The Daily Zeitgeist - RIP Malls & Cable LOL, Jedi Delusion Syndrome 3.8.19

Episode Date: March 8, 2019

In episode 344, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and Culture Kings co-host Jacquis Neal to discuss people cutting their cable service, the decline of the mall, Kristjen Nielsen being questioned by the Oversight Committee, Elijah Cummings coming for Brian Kemp, the crisis between Democrats over Ilhan Omar's comments about Israel, Jane Meyer's revealing article about Fox News, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge coming to Disneyland and Disney World, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Nearly 3M Pay-TV Subscribers Cut Service In 2018, Double 2017 Total – Study2. Store Closures Ramping Back Up3. Under questioning from @RepUnderwood, Nielsen admits she was broadly unfamiliar with research indicating kids are traumatized by being separated from their parents before DHS implemented its "zero tolerance" policy4. During heated exchange w/@RepKathleenRice, Nielsen justifies family separations: "The consequence of any adult going to jail is being separated from their child"5. Elijah Cummings COMING For Election Brian Kemp Stole From Stacey Abrams6. Omar uproar swamps Pelosi7. The Making of the Fox News White House8. Disney announces opening dates for Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge9. WATCH: Arima Ederra - Free Again 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 72, Episode 5 of Der Daily Zeitgeist! The podcast where we take a deep dive into America, nay, the world's shared consciousness for this day. It's Friday, March 8th, 2019. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. It seems today that all you see,

Benghazi in the headlines and Trump on TV. But where are those I can get the hot takes on which we used to rely? Lucky there's a daily zeitgeist. Lucky there's a podcast, second rate but not last, collective unconscious Every time He is Jack O'Brien

Thank you, thank you That is courtesy of Michael Hill Really did it At Miga Salo And I'm thrilled to be joined as always By my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Miles, a second-rate co-host, lives by the sea

and frolics in the gray mist in a land called TDZ. I wish there were more weed references in that A.K.A. but we can't win Thank you so much to AdBlueIDelta I hope you're not living in sin Whoa. Yeah, you know, that's just off the top. Did you improvise that last part?

Yeah, you know, it's just a gift I have when I'm over-caffeinated. Yeah. Just coming off the high. I thought you were going to say we can't win them all, but you said we can't win, which, but you said, we can't win, which was a very bleak note to end on. Yeah, I know. Not to criticize your improvisation.

No, no, no. It was a beautiful song. Look, just don't psychoanalyze my lyrics, man. Right, right, right. Like you've been doing the last three days with every song from 1999. Right, right. Oh, man.

I have one foot in today's zeitgeist, but another foot in the zeitgeist of 1999 because we have our live show coming up this weekend at Dynasty Typewriter where we are going deep into the year 1999 for the first time. A few tickets left. Are there? Yeah. Wow. I think they made a couple more available. Yes, there are a few tickets left, and this is your only shot to get to see our thoughts on the zeitgeist of 99 because we don't publish these.

Yeah, for good reason. This is magic, okay? If you want to experience it, you have to pull up IRL and get these facts, get these takes, and get this energy. And there's only one way to see this is by buying a ticket. So don't be foolish. Go do it. Come through. It's Saturday night.

Yeah. And it's a party. It is. And the fucking place is going to be packed. We're's Saturday night, and it's a party. It is. And the fucking place is going to be packed. We're going to party literally like it's 1999. Oh, wow. In the sense that I won't be able to drink. None of us will be.

And I will be smoking my mom's half cigarette butts. There you go. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the co-host of one of our recent live shows and the co-host of the amazing podcast Culture Kings and just an all-around hilarious dude, Mr. Jacquees Neal. Baby, I compare you to a Jacquees from a rose on the gray. Ooh, the more I get a view, stranger it kneels, yeah.

Now that your rose is in bloom, a light's hit the groom on the grave. Oh, who is that from? At Fed underscore Bot. Sent that to me in October. I told him I would use it. I did. What's up, y'all?

You certainly did. I did. Man, you had a great voice. Oh, bless your heart. I notice that every once in a while on Culture Kings, too. Oh, my goodness. Oh, when they take it to church?

Uh-huh. They took it to church. And I'm like, what? Guys. Pastor Neil come from. Yeah. It has become one of my go-to characters now. I'm loving it.

You fleecing people for their money too? Yeah, I'm saving people. If anybody out here needs saving, you need some hands laid on you in a truly spiritual way. My Venmo is at JockeysNeil. That sounds very Catholic. It sounds like, yes. Also, offering to lay hands on in a spiritual way sounds very priesty. It does.

There's no good way to say that. If you just need some spiritual healing. There you go. Spiritual guidance. Spiritual healing. My child. Then step into my confessional. Yes.

Jaquese, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. Again. First, we're going to take our listeners through just a couple of things we're talking about today. We're talking about the march of progress. The cord has been cut. The cord has been cut. The mall has been abandoned, or at least we're well on our way. We're going to look at how the oversight committee is doing. Freshmen and progressives rallying behind Omar, Ilhan Omar. Oh, not Omar from The Wire?

Not Omar from The Wire, although he is coming. Hell yeah. We are going gonna talk about that jay maher article in the new yorker because i finally read it uh i read slow guys it takes me like seven eight days to read a new yorker article sometimes you read slow sometimes you read quick you were on 125 in st nick waiting on a cab named tondalea uh so And we're also maybe going to talk about some Disney stuff since we have a number one Disney bitch in the house as they refer to. It's the only reason I'm here, guys.

That's right. Talk about Disney. But first, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? All right. So there's a little app on the cellular device that is called Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Uh-huh. And they give you 30 seconds to answer each question, right? And you get the coins and everything like that. And listen, nobody's going to mistake me for a smart guy.

You know, I'm educated. You look a little bit like Taj Mowry. I do? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I'll be that smart guy. The smart guy. The smart guy. You know, I'm educated. You look a little bit like Taj Mowry. I do. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I'll be that smart guy. The smart guy. The smart guy. Tia and Tamara

are my sisters. But you know, I know a little something, something, but out of the 15 questions they ask you, about nine to 10 of them, you're like,

I have no fucking clue. Right. So what I do is, as soon as I get the question, I like switch over my app to Google. There you go. And type the question in and cheat.

