The Daily Zeitgeist - R(U)(S)si(A), Oprah’s Favorite Things (For Rich Slobs) 11.9.18

Episode Date: November 9, 2018

In episode 271, Jack and Miles are joined by podcaster Yusong Liu to discuss RBG's fall, the White House releasing a doctored video to attack Jim Acosta, Trump's attempt to push back on the Mueller investigation by making his friend the acting attorney general, another mass shooting in America, the left's witchcraft, Oprah's favorite thing list with super producer Anna Hossnieh, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized With 3 Broken Ribs2. Reporters condemn White House decision to bar CNN's Acosta3. White House shares doctored video to support punishment of journalist Jim Acosta4. Trump’s Appointment of the Acting Attorney General Is Unconstitutional5. US Mass Shootings, 1982-2018: Data From Mother Jones’ Investigation6. How gun control works in America, compared with 4 other rich countries7. 12 dead in California bar shooting8. What Do We Know About the Association Between Firearm Legislation and Firearm-Related Injuries?9. WEST VIRGINIA DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE WAS PAGAN WITCHCRAFT CULT LEADER10. Wicca Emerged as Controversy in West Virginia Election11. Witches cast 'mass spell' against Donald Trump12. Here's Why This Witch Is Preparing for Midterm Elections by Hosting a Hex on Brett Kavanaugh13. Oprah's Favorite Things List14. WATCH: Snoh Aalegra - Sometimes (feat. Logic) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Miles of Graniac, Graniac for love, and he's a gang like he's never ganged before. Mmm, Hannah Soltis with some goodness right there. Thank you. Also, Hannah, if you could please go back and tell me the tune of half of the AKAs you do, I don't know. I know! And so, that helps. Guys, we're a little bit ignorant here, so if you could do go back and tell me the tune of half of the AKAs you do, I don't know. I know. And so that helps. Guys, we're a little bit ignorant here. So if you could do to the tune of, that would also help because I don't know every song.

We're just a hashtag and then the name of the podcast. Oh, I thought you said we're just a hashtag. No, it's just something to clue me in. I often have to Google the song. The words. And I'm like, oh, I can't hit those notes. Or you just take out the words that are clearly edited to fit the AKA, and you're like, ah, I got all these fragments.

Maybe Google will know. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the producer of one of my favorite podcasts and a podcaster in his own right, Mr. Yusong Liu. Hey. Hi. What's up, man? Thanks for being here. Of course. I wish I prepared

a song parody with my name in it. Well, you have song in your name, so that's enough. I've suffered a lot of name puns when I was in school, so I think the close is like, you can tell everybody this is YouSong.

There you go. Seriously. Fire. You can tell everybody this is your song. Yeah, there you go. Boom. There it is. It's super narcissistic. Dude, seriously. Fire. Yeah. I hope you don't mind. Yeah.

That was really good, man. Is that that song? Yeah. I hope you don't mind. I only know it from Moulin Rouge. That's from Moulin Rouge, right? That song. Yeah, they made it for that. It's by Moulin Rouge.

Right. Yeah, that's fun. I love Moulin Rouge. Man, the songs they do. For real? Lady Marmalade. Yeah, Moulin Rouge is one of my favorite artists for sure. YouSong, you are the producer of Doughboys, which I have mentioned more than once on this podcast.

Yeah. Big fan. Oh, thank you. And on that show, you play a character who is just ritually abused by the hosts, Mitch and Nick. I think maybe this is problematic to say. I definitely have that energy. I invite that because deep, deep, deep. Oh, come on now.

Don't internalize that. No, I think I'm an only child, but I have a very younger sibling vibe where I'm just seeking out attention no matter what the cost is. Right. I think they can tell my eyes get shimmering every time they joke that I'm fired. Right, right. It's a good symbiotic relationship. Bullies are good at picking up on that energy.

Because I know when I see somebody who I'm like, oh, I might not be able to help myself with this person because I just want to fuck with you all the time and I don't know what it is. Yeah. Now Miles is always putting his finger in my chest. Yeah, exactly. Well, now I've moved up to your forehead.

