The Daily Zeitgeist - Pricey Turd Protection, Wokelympics? 1.13.20

Episode Date: January 13, 2020

In episode 547, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Blake Wexler to discuss Mike Pompeo claiming Soleimani posing an imminent threat with no evidence, Steve Mnuchin trying to hide how much is spent on protecting the president, whether or not Harvey Weinstein really needs that walker, the upcoming summer Olympics in Tokyo, Heinz refusing to stop, Family Feud in Canada, and more!FOOTNOTES: Pompeo reasserts that Soleimani posed imminent threat, but won't define 'imminent' Mnuchin seeks delay of proposed disclosure of Secret Service spending on presidential travel until after election Harvey Weinstein spotted without his walker: Is he only using one for sympathy? We Asked a Doctor If Harvey Weinstein Really Needs That Walker Does Weinstein Need A ‘Go Fund Me’ To Buy A Walker Without Tennis Balls? Harvey Weinstein’s Sympathy Campaign 100 Women vs. Harvey Weinstein  Harvey Weinstein Criminal Lawyer Previews Defense Strategy: Police Misconduct and "Non-Victim" Actresses 2020 SUMMER OLYMPICS BAN ATHLETES FROM KNEELING, FIST RAISING ... In Tokyo Heinz HoneyRacha sauce will arrive in style this spring WATCH: Popeye's favourite food is... Chicken? | Family Feud Canada TICKETS for DAILY ZEITGEIST at SF SKETCHFEST! WATCH: Gary Low-I Want You Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hey, fuck them. And fuck Fox News. Yeah, fuck off. Hey, it's Monday, January 13th, 2020. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Baby Yoga Instructor, courtesy of Daniel Carpenter, and a.k.a.

Gary Lowe Brian. Both a.k.a. That will require some explanation. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! It's Miles Gray, co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray, a.k.a. The Graystation Boo, a.k.a. Hash Bandicoot, a.k.a. Hydro the Dragon, a.k.a. Star Wars Fatal Blunt, a.k.a. Zanturismo, a.k.a. Kingdom Farts, a.k.a. Fact Pain. And those are all video games. If you know, you know.

Okay, I really like Star Wars Fatal Blunt. Shout out to Crispy Meme Donut for that one. Wait, what is it? Fatal Front? Fatal Front. Fatal Blunt. But yeah, I'm just out here twisting Fatal Blunts. That is really good.

Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the embodiment of chaos energy himself, Mr. Blake Wexler. Thank you guys so much for having me. And I would like to start off where you guys do a cool thing where you get to know the person that you have. But I feel like, and we go back, Jack and I have known each other since the crack days. Yeah. And the crack epidemic.

The crack epidemic. Since the crack epidemic. And I don't know if the audience knows me as a comedian so would it be weird if i read my bio for my website is that all right okay uh blake wexler has built an entertainment empire over years of non-stop touring and performance innovation america's favorite ventriloquist is launching his new international tour blake wexler, seriously. Fans can look forward to more of Blake's delightfully twisted cohorts,

Peanut, Walter, Jose Jalapeno, Bubba J, and Ahmed the Dead. Oh my God. I'm so sorry. This is Jeff Dunham's bio.

Is that really his bio? I feel like an idiot. Someone replaced my name with his name and sent it to me. Holy shit. I'm so sorry. That's his bio? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Holy shit. I'm so sorry. That's his bio? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Holy shit.

Performance innovation. Of course. One of the greats. What would you call it? I guess that's it. I guess that's all you think you'd call it. I'd call it racist with puppets. Sure, sure.

That's another, you know, there's different words for it. He dances with wolves. Racist with puppets. Holy shit. Well, his cohorts are delightfully twisted Cohorts Oh my god Fuck yourself

Should we add him to the things we At the top We don't want to put our Careers at risk I would love nothing more for Daily Zeitgeist To open for Jeff Dunham And you have to list all his delightful characters. Oh my God.

I know, every time you laugh at comedians, you're like, man, that shit's bullshit. Nobody thinks that's funny. And then cut to you looking on StubHub or something and you're selling out the forum for like $900 a ticket. Tim Allen gets like a million dollars a show. God damn it. Tim Allen.

The Mr. Uh? Yeah, there we go. Is that what you heard? That was an alley-oop that was thrown 80 feet up in the air. Yeah, just waiting for a, uh? Uh? I was like, which Tim Allen thing do I do?

Speaking of alley-oops, being thrown, a big win for the Sixers. Yes. They lost last week. They may have lost by now, but it was good to see them beat the Celtics without Joel Embiid. And that floppy finger is. Yeah.

Hey, it's been fixed. I know, but I mean, when I saw it from someone who watched a lot of skate videos growing up, I was like, yeah, yep, yep. That's a floppy old finger.

That is familiar. Yeah. But Blake and I are both Sixers fans. We are. We are. We're going to fan out a little finger. That is familiar. Yeah. But Blake and I are both Sixers fans. We are. We are. We're going to fan out a little bit. There you go.

Nothing wrong with that. All right, Blake, we're going to get to know you, the real you, even better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about, such as the IOC has decided no wokeness at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Do not bring attention to any kind of injustice on Earth. No, no, no. Because this is the Olympics, which is itself an injustice to people on Earth. Right. It's basically the World's Fair converted into a roving police state

where you get to just go around and try out your military equipment on poor people in your country. We're going to talk about what defines an imminent threat. A lot of definitions. Yeah. We're going to talk about how much it costs to protect the president and his family. We're going to talk about Harvey Weinstein's Walker. Let's save a good 45 minutes. Oh, absolutely. Because our writer, Jay McNabb, kind of did a deep dive into the question of whether he needs it.

I assumed he did not. And it turns out he does not. But we'll just look at that. What his strategy is. Yeah. As long as he has a banister nearby yes and an hour and a half to walk four steps i gotta find this tweet from somebody who was like he should just have to flop into the courtroom like a walrus or uh like a seal yeah like log roll yeah

uh heinz is at it again damn no they're not gonna collab. What do they say to damn Daniel? Back at it again. Back at it again. Yeah. That's a cool reference. All of that and maybe more? Yeah. On today's episode.

Oh, yeah. And for everyone who's been asking about my mother's review of Cats. Oh, yeah. Brace yourself for the most anti- Are we going to do it? I mean, you know what it is. I do.

It's one sentence. Okay, so before we went on break my mom saw cats and was like trying to describe to me how bad it was when i said and at the time i was like let the movie come out i don't want to like i don't want to fuck anybody's you know perception up of the terrible film before they go see it right and everyone's been like what's going on where's the review the review of Cats? So I just want to say, it's not an entire thing. It is one simple sentence, one back and forth

between my mother and I about what she thought of Cats. It is three words. Yeah. Okay, so it's a just beautiful economy of language to express what I think we all found out about Cats

once more wordy reviews came out. And I was like, so I said, so mom, what's going on with Cats? It's bad. She goes, something went wrong. And then I go, what do you mean? Like in the projector? Like the theater? She goes, no.

They wanted to do something, but I don't think it's what they wanted. It was such a perfect way to describe it. In the filmmaker's mind. In the effects that they were able to pull off. With society. With society. With just the very basic idea. So there it is, the very short review.

