The Daily Zeitgeist - Rick Rolls On Manafort, Pet Cemetery = Military Propaganda? 8.7.18

Episode Date: August 7, 2018

In episode 206, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and writer Dan O'Brien to discuss the lack of language for our modern times, Rick Gates testifying against Paul Manafort, the many issues with voting in Georgia primaries, Steven Seagal joining Kremlin, the many films that were made with direct influence from the Pentagon, Johnny Depp's new film being pulled, the failure that is MoviePass and more! Plus super producer Anna Hossnieh comes on to discuss The Bachelorette finale. FOOTNOTES:1. Why Are There So Few Female Magicians?2. LA ‘sterilized’ its streets for the ’84 Olympics—how will it treat the homeless in 2028?3. Los Angeles Could Be One Of The Few Cities The Olympics Can’t Ruin4. Zeynep Tufekci recommends 3 books on how technology shapes us5. The Alarming Way Netflix Customizes Itself To Our Tastes6. Rick Gates Testifies He Committed Crimes With Paul Manafort7. 670 ballots in a precinct with 276 voters, and other tales from Georgia’s primary8. ‘The Bachelorette’ addressed Garrett’s Instagram controversy — but left out a crucial detail9. Fans are upset with Bachelorette Becca Kufrin because of her anxiety-shaming10. Steven Seagal, actor, black belt, and now Kremlin 'special representative'11. Here Are 410 Movies Made Under The Direct Influence And Supervision Of The Pentagon12. Johnny Depp’s Notorious B.I.G. Movie City of Lies Has Been Pulled From Release13. MoviePass Now Limited to 3 Movies Per Month14. WATCH: BADBADNOTGOOD - Boogie No. 69 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Crooks everywhere unearths the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 43, Episode 2 of Der Daily Zeitgeist. We're August 7th, 2018. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. me and you. O'Brien and the Zeitgang 2. Miles down to step on toes. Coming up, crushing third-rate shows. That is courtesy of one Pablo Sinclair on Twitter,

and I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Oh, what's that? Coming over the horizon. Could it be? Yes. Miles is a dancer. Jack's my soul companion. You can get gang everywhere.

Blydewatch and Benghazi. Fake news paparazzi. I have ED and no hair. Whoa. We hate fascists. Whoa. Anyway, yeah, thank you so much to Hex for that Snap-inspired AKA because rhythm, we just decided right before we went live that rhythm is, in fact, a dancer.

Yes. So we looked it up. Are we rhythm or are we dancer? Think about that. Think about it. And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the funniest human beings and writers on planet Earth and one of my favorite people on planet Earth. We are of no relation, Mr. Daniel O'Brien.

Thank you. It's a shame you said such nice things about me Because I had Loaded in the chamber A joke about How your AKAs Must come from Blue Maid Vapor Because you're really

Making a fucking meal Out of them Oh wow This is insane You guys are out of control Why? So what do you mean? What's out of control about it?

It's too self indulgent It's insane to start a podcast And have to hit The skip ahead 15 seconds Multiple times To get to the guest This is what we do. It used to just be potatoes.

It used to just be a word. And now you guys are really making little mini musicals. Pretty soon we're going to do, I think I'm going to try and do one that's a 20 minute full on AKA just to take people there. They're often not even puns anymore. It's like,

sandwich time kind of miles. That kind of miles. Yeah. That kind of works. Gray bit, gray bit. I won't see anything but gray in there. So it all works. I'm glad I cut the

went to the mall the other day entire first verse that I was going to wrap of my AK. Daniel, it's wonderful to have you. Before we get to know you a little bit better, we're going to tell our listeners what they're in store for. We're going to talk about how we're

all living in a new reality that language hasn't caught up with. Just start off with something light. We're going to talk about 410 movies made under direct influence of the Pentagon. A list using FOIA requests was just compiled. It's pretty interesting. We're going to talk about Rick Gates, the witness at the Manafort trial yesterday, who was just like, yeah, we crimed it up together. That's for sure. We're going to talk about how certain elections are looking a little shady. If you're worried about the sanctity of our democracy, you might be in store for some sleepless nights. We're going to talk about Steven Seagal now being a Russian citizen.

Not just a friend, but a Russian citizen. Like, I assumed that was the case after he pronounced Vladimir Putin's name. Vladimir Putin. We're going to talk with super producer Anna Hosnier about what the fuck went down on The Bachelorette last night We're going to talk about Colin Kaepernick on the new Madden Or not on it Yeah, or not on it And, you know

And, you know And, you know, racism That whole thing, racism We're going to talk about how Johnny Depp's Biggie flick Which we've talked about once or twice before. I saw the trailer. I was confused as to how this was going to be a movie. Turns out it's not, maybe, because they pulled it from the release schedule.

It's no longer being released in a month. Movie Pass has downgraded yet again somehow. We're going to talk about the McDonald's monopoly scam going to theaters near you in the not-too-distant future. But first, Daniel, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? The most recent search they had was, why aren't there more female magicians?

It's something that I've been thinking about for a while, and I want to stay in advance that the answer is not satisfying okay um but I watch a lot of magic videos on YouTube because I like magic a whole lot and the show Fool Us with Penn and Teller is a joy of a show to watch and I'm noticing that like one just anecdotally one out of every like 20 was a female magician and I started googling around I assumed in the back of my head that the reason would be some like secretly terrible sexist reason like we would find out that like most industries the magic industry is like very toxic and bad for women it's like stand

up comedy right right I haven't exactly seen that but the only article that I found it's and it's called why are there so few female magicians it's from The Atlantic by Ashley Fetters. But it came out in 2013, and I just feel like we need to do another study because even in this report, the author is just like, we're not really sure. Sometimes people are saying maybe it's because women aren't encouraged to play with toys when they're young and toys lead to magic. And there are a lot of people saying magic is a pursuit of people

who get bullied as a kid because it's very much an indoor introvert pursuit. And the article suspects that women don't get bullied as much when they're younger and they don't turn to magic for escape. We need a Daniel O'Brien think piece on this. The closest thing that they got that made like literal sense to me was it's a costume thing. on this. Right. The closest thing that they got that made literal sense to me was it's a costume thing. A lot of times magic, you hide things in your coat and your sleeves. And women don't wear big coats when they do magic

because you have to dress like an attractive woman. Why are you dressed like Paula Poundstone? It's harder to do magic when you're wearing a tight dress. Right. Or yeah, and I think if you look at the magic shows as a kid, the women were always the assistants who were just in a dress who had sod in half and that was that. And I guess maybe if you're not represented like that as a kid you're like, I don't who were just in a dress who had sod in half and that was that

and I guess maybe if you're not represented like that as a kid, you're like, I don't want to do that. I'm not trying to get sod in half. Also, shout out to my homegirl Carly

who is actually a very avid magician. Oh yeah? Who was like a producer that I met on a past job and she was taking classes at the Magic Castle and she's like,

I've always wanted to be a magician since I was a kid and she's like, now that I have the free time, I'm doing it. And actually, I think wrote a film about being a queer magician. Really? Yeah, that she's trying i've always wanted to be a magician since i was a kid it's like now that i have the free time i'm doing it and actually i think wrote a film about uh being a queer magician oh yeah that she's trying to get kick-started yeah that's film just reminds me of how dated

that 2013 article is because they open their article with in the new movie burt wonderstone a little while he's a magician i'm like This is no longer relevant Right Wow that movie happened Didn't it Yeah I also wonder If there's any element Of it that Magical women scare men Like and have

Since very early on That was brought up too It was like Yeah because for Hundreds of years Women were Murdered for pursuing Things that seemed like magic

Hey how'd you do that How'd you get me to like carrots? They have to unmagic everything just to keep men comfortable. What is something you think is overrated, Daniel? I'm going to say Howard Stern. And Jack, you're a little bit older than me, so I want to do my little piece about him and then leave room for you to prove me wrong.

