The Daily Zeitgeist - Robert Downey = Tony Stark, Just Admit You’re Evil 6.7.19

Episode Date: June 7, 2019

In episode 408, Miles and special guest host Jamie Loftus are joined by comedian Daniel Van Kirk to discuss Robert Downey Jr. turning into Iron Man, the trade wars with Mexico, the Trump administration cutting funding that gives migrant children basic rights, the straight pride parade, the new X-men movie, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Robert Downey Jr. Announces Footprint Coalition to Clean Up the World With Advanced Tech2. Rubio and Scott stand with Trump over GOP colleagues to support Mexico tariffs3. Trump administration cancels English classes, soccer, legal aid for unaccompanied child migrants in U.S. shelters4. A new Trump plan to deny migrant kids education and lawyers is illegal5. Fox’s Tomi Lahren Touts Straight Pride Parade Run by Far-Right Extremists6. Disney-Fox Braces For Box Office Disaster with $200 Mil-Plus X Men Movie “Dark Phoenix,” As Negative Reviews Pour In7. WATCH: Bernice - Glue Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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he is a great podcast host he is a fucking philosopher He is somebody who When it's convenient for me I will call a friend Always Please welcome Mr. Daniel Van Kirk What's up buddy? How are you man?

Hello, hi everyone Hi Hi How have you been? I'm good Thanks for having me Have you just been on the road This whole time?

I feel like you are In and out a lot Yeah In and out a lot Damn I'm just adding cities And legs To my Together tour. So I'm just going to keep them busy.

Adding legs like a spider. Doing some festivals and stuff like that. What festivals are you doing? This year I did Sketch Fest in January. And then in April did Moon Tower. And in a couple weeks I'll be doing Cluster Fest. Where's Clusterfest? That is the Comedy Central Festival in San Francisco.

Oh, dope. Yeah. Man, I guess my invite got lost. No, I think they sent it. Oh, they did? Okay, thank you. I'm waiting. I'll check on it.

I didn't submit, and I'm not really a comedian by trade, but I'm offended. Thank you. You're actually writing it down. It's a new level of patronization well Daniel before people get to know you

and I get to know you even better let's tell people what we're talking about first yes Robert Downey is he going to

save the world maybe he's Tony Stark he thinks he's Tony Stark he could try I think he's done too many movies it's cute

yeah he's cosplaying yeah and can you cosplay when you are the person though that you are on screen He could try. I think he's done too many movies. It's cute. Yeah. He's cosplaying. Yeah. And can you cosplay when you are the person, though, that you are on screen? It's a terrible cycle. You know, how do you get out? We'll check in on the trade wars.

Trade wars. Mexico edition. I mean, we know about the China ones, how those are not going well at all and how that's impacting the economy. But, you know, just also we'll talk about this new distraction the president is trying to create because the Mueller report says that he needs to be impeached. Also talk about the new cruelty alert because Trump has now taken away the legal representation, recreation and education sort of not rights, I guess, but yeah, rights or ability to to have recreational time or education and things like that from these migrant kids using a very, very lame loophole. And then we'll check in, you know, just been a hot week for the right with straight pride parades or other things going on on Twitter.

You mean a parade? Yeah. Well, I'll let Tommy Lahren speak on that later. Well, I'll let Tommy Lahren speak on that later And then a new X-Men movie Which I'm excited about And we'll leave that there But first, Daniel What is something from your search history

That's revealing about who you are? I will I grabbed this down here too This was like yesterday Black Raven Russian Song Lyrics What's that? Are you guys watching Chernobyl? No, I've been.

I'm about to, man. Yeah, I've been doing so many good things about it. Wow, every time someone talks about it, they have some kind of visceral. Yeah, and we'll get into it, I imagine, because I'll find a way to. And that's how I feel about it, and it's number two on my list right now.

Wow. So there's a- Lane Price is in that, right? Yes. Okay. Crushing it. It's a prequel to Mad Men. Heath.

You know what? There's a double spoiler in there if you know what I'm talking about. Whoops. So, I didn't even think of that till now i'm gonna have my own podcast for a second where i think about the reference i just made and how maybe there's people out there who are also tracking where i'm tracking yeah um it's very good in an episode of it a

soldier i'm not giving anything away uh a soldier in russia sings a song the title is translated from russia to black raven and it's so perfectly done and like haunting i wanted to know what the lyrics were of this song it's very very very good are the lyrics haunting yeah it's a context that yeah it's about a i can remember some of them it's um something like a man married another woman and the woman was his sword. Basically, he's given his life to the military. Wow.

I love when my woman is turned into a sword. First time I ever saw that done was Full Metal Jacket. Remember? This is my rifle. This is my gun. This is for fighting this war. Yeah, and you love it and you treat it and all that. So it's a very haunting like Russian as fuck song.

Just dark, dreary. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, the fucking, I just remember the trailer had me fucked up when it was just the warning thing. And I was like asking people who listen, like, if you speak Russian, what's that warning thing over? And they're like, it's warning. Yeah. Okay, cool, cool, cool. And you know, there's an accompanying podcast with Chernobyl. HBO produced a podcast with Craigig mazen it's unreal i've been listening to the podcast and i haven't watched

the show yet are you for real yeah wow yeah that's interesting but i like is it about the show yeah yeah it's just they go over each other i just want to know everything about production before i even lay fucking eyes that's not a bad idea you'll still really dig it but it's excited it's uh it's intense some's intense. Some of the best writing I've seen in a very, or listened to in a very long time. Okay, so what's underrated then? Wait, wasn't that my search history? That was your search history.

So what's underrated? Okay, underrated is forgive me if I'm saying this wrong, it is not for lack of love. Underrated right now is Jharrel Jerome's performance as Corey Weiss in When They See Us. Have you guys watched When They See Us? I have not. I gotta love. Underrated right now is Jharrel Jerome's performance as Corey Weiss in When They See Us. Have you guys watched When They See Us? I have not. I know.

Look, let me tell you something. When They See Us, it's kind of difficult for me to sit through it. I had to stop the first episode. I had to go away from it. Yeah, I mean, the trailer, I was like, oh man, okay. I mean, I'm aware of the story, but part of me is like i'm a little fragile right now to dive into a thing

that will bring to the forefront of my mind just how unjust uh the legal system is in this country i mean in the words of ryan sickler great comic i mean yeah yeah no seriously and i think and i think it's one of those, but for precisely that reason, I think it's important for people to watch it, especially anybody who might not be aware of, or if you think you don't understand how violently oppressive systemic racism is in this country, let's take a look at something like that.

New York cops in the 80s. Did you see the documentary The 7-5? Yes. Come on. Yeah. Come on. So this is. Come on. Yeah. Come on. So this is in that era. Yeah.

