The Daily Zeitgeist - President Hamberder Is V Busy, Moonwalker Shocker 2.5.19

Episode Date: February 5, 2019

In episode 323, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and frequent podcast guest and Bechdel Cast co-host Jamie Loftus to discuss Super Bowl ads, Ralph Northam's black face controversy, an insider leaking President Trump's schedule, the White House ending intel briefings with Trump, Liam Neeson's revenge plans, the right being offended by the lack of funny commercials during the Super Bowl, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. This year’s Super Bowl commercials showed us that tech isn’t that great2. Game of Thrones' Hijacks Bud Light's Super Bowl Ad to Pump Its Return3. Ralph Northam Continues Digging Self Into Michael Jackson Shaped Hole4. Scoop: Insider leaks Trump's "Executive Time"-filled private schedules5. How Trump's schedule compares to past presidents6. White House Abruptly Canceled Trump’s Meeting With Intel Chiefs7. 'He's doing the enemy's job for them': Current and former officials compare Trump to a toddler and say his attacks on the intel community create a goldmine for foreign governments8. Liam Neeson interview: Rape, race and how I learnt revenge doesn’t work9. Todd Starnes: Thank humorless vegans, perpetually offended millennials for lack of Super Bowl laughs10. Super Bowl commercials: Washington Post taps Tom Hanks, 'Game of Thrones' and Pepsi make splashes11. I Made Queso! 11. WATCH: UNKLE feat. Thom Yorke - Rabbit In Your Headlights Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the Internet, and welcome to Season 68, Episode 2 of Your Daily Zeitgeist. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Just let me warm this up a little bit for David. Zeitgeist. Put on the podcast and get the news. Boom, boom, boom. Zeitgeist. With Miles and Jack, they'll shred your blues Now the mace part. Now trick or lace, who?

Dang, what mace do? Got a lot of girls that'll love to replace you Say it to your face, boo, not behind your back Okay, that was a AK, not the mace part from Yummy Tummy 101. And I'm very curious to know, yes, Yummy, you've got sparkles in your tummy and you're a Care Bear. So thank you for that David Bowie-inspired, a.k.a. Is that how it's pronounced?

That's what I hear at my local hipster coffee shop where we talk about, you know, the snowflake movement. And the youth. And the youth, yeah. Hey, who's that? Who is that? I'll tell you who that is in our third seat. First face on the site more. She is Jamie Loftus.

Hi! AKA Lil Zam. AKA Lil Zam! What's up? Oh, it's good. I haven't seen you guys in a while. I know. It's great to see you.

Been traveling. Been traveling. Seeing the great world. Went to the Northwest. They got some good public libraries up there. Yeah. You were really fanning out on the libraries. I was really good.

If you go to the library in Seattle, there's a whole floor that looks like hell on purpose. Oh, really? There's no books. It's all red. No books all red? It sounds like I'm joking, but it looks like hell. There's an empty bookless floor at the library that's all red? There's some meeting floor.

I think there's some meeting rooms in there, but it's a 10-floor library. It's gigantic. And the fourth floor is just hell. Like on purpose. Do they say it's hell floor? On purpose. The fourth floor. They're very like cokeheadish about it where there's like this audio tour, which I went on.

They're very adorable about it. It's so cute. I think it's like cokehead. They have like- Cokeheadish about it. It's so cute. I think it's like Coke head. They have like. Coke head-ish, but like, yeah, dude, fucking shit's crazy there. But they have like this audio tour. And so, of course, I did the whole thing. Oh.

And when you go to the fourth floor and you call the thing for like, oh, can you explain what hell is? Like, they're just like, the fourth floor is where people have meetings. The whole floor and ceilings and floors is painted red. Goodbye. There's no explanation of like why that decision was made or who made the call. Wow. Okay, well

put that on my bucket list. Jamie, you shouldn't be deprived of me saying you're a hilarious comedian who hosts the Bechdel cast just because you've been on like a thousand times. Yes. Thank you so much. You are our most frequent guest, but yes, I should not. I would be remiss in not letting

new listeners know that. Oh, yes. People gotta know. People gotta know. The IOC's worst nightmare. Mensa's worst nightmare. That's right. Yeah, Mensa invited me to their hotel party.

Oh, don't. It's a trap. Keep your enemies closer. I wear a body cam. Yeah. You should just dress as a big camera. So there's no surprise

when the footage leaks of you videotaping. They're like, well, she was dressed as a gigantic camera. Honestly, if they kill me, it's like actually fine and how I would prefer to go.

Oh, no. For new listeners, Jamie infiltrated Mensa. By being able to get into Mensa. Yes. Yeah. Not like you lied. Not like you cheated like I did to get into Mensa.

Right. You got to come to the hotel party, man. Oh, can I? That was banned. There is. Banned from Mensa. All right. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

First, we're going to take our listeners through a few of the things we're talking about today. Talking about the big game, guys. Wow. What a thriller. We're going to talk about the ads because the game was very boring. We're going to talk about how Ralph Northam, Governor Blackface, is refusing to resign. We're going to talk about Trump's schedule, which was leaked by somebody who was clearly like, this motherfucker is not doing anything.

Here's the receipts. Please. We're going to talk about, in related news, how the one piece of work that he does every day has now been canceled because he's in a little fight

with the intelligence community. So no more intel briefings for him. He's too intelligent. He doesn't need any more. Damn. And we're going to check in with Liam Neeson. Just a terrible anecdote from his past. Woke warrior.

That he chose to share with us. That no one needed. That was so weird. Then we'll get back to some Super Bowl memes. The right wing backlash to the wokeness of the Super Bowl. the right-wing backlash to the wokeness of the Super Bowl. Some heavy hitters in the right-wing op-ed community came with some hot takes that they had apparently written before the Super Bowl because they were based on nothing.

But first, Jamie, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I'm going to mix it up today and share. Listen, I've been here long enough. I've got to start to innovate. I'm going to share something that someone recently tweeted at me this morning, something they had to Google search to find something I'd made, and it didn't work.

She Googled the search term, Rat Sisters Sketch Garbage Don't Hate Yourself, looking for a video I'd made, and apparently she was not able to find it, but I thought it was funny that all of those triggering phrases were used in a row to find a cartoon I've made about conjoined rat sisters. Ah, so it is about rat sisters. Rat sisters was on board. Sketch is right.

Garbage is what the characters would eat. Don't hate yourself, I feel like, becomes a her thing in a way that made it impossible to find the video. That is a search term that is revealing about who you are. Yeah, it reflects poorly on me as well. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated is the Seth MacFarlane space television show. The Orville? Yes.

Really? Here's the thing. The Orville is good. I don't like Star Trek or Family Guy. I do, full disclosure, I think that every little New England girl contractually has to have a crush on Seth MacFarlane, even though he has some of the more obvious veneers I've ever seen in my life. And I don't know how many of his original body parts he has, but I love him. Wait, why do New England young people have to love Seth MacFarlane?

