The Daily Zeitgeist - R.I.P.ete and Ariana, Psych! Rogue Killer 10.16.18

Episode Date: October 16, 2018

In episode 253, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Ryan Singer to discuss the break up of Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande, Meghan Markle's pregnancy, Trump's 60 Minutes interview, Elizabeth Warren's ancestry, Saudi Arabia possibly copping to killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the most and least efficient fast food restaurants, Tom Delonge's failing UFO project, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. And they said it wouldn’t last: Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande have broken up 2. Meghan Markle, Prince Harry announce pregnancy3. Zurawik: Here's what really matters about Trump's '60 Minutes' interview4. Lesley Stahl backing Trump into a corner on Kim Jong-un here is how every journalist should have been pressing him in every situation and needs to press him from now on.5. When Lesley Stahl asks about why Trump never has a bad word to say about Putin, he goes off on everything he thinks he has done to stand up to him and immediately tries to distract with China.6. President Trump to Lesley Stahl: "Lesley, it's okay. In the meantime, I'm president--and you're not."7. Elizabeth Warren Fights Trump’s ‘Pocahontas’ Taunt With DNA Test Proving Native American Roots8. President says at debate he'll offer Warren $1 million to charity if she'll take DNA test, followed by him denying it just moments ago. 9. Trump Says He’ll Only Donate To Charity If He Can Test Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Himself10. Jamal Khashoggi case: All the latest updates11. The Trail of Clues in the Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi12. Saudis Weigh Saying Journalist Was Killed by Mistake13. The 2018 QSR Drive-Thru Study14. All the dumb things? UFO project has $37 million deficit15. WATCH: Mick Jenkins - Understood Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah! For Tuesday, October 16th, 2018. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Do you have the time to listen to me whine about nothing and everything all Jack wants. That is courtesy of Hannah Salters. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. When I step up in the booth, you know I step correct.

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Miles got you all in check. Well, thank you to MFC Erickson, Year of the Ant, Busta Rusta Rhymes fucking heat track. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the very funny stand-up comedian, Ryan Singer, a.k.a. Bad Moon Rhy-Sing. Yeah. I really like that. All right. Welcome, man.

Yeah, thanks for having me back. Third time back. Yeah, it's a pleasure to be here. Yeah, we're thrilled to have you. Third time's been a good time. Yeah, third time. Third time. It is a pleasure to be here. We're thrilled to have you. Third time. Yeah. Third time. It is a charm. All right.

We're going to talk to you in a moment, get to know you a little bit better. But first, we're going to tell our listeners what we will be talking about later on in the hour. We're going to be talking about the worst news I think I've heard in years. Pete and Ariana are donezo. Really? Yeah. Pete and Ariana Grande. Pete Davidson, right? Yeah. Really? Yeah. Pete and Ariana Grande.

Pete Davidson, right? Yeah, that's his last name. Oh, not, okay. But the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away because we've got a royal baby, you guys. Oh. Woo. Meghan Markle has announced that she's pregnant and we're going to talk about Trump's 60 Minutes appearance. How that went really depends on who you ask.

Yeah, really. It literally depends on who you ask. We're going to talk about Elizabeth Warren taking that DNA test that shows her Native American ancestry. And shockingly, Trump was not satisfied. We have a segment on our pitch dot called Khashoggi Watch. Uh-oh. Which makes it sound a lot more fun than it actually is.

It makes it sound like a royal baby segment. But we're going to talk about that. It's more like a global crisis watch. Yeah. Then I'm going to talk about a couple trends we're seeing in right-wing scaremongering. We're going to talk about Tom DeLonge's Stars Academy and the fastest and slowest drive-thrus in America and also how accurate they are. But first, Ryan, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Well, this is one that just happened.

I had to Google how to properly hold dowsing rods. Okay. What is a dowsing rod? Dowsing rods are these copper L-shaped rods that kind of like, they swivel. Okay. And they used to be used to find like water underground, things like that, or like metal underground. Sometimes people, I guess, would use them.

But also people in paranormal investigations Oh, this thing. would use them to communicate with the other side. I was doing a live stream Paranormal Investigation last week to celebrate the release of my new comedy album that just came out. And I do do

Paranormal Investigations for fun. Because the truth is out there. The truth is out there. And they are found through 99% copper rods. That is how the truth is out there. The truth is out there. And they are found through 99% copper rods. That is how the truth is. So I wanted to incorporate the rods into like, you know, my toolkit of techniques. Right.

And so I had to Google like the best way to hold them upside down or right side up or, you know, the best way to try to legitimately hold these, at least the way they used to when they're trying to find water and how they're supposed to be used. So yeah, I had to watch some YouTube videos on that. Clearly upside down. Right side up, you'd get electrically shocked, right? I mean, from the ghost energy in here. What is the logic of the thing? Because there's also like that Y-shaped stick, right? Well, that's like a natural dowsing rod, essentially. But the idea is you hold the

rods in front of you, like parallel to the ground, and they don't move. And then you say, okay, show me the answer to yes. And the rods will spread further apart or they'll, like, you know, rotate in depending. And so it's like either they spread apart or they cross. And that'll be yes or no depending on what the answer is when you're communicating with something. Or maybe just communicating with the deepness inside of oneself. Yeah. You should have strapped a couple crystals on there.

Oh, yeah. Really turbo. Yeah, I had some selenite with me to keep me protected and some labradorite to bridge the spirit and the physical realm. I believe it's pronounced labrador-y, but just to paint a complete picture, Ryan is wearing a T-shirt that is an image of Bigfoot riding the Loch Ness Monster, and it says Believe. So it's a dope shirt, and I think it's a good representation of your outlook on these sorts of things.

What is something you think is overrated? Well, I have two things written down, and I think maybe they're the same thing. I have capitalism and then pranks. So I think capitalism might just be a prank. I do believe that capitalism is overrated. I think it's become its own extremist idea, especially in our country, to where if you even talk about capitalism in a negative way, people want to physically attack you. And I think capitalism, I mean, whatever, I think capitalism is at the heart or at the root of a lot of the problems that we have here. 100%. Yes. And pranks, I just never liked doing pranks. I've never liked being pranked.

I think they're funny to some people, but I was being pranked just this past weekend, and I almost had a mental breakdown because of it. Is that when I told you Loch Ness Monster didn't exist? Yeah. I feel bad about that. Don't tell me that. I've already picked the Loch Ness Monster as the godfather of my first child. But my dad and my girlfriend

were at a restaurant and my dad pointed to this carrots thing on the menu. He's like, would you guys eat these carrots? And they passed the menu over to me and I'm looking and I don't see carrots anywhere. I see like a bunch of seafood things. And I'm like, what are you talking about? The carrots aren't on this thing. And my girlfriend goes, oh, yeah, they're right there.

And she points to it, and I'm reading it. And I'm like, there's no carrots on this menu. And my dad doesn't realize a prank is happening. My girlfriend just had met my father. And so she just thought maybe he was being funny. So she went along with it. So after about three minutes, I'm in this restaurant like, wait, are you guys messing with me?

Like, you're messing with me. And they're like, no. And my dad's just kind of smiling like, no, the carrots are on there. Just three minutes of just throwing chairs. I almost had to stand up and walk away because I felt like I almost was becoming disassociated. And then finally, my dad looks at the menu and he goes, oh oh no, I didn't have my glasses on. It says octopus. And I was like, oh my God, your faulty eyes almost made me had a mental breakdown. And that inspired your girlfriend to just improv with it and yes and that whole thing. Yeah. And it almost ruined our relationship.

