The Daily Zeitgeist - RIP Anthony Bourdain, Right Wing SNL Coming Soon? 6.8.18

Episode Date: June 9, 2018

In episode 165, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Erin Foley to discuss the conservative version of SNL called 'Live From Omaha,' Anthony Bourdain and suicide, more shenanigans from Scott Pruitt aka George Costanza, the G7 Summit in Quebec, a new algorithm from the army for ideal caffeine consumption, and more!  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 34, Episode 5 of Darren Daly's Ice Geist. For June 8th, 2018, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Lil' Stinker Taylor Soldier Spy. That one is courtesy of a nickname I gave my son last night, and it barely got a laugh, so I figured I'd bring it here to an audience who actually respects me. Yeah, cool, Dad. I've noticed kids are very self-involved when they're zero.

And I am thrilled to be the whole way in Portuguese. Shout out to Pochipetos on Twitter. Obrigado, irmão, for that wonderful brasileiro-inspired AKA from Sergio Mange. So, yeah, I'm a lover of Brazilian music. So it was only right to then satisfy my ego with that. Yeah, no, I think everybody got that reference. I don't think you needed to even know where that was from. Yeah, everyone knows the genius of Sergio Mange.

Uh-huh. And we are thrilled to be joined by the hilarious comedian Aaron Foley. Thank you. Hi. What's going on, Aaron Foley? Every morning I wake up to Brazilian music. Do you? No. Thank you. Hi, what's going on Erin Foley? Every morning I wake up to Brazilian music. Do you? No. In theory.

You're still cultured. Yeah, I have a lot of culture. You walked in playing the Birimbau. Yeah. That's my sweet tunes I wake up to on my alarm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's why I stay in bed. Alright, yeah, yeah. And that's why I stay in bed.

All right. Today we are going to talk about the culture wars, specifically an idea for a conservative SNL that is being floated in conservative circles. We are going to talk about Anthony Bourdain, rest in peace. We are going to be talking about more details from the summer of Scott. Yes, baby. Scott Pruitt as George Costanza as he lives his life. We're going to be talking

about Trump's adventures at the G7 summit. I'm going to possibly talk a little bit about how memory functions. If you remember. If I remember to do it. Because he didn't yesterday. Come on. And we're going to talk about the Army has perfected an algorithm to make the most out of caffeine consumption, to perfect the speed and rate at which you consume caffeine. And then we're going to check in with our Bloid Watch.

Bloid Watch. But first up, we like to ask our guest, Erin, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are as a human being? Oh, I didn't know it was revealing about who I am. I just do that to scare people. Oh, I thought it was the weirdest thing. Yeah. This lady across from me said the weirdest thing. So I just did the history yesterday.

You sold her out, Hosniye. Hosniye for two. On my search history, besides basically rosters of WNBA teams, is the Green Beer, G-R-E-E-N-B-I-E-R, which is a resort in West Virginia. Green Briar, I believe it is. Is it Briar? I thought it was B-I-E-R, which is a resort in West Virginia. Greenbrier, I believe it is. Is it Brier? I thought it was B-I-E-R. I could have spelled it wrong, though.

I've never heard of this place before, and a friend of mine got married, and she was posting all these photos, and I was like, God, who goes on their honeymoon to West Virginia? So then I had to Google what it was. Yeah. Wait, where is it? I think it is the Green Pride, right? So it is a resort in West Virginia where at some point during the 20th century, the U.S. government built a huge bunker underneath this resort

because the presidents always went there. West Virginia is not too far from D.C. Right. And they were like, that would be a nice place to live out the apocalypse. And so they built a huge, there's like a huge bunker underneath this giant luxury resort where the president would have been transported had the Cold War gotten hot. We've got to fucking Google over here. And then you go on a deep spiral of this place. Isn't it weird, though?

It's like starting 1778. It just was like, where is she on her honeymoon? And then I spent like a 20 minute internet deep dive into a resort in West Virginia. That makes me want to go there if the idea was like, we could ride out the apocalypse.

Yeah. It always reminded me, and I don't know if this is specifically because of that detail, but it always reminded me of The Shining place a little bit. Like it's just this remote, I don't know if this is specifically because of that detail but it always reminded me of the shining place a little bit like it's just this remote right I don't know that I did a show at in Oregon right it's in Oregon oh you did at the actual shining location at the the where they took all the what do you call it the exterior exteriors I was just about to scream pictures

from the outside um it was like a a gig where i flew in late and then you the the booker picks you up at portland and it's like an hour outside portland and i'm it was like a dude driver which is fine but it was like you are literally in the middle of nowhere i don't know this guy right and you're going up like the side of a mountain it's pitch black he was totally fine it was you know but as a lady you're like like, oh, this is where, this is my last day. This is where nobody sees me again. And then he pulls up and I was like, and I can't see it. It looks really pretty, but you know, you can't really, it's dark out.

And he goes, you know, this is where The Shining was filmed. And then he's like, good luck. All right, Red Room, see ya. Yeah. Yeah. And then talk about trying to sleep by yourself in that location. That sounds terrifying. Anyway, that's my shining story.

All right. What is something that's overrated? I wrote down cooking. Okay. I just, I always just feel like you stumble around people where like, like it's just an innately like, I can cook. And you're like, okay, easy. Like easy.

You know what I mean? I'm like, yeah, cook. And you're like, okay, easy. Like, easy. You know what I mean? I'm like, yeah, okay. Yeah, I know it's great, but so is putting spinach in frozen Trader Joe's meals. Yeah, exactly. I feel like that's also cooking, but it's not respected. No. Well, because they're going to say, oh, you're heating up food. Yeah.

You're like stirring. It's an assemblage of many ingredients. Ooh, assemblage. I don't know if I use that right. I like to sound pompous when I'm embodying the character I believe Aaron is describing. I'm just like, I don't know. I love cooking too, but there are people who really want to let you know. Yeah.

Oh, I cook. Yeah, and you're like, all right, yeah, I order out. It's also still delicious. It's like, yeah, well, your Civic is a mess. You only go food shopping once a week? Oh, I go food shopping every day. Oh, yeah. I need fresh ingredients.

Where's your farmer's market? Oh, my. Is that a bagged salad? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I do think that a lot of recipes come down to us from past generations, and that's a good thing, and there are a lot of good recipes.

But I do feel like there should be a form of cooking that takes into account that we have all these amazing frozen meals and just like weird microwavable things that you can combine. Like Kraft mac and cheese with, I don't know. Fresh kale. Yeah, there you go.

