The Daily Zeitgeist - QAnon vs. Butterflies, RIP Grumpy Cat 5.20.19

Episode Date: May 20, 2019

In episode 395, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Blake Wexler to discuss Grumpy Cat passing away, Robert Pattinson playing Batman, William Barr threatening democrats and more interesting revelations from the Mueller Report, QAnon ruining a cities earth day celebration, Rudy Giuliani doing more dumb stuff, Mel Gibson's problematic new movie, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Grumpy Cat Has Earned Her Owner Nearly $100 Million In Just 2 Years2. Robert Pattinson to Play ‘The Batman’ for Matt Reeves and Warner Bros. (EXCLUSIVE)3. William Barr just said some remarkable things on Fox News4. Wow. AG Bill Barr basically threatens Democrats during his Fox News interview, says of those criticizing him that "they may be concerned about the outcome of a review of what happened during the election."5. Why the Michael Flynn revelations are so important6. Voicemail presumably communication from Trump's lawyers to Flynn's lawyers7. How QAnon Ruined A Tiny Earth Day Party By Spreading Rumors Of A Jihad8. QAnon conspiracy theory on James Comey shuts school festival9. How a James Comey Tweet Fueled a Conspiracy Theory That Upended a California Town10. WATCH: James Comey tweet taken as secret message warning of terror attack on school fundraiser11. This Shocking Abuse of Office Continues12. Rudy Giuliani Plans Ukraine Trip to Push for Inquiries That Could Help Trump13. UKRAINE ISN’T HAVING RUDY GIULIANI’S BIDEN CONSPIRACIES14. Mel Gibson’s New Film Seems Designed to Outrage15. Despite Controversy, Mel Gibson Is Still a Draw for Cannes Film Buyers16. Jeremy Corbyn is either blind to antisemitism – or he just doesn’t care17. WATCH: Swami Million - Caffe (feat. Fawda Trio) 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 83, Episode 1 of The Daily Zeitgeist! Yeah! A production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say officially, off the top, Fuck Coke Industries! And fuck Fox News!

Bullshit! It's for profit, racket! It's Monday, May 20th, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. My squirrel, my squirrel, my squirrel. Talking about my squirrel, my squirrel. A.k.a. That squirrel is poison.

A.k.a. My squirrel, poison A.K.A. My squirrel My squirrel Don't lie to me Tell me where did you sleep Last night Those are all courtesy of Christy Yamaguchi-Maine

Because quote You said you wanted to fuck a squirrel today Which apparently I did I had to be reminded why I said that uh anyways i'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host mr miles gray mr gray of the miles it's the geist of the zeit talking backwards just to make our fucking rhymes work and the jack of o'brien walks today in Crocs. And he's taunting us all with the act of O'Brien. Yeah. Oh, fuck.

That took a lot out of me. I eat a lot of pizza. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, me too. That took a lot out of me. We're starting a half hour late. Yep, starting late. And look, pizza for breakfast is the only way to do it.

We have to talk about. Oh, sorry. No, no. Let's just say shout out to Hannah Soltis. Who else? Hannah Soltis. For that one. Also, Chapman Rice, I see you in my mentions.

What? I will get to this. Yes, I've been asking where you were, Chapman. The princess who was promised? Yo, the mad queen might have to return and burn the shit out of King's Landing right now. I don't know. Yeah. Sorry we're starting late, guys. Even though it doesn't mean anything to you.

But we were talking about that Game of Thrones twist ending, which we'll get to. Oh, that was just a general reference. We can't talk about Game of Thrones yet. We can't? Well, people need their time. You know, in case, you know, some people wake up with our show. Right. And I don't want to start them off.

You know what I mean the fact that The twist ending was Bran waking up on 9-11 And it was all his dream And then you pull out from Bran on the plane And he's in a plane on 9-11 Oh my god

What the fuck My first reaction was Okay they went there and then when I really thought about it I read some of the fan theories around I was like okay this makes perfect sense Miles your AKA was so appropriate because we are joined by Philadelphia's

own the hilarious comedian Mr. Blake Wexler his squirrel his squirrel oh I'm sorry no oh his squirrel no no I. No. Oh, his squirrel. No, no. I was just drinking someone else.

Please go on. His squirrel. No, I think that was quite enough. Hi. Thank you for having me. It's been too long. That was quite the plot twist.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. The fact that it was all in Bran's head. Yes. Okay. Yeah.

Well, I see it now. And then afterwards it goes, and that's how you play the Game of Thrones. Right. Yeah. And then the guy's like, hey, goes, and that's how you play the game of throne. Right. Yeah. And then the guy's like, hey man, you can't sleep on this bus stop.

Right. And then they wrote hindsight is 9-11. Like over black, I thought was odd as well. Yeah. That was a strong 9 plus 11 equals 20. $20 bill. Fold that in half on the back. Get the, you know, the secret message.

Yeah, of course. Right. That's how all my bills are folded. Yeah. Of course. I know. And I always catch you. You're like, hey, get the secret message. Yeah, of course. That's how all my bills are folded, actually. Of course. I know, and I always catch you, you're like, hey, let's hang out. And then you're inevitably trying to fold up different currency from around the world

and trying to explain 9-11 to me. I'm like, look, I just came for a beer, my man. Yeah, of course, and my hands are shaking because it is the dexterity of folding those bills over and over and over again. It's very tough. You'll get to it, though. And I do. We're gonna get to know it though. I, and I do, uh,

we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment, Blake, but, uh, first we're going to take our listeners through what we're talking about today. And it actually ties into the twist ending because we're going to talk about the fact that Robert Pattinson is rumored to be the next Batman and

Eagle-eyed fans of Game of Thrones actually paused. And right as the plane is about to go into one of the Twin Towers, you can see Robert Pattinson looking out the window, which is a reference to Remember Me. So, yeah, the Game of Thrones fans. Oh, wait, that's the ending in it? Yeah, the twist ending of Remember Me, which I don't feel bad spoiling because...

Well, we've talked about it on the show, but I know you've referenced the movie that suddenly became about 9-11. But the very end, the very last shot is him. Like they cut their intercutting between him and a classroom in the classroom. They're like, OK. And like, young woman, what's today's date? And she's like, September 11th, 2001.

And then cut back to Robert Pattinson waiting to meet somebody, and it pulls back, and he's at the top of the Twin Towers. People probably reacted to that in one of two ways, where they're like, I'm loving this movie. Oh, my God, what the fuck did you do at the end of it? Or I'm hating this movie, and then they're like, oh, okay, I'm on board now, actually. I think that was more of the latter. Most people were not fans.

Yeah, because it seems so aggressive. You're like, is this a bit? Right. And if so, oh, okay. Oh, God. Wait until you're on your budget. Anyway, what else are we talking about? That's a long joke.

We're going to mourn Grumpy Cat. We are going to talk about William Barr's interview at the end of last week on Fox News where he came out as a full Trump stooge. where he came out as a full Trump stooge. We're going to talk about the fact that there was indeed some juicy shit in the Mueller report. People are just missing. Yeah, we just missed. The mainstream media in particular, Marcy Wheeler did not miss it.

We're going to talk about QAnoners ruining a children's butterfly fundraiser because they read a little too much into a James Comey tweet. And Rudy now lobbying Ukraine to help do dirt for Trump. Miles is going to tell us all about that. And finally, we're going to talk about the breakout star of Khan, who is one Mr. Amel Gibson. And he is in some very, very, it's just so strange. Very Mel Gibson-y movies? Very Mel Gibson-y movies. Like very, if you picked any role from this year's con for him to play, that would be like really just miscast.