Also, look out for Our live show tickets too As well For some of you Who don't stick around To the end Where we do the real Juicy bits on the show Oh shit

Live show tickets Wait we have live shows Yeah Oh boy Yeah January 25th January 25th San Francisco

At the Gateway Theater Michael Swain Demi Ledeju eBay Oh yeah Oh shit Lineups Lineups It's going to be fire

Wow thank you Yeah January 30th In Portland, Oregon at Mississippi Studios. Then we're in, I mean, where else? Let me just break it down. What is that? 2-12, not 1-12, but February 12th, Brooklyn. We're going to be at the Bell House.

Ring the bell. Washington, D.C. on the 13th of February. At the White House. At the White House. At the White House. I mean, we got so many. Minneapolis on the 25th of February. Chicago on the 27th. Look at Miles' Twitter feed.

Toronto on the 28th. Look at my Twitter feed where I retweeted Miles' tweet. Anyway, get those tickets. We want to see you all. Get them. We want to meet you guys. We hear from some of our guests that you guys are great in person. Maybe we'll get to that later.

Not jumping in there, Blake? Yeah. Oh, guys sitting on that one. Yeah, cool. Sorry, that happens sometimes with me. I apologize. We were talking about how great you guys are before the show. I was, at least.

You two were shaking your heads and taking it for granted. I don't believe it. I've only seen Zyte Gang in maybe the two cities we've performed, so everything's abstract. L.A. L.A., San Francisco, Chicago. They came to see me in Charleston, South Carolina of all places. Yeah.

Yeah. They're out here. They made up a good chunk of the crowd. Hell yeah. Yeah. Shout out to Charleston, Zeitgang. We're going to make our way out there too. Yeah.

Everybody. We make our way everywhere. Every comedian who comes on, it's like, you guys have the best fans, which is wonderful to hear. They're not fans, man. It's a movement. Yes. That's right. You guys have the best society.

Philosophers. What if that's what you called your fan group? The League of Philosophers? The League of Distinguished Philosophers. We should do some self-serious shit like that. No, we call our listeners sociologists.

Oh, I call my fans the scribes. Yes. Oh, my God. The apostles. All right. What is something from your search history, Blake, that is revealing about who you are? Hold Steady No Tour, where there's a great band called the Hold Steady. Yeah, there's a great band called The Hold Steady, and they have this really interesting approach now to touring in that they don't do a traditional go-to every single city tour.

They'll do a residency in cities, like in parts of the country where their fans can easily travel. So they'll have like a West Coast city, and they'll stay there for like two weeks. And like Midwest, Chicago or something for two weeks and do a bunch of shows. So their fans from each one of these regions will come see them. So they don't have to like grind it out with the travel and all that. And I thought it was really interesting. Or they don't have to pay for all that travel. Yes.

Yeah. That's great too. They're thinking baby. I like that. Very smart. I thought it was cool. Although they sell out big venues, right? Yeah.

Yeah. I think it's more of the lifestyle they didn't like, you know, just get yeah like hotels where yeah you can actually see the town if you do yes yeah instead of just like the hotel room and they're cool cities it seems like too yeah that was interesting i actually went and saw uh the japan droids because i a friend of mine wanted to see them i wasn't like that into them but uh and the lead singer of the

whole study was opening as a solo act for them and like nobody was there yeah so i got to like see him like up close and personal he's fucking great that's really cool it is really good too yeah uh what is something you think is overrated uh overrated i have fort Sumter and not just as a like visiting it like I just think as a concept we talk about it too much and yes it was the first where the first shots were fired in that war but I think that

it was like one person died you know and like the whole thing it was a barely a siege it was very cordial and the union was allowed to like shoot off their guns in celebration of holding the thing you know at the end of the siege and then that's when the one guy died like some irish guy just like the cannon backfired and killed him oh no that was the one it was not only friendly fire it was celebratory friendly fire where they were honoring themselves

for how well they held out. And then he died during that. So like, it was like having a, like a hundred gun salute and dying. Yeah. So not impressed. Yeah.

Is this fuck off Charles? Yeah. You go to Charleston once and then you go, yeah, you know, Fort Sumter. Did you visit Fort Sumter? Yes.

You did. Yeah. They invited me. That's actually the venue I was performing at. You had to take a ferry to come see me. Just people getting off the ferry. There were more casualties at my show at Fort Sumter than there were during the battle. That's not true, by the way.

Okay. Okay, good. No, no, no, but it is overrated. Okay. Yeah. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated? I was going to say-

Harper's Ferry. That's what the fuck I'm talking about. Manassas or Bull Run for the idiots. For the lay people. I was going to say underrated Killing Eve because I think that's one of the best shows on television. But a lot of people agree that that's a great show. Yeah. that's one of the best shows on television but a lot of people agree that that's a great show but um it's one of those shows people don't know like you have to kind of i had to search i had to hear it multiple times for me to go

what's this killing eve about yes and then i'm like oh okay biblical right it's about the book of genesis yes yes yeah i uh, the antagonist is a snake. My, my wife is, uh, really into that show right now. And so, uh, of the shows that I've watched over her shoulder sporadically at like 15 minute intervals,

uh, that looks better than the morning show. Yeah. Oh, everyone, the thing I hear about the morning show is, Oh, it gets so good.

And at the end, yeah, it's like, just get through the first three fourths of thing I hear about the morning show is, oh, it gets so good at the end. Yeah. It's like, just get through the first three-fourths of the season. And I'm like, no, no, that's not how this shit works. So much content. The literal 11th hour of it. They really pull it together, man. Yeah.

Yeah. You should watch Killing Eve. If you're only getting it in drips and drabs, you should do yourself a service. Yeah, I've seen moments where there's just like people firing off wild machine guns and shit yeah it's just like more than that just like even the whole reality that the show's like operating in is yeah fast both of the characters like the main two characters are just so interesting and it is cool too where it's like this action you know dramedy and it's only the only interesting characters are women in it.

Like, I've never seen a show like that where even the dumbest misogynist wouldn't even notice. Right. You know what I mean? Like, they're so fucking great. There's no interesting men in it. Like, these two incredible actresses, like, carry the show so seamlessly. They, like, intentionally underwrite the men. Yeah.

Like, yeah. Or maybe. I i'm gonna go to a sports bar it's just dumb shit they could be the best written men and you wouldn't even notice because that's how good uh eve yeah i forget sandra oh and jody homer i think yeah are the two and yeah they're amazing bridge writes it right yeah yeah she's an executive producer and i think she's written a bunch of them, too. But yeah. So, I mean, that's the woman, the mind behind Fleabag. Fleabag. Fleabag.

Which is definitely not underrated at this point. It was for a while, but then it won all the awards. So, you know, the writer and star of Fleabag, if you enjoyed Fleabag, you know, she's making an exciting action. doing it all yeah d uh cool that was how sentences work uh what is a myth what some of the people think is true you know to be false that you know to be false oh oh i know this is okay yeah i've i've fucking marched for this hey it's your funeral, man. Yep. You know what? Cool.

Move it up. Book it tomorrow if I'm wrong. All right? I'm ready to go. Book it for tonight. Yeah. Book it for tonight. Fuck it.

I'll clear my dinner plans because I'm just at home. The myth is that it's illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk. And this is in Los Angeles. And you can do it. Like, the law actually just says you're allowed to ride a bike on the sidewalk as long as you're not putting anyone in harm's way. Okay. Yeah. That's where it gets a little – where people find maybe the flexibility to be like, oh, man, you just put that person at risk.