We've gotten this overrated before, something similar like surprise parties. I think somebody was talking about just the experience of thinking that your friends forgot about your birthday or like don't give a shit about you yeah and just yeah pranks and surprise surprise parties are rough i had one when i was 12 and i've never recovered yeah because you never trust another person in your life again well it's systematic deception at a time when we are being systematically deceived every day by the powers that be in our country. So I think it might just be too much. It's like a fun way to gang stalk.

Right, right, right. I love pranking though. Yeah. But it gives me a lot of anxiety to even think about pranking someone. Really? This is about how long I can prank somebody. We'll just make one up.

Oh, did you know that hat you're wearing has mustard on it? Really? This is about how long I can prank somebody. We'll just make one up. Oh, did you know that hat you're wearing has mustard on it? Really? I'm just kidding. Oh. That's about how long I can... You fucking got him though, right? Yeah, you got him, man.

He reached towards his brim, man. That's about how long I can hold it. And he feel bad. What is something you think is underrated? Eating a cake with your own face on it. Wow. This is a very specific thing. Aren't we doing well?

I had a surprise cake given to me by my girlfriend. Yeah, this was okay. Like the waiter brings this cake and I'm like, what's going on? And it's a cake

with my album cover like laser printed onto the cake. Oh, nice. And I couldn't figure out how my girlfriend got it there before. She just dropped it off at the restaurant beforehand.

I like how immediately you go, how the fuck did this get here? I was like, what's happening? beforehand. I like how immediately you go, how the fuck did this get here? I was like, what's happening? Do you like it? No. How the fuck did this get here? I was with you earlier. Yeah, and I was.

You're cheating? I brought you to this restaurant. How did this happen? So last night I ate my own face, and it was strangely very gratifying to eat your own face. How many pieces did you have? I had two pieces. And okay, I'm going to have to, you know, because I like food, so I like to ask people, I like to be there, about how big was your face in terms of like what slice, how much

of your face was on the slices you ate? Like let's say the cake was a 10 by 8. Okay. Not a huge cake. Okay. The face was probably one and a half square inches at least. Oh, so you ate your whole face? I ate my whole face.

Wow. And I don't know if anyone has ever had a pastry designed with their likeness or a piece of pizza maybe created to resemble them. Well, my skin. Yeah. He looked at me for the pizza one. I was like, yo. I didn't even think about that. I didn't even think about that.

What about your pockmarks? In your case, a piece of pizza. I'm sorry. You fucked up looking motherfucker. I'm sorry. I didn't realize it. But have your case a piece of pizza you fucked up looking motherfucker i'm sorry i didn't realize it but have you ever had a pomegranate that looked like you just worse but it was weird to like it's almost like you feel like you consume your own spirit yeah in a way and it was it was it was like i felt pretty good i mean it was probably all the sugar but sure um but i felt real good i was like i am me i'm inside and out now were you

like and let me get the face though when they're cutting the cake you'd be like hey that's mine i'm gonna eat the face well my girlfriend doesn't think i have a shortage of narcissism so she's like i know you want to eat your own face so i want you to eat your own face what is a myth finally what is something people think is true that you know to be false um no pain no gain i think this kind of ties into like the capitalism thing too like if it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger that is like we bought into this thing and it's like so bogus and it's i think it's it's destructive um and that's not to say that like when you're working out like lifting weights weights or whatever, like just do it. There is no finish line.

No pain, no gain. It's like, well, when does it stop, motherfucker? We just have to be in pain until the end of our lives. There doesn't have to be pain to make gains. And actually, I think it's better the opposite way, like in a mystical or like a philosophical kind of way that we make much more gains when we aren't causing pain to ourself.

Oh, I thought you were going to say all pain, all gain. All pains, all gains. Yeah, well, it's like the whole idea of positive psychology and the idea that people are like, when I'm successful, I'll be happy. And then other people, they're like, well, no. Most successful people are happy first, and then they experience success because they're operating from a place where they're not toiling or at least going against you know their nature or whatever or you know having to go through the pain or whatever and yeah i think that's like sort of

the fallacy you're raised with it's like dude it's gonna be tough you know and you're just gonna have to fucking slog through shit and you'll get there but i don't like pain so i've found ways to be like how do i prioritize my own happiness first and then operate from there? But yeah, I think that is a good want to just be a no pain, no gain. I can only gain through pain. Like as a logical statement, it means that you just can only have good things happen through pain, which is crazy. Yeah.

That's like, especially being raised Catholic, it harkens back to that all physical suffering brings me closer to God, you know, so I will whip my own back, you know, like, yeah, so it's, I think you're right, though, because then you don't also want to be just like a full on like Satanist. Yeah, right. Where it's just like, I don't care who gets hurt or what happens, I'm doing anything I want that makes me happy. Yeah.

As a Catholic, when you were eating your own face, were there like Eucharistic connotations where you were like the body of Ryan? I did do the sign of the cross. Yes. Yeah, this is the body of Ryan. Did we ever talk about that story how there was like that huge controversy in the Catholic Church because people wanted gluten-free Eucharist? And like the church was like very much to like gluten is part of the body of Christ. And like there was like they were having to sort of reconcile. They're like, wait, some people can't accept the body

for digestive purposes. And they moved on to a rice-based one. For some people, if you can't handle it. Yeah, because I guess they're challenging your faith now. Well, you don't believe that this gluten-based wafer actually transforms into this mystical thing that you need. Therefore, your faith is lacking. Or we might have an exclusive deal with this.

Well, maybe this was just like a metaphor that we've taken too far. And we're supposed to believe that this piece of bread actually transforms into human skin or human body, like whatever. I went to Catholic high school and they would do the community wafer. And sometimes, even if you weren't Catholic,

you had to go up, but you had to put your arms on your chest and be like, no, I'm good. Yeah. Everybody's getting a snack and I'll be like, sorry, bro. I do the Wakanda X's over my chest. Yeah. Not today.

Yeah. That's my wife does that. It was such a great like protest to, to like, I remember when I was younger, sometimes if I was pissed off at God, I wouldn't go. Oh. I would stand in the aisle, Not at school because everybody had to. I'd have to go to church on Friday mornings at school and then I'd have to go on Sunday with my family and I wouldn't go.

Everybody in the church, you can just feel everybody like, why is that young man not accepting Jesus today? It was like, yeah, because you know, fuck the man. Why don't you ask my dad? He thinks I don't deserve a nintendo yeah all right guys let's get into the stories of the day and we're just going to talk about the two biggest things

to happen uh maybe in years uh first of all pete and ariana dunzo miles you said that from the start you had a bad feeling about this yeah it was and i you know i'm sure you can rewind the tape to whenever we first reported about this. I think it was in May, right? When they first emerged as a couple. Right. And then got engaged very quickly. And I was like, oh, these are like two people I know

who have gotten out of like rehab programs. And they do that 13th step. They find somebody off top they're in love with. And it just was like the textbook case of an impulsive relationship. And I was like, well, they're happy for now. And I'm sure eventually they'll either get married and then divorced or it will flame out pretty quickly. It looks like it didn't last. I think the second that Pete Davidson got a tattoo of something to

do with her on his body was when the really the countdown sequence begins, because my goodness, I only know maybe like one couple of like 15 couples I've known who've gotten tattoos that have made it through the premarital tattoo phase. Right. We're talking about Pete Davidson from SNL and Ariana Grande. Ariana grained. Grained from just being the new Justin Bieber. Is that the jump the shark moment of a relationship then the tattoos you think? Every time I've heard like friends of mine be like yo Los got a tattoo and his girlfriend got one like they're matching i go right and then like they got married and i was like oh maybe not then divorced one month later right or like i don't know i just i'm not to say that you know i don't believe in absolutes but that's just sort of

indicative of a very impulsive thing that has you know these uh these repercussions and it's not to say that it's not fun i mean i'm 42 and i've had lots of very intense impulsive thing that has, you know, these repercussions. And it's not to say that it's not fun. I mean, I'm 42, and I've had lots of very intense, impulsive relationships. Yeah. And they're like, they're awesome. I mean, for like a minute. Oh, and they look like they were having a great time.

