of affairs in that building in Pennsylvania. Yeah. And and again it really

is like wait you when you just like wake up in the morning and remember that this is where we're at it's like really it's really bad yeah worse than you could possibly have imagined yeah yeah and again when you realize as it's as we, there's no forethought or foresight, anything about, everything's a reaction to something. Yeah. And then, you know, again, because I'm sure if he just goes, fuck it, we're pulling out of Syria. Yeah. And they're saying, well, you know, what will happen to the Kurds is certain death. Right.

I don't give a fuck. Yeah. Where's the photos? Yeah. Is there a photo of that? Right. You know what I mean? And then it's like, oh my, this is the fucking, anyway, it's bad.

Yeah. But we'll see what happens, you know? No. Got an election. And I know a lot of people get real comfortable looking at those polls because his approval rating is so low. Like, fuck that. Shit.

Drag every motherfucker you know out of their beds. Yes. To get to the fucking polls. Well, speaking of polls, Michael Bloomberg, hero, former mayor of New York City, saved a lot of people from diabetes by making it so you couldn't buy too big a soda in New York City. Saved my life.

Yeah, he's been a national hero ever since then. But late last week, Bill Gates was reminiscing about how he didn't know he might have to vote for Trump. If the Democrats put forward some communist like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie. Yeah. And there's only 15 billionaires. Yeah. There's only 15 votes, man.

It's not that big a deal. Bloomberg was like, all right, i'll do it i'll run uh and yeah he he registered in alabama is that right yeah and he's definitely i mean it looks like he's probably just gonna put all his money into being a name on you know ballots on super tuesday yeah what kind of what kind of numbers he can move. The mainstream media is treating him like he's an actual candidate. Yo, on MSNBC, they were fucking around. They were like, is he the perfect candidate? Really?

What? Why don't you even say that shit out loud? Well, I mean, I know why, because you're General Electric. But he can unite the party, or he is the most qualified. These are all sound bites I was hearing from panelists throughout the morning. And actually, he isn't extreme yeah oh you mean because he's not going to fight inequality right like this is again all this like coded shit about it's really it's interesting to see especially that mainstream media pundit class like there were a few people who were like pushing back they're like what are you talking about like this dude is the worst

possible thing if he's the face of moderate democrats a billionaire that is terrible for your brand right it's terrible like that's only going to push people further to the left um and you know like i said it's well there's the this story is it's like fucking gladiators you know what i mean we're like each kingdom they bring their champion to fight in the arena right the kingdom of billionaireists or whatever the fuck, they were satisfied with theirs. So from the depths of capitalia comes Mike Bloomberg, the champion for the billionaires to fight the fucking dregs like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren in battle. And just the story, it reads like an old gladiator tooth in this political piece someone's like when asked like what do you think he's thinking they said quote he's tired of being the almost ran mortality is weighing heavily on him this is the last time that he can run that's good it's a fucking clint eastwood right wait he's how old 77 what but he's the oldest he's with kanye and they're getting different body parts so he's like

his yeah him wearing yeezys on that debate stage actually got him five points right but i mean this is again like they go on to say then this is where you see it this is the rub right trump with again from another person talking about why mike bloomberg is good trump will get re-elected if if elizabeth warren is the nominee that's not something any democrat would want therefore mike was encouraged to take another look and reassess the race meaning that joe biden the what they thought the establishment favorite is slipping right like a guy with soap shoes in a tile store. Right. Does that work? Yeah, sure. Good visual.

Thank you very much. Just like, whoop, whoop, whoop. And again, I think this whole thing is being like, okay, well, we don't have the guy who's going to cape for us. Buttigieg is not getting enough numbers because after Biden, you have Elizabeth and Bernie. And both of those are, as we always say, are existential threats to billionaires. Right. But again, I think when you look at, they're pointing a lot to those battleground polls where they're saying Elizabeth Warren in these like key states, right? Because it's not about the popular vote.

It's the electoral college that, you know, she's not doing well against Trump head to head in these specific states. But when you actually look at what the sentiment of voters are in those states, like for Medicare for all, only 36% of those voters oppose Medicare for all versus 62 who support it. Right. Or 40% oppose a ban on fracking. A 54% do support a ban on fracking. And then decriminalizing illegal border crossings, 27% oppose it to 71%.