I will not be doing that, but go for it. I bring this up just because he is someone that I was aware of as a child as a shock jock. And I'm from far enough in the past that my life is quaint. And Howard Stern, my dad would listen to, but I was not allowed to listen. I'm from a very different time where this radio program is for adults. You can't listen to it. But I knew of him as a shocking guy, and then I saw his show on E!, and the thing that sticks in my craw about him is that so many comedians and writers and people I respect really revere him.

He has, like, somehow graduated into this place of royalty and untouchability, especially as an interviewer. And everyone's just like, oh, I mean, like, he does the shock jock stuff, stuff but really him as an interviewer he gets places that you wouldn't expect so i did some research into this and i just don't think it bears any fruit like i there's so many old interviews with him and uh miles your president donald trump and thank you so much there is no one on the planet no one on fox news who is as ass kissy to Donald Trump as Howard Stern. Really? Yeah. It's just fawning interview after fawning interview through the 90s and early 2000s where he's just talking about what a stud Donald Trump is and just like setting him up to be the man and not in a way that he's not giving Trump rope to hang himself or embarrass himself.

He's just like, man, I bet you're what? You're pulling down like tens, models every night, right? Say yes. He's like, yeah, I guess I're, you're what, you're pulling down like tens, models, every night, right? Say yes. He's like, yeah, I guess I am. Ah, you're so great, you're so rich, you're so strong,

and tall, and sick. There's other views that I see him do. Like, there's one that sticks out in my mind from when he was doing the E! show,

which was just his show that was filmed, and he had Carmen Electra on, and he wanted her to sit on the Sibian machine, is that the? Yeah, yeah some like sex toy machine and he very clearly wanted to get her to orgasm live on the radio and she very clearly is like no i'm not gonna do that right and he's and he's like just pretend she does that howard stern thing where he gets really close to the mic and he's like just pretend there's nobody else here it's just me it's just me howard stern

it's fucking me howard stern and your voice and me, Howard Stern. And your voice. I'm like, how do you feel? Close your eyes. And she's like, no, I'm not going to do it. And it's like four minutes of a gross old man trying to get this woman to orgasm into a microphone. Well, the show was just gross, misogynistic bullshit from the onset. And I think as like a 12-year-old, I was like, whoa, cool. He's using a laser pointer to point at like a woman's breasts and be like, yeah, you got to fix these. And you're like, is that really? Oh, yeah. they would have the people who were like i want to be a play mate and they would come on it would be like dr sal calabro was like the plastic surgeon and they would just literally grade their bodies and be like yeah this is yeah i don't know if you're

gonna play with this whatever blah blah i mean yeah i don't know if he deserves to be like i remember it being hot to me as a kid like when when I would sneak off and listen to Howard Stern by myself. It's so strange to me. I mean, this is just the state of the prevalence of pornography or lack thereof in the early 90s when I was a kid. It's Howard Stern being like, wow, she took off her clothes. You have an amazing body. And I'd just be sitting there like, hmm, I believe you. I bet.

That sounds hot. Man, one day there'll be a way to see stuff. Yeah. But like when I see him, like Letterman had his Netflix show where he interviews six important people. And it's George Clooney, Barack Obama, Jay-Z, Tina Fey. And like, oh gosh, Howard Stern. I'm like, I don't think you're in that camp, man. I don't think you belong there.

And I don't know why he's sort of been grandfathered into this legendary legacy status. Yeah, it's even like Fred Armisen,'s this like you know super alt comic guy and like he's like Howard Stern's my biggest comedic influence I'm like what I would be worried fuck if you if you list Howard Stern as one of your comedic legends I would look a little bit deeper yeah yeah um but yeah I agree I never listened to him growing up and once I started working in comedy I felt like I was like coming from a different planet where I didn't refer to him as like Howard oh Howard man you listen to Howard uh but I also started working in comedy in New York and I think that's like a very New York

thing because people who lived in New York growing up all had that for them like the whole time so I don't know if it's like something that imprinted on them early or something it was like edgy comedy at a young age yeah i think that's all as a kid you see that stuff and you're like whoa this is like this is like something else this is something that normally i wouldn't be able to see or hear right and then once that wears off and you're like actually this is fucking right and if that was the only thing that he was known for if it was just like look no one at the time was doing anything as subversive as this, then I'd be like, okay, yeah, probably describing boobs into a microphone

was life-changing for a lot of people. Yeah, or having disabled people as props for your thing. You're like, oh, this guy stutters. Or like, oh, here's Beetlejuice, the weird-looking guy. Let's milk this for 35 years. You're like, yo, this shit is fucking off limits. This is not good. You can't do this shit.

That's a really good point. He probably doesn't work anymore for a lot of reasons. What is something you think is underrated? You tell me if this is the first time this has happened on your podcast. The last time I was here, I did overrated bird scooters. Underrated bird scooters. Whoa. Underrated bird scooters. Whoa. Wait a second.

I know. I've done research. What happened? You've done, okay. You've come back from the mountain. There's still two problems that I have with it, and they are, it's garish. I don't like the way that it looks in neighborhoods that have these dirty scooters strewn about everywhere.

And when you say scooters, you mean? Oh, I mean the- Scooters. Scooters, yeah. Okay, just making sure. Bird and Lime, these electric scooters that you can get, like those city bikes. You pay to rent these things and you get charged by either the time or the mileage, whatever it is. And then they're dockless, so you just drop them wherever.

So my two problems are still they're garish and I don't like the looks of them. And B, I think a lot of people, this is just anecdotally, aren't being safe when they're riding on them. But I spent more time researching this and I've since, I no longer have a car and I'm not a scooter person, but I do bike everywhere that I go, which has forced me to spend a lot more time thinking about like sidewalk and street infrastructure. And the problem with bird scooters right now isn't that they exist. It's how people are using them. But if we make them prevalent enough and we use them safely, then we're going to just build better bike lanes and scooter lanes.

And one of the biggest issues we have in Los Angeles is not a lot of options for people to commute. So I'm now in a place where like anytime I see something that provides more options for people to get from point A to point B, I think it's a good thing. And I normally hate the Silicon Valley build first and regulate it later thing that is like inherent to all their disruptive practices. But I'm fine with it in this case,

because you can already see Santa Monica is doing a lot in terms of regulating these things. There are places where you can't use them. Like they don't want you to use them on the beach because they want to discourage these as a tourist activity and encourage them as three to four mile commute activity where you're getting right from place to place. And they're strict about the amount of scooters that are allowed in Santa Monica. And they're strict about helmets and don't ride on the sidewalk. And you need to have a license. And I just feel like Santa Monica is and they're strict about helmets and don't ride it on the sidewalk and you need to have a license and I just feel like Santa Monica is because they're so bougie ahead of

the curve a little bit in terms of where we want all of these scooters and regulations to go it's a little bit nerve-wracking because there are people who are trying to put an idea forward about let's just shut them down until we can figure out how to regulate them like no no no, no, no, no, no, because then people are going to forget about them. And like, let's just all focus on regulating them now because if scooters become a part of life in Los Angeles, then we're going to get better streets, better bike lanes, better sidewalks, which is good for everybody. Better ingredients, better pizza, Papa John's. I think, yeah, I definitely see the benefit, especially for people who commute, because it's the amount of time you save, like actually scootering. Like if you normally had to walk a mile and a half or something, that time is cut short.

I guess I think really, to me, the biggest thing that I don't like is just the way they leave them around and haven't quite figured out how to like curb that from just being. There are people who fucking just left them like in the middle of like a like a residential street i was driving on and i had to drive around a fucking bird scooter or whatever that's a thing that i found about myself the first time i was here complained about how they were all over the place and leaving the sidewalk unsafe and then i started reading this uh great series from alissa walker incurred where she points out how a lot of people will complain about these scooters and literally no one moves them. And I was like, oh yeah, shit, I guess that's me. And now like when I see a scooter in the sidewalk where it shouldn't be, I put it up on the grass or I put it somewhere that makes sense for a scooter to be. That should get you a point or

something. It should get me. Yeah. I'm looking to make a little bit of money off of this just to wipe my beard. Well, I mean, you already are by lobbying for them on our show. And yes, hopefully that will lead to better infrastructure in the city for sure. for them on our show. And yes, hopefully that will lead to better infrastructure in the city, for sure. Yeah. I think, I mean, I heard it described as they solve the last mile problem of public transportation. Like there's in cities like Los Angeles that are spread out, you know, once you get to your subway stop, you still have a mile to go. Walking sucks. So they make it easier to get there. And I agree. It can be, I think one thing that is underrated is changing your mode of transport around a place. It'll change the way you look and feel about your town.

