The Daily Zeitgeist - Papa John Go Away, Stan Lee Come Back! 11.13.18

Episode Date: November 13, 2018

In episode 273, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Jamie Loftus to discuss Stan Lee's passing, NYC's Pink Tax for female commuters, California's largest wildfires to date, the lack of caravan talk now that the midterms are over, the blue wave making its way, the lack of funds in the GOP, Toy Story 4, Papa John's being back in legal trouble, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. A Marvel Of A Man: Stan Lee Dead At 952. THE PINK TRANSIT TAX: WOMEN SPEND MORE THAN MEN TO GET AROUND NYC3. Eerie video shows burned, abandoned cars after thousands fled Butte County wildfire4. KIM & KANYE HIRE PRIVATE FIREFIGHTERS ... Save Neighbors' Homes Too5. Woolsey Fire torches 91,572 acres, destroys 370 homes from coast to canyons6. With midterms done, where's the caravan talk?7. Money troubles: The GOP’s problem with cash8. WHEN DOES A SPORK BECOME SENTIENT? INSIDE THE EXISTENTIAL “TOY STORY 4” TEASER9. WATCH: Toy Story 4 | Official Teaser Trailer10. Papa John's Franchisees Call in Specialist Lawyer as Sales Sag11. WATCH: Tierra Whack - Bugs Life Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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to season 57 episode 2 of dear daily zeitgeist the podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness using the headlines box office reports tv ratings what's trending on google and social medias uh it's Tuesday, November 13th, 2018. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. And I think it's gonna be a long, long time Till touchdown brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh, no, no, no

I am Jack O'Brien Courtesy of at Felix O'Shea No, no. I am Jack O'Brien. Courtesy of Felix O'Shea. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. And you may find yourself listening to a daily podcast. And you may find yourself dropping hot takes of your own. And you may find yourself sitting behind the mic on a large wooden desk and you may ask yourself well how did i get here letting miles gray hold me down once in a lifetime hot takes flowing underground uh thank you hannah soltis for doing

that aka with the to the To The Tune Of hashtag. And thank you to everybody for clarifying, because yes, we don't know all songs, and we're pretty stupid over here. So thank you for that one. I think you would have gotten that one without the hashtag. Yeah, you're right. I actually love that song, and the whole time I was actually singing that, I was doing the little arm chop that Mr. Byrne does in the video. Yeah, I haven't seen the video. Oh, it's like what chops his own arm?

Yeah, it's like he's cutting like if, you know, I can't describe it. It's a light chop. It's more of a serration. It's more of like a, not quite a Jim Acosta chop, but a lighter chop. Who's that speaking? She's here! She's back! It's Lil Xan! A.K.A. the slut from Menta. She's here. She's back. It's Lil Xan.

A.K.A. The Slut from Menta. That's a slut. Hey, what's up? What's up, Jamie Loftus? Hey, sluts. What's up? Hey, sluts.

What's up, network? I'm good. I'm back on Twitter. Thanks to your overlord and God. Thank you. Yeah, which I'll get to. It's good to be. I thought I didn't have to go to work today, and then I got a text at 9 a.m. It was like, oh, where are you?

We're all here, and we're working hard. I was like, oh, okay. See you at 1 o'clock. Oh, okay. Oh, whoops. Oh, whoops. Yeah, hey, look. Life comes at its quick.

You thought you were off for Veterans Day? Yeah. Huh. Yeah, and I was dead wrong. Yeah. But, you know. Hey, look. What can you do? What can you do? Not go. That's what I could yeah. Huh. Yeah, and I was dead wrong. Yeah. But, you know. Hey, look. What can you do?

What can you do? Not go. That's what I can do. You're a national treasure, dude. Let them fucking deal with it. I was kind of busy honoring Doc Ock, who I looked up to find out if he was a veteran, and he was. Okay.

Doc Ock was? Doc Ock was a veteran. Did you know he served? He did. I did. He did. Wow. All right, Jamie, we're going to get to know you a little bit better. But first, we're going to take our listeners through what we're talking about today.

We're talking Stan Lee, RIP. We're talking New York City's pink tax for female commuters. We're talking about the fires over the weekend and how even that managed to get co-opted into the culture wars. We're going to talk about that amazing disappearing caravan. How Republicans are starting to get an idea of what happened to the midterms. Toy Story 4, the teaser. And Papa John's is back. All right. In legal trouble.

But first, Jamie, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Ariana Grande fingering sweatshirt, which I did end up buying. I knew it existed. There's that part, have you both seen the God is a Woman music video? No. I don't watch music videos, it turns out.

Is that, can I order that on the box? What? The TV channel where you request the music videos by phone. You can absolutely order it on the box? What? The TV channel where you request the music videos by iPhone. You can absolutely order it on the box. That was the last time I was watching music videos.

Okay. So, okay. She's fingering a sweatshirt in it? No, she's fingering. It's a sweatshirt she wears to get fingered. Obviously,

it's her fingering sweatshirt. I'm explaining it to my uncles. Okay, so this the Ariana Grande fingering sweatshirt is a moment in the God is a Woman

music video where Ariana Grande fingersering sweatshirt is a moment in the God is a Woman music video where Ariana Grande fingers the earth, presumably causing a Category 5 hurricane. Right. But she fingers the earth. She's straddling the earth, and then she gently fingers it. And I was like, oh, that's got to be on a shirt. And it is, and it's in the official store, and I paid a lot of money for it. It's an image of her fingering the earth on a sweatshirt?

Yeah. May I see this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. an image of her fingering the earth on a sweatshirt? Yeah. May I see this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hold on. Ariana Grande. Fingering a sweatshirt. Oh, it auto-completed. Fingering earth.

And then you can get it on a little crew neck. It's nice. Is she like, what is the style of? Oh, yo. It's very sensual, but also kind of tasteful. That is textbook finger popping. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she's fingering the earth. Oh, and she really does createful. That is textbook finger popping. Oh, yeah. She's fingering the earth.

Oh, and she really does create a hurricane, it looks like. She does, yeah. Yeah, she understands climate change, and like some people. She's owning her part in it. Her carbon footprint is that she's fingering the earth. Carbon fingerprint, actually. So I had to look that up in order to purchase it as quickly as possible. And that's merch she sells.

Is it called Earth Finger Hoodie or something? Oh, it's something called Ariana Finger Sweatshirt. Oh, it's that literal? They're not even trying to be coy about it? No, she's a straight shooter, really. So it's pretty overt, it seems like. This is what she's doing. That whole music video, I highly recommend,

because there's a point where it stops and Ariana Grande speaks to God and God is the voice of Madonna and there's like a million screaming gophers. It's crazy.

