The Daily Zeitgeist - Pence vs Mulan, Florida Man And Jared’s Billion Dollar Problem 10.11.17

Episode Date: October 11, 2017

In episode three Jack & Miles, along with special guest comedian Brandie Posey discuss Mike Pence's dislike of the film Mulan, Rick & Morty fan's intense need for Szechuan sauce, how everyone seems to be babysitting Trump at the White house, & more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is a podcast. Hello, the internet, and welcome to the Daily zeitgeist for wednesday october 11th my name is jack o'brien i am joined as always by my co-host mr miles gray yes hi miles hi i just want to let all the kids out there know do not have hot cheetos for breakfast not a good way to start your day followed by black coffee yeah exactly badtwo punch. And we are thrilled to be joined by the hilarious Brandy Posey. Hello. Hi. Thank you for having me.

Thank you for being here. I feel like we've got a real ticking time bomb situation happening on this podcast. No, no, no, no. I'm clenched up tight. He's been all right. He's been armed. I feel like the black coffee was like the arming mechanism. Yeah, right.

We should send you to North Korea. I lifted the cover that protects the switch. So now you know I'm serious. Do you have your nuclear football? Yeah, definitely have some kind of football. All right, Brandy, we want our audience to be able to get to know you quickly. What is the weirdest thing in your recent Google searches? Literally this morning I was searching peter theoblood

like for sale yeah how do i get some of that blood in my veins well that yeah because i always forget there's like a real like ross and rachel situation with whether or not he is or is not injecting the blood of youth into his veins to try to live forever. Oh, yeah. And I kind of forget every time. And I just like to Google just to see where that's at. And there's just conflicting news stories constantly. Like all of every other one just conflicts itself. It's amazing. What's the latest?

The top of the search for Peter Thiel blood is, no, Peter Thiel is not harvesting the blood of the young. But then Peter Thiel wants to inject himself with young people's blood. And then an anti-aging startup paying thousands of dollars for teen blood. And then someone is trying to discredit the story of Peter Thiel. It's just every other one. It's amazing. What's the one saying

denying the Peter Thiel story? Where's that coming from? It's from techcrunch.com. Okay, so that makes sense. TechCrunch could just, he could destroy TechCrunch. Right. Yeah, it's all like the guy so Peter Thiel is the guy who destroyed Gawker. Yeah. And put it out of business. Cui bono.

Young people's blood. Yeah. So nobody on the internet is going to be like telling the truth about that. Okay. One thing that's overrated. One thing that's underrated, Brandy. Okay. Overrated.

Barcades. Oh. Oh, wow. Barcades. I like it. They're coming out strong. Because here's the thing. They never have enough pinball machines that are working at the same time.

Whoa. You know what I mean? Wait, who are we taking shots at specifically here? That one downtown? No, I was in a barcade in Chicago. And there was like the Addams Family one, the Indiana Jones one, and one of the WWE ones. None of them were working.

And I was like, you got to have the the Adam Family Barcade working at all times. That's a classic pinball machine. It's everyone's favorite one. So barcades are overrated. Right, because they've got too many games on their hands to keep track of the really good pinball games. Also, all I actually want is a barcade full of Area 51. Oh my god, yes.

The Midway shooting game? Yeah, that's the only game that I actually want to play at a barcade and it's always taken. There's always a line. Buckhunter is my game of choice. Didn't Zinky, the interior guy, have a Buckhunter arcade machine installed inside the offices of the interior? I don't know.

I'm pretty sure. I'll check this. I've always thought that I was similar to him. He's sort of my spirit animal. Yeah. The Man Behind Conservation has a Buckh to him. He's sort of my spirit animal. Yeah. The man behind conservation has a Buck Hunter video game, I think, in the arcade. But in my 20s, I lived above a bar called the Village Tavern in New York City, and there was a Buck Hunter there. And Eli Manning came in one time, and we destroyed him in Buck Hunter.

Hell yeah. The thing that I always said about Eli Manning is he didn't have a smooth cock. Like his cock was just not a smooth enough cock. You have to have a smooth cock when you're cocking the gun in Big Buck Hunter. But yeah, I just confirmed Zinke did the interior, the minister of the interior, he did put a Big Buck Hunter in the cafeteria. My man. But also, one thing I want to say about area 51.