And it is, I want to make sure I say it again, and I might even pronounce it wrong, but Jharrel Jerome's performance, you might know him from Moonlight, little film Moonlight, which is also phenomenal. I don't think it will always in my opinion be underrated because it isn't possible

to accurately rate it or overrate it wow it is it might be one of the best acting performances I've seen in my entire life wow

I'm still like haunted you know you've seen The Wire yeah you know after a while in The Wire you're like well these are those people

right these are those people yeah yeah yeah he embodies his character so beautifully and with so much strength and every every element of humanity that i i think he's gonna have an amazing career uh in front of him he already obviously has a great one but um you're like well you you were that and you just were cory weiss right right right uh damn the uh ava duvernay um it's a masterpiece i mean people you have to watch it was that number one for you when you right now yeah you said chernobyl's your number two yeah yeah for right now yeah those are two things that i've that are like in my queue that i'm actually i think this

weekend i'm gonna have to and i kind of want to make I saw a great tweet that maybe she retweeted that somebody was like instead of asking black people have you seen when they see us uh try to make someone who needs to identify with that life whether or not they've seen or like you know what I mean like have your uncle in the midwest watch it yeah no exactly i think that's sort of the my just as an experience of dealing with police and things like that and just in general the state of things in this country it's difficult like it's just sort of painful to have to like relive something like that or just sort of have the that sort of level of injustice sort of just brought straight to your face. Cause I know a lot of people too,

especially people of color who are like, I mean, I'm going to get to it because there's a little, it's tough, but at the same time, it's, I think because of how powerful it is, how moving it is,

is the, it's, it's a sword that cuts both ways and it's very, his performance is underrated. If everybody hasn't seen it, then it is underrated if everybody hasn't seen it. Then it's underrated. I'm very excited to see it. Yeah.

So what's overrated? Overrated. We touched on this a little bit pre-show. Overrated for me is this back-patting mentality, this cool mentality to hate art. Like, yeah, anything that's interpretive. Like, you know, like it kind of became like a bandwagon thing of like hating the end of Game of Thrones. And I just have never, this is way overrated, this thing that it's fun to hate on something.

Like, I remember 10, 12 years ago, Facebook probably wasn't even that long. Maybe like, maybe eight, nine years ago. But there was like a 200,000 person petition that was like going all around Facebook for like getting Nickelback to not sing the halftime show at the Lions game. Yeah, I remember. And I was like, what do you care?

You're not going to the game. And even if you were going to the game, go get some nachos. Right. This idea that's like, yeah, isn't it? We're all kind of like feeding it. It might be cool to hate something or it might be right to hate something. But in my opinion, it's never cool. I just feel like it indicates a lack of personality to like just really like get meaning out of like hating something arbitrary.

Like, I don't know. It's just like college freshman shit. And like taking action against it. Like, yeah. Right. There's many. just really get meaning out of hating something arbitrary. I don't know. It's just like college freshman shit. And taking action against it. Yeah. There's many. I've read all the books that are currently out, maybe will only ever be out, of Game of Thrones twice. So I have major issues with the show.

Yeah. But I'd like to think they did their best. Sure. I also kind of view it as really high-budgeted, pretty good fan fiction because i'm gonna someday get to read the books and then i'll see what really happened but they don't owe me anything no try to make a good show you know that's what you owe me if you're gonna put it out in front of me and tell me to watch it then i hope you've tried it's a sense of

entitlement for people who are on the receiving end of the art right it's like you know i'm the same way i was disappointed by it but i didn't't like, I didn't take up a, like a whole campaign against it. I'm like, whatever. That's, and just like art, right? If you don't like it, then I'll just take it as, okay, that's what you made. I appreciate when people are critical of stuff, but then at the end of the day, when people are like picking on it for no reason, and they're also like feel personally entitled,

I'm like, you pay $10 a month for like an app like you're not owed shit like you can't pay anyone at this show for 15 minutes right what are you talking about and i love the daily zeitgeist i love being here and i've loved every interaction i've ever had with your fans so i want to make sure everybody understands that we're all saying i think we're saying the same thing there's nothing wrong with being disappointed or not liking it Not like it's okay. I'm not telling you that you had to have liked it at all. I'm just saying it's overrated this thing of like. Give your energy to something else.

Yeah, like coolness or hatred equating coolness. Sure. I just don't like that. Yeah, I think in general, energetically, like if you're putting that much of your effort into feeling negative about something. You're mad about something else. Yeah, and also, it'll just begin permeating

to other parts of your life. You know what I mean? Like if you have, I think precisely for me, I'm the kind of person who could get carried away and be like, yo, fuck that shit.

Oh, I'll have a, I'll talk to you for an hour and a half about why I didn't like the show. Yeah, 100% and I will too. But at the end of the day, I'm like,

and I leave that there. I don't then take that with me to like, no, you know what? I got to get on Twitter and I got to fucking yell at DBYs and all of them. What the fuck did you do? Leave him alone. Right. Who cares? And also, you know what?

Let that inspire you. If you're a creator, then improve upon that. For sure. And I'm sorry to say that the gatekeepers of this industry won't be easy to get there. But when you consider that, you know. Miles, the gatekeepers of this industry won't be easy to get there, but when you consider that... Miles, the gatekeepers of this industry are actually super nice. They're very inclusive.

They're like, oh, welcome. You have an idea? Great. You have no experience? Great. It's objectively a good idea? Great. That's how a lot of movies got made in the 70s. No, seriously. And then look at that. We had a renaissance, but not anymore.

What's a myth? What's something that people get wrong that you're like, no, no, no. You know what's funny? I don't know if I ever brought this up before when I've been here for this myth part, but basically everything they tell you on an airplane is a lie. Like everything. That it's flying. That it's going up some.

That you're safe. Oh, let me tell you, brother. That you're going to Australia. You never leave the ground. that you're going to Australia. You never leave the ground. You know, when you get on the airplane, it's just the magnetic stir just messing up your brain. No, just your seatbelt.

I was on a Southwest flight, and they tried to say, the guy goes, oh, 11C, your seatbelt is off. You need to put that back on. We had landed, and we were taxiing. And then you heard people putting their seatbelts back on. Like we had landed and we were taxing. And then you, and then you heard like people like putting their seatbelts back. I'm like, there's no sensor guys.

Right. He just grabbed a seat number. Cause you don't, there's only two people, including the person he's talking to who are going to know if that seatbelt's even on or off. Like your cell phone has to be turned off or an airplane. None of that's true.

Do you think that if your air if your phone could bring down a plane on any level right any percentage that they would let you general public no travel with they wouldn't even let you check your phone because they wouldn't trust that you didn't turn it off unless it's like one of the galaxy s7 or whatever that one the genuine exploding right right and that one they were like, no, no, no, no, no. That's when you saw when they weren't lying. Because that explodes, not because it had a wild cell signal. That's when you saw that they were not lying.

