The Daily Zeitgeist - RIP Movie Pass? Now Collusion Isn’t A Crime? 7.30.18

Episode Date: July 30, 2018

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It's me, Myles Gray, a.k.a. Myles! Ah! A.K.A. is always on rehearsed. Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. Miles! Ah! He wakes and blows for every one of us. I fucked that up at the end, but don't worry about it. We will keep it moving.

Thank you to James Doss for that flash by Queen, a.k.a. And today, I am thrilled to be joined by, you know, one of the faces of Mount Zeitgang more. Hilarious comedian, writer, podcaster, nerd, gamer, what do you know, everything. Killmonger 2.0. It is Mr. Ify Wadiwe. Hey, hey, hey, a.k.a. If done, dada, bring it back, make that booty clap.

Oh, snap. Here I come looking like that. Matter of fact, give you a bar not a snack pull the gun out clap clap wow and i'm gonna guess that was a freestyle yeah that was a freestyle i originally was going to uh supplement your dope uh freestyle back by doing a um what is it called yes indeed freestyle withestyle with my AKA, but this recording crept up on me way quicker than I could expect.

Hey, hey, you know it takes time. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a hilarious stand-up comedian, sketch comedian, who I first heard about many years ago when I was fucking around on YouTube. Writer, host of the podcast Suicide Buddies with Hampton Yunt.

It is Dave Ross. How are you? What's up, guys? I'm great, man. You doing good? Yeah, I'm good. I don't have a freestyle. That's fine. That's fine.

That's fine. I didn't know that was the homework. Maybe a limerick or a haiku. A limerick. That's great. Yeah, I'll just say something in Gaelic real quick. So before we get into that, let's just kind of recap, or not recap, give you a preview of what we're going to be talking about today. First, the feds, they're worried about the In My Feelings Challenge for pretty obvious reasons.

So funny. They're also apparently watching us in the sky through something called the Quiet Skies program, which is not a frequent flyer program. Also, we're talking about Trump basically having a full fucking meltdown again but that's normal because this is hell uh also the coke brothers they might be ditching the republicans for democrats um other things movie pass maybe actually starting to turn into the dumpster fire we thought it could be and also talking about the new white wine emoji that could be happening that people are really lobbying hard for. The Big Mac is turning Big 5-0. And I guess the Guardians of the Galaxy cast, you know, they just released a statement of support to try and reinstate James Gunn as director.

But before we get into all that, Dave, why don't you tell us something about your search history that lets us know a little bit about who you are. Oh, man. I just i just yeah i just looked and the my most recent search is literally this is the entire phrase words that contain the letters f g u and h and that's because and that is most of my search history lately because i started playing this phone game, Alpha Bear. You ever played this game? No. It's just like a game where there were letters on a field and you try to combine them into words and then they turn into bears and the bears are adorable and that's how it got me. It's truly embarrassing. I'm deeply ashamed.

I spent way too much time doing it and I should be working. I have no money. Right. Well, did you ever figure out if there's a letter or a word with those letters in it? Oh, yeah. I mean, well, there's a website that is very, very helpful with this game. I think it's called bestwordless.com, and that's where I end up on. Well, you know, that all came from words with friends.

Yeah, yes. And I would know when a friend would pull that shit out when it was like oh you didn't that was this word yeah yeah yeah but it's it's so funny because in a nerdier version of that i was playing i've been playing match the gathering arena which has been the digital version of is that nerdier than alpha bear because here's the thing magic the gathering is respected yeah that's true i do not think it's but i got beat by this deck, and I was, and this is, so I was like, oh, this deck is bullshit. Like, you did not come up with that off top. And so I just searched black, white control deck, and his cards just appeared.

And I was like, here's the thing. It's like, in the competitive scene, people scene, people do pre-built decks. But I'm thinking if we're playing online in an online game, you should be making it up yourself. You should be going off top. And people aren't doing that. And I think that takes the fun out of it. For people who don't play Magic the Gathering. So you're saying in this game, when you're legit, you come with your deck.

You know what the fuck you got. Because it all depends on your strategy and how you play Magic the Gathering. But in the digital version, you can like a pre-randomized deck where people have the option to bring their own in? What happens, even in both the, like, you know, I guess, analog Magic and online, people will upload deck lists online and be like, oh, this is a good deck I made. Oh, got you, got you.

You know, it's generally, you know, accepted and expected. Like, when you're in a tournament, someone's going to run that. Obviously, it's just like anyone following any guide online. Like anyone who's doing bodybuilding is going to use an online guide. But when it's digital, it's kind of lower stakes. Like no one's going to be able to make it to a Grand Prix off of this beta version of a game. So when I play against someone, I'm thinking we're all just having fun. You know, having fun. Like my deck is a dinosaur deck.

It's all built around dinosaurs. And so it just was a little too crisp that I was like, no, this isn't your average cookie. I totally understand what you're saying. Yeah. If you're in the NBA and you for some reason

want to go play a pickup game in the park, you don't just fucking stuff everyone. You don't let no one shoot the ball. It's not fair. Exactly. Oh, well. Relax. Hey, you know, people are crazy.

Relax. But I will say, my big, not to spend too much time on you, Alpha Bear, but I get like, as a video game nerd. Yeah, like, as a video game nerd, I'm getting, like, charged up because, you know, I think I've talked about this on here before, just how phones are going to be the new, like, platform for people to play games. Right. And just how, like, you know, Alpha Bear, it's like a dumb, fun game, but you're playing it, and I feel like as the games get more advanced, like, there's a Command & Conquer for the phone now. Oh, fuck. Yeah. Is there a good version of Civilization for the phones? It's coming. I feel like it's coming. The conquer for the phone now yeah is there a good version of civilization uh it's coming i feel like it's coming the second that happens dude though my god when i first got into civilization takes over your life with

fucking time travel playing that game like i would sit down at 6 p.m and it'll be three in the morning like suddenly yeah and i'm like whoa miles do you have a gaming pc yet no no you get a gaming pc i got a copy of civ waiting for you why why can't i just use the mac version play the mac i'll see because you know they've been real weird of the sport i'll check for you okay all right well after the cast i actually do have a copy of civ sitting there we go i just don't play see now i do respect that the pc gaming side of the world is still like fuck yeah yeah dude it's still pc master race all day the pc master race people are still in the building uh dave what's something that's overrated beats i i hate beats there's the food yes the food oh i thought you meant oh i hate music i like acapella freestyles only

that's why i like the king of the Dot freestyles. It's just a room. And your fucking rhymes. Fuck beats. I like it when people talk. That's what I like. I like conversation, and I'm sick of it having to be some kind of rhythm. Oh, my God.

Disgusting. This is why I like Gaelic. The beat is in the language. Yeah, so what about beats? I don't know, man. I just hate that. I have so many friends. I feel like I'll eat a lot of places where people are stoked about the things that have beats in them.