Yeah. Like just taking the subway or the metro in Los Angeles a couple of times made me think differently about Los Angeles. And like when I lived in New York City, the way that I conceived of the city in general was just as these little islands around subway stops. Right, right, right. And once I had a car there and could connect them via driving, I was like, what the fuck is going on? I had no idea these things were close to each other. So yeah, I think they're worth trying out.

How are we dealing with helmets with them? You're just supposed to wear a helmet. So you're just supposed to carry a helmet around? Yeah. The law requires you to have a helmet and a driver's license and to ride them on the street. And anecdotally, you could see that almost no one- That is not happening in my neighborhood. I think there's one organization, I'm not sure which, if you get their scooters, they will give you a free helmet. It's Bird. Bird does that.

Well, there you go. Finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true that you know to be false? That the Olympics are good. I didn't even realize until right now how LA-centric that all this stuff is going to be, alienating. Oh, yeah. LA and magician-centric. Oh, yeah. L.A. and magician-centric.

We have the Olympics coming to Los Angeles in 2028. And as much as there's a really great argument to be had that places like Los Angeles, just infrastructurally, are one of the only places that can handle an Olympics. Like, there's a lot of talk about how if some random place gets the Olympics, they get a lot of money up front. And then it ends up destroying their city long term. It just takes a lot of time to recover because they build up all the stuff they don't need. L.A. is one of the few places on the planet that has a lot of this stuff already and won't need to build too much. So on the one hand, it's a good thing that it's coming to L.A. On the other hand, it's just going to speed up gentrification, and we can already see that they're squeezing in new laws to outlaw homelessness, which is a huge problem in this city already. And I don't know where we're going to put all these people that we already don't have enough housing for.

But it's our dumb mayor who wants to be fucking president one day. It was so important to him to get an Olympics and then leave before it happened. Right. So it doesn't matter. He's going to be able to say, I brought Olympics to Los Angeles and mysteriously got rid of a bunch of homeless people. So that's why you should make me president.

Yeah, it's never, we're going to build up our infrastructure for like, you know, a great new subway system. It's always, we're going to tear down these poor neighborhoods and put a fucking giant soccer stadium in the middle of it or whatever. I mean, there's a whole, yeah, no Olympics platform, a group of people in that movement. And yeah, like, it's true.

Like, we have a housing crisis. It would be one thing if they suggested, like, a version of doing the Olympics that addressed those problems first and be like, yes, we get what the Olympics can do. Let's first address those problems. And then like, yes, we get what the Olympics can do. Let's first address those problems and then maybe we can talk about having an Olympics. But it's like, no, no, this is going to be great for businesses and we'll just kick people out and push them further out.

There was a PR team that is trying to win a bid or maybe the city is looking for different PR teams. But the problem they're trying to solve is how do we get people who are visiting LA for the Olympics comfortable around homeless people in downtown? Like, how do we sell people on this? Which I guess is better than like, we're just going to get rid of them. Right. But it's still like, this is a strange thing to be thinking about.

Yeah, it's like, well, maybe we can dress them up as mascots. Right. And then that'll be... It's better than how do we feed the homeless people to the tourists, but it's not the ideal situation. Yeah, we want to just help these people get the help they need or at least the stability to begin working because a lot of people can work or can take that. But being homeless can just restrict you from doing all those things like have an address that you can tell people to send your mail to or these other things that, you know, that they just sort of the knock-on effect. Once the momentum gets going, it's very hard to get out of. It's tough because there are our most vulnerable citizens and we're doing the least to protect

them. And the Olympics is going to set that back even further. Right. It's very American to, you know, send all the resources to the richest people. And it's also what the Olympics does in all countries. So like those two things coming together we're gonna all live in like elysium uh pretty soon i think uh yeah i i've heard the idea thrown around to just find one location and just place the olympics there for

good and i feel like that could be a cool solution because a you wouldn't fuck with all these cities and disrupt all these actual lives uh and you know it would give different corporations like the ability to like you know build out new technologies and shit because that is like one of the cool things about the olympics is they do you know show the capabilities of new technologies. It's just that a lot of the time now they're being used to create like the most futuristic police state possible. So, yeah, great, great search history over under and myth, Daniel. Yeah, I feel good about this. And now I can just sort of check out. So I wanted to talk about I was listening to a podcast interviewing uh this brilliant woman

who i hadn't heard of before today zaynab tufeci uh and she was talking about how inadequate our language and touchstones are for sort of the new reality that we live in like the novel 1984 gets brought up a lot but we don't live in a reality where that applies uh or you know we don't have like a single source that is like cramming this single mediated message down our throat we live in a world where uh it's just you know the most interesting saddest most, most surprising things are the ones that get thrown in our face. And there's by like basically we choose to do that. Jason Pargin on a site called Cracked, where he wrote about how Netflix, he compared the thumbnails that Netflix was giving him for various shows to the ones in his wife's account. And it's pretty funny how different they are. And clearly Netflix thinks he is a serial killer because it's like lots of pictures of scantily clad women in danger, it seems like.

Oh, right, because Netflix, depending on your viewing habits, they'll alter whatever the actual thumbnail is for each thing. So like for one show, for Friends, you might see a different character than another person. Right. I was talking about how their movie that they made, the rom-com, I think it's called The Fix-Up or something, had the thumbnail of Pete Davidson, even though he's a minor character. And one of the Zeitgang pointed out, actually, that's just you, who's a Pete Davidson fan, that they were like, oh, this guy. And now all of my thumbnails are Pete Davidson faces somehow. I think I tried to make myself algorithm- proof because I'm scared of data in general.

So the Netflix account that I have, it's my account, but also my parents use it. My brother uses it. His kids use it. My former sister-in-law uses it. And there's only one name attached to it. So we all browse as one person. Oh, wow.

So it's an O'Brien hive mind. Sometimes it's annoying because they're like, hey, do you want to watch The Boss Baby again? I'm like, no, I don't. You're like, all right, one more time. I mean, the boobs thing seems silly and basic, but we do have a whole group of people who think they deserve sex from attractive women,

like the incel community. And they have sexy, attractive women looking at them longingly from images all day, every day. It's more like Black Mirror than 1984, I guess. But I think this ties into Alex Jones because the thing you're seeing all over the right wing media right now is people saying like the shutting down of Alex Jones is censorship, taking Alex Jones off all these platforms. And, you know, we're all living in these realities that are mediated by algorithms. There's like the three degrees of Alex Jones joke on YouTube that any interest you start out with, you're always just three videos away from YouTube

suggesting an Alex Jones video to you, or you were. So it's almost like there's a new form of thought control that's not restrictive but like sort of just kind of bombards your attention like spends all your attention on uh versions of the message that you know like our greatest philosopher kim kardashian said interesting to look at so uh yeah i don't know He also got kicked off of YouPorn. Right, and that's the latest update. Yeah, banned from YouPorn and Pinterest. So, guys, I mean, I don't know where you're going to get your options. Still on Twitter.

Still on Twitter. Yeah. And some Facebook pages. There's some InfoWars stuff on there. But Pinterest was where the money was. Yeah, it really was. I mean, we're just selling those neutroceuticals. Right.