But yeah, can't wait to... And just to reiterate, that is on the box. It's on the box for sure. It's on the box. I gotta figure out

what channel that is. Hopefully that's still around. That would be really disappointing. It's on the box for sure. It's on the box. I gotta figure out what channel that is. Hopefully that's still around. That would be really disappointing. Isn't that the metaphor they use in American Pie for what a vagina feels like is straddling the earth and putting your finger

in the... Causing a hurricane. In the North Atlantic Ocean and causing a hurricane. Kind of an homage. All right. Jamie, what is something

that's overrated? Okay, overrated. I saw this this morning and I was like, I love it. And then a second later I was like,. All right, Jamie, what is something that's overrated? Okay, overrated. I saw this this morning and I was like, I love it. And then a second later, I was like, wait a second, I've been tricked and I hate it. As a picture of Snoop and a Spyro the Dragon drone. I thought I loved it. I thought maybe a couple of the winter season. Then I realized that I had been tricked by late capitalism again.

And Snoop Dogg partnerships are a distraction created by the government. Wait, what's the deal with him and the Spyro the Dragon? They just rebooted old Spyro games. And so they're just like, hey, Snoop, do you want to just stand next to Spyro? He did a bunch of commercials. I think he might have done like a voice and now there's all these like cursed images of snoop dogg and various spyro the dragon merch not my least favorite pair up that is always going to go to nick cannon and radio what did nick cannon do with radio talk about two dying brains oh i it really is like

the kind of they found each other much like like Mike's Hard Lemonade and Deadpool 2. I love a good bad pairing, but I think that my prediction is the Snoop and Spyro drone are going to get more attention than they deserve, and I'm over it. I feel like I definitely saw some kind of write-up with Snoop and Spyro dragon in the headline. I was like, hmm, what's going on here?

You can only do that so many times. You already do Snoop and Martha, and he's like, no, but what if it's now a cartoon dragon? It's like, you can't just keep having random... I mean, you know, Snoop knows his brand. He's always good in a collab. You know what I mean? He is a great collaborator. Or Pharrell, or Nate Dog,

or Martha Stewart, or Spyro, you know what I mean? I just googled Snoop Dogg, Spyro the Dragon, and the top headline was, Snoop Dogg is BFFs with Spyro the Dragon, and their friendship is so pure. So don't buy the hype. That is late capitalism evil. I immediately began planning my own suicide.

Who developed, wasn't that an Eidos game back in the day? God damn it. That was, for a long time, the only video game I'd ever played. Oh, really? Yeah, Ripto's Rage. You beat this tiny little chode at the end and he's like, meh, I don't like you.

And then you beat him with your dragon powers. Fantastic. That's basically how it goes. Jamie, fantastic. What is something you think is underrated? Oh, a track on the A Star Is Born soundtrack on iTunes that is exactly seven seconds long. It still costs $1.29 like any other track, but it's just Alec Baldwin saying, Ladies and gentlemen, Ali.

And it costs $1.29. That is underrated. Underpriced, for sure. I think that we should be paying more. Did you just ball out and buy it? Or did you already have the physical disc? I had, I mean, it's embarrassing how much I've listened to it.

And I do own a physical copy of the soundtrack because you have to buy a physical copy of the soundtrack to get official merch from the official store, which I did. Are you serious? Yeah. So it's behind a fucking paywall in the form

of buying the soundtrack yes that is genius it's good holy ariana does the same shit i couldn't oh is this like the new norm yeah like because it's so hard to move physical copies that uh you gotta get a cd a digital purchase and then you can get your fingering sweatshirt so it just is it the rates go way up yeah look at you at you. You're in financial ruin. I know. I'm not going to be able to pay my rent, but at least I'll have my Ariana finger sweatshirt to keep me warm.

And you have that track that says, ladies and gentlemen, whatever. Didn't you tweet about something? Allie. Allie. Didn't you tweet something about a song that you really liked about with Bradley Cooper?

And I was like, I didn't understand what it was. And I was like, what is this fool even talking about? Well, Anna Hosni absolutely knows this song. Fool? My favorite song in the entire movie

is the opening song. I think it's much slept on. It's Bradley Cooper. Bradley Whitford, were you? Bradley Whitford. It's Bradley Whitford just shredding on the guitar. It's Bradley Cooper saying a couple unintelligible words and then he hits the chorus and it's by the worst and like and then he says it 12 times in a row and then the song is over

oh is it the one that like opens the movie where he's just like riffing on the guitar yeah he can kind of play sounds a little bit like the Bulls entrance music, like old school. Like it's got that sort of like. Yeah, yeah. Like a little bit. It's got like a little like. And then he's, you know, his character is an alcoholic. So you can't understand a word that comes out of his mouth. And you're like, whoa, that's great.

That song is cool. My blood pressure just. Yeah, look at you. That's when I walked into the theater and I knew a star was going to be born. You're like, oh, I'm like wet all of a sudden. Okay, let's do it. That's not how that's supposed to work. You think it's an Oscar contender, that movie?

I don't think Bradley Cooper is. Right. I think if Lady Gaga isn't nominated, the ghost of Judy Garland is going to come back. You didn't think Bradley Cooper was good? I thought Bradley- Did my voice get high't think bradley cooper was good i thought my voice got high i don't i think bradley cooper was so into being in the movie i asked my mom yesterday i was like you know she votes in the golden globe i'm like so what's like the what's the buzz around she's like not that this was her take but essentially it's like been a real shit year for movies. It wasn't a clear thing. Last year

seemed very congested at this point. We were like, wow, there's a lot of movies that people are talking about. And right now it's kind of like, yeah, what are we talking about? And I was like, what about Star is Born? She was like, no. She's like, maybe for that other award show.

Damn. I had high hopes for Bohemian Rhapsody, but boy, what a stinky. Also, I didn't realize that the director, oh God, what's his name? He's a molester. No. He's a molester. Oh, wait, Bryan Singer? Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah. I didn't know. That's why he got kicked off the movie, and it was finished by the guy who we just found out is going to go on to direct Rocketman, a.k.a. Jack O'Brien. Old-time Jack O'Brien. The upcoming Elton John biopic. Which looks just as bad as Bohemian Rhapsody looks. I don't know. People start floating at one point.

It doesn't happen in Bohemian Rhapsody. Apparently that one's more comedic, though, so it's a little different. I hope so. I mean, I love Rami Malek and some fake teeth as much as the next person. But, oh, boy. People were saying his teeth could have been bigger. They were saying his teeth could have been bigger. The teeth should have been bigger, my man, to be Freddy.