Not that I eat out that much. I'll go to someone's house and they make things with beats in them. I don't know. I just feel like recently I've been around a lot of people that like beets. And I can't stand them. They make me almost throw up every time. They're so neutral, though.

At first, I remember as a kid singing them, I'm like, dude, that looks fucking like a strong flavor. And I want nothing to do with it. And then I remember having a beet for the first time maybe like eight years ago. And I was like, oh, okay, this really doesn't even taste like much. It just looks crazy. But, yeah. was like, oh, okay, this really doesn't even taste like much. It just looks crazy. But I, yeah. To me still, I'm 35. And so maybe I'm just going to be a child forever.

But I put even part of a beet in my mouth and it ruins my week. Oh my God. Oh God. Truly, I have a bad version. What is it about it? I don't know. The taste and the aftertaste it leaves.

It's just something that really makes me gag. It's really bad. You ever drink beet juice? No, man. Even thinking about that makes me want it. I saw your face. Your eyes rolled back. All right, never mind, never mind.

What I will say about this, first time I drank beet juice, like at a natural foods thing, someone put me on to like, well, it was a mix. It was beet, apple juice, and ginger. Yeah. Wild combo.

Good. Anyway, I drank like a fucking 32-ounce one. I was so parched, and I was peeing out like rosé, basically. Oh, yeah. And I thought like my kidneys were failing or something. Right. And I took like a panicked Google search to realize like I was just eating red food dye, basically. Yeah, I have the most embarrassing of colored, you know human uh oh no remains well i ate one when i was younger

the first time my stepmom made a shit ton of red velvet cake and i just ate so much of it that when i took a dump it was red and i thought there was blood in my poop so i can't just trow down to my ankles crying stumbling towards my dad like oh i'm dying my god my my my stepmom was like no you just ate too much red velvet cake right and then i was like why were you eating that much red velvet cakes and then i got in trouble yeah like what you're trying to lose your foot yeah all right well what's something that's underrated dave uh okay for me right now truly the most underrated thing and i say i feel like the reason it's underrated is that people are not aware of this as an entertainment genre and once it's

discovered it will no longer be underrated okay it's videos of very fat cats trying to get through doggy doors this is this is a very niche youtube video genre that there's probably a total of five minutes of videos of this on youtube and it's crazy it's crazy because it is like the most wonderful right thing to watch that i found oh man that's amazing yeah because they look small as their head is popping out. Right. And you're like, why is this tiny cat? It's like a reveal.

Dude. It's the most satisfying type of video I've found on the internet. What is it about it that really, is it the struggle? Is it the? Well, cats are great. Cat videos are great because cats are like, well, you all know why. They're dumb, but also curious. Right. And it's not like dogs that are just having fun you're like watching this weird semi-emotional animal not know what's going

on um but then like overweight just makes it adorable yeah and so then like it's just trying to like i don't know get its overweight body through a thing in the way that a cat does. I don't know. It's just wonderful. Yeah. And that reveal is really the part. Right. Because at first it's like. It gives it an arc.

Yeah. You're like, oh, there's a head. What's going on? And then it's like. The whole body squeezes through. Yeah. Reminds me of that Ace Ventura 2 scene when he's coming out of the rhinoceros. I don't know why.

Because he just. I don't remember that at all. He was inside of a fake rhinoceros doing surveillance, and the air conditioning broke out, and he was basically inside of a sweat box inside of a mechanical rhinoceros, and he has to escape through the ass of the rhinoceros, and people think it was giving birth to a human man. Anyway, that's my deep cut.

It's all been downhill since then. Yeah, 100%. I mean, that's where we hit the peak. But I always wonder about people who have super fat cats, like how you let them get that big. Yeah, man, I take my cat to— Don't look at me with shock, Super Producer Anna Hosnia. Your cat isn't like that.

Does your cat look like this? No, this cat looks like a bowling ball inside of a cat. I feel like I only—I lightly take my cat to the vet. Like I do it the minimum amount. I think I take her to the vet like a couple times a year. And every time. That's a lot. A couple times a year.

Is it? Well, she's older. So I guess that's more than I used to. Right. Because you notice something. You're like, I should probably go take you to the vet really quick. Yeah. Little shots, like getting her up on her shots, whatever.

So I take her in, and really the main thing the vet talks to me about is her weight. And she's not overweight at all, and he's like, you've got to watch it and make sure. And so that means, I guess you never take your cat into the vet, or you just don't listen, or you have a bad vet. Yeah, right. Or you just can't say you know to the pet. Because I have, like, my friend used to house sit for this woman who had a cat who ate, the cat ate two regular size cans of cat food for every meal. Whoa. Yeah.

Like, every meal. And it was wild. And this cat was addicted to food. Like, the cat would just bat on the door, like, constantly to, like, wake him up. Like, it's time to eat. And it was just like, I was like, well, just don't feed him. feed him he's like i can't this cat is used to getting what it wants and i all i can't get in the way anymore so i will say too it makes you feel like a real piece of shit to put your cat on a diet just thinking about like i'm the kind of guy who's putting a cat on a diet i'm not on a diet right uh but my cat is but my cat is me i'd have no problems like now

get over it you didn't trust me you work through the pain right go ahead do them push-ups i'm gonna sit on your back that's how you should be yeah while i eat your cat food yeah but also i feel like people have things going on in their lives especially if you have kids if your cat's meowing it's like it's still a cat and not a person just like fuck it give it some food i don't care if it's fat it's gonna die two years earlier but i'll be happy i don't give a shit there you go and the cat will be i know that's that's what's so interesting like as someone with a child when people are like oh i'm getting a dog uh so so that you know she'll she can grow up with it it, oh, so you're just planning your child's trauma 12 years in advance.

You're making sure that they see the death of this dog. Yeah, that's all I can think about is if I get my daughter a dog, then she's going to have a bad time when she's 12. So what happened to you when you were 12? Nothing. I just feel like I have so many friends who like had dogs that passed recently. Right. And it's just like just seeing them sad.

And they're all in prison. I've been thinking about when Desus. I can't even see my dog. Yeah. My dog died. And I'm in here. You know what happens. It's funny.

Even when like Desus' dog died on Bodega Boys, I was even like feeling, I was like, damn, I don't even know you, but I just know what that's like. Man, I remember. Yeah, anyway. Forget it. You know, maybe teach your kids that life lesson or just let them be so guarded that the second they actually experience loss, they'll be a fucking mess at 20 or whatever. Yeah, no, the only time my child's allowed to cry is when I die, when I get bodied out on the street.