But Pinterest was where the money was. Yeah, it really was. I mean, when you're selling those news articles. Right. But yeah, she was talking about how, like, it's with Russia in the 2016 election, a lot of people are thinking about Russians as, like, these experts who are smart and knowledgeable about Americans. And she said they actually started out focusing on California and Texas secession. That was, like, the thing they thought they were going to get America to break apart around

because that's the sort of thing that happens in their part of the world with like Crimea and shit like that. And just, you know, they saw based on, you know, just straightforward analytics that fake stories about Hillary Clinton got a lot more attention. And so that's what they used instead. So I think they might not have realized that we already have some dumb fucking third generation silicon valley billionaire who's been trying to divide california into three different states right and he i think he's getting the help of the russians yeah the russians tried to help and they just it's everyone was like uh get this shit

off the ballot right all right sorry about that try again in four more years i will all right we'll be back. Anyways, I wanted to bring this up, Dan, because I expect you to create our new vocabulary around all this shit. Get to work. Okay, cool. After the break. Set us with some new words.

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You know, we all know Paul Manafort is so capital G guilty. Ostrich coat wearing. Yeah. And, you know, this is what all the lawyers call a documents case because a lot of it has to do with a lot of his fraudulent claims about his income and defrauding banks and lying about his money and money laundering, etc., etc. So there is clearly a mountain of evidence up against him, but they just need a few witnesses to come through and be like,

yes, it is what it looks like. So, yes, cut to Rick Gates, who was Paul Manafort's protege, and his right-hand man when Paul Manafort was running the Trump campaign and even stayed after Paul Manafort left. Yeah, was a big figure on the Trump campaign. Yeah, he's the number two and then I think took over the inauguration committee after that. So he took the stand yesterday in the trial and it essentially just boiled down to this. Him going up on the stand just saying, yes, Paul Manafort and I committed crimes, and I also helped him commit crimes, and also I used to steal money from him.

It was so refreshingly plain spoken in a way that I didn't expect. Like reading over transcripts, you always assume someone would be like, well, crimes is a very, it's all encompassing. I'm not really sure. At the time, what I was doing in this guy was like, oh yeah, I woke up and I looked at my schedule and it said crimes with Paul. And then I did crimes with Paul. And uh more criming at five yeah uh like yeah because I mean as I've we've said on the show earlier too like that they're like there's there's

plain email threads back to each other where he's like help me doctor this like pdf I can't do it in word and I need to make it look like I make more money and then he sends it back and then Paul Manafort literally is like can you you make this a PDF for me? The bank needs it as a PDF. And like, it's just all there. Just all like, you know. Also, while I've got you, Hotmail is different right now. Can you come and fix that?

It's not the way I like it. How do I change the picture that comes? Why does my last name come up before my first name? I don't like that. So, yeah, it was very easy time. And I guess, you know, when you think about why it was so clean in terms of him when the prosecution was talking to him or what do you call that? That they were cross-examining? Cross-examining. Thank you. That, yeah, he was just up there

because he's got a plea deal with Robert Mueller. And it's essentially, you know, he was looking at 10 years for lying to the FBI and conspiracy against the United States. Probably not a good thing you want on your record. And because he's cooperating, I think they're knocking it down. But, yeah, it's clear that he's just like, yes, whatever you need so I don't have to go to jail for 10 years, I will tell you. Because the evidence is so damning, they really allow them to bring out like the C-squad of lawyers. Now, did you do crimes? Yes.

No further questions. No, literally, it was almost like that. And, you know, good luck to Paul Manafort's defense team because, I mean, you know, there's a chance that maybe the jury could be convinced that Rick Gates isn't reliable because he's also a criminal. But, I mean, like most cases where you have someone snitch on the other person, you have to kind of be like, well, he's pretty credible, like why he's doing it. But yeah, I mean, even if a lot of a lot of pundits are saying, like, even if Rick Gates didn't take the stand, the fucking documents are just all there already. So it's it's it was more just for them to really underline and underscore like, yeah, these guys there.

This is what they do. And again, this is the guy who was in charge of the inaugural committee for the president he would he played a big role like whether you believe that he uh anything he says about manafort he's like i do crimes i steal from every uh everyone from my own boss the worst yeah i am bad um and people yeah it's it's amazing how far we've come in terms of like what we're used to and what we're just like dismissing like this is a you know just weak defining news story in any other time yeah the other administration first Trump campaign official who has in court admitted to committing crime right we

you know used to talk about like wow what if this thing goes as deep as like watergate what if this is our watergate this is like watergate is nothing compared to it's a fucking pixar movie uh this guy morton halperin who was like he was on nixon's enemies list and he was a you know he helped write the pentagon papers and then served on Nixon's National Security Council staff and, you know, actually criticized him. He was like one of Nixon's like mullers, basically. And the New Yorker interviewed him and was like, so how do you think like this compares to Watergate? And he was just immediately like, oh, Trump's way worse. He's far worse than Nixon, certainly as a threat to the country, which like you would totally expect him to be like, you know, I stopped the worst person.

Right, right. But he's just like, no. No, no. We do not hold a fucking candle. I'm too old for this shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's also, I think, just for a timing perspective, because John Lovett tweeted this this morning, if the Trump presidency is a marathon, we have just passed mile 10.

Right. That's where we're at timing-wise. And Jack and and i we've both run marathons yes we know there's quite a bit more after that uh it's 26.2 miles the last six miles are like you know that's 20 miles yes they really say that in your brain the first 20 miles are only the halfway point yeah as as a fellow marathoner daniel you would you would get that i i agree with that okay uh what is the marathon technically the distance between the town of marathon and like athens or

something isn't that why the distance is 26.2 yeah like that it was something mythology well we don't all need to flex i was feeling good about my marathon stuff no i just remember it was dumb and small because people always have those 13.1 or 26.2 bumper stickers. I'm like, the 26.2 is so specific. Right. Like when people are like, yeah, I rent a 10K or a 25K or whatever. I'm like, why 26.2? Like a bunch of fucking jerks. Yeah.

10K. Wow. Losers. Jack, when you're driving and you see someone with a 13.1 sticker, do you like ram them a little bit? I used to do that all the time. Well, I just feel entitled to cut them off because they're less than me. Right.

They clearly don't want it this bad. Hey, speaking of numbers, transition. Wow. Hard pivot in the paint. There is a Georgia precinct with a total of 276 voters. Yes. And apparently 670 votes were cast in that precinct. Yeah.

A lot of go-getters there, it sounds like. That was in the primaries in May. It was a real head scratcher because, yeah, like you say, in Mud Creek, there are only 276 registered voters. So that's about a 243% turnout. That's pretty good. I mean, you know, Democrats need that kind of turnout. Absolutely. Russia, please help us. So this is just further evidence that the Republicans are right and that voter fraud is a big deal. These were probably all illegals. All illegals.

Who the Democrats chipped in. It was actually when they looked down, it was all ISIS and MS-13 voters. Oh, shit. So, yeah. They wrote in MS-13. Yeah, they wrote it. Right in Kansas. A lot of the residents of Mud Creek were like, is it just? Or there are like 400 new people here getting off that bus.

They're like, isn't that, isn't that Bill's cousin? They're like, nah, with the teardrop tattoo. But yeah, so again, we're like, wait, hold on. How the fuck does this happen? And, but the thing is,