Almost all of it is a lie. Well, I think that one is something like some odd worst case scenario that every cell phone was on that there is a chance that it could disrupt it, which is why they say it. Not because one phone is going to bring the fucking thing down. What they don't want when taking off and landing is they don't want you talking on the phone. They don't want you

disturbing other people around you. They want you either paying attention or just not bothering anybody. None of this stuff is for... Right, and if you're trying to just change the cabin culture, just set those rules. Don't fucking lie to the people. You really need to shake up cabin culture.

Dude, cabin culture is my favorite band. I mean, we have to fix cabin culture. Cabin culture is really out of control. I mean, I'm taking up a crusade against cabin culture. Don't. The toxic cabin culture. I do. I want all the smoke.

I'm sorry. The last time I was sitting in the back row of a Spirit Airlines flight, I was just like, damn, it really is. That's the closest distillation you can get to the class system. You're just literally walking down a hallway of the class system. Yeah. And then you're like, oh, I'm sitting next to a fart because of this. Right. I'm in steerage.

Yeah. I kind of like having to shut my phone off just because I feel like that's almost something that is invented to make you feel safer than you actually are. You have a little bit of control here. You can help us be safe. See, that's a good... A lot of these lies help the general public.

It'd be funny if they hit turbulence and the captain's like, one of you motherfuckers has your phone on so knock it off or we're going down. Who's texting? You'll also find on planes like the One of you motherfuckers has your phone on, so knock it off or we're going down. Who's texting? Yeah. Right.

You'll also find on planes, the turbulence tends to happen more on short flights. It's because they want to come out and do one quick drink order and then get right back down. If you're on a six-hour flight, they'll wait an hour, hour and a half before they come around and see what you wanted to drink. You're on a flight to Vegas, if they're in a good mood, they'll get that drink order in 15 minutes. Right. It's all a lot. Sometimes they're like, yeah, we can't do drinks right now.

I know. And I'm like, for real? Yeah, no. Whatever, I don't care. Everybody on this plane is fucked up anyway. So it's probably a better idea if we're not serving alcohol. That's true. That's true.

Oh, man. Yeah, wow. Cabin culture. Cabin culture. The reason I talk about it, because in Japan, right, it's just a rule that you don't talk on your phone. And when you do, there are signs that are just like, hey, get the fuck, do not talk on your phone. Have some fucking respect. But that's a cultural thing.

But it's not like a lie that if you talk on your phone, the spooky ghost might derail the fucking car. And I think maybe they can just be like hi as a like as a matter of policy we ask that people refrain from speaking on and then jerks will break that rule yeah of course you like they need to lie to people i guess because the american attitude would be like what are you talking about everybody else i'm fucking talking to my fucking broker i'm important yeah yeah totally i, look at what, I remember Alec Baldwin was like, fuck out of here. I ain't getting off my phone.

Right. Because he's a dick. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. Like you're always, then you have the people who have to be like, they don't already, if you tell them shit is one way,

then because they're contrarian or no fucking transgressors, rule breakers, bro, that they got to be like, nah, show me, show me on the fucking, on the fucking schematic how this fucks a plane. They're the same people signing the Game of Thrones, like, protests. They're just like, I need to control the world.

Right. Let it go. Oh, the Wi-Fi isn't working. Ugh! How do I tweet from here? Or, like, also, like, people who do mad stories on their flights, relax. Yeah. Relax, please.

Oh, like Instagram stories? Yeah, like, in flight. Yeah. Relax, please. Oh, like Instagram stories? Yeah, like in flight. Yeah. Like, I get it. You know, you're on a plane. Especially when it's about the people around them, too. I don't like that. That makes it so uncomfortable.

Oh, you mean like that viral shit? Remember when the people were shading the couple? They're like, I just switched seats. They're in love with each other now, giving you a play-by-play. Yeah. They're holding hands. See, I was recently on a flight flight and I took a picture of a woman standing up

in the window seat facing the window facing the window and it was just like this what like right and it looked like a nightmare like I looked like

like the end of Blair Witch Project now I normally do not like to post pictures of people that are not voluntarily a part of this post yeah

but she was such a mean person like I saw her interaction with the airline staff before we got on the flight. Oh no, yeah. And she was so mean. Right. And rude to the point to when the person came back after they had helped her be where she needed to be.

I told that person, I go, you're very nice because she did not. She was way. She didn't deserve it. And so when I then later on saw that woman scaring me, I thought, well, you know what? You're putting a lot of negativity

in the world, so I'm going to create some positivity with this joke. I'm going to shame you. There's definitely exceptions. I didn't shame her. I just said it's weird when you look up

and realize you're in a nightmare. Yeah, right. Because she just looks delighting and like facing the wall of the plane. Yeah, that's oof. Which probably isn't a wall, right? What is it?

The capsule? Yeah. But again, look, this is our part in tackling toxic cabin culture. Right. There we go. There we go. All right. Well, let's get into the stories.

Let's talk about just a great man, Robert Downey Jr. Mm-hmm. This story. What's happening? Because I remember you came in, Jamie, and you're like, did you see the Robert Downey Jr. thing? I'm like, all I saw was on the side of twitter when it was trending like it said robert downey jr is doing some tony stark shit listen hey hi baby yeah it's been a crazy week at the

beginning of the week we were told the world's gonna end in 2050 then on wednesday robert downey jr came out and said actually guys it's gonna be fine in like 10 years. Wait, did he um actually the apocalypse forecast? Um actually the water wars. It's not going to happen because Robert Downey Jr. has a bunch of tiny robots. And that's about all the details that we have. It sounds like genuinely I think this story is very interesting and funny. So he went out, Robert Downey Jr. went out. He's giving a keynote at Amazon's ReMarsars conference of course that's a conference why not uh and he talks about

how he's like launching this new organization that is committed to using advanced technologies for the good of the environment hey tony okay it's called the footprint coalition because i think he has a lot of guilt he talks about having a a lot of guilt of what a gigantic carbon footprint the MCU had on the world, basically. And all the destruction those characters caused in the world. I mean, because it was a documentary. But there's been a lot written about how gigantic productions like that, how much it damages the environment. All the infrastructure being moved around. Yeah, so he's just trying to reverse part of i mean it's it's a noble mission it's the the only thing that's weird is he is

acting like tony stark he makes a speech he says quote between robotics and nanotechnology we could clean up the planet significantly if not totally in 10 years uh okay sir yeah like he's he's like i'm gonna fix the world in 10 years my name's Tony Stark. Where's Gwyneth Paltrow at? Like, let's get it fixed. Uh, this, I mean,

there's, that's really all there is to say right now. If you watch the talk, he is doing Tony Stark cosplay. He's got unlimited money to attempt this. But if you go to like, there was like a website that popped up for the footnote coalition. It's all.