These would be the ones, you'd think, just based on a brief description. I thought he looks like he'll make a great Buddha. So I don't know what you're talking about. But first, Blake, you know we like to ask our guests, what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I recently Googled fennec fox peaceful. Uh-huh.

And because my girlfriend and I tomorrow are going to a wildlife reserve and they have a fennec fox there. And do you know what those are? They're these adorable foxes, really tiny with huge ears they're so cute oh yeah the cutest thing spelled like fenwick right I don't believe that's correct but uh but uh fuck you for putting me in that position to correct you no no because I think there's something else I'm thinking of like an old England talk yeah oh that's possible fennec fox big ass it looks like it's been badly photoshopped yes yet very poor right it looks I'm thinking of like an old England talk. Yeah. Oh, that's possible. Fennec Fox. Big ass.

It looks like it's been badly photoshopped. Yes. Yeah. Very poor. It looks like it's been very poorly photoshopped. Oh, Fennec. But yeah. But then I saw the Google search results.

A lot of people are trying to turn them into pets, which is not good. So that was a bummer. That always goes well when you're trying to domesticate wild animals. Yeah. Yeah. There's never any story that comes out of Florida where that doesn't work. I remember lemurs was like another thing and people like, do not. No. domesticate wild animals. Yeah, there's never any story that comes out of Florida where that doesn't work. I remember lemurs was another thing and people were like, do not make a lemur pet.

Same with ferrets. Yeah. And people were still trying to make it work. Yeah, and you were saying before we started recording that this is one of those wildlife preserves where you get to hunt the animals? Right. That's crazy.

Because what your next search is, what kind of ammunition to hunt fennec foxes? Of course. And it's called the least dangerous game, wildlife reserve. The least dangerous game. It's very. Snails and fennec foxes. They really stack the odds in your favor when you get there.

All of the animals have had their fangs pulled. Right. Yeah. Where's this reserve? Is it like an American thing or is it? They call it no man's land. No, it's in the middle of the ocean. It's up near Palmdale, I believe.

Oh, but wait. Oh, now that I read, it's part of the Sahara. Oh, so this is kind of an exotic thing to even have out here. I guess so. Yeah, they have some kangaroos. It's like a desert terrain. So I guess that's why they could have the fennec fox. Oh, there's a kangaroo also?

Oh, there is, I believe, two of them. Is there a wallaby? There's a wallaby. I didn't even know that there were kangaroos in these United States. Oh, they put them there. I'm sorry. No, no, no, they put them there.

Yeah, yeah, I didn't think they were wild. I didn't think they were wild. Well, I thought it was only in Australia land. I thought they needed the toilet water to swirl the other way to properly function. Is that from The Simpsons? Yeah. Well, there was a drought and all the blooming onions that they had actually expired, which is very sad. So they had to bring them here.

Yeah, nothing to joke about. I think that was actually an urban legend for a while was that the water- The southern hemisphere, right. Yeah, the water spins the other way. Oh, that was my myth actually. Oh, shit. Well well let's find a new one blew that one uh what is talk about vaccines what is something you think is overrated um i think uh postmates is overrated i'm a caviar guy okay yeah postmates is overrated you're a caviar guy i'm a caviar guy meaning you only eat caviar so everything they bring on Postmates is beneath you.

They won't deliver it. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So you've had some bad experiences with Postmates? I've had better experiences with caviar. How often do we have problems with Postmates? Like every time. Oh, interesting.

Yeah, yeah. To the point where we just don't eat. Yeah. No, my God. You guys look great, by the way, if I may say. I don't know if it's a coincidence. I do eat a lot of the frozen food. Right, of course.

But wait, why caviar? Is this the selection? Yeah, the selection is a little bit better. They're more discerning with the stores that they go to.

Stores, the restaurants. So our issue with Postmates, and this is going to sound very like we're living high on the hog, but our issue is that they don't treat them like employees.

Right. That, and then they also always forget about half the food that we ordered and also like bring us the wrong orders like almost every single time it's yeah but you know that's why i'm like i'm trying you know yeah you got to deal with the people who bring it that's fine i get it because i don't think it's necessarily their restaurant fucking yeah it's the restaurant fucking yeah it's the restaurant fucking up it's the overall infrastructure of the app i'm sure right right um anyways fuck postmates what is something you think is underrated uh having an active passport um rated having an active i didn't have one for

a while and now that i have one i feel like more secure and that i could just leave at a moment's notice at a moment's notice which i'm sure there's you know uh probably some netting there that I probably won't be able to get through but um yeah I think that uh it's just more I don't know like you should have one what if you have to go what were you doing prior to this oh I was just uh keeping it on the down low trying to sneak through I wasn't doing in the traditional ways that people get out of the country you're only going to places where you could travel with an ID? Of course, an IUD, yes. I just don't hear what you're saying.

Oh, an IUD. No, I got an IUD as well. And moving on. Is it copper tea? Of course, yeah. Yeah, I still just prefer to hire a smuggler to get me in and out of the country. If you have a good one. Yeah, yeah.

Wait, are you going somewhere? I'm going to go to Nevis with my family St. Kitts and Nevis yeah the other yeah St. Kitts I just know it always said together

is that right right it's like I'm going to Tobago yeah wait just Tobago I don't wanna go to the other one

you're going to Kirk's yeah isn't there one that's oh Turk's Turk's and Keiko's I summer in Keiko's yeah

but fuck Turks. Fuck, marry, kill. Turks and or Caicos. When you say Kirk's, I was like, are you hanging out with Kirk Cameron? We're going to Kirk's later. We're going to Bible study, man. Kick it. We're going to get real bored on his couch.

I'm going to peel a banana for me and explain why evolution doesn't exist. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? That baby rattlesnakes are more dangerous than big ones. That's not true. What? A lot of people, the myth is that a baby rattlesnake can't control its venom. Right, so you get hit with a super venom dose.

Right, but the fact is that adults have, I don't like saying this, they have bigger venom sacs, like S-A-C-S. Uh, that's also may not be how you spell it, but, um, say scrotum. Thank you.

And, um, they, though it is bigger and they can control their venom. The fact that they have so much more in the vent scrote, in the vent scrote. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. The nom scrote. They'll still get them. The nom, is it the nom scrote? Is that what we're repeating? I was just at a reptile preserve oh cool this guy i know and pacoima runs out of a rv and that's what he explained to me yeah that sounds legitimate which is funny because you know i i first heard that herpetarian i don't know we just call it we just call it rick's rv with a

bunch of snakes in it yeah but uh my high school school teacher, my government teacher, I first learned that myth from my teacher. Shout out to Mr. Hernandez. You know what I mean? Got me interested in politics. He was bit by a baby rattlesnake and that's what, I learned two things.

First, that myth that, he was like, it was a baby, but they give you too much venom. He was screaming. That's just toxic masculinity. Yeah. He likes to scream.

And then also, when he told me how much the anti-venom cost at the hospital, he was like, it cost me like thousands he told me how much the anti-venom cost at the hospital, he was like it cost me like thousands of dollars just to get the anti-venom at the thing and I was like, don't you have health insurance? That was a whole other thing. But it was interesting

to find out. Smart kid. This whole time I did not, you literally just changed that for me. Yeah, because I thought that too. But is it not true that a baby, the snake could, is also true that they might not be able to control their venom output that is true so they're both very dangerous but uh the bigger ones are still more dangerous but that is correct that they got a higher dose correct they can unload

higher what was it venskrot was that the nomskrot sorry i'm sorry higher dps if we're playing the division yes too another venom related myth uh because that just made me think of the daddy if we're playing the division. Yes. Two. Another venom-related myth, because that just made me think of the daddy longlegs being the most venomous spider in the world, but it's just that their fangs are too small to break through human skin. They're not venomous at all. Oh, shit. Wait, people used to say that?