Georgia is one of four states that uses these voting machines statewide that produce no paper record. So the voter cannot verify what they're, like how the vote was input or actually put into the machine. And it's very difficult to audit because you just have to go off whatever the information is coming digitally off of the voter machine. And cybersecurity experts have said repeatedly that these voter systems were vulnerable enough for a person to

just access voter data and even manipulate the data if they wanted to. And so it just leads to all kinds of wild confusion that can essentially lead to just negating someone's vote completely. Or they're unable to vote because the directions are so crummy that they're told by the website to be at one precinct, and then they show up and they're like, no, you have to be over here. And then they go—it just caused a lot of confusion. So some of the people say they're like sworn statements of voters saying one voter explained that she and her husband who are registered to vote at the same address were assigned different polling places and different city council districts. And another, there was a voting machine that just froze on election day. In several instances,

voters showed up their polling places as listed on the secretary of state's website, only to be told they were supposed to vote elsewhere. So in Atlanta, a voting machine provided a Democrat with a voting ballot, including the fifth congressional district where John Lewis ran unopposed instead of the sixth congressional district, which it was like a very competitive Democratic race. So it's giving him a completely wrong ballot. So it's giving him a completely wrong ballot. So there's a lot of there's just a lot of fuck ups that are going on. And people are saying, like, yo, even if you just throw out the idea that it could be Russian hacking or whatever, it's just fucked up voting systems that need to be addressed either way. Yeah. And again, when you look at the secretary of state of Georgia, which a man named Brian Kemp, he's running for governor right now. So he's been like, no, no, everything's fine. Like we've got it all worked out because I don't think it's good for you as a governor to run on. Yeah. I oversee the, you know, the elections that are completely fucked up and screwed up

all the time and giving people problems. So yeah, this isn't the first time that they've even come under scrutiny. Like even Robert Mueller, his indictment indicated that Russians were charged with hacking into democratic emails and visited county election websites in Georgia, among other states. And there have been a lot of white hat hackers who have just been telling them like, hey, your machines suck and your voting system suck. Like, I'm not I'm here to do to tell you about the problems, not here to actually fuck around in the systems. Right. And like, please, you should do something about it. But, you know, we'll see what happens because, you know, there is a there is a bipartisan group working on election security. But that is going to probably be more for the 2020 election than the midterms coming up in November. Yeah, there's a good 538 article where one of their writers sort of does a timeline of the midterm election day, what it would look like if Russia successfully interferes.

And it's interesting because the way that they fuck with things is not like, well, look, Republicans got a million votes and Democrats got zero. Like, we wouldn't know. It's just they, like, this actually happened in the primaries in my district. The voter rolls were fucked up. And so it created long delays at the ballot. And so fewer people voted in that district. And they knew, like, if Russia wanted to fuck with the outcome, they would make it so that fewer people could, yeah, confusion. And so that fewer people

could vote in a certain district where they knew that Democrats were going to get a lot of the votes. Uh, although our president has already told us that, uh, they probably want Democrats to win. So yeah, for sure. Yeah. So we're, I mean, again, and even if that's the case, then why wouldn't you'd fucking do something about it? Right. If you really have that fear, like, I mean, if you're going to try and explain away the blue wave, if it comes and to say that, oh, that's Russia, then it would, it would behoove you to be like, yeah, we got to buckle down on this thing. We can't have them steal the house or whatever. I mean, there's a chance he's just hedging his bets again the same way that he did leading into the first election. Everything was rigged.

And now it's saying Russia wants the Democrats to win. So if the Democrats win, he can spend the rest of his life saying the Russians did that. And if they don't win, he could spend the rest of his life saying no one thought I was Democrats to win. So if the Democrats win, he can spend the rest of his life saying the Russians did that. And if they don't win, he could spend the rest of his life saying, no one thought I was going to win. I had the media and the Russians against me, and I still won because I'm great. Isn't that right, Howard Stern? But then on one side, he's like, but Russia loves me. Putin loves me, but then they also don't want me.

Yeah. So he says three different things simultaneously. You're like, wait, Putin's the homieie and you're trying to work on good relationships but he definitely didn't want you to be president although he literally said in a press conference yes I wanted him to win yeah right so I don't know whatever again this is what this is the world we're living in where we're like yeah what I mean fuck it I mean because we're not getting any feedback that like oh yeah you can't do this and here are the consequences we're just sort of like I you know eventually Robert Mueller might figure it out and then create enough pressure but

you know republicans y'all can do something but you won't yeah so from the sanctity of our democracy to the thing that people actually get sorry about that uh we are bringing in super producer anna hosnier to tell us what happened last night in the Bachelorette finale. Woo. Oh, my God. Thank you so much for having me. What are you, Howard Stern? Yeah.

By the way, is Howard Stern like pro-Trump politically now? No, he's not. He's not. All right. Sorry. He's pro-being annoying. Okay. Ooh.

God damn. Hold on. Turn her mic off. These hot takes. I can't handle this. He's pro-being uninteresting to look annoying. Okay. Ooh. Ooh. God damn. Hold on. Turn her mic off. This makes such hot takes. I can't handle this. He's pro being uninteresting to look at. Yeah. You're fucking ugly. So here's the time for all the people who are triggered by my Bachelor stuff to skip

forward 45 minutes, because that's right. That's our long-hold year. So last night was the Bachelorette finale, and it really just shows you where we are in America because the guy who won was the one who had controversy for liking a bunch of really intense alt-right memes. Stuff like calling David Hogg a crisis actor, an image of feminazis, and then one of a guy throwing a little boy back over the border. Really, like, ooh, you're out here, aren't you? Like, violent stuff.

Yeah, and like, transphobic stuff and homophobic stuff. It was just stuff like, you have to follow a certain type of account to like these to begin with. And then, of course, someone outed him, probably someone who followed him, because that's the only way you can see how people are liking if your friend keeps showing up like this, you know? Right. So, of course, he won, naturally.

So out of, like, however, how many people did they start with? 26. And he won. She narrowed him down. She narrowed it down. What's this fellow's name? His name is Garrett Uriguri. Just right.

The Bachelor. I don't know how to say his last name. He's from Manteca, California, which is like a known red county in California, central California. Yeah. So his politics clearly are problematic. And the woman, Becca, who is the Bachelorette, known Hillary supporter, like goes to all the women marches, got her pussy hat flowing, you know, like out here, very outspoken about

her politics. So she ends up with this guy. And when it came out, we hadn't known that he was going to win when it came all this controversy came out and then she put out a statement being like you really just got to watch the show to understand and all this stuff and he put out a statement being like my bad i didn't know i'm a dumb dumb yeah and then and then as you watch the show holy shit he's a dumb dumb like he the way he speaks he kind of talks like Forrest Gump where he's like I really like her and she like me like

last night he literally said he was like you you don't even give me butterflies cuz they're small you give me Eagles in my stomach like that's the level also another point where they're trying to oh no yes you give me eagles yes wow shout out to Philadelphia and then he literally

cried through the whole episode like he would start talking to a family member of hers and he would just immediately just start bawling just be like I don't know

what feelings eagles what feelings like he couldn't handle he just cried my stomach is so fucking full of dragons. Now it's dragons.

And there was a point when they were on a date last night that they're on a boat and they're talking about, because he had just met her family. They're having a conversation. He's been like, oh, you know, I talked to your sister. I talked to you. Oh my god! Dolphins! And then just literally sees dolphins and the entire

conversation pivots and they're just being like dolphins fucking did he say problematic shit while he was on the show no he doesn't say anything or he's like so dumb that he was like yo you don't even have an opinion on anything no he's just being like that's funny like tap tap tap wow that that man is throwing that little man over a wall look the dolphins doing flips, and also this is incidental, but I think the kids should stay in cages. Yeah. And so, you know, obviously he won. The other guy, which is, it's heartbreaking,

because the other guy, he survived a school shooting. He survived a lot of trauma from his childhood. So, you know, there were jokes being like, okay, so literally that guy is someone the guy who won would call a crisis actor. Right, David Hogan. Right, right. The other guy was a crisis actor. Right, David Ho. Right, right. Holy shit. The other guy was the crisis actor. And then the other man that won was the one that would call the runner-up a crisis actor.

It's a whole lot of shit, you guys. Oh, my God. Don't show us. You're literally getting choked up. Got a tear in your throat, dragons, or whatever. Sorry. My mouth got dry. I was talking too quick.

So I don't know. It kind of shows a lot what's wrong with what's going on with the casting of The Bachelor. Another guy who was on the show, a contestant, got accused of sexual harassment. So this past season, this girl was given a whole lot of shitheads. And another thing in the after the rose, like after the show, they have like this final after show where they bring all the contestants on and talk. She basically says that she didn't pick the runner up because she felt like he was mentally unstable. And yes, on the show, he was being very like insecure naturally when you're like fighting for the love of a woman who's in love with like other people. And so he came off as like, oh, God, the whole time.

And so on the afternoons. Like a human being who's forced to be on some shitty dating reality show. Exactly. Who is, you know, just an emotional guy. Who's coming off a really bad breakup, you were saying, right? Yes, he got broken up with and dumped. And apparently he took that very hard where his mom had to like really build him back up because he felt so unlovable.