I'm like, get your mind right, Jack. It's true. It's true. All right, Yusong, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. But first, we're going to tell our listeners what we're talking about today. RGB fell down. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is, just so you guys know, I know what those letters stand for. RGB, though.

I was like, oh, red, green, blue. Did I say RGB? Yeah, I like Ruth Ginsburg Bader. Ruth Ginsburg Bader fell down, and that was terrifying, and hopefully she gets better. She will be. She'll be fine. She'll be fine. She'll be fine.

The White House is using Dr. Video. She'll be fine. She'll be fine. The White House is using Dr. Video. They have officially entered Stalin-level just fuckery. We're going to talk about Trump's attempts to shut down the Mueller investigation via acting Attorney General CrossFit. We're going to talk about the mass shooting that happened in Southern California and the rise of witchcraft on the left. I don't know why it turned into Jesse the Body Venturer there. What took over you?

Because it's scary. It's freaky. These witches, man. Trying to take down Jesus. Don't trust them. And finally, we're going to have super producer Anna Hosnier on for a special segment we're calling Anna's Favorite Oprah's favorite things. She's going to tell us what she likes, what she doesn't like, probably shout a lot in

Oprah's voice. I think she liked everything. Yeah, she liked a lot. Because yesterday it was just like, ee, ee, ee, look at this mixer. But first, YouSong, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Okay, so when I got this, I immediately looked, and I was horrified because this paints a really accurate picture of me.

It was Super Mario Odyssey Luncheon Kingdom Star 48. Wow, very specific. It was because I was already stressed, so I didn't want to lose a game at the hands of another human being. So I was like, I'm going to play something by myself, but ended up getting so frustrated that I needed to look up how to do it anyway. So what was going on exactly? It was like how to get a specific star or moon in that game.

And it was number 48. It was number 48, yeah. Fantastic. And you watched the playthrough on YouTube. What do you do? Do you just get the article that explains where to go? It's either you watch the YouTube video on 2x speed or you just angrily scroll through the IG article

until you find the screenshot that you need. Right, right. Are there still cheat websites? Because hasn't cheating been basically sort of phased out of games over the years? I feel like cheat codes aren't as prevalent as they used to be. Yeah, I remember the Age of Empires, Big Daddy cheats and stuff like that.

I don't think anything like that exists anymore. Yeah, it's weird. Because I used to remember, I used to go on this website, cheatcc.com, cheat code central. Because any time

a game came out, you almost knew there were codes for it. And now I'm like, I don't know if I've matured, I'm like, I don't need codes anymore. But then I was singing

with the new Red Dead, I'm like, Rockstar usually used to put cheats and shit in there. And they don't have to. Whatever. That's just me. I'm a cheater. Can't trust me.

Can't trust me. You, Song. What is something you think is overrated? Okay. I was thinking about this yesterday. I had something really well thought out. And then I listened to today's episode. And it was almost like the exact same thing.

Oh, really? I'll try to. I think there's enough different about it. This is today's episode. Oh, you're right. You're right. I was listening to today's episode and it was almost like the exact same thing. Oh, really? I think there's enough difference about it. This is today's episode. Oh, you're right. You're right. I was listening to yesterday's episode. Sorry. No, either way.

I mean, it's up to you how you perceive time. I'm sorry. That's a bad joke. Go on. I think Twitter is overrated. And specifically, I think surprise on Twitter is overrated by people on the left. I don't know if it was like the oversaturation because of the midterm elections, but I could not believe that people were like shocked that it wasn't as much of a blue wave as it was,

just emotionally. It felt like a lot of the response came from like, well, we've been talking about it for the last two years. And I just think that like, I'm sure this is pretty obvious, but Twitter is not a mirror to society. But I think sometimes people lose track of that. Like I never see an opinion

that I disagree with on Twitter. The only times that I'll see that is when it's like retweeted with a quote from a comedian, like with a, with a funny quip. And so in that sense, it's just like, oh, right. This is an echo chamber. I think it's pretty like ideologically segregated. I don't think that you should be that surprised that there's a whole nother world out there. be that surprised right that there's a whole nother world out there yeah yeah yeah no that's that's true so how where do you communicate with people if you aren't just how do you follow about yeah it's the only place i go to read words oh i mean i'm weak i i'm on twitter so much i i i would uh i would be so mortified if someone looked at like my iphone usage and saw how much time was on twitter right now yeah even right now oh i how much time was on Twitter right now. Let's see right now.