I don't know. There we go. But actually, I'm open to this because I do love a good IKEA bag of frozen meatballs. Right. Yeah. I'm just saying, like, don't throw it in my face. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like, you know. I totally agree. Also, then I want to go, well, I'm busy. Right. Exactly. You know what I mean? So, plus I can't.

Aaron, what's something that is underrated? Something underrated is being gay. Okay. That's what I went with because i'm gay okay i feel like i feel like no one wants to bake us cakes it's been a rough week uh if we get trump out of there we get uh maybe he'll acknowledge pride oh yeah absolutely i get fucked hard pants who wants to take all the gays and put us on an island although that would be a fun island uh but uh i have i've always had really wonderful experiences making out with ladies.

So I put out that it's underrated. Yeah, and especially for the president because I don't think he has declared June Pride Month yet. This is two years in a row, I think. He hasn't even acknowledged his own presidency. No, he has probably every two seconds. Yeah, no, he doesn't acknowledge anything nice or friendly. He's acknowledged that he won, but I don't think he's acknowledged a lot of the roles

that come with a presidency. And finally, what is a myth? What is something that most people think is true that you know to be false? This one I will defend to my death. Okay. You guys, I got some inside scoop on the pyramids no I'm kidding

you have no idea how in our wheelhouse I was just about to dab right now I was about to be the stone dude like yeah talk that shit Aaron you guys you ready wheelbarrows

I actually am obsessed with the pyramids but that's another uh i don't have any debunking of that um i'm gonna debug the myth that all comics are sad clowns oh it makes me volatile it makes me crazy because um we're not uh I think here it is. It's like if stand-up comedy is a workforce, right, there is a percentage of stand-up comics that maybe aren't the happiest people. You could say that about every office in America. While everybody in your office is like, okay, if you take, let's just say the phrase sad clown, which makes me, I hate that phrase. Okay, so you get like 10 out of 100 comics are sad clowns or whatever. 10 out of 100 people in an office are sad, right? But they're not funny.

So I'd still go with the sad clown. Yeah. What's with the sad clown thing? It just makes me crazy. Like we're either so fun or I'm holding myself, rocking myself in the corner. Right, right. I'm like, I'm working. And that's where the funny comes from. Right. It's like you have to be fucked up to be corner. Right, right. I'm like, I'm working. And that's where the funny comes from.

Right. It's like you have to be fucked up to be funny. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, no. I mean, sure, I think there's a certain bit of life experience that can add to your sense of humor,

but there is like this sort of idea that most comedians, it's always because they're coming from a dark place or something like that. But when you think about it, every morning, let's say the average American, I would say a high percentage of Americans across across the world hate their jobs right right so they get

up every morning the alarm goes off at 6 a.m and they're putting on their nude nylons like and they have a flask yes because that's how i would picture my life if i had a real job uh like how is that not like the worst existence ever how is that not coming from like a dark place yeah yeah yeah so if we have everybody's got darkness but we we have an outlet for it you can make it accessible like to me that's something that's super awesome yeah i mean the second i met you were very happy and very bright so i know i just i i just feel like it's channeling it's you know what i mean like yeah i will just defend stand-up comics yeah i just love the lot yeah and i also feel like by definition the ones that most people hear about who you know end up being dark are famous people and i think fame is acutely bad

for your mental health like regardless that's why we like to be a second-rate podcast. Exactly. Yeah. We're staying that way. Yeah. No, I agree. There's so many other, there's so many factors. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Yeah. And I also just think it's the same white depressed dude that gets famous. And they're like, oh, man, the sadness in that guy. I'm like, that is like a small percentage. Right. It's like the same. Right.

It's the same model for like depressed white male comic right yeah uh all right guys let's move on and then the pyramids and yeah let's move on to the pyramids uh were we signaling other cultures let's be real here uh let's talk about the culture wars miles culture wars yes okay so this is great. Wonkhead, which is one of my favorite political websites, very satirical, but, you know, very honest. Last week, they pointed out the alt-right anthem that we were talking about, It's Okay to Be White, the song of the summer,

that sounded like a terrible version of The Promise from the 80s. So now they pointed out that the town hall columnist, Matt LeChance, is this week's winner for shitty conservative creative ideas. French for the chance. Yes. Thank you so much. LeChance. So today, or I guess in a column that was put out yesterday or today, he has proposed that the way to win the culture wars against the libtards is to have their very own Saturday Night Live that's just for the red states. Now I'm going to read a little bit of his words

so you can kind of understand exactly what he's trying to communicate to the rest of the conservative community. Super producer Nick, get the air horn ready. First, don't try to hide what you're doing. Build the show as the red state alternative to Saturday Night Live and broadcast it on the same night at the same

time. Be a direct competitor and follow SNL's format with a regular cast, a celebrity host, and a musical guest in front of a live studio audience. Second set in America's heartland, Omaha, Nebraska would be ideal. And, you know, give a similar name and branding. Something along the lines of, Live from Omaha, it's another Saturday night would work. If lawyers say that's too close to SNL, get creative,

but make sure viewers know exactly what the show is intended to be. You guys get creative. I'm not going to do that here as I'm writing this. I don't know how. Yeah, you'll figure it out. Yeah, and they also point out, yeah, Omaha, Nebraska, I love it. Shout out to Runza out there. It's a great town.

The problem is Hillary won Omaha. So that's not exactly the heartland that I think he wants. Check out Fort Worth or Oklahoma City or something like that. Any red state where you recognize the city shouldn't be set there. Right. Right. Exactly. You know what I mean?

Because that's the libtard country. Yeah. And then so, again, the ideas that he also puts forward because he's really, like, he's hell-bent on this actually being the remedy to the constant L's that conservatives take on, like, the culture front. Oh, I think this will do the trick. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I think this should end it. And he wants to show how easy it is to write comedy. It's so easy.

So he comes up with his own sketch idea. Yeah. Some of these sketch ideas, brace yourself. Aaron, get your agent, your management on the phone, because they might have a new client. You mean my mother? I've got her on speed dial. Perfect.