Shout out to moms. But he also survived a school shooting he survived he's a survivor yeah he survived an incident where his mom had an affair with the coach at his school and he was on the team and it was like a city like whatever town scandal he survived that survived the school shooting that his mom and sister were both at because they were both at the school and then he got through this. And this girl literally, Becca literally says, you know, I just don't know how you would react to a dead relative or a sick child, basically.

And it's like, you bitch. You just picked a racist and you're saying this mentally unstable guy can't handle anything? Did they address her like, yo, we know you're on this end of the political spectrum and then I'm sure off the show you found out about this man. What's the deal? They're like, yo, we know you're on this end of the political spectrum, and then I'm sure off the show you found out about this man. What's the deal? What's good, Becca? So finally, he has to, towards

the end of the after show, he has to address it, and he gives the most half ass X. He doesn't explain why he liked it. He doesn't explain what his politics are. He just goes, I didn't understand how people would take a double tap like on Instagram. And I'm learning and I'm trying to grow

and move on from it. Those likes are not who I am. Right. I'm reading his apology here and it is exactly the kind of apology that we see a lot in modern times that I absolutely hate. I'm sorry to those who I offended. I take full responsibility for my likes and I'm going to learn and I'm going to grow. I need someone in there to

jump in and be like, why don't you explain to me why this is offensive though? Because anytime someone does something shitty and then it publicly is like, you're right, I did this and I'm going to take some time to learn and grow. It's never good enough to me because you can just disappear from public life for two weeks and come back and be like, did it, grew. I need you to articulate why you think we're all mad right now. Yeah, I grew.

I'm grown AF after that. And she kind of glossed over it as well. She was like, well, we're just continuing to have conversations as to why that was bad. And that was it. It was so just glazed over. It fell flat for me. I was like, okay, but why do you still like that kind of stuff? Or what made you?

She's like, look, I'm on The Bachelorette, okay? I need to find somebody. Right. If the best I can do is Pepe the Frog over here, then so be it. Well, that's what it felt like. Yeah, right. Like, she's like, I don't know if you remember, but last season I was dumped on national TV after being picked, and then the guy who picked me went back to the runner-up. So, you know, I really need this to work out.

Oh, right. Is this the one he chased around and was like, oh, are you mad at me? Yes. And she's like, oh, are you mad at me? Yes. And she's like, yo, leave me the fuck alone. The one he broke up with on TV after proposing to her. After choosing her. To go back to the runner up. So there was a lot going on there.

So I don't know. Ana, how encyclopedic is your knowledge of Bachelor and Bachelorette? It's pretty deep. Fairly? Who's Darva Conger? In general, what is the success rate of these matches? Bachelor and Bachelorette? It's pretty deep. Fairly? Who's Darva Conger? In general, what is the success rate of these matches? Is it pretty high or pretty super low?

It's low. Yeah. It's low. I mean, the unfortunate thing is because of Instagram and social media, it's harder for these relationships to survive because the genuinity, it's not clear. If people are just coming on to kind of have a presence on the internet so they can sell sponsor ads on Instagram. You don't know what people are really in it for, if they're there to be famous, if they're actually there to find love.

And it becomes a little bit more, there's a lot of gray areas currently on the show and a lot of very bad casting choices. Yeah, you know, come on, ABC. So, yes. So, she picked the racist. I don't really expect more from ABC, though, to be honest, as a network. The unfortunate thing is, if we did not get that information about him, he's one of the most likable dudes.

It's so frustrating. It's a mindfuck. We keep joking, like, God damn, he's the most likable racist I've ever seen in my life. Like, we don't, if you didn't know this background, you'd like oh he's great because he's just nice he's sweet he's just like like literally like he could just be one of these ignorant type people that's what we don't know yeah where that's that's the hard part that's why it's like you can't really immediately be like well he's just because he it sounds like he's just really stupid off that's that is for sure a known quality is he is dumb growing Growing up, all my friends liked these

frog memes. We didn't really know what it meant. It was just a thing we did. Now I'm on TV and everyone's mad at me. We were just really bad at drawing plus signs and they ended up looking like that. He's just like, dolphins. He literally, a dolphin just jumped up and he goes, they're doing tricks

for us. And it's like, no. They're just dolphins hanging out. It's not for you, my friend. goes, they're doing tricks for us. And it's like, no, they're just dolphins hanging out. It's not for you, my friend. You think they're socialists? What? Just dolphins? Never mind. Yeah.

So that's what happened. But you know what, guys? We're moving on to Bachelor in Paradise, one of the greatest television- Disaster shows? It's not a disaster. It's one of the greatest things to ever happen in the world. That's just where there's lots of different- Look, we watch Bachelorette and The Bachelor so we can finish our year off with Bachelor

in Paradise. It's a fucking shit show. Literally, everyone's on the chopping block. Anything can happen. Because on The Bachelor or Bachelorette, they really protect the main person. They don't make them look like a fool. They make them always look great. The Bachelor in Paradise, you all fools.

The editors will have you crying and talking to fucking raccoons. They don't give a fool. They make them always look great. The Bachelor in Paradise, you all fools. The editors will have you crying and talking to fucking raccoons. They don't give a shit. They don't have you like drunk, like confessing to an iguana. That's how they just take it there and they don't give a fuck

and you're all idiots and I love it. Wait, who is the premise? Is there a single Bachelor or Bachelorette in Paradise? No. Sounds like a bunch of animals. Yeah.

They take all the cast-offs. It's an iguana and a raccoon trying to fuck a nurse. Yeah. They take all the cast-offs, put them on this resort in Mexico that has very poor plumbing.

Wait, what? It smells like shit. You know why? Because they probably have septic systems and they're flushing the toilet paper down the thing. And they tell you, yo, put the toilet paper in the little garbage can because we can't handle the shit. And don't get mad when it starts backing up anyway. Yeah, so it's all the castoffs. And then they all fall in love with each other, basically.

And it's a shit show. And it's a lot of fun. They drink a lot. So what's the name of the runner up from last night? What's his name? Blake. Blake. Shout out to you man. I think Becca did not

choose you because it was coming from a place of weakness you represent maybe some instability or like you know having been broken up with you have that part of your personality and she got dumped on national television so she just didn't want

to relive that and be reminded but that just that's just gonna make you stronger i do want to say mental illness is so stigmatized it's not appropriate what she did to be like you're not stable enough to handle it's like just he survived all that he survived your shit ass breakup you shouldn't even bring that up as your reasoning at all you should be like you know it wasn't gonna work you shouldn't then go be like because you look unstable. Blake, incredibly brave of you to put yourself out there in such a grand and dramatic way on your journey towards healing and growth.

Oh, Blake. Oh, Blake. All right. We're going to take a quick break. Thank you so much. Quick Blake. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. I've been thinking about you.

I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session. 24 hours. BPM 110. 120. She's terrified. Should we wake her up? Absolutely not.

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Voila! You got straight away. I felt like I was living in North Korea, but worse, if that's possible listen to spiraled on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and uh we've got some bad news. Bad news for anybody who was raised in the 80s and early 90s and, you know, was a fan of action films. Steven Seagal is no longer on our team. Yeah.

Fully he's gone to the dark side. Lost another good one. So, you know, we've known that he's been flirting with Vladimir Putin for a while. Vladimir Putin. And now he is officially a Russian citizen? He's been a Russian citizen. He became a Russian citizen a while back, but now he, according to his Twitter

and the Russian embassy Twitter, this is Steven Seagal's tweet from yesterday. I am deeply humbled and honored to have been appointed as a special representative of the Russian foreign ministry in charge of russian and american humanitarian ties i hope we can strive for peace harmony and positive results in the world i take this honor very seriously i am a gross sex crim yeah i think it was the part that they didn't fit into 280 characters but yeah he, he's got this special, I guess, title of humanitarian tie improver.