Right. So these are all things that these candidates already stand for. That's the question I have. It seems to me like there's a fiction that the Democrats need to run a centrist candidate. Because the two candidates who have had the most consistent popularity are Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. who have had the most consistent popularity are Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Like when you take them together, they represent a pretty big chunk of the electorate.

And it seems like that's where a lot of the energy is, is on the left. But because that traditionally hasn't been the case for Democrats, they just like, I won't, won't he just split votes with Joe Biden? Like, isn't this just bad for joe it's

bad for centrists right buddha judge biden fucking is he taking any of warren's voters no right the fuck again bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are screaming their lungs off talking about billionaires are immoral they shouldn't exist right and she even on a very very petty tweeted at mike bloomberg hey, check out my website. There's a billionaire calculator you can check out to see what your tax hit's going to be. But underneath it, they're like, hey, if you're Mike Bloomberg, we've saved you time. Just click here. Or Bill Gates will save you some time.

Just click here. Yeah. And you look again, all the people like Jamie Dimon and Chase, a lot of these people are like, you know, they're really saying like bad stuff about successful people. You mean fucking predatory billionaires right success it's not successful people yeah and again this is where you know the the class warfare is fully you know we're seeing that line up but yeah it's not going to help it's not going to help the centrist cause you're just going to split more votes right you're ciphering off support yeah and i i think you know this idea that we need a centrist who's fair to billionaires also

reminds me of this poll that you were pointing out that two thirds of Americans are like saying this economy is not working that well for them. Like that one of the more unquestioned assumptions you hear when the mainstream media is covering the 2020 election is that the economy is just crushing it. Like, wow, Trump's doing bad, despite the fact that this is the best economy of all time. And it seems like it's tied together. Like the people who are assuming you need a candidate

who is fair and kind to billionaires is the same person who only knows people whose success can be gauged by how the stock market is doing well right and these people with the takes who are at the levers of a lot of these like media outlets are part of this like bourgeois fucking one percenter class who have no idea what the stakes are for normal people right they read shit right and but at the end of the day like they're in a man you think we're in a fucking bubble like oh my god you ever talked to a billionaire i haven't because their bodyguard beat the fuck out of me i try to get near them but i mean like there there's a complete

misread it's almost like how trump won because they weren't they were they misread how people felt about him on the left they're completely misreading how what the sentiment is with a lot of voters in general who are like a lot needs to fucking change a lot and people like biden yeah like it's familiar and i get it if you just want the trump nightmare to end that's one thing but a lot of people are becoming more and more aware of like the wealth and income inequality in this country and how that actually contributes to shit like in their lives and like i was using a ride share company and the driver was saying how like their kid missed a bunch of school but like had a bunch of unexcused absences because they need a doctor's note to fucking get an absence excused and that was

getting their kid into a bunch of trouble because they couldn't fucking go to the doctor every fucking time the kid was sick right and you see how like the system's set up like that if you're a working parent or whatever like and you don't have the time and the school's like, well, if you don't, then your child is going to be punished. Like this is, this is,

we're just going to treat that as like your child is truant. You know, there's a, there's a lot of like small things like that, that actually affect people. And you look at things like if medical care was free, you could probably just go to the doctor and not think about, well,

what's that cost? So it doesn't affect my child's attendance record and things like that. There's a lot of shit. That's very subtle. And I think a lot of people, if you look at the economy, that says one thing. It says how companies are performing.

That doesn't necessarily tell you what the day-to-day existence is like for people. Companies are people. Yeah. Thanks to Citizens United, obviously. Miles, companies are people too. Yeah. Speaking of companies and people, I want to make a quick request. We had one of our producers tell us a story in the office the other day about how her friends were hiking and found a dude who had crashed on a bird scooter and called an ambulance.