Yeah. Right, right. But also, it would be – yeah, I don't even know what that would look like, just reckless bike riding. Yeah. But you can, if you feel unsafe on the road you are allowed to. Well you should because this city is not built for people on bicycles.

It's like terrifying to ride a bike in certain parts of LA. It's so scary. In some places where they actually have a bike lane half the times people drive their cars like they think you're illegally riding a bike on the street. Yeah.

They're like, yo, get the fuck out of the way. Yeah. It's like the street. And you're like, whoa, hold on. I'm on a bike. I'm very much to the right. I almost got took out by nine side view mirrors. Yeah.

Speaking of that impression of a driver, you were back east. Yes, of course. For the holidays. The drivers back east, you think the drivers out here are bad. Man, they are aggressive now they are reliably aggressive oh yeah yeah so like you can just like count you always know what you're gonna get whereas in la there's like a few agents flying around there are people who are bringing otherwise there are people who don't have their driver's license the fucking the pittsburgh

left is making its way out here oh yeah people pull isn't that what it's called when you hit the fucking left turn as soon as it goes green? Yeah. That's actually, I've heard it referred to as the New York left. Oh, I've heard it from people from Pittsburgh. The LA left is three cars going after it turns right. Yeah, exactly. Yes, yes.

But like, I see that more and more. I'm like, oh, wow. Okay. I just don't want to see that back east. It's terrifying. I think the difference I've seen from East Coast drivers to West Coast drivers in terms of how terrible they are is out here it's unintentional. It's completely accidental.

They're not paying attention. And on the East Coast it's calculated. It's like I'm going to put my life and your life in danger. But don't fuck around and get us both hurt by being a hero. Right, right, right. Like there were multiple times when I was driving in a right lane and there was a lane to the right that was coming to an end. And the person behind me just, it was almost like they felt obligated to try and like go around me on the right to like go like really fast. Like do this like Daredevil Indiana Jones type shit.

do this Daredevil Indiana Jones type shit. I've been out-turned here twice in the past month where I would be making a left, and someone behind me goes around me, but to my left. So where I'm turning, they won't even jump me to my right, which is, I guess, conceivably safer. They go past you as you're making...

On the inside turn? On the inside turn, yeah. It's happened twice in the past month. It's terrifying. Yeah. So, bad drivers out there, just in general. Right. That's funny, yeah. The sidewalk thing, it's weird that you say that, because I really, for a while, I was

like, I don't think you're allowed to do that. That's what I thought, too. Yeah. See? That's how ignorant we are out here. Thank you. Everyone's high driving. Liberals reading their books.

Read your books while driving. Reading Das Kapital while driving. My uncle actually used to do that. He used to read while driving on the highway. Really? Yeah, I swear to God. What? He's an economics professor, very smart smart guy who would do cross country.

He's like, my brain's not stimulated enough. Who would do cross country drives or like, you know, go up the East Coast reading on the highway. He's like, no, it's fine. You got to just like look up and back like really quickly. And you get everything. He's like, no, I've trained myself to have eye independence. Yeah. Oh my God. I use my right eye, I've trained myself to have eye independence. Yeah. Oh, my God.

I use my right eye for the reading. A chameleon. This is also my uncle who once filled an entire tennis ball can of beer and downed it. Wait, a tennis ball? Like one of those plastic tubes? Yeah, one of those plastic tubes. Use that as a beer mug? Yeah, use that as a beer mug.

Wait, like that was his cup? Yeah. Like that's how he drinks beer? Yeah, yeah. And he's actually just an avid tennis fan where on the go he would just fill up tennis balls with liquor like with a little straw he's like the cops never guess man yeah they have no idea they just think i'm weird thinking about creeps sucking on tennis balls while i'm driving it's anxiety that is

pretty eccentric i like that yeah like when you yo, man, I drink up out of these tennis ball cans. I remember as a kid, I would always think about that. Like, what could you drink out of that? They smell so good. Yeah. I could smell one of those. They smell chemical, though. Like, they don't smell like something you want to ingest. No, no, no, no, no.

It's like smelling money. He just did. Yes. Yeah. He just got tired of getting out of the pool to get another beer. So he was like, I'll just put four in this tennis ball container. Oh, I get it. So I thought he was just an eccentric guy who's like, you're sitting at dinner, and he's like, and I'll have a tennis can of beer?

No. Oh, it's just more like being in the pool. He's like, I can't. Oh, so it's okay. Yeah, it makes sense. Then he brings a bowling bag of wine and he goes, not that. Not that. I didn't order that.

Yeah, he uses a bowling ball bag as a flask of wine. Like an old leather boda. Yeah, that's the stuff. That's the wild side of the film. I remember the first time I went on a hike, like a hike, you know what I mean? I thought I was at a fucking Indiana Jones outdoor adventure. I was like, yo, mom a hike, like a hike, you know what I mean? Like I thought I was like at a fucking Indiana Jones outdoor adventure. I was like, yo, mom, I need a canteen.

You know what I mean? Doing this hike and shit. I begged her to buy me a leather like boda, like a wineskin, calfskin wine thing. Because I was like, that shit is funny to me to drink out of. I was being like, yo, I want that. She's like, absolutely not, you fucking idiot.

She's like, you get this old plastic thing with mercury in it. Yeah. The one that makes the water taste like shit. Yeah, boy. That's the good stuff. Hey, Miles. It's your friend Jack from work. We need to tell Blake to sit.

Sorry, Blake. This isn't for you right now. Oh, right, right, right. My bad. Sorry, Blake. That was rude of us. So rude. I'm sorry. What were you saying, right, right, right. My bad. Sorry, Blake. That was rude of us. So rude. I'm sorry.

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Yeah, you can use a VPN to unlock movies and shows that are only available in other countries. For instance. You like Star Trek Discovery? Yes. Well, you can only watch that on UK Netflix, so set your VPN to the UK, boom, fire up your Netflix, and you're watching Star Trek Discovery. Brooklyn Nine-Nine on Canada Netflix.

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expressvpn for free boom support the show, watch what you want, and protect yourself at expressvpn.com slash t-d-z. Blake. Sorry, Blake. We're back. And what is the definition of imminent threat? I don't know. It doesn't matter because it's all a lie.

Yes. So the White House has been pressed. They said they took out Soleimani because he was an imminent threat. He was posing an imminent threat to the safety of these United States. And everyone asked, okay, what does that mean? Mike Pence was like, yo, I can't say anything because that would reveal sources and methods. Yeah, okay. And then people were like, okay. Because they're because that would reveal sources and methods. Yeah. Okay.

And then people were like, okay. Because they're always so buttoned up. Right. And then at one point Pompeo said, well, we don't know when and we don't know where in terms of like, but we know it's something. Right. Then that turned into, there was going to be an attack on the embassy. Right.

And then Trump at a rally in Toledo was like, he was going to attack multiple emb on the embassy right and then trump at a rally in toledo was like he's gonna attack multiple he was gonna attack multiple embassies uh-huh and this is all news to people because before they were like no it's a closely guarded secret they wouldn't even tell senators right in a meeting that was meant for to talk about classified information in a skiff like in a suck fucking soundproof room like no no chance leaks. Like this is where we talk about the super private shit. They weren't even told anything remotely close to that. And then suddenly the president's saying this out loud and everyone's like, well, what the fuck is classified?