Because he's from New England, and he's like the little cartoonist who could. Oh, so, right. Mythical legend status for the region. Yeah. Okay. Exactly. Definitely a regional hero. So, and I used to have like a huge crush on him when I was younger.

But watch the Orville, dropped in. Usually if I'm watching Seth MacFarlane joints, it means that I'm in a bad place mentally. Okay. Just good to know. I started watching the Orville. Guess what? It's good. It's funny. Yeah. in a bad place mentally. Okay. Just good to know. I started watching the Orville. Guess what? It's good. It's funny. It's funny? Yeah. Wow. Alright. So you're

going to put the Yammy Lofty stamp of approval on the Orville right now. I'll watch it. Listen, don't start Your brand is trusted. I know it seems like a gamble. I would say maybe start mid-season one. Oh, you don't need any exposition at all to understand where you're at? Seth MacFarlane I know it seems like a gamble. I would say maybe start mid-season one. It's not.

Oh, you don't need any exposition at all to understand where you're at? Seth MacFarlane is in space with his friends. That's all you got to know. And it's, what a wild ride. There's some really problematic early episodes. You get into mid-season one and they start to figure out, like, okay, okay. That's, you know, we shouldn't have said those things about abortion at the beginning. Okay, well's, you know, we shouldn't have said those things about abortion at the beginning. Okay, well.

Yeah. Are you a McFarland fan on the level that you were pulling for him during the Oscars? I, yes. I, yes. You were? Yes, I remember. You were like, shut up, guys, on Twitter. He's funny.

No, I'm so quiet about my Seth MacFarlane fandom because it does definitely say it sends out a vibe that you know I don't want people in Stewie Griffin t-shirts to approach me right I want them to be very far away from me but uh yeah I use I had such a known crush on Seth MacFarlane in college that I get remember like all the texts I got when he was announced as the host and they're like Jamie your crush oh my goodness I I was like, I know. I had such a crush on him. I remember all the times the FBI visited. I used to have a dream literally when I was, I've been trying to tell standup jokes about

it. Some people think it's funny. Some people think it's like too bad, too much. Too real. Too real. But I, uh, I, I used to have a dream when I was little that Seth MacFarlane would push me down the stairs and that my legs would break. Wait, recurring? Yes.

It was like a romantic dream, though. It had to do with my crush. So he'd push me down the stairs and my legs would be broken. And then he'd go to the bottom of the stairs and be like, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean, it was a mistake. What can I do to make it up to you? And then I would be like, well, first of all, set my legs back, like set my bones back. And second of all, you have to be my boyfriend now.

And then that would be the dream. Yeah. I mean, it shows a very good understanding of how relationships work. And love works. Truly horrifying. He would snap my legs back into place and I'd be like, uh. And they looked even better than before. Yeah.

It was great. Anyways, The Orville. The Orville. Check it out. All that to say, The Orville's pretty good. Season 2 airing now. So you had a crush on him like back when, sorry I'm way too fascinated by this, but like he wasn't really a known like he was first the guy behind Family Guy. Did you just know him from interviews and stuff?

Yeah. Wow. He was known in New England because no one from New England really does stuff. Right. Besides Tom Brady, bro. Oh, we need to talk about Tom Brady kissing his son. Yes. Oh, we need to talk about Tom Brady kissing his son.

But yeah, my uncle thought Seth MacFarlane was like the coolest guy in the whole world. And so he would show us the DVD extras. Oh, okay. And I was like, what? Peter Griffin is hot? Right. And that's where my crush originated. Hey, Jamie, get in here.

Get the fuck in here. You know the cartoon is fucking hot? This guy is fucking hot. He's fucking hot. You see this guy? I was like, oh my fucking God, he is hot. Oh my fucking God. Oh my fucking God, he's actually very hot. Your relationship to your Seth MacFarlane fandom

sounds like my relationship to my Patriots fandom. So we can both be quiet and ashamed. Yeah, I'm not trying to talk about it all the time because it does, yeah, it just gives people the wrong message about your core values. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's something that is overrated?

Ooh, overrated is if you're listening right now and you're still following the Fuck Jerry account. Oh, that guy's so funny. It's so funny, though. Jerry, I love Jerry. It's like a one-stop shop Oh, that guy's so funny. It's so funny. Jerry. You know what I like? I love Jerry. It's like a one-stop shop for like everything that's funny. Right.

It's so, there's been actually a very effective campaign being run by a Vulture writer. Meg Wright. Meg Wright, who has basically just been spreading the word, explaining that this is an account that like steals other people's content and then uses it to sell $75,000 per post ad. Right. Just fucking crazy. Just by doing like hashtag Lala tequila. And you're like, what the fuck?

Am I like weird me? I'm hating my family? Ja Ja, whatever the fuck it was. It's like some random person's tweet and then like me after four glasses of Ja Ja. $75,000. Crazy. That's wild so if you're still following them they steal from comedians and give it to some fucking guy so definitely unfollow them uh and it's so far it's been weird they've lost like 200 000 followers so far okay yeah it's

interesting because i think anyone who likes comedy and is a comedy nerd or works in comedy you can understand why fuck cherry is a whack-ass account because, again, stealing for people, profiting off it with no credit. Then people argue, like, well, they keep the name in there, so blah, blah. But that doesn't mean increased following for those people because at the end of the day, these people got

what they needed from the account. I'm curious to see how to get people who just like meme accounts to understand, like, yo, just put in the work and follow these people too. And you're going to get that content off Twitter because most of the time it's just tweets or other shit. I'm going to roll the dice and say

Seth MacFarlane probably hates Fuck Jerry. Yes. Oh, yeah. Definitely. I mean, he's the realist out there. The realist we have. I think also the Fyre Festival too, it's interesting how that sort of swung the focus background

because people already knew. They're like, yo, fuck Jerry Steeles, the fat Jewish, that account Steeles too. And then he started a wine company, which is so embarrassing. Making them shmanny though somehow.

But again, I think it's interesting how I think the Fyre Fest documentary brought people's sort of attention back onto that account and been like, oh yeah, not only did they do this dumb shit but they're also taking little bits of monies out of the comedian's mouths right so yeah if you follow me don't follow fuck jerry yes follow miles of gray you know follow uh hamburger phone yeah oh. Oh, no. Jamie Christ Superstar. My bad. That's right. R.I.P. R.I.P.

That account. R.I.P. The phone. And when your relatives, your friends who aren't like comedy fans forward you a fuck Jerry meme,

just let them know. Just let them know. Just gotta be aggressive about it. When we were joking about the Super Bowl and just talking about a big ass bowl,

I saw all y'all tagging us in that Vice tweet with the guy smoking a big pipe and like, I'm like, yeah,ging us in that Vice tweet with the guy smoking a big pipe. I'm like, yeah, we're giving it to you fucking days early, bro. Vice steals it. What a great joke.