I love Rami Malek. He looks like a little, he's got bug eyes. Yeah, he went to my high school. Oh, my God. Rami and Sammy, his twin? Ram and Sam. Wow. The Ram to my high school. Oh my god. Rami and Sammy his twin? Ram and Sam. Wow. The Ram man and Sam man. I read they were popular in high school.

Well they graduated a year before I entered but like I have friends whose older siblings are like, like I go through my Instagram like oh wow look. Yeah but it's weird you showed me one of the pictures. Yeah because that was my friend. One of those weird looks was to me and I was like what the fuck? Because he just looks like a dude. He doesn't look, what the fuck? Because he just looks like a dude.

He doesn't look like an artist or anything. He just looks like a dude who's at a party dressed up. Well, there's pictures you'll see of him, like the paparazzi get, or him with fans. And he's like, I'm Elliot Alderson, Robot Man, Mr. Robot. And then other times you see him with his friends, and he's like, hee hee. Yeah, he's just got a big smile and normal Banana Republic gear on. I love him. Not the countries.

A political situation. All right. I'm glad we spent a lot of time on that, Alex Baldwin. Oh, that is where that started. That part of the movie, in my memory, is one of the worst parts. When she's kind of at a shitty point in her career. And that's where Sam Elliott shows up at SNL. We're like, is he a PA on SNL?

He shows up, he's like, hey, what's up? Good year. I was like, do you work here? What are you doing? I don't know. Sam Elliott just gets to show up wherever he wants. It's true. No questions asked.

Just materializes. He's behind you right now. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Ooh, a little peek behind the curtain. Plan this as a transition into the first story. She's not the best in the business for nothing. Way to communicate that to the audience.

Listen, I believe in full transparency in second rate podcasts i okay this is a take that uh may not age well it is about age i feel that and i mean this with um say what okay wow i've got people coming in strong so many caveats we've all got grandmas and grandpas and that's fair uh i do think it is not totally horrible to make fun of really old people who die of natural causes when they die i hope this isn't a bad take now explain yourself. You're stronger in the planning process. You came out real strong.

When I say old people are asking for it. Yeah, you did. You said Stanley had it coming. I bet he had it coming because he was old. He was 95. Speaking of things that don't age well, 95-year-old Stanley. That's the sort of thing that's

okay to the roast of stanley see and we just lost 10 000 listeners i get well i also like want to say i understand like i i find like elder abuse stories very disturbing and horrible and there's like all these older celebrities who die stanley harper lee uh i was about to say Bruce Lee, but what I meant to say was Mickey Rooney, who also, yeah, just to keep it going, there was all these horrible cases of elder abuse. Sounds like that Lee family's just really fucked up. Stan and Harper? Seems like they just have a lot of grubby kids.

Yeah, it's pretty terrible. But it's okay to make fun of someone when they die of being old. I would hope when I die of being old. You're probably the first person to reach 150 years old, like that article said. It'll be impossible to get rid of me. And then when they do, I hope that there's just a massive exhale across the world. What if you die of old age at like 28?

That? Or what if I died in two 28? Would that be? That? I was like, or what if I died like in two years? That would be also crazy. And then you would listen back to this file and you'd feel so bad. I personally feel like we don't necessarily, I kind of agree with this take because, you know, this is what I aspire to. I aspire to die of old age. Like I don't want to die of other things. That's the best way to die.

Right. At 95 of old age, like hell't want to die of other things. That's the best way to die. At 95 of old age, hell yeah, take me that way. I'm so tempted to be like, Stan Lee was asking for it because he was 95. But I just can't handle the fallout

and probably getting banned from Twitter again. It's funny, my grandma lived to be 101, about to be 102. And it's one of those things, too. Anyone who's had a really old relative live that long, at a certain point, you get into those years where you're like, damn, you're at that point where you're so old,

you might have already died to me anyway. I don't know. It's much easier to be like, you passed away. And you accept. You're like, oh, now you're at that age where you could just pass away from natural causes. And I've made peace because you've lived a great life and you can look at your family and you're like, wow. There's a threshold of like, OK, cool. Like my grandpa's in his late 80s and he'll like say he's like, I'm good.

I'm good. He's like, he's like, if it happens, chill. I'm 89. If not, I'll be 120. Right. He's convinced that because he's okay with dying, he's not going to. So maybe it's a defense mechanism. Right.

But I feel like there is a threshold where, I don't know, if I was 89, if I was 95, I'd be like, you know what, it's good, I'm good. And I mean, there's not a whole lot that needs to be said about his legacy, right? I mean, he invented all the best superheroes. We're like, fuck this guy. I think when Jack, you're first like, yeah, he passed away, I was like, ha. And then I was like, damn. But yeah, I mean I mean realistically this guy yeah he created like

every superhero that's worth a shit veteran Doc Ock yeah and many of the characters you love I mean without which you might not have

Doc Ock Alfred Molina I mean think of what you owe him in that sense we can thank Stanley for revitalizing Alfred Molina's career and I don't know much

about his like inner workings, but it seemed like all of his characters usually had a very good message for people, or at least he was coming from a place that he was trying to create characters that were reflective of people's situations or lives. He seemed like a nice guy. Hey, I mean, he was in Mallrats, and that was the first time I saw him in person. I was like, yeah, there's Jason Lee's dad.

And just to mention, he did pass on Veterans Day yesterday, and he was a veteran of World War II, which I'm always impressed by. If you ever read stories of World War II, and it's like, yeah, every other plane that took off just crashed into the ocean. It's insane to have lived through World War II, like, and fought in World War II. And then when he's done,

he's like, you know what? I'm going to make stories about a boy who was spider. And you're like, well, shit, I guess you earned it. I don't know.

You got some perspective. You're like, damn, man, I saw how fucking transient life can be. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm not fucking around. I have these stories. I was telling everybody back in World War II, I was like, what if a boy was bit by a spider? They're like, hey,

yo, shut the fuck up. Hey, Corporal Lee, shut the fuck up, man. We got incoming artillery fire. He's seen people die

in front of him and he's like, but what if a boy was spider? You're like, damn. Yo, you're built for something else, Stan.

Brave. For sure. Oh, definitely. Let's talk about the pink tax for women commuters. Yeah. This is really interesting. Yeah, this is really interesting.

Well, there was, yes, I was perusing the usual news outlets, and there was a survey that had emerged about women who are commuting in New York City and how they spend anywhere from $25 to $100 more a month than their male counterparts to specifically avoid encounters with gross men and harassment. And so according to the survey, there's some of the stats they came up with. And there are some caveats that I will have you keep in mind after I read these. But 75% of female respondents said they had experienced harassment or theft on public transportation compared with 47% of men. And they responded differently. Twenty nine percent of women said they don't take public transportation late at night because of it compared with eight percent of male respondents.