Right. Again, look, when I think about people talking, they're always like, oh, the Russians, man, they're infiltrating. This shows that America has fully entered the brains of Eastern European autocrats because they are in love with Steven Seagal. They're like, this guy's the cool, the guy from Under Siege.

I hung out with him. And you're like, dude, you're a fucking Chechen strong man. You're like, yeah, but he's cool. Like he actually knows like all those karate moves. Like he could actually fuck me up. But yeah, like he's not, it's funny. He's always been palling around with Putin. Like Putin, I think personally handed Steven Seagal his Russian passport.

Was like, welcome to Russia. And the prolific Jewish action hero. This isn't his first time being around these autocrats because, yeah, there's the Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya. They hung out for a while like they were doing like, you know, he's a huge mixed martial arts fan and Seagal visited Chechnya and like they were like even doing some dance moves there's some cool videos on Twitter of that he even met up with Alexander yeah Alexander Lukashenko who's like the president of Belarus yeah uh who set Condoleezza Rice in 2005 called

the last dictator in Europe that guy gave Seagal like a guided tour of some of Belarus's like state-owned cooperative farms like it's is that where he got a giant-ass carrot or a watermelon or something? It could be, yeah. They handed him some giant vegetable and he was like, I take this very seriously. It was really bizarre. He gives the exact same speech that he gave. I'm honored to hold this giant

baby-sized carrot. This is a testament to all of your growth. Now you guys are talking about Steven Seagal, the action hero. I mostly know him as the artist, the musician. Oh, yes. Guitar, right? Yeah. Usually there's electricity and lightning going on behind him.

I mean, he's just that guy. And the funny thing is he also went to Russia once with Dana Rohrabacher, who's a congressman down south in Solano Beach, I think. Anyway, who quite literally might be an actual Russian agent and congressman at the same time. I forget. I think it was Kevin McCarthy last year who joked. He's like, if there's somebody who's probably getting paid by Russia, it's probably Dana Rohrabacher. Right. And then now he's like, let's keep that low.

Dana Rohrabacher was the given that he's being paid by Putin. He was making the point that Trump might also be getting paid by Putin. He was like, I mean, he was making the point that Trump might also be getting paid by Putin. He was like, I mean, if there's a second person who's being paid by Putin besides Dana Rohrabacher, it's probably Trump. It makes me feel like

there's a position open in Russia for like modern pop cultural guide for like America's. Yeah. Because clearly no one's in Putin's ear about this. He's like, we've got Steven Seagal and then they will crumble.

Motherfucker, have you seen the raid? Way cooler people right now. Nobody follows Seagal anymore. He's like, Mr. Putin, Keanu Reeves is actually having a resurgence as a really cool action hero. What? No. Him?

But yeah, and the quote, Rohrabacher talks about going to Russia with Steven Seagal, and he says, because of his black belt in karate and things, he's gotten to know a number of important people in Russia, including Putin, and he was able to use that influence to make sure we got to talk to the very top people.

So they are so starstruck by Steven Seagal over there. That's why I'm like, yo, you know what? We still got mind control over them. They're still into these 80s films and think Steven Seagal is like, That's why I'm like, yo, you know what? We still got mind control over them. They're still into these 80s films and think Steven Seagal is like, this is what we're going to get. Right. I feel like we could also buy back Steven Seagal for our side with an Under Siege 3 script.

Oh, yes. Where it's like, this time it's a plane. It's fine. I'm like, okay, I'll switch. I'm an American patriot again. So speaking of action movies, guys, treat again so speaking of action movies guys they uh a journalist used foyer requests to get a list of 410 of the movies uh that were made under direct influence of the department of defense what would that mean if they're under the direct influence script approval uh you know just giving

notes essentially okay uh they it's not like they're like, hey, we've got a, can you read our script really quick? Pentagon goes to Fox. Right, no, but it's basically Fox goes to the Pentagon and says, hey, we want aircraft carriers in this movie. Oh, right, right, right. You are the only ones with aircraft carriers in the universe. Can we use your aircraft carriers?

And the Pentagon is like, okay, let's take a look at the script. Okay, we have some notes and some of the titles are pretty expected like all the Jack Ryan movies with Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck and some of all fears a Red Dawn which is pretty clearly just straightforward American propaganda right from the Cold War. But there are some, I don't know, some that I did not see coming, like Pet Sematary and The Perfect Storm.

Now, is there an aircraft carrier in Pet Sematary? No. I don't think so. The Last Action Hero? I don't remember there being an aircraft carrier in that movie. No. So it's, I don't know, maybe they needed guns, and that's a cheap way to get the guns from it.

Yeah, but there are plenty of gun wranglers that work in the industry that have all that stuff for you to use, like unless it's something, I mean, even then, like it wouldn't be for props. Like they have, like the studios have full-on prop departments for that. I don't know, Pet Sematary, like to keep people in fear of like Native Americans.

Oh, interesting. Like you'd be like, yeah, you know, Native American burial ground. They're like, keep that narrative going. It's a good thing we got rid of. Yeah, right. Like I don't know if that's what their wives are. Pets would be coming back from the dead. The perfect storm.

I mean, I think that's just a good old fashioned ad for Gloucester, Mass. Right. Maybe their coast guard shows up and they needed some coast guards. Oh, yeah. They get saved, don't they? They don't get saved. Or no, they die. They all die.

No, no, no, no. They do not. But I'm sure there are scenes- That big wave really fucked them up. I'm sure there are scenes with the coast guard being like, yeah, they're fucked. Yeah, and the article makes a good point that, you know, we scoff at the idea of North Korean propaganda. We do frequently scoff. Yes. We were just doing it off air, you guys.

But propaganda of foreign countries where they push their junkie propaganda on unwilling audiences and people who are just like, ugh, this shit again. It's another movie where the deer leader breaks people's knees backwards or whatever. But we're the country where people actively solicit and consume our government's war propaganda. We demand it and they give it to us. So I don't know why I made that all sexy. We demand it and they give it to us. Well I don't know why I made that all sexy. We demand it, and they give it to us. Well, why Star Trek Resurrection?

Star Trek IV and Star Trek Resurrection, but no other Star Trek movies. That must have been someone high up at the Pentagon who's just like, I gotta read that script before it comes out. So I'm a huge Trekkie. Huge Trekkie. Johnny Depp's movie.

The story in which he is solving the murder of Notorious B.I.G. has been shelved indefinitely. It's been pulled out of it was supposed to be coming out in a month. They released a trailer. It was baffling. Like it wasn't clear. It just seemed like it was it was almost like L.A. confidential set against the backdrop of the Notorious B.I.G.'s murder. And then a Rolling Stone profile that we talked about on this show made him look like a reclusive racist. There's also, you know, people have kind of turned on him after the revelation that he was abusive to amber heard when they were married and now the studio has pulled that movie yeah well you know it's he's

not he's not the hot property that he once was right his stock has plummeted and a lot of people were like how the fuck is this guy still surviving all these controversies especially like with the harry potter uh universe films the fantastic beast things was funny because they were supposed to do panels at comic-con and rather than subjecting him to the possibility of having to answer questions about being fucking johnny depp they were like you know what let's just have you do a couple uh in character appearances that way you can just be some guy who totally doesn't know of this man,

Depp, they speak of. That's so funny that like, here, let's soften your image by having you be proto-Voldemort. Right. This ultimate evil that needs to be destroyed. I think you are pretty off-putting right now, but the kids are going to love this.

But just come in-character as this other evil fuck. Right. I know not of this spousal abuse you speak of, mister. What's a spell to forget stuff? I've never seen a Harry Potter thing, but it would be like... I haven't either. It would be a really great drop right now, though. Yeah.

Amnesius. Yeah, that sounds right. There we go. Just make something sound like a Latin word. It sounds like that stupid nerd shit. You dorks all like, as you, as you cry into your Harry Potter book.

Uh, yeah, he just, yeah, he's God. I'm surprised again. I'm, I'm,

well, I'm surprised that they were still hanging on to him with that fantastic piece. And even JK Rowling was like, well, he's an adult and they handled that. So that's that. And everyone's like,

uh, are you sure? Especially because that's such an easy fix. It's really, really easy to just like, Grundewald looks like this now. He doesn't look like Johnny Depp anymore because we already know that he can change forms. He's done it.