I love screen time. I want to know. I'm embarrassed because as much as the Super Mario Odyssey thing implies that I'm a nerd, I don't know how to actually look up the screen time. I don't either. But I'm sure it's a horrifying amount. I think it's in settings. We'll figure it out. What was the game you were playing that you didn't want to lose to another person? Oh, man.

It was either going to be Hearthstone or League of Legends and this is mmm yeah I know what those games are what's something you think is underrated yeah what'd you think of worlds Jack yeah totally something that I think was underrated was that like I talked to the friend of from high school and she she lives in DC and so I was like asking her about the vibe in the city that night and she used to intern for like the State Department and stuff. So I really valued her opinion. And it was just like, oh, I haven't like really talked to a single person about issues and actually listened to what they had to say

and then responded to what I thought about what they had said. And that was just really nice. So you talked to her about, is she more of a conservative? Oh, no, no, no. I think we were both ideologically pretty similar. But in terms of, I had the ABC livestream on and then Twitter just constantly refreshing on my phone. And so just having one person to talk to rather than ten voices at the same time was really nice that night. Like the way people used to find out about stuff.

Talking to people. Yeah, yeah about stuff. Talking to people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Huh. Damn. When was the last time you had a phone call that was over five minutes? Man.

And like a real, you know, like old school phone calls like how we used to get down. Not FaceTime with my mom showing her the kids. Nah, nah, nah. And not a parent one.

Yeah. The homie or homegirl. It's probably been a parent one. Yeah. The homie or homegirl. It's probably been a couple months at the least. Yeah. Maybe a year. Yeah. Maybe seven years. Yeah.

I don't really talk to people that much. I had a good phone call maybe a couple weeks ago, and I realized, damn, I fucking do not do this. I used to be. Technology's fucked us up in that way did you plan it or was it spontaneous that phone call it was kind of spontaneous like we both had time and we just kind of kept talking and kept talking and kept talking and it was like oh yeah dope and I was like 40 minutes later I'm like cool yeah I'll talk I'll holler at you later my best friend like everybody always talks about the fact that he just calls people to talk

and we're just like what the fuck's going on? What do you need? Is everything okay? It's actually great. It's a great way to... It's good to have long conversations with people sometimes. That used to be seen as a bad thing. Being on the phone all the time? When I was growing up,

my older sister was always on the phone and our parents would be like, it's going to rot your brain. Did you have your own phone line? Did she have her own phone line? No. Yeah, I had to unplug the fax machine, and I would use that as my phone. Right.

And I was like, yo, I got this number. You can call me there. We could talk fucking at 11 at night. I don't give a fuck. My mom won't find out. I'll whisper. And we'll watch Conan together on the phone. Watch Conan together on the phone.

I used to just watch TV and be on the phone with somebody. You know what I mean? And you will both be just not saying a fucking thing. And they'd be like, ha, ha, ha, what about that? And then you'd be like, all right, I gotta go. Yeah. What is a myth? What's something people think is true

that you know to be false? Okay, I think about mental health a lot. And maybe this is just a myth that only I believed in, but it was like, when I was younger, I thought like, oh, once you recognize like the deep-seated reason that you do a certain behavior,

you'll be able to stop doing that behavior immediately. Like once you trace it back to like the real reason. Right. This is the day that my parents like made me do this.

Yeah. March 7th, 2001. Yeah. Uh-oh. I was denied that. My dad came to my track meet and I knew something was wrong. He never came to my track meets.

This is what the episode is going to be about, by the way, for the rest of it. Well, I'm telling you, yeah. I'm talking about my parents split. Anyway, I'm sorry. Break Your Neck by Busta Rhymes is playing on the radio when he told me. Anyway, go on. But lately, I've been identifying risky behaviors that I do. And I'm a huge dork.