And they spent differently as well, where 42 percent of women said they felt safest taking for higher vehicles like Uber, Lyft. And just 15 percent said they felt best on public transit. And, you know, a few things to keep in mind about this survey. It was done online. And even they themselves, the people who did the survey, they're like, our results are a little lopsided because more than, I think, 70% or 80% were college-educated people. And a lot of them were Upper West Side people. So red, whiter, richer than normal, which and they know that. But they're still saying, which begs the question, even for the people who did the survey, what of those people who don't have the flexibility or the access to alternative modes of transportation? You know, what what are their lives like?

And, you know, what what can the city do to improve this? So, you know, women are put in the place to have to overspend to avoid toxic male culture on the streets oh man i'm as one of the only los angeles uh commuters who does not own a car uh yeah i mean i i've never lived in new york but i've lived in boston and la and there reaches a witching hour where you especially if you're alone you just like can't be on the train by yourself or if you are which like I've been in the position where I like couldn't afford an uber or like you have to just be careful and make sure you don't fall asleep or like have your guard down or my thing was always like I don't want to be the only person in a train car with one other person

and it's usually a man and if it's late at night you just don't know if be the only person in a train car with one other person. And it's usually a man. And if it's late at night, you just don't know if you're alone in a car. So sometimes it would be either that I would hop cars to find other people. Or, I mean, there's all sorts of shitty strategies you have to employ to feel less nervous after a certain time, usually. Oh, for sure. Yeah. In Japan, they have like women only train cars uh because like there's a lot of you know chikan as they call it in japanese of just perverts who like you know like grope women on the train and then yeah russia because people pack the trains they'll have cars

that are just for women or like women with their kids just so they're not they don't have to deal with like any possibility of that and like in the people who are behind this survey are also saying you know there are many things that any transportation or public transit system can do like having more staff be visible uh in areas so like people feel more protected or training staff to understand like how to deal with this kind of thing or even more generally have more women working in these organizations so they can actually bring their experiences or the realities of what all kinds of commuters experience into the actual implementation of these systems or whatever. I saw a dick on the bus last week, man.

Yeah. But it was dealt with so well by a female bus driver. Cut it off. I was sitting seat over. But there was someone who, you know, just felt the need, took his dick out. It was literally one in the afternoon on a packed bus on the two, which goes down Sunset. And the woman sitting next to me was just like, she like saw it, registered it, and then just yelled like, penis. And then the bus driver lady was like, did someone take their dick out?

And everyone was like, yes. And then she was like, get him off the bus. And then there was a guy who was like, OK, you need to get off the bus. And it was dealt with relatively swiftly, thanks to citizen justice. Everyone was looking out for each other. They were like, there's a dick out. Let's get the dick off the bus. Could have been much worse. That's so great, because that's clearly not what he was looking out for each other. They were like, there's a dick out. Let's get the dick off the bus. Could have been much worse.

That's so great, because that's clearly not what he was looking for. It was so businesslike and swift. He was probably running. Really? I know. Yes, there. Go.

Penis, go. Was the person mentally ill, or do you think he was just a pervert? It seemed like there was something going on. Right, right. And it wasn't like he was handled violently, but they just got him off the bus right so no longer be exposing but it's that it's like that commuter mentality that i

think is like interesting that this study is finally being done because you have to just like any commuter of any gender has to just develop the like mentality of like this could happen at any moment right and the woman who who uh the. Right. And the woman who yelled penis, the woman who cried penis, the second he was off the bus, just like went back to reading her book. She's like studying for a test or something. Hey, see something, say something.

Fucking hero. Star Snitch. That woman rules. She just was like reading, I don't know, she went back to reading whatever she was reading. I was like, all right, cool. We should start a hall of fame

of just everyday fucking heroes on this show. That woman would be the first inductee. Again, yeah. See something, say something. I mean, I think this is, like you said, there's an inherent bias, but it just shows. Yeah, I mean, imagine how that is in any other city. Because, I mean, I lived in New York for eight years.

The subways are not just only men because all the women can afford to take cars everywhere. Like, it's 50-50, and it's just those women are in a really shitty situation. Well, they and it's just those women are in a really shitty situation um well they said it's even worse if you're a breadwinner or you're you're the caretaker within your family because then you have your kids to also consider and that can factor into like avoiding certain modes of transportation to also protect your children and then and then imagine on top of that like just for people who don't have the you know again the money to be like

you know what i'm just take a cab or Uber, you know, like uptown or whatever. Think about whatever. Think about rent. I mean, like, you know, you have a whole host of, you know, living options that aren't available to you, right? Like because, you know, you don't want to live in a building that doesn't have, you know, certain things that make you feel safe. So you don't want to live in a building where the laundry room is in a basement with one swinging light bulb above it. It's like, why is it always swinging? Did someone hit it?

It's just always swinging. But then even if you're in an Uber or Lyft, there are so many studies that even that is not historically super safe for women either. So it's just like, you know. Which is why we're pro-open carry here at the days. You should be able to drink a beer wherever you want. That's exactly what I meant. All right.

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go sneak into when he was underage. And that, you know, it was still like a extremely fresh wound and then a wildfire like ripped through that same town. But just all up and down California, there were, again, you know, I remember, I think it was last year, wildfires happened that had people, firefighters and climate experts and everybody being like, this is unprecedented, but this is the new normal because of climate change. And now, you know, we're seeing yet another, this is going to be the biggest wildfire in the history of the state of California. This one is? Yeah. Wasn't the last one the biggest one? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The one that was two months ago?

Yeah. Yeah. It just keeps getting- New one. Yeah. Did you guys see it? Yeah. So on Friday, when I was leaving my house, I was just pulling out, and it looked like

there was a volcano. The only thing I've ever seen like it is footage of Mount St. Helen because there was just this column of ash just going straight up in the air because the wildfire just went from not being there to being huge in the matter of an hour. It was just suddenly all the smoke was pouring into the sky. And by Saturday morning, there was ash snowing from the sky on my neighborhood. Oh, my God.

Yeah, it was pretty crazy. And I think everybody was dealing with that. Oh, the air was terrible. I was just trying to do stuff on the weekend. I had a Bane mask on. I was riding a bike. Unrelated. To be fair, you've never not had a Bane mask on. Yeah. I was riding a bike. Unrelated, but- Unrelated.

I mean, to be fair, you've never not had a Bane mask on. That's true. Well, I was born in the darkness. Yeah, it was, and then I fell on my bike. I know. That's a side story.