You never heard that? Nah. Oh, yeah, the daddy longlegs. You know they're the most poisonous spider. They just can't. They do not have venom sacs to subdue their prey with. Well, I don't trust any animal that makes you call it daddy. Yeah.

That's always fair. Now, daddy long legs on the other hand. Thank you. I'm listening. Yeah. One of the other nicknames on this page that I'm finding out they have is the Harvestman. Oh, God. Which sounds fucking terrifying and awesome.

They should have gone with that. Then Zaddy. Wait, that's the other name for a Daddy Longlegs? The Harvestman? There's a Harvestman in our backyard. Yeah, that sounds like some problematic, like, ultra-conservative border group. Right. The Harvestman.

You're like, ooh. Oh, shit. There's a Harvestman in our backyard? I'm like, call the cops. We got to take a different route. Daddy Longlegs is a hilarious name. Oh, yeah. And you're like, there's a Harvest Man in the backyard? I'm like, call the cops. We gotta take a different route. Daddy Long Legs is a hilarious name. It's nuts. They just let the funniest person

name that's right there. It's like, all right. It's one of those things where you say it quickly and it's so in our, like, vernacular. You don't actually think about it. You don't even think about it.

It's like Daddy Long Legs. No, it's Daddy Long Legs. you it's no it's daddy long legs you're the funniest person or like some jazz musician good for them who ever been like yo the name stuck hey what's up daddy long legs hey people zeitgang please start using daddy long legs more in your day-to-day conversation to describe somebody anyone yes oh here comes sean bradley old daddy long legs more in your day-to-day conversation to describe somebody anyone yes oh here comes sean bradley old daddy long legs uh what is a myth what's something people think is true you know to be false uh it was the snake that was the snake one yeah yeah my bad no it's

all great all right guys let's talk about lost we had such a good time we're having so fun it's so much all right so what is something from your search history that is- Okay, let me see. Now, did you know that the end of today's Game of Thrones episode was a- His polo shirt is on backwards. Hey, it's the beginning of a long week. He pops the collar and calls it a turtleneck. Oh, no.

That's not what this- Yeah. Anyway. Let's talk about Grumpy Cat. Yes. True internet legend. Also was doing pretty well for him, herself. I think the cat's real name was Tattersauce or something.

Tattersauce. Tattersauce. But without like a R. I thought it was misspelled. Anyway. What a psycho. Monster. It is.

She was a lady. Twas a lady. Twas a lady. Lady cat. So grumpy cat. Everybody knows about this cat. It was like one of the first, I don't know, like very recognizable meme-y image.

And I'm not saying I don't know how to spell meme. I'm using meme as an adjective. She called it meme-y. Or if I was Ja Rule I don't know how to spell meme. I'm using meme as an adjective. She called it meme-y. Or if I was Ja Rule of memes. Memes. I'm going to be a meme-y. Meme-y. Anyway, it was like, you know,

everybody knows that bug-eyed cat with the cute underbite. And it apparently was making so much money. I remember hearing about this years ago, like in 2013 or 14, it was like peak fucking grumpy cat. Yeah. And allow me to introduce you to the financials of fucking grumpy cat sorry i'm just in my mind doing a flashback to you in 2013 and you've got like all sorts of grumpy cat like all grumpy yeah yeah i

have like those weightlifting pants that are like really abstract patterns for all Grumpy Cat faces. So I think in 2013 and 14 was peak Grumpy Cat fucking mania. Just to give you an idea, in those two years, this cat made $99.5 million from an array of products, including including best selling books and a film. Drop the fucking ball. What? Grumpy Cat made almost a hundred million dollars in two years. So, okay,

let's just do some quick maths. Yeah. Let's divide that by two and let's just assume they were all equal. 2013 was 50 mil and 2014 was 50 mil. Gwyneth Paltrow,

you know how much you made in that year how much 18 million so fucking almost tripled that shit okay you know who else made you know who else grumpy cat made more than in 2014 cristiano ronaldo the soccer player who's one of the most well-paid and highly endorsed athletes on the planet and this is 2014 ronaldo this is not fucking latter day juventus you know whatever the fuck that was right this is fucking this is him out here so guys uh if you have a cat i mean start getting licensing deals please it's sad the saddest part was that uh grumpy cat gave birth to a litter of like 12 kittens and they're all fighting over the estate right now. It's very upsetting.

There's no way that that cat was able to reproduce. That thing looked a mess. Oh, yeah. You didn't love it? Oh, I loved it. There's no way that flipped her. Wait, are you saying no one would fuck it? Is that what you're saying?

No, no, no. It just seems like it was probably not. Overbred. Yeah. Yeah. Or underbred. Yeah. Yeah.

God was just like, nah. Again, just one thing that's really interesting is that the owner, it really changed the life of the owner. $99 million changed their life? Definitely changed their life. Yeah. She was able to buy a lot of snakes with that money. It says, what she's achieved in such a short time is

unimaginable and absolutely mind-blowing i was able to quit my job as a waitress within days of her first appearance on social media and the phone simply hasn't stopped ringing since wow that's got to be a trip when you're like here's my cat i don't know internet what do you think and then your phone is blowing like that you could actually say with it like within days of that, be like, yeah, I'm not working at this Fuddruckers anymore.

I'm out. I'm out. And guess what? I've been drinking from the cheese spigot the whole time after hours, man. It really puts the light of that movie. Ted Mark Wahlberg would have been way more successful, I guess.

Um, too little, too late. Yeah. Uh, that's, that's insane. Well, like I'm just trying to picture it. That, that little, too late. Yeah. That's insane. Well, like, I'm just trying to picture it.

That person, the owner, is clearly also a business genius because most people, like, even, like, famous singers don't, like, in their first two years of fame make $99 million. Yeah. So they must have just hooked up with, like, a great merchandising deal or something. Whoever the fuck that was. Yeah.

Call me up. Right. Because there's no limit to what'm also wondering if you're crawfish i think you can make yeah you're happy crawfish my pet crawfish yeah i'm also wondering if there is something where we are with gwyneth paltrow we're talking about the money that she specifically cleared whereas with with Grumpy Cat, we're talking about the money they generated overall. So like Grumpy Cat as industry, as opposed to, you know, Gwyneth Paltrow,

where we're talking about like the money that she got after taxes or something like that, because, because Grumpy Cat doesn't actually get the money that it's basically like, we're talking about how much money they, she generated. But anyways, it's not to take anything away from Grumpy Cat.

I know I sound like a real Grumpy Cat. It sounds like you're trying to stand for Gwyneth Paltrow. Okay. You're like, well, we don't know. Well, I mean, how do they look at Gwyneth Paltrow's financials from that year? I think she's doing pretty well. All I'm saying is my client had a good couple years. Wait, your client? What?

No, Gwyneth. Sorry, I mispronounced it. Also, do you remember the Grumpy Cat movie called Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever? Yeah. Do you remember that trailer, though? No. If y'all remember. No, I didn't even know it existed.

Okay, so that's what I'm saying. That was part of that year, right, when Grumpy Cat made all that money. So it was Grumpy Cat, but voiced by a very famous comedian. Actress. Comedian actress. Lisa Lampanelli. Aubrey Plaza. Oh.