So risky behaviors for me are like drinking one beer or taking one hit like it's really it's pretty embarrassing but like crack yeah yeah yeah yeah I noticed your fingertips were pretty black no thank you guys for having a smooth surface here but even though I can so clearly recognize why I'm doing these behaviors I can't like it's not that easy and I was like why is this happening and then I realized oh people know McDonald's is bad and they still go to McDonald's like it's not it's not uh that. And I was like, why is this happening? And then I realized, Oh, people know McDonald's is bad and they still go to McDonald's. Like it's not, it's not, uh,

that simple. So that's something that I've been, hopefully that's a myth that other people believe. Yeah. Well, I'm also, I'm very happy for you. Cause it sounds like that's the most at risk you're putting yourself is having one being

taking the errant hit here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh man, we got to hang out, man. I didn't know we had a fucking wild man.

Holy shit. Get Jeff Van Vonderen in here from Intervention. Yeah. Yeah, no, I think that's true. And I think even when it comes to non-indulgent behavior, like when it's just treating somebody else like shit or a personality quirk, it's really hard to... I mean, that's basically what all

therapy is is you're finding out from an objective source like oh you're an asshole in this very specific way but like you need to be told that weekly or you are not going to you just go back to your old behaviors your old patterns

so I think that's a great one man let's talk about ruth bader ginsburg oh my god that was that was some scary shit yo when i just saw a headline that said ruth bader ginsburg had fallen and was in the hospital i my balls fell off my body yes and i turned into obi-wan i just a pile of clothes just hit the fucking floor i don't know why my bottles balls had to be but anyway i could have just done the fucking floor. I don't know why my balls had to leave. But anyway, I could have just done the Obi-Wan metaphor. That was unrelated.

Yeah, unrelated. Yeah, I just got a new bike seat not working out for me. But yeah, so when you read that, your gut reaction is, oh my God, you're 85 years old. We don't have enough years. Like, we don't know where this administration is going to go. We can't have another kavanaugh appointment uh but yes when you actually read this story and kind of put it all together and knowing how the strength of this woman of darth bader herself uh you'll know that the fucking three fractured ribs ain't shit i mean she had cancer surgery and was back at the supreme court

in a week or you know what i mean but apparently like she fell in her office and hurt herself it was able to go home yeah it was just like, she fell in her office and hurt herself. It was able to go home. Yeah, it was just like, ah. Once she got home, she's like, ugh, something ain't right. Yeah. Something's not right. And then looked down, and there were ribs poking out of her side.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, through the skin. She's trying to get the black smoke to stay inside her body. Right. So one question I had is, like, if she is sick in the hospital for months or something like that, or if a Supreme Court justice is sick in the hospital, but like ideologically they know they don't want, let's hypothetically say, an asshole, terrible president to appoint another shitty Supreme Court justice. What would happen? I wonder. Somebody, John Grisham should write a book about that.

Yeah, I feel like anything short of like an official resignation, I'm hoping and praying that like, that legally there wouldn't be a way for- Is it brain death? Like, is that the end of the thing? Is it brain death? Is that the end of the thing? Is it heart death? They only take, I think, death, voluntary resignation, or congressional impeachment and conviction

could remove you. Oh, thank God. So she could be like, I ain't letting go, motherfucker. Right, right. Yeah. Just in the thing. Yeah, so I mean, she can refuse to do so.

Yeah. And it doesn't mean, if she can't attend court, that she gets removed. Let's not even go down that path do so. And, like, it doesn't mean if she can't attend court that, you know, she gets removed. Let's not even go down that road, Jack. No, let's just keep her. She's going to live forever, just like my dog. And my parents will always live forever. I'm four years old, and I don't want to look at this.

On an optimistic note, I was looking up, like, her workout routine and all the articles from, like, there's so many videos that are, like, I tried Ruth Bader Ginsburg workout and I couldn't do it. And so like that. For real? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Apparently she has like a personal trainer and is like super into just staying healthy. And I think her trainer has released the book or is releasing the RBG workout like tape or book.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So maybe we'll have to do that on the show and live stream that shit. That would be way too embarrassing. Yo, I can't have people seeing me fucking die after two years old. Just a puddle of sweat underneath. You slip and hit your head from your own sweat. No, but I mean, broken ribs happen.