Yeah. And then go back, and I only have about three seconds before I can answer the question. And most of the time, I run out of time. But when I don't, it takes me all the way to a million dollars. And I've been a millionaire at least three times. Is there any actual, there's no real prize aside from like, you've done it. So it's not HQ or whatever? No, no, no,

it's not HQ. Are you competing against other people or is it just the computer? You do compete against other people. Oh, that's good. You compete against other people

so I'll be cheating people out of there. Oh, so it's not like on demand? Like you'll have to wait to be like, oh, the next round is starting in three minutes or something.

Right, right, right. Oh, okay, gotcha. Right, right, right, right. So yeah, I'd be, listen, if anybody- So what'd you Google? What's one of the last thing i googled the million dollar question uh let's see if miles and i can get it all right so hold on let's see it was what is panera bread that's right wow damn yeah what country my searches what country did oh or what company did obon pond merge with in 1999?

No, I'm sorry. Panera Bread? Did you know they used to be called St. Louis Bread? Really? Yeah. They were St. Louis first. It was about something about torque. It was like, what is torque normally used for?

Torque? Torque. T-O-R-Q-U-E. The motorcycle movie. No, apparently it was something for either hair or neck. It was like an article of clothing, right? Oh, really? I didn't know what the fuck that was.

Wait, so a torque is for your neck? I guess so. No, it was for, yeah, it was for your neck. Okay. I got it wrong. Oh, like a necklace. Yeah. Oh, that's called a torque?

Yeah, but let me see what it is. Let me see. Just like a rigid metal hoop? That's what it is. Not like your usual links that make up a neck chain., but let me see what it is. Let me see. Just like a rigid metal hoop? That's what it is. Not like your usual links that make up a neck chain. Got it, got it, got it. Wow, shout out to Torque. Shout out to the jewelers out there.

Shout out to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for teaching us. That's where I get all my education, is from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Listen, I'm smarter now than I was last month. Yeah. What is something you think is underrated? Guys, welcome to Jack Hase's Corner. Can I something you think is underrated? Guys, welcome to Jack Case's Corner. Can I be cheesy for a little bit? Yes, please.

Let me tell you, man, these recent episodes of Culture Kings I think is pretty underrated. We've been doing some crazy creative shit. Not all the time, but every once in a while, we'll hit you with like some, some black soap operas

or we'll just straight up do a church episode. Yeah. We did some game shows, some celebrity drafts. We got something coming out tomorrow, a late night show. We just like taking risks and doing dope shit,

I think. Rewriting scripts. Rewriting scripts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, listen, man, if you used to listen to CK and then you left, or you don't, just check out some

of the recent episodes. Enter the kingdom. Enter the kingdom, y'all. Enter the kingdom. The return of the kings. I think we're taking some big-ass comedy swings that if you don't listen to, you racist. There you go. And there's also that. No, but I totally agree.

Prove you're an ally by subscribing now. Yeah. What is something you think is overrated? The Daily Zeitgeist. The Daily Zeitgeist. I don't think the Daily Zeitgeist is overrated. The Daily Zeitgeist is underrated, y'all. But long lovemaking sessions. Wow. Overrated. Overrated, y'all. But, long lovemaking sessions.

Wow. Overrated. Yes. You're getting old, huh? You're getting old as quickly as possible. You know what I'm saying? Listen. You know, look. Let's talk about you want to cum. You talk about you want to cum.

Yeah, shit. You can't cum before an episode of Spongebob go off. You ain't coming right uh you know 11 minutes that's what you get the show that people most often make love to you're not square pants you're not i'm not saying you know who lives in the pineapple under the sea y'all yeah i just you know listen like i like a good long session as much as anybody, but, you know, sometimes it's, and I'm not talking about the whole session. Like, you know, if you got the foreplay going and the kissing and all that. Even five play.

You know, do your thing. But the actual act, man, that shit ain't got to be out. You ain't got to be beating it up for an hour. What's going on? Is it the fatigue? The fatigue, man. My back be hurting. Yeah.

Back hurting, all right? What's underrated is free back pain, no back pain. Yeah. I notice the more I sit, man, the less energy I have in bed. You're having so less energy. I'm getting old, bro. I think I just need to spike my testosterone. I think that's what it is.

So I can get 19 again. I think it's low T. You know, after majesty, very satisfied customer. Yeah, man. You know, I'm saying this. I was like, if you're not coming after

this five second film video on YouTube, we're done. Damn. You limited to the ads. You don't even limit it to the whole ads. You limit it to when

the skip ad comes. You better skip that ad. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Oh, wrestling is fake. Here's what I mean by that. People think that's true. Here's what I think.

People think that's true, right? And it's not true. It is the furthest from the truth. Now, wrestling, the actual program of wrestling is scripted, which is inherently fake. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the way that people say it's fake is not that same way. Like, nobody watches a TV show and be like,

man, you know that ain't real cops, right? Like, you know, nobody watches that. Nobody does that shit. You know that little boy actually didn't get kidnapped. Right, right. You know he didn't get kidnapped, right? Why are you so worried, then? You know Captain Marvel watches that. Nobody does that shit. You know that little boy actually didn't get kidnapped. Right, right. You know he didn't get kidnapped. Why are you so worried then? You know Captain Marvel can't really fly.

Wait, what? Yeah, dude, I know. Really? Damn. Not Captain Marvel. And so here's something that I always go back to. You can't fake a fall. Right, that's true.

Like, you just can't. Yeah. Like, you ain't fake a fall. Right. That's true. Like, you just can't. Yeah. Like, you ain't fake falling. When these dudes are jumping off of the ropes and jumping off of ladders and cages and shit. And falling from the rafters and dying. Yeah, that too. Their bodies are hitting the ground, dude. Yeah.

It's scripted. It's stage combat. So it's not like they're out there actually beating people's asses. Like, but the it's fake thing. Right. Nah, man. I watched that in 1999. I quit Royal Rumble match between Mankind and The Rock.

And you tell me that that shit is fucking fake. He was mad, dude. He had to go back and get stitches. Yeah. He stopped not selling. I remember that, dude. It was beyond the mat. Yeah.

Mankind started not selling. So The Rock was hitting this dude in the head with a real steel chair. And Mankind had to go to the back and have like 20 stitches. This dude just had his tooth popped out of his fucking lip. I mean. Mick Foley, man. Mick Foley is crazy. You want to look at some.

Tell Mick Foley wrestling. Look at his body. He can barely walk. He can barely walk. Yeah. Oh, is he like that body. He can barely walk. Oh, is he like that now? He can barely walk. I can't imagine everyone because Stone Cold's knees are just

vaporized. Yeah, dude. These people, yes, they aren't actually fighting. Yeah, yes. It's not an actual competition in which we don't know who will win. Yes, maybe that is predetermined. That's predetermined. That's the scripted part.