Yeah. The footnotes. Footnote Coalition. Footnotes? It's all... Yeah, the Footnotes. Oh, Footprint Coalition. Footprint. Look, Zeitgang infiltrated your brain there. I got hacked. But yeah, he's saying that he's going to fix the world with tiny robots in 10 years or less. Did he say what the bill's going to look like? He does not specify price.

He does not specify who's going to help him. He does not specify how it's going to happen. So, you know, problem solved. Maybe Bezos. Problem solved, baby. help him. He does not specify how it's going to happen. So, you know, problem solved. Problem solved, baby. You should. He's the richest man. Be like, hey, Bezos, you down to throw in on this?

You got five on it? Literally, I'm just like, honestly, Robert Downey Jr., the best, like the most you could do for the world is probably just like pay the amount of taxes you're supposed to. Like that, anytime a billionaire is like, I'm going to save the world. I'm like, just pay your fucking taxes. You'll be helping people more. Or how about this? You'll be helping people more. I'll use a fraction of this money to tackle this very specific issue

that would help the entire world. That isn't as like, I mean, it's commendable that he wants to do that, but like, why don't you, you could put a lot of money

into like a school district or like something else and like have real, real world effects. But again, you know, you want to play God. It's kind of a nothing.

Yeah. I'm like, of course he wants to be God. I don't know. It's commendable. When I saw Endgame, I saw it with my brother and as like Tony Stark,

I mean, it's not a spoiler anymore. Like as Tony Stark was. Hold on, I don't know anything about Avengers. What? It's a spoiler? Okay, spoiler alert. If you haven't seen Avengers,

skip ahead about 30 seconds. You haven't seen the most popular movie in the history of the world. Go ahead. You can do it now. I don't care. I just want to save people. As Tony Stark is like, I'm dying. My brother leaned over to me.

He's like, you think I pay taxes? I was like, no. And then I was like, we should boo him. We should boo his death. Boo this, man. Boo this. Batman 2, did he pay his taxes? Also, the Footprint Coalition sounds like a rebrand for the Foot Clan from the mid-20s.

A hundred percent. Like, what's really going on? Shredder. Let's start the Footnotes Coalition. Footnotes Coalition. Footnotes. Okay, on that, we'll take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history.

People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them. Why is that? I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically Black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game?

And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture.

Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really in here. I'm always, I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black. I love her.

What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back.

Man, I don't know about y'all, but I'm just sick of these trade wars. Trade wars. Oh, gosh. First off, before we talk about the Mexican edition of trade wars, because it's so sleepy, because it's so tired of how dumb this whole shit is. Just remember, this is a distraction, a smoke bomb meant to take our attention away from the fact that the Mueller report straight up lays out the president's crimes. And he needs people to not look over there because he doesn't want people to get these impeachment ideas going.

So just remember that. That's why this is happening. Because all the other shit they say about this trade war is just a bunch of bullshit because it's addressing a situation that the president created. Is this a bunch of bullshit because it's addressing a situation that the president created? So if you don't remember. Trump basically said, if Mexico, if you don't get all your immigrant shit sorted out, we're just going to start taxing all the goods that come over here. That's it. Just get do something about the problem that I'm creating. It's not because you are not actually allowing to process people who are seeking asylum.

You are now passing the buck to Mexico. And look, there's a lot. We've talked about how constantly these tariffs do not help the United States. It just makes things more expensive for consumers. There's nothing. It's not like he's been like, he's got Mexico at gunpoint. Like, give me three billion right now in tariffs. No.

But I bet he's commissioning that fan art on DeviantArt. Oh, 100%. he wants that visual what do you think he's riding like a a fucking probably uh what was it like a hoverboard yeah like a golden assault rifle he's mounted he's mounted on a horse the horse is riding a hoverboard oh shit he has the gun the horse has a gun the horse is a gun the horse is a gun the horse has guns for legs. Exactly. And they're just, they're shooting a sombrero.

Yeah. And it says freedom underneath. Big block letters. Okay. We designed it. Well, here's a fact, a little bit, just a little analysis about even the United States Chamber of Commerce is kind of trying to warn people like, hey, this is not good for business already because we do so much trade with Mexico. It says that a 5% tax on Mexican imports would cost the U.S. consumers $17.3 billion across the country

and add $376 million to the cost of goods just in Florida. Well, that was all just Florida? No, $376 is just for Florida. $17 for the entire country, but more specifically if you're in Florida, 376, that's the bill for y'all. Jesus. And then, again, his plan is that tariffs are going to go up 5% each month until they reach 25% in October. And at that point, it would cost Florida $1.8 billion. Why do I keep talking about Florida?

Well, most of the GOP donors clearly see the writing on the wall. The pun is intended. Swish. That, you know, this is not good for your business. If you're like actually doing any kind of international business, especially with Mexico, like with a lot of these consumer goods, this is going to be a fucking nightmare for you. Because, you know, you're going to have to pass these costs down to consumers. going to be a fucking nightmare for you because you know you're gonna have to pass these costs down to consumers they're probably like i might wait on buying a certain thing although avocados were fucked i'm sorry just to say that and chipotle even said i think they're like gonna

have to start adding like a few dollars to each my item if the trade war with mexico accelerates i love 3d printing avocados. Does that work? They're not edible. Can you? We could try. Anyone with a 3D printer, let us know. Can you 3D print an avocado you can eat? I watched someone try to 3D print a violin last week and it looked like

shit. I can't imagine a world where a 3D printed violin looks good. Unless, again, and I say this all the time, it's that one Jake Busey played in Starship Troopers. Okay. Because that one's like freaky and futuristic. Now you're back. Daniel was falling asleep for a little bit.

So I did that Starship Troopers reference. So the reason I talk about Florida is because, yeah, a lot of Senate Republicans behind closed doors are like, we are going to fucking fight this. We'll fight the president on this. Cause this is actually doesn't even make sense. Like, and it also, again,

a lot of moneyed interests are going to really feel this and they'll use, you know, they'll act like they care about farmers or consumers, but it's not that it's the people who actually farmers are being killed right now. Yeah. Um, and,

but however, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott are the only people or the few that are like, hey, you know what? I kind of like I kind of I'm kind of down with these tariffs. And I don't it's again, they don't they're breaking with a lot of the most of the senators, even on the Republican side, who are like John Cornyn from Texas. A lot of even I think Ted Cruz are like this is not good like for anybody especially Texas like a lot of shit comes over the border from there we're not

we don't even understand how this solves the issue you're even trying to get at aside from just sticking it to Mexico but again this is just to get his base fired up and then create a controversy that distracts from the border

that will eventually cost his base a lot of money Don Draper amazing remember Don Draper if you don't like what's being said, change the conversation. Boom. Yeah.