Or any scooter. Yeah. Or one of those scooters. Crashed on one of those rental electric scooters. And he seemed coherent when the ambulance came to pick him up, but they checked on Facebook the next day, and he had died from his injuries. And then they were pointing out that you couldn't find that story

anywhere in the news. So I started doing just a little bit of research, like how many deaths have been caused by electric scooters like like rental electric scooters since those became a thing in cities across america and the official number right now is 11 total deaths from electric scooters nine where people were riding them is is all that they could find and they also said like no comprehensive data is available uh which why the fuck would that be the case if there's a new form of mass transit that's being adopted by thousands of people daily and the company's valuations are shooting through the roof and

we're not paying attention when these products cause people to die. Like that seems strange to me. Something right there. So he was scooting on a hiking trail? I don't know. I think maybe on a road, like in that Griffith Park area, like maybe Zoo Drive or something. That's what I was like.

Is he up in the off-roading? I was like, that's that guy. He's kind of extreme. No, but I guess it is tough to, you don't, I mean, there are only a couple of studies that I think we've even discussed that were like out of Texas and one out of LA. Yeah. About it, but.

And like the way, the only way they were able to find it was like searching through the AP archive to like find stories about it. shout out to us on Twitter if anybody has examples of where there was a death that was caused by one of these scooters that didn't get covered in the media. I'm trying to chase this down.

You really got something going on. I'm like, well, it just feels like there's either a passive cover-up or an active cover-up going do you think that based on our clickbaity media landscape that those stories just aren't sexy enough no you'd think they'd be sexy enough i mean it's a thing that people see on a daily basis i think it's scooter panic yeah it's just money there's a lot of more money to be made you know from

putting those scooters out than there is from telling people the truth about safety. It's just not how our society is set up. I don't want anything to do with this, Jack. I don't want to wake up with a severed horse head in my bed. Right. Getting too close to the truth. What's the name of that Stephen King book, What the Car Comes to Life?

Christine. Christine. Yeah. There's going to be something with a scooter that comes to life. Yeah. Holy shit. Throw that out there for anybody. Anonymous person wants to write that. Definitely tell us if you know a scooter that comes to life. Yeah. Holy shit. Throw that out there for anybody. An anonymous person wants to write that.

Definitely tell us if you know about a scooter coming to life and killing somebody. Or if you have that script, please send it to us. We might read it on there. Yeah. But then we won't give you credit. We'll steal it. We'll be like, Jack, we'll be like, I actually had this thought last night. I wrote a few ideas down.

Here's a 120-page script. Holy shit. Did you sleep? No, you're probably smoking weed. That's why you're sitting up. Yeah, bro. You know me, man. Straight up.

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Yeah, it seems like this is very interesting time. Uh, yeah. Apparently on the press release about it, they were saying that this thing went from pro, uh, concept to prototype in six months in research and development. I feel like that's very quick.

Yeah. For something like it was born of a meeting where people were like, Oh shit, we don't have a seltzer. Yeah. Someone's division where they're like, hey, how's Sparkling Dasani doing? Right.

Not good. Okay, so what the fuck? Pepsi's like kicking our ass with Bubbly and all these other fucking people. So they've got their new offering called Aha. Their new take on me, on seltzer. They have, and see, this is the thing they were doing they realized people didn't just want apparently they talked to like thousands of consumers they had like 800 or 500 flavors they were trying to test at first um but their whole thing is like we want

to talk to what the needs are so if you want a more of a flavor forward refresher we have these flavors if you want something a little more simpler, we have that. If you want caffeine with your shit, we've got that too. Lime watermelon is one. Strawberry cucumber, another. Citrus green tea. See, that's your caffeine one. 30 milligrams.

Black cherry and coffee. That's the one I was like, what the fuck? Orange and grapefruit, not caffeinated uh apple ginger and blueberry pomegranate and peach and honey okay those are the ones that you will begin to see uh in 12 and 16 ounces but the fucking coffee black cherry i mean i get like if you go to like a barista like a fancy place and like there's notes right cherry in this coffee but as a chocolate yeah yeah but as a seltzer i don't know if i want that yeah there's gonna be a i mean we will try stone fruit um i don't know if you can taste that in there oh hell yeah uh

holding the cup with both hands with both mugs coca Coca-Cola imports a shit ton of coca leaves still. Yeah, they do. That's their only, they still get to. I think they have to be treated before they like put them, before they import them so that they don't have like the same active ingredient as cocaine. Man, you need a lot of coca leaves too to even make like a gram of cocaine. I think it's like a hundred tons or something like that. Something ridiculous.