Yeah, and it's like, we're going, like this is, especially when I was living in the Midwest, I was like, you know, let's drive somewhere and we'll get married right now. I'm like, Dolly World. You love butterflies? So they'd be like intense, then then like they'd end very intensely as well and then like you get older and you're like what am i just gonna have these three and a half week intense relationships for the rest of my life can you imagine being a 75 year old guy just being like let's get married

and then hopefully you you get older and you become more stable and like your emotions and five-year-old guy just being like, let's get married. To Hollywood. He said this last time. And hopefully you get older and you become more stable in like your emotions and the way you can operate. Right. Especially when you're coming, you know, like you said,

like when you're changing into a new person. Yeah. Well, clearly they were going, I mean, I think Ariana Grande had a lot of trauma from the bombing that happened at her concert like in the year before that them getting together.

And then they say Mac Miller's death really kind of put her in a dark place. And I don't know if it's entirely just her reacting to Mac Miller's death that caused this because this is all gossip or whatever. And I'm sure Pete also had a hand in, I mean, when he was making jokes about their relationship. Like, it's great.

She pays 60 grand for rent. It's just like okay you seem like you really are liking this more than she might but who knows i don't know how you ever get over a bombing at a your own performance right like an actual bombing yeah right as a comedian you know they use that phrase all the time right and you but like you have to have like real ptsd about just taking the stage like that would be like for the rest of your life i don't know how you would ever, I couldn't imagine something like that happening

at a show I was doing and then going back on stage again and just not always thinking about that. Thinking of like what could happen, what could happen. Yeah. And I think, you know, I hope that they sort out

whatever they need to feel better. But, you know, they're youngins, they're children, so they'll get over it. Maybe they'll find each other down the road. Who knows?

This could be the great first act of a rom-com. It's hard enough, though, to have a successful relationship that's not scrutinized by the world constantly. I can't imagine everybody talking about my relationship all the time. That's why I always felt— It's on the cover of a magazine like this. That's why Lindsay Lohan, I pull for her. I root for her to like you know be stable

and have a good life because like I couldn't imagine every time I wanted to go buy like mini travel shampoo at CVS that there's people

jumping out of the bushes taking photos of me or like all that shit it's gotta drive you crazy because you no longer live in the real world oh no

and with a relationship there's probably an element where it's partially especially with you know folks like Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande, where they're very young and part of their relationship is them flirting on social media and people writing about that. So there's got to be an element of it where it starts to feel performative and that's got to fuck with you a little bit. And then the season opener of SNL, he was on SNL talking about dating her. And, you know, it was just an acknowledged thing

that he had become this huge star once he started dating Ariana Grande. That's really weird too. Yeah, it's just got to be a total mind fuck all around. But guys, don't get too down. We do have a royal baby coming. A bunch of the saddest journalists in the world are extremely happy today over in the UK. I've never heard it put so perfectly. Royal Watchers is a full on industry over there. My friend has a good bit

where he like updates our high school WhatsApp thread every time there's royal news. Like today he texted us, Megan's pregnant! Five exclamation points. And everyone was like, who's Megan? Is she like one of our friends? I thought she was married already. Right. Yeah.

And then he started giving us all the details about, you know, what, picturing her and her wedding gown and stuff like that. And they were like, man, how long is this going to last? Are you going to keep doing this? He's been doing this for like 10 years now. Just royal watching. It's a good bit. But yeah.

The tabloids were saying for a while, you know, shout out to the, I forget who you were on Twitter who was like, oh, the bloids came through. Because they were saying she was pregnant. I mean, they were saying she was pregnant like since before the wedding. So maybe that's not that fair that maybe they had, they were just speculating. Right. like since before the wedding so maybe that's not that fair that maybe they had they were just speculating right coming from a family where all of my sisters got pregnant like at very young ages and things like that it doesn't seem like that's a thing anymore that even really matters I guess if you're like one of the quote-unquote Royals right it's like there's a certain way of living that you

must describe to us when you're a royal member of the family but like it's come on I mean everybody's nobody wants to wear the family. Come on. I mean, everybody's... Nobody wants to wear a condom. You know what I mean? Am I right, ladies? This guy gets it. Maybe because I used to date a lot of witchy women who were allergic to latex,

but no one wants to wear condoms. Women typically don't like them. Men don't like them, but you do yeah well yeah but if you're a royal yeah which is so crazy to even i can't believe that there's still people who call themselves royal sure in today's world but um i guess you know you have to consider like making making a child is a much different situation than like growing up in dayton ohio and like i guess i'm having a baby right uh you know especially when it's like the making a child is a much different situation than growing up in Dayton, Ohio.

And like, I guess I'm having a baby. Especially when it's like the news is following you. And you also wonder, does it really matter still if it's a boy or a girl? Yeah, I think so. I think everybody's going to freak out. There will be a national holiday. How far removed is Harry from the throne?

He's like nine spots away or something. Yeah, yeah. A lot of people have to. There has to be a plane crash for him. Oh, okay. So it's like not the biggest deal if it comes out without. No, I think at that point it doesn't matter so much because, you know, it's a ceremony. I guess if you had to be a royal, that's the way to do it.

You're removed enough from the throne to where you can just be a total POS. You know what I mean? You can be the guy who is a Hallmark Christmas movie. He's like the crazy prince who never settles down. The mission to find him alive. But the scrutiny, though, too. They were getting on Meghan Markle because she closed her own car door recently. Yeah.

What was she thinking with that? I don't know. Sorry, it's muscle memory because I'm a fucking human. I forgot that like certain things I no longer do like open a door. Now we have to fire the guy whose only job is to open and close doors. You fucked up, Peter. I'm sorry, but she closed the door. I don't give a fuck.

Get the fuck out of here. I mean, she might as well have spit in my face closing that door like that. That reminds me of the movie King Ralph. God, what a good movie. John Goodman? Yeah. Or any of those movies where people have to learn the royal etiquette. Great montage sequences.

What's that great book? Or like Mrs. Manners? Or what was it? Do we remember? The Novelization of King Ralph? No. That's one of my favorite books. The book that teaches people which fork to use and all that other shit.

Judith Martin, Miss Manners? Miss Manners. It's like a book about like etiquette and stuff, I think. Yeah. Well, this specific woman, Judith Martin, she is the American journalist, author, and etiquette authority. Yeah. Went to Wellesley. We're just these fancy beasts.

Yeah. We love being, I mean, we're trying to like forget that we all have to poop, I think. Oh, I don't. You know, it's like, oh, I wear a top hat and like a bow tie and we wear these fancy shoes. And I never poop into it. Never defecate into your top hat. Like, I don't know. To me, it's just so funny like to be like, to even think that like, well, there's a dress code at this place.