It was a joke that only one person on earth could have thought of. Super Bowl. I mean, really. I felt sorry for them when they posted that. It was like a dude smoking a big bowl and they were like, Here's a Super Bowl. Here's our type of Super Bowl.

Like, really? Really, Vice? All right. But it's on heroin. The bowl is on heroin. And it's part of a Chinese biker gang. Finally, what is a myth? What's something that most people think is true you know to be false?

So I don't know if we were planning on debriefing on this during our recap of the big game but um i guess i just like want to know how long your own father should be allowed to kiss you on the lips and just sort of take the temp i would say myth your father should kiss you on the lips for and i don't want to put anyone in a box so i was really struggling with this on the way over if you're gonna kiss your father on your lips which you can i don't want to put anyone in a box so I was really struggling with this on the way over. If you're going to kiss your father on your lips, which you can, I don't think it should go longer than a second. Less than a second.

It should be a... It should be... Yeah, if that's what your family does, that's my... I don't know. I grew up kissing my dad and my grandpa on the mouth. Yeah, I kissed my dad and I think my dad still,

he hasn't let it go but we're not holding it. Yeah, I kiss my dad. And I think my dad still, he hasn't let it go. But we're not holding it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, don't. We're not fucking holding it. So this is something that Super Producer Nick Stumpf, when I came in this morning, he was like, I just saw Tom Brady interviewed for the first time. He is a weird creep. And that's true.

Like, if you see him interviewed interviewed he's just got this weird like vibe about him it seems like it's like a very uncomfortable personality that was preserved in amber by his fame and success right so it was like he was you know a weird high school student but then he became so good at football that nobody was like, you're kind of weird, dude. Yeah, knock it off, Tom. Right. And then so there was controversy at the end of the Super Bowl on Sunday night because I don't know if you call it controversy. He was like Frenching his son. Well, he kissed the team owner, Robert Kraft, on the lips perhaps. Yes.

But there's also an outtake from a home video, or I guess it was a documentary. From like last year. TB12. I remember we talked about this, right? Yes. And he's getting a massage on a table, and he makes his son come over, give him a kiss. And his son gives him the sort of kiss that you give your father on the lips if he's demanding that you kiss him on the lips, which is quick. But then he calls him back, though.

And then he sprints out of the room and Tom's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. You get back in here and give me the good stuff. Give me the smooch to the booch. His son is like 11 years old. And it is three seconds long. It's really long. I was really blown away at how

long the kiss was. And then I was like, I fell into like crisis of like, because I felt weird that my dad still kisses me on the lips and those are the quickies yes you know no there i think it's not the smoochies i think a lot of dads want to kiss on the lips they want to kiss their kids they want to kiss their kids on the lips that's fine but just have enough respect for your kid to not hold it and also if you're let the kid decide how long they want exactly if they go okay thank you dad i love you right right because they're not doing

like yeah if you're a dad who's still kissing your kids on the lips they're not like yay they're like there was one point last year where i'd just been single for a while and kissing my dad on the lips was the first lip kiss i'd received in like five months and I was like that just that shouldn't that shouldn't that's not right something's not right and even in that context you presumably did not want to hold it for longer than like less than a second even when violently horny I still didn't want to French my dad right right there it is yeah fathers of the world you've heard it here. Yeah. Kids don't want to hook up. When I flattled off of kissing on the lips, because I did it probably until I was maybe nine.

Right. And then it went to cheek kissing. Yeah. Okay. I don't know if that was a thing I did or- I got to check in with my brother, see if my dad just is not taking social cues right or something. Maybe he's still doing it to my brother.

Maybe he's kissing everyone. Your arms are locked in front of you. Well, is it weird if your dad, before he kisses you on the lips, says, I really need this? Or afterwards. Or I needed that. Or just a deep sigh after. I'm just taking notes over here for when my son doesn't want to kiss me on the lips anymore, you know?

And you're like, what's wrong? What's wrong? Was to cut it off after a mere two seconds. Get out of here. Are my lips chapped? Tell me, how can I make this work? The fact that the son leaves the room and is coerced into coming back. It's very strange.

Oh, God. Yeah. I have contempt for rich people, but I'm like, they also have strange problems. Yes, they do. Because nobody tells them. It really is like a look at what the human mind will do if it just encounters no obstacles. Right, right. Where nothing is weird.

Right. Nothing is weird. Yeah. Just do what you got to do. Live your life. Well, guys, let's talk about the big game. The ads in particular, that was basically the only thing to watch because the game was very slow, exceedingly slow. I think Patriots fans were the only ones who enjoyed it.

And even then, you had to be diehard. I'm a non-diehard Patriots fan from way back. And I was just like... Did you guys both watch the whole thing? Miles watched nothing. I watched the Orville. I watched Great News. Which is also underrated. People should check that out

on Netflix. I watched some other sports earlier in the morning. Some Italian soccer. And then all my friends were like not doing anything it was weird it was one of the first time like collectively no one gave a fuck yes so people were like i think i might go to my aunt's real quick there was no like usually there was some like thing where it's like this person is gonna have people over yeah

and we'll just not really watch but we can just the social exercise of the super bowl was gonna occur snacks yeah but this year like everybody was like and everybody's local like everybody's an LA person and no one cared yeah and I think that's when I knew I was like

oh I think the casual allegiance to the NFL is worn off for some people especially me yeah yeah so out of a sense of duty to this show

and also to my Patriots to Brady bro to Brady to the mouth kisses bro Tommy Champions to this show and also to my Patriots. To Brady, bro. To Brady. To the fucking Brady. To the mouth kisses, bro. Tommy champions. Mr. Mouth kisses.

Tommy six rings. So I do think the Super Bowl ads are important to pay attention to for our purposes as a show that tracks the zeitgeist, that looks at America's shared consciousness. There's never more attention and scrutiny and money and science and talent devoted to trying to sit down and interact with America's consciousness. Okay, we get it. You watch the Super Bowl.

Go on. It's your dedication that allows me to be dabbed out on the couch watching great news. So thank you. Anyways, still, you know, mixed success. I don't really like to spend too much time being like, this one sucked. This one's great. But here we go. They're all pretty much generally not that great.

The Game of Thrones thing was weird. That a Bud Light Dilly Dilly ad turned into a Game of Thrones ad because that suggests that Game of Thrones was like we need this collab. We need to loop in the Dilly Dilly universe. The extended Dillyverse.

The extended Dillyverse. Full circle. HBO is going to green light that as one of the Game of Thrones spinoffs. The Dilly Dillyverse. It's a comedy. And Miles, you were saying that you read somewhere that HBO insisted on the Bud Knight

getting his head smashed. So in the commercial, that's the only thing I watched because you're like, there was a Bud Light X Game of Thrones collab, and I was like, alright, fine. And it starts off Dilly Dilly, then the knight, everyone's like, it's the Bud Knight, gets destroyed. By then we find out it was the mountain. Right.