But they are athletes and they are putting their body through a rigorous activity that can't be faked. And also there's some amazing stories about them having to stay in character after the show is over, which is an amazing thing to think about if all actors had to pretend offstage that they were that character. For very small pay and no consideration for their health after.

There's these two dudes in the 80s who got into a car accident and had to stay in character. And publicly, people thought they hated each other, even though they were like best friends. So like when the police came, they had to act like they weren't cool with each other. Then they got arrested for fighting. Then they went to jail and never saw it, never be seen again.

Wait, who was it? I forget. I just love that idea of like cops are like fuck. What is that called? Kayfabe or something? It's called Kayfabe. Kayfabe is slowly dying in the new what they call reality. What? Kayfabe or something? It's called Kayfabe. Kayfabe is slowly dying in the new, what they call reality. What's Kayfabe?

Kayfabe is you don't drop the act. Oh, gotcha. Wait, why is it called that? I don't know. Okay. Is it like Latin or is it literally like Kay and Fabe? It's something that some wrestling promoter created like 50 years ago. Right.

I'm sure it's like from the carnival barker days or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, you're not, especially back in the 80s and 90s, you were never supposed to drop kayfabe. Right. Which is funny because you had so much less access to these wrestlers, right? Right. Where now you have so much more access and like their social media is like a blend between

their real life and kayfabe. Right. So it's a weird blend now. Right. Yeah. Shout out to kayfabe. Shout out to kayfabe, y'all. K-A-Y-F-A-B-E.

Mm-hmm. If you want to search it. Yeah. Well, other things that are moving along, we used to have to only see our wrestlers on TV once a week on Raw, and now we can follow them 24 hours a day on social media. And same deal with accessing our favorite televised programming. Otherwise, the cord has been officially cut. Well and truly cut.

Because the numbers, we're learning this because of the numbers for pay TV subscribers versus cable subscribers, right? Well, yeah. I mean, you know, the whole idea of cable or cord cutters used to be like hippie people or just like people who were like against the establishment. Like, I'm not paying for my corporate entertainment. Dang, for my corporate entertainment. And now as people become, like, have less money to just throw away on, like, $80 a month on cable, you know, people like streaming more. And the streaming has now sort of led to, like, this other form of cord cutting where people just don't want to, you know, give their money to Spectrum or whoever

because we know how reliable that is. But, yeah, they went from, in 2018, 2.9 million pay TV subscribers ended their subscriptions. And so that's almost twice what it was in 2017 when it was one and a half million. Yeah. And there's a lot of people that, you know, there's like Sling TV or DirecTV Now, which they call skinny bundles, to try and keep people still on the hook. But even then, that's not really offsetting the deserters. Yeah.

So they had these skinny bundles that they introduced in 2017 and there was like 90 growth year over year but then in 2018 a lot of people probably lost their job at those cable companies because it slowed from 90 growth to 19 growth yeah man i had playstation view and i just cut it yeah like i don't watch tv i watch programs right but i don't channel surf anymore right exactly that's like that era is over that era is over and let me tell you what the real cable bundle is uh your mom's password there you go that's what the real cable button you know because you know somebody in your family still got cable right and all you need is just their login information and you can still get the apps.

I got MTV.com, VH1.com. Yeah, that's the real cable right there. Yeah, it's funny. I found myself giving my dad my DirecTV Now thing because he was like, I don't know how to watch this thing. I'm like, let me help you out, bruh. Let me help you out, bruh. Now the child has become the parent.

And that all happened yesterday after yesterday's episode when we made amends. Right. But yeah, I think, you know, the other thing too that this whole thing, the growth of like streaming has also just created a huge clog in like awards competition too. Because now there's so many people offering all kinds of like premium content. In 1992, for example, for the Emmys, there were 29 dramas and 50 comedies submitted for eligibility. Emmys. There were 29 dramas and 50 comedies submitted for eligibility. In 2018,

159 drama contenders and 117 comedy entrants. They're going to need to start making the voting for this shit a full-time job. Yeah, nobody's watching any of these things.

It is too much TV on right now. And netflix i just started watching fucking umbrella academy bro shit is really good but like i didn't even don't listen to culture king next monday it took so long for me to be like all right i got through russian doll i got through all these other things i'm like now let me watch this i'm actually pretty impressed so far i've only seen like the first three episodes. It's great. I'm liking it. It's great. That's the one thing that I do like about the streaming aspect is because there aren't advertisers, because the channel doesn't really go off.

There is no downtime for streaming services, right? It's on demand and the creators have more freedom. Yeah, you get more freedom. So because of that, people are taking bigger swings. Yeah. Because you have to. But also, you're getting really good fucking content where they don't have to ease into a story.

Right. You can just get right into the fucking story. And it's pretty dope, man. It's pretty dope. Another thing that's disappearing in addition to cable is malls. Malls are- Oh, my heart. This is actually heartbreaking for me.

Yeah. So we all knew malls were shutting down, but more stores have closed down in 2019 already than all of 2018 combined. That is- It's just fallen off a cliff. Yeah. It's insane, bro. It's over.

mind it's that is it's just fallen off a cliff yeah it's over so if you're looking for a good place to like hang out and tag some things or you know learn learn some skating tricks like what mall were you going to skateboarding uh i don't know like if you are black and not looking to get arrested at the mall or if you want to see a crazy fight at Foot Locker. I feel like it's basically going to be the place to go start trash can fires now and just go urban exploring because that's about it. Well, yeah, I think Abercrombie Fitch, they're closing 40 stores already. They've announced Victoria's Secret shutting down 53 stores. Gap is like 230 stores. JCPenney.

So all those traditional retail spaces because most people shop online now. 230 stores, JCPenney. Damn. So all those like traditional retail spaces, because most people shop online now. 230 stores. Yeah. And I think, you know, a lot of people in that retail industry are saying like, you can just expect record closures and record bankruptcies this year, because I think it's the year that we're really seeing how hard online sales is hitting, you know, brick and mortar stores. But they say the ones that are surviving still are the big box stores like Walmart and Target.

And then the more H&M's, the fast fashions, because a lot of the other older REITs, they didn't quite keep up with these new fangled fast fashion places. And also places that do more in-store experiences. And I don't even know, I can't tell you this, last time I went to that, an experience.