I would rage out. Uh, there's a bonus box that like when you're driving through the airport in that first level, if you look up towards the tower, there was a box you could hit to get the machine gun. If I missed that, I would rage out every time because when you get it,

you're just mowing down these fucking zombie alien dudes. Anyway, it's the best for the real nerds out there. You guys, Mike Pence fucking hates Mulan. Segway. Wait, were we not talking about it? No, we can get that.

He hates Mulan. Yeah, he hates Mulan. He apparently back in before he was vice president, he was a blogger. Before he was vice president, he was a blogger. And one of the things that he blogged about was how much he hated Mulan, how the moral of the story was that women in military is a bad idea. For people who don't know Mulan, it's the story of a warrior princess, essentially, who goes undercover and kind of sneaks her way into being a great warrior. And that offended Mike Pence's conservative sensibilities. Oh, because she's afraid her ailing father will be drafted into the Chinese military.

So she impersonates a man and takes his place. Oh, so she goes as tribute. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In a way. This is from his review. Moral of the story, women in military, bad idea. I suspect that some mischievous liberal at Disney assumes that Mulan's story will cause a quiet change in the next generation's attitude toward women in combat. And they just might be right.

Housing in close quarters, young men and women, in some cases married to non-military personnel. He's always coming back to how nervous he is that women are just going to jump on his dick when his wife isn't around. So he's worried about young men and women, some married to non-military personnel, at the height of their physical and sexual potential is the high of stupidity. I think he meant height. It is instructive that even in the Disney film, young Ms. Mulan falls in love with her superior officer! Mike Pence just needs a very regular masturbation regimen because this dude is just so fucking tightly wound. Can you just feel him just sitting on his keyboard vibrating all the women everywhere but he hard them up and put them away except for mother but he also kind of like he lives in that fantasy world like single men do where they're

like yo like we're gonna get we're gonna go to the club and we're gonna fuck right and it never happens just like he's like man don't get you don, don't get me in a room with some women alone because it's going to be crazy. That's why my mother has come. He's like, dude, I don't think that's real. You do such a good impression of Mike Pence's inner monologue.

I felt like he was here for a second. Thank you so much. In his side, yeah. The voice in Mike Pence's... Shut up, Daryl. It's like Mr. Vice President is in the house. You guys, Mulan has been

in the news a lot lately because of Mike Pence's rage. And then other people who are mad, Rick and Morty fans are just furious that the Szechuan sauce that was brought back by McDonald's there there wasn't enough of it apparently at a couple locations um first of all this was just a like reference to what was intended to be a random and like obscure pop culture reference in the show and it has been completely ruined wait so i i you know forgive me internet for not not watching Rick and Morty. What? What's your IQ? Yeah, you must not be very smart.

Wait, what the fuck does that have to do with anything? It's a fucking cartoon. So Rick and Morty is... I mean, I know what it is, but I mean, like, oh, man. Fuck, I am ignorant as fuck, y'all. It's a show. It takes place in a bunch of different multiverses. I know that that probably doesn't make sense to you as a non-Rick and Morty

viewer. You're just not going to get it. No, so it's a moderately smart, very funny cartoon, I guess you would call it, but its fans are so obnoxious. They are the new

Mensa members. Look how smart I am yeah i saw a dude i saw a dude the other day uh on a plane doing mensa uh sudoku i was just like yo man like yeah deodorant makes you dumb guys living not in your mama's basement makes you dumber you gotta live subterranean you gotta stink all the time right yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, God. But in the show... In the show, Rick, who's like the mad scientist, reveals in the first episode of this season that everything he's doing is secretly for this Szechuan sauce

that McDonald's had for a brief moment. As a promo for Mulan. As a promo for Mulan, yeah. Okay, so... Yeah. Oh, and then, right, okay, now it's... So then McDonald's was like, hey, we're hip. We're in on this thing, kids.