And even then, it better not be that long. All right, so Dave, finally, what's a myth? What's something that people get wrong that you know too bad? Oh, man, this is a thing I talk about a lot. I truly think I can debunk the myth that Coldplay is bad. Wow. Because everyone I know says Coldplay is bad, and then when a Coldplay song comes on, they're like, you can tell they're at peace.

Right, right. And I think it's just cool to think Coldplay sucks. And look, also, I know that there are holes in this theory of mine because I was in Austin recently. I was standing in front of the Velveeta Room, this comedy club in that town, talking to a couple comics about this exact thing. Right. Saying, Coldplay is great. I will defend Coldplay to my death. I love Coldplay.

And then a song came on at the bar next door. It was just blasting out the front. And I was like, see, this song sucks. And they were like, dude, this is Coldplay. Oh, I didn't know. Yeah. Oh, sorry. It was one of those bad ones.

But early Coldplay, come on, The Scientist? You can't tell me that The Scientist doesn't bring, like, a tiny piece of a tear to your eye. You're lying. Fix You, I still get down on. Yeah, Fix You. Well, Fix You, I have an aversion to because it was one of my ex's favorite songs. Oh, see, maybe that's what's happened to everybody. Yeah, yeah, they've had an ex. It's just ex- maybe that's what's happened to everybody.

It's just X association. It wouldn't be surprised. That's the song that if you're dating someone really at any point, the Coldplay song, like this is us. We're perfect. But square one, I think is the perfect training song.

Like, you know, you're about to go for a run. It's like, yeah, it's time to, I don't think I remember that. Oh yeah. Uh run it's like yeah it's time to i don't think i remember that song uh it's it was on the xy soundtrack which was important to me because that had a speed of sound oh i know this song which was yeah yeah that was and it was the sting

it was like the sting song for the n which was the noggin channel it was like a nickelodeon alternative channel that played degrassi so i heard it all the time because i'd be watching degrassi and it was like summer's coming and it will play speed of sound i was like this is the song of the summer baby the song of the summer the song well you know what the song of the summer this summer seems like it is what it's in my feelings oh yeah what you like you like that yeah you see that that's perfect i scripted that in thank you uh no i didn't but yeah so i don't know if you've seen the hashtag in my feelings challenge where people are getting the fuck out of their cars and doing the dance.

Kiki, do you love me? And there are also a string of videos where people are fucking eating shit the second they get out of a moving car because ghost riding the whip, there's an art to it. You can't just be driving and then take your foot off the gas and then just get out. You need to be stopped. Just take your foot off the brake. Let it sort of glide and drive. Just roll.

Then do your shit. There are people hopping out of the car like 10 miles an hour and shit. And there are so many good ones of people like that first step just being like, like getting sucked out.

No one's ready. No one's did that trial by fire. I did it. I did it way back in the early aughts. Okay. Tell me when to go. The hyphy movie.

Speed of sound. I was so... You know when you get out of the car and you break up with your girlfriend? Yeah. Just make every story about my breakup go away. Rachel, do you love me? Are you riding? So yeah, the NTSB, the National Transportation and Safety Board, they had to fucking actually post about it because there have been like people crashing their cars in the park.

Shit. People like literally one guy thing got pinned by another car, like, like got smashed, but didn't clearly was well enough to get up and move. So it wasn't like, oh, your hips are broken. But they said, we have some thoughts on about the hashtag in my feelings challenge. Hashtag distraction in any mode is dangerous and can be deadly. Whether you're a hashtag driver, hashtag pilot or hashtag operator, focus on safely operating your vehicle. Read more at the end. And it just got like these pics of people like clearly just falling

out of their driver's side door. So yeah, I think, you know, just let evolution take its place. Also, yeah, that's the thing. You fucking die doing that.

In my feelings, Drake is a part of natural selection. Yeah, that's where you can say maybe he's with the Illuminati where they're like, and see with this song,

you'll drive all the idiots out to harm themselves by doing this idiotic challenge. But anyway, just wanted to. Maybe he didn't think about it because he's from Canada and all those people can just go to the hospital. Oh, yeah. You know, he's spent enough time here, though, now. That's true.

But who knows? Who knows? Another thing that apparently has got people's eyes, at least caught mine, was this thing that the Boston Globe reported over the weekend called the Quiet Skies program that the TSA has basically been operating since 2010, where essentially, like, if you meet a certain criteria, which is probably like brown or Muslim, and have traveled to one of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, this story might be for you, Anna. Yeah, Anna, did you ever think, like, man, this guy who's in the uniform. This guy's really friendly.

Yeah, he's all up on me. He's so engaged. Look, I got a man. Back up. Back up? What is your name? Marshall? Wow.

Air Marshall? That's cool. He's so engaged. He's like taking notes on everything I'm doing and saying. The TSA hasn't quite illuminated what the criteria are, but it's a combination of like your travel history, your known associations. If you have a criminal record, things like that. They've observed people traveling within the U.S. to make sure like that, you know, they got to just keep an eye on these people, but especially on the plane.

And it's been a very a lot of people like, yo, what the fuck is this? Like, what's up with our safety? Because they will literally take notes on things like, did you sleep during the flight? Did he or she use a cell phone? Did they look around erratically? Did they change outfits on the plane? Did they change outfits in the airport? And things like that just to kind of, you know, they want to analyze people's travel patterns while taking the whole picture into account is what they're saying. And they say it's adding an additional line of defense to aviation security. And they said, if the person does all that stuff and the airplane lands safely and they move on, the behavior will be noted, but they will not be approached or apprehended. Well, good. That's good.

I know. If they didn't do the crime that we thought they did. We won't arrest them. If we watch them for six hours and they don't do anything wrong, then that's okay. Yeah, some people are in like three-month periods where they're surveilled anything wrong, then that's okay. Yeah. Some people are in like three month periods where they're surveilled or monitored, as they say it, or they call it a quiet skies passenger.

Euphemistically, you mean motherfucker. You're doing, you're, you know, just invading their privacy. I feel like the rule should be that the government is not allowed to make a list.

You know what I mean? Like every list based thing that has been done has been bad. Except for Schindler's List. Well, that wasn't the government. But that was a good list. That was a good list. But I do feel like... Craigslist is easy.