Makes you think. R.I.P. Lane Price. Wow. Spoiler alert. R.I.P. Lane Bryant. What if someone was like, Jamie, I didn't know that Lane Price died. I don't even know what that means, but fine. What is that, Mad Men?

Yeah. Who knows? Yeah, who knows? Mad Men 10 years ago? I tried watching the first season, couldn't get into it. Really? Yeah. Sorry. That Yeah, who knows? Mad Men 10 years ago. I tried watching the first season. Couldn't get into it. Really? Yeah.

Sorry. That burn is slow. Yeah, burn was too slow. And I was not on enough pills back then to sit through all of it. So yeah, again, so even for the cost, even the increased cost it will bring to consumers in their own state, they're still sticking by. I guess they figure they must have some research that says like the more you deviate from

Trump the less likely you are for re-election. I'm clear that must be their math. I don't know. But it's the kind of shit that again just something to think about as we continue to shoot ourselves in the foot. Robert Downey Jr.'s got this guys.

I hope Robert Downey Jr. comes through with a solution to this too. To Trump? Or to the trade wars? Trade wars. Fuck it. Can his robots do that? Can your robots solve the trade war? Are your robots also diplomats? Can we figure this out?

Yeah, maybe. We'll see. And then moving on, because of the uh you know the border the manufactured crisis at the border the trump administration is really they're constantly outdoing themselves with treating these people with as little humanity as possible so the administration recently made an announcement that basically says that they are pulling funding for the English classes, recreational programs, and legal aid for the unaccompanied migrant kids that are in these federally contracted shelters, or we'll just call them camps.

They're not fucking summer camps. Basically, their argument for this is that, well, there's been so many, there's been such an influx of people at the border seeking asylum. It's spreading like our resources too thin. So we even have to take these basic things away from these kids who are we are already separating from their families. Now, just the laws that exist. Right. There was a decision that was made that basically guaranteed these children who are seeking asylum that they had the right to have facilities that are safe and sanitary, and they must provide routine medical and dental care, as well as education in a structured classroom

setting that includes English language training, reading materials in the detained children's native languages, and the center should also offer kids counseling and, quote, a reasonable right to privacy to talk on the phone and store their belongings. Also, the very least you can do for a human being being treated ethically. Because these are not fucking murderers. They haven't done anything wrong.

They're children who are escaping their own country, looking for a better situation. They've come with their parents, and they're being treated like criminals rather than like, hey, we get, oh my God. I think any human would look at somebody who was like, I'm trying to escape this violence and instability in my country.

This is the place I'm going. Also, we can ignore the fact that a lot of your policy, foreign policy in this country basically created my situation, but that's a whole other podcast called Bury Your Head in the Fucking sand and ignore history with miles with miles great oh man we're gonna look at old photos and just let's all revisionist history about past relationships but the you know i think any humane person would say of course like let's what's the minimum we can do try and make this as quick a

process as possible without causing trauma there already been constant reports of deaths that have been preventable and lack of care for people who have like mental illness and like lack of support for those people too on top of the fact that you're already putting people in the most stressful fucking environment these people are fleeing for their lives, looking for something better, and you're like, hey, I'm going to put you in a fucking concrete and chain link hell square. And just act like it's your fault. The word's lack of care, dude. Yeah.

The whole thing's just lack of care. Lack of care and lack of just empathy. Lack of everything. You just don't care. Yeah, they really don't care. And people want to act like they really give a fuck about the situation. Either don't know, don't show, or just don't give a fuck. And the showboating of like, well, it's because we don't have enough money is just, I mean, it's ridiculous.

It costs a lot of money to literally create the problem. Also, that whole thing, that argument is so lame. It's bunk. Again, that whole thing, that argument is so lame. It's bunk. Again, not even that, right? To take away their legal representation. That is another thing. This has been, this is part of our laws in these United States, right? Quote, all persons within the territory of the United States are entitled to the protection

guaranteed by those amendments in the Constitution that even aliens shall not be held to answer for a capital or other infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. So we're throwing everything out the fucking window to be as cruel as possible to these people to, I guess, just score points with the base. Now, the other thing that they're saying, the reason they say, oh, we can do this is they have like a loophole, like in budgeting shit where they're like, well, you know, if budgets, a department can't spend more money than it has or is budgeted. spend more money than it has or is budgeted um and you know things like the government shutdown put a lot of departments under stress because shit just wasn't getting funded and they were burning through budget and like oh well look now what are we gonna do now uh this has been like so they're saying well we don't want to violate this statute it's been it's happened many times

in american history and never once in the history of this country has someone pointed to that statute to be like uh this is why we have to end a certain program. There's been a way, especially for something like this, it's very easy to be like, of course we need to fund that. It's the bare minimum we can give human beings. But this is just, the brand is all based on cruelty. Yep. So, yeah, I mean, I think honestly,

it's like one of those things where every time I hear all these other stories about people getting up in arms about other bullshit and you're just looking at the very basics. Right. You have kids who are like left in vans for like over 30 hours. But while they're trying to be reunited with their families because we haven't even figured out a worthwhile or functioning process to even reunite families. It's just – it's so hard to take any kind of outrage from the right seriously when they can't even – this is just in-your-face, objectively fucked up, cruel bullshit. Yeah, putting in policies that are designed to traumatize young kids that have done nothing. It's just, it's absurd. Like Robert Downey Jr.

Yeah. Can't get robots. Well, this is why it kind of makes me laugh about that Zach Fox tweet where, you know, again, the joke, I understand why people are pissed off about it. Right? So there was a tweet about this kid who had like a fucking lemonade stand

because he wanted to raise money to build the wall. Which is illegal. And then he did a tweet. He photoshopped an image of this kid's photo or this kid's lemonade stand through a windshield of a car that was speeding as if he was going to run the kid over. It was a meme.

It's a shit post and it happens all the time. You're definitely opening yourself up to criticism for that. Because when I see shit like that on the right, I'm like, this is not it. But I get I can understand sort of the initial thing of like, oh, that could be wrong. However, to then

it became this huge thing like Breitbart, all this conservative media is like these 50,000 sickos like this sick tweet do you know why that photo exists because his dad fucking took it his dad set up the whole thing to create a little Facebook post

little Facebook video about my son raising money for the wall which also I would have loved to have asked that dad hey you voted for Trump because you thought he had all the good ideas right you loved everything he was going to set to do maybe one of those things was i'm going to build a wall mexico's going to pay for it and now here you are propagating your son selling lemonade to pay for something that you voted for a guy who told you he was going to get another country to pay for it i'm not saying you have to give a fuck but do you see the line there right right like yeah that that

wasn't delivered on right so yeah i agree not a great i'm not in favor of like running over a kid joke but uh but the reason that that reason that image even exists is because somebody on that side of the fence was like let me prop my kid up here yeah hey look he's a patriot young patriot but the thing is for all this shit, right, for all the people who are screaming about this, they could give a fuck when real human beings are being- Right. They're mad about an idea rather than an actual incident. Right. You didn't see Charlottesville when somebody actually ran over people? Did you care?