Was the voice of Grumpy Cat in that movie. What? Yes. So that was the gravitational pull of Grumpy Cat in that time. Wow. Good for her. Just let that stew a little bit. And if you watch the trailer, you're like, somebody just cut the check and then run.

Like, ran the fuck out of there. Because this is not a thing. But hey, get your money. Get your coins. Rest in peace. And Robert Pattinson is rumored to be the next The Batman. And I don't hate this. I saw a movie called La City of Z a couple years ago that he was really good in.

So I'm open to him being a good actor. Are people pissed off about it? I don't know. I feel like people are like, Robert Pattinson from Twilight. He's a vampire. He can't be a Batman. Check him out in some of the movies he's been in recently that aren't either Twilight or

9-11 twist endings. More like Beta Man. I don't want that guy saving lives. Oh, shit. That's right. June 25th, 2021 is when it's going to release. That is probably a comment that was being written as you said that. What did Matt Reeves direct?

He directed some of the- Big Country, Matt Reeves? And that's for anybody. That's Bryant Reeves. That's Bryant Reeves direct? He directed some of the... Big Country, Matt Reeves? And that's for anybody. That's Bryant Reeves. That's Bryant Reeves. I think this guy directed some of the Planet of the Apes reboot movies. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's right.

He did Cloverfield, Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes. Let Me In. And then a movie that was not as successful. Did Sharif Abdul Rahim play on that team with Big Country? I hope so. Yeah. I have that rookie card. Of course.

They're worth nothing now. That's part of my brand too is all the rookie cards from the 90s of basketball that I've held on to. Oh, you have to hold on to them. Like what if? What if? What if people decide these worthless squares of paper are worth something again? God, what a bummer. I had the Derek Coleman draft rookie card.

For the Syracuse. It was like number one pick. It had him putting the hat on because I don't think he played much his rookie year. So cool. Was he drafted to the Nets? He was the number one pick for the whole draft. Oh, damn. I was always like, wow, where the fuck did he go?

Welcome to the new show. Dude's talking about old ass basketball cars that y'all don't even remember. I mean, can we not stop? I mean, I remember my Stacey Ogma rookie car. Yeah, of course. Dana Barrows. The running Rebs. Right.

Loved them. Man, Tarkanian, huh? Tark. Rest in peace. Am I right? Did he die? I think so, but I'm only 65 think so but he is kind of the grumpy cat of humans he really was yeah the grumpy cat offense um and before we go to our first break

Blake how are you dealing with the Sixers loss oh wow y'all going there um I think I'm dealing with it well okay I'm trying to look at the positives that we went to a game seven and lost at a weird, in a very weird shot from an even weirder man. Guys, with the weirdest life. In the weirdest city ever, Toronto. No. Yeah, I mean. I love you, Toronto.

Yeah, it seems like an amazing city. Yeah, I just, I'm really optimistic about the future. I think that all the shit talking about Ben Simmons needs to stop. I think he's 22 years old and this was his second season. I think it needs to keep up though so he you know. Yeah or it's not. Maybe we could be nicer and then he'll start shooting. Yeah.

Or maybe that. I saw a t-shirt that just said it was a photo of Ben Simmons on it and it just said shoot a three you coward. Pretty straightforward. Gotta love those Philadelphia sports fans. Nurturing. Very nurturing city is what

I hear. Shoot a three, you coward. It's really easy. Coward. But yeah, I think they'll be great next year. They're young. It also helps that like Boston completely fell apart. Me too. That was the thing that made me feel okay about the whole thing. Right. And yeah, shout out to the Raptors and Bucks playing a great Eastern Conference Finals

that I think is going to be a lot of fun to watch. Yeah. Just a couple notes on Matt Reeves, the director of the Batman movie, also directed The Paul Bearer with Gwyneth Paltrow and David Schwimmer. Oh, really? Yeah, that's one of my favorites.

I think directed... Never mind. He worked on Under Siege 2. I just don't know in what capacity. Didn't he direct one that just came out this year that is not doing very well called? Avengers? Avengers Begin, no, End Game? End Game of Throne?

Nah, that was a title from Daily Zeitgeist. Anyways, we're going to 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 unhearts 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.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them wise. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really hear them voice. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on.

From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better.

This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history.

People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really hear them voice. I just come here to play basketball every single day and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to The Making of a Rivalry, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And update, breaking news. Matt Reeves wrote Under Siege 2. Under Siege 2. Dark Territory. Dark Territory. Great movie. What if Under Siege, but on a train?

Let's talk about William Barr, guys. It just seems like he's taken off the mask. The mask has been off, for sure. I think he's just taking- Full on Trump stooge. It's not pretty. I guess under the mask was then, what we saw was his face, but there was actually makeup on there, and now he's taking that off, and now we're seeing more, and we're like, oh, what kind of cursed visage is this?

He took off the mask, and Trump walked up with one of those makeup wipes and was like, just held it out to him, and then he took it off, and Trump said, there you are. There you are. That's the bar. There you are, William. Anyways, he basically says his only issue at this point, he went on Fox News, did an interview, and- Interview?

Yeah. issue at this point he went on fox news did an interview and interview yeah i mean like yeah he sat across from somebody and he just got to say whatever the fuck he wanted without any pushback yeah there was one question it was how are you yeah and then the rest of the second was him speaking yeah he basically said his only issue at this point is basically trying to find out how the witch hunt got started. Doesn't really mention the 180 examples of Russia interacting with the Trump campaign from volume one of the Mueller report or, you know, the clear evidence of obstruction laid out in volume two, such as, let's move on to the Mueller report. We should listen to a clip of that where he's, I don't know if threatening is the right word, but he's got something for the Democrats. Let's hear this little soundbite.

Pelosi, she believes you lied under oath. What do you think of that charge? Well, I think it's a laughable charge, and I think it's largely being made to try to discredit me, partly because they may be concerned about the outcome of a review of what happened during the election. But obviously, you can look at the face of my testimony and see on its face that there was nothing inaccurate about it. Yeah. And Chris Wallace, Fox News' own Chris Wallace, came out and his analysis of this interview is, yeah, well, he's clearly protecting Donald Trump. So that's Fox News' take.

Yeah. I mean, I don't know. And when I think of it, it's like, is he saying that they might not like the outcome of a review of the election, meaning that because it won't confirm the facts that we've been seeing as to what happened during the election? Or is he saying, well, I might just find something that will put them in the hot seat? Right. How about that? I think, I mean, both. Cash me outside.

That's how I took it. Yeah, I think he wants, I think he. He's walking that line. He knows how to walk that line. He likes to imply to Fox News viewers what they all want to believe, that there is like some vast conspiracy that was required to start the mullet report and not merely 180 examples of russia interacting with the trump campaign or very clear instances of obstruction of justice yeah which we found out about last week a little more yeah so uh there was also some juicy shit that uh the mainstream media was acting like it just broke, that they just found out about this voicemail that Michael Flynn left.

No, it was from one of the president's lawyers, presumably John Dowd, maybe. OK. Who had stepped down. But in the Mueller report. Right. So, OK, here's a couple of things. You know, the Michael Flynn case is still going on. A judge ordered that a few things be released, some things unredacted, others to be like, I need a public transcript of this thing.

So the voicemail transcript was released, but that was already in the Mueller report. But there are things that were unredacted that are pretty much new things, at least from what we've read so far. There's so much new things, at least from what we've read so far. One is that Flynn or his lawyers were contacted by someone linked to Congress to possibly influence his cooperation. Also, now Congress is caught up in this mess. Maybe Devin Nunes. I don't know. Whoever.