What isn't? First, you use this weird justification of like not revealing sources and methods to not explain this. And it just, you know, every day it becomes more and more apparent that this had nothing to do with anything except for, you know, creating a different headline and helping the president probably sidestep impeachment or like help get more senators on his side. Right. So also just in this scenario that they've concocted where he was going to attack multiple embassies and they had to take him out. Was it that he had the secret codes inside his brain for the embassy attack

and by killing him they got rid of the secret codes or something? I don't know. What did they think that was going to accomplish? See, that's another level of detail you're asking for. You're not taking out a gunman. Oh, no, no, no. Soleimani was going to do it by himself. I think is where you're getting it wrong.

With his fists. Yeah, with his fists. He was going to punch through all the gates. This is where, yeah, I mean, again, there's another article in the Wall Street Journal that seems to imply or very much so saying that Trump's whole reasoning with this is that he wanted to help get a few more gop senators who were like really had a fucking war boner for this guy on his side to fully cement their support a flock of warhawks impeachment oh an impeachment yeah so it's like so you're like bribing was like

witness so the wag the dog shit is like partially true it seems like it like in terms of what you know because there's clearly no clear like reasoning here and also like even if you go back a step or zoom out a little bit further half the time this administration is maligning the intel community right saying what the fuck do they know and then this time they do there's just nothing nothing nothing tracks and that's why more and more i think as the days go on you start seeing like this was just a complete just the most reckless fucking action the president could have taken yeah um considering all the fallout because he's so short-sighted he's like just gonna make sure we get this impeachment meanwhile mitch mcconnell's already telling people he's like

uh yeah i'm signing on to a motion that would essentially be like, let's throw the case out before the articles are even transmitted to the Senate. Yeah. So no justice. Yeah. No justice. And, you know, again, a great example of how awful this leadership is and how casually this president is willing to put people in danger for his own benefit. Oh, yeah. And I don't mean I don't know who i'm preaching to at this point 100 when you have people saying like well he's our oj and

shit like that it's like okay i get it i think let's let's end the games let's not call the the republican party a party anymore yeah it's like a mindset like of group think i mean one differentiator we also talked about how like the aggrieved white people who are supporting Trump actually don't have quite the legitimate grievances as the black community that was supporting OJ. One other difference between the two in that comparison is that OJ couldn't start a war. Right. Yeah. Well, he could do it against opposing teams' defenses. Yeah.

He could start a Twitter war with one of his Yours Truly videos. I think I honestly feel like he, just like OJ, like Trump, when he's out of office, he's going to get caught up for some other dumb shit. Oh, God, yeah. Just like with that. What if it's the exact same dumb shit? He wants his memorabilia? Robbing people for their memorabilia in Vegas. Yeah, he wants his Mar-a-Lago certificate.

He's like, wait, that's my tostada in that video. You know, like the New Yorker profile that was done on him like 10 years ago, he spent a lot of the time showing the guy cool memorabilia he had in his office. He's like, Tyson signed that. You think that's pretty cool? No. It's a pretty cool life, isn't it? That's what he said.

I guess. Another guy who's a rapist. Yeah. Yeahist yeah yeah yeah uh speaking of putting the lives in uh lives in danger where it is you know when you read the news unless you actually put a face to things you know it can't it can be difficult to understand the human element of it where i was flying uh back um from the east coast i was connecting in charlotte and it was a day after, I believe, he took out Soleimani,

and Fort Bragg is right near there, and that's where all the troops from Fort Bragg were flying out of. So just seeing, and people always talk about how young soldiers can be, and I'm like 30 years old. I can play a 19-year-old on TV,

but I am 30 years old. Your agent keep g play a 19 year old on tv right but um i am 30 years old later agent keep gassing you up with that line yeah but uh and i made that joke because i just got sad thinking about it because like um just to take myself out of this but it was like just like kids just children 18 year olds in military uniforms getting on a commercial flight overseas. And there were so many in the airport. And it's because the United States was sending thousands of troops over there because of this petty, selfish fucking act. It's hard to forget.

Support the troops has become this thing that the right says all the time to give excuses for, you know, like warmongering. But it is you forget that there are human American troops whose lives are put at stake because of this. I mean, the real way you support the troops is to not put them in danger. Yes. Yes. You know, not rather than being like, OK, let's play battleship. And I'm merely moving a plastic peg over here and and I'm so detached from what the human cost is. Right. But then when anybody questions his motives, they're not supporting troops.

United Patriot, God bless America. Let's talk about how much it costs to protect this piece of shit. Yeah. Yeah. The Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin, wants the Secret Service to basically come back to the Treasury Department. Because where they started, like by the Lincoln administration to protect America against fraud or counterfeiting.

Counterfeiting. I went on a tour of the Secret Service office when I was in D.C. And this guy, this guy won all the fucking tours. Thank you. Oh, this treasury. Am I a loser? Tours Wexler. I'm a huge loser. Museum tours Wexler. Tell us about the factory

where they invented Necco wafers. Oh, interesting. No, I have been to Nabisco and it smells immaculate. Does it? But yeah, they had, so during that tour, they would show you the war room

that they would go to if there was a threat. But what was much cooler than that, they had a fucking enormous room of counterfeit baseballs, like sports memorabilia. And they had like the real one versus the ones that they've confiscated because they were counterfeit. And it was, you know, millions of dollars worth of sports merchandise. And you forget. You're like, oh, where am I right now? Oh, the Secret Service. That's their primary job, I believe, is dealing with counterfeiting, which is hilarious.

It used to be. Yeah, it used to be. But now their primary job is protecting the president. Right. Who is? Who is Donald Trump. Okay, thank you. Yes.

And so people... I gotta go. And so. I got to go. All right. Same guy. That's the exact same guy. Podcast over. Podcast over. Yeah.

I'm going to go to the principal's office. So Democrats, as this process is happening, Democrats want to know how much it's costing. Currently. uh democrats want to know how much uh it's costing currently americans taxpayers you and i to uh pay for the protection of donald trump and his family yeah i mean so obama in eight years spent 96 million dollars on travel what okay what's that guy's problem yeah i mean it's all that golf although what is it like one out of five days? President Trump has been golfing. Yes.

So far. So what right now they don't have many of the numbers, mostly because Steve Mnuchin says we'll give you those. Like the Democrats are like, if we sign off on moving the Secret Service from Department of Homeland Security back to the Treasury, you need to disclose to us within 120 days what these costs are. And they're like, I can't do all that. And they're asking Steve Mnuchin, what the fuck? Like, we need to know. This is part of the process. He's saying they'll let us know after the presidential election what it costs.

They're not even trying. But if you just go off of what they know. I mean, so the Government Accountability Office, which is like a watchdog on spending, they said in Trump's first month in 2017 cost about $13.6 million to protect him based on all the traveling he did. One month? In one month. He's on track. $13.6. So you do a little extrapolate that, and he would have exceeded the total of like obama's eight years in the first at

the end of the first year in office how because you have his and that's what he sticks to that schedule right what is he not going to inflate it just like he does with everything else right and he's you know him and his family are all used to being incredibly rich so they don't pay a second thought to wasting the resources of the secret reserve foreign to them yeah it's like i don't know that you're president and their secret service that's what you get rather than hold on now you're there's flight costs the other thing too is he they take so many trips to they take so many trips to trump's properties these are also like opportunities to profit as well so the whole thing is just and I think that's why having numbers like this come out

in an election year, they're like, okay, don't do that because it will reveal the extent as to how much of a waste all this travel is. But again, it's almost like, I don't know who that's going to move anymore because it's pretty much now down to who's going to turn up for the election versus like, okay, who else needs to be convinced?