I'm not meaning to make it about me, but yeah, the fires, I mean, it tore through like- And that's the real tragedy. And that's the real tragedy. I fell on my bike, and I hurt my back. If anyone has any tips, let me know.

But yeah, especially there are parts of like Agora Hills. I have friends whose family members lost their houses tragically out there. And yeah, it looks like, I mean, people all over the area suffered from these wildfires. And then, you know, while Trump was out in France disrespecting the Americans who lost their lives in World War I and all the people who lost their lives in World War I, he was like just in his hotel room

tweeting some shit like, well, if these fires don't stop, I'm not going to give y'all any more money. Right. He was blaming California firefighters for this. And also just one fact about that, the federal government manages 40% of that. Right.

Manages 40% of the land and the land where the fire started. So smoke that one, homie. Yeah. But yeah, it's making me wonder, like, I don't know. How are people still openly behind this dude? Like when a racist guy in the Midwest is like saying to his wife and I guess they're everywhere race guy anywhere is like you know he's shitting on traditional American

heroes while they're fighting fires like don't we have to stop driving around to like his rallies like isn't this like right just against everything the other thing that like about this fire in particular was like there were a lot of high profileprofile famous people affected by it.

And I was like, well, maybe he'll give a fuck now. Because he doesn't give a fuck about regular people. Maybe he'll give a fuck about it. But he just doesn't give a fuck about it. Well, it's a lot of his critics, too, I'm sure. So he's like, Alyssa Milano's horses don't care. Yeah. Turn up the glue.

Conservatives on Twitter, like MAGA Twitter, was using this as an opportunity to be like, ah, look at these triggered libs. By their homes burning down. Their lives burning down. Come on now. Yeah, it became sort of a political thing. Guillermo del Toro's museum house. Yeah.

Oh, his house burned down too? I never got to see. I believe it did. I mean, I know Anna Jose was really affected because the Bachelor house burned down. Yeah, the Bachelor mansion. She came in with a fucking tattoo on her face the day it happened. I was like, damn, that was quick. The Westworld set, like the old West town where a bunch of Westerns, but most recently

the Westworld movie was probably was set there no Deadwood like they built their own oh did they shoot it in the Dakotas no they built their own town but it got torn down

fairly recently but maybe they were shooting the Westworld it burned down in that other fire yeah god but yeah

so Westworld they're gonna have to rebuild Westworld essentially and yeah Miley Cyrus' house burned down. Yeah, a bunch of celebrities. Neil Young's house burned down.

Two of the original Charmed members, Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs. Jesus. And James Wood, there was all sorts of weird bipartisan celebrity Twitter coming together where James Wood is like, we gotta save these horses. And then they end up saving the horses. And then I found a horse hack.

If there's a fire and your horses are in danger, you spray paint your phone number on them and then you let them go. Oh, interesting. That's what you do to your horse. Horse hacks with Jamie. Horse hacks. Damn, that's really cool.

Your horse in trouble does what you do. Did James Woods, did Woodsy tell you about that? James Woods literally tweeted at Alyssa Milano, spray paint your phone number on the horses and set them free. I was like, whoa, cool. Because they just will have better instincts than our horse trailer asses. Or just waiting for someone to get there and save them.

Which is funny because he's Mr. MAGA himself. No, he is. Yeah, right? For him to all be like, I wonder what they think too. Wouldn't he clap back on right-wing Twitter who's like, yeah, serves him right? He's like, hey, asshole, this is a... Yeah yeah alice milano had to tweet out later like listen i needed horse tips james woods happened to be the person who had the best horse tip i'm sorry i've been horse

hacked yeah he also found a way to like make it for some reason the hashtag was like james woods fire yeah james woods fire. James Woods started the fire. Which was weird. There's also some weird Mad Max post-apocalyptic shit with Kim and Kanye paid for a private fire battalion to fight the fire in their neighborhood and saved a bunch of the houses in their neighborhood by hiring these firefighters to stop the fire from catching onto their properties.

But so usually it's just really random. Like we know all sorts of people whose, I know people whose houses burned down. I know people whose houses, Super Producer Sophie was talking about a friend whose like house was the only thing on the block that didn't burn down. But it's like usually just completely random because there's like these embers just sort of floating through the air. and we might land on your roof and yeah if it lands on your roof your house burns down if it happens to like hit a gust of wind at that moment and pass to your neighbors their house burns down damon dash also was a person whose house was the only one in the

neighborhood to not burn down right like it was in the photos were wild just like his home and the cursed earth but up north in northern california this town called paradise which has just been a fucking factory of shitty headlines uh about paradise lost uh but this town just was not like that at all it was just like scorched earth the entire place burned down like the entire town and if you look at footage from that it's and all the all the firefighters and wildfire experts are like yeah this is not what's supposed to happen like you're supposed to like fire goes where it's easiest for it to catch but this just like burned everything right like when you look at footage from there it looks like the aftermath of the terminator to just try to clear detonation especially when you have trump again trying to weaponize it against like the aftermath of the Terminator 2 especially when you have Trump

again trying to weaponize it against the state of California when people are losing their lives it's just not leadership but I have a question is there like a fucking black water for firefighters like you need mercenary firefighters right

like do you go to a bar and you're like hey like you find that old legend firefighter you're like I got a fire that needs fighting yeah he's like i don't do that two days away from retirement i don't do that anymore he's like i've got a million dollars maybe one last job yeah he's just out there saving saving kanye's house called it's called one last job sounds like a bad clint eastwood movie. Yeah. Don't worry. That's being written. It's in the process. One of the nice things that I heard in the follow-up of this is that Airbnb was encouraging people who live just outside evacuation zones to make their homes open to people who had been evacuated.

So there has been largely at least places of shelter um and the same for like uh there was like a big over the weekend a bunch of my friends took in uh animals from the area and are like fostering animals and so right from the shelters that had to be evacuated yeah yeah so it's good that people are taking care of each other but motherfucking global warming also be vigilant if you're in one of those situations because we interviewed somebody who had a situation like this happen to their town up in Canada. Like their entire town burned down. And in the evacuation zones, like all these like fraud.

Like hucksters. Hucksters like poured in to like take advantage because anytime there's like an emergency, they know people are vulnerable. They know that it's going to be easy. Just like financial shit and I think robbing people and stuff like that. Yeah, so that's a bummer, but it is good to hear

that I'm sure not everyone is that way. So just yeah. Just kidding. Don't let anyone in your house, especially if they need shelter. So that caravan disappeared that we were talking about before the election. Did it? Yeah.

It was bearing down on America. The president was sending, I think, thousands of troops to the border. Yeah. And now that's, I don't know. It just stopped being a priority somehow. The president actually did send troops, about 5,200. He claimed he was going to send up to 1,500. More than the Afghanistan war?