Here are some great ideas that are coming out of this writer's room of one. Very deep thoughts from Joe Biden. Tonight on CNN, Chris Cuomo says the darndest things. A sketch featuring Sarah Palin playing Tina Fey upset about Hillary losing. The social justice warriors, a group of college undergrads who are trying to advance radical social chains

but can't get anywhere because they're constantly at war with each other over pronouns. Lifestyles of the rich and Democrat. Mental health tips from Kathy Griffin and Jim Carrey. Bernie Sanders hosts a radio show

where he can't explain the historical failures of socialism to a single caller. Now that would be hilarious. There you go. Hit the horn on that one. And also this is where he just gets lazy and just sort of describing a general thing. There should also be sketches which make fun of liberal comedy heroes like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, and Trevor Noah. Maybe this could take the place of SNL's weekend update. Make these hypocrites the butt of the joke for once and see how they like it. Right.

Wow. He's got a vision. Yeah. That most of the sentence begin with maybe or there could be. Yeah. You can't even commit to the bit. Just spitballing here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm going to green light this. Great. I would absolutely live and die for a show like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to green light this. Great. I would absolutely live and die for a show like this. Yeah. It's out of the box thinking, and it should put us in our places. Yeah, it really is. And now, how do you picture this writer's room working? Because I don't know a single person who I think could contribute a worthwhile idea.

Like, is Dennis Miller head writer? I would say 25 white men over the age of 65 right uh that have never been in a in the entertainment world they come from the business world uh-huh um and then they cut and paste saturday night live sketches uh and then just replace names right just do find and Right, just do find and replace. I just do find and replace of existing sketches. I think what would be the most fun is seeing what celebrity guest host

they would try to convince and see them be shamed out of Hollywood. Yeah. Like, it would be career death. Well, yeah, there would only be like six people. There would be like six people rotating. And also it would just be country music every week. Right.

Or like the Marine Corps band that like Trump like orders to play. Or Kanye to really stick it to those SNL fools. Oh, yeah, yeah. Actually, that would be their guy. Yeah. Yeah, he writes, it would devastate their narrative and remind millions of Americans that not everyone agrees with the Democrat media complex. I know I personally would be devastated by those sketches.

But hold on. The last part. If we're serious about culture, we have to get in the game. What the fuck are you saying, my guy? What does that even mean? You are contributing to culture. You're showing people what we don't want. You're showing people how to not be compassionate or empathetic.

And we're good on that i think that is maybe part of the reason that you don't see tons of conservative people who are funny is i think being funny requires empathy yeah and their politics require an absence of it yeah or to just sort of rationalize why it's okay to exacerbate their bad problem or be like, oh, they don't need help. They got their bootstraps. That's exactly what it is. It's like if they look at, you know, the comedy is like if you take like African-American culture, you're like, okay, this is the atrocities. Now, how do we make it funny so people go, oh, my God.

Right. But their policy is like, no like no no that's what we want right we literally want like a separate area yeah right like it's just if if your policies are so terrible and that's what you truly believe then it would just be like a sketch would just be like a conversation right it would just be like yeah sketch would just be like a conversation right it would just be like yeah this is happening be like yeah yeah i'm now right but as we all know culture is a sport uh so that metaphor totally makes sense you gotta get in the game yeah they're looking at it all fucked up hike yeah you just need to be like more of a football coach when you're trying to get people

to create shame them into be a football sketch where all the immigrant families are split up there's kids on the defensive line and the parents are on the offensive line they and they hate each other right uh that sounds really funny and also too like comedy is inherently like a giving act right like you go up there and you want to you're giving your experiences your point of view and you're creating laughter in other people. And I think there's a certain generosity about it, too. Also, the whole aim of comedy is to bring people together. Right, right.

And their aim is to literally rip the whole system apart. Yeah. And to separate people and ideas into groups where they can like be the overlord. Yeah. So it's the antithesis of comedy. Well, hey, they're getting in the game, Aaron. And I'm just so excited to watch it. I think what you said was good off mic was that like you're like,

all right for them, right? They're going to need all the help they can get. Let's do it. I can't wait to do a deep thought by Joe Biden. As written by Dennis Miller. Just a real quick Dennis Miller tweet. And I didn't spend time researching this. This is just his second most recent tweet.

Looks like Trudeau went through his sock drawers today like Julian went through his shirt drawers in American Jiggle Will, babe. Okay. So, yeah, because it's a reference. Cool, need a time machine for that joke. It's funny because it's a reference that nobody gets. Yeah.

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last night. This is something that we talked about earlier in the week when Kate Spade took her own life in New York. And just the idea that a lot of times, I think, in the aftermath of a suicide, the way that the story is covered tends to or can mythologize the act of suicide a little bit and Another narrative that as I was reading about Bourdain there was a related story On CNN about somebody whose husband had shot himself he was at a shooting range last year and he was like the happy-go-lucky guy and was at a shooting range last year and he was like the happy-go-lucky guy and uh you know she says she like still has no idea why he did it and every time there's a famous person who kills themselves

like she hears people say that oh suicide is preventable uh and it's sort of a fuck you to the people closest to somebody who takes their own life because it suggests that they like somehow, you know, failed on the job or something. And I don't know. I, like I talked about earlier in the week, I do think that, you know,

the messaging around it and the sort of mystery that we create. And sometimes, you know, especially when it comes out of nowhere, it can turn the person's life into a puzzle that everybody's trying to solve. And, you know, a lot of times suicides are things that, same way that there's second degree murder where it's not premeditated. It's just a spur of the moment decision. There are also a lot of second degree suicides.

Statistics suggest that there are a lot of suicides where people do it kind of as a spur of the moment decision. And when they're stopped from doing it as a spur of the moment decision, they go on to live happy, full lives. So it's not like a thing where you, you know, have thought this decision through very well. It's sort of a temporary decision meeting with the capacity and like the means of killing yourself. So I don't know that that's just something that I wanted to raise again. I got a lot of sort of positive feedback from people who had had gone through shit like this themselves and, you know, have gone on to live happy lives. But I do want to also make it clear that I'm not suggesting that all suicides are sort of spur of the moment decisions that are just influenced by, you know, romanticism or anything like that. But yeah, it's just a fucking tragedy.

And the guy was cool as shit. And yeah, I say a shame. But when you talked about cooking, too, I was thinking of like the Kitchen Confidential really kind of opened my mind to that sort of world. That was his book? Yeah, that was like his first book that kind of put him on the map. And yeah, it really is. I know a lot of people have like watched his show and were a fan of his. And I just hope that, you know, this helps kind of just take further along the conversation around mental health and the stigmatization about it, because I think there was a mental health expert today and this morning on the news,

I forget where, but who's kind of saying like, if you have chest pains, you'd go to the doctor because you don't want something to be wrong with your heart. But a lot of people, if they have these kinds of thoughts, they're a little more reluctant because it's just, it there's, you know, there's a lot of baggage around that or, uh, the stigma around wanting to ask for help around that. And I think – yeah, it's tough to say what we can do aside from being very open about it and listening to people. Well, what we can do is like someone's got to – it's so outrageous to me that we have everything at our fingertips in the United States and our basic – like a basic policy of just taking care of each other is completely out the window. Our insurance system is so, the fact that you have to pay extra for mental health, the number one thing, like everyone should be, it should be free access to mental health. It is so it's so absurd to me.