Wait, does Donald Trump Jr. get Secret Service protection? Yes. So when he's flying to India to like do shady business deals and like open fake condominiums and like just fucking steal money from the people of India. Yes. He's getting protected by the Secret Service. Yes. He's getting protected by the Secret Service? Yes.

So, for example, they went to go look at a building that they were building in Uruguay. It cost $97,000 for Eric and Don June, Joe Jr., to go. So just little bits like that. They have to have the security details. And the bummer is that they waste so much money. It's going to be an incomprehensible amount of money. So when that comes out people are gonna be like oh so it's 18 gazillion dollars okay you know because that's like no one can wrap their mind around 96 million or whatever the number was for obama much less yeah 13 times that or whatever it's just such a double standard which

i guess the people who are republicans and Republicans are used to living by a double standard. So that makes sense. By the way, real quickly, I was wrong. Abraham Lincoln didn't create the Secret Service. The legislation creating the agency was on Abraham Lincoln's desk the night he was assassinated. Not a coincidence. Aha. Boom. But they were initially created to suppress counterfeit currency because during the Civil War, which is a theme of this episode,

the Confederacy, one of their main ways of fucking with the Union was to circulate counterfeit currency to the point that one- third of the currency in circulation was counterfeit at the time that they created the secret service well i mean it's not like american dollars mean anything now anyway it was actually pretty easy to figure out because they would just like glue a photo of jefferson davis over the photo of abraham lincoln which in this joke doesn't make sense because you wouldn't have a sitting president that's right on money uh yet it's still in play in the next couple years i. I do think that whatever counterfeit racism bucks, whatever the Confederate money was.

Yeah. Racism bucks. I think they did have Jefferson Davis's face on it. They were called Ku bucks clan. All right. Got to go. I'm out, baby.

Oh man. Miles just has these walk-offs, walk-off lines. Walk off to the bathroom. And then back in. And just has these walk-offs. Walk-off lines. Walk-off to the bathroom. And then back in. And I'm out. Back out. Let's talk about Harvey Weinstein. I've been suspicious. Of Walker

Gate? Of Walker Gate. How is gate spelled, by the way? G-A-I-T in this? Yeah. Oh, because it's your gate the way you walk in. Yeah. That was the joke. Yeah. No bomb drop for that? I mean, come on. Before Blake got here, I said,

not a single bomb drop for fucking Blake. Don't let him have that. Especially not on any gate jokes. I'm gaslighting him, and then after the recording, I go, damn, Blake, that was a hell of an episode, man. Damn, dude, you crushed, huh? Uh-oh. And he's like, I don't know, man. Was it eye-off or something?

Yeah, I don't know. It sounded like you didn't get any bomb drops. We do keep score, by the way. There's a big glowing scoreboard in the office. It's only above the guest seat, and it says zero all the time. Yeah. So our writer, Jay McNabb, looked into the question of, does Harvey Weinstein actually need that walker?

It seems like sort of a cartoonishly transparent ploy, the sort of thing that Lionel Hutz would suggest. The Simpsons? Yeah, the lawyer from The Simpsons. That's how Lionel Hutz would show up to something where he was a defendant in. Yeah. I thought Robert Kardashian represented The Simpsons i'm sorry go on hey wow boom bomb drop wait you thought he you thought he represented oj and nicole brown you said the simpsons oh yeah i forgot that she took his name but yes yeah both them. That's why the trial didn't go well.

That's why he got moved to a backseat. Yeah. Alito was an idiot. He didn't even notice. You mean Judge Ito. Objection, Your Honor. Sorry. Alito.

No, I meant Supreme Court Justice. What a mess. Anyways, it is- I told you that chaos comes in chaos energy, baby. That's what we keep them around for. So it is actually more legit than I would have thought. He did injure his back in a car accident in August.

He swerved out of the way of a deer. Okay. That's fake. Swerved. Cause look, you can't verify there was a deer i mean i don't i don't doubt that maybe his car hit some shit but he was like his car hit a tree and flipped and he had to like kick out the thing that's how dedicated he is right i i do like the idea though

though because this seems to be somewhat common in hollywood i won't say anyone else's name but of being very concerned about animals while being a complete monster to people. Right. Uh, but he, yeah, so he swerved to avoid it,

avoid a deer and his car flipped. He had to kick out the door. Uh, however, there's also a photograph of him shopping at target where he's just walking around, looks totally normal, upright,

no problem. Uh, he did have a hood up trying to hide his identity. So at the very least, he does not need it all the time. Well, all that proves, Your Honor, is that my client does not need a walker at Target. Yeah, the energy at a Target can lift you up. Yes, it's revitalizing.

When you see your eyes are on the prize, the target is in sight. Red usually means stop, but here it means go. It means rise. It means rise up. So experts think he might be suffering from something called spinal stenosis, so he very well might need the walker,

but the ridiculousness comes with the tennis balls on the ends of the walk. Yeah, that's right. He's literally a fucking millionaire. Isn't that like that's a thing you do because you don't want to actually like you want to save money. Right. There are things that you can put on the bottom of your walker that are like gliders. That's what you put on like when you're MacGyvering some shit and you don't want to pay any money and you have already opened a tennis ball can because you're drinking your beer and you also so waiting

operating within the American health insurance system where they're going to basically be like laugh at you and be like here's some sticks to put together some other other indicators that he might be milking this is he conducts his New York Post interview in a hospital room following surgery. Could have probably rescheduled that, but he made a point of conducting in a hospital room. Was he on a respirator? He was not on a respirator. He did have tubes in his arm while he was doing the interview and while he was photographed. And while he did it, he said, I feel like the forgotten man.

My contributions have all gotten eviscerated because of what happened. My work has been forgotten. No, you've been rightly remembered for what you are. Yeah. So this is actually similar to a previous me too case with cosby right so cosby i i had seen the photographs of him like you know looking blind and having to be held up by his attorneys i hadn't realized that he had just finished a nationwide tour bill cosby did yeah he had just finished a national stand-up tour. And granted, Bill Cosby stand-up, he does sit down sometimes,

but he was totally fine. He did not appear to be blind. His material was not about going blind. The way he was walking around looked like in sci-fi films when someone comes out of a cryo sleep. Yes, right. Where they're like, ah. Unshaven.

Like withered and like, where am I? In Cosby's defense, I have seen a photo of him with a tennis ball in his right eye socket. Yeah, man. Get him out of here. When you've got to replace that eye got when you got to replace that eye you got to replace that eye yeah i didn't do it yeah what am i doing i'm dying up here um but yeah he was never seen in public unshaven disheveled but all of a sudden same with harvey weinstein uh all of a sudden they're showing up like with five days of stubble and just like looking like they just rolled out of bed and looking just like powerless and like, you know, a stiff wind could blow them over.

Just a bunch of crocodile tennis balls. Yeah. And people are suggesting that in both cases, you know, these are people who are being prosecuted for abusing their power. And so they're showing themselves to be the ones who are powerless to the jury. And in the case of Weinstein, his lawyers have suggested that he's innocent because the sex was consensual and conducted in exchange for film work, which is, quote, a problem, but a systemic problem with Hollywood.