You didn't care, right? Where was your outrage? Because it's selective. Well, you know what another real reason, if you want it, in my opinion, the kid in that picture looks like your nephew. Right. Because you're white. But hey, Heather Heyer, she was white too. I know, that's a great point.

But she was on the wrong side of the fence. Exactly, right. Because everything, the tribalism is gone to a point. I'll be honest, she was marching with black people. Right, she was on the wrong side. You know what? She put herself. It's like that whole thing with the, I can't remember.

Kyle Korver wrote about, and I forget his name and I apologize, the NBA player that he was on a team with that got arrested. And Kyle even said, the problem with me is my first thought was like, well, why was he even in a club when he got arrested? Right. And he's like, that's not the fucking problem here. Right. So in this scenario, people are like, well, why was she marching marching in that if she hadn't been in that march she wouldn't have been

hit why are we okay with somebody murdering people with their car how about that you know exactly and i think that's what's so funny about this sort of lack of care man yeah lack of self awareness this cognitive dissonance that has to constantly be deployed to try and like maintain your sanity or like morality through this kind of shit. Because even then, when black and brown kids are getting killed, don't care. Don't care. When these kids are being separated from their families and all this trauma is being inflicted on them.

But you want to go up in arms because a person of color on Twitter did something. Oh, there we go. We have the ingredients to set off the culture war response. And there it is. And that's why it's just like the whole landscape is, oh, it's something else. Yeah. I mean, stories like this to me are just like noise. Yeah.

Just noise. It's, yeah. I just wish we could at least have people just look at me and tell me you just don't care about these kids. Yeah. Just tell me that. Just tell me you don't care about these kids. And then I don't even need to fight with you. There's no, I don't even, what am I going to argue with you about?

And then I can be like, okay, you're just a sick motherfucker who doesn't, you only give a fuck about your own. Don't argue with me, well, we have to do this. Just look me in the eye and say you don't care about these fucking kids. Well, I do. Right. But you really don't. Well, no, in the eye and say you don't care about these fucking kids. Well, I do. Right. But you really don't. Well, no, I do. No, you don't.

Show me how you care. That's the thing. It's just like you don't care. Just say you don't care. Well, you know why I care? You know who doesn't care? It's the parents who are bringing these kids with them up here. Right.

So if your house was on fire, you'd leave your kid in it? Because their country's on fire. Their town's on fire. Their town's on fire. Their society's on fire. But they weren't supposed to bring their kids with them? Well, how bad's the fire? Right, exactly. You know what I mean?

And that's the kind of shit. Is it in the addition? Because I didn't like the new addition to the house anyway. Well, did they permit the electrical work? Right. How many amps were they putting through that box? 30 amps? Exactly. Oh, come on come on i mean they're

asking for it right you know and don't even it's uh but yeah it's true i mean that's what we're getting where it's like everything is so xenophobic racist homophobic every form of phobia you can have against people who are different than you but no one it's like you're doing actually the most aggressive form you might as well just embrace the fact that you just embrace these labels for people who support this shit. If you can look at this situation at the border and be like, yeah, I'm fine. I'm good with this. I'm okay. My tax dollars are funding this.

Then you should be real enough to make the connection that you, in fact, just do not care about life if it's not something that looks exactly like your section of the country or your tribe or whatever. Can we open up our hearts please? I think that we just convinced them. I think we convinced them please tell your uncle to listen to this. But then he'll be

like well, this shit about these kids. I turned off at the oughta know song. I didn't like that song, and I've never liked Alanis. Alanis. I was always a Dave Coulier fan, and we know that song's about them. She did him dirty. I'm team Dave.

Team Dave. Sorry. Sorry, Alanis. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhearts 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. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions. Like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed?

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What is it, like you miss 100% of the shots you never take? Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself. Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion,

and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil.

I ain't really hear them voice. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her.

What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke.

I'm Carrie Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really hear them voice. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game?

And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to The Making of a Rivalry, Caitlin Clark vs. Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Let's keep checking in some some uh interesting takes on the right uh everybody remember everybody was on twitter uh here we know what goes down we're logged in there was that straight pride parade tweet noise took the world Right. It's in Boston, right? It's in Boston. Yes. Choose your words very carefully, my friends. Sorry? Choose your words very

carefully. Oh, I know. I forgot we have the mayor of Boston amongst us. I am Mayor Marty Walsh. You just cosplay as Jamie Loftus. That parade was going on. A lot of people had jokes. And then you also saw the bullshit come out of, again, trying to justify, rationalize why a pro-straight pride parade was something that was needed or necessary or not offensive at all.

And, you know, I just – we haven't heard in a while from Tomi Lahren. So I just wanted to check in with her to hear what she was saying. Because I feel like, you know, she always has some really, really interesting bullshit thoughts. So let's hear this one. You can be proud of about everything these days, so long as it's not straight, white, male, or God forbid, conservative. But as it turns out, the city of Boston may not be so tolerant and accepting of a straight pride parade either. It's time for First Thoughts. Yes, folks, it's gay pride month and let me be clear,

I have no issue with LGBT people being proud of who they are. I could do without seeing men in speedos and buttless shafts parading through the streets, but whatever, you do you. Sadly, at least in Boston, straight people aren't allowed to parade their heterosexuality for all to see. The rumored straight pride parade may be over before it's started.

The group calls themselves Super Happy Fun America and their mission is simple. Straight people will embrace our diverse history, culture, and identity in order to promote engagement with the community. Now, you wouldn't think that would be a problem, right? Wrong. Don't forget, it is open season on straight white men in this country and y'all aren't allowed to celebrate your straightness. It's 2019, don't you know that's been off limits for at least the last 10 years? But nevertheless, the super happy Fun America Straight Pride group was planning their parade for August 31st.

Alright, you can just cut this. I'm actually, I think, my eyes rolled back into my head. That was getting wonderful. Um, where do we start? Where do we go from here? Where do I start? Where do you begin? Chemical Brothers.

I don't know. I mean, again, it's just like I know why we're here, why the show exists, but I feel like statements like this are designed to A, appeal to a base, and B, to get people on the other side to talk about it. Yeah. And it's like, I don't want to, I mean, we know we hate her. We know she's going to have a dog shit take on absolutely everything. And it just feels like such like a release of, you know, it feels good and like cathartic to be like, yeah, she's like, she's wrong. She sucks.

But it's like, she still wins when we interact with her in that way. All right, well, let's keep it moving then. Well, okay. Yeah, fuck it. Cool. I don't give a fuck. I don't give a fuck about her.