It's like, really? Like, we're just these animals. Like, we're just trying to be like to even think that like well there's a dress code at this place it's like really like we're just these animals like we're just trying to be pretending to be these fancy beasts oh and i have like i philosophically like when i go to a nicer restaurant i try and dress worse yeah just as a matter of principle not to like disrespect the restaurant but i just don't like the idea of a place being like you have to dress up this way to eat here i'm like no i don't this LA, where actually the worse you look, the chances are you're probably wealthy. Right. I had to dress up to go to the Magic Castle.

Yeah, well, that makes sense. They got rules there. But that's one of those places where it's like, everybody here is so drunk. Yeah, no, right. Does it make it better that you're wearing a tie? There's a guy throwing up in the trash can. Wait, when were you there? I was there on a Sunday night.

Wait, recently? And everybody there. I might have been there. Yeah, I was there on a Sunday night, probably about... No, because you've described what happens with my friends when we go to the Magic Castle. Oh, no. One of my friends, though, his dad kind of knows the people that work there, so he never gets kicked out, even for being way way too drunk to the point where like

the people will drive him home from the Magic Castle. They're like, hey, it's been a long night. Let's get you home. Your dad would want this. Let's get Ted's, you know,

having a moment. But yeah. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, well, that's interesting. But like, yeah, it's like, as long as you're wearing a tie

and a jacket and like you can't take your jacket off anywhere unless you're sitting down to eat and it's just like, why are we doing this? Well, they're just the, you you know the vestiges of a bygone era like when they had cotillion i remember i did that my mom was like why don't you try that where like the kids go and learn how to like basically act like ancient people no this is fucking whack like nobody is

learning how to do the fox trot yeah they're like i'm trying to do the shmoney dance they're not teaching you that here uh and then like just you know very basic stuff about which forks to use and i i remember like a couple of my other friends parents forced them to go to and we were always like this is so i forgot all about the even the word cotillion until you just mentioned it but yeah i did that once or twice as a kid and it was just i just always remember thinking it was so creepy yeah like i felt like i was being indoctrinated on a whole nother level. 100%. Like it's like bad enough that I'm going to Catholic school.

And you know, it's bad enough that I have to go to church. Yeah. Now it's ancient patriarchy. And now my fun is supposed to be like this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like all, you know, ritual type stuff feels creepy at first, like when you first

see it. It feels creepy at first, like when you first see it. But yeah, ritualizing the social habits of teenage kids is very weird. Especially with shit that is not applicable or resonates with us in any way. And it was so entrenched in old-timey, like, and the male will do this. The woman will do this. And I was like, I got to go. Like, I need to know that I'm not supposed to eat my chicken with a soup ladle yeah all right we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back

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came out of his Fox News hibernation for the past couple years where he did not talk to the mainstream media and only appeared on basically Trump-run media. Yeah, Home Field Advantage. Yeah. He was enjoying a two-year Home Field Advantage, came out on 60 Minutes, and people were kind of mixed on how it went. TV critics that I read basically everywhere said that TV critics that I read basically everywhere said that, like, advantage Trump. He used his mastery over media to just – and then the things he did was just lie and, you know, bully her by speaking over her and not letting her get a word in edgewise.

Yeah. Well, but, you know, Leslie Stahl, I'll give her credit because she definitely would press him on answers because then, like, for example, like they were talking about climate change. And she was like, well, what about the scientists? Well, you know, they say that maybe it's not changing. It's like, who is this they you're talking about? And he's like, people, you know, or whatever. And she's like, well, what about the scientists? Like, you know, she was definitely she stood her ground. But I guess because he didn't like shit himself during the interview. It was a flawless victory, according to some people.

I don't know. Though one of the most interesting things I saw was like at the beginning of the interview, I think at some point towards the beginning of the interview, they're walking through the White House and there's this photo hanging up. That's Trump playing cards with like all the past. Yeah. A painting, an oil painting, a gift from Daryl Issa of Trump playing cards with all these past Republican presidents. Fucking Abe Lincoln is even in it, like looking confused.

He's like, I'm sorry, what is this? What is that you're drinking? And it looks like George W. Bush might have like a Han Solo type, like he might have his hand on his blaster underneath the table. Just interesting to know that that's the kind of art that we're putting in there, like old timey, like the dogs playing poker photo. Yeah, it's the equivalent of the dogs playing poker picture. But yeah, they talked about all kinds of stuff. You know, once the pleasantries ended, there was a moment where, you know, she was interested

about talking about Kim Jong-un because he's always talking about how North Korea is like over and it's not a threat anymore. But there's constant reports coming out that's like they're actually not disarming in any meaningful way. And then she was like, also, why do you keep saying you love this dude? He's a fucking monster. And this is this is one of the exchanges about Kim Jong Un. He presides over a cruel kingdom of repression, gulags, starvation, reports that he had his half-brother assassinated, slave labor, public executions.

This is a guy you love. I know all these things. I mean, I'm not a baby. I know all these things. I know, but why do you love that guy? Look, look. I get along with him, okay? You said love him.

Okay, that's just a figure of speech. No, it's like an embrace. Well, let it be an embrace. Let it be whatever it is to get the job done. He's a bad guy. Look, let it be whatever it is. I get along with him really well. I have a good energy with him.

I have a good chemistry with him. Look at the horrible threats that were made. No more threats. No more threats. I don't know. It's so scary. No more threats. No more threats. I don't know. It's so scary. No more threats. It's like the guy, like to me, it just points to like, there's a murder house in your neighborhood, right?

And they used to just put a bunch of signs up. We're murdering people in here. And we love it. And now he's like, hey, but there's no more signs in the yard. Yeah, right. They're still in the neighborhood. They painted the house. They got rid's no more signs in the yard. Yeah, right. Right. They're still in the neighborhood. They painted the house. They painted the house.

They got rid of the car in the front yard. Yeah, there's still blood-curdling screams coming from there. But you know what? They're not advertising it. Yeah. It's such a weird cop-out to explain why his diplomacy has failed to just get us any results. And then when he's just talking, I love him. He was literally doing it.

He was like, I think we have good energy. We have energy. What's the problem? So that exchange, I think, illustrates one of the things people were saying, that it seemed like she was trying to get him on a technicality. Like, well, why did you say you love him? And he's like, that's just a figure of speech, which I think, I don't know. I can see how that would be appealing to people who already like him, basically.

There's plenty of stuff to get him on. Well, I think because I think for what they're seeing, if the optics aren't, oh, my God, he just got godded. Right. Then it's a flaw. The interview is a flawless victory. Right. That's for sure. If he's not doing like, well i well i don't you

know because he didn't backtrack on anything or like that get up and walk out right right which he's you know been known to do and that would have probably got him applause too he's like oh such an unfair interview as a person who loves energy and crystals and all that kind of and vibes i'm a vibes guy oh me too me too oh it really just really resonated with me when he's like i've got a good energy with him and i'm just like you know we we have and i'm just like oh i never can say that again we got good vibes man we got good vibes oh i'm like oh no don't take vibes don't take vibes no vibes um uh yeah then uh then inevitably the conversation had to swing around towards putin and again trump you know he can't say a bad word about vladimir because whatever he's got

hanging over his head uh and it was interesting it was one of those moments that was kind of funny because normally he used to just cause headlines by when someone like journalists pressed him about well what do you think about their meddling or these assassinations? He'd be like, they never happened. They deny it. It's fine. Right. And this time he was sort of like, like trying to half acknowledge what all the intelligence people have been screaming in his face for two years.