To make a gram of cocaine? The amount of coca leaves you have to fucking process to get a little bit of base. You have to chew it with the rock. I think you have to get a leaf and a certain stone or something like that. Oh, I thought you meant the actor, the rock. Oh, well, you do always need him. I mean, that's just like a given. That's just invigorating.

It goes together like coke and Dwayne Johnson. I mean, anything you have with the Rock is just going to do well. Did you see him at the UFC fight, 244, whatever it was, where he had the bad motherfucker's belt around him? Oh, he did? Yeah, he was the one who presented the belt. Oh, shit. Was that the one Trump was at?

Yeah. Where he was booed or half booed, half cheered, depending on what media outlet you look at. I think Dana White likes him, doesn't he? Doesn't Dana White, the guy who runs UFC, like Trump? I think he does. Probably. I wouldn't be surprised.

Someone who's just profiting off of people destroying their bodies. I bet he's like a Joe Rogan Republican, or like a Joe Rogan conservative. He's trippy. Yeah. Centrist, but still. He's like, I don't like the racist stuff, because brown people are better fighters.

I think you should, that's my worldview. Where it's like, hold on, that's problematic. I'm making money off these Brazilians. So, yeah, I think back to cocaine. Back to cocaine. The TV show Ballers is the first

thing that made cocaine uncool. Oh, yeah. Seeing Rob Corddry just do a bunch of cocaine. It really put things in perspective like, I shouldn't do this. Yeah. I got to put this down. The thing I have a PSA is when you can just make the show ballers and make cocaine uncool. The thing I do, I will give Coca-Cola though, is I think, you know, everything is usually

just such like a one flavor can. It's like peach. Do you want mango or strawberry? Like, i think we're getting past that i like the combinations are a little more intriguing to me okay but i don't know where the you know like what i'm gonna tell you when i'm drinking a spindrift right now i'm gonna do a plug for them i fucking love them i love they cost 20 a can though they're so expensive much and they are like sold out everywhere they're always sold out but they hate Spindrift

what? you hate Spindrift? the fucking it's the I don't know man it's too acidic for you it's too real it's just too real

too real for me too real for daddy sorry so you prefer LaCroix you prefer the car freshener version of the fruit more than the actual fruit

Waterloo Waterloo Waterloo man that flavor is intense. It's almost like you got a soda, but the factory forgot to put the sugar in it. Right. That's what Spindrift's like to me. Nah, the citrus, I don't know.

Spindrift is kind of your Waterloo, if you think about it. In a way, yes. Yeah, and then I will go to Malta. When we're all enjoying our Spindrifts. Where did he exile to? Malta? Oh, I thought it was Waterloo. No, that's where he comes back and wins the bit. Was it Malta? Or Cyprus? I think

Malta. I think Napoleon. Anyways. What a dumb show. High brow Napoleon references but then we don't even know what the fuck we're talking about. Getting them wrong. Great show. I think you mispronounced great. What a great show.

Let's talk about The Watchmen. Hey, we're here. We've arrived. Who watches them? Miles and I, that's who. Boom. Next question. So now that we talked about The Watchmen. Do you watch Watchmen?

Have you seen it on HBO? I'm getting sick and tired of the fucking trailers. I'm going to be honest. Yeah. It's the same trailer over and over. You should watch an episode. The trailer is just over and over. It might get boring. No, I'm not going to do it.

Just an hour straight. I've seen too much of the trailer. I watched the first one. I was like, all right. You know, I enjoyed the graphic novel. I liked the film. And this, I'm just like, I'm done. Oh, you liked the movie.

I did. I was into it. Yeah. I'm like Trump. I like moving pictures. That was easy for me. If you waddy way, also a fan of the movie. Yeah.

I mean, I just liked, Dr. Manhattan helped me feel seen. Yes. How many? Because you do walk around nude. Walk around nude. With that same posture. The same posture. Just your hands out.

I have a hydrogen atom burned into my forehead. Yeah. I love that they show Wiener in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm totally down for that. Not enough dicks in movies today. There are not. Yeah, why didn't we see Dr. Manhattan's dick in the real movie?