Yeah. Cool. But yeah, it stopped being a priority the second the election was over and i have to feel like again like the people who are trump fans like they they can't feel good about this that they were convinced that this was an imminent threat and then it just disappears they have to be like oh well well that's bullshit you think at the very least you would look at trump even if you're trump's point go okay this guy doesn't know anything about the military right even if he did go to military school. But he has people who are actually running the military around him.

But he didn't even listen to them when their assessment of this caravan was very low probability of any kind of danger from this caravan. He's still like, nope, still send all these people there. And now the stories from the border of from like of these soldiers just sounds like they're all just pissed off like they're just sort of going through the motions or like i guess we'll just lay some barbed wire barriers down and some tent facilities and now they're saying like a lot of the uh like the areas where they are like they don't have like proper electricity or even like hot food and they're just like out there on this fool's errand

and some might even miss fucking Thanksgiving for this shit yeah it's so frustrating every time something like this happens it's like he's gotta lose a couple voters over like each small thing like this is he gonna have to run the world on the ground to like

lose enough voters to not win in 2020 well I well I mean I think by 2020 we'll see who the fucking like to the wheels come off ride or die MAGA people are. And I imagine there's still many of them. Oh yeah. So yeah because I'm sure there are even people who

are like hey man I may be a veteran but he's the commander in chief and they'll just sort of use that reasoning of like the authority of the president to sort of justify like his bumbling. Yeah. Did you see that piece about how they're like people who disconnect from their MAGA family members? There was like a piece written about how there is like people online, like MAGA people bragging about how no one in their family will talk to them and they're spending the holidays alone. Shit like that's happening.

Those are the ride or dies. Yeah. It's troubling. Yeah, we've talked about people who are part of the Q army who are starting to feel like maybe alienating their entire family was not worth it. Yeah. Well, they were sold a bunch of hot garbage through a web board. The other way to respond to all of these examples of people just not paying attention to the fact that they're being lied to, FiveThirtyEight had one of their analysts saying that the Republican

Party is now post-policy. Right. Like it just doesn't matter what they do because they're, the people who have allegiances to them are just doing it out of, you know, aggrievement and resentment. Right. And, you know, at this point,

like, Trump could start pushing liberal policies and they, as long as he did the out loud, like, grievance teasing, like, racism teasing, like, he would probably be fine. It's just all about having a highly public expression of racism. Right, and also it's like,

there hasn't been one worthwhile fucking bill that's been passed under his leadership that isn't like a major spending thing or giveaway to rich people. Yeah. But, you know. He saved North Korea, though. But even then, did you see their latest assessment where they're like, hey, this is what happened.

He slowly dismantled one in like real big dramatic fashion while aggressively like improving 12 other sites. And it was just like, and he's just been skirting skirt sanctions by just being like, you know just being nice sweet nothings to Trump. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he's getting played. But anyway. Like wildly.

That's why the wave hit. Yeah. So did a wave hit, Miles? Those Republicans seem like they're maybe a little bit less than pleased. I mean, look at everything. The morning after, we heard from the president, leader of the Republican Party, saying that this was a tremendous victory for the Republicans and for him. Where are they at right now? You know, their high 30s seat gain in the House, which is a huge, huge swing.

Biggest since Watergate. Right. biggest since Watergate. Right. And then also, if you look at some of the Senate races that people were like, damn, like Jon Tester successfully fought off his challenge and survived in Montana. Kyrsten Sinema won in Arizona,

being the first Democrat senator in like 25 years, and I think the first female senator in Arizona. And then you had Jackie, what's her name? Rosen. Jackie Rosen, yes, in Nevada, it'd be Dean Heller. So in the worst case scenario, we thought all those things would just go red. And when you're looking at it now, you're like, well, it looks like they actually made huge gains even in state houses, whether it's even courts.

Beto did so much to shift things to the left in Texas. To make it that close, yeah. Yeah, there's nothing. We were looking at that New York Times map that sort of looked at, like based on the election results, like the direction the midterms actually pushed a district

based on like the length of an arrow would be like very huge increment, like huge move to the right or huge move to the left. There were so many blue arrows going fully, like just huge pulls the other way. You're like, this is actually a terrible look. And it makes sense because, like you say, the GOP is post-policy.

They just don't have an actual platform that isn't tied to nationalism or xenophobia or transphobia or any hate rhetoric, essentially. essentially. Yeah. And then they're looking at like an electorate that's coming up and our future electorate is becoming younger, more diverse, more into this thing called fucking equality or some shit. So they have a lot going against them. And one of the most telling things was there's a report in Politico about how they're realizing they have a huge fundraising problem.

Like, for example, Act Blue, it's like a Democrat fundraising platform. They were able to pour $700 million into races this year. $700 million. And these are coming from like small, like individual donations. Whereas the GOP relies on the Sheldon Adelsons of the world and the Koch brothers of the world. They only raise through billionaires. I mean, they do have some small ball fundraising, but it's nothing compared to the Democrats. And when you look at it, it's because their platform is giving millions of people something to fight against. And yeah,

well, I mean, now that we're looking at a Democratic House of Representatives, we shall see what happens there. But I hope... I'm also still, I mean, we're still waiting for like some election results. Yeah. A week later. We still need to know about Florida. Yeah. And Georgia.

There's still a lot going on. Yeah. But I think the one thing to also kind of keep in mind, too, is I think as we look at what you know, if Nancy Pelosi looks like she will be speaker, what the Democrats do with this power. you know, if Nancy Pelosi looks like she will be speaker, what the Democrats do with this power. And I hope it isn't work with Trump, because I don't I think any bill that is going to start like with the progressive base being like, yes, we need this thing is going to get so watered down that we get a huge nothing. And we're then we begin putting like wins in Trump's column, too, because he could get like a prescription drug

bill that might not be as progressive as it actually needs to really fully help people, but something that it does just enough. And then we begin, he'll be able to be like, well, I got this done. I got this done. I got this done. And I'm really, it's going to be, it's a slippery slope of like, yeah, there are things that need to get done, but we also have to really signal the values or the principles or the morals of the Democratic Party going into 2020. Because even if you go, hey, we want this great Medicaid for all bill or Medicare for all bill, or this great student loan debt forgiveness bill or whatever to show people, hey, this is what we came with. But guess who just poo-pooed the whole thing? It's the president. It's the Republicans in the Senate. It's the Republicans in the House.