So this was another interesting soundbite regarding Vladimir. Vladimir Putin. I think I'm very tough with him personally. I had a meeting with him. The two of us. Yeah. It was a very tough meeting and it was a very good meeting. Do you agree that Vladimir Putin is involved

in assassinations, in poisonings? Probably he is, yeah, probably. I mean, I don't- Probably? Probably, but I rely on them. It's not in our country. Okay, why not? They shouldn't do it. This is a terrible thing. Of course they shouldn't do it. Do you believe that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election? Well, they meddled, but I think China meddled too. But why do you say China meddled too? And you want to know something else?

Why don't you just say the Russians meddled? Because I think China meddled also. And I think, frankly, China is a bigger problem. You're diverting the whole Russian thing. I'm not doing anything. I'm saying Russia, but I'm also saying China. Oh, Leslie, credit to you for just trying to be like, this is wild, sir. You're really just doing this whataboutism shit.

They meddled. They didn't interfere. They meddled. I'm sorry. Can you please get out your dictionary? What is meddling? They meddled. They didn't interfere. They meddled. I'm sorry. Can you please get out your dictionary? What is meddling? I do think that that's, again, like smart from a like just slick appearances perspective, because meddling for whatever reason, it reminds me of the Democrats demanding an FBI investigation that they were like, OK, fine. And like three days done on the

Kavanaugh hearings. Meddling, it's like that's the word the Democrats have been using from the start, and it's like such a soft word. It's like, eh, they were just messing around in there. Because I think on the left, people were not willing to full-throatedly be like, no, this shit fucking happened, and this is how bad it was. So meddling felt like a safe word to use that no one could be like, what do you mean meddled? Nobody meddled.

If anything, they were tinkering around. They tinkered. I think that's what it looked under the hood. Yeah. You know, touched a wire. Yeah. And that's it'll straight up be they fucking tried to destroy the democracy. This to me is like one of the trickiest things because at what point

as American citizens do we acknowledge our meddling in other countries? All of these other countries and their elections and getting leaders appointed and things like that

and then taking down leaders that we don't find appropriate. And then all of a sudden we have one election where somebody from the outside probably actually was successful in their meddling right and now it's the craziest thing that's ever happened yeah yeah it's uh yeah we always think it's really tricky how yeah at what point do you begin to have a reckoning with

the foreign policy of this country for the last what hundred years essentially right being like yeah yeah whatever you need we'll need. We can obscure things. You got socialists popping up? All right, here's some guns. For newish listeners, the U.S. and the CIA in particular have been meddling with foreign elections and, in fact, basically swinging them for whatever candidate they wanted to win for a long time. Yeah.

Or when you think about all the instability in Central America and people like, well, what was going on with MS-13? It's like, do you know what we did in El Salvador? Like read about Google U.S. involvement in fucking any country and something is going to pop up. Right. Or there's going to be some dark chapter where we helped with either arming people or trying to just get them in deep debt so they did whatever we needed to.

That's just the history of this empire and how it would stretch its claws around the globe. One point that the TV critic for, I think, the Baltimore Sun was making is that regardless of how you viewed the interview, ratings are the main thing that matters to Trump. That's all he cares about. He would constantly brag about the apprentices ratings when that show was on the air. And his ratings have apparently been falling on Fox News shows

to the point where they can no longer carry his interviews in full on Fox News. And so the loss of primetime coverage is like really bothering trump and in fact he had to like at a recent rally he called out the fox news hosts who have primetime shows by name and was like kissing up to them because he's like so sad that they're not covering him as much anymore so he's his base is getting bored because he only says like five things on a rotation. So he decided to, well, I'm going to go to the left. And the mainstream media was there waiting. And I think that the mainstream media needs to do better and just come a little bit stronger.

And it seemed like Leslie Stahl was prepared for a traditional politician interview. And, you know, she was interviewing a carnival barker, a reality show. I feel like there could have been an actual hog. Like,

I don't want people, listeners to like mistake, like what I'm saying. I'm not comparing in any way, to mistake what I'm saying. I'm not comparing in any way the interview. I'm saying Trump would give the same interview to an animal sitting in a chair across from him. Or an animal. He's just going to say – exactly. Or an animal.

Anything. Like a glass. Like, oh, yeah. If sound came out of the glass, he'd be like, okay. It doesn't matter what's being asked. He's going to say what he wants to say, and it doesn't matter. And you need someone to really kind of come in guns a-blazin' on him. But unfortunately, that makes him walk out.

Right. But still, you have to try to, I think. Well, yeah, it's weird because Leslie Stahl seems to have a kind of unique relationship with him, too. Yeah. Normally, I feel like if it were any female journalist that was representing the mainstream, the non-Fox journalist, it would have been a total just argument or whatever and more talking over where, you know, she even said like it seemed like he was enjoying the sparring. And at times, like I remember she was the one who he sort of like showed his hand to her at one point where she's like, why do you always deny these stories or whatever? And he's like, because if when I do, everybody believes it. And like he tells her just bluntly, like, she's like a Trump whisperer.

Yeah, in a weird way. But then can also be like also be like, come on, bro. What are you talking about? Like, you know, have this sort of rapport with the president. And then what's funny is the way like towards the end of the interview, she started pressing him about all the family separation policies and how bad that was. And it was starting to get, he was starting to bicker about it and obviously didn't like being linked to his own policies that are so fucked up. And then just gave her a total own when he just checked in with what his job was and what her job was.

Listen to this fucking bomb. I disagree, but I don't want to have that fight with you. Hey, it's okay. I would have another fight with you. I would have another fight with you. Leslie, it's okay. In the meantime, I'm president and you're not. And we're having fun, right? Oh my God. My dad's bigger than your dad. My dad would beat your dad up. He's a cop. So we have guns at the house. I can bring one. I wonder if that is part of the problem is that he did the interview with her because she speaks to him like he's a real politician and that's how she's coming at it and it's almost like when you talk to a kid like the kid is an adult they kind of like that and they try to act more like it but the kid is ultimately a kid and they're gonna

behave like a kid but maybe that's where she gets her rapport is she treats him like any other politician and that's what you get when you treat uh she treats him like any other politician and that's what you get when you treat uh donald trump like any other politician you get well i'm the president and you're not and you're not so fuck you i wish somebody would photoshop donald trump's face onto john cusack standing outside the window with the boombox on his in his hands in the rain like just listing the names of the fox the primetime fox news like when you said that he was listing them by names i was like how desperate is this place? How good are these people, folks?

The Fox News hosts. They're great. Elizabeth Warren, just more evidence that we are all living in Trump's world now. Elizabeth Warren took a DNA test that proves her Native American ancestry. This is part of an ongoing story where she had contributed to an academic journal for

minority students. And people were like, what is your claim to being a minority student? She was like, well, my family has Native American ancestry. And Trump ever since then has, she didn't use it to get into any schools, which is part of a myth that exists out there. She didn't use it to get into any schools. She put it on like one journal. And ever since, he's called her Pocahontas and claimed that he would give a million dollars to the charity of her choosing if she could ever prove that she actually had Native American ancestry. Which is amazing. So, yeah, so you cut to, well, first of all, I just think it's so fucking shitty, right, that Elizabeth Warren had to go to the point where she had to prove her ancestry to

prove Trump's racist, basically. He's like the James Randi of racism. Yeah, right, right. It's like, prove me wrong. And it totally falls in line with his birther streak of just being like, you're not American, you're so-and-so, or you're not a blah, you're lying about being Native American or whatever. It's just his whole tactic or whatever. So I'm just glad that she actually got a legit, like a DNA analysis done by someone at Stanford, and it showed, yeah, six to eight generations back, she did in fact have a Native American ancestor. to eight generations back, she did in fact have a Native American ancestor. Like you're saying, Jack, at a rally pretty recently, he said, hey, a million dollars if you can prove it to charity of your choice. I got a million dollars straight up cash.