Craigslist. You know, we're in the dark ages of Craigslist now that we don't have Miss Connections anymore. But yeah, no, it's... Well, Miss Connections is gone from Craigslist? Yeah, after SESTA passed, they got rid of all the classified areas including misconnections yeah uh because if if you're unaware of sesta basically if anyone is child trafficking on your site whether or not you had control of it or not that you will be fined uh which right well fair enough you know which is like yeah why not burn down the whole house to

prevent a forest fire, you know? Oh, you're really sad about misconnections, huh? You know, I just have, like, lots of friends who are sex workers, and they're, like, very, very... Oh, yeah, in that sense, yeah. Yeah, it really fucked them over. Also, it just does, like, anyone who does, like, patreon crackdown on anyone who does like nudes and stuff yeah because it just basically affects anything because in theory like the people who are gonna be uh sex trafficking are still gonna be doing it but all these ways for sex workers

to safely find work are now just being shut down now they're gone wow well yeah 2018 it gets uh cooler and cooler so yeah guys watch your back uh anna maybe yeah sometimes they say the air marshals will even sit next to a passenger unbeknownst to the passenger or like a few aisles back but you know that's that's what's funny because everything they explain is a thing that would probably end with me getting arrested. Because it sounds like shit that would annoy me and be like, and I would move and be like, yo, hey. I don't think they'd be that obvious. But could you imagine someone that bad is quietly surveilling someone?

It's like wearing a trench coat and a hat. Just with a fucking voice recorder. Subject has gotten up. Are you talking about me? I love that. There's a boom mic operator. Right, exactly. But it's made to look like a golf bag or something.

It's so obvious. Oh, I can't get my golf bag in here. Oh, man. Oh, man. All right. Could you help me get this golf bag up here by talking into it? And just sort of saying your name and sort of what your purpose is of this trip. Anyway, sorry.

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added to a president, uh, just, you know, breakdown. Uh, but so he, I think he tweeted like 31 times over the weekend and he had something for everybody, whether it was immigrants or the press or Mueller, just fucking anything. First, we found out that he had a meeting with the publisher of the New York Times and claimed that he was like when he was there they told him it was really good that he's like such a genius for creating the term fake news and how like fake news is such a problem in the media and that was his description of this meeting and it was supposed to be off the record so after the publisher of the New York Times heard that he's like oh okay well then I guess this wasn't off the record let me

tell you what we were actually talking about so apparently what happened was solzberger uh who is the publisher i think it's ag solzberger and it's some initial fancy name uh he pointed out to trump that foreign leaders like authoritarians and despots have taken up trump's language and angle of attack and the reason is not hard to discern autocrats from manila to yangon and car to caracas they're saying have found it advantageous to point out that even the president of a country that gave primacy to freedom of speech and the press and its constitution disdains the news media as fake so they're kind of like hey this is not good you're also breaking down our fucking democracy by constantly attacking the fourth estate journalism and calling them shit like the enemy of the fucking people,

which he's been doing. You're just incite your base and it's completely, completely disrupting just the country. Well, yeah, what's so wild about it is when you, if you really like, I feel like some people are like, I don't know what the big deal is. If you really want to see what the big deal is, just have an argument with anybody who supports Trump on Twitter and then try giving any facts. And it's so wild that now, no matter what, it's not even anything, just anything that disagrees with their point of view. They're like, well, you can't trust that source. That source is like.

Well, did you see that thing that Leslie Stahl said like three or four months ago? She went to. Yeah, it was. She interviewed she interviewed him yeah she interviewed him and she wrote somewhere online maybe it was an article but i think it was just on twitter she said that before the interview it was just her and trump and maybe an aide in the room and she turned to him because she's a badass and was like hey what's this fake news bullshit what is this why are you doing this and he said to her with no one else in the room thinking it would never go anywhere, he said, oh, yeah, I do that to discredit you. Yeah.

So when you say bad things about me, they won't believe you. Right. Yeah. And, like, I mean, I guess I should have known that it was that level of deviousness from him. We think of him as such a buffoon that he couldn't be doing it on purpose, but it's absolutely calculated manipulation. Yeah. At that point, that's just his self-survival, self-preservation instincts to be like, oh, you're talking shit?

Well, that means you're a scumbag and you're an enemy of the people. So therefore, whatever you say is locked. At the highest level, though. Yeah. Yeah. And then, like you're saying, it trickles down to every conversation you have with anybody right now. Yeah. And the funny thing is, like, you know, we can look at it as this devious smart move, but it's not smart. It's just simple gaslight now. Yeah. And that's the funny thing is like, you know,

we can look at it as this devious smart move, but it's not smart. It's just simple gaslighting. It's literally every shit bag ever has that tactic. And it's damaging. I mean, we had that as kids when, when you,

a parent teacher conference is like, no, that teacher just hates me. They're just doing it. I mean, their parents are smart enough to not listen to us, but now we're at an age where people are so desperate to get what they want you know they just will believe anything like let's talk about just real quick about the money going to the farmers like his poor base

are thinking oh he's just giving money away now it's good but it's like no these are people with money getting money it's not going to go to the 1% of family owned farms. Yeah, the small farmers. It's going to go to these big conglomerates because same ex, her cousin who I used to live with, they lived on a farm and they sold milk. And I was like, oh man, how much money is in that? And they're saying not much because the big companies would come buy up all the milk for pennies and then sell them in the grocery store for, you know, how much milk. This is about two, three bucks, you know. So really, the small farmers that we try and think about are who the right tries to—

You think a farmer, you think a guy in overalls with a straw hat on. It's like buying their millionaires. Yeah. No, it's these millionaires who are screwing over those guys who are going to get the check all the time. So it's so funny when you do want to think about all right yeah i i know black people have it bad but you know whites have it you bad too it's like yeah but the way you're going about it isn't going to help them at all yeah it's like saying yeah like retail is really taking a hit we want to help those mom and pop

stores we're going to give 12 billion dollars in relief to walmart and best buy yeah i'm like hold on what the fuck it's essentially what's going on. So yes, that was that piece of the puzzle. The New Yorker put out a great piece on the entire interaction. And they were saying, as one of the editors and the publisher of the New York Times was talking to Trump and telling him about all this criticism, he was like, okay, okay. Like they said he was acting as if he was taking this on board. He never apologized for anything, but they were like, we'd really like you to consider that.

It's just something to think about. And he was like, yep, yep, yep. Then nine days later, he gets on his Twitter fingers and puts his chest out and is like, yeah, they're fucking, you know, they were praising me. And like, they know they're the enemy of the people. It's like, come on. You know, if we were to get dark real quick, I don't know what this fool will say if we were attacked because of the things he said. Like if there is a tragedy and, you know, a bunch of Americans are killed because of his actions, like what is his stance going to be?

What is like, is he still going to be? I didn't do it. Yeah. It was Obama's will be. Yeah. Obama should have seen this coming. Well, that's something. Yeah.

So completely shifting the blame. It blows my mind that people are still talking about Obama. Like, one of the big things that the right has been taking is when we call out immigration stuff. It's like, hmm, I wonder why you weren't talking about this during the Obama era. We were. Yeah, exactly. It's like, we were. You just weren't paying attention because you weren't trying to defend it then.