We'll bring it back. And then the kids showed up in force. So Rick and Morty fans, another thing you should know about them is that they have been bombarding the creators of Rick and Morty, Dan Harmon, and other guy whose name I'm drawing a blank on, who I follow on Twitter, about the fact that they have incorporated women writers into the writing staff. And like, they're mad about that. They're like, come on, man, they can't get this like STEM science stuff that we're so

good at. Yeah, man. Our man brains are so much better at it. Right. Yeah. So just a bad group of people who are completely ruining uh what is a really awesome show uh and they're also ruining i guess szechuan sauce well and it's like just just enjoy something you don't need to take it to the you don't have to murder

everything that you love yeah getting mad at the shit you love every time god damn it i love this shit except if it weren't for these women writers who make it funnier because i think you you were saying too and a lot of guests have said that this season has been the funniest one i think it's the best season so far yeah and yeah who who knew interesting i wonder if that's causation i don't know diversity of thought that interesting. They did a study about that. They were. So they had diverse groups and non-diverse groups. And the diverse groups actually were better at solving problems and like coming up with the right answer on really complex problems. Non-diverse groups were obviously worse at it, but they thought they were better because they were like more confident because they were all you know similar and like giving each other positive feedback and it was just easier yeah so yeah diversity works it just is hard yeah fucking diversity let them know yeah no makes sense so i mean obviously the uh weinstein story is continuing to evolve uh harvey

weinstein horrible human monster sexual predator uh ronan farrow who is obviously woody allen and mia farrow's uh son who is sort of like a an avenger of he's like a superhero avenging sexual abuse uh he talked about how uh wo Allen, his father, abused his sister. And now he put together this huge piece of really in-depth reporting that he released yesterday in The New Yorker about Harvey Weinstein just being basically a serial rapist. But we are going to talk about that in depth in a later episode we feel like that story is developing but for now we're going to take

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Go to realdealonfentanyl.com. This message is brought to you by the Ad Council. And we're back. So Bob Corker, who is a Tennessee Republican who has announced that he's no longer going to run for Senate and is therefore just completely out of fucks to give, has now come out and said, yeah, anything that I said to normalize Trump was a mistake, even though that was just a few months ago. He's now saying, like, we're clearly on the path to World War Three. And he also said that the White House has become an adult daycare center, which seems like a, you know, fun way of calling Trump a baby. But when you actually look at it, and Politico did, they kind of did a deep dive with, you know, sources inside the White House. It turns out he wasn't really exaggerating. Like, the tactics that they used to kind of keep him on track are tactics that you use with toddlers and with babies. Of like, hey, look at the shiny thing over here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They just shake keys over their head. Just like blowing on his belly. A little bit. Just like, hey, look at the shiny thing over here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They just shake keys over their head. Just like blowing on his belly. Giving him raspberries. Take the football away. Take the football away. Covering his eyes. One of the things they literally say is when he has a bad idea that he's like kind of obsessing

over, they just say, we'll talk about it next week instead of saying no to him they're like yeah yeah no next week buddy next week we'll go to the park uh you know yeah they will try and get him to like an idea by convincing him that the good idea was his like that i like that inception type shit right yeah which i think anybody who's also had like a bad boss, Miles, don't say shit, has done that before. But it is still like very, I don't know, like compared to when you hear the guys at like Crooked Media talk about their time inside the Obama White House. There's just like this enormous respect for him. Like he's this gravitational figure where like and like with trump it's just like yeah we gotta like we gotta convince him that all these ideas are his president diaper boy right what's funny is like i've worked for people where like their egos are so big that they actually are

susceptible to that tactic where like you'd be like no and i feel like you said that last week that we should do something like that and oh yeah yeah i did right and then holy shit he went for that shit yeah like i guess when you it makes sense because this dude's ego is so unchecked like just right just get just get him like a giant stamp with trump on it and let him like walk around walk across the countryside just stamping things and give him a bunch of old mail he can't read so like it's like when i was like my parents were like hey you want to write on something another detail that uh so i had always heard that avanka would always pop in during interviews just to like say hi and i was like that's not appropriate because i'm the president and i'm talking to the fucking new york times uh but he would always just be like oh hey honey um and excited to see her and uh i had heard that he did that to cleverly cut interviews off.