Fractured, Jack. Let's call them fractured. Let's not use such terrible language. But broken ribs, you don't have to get a cast or anything. Can you get a cast if you break your ribs? No, you can't. There's not anything you can't like there's not anything you can do it's just really painful right like it hurts when you breathe and

laugh and laugh like that one kawaii leonard clip yeah when it was like kawaii leonard laughed like he got broken ribs well let's talk about this doctored video then that the White House released to justify their bullshit about Jim Acosta. Yeah. So let's talk about the context. So the press conference. This is at Trump's just ranting press conference where he started out as a mafia don and transitioned to WWE villain. Oh, got a comedian here. Yeah. He literally said, oh,, got a comedian here. He literally said, oh, we got a comedian here.

Did he? Yeah. Really? Who are you with? Yahoo. Okay. Yahoo, you guys doing? I hope you guys are doing well.

All right. Like, it was just a total fuck. How about you, AOL? Yeah, what about you, AOL? What's going on in Carta? You read about this? I mean, he's good. He's a good bully.

Oh, yeah. In terms of being a bully, he is good at it. Nick and I were watching the press conference, and we were laughing because, on one hand, it was such masterful New York asshole bullying. But then you're disheartened when it's like the president, and it's Trump, and it's not a sketch on SNL. Right. And then we're like, oh, fuck.

But also, hey, man, I like that, hey, comedian over here. Right. Yahoo, okay. It was almost impressive, like, responding to that question of, like, do you think your messaging has incited racism? To respond to that with, that's a racist question, is truly, like, the most, like, horrifying and accurate definition of, like, gaslighting and just bullying.

Right. Flipping it on them. But, yeah, so that. Maybe you're racist. What? I just said you call yourself a nationalist and that might embolden white nationalists. Oh, that's racist. Yeah, right.

They're racist. I'm not racist. You're racist. You're black. So you're racist. That means that's what racist means. So, yeah. Anyway, that press conference got heated. We saw Yamiche Alcindor, who was the one who had that little interaction. And then Jim Acosta, who, you know, he always has his moments with the president he went big yeah he went big he swung for the stands we could tell it looked like he was trying to get your our boy old orange hair to fuck up um but at one point and a white house aide came up and tried to remove the microphone from him and first like reached for it and he was just kind of like no no I'm still I'm still rocking

the mic and she did it again he's like nah and then she put her hand on the mic and he kind of just turned away and kind of like sort of was just like no i got this right so pushed her hand pushed her hand away and nothing in any way that people in the room were like oh my god what the fuck did jim just do yeah nobody thought it was it looked like he it was like if a kid if you're playing keep away from a child right and it's like no no no no right yeah well get the fuck back i got the mic right i call time out yeah exactly um so you know during that press conference i think trump said he was like an awful terrible human being as my voice cracks uh and like shouldn't is a disgrace to cnn or whatever and then later that day we found out that the white house had revoked his press credentials had taken away his white

house hard pass to basically say, man, you're not even coming near this motherfucker anymore. See ya later. And everyone was like, this is what is going on. Seems like an overreaction? Yeah, it seems so transparent based on what had happened earlier. He clearly, him and Jim Acosta, they get

fired together. And then so after initially people were asking, what the fuck was that about? Whatever. Sarah Sanders tweets out this video about you know they created this narrative about how he had attacked a white house aide and put his hands on her or whatever and she tweets out a video where you know it looked like he not really full really hit or anything but kind of just did like a very short karate chop or something yeah look at the way it went from my mic. Yeah, it was violent. It looked violent or at least more violent than what happened. Yeah, I mean, I guess more the speed was fast. I don't know if it was violent, but she was saying,

look at this video, and I think there's no reason to argue what had happened. However, that video has been fucking altered, edited, and sped up to make it look much more severe than it was. And then so now, you know how the internet is, especially Twitter, all the Twitter detectives come out, all kinds of side-by-side videos came out of all the discrepancies of timing and things like that. And it was clear that it was doctored. So they just sped up the part where his hand goes down to make it look like he was hitting

her. And they added him going, yeah! And then her arm came off and blood. I don't know if you remember the blood and kill Bill, you know, when she goes wild, the blood sprayed all over the East room. Yeah.