He's just doing his job, you guys. All right, so off to the trash you go. Is he part of the problem? Yes. Is the problem going to go away if the case against Harvey Weinstein

ends in a conviction or an acquittal? No. That's so disingenuous to be like, no, we're not arguing if that's, that's so disingenuous to be like, no, we're not arguing if that's, we're not here to change the film industry.

This guy is a sexual predator and serial assault or like what? Yeah. He's being tried for sexual assault, meaning physically restraining his victims. Uh, if they're going to try and argue that the sex was consensual as lawyers will be trying to erase physical violence from the narrative. But in that case, it does make sense that they would want to present him as feeble.

I feel like there needs to be – I mean, look, I'm always coming up with ways to change our systems. But when you get these dirty-ass defense lawyers who know they're like, I'm about to defend a like a sex crime monster and act like this dude is the victim yeah you should have to like put your career on the line where it's like yo the second you take an l on this you're done right like you shouldn't have taken it unless you're gonna be i mean granted there are people who need actual defenses against cases that maybe the optics look like they're going against them but like for shit like this to argue so like transparently like in this way it's like no he's the victim so it's like you'll get these

slimy motherfuckers out yeah i mean yeah there should be some sort of public reckoning like we can all see that they made an argument however the only way it's going to affect them is they probably you know won't get invited to certain parties, but they'll also, the next time a guilty person is convicted or the next time a guilty person is booked, they'll be like, ooh. You know what I do, right? Yeah.

Yeah. That person is good at lying. Anyways. Off to the trash. He might actually need the walker. Clearly not all the time. He's almost certainly using it as a prop. And fuck him.

All right. That's it. That's neat. All right. Hey, I think that's neat. Nice and neat and tidy. All right. We're going to take a quick break.

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baby. Yeah. The amount of infrastructure that they're having to put in Tokyo for the heat. Cause like they're concerned about like people navigating like the oppressive humidity and heat of Tokyo in the summer. Makes me very interested. This feels like something,

a very different kind of Olympics because they're so concerned about the effect it's going to have on people who are even just spectating. Because the marathon part isn't even in Tokyo. They have to do it in the northernmost island of Hokkaido to do it because the weather, they'll be like, yo, man, we can't have people running in the streets.

Can you imagine if they had a World Cup in the desert? Yeah, what kind of idiots would do it? Like in a cutter or something? Wait a second. 1922. That's just gonna...

That whole thing, too. Anyway. And there's human rights issues there as well. But yeah, sorry. I took us off track. Every massive sporting event is a human rights fight so is tokyo a hotter summer city than like rio or places that i don't know comparatively but it's the humidity combined with the heat like it's fucked like whenever i'm there in the summer i have to bring not no joke like i need another shirt on me yeah because i'll ride one by the time i I have to bring, no joke, like I need another shirt on me. Yeah. Because I'll ride one.

By the time I get off the train or something, I'm like, fuck, bro, I can't meet somebody looking like this. Yeah. Hey, but thanks to Uniqlo for their dry whatever, airism or whatever they call that shit. Yeah. It's a good ad. I think you're going to get that sponsorship. Yeah. Come on, Big Clo.

Well, while the city of Tokyo is worrying about things they should be worrying about, people's health, and probably also constructing a police state in private, like all local governments do whenever there's an Olympics there, the IOC is worried about people kneeling during national anthems. Yep. They basically put a whole notice out that essentially just said, you better not. Yeah. You better not. Basically, yeah. The whole thing was,

this is what they said about any kind of demonstration on the podium. The unique nature of the Olympic Games enables athletes from all over the world to come together in peace and harmony. We believe that the example we set by competing with the world's best while living in harmony in the Olympic Village is a uniquely positive message to send to an increasingly divided world. This is why it is very important on both the personal and global level that we keep the venues, the Olympic Village, and the podium neutral and free from any form of political, religious, or ethnic demonstrations. How else are we supposed to...

Political, religious, or ethnic demonstrations. Religious or ethnic demonstration. Specifically, the guidelines lay out what the committee considers a protest, which is displaying any political messaging, including signs or armbands, gestures of a political nature like a hand gesture or kneeling, and refusal to follow the ceremony's protocol. But it's actually okay because Jay-Z is on the committee, so we're actually going to be all right. Thank God. He brought the Nets to Brooklyn. What? He can bring sensibility to the world. Yeah, to the I God. Yeah. Thank God. He brought the Nets to Brooklyn. What? He can bring sensibility to the world. Yeah, to the IOC.

Right. From the ROC to the IOC. Uh-huh. I think the whole thing. Well done. Look, I'm on one tonight. The yucks in the building. The yucks in the building.

Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, God. This whole, the idea that it brings the world together, but to bring the world together. You have to suppress free speech. Yeah, it's like so fucking ridiculous. It's just the contradictory nature of everything they're saying is like just absolutely absurd. Meanwhile, they'll be like, and this is what the IOC is doing to help people around the world. You know, people trying to bring awareness to certain issues is not hindering anyone. Yeah.

Except for the maybe oppressive forces that are the ones committing the transgressions. I mean, and this is going to be our first Olympics without Bob Costas. So like we're lacking the radical political voice of Bob Costas out here to just speak truth to power. I don't know what we're going to do. How else are we supposed to protest Russia's exclusion from the Olympics now? Like how are we supposed to do that now? Without the pink eyed. Yeah.

Have you ever been to an Olympics ever? No. Have you? And I won't. Good, good. I haven't. Have you? No.

I was thinking about going. I mean, I Have you? No. I was thinking about going. I mean, I went that one time that I was on the rowing team. Right. Anna, you've been? Salt Lake? Oh, shit. Oh, Super Producer Anna Hosnia. Winter Games.

Hell yeah. Went to the Winter Games. Was it magical? It was a shrug. That makes sense. I mean, I like the Winter Olympics, too. Yeah. Shout out to Winter Sports.

Yeah, that's fun because you feel like, I don't know, there's something pointless about it. Yeah, it's silly. It's so silly because I haven't done any of these things. Oh, right. You're like, I've never cross-country skied and shot a rifle. Right, right. Yeah, and that's never going to happen.

So it's like watching a show. It's like, oh, this is a made-up thing. Yeah, there's something like hypnotic and you are not involved in any way you're not like thinking oh like what it would be like to do that because i have no frame of reference never been on a snowboard never curled never speed well i've skated so i've curled uh okay i mean no no not in the gym bro not getting on your biceps hell yeah not eyelashes yeah all right let Alright, let's talk Heinz. They don't call me Latisse Jekyll Bradford. Yeah, Heinz. Heinz,

baby. Okay, so your headline that you wrote, Miles, is Heinz will not stop. They will not. But this new saucy sauce, as they call it, is Honey Racha, which is honey and sriracha. Is that right?

I mean, based on that very intricate combination of words, I think that's safe to assume. I don't think it's ketchup. I mean, this is already a combination that exists. Their whole thing is they're saying, why don't we just take the work out of combining shit for people and put it in one bottle? It was mayo chup first. Then it was mayo must with the mustard mayo. Then it was mayo Q with mayonnaise and barbecue.