But in this context, it almost seems more like a caregiver stopping by to make sure that their child or dementia-ridden grandparent is staying on message or like that everything's okay it reminds me of like nanny popping in during muppet babies oh for sure let's calm him down remind him where he is she must be sweating though you know i mean if like that's kind of like her thing we're like avanka's glowing she's glowing about the situation yeah i mean like because yeah when you first read about it i was like man like look how informal this shit is like she's like hi daddy like checking in but

now like if you look at it through the lens of like she's sort of like oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck is he gonna like lose it today that sort of thing maybe that makes but it all i guess it all depends on what what side of reality you choose to look at right well i don't think they live in such weird rarefied air that like i don't think they live in such weird rarefied air that like i don't think they believe they will they'll ever get caught for any of this like they've never been challenged in any way right i mean even yeah like a few weeks like there that story came out about how they shook like like real charges from like the new york da like for like misleading investors so like yeah they definitely live in a world where they're like

yeah we'll never get caught somebody Somebody takes care of this. Right. Yeah. Yeah. The Weinstein story also has him just like shaking off like a woman went to the NYPD and was like, yo, he like basically tried to rape me. And it like went all the way up and then suddenly just like disappeared. But, yeah, so rich guys seem to have a knack for that. But speaking of him like kind of melting down, it does seem like he's been sort of flailing more than usual, like just sort of, I guess, tilting at windmills or just blowing up at everything, like any perceived slight. Yeah.

Whether it's Tillerson calling him a moron. He's like, well, we should check our IQs iqs right like let's compare our cues then we'll know please please webcast that shit i want to see those tests being taken live yeah chavo tripples was talking about like how he's just purely literal and like when they talked about transparency in the wall he was like yeah we have to have a see-through wall and when uh someone talked about how or bush talked about how you can't hide and when you're in the oval office you can't hide from like anything you're because of the media scrutiny he was like yeah there's no corners to hide in yeah everything is so super literal just super literal um i think that he tends to be like flailing more as the Russia investigation seems to be ramping up.

Well, he he's never not had control or the artifice of control over everything in his life. Right. And it's making him more and more mad because now he realizes how little he can actually do. Right. Like he can't get shit done legislatively. Like, yeah, like he he can't do anything but to go through and experience this probe there's nothing yeah he can't pay off muller there's no way he just can't do any his whole trick bag is it doesn't doesn't work when you're the president right and i mean it's also effective because it keeps us like focused on you know his fucking iq test and dick measuring contest with like one of his three

babysitters yep um dick measuring contest with your babysitter sounds fucked up what that never happened to you no uh no actually yeah yeah no me neither me neither um i didn't realize how shady trump's finances were um until like all these different journalistic institutions started looking into it but basically uh after you know the 80s and 90s when he had like gone bankrupt like so many times and had like six times in a row had managed to like uh bankrupt a casino which is like just free money like a building where people come in and literally just hand you money. The games are set up for people to fucking lose.

Right. And you still can't run that shit. So after being like a famously failed business person, Trump found himself unable to get loans from American banks. Oh, right. Because he has no fucking credit. Right. He's got the worst fucking credit in the country, basically.

So at that point, he apparently started going and getting loans from other countries. And it's like pretty shady people who are like involved in these shell companies that are like moving money around in like really shady ways. like moving money around in like really shady ways um so trump's son-in-law avanka's husband jerry kushner has a similar problem similar very similar problem yeah he uh well you just marry your dad you know like women are always just looking for their dad right right he's like oh are you a terrible business person too yeah you're drowning in debt oh i love we're about to drown in debt right so apparently like immediately before the real estate market crashed in 2007 yeah uh jerry kushner put down 50 million to buy this building which uh amazingly and once again, proving that we're living in a high school

creative writing class short story, the building that he bought is 666 Fifth Avenue. But so he and his family bought the building for $1.8 billion in 2007, which is the most ever paid for a building in Manhattan. And it was like right before the financial crisis hit. He put down $50 million of his own dollars and then borrowed the rest. So borrowed a shitload of money and then immediately was like underwater on the building. And so apparently he hasn't even been able to keep up with the debt payments on the loan. And so basically he hasn't paid a cent towards paying back this $1.2 billion mortgage.

And it comes due February of 2019. And he doesn't have any way of paying it back. Yeah, because the building is just totally fucked up and not desirable in any way, right? Yeah, so they bought a bad building was the first problem. It was built in the 50s. The ceilings are all low. Floor plan's outdated.