And so again, it was just a really odd thing. And now, yeah, we're at that point where the white house is going to use doctored evidence to try and restrict the access of a journalist. Yeah. No,

no, this is fucking horseshit. I mean like super scary only because like, evidence to try and restrict the access of a journalist? No. No. This is fucking horseshit. I mean, like, super scary only because, like, it was such a subtle edit, but it changes the color so much. It's just like, if you had shown the real video to anyone and, like, preconceived biases aside, if you had no political affiliation, I think everyone would agree. I would be confident that everyone would agree. Nothing went wrong there.

Right. But then just the slightly faster shot makes it seem so much more like aggravated and pointed at the White House. I mean, look, if attempted rape is horseplay, that ain't shit. Yeah. So let's be real. Like, look at your own Overton window, Republicans. You know what I mean? Like, that is not even close. But again, a lot of people came out. The White House Correspondents Association was like, this is we absolutely reject this decision from the White House. They need to take it back. They need to recredential him. point of like, you know, don't just say that you oppose this decision.

Sue the White House because they're actually infringing upon his First Amendment rights. He's not doing anything. He's doing his job in the capacity of a journalism, asking a question. And then they're going to retaliate by cutting off his access and thereby hindering his ability to have any continuity to his job. And I think that is a thing that has to be looked at more. Now we're looking at people's rights being violated. It's not just, oh, he doesn't like Jim Acosta. You're not allowed at the party anymore.

They should have let him. I don't understand this idea or why at least we're not making a bigger point of what they're doing. And also Sarah Sanders in her capacity as a White House press secretary, they all take an oath of office. These people, they work for the American people. And to then begin using altered video to try and obscure their own misbehavior, their own misdeeds and transgressions, that is a fucking, it's an abomination for lack of a better word. It's a very like Soviet Russia did it a lot. Like, they were actually at the forefront of Photoshopping

because Stalin always wanted people he killed Photoshopped out of pictures. So they were really good at, like, just getting rid of people from pictures. And then Putin has had people removed from interviews, like, from interview shows, basically, that, like, when they reran, that person was just gone from the set of the show.

So it's very much Russian behavior, and now they're basically just trying to Photoshop Jim Acosta out of all future press conferences, too. Well, I guess for a video, I guess we'll switch to Premiere. Right. They're premiering him out of... But this is the same thing the White House does, too, with official transcripts, altering transcripts, too.

So after the fact, you're looking like, wait, hold on. These whole lines of questions are missing because they're trying to completely alter history. And I think it's a shame that this is happening. And to see someone from the White House sort of distributing altered footage to not allow us to have – we already have a problem with people agreeing on what is factual in this country. So to perpetuate that in their capacity in the White House, I think is fucking criminal. I think there's also like there's a slight gendering of it, too. Right.

Or it's like it's very specific that Jim Acosta is doing this to a female White House. Right. And so that also like belies like a lack of moral character. That's just so like, oh, man, you guys don't care about anything. You're just trying to make your point, whatever it is. I think, you know what? Just stop going to Sarah's press briefings.

Yeah. At the very least. Because you don't need them. She doesn't say anything that isn't spin. It's all spin and any other thing, that news will come out regardless. Because every time, it's just the president does something

and then they go, teacher, teacher, teacher, what did he do? And she's like, y'all don't know shit. Sit the fuck down. I'm going to say some lies. Like it's fucking, it's just the president does something and then they go, teacher, teacher, teacher, what did he do? And she's like, I don't know shit. Sit the fuck down. I'm going to say some lies. Like it's fucking useless. It really is completely useless.

Yeah, there's no point. It might as well just be like Breitbart and Fox News just in an empty, otherwise empty room, just being like, that was, yesterday was awesome. That was sick. Fuhrer, I mean, Miss Madam Secretary or whatever you are. Yeah. Yeah.

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Go to realdealonfentanyl.com. This message is brought to you by the Ad Council. And we're back. So the president's attempt to shut down Muelleruller by firing jeff sessions and putting in an acting attorney general who is a bald crossfit ain't nothing wrong being bald and doing crossfit right yeah my bad shout out to my homies at the cave but some people are saying that that is unconstitutish. And according to Kellyanne Conway's husband, he agrees. He actually wrote an op-ed for the New York Times in which he said this.