And then the mountain, like when he killed Homeboy, the Sand Snake, just crushed his skull. Right. Like a grape. Yeah. And then the dragon came through and vaporized the set. And then apparently I was reading now, because I was like, what the, how did they come to this idea right because like the bud night i think is a fixture in a lot of the other ones too i think it's been in a couple yeah yeah apparently that the head of marketing for hbo and like they were like okay this is the way the commercial is going to go anheuser-busch was like uh is there

a way to like maybe not kill the bud night like can he just get the shit kicked out of him and he's alive but maybe limpy or whatever. And the guy was like, the Bud Knight dies. Or we're not doing it. And they're like, okay. That is a fun use of power. That is a fun use of power.

In a way, it could have been HBO hating the Dilly Dilly thing and be like, we'll bait him in with a collaboration and then we're gonna kill off this fucking knight. Right, because they essentially killed everybody with a dragon swooping in and just fire blasting the dilly dilly king and everything. Imagine having that kind of power, though, and being able to do that flex where you're

like, yeah, I'll do the commercial, but at the end, the Burger King has to slit his own throat. Right, exactly. And you can't bring him back ever. Right, right. Or I won't do it. And we see him dead in a bathtub at the end. And then all the other commercials have to be memorial services for him. Every subsequent commercial will be that, yeah, the mourning of him. An exhumation and a DNA test where they're like, yes, it is the Burger King.

A lot of you are saying it's not. Contractually, yeah. A full 15 years after this airs, there will then be a follow-up commercial in which you do exhume his corpse for further forensic testing. And you see where the decay is at. His wormy face, decomposed Burger King mask. Anyways uh i did want to comment on one trend i saw because it seemed like a lot of these you know giant american public polling ad firms came to

the same conclusion that humanity wanted to like dunk on robots in the most emotionally punishing and existentially visceral way possible. Or there's a wild ton of robot commercials. There were all these robots. There was a Michelob Ultrad. There are a couple of really bad Michelob Ultrads, but there was one where robots are like the, in this universe robots jog and go to the driving range and show off how much better they are at golf than you and jog past you because they have superior endurance because they're robots.

And then one of the robots is walking by a bar and sees people celebrating with Michelob Ultra after a sick workout like we all do. And they're all laughing and smiling and the robot gets sad because it can't experience joy. And then it starts raining on the robot and it's like workouts are only worth it because you can enjoy them or something like that. And that's the end. I want the robots to kill us. I watched this.

Shove you down the stairs and then put your leg back together. And then like really sexually realign my legs. So that would be a weird ad on its own. Then there's a Pringles ad where an Alexa-style robot tells them, they're like, how many combinations of flavors can you make? And the Alexa says like 250,000, but then starts talking about like her existential dread at like not being able to live and fully experience life and then the guy cuts her off and goes cool play funky town

bitch no they don't say but that's the essential like yeah uh tone of. And then it's just like, ha ha, you robots can't experience joy. And then there's a TurboTax ad featuring a child robot who finds out he'll never experience human emotions. Like, is it like a humanoid? Like, does it look like a humanoid? And the guy's like, look at the robot I built. And the robot's like, I want to be one of the human TurboTax advisors. And they're like, only humans who have real emotions can do that. And he just gets really sad and then starts malfunctioning.

Oh, boy. And then there's a SimpliSafe ad. This was like, there were like five ads. I swear to God. It was just like all of the advertising advisors just can't. They were like, people fucking hate alexa bro yeah they think she's these are written by baby boomers right it was just everybody there was a so there's a simply safe ad where that included a scene where this guy's was like with his wife at an apple

store and he's not listening to her like we do bros uh and she's like tom are you listening to me and alexa's like always i'm always listening and he's like oh but then it's like when you're at home you want to feel safe with simply safe uh simply safe has some of the more sinister advertising ever they're always advertising on podcasts about murder right and there's all these insane pivots that are like, hey, you know how the people in this podcast weren't safe? Well, you could be safe. Right. That's true.

It's horrible. It's bad. Anyways, I think that's worth noting that Americans are mad at our Alexas. It's also kind of pathetic that we're like insecure threatened by alexa whatever like they can't feel emotion she thinks she has all the answers what just because my kid goes to her to ask her to play music well maybe your first problem is your anthropomorph you're trying to act as if this is a human and not just a machine okay well look do you right there's also also there's like all these studies that men are way nicer to male robot voices, and they are very willing to scream at Alexa and scream.

Everyone yells at their little robots, but there's all these gender studies of all the robots are female voices for a reason, and then people are so mean to them, and they're going to kill us. That'd be amazing to just spontaneously change the voice to a man and they're like, hey, play my music. Play Funky Town, Joey. And it's like, what? And you're like, I'm sorry, sir. Yeah. Sir, I'm sorry. Or it's just built-in toxic masculinity.

Like, wait, you really want to listen to Celine Dion right now, bro? All right. Yeah, OK. I guess here we go. Are you sure? Should I order you some more pads on Prime? All right. Yeah, okay. I guess here we go. Are you sure? Should I order you some more pads on Prime? All right. Joey.

Well, we learned a lot about ourselves in that segment. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption

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pointed out that we're not even near the end of the fear technology you stupid humans add genre from this year's super bowl because alexa like amazon alexa themselves had an ad where they were like but you what you don't know is all the ways alexa's been malfunctioning and like harrison ford's they're like we made a dog collar a. And Harrison Ford's dog is ordering a bunch of food. And then they have the space station using Alexa. And it turns all of our power off. It's just, it's very strange. Anyways, let's talk about happier subjects. Super, super game.

Yeah, man. You really, you blew it. Yeah, I blew it like Ralph Northam blew it this weekend. Wow. Who's that? Ralph Northam. He is the governor of Virginia. Democratic governor of Virginia. And oddly enough, the way this, what was going on in Virginia that week was there was a third trimester abortion bill that was being considered. Yes. And he had some quotes on that. And like a lot of things came up that week. One was like some quotes he had on it.

And then another was this photo from his college med school book from 1984, his yearbook. Right. And on his page, that was like Ralphie Northam page was him with, you know, typical Americana guy in front of a Corvette, literally. And then like a image of two, I'm, are white men, one in blackface. The other, I don't know, but I'm going to assume they're white because they're wearing a Klan hood, full on KKK costume, uniform. And this came out.

And first he was like, yo, I'm really sorry about these photos. Like, that was a long time ago. Like, blah, blah, blah. And then he said, he's like, wait, actually, I didn't do my due diligence. I realized I'm not do my due diligence. I realized I'm not actually in that photo. But then he proceeded to just dig himself deeper and then goes, but I did do blackface this one time when I was, look, I was trying to be Michael.