So we can just be like, look, it's Paul Giamatti. Ta-da! He seems pretty harmless, right? Giamattis! Christopher Plummer, maybe. Yeah, right, exactly. He's like, please, I can't keep doing this. Guy doesn't need to read a script for the rest of his life.

He just needs to wait for the other dominoes to fall, and they call him. And finally, MoviePass. Pour one out to MoviePass, guys. Yeah. They hit a wall. Yeah. So after running out of money a couple weeks ago, they have now downgraded their unlimited MoviePass, which was the whole idea of the whole business model was you can see all the movies you want.

You can just, if you don't have a place to go, you can just hang out in movie theaters for the day, essentially. Now you get to see three movies a month. Oh, wow. Hot damn. Three moving pictures? Three whole movies for $9.95. But the funny thing, but they're also like blacking out popular movies. So like, yeah, Mission Impossible, you're going to have to wait on that one.

I mean, it's a shame because there was a way to do this business model better. When I grew up, we had like the main movie theater and we also had the $2 movie theater, which is a worse theater and you get the movies way later, but it's $2. If MoviePass just come out and it was like unlimited movies one month after their release, that's a business model that could sustain for, I think, a very long time. The fact that right out the gate they were saying unlimited movies and everyone in the world was allowed to get it. And it's like, yeah, you're going to make this thing that's too good to be true because it's not true. And then you're going to have to scale it back and people are going to be mad when you're scaling it back. But if you start small, it seems like you have a lot of room for this to be a reasonable business model.

Right. reasonable business model right if you had if you didn't view yourself as like the next Netflix which every statement from the CEO Mitch Lowe is just him being like well you see I mean as Netflix uh sometimes you can't see a certain movie on Netflix uh that's how we are and it's like no you're not Netflix you can you are maybe a movie version of Groupon or something like that. Yeah, and his quotes are amazing because after they announced that they went from unlimited to three, not even one a week, he was saying, it's not going to affect their users. And quote, they will not be affected at all by this program. And even better, they'll stop hearing movie passes going out of business. Yo, what the fuck?

And that's their top concern. Yeah, because I'm like, oh, God, the thing that I hate about having a movie pass is hearing about how it's going to go out of business. Yo, what the fuck? And that's their top concern. Yeah, because I'm like, oh God, the thing that I hate about having a movie pass is hearing about how it's going out of business. Not because when I show up, I can't fucking see the movie that I was promised by paying into the fucking service. Hey, the guy understands his audience.

If there's one thing they hate, it's bad press about movie pass. Well, and then I guess, but that makes sense because he also went on to say that like 85% of movie pass users see three and then I guess, but that makes sense because he also went on to say that like 85% of movie pass users see three or fewer movies a month. So I guess it won't totally affect it. They're only, I guess,

like the real rabid movie pass people are paying like, you know, it's only 15%. But that's why the AMC one looks good though too. You know, $19.95 a month, three movies a fucking week. Right.

And boom, chances are with the way they have a fucking stranglehold on theaters now boom you chances are with the way they have a fucking stranglehold on on theaters now you live by an amc yeah and i think that the idea is that it's cool to be able to see more than three it's it's cool to have the unlimited thing yeah of course for for the movie pass users i think that was a big part of the attraction so oh yeah because in my mind i'm like wait 995 to potentially see 400 worth of movies and i'm like that's a deal but in my mind i'm like three a month no even though it's clearly still a good deal less than the price of one fucking ticket

uh well people are saying it might be sort of the napster of uh the movie ticket buying experience where this is gonna clearly go out of business because Mitch Lowe, you know, had a high opinion of himself, but this is going to change how people buy movie tickets going forward. You've given people a taste of this thing and they want it and someone else will figure out how to do it. Yeah.

Do it the right way. They're like, okay. So they clearly fucked that up. So let's just do this. Yeah. All right. Well,

Daniel, it's been a pleasure having you as always. Really, really flies by. Where can, uh, where can people find you? Ugh,

who cares? Just search around the internet. You'll find out. Um, I guess I can plug, uh, launching a brand new podcast, not on this network.

Woo! If you ever want to check out, launching next week, I believe, or the week after, it's called Quick Question with Soren and Daniel. It's, uh, hosted by me and Soren Bui.

Never heard of them. We ask each other questions and we answer them. You can follow us on Twitter. QQ underscore Soren and Dan or Instagram. Jesus fucking Christ. QQ underscore with underscore Soren underscore and underscore Daniel. Yes.

This was set up by our mutual friend and former co-worker Michaelael schrauer michael schrauer oh blame him for the worst instagram handle anyone has ever shot up to yeah went to high school with him yeah uh what do you call him bacon right bacon yeah i was trying to like reference him in that name and i was like yeah and butter right and she's like what bacon i'm like man when i knew him he was fucking Schroer old butter bean he doesn't want

his last name to be used in our podcast so it's all Bacon and sometimes Business Daddy because he's our

CFO well holler at me if you want some pics of him on the Notre Dame high school basketball team I will

holy shit embarrassing photos wait he was on the Notre Dame basketball team? on my high school oh oh he ain't the

fighting Irish, man. Their podcast has a CFO. We got to get to work. Yeah. Daniel, is there a tweet that you've been enjoying by any chance? Yeah, well, there's two. There's one recurring thing. I wish I knew who was the first person to make this observation,

but so many people on Twitter will be like, Manafort going here is sort of like the prisoner for Azkaban going here. And someone will quote tweet that with, I am begging you, please read another fucking book. So many people are comparing things to Harry Potter. And just, I'm part of the exhausted army of people who are just like, that's enough. Let it go. Like, stop reaching. But a more specific tweet that I loved.

This is from someone named at sort of bad. And it's brackets. Takes exactly one puff of drug. And brackets. What if all of Jay-Z's problems were Luftballons? That's so much. Oh, Miles.

Jack. Where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. And a tweet that I am fucking with right now You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at MilesOfGrey. And a tweet that I am fucking with right now is from one of last week's guests, Dave Ross, at DaveTheRoss. And he said, Postmates should be called Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. I've got a Comedians in Cars joke, too.

Oh, okay. So I've got a couple tweets. Oh, no, she twiddent. Tweeted, InfoWars wasn't even really banned from anywhere. It's all a hoax, and Alex Jones is a crisis actor. There you go. Katie Karasik tweeted, I've literally never met a man who is not named Matt. And Brody, my goth name is DeVoid, is currently his Twitter handle.

Brody Reed tweeted, hurt people hurt people in cars getting coffee, which I loved. You can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes. On Instagram, we have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzyguys.com, where we post our episodes. You can also find our footnotes on the description on iTunes of our podcast. They're everywhere.

Super accessible. That's where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song that we ride out on Miles. What is that going to be? Oh, today, I'm just really feeling like a nice groover type vibe. Like I normally am. 99% of the songs I recommend are like that. But this is a track from the homies from Canada, Bad Bad Not Good. Really great band.

This one's called Boogie No. 69. And, yeah, they're just very talented musicians, young guys playing. You know, they're like jazz dudes, but they're making it work. They're making it funky. And they also have an album with Ghostface Killer. That's pretty good, too. So check out this one by Bad Bad, Not Good. What's the album with Ghostface?

If you just search Bad Bad, Not Good with Ghostface, it'll come up. All right. We're going to ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. We'll talk to you guys then. Bye. Thank you. Thank you. ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത്ത� សូវាប់ពីបានប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្រាប់ពីប្� Thank you. fantasy football fans the nfl season is here and now is the time to do your homework the best way to do that homework is to listen to the NFL fantasy football podcast. Come hang out with me, Marcus Grant, as well as my pal, Michael F. Florio, as we give you all the insight you need to set the best lineups each week. For a smart, fun, and entertaining path to league domination, the NFL fantasy football podcast is the show for you. Subscribe now and

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