Right, yeah. It was like a building from Mad Men, and in fact, in one shot, you can see it across the street from don draper's office in mad men but like quite literally yeah you can literally see it uh but like there's this scene in mad men where peggy is like having a drop ceiling put in on her like high ceiling department and it's like yeah that was the style back then and like yeah uh yeah people are just like fucking their apartments up uh but apparently this was like this was built at that time when, like, drop ceilings and low ceilings were cool.

Now that's, like, the opposite of what you want. And so it's just, like, a fucking mess of a building. So he can't really sell spaces to anybody. He has this plan to turn it into big, fancy cond condos but it would require crazy amounts of money to even get those renovations right which is which he doesn't have yeah and what he was 26 right when he bought this building right like yo what the fuck are you doing 26 years old buying a 1.8 billion dollar thing and then knowing you got to borrow more to even make that shit a viable investment right where's your family She really did marry her father

because it's just like a dude who inherited a real estate empire. And so the reason any of this is relevant is that people think that Kushner's meetings with like Russian officials and all the shady meetings he's been having were at least partially about business dealings and like about this debt and trying to basically make cheap money, get cheap money from overseas, which is something that Trump has done in the past. There's a bunch of financial records that apparently Mueller is like asking for that get into that on Trump's behalf. And Kushner like is in the really shitty position of like now having to do what trump had done but

like while he's being actively investigated right so he really can't do it yeah it's not a private citizen anymore you can't hide the way you used to yeah you are part of the presidential administration now and you're like uh so yeah i mean like when you can't go to banks like okay so what's next uh shady like dark money from Eastern Europe. Yeah, just the biggest cash for gold that you can find. Right. That's what he's going for. Can you imagine how much red string Robert Mueller has? Oh, my God. Just miles and miles of red string connecting.

What is happening in those offices? red string connecting. What is happening in those offices? So Trump's biographer, this guy, Timothy L. O'Brien, no relation, was speculating that Kushner was probably looking for help from the Russians to keep the building like viable and that he also might be like jockeying for Chinese and Russian financiers. So it's basically a really shady position for anyone just remotely associated with the White House and decisions being made by the president to actually be in.

Yeah, I mean, he is sweating too. I mean, normal 26-year-olds are like, fuck, I've got to make rent or something. You could throw the Uber app on and maybe make a quick $200. This motherfucker is like, I've got a $1.2 billion bill due on February 2019. Oh, man. What did I do?

So much Postmates. Yeah, exactly. So much. Yeah, he would have to do like, he would have to multiply himself by 700 to do that many Ubers. But it's crazy to think like, because yeah, he's gone out to a lot of like Russian bankers. Like it seems like all the meetings that they've tried to connect Kushner with have been with people who are either heads of banks or tangentially connected to huge banks. And then at one point there was like there was a rumor that a Chinese company was going to invest in it. And then there was another like another story.

I mean, it's not that they're directly connected, but they were saying that he was in talks with like the richest man in cutter to invest like a half billion dollars into the building and the guy if the this the rich this wealthy dude was like okay if you i'll put down a half billion let's see if you can get someone else to like come to the table and then we can do something so that's when he found like this chinese uh investment company who has like a lot of ties like to the political elite there yeah and when that story came out there uh like this chinese bank was like no no we're actually not doing business with them because it was perceived as like a huge conflict of interest so like are you just investing in this to like have access to the white house and like no we never had a deal it's never gonna be a deal and then that basically tanked his deal

with like this uh the wealthy man from cutter and then like a few days later trump's now like coming after cutter you know because the trumps and know, they know how to get past a grudge. Oh, yeah. So I think, yes, finances are not the strong suit over there. Well, and it's funny because it shows like why they have no empathy for anybody struggling with student loans because they're like, well, why can't you just find a shady billionaire in another country? Run for president. Right, right, right. And win and become.

That's how you get your loans paid. Come on, guys. Jeez. Figure it out. It's that easy. Yeah. It's just that easy. Stupid ass over here.