Right. And then so they confronted him with this information. So let's hear on wax him using actual English words to say this out loud to people who heard it and put it in their memory and his denial of it yesterday and we will say i will give you a million dollars million to your favorite charity paid for by trump if you take the test and it shows you're an indian you know and let's see what she does right And let's see what she thinks.

Did you react to Senator Elizabeth Warren releasing the results of her DNA test? No, I have not. Who cares? Mr. President, you said you paid $1 million to share your DNA test. I didn't say that. You better read it again. Read what? This ain't a fucking contract. Read it again.

He's going all Ricky Henderson,erson like talking about himself in third person like paid for it by trump yeah paid for it by trump for i mean part of me i will believe it the fact that he doesn't remember because his brain is melting so i could believe that and i also could believe he doesn't want to remember because where the fuck is he gonna get a million dollars right i don't think he has a million i mean i'm sure he could put it together through weird donations and stuff he'll be, send out a fundraising email. He's like, we have to show Pocahontas that Trump is a man of his word and pay the million dollars. Counting on you, MAGA Army.

Well, I think also just the way he was like, and prove you're an Indian. It's like, oh, God. An Indian. And then met by cheers. Yeah, well, you know, because that's all the tactics they use. Just, you know, discredit and demean whoever has anything to say with an ounce of truth to it. Update on this story. Elizabeth Warren named her charity, was like, hey, anyways, you said this,

so this is where the million dollars goes, homie. And he responded that he would be glad to if he could administer the DNA test, which seems like, you know. What, is he going to take it to do a polymerase chain reaction centrifuge process to fucking get his, her DNA? Yeah. No, he would do that, actually.

He's a very principled scientist. I would love, though, if he was like, okay, we'll go to a lab and the scientist is going to walk me through it so I know I'm handling it the whole time. Okay, what do I do next? I'm administered by Trump. Exactly. Here's Okay, what do I do next? I'm ministered by Trump. Exactly. Okay, I need a micropipette. All right, we're going to take another quick break.

We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks everywhere on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago, when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI

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Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, everyone. It's me, Katie Couric. Have you heard about my newsletter called Body and Soul? It has everything you need to know about your physical and mental health. Personally, I'm overwhelmed by the wellness industry. I mean, there's so much information out there about lifting weights, pelvic floors, cold plunges, anti-aging. So I launched Body and Soul to share doctor-approved insights about all of that and more.

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It's from anonymous sources. So who knows? But at the time of as we record this, the word was, yeah, maybe they're thinking about copying to it. And the idea is that essentially they're like, okay, well, we, our original plan was to just beat him up a bunch and kidnap him. And then he died. So our bad. Okay. Don't sanction us, which is such a weird fucking, like, why even go that far like you there's no way i'm gonna believe you send a 15 person hit

squad and they accidentally killed the guy because they were just interrogating them that's there's no i don't understand even how by that logic like how that works accidentally i mean it all comes down to whether the detail that they brought a bone saw is accurate or not like that is ultimately if they brought a bone saw to an alleged kidnapping like that's a rap like you you're you're lying clearly um and that was one of the details that came out very early on and we're going to bring in super producer anna hosnier to talk about this this is a story she's been closely following uh yeah apparently according to some sources on twitter from the intercept and uh more basically

i think what's going to come down to they're going to say that the killing did happen by saudi arabian like rogue agents but that mbs they're going to protect muhammad bin salman and be like he didn't know about it he didn't approve it and that we're going to take care of the guys who did it and don't worry about this we're on it this doesn't happen under our watch or whatever. They're going to really play the old MBS didn't know. Even though he knew and all the intelligence intercepts suggest that it was a plan. Even though MBS has a photo of Jamal Khashoggi that he uses as dart practice. And we're all like, okay.

Oh, that's a different guy. Oh, my God. It does look like him, huh? Wow. I should take that down. I think they're also going to use the excuse that they would never use a bone saw because it's Saudi Arabia so classically they're known for using

swords for two things, cutting cakes at weddings and for dismembering journalists who go against the regime. And that's how you know they're rogue because they brought a bone saw. I don't know why I'm talking like Trump. Because that is he is on board and was on board with this.

I think it might've been a rogue, rogue killer. A couple of days earlier, like he, when people were asking him, like, have you spoken to them? He said he spoke to the king and the king was like, I don't know. Sorry. Okay. And he came out of that conversation saying it might have been a rogue. And so now it seems like that's the – because there was another potential angle they were talking about where Donald Trump Jr. was basically blaming Jamal Khashoggi for having ties to Islamic extremism.

So there were two directions they could go. They were tying everything. You know, split the hair of whether the murder was ordered by MBS and also blame the victim. And it seems like they're going with the split the hair defense. Psych rogue killer, keskise. Psych rogue killer. Psych rogue killer, keskise, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa.

The whole thing is weird. Because then when you also take into account that the Turkish government is also talking about, like, a cooperative working group to look into this suddenly. When you're like, you know, some pundits are like, I think Turkey is essentially putting up, like, saying for a price, we will also not release any of the information we have so you can keep lying and preserve whatever narrative that you're trying to put out there. That's right, because Turkish prosecutors have evidence of killing, of the killing happening in the Saudi consulate that they're, I guess, sitting on right now. I don't know what's going to happen. And they're like, but we can work on this together for money because our economy is

really bad. So maybe you can help us there. I don't know. It's just very odd. And yeah, we continue to see that now Saudi Arabia is getting the Putin treatment where it's just like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. We'll just very odd. And yeah, we continue to see that now Saudi Arabia is getting the Putin treatment where it's just like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. We'll believe him. We'll see what happens. Right. It's interesting. He really seems to have a strategy of dealing with problematic friends of his by just believing their denials. He'll be like,

I believe our intelligence agencies when they tell me that this person's a mass murderer who should not be befriended. But I just want to tell you, he's also denying it. It's because he's shook. Right. He doesn't want to ruffle anyone's feathers because he really fears. I mean, people have said he has money wrapped up with Russian interests, with Saudi interests. So to fucking cross them in any way would be bad for him.

And that makes sense because he clearly only cares about himself. Yeah. And also policy-wise, they're tied to the Saudis. And, you know, it would be difficult for him to now back out of that. Huge arms deal. Arms deal and relationship. And he just tends to believe denials when it suits him. And then when it's the Central Park Five, he chooses not to believe denials

even after DNA evidence exonerates them. Exactly. Due process is for rich people and white people. Right. And MBS. That's why I said rich. Oh, right. So you could be brown,

but if you're banked up, you're caked up with all that money, then maybe you're going to look the other way. I guess if you consider MBS rich. I don't know. Oh, wow. Are we doing well? Crushing it, guys.

The guy who puts people in four seasons as jail. I think you're balling. All right. We have a new report on the fastest and slowest drive-thrus in America. Yes. Finally. They also ranked accuracy. Myles, what did we learn?

Okay, well, this is from QSR Magazine. Apparently they do this every year. It's a special report. You know, they realize that I think 70% of fast food places do business through the drive-thru. So it's important to know, you know, that if things are running properly. I know, Ryan, you haven't seen the doc,

so I'm going to ask you, who do you think was the fastest in terms of from the moment you, when they say, thank you, pull up to the window, to the second you have food in hand, who the fastest was? Taco Bell. Okay.