Because it would have been like NC-17 or some R. Wait, we didn't? They didn't show his dick? I thought his dick was all over the place. I thought he wore underwear. What? No, you see his dick? Oh, man, his dick's everywhere. Oh, I thought he wore underwear No you see his dick Oh man his dick's everywhere

Oh man maybe I saw the Christian version You saw one where they had just like poorly animated underwear Wait do you see his dick in the graphic novel? Yeah You were like cracking a water balloon In the movie you see his dick out too? Wait I think somebody like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless

Minded you to get like Dr. Manhattan's dick out of your memory. Yeah. Damn. That's wild. It's a nice penis. Maybe it's a great just like straight shot. Maybe I had dick envy or something.

I was like, nah, he wearing underwear. Just about 30 degrees out. He's a perfect human. Don't feel bad about that shit. Dr. Manhattan Watchman Dick. Yeah. Let's see it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, there it is. Oh, he's circumcised. Uh-huh. Okay. He's Jewish. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, there it is. Oh, he's circumcised. Uh-huh. Okay. He's Jewish. Yeah. Oh, yeah, look. Wow.

His balls are very nondescript, though. I will say that. Yeah. But we digress. We dick-ress. No, that's all I had to say. Hey, man, killer dick, Dr. Manhattan. So what's happening in the show?

So Damon Lindelof, the dude who wrote Lost, he wrote The Leftovers. Oh, my God. And you really want to watch the show. This is the guy who wrote those shows. You are really into this. Oh, I was into Lost. Really? I was abused by Lost.

Oh, my God. No, this sounds bad. Leftovers, I thought, had one of the best pilots of any show. And then season two was great. Everything in between, not so good. So the pilot? The pilot episode after that until season two, trash. Yes.

Really? Essentially. But so the lesson of Leftovers was it started getting good once he left the novel behind. It was like basically the opposite of Game of Thrones. Right. Is that season one was all just basically the events of the novel uh and then season two they went off in like a completely different direction and it got great uh and so watchmen he has he's basically starting this in present day

uh america but in the watchmen timeline right where. Manhattan helps America win the Vietnam War, Vietnam's a state, Richard Nixon is seen as one of our great presidents. Yeah, or like a figure for the downtrodden white people. Right. And kind of the main theme, writer J.A. McN said uh in a move that would have you suspect hbo had purchased stock in the think piece industry uh the main theme is white supremacy and yeah basically racism in america and it's the again one of those pilots that holy shit what a great pilot yeah like and it had a lot of people being like did that actually happen yeah they're like is this a comic book or what happened in tulsa so they did like a very uh you know high budget uh visceral recreation of tulsa in the 1920s when there was a race riot that included like

planes bombing what was known as uh black wall at the time. It was like basically the center of African-American industry in America at that time had some of the most successful Black Americans had businesses there. And then there was, I think, some World War I veterans stopped a lynching, and that just enraged the white people of tulsa and they black people would defend themselves they just bombed it to the ground bombed tulsa to the ground and it's like one of those things that's just been kind of written out of history or just kind of well it's so fucking dark yeah and when because i think you know the our history books are very good at obscuring uh white supremacy but it's, yeah, I mean, like there were planes like dropping bombs on.

Yeah, throwing dynamite out of planes and shit. Yeah, throwing dynamite. Yeah, and like shooting people. And so they. Well, that's what has a lot of people split. Or there are a lot of fan people who are like, this is just woke social justice shit. And it's like, Watchmen itself wasn't just some like kick back and relax like ha ha ha book look at this guy's blue dick

it's the most political like that's what it was it was like in the graphic novel it was like Nixon was a stand in for Reagan at the time but yeah it was very much like about politics and about the dangers of

like conservative politics. One interesting thing that they've updated. So I'm only two episodes in. Miles, you're three episodes in to the Watchmen season. Four. Well, but we don't know what happened in episode four. I mean, we don't know. We'll never know.

I'm not going to watch it. I don't know. No worries. We don't have you yet this is uh but in this version in lindelof's version robert redford has become the president after nixon which was hinted at at the end of the graphic novel and he he is a liberal president and there's all these like liberal touches to the society that like kind of don't work and so that's what i'm wondering like how are they what is going to be the upshot of like

the fact that in this society they have grappled with like the massacre in tulsa and there's like a museum on that ground right i mean we'll see it it's so it's slowly unfolding well what about it to you are you not interested in it just are you you've had enough shows that you have to watch I'm gonna tell you what I'm watching prank encounters with that Garrett kid from oh yeah that's that's what I'm into okay yeah I don't know I again I saw the trailer for it and I was like you know I'm trying to watch real sex on HBO. This is getting in the way. And I don't know. I felt like I've given too many shows time, and they've just hurt me.