We're trying, but these are the people who are actually opposed to this thing. And I think there's something of a balancing act that's going to have to happen. Well, especially because there is such a common criticism of the Democratic Party right now is that they have no identity and it's so fractured. And what does the Democratic Party stand for? It's like if they start working with trump that problem will continue if not get worse where it's like if they have the house they have any sort of leverage uh like meeting him too too much in the middle like like you were saying well we'll give him like points and we'll also just make this problem persistent of like voters who are like

well the democratic party is no better and it's like well if they do that uh then yeah also miles scam likely is calling you my ex-boyfriend oh sorry we've been talking about you he knew you were coming on i should have not accepted that call uh i mean what i guess like if they can get him to do what they want then they should do that if they can get him to do what they want, then they should do that, right? If they can, but again- It seems unlikely because everything he's done up to this point has been motivated by just grievance politics. But if they can- I don't know.

There's been a lot of foreign countries that have figured out how to manipulate this idiot into doing whatever the fuck they want him to do. Right, but they're not running against him in 2020. Right, that's true. That's the thing is by working with him and if things get done, those are things he's going to inevitably just say, you know, they couldn't have done it without me. This is what happens with me.

And that's the danger. Not to say that you should completely just, you know, just not do anything legislatively. But I think they need to be very clear in what they're trying to advocate for because this is a huge moment. And if Nancy Pelosi said, well, we just want to bring things back to normal, back to normal. And that means taking something that's a really good idea and having it get pulled so far right that it's like, what's the fucking point? I agree with that they need to be uncompromising right they can get him to like go along with their uncompromising

vision in some way because he's dumber than nancy pelosi obviously by a lot and probably underestimates her because she's a woman uh then they should obviously yeah and i just think you know you also want to signal to these young voters there's like there's a huge segment ofists, too, who think of the people who didn't come out for Hillary in 2016 were people that were just too far left. Right. Not necessarily that they were centrist people. It's that they were like, this ain't it. This is not the change I'm looking for. I'm looking for aggressive, like I'm looking for a new Voting voting rights act I'm looking for new protections for trans people for for gay people like that's like all of us know someone like that too who like didn't vote we're too far left they're like dude fuck this like they're both shit and fuck that and I'm like well that's and I and I had to talk to a lot of people I'm like but let's be real here

you want to live in a world where even if you do have centrist Hillary Clinton as a president right it's better than what we have now because now you're losing your mind. I think by going aggressively and trying to really put the flag down and saying this is what the party is trying to do, that can motivate a lot of people going into 2020 also because you want to show them at the very least, this is what we're trying to do. I mean, Democratic Socialists are getting into Congress now.

I don't know. Yeah. What a know. Yeah. What a world. Yeah. And if you just look at the leadership, there was like an article talking about the Republican, like the trials and tribulations of the party. And the three people you see are Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsey Graham. And you're like, yeah. And look at the people who are coming in on the Democrat side with like Ocasio-Cortez and all these other great women in the Midwest

and Michigan and things like that, you're looking at what this new identity is of this country. Right. And that's where it's going. And you can't just have the three horsemen of droopy neck rock. What's the age limit on the presidency? 42? Let me see. No, like how old do you have to be to be president? 35. 40's all you see.

No, like how old do you have to be to be president? 35. I thought it was 35. Oh. 35. And how old is? She's 29. Beto, man.

Beto. Beto that. But I guess- The other thing too is, as super producer Nick Stumpf reminds us, is there are growing murmurings that Hillary is going to run again in 2020. Yeah.

And that could be a fucking shit show. Or not. Or don't do that. But I think what it's going to do is highlight just how fractured the Democratic Party is. And you're going to – I mean, I can't imagine what a messy debate begins to look like when you have progressive people attacking Hillary from that side. debate begins to look like when you have progressive people attacking hillary from that side if they have to like if it's really going down to that that's going to really put you're going to see that there's this old guard of more centrist democrats which at this point they're just literally just in the middle they're not even that left anymore yeah and then this far left

contingent that is gaining more and more momentum and those those could be two forces just smashing into each other yeah and then you're just fracturing the party again and making it more likely that fucking MAGA will... Dude, Hillary Clinton should not run for president again. Well, you know, yeah, she... Get Kamala Harris in there. If Stacey Abrams doesn't end up winning the governorship, get her in there.

Like, they're dead. Ugh, man. Was that the last season of Veep where it's all about her after her horrible loss just saying she's going to run for president again and everybody around her being like do not do that ma'am. Was that the last season? I think it was the last season. I didn't see the last season.

And like her daughter immediately starts crying and everyone's just like you're a fucking monster. Anyways, just no reason I'm bringing that up. We're going to take a quick break. we'll be right back i've been thinking about you i want you back in my life it's too late for that i have a proposal for you come up here and document my project all you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session, 24 hours. BPM 110, 120. She's terrified. Should we wake her up? Absolutely not.

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Yeah, the teaser came out, and that was pretty cool. Yeah. Pretty cool. Hey, man, that's cool. Seeing the whole gang back together, man. Man, give a fuck, honestly. Oh, man, I saw Toy Story 3. Toy Story 3 had me fucked up. Oh, for sure.

I was also drunk when I went in there, so I got emotional when I thought the thing was going to burn them up in that incinerator. I was like, his face is bubbling from the heat. Toy Story 3 was one of the darker non-R-rated movies I've ever seen. My feeling is the Toy Story has been told. The Toy Story. The Toy Story has a beginning, middle, and end.

I thought so too. We need new stories. Yeah. But back at Cracked, we wrote an article after Toy Story 2 about how really when you think about it, the existential experience of a toy would be fucking terrifying

because you exist forever so you're just in this perpetual state like in a garbage heap you would just be like buried and unable to move for eternity just like face to face with a rotting banana peel like how horrible that would be

and then they made toy story 3 about that right it was like going to the dump and you're like oh my that is so dark well i think the thing that people are talking about is that they've introduced a new character yes in toy story 4 and it's a spork played by tony hale buster bluth kind of love that it's kind of amazing because it was just sort of like, you know, the whole purpose of the teaser was like, look at all these toys. And then what the fuck is this plastic spoon with googly eyes and like wire cleaner arms? Remind me of my pet rock. Or pipe cleaner arms.

Yeah, it seems like it's a thing where it's like how, like what constitutes a toy? Right. Just technically. Like if you draw eyes on a spork, does that count? I think that, I'm sure that's where they're going with this. Here's my prediction.

They're going to make it a class thing. They're going to be like, these kids had to make a toy out of a fork because that lessened his value. I'm just like, another year passes, Santa University is no closer to being a feature film and we have a fourth toy story.