Wrong. It was Burger King. Oh, okay. Well, who's the slowest, do you think? The slowest, no doubt about it. There's no way that I'm wrong. Okay. Steak and Shake.

Oh, do they have drive-thru? Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. No, apparently they're not in here. Steak and Shake was raided. Yeah, which is weird. They should. We have like brick and mortar pull up to the store Steak and Shake's out here in LA. I've never been to one. Oh, yeah, they're like around the

Midwest and around other parts of the country. There's definitely a drive-thru window because it's the handmade shake. You might just be driving your car through a dining room of a restaurant asking them to make you food. When I get a shake on my mind, I must get it at all costs. But okay, if it's not steak and shake, I'm going to have to say it's In-N-Out. It's McDonald's, actually. Oh, okay. Yeah.

So Burger King, the fastest, 193 seconds. That's pretty good. That's just like just over three minutes. Then McDonald's, the slowest, 193 seconds. That's pretty good. That's just like just over three minutes. Then McDonald's, the slowest, 273 seconds. Rough, a little over four and a half minutes. I will gladly wait for that time differential between Burger King and McDonald's. And in fact, I would recommend that Burger King start spending some more time on their food. But what about that classic chicken sandwich, the long one?

That one always just hit the spot for me my entire life. Get that at Burger King and then go over to McDonald's for the fries. Oh, the fries are garbage over at Burger King. But I will say this. When it comes to fast food, drive-thru windows, you're not cooking your food. You're not buying the food. You're not preparing it. I mean, you're buying it, but you're not preparing it.

You're not doing all the stuff. It's like $270. That nothing yeah like you could wait for i never get mad when i'm in a drive-thru and it takes even 10 minutes because guess what i didn't have to make this right and also famine in other places of the world exactly who are you to be like yeah well that's what i do jack whenever i get upset when i'm mcdonald's i'm like how hard is it to mix the apple pie in the fucking vanilla milkshake you know that

what apple pie wow you just really kind of made me think about this yeah you never do that oh no I do I just did seven days of my own milkshakes

oh yeah I didn't do apple pie but that's a good one oh yeah just get the apple pie and then be like yo can you blend that up in the thing sometimes they will

if they're the homie and other times they're like I'm sorry but I think they got that machine you know it's where it's all like- The McFlurry thing. It's coming from a bag. So they don't really have a blender. They can just dump a piece of apple pie

in there. I just want to say how refreshing it is as somebody who lives in Los Angeles and is just only familiar with people being like, oh, I can't eat rice. I can't eat carbs. I can't eat anything for you to be like, I just got done doing a seven-day train of my own milkshakes. I'm micro-dosing milkshakes. That's fucking rare. But yeah, so they said next slowest was Chick-fil-A, also 260 seconds. But then they move on to accuracy, and they say actually the average is really high for most drive-thrus.

It's around 90% accuracy, with the highest being Chick-fil-A. So that extra time actually translates 97%. How may I serve you? It was my pleasure, sir. And McDonald's also had pretty high accuracy. So maybe those slower times, they're trying to guarantee your order. Maybe they actually look into the bag before they give it to you. The worst one at 69% KFC.

Oh, yo. How are you that bad at translating? Like roughly two-thirds of the time you're getting it right. So 30, like honestly, every third one. Here's how that plays out. Okay. What do you want? Welcome to KFC.

What can I get for you? I want the chicken and the mashed potatoes. Yeah. Hey, I got chicken and mac and cheese. Right. Yeah. Well, those are like, there's four things you can get at KFC. Chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes, and mac and cheese.

Well, no. They got little popcorn bites, too. And then they got the tenders. I'm just trying to think back of my scumbag fucking drive-thru memory. Yeah. And the corn. The bowls. Who's KFC married to in the fast food?

The Yum brand. Yum brand. Taco Bell. Oh, okay. So Taco Bell. Pepsi. You can always, yeah, Pepsi is the one thing they The Yum brand. Taco Bell. Okay, so Taco Bell. Pepsi is the one thing they serve there. Or Pepsi products. So, you know, just take your time

or just go up to the window. But KFC, something's going on there. Maybe they have the worst employees. I don't know. If you worked at a KFC, you know why. Let us know. I'd like to see the correlation between the wage and restaurant. restaurant or fast food joint. Right.

Because I guarantee – because Chick-fil-A pays their employees at least allegedly – from what I've heard. I haven't looked it up. But they're said to pay their employees a little bit better than everywhere else. Right. So it would make sense that it's the accuracy and the quality of just the work in general. Right. Because In-N-Out, they hook their employees up crazy with insurance and stuff like that. So that's why they get it right there.

And that's why they'll even entertain you when you're like, I want soft fries. I want them shits not fried hard. I always get light fries. And the only problem with working at both of those places is you have to sign a contract that says you won't use birth control. That is, as a Christian soldier. No, they don't. Okay. Okay.

I was hoping. I was sounding like one of our listeners who's going to be like, Jack, I looked into this. And pomplamoose means grapefruit. Pomplamoose means grapefruit. You fucking guy. Ah, well. All right. Oh, wow. was Tom DeLonge's Star Academy of Arts and Sciences, which is a place where they do research into sightings of UFOs. Right.

And just generally starts from the supposition that UFOs happen, that those videos aren't fake. And we still haven't gotten a good explanation for the way that this little tic-tac-shaped thing is moving through the sky in the video. And, you know, you hear actual military naval aviators on mic as the thing is moving, being like, well, that's technically impossible. That shouldn't be happening. They're really freaking out. It like turns 90 degrees.

So it's still a really crazy story. But, Miles miles you had an update on how tom delonge yeah well look the stars academy started by the blink 182 front man it was an impressive collective of like straight up uh former intelligence people who like did weird stuff at the pentagon to scientists to blink 182 front men uh and it was a real strong group so first i was like all right right, well, you know, sometimes you just need a passion about something to get these things going. And then it turns out they were also like raising money from small,

like donation, like small donors doing like a couple hundred bucks here and there. And you could be like a, a level truth seeker type thing. And it just wasn't going well. So just recently someone got a a hold of some financial documents that spelled out the fact that they're doing terribly and they are over $37 million in debt

and they just don't know what to do. I am literally a card-carrying member of UPARS, which is the UFO Paranormal Research Society of Los Angeles. It used to be MUFON LA. It used to be MUFON LA. And then there was some- It used to be MUVON LA. MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network. MUVON has moved on to a new cause.

Yeah. And so they split off because they wanted to expand their investigations into more paranormal things outside of just UFOs. But UFO is still the big thing. And they have like a once a month meeting where they bring in guest speakers to talk about secret space programs, stuff like that. When Tom DeLonge positioned himself as like he like the last few years to try to be the face of ufology. Sure.