You were very much okay well they were too focused on getting the black man out of the white house than whether or not he was deporting people in record numbers uh everything we're talking about is the same thing as fake news just sort of diverting from the actual yes yes or i love it now you'll talk to people who will be like you'll on twitter someone will say something awful and you can be like that was racist and they'll be like oh okay so i said awful, and you can be like, that was racist. And they'll be like, oh, okay, so I said something racist. And you're like, yes, and that's bad. And they're like, and that's bad. And you're like, oh, okay, so I can't say racist things now, and that's bad now.

And you're like, yes. It's always been bad. It always was bad. Oh, okay. Right. How do you talk to people like that? Or my favorite, like, oh, just because you don't like me, I'm a Nazi. It was like, no, because you're following everything a Nazi is telling you to do.

Yeah, it's because you hate Jews. That's because you spray painted a swastika on the side of a synagogue. Oh, that makes you a Nazi. Oh, sure. Wow, wow. We keep moving the goalposts. Yeah, and that's some shit that just happened in Indiana. A synagogue just got tagged got tagged with like iron crosses

and swastikas because it's 2018 again so anyway moving on after he was done taking shots at the press then he had to move on to the wall and saying like i will shut the government down if the democrats don't give me the votes for the wall like watch me piss this whole bed i don't give a fuck and yes we've known that he's always wanted this wall. But the fact of the matter is that is a very, very bad plan politically, because the next time a shutdown would possibly occur would be at the end of September. So from then, that's only like less than a month out from the election. So you don't want to shut the government down and then have your Republican controlled House and Senate going around on the campaign trail

and answering questions about like, hey, why is the government shut down? Or why are my benefits gone because the government's not operating because of you, because of the wall? And especially for like moderate Republicans, like the ones in Orange County or like the Philadelphia suburbs elsewhere, that's not a good plan for him to double down on the wall because those people are not motivated by the immigrants out. Like that isn't the thing that motivates them. If anything, it could have a reverse effect where it will motivate more Democrats to turn out to vote against the Republican in those races. So again, he's clearly struggling. And this is what he likes to do when there's a lot, when his back's against the wall is throw out some racist red meat to the base and be like,

yeah, see, man, we're getting that wall, just stick with me like already last week he was like ignore the news what you see is not real because yes maybe some shit went down but that's fake and so i think this was one of i mean clearly he was in some kind of a spiral because there was a meeting i think last week with uh republicans in the Senate. They're like, let's avoid a shutdown fight over the wall before the election. OK, let's just let's kick that can down the road because that doesn't help us politically. But clearly he doesn't give a fuck. So that's, again, a little an idea of where he's at. He's probably not the most relaxed he's ever been.

So then he went on and started tweeting some more shit about muller and the russia investigation and nothing really there it's just the usual thing like oh he's got these conflicts of interest uh 100 does not have any kind of conflict of interest the only conflict of interest he has is that he actually cares about this country while the current administration does not it's that his interests conflict with yours yeah uh and you don't want anyone observing you or investigating you and he's trying to get to the bottom of like why you agree to everything rush is doing if you were working with them whatever so that's the other thing too so the paul manafort trial is starting and the and cohen is clearly snitching all kinds of ways or

at least there's stuff leaking left and right about it and that's making thing people nervous. Like Rudy Giuliani, like sort of jumped the gun and was like, yeah, there may have been a second, another meeting about the Russia stuff with like, with like team Trump before. And people are like, wait, what? Like, is that coming from Michael Cohen? He's like, oh, well, I heard it from a journalist. So I just want to get out in front of it in case. So they're clearly trying to get out in front and discredit as much as they can. So now we're at a point where things are getting so real for them that Rudy Giuliani is now using the tactic of just saying, well, you know, collusion isn't a crime. Yeah. So because now at first he was like, I'm not fully confident that the president was or was not aware of what the, what the Russia Trump tower meeting was about.

So now they're falling back to it. They're secondary or tertiary defense, which is now they've run out of options. So this is really, this is on Fox and friends today. Fucking off top. Just Rudy Giuliani coming out like first words out of his mouth on Fox and friends.

Trump's attorney, former New York city man. i've been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime it's not collusion is not a crime he just straight up before you get the intro out the whole theme of the the of this show right now is what we were just oh now you can't collude with russia oh sure sure. Wow. Now that's bad. Yeah, exactly. That's unbelievable. But again, fucking moving the goalposts even further now, it's like, okay, well, collusion's not even a crime. What was all this shit about?

There was no collusion. No collusion. No collusion. Nobody was talking about when Obama was colluding with the Muslims. Yeah, right. He was colluding it up the whole time. But that's not, it's like legally a very empty – it's not even a real defense, right? Because at that point they're saying like as a prosecutor, sure, collusion is just a term.

And, yeah, you can look at the federal code and be like that. But he's like, for example, if I'm working with a group of dudes to move a key of cocaine across the country and I'm like, okay, so it will go here. I got the truck driver set up there. You can hit him up, blah blah and i don't my hands don't touch the shit but i'm part of i'm part of the conspiracy to to fucking distribute that that those drugs or whatever conspiracy is illegal that is okay sure collusion fine here's the here's what it is it's conspiracy yeah and that you can't just go to a judge and be like uh my honor i know that my client has been charged see he wasn't colluding he was conspiring also or so therefore this whole

thing is a sham uh and a legal scam as trump said so it's and and just for the record they said so is rudy going to be representing trump they said lawyer what was that or did i mishear that i mean he's part of that legal team i don't know if he's going to be the one? He said lawyer. What was that? Or did I mishear that? I mean, he's part of that legal team. I don't know if he's going to be the one. I did not know that. Dude, motherfucker. I mean, this is... You already fucking up the case before it even started.

No, really. And so also, too, the other thing Giuliani's been doing, we were talking last week, is trying to discredit Michael Cohen as a witness in general, being like, this guy's a scumbag. He's a scoundrel. He literally said scoundrel. He's a Jew.

Yeah, basically. He almost, that probably would have been, he could have came out of his mouth. Yeah. Who knows? But he keeps trying to say, this guy, you know, he's into some slimy stuff, you know, blah, blah, blah. It's like he was the lawyer. He doesn't use power on Saturdays.

He's standing inside like, what's up with's staying inside like what's up with that yeah what's up with that have you seen him my sundown i tried to give him a pepperoni pizza he's like i'm good he's like i can't mix meat and cheese like what what is that what is that you can't trust him is he new yorker i don't even know i don't know so yeah he's trying to constantly discredit him but like and just be like well who knows you know like what if you can take what he's saying if there's any weight to that because he. Because he's not really a credible witness. But come on, Rudy. You know better.