Actually, yeah, let's scrap this segment because we should be, this segment should be about why the fuck is insanity university a pixar film would you do it as a pixar would i do it as a pixar do you want it to be live action i know you're it's got to be live it's got to be live action the gore has to be right 40 000 extras yeah 100 yeah yeah so i mean it's you know You want a bigger extra budget than, like, Lord of the Rings or something. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

And Andy Serkis will be one of the extras, but he'll be hard to tell. He'll just be an extra, but he's in there. He's in there. And we're paying his regular rate. Ian McKellen will also be in there, too, as an extra. Yeah, the whole cast of Lord of the Rings will be brought on. Yeah, the studio's like, hey, Jamie, we're looking. You blew all your budget on these extras.

I'm sorry. Why did you have Dame Judi Dench as a featured background? I'm like, did you see the stadium scene? She's there. She's there. She's cheering. She's got blood on her face. You have to zoom in.

Get the Blu-ray? She's there. Well, Papa John's, guys. Smooth transition to Papa John's because he's back. He's back? In legal trouble. He already did that at the top. Got you with that fucking headline a second time. He is back.

Well, you know, we've been closely monitoring the downfall of Papa John's. I know there are people, someone came at me sideways on Twitter and was like, actually, Papa John's is the best pizza. I strongly disagree, and I would check your blood sugar, sir. But his shit is too sweet. Shit is fired.

And again, look, he said racist shit on his earnings call using the N-word. He has hot, not the person on Twitter. I'm talking about Papa John Schnatter, is that his name right? Shattery. Schachter or whatever. John Slattery. Mr. Sweat Bomb himself. He's just a whack dude.

And we've been watching, kind of laughing gleefully how his business has been going down the tubes. But now it's gotten to the point where the franchisees, the people who have their own little Papa John's operation, they're trying to get their living through this, you know, cursed brand. They're now like, look, they're trying to lawyer up because they're like, okay, dude, you fucked us over so bad. Like it's, it's hurting my business now because of the outward image that Mr. Papa has created. So now they are trying to say like, yo, what's good. We got to do something because they're saying, uh, what sales plunged almost 10% the last quarter and the like the parent company's been doing a lot like of giving them like marketing

budgets and other financial assistance because they're kind of like yeah we know it's kind of shitty right now but i think now i think the lawyers are kind of being like okay we're gonna have to really figure something out here like you know you need to explain something yeah what the fuck is going on sue him because once he's out and you're the board you've like forced him out he's just costing you money at this point right um but you know again i i feel bad if you've you know you had a business on your own and you had your papa john's uh and doing all that so you know i hope the parent company gives them what they need or can find a way to keep them afloat or rebrand. I don't know. Well, it's a bunch of, like, it's all franchisees, right?

A lot of them, yeah. Yeah, a lot of different people who are small business owners who own individual Papa John's, and they're getting screwed by this multi-hundred millionaire, sweaty, coke cokehead alcoholic. Allegedly, allegedly. Allegedly, allegedly. Allegedly look at the photos.

We should start a GoFundMe to get little signs that say sucks and then send them to the franchisees so they'll be like, hey, Papa John's sucks. We get it. Get some pizza so I can pay my rent. There you go. I'm a rebel Papa John's. Yeah, I'm a renegade Papa John's franchisee,

bitch. You can have that idea for free. I still want to look into how Papa John's became so popular in the first place. I think it's just the sugar. Because America had so much sugar in their blood, it was like everything needed to have some sugar

in it just to get back to base level, like the way a drug addict needs to get right by having a couple of bumps. It's really bad. You never had Papa John's? No, I didn't grow up near any though. Are they not really around in Boston?

They weren't around where I grew up. We had Little Caesars and we had Papa Gino's. We were more of a Gino's district. New England is weird when it comes to fast food. Yeah. It has like sort of its own universe. We also don't have a lot of subways. We have D'Angelo's.

Yeah. Yeah. Ooh. Yeah, D'Angelo's is pretty good. Do they have the sub untitled? How does it feel? The brown sugar sub. All the guys are just ripped and you can kind of see their dicks when they're making this

video. It's like a D'Angelo video. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Slowly rotating. Can I have less pubic hair in my tuna salad? That's gross. Well, Jamie, it's been so fun having you.

Hey, thanks. Where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter again, at Jamie Loftus Help. Shout out to Neil Gaiman, a nice man I've never met, who repeatedly bails me out of Twitter channel for reasons I don't know why. And then if you live in the L.A. area,

I'll be performing at Vulture Fest on Saturday at the Hollywood Roosevelt. Ooh. Go see that, y'all. Is there a tweet you've been enjoying while you're back on Twitter? Yes. From a New York comedian who I really like, Nick Nanny. He cracked me up with this one. It is, as some of you may have heard, my uncle passed away last night waiting for you to name a more iconic duo.

It made me laugh a lot. He's at Nick Nanny, N-I-C-K-N-A-N-E-Y. That's amazing. Miles, where can people find you, and what is a tweet you've been enjoying? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. And I have to go back to my favorite headline writers at Reductress. It says, picture this black woman with her arms crossed. It says, report, black woman not surprised.

Tell them. Next one. There's a guy who looks like just sort of like a, I don't know, hipstery guy you'd work with at a media company kind of look with glasses and an Oxford shirt on. And it said, what's weird about calling them females, says male. You can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Black woman not surprised.

That's really good. The Volatile Mermaid tweeted, What idiot decided to call it Trumpy Bear instead of an I really don't care bear? Aww. Aww. Whoa. Swish. Swish.

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on whatever device you're listening to this on. Miles. Yeah. Hey, man. What's up? What song are we going to write about? Okay. Let's go out on a new artist.

Well, not new artist. Newer artist that I've listened to recently. Yes. Michael Jackson. No, this is Tierra Whack. Love Tierra Whack. If you don't fuck with Tierra Whack, you need to get on the Whack train and go to Whack Arnold's.

This is from her album Whack World. Hey, it could happen. And it's called Bugs Life, which is kind of fitting. We're talking about Bugs Life and Beatles and things like that. Anyway, but yes, this is Bugs Life by Tierra Whack.

And yeah, just enjoy her stylings. Very cool artist. And I hope you enjoy her stylings. Very cool artist. And I hope you enjoy. All right, we're going to ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. We'll talk to you guys then.

Bye. Bye. Taking bubble baths. Love to see my mother laugh. Can't wait to soup home so I can hug his ass. Niggas coming up short, where's the other half?

Even if my eyes close, they won't fucking crash I'm in my fucking bag Whack, where you at, she? Yeah Life is easy, I'm somebody hard to come across Check the pH level and now I'm done with boss Sippin' stocky right when I be still up and coming, boss Send my cousin to the store to buy some fucking off

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