You know what? I had an experience at Express. No, that's a lie. Not Express. I'm on my mom. Wet Seal. Oh, man. My experience at Wet Seal.

What's the fucking store? Zara. Uh-huh. Where it was just like I tried on a pair of jeans and they fit, man. It was a good-ass experience. I was like, keep coming, man. I like this. What's this place called?

Yeah. What's this place called? Zara's always too understaffed for anybody to help you one-on-one and put pressure on you. So I do prefer shopping at Zara than a place that has enough staff to be like, so, how are those working out for you? I'm like, I don't want that. It's just like, yo, leave me alone. I want to get the fuck out of my face, fam. It's brands like Untuck It are thriving because that's a brand that-

It's like a gimmick. Yeah, it's a gimmick, but it also started after Amazon took over the world. Yeah, but they're opening brick and mortar stores now. Right. Who is Untuckit? I think it's brands that- Bonobos is a similar thing where it's brands that started from the idea that, okay, we have to be a business that can work in a world where amazon runs everything and then we'll open brick and mortar as like icing on the

cake rather than the cake being your brick and mortar because then you're fucked i'm still not sure what exactly untuck it i mean i know it's their their whole thing is like a these are dress shirts that are designed to not be tucked but every motherfucking dress shirt i buy or button up i don't tuck and i don't feel i'm like yeah damn i should i be talking this so i'm not i think they look whack and i think it's sorry i just do like i for me i i don't think they're oh shit maybe they'll advertise on our show sometime. Yeah, yeah. Come on in and come on to Culture Kings on Tucket. Yeah, I can't imagine shopping at a store where the whole thing is just like, yeah, a gimmick. But here's the thing that's sad about it.

I do like going to a mall. It's just something about like a lot of stores being there. It's like two different kinds of energy. You got the youthful energy, but then you also have just the middle income energy, which is very prevalent in my life. And I don't know, man. It just feels right. It's nostalgic, too. It's nostalgic.

You know, because who didn't go to a mall, at least millennials who grew up parents dropping you off at the mall and be like, here's my fucking playground and I'll just fuck around at this mall. Right. I've like, you know, try and make six bucks work all day. You can ditch school there. It's the best, man. Nobody catching you if you go to the mall. You just got to get there.

Where are these kids going to ditch school? Yeah. Exactly. They're going to go in their VR headsets. Right. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered.

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And the Oversight Committee had a chance to talk to Christian Nielsen. Yeah. Oh, well, this was the, I think, the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee. Okay. Yeah. But, you know, just in general, now that the Dems control the House, they're really flexing that oversight muscle. And so, yeah, they had Reichstag Barbie,

a.k.a. Kirstjen Nielsen, you know, doing some splaining about this child separation policy because they're like, what? Like, when the Republicans were in power, they're like, yeah, fine, whatever. We don't need to know about this. Meanwhile, the Democrats are like, you know this is bad.

You knew this was bad, yet you still still do it what the fuck is going on and the whole thing was a little cringy because kirsten nielsen was not really willing to actually ever answer a question straightforward even if it was like the just like graphs showing data they're like is this is your number this is what trump said is one is what Trump said. Which one's inaccurate? She's like, well, I don't know. She just used a lot of semantic arguments to not give an answer. So here's a moment where she's being pressed about whether or not she knew how traumatic this policy of child separation would be on a child. When you officially began family separation in spring 2018, were you aware of research showing it causes trauma that can do immediate and long-term damage to children's health?

The information that I was aware of at the time was that the trauma is part of the journey to come up to the border illegally. Okay, so again we're looking for yes or no answers ma'am. That was what I do know within the context of the question. Okay, and were you aware that the trauma of family separation is connected to something called toxic stress? I'm not familiar with that term, no. Okay, were you aware that toxic stress can actually change a child's brain because it's still developing?

I wasn't familiar with the term. Okay, were you aware that the effects of these traumas are cumulative, that they get worse the longer the trauma goes on? Can I? Yes. Sorry. I'd like to clarify because we're missing a bigger point here, but yes, ma'am. I'm sorry. Respectfully, let me answer your questions. Were you aware that the traumatic effects don't go away even if a child is reunited with their family. I understand that they are. No. Okay.

I mean, it's just painful, man. And that was Lauren Underwood from Illinois questioning her. Shout out. Yeah. And it was just, again, she couldn't even admit that this is a terrible thing. Was saying, well, actually, the trauma comes from the journey. Right. And trying all these ways to sidestep any kind of accountability.

What a wild take, too. What is the thing that happens on the journey that's worse than being put in a cage and separated from your parents? Yeah, well, that's when. And so Benny Thompson. The music they're listening to. Benny Thompson, the chairman of the Homeland Security Council, or committee,

then asked her some questions as well because she was then trying to regain time. She's like, can I actually just clarify something? He was like, I'm not going to let you editorialize this. Right. He's like, we're here to ask you questions.

Right. So this is another moment where she was feeling a little bit of pressure from the chairman. Are we putting children in cages as of today? Children are processed at the border facility stations that you've been at. And I've seen the cages. I just want you to know that the cages exist. Sir, they're not cages.

What are they? They're areas of the border facility that are carved out for the safety and protection of those who remain there while they're being processed. If we have two gangs, we separate them into separate areas of that facility. If we have a father and daughter, we separate that from another son. We're not going to go through the semantics. Now, I saw the cyclone fences that were made as cages. And you did, too.

All you have to do is admit it. If it's a bad policy, then change it. But don't mislead the committee. Do not mislead the committee. Oh, I love old black. Yeah, old black. Now, we're not going to do all that. Sir, you were there and I saw the cages. I think I'm asking you. So they still in the cages or not?

Sir. No. See, this is what we're not going to do. Mislead this committee. So, yeah, I'm glad, you know, I'm glad that they're asking questions. Well, hopefully you can. Again, to this day, this same policy is still being implemented. And she did not hold up very well in that. She sounded awful. Who was that? It doesn't matter. That was Kristen Nielsen.

Reichstag Barbie. Yeah, Reichstag Barbie. And so then, again, let's pivot over to Elijah Cummings. Yeah, this is just all the shit that we've spent the last year being like, is they're just going to get away with this? Right. So now people are finally, slowly, the process is starting to unfold where they can ask about it. So in this instance, Elijah Cummings, the chairman of the Oversight Committee,

announced that they want to look into the Georgia gubernatorial election now. And he's requested documents from Mr. Kemp, Governor Kemp, and the other interested parties about what the fuck happened over there because everyone saw pretty plainly that there were a lot of fucking problems on election day for people trying, especially people of color, trying to vote in that election where they said, you know, black voters had to wait in line for hours because they said, oh, we don't have enough voting machines to try and just stall people out.