Just listen to this, him saying this out loud at a press conference i dressed up uh you know um what's his name he's saying michael jackson excuse me that's why i had pam with me um i had uh the shoes i had a glove uh and i used just a little bit of shoe polish to put under my or on my cheeks and the reason i used a very little bit is because I don't know if anybody's ever tried that but you cannot get shoe polish off but it was a it was a dance contest I had always liked Michael Jackson I actually won the contest because I had learned how to do all relevant all relevant my wife says inappropriate circumstances Are you still able to moonwalk? Are you still able to moonwalk? Inappropriate circumstances. My wife says inappropriate circumstances.

Oh, my God. The question from the reporter, just being like calling his bluff, just being like, oh, yeah, so you can moonwalk. Trying to get him to do it. Or just being like, yo, I bet I can get this moonwalk at his blackface I'm sorry press conference. Wow. I mean, here's a couple things. And moonwalk badly.

There's no way like Ralph Wortham is going to be amazing. I mean, here's a couple things. And moonwalk badly. There's no way like Ralph Wortham's going to be amazing. I mean, look, if he really hit that moonwalk, I would be willing to reconsider my offense at him wearing blackface. The fucking thing, first of all, okay, sure, that wasn't me in those photos, but you chose those photos to be on your page. But then you really fucked up when you literally moonwalk all over your own dick at the press conference and be like, I don't know if y'all try blackface like me, but it's hard to get off.

So how many times have you done blackface, sir? Yeah, that the the reason that he's like, well, you can't get shoe polished off. So that's why you can't use that much. You're like, that is your that's the defense. And the ways he tried to mitigate, like, you know, I had the glove. I had the shoes. He doesn't even know Michael Jackson's name?

I just put a little bit on my cheeks, you know, black cheek. What they do. Like, what the fuck is that? So did he do this? You blacked up. Don't act like,

oh, I just, a little bit on my cheeks. You would have looked insane. Right. What are you, the chimney sweep? Pretend to be Michael Jackson at a contest? Do you think- Pretend to be Michael Jackson at a contest?

Do you think he did this because he is afraid that pictures of that will, like, someone might have pictures of that? Yeah. It had to have been.

Yeah. Because they probably, all of his advisors are like, hold the fuck up. First of all, shout out to the Democratic Party for not finding this and then be like,

yeah, this guy's viable as a candidate. Right. The fact that he, they probably said i'm done okay is there anything else he's like right i did win that michael jackson contest and it wasn't because of the moonwalking it was because the blackface people were like oh he went there uh and yet tasteful amount of shoe polish yeah and so people were like yo he needs

to resign i totally agree it's like i don't know why you don't resign i believe that you have a space for redemption but you do that by resigning and taking a long hard look at yourself because you know this is one of those situations too where he's definitely worn the clothes of a progressive very well like of being like i understand like what people of color are going through i understand like the trouble like teachers of color like having to like work in inner city like he says all the right things but then you realize it's one of these things just in America. We go, wait a second. That's the persona you have now.

But what is your past about? And then you're like, of course. Yeah. You were dabbling in the in the fucking ignorance back in the day. In the yearbook. But, you know, but I did Moonwalk and I won. So that hopefully changes someone's opinion. Right.

Oh, sir. Yeah. So as of this moment, he has yet to resign. Everyone is like resign. Yeah. But, you know, we'll see where that goes. What were his quotes that initially caused the backlash about the third trimester abortion? backlash about the third trimester abortion? It was having to do with, because I think he was,

he was supporting a bill that would allow it for like pregnancies that, you know, like where the carrying it to full term would actually endanger the mother. Right. Like not just sort of anyone who wanted a late term abortion, but like for like real medical reasons where like three doctors all agreed that it would, it would make sense for this to occur. Right. And they dug up, doctors all agreed that it would it would make sense for this to occur right and they dug up i think it was a past interview he had done or on a radio show where they just tried to spin his words to be like oh he's down for infanticide got like sort of and spinning it that way yeah and that's what sort of caused all this like weird oppo research to happen suddenly around ralph northam right so it is probably coming from the conservative side. Oh, it was. No, most definitely.

Like it was a website from a guy who's like a former Breitbart daily caller type dude. His website was the one to publish it first. And then that got into mainstream media. So it's definitely like the oppo hit machine on the right firing up to find this, which doesn't excuse the shit he did. But it's really interesting that you know again the democrats couldn't even go through his yearbook like the bare minimum of skimming anything to be like oh what's this i mean or they did and then just hoped no one would

sure yeah no absolutely it's like yeah everyone's shady yeah so again you know we'll see if he uh moonwalks out of the governor's mansion but uh as of now, he was like, his wife thinks he shouldn't have to. Other people are like, well, let's not jump to any conclusions. The conclusions are all there. And if he resigns, the lieutenant governor would take his place and become the only black governor in the United States. So also worth considering. All right.

Resign, bitch. Yeah, man. Let's talk about executive time, aka Trumpy playtime. So somebody has leaked every single day of the president's schedule for the past three months, and presumably somebody who is not fond of how that schedule breaks down and it's pretty easy to see why um 60 he spent 60 of his time in what is called

executive time yeah is that a playpen well we always talked about when it first emerged like maybe eight months ago or something this idea of the executive time or like what the fuck is that and they're like well it's like when he basically just sleeps in, hangs out in the bedroom, not until 11 a.m. Usually executive time always starts, like, ends at 11. So from the time he wakes up at, like, 6 or whenever he starts firing off shit tweets at 6 a.m. to 11, he's just watching TV, apparently, like, calling aides when he sees stuff on TV he doesn't like.

And it was like, what the fuck is this? Like it's not really, there's nothing legislative or anything. It's just like him reacting to news. Him reacting to the news cycle. And hanging out. Yeah. Like basically the least productive and most dangerous thing that he does is what executive time is. It's that period during the morning when we're all terrified because he's just a

loose cannon. Who's ready to unleash some crazy tweet. Yeah. And like, you know, the, not that all presidents work full on eight hours, like early on the Clinton presidency,

there was like Clinton time kind of thing where he was just like hours late to shit and was like more into policy briefings and wasn't doing much of like, like he was getting criticism for that kind of schedule but at the end of the day still very much a president job relevant even tasks right yeah even george w bush who everyone's like oh remember him uh like he fucking woke up at like 5 15 every day then this is like on historical records of like his past schedules was in the oval by 6 45 and then would like you know be finished around 6 p.m then do a workout and then have dinner by like end at 7 30 and then

be reading like policy uh like right after that and then go to bed at nine even even lazy but who knows they could have just been cooking the books for him to make him look like he was doing all that shit there dude i there why people are still out here thinking George W. Bush is cute. I know. I was like, he's a reverse Hitler, is a bad artist now, but was originally a terrible warmonger. What shows you the power of comparison. When you put that next to this, you're like,

actually George W. Bush was our greatest president. Yeah. That's why everybody thought World's Greatest was such an entertaining show last night after the Super Bowl. I kept hearing from people being like, did you see that? Those three little kids who could sing? And it was like, yeah, that only seemed entertaining to you because the Super Bowl was the most boring three hours you've ever spent. Wow. Roast of children.