You were prosecuting the fucking mob in New York. And you know that, yes, sometimes when you're trying to prosecute mobsters and things like that, you need another mobster who is up in it to flip and be like, okay, this is what really happened. And then you know you don't go then and be like, this guy's in the mob. He's not credible. Yeah. He's there. You need him to take for your case. And you know, at a certain point, like a prosecutor has to look at somebody with this kind of

evidence or this kind of testimony and be like, okay, well, let's see. Does he have, is, does there any reasonable motivation for this person to lie? Yeah. Like about this, especially like versus donald trump who has every motivation to lie to try and obscure what is going on uh so again they are really throwing just shit at the wall and hoping something's well i think that's why he's freaking out because he knows how this goes he's he knows exactly what the next moves are we got uh manafort and we got cohen so he knows oh they're gonna be talking they're gonna

blab it up and I got now my move is to get ahead of it and try and like discredit these dudes but like that's not how things work it's like you're playing Uno and like you're the person behind you I say that all the time yeah exactly everything's about Uno like you got a fucking wild draw four left like

as your Uno and then the person you're playing against only has skip cards to try and beat you yeah and then eventually you're going to run out of a skip card which they've tried to and now guess what it's only going to take like two more people or some people to corroborate what these guys are saying and it's going to be a very very difficult situation for team trump and this manafort case like we're going to learn a lot as that trial starts like all this evidence we're going to start seeing like like, what Mueller's whole game plan is with Manafort. Yeah.

And that's going to open a lot of eyes. Do you think the end of this road is impeachment? I mean, I realize that's, I mean, for a lot of people, the goal. Yeah. And obviously, I'd like to see that. Yeah. But I feel like. Yeah, where does this go?

Possibly. My guess is just going to the nixon step down thing i think this is gonna stretch all the way into the next election and then he's gonna be like i'm gonna step down like i i don't i think and i think that's what everyone on the right is hoping for they're just trying to to really make this last long enough so that the – I think they're going to really try and pull like a lesser of two evils. Like Trump steps down and goes, well, here's this other – Maybe he just doesn't run.

Yeah. Yeah, but his ego, man. He's already spent all that money on 2020 merch that's being made in China already. So I don't know, man. Did he do that again? I didn't know that. Oh, yeah. There's like all these photos of people like in this

like garment shop like putting 20 trump 2020 flags making them like all this nothing's made in fucking america and again his followers businesses yeah i mean and his followers his base will just be like well that's fine you know because it's uh make these hats chinese again or something i don't know uh so china already has a wall. Exactly. So we're fine with it. Yeah, exactly. And theirs is great. It's an amazing wall. There's even a movie about it with Matt Damon. That's amazing. So another thing is like Charles Koch of the Koch brothers. They're apparently hinting that they might make it rain on some Democrats and he might shift their money, the Koch brothers money, away from Republicans because he doesn't like sort of what's happening because it's so chaotic.

Now, the Trump, the Koch brothers are evil, just anti-environment, just want to just do away with unions. They just want the corporations to rule the fucking galaxy. So their evil is well documented. But it's interesting that they're starting to lose patience with Republicans, too, that have been their foot soldiers in Congress because they're like, why do you keep going along with Trump, man? He's like, we're free trade people. And you're like supporting these tariffs. Like you're fucking up my money with this tariff bullshit. And they also,

surprisingly enough, they're into legal immigration. So like they, they wish there was a clean DACA deal. And they wish that like, apparently they're from some of the reporting, they took issue with the family separations because for them, immigration means more workforce for them, more laborers for their evil empire. So they're always like, yeah, that's fine. We're growing the labor force. Well, that's what I was thinking of. They're just a different type of evil, and the Trump evil is fucking up their evil. And it is really becoming the enemy of my enemy is my friend type of situation where it's like, all right'all fucking my money up yeah and yeah and this wall i don't care about this wall i care about these

bills yeah yeah we've been rich so much longer than you've been crazy yeah right so yeah i feel like that once i heard of the huge like tariffs that were gonna be set up i was like this is where we're gonna see some real change because that's where the business people are like, now you're fucking up my money. I was easy for me to rock on this racist shit. Cause that didn't really fuck my checkup. Yeah. But when you're fucking with my aluminum and now my Coca-Cola cans are getting

more expensive because Coca-Cola, I think I had to raise the price because of aluminum prices and things like that. Like, you know, people are not happy, especially these free market, you know,

capitalists don't need this like isolationist trade policy. So he's hinted that he's gonna be like yo you guys got to get it together but the coke brothers have fired a few warning shots since trump took office to be like hey you need to get in line you got to figure this out you got to figure this out yeah so we'll see you know where that goes i doubt anywhere because again you know who knows who knows but it's possible so if you need any of you uh democrats out there want a little taste of that coke that goes, I doubt anywhere. Because again, who knows? Who knows? But it's possible. So if any of you Democrats out there want a little taste of that Koch brothers money, get your free market politics bag out. I mean, like we always say, the rich white men won't save us, but hopefully they'll put a dent in the other rich white women.

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And it seemed like they're having a little bit of a capital issue. So I know earlier this month, they were offering like peak pricing. So they were charging an extra fee to see like basically movies you'd fucking want to see at a time that is convenient. The reason you get movie pass. The weekend for a popular movie.

Yeah. So they're like, yeah, it's an extra fee. Then they really fucked up with the Gotti movie when they fucking put their whole marketing weight behind it. And we're telling people like, yeah,

this is like, they were trying to use the sort of influence of MoviePass to get people to see Gotti. And then that just was an utter disaster. Got like a zero on Rotten Tomatoes. And then the marketing people were like, oh, these are trolls trying to take the movie down, blah, blah. It's like, no, it's a fucking garbage film.

And it's John Travolta. I mean, come on now, enough said. So then last week we found out that there was a problem like with a glitch where they said technical issues with our card-based check-in process and we're diligently working to resolve the issue. In the interim, e-ticketing is working, blah, blah, blah. So what we find out is they ran out of fucking money to pay for the fucking tickets that people get with the movie pass. And they needed to borrow around $6.2 million just to stay in business over the weekend. And a lot of people were like,

yo, what the fuck is going on? Because I know in April, there was reporting that they were losing $20 million a month. Fucking losing $20 million a month. So, I mean, I don't know what the fuck an extra six is going to do. But they're saying, oddly enough, probably the big reason why they ran out of money this weekend

was because of Mission Impossible because so many people were trying to see it with MoviePass that they're like okay we need a quick cash injection

and the CEO is really acting like oh everything's good everything's fine while the house burns down around them well I felt like the moment I knew

MoviePass wasn't long for this world was when the movie theaters started like clapping back when they're like oh no, no, we'll do our own shit. It's like, well, then you're not going to because they're going to make it harder for you so that their bullshit goes. You know, wasn't the business model of MoviePass that they just got a bunch of VC funding and then they paid like wasn't the plan to lose money until they convinced the theaters to subsidize.