And the guy who was overseeing the entire election, making sure that it was fair because he was the, what was he? The Secretary of State. Secretary of State was running in the election and would not recuse himself from running the election. Exactly. recuse himself from running the election. Exactly. And then when you look at the numbers, Stacey Abrams came within, what,

55,000 votes of winning and 18,000 from a runoff. So naturally, you know, Elijah Cummings is asking that he provide communications related to, quote, voter purges, about them putting applications on hold or putting them in pending status, just all kinds of these other things, and also request information regarding, quote, the ethical or legal obligations of

simultaneously running for governor while overseeing state elections. Because like, yeah, you have to explain that. Like, tell me why you thought you didn't have to, you know, remove yourself from the situation. So, you know, oversight on its way. Yeah. But again, I don't want to get too excited about it, but I'm just glad that now we are in an environment where these kinds of things are being looked at and people are having to... Yeah, and not just like glossed over

and be like, oh, no, it's okay, it's okay. I mean, it is truly insane how much they think people don't have common sense, right? Of course we're going to, like, you think it's okay to run for office while also overseeing the election that you're running for? Right. Like, who without common sense wouldn't see why that's an ethical and moral issue? Well, if you're an old white man well exactly you lived in

a world where you could just do whatever the fuck you want so i think yeah there's a lot of uh a lot of confidence going around it's it's insane dude that's what makes me think that there is just like a fundamental difference yeah like because i i in my brain that just doesn't even compute but there are people out there where it does for whatever reason and it's just it's something up here well i think either way like on both sides you're always going to have people who have that like literally by any means necessary even if it means cheating and fraud right but it seems like the concentration is more on the right than it is on the left. It's also Fox. They have a completely biased, non-objective feedback system

that is telling them shit, whatever they want to hear. Or helping them rationalize why what they're doing is actually fine. It's like a famous person who starts surrounding themselves with yes men. They start losing touch with reality. That is the entire like conservative side of the country right and then look your sophomore album is garbage right that's why it's so rare to have a fire sophomore album um well let me tell you something man for all the conservatives out there you want some good conservative radio come on over to Culture Kings. Family values.

We talk about church. We talk about church. They take you to church. Racial drafts. Right, exactly. I know you like that. We like our racial drafts. Yeah, you guys love talking about race, right?

Conservatives? We love talking about those blacker folks. So freshmen and progressives on Capitol Hill are starting to rally behind Ilhan Omar and basically backing her going to denounce anti-Semitism and specifically the timing. And it would basically be a official subtweet of Ilhan Omar. Subtweet by resolution. Right, by resolution. And now that other progressives and freshman members of Congress and black Congress people are voicing their concern over the kind of picking on Ilhan Omar that has been happening. They are changing the language

to make it a blanket condemnation of all kinds of phobias and isms. Yeah, it's really lost its teeth. And I think just I think Nancy Pelosi, it's it underscores a couple of things. One that Nancy Pelosi does not have control of the party like she did. and what the alliance between the two countries actually means, what Israel's place is in the Palestine situation and the just terrible things that are happening. Right. So I think she thought, like, if this were five years ago, it would be very easy, like, oh, don't pull up, don't give Israel that smoke. Let's have this resolution.

No, no, no, our allegiance is strong, our alliance is strong. But now she's starting to see that the cracks are really coming on. You have Kamala Harris, Bernie, Elizabeth Warren all coming out saying, I don't think this is necessary. Like I support Ilhan Omar, like the crux of what she's trying to say has nothing to do with anti-Semitism at all. Right. And just saying it, you know, describing it for what it is. describing it for what it is. And it's weird too, even on the most left mainstream media like MSNBC, you can still tell where that sort of centrist bend is

because everything is just talking about this substance of like, well, people think it was anti-Semitic and no real analysis passed that. And I think what we're seeing is a lot of this new class and just the progressives in general that are in the house,

they're willing to talk about these things now in an open way. And it's, yeah, now we're left with this really weird, like, hey, all kinds of hate are bad, okay? Yeah. That's the resolution. And I don't know what that's going to solve, but, you know, good luck to you.

Is she not apologizing this time? I mean, she, I don't know. I don't think she did. Not in the sense that, like, she's like, oh, I'm sorry for what I said. Like, all about the Benjamins one, she was like, I clearly see that. That was, like, not a poor choice of words. But I think now a lot of people, since people are coming to her defense and saying, you know, this has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. It's like kneeling, right?

Everybody wants to look at NFL players kneeling about the troops. It's like, no, they're kneeling because they're talking about police violence. Right. Okay. And this merely questioning Israel, the alliance between the United States and Israel is not anti-Semitic. But that's the slant everyone wants to take on it to avoid the actual conversation is like, what are we doing? What's our place in this? Right. And is this worthwhile? Or do we need to actually be, if we're really the people who spread

democracy around the world, should we use our influence to help these two countries? Yeah. And another thing, detail that I feel like is missing from when I hear people talk about this, the people who are like, quote, centrists about it and are like, well, why doesn't she just stop talking about Israel? And it's like her statement was kind of a ongoing thing. Like, I don't see why it's wrong for me to talk about our, you know, relationship to another country, basically because of this first thing.

So it's not like she's just like happens to keep saying these things that uh you know it seems like there is a concerted effort to you know what's interesting for me with with this is how like we there's obviously a clear divide between both sides right uh left right and a lot of times on the left you'll a lot of the things we condemn the right for you will see that we also do to ourselves right i think i saw a tweet or something that said if you ever want to understand why people on the right like defend trump and can't see what he's doing and blah blah blah blah go talk to your left-leaning friends about michael jackson and r kelly right right and it's the same fucking thing and like this whole like the infighting within uh everybody will say well i

can't see you brought up a good point i don't see why they're making the kneeling about uh the flag when it's about this right but then we turn around and do the same exact thing right uh and it is just remarkable i it's sometimes i think i mean i whatever i could be wrong or it's just my opinion but i think that we almost it's almost like you're shooting yourself in the leg every time like you have this one argument for one side yeah and you turn around and do it and it's okay it's not okay in any facet yeah right and that's why a lot of this is disappointing to me because it just shows you that we only have them not we only but a lot of times we have the moral high ground only when it's something that we vehemently don't believe in. Sure.