Want to learn about literature. Yeah. So maybe we'll keep watching this disaster of a scenario unfold for Gary Kushner. He really feels like the guy who's in over his head with like mob loads oh yeah and like is just like oh i don't know what to do i really think trump should just like appoint uh john taffer from bar rescue to his administration and he might be able to fix this for you idiot yeah you borrowed a billion dollars you couldn't pay back yeah we elected the wrong reality star yeah right really did all right we'll be right back after this.

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your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Saner. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it like you miss 100% of the shots you never take? Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself.

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Go to realdealon on fentanyl.com this message is brought to you by the ad council all right we're back um yeah before we go i just i'm just thinking about him in 2019 because like it looks like there's he's having a lot like a real hard time finding this money like do you think he'll just tell like the creditors that's miles's move every time he's like at a at a restaurant yep and the bill I'm sorry. I didn't know I needed all that money. I don't have enough money. That's Miles' move every time he's at a dinner. At a restaurant, yep. And the bill comes, he just goes, I didn't bring enough money.

And basically, they'll just think you're so pitiful. They'll be like, all right, just do these dishes. And that's how you eat at Matsuhisa. Every day for Jared is a Flaming Hot Cheetos and Black Coffee day. Exactly right. All right. I wanted to move on real quickly to a story that is kind of always in the headlines somewhere on the Internet. The Florida Man story, the entire genre of Florida Man stories.

You might recognize them from the Florida Man who shot himself in the dick or the Florida man who punched a swan. Or even if you just right now look at top news and you think of Florida man, Florida man sets himself on fire after losing Cowboys Packers bet to his wife. Yeah. There you go. Still doing it. Yeah.

Still got it. Still going strong. You said you'd set yourself on fire. You said it. Damn it, I know, Karen. Get my kerosene. So I've always wondered why the fuck Florida is so much weirder than the rest of the country. Because it's so fucked up.

Right. Well, so it is the third most populous state in the United States. So there are a lot of people to choose from. It also is in the south and it's got like a really interesting collection of different cultures and, you know, a crazy mix of different types of people. of different types of people. But the reason that the Florida man section reads like Dave Barry's Breaking Bad is because Florida is the only state in the United States that has open record laws where it's called the Government in the Sunshine Act. And it's basically every meeting that happens in Florida between the government, like you have to have a record of everything that was said in that meeting.

And that also applies for arrest records, the that police have to make arrest records public. So so you're just saying it's just their wokeness of being the most transparent state? Yeah. Damn it! Oh, man. We should be admiring Florida because they're actually the most progressive state. But, yeah, the reason that we have so much detail on it, like, that's basically all it is, is that Florida is the only state where we get to see in detail how fucked up Americans just in general are.

Like the fucked up shit that is like going on behind the crime blotter in your town is just as crazy as the Florida man shit. It's just that the arrest records are not like made public to everybody. And Florida is the only state where that is true so you can just like sit there and read arrest report after arrest report and just find the best ones right this is my blog yeah it's like that really they just red pilled me right there yeah right i was i was just in my mind i was like it's because florida fucking crazy and then it's like oh it's because everything is transparent right and everything is fucking crazy but i guess how i like to think about it's because everything is transparent. Right. And everything is fucking crazy.

But I guess I like to think about it. I bet New York would have some crazy ones. Fucking California, man. Even the fuck like Sylmar, like New York. I used to grow up there. There's all kinds of weird shit going on. I've seen crazy shit like the Florida Man-ass Captain in New York and LA. Just like Los Angeles Spider-Man.

Just them alone. The people that dress up like Spider-Man outside of Hollywood and Highland. Just their crimes alone. Right, right, right. alone right right right would be up there like the Times Square characters too I'm sure they they're all getting into some shit man I also do think there's a bias uh at work in the Florida man thing in that poor you know white people are the last type of person who in mainstream culture it is okay to just openly shit on and make fun of right and being controversial right without being controversial so uh yeah that that's another reason that uh we like to make them the protagonist of our screwball comedies in the news yeah well

it makes us all feel better that we're not florida but we actually are there are so many documentaries about florida that are just like mind-. Like Vernon, Florida is an amazing one. Yeah. And then also check out Mule Skinner Blues. That's another insane one about this guy who's trying to make a horror film in his trailer park. And it's like it's it's legit, but it's amazing. So, I mean, I'm not saying Florida is not a place where I'm not saying. But yeah, but I feel like, yeah, it's interesting.