Then there was crunch. Yeah. Crazy ranch. Yeah. And now we got honey racha. I don't know. That's actually my pet name for my wife. Honey Racha.

That's so sweet. And yet spicy, just like their sauce. Just like our love. My little honey and my little cockroach. My little Honey Racha. Honey Racha. Honey Racha. If that's not the ad, they have fallen down on the job.

The fucking ad is going to be on the Super Bowl and is in collaboration with Roman Coppola. Oh, yeah. That's who I would have make that ad for Honey Racha. The dude who wrote the fucking Darjeeling Limited and Moonrise Kingdom. He wrote Moonrise Kingdom? Yeah. Oh.

The Darjeeling Limited is like, you can just feel the bro vibes coming through. It was the one Wes Anderson movie where I was like, I don't like anybody involved in this. Didn't people love that one? Or Grand Budapest is the one everybody loves. Super producer Anna Hosnia is eyeing me up. Isle of Dogs? That was also, I think he wrote that too.

Did he? I can only imagine. What is it going to look like? The most symmetrical commercial visually? I mean, that's obviously Wes Anderson's style, but like knowing what kind of whimsical fucking idea does Roman Coppola have to- Is this his first directing project? No, no.

He's directed some movie called CQ before. It will be his last though. This will be the last one. He did a glimpse inside the mind of Charles Swan III. Oh, okay. You know, the 2012 American comedy. Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III. Oh, okay. You know, the 2012 American comedy. Glimpse Inside. Yeah.

And then he's done like a lot of second unit directing and TV. Oh, Mozart in the Jungle directed that. I mean, who could forget that seminal, forgettable show? That's Silver Lake Comedy. Yeah. Is that what it is? I think it's based in... Calling something a Silver Lake comedy.

Right. It's very niche. That's a whole genre. Yeah, it's like the spaghetti western of our time. Exactly. Well, I'm down. I'm okay with this. You're okay with Honey Racha?

Honey Racha, yeah. But have you, of all these combinations, have you bought any of them? No. Would you buy any of them? Somebody is, clearly, because they keep coming out with new ones.

So this is, there are dumb trends, sometimes sometimes that we cover on this show like once, but then they don't get picked up because nobody is catching on to them. They don't actually puncture the zeitgeist. But this clearly, there's a market for absolute pathological levels of laziness. Yeah, just pre-make everything. Yes. There is that like peanut butter and jelly in a tube or in a jar.

Yeah, which I feel like, or it's a squirt bottle or whatever. I'm not using, I'm like 85% using the right words here. The tube is not right and squirt bottle is not correct, but that still sells. It's a glass jar.

Yeah. Wait, what is it? It's not glass. Is it squeezable or squeezable? Miles, I don't think you understand. I'm doing that still sells. It's a glass jar. Yeah. Wait, what is it? It's not glass. Is it squeezable? Miles, I don't think you understand. I'm doing my best here. I can't describe it in a panic. I am losing my mind.

But maybe that's the model that they're going after. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, they still have that. That still exists. I would be more interested for decades. Yeah, that's true. Picking up a bit of jelly. And Heinz was just like, maybe people are that lazy?

And so they tried it with, wait, their first was mayo chop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Or salsa golf or whatever. Every country has their own way of calling it something. Wow. So it's global too. It's global, dude.

It's global, man. It's 360. It's all over the world. It's mocha in the jungle. Yeah. Everybody knows. It's worldwide. It's worldwide, man.

Mozart in the Jungle. I think the, yeah, eventually, I don't know. For me, I guess personally, I would rather see more butter combinations. Yeah. Because I use butter a lot. So start hitting me with like Sri Butter, Rachi, whatever you want to do it. Whatever you want to combine with barbecue sauce, butter. Jelly and butter for toast?

Yeah. Jelly. Well, I don't like to mix. I don't do jelly on toast. What? Just a thing I don't do. That's fair. I, I don't like to mix. I don't do jelly on toast. What? Just a thing I don't do. That's fair. I keep a sourdough with butter.

Do you put jelly on anything? Nope. Scrambled eggs? What? No. Oh, right. But what about scrambled eggs? You do that, right?

You know the thing. Hold on. Hold on. All right. Real quick, we want you guys to hear the new patron saint of the Daily Zeitgeist. The confidence of this answer is what we aspire to in 2020. This is one of those moments where you needed a hero, and they rose. Yeah. The news cycle has been lacking in one for a while.

Yeah, and just Yves Dubois of, I'm assuming Canada, since this is Canadian Family Feud, just take us away. Take us to the promised land, Yves. All right. Real simple. There's one question. Only one answer.

Whoever gets it, you're playing for $10,000. That's it. Whoever guesses this wins the game. Here we go. Name Popeye's favorite food. Chicken! Oh, my God. Show me chicken!

Spinach, Jerry. Oh, no. You hate to see it. Now, I want to say a word on behalf of Eve. Okay, well, first, let's unpack this for viewers who are not familiar with the lore of Popeye the Sailor Man. He lives in a garbage can. And whatever you did after that. He had a wife, olive oil.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Olive oil would have also been an acceptable answer. Yeah. His favorite food is olive oil? Or just... Come on, man.

It's nice to see Jack up there. Justifiable. You can justify it. Jack's answer is olive oil. Popeye's favorite... Olive oil. You know, because he's eaten that. Quite... Actually, oddly feminist, but oil. You know, because he's eaten that.

Actually, oddly feminist, but incorrect. Right. Yeah. So you're saying, when we first watched the clip, I'm laughing because she says chicken. She starts dancing like, there's that 10 grand right there. Bang. I'm also laughing because, no, it's spinach. Right.

But Jack, you found, you're like, hmm. So. You understand? I laughed you found, you're like, hmm. So. You understand? I laughed at first, but then I remembered Popeye's chicken used to be sponsored by Popeye. It used to use Popeye iconography. Are we sure about that? I'm almost positive. Okay. I read that, AKA heard that on a podcast somewhere.

That makes it true, obviously. It was this one. You it oh right right uh i'm not totally sure about that but the chain later acquired rights to use popeye the sailor for marketing boom so it once did use Popeye the sailor for marketing. Okay. So it is out there in the zeitgeist. At one point, Popeye's chicken was implying that Popeye's favorite food was chicken, presumably. Wow. So she's a student of history. She should sue Family Feud and the whole nation of Canada. You're running out of steam i've also never heard a more insulting tone than that guy who said spinach afterwards like nobody's ever spoken in a way that such disdain he said one thing but what he was really saying was you fucking idiot yeah like

he's not he was just yeah disgusted spinach's spinach, Claire, or whatever the person's name was. Was that her saying, oh, my God? I think it was her family. Oh, okay. Because everything was on the line. I like to believe that she was still confident even at that point. Yeah. Oh, my God.

Your girl done it again. Count them racks up. Boom. I mean, yeah. Honestly, I think when you play Family Feud, right, you just go into immediate word association mode. Yeah. And I think that's where you had to really let the question enter your brain and do it. Right.

Part of me, I get what you're saying as a reflex. As a reflex, but also. I know. I don't know about that. I guess because you're purely using the word association. Yes. But hey, look, maybe she's a student of Popeye's history. Maybe she was purely using word association.

I'm surprised she didn't say Jones for Popeye Jones, the infamous basketball player. He was a looker, though. Yeah, he was. Did any of you, when you were kids, your parents equate spinach with Popeye always for when you ate it? Always, always. Where have we gone as a society?