And I'm just like, you know what? Who hurt you? Lost? Lost hurt me for sure. So did you just have Lindelof, Carlton Cuse PTSD? I just don't know what the fuck happened. I thought it was so fun, so cool, and then it was just taken away from me. You know what I mean?

I feel like everything kind of just got Game of Thrones, too. All these little pieces where you're just like, what happened? Oh, so you're hurt. I'm hurt. Wow. Hey, look, I understand you. Protect your heart. Game of Thrones did it to you.

I hear good things from y'all. So I'm like, all right, you say the pilot's dope. I'm like, all right, I'll check it out. Usually the worst thing about the show is the pilot. So I'll check it out. Lindelof does a. I'm like, all right, I'll check it out. Usually they're like the worst thing about the show is the pilot. So I'll check it out. Lindelof does a good pilot. Yeah. Good pilot.

I'll check it. Guy Gant's a good pilot. That dude, but you do watch that Gaten Mataranzo show? Yeah, fucking. Dude, it is one of the greatest insights into the American psyche at the moment. Yeah. It's so bad and so good simultaneously. Well, the fact that people, I don't know if you saw Scare scare tactics on sci-fi channel uh great shout out to them thank you uh and uh they yeah but they

just the people that believe that this is an actual alien or this is a werewolf that's what's amazing to me like i've never seen a show where someone's like immediately like nope that's what it is a supernatural thing there's no way to rationalize it like Like immediately. I'm like, what have we done to people? Well, when you're gaslit though, and they get like, they surround you with other people who are creating that narrative. It shows you just how much. How quickly you can lock your whole perception up. But I also blame ancient aliens.

I blame all the history channel shows, all the shit that's been slowly ingratiated into like the normal American conversation where like, this stuff is real. Yeah. There's no way to, there's someone tweeted something great where they're like uh aliens aren't the excuse for uh something that white people didn't build right yeah no exactly ancient aliens must have been white supremacists yeah right yeah it's part of a white supremacist ideology we don't know what people could have done this right alien so you're like man, a human being could have fucking made it. Oh, a guy wearing feathers?

Yeah. Did that? I don't think so. They worship a bird? Bullshit, dude. It's wild. Go down to Mexico. There are these huge, incredible ruins and pyramids that people just don't even talk

about. They're like, yeah, but the ones in Egypt, man. Those are the ones. Those are bigger, though. Wild. You can see that there's a KFC next to it. Because Christian Bale built those. Damn right he did.

Because Christian Bale built those. There's another. What's the one that's basically, there's one pyramid that's just covered. It's like underneath a mountain. And people are like, yo, that shit's bigger than the shit in Egypt. Stop. Where? Yeah.

Monk's Mount? Cahokia? In St. Louis? That one that one no there's also missouri there was one there was a thing in st louis called monk's mound that they were about to pave over and build a parking lot on top of and somebody was like this is actually like america's great pyramid it was like all these like different layers of earth from all around the country that people had brought in like bucket brigades from like all over the place and like back in native american times and yeah they it was basically done as a monument to like this giant city that existed in st louis like right

there on the mississippi river it was the biggest city in the world, like in the 1200s. But, you know, people just kind of ignore it. And because when European settlers arrived, they wanted to kind of write the natives out of the history of the settling of America. Like all that shit just got paved over yeah stolen land um the thing is it's in it's in uh mexico the pyramid of cholula yeah it was built by the aztecs and when even when cortez got here he thought it was a mountain because like there was dirt over it and built a fucking church on top of it didn't even realize it was a the base

is four times larger than the pyramid in Giza. Oh my. But it's under dirt. So people were like, Oh, I think it's a mountain. They're like, you can, this was built in 300 BC in honor of Quetzalcoatl.