And also, I think a problem that stems is people go, well, look at Kate Spade, look at Anthony Bourdain, like they had everything. You know, they had the money to get help. Right. So if you look at it that way, think of all the people. And it did not work for them is what I'm saying. You know, think of all the people that literally have nothing, right? And they have mental illness and they have no access. And these people had all the access in the world and they couldn't overcome their pain.

So I think it's one of these things where it's just we have such ass backward policies. And then you get people not in the mental health field i have a twin sister she's a social worker she's been in the mental health field for 30 years and you have pundits going suck it up you know just get over it just you know figure it out right you have you have the money figure it out and you're like people that not coming from the mental health world saying things like that to me is just like absolutely egregious but it literally almost takes in a celebrity obsessed world you know it takes i'm an insane sports fan so if i can do a sports example of kevin love from the cavaliers and um uh rosen Rosen from Toronto Raptors saying they are struggling with depression.

They're struggling with mental health and it's okay to talk about it. It's like, I mean, it's one of these things where, you know, if your neighbor's like, I'm struggling, you're like, all right. But it takes Kevin Love or Anthony Bourdain or Kate, you know what I mean? It's a crazy thing in our culture. So you just hope the only silver lining is, you know, people going, oh, okay, well, maybe this is an issue. And of course, it's like, it's a huge issue. It's something that's been on the rise too steadily over the last couple decades in this country too. But it costs money. Yeah, exactly.

It costs money. And it's what's so disingenuous too is like when you have these mass shootings too and people who are the gun humpers just want to be like punted to mental health. OK, well, then what are we doing about that? Right. And it's nothing. And if you looked at some of the early budget proposals from the administration, they were going to like slash the mental health budget like like an insane amount. And yeah, that's the thing is if let's let's be be serious though, too, if we're really going to do that, I think if people don't feel that they're taken care of, that only exacerbates all kinds of problems in the culture because yeah, the fundamentally we fail, we fail to take care of each other. It's beyond upsetting. It's, it's, it's just so crazy to me how like, you know, it's, everyone's like, oh, democracy, it's, it's capitalism. You know, at the end of the day,

they go, oh, well, why we're putting money into education? Education is not making money. But education will make the most amount of money if you're highly educated. You have to give back to your people. You can't take one step in front of the other if you don't have a leg or you don't have the mental capacity to be like,

I feel confident to take that step. I mean, it's just so crazy. You have to invest in your citizens. Yeah. Well, now by looking at everything from the tax cuts, it's all about taking as much away from the citizens and sending it up top to soften these tax cuts. And even some of the stuff that they're floating now about the DOJ not defending the mandate in the Affordable Care Act to allow people with pre-existing conditions onto health care. They're talking about taking that away as a way to just create more savings to give to whoever the fuck.

And then it's like, oh, why? You know, then the poverty lines, then the then the, you know, mass shooting. It's all feeding the same thing. And this should be a bipartisan issue. And if you can't even agree on like how to take care of your constituents, like it's it's and that's why people get so turned off and they get so angry and it just keeps going round and round and round. Right. Yeah. I mean, we clearly have a mental health problem in America. You know, depression, anxiety and suicide are all on the rise since I think the late 90s. It's probably been on the rise, you know, pre-statistics. Like this has just been an issue since day one.

But then, you know, people go, oh, let's make a study of it. But you know what I mean? Like this is just, you know, every single... And when people can't get their head around suicide, I always say like, take your worst moment of your worst day of your entire life, times it by a hundred and that's your every day. Right. Like I don't understand how people can't empathize with that or sympathize with that, you know?

Yeah. Uh, yeah. And I mean, we should have better safety nets than this, but if you are having suicidal thoughts, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. All right, let's talk about the real world's George Costanza. Yeah. He is Mr. Scott Pruitt, and the details just keep stacking up. They're such goodanza. Yeah. He is Mr. Scott Pruitt. And we just, the details just keep stacking up. They're such good details. Yeah.

I still can't get over like the encase. What are the? Oh, his like phone spy proof booth. I'm obsessed with that. The most expensive phone booth, 43 grand. Yes. So, okay. Yes.

We talked about, let's run it down again. He spent, what, $1,500 on fancy ballpoint pens from a jewelry store. Or fountain pens. Fountain pens, my bad. Even less functional. Exactly. Fancy quills from a phoenix. Mythical bird, basically.

What else? Oh, he tried to get the mattress from a Trump hotel. We don't know why. Used mattress. Yeah, tried to get his wife a Chick-fil-A franchise. from a Trump hotel. We don't know why. Yeah, tried to get his wife a Chick-fil-A franchise. And then like last night, I just sent a jacket text just circling these notes about how now he's asking his people, his security people and other staffers to get him snacks or pick up his dry cleaning or lotion. So first, let me talk about the lotion. Yeah, this is, by the way, these are all things that he has sent people who are being paid by our taxes to do for him on work hours.

Yes, on our fucking dime. Right. It's not just that he is, you know, a human diva joke. It is that he is doing this. He's straight up abusing power. Yeah, he's abusing his power. So this is just a quote from there's a Daily Beast article that came out about how he's even having his security detail schlep him around for these stupid ass errands that he's running. So, quote, while EPA security agents are required to protect Pruitt at all times while he was working and during his off hours. And let me interrupt for a second because he's afraid that like liberal people hate him because he's destroying the earth.

Like, I don't know if he's in any physical danger, but he just doesn't like to hear people remind him of the shitty job he's doing. Well, it's also a way that he gets to excuse flying first class everywhere. Exactly. Because if he flies back in the coach with the unwashed pores, the pores, then they might, you know, I don't know. They'll get cholera on him. Right. Yeah. Just so much soil, earth soil all over.

Exactly. And coach. That is how he justified flying everywhere first class. So they're saying two individuals at the EPA said the administrator had asked members of the security detail to perform tasks that go beyond their primary function, security. function, security. In one instance, he said he directed agents to drive him to multiple locations in search of a particular lotion on offer at Ritz-Carlton hotels. On other occasions, they added, he asked agents to pick up his dry cleaning without him. Yeah.