I mean, it could be many people. I think Nancy Pelosi, probably. Yeah, of course. Based on what William Barr just said. Yeah, exactly. It's probably James Clyburn. And also, number two, that Flynn was around or present for, quote, conversations with senior campaign officials about reaching out to WikiLeaks after the Podesta drops.

So they want to take another bite of the WikiLeaks apple when they already knew, okay, they really did some shit. So those are new things we didn't know. But when we go to the voicemail thing, right, a lot of people are like, oh, and this is new, this transcript of this voicemail. And I'll just read you what the voicemail is. Didn't the Washington Post even say that this is new? They did say it's new, but a lot of people like Marcy Wheeler and also Quinta Juricic, who's another journalist, they had been talking about this voicemail for a long time but it just i guess for whatever reason the editors of the mainstream papers or whatever were very focused on like i guess this back and forth about like we need to subpoena the documents and this and that right

when there's plenty in there where you don't have to look at the unredacted report to be like hey hey hey hey hey right impeach this motherfucker please yeah so this uh voicemail right this is the transcript of the voicemail this is as i say in late november 2017 flynn began to cooperate with uh with this office the muller office on november 22nd flynn withdrew from a joint defense agreement he had with the president okay we all knew we all remember that because we're like oh that's gonna be bad okay so they're no longer sharing info going on flynn's counsel told the president's personal counsel and counsel for the white house that flynn could no longer have confidential communications with the White House or the president. Later that night, the president's personal counsel left a voicemail for Flynn's counsel that said, and this is now the transcript.

And there are some things have been redacted, but I'm just reading straight through. I understand your situation, but let me see if I can't state it in starker terms. It wouldn't surprise me if you've gone on to make a deal with the government. If there's information that implicates the president, then we've got a national security issue. So, you know, we need some kind of heads up. Just for the sake of protecting all of our interests, if we can. Remember what we've always said about the president and his feelings toward Flynn,

and that still remains. Toward Flynn? Excuse you? feelings toward Flynn and that still remains toward Flynn uh excuse you wait this is a voicemail being left for Flynn uh yeah presumably to his to Flynn's lawyer okay to communicate that to Michael Flynn got it basically saying like hi I'm the president's lawyer uh look if you're gonna like make it hot can you let us know maybe slightly ahead of time right if not it will be really chill because you know your boy orange shit stain has your back and he will whatever you know pardon or whatever the fuck he was trying to dangle in front of him so again this

is just like the shit that's been out there and it's very interesting because a lot of these journalists were saying like this has been there the whole time. So weird. And but I guess the other thing, too, is everyone got so caught up in the what's the fuck is Barr doing and things like that? Because when you look at these other moments, right, these things that were newly released, those are things that William Barr redacted in the Mueller report. report. So these are very clear instances where there was a lot of bullshit happening between the White House and Flynn, but wanted to redact that for whatever reason. But I guess because technically maybe it was connected to the Flynn case, he had that reason to. But then when you see these details come out, you're like, oh, you're actually intentionally obscuring a lot of these things that are really the connective tissue. Aside from the many things on their face that you could be like, that's not the actions of a person who should be in the White House.

Right. So. Yeah, you know. So it sounds like Barr's got this. He's going to get to the bottom of this one way or another. Yeah, thank God. Just sit back. Let him work.

Let it work. Let it work. Trust the process. You know, trust the process. Got to trust the process. Yeah. Yeah. William Barr blows out his knee.

He can't find his shot anymore. He becomes Attorney General of Florida or of Orlando. Maybe I'll shoot with my left hand. Oh, Jesus Christ. There's been so much. Let's talk about QAnoners. QAnoners. Your honors. Because

they ruined a children's butterfly fundraiser which I keep saying that like it's a thing it's the sweetest sounding thing on earth children's butterfly fundraiser

what is cuter than that those three words are that are already on their own unoffensive right and then when you combine them it creates a trifecta of

of loving love loveliness. Just innocence. Just perfect innocence. Children's butterfly fundraiser. Yeah, a fundraiser for the local schools, by the way. It's not a fundraiser for butterflies that are owned by kids. Right.

It's not. I understand now. Or all those butterflies that people in LA were smashing with their cars. Right. That whole fucking. Yeah, that was rough. So James Comey, it all started with a tweet from james comey uh he tweeted hashtag five jobs i've had uh one grocery store clerk two vocal soloist for church weddings

three chemist four strike replacement high school teacher scab motherfucker the fuck was that five fbi director interrupted ha ha ha ha, ha, ha, ha. Starring Angelina Jolie. Right. So, you know, fairly ordinary tweet. Relatable guy. One, also, too, this was a thing that was just trending on the internet. Yes. The, quote, hashtag five jobs I've had thing.

Five jobs I've had was not created by James Comey. Five Jobs I've Had was not created by James Comey. It was already trending and like a politician who, you know, just wants to- Can't create his own content or interest. He's just like, ha ha, here, me too, me too. Right. So QAnon saw that the tweet was actually a secret message because it contains five jobs I've had actually contains the word five jihad

jihad so if you selectively here look look at how this person marked up this tweet so if you say five jobs I've had they're using the J from jobs I from I've then the had as jihad.

Yes. Oh, right. Five jihads? But they're skipping the first capital letter of F. Yeah, but that's not the point because it's hidden in there. But they're using all three of the last word, all three letters, but not the first. Five is obviously a reference to how he's going to do five different jihads. Ah.

Okay, okay, I'm sorry. I mean, they could have also selectively just circled where it just says fibs. Right. But, you know, whatever. Yeah, cool. He actually didn't have any of those jobs. So five jihad, okay.

Okay. Then they looked down the list at the first letter in each name because the way that the FBI and CIA like to send messages is via acrostics. Oh, is that what it's called? Yeah. Isn't that when you spell something out with the first letter? It's like, I love my mom. I. Oh, right. That seems right. Right. Anyways, they saw that it was GVCSF. So grocery, vocal soloist, chemist, strike. And they realized that was obviously a reference to the Grass Valley Charter School Foundation,

the fundraising arm of a California school in a small town of 13,000. And then they saw that on May 11th, the Grass Valley Charter School was set to have their Blue Marble Jubilee, which was a butterfly-themed Earth Day fundraiser. Again, the cutest a butterfly themed Earth Day fundraiser.

Again, the cutest thing in the entire world. It was to consist of egg carton painting and frolicking. That's actually in the tagline. There will be frolicking. There will be frolicking. Oh my God. And bins of bird seed for some reason. But not only that, Jack, what time was the tweet?

So this is the one thing that, mean obviously this is this is comey sending out a flare to his fellows uh because it was posted at 8 46 a.m and why is that significant wait what that's the time the first plane hit the world trade center on nine that's right everybody knows that's why we have a moment of silence. I can't even believe why, A, to just circle selectively all these things and to think that whatever cryptography the FBI would use or whatever this deep state government, it's that simple that you could just be high and be like,

yo, the word jihad is, I got to tell the rest of the people. No, this is what they do instead of getting high. This gets them high. This is their drug. So seeing this irrefutable evidence, the QAnon community immediately began inundating the principal of that school with messages warning that he was going to face a terror attack on that day that was actually a false flag orchestrated by the FBI to take away their guns. And it became so just virulent and angry that the school had to cancel the event.

God damn it. Not because they thought there was an actual attack coming, but because they worried QAnon believers would show up and do something terrible. Just be weird around their kids. Right. And be like be like oh don't look at them uh but yeah that ended up sucking for the students because the school was set to raise about fifteen thousand dollars for the charity and recoup thousands more that they had spent to plan and put on the event uh and instead q anon you know managed to make a public school lose $15,000, basically. And also spike the football like they're the fucking heroes. Right.