What do we tell our children now? Who do they emulate by eating certain vegetables? We just make them eat kale. Who are you like? You're like- Influencers. You're like Dax Shepard.

You're like influencers. You're like, yeah. Hey, come on. I can't name one. I couldn't remember a name of one, but one of them. They're called genies, Blake. Sorry, you're right. Emma Chamberlain?

Yes. Perhaps? Nope. You know what? You don't use that to motivate children to eat vegetables? Don't give a fuck. I like healthier food these days yeah what do you mean like well my kids eat healthier food than but that's because you present to eat oh you're saying they're more open to it yeah also probably they were my parents were probably more willing to give me garbage at an earlier age yeah yeah and so i

knew that it existed. I mean, our parents knew less. Right. Like I said, whose grandmother hasn't smoked cigarettes right in front of them? Yes. As a kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And asked if you wanted one.

Right, right, right. And you politely declined. And then when they come back in the room, you were smoking them, weren't you? I'm like, no. Right, right. I'm like, where did you get that affect, Grandma? You're Japanese. Well, Blake, it's been a pleasure as always having

you pleasure is all mine i love coming here where can people find you they can find me at blake wexler on everything and then february 27th you can find me i'll be making a pittsburgh left right into the arcade comedy theater in pittsburgh oh yeah are you gonna people should get out of the way before you do that. Yes, get out of the way, but get in line to go into it. Yeah. Okay.

Just don't want to. But do get out of the way. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Be safe out there, Pittsburgh. But yeah, that's where I'll be. Oh, awesome.

You going to hit any malls when you're out there? Of course. King of Prussia? Huh? Oh, that's the Philadelphia suburbs. I'm talking about Pittsburgh. Oh, but they're right next to each other,

aren't they, Blake? Huh? Aren't they right next to each other? They're really, they're very, very close. It's not the same city? They're six hours apart. They border each other.

And I will go on a tour of the Heinz factory and taste all these, all these sups. Pittsburghians. Is that right? Probably not. Pittsburghers. Pitties. Pitties. Burgers.

Pittsburgh Kings. Oh, boy. Pittsburgh Kings. Oh, boy. Pittsburgh Kings. Oh, okay. The Pittsburgh Kings and the LA Penguins. Yeah. Are you guys, do you get offended by somebody saying- When you mess up the hockey team names?

By somebody saying, no, I respect, you know what I respect the shit out of is that Pittsburgh has three professional sports teams that all have the same colors. They banded together. I really like that. More cities should do that. Well, New York kind of had that. Mets, Knicks, and Islanders. But they have 80 sports teams.

And Yankees. And also black and yellow is such a great color combo. But do you get offended by somebody saying that your city is a Midwestern city? I'm curious about that. How the fuck could I? I'm from the Valley, bro. No, no, I'm not looking at you. I'm just saying.

Out there to everybody? I'm looking at you for approval, like I do for everything I say, Miles. Do we say that? And I won't give you the satisfaction of my eye contact. Cleveland is definitely Midwest. Is that Midwest? Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Detroit? Detroit's Midwest? Yeah. Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Detroit?

Detroit's Midwest. Yeah. But so Pittsburgh, I think because it's in Pennsylvania and people don't know geography of like how wide Pennsylvania is, people assume it's East Coast. And my wife, who grew up in Pittsburgh, grew up believing she lived on the East Coast. But she- I grew up- What do you the East Coast. Interesting. What do you mean? Like her, just in the background of her reality?

Once I was like, oh, but you grew up in the Midwest. She's like, I did not. Oh my God, the argument that must have caused. You're like, you're closer to Cleveland than you are to New York. Yeah, the best nickname I've ever heard somebody give to Pittsburgh was the Paris of Appalachia. I like that.

She did not like that either. But Pittsburgh. What's wrong with being from the Midwest? Yeah. No, nothing. She just, I think she had it in her head that she grew up on the East Coast. Is it just by virtue of like where Pennsylvania is on a map and then not thinking of like how. I think it's based on the mistake of people.

Or like internalized shame of being like, I'm not from the Midwest. It's like six hours away, right? Am I revealing my wife to be anti-Midwest? Should I cut all of this? No, I think it's like anything. It's like we grow up sort of thinking certain things. With our own biases. Yeah.

She was also born in Missouri, so she can't be anti-Midwest. It's a Midwest. She claims Missouri. Shout out to the St. Lunatics. Yeah, yeah. Is there a tweet you've been enjoying, Blake? Yes, this is from a one comedian, Hampton Yunt, which is also his Twitter handle.

He's so funny. And his tweet was, I actually only like the British version of Ricky Gervais. That is true. Miles, where can people find you? Twitter, Instagram, at Miles of Grey. Also on 420 Day Fiance with Sophie Alexandra. Talking about 90 Day Fiance.

That comes out Wednesdays, so check that podcast out. That was a Jamie Loftus-esque air horn by Super Producer Dan. Let's see. In a tweet I like from past guest Pallavi Ganalan. It says, it's 2020, time to take back our power, ladies. After a man goes down on you, ask him if he came. No, did you? That's fucking great.

A couple tweets I've been enjoying. Taylor Ortega tweeted a picture of these very specific thick-soled heel kind of coach loafer things that everybody wore back in the early 2000s. And she said, these are going to change everything for me. Me, 2002 2002 which i respect uh alissa limperis tweeted i'm one clothing purchase away from being happy i bet and solomon giorgio tweeted i support branny sanders but i don't want to talk to any white people about uh you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com,

where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on. Miles, what's that going to be today? Since you said Gary Lary low brian as your aka i was playing gary low this morning uh who is an italian born spaniard who like was making like italian disco in the 80s but was like recording in like english so like his accent was like super european but he was using his stage name, Gary Lowe. Anyway, the reason why people talk about him is that his song, I Want You, is like basically the foundation for the washed out track, Feel It All Around, which is the Portlandia theme song.

So if you want an interesting look into a very interesting time in music, check out Gary Lowe. But this is Gary Lowe, I Want You. All right. Also, yeah, so that was one AK. The other AK was from Daniel Carpenter guessing what I'm going to leave this show to go do, be a baby yoga instructor. Because of this image that Robert Evans retweeted of something that was put up on a bar in San Francisco, it says 2020 has been a bizarre year already for the Cozy Bar. Francisco. It says 2020 has been a bizarre year already for the cozy bar. The owner has walked away from the bar to become an exotic dancer. I received this text today. This is the text. I've wanted to be a male exotic dancer since I was in diapers. I'm 50 years old and think that the time is now. It may seem crazy to you, but I believe that it's never too late to pursue your dreams. I've taken years of pole dancing lessons my moves are incredible my routine is magical

when i close my eyes i see this thing a sign i see my name in bright blue neon lights with a purple outline and this name is so bright and so sharp that the sign it just blows up because the name is so powerful it says sam young chippendales dancer uh and then the person oh my that's real yeah this is real person goes i'm doing my best to convince him to allow us to open the bar again. He wants the entire staff to fly to Vegas to see him on stage before he even considers allowing us to open the bar again. This is actually happening. We will keep you posted. So either that's real or he closed the bar in a dickish way and they put that

on the chain. But either way I respect the shit out of it. The thing that makes me a little weary is when they're envisioning the name blowing out. Anyways, today's Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the

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