Yeah, for sure. It's crazy. It's crazy. Well, I think, you know, hopefully Nancy Pelosi can, hopefully she can start seeing what's going on in the country too because we're not in an era where people are not aware of what's happening or are unwilling to even have meaningful debate or discussion around it because that that era is clearly has is coming to an end right and so there's nothing wrong with pushback from within

the party i mean no yeah the media likes to you know react to democrats having internal you know conversations and discussions and back and forth as like this is a story of the weakness of the democratic party and it's like no actually it's a story of the strength of the democratic party like they are not just a monolithic unit taking orders from that's true mitch mcconnell and whatever the fuck he wants them to do and fox news on whatever is going to make their base most outraged. Progressives will raise up. Speaking of which. What?

So yeah, I finally read that Jay Mayer article on the relationship between Fox News and President Trump and the White House and Bill Shine, who was Sean Hannity's main executive producer. Hey guys, it's Miles and Jack in the future. Just cutting in here real quick. We're about to talk about Bill Shine. Yeah, the White House communications director and former Fox News bigwig. Flunky. Roger Ailes flunky.

But yeah, we don't normally, you know normally come in to dance on anyone's grave. But mere hours after this episode went live, Bill Shine announced his resignation. Huh. Huh. The episode comes out. Uh-huh. Then two hours later, Bill Shine resigned? Yeah.

Maybe we should just leave that there. You hear that? That's me patting myself on the back. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so that's how we get down. We are the sunlight. It's like, guys, coming for you, shine. All right, and now you hear what we actually said about him.

Being paid $8 million a year by Fox. What? You're still getting a Fox check? Still getting a Fox check. Oh, I didn't. Whoa, whoa. I didn't even realize that. Wait, was he on the board or something or something well it's i think it's still to do with his initial agreement but it's you know people are asking questions like yo how is that

an okay thing right oh wow but yeah i mean the ultimate point of the article is to communicate something we've been talking about for a long time, Jane, get up to speed. But just how unprecedented it is. Like, it's I think people take for granted that, you know, Fox is on the right and the rest of the media is on the left. And like they kind of truth. Right. And they kind of see it. Well, I don't know about on the truth. A lot of times. Yeah. Truth adjacent. Truth adjacent. They do their both sides ism thing, which actually makes them wrong a lot of the time but uh the ultimate point of the article is to communicate just how unprecedented it is to have

a president with an unapologetic and highly effective propaganda operation yeah but like she's just like the united states States has never had this. This is incredible. They are working together to craft a message that is directly good for their corporation, but mainly good for whatever Trump thinks will keep him in power. And their whole thing is, she just has a lot of quotes from people. I didn't realize it would be this straightforward, but they have reports of people being like, yeah, when I worked at Fox and Friends, the main thing that you keep hearing everybody say is what is going to outrage our viewer. That's their goal.

That's the thesis statement of everything on Fox. Jesus. So you're a propaganda wing designed to outrage the viewers and you're going to create a lot of problems. So they're the Game of Thrones of news. Right. Just outrage the viewer. Yeah. Keep them coming back.

Yeah. It's crazy. I don't remember what Fox news was like during the bush years just because i was it was less it was it was less aggressive yeah it was a less i know it was less blatant but also during his years i was between the ages of 14 and 23 or something like that wild at the time but because it was like you know still it still didn't have a great commitment to the truth or anything right but they still at least put up a veneer of like first of all a wall between politics and their quote-unquote journalists right yeah uh so like sean hannity went to do a one of

his shows from a tea party rally and roger ailes like basically called him back and admonished him and almost like uh suspended bill shine for allowing that because he thought it you know made them seem like they were doing the bidding of the republican party and like he thought that was the worst thing in the world and even rupert murdoch was like we don't fuck with a tea party or any party for that matter. Right. But now it's just, you know, Hannity goes on stage at a Trump rally and is like, I didn't know he was going to ask me up there, even though the advertisements for the Trump rally were talking about Hannity appearing on stage. It's crazy, man. Yeah, it's crazy. And I,

I just think it's, it's not a joke. Like it's, it's an issue. It's a serious issue. That's a plaguing our system. Well, yeah,

it's an unprecedented political entity. Like they, Trump should not be underestimated because Trump is not just Trump. He is Trump and a huge and wildly effective propaganda wing that no politician in the history of the United States has ever had. And we need to, you know, be extremely careful and view the 2020 election as, you know, you're going up against a juggernaut that is incredible at making their audience angry. So no matter how bad he is at his job when you look at the facts that still doesn't really matter that's that's not gonna do you

think there is anything to course correct it like what can course correct Fox News so if anything Rupert Murdoch's son is Lachlan Murdoch is apparently wants to make it a more legitimate journalistic outlet like it was kind of 20, 25 years ago when Hannity's show was Hannity and like Combs or some dude who was a liberal. And they were like, all right, Sean, what's your conservative take? And then they had this really tiny, weak-willed dude with glasses being like, Sean, you gotta... Ah, shut up.

Shut your ass up. And at the end of every episode, Sean would give him a swirly. And Stone Cold Stun him. Say, GOP rules. But it's a really interesting article. They also look at the differences between how the right works and how the rest of the media works. And basically, extreme right-wing and extreme left-wing media outlets, like fringe crackpot outlets, both make up news.

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May something. May 31st. May 31st. And it's called Galaxy's Edge. Okay. Star Wars Galaxy's Edge. But we can call it Star Wars Land. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. I am not, I think I've been on this podcast on record saying I'm not a Star Wars fan.

As far as, and by that I don't mean I don't like the movies. I'm just not a fanatic. You're not reading the technical journals like I was in middle school. Yeah, I'm not a fanatic. With that said, man, it's going to be dope as shit when it opens. But if you are a fan of, you know, three feet of personal space, it's not going to be dope. Three feet, that's generous. Exactly.

Because it's going to be busy as hell, dude. Especially between May and the August opening because Disney World has a lot. We were talking about how much more space Disney World has than Disneyland. So much more. So when Disneyland's the only thing that people can get to, that's going to be a disaster. Well, on top of it, you know, it's going to be a global attraction. You know what I mean?

Like it's not localized to California, Florida. The Star Wars fanaticism is worldwide. And you know people are going to be descending from around the world on this thing because it is by far, for any Disney fan fan just like i had to stop reading about it because i didn't want to spoil it for myself because it seems like the the level of detail that disney is putting into this is is going to be like unparalleled like they're even debating having what they call earth brands represented in there so it's like no, but we got that blue milk. Yeah. Yeah.