You're welcome, essentially. No, they did. While Grass Valley Charter mourned the loss of needed funds, QAnon believers reveled in a disaster averted. Quote, definitely won't happen now thanks to Anon's decoding abilities, a QAnon follower tweeted smugly of the jihad. Amazing people in this movement. In this Ba'al movement, yes. The funny thing is when the QAnon people called the principal

and was trying to explain how they knew, because that description is so funny when it's like, it said that it was a normal seemingly Monday but checked his voice well he heard from a man identifying himself as a quote patriot alerting Mr. Maddock to quote the threat he was warning us that something was going to happen at our blue marble jubilee school fundraiser and that we should contact the authorities he kept saying that he is not behind it but he has a credible source. A credible source being... Being what?

This other dude who circled a bunch of shit on a James Comey tweet? Yep. That is... That's credibility. But I mean, this is the whole problem. There is a overabundance of information that you can find anything in anything. Yeah. Yeah, you can find evidence. So they think that James Comey is sending messages

to people to carry out attacks that, were they exposed, would bring the nation crumbling down. And he's sending those via acrostics in public tweets. He's sending those plans. So yeah, he's sending those plans so yeah shout out to QAnon they have cracked the code we are going to take a quick break to mutter to ourselves and then we'll be right back

Jesus fucking Christ 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. 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. Listen to Crooks everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions. Like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? Or, can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes. Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do.

Like resume specialist Morgan Saner. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it like you miss 100% of the shots you never take? Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself. Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them. Why is that? I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically Black.

I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture.

Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese.

I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really hear them voice. I just come here to play basketball every single day and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire?

Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to the making of ary, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And Rudy is back. Rudy Tomjanovich.

Rudy Tomjanovich is back, baby. Another Laker coach. Yeah. Another Laker coach. Yeah. Another Laker coach. Forgotten dynasty. I totally forgot he ever coached the Lakers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've had them all.

He was a Rockets coach, right? He coached the Rockets to the two championships when Jordan was out of the league. It's a bummer that the Rockets never made it to the finals while Jordan was there. I feel like that would have been a great final. That would have been really cool. Who were they beating in the East for those? Who were they beating in the East to get to the finals while Jordan was there. I feel like that would have been a great final. That would have been really cool. Who were they beating in the East for those? Who were they beating in the East to get to the championship? No, in the championship.

Wait, who were they playing in the West? Oh, they swept Orlando to win the first one, and then they beat... That's right. Who did they beat in the second one? They beat Seattle at one. Oh, yeah. Oh, that was the finals.

Anyways. Indiana, maybe? I'm trying to think of... I'm just derailing the thing because I'm trying to remember what the fuck happened 20 years ago. I'm trying to think who made it to the finals from the East to lose. 94. Oh, it was the Knicks. Oh, they beat the Knicks? It was the Knicks in 94.

And then in 95, it was... Orlando. Orlando. Yeah. Tony Orlando. Tony Orlando. All right. Dick Bovetta at the helm.

Great guy. Dick Bovetta's my bowling game. Rudy Tongjanovich is a name we know. Holy shit. I'm so sorry, listeners, that we were trying to get to a real story

about Rudy. That's on me. I'm sorry. Rudolph Giuliani. Rudolph Rudy Giuliani. This is what happens when you're in the building. I know.

I'm sorry. My ADD goes off the fucking rails. So look, we're looking as if the Mueller report was not enough. We now have

the gin goblin himself, Rudy Giuliani, out loud telling the New York Times that he was trying to enlist the help of a foreign government to fuck around

with our elections. Now, this is a quote from the article. The president is now sending his personal representative, Rudy Giuliani, to Kiev to meet with the incoming government of Ukraine to demand that the new government begin investigations into Hillary Clinton's campaign, into the origins of the Mueller probe, and finally to target former Vice President Joe Biden. Now, obviously, like the first two make sense. They always want to go after Hillary. Then they want to try and discredit the Steele dossier. Wait, no, they don't.

It's still not okay. He's going to a foreign country. No, no, I'm saying the targets. Right. Because the right is so fixated on how can we bring down this? I mean, obviously, it's very blatant. Hillary Clinton is a retired senior citizen. Right. Okay. And so is Joe biden let's be real yes um and a lot of it has to do with you know this his son's involvement in a

gas company um which already like they were saying like it needs to be investigated because they were saying that joe biden was like withholding funds from ukraine to basically say if you don't get rid of this prosecutor who's looking into this company that my son is on the board of, then you can kiss your aide goodbye. Now, I think there's been some investigating into it for the most part, though. It's not quite adding up. We're talking about Biden's son?

Yeah, Hunter Biden. Right. Which sounds like a fake name, but that's who he is. And who married his deceased brother's wife. Oh, he did? Or his daughter. Of Beau Biden's?

Wow. What a mess. Anyway. It's fine. Yeah. It's fine. Oh, you're telling me you wouldn't do the same thing, Miles? It's fine.

Man, I don't want my shit anywhere near this joke at all. No, come on in. What a joke, man. It's not a joke. I mean, look, yeah. It's advice. Well, I think also, too. It's a guide for living.

I've seen that in, actually, in my real life, too, where there have been, like, someone becomes widowed and then ends up. No, it does happen. Yeah, it does happen. It happens with, like, firemen and police. Battlestar Galactica, I believe that happened. Did it?

Yeah, I think so. Anyway, so when it comes to this story, like, again, it just very clearly was a very blatant story about like, oh, wow, we're just we're really just out here being like, hey, can you just gin something up so I can bring a scandal back and try and make that. I'm really jealous. Like, just someone say gin. Gin strip. Gin goblin. Gin, my precious. So what happened was recently, like, for the most part, Ukraine has actually cooperated a lot with the Trump administration.

Also, when you consider how heavily they rely on support from the United States, like financially, militarily, everything, everything. It would like normally you'd be like, oh, he's really going to extort them to try and get some shit that he can just use as a weapon in the election. going to extort them to try and get some shit that he can just use as a weapon in the election. However, just like with everything Rudy does, did not go according to plan. Because when he recently, he's been talking up this, all this shit about the Bursima group, which is the gas company, that the current solicitor general, the lead investigator for the Ukrainian government basically said, there is not much to this theory at all, like based on what we know. So we're not even going to hear you on this because just as we look at it from where we are, this is a non-story, which is kind of impressive. And also with an

incoming government, that prosecutor is going to probably be replaced anyway. So Rudy doesn't really have any homies over there now. So nice try, my guy. But I think, again, we just need to keep our eyes on this because they're really willing to just go anywhere as far as like, well, go to Ukraine and get something on Joe Biden. Now, why would a foreign government have any jurisdiction over any of this? Well, because Bersima Group, it's a Ukrainian company that Hunter Biden was on the board of. So they were being investigated within Ukraine because they're a Ukrainian company. Right. But so let's say that this company came up with a fake charges against Hillary Clinton and- No, no, not the company. You mean the Ukrainian government? Yeah, the Ukrainian government.

They would say that like in this official investigation by the Ukrainian government, they found evidence of this, which then they would just weaponize into Fox News shit for weeks. Got it. Okay. That's the whole point is enough to say like, oh, Hunter Biden bailed out by corrupt dad Joe. And you're like, oh, what? We're talking about corrupt. Okay.