Essentially that they could get into this war of attrition, essentially, and be like, well, what do you got? What do you got? So now we can get a cut of concessions, right? Because we're getting more people to the movies. Yeah, and now the theater's like, no way. Yeah, they're like, you know, especially when all these reports came out of them losing money, the theater's new now.

It's like, oh, we'll just wait for you to to die out and then they'll have to get our trash yeah like you're saying yeah amc has one where i live mostly by amc in la yeah if you get amc that's you can see every movie exactly uh and so amc has their own i think theirs is like 20 but you can see three movies a week like any time uh and it's you know whatever i mean a ticket now on a friday anyway costs like 16 bucks so yeah 100 what's what's another four to do a month but i think that's kind of the interesting thing is is movie pass gonna be like the napster of this kind of thing where like it just sort of blew open the market just disrupted it enough to create this new subscription thing i don't know i mean it's it seems like a big loss for them.

It seems like just culturally we're going to subscription model for everything. Oh, yeah. I mean, that was the big announcement. Food, clothes. E3 is a lot of games. EA is going to be doing their subscription model, which is called EA Premiere. So you'll be able to get FIFA, the new Anthem game, going to be a subscription model. And I think one other publisher also went subscription-based.

I know Xbox has their Game Pass. So I think it is turning into – How much would it be a month? Like EAs. EAs, I believe it's like somewhere between $15, $20. It's really – it's like – Everything is like – I just looked into getting – Recently, I was like, you know what?

I should buy the new Photoshop. I've never bought Photoshop. Yeah, we always steal it. Yeah, I've stolen it forever. Like millennials. Actually, maybe I was trying to steal it again. Actually, that's what I was doing. Yeah, yeah, no worries.

Yeah, Photoshop doesn't listen to your show, right? Photoshop is now completely in the cloud and a subscription-based service, and it's like 15 to 20 bucks a month. Yeah. And I mean, I don't know. You add all these things up, I don't think I can do it. Yeah. I mean, after Netflix and Spotify and like two other things, I'm done, dude.

Yeah. You're tapped. You're tapped. Well, you know, we'll see what happens. I mean, I've been toying with the idea of getting that AMC one because I like live in a triangulated position between three AMCs. Oh, yeah. Maybe.

And the new CityWalk one. Woo. They're all like reclinable and shit. Yeah. But the $20 parking missed me with that shit. So moving on. Oh, this is another thing. I guess the Big Mac turns 50.

Any Big Mac fans in here? No, I love me a Big Mac. I can't eat them right now because I'm on keto. Okay. All right. So just take out the three pieces of bread. Yeah, yeah. And then you just have all that meat.

Is it meat? Yeah. It's 100% pure beef. I just thought this was interesting because it's a 50th anniversary and they're giving away like the Mac coin. And I was like, wait, are they getting into crypto? It's just an old Big Mac. No, no, it's just like

a chip to basically be like it's a buy one get one free deal essentially i could never really get with the big mac i was always a double quarter pounder oh man the big mac that's the thing is the quarter pounder bigger patty yeah it's a bigger patty but the big mac there was something about that sauce with the three layers and just grabbing it yeah i don never got me. You know what I really liked that was gone like that is the Arch Deluxe. I loved it. I was like, wow, a gourmet burger at McDonald's.

Would it just have a different bun and bacon on it, right? Yeah. I mean, it's back kind of spiritually with those deluxe burgers that you can order. The Arch Deluxe was a hit. Have you had any of the newfangled McDonald's burgers?

Every time I go to McDonald's, it's usually for breakfast now because that's one thing I cannot fucking kick is McDonald's breakfast. It's super good. I mean, the McGriddles are next level. I still don't see how that... The only thing that I think beat out the McGriddle for me is Carl's Jr. had the breakfast burger. What? Yeah.

And it was like – It's just a gun. It was like a burger patty, egg, bacon, and hash browns, ketchup all on a burger. And I used to – for high school, I eat one of those before before i went to school that probably was like the worst thing they eat yeah you didn't learn anything yeah just sleeping and farting for the first two classes that's why you know i live so much now to fight off death because i know it's knocking on my door after those for like that being a part of your daily diet uh another thing that people are really getting into right now is emoji.

Okay, so I don't know if people know this, but the Unicode Consortium is essentially the governing body that goes over these Unicode characters that we use across Android, phones, computers, et cetera. So our emoji. And they're the ones who decide if there's ever going to be new emoji or whatever. And recently, people have been demanding the white wine emoji you know because you know people be loving the

white wine right now and if we found out that apparently kendall jackson who is basically like i think one of the largest distributors or they sell the most popular white wine they put together a 15 fucking page document to lobby the unicode consortium to be like we need a white wine emoji and it's like fully broken down with like all these like very coherent arguments like they're saying like there was a recent hit called grigio girls by lady gaga and they showed that like nielsen sales data that shows that chardonnay category is like the leading uh american wine so it's like culturally relevant. And they're like, yo, give us, show us that love for the white wine emoji.

And I was like, I guess. I mean, I can see how people would want that. But I mean, give me my smoking one first. Not the cigarette one, because I'm tired of using a pine tree and a cloud. And they're like, yo, it's good. You know? Anyway. Give us, or at least a Rasta emoji.

Yeah. At least like a Rasta head. A R a rasta yeah like what you up to tonight also then i can see people using that all problematically yeah right exactly with the big old knit cap yeah got the fucking mesh marina on oh hell yeah oh anyway so yeah i might you know the unicode emoji you know the consortium they got some power. So we'll see if they take them up on their offer. But I will show you a link to that because it's an impressive document. It's just weird that people are going to take 15 pages worth to say, like, we need this emoji. It is encouraging to hear about that, that people still take stuff like that seriously.

When we just talked about Trump having a meltdown and how horrifying that is, that the world is still moving forward. They're like, we need, for marketing purposes. Wine still matters to us. Yeah, exactly. Kendall Jackson. And lastly, this was sort of late breaking right before we got in the studio, but Zoe Saldana tweeted out an open letter from the cast of Guardians of the Galaxy to throw their support behind James Gunn, because obviously they kicked him off that movie franchise because of some jokey tweets that he had.

And then people like Mike Cernovich and Jack Prasovia who are, you know, actual grotesque human beings who have no moral high ground to stand on. I mean, Mike Cernovich thinks that date rape is impossible. Yeah. I think he had a tweet that's like, have you ever tried to like rape someone without force? Yeah. It's impossible. Yeah. Or something like that. And you're like, that is not a joke. And this is the guy force? It's impossible. Yeah. Or something like that.