This is the first thing. Just a quick note. A lot of people pointed out, you can get this lotion on the Ritz-Carlton website. Right. But again, this man is so particular about your lotion and i get it boo you know you don't want your hands cracking he's just he's literally batshit crazy right i think out of the entire dump truck people that trump surrounds them with like he he to me is the most offensive oh yeah like it's just so you're like what what are you talking about you

did what like every single day you're like but he just says you know trump's the best trump's the best trump's the best so you just and everybody else is kind of like if you have one problem you say one sentence you're fired right but like pruitt's always just like it's weird yeah because like tom price when he was head of hhs they called him out on all those flights he was taking he was out pretty quick right but for whatever reason i mean scott pruitt i guess he's really doing the lord's work yeah he's doing some really he's doing oil deals yeah you know what i mean he's got abusing the mess hall at the white house yeah but i mean he's doing a lot of under belly trump work right now so that's why he's he's getting a lot of credit in conservative circles for fucking the earth. Just deregulating the earth.

Yeah. And then the other piece of news was about how he's got a real snack tooth. Here's another quote from the Daily Beast. I can't tell you how many times I was sent out to get protein bars on the orders of Pruitt. The article goes on to say, beyond the protein bars, Pruitt also has a well-known sweet tooth and often tells staffers to make a grocery run to get his preferred sweets, cookies, and Greek yogurt, among other items, so I should say. Pruitt's tastes and snacks are rather refined, according to former aides.

He's particularly fond of finger food from the upscale eatery Dean and DeLuca, according to a former EPA official. Pruitt is also particular about his coffee tastes, the former official said, and would often direct an aide to brew him pour-over coffee, which he prefers to more run-of-the-mill brewing methods you he's a fucking hipster here's here's the flip side he can get away with anything right so if you're scott pruitt right you're rotting from the inside you don't give any outside and the you don't give a shit about anything right he is he has absolutely no moral comp he is

literally i feel like you could sneeze and he would blow away. He's made of nothing. So, yeah. Go get that. Go go to Dean and DeLuca. Just do it. I would just... I mean, I wouldn't because I'm...

I can't. He's a monster. But none of this surprised me. I keep saying the bulletproof... The skiff? The skiff surprised me. But after that, I'mproof. The skiff. The skiff surprised me. But after that, I'm like, this is child's play. Yeah, right.

This is like, go get me a pour over. Go get me like ice cream from. Right. You know what I mean? This is just like, oh, yeah. Now it's almost like I can't wait to hear the next story. Yeah. You know?

It's my favorite thing that is on like developing. And it's weird that I am starting on like developing and i don't and it's it's it's weird that i am starting to be fascinated by him like as a character i'm like this is hilarious yeah but when you take into account that his security detail has already cost us around three and a half million dollars which is more than any of his predecessors like that's more than the president yeah that's when i get really fucking angry because you have all these people who want to complain about the immigrants and people on welfare and shit like that. Meanwhile, and then you're just you're fine with this guy just pissing money into the wind because he's on his YOLO. He's delusional.

I really think he's like he's like, oh, yeah, it's like there's something really wrong with it. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if an accident happens to befall him because his security detail clearly fucking hates him because they're the ones who are. Yeah, because they're like security guys. I'm like, I'm getting his fucking dry cleaning. Yeah, he's not even here. Right. I'm fucking doing a pour over, which, by the way, a pour over is the exact same thing as having brewed coffee. It's like the same method.

You're pouring hot water through grounds of coffee. But he wants like that Japanese style. But it's fancy looking. Yeah, it's fancy looking. And so he- He's like, I want cold brew, but Kyoto cold brew. Like, what? I want to make it hot, then make it cold,

then make it hot again, and then make it cold brew. And then put it in a gold urn. Right. So I can drink out of it. Yeah, he's a fucking- What do you think is next? Cryogenic chamber? Ooh.

That seems too uncomfortable for him. That's his end game. That's actually useful. And I feel like everything he- Like Dean and DeLuca, if you've ever been to DC, Dean and DeLuca is basically the snacks you get at every other place

just put into a fancy looking container. Plastic box, yeah. Yeah, and with a label on it that says $11.99 for these. snacks you get at every other place just put into a fancy looking container with a label on it that says $11.99. Their chocolate covered almonds are delicious. Yeah, they're in Manhattan. It's a lot of plastic and then bows. A lot of bows.

It's like a very nouveau riche kind of thing. Where he's just like, yeah, I like this Dean and DeLuca. This is my new place. I used to just eat Nestle Raisinets and now I got the fancy Dean and DeLuca. Right. This is my new place. I used to just eat Nestle Raisinets, and now I've got the fancy Dean and DeLuca stuff. I think the next thing he'll do is probably make the floors of his office, like whatever the material Crocs are made out of. He's like, man, I don't have to wear shoes, and it's like I'm wearing Crocs with every step. And I don't know why he's become George Bush all of a sudden.

Yeah, gold-plated stuff maybe. Yeah, I just seem like hee-hee-hee-hee. but that's in my mind. I just, yeah, I just seem like, I think he's going to go full Costanza and we're going to find out he's had nude photos taken of him, like on a, on a couch or like had himself drawn.

Oh, I was just going to say, had himself drawn for sure. Yeah. Just like one of those paintings, but like without a shirt on. I think he also wears like a lot of color contacts just suddenly he's like yeah yeah only the funnest oh my god oh that's a great idea or

like but he wants to look like the dude from limp biscuit which is like all black this is trippy huh nobody's gonna fuck with me none of the pores're going to think I'm a fucking demon from hell because I am, brother. Anyway. All right. Let's talk about the G7 summit real quick. It used to be the G8 until Russia was kicked out because they annexed Crimea, as we all know, rightfully so. Although if you look today, Trump was like, I think Russia should be back in the G8. I literally just read that this morning.

I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, of course. Anybody? Yeah, you do. You have nothing to do with Russia at all. It's all an illusion. Yet you're advocating for the return of Russia to the table of the group of eight. Anyway, so the G7 summit is happening in Quebec right now. And, you know, all these people are going to discuss everything from trade and climate change and many other things. So this is Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and sadly us, or Trump. And, you know, this comes on the heels of Trump just kicking off the trade wars, going wild with the tariffs, the EU hitting us back with tariffs. I think Canada put about $12 billion worth of tariffs on American goods.