It's going to be, listen, if Disney does anything, they immerse you. Right. They immerse you into, especially if you go to Disney World, you are on the grounds of Disney World. You are in Disney City. We talked about this earlier today, that Disney World in itself is twice the size of Manhattan, right? Yeah. So I thought you were going to say this morning that you were going to say it was twice the

size of Disneyland. It's like 10, 20 times the size. No, no, no. It's like 20 times the size of Disneyland. Yeah. It's twice the size of Manhattan. It's not even comparable. So here's the thing that as a Disney fan, I'm a Disney fan.

So I like Disney World. I like going to Disney parks, staying on Disney property. So I like Disney World. I like going to Disney Parks, staying on Disney property. And they've raised their prices considerably already because Disney has taken on a lot of non-Disney properties. Even though they own them now, but they aren't Disney properties. There's Marvel, Star Wars, all that shit, right? And what's happening is a lot of the Disney fans are not so much getting pushed out, but the ones of us who are Disney fans, but Poe, we getting pushed out a little bit because you're about to start getting a whole bunch of people who don't give a shit about Disney.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're there for the Star Wars. Yeah, they are going to be coming. And listen, if there's anything I know about Star Wars fans, even if they make $15 a year, they got money for Star Wars. Right. They will find money for Star Wars. So Disney gentrified Manhattan already, and now they're going to gentrify Disney itself. Right.

Disney itself. They're gentrifying their own brand. But this attraction, right, there's a Millennium falcon ride yeah it's like miles is not about any of this other shit he just wants to talk about i have to talk with this it's gonna be dope it's fucking me up though because i love fucking star wars like i like i said i used to read technical journals that were like breaking down how to like an a-wing bomber was built or whatever like schematics and shit yeah And there's a ride where you can be in the Millennium Falcon, okay, and six people get on.

There's two pilots, two engineers, two gunners, and you're controlling the motherfucking Millennium Falcon. And let me tell you something. For people who are ride fans, this ride is rumored to be about 27 minutes. It is not a ride. Miles just left the room with a bloody nose. He did.

My ears are bleeding. Also, just like in Harry Potter world, I don't know much about Harry Potter. I know there's like a wand store where you like your wand, you know, whatever, that fucking hat or some shit. That's a universal, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is great. Yeah, sure. I hate Harry Potter, but the Wizarding World is fucking great is it? it is

it's not bad I can only imagine if I was a Harry Potter fan how much I would have came in my pants walking in there because I'm not I mean that's gross

but okay it is I mean listen that's what I expect from Edgar I don't expect it from you I'm sorry

mark that Mark that insider culture king reference yes I apologize to all the Daily Sight Guys fans out there, the sight gang. But this Star Wars land is going to be, I'm going to love it. I'm not going to go for the first like six months. Years even.

I'm going to love it. They have a store where it's like a whole theme, right, where it's a guy who has a bunch of spare lightsaber parts. Yeah. And you can go in there and build your own lightsaber, okay? And they say, but the shit costs more than even a ticket to get into the fucking theme park. So watch me walk out of there with about $2,500 worth of lightsabers. Fucking 34-year-old man with all his lightsabers.

Man, let me hold $50, Miles. Well, dude, I mean, I'm starting a credit card just to do this shit. The part of the image that he's not describing is the people running after him. Yeah, right. When I run out with it. When he steals. The children and their parents

running after him. That's my kid's fucking lightsaber. I was paying for it. I said, I'm just walking out with it. I already said I was paying for it. I said I'm just walking out with 25. I'm walking out with it. Listen to the words I'm saying. Just stuff down with the legs of my pants. I'm all walking rigid and shit. Jaquese, as a Disney head,

what are your top Disney rides at all the parks? At all the parks. All right. So should I give top five rising attractions? Yeah, yeah. Number one is Fantasmic at Hollywood Studios at Disney World. There is a Fantasmic at Disneyland. Yeah.

But the one at Disney World is in a stadium that seats like 15,000 people. It is? Yeah. Meanwhile, we're like fighting over like who can stand near a rope. Yeah, exactly. Like rope fence. Wait, we're like fighting over like who can stand near a rope. Yeah, exactly. Like a rope fence. Wait, what is Fantasmic? Fantasmic is like a 30-minute light and water and firework show with all the Disney characters.

Wow. And like Mickey's dress is Fantasia. Yeah, it's from the mind of Mickey Mouse from Fantasia. And it's going through all his like nightmares and dreams and stuff like that. Damn. It is. When I went to Disney World for the first time in 08, it is what hooked

me to Disney. I've never seen anything like that before. If you've ever seen World of Color at California Adventure, I know you guys said you went to that recently. It is like that on cocaine. So it is a magical

thing. So that's number one. So maybe hold off. Bring my kid to that. Don't give him cocaine. Okay. So it is a magical thing. So that's number one. So maybe hold off, bring my kid to that. Remember, don't give him cocaine. Until he's tried coke once. Yeah, he's tried coke a couple times

and then taken to that. I know, you're ready for this Disney attraction. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is, it is,

it is truly magical. Number two. Number two. Oh, what? You know what? I got to go the original Tower of Terror at Disney World. Okay.

It is just beautiful. It's a different ride. You go through the hotel on the ride as opposed to the one that used to be here, which is up and down, which was great. Yeah. Still loved it. But that is my love. So number three.

Number three is going to be the Cars ride at California Adventure. Okay. It's pretty good. Oh, is it? Yeah. Have you done it? No, I just saw it and I was like, I'm going to keep drinking this wine. No, it's a great ride.

So that was the one that- Radiator Springs or whatever it's called. So Cars World or Cars Land is really cool. That's where me and my son spent most of our time. We didn't even, because he's too young to want to wait in lines, we didn't really go on many of the rides, but it's such a cool place. We got to watch

the cars driving around. It's like an experience without waiting in lines. What's number four? Number four is going to be Duel. It's going to be a Duel thing. four is going to be Duel. Duel? It's going to be a Duel thing. Oh, okay.

It's going to be two. They're in two different parks, but I kind of view them as something that you should do in both. You got to go to the world's NEPCOT, which is 11 different countries. Yeah. Where everything in those countries is authentic to, authentic with quotation marks, to the country they're in.