And you're like, that is not a joke. And this is the guy that Disney bent over for. Yeah, exactly. Dude. So it's interesting to see them fully. It just starts off to say, we fully support James Gunn. We were all shocked by his abrupt firing last week and have intentionally waited these 10 days to respond in order to think, pray, listen, and discuss. In that time, we've been encouraged by the outpouring of support from fans and members of the media who wish to see James reinstated

as director of Volume 3, as well as discouraged by those so easily duped into believing the many outlandish conspiracy theories surrounding him. Like, it's the same thing. I think Cernovich also was trying to come at Sarah Silverman last week. They're like, look at this, quote unquote, skit about child trafficking. It was like her and Patton Oswalt. It was like a bit from the Sarah Silverman show.

They tried to get Anthony Jeselnik, and he just Anthony Jeselnik the whole situation. Oh, that's fantastic. Yeah, he was like, are you kidding me? Yeah, he was like, trying to find a problematic tweet of mine is like looking for a needle in a needle store on customer appreciation day that was so it was like good luck i was like oh my gosh yeah and he even like was retweeting

like twitter was like someone reported this tweet he's like but we found it to be your jessel nick basically uh but again it's this weird the the culture wars man they're really trying to do whatever they can to get bring people down i mean who reacted, because there was a huge wave of people who were trying to be the first woke to be like, yeah, no, that's cool, that's cool. You know, you should really look at, like, what that really means. Why it came about.

Yeah, why it came about. It's like they weaponized your need for outrage and your need to exercise this power and how we cannibalize ourselves because we feel like there's nothing we can do about the right that we're so willing to just eject anyone for any reason as long as enough people are saying it and not really looking at the situation to not understand why James Gunn's situation isn't the same as rosanne is yeah you need to go right back to 101 if you can't figure out the difference versus intent and trying to

make a joke uh rosanne was not trying to make a joke she was trying to hurt and flare up her base to fling racist remarks at this black woman no matter how much she screams i thought the bitch was white yeah right yeah yeah because white people are called monkeys all the time the only person who would get away with that excuse is elon musk because his whack ass calls like people monkeys all the time right but somehow he's figured out how not to do it to black people even elon musk so yeah so shut the fuck up mr em. Emerald's in my pocket. We'll see. I think they're, yeah, again, it's all about this team shit.

You know what I mean? It's so partisan that it's like I will completely rearrange the rules if the enemy is in the scope and completely turn a blind eye to the actions of whatever my perceived side is. So I guess this is the end of jokes, guys. Because you can't joke, because then anything you joke about will be taken so seriously that I can't believe it. I did like how you said that, though, Ify, just now. The way you described the difference between what James Gunn did and what Roseanne did.

And admittedly, I don't even know what his tweets are. So that's why I've shut up, because I can't have an opinion on them. But I do know that if Cernovich is behind it, then obviously shut up because I can't have an opinion on them. But I do know that if Cernovich is behind it, then, uh, then yeah. Yeah.

Obviously it's bad. Yeah. And also if you ever watch, uh, Vic burgers on his Twitter thread, when he shows all the weird Jack Soviet videos of like how he got caught on like Bumble or one of those dating things while his wife was pregnant. And then like he would live stream and be like,

you see my wife's here and she supports me. Right. And she's like, yeah, whatever. Like they eventually, I think they got divorced or something. It's that whole world is an awful, awful mess. But not like here. We are all living in harmony, aren't we? Well, Dave, thank you so much for coming through, my man.

Oh, thanks for having me, man. Wonderful. Iffy, thank you for holding it down with me today. I always appreciate it. Dave, where can people find you, been wonderful. Ify, thank you for holding it down with me today. I always appreciate it. Dave, where can people find you, follow you, support you? And is there a tweet that you really liked from the past week or a few days that you want to tell people? You know what, man? I'm so sorry to say this, but no.

Great. I took Twitter off my phone a few weeks ago, and it changed my life. It's been wonderful. Now, tell me about that, actually. Let's draw this out. Walk me through this. So, I don't know man. I just find myself looking at Twitter and I follow

you know all of my friends and a lot of people in news and politics and I just like I want to know what's going on in the world but I also noticed myself when I opened Twitter falling down a wormhole of not only reading what's happening in the news and then people reacting to it and then people

reacting to the reactions and then after an hour it and then people reacting to the reactions. And then after an hour, I feel like shit because I'm just reading all of the negativity instead of just getting the facts. Right, right, right. So I just thought it was best for me to take it off. And I will say that felt good. But then, you know, not being able to look at my notifications or occasionally post something when I'm not at my house was annoying. So I just the other day put it back on my phone, but I buried it in like a group, you know, not like three pages back on the front of my iPhone.

Yeah, so I'm not like immediately going to it. That's good. Yeah, just create a little space for yourself. Yeah, I just think not looking at it every day or obsessively looking at it throughout the day is much healthier. Yeah, no, 100%. Yeah. All right, well, at least tell people where they can see you. Look, I'm at DaveToTheRoss on Twitter.

And at DaveToTheRoss on everything. My website's DaveToTheRoss.com, and my podcast is Suicide Buddies. Dope. Amen. All right, Ify, what about you? Yeah, you know, Ify Whiteyway on Twitter and Instagram. Ifty's on Twitch. A lot of those

Zeit Gang been coming through on Twitch, dropping those Twitch Prime subs. There you go. Thank you. Also, remember, you got to do that

every month. It doesn't automatically renew, so come through at least once a month. Yeah. Even if you don't like watching people play video games.

On top of that, if you are in the PDX Portland area, next weekend, August 11th, I'll be out there for Stumptown to hold it down, doing some improv with the white women guys, Carl Tart from formerly Culture Kings, and Lamar, he's been on the brand a bit. And make sure you check out my podcast, Nerdificentrops, every Tuesday. Got a new one coming tomorrow. So it'll be a good time. Me and Danny Fernandez got spicy, nerdy takes.

So if you got real charged up hearing me talk about mobile phones being the new video game platforms or Magic the Gathering, then, ooh, boy, do I have some stuff for you. Is there a tweet that you liked recently? I think my favorite tweet has just been, and I'm glad he hasn't deleted it. Are you just going to say one of James Gunn's tweets? Yeah. Or a Cernovich tweet? No, Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani. Giuliani.

That's what he's like. He's a ghoul. Not nice. I like that. He just tweeted you. Really? Just the word you. So everyone's been doing their own

retweeting and spins. He doesn't know. Get his phone out of his hands. Mine I put Biz Markie voice, oh baby. And then one real popular one was ever since I left the city. Ever since I left the city.

So go have fun with that. Go retweet that scumbag. Have fun. Make fun with it. go have fun with that. Go retweet that scumbag. There you go. Have fun. Make fun with it. Make some fun with it. You can find me at Miles of Grey on Twitter and Instagram. Just usually I love Reductress headlines, and this one is a great one.

It's a woman drinking a huge Starbucks, and the tweet just says, bitch drinking huge iced coffee like she owns the place. It's just a very... There's a way to drink something that does transmit a bit of arrogance, I think, to the people around you. You can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, at The Daily

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