Just like Brian roast of you. Those kids sucked. They thought they were Beyonce. Right. Yeah, and, you know, again, this is just part of, this isn't anything that we didn't know, you know, because we've heard about executive time. I think we all suspected that's what was going on.

And then also you look at the amount of time he spent at Mar-a-Lago. Like, this isn't a president who's interested in doing presidential shit by any means. Right. And I think along with those are a lot other more, you know, just little points, details about how, again, he hates actual work. So even when it comes to like briefings, he doesn't look at them. If it's time to review briefing materials, he won't do it.

So if you want to get him to do it, they were saying that the only way to actually get him to pay attention to a briefing or briefing materials was only if you talk and guide him through it as he's reading so like read along right read to him right that's what this word means uh-huh okay next page otherwise he'll just be like yeah because apparently he says to people he doesn't need to prepare because he's more like he has a better vibe of things rather than looking at intelligence that's been gathered by the experts. Right. And if you've ever seen the video where he is being deposed in a case, I think it was like 10 years ago. And they keep asking him to read the thing back to them. And he refuses to.

He's like, there's so many words. What do you want me to i don't have my glasses and it's like he can't read yeah i don't think he can read that well or like not in a way that makes him like comfortable to do it out loud well he does it on prompter when he does telepr i mean let's not let's be real he can read he can yeah he can i mean i don't think well 400 seasons of the apprentice heice, he can read? I love that this is a take. I think the president can read.

Can he read or can he not read? And I'm like pointing at real things like, well, he does use a teleprompter, so unless someone's feeding it to him. Not to be alt-right, but I think he can read. Pete Davis said at the SNL he couldn't read well, basically. He can't read something out loud in a way. There's always people in school or anywhere where they have a hard time reading out loud, and it's probably some undiagnosed learning disability or something. And it's not great,

but it's also usually people who are in a position to need to read will deal with it. But he's not that type of person who would deal with a problem. He would just be like, yeah, I can read. I read the best. He's like, no, I just go off book, baby. It's all jazz. All jazz. Give me the chart.

I mean, so that's how his supporters are choosing to approach the executive time. They're like, this is an unusual president and he has unusual success like sarah sander's time leaves him to like be basically in a flow state yeah they say it's a trump jazz we have to carve out creative time for him right to be to look at the problems a little more creatively right i would be fine with that if they were like putting him in some sort of sensory deprivation tank right like if he wasn't allowed, like I don't mind that if he's not doing anything,

that's probably better for the world, but he just shouldn't have a phone. Right. Because they say he does call foreign leaders a lot during this time. Just to be like so friendly. And like friends

or like informal aides just to be like, is that good or what should I? Well, and yeah, that's also bled over to the intelligence community, too, because like another of these articles that were about his executive time, they're saying even like national security materials that he gets all the time has to be like very, very visual. are national security threats and we're doing them in fun pictures they say with screenshots from the drudge report homepage pictures of his own tweets and snapshots of cable news chyrons from throughout the day to get for him to even wrap his head like oh so it's happening on tv okay this is real then right drudge okay so yeah and now the intel community is also starting to

leak too because last week the intel chiefs you know the of the NSA, CIA, FBI, the director of national intelligence, Coats, they all testified in front of Congress to kind of give their like, here's the state of world security. Fake news. And they said things that were the truth like North Korea ain't disarming or Iran is not making an atom bomb or ISIS is not defeated by any stretch of the fucking imagination. That's because they're part of the deep state.

Right. Exactly. So then Trump lost it. First, he went on being like, oh, well, they're actually they're naive. Maybe the intelligence community should go back to school. Yeah, exactly. They're like, you these are all your picks, motherfucker. These aren't like hacks from the Obama era.

You used to be like, oh, that's an Obama guy. Like, these are your picks. This is your guy. Then shifted to saying that the media was contorting and twisting their words to misinterpret what they said. And they're just showing clips of their testimony. Right. So there's no editing there. So basically, they

came, spoke their truth, and that got Trump really pissed off. So then with that happening the white house essentially started canceling his daily intelligence briefing because they're just like they're trying to figure out what they're going to do and sarah huckabee sanders when they said what happened she said it was moved and they said she did not go into further detail as to why and did not follow up didn't respond to any follow-ups. Huh. And, you know, just so you get it, this is the day when all the top spies, for lack of a better word,

tell him what the fuck is going on, what the threats are to security, so they can understand under his leadership how to respond to these things. And just because they're like, they disagreed with me in public, that I'm just going to bury my head in the sand. It's absurd.

And this is like the bare minimum you could do is just to show up to the briefing when they're like, these are the problems. But apparently he has a really bad habit of when people say things that he doesn't like, he just disagrees. So because of this and him trying to fight with the intelligence community,

there are a lot of people now just saying, like giving quotes. So this is from an article in the Business Insider. It says, citing multiple in-person episodes, these intelligence officials say Trump displays what one would call, quote, willful ignorance when presented with, and by using visual aids, confining some briefing points to two or three sentences, and repeating his name and title as frequently as possible. What is most troubling— Mr. President Donald Trump. Mr. President Donald Trump.

ISIS is not defeated, Mr. President Donald Trump. And then they go on to say that some intelligence officials reported that they've been warned to avoid giving the president intelligence assessments that contradict stances he has taken in public. So now we're just being like, yo, don't even tell him if it's something he disagrees with, even if it's something as massively important as like some hostile countries like nuclear capabilities. For example, they were trying to get him to understand like yo north korea is still developing shit like look at this test site it's massive he's like well kim jong-un told me they're done they had to basically to give him an idea of how big the operation was they had a model of the site like someone had to build a physical model yeah i think even better than lego my man oh wow and

then they took the top off as if it were like an aerial view and put another model of the Statue of Liberty to scale to be like, so that's how big it is compared to a thing you know, the Statue of Liberty. That fits inside here. Wow. And it's like, I don't know. So. Cool. Sick. We're fucked.

Everything's going well. Yeah. And then, you know, for all this bullshit, he wants to talk about, oh, these security threats. well yeah but and then you know for all this bullshit he wants to talk about oh these security threats we have a state of emergency at our southern border which was like so low on their list of actual threats like this isn't even that thing we call a threat to the point where you even want to just kick your briefing in the ass that you don't you don't even care to understand yeah i'm sorry but like there's no way even if if you're a lot i don't know i mean i'd hate to say that people who are his super fans use any kind of logic,

but if national security is that important to him, then why does he have this, what they describe as willful ignorance around legitimate security threats? Right. Yeah, he doesn't care. Yeah. Hey, that's cool. That's a cool job, though. Real threat.

That's a pretty cool job. Pretty cool life. It's a pretty cool life. That's what he used to say to people. Pretty cool job. Pretty cool life. It's a pretty cool life. That's what he used to say to people.