Right. And, but again, it's just one of those things it's overlooked. Yeah. You know? Oh my gosh. Aliens,

bro. Anyways, Watchmen is good. Anyways, check out Dr. Manhattan's dick. Yes. Although send me some Dr.

Manhattan dick. HBO show is not showing us Dr. Manhattan's dick. Yes. Although... Send me some Dr. Manhattan dick, Pikachu. Don't send me some Dr. Manhattan dick. HBO show has not shown us Dr. Manhattan's dick. And that is one note. Well, that's censorship. Make with the dick.

Well, well, spoiler alert. There is a character. There is a depiction of Dr. Manhattan's dick. Of Dr. Manhattan, where we see,

but that's a human dick. That's not a god dick. Like, Dr. Manhattan is a god. Yeah. A perfect dick. Well, what is perfect? You know know that's subjective yeah what's going on with you philosophical questions these are the philosophical questions jack what happened to your crucifix necklace let me see what's a pendant on your necklace there it's a glowing

oh my god yeah hey That's a perfectly cut stone, man. Oh my God. Let's just show each other our penises and let's just be done with it. And then we'll decide which one of us is God. Yeah. That sounds good. Oh, shit. This is what a conversation is like.

Rematch. Joey, it's been a pleasure having you, man. It's been a pleasure being here. Learned a lot, honestly. Where can people find you, follow you, listen to you? You can follow me on Instagram at Jebby Grieber. I just like making it difficult to follow me.

Jebby Grieber. Jebby Grieber. Alchemy This on the same network here. Check it out. It's an improv podcast. Kevin Pollak. A lot of great improvisers. And I just put out a sketch comedy album called Goodnight. You can check that out on Amazon, iTunes, Napster, anywhere and everywhere. It's free on Spotify. So maybe count that one, you know. Yeah. What was the track you can check that out on amazon itunes napster anywhere and everywhere it's free on spotify so maybe kind of that one you know yeah what was the track you put out that

was like about acting but on for audio uh acting on audio for film yeah acting on audio for film check that one out too uh miles oh and is there a tweet you've been enjoying uh oh yes actually oh two one is anything by george wallace anything that he tweets is just gold yeah follow him he's fucking liars uh but my buddy uh mike castle at uh what the fuck is this handle let me find out for you so you can anybody can follow him and harass him if you want uh it is uh at magic mike, and his tweet was – Let me find it for you. Oh, my God.

It was – oh, yeah. I'll just paraphrase it. The official slogan of the NBA is clapping and saying, Come on, man. Come on, man. Miles, where can people find you? Oh, man, Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. Is there a tweet you've been enjoying?

Me? You. Oh, fuck yeah, bro. Fuck yeah, bro. What the fuck do I like? You know? Oh, this is actually, someone from the Zeitgang actually put me onto this. And if you don't watch 90 Day Fiancé, it's not going to make sense.

But this is Chase at H-A-U-T at HAUTCR2 pointing this out to me. This is from Will Pierce at TheWillPierce says, I love Angela. It's like if Dog the Bounty Hunter and Donald Trump have a love child and went to Nigeria. Doesn't make sense. But my new podcast, 420 Day Fiance, coming soon. Get ready. The release date is imminent. I trust this is not a game.

It's a warning. With Sophia Alexander, my co-host. Yeah, yeah. That's fucking great. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Mostly I've been just liking Bill Gates' tweets for the past 48 hours, but

at Krolj tweeted, San Francisco is a place where the most boring people on earth have taken hostage the most beautiful place in America. Uh, I think that's true. And then, uh, Ben Rosen tweeted me. So my show is called the world's most awkward people try and fail to tell a charming anecdote. Exact titles too long.

Me. What about Jeopardy? exact. Title's too long. Me. What about Jeopardy? And you can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.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? You know, we were talking about a little Hudson Mohawk, Lunas, a couple weeks ago. Tonight, put out a little track recently called First Body. It sounds like if, I don't know if in your cities you grew up in,

there was ever like pan flute bands from Peru that would perform in public. Hell yeah. It's like they sampled a Peruvian pan flute band and then turned it up with a little bit of minimal trap. So this is called First Body from Tonight, which is Lunas in Hudson Mohawk. I love the Peruvian pan flute music, man. Man, I used to vibe out to that shit. That was the sound of 1994. Yeah.

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