So, you know, everybody's kind of pissed at Trump. But the details around like sort of the buildup to this is what's hilarious because apparently Trump was like dreading seeing all these people face to face. Yeah. Because they were going to be like, yo, what the fuck, homie? And he was not ready to pull up with that same energy that he did on Twitter. He does not fire people to their face except when he's on TV. Yeah. Yes.

He has other people do it for him. He is scared of personal conflict because he's a- A coward. Yeah. A narcissistic coward. Yeah. He also doesn't have the correct information- Right.

To back up any of his- Exactly. Right. I feel like he's just playing this big board game. He's like, put tariffs on- That one. Steal. Steal.

Spin the wheel, Mike. Yeah. And then the next day he's like, corn. And then they're like, here's the implications. And he's like,

I'm sorry, I have an interview with Sean Hannity. Like there's no, he just says things. Right. And then there's no backup plan.

I mean, the only way he gets self-worth is from what other people think of him. That's how he became this like engine of just needing

affirmation. That's how he ends this engine of just needing affirmation. That's how he ends up becoming the president, because of his mental imbalance. And so he can't go to a place where he knows people are mad at him without feeling probably extreme anxiety. Yeah. I'm sure he's talking to Sean Hannity the whole flight up. Isn't it just so funny?

That's what you said. You just said he can't go to a place... What did you just say? That people are... People don't like him. We are literally talking about the president of the United States at a G7 summit and these other people are the other

heads of countries. It sounds like a shitty party. They go on to talk about how he doesn't like Merkel because she's too stern and he doesn't get Merkel because like she's like too stern. Yeah. And he doesn't get Theresa May because she's too politically correct. Uh-huh.

Which is like, because he probably said something like he said titties in front of her or something. I'm sure he was like, your broad's real supportive. And she's like, excuse me. Right. He's like, what's the problem? Too politically correct. Anyway, so they go on to talk about how, you know, he also hates these long trips because he is such a, he just wants to be in his very own pee bed all the time and doesn't like to be at other places.

So this is from the Washington Post. Quote, Trump is a homebody president preferring to sleep in the White House or at one of his signature properties than in hotels. So he's generally reluctant to take long journeys. Furthermore, as Jack was saying, he prefers visiting places where he is fed. Such as on his trips last year to Beijing, Paris and the Saudi capital. Over attending summits where the attending leaders are treated as equals. So if they're not there giving him a giant orb or fucking guns or whatever the fuck it is. For whatever he just gave them, whatever he just agreed to, some heinous, disgusting foreign policy

where we give them something. Right. It's so, I just just wanted to end yeah every day i'm like can we just like this is just yeah well trudeau's been pretty he was like look we'll well if we have to be the g6 then fuck it we'll go there like you know because clearly we've isolated ourselves crazy or due to trump uh but i don't know i mean he he was real confident he left arrived late because he didn't want to go talk about, I think, climate change or something. So he missed that part of it.

I think he left early to avoid the climate change part. Oh, he also arrived late. I mean, he arrived late and left early. Because he doesn't want to have the meeting before the meeting where people are just talking because he knows everyone's mad at him. So he sneaks in the back. Honestly, I'm not just beating it. But what can he contribute? He does not know policy.

And he literally openly says, like North Korea, I'm not going to prepare. It's attitude. I'm all prepared. This is all absolute everyday worst case scenario. No, exactly. You can't small talk in a situation where it's not about TV. He's so out of his wheelhouse yeah that he's it's not only that the people don't like him it's he cannot hold a conversation about policy

yeah so he's like shitting his pants yeah you know 100 that's why yeah and he has this attitude towards preparation that is clearly just like sounds like a lazy person who's been gifted everything in their life like i've been preparing my whole life yeah right ask hillary how one week of preparation did first of all come on bro why are you so obsessed with her still like he literally needs a translator and everybody's speaking english right right you know what i mean he needs a literal policy translator just put him in a fucking box or something and wheel him around like hannibal lecter and just be like well he's here and if he needs to sign something to make it so on behalf of the US, then great.

Because that's really the only thing he's bringing is that he's the person who will sign off on whatever the policy is. But yeah, like you say, he's not contributing anything. He's not contributing anything. He's taking away from it. The second people start hitting him with science or facts, he's going to be like, I don't know, this is getting weird.

Tariffs on icebergs. Yeah. He's like, oh, you guys are real nerds studying about this stuff. I was prepared anyway. Tariffs on icebergs. Yeah. He's like, oh, you guys are real nerds studying about this stuff. I was prepared anyway to just fucking pee the bed and go. All right. We're going to take another quick break. We'll be right back.

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like spreading the caffeine out. Wait, you just take one sip. It's literally like a gulp of coffee. Like I do like a tiny bit in the morning, like throughout the morning, just to keep myself level. Yeah.

Like hair on. Yeah. Yeah. And it's in a big gulp. Yes. Always in a big gulp. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. One super gulp of coffee. Yeah. 32 ounces at a time. Five hour energy. I don't have my tonsils. Yeah. One super gulp of coffee. Yeah. 32 ounces at a time. I'm mainlining five-hour energy this whole time. I don't have my tonsils. Yeah. I have an extra large throat.

But so they are saying that there's like an actual optimal strategy they figured out using algorithms and then like testing it on human beings. Because coffee, you know, the caffeine is very good to keep you alert or whatever. I'm still struggling to figure out what my regimen is because I can drink, I was telling people, nitro cold brew and fall asleep. Other times I'll drink a little cold brew and I'll perk up. I don't know what's going on. Maybe I'm deploying it at the wrong times. I think it's just like a genetic thing. Yeah, it could be. Like caffeine, just you're not as, because I'm pretty sure that's one of the things they can tell in those DNA tests is how caffeine sensitive you are.

I'm insensitive. And I could be just placeboing myself when I'm drinking a 40 of nitro cold brew and be like. I'm fairly sensitive, but I know people who are like, oh, if I have a cup of coffee, I can't sleep for two days. Oh, yeah. Or like a sip of Coca-Cola or something. You're like, oh, is it 8 p.m.? No, I shouldn't have Coca-Cola. It's also like the same.

right you're like oh is it 8 p.m no i shouldn't it's also like the same i i just love this conversation because it's like you know when you haven't seen a movie you know and to the other person it's the most outrageous thing they've ever heard i mean it's like i haven't seen good fellows and they're like what do you mean you haven't seen good fellows when it's the caffeine discussion is very similar right like people like i can drink a nitro cold brew and fall asleep. I'm like, what do you mean you can drink a nitro? You know what I mean? I heard the word nitro and my heart rate went up. Yeah.