There was a profile of him in The New Yorker where he kept bringing the guy around who was profiling him and being like, check out this pair of boxing gloves Mike Tyson signed for me. Pretty cool, huh? Pretty cool, huh? I live a pretty cool life. Well, there was that whole conversation between him and the publisher of the New York Times last week too where he was basically saying like yeah the New York Times is fake news blah blah blah but then he kept slipping in like

I don't understand why you guys won't write a glowing profile of me I feel that I've earned it and you're just like okay so you're just you're lawless you're just a narcissist lawless. Yeah because he tried to get the publisher for like an off the record-record dinner. He was like, fuck out of here, no way.

Yeah, and then he was like, all right, so why are you getting so mean to me? Yeah. The description is so like arms crossed. He spoke in a low voice. Like, whatever, you guys just haters. While kicking sand. Could you like stop? Please.

All right, we're going to take take a quick break we'll be right back Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was murdered there are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price.

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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 Santer. 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 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. Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep.

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You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it That was live audio of a woman's nightmare This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year ago We're not hurting people There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year ago. We're not hurting people.

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with season two of the Amber and Lacey Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network. You thought you had fun last season? Well, you were right. And you should tune in today for new fun segments like Sister Court and listening to Lacey's steamy DMs. We've got new and exciting guests like Michael Beach, that's my husband, Daphne Spring, Daniel Thrasher, Peppermint, Morgan J, and more. You gotta watch us.

No, you mean you have to listen to us. I mean, you can still watch us, but you gotta listen. Like, if you're watching us, you have to tell us. Like, if you're out the window, you have to listen to us i mean you can still watch us but you gotta listen like if you're watching us you have to tell us like if you're out the window you have to say hey i'm watching you outside of the window just just you know what listen to the amber and lacey lacey and amber sean will ferrell's big money players network on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever And we're back. And Liam Neeson, just, so he has a movie coming out, Cold Pursuit, where he plays a snowplow driver. Oh, I thought you were talking about snowplow. No. Yes.

That's it? I believe so. Oh, wow. I mean, in spite of what we're about to talk about, that sounds good. That's it? I believe so. Oh, wow. I mean, in spite of what we're about to talk about, that sounds good. Yeah, no, I was. No wonder you dropped this. And it's also getting good reviews, strangely.

Yeah, there's a bit about vengeance there. Yeah, so anyways. I lived once. I just don't know. This is a weird story. It's a very strange story. During the press conference, he confessed that he... Here, I'll just read the excerpt from this.

So essentially he said a close friend of his was raped while he was overseas, and he asked the woman, he's like, do you know what they were, what they looked like? And it was a person of color. So then he begins to sort of really, I guess, open up the box more so we can see what was inside his mind. He said it was some time ago. Neeson had just come back from overseas and found out. His immediate reaction to hearing about the rape was there was a pause. I asked, did she know who it was?

No. What color were they? She said it was a black person. I went up and down areas with Akash, hoping I'd be approached by somebody. I'm ashamed to say that. And I did it for maybe a week, hoping some, Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers, black bastard would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know, so that I could, another pause, kill him. And then he's like, you know, I obviously was really ashamed. It was a really dark point in my life.

But it's like, do you want points because you're like, I didn't indulge my crazy murder fantasy of vengeance? What was he hoping to accomplish? I think he was hoping this was the closest he ever felt to one of his characters as like a man of vengeance. Right. You can come to kick some arse. And... Yeah.

But he also had a guilt about it and just is so out of touch. He's been famous for too long, so he just thinks that that's a thing that he can talk about. Yeah. Yeah, it's bad, but you know, you guys get it. Sure. Revenge isn't beneficial to about. Yeah. Yeah, it's bad, but you know. I mean, I get like-

You guys get it. Sure. Revenge isn't beneficial to anybody. Right. Right. Fantastic. But like- Liam Neeson is historically weird in interviews though.

He'll say stuff that is always like, you're like, I see what you're going for, but he always like, there was a story- I know that horse. There was like a story last year where he said that like the pay gap between uh male and female actors was disgraceful and they're like so would you take a pay cut to absolutely he's like no not me so he like started i was like. That's not my problem. So this is like a very weird pattern for him of being like, oh, maybe he's about to say something not confusing and offensive. But then he just sticks the landing on.

Yeah. But the best part they say is like right after he said that, his co-star that's sitting next to him, right after he finishes just goes, holy shit. Verbatim is his quote right after he says that shit. And then he's like, it's awful. But I did learn a lesson from it when I eventually thought, what the fuck are you doing? You know? Right. Anyway.

Uh-huh. I play a plow man. I was like, just talk about snow plows yeah you don't gotta make this it reminds her that bit when uh life is short when he like goes to do improv comedy with ricky gervais and steven merchant and they're just all like dude what the fuck are you improvving it really does like it seems like that was in some way based on his actual personality. Right, where he's like, if it's true, I'll say it and act like it's not odd because it's true and then that's that. I'm Liam Neeson. Goodbye.

Anyways, you guys know how hard it is to get shoe polish off your face, right? I just put a little bit on my cheeks. Right. Just to try it out. So in other Super Bowl news. Oh, back to that. Back to that. So I just noticed a trend on the monitoring of right-wing media

that there was this premeditated right-wing sort of backlash to all the wokeness in the Super Bowl ads and in the Super Bowl broadcast itself being crammed down our throats. And I actually saw people like on the front page of Drudge, they were like, is the Maroon 5 performance at halftime going to be like too woke or are they going to try and be SJWs about everything? So they were ready for this to be like the Wokeness Olympics. And Todd Starnes, for one, is pissed. Because the Super Bowl ad, he's a Fox News columnist. And he was mad because the Super Bowl ads weren't hilarious like they usually are.

And you can thank millennials for that. He said, a good many of this year's Super Bowl commercials were a bit of a disappointment. For the most part, they were dull and uninspired. Even worse, they were not funny. And then, for some reason, he writes, dilly dilly. And I have a theory as to why this year's commercials did not tickle America's funny bone fear.

Advertisers are terrified of triggering the perpetually offended generation. And the headline is you can thank humorless vegans and perpetually offended millennials for lack of Super Bowl laughs. Millennials are killing Super Bowl ads, you guys. But he also blames, so blaming humorless vegans, the only time veganism came up was an ad making fun of vegans because they were like the worst place to be was like a vegan dinner party. Oh, wow.

And Super Producer Nick Stumpf just pointed out there was a second ad wherein Alex Rodriguez is about to be forced to eat kale chips at at some vegan Super Bowl party, and the Planner's peanut guy action heroes his way into the room and slides some mixed nuts under his hands so he doesn't have to eat the kale chips. Because peanuts are not vegetables. Because they're meat.

Basically, they were anticipating like this overwhelming and there have been, like I think last year or two years ago, there were a lot of ads that kind of leaned on the heartstrings

and kind of making statements. But this year was not that at all. And these guys all like went out on a limb with a hot take about how PO'd they were about Super Bowl ads and being woke. Wow. I mean, woke?