Like, everybody who works in that country is from that country. All the cuisine is made from the people who live in those countries and things like that. You can, like, drink around the world and stuff like that. It is truly, you can spend a day in Epcot at that. Someone needs to take me to Disney World. I've never fucking been there. Disney World?

I'm like feeling... I still remember. I went there when I was like seven and I still remember the Epcot Worlds. It is because Epcot is like two different parks. You got the futurist part of Epcot and then you got the world's part of Epcot and you got like Japan, Africa, Italy, Germany.

Like just all these and everything is just so authentic. The shopping, you know, it is really fucking dope. I'm guessing they made it more authentic since when I was there. Yeah, it's super authentic. Like literally everybody from the people

who are picking up the trash are from the country. Yeah, didn't used to be that way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's pretty dope. And then the other part of that is the second part of Animal Kingdom, which is the safari. Oh, right.

Which is a true 30-minute, I mean, 30 minutes is not that long, but it's a true safari where these animals are literally just roaming around freely. That's in Disney World? That's in Disney World. And the safari of Animal Kingdom is bigger than all of Disneyland. Jesus. I don't think I should go to Disney World. I'm glad I was raised on this.

You just never moved back to Southern California. Fucking broke boy Disneyland. Yeah. Yeah. Number five for me. You better say Dole Whip. Dole. Number five, Dole Whip. Giveneyland one give us one uh probably the avatar

ride at animal kingdom avatar ride animal kingdom and the passage of whatever it's called it's always like a four-hour wait but if you fast pass it is one of the best rides you'll ever ride in your life or disney springs which is downtown disney Disney World. If someone works at Disney World, please try and sponsor a trip for us to come down there. Yo, listen. Act as if I'm a sick child who just wants to know the magic of Epcot. Just tell your bosses that Miles is a sick child. They're like, dude, this dude looks fucking balding 34-year-old man in here. Let me tell you something.

Stealing lightsabers. Let me tell you something. Where iHeartRadio at? You're doing lightsabers? Let me tell you something. Where's iHeartRadio at? iHeart, if you sponsor a trip with me and Miles to go to Disney World, we'll produce an eight-episode Disney blog. Oh, great partnership.

And look, it'll bring more people of color to the park. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Outreach. And let me tell you, man, people will listen to that. People will listen to that. Oh, yeah. If it's just bring a little microphone, like, yo, what the fuck? Yeah.

How's that shit floating? Yeah. The Avatar thing. We should just make little microphone like, yo, what the fuck? Yeah. How's that shit floating? Yeah. The Avatar. Let's just make it a mini series. Yeah. He takes you to Disney World. I do it.

Open my third eye. Yeah. And Disney is usually cool about taking video and media. Yeah. Inside their parks. Right. So you got to sneak the zoom. Right.

You can't be having cameras. We'll have that like lightning cable microphone. So we use our cell phones. Right having cameras. We'll have that lightning cable microphone so we can use our cell phones as the recording. Right. We'll figure it out. Jaquese, it's been a pleasure having you, man. Oh, my goodness. As always. Where can people find you?

As always, you can find me in these streets, y'all. Or at Jaquese Neal on everything. In these main streets. In these main streets. How are you spelling Jaquese? J-A-C-Q-U-I-S-N-E-A-L on all social media. And, of course, Culture Kings every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with Edgar Montblasier. Check it out, guys.

That's it. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Ooh. You know what? Let me tell you something, man. Black Twitter is a blessing. Ooh, you know what? Let me tell you something, man.

Black Twitter is a blessing. What they've done is not just any specific tweet, but what they've done with just like the minute of content from that R. Kelly interview. With Gayle King, yeah. It's just been so delightful from a very undelightful situation. But the whole, man, I need to quit to quit playing quit playing i ain't do this stuff i'm fighting for my fucking life man all the tweets who've just used that and reappropriated has made my week and it shouldn't it shouldn't like but you know they take that they take that

shit yeah well you know they take that shit and uh and spin it into gold as much as they can. The one thing I was like, wow, they ain't shit for that, is when they retired the Michael Jordan crying face and replaced it with R. Kelly. Wow. At least one guy just maybe caused the death of his father. Right. Just maybe. His father's rolling in his grave from that.

And here's another one. So LeBron James passed Michael Jordan in points and stuff like that. And my man. The ringer? Huh? Are you talking about the ringer one? I don't know. Well, is it from King Josiah 54?

Yeah, Josiah Jones or Josiah Johnson. He always does these videos where he does voiceovers of just different basketball things. So he did one once LeBron passed on Michael Jordan as Michael Jordan. Here it is right here. What's Gucci, Bron Bron? This the GOAT. Just wanted to congratulate you for passing me on the all-time scoring list.

On March 6th, no less. Also known as LeBron Day. Because three and six is your finals record. In case you forgot. And I just want to say one thing to you. Fuck them points. Six rings, noob. So shout out to KingJosiah54 on Twitter.

Funny dude. Go follow him. Miles, where can people find you? Find me and follow me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. Let's see.

One is from at Professor Doye. Doye, you know how he gets down. He says, 50% of people get divorced. So if there's two of you, look out.

This is a great one. And one more from Reductress. It says, woman's two of you. Look out. This is a great one. And one more from Reductress. It says, Woman's walk of shame actually feels excellent because she just banged. So, yeah. Shout out to you, Reductress. Yeah, yeah. Also, you can catch me on the second part of my appearance on the wonderful Behind the Bachelors podcast with Robert Evans,

where we're talking about trump university and look if you want to see another dimension of salesmanship listen to this podcast because it's a doozy a couple tweets i liked oh no she twittin tweeted tomorrow is international women's day don't forget to put period blood on your doorpost tonight so the angel of mansplaining passes over your house. And Katie Stull tweeted something that I happen to agree with. At Katie Stull tweeted, re-watching Game of Thrones and one thing that really stands out

is that Ned is hella dumb. I was too busy rooting for him the first time around to notice. That is very, very true. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can find us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes we link off to the

information that we talked about today as well as the song we ride out on Miles What's Up. This is from Angelina, Ethiopian singer, writer, artist, everything, Arima Adara. And the song is called Free Again. Good rhythms, you know, to take you into the weekend. Get free, y'all, and, you know, enjoy your weekend. All right. We're going to ride out on that. Have a good weekend, everyone. We'll be back on Monday.

Bye. Bye. We'll see some of you guys on Saturday night. Tomorrow night. On a treetop city Will you help me swing again Will you come back with me Let me show you this freedom, friend Go back then, we were free again.

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