There was a lot of like reshuffling of like the ufology community. And a lot of people were pissed off. A lot of people were like, this is great. Now we're getting some attention. But yeah, it is interesting because I think when they first announced this whole organization, it was very impressive. Former military and all these scientists. And it was like, they're going to build this spaceship, right? So it makes you wonder what's happening. As someone who definitely believes in the existence of all this stuff, there's a great

book called The Day After Roswell written by Lieutenant Colonel Phil Corso, who's no longer with us. He died in 1998. He wrote the book, or it was published in 96. And he was in charge of what he called the nut file, which was like all the Roswell files, right? In the Pentagon and all this other stuff. And so he's laying it out in this book,

like all the information, the evidence, how he saw the aliens in like a holding container from the Roswell crash, you know, shows like where they went and like, I grew up in Dayton, Ohio, Wright-Patt Air Force Base, where part of them were transported, all this stuff. Anyway, I think the evidence for UFOs is out there and it's been out there for a long time. Now, about the alien aspect of it, that's when it gets a lot more difficult. And I think when it comes to these things, it's just like, I think it's like the number one issue for human rights. If we are not alone in the intergalactic neighborhood, to me, it's like the number one thing that would change society from the bottom to the top,

knowing that we are in a large neighborhood of intergalactic beings. And if we've been in contact with them for a long time, and they're affecting policy and government and all this kind of stuff, and so many people get such a hard-on for the Nazis and the UFOs things that sometimes it can become problematic in this community. But it's just like, we all need to know that. Not the people that are up top. Like, well, everybody will freak out is the argument. And I don't think that's true. That's the way we've been shown we will react in movies and television and things like that. But to me, it's very fascinating fascinating and so many of these people can

be discredited pretty quickly so it's difficult to sift through the bullshit when you're saying affecting policy were you saying that aliens were changing policy or the fact that we're trying to obscure the existence or acknowledge the existence of ufos is what's well there is well when it comes to policy when it comes to like military policy Corso ties it all into like the cold war you know he's talking about like a moon base I mean there's all kinds of crazy stuff that's like yeah right but there's not like an alien who's whispering into someone's ear like some people like we should we should stay on fossil fuels I don't know I don't know if that's the case right right but that's not what you're implying just now when

you said that you were talking about on a greater level. On a greater level. Because I want to make sure that you weren't someone saying out here being like, well, you know the aliens are informing our policy on this planet. Well, some people will tell you that. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that. Right, right, right. Because I don't know. And I'm not going to say that I know.

Well, so-and-so said, you know. But some people would say that. But I'm not going to go that far and say that. Just from like a metaphysical perspective and like from a, you know, actually how logic and ethics like construct the world inside our minds, the idea that they're holding this enormous truth away from us is what you're referring to as. Yeah. And cause that's with the, you know, the assumption also that like clearly they're visiting this earth. Right. And there are, you know, thousands and thousands of people who say they've been abducted. And there are people who try to discredit all those people. And there's people who say that all these are repressed memories and all these kinds of things.

But that doesn't change the fact that there are thousands of people who swear that they've been abducted. And they're aware of it and they're conscious of it. And that is an act of war. Yeah. Like Corso talks about how it's an act of war that these aliens or these you know other beings are coming to earth and they're doing things to people here and that's why that to our butts in particular in particular to our butts and to our cows yes but uh yeah so it that's like the big thing they said informed a lot of military policy where a lot of this weaponry and stuff was to like

on the surface to like you know be prepared for russia but but ultimately the hidden agenda here was we need to protect ourselves from these ufos that we can't stop from coming whatever the fuck that was yeah and so that's why we need all these nuclear weapons that's why we need these like laser guided like you know protection satellites and all this kind of stuff and you know so whether or not that's like legitimate or not, people say that Corso, the argument against him is that he exaggerated his actual position and like what he did. But at the end of the day, it doesn't change the fact that, I mean, he worked under a guy named General Trudeau, who was in charge of army research and development at the Pentagon. That seems like a big position.

Yeah. And so like trying to develop new weaponry and things like that. So, I mean, it's a really interesting book and there are people who like, you know, have poked holes in certain things about it, but it doesn't, you know, to me it's pretty interesting that the guy released the book

two years before he died at the end of his life, you know, because there's certain things you can't just come out if you know you're going to be living for another 25, 30 years. Just waiting to exhale. Well, Ryan Singer,

it wouldn't be an episode with you on without an in-depth discussion of alien life. Thank you so much for joining us. Where can people find you? People can find me at ryansingercomedy.com. I'm very excited because just a couple days ago, my last album came out.

My fourth album is called Free Love. It is free for everyone. You can download the Dropbox links or the Google Drive link on my website, ryansingercomedy.com. iTunes wants you to pay $4.99 for it. I don't want you to do that. The reason it's on iTunes is so people can have it on Apple Play. Right.

So it'll stream. Amazon wants you to buy it. I don't want you to do it, but I want it on Prime Music. So get it for free. Feel free to rate and review it on iTunes. RyeSing on Instagram. Yeah free to rate and review it on iTunes, Rice Sing on Instagram, and Rice Sing on Twitter. And the download link is in my bios there. So get a free comedy album. I talk about Bigfoot, Crystals, Magic, Talk to Your Water, like Dr. Emoto, and all those kind

of things. Awesome. And is there a tweet that you've been enjoying? There's a tweet I've been enjoying by Ian Abramson, at Ian Abramson. And it's one of these tweets where I just don't know how it was made. It was a tweet that has like, it's like a visual tweet. So it's hard, I can't really read it,

but it's like this weird brick wall with like a person like peeking around it, but it's used with all caricatures. And it's almost like a cartoon. Right. It's like a three-tweet cartoon panel almost, but in a series of three tweets where this person is just peeking around a corner

and says, hey, and the other person says something like, hey, so what's up? And he's like, and then another panel of the original little character just going, I just wanted to take another look at you. But it's just like,

I just stared at it for like 15 minutes and enjoyed it. It made me smile. Hell yeah. I'm looking at it right now. It's pretty, I don't know how he did it, but it's pretty cool.

What do they call it? Asky art? I don't know. I think it is one of those things. I think it's Basquiat. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Jean-Michel,

I'm so sorry. I've shown my ass. Miles, where can people find you? You can find me just reading up on some art, I guess. But if you are interested on my social media musings, go to Twitter and Instagram, at Miles of Grey. And a tweet I like.

Guys, it's a little mean-spirited, but it resonated with me because I have a dark heart. Last week, Kanye went to go meet the president, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders got a picture with Kanye West, and they're kind of next to each other, and she's smiling. And then at Dwayne Perkins, retweeted it with the image, and it said, the blackest thing in this photo is Sarah Sanders Forrest Whitaker eye. Oh shit. Shit.

Whoa my good my phone like wind came out of my phone and blew my hat out. Whoa Jesus. Because it was a very rough image. He's funny. You can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. A tweet that I enjoyed was from member of the Zeit, Andrew Hillary at Andrew Hillary US.

Just going off of the conversation we had about the woman with the therapy squirrel that she tried to bring on a plane. And we were wondering, can you buy squirrels at pet stores? He said, I made a friend when I was in Thailand. She owned a pet store and her biggest seller was squirrels at pet stores. He said, I made a friend when I was in Thailand. She owned a pet store and her biggest seller was squirrels. They go for the equivalent of about $25 and when I told her squirrels run around wild all over the U.S.,

it blew her mind. Isn't that amazing? Like for free? Right. It's like picturing, I don't know. I love that a squirrel could be such an exotic animal somewhere else. We're like, what the fuck? Have you ever seen a wild horse?

Right. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's like horses just galloping about the streets. They're like, those cost like 15 grand. It's like so human. Like, no one owns that? You can follow 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. Right here. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on. You can also find that information on our website. Miles, what song will we be riding out on today? Oh, we will be riding out on a song by this MC, Mick Jenkins,

produced by Kaytranada, whose productions and solo work I regularly play for y'all because it's very vibey, because it's a very important word to me and a very important state of mind. So this is a new track from Mick Jenkins called Understood. And man, the beat is great, his flow

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