Yes. That's not a word I would ever use in the NFL unless it was like a player who had a head injury who went into a coma awoke from his coma. Right. But like, yeah, okay. Yeah, millennials are killing Super Bowl commercials. Hey, you mess with the bull, you get the stars And police are killing people of color So what do you want to do there?

Sorry, you stepped on my amazing joke You mess with the bull, you get the starns Anyways It's so funny because all those guys who write those op-eds Of like, why are millennials killing comedy? It's like, what do you think is funny? And they're like, oh, I like when Billher says uh god isn't real oh my fucking god right and that's like the super well i'm sure these guys think it's funny when like that guy said i hope she's a really a chick and not a dude

right right those are funny knock me over uh a feather. Anyways, there was also a Daily Caller article that was just so grasping so hard. They were saying that Super Bowl advertisers were lecturing us about girl power and wind energy. And then they showed- You can't have one without the other. Girl power, wind power, sun power. Girl power is powered by wind. It was just a like little interstitial with jim nance being like brought to you by budweiser now being brewed with

wind power and that was it and they were like cram it down our throats why don't you and then the best part was they got mad at spiked seltzers ad for like some spiked seltzer product, because it was two mermaids pitching their idea to sharks. But the mermaids, he said, were quite literally buttoned up. Instead of the typical seashell bra top made famous in any number of depictions of mermaids, the two in this particular ad wore shirts that bared a little midriff, but were otherwise buttoned up.

I'm sorry, what? So the anger was, where were the mermaid tits? Yes, that is exactly what the anger was. Cool. Like, what the fuck? And the whole point of the ad is that they're business women mermaids. So yes, they're wearing business woman

shirts. I don't know, man, if we're actually going to map out what the business world is in mer culture, like merman or maid, you would be wearing, you know, the dudes wouldn't wear shirts, the chicks wear little like shell pasties, and they would still be considered serious business people. People do that. Dude, we just recorded a Bechdel cast on The Little Mermaid,

and I was looking back at ways that grown men reviewed that movie when it came out. I've got a quick little pull quote of how a grown man described Ariel the mermaid in 1989. He says, she's a sexy little honey bunch with a double scallop shell bra and a mane of red hair tossed in a tumble out of bed Southern

California sexy salon style. Holy shit! What? Who? Who wrote that review? the Los Angeles Times Michael Wilmington you're on fucking notice pal

you're a freak wow what the fuck? curse hits how old is she really too? isn't there like 16 she's 16?

yeah but that is yeah so that is secretly a thing amongst like I don't know middle of the road

Jesus Christ conservatives ugly dudes need their mermaid titties. Yeah, that guy who wrote that review is the same. Who wrote the mermaid take on Daily Caller? Just some writer there? Some guy named Michael Wilmington?

But yeah, they must come from the same generation where they just like drool over the idea of Ariel. It was actually Virginia Cruda who was an associate editor there. Well, maybe there's some across the aisle mingling to be done with her and Michael Wilmington. I know. He's got a rock hard bonar for a cartoon.

Bonar. Yeah. Bonar. Bonar. And he announces it every time he gets one. Bonar. Newsroom, I have a bonar. Uh-oh.

Is that how the workplace was in 1989? People could just do that? Almost definitely. What does my dick have in common with a dolphin? They both got bonar. You know what I mean? They speak with clicks and stuff. The Daily Caller article was also mad that Google advertised its translation feature with an ad focused mainly on how the ability to understand each other can bring people closer together that's bullshit man what

the fuck um that was the criticism yeah it focused mainly on how the ability to understand each other oh god because like their fantasy world is where women are dressed like slave lay all the time and we're burning coal around the clock. And we're seawalking on solar panels and burning up all the kale harvests. Come on. Conservatives, you guys are winning. You can't strike the... We're losing. The culture war is taking all the things we love away from us pose anymore.

You guys are winning. They're lecturing us on girl power and wind power. Right. Well, Jamie. It's been wonderful having you back. I missed you guys. We missed you. The Zeitgang misses you. Where can people find you?

You can find me on Twitter.com at Jamie Loftus Help and Instagram at JamieCcarstsuperstar. If you live in Philly, I'm doing two shows there this Saturday. If you live in LA, I'm doing a show on Friday at 10pm at the Lyric Hyperion.

Nice. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yeah, I loved a Joe Pera tweet. Joe Pera tweeted, he doesn't tweet often, but he drops fire every once in a while. Tweeted during the Super Bowl. Told my wife that if my team wins, I will give her a kiss. And then follows up that tweet right away with,

parentheses, I will kiss her either way. Close parentheses. Another fire Joe Pera tweet. Nice. Miles, where can people Find you Find me on Twitter And Instagram At miles of gray

There's not really Specific tweets There were just so many Memes That happened I'm sure Jack You're gonna point to a few But

I particularly liked Some of the 21 Savage ones Because we found out That the Atlanta rapper Is actually Has a UK passport and was overstaying his visa by like 14 years. And everyone was like, what? He's from the UK.

So just the internet did its thing and there were many, many different memes with 21 Savage and UK culture. One of my favorite was just it said, 21 Savage bringing a car to his 12 car garage, but they did that vine of the girls like, I'm in me bringing a car to his 12 car garage but they did that vine of the girls like i'm in me mom's car vroom vroom jesus i liked the one that was uh a picture of like the red coats like yeah history books and it was like when 21 savage said he had how like shooters and i got shooters dressed in all red yeah this is what he was talking about yeah uh yeah and some great tweets from sunday night uh during the super bowl dana perino a fox news analyst tweeted i made queso and it was a picture of a bowl full of diarrhea but like

not literal it just looks like that's what it looks like. It's horrible. And so there were just a number of amazing responses. Like somebody. Yeah, if you've ever been in a music festival porta potty, you will be familiar with what is in this crock pot. And then there were just some good ones about Adam Levine's tattoos. There was one that just put him side by side with a Chipotle bag because they look almost identical. Were there a bunch of like Target pillows that looked exactly like Adam Levine's shirt? Yes, they looked exactly like

Adam Levine's shirt. There was one that said Adam Levine is tattooed like he's the main character in Memento, but the mystery is where he left his jewel. You can follow me at Jack underscore O'brien you can follow us on twitter at daily zeitgeist you can follow me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can follow us on twitter at daily

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another track from that album because I really love that album. This is one featuring Tom York. A lot of people think it's a Radiohead song. It's not. It's actually an Uncle song called Rabbit in Your Headlights. DJ Shadow and James Lavelle. it's a Radiohead song. It's not. It's actually an Uncle song called Rabbit in Your Headlights. DJ Shadow and James Lavelle. Just a real moody song. It's real rainy for us here in Los Angeles.

So the playlist is reflecting. Is this just the new reality now? It's just going to be raining in Southern California all the time? If it is what you say it is, I love it. Oh, yeah. Weather. We miss you. 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 then. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. I'm losing my patience I'm a rabbit in your headlights

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