But I guess it is. You know what? I think we need an open call to all the states to start making these records transparent because you know what now i'm having some california pride we could be that we could be the real fucking weird yeah yeah exactly and i mean hey man we all voted for trump like we're all florida now right exactly the whole country is oh you voted for trump oh god no no no i mean like as the country did oh okay country did i thought that was your way of like no no not us you know we all voted for trump in this room yeah you guys yeah no not individually but as a country we did right so we're all florida we don't we've lost the ability to uh think that we're better than florida to shade other people

yeah yeah i think so the whole country is a Michael Jordan crying face. Yeah, truly. So you guys, I want to give a quick update to a story that we talked about on, I think it was episode one, about the sonic attack on U.S. diplomats in Cuba. I have an update. First of all,

there's this Moscow signal thing that a lot of the people who believe the attacks on the diplomats are real have brought up because apparently in the 60s and 70s in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, they were targeted by microwaves. They just like suddenly found that microwaves were like coming in to the embassy. Like they were throwing them at them? Right. Basically. Yeah. Like microwaves? Yeah. Microwave ovens. They were throwing microwave ovens. No, they were firing microw them at them? Right, basically, yeah. Like microwaves? Yeah, microwave ovens. They were throwing microwave ovens.

No, they were firing microwaves at them. Oh, okay. And so a study in the 70s looked into how this was affecting them because nobody really knew what microwaves did other than cook popcorn badly. So the group that was hit with these symptoms had been reporting that they were experiencing depression, irritability, difficulty in concentrating and memory loss, which are also symptoms that have been mentioned in Cuba. Um, but when they did a study, so they found that those symptoms were actually more common in the Moscow embassy than other U.S. embassies. But when they actually broke it out, the symptoms were more common in people who hadn't been

exposed to the microwaves. Oh, weird. So it was just them kind of feeling like, OK, something's going on. And also, I feel like embassies, I've not worked in an embassy, but it seems like it might be one of those environments where there's a lot of stress panic psychosomatic deal is that after the U.S. government pulled the diplomats and started warning people that this was going on, tourists traveling to Cuba have started reporting the same symptoms of hearing loss, headaches. And yeah, so. started reporting the same symptoms of like hearing loss headaches and yeah so uh it's like the same shit like when like those magic eye posters were out and like oh man i see the dragon you see and i'm like yeah i see it too you want to be in on the thing so yeah right yeah i'm getting those headaches too but it is such a the the symptoms are so diffuse and vague that it's possible to feel them

and for it not to be being caused by some secret microwave laser weapon. I always just assume everyone's dehydrated. Right. We're all dehydrated. Especially on vacation. The last thing you're drinking is water. You're, like, drinking booze every two weeks. Right.

Exactly. We're all sleep-deprived. We're all getting older. Yeah, so I'm pretty sure it's also that. What's really going that's that's my favorite explanation is one of the people who actually believes that it might be like a case of mass hysteria was like yeah those are all symptoms that come with getting older and like literally every one of us is living a day where we're the oldest we've ever been and so

we have more symptoms of old age than we've ever had before. Like hearing loss is something – like I suffer permanent hearing loss in that my hearing will never be as good as it was yesterday. Right. Except for Peter Thiel, or maybe not. Right. Peter Thiel injecting the blood of young children. All right. We're going to try a new segment where we go out on stories that are warming our hearts.

And Brandy, let's start with you yeah um so do you guys know about the chicago mothman sightings that have been happening over the summer into the fall no okay so there's been 29 chicago mothman sightings and it's all over like all over chicago south chicago north chicago east west over by lakeshore over like up at evanston and chicago is like a no-nonsense city where it's like um marketers have a hard time doing stuff there because people are always like i gotta get to work get out of my way so for them to be making up mothman sightings all over the city is like maybe this is real who knows knows? But, um, people have been trying to get photos.

The closest one that they've got is like this, this one, this is like a, it's a very vague picture, like kind of a, probably just a drone. What I think it is, it looks like a kite,

right? It looks like a kite or a stingray, uh, or a guy in one of those wing suits, uh, could be anything, or it could be a, a mothman.