I don't know. I think the one thing I just want to point out is just the way people are even looking at it. Because I think, if anything, it's important if you talk to people who think like this that you can help them understand they're probably not

gonna fucking understand but this idea she basically gives up the ghost by saying the whole idea or her whole argument presupposes that being part of the lgbtq community makes you diametrically opposed to heterosexuality yeah Because she sees it as, well, I'm heterosexual means that is my enemy or that is who I'm opposed. That's my opposition. And that's why I have to have a pride parade to show them because you merely exist,

you're saying I'm bad because I'm this way or I'm who I am. And it's just, again, there's no space. It's such a zero-sum game. What about Hillary? I am. And it's just, again, there's no space. Dude, it's the whole. It's such a zero-sum game. It's the whole what about Hillary. Right.

This can't be. If this is true, then that has to be false. Like, no, both things can be true. Right. Or false. Everything is so, yeah, it's such a binary. There's no, it's like the same thing even getting upset about Game of Thrones shit. Right.

Where it's like you've actually devoted all your energy to be angry about this difference in something than just being accepting that that's the way the world is right and we can all to me it's really simple somebody says why is there a gay pride parade i would say because not too recently in this history it wasn't okay to walk down the street and say i'm proudly yes yeah toly, yes. Yeah. To have pride. And so the parade is emphasizing that we can be out here and tell you I'm gay and be as loud as I want to about that, whether in my dress, my appearance, my words, my music, whatever it is, and say I'm gay. There's never been a problem with somebody walking down the street

saying I'm straight. So you didn't need to declare it. I mean, until they do this parade, I'm sure people will come out. It's just a lack of understanding of punching up versus punching down. That's just like there's no self-awareness about it. You're like, oh, I'm the dominant culture, but I'm asking the oppressed culture to be tolerant of my oppression. Yeah, the use of straight culture and straight history. I'm like, you're talking about history,

because that's the only history that's been acknowledged. Right. It's the same thing. It's like, why isn't there white entertainment television? It's called TV. Forever. Why is there a straight pride parade? It's called culture.

Right. So, fuck off. Okay, let's move on. Because fuck that. Okay. Now. Because we don't even give her any more air. Oh, if we see Tomi Lahren.

She lives in LA. She... I can't... Of course she does she's a dumb bitch oh yes wow holy shit i don't want to give her any more of my my thoughts i agree okay now uh the new x-men movie daniel it sounds like you and I, we just realized we both really like the X-Men franchise. You guys are big fans? I love superhero movies. I love X-Men the comics.

And I love the comics. I remember being a little kid wondering if when I turned 13 or 14 I was going to have a power. Really? 100%. I had a very active imagination. Hell yeah. How did you used to do that? I just wondered if I was just going to start to be able to move things with my mind.

Yeah, man. I remember being like 9, 10 years old watching the cartoon and being like i wonder because they don't because that's the whole thing it's all it's a puberty for that like that's when you start to like get your powers and stuff like that and so yeah i've i i just love that shit i'm sure i'm okay with it not being that good this is like people who love Godzilla if you love Godzilla you liked that movie yeah if you do not go into it being like I just love watching monsters destroy things then that movie is garbage but here's

did you see Godzilla? the whole thing is summed up by this people willingly getting too close to monsters that's all that movie is that's fun same for me like i'm going to see it tonight i've invited you to come with me if you would like uh there's gonna be i'm still gonna watch people with superpowers do superpower things so i'm walking

in if i put it on rotten tomato scale i'm walking in at like a 35 40 i'm already now it's at a 12 or something i know but i'm saying for me, it's going to be there. I might leave with it being that. I'd be like, oh, that wasn't more fun than I hoped it would be. But I'm still going to see some X-Men stuff. Even more than talking about Dark Phoenix, I'm more curious again,

what kind of superpower did you think you're going to have? I have no idea, dude. That's the joy of puberty. It was more just the, you're like, what's it going to be? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Damn. When I hit puberty, all I wanted was armpit hair.

And that shit was not coming. Really? Oh, man. I played basketball. Everyone was shooting free throws. I'm like, I'm wearing a t-shirt. Man, everybody else with armpit hair. I mean, telekinesis is the only thing you need.

Yeah, and armpit hair, though. And armpit hair. You know what I mean? Nature superpower. Did you ever want a superpower, Jamie? Yeah, I wanted invisibility because I was very shy. That's great, too. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, man. That was too sad, but it's true. But wouldn't you be afraid? That's the part where then you have to hear people being like, thank God, fucking old armpit hair left. Yeah. And I'm like, damn. But Miles doesn't even have armpit hair.

Yeah. Shit. I can hear you, motherfuckers. As I use my mind to move my tears away from my face. So good. Well, anyway, yes, the Dark Phoenix movie. It is getting fucking destroyed by critics. I mean, the interesting thing, because I'm not attached to the X-Men franchise.

It's just not something I really grew up with. But it is interesting that it's projected that the movie will be a financial failure. It remains to be seen. It cost $200 million, right? It cost a lot of money. A lot of reshoots. A lot of reshoots. But, I mean, aside from the franchise itself,

the implication of this movie failing could be pretty big because it was a big controversial part of the Fox-Disney merger. And this being a big Fox production, it could be a difference of where the direction that movies are going to go with Disney in the future. And if an X-Men movie just super tanks,

that might be the end of that kind of movie for a while. Right, because Disney has the taste of dollars on their lips when they're like, oh, MCU? MCU at the bank is how they always think about it. So thank you so much. Yeah, so I think for this, they're really, I think it's a jarring feeling for Disney as a company, but like you say, it's a threat to that Fox studio

that's making movies like this or like Ad Astra, that Brad Pitt weird space. Did you watch that trailer? I did. I did not understand what was going on, but fuck yeah. If you want to do a shootout on the moon. It seems like weird and it's like I would be sad and disappointed, but it seems like this might be the direction of things where you'll get less like weird, like anomaly movies like that because you'll only get the movies that are for sure going to make a billion dollars. Right.

Or a Disney-fied shit that they know. It's like, okay, we can tell a story like that, but it's going to be very easy to follow, not really subversive or make people question things. Yeah, can I tell this in PG or PG-13? Yeah. But yeah, that Ad Asher thing. I have no idea what that is.

I'm clapping guns in those Mars rovers. I have no idea what's happening. Also, in those Mars rovers. I have no idea what's happening. Also, every time, is Liv Tyler always just going to play Space Widows? Fair enough.