Whatever. You're talking about father son duos. I mean, really, you know, I don't know where the evidence actually leads to in terms of like this narrative. It doesn't. People seem to be saying it doesn't add up, but I think in general, like this gives you an idea of where the Biden family is in terms of power structures in the world. And if you're the kind of guy who your son can suddenly just go from, you know, I mean, clearly he's, he has a business interest, but like just popping up on the board of like, like these multinational gas companies, like

those are people that I feel like don't have an actual day-to-day interest in what working people go through. So again, I think for yourself, yeah, that was an incredible point that you just made. Yeah. No. And I think, but I think those are the kinds of things that a lot of people will be like, well, see, he wasn't, he wasn't guilty of that. But I'm also like, if we're really talking about having a presidency, an administration that is actually a departure from the sort of kleptocracy, corporatocracy that we've been living under, that's not it.

It's not it having someone who can be like, my dad's a vice president, and I'm on the board of this Ukrainian gas company. I want people who are like, my son works at GameStop. He's the manager, and he had to break up a fight when the latest Division 2 came out. Another Division 2 reference.

We're playing a lot. Congratulations, man. Thank you. Thank you. Let's talk about Khan. Smooth transition. The glamour. The, yeah, cans.

And yes, it was a smooth transition, Miles. Yeah, that was beautiful. You left me hanging on that GameStop joke. I laughed at that? That was a good joke. You were patronizing me. I was. It was legitimate.

There you go again. No, it was so funny. This is the last time I do this. This is the last time I do this. So the breakout star of Con this year is Mel Gibson. Wait, what do you mean? So he's been in comeback mode for a little while now. 15 years.

Yeah. How? How, though? He was nominated for an Oscar for directing Hacksaw Ridge, and he starred as Mark Wahlberg's cool dad in Daddy's Home 2. So now three Mel Gibson movies are being shopped at Cannes, and one of them is called Rothschild. Oh, yes, right. Now, if you know anything about anti-Semitism, you know that- That you can't criticize Israel's foreign policy.

That's right. And done. No, you know that Jewish European family, the Rothschilds, who managed to make a lot of money and people did not like that, that a Jewish family made a lot of money and so figured, well, they must clearly be running the world via some sort of shadowy conspiracy. And it's just a name that sets off alarms in the heads of anybody who is familiar with antisemitism. Well, enter the movie Rothschild, made by the guy who made the movie about- The Passion of the Christ? No. No. The director is a guy who made a really

critically acclaimed movie about Laurel and Hardy starring John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan last year. There's a movie with John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan

that I did not know about? Yeah. I'm fucking out of the loop. It was a period piece about Laurel and Hardy and apparently very good, but nobody watched it because they had a feeling that this director was going to make some bad decisions maybe.

I don't know. I think it was Laurel or Yanni, right? Oh, right. That's right. That's 100%. Great rest. God, I'll see myself out. Anyways, they have cast Mel Gibson

as the patriarch of this family called the Rothschilds, and it's supposed to be a dark comedy about a wealthy family, but since there's no S, obviously not meant to be the famously wealthy Rothschild family. And they are, it's basically a black comedy about like how wealth corrupts. And Mel Gibson is the patriarch who gets back at his greedy and conniving relatives, basically. Is he, is the character Jewish in the film? I don't think it is made explicit.

So they're just dog whistling by giving the name. Right. And then just being like, it's about wealth or control of the media. My greedy relatives. Wait a second there, Miles. Okay,

what? So Gibson's publicist points out that it's clearly not about the Rothschilds because of that missing S. And it would be embarrassing to suggest otherwise. He wrote, quote, I feel the need to spare you any embarrassment

to a journalist who asked about this. Well, that's kind. He's like, I feel the need to spare you any embarrassment as I'm told this film is about a fictional family, hence the name Rothschild

versus the Rothschild family to which you are referring. Completely unrelated to your premise and angle, hopefully this is helpful to you. Who wrote the script? I don't know. A guy named Adolphus? Oh, good. I wonder if Mel Gibson was ever like,

I'll do it if you change the name to Rothschild. I mean, also, what the fuck do they think people are going to think? It's like having a basketball movie and the character's name is Michael Jordan. It's like, I don't know who the fuck this is about. There's an M on the end. Right. Different than Michael Jordan. This is Jordan.

Right. Michael Jordan. And it's about this really legendary basketball player who's an asshole to children. Right. Yeah, yeah. Nothing to do with his airness. We don't know why Michael Jordan objects to the making of this movie. Don't embarrass yourself.

Yeah. All right? Right. Yeah. So I feel the need to spare you any embarrassment. This is about Michael Jordan. Jordan. Jordan.

Very different. End of questions. He went to the University of South Carolina. Yes. So- University of North carolin all right so north carolin chap hall chapel chapel chapel hall uh so stupid anyways uh so like i said there are three movies that are uh being shopped at con starring mel gibson there's a roth child there is a movie called fat man in which mel gibson stars as santa claus and a child uh oh i get it sorry sorry yeah who he leaves cole for uh puts out a hit on him and then there's a movie

in which he plays a cop wait i, I'm sorry. Go back. The Fat Man is about someone who put a hit out on Santa? Yeah. In which he's Santa? Yeah. Wow. Okay. And he's like a, it's sort of like a R-rated bad Santa style. Nothing will be bad Santa.

Oh, and Santa hates Jewish people in that movie as well. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a key component of the plot. Oh, God. All right. So he's also co-starring in Force of Nature with Kate Bosworth about a cop

who stops a heist during a hurricane. Now, that probably reminds you of Hurricane Heist, which is a movie from the makers of Fast and Furious

that came out a couple years ago. Oh, yes. Right. Arrived and quickly departed. Like a hurricane. Yeah. It was not a very,

did not make a mark unlike a hurricane at the box office. It was pretty quickly forgotten. But don't confuse this with that because this movie is about a cop. It's a little bit more gritty and it's important to remember a story that we covered way back at the beginning of the daily zeitgeist when a hurricane was bearing down on the united states yeah hurricane harvey yeah where a bunch of racists were making up fake posts about looting uh and they basically pretended like they were part of some like crew they were like yo yo yo we going to loot this place, son. It was like what an old, about to retire, white geometry teacher who works in a black community. Like his version of how he thinks people of color talk.

Jesus. Right. So they were making up just basically black criminals who were going to loot during this hurricane so that they could basically talk about how somebody needed to go in there with guns. Or yeah, make sure you have your guns because these people will loot you or whatever. Right, exactly. So this becomes a thing. Anytime there's a hurricane, there is rumors of looting that get wildly exaggerated by

the right-wing media and even more exaggerated by racist people on social media and in this movie Mel Gibson stars as a cop who has to stop a heist during a hurricane so Jesus I mean who are the thieves it's the hurricane the hurricane is actually trying to take money out of the bank it's a sentient

hurricane with eyes well then I don't know if it's really you know you can compare that oh this is Hurricane Black? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, shit. Yeah, big time. Hurricane Jamal, about to come through.

That's how they would write that shit. I mean, Laquisha's a movie, okay? Oh, my God. Did you guys talk about that? We did not talk about it. I could not even. It's such a farce on its face. If we were going to talk about tweets later my

yasser lesser did you see what he did with a loquicia movie no he claimed to have uh directed it and that it was his brainchild and he did a big q a online as to his thought process behind creating loquicia people really thought it was him and a few people started falling for it where like there was a message word saying i can't believe the guy who made this movie was black. Oh, wow. But it was messages from, it was fully funded by Emily Gordon, and I want to thank her for paying for the entire movie. For people-

It's amazing. Follow Yasser Lester. It's one of the funniest tweeters I've ever seen. And also, I guess we should talk about LaQuisha. Since we're here already, what else do we have? LaQuisha is a film. If you were not aware, if you don't go on social media a lot or you get most of your news from us, I'm sorry. But Laquisha is this film about this struggling man who happens to be white.