Yeah. I mean, I hope it be a mothman. Yeah. I mean, I hope it's a mothman. I mean, I just feel like we got Jared's like 666 building. Like all of the signs of the apocalypse are coming together. So at this point, why wouldn't there be a mothman? In the book of Revelation, a mothman shall appear in the city of Chicago. The book of Revelations turns out it wasn't subtle. Yeah.

It just all came about like all at once. Like so here's a description from one of the sightings. Suddenly, the large winged being slowly descended in front of them no more than 25 feet away. It hovered about five feet above the sidewalk with its wings spread open as it appeared at the couple with large bright red eyes that slowly altered back and forth in intensity. Several people on the other side of the street, including delivery van driver reacted with screens and frightened yelps the winged being hovered for about 10 seconds then quickly pulled in the wings into its body and shot quickly into the night sky oh yeah i've seen that actually yeah i mean yeah that that's the one i'm talking about yeah Mothman. That is fucking crazy.

Yeah, there's a bunch of them. So let's keep an eye out for that. That's awesome. If you live in Chicago and you see the Mothman, see Mothman, tell someone about Mothman. See something, say something about Mothman. Miles, what's warming your heart right now? You know, the story that's warming my heart right now is finding out that Frankie Munez can't remember that he was on Malcolm in the Middle. That was mine!

Oh, it was? That's my favorite, though. I do fucking love this story. Great minds, great minds. But yeah, it came out that on Dancing with the Stars, he was saying he's had nine concussions, and he's having mini-strokes and can't remember shit from being on Malcolm in the Middle. Oh, man. It's a weird thing to warm your heart, but it's just so... Frankie Munoz, who played Malcolm in the Middle, is such an interesting whack job.

Yeah. His Twitter feed at one point was just overtaken. This was back in 2010. It was just overtaken with his hunt of scorpions. One day he was tired of all these scorpions then he was like my pest guy lives with me basically we have scorpions bad and then just like non-stop talking about scorpions i get so much joy from murdering scorpions trespass onto my property died by shoe smash like he's just oh my god do you think he remembers this i wonder if he remembers

the scorpion or is like a scorpion like code for something else yeah he's like a racist tirade he was really trying to do like at one point wink wink wink at one point he said his mouth was getting numb because he put a scorpion in his mouth and tried to chew it okay so maybe that's what's going on yeah i don't know it's just like I poisoned himself. I get this vibe of like Hunter S. Thompson style debauchery going on in Frankie Munoz's like weird Malcolm in the Middle mansion. Yeah, exactly. There's a thing he said in an interview. He said since 2006, I've broken 38 bones and I've had nine concussions since the age of seven. So like does this dude have like CTE or something?

He for sure has CTE at this point. If he's had concussions that much. Yeah. And he's had mini strokes. And he also said he doesn't, hasn't gone to the doctor to like talk about his memory loss. So anyway. Boy. I choose to believe he was just fucked up the whole time.

Yeah. That's the way the story would warm my heart. He's a sand out. He can't remember shit. All right. Well, on that note. On that note, Brandy, where can our audience find you uh i'm on twitter and instagram at brand dazzle b-r-a-n-d-a-z-z-l-e so good yeah and um i have a

podcast called lady to lady it's um me and to their female comics i usually the fourth guest just kind of riffing and hanging out um and then i have an album on uh itunes and all the places you buy albums called opinion cave uh i'm a-up, and then my touring dates are at brandyposer.com. You're a very funny stand-up. Thank you. Miles, where can people find you? You can find me in the bathroom right now. Gotta go. You can follow The Daily

Zeitgeist at DailyZeitgeist on Twitter, at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. There is a Facebook group called The Daily Zeitgeist. I'm at Jack underscore O'Brien, O-B-R-I-E-N. And also, so we are going to eventually be publishing footnotes, which are basically just going to be our notes for the shows

with links to the stories so that people can follow along at home or check our sources and read the articles we've been reading. We're working on that. Those will eventually be up on our website. yeah. At that point, once it's up and live, I will start pronouncing footnotes, foot

notes, like an asshole. Until then, yeah, we'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Bye. Thank you. into a mafia state. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadson.

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