I can drink seven cups and it won't affect me. What do you mean? What the hell? Or the people that don't have coffee. I'm like, are you an alien? Yeah. What's going on? So this algorithm is designed to, quote,

safely maximize neural behavioral performance at the desired time of the day under any sleep loss condition. And they were saying that the researchers started with something they call the unified model of performance, which is a model that predicts the effects of sleep loss and caffeine as a function of time of day on a person's performance on psychomotor vigilance tasks, which is probably just doing shit throughout the day. But they did find that on this schedule, according to this algorithm, that people were 64% more efficient despite drinking the same amount of caffeine. It was just when they chose to drink it. So this isn't a one-size-fits-all model because it's all based on your biology and your sleep schedule and things like that.

But if you go into footnotes, you'll see in the article there is a link for you to type in your own information to try and figure out what your schedule is. But as the writers of the article noted and Jack did, it seems like it's very difficult to use. It's hard to use. It's good to know that this is out there. Somebody will eventually make a tool that makes this easy to use but uh it is currently the a mess yeah it currently looks like it was designed by the military right not not intuitive at all and is it just all like like acronyms you don't even understand expecting you to know but that's like a you know so it's it was the origin was for caffeine with soldiers.

I'm sure it must be. Which is different than us slobs just trying to get through the day. But I mean, the military is all about the uppers. They have this jittery free speed called Provigil that they give to fighter pilots who have to fly around the world or whatever. Yeah, and stay sharp. And it just keeps you 100% aware without giving you the shakiness of amphetamines. But amphetamines were very popular in World War II with Hitler and many other people.

Most German soldiers. There were some all-nighters in World War II for sure. I heard about these. Yeah. There was no study breaks. Yeah, no, not at all. Say what you want about Hitler. The guy could party. He could party with that meth. One of my favorite stories is he had a meeting with Mussolini, and he was so

tweaked out on meth, he ranted at him for like three and a half hours, and Mussolini just had to sit there and be like, uh-huh. I'd like to debunk the myth that Hitler needed a lot of sleep. Right. Debunked. Boom.

All right. We are going to move on to Bloid. Bloid Watch. Miles, what's going on in the Bloids? All right, so the tabloids, you know, it was Friday. Bloids. Not a lot of good stuff. There's a really weird homophobic headline on National Enquirer.

Lauer's ultimate betrayal to wife. His sordid night with three drag queens. And it's like a story from so long ago and they use some real problematic words in there, so we don't need to talk about that. On Us Weekly, Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan planning for a baby.

That seems like a no-brainer. You would have to report. The married couple plans on having a child? Right. Cool. Yeah. Great. We have, oh, on Star, Jen confronts Justin's new girlfriend, Emma Stone.

Rage. The fight to end all fights. Not really. There's not much in there of anything. Are they dating, Emma Stone? They've been spotted together. They've been spotted. Spotted together.

Yeah, spotted, and that's it. Okay. So she's pregnant with his baby. Yeah, that's the next week it will be. Assuming if they're spotted together and either of them touch their stomach, that is a sign. Yes.

Yeah, we've seen in the past few weeks, they've referenced either a woman touching her stomach or a man, Brad Pitt, touched his own stomach as some kind of being. And that meant he got someone pregnant. Someone's pregnant. According to their body language expert. And they're pregnant also if they're seen drinking like a green drink.

Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you got to take care of your baby. That folic acid, you know, because you know those... Body drinking a non-alcoholic beverage at 10 in the morning and therefore must be pregnant. Of course. That's just the way it is.

But in touch goes spicy. They say Melania missing for a month, which she's really hiding. Her happiness. Yeah, exactly. And inside they're basically like what we've kind of been saying. She's sick and tired of basically being married to Trump as all these affairs come out.

A lot of people say, they use this quote, that this isn't what she signed up for. Because I know you probably just signed up and waited for him to die to get some money or something. I don't think you guys are really in love. Sorry, that's a hot take. But they go on to sort of speculate that one of the reasons could be that her mother

just is like getting older and needs some more medical attention. So she may want to be closer to her in New York. But other than that, it's just a lot of like, yeah, he's embarrassed her so many times with all these affairs. Be best. Yeah. That's how I get up in the morning. I just have Melania's be best. Be best. You can't believe in that couple. I mean, who can you believe in? Yeah, you don't. Do you have a heart? Right. I mean, the love of just taking someone's hand and swatting

it away and then just, you know, listen, this isn't funny. I'm just saying they roll her out once. She says, be best. And then she winds up in a hospital. I'm just saying they, you know, they dig her up from the rose garden. She says one thing and then she's got kidney failure. So she should be in hiding.

Nothing good happens when she's in public. Have you ever been in a relationship where you've like actually not like hated the person you were with like that or like swatting a hand? Yeah. Like at that point, I don't think I've ever gotten to the point where I'm like, get the fuck off me because I have the wherewithal to be like, this isn't working. Yeah. Or they have enough to be like, you smell and they break up with me or whatever it is. So, yeah, i just they're

they're like really the wheels have completely gone off they're not even riding on the rims anymore yeah right but yeah i don't know it's so yeah and then you know you never think i'd say like i feel bad for melania right but you kind of do yeah i do and i don't like i do because she has the free will to divorce him. There's that thing as a woman where you go, you know, your first inclination is like just to defend the woman. You know what I mean? Like, oh, God. But then you think, she said yes.

She married Donald Trump. But the one thing I do, I guess I do feel a little bad is that she didn't sign up for this part. She did not sign up for President Trump. But the one thing I do, I guess I do feel a little bad is that she didn't sign up for this. She did not sign up for President Trump. Yeah, she did not sign up to be first lady and having to be like, be best. Be best. Be the best? No. The children are the best?

No. According to Fire and Fury, and I'm pretty sure this was sourced to Bannon, on the night of the election, when it was clear that Trump was going to win win he looked like he'd seen a ghost and she was openly sobbing and not in with joy she was like jesus i need to continue to pretend to be married to this motherfucker yeah and now like i have to pretend like we're in love yeah or at least we touch yeah but isn't that the absolute debt like that and every single day that has happened, that reaction, Trump being like, oh, shit, and her crying, that describes every day of the presidency. His alarm clock is Melania crying over the fact that it's another day.