Not a major plot point, by the way. Exactly. Okay, so brace yourself. Tell me if you've heard this. It's about a white father whose son needs money for school, and he's going to do anything to get this money because his child is very gifted, but he cannot afford it. But he's struggling with this new marketplace where white men can't catch a break.

Yeah, and he's trying to do it. He's got a voice for radio. He's done a couple auditions. He's got a face for radio, too. Thank you. Wow, that was multiple. That was a strafing run. um so on that one so in this film he's like there's a moment where i think he auditions for like this radio gig and the guy's

like look man i'm sorry it's like you're the best guy for the job but i can't give it to you man it's got to be a woman of color probably or some shit like yeah yeah basically and then uh-oh the racist light bulb goes off then he assumes this he creates this character of LaQuisha, a black woman who gives advice in her radio call-in show, and it's basically this white guy doing this mammy voice and giving people fucking, and it becomes a hit. And so the conflict is how does he, the show becomes more popular, more popular,

but people want to see LaQuisha, but LaQuisha happens to be Brian or whatever the fuck this guy's name is and that's the plot so for and everybody was just could not believe like who this was for and i think lacy mosley had a really good tweet about she's like she's like this actually proves the reverse that this mediocre white guy could make a movie about a mediocre white guy and still have it made that's great so in it where's the lesson also like who the fuck greenlit this shit or it must be funded by like the waltons or some shit the opposite by the way is true uh the opposite so uh you know they've shown

that people who have quote like ethnic names or you or names that suggest that you are a person of color are less likely to get called for job interviews. And meanwhile, minorities who whiten job resumes get more interviews. So the exact opposite of this is true. And this is just a dog whistle to racists by a racist to enter the culture war, basically. Well, you know, if you're in the dominant culture, when equality begins to creep up, it might, I guess to some people, feels like things are taken away from you.

Right. Which is completely what is happening. What the fuck do you mean we'll only be born on second? Yeah. My father was born on third. His father was born on third. My mother was born in the dugout. Right. Anyways, Blake, it's been a pleasure having you man the pleasure has been all mine uh where can people find you uh

at blake wexler on social media and then um may 23rd you dirty snitch with blake wexler live show at the dynasty typewriter theater 10 p.m uh christine madrano theresa lee todd glass a bunch of other daily Zeitgeist friends family will be on it that's the show you try to get Jack and I to do right

yeah and we don't have any we don't have weird conflicts and I felt bad I was like I don't have dirt on this dude it's a show where you talk about times

that you ratted out the other person and your working relationship is too good for you to be on the show apparently but yeah I appreciate you guys thinking about it, though.

I still think about it, and I was like, I felt bad. I was like, damn, I would do it, but I don't know anything about Jack. No, thank you for being honest. That's sweet. I keep my friends close and my enemies closer. You know what I'm saying?

Oh, I hear you. So which one am I? Yeah, I don't know. It wasn't clear, I guess. Yeah. Either way, I don't know. You're at least a friend. I'm just a friend.

And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Either way, I don't know. You're at least a friend. I'm going to say right there. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yeah, it's this thread with Yasser about the LaQuisha movie, actually, where he's answering all these questions as if he directed it. So just go to at Yasser Lester, and there's a whole, I can't even pick one

because there's like 40 tweets, and it's amazing. All right. Miles, where can people find you you can find me on twitter and instagram at miles of gray a couple tweets i like one is from brain emo at gay horny uh it says my friend is getting sued by a member of the shins because her stripper name is the same as his daughter's, which he's trying to copyright to build a baby lifestyle brand around. Hashtag fuck indie rock. Wait, that's true?

I don't know. It could be. I don't know if it matters. Yeah. Well, I don't know. And then the next thing just says, anyway, I think they're just trying to scare her into forfeiting her Instagram handle, which they want, but not enough to purchase from her, apparently. So, oh, that's what it is, I guess. I guess that's what's happening is now that I read that, it must have been that one of

the dudes from the Shins wanted this handle for his baby's lifestyle brand. This dancer has it and is trying to get her to come up off the handle. Please do not give in. I've had great experiences with indie rock people, but it sounds like the Shins suck. Oh, man. Experiences with indie rock people, but it sounds like the shins suck. Oh, man. And I have another tweet from Blaine Capach.

Blaine, at Blaine Capach. Ben Shapiro says, the clitoris is located in a different place on every woman. That is so funny. Oh, Ben. Some tweets I've been enjoying. Sorenbuey tweeted, I'm so upset seeing people shame others on here for not washing their legs in the shower. You don't have to wash your legs.

They are self-cleaning. So are your arms and hair and butthole. Showers cause deafness that travels through water. Read a book. And then this one's actually really dope. Megan Amran tweeted, the beautiful dedication in Gloria Steinem's new book, My Life on the Road. Thank you, Gloria.

It says, this book is dedicated to Dr. John Sharp of London, who in 1957, a decade before physicians in England could legally perform an abortion for any reason other than the health of a woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a 22-year-old American on her way to India. Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, you must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life. Dear Dr. Sharp, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death. I've done the best I could with my life. This book is for you. Damn. Yeah, that's fucking dope.

And fuck Alabama, I guess. Fuck all the gerrymandering that led to all this kind of shit. It's not just Alabama. We'll get into that tomorrow. Yeah, not fuck the people of Alabama. No, no. There's some good people there. Oh, and also I really liked Shen the Bird's tweet.

Variety tweeted Robert Pattinson to play the Batman for Matt Reeves and Warner Brothers and Shen the Bird tweeted, cast Taylor Lautner as Catwoman, you cowards. 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. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode

as well as the song we write out on. Miles, what's that going to be? I can't get enough of Swami Million. Last week, we went on Chocolato. Then I kept listening to the album. And another banger came betwixt my ears came betwixt your ears

that seems weird it was perfect we'll keep that we can't edit that out because it won't let us that's me paying my tuition to the school of experience on mic now this song is called Cafe

and again just a really dope chopped up beat paying my tuition to the school of experience on mic now this song is called cafe c-a-f-f-e uh and again just a really dope chopped up beat the drums are a little off but it gives it that flavor it's live then there's like a good vocal sample i'm just liking this if you like beat maker type stuff you will like this too and then just play just loop this if you go to the gym it's a really short track but i mean like imagine this is a trailer to your life and you will get fucking pumped up i mean in a way a good is a trailer to your life and you will get fucking pumped up. I mean, in a way, a good song does come between your ears. Yeah.

It makes your brain have little happiness feeling. Like in, I Like the Way You Move. I mean, Big Boy says that, right? Yeah. Coming straight into your memory banks. Oh, yeah. Wait, what does he say? Wait, hold on.

You big sphinx. Is that the next line? No, no. You big sphin on. You big sphinx. Is that the next line? No, no. You big sphinx. You big sphinx. You big old. No, yeah, he goes. Big boy's always saying things like, you big old sphinx.

No, the line of thing is when he's like, that's for anyone asking. Give me one pass, and drip, drip, drop. There goes an eargasm. That's what I'm thinking of. Now you're coming out the side of your face. You're traveling right into your memory bank. You big sphinx. You big sphinx. You big sphinx. That's what I'm thinking of. Now you're coming out the side of your face. You're traveling right into your memory bank. Your big sphinx. Your big sphinx.

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