I haven't seen her in so long. She's back now. She's back. Somebody wants to go to space, she's there. The elf queen has returned. She's there crying at you

looking at a little screen from a spaceship. She probably has a great life, right? Oh, hell. I mean, her family, she got all that Armageddon money. She got the hell. Her family. She got all that Armageddon money. She got

all that Lord of the Rings money. I hope she's happy every day. Oh, I love Liv Tyler. Don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of her being a space widow. I remember my mom... Because in Armageddon, there is

an Aerosmith love song that plays over Liv Tyler in a romance scene. Yeah. And I remember being like, isn't that her dad singing over her kissing? And my mom was just like, he loves her so much. I was like, oh, okay. So it's fine. It's V-chill. I wish my dad would sing over me hooking up.

He's in the room just singing butterfly kisses. That's what I was saying. Yo, you go to the wedding and the, the father daughter dance, the butterfly kisses, which is always like every wedding. And I'm like,

the first time I heard that, I was like, yo, what the fuck is this song? That's why if I get married, I'm going to dance with my mom. Clarence Carter stroking. Oh my goodness. So yeah. Uh, dark Phoenix. Uh, I'm, I'm, I'm going to watch it cause I've Stroken. Oh my goodness.

So yeah, Dark Phoenix. I'm going to watch it because I've seen every X-Men film. Me too. And it's never going to be better than when you see it in the theater. No. The best version of this movie,

just like all the Pacific Rams, all that stuff, the best version of Godzilla, which I hated, is seeing it in the theater. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So go see it. It's not going to be better

on your laptop and an airplane later. Yeah, or exactly like streaming off Reddit, some janky third party site. No, don't get me started on that. Uh-oh. Whoa. I just hate people bootlegging movies. Wow. That's not how they're meant to be consumed.

Oh, not because think of the millionaires? You're just saying it's disrespectful to the art form. Yeah, 100%. Okay. I thought you were like, think of the studios, man. Piracy costs the industry. They're hurting. I'm honestly, I'm probably not going to see it.

I'm probably going to see Rocketman again. Oh, you loved it? Yo, my mom fucking loved Rocketman. It's big and dumb, and I loved it. It's big, dumb, and sexy. And it's fun, right? It's fun, yeah. I think, honestly, going into a biopic,

knowing that the subject of the movie is totally fine really changed my viewing of it. I was like, oh, anything could happen to Elton John in this movie. He's good. He's fine. He's got babies. He's thriving. Right, right, right. Yeah, exactly. You don't have to encounter much

darkness. It's a feel-good movie. It's big, dumb, and full of fun. I love it. Well, Daniel, thank you so much for coming through. Oh, thank you for having me. I'm glad you're back, dude. Thanks. I'm glad to see you again. Thanks, Shane.

Where can people find you, follow you, come see you? Go to, on social media, go to at DanielVanKirk. Go to my website, DanielVanKirk.com. I am starting up my tour again here in a couple of weeks on the 26th I'll be in Chicago and then Madison and then Kansas City then St. Louis

then Indianapolis that is all the last week and beginning of July and then I'm about to announce more dates for the Midwest as well as the East Coast and Northeast as well so go to Daniel Van Kirk

for all that stuff and if you're going to be in Clusterfest, come see Rory Scovel and I do a live version of our podcast, Pen Pals. It's just really fun. Rory's fucking hilarious. And I think that's on the 23rd of June. Nice. Yeah.

Okay, okay. Is there a tweet you've been liking? Something off the tweetars? Yeah, I had fun actually yesterday. Somebody tweeted at me. I'm'm gonna bring this up right now sorry i should have had it ready to go at uh mia maria solario do i risk buying tickets to see daniel van kirk in chicago while i'm very pregnant and this child can basically come at any point now or nah but what if I laugh so hard my water breaks? I wonder how far the hospital is from the venue. And I wrote, if it happens, I'll go with you.

Damn. Yeah. I loved that. I loved that. Will you though? Hell yeah. All right. I'm just making sure.

Can we take the audience? We'll do like an Andy Kaufman thing when everybody went and got milk and cookies. Oh, right. I'm like, guys, we're all going to the hospital. We're all going to be here for this birth. Do you mind if we're all in the delivery room? I'm officiating a fan wedding in April. You are?

Yeah, I'm going to Austin and I'm officiating a stranger's wedding. That's wonderful. Did you get ordained? I've got to get ordained. Universal Life Church? I've got until April to get ordained. They're getting married in April. Oh, yeah, you've got plenty of time.

Are they paying for you to get ordained? They should. It's only $35. Yeah, and then I get a plus one and I get to go to a fun wedding. And you get to go to Austin. I get to. I've never been. I'm excited.

That's wonderful. I'm so excited. Aw. I know. Well, Jamie, where can people find you and follow you? You can find me on Twitter at Jamie Loftus Help, Instagram at Jamie Cray Superstar. I just announced some London dates. I'm going to be doing

my show Boss Whom Is Girl in London on July 27th and 28th and then I'll be in Edinburgh for all of August. Nice. Yeah. UK's I can't pull the fuck up. Tweets you like? Tweets you like? Oh, okay. This is fun.

My boyfriend has a secret account that he just tweets his dots on. Not anymore. And you like? Tweets I like? Oh, okay. This is fun. My boyfriend has a secret account that he just tweets his thoughts on. Not anymore. And I just, yeah, I got permission to share one of Isaac's thoughts. Okay. Tired. A movie about a guy who hits his head and everyone forgets the Beatles so he becomes the most popular musician ever.

Wired. Movie about a guy who hits his head at a Halloween party and everyone forgets who Beetlejuice is so he becomes the most popular musician ever. Made me laugh. He's at Silicone Bong. Nice. And his bio is just trying to make my mark on this city.

Hell yeah. Do your thing, man. Do your thing, King. Brutal. Let's see. Oh, you can find me at milesofgray. A tweet I like. That's on Twitter and Instagram and PlayStation Network.

Tweet I like from Reductress. It's a woman with just a look of disbelief sitting on a couch with her male counterpart. Looks like a significant other comforting her. And the title says, I lived it. My crush didn't know their birth time um and look if astrology is important to you that shit is very important okay you don't know what time i'm gonna get the fuck your rising sign is um you can find us at daily zeitgeist on twitter at the daily zeitgeist on instagram uh well we got a facebook fan page and the daily zeitgeist as y'all already knows

production by heart radio and look for more podcasts on iHeartRadio through the iHeartRadio app. You know, wherever you get those shits from. We also have a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes. Thank you so much. With, you know, our episodes and, you know, general stuff that we write out. Now. Which is what? Oh, thank you so much. What do we write out on Twitter, Miles? What hour we that we ride out. Now. Which is what?

Oh, thank you so much. What do we ride out on? What hour we... I think they have to know. Oh, just you wait. We are doing a track from Bernice, and it's called Glue, from the album Puff. Without a something, something after a something happens.

But yeah, this is Bernice, called Glue. Get it on your shoe. And we'll talk to you what next week yeah have a good weekend because it's a daily show we'll see you next week bye

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