That he can hear from four rooms over. Just wakes up like Bill Murray in that dark patch of Groundhog Day. Just like, Jesus Christ. Yeah. Oh, no. The stress is too much. And then the last one is that people are really worried about Johnny Depp

because he actually looks kind of like shit. There he is right there. Very gaunt. That's Johnny Depp? Yeah, that's Johnny Depp. No eyeliner. Did he lose all his hair? No, he, I guess, shaved it off or something.

I don't know. Or he's hiding it under the hat, but he looks awful. He looks like Michael J. Fox. The story there suggesting that he's just kind of in a really bad way, like he just has not stopped partying and he's become very isolated since all that shit with Amber Heard went down. Yeah. And one person says, one insider, he sees himself as the victim of piranhas, as he calls them, and that Hollywood is

after him because he was outed for being an abusive piece of shit. Honestly, the quick look, I thought it was like an older lesbian DJ. Wow, that's true. Just like a quick... You're like, damn, Ruby Rose looks terrible.

Because he's so pretty. He's got such a pretty face, but then something is going to – doesn't it look like a quick look? Older lesbian DJ. Lesbian DJ. For sure. I know this is an audio show, but the visual – I guess I'll take a picture and tweet it if you need to see it

because we don't post to these terrible tabloids. You don't have to buy them. So I'll give you the art for free. Yeah, I think there was some detail from the divorce or maybe he got sued by somebody. No, I think it was a divorce where he was spending $100,000 a month on wine. Right. Which is too much, I think. Generally agreed to be too much to spend on wine.

Well, what kind of wine? Yeah. Is it Franzia? Right. Because that's baller. Yeah. Just build a fucking box house out of box wine that's right

like he's actually losing his mind he builds like a home within his home out of box wine boxes yeah think about it

Jane Mayer the New York Times investigative reporter who was like brought down she wrote the definitive book on Clarence Thomas

she wrote the definitive book on the Koch brothers Dark Money we've talked about on the show and she also co- we've talked about on the show. And she also co-reported the Eric Schneiderman story that ended his career with Ronan Farrow. I was listening to her interviewed earlier this week, and she was talking about how she's positive Clarence Thomas just looks back on that whole thing and thinks he was horribly wronged.

Of course. It's amazing. Like any thought that these people are going to be like, oh, yeah, we're really bad people. Right. It just never happens. It's sort of like you get up every morning and you're like, the good guys will win. You know? Then you look at Clarence Thomas and you're like, no. He's still there.

It's just, I also just think if, like I get it that like the ultimate job for, you know, a lawyer, right? If you keep working yourself up and then, you know, judge and then the ultimate job in life is Supreme Court justice. But then when you think about it, it's like you're going to work every single day. There's only, and half or more than half on every single day have the polar opposite view of you right and you battle and you battle like it just seems miserable right and it's the same eight other people and it's the same co-workers for life that like like ideologically you're, you're opposed to, and you've got nuances of law, but you know, you kind of like,

I think I get some nice time off too, though. I think a lot of, and then you have to wear the same outfit. Yeah. I just imagine like when, like a new Supreme court justice comes in, the other eight are just like,

Hey, it's a new guy. Like, and you're like, Oh fuck. But like every day, if you're other eight are just like, hey, it's a new guy. And you're like, oh, fuck. But like every day, if you're like Sotomayor or Ginsburg, you have to look at Clarence Thomas, like Alito, who's that gross man that died? Scalia. People that I would feel like I couldn't even be in the same room with.

Every day, battling it out. Clarence Thomas is the most openly be in the same room with. Every day battling it out. Clarence Thomas is the most openly dead on the inside human being I've ever witnessed in my life. Even when he smiles in a photo, you're like, I think he has a mask on. Somebody staples the sides of his mouth.

He can't even speak in public. He's a Supreme Court. He only just waves as he's going into the Koch brothers' estate. Exactly. It's the only time he acknowledges that he's in public. And by estate, I think we mean anus. Aaron, it has been a pleasure having you. Where can people find you, follow you?

Well, I guess I'm going to be your new co-host. So thank you guys so much i guess i'll be here every day great cool what if i just kept showing up that would be awesome you can put your cot right down there and uh yeah we all sleep here well i have a a sports podcast for all your sports listeners uh it's called sports without balls and i I do it weekly. It's free on iTunes. And I just, yeah, I talk sports. But it's not like stat. So it's about like archery? It's a lot of archery.

Heavy on the archery. Sports Without Balls. Oh, yeah. Shout out to the Caps for winning. Yeah. And Agent Ovechkin for being MVP. I know. I just block it out.

Because he's just like one of my favorite hockey players. And I'm like, could you just not talk about Putin? That'd be awesome. So I can cheer for you. He's my best friend. Yeah. But yeah, it's really not stat-based. It's more story-based. You have to be a crazy sports fan to enjoy it. What's your latest episode about?

That was Monday. I went pretty deep with the Women's College Softball World Series. It was a lot of feel-good stories. And then last night I was at a WNBA game, the Spark Storm, and we were watching the Capitals game. There was a women's soccer game and then the Spark Storms and Aaron Foley's head blew off with happiness.

It was a dream sequence. And I was drinking wine. The whole thing couldn't have been better. Also, shout-out to the Lynx who, despite not getting an invitation to the White House, they went to D.C. and did some community service. Good for them. Shout out to you for being the most woke fucking league on Earth. LeBron's like, it's game two,

but I'm just going to tell you, nobody wants to go to the White House. Right, yeah, exactly. That was one of my favorites. Ain't nobody want to go. Anyway, it's just erinkfoli.com for tour dates and sports without balls. Thank you guys so much for having me. I really appreciate it. Thanks for coming. It was a pleasure, Miles.

Where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. You can find me at jack underscore o'brien on Twitter. You can find 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 and our footnotes footnotes thank you where we link off

to the information that we talked about in today's episode we will link off to that confusing ass application where you can try and figure out your ideal caffeine schedule and we also link off to the song that we ride out on for the week Miles what are we riding out on? Well because

we were just talking about Scott Pruitt and you know everybody when trump was in office he's talking about draining the swamp uh this is a song for scott pruitt called swamp thing uh by hiatus coyote which i've played their stuff before but this just felt like a good time to play this when i was listening on the way and i was like wait swamp thing this is the scott pruitt anthem uh so anyway this is swamp thing by hiatus Coyote. To our number one fan, Scott Pruitt. All right. That's going to do it for this week.

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