Yeah. So the whole idea of him appointing Matt Whitaker to acting attorney general, they're saying it actually goes against everything that's in the constitution. Uh, they're the idea that like any person who's going to be running a cabinet like that, where your only person you report to is the president needs Senate confirmation. And it's like, these positions have been held for like even smaller offices that they were like, it could be like legal counsel and a person wasn't confirmed. And even the Supreme court ruled like, no, no like legal counsel and a person wasn't confirmed. And even the Supreme Court ruled like, no, no, no, this, this is also one of those positions where you need Senate confirmation, because that's how we avoid concentrating power in bizarre ways.

You know, it's like the founding fathers had an idea of shit that could go wrong. And in this time, he's arguing that, you know, it's very clear that Rod Rosenstein or the Solicitor General are Senate confirmed people who could have just filled right into this position. But by doing this and putting him at the levers of the DOJ and being the top law enforcement – Yeah, putting Whitaker in, it's just clearly like, oh, anything he does is not constitutional because for him to be in that role, it has to be a Senate-confirmed person. And they're trying to use the Constitution's Appointments Clause to sort of be like, oh, it's fine, that's why he's there, because he can be there for 200 days or whatever. And they're like, no, no, no, actually, there is some kind of precedent here to say that, no, this person has to be Senate-confirmed.

Because then we're looking at a situation where you have someone like Matt Whitaker who worked with Sam Clovis who was caught up in the Mueller investigation Someone like Matt Whitaker, who worked with Sam Clovis, who was caught up in the Mueller investigation and has numerous hot takes out there from his op eds or being on TV where it's clear he wants like the Mueller thing to completely go away. So when you look at that, you're like, dude, of course you would you would want someone like in this position to be have some kind of Senate confirmation or to know that this person isn't just going to abuse their post as attorney general. MARK MANDELMANN Yeah, I failed my duty as a citizen because I only very recently Googled, what does the attorney general actually do? Embarrassing as that is to admit, it's like, oh, you're a lawyer for the government, the government at large.

And right now, this is such a clear personal interest move that it's like, I think that the public perception now thinks that the attorney general is the president's uh attorney right which is right so not true yeah and like i i didn't know that michael whittaker was like a name that i was supposed to be keeping track of so like i also did some research into that and he was the he wrote an op-ed that was there was just titled i would indict hillary clinton in 2016 and it was just like oh okay this makes a lot of sense like your character, CrossFit aside, everything else is pretty damning. Right. And he's either Dave Matthews band lover or hater.

We're still trying to decipher that tweet. Yes. When he called Dave Matthews the Jimmy Buffett of our time. What a sick burn. George T. Conway III is Kelly Conway's husband. Kelly Ann Conway. I call her Kelly. Conway's husband, Kelly and Conway. I call her Kelly Conway's husband. And if you listen to the most recent season of a slow burn,

he's actually like in one meeting that is like part of the takedown of Bill Clinton. Like, I think it was like when Monica Lewinsky's the tapes of Monica Lewinsky talking about the affair came out that like, I think George Conway was part of a team of lawyers who then like brought it over to Ann Coulter's house. So like, he's like a hardcore conservative. He's like one of those like, you know, behind the scenes, pulling the strings, you know, trying to get liberals fired. And he's still just like, yo,

get liberals fired. And he's still just like, yo, this is a fuck bag. Yeah, he doesn't like him. Although my one thing is that pointing out that this isn't constitutional because he hasn't been approved by the Senate, like the Senate would immediately confirm this guy, right? Like, yeah, probably. But I think they want to avoid any kind of confirmation hearing where you have people like Dianne Feinstein, people like asking him directly, will you recuse yourself from the Mueller investigation because X, Y, and Z. Right. So it's easier to just be like, okay, just get this dude in here. He's already on the same page. He'll blow the shit up.

Then we'll put in Lindsey Graham or whoever, Chris Kobach or Chris Christie or Chris Mullen. I don't know. Hardwick. Yeah. Hardwick or Chris Mullen. I don't know. Hardwick. Yeah. Hardwick or Chris Mullen. Anybody. Do you think after the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, although it's an entirely different procedure,

that the bar has now been lowered so much that even if it were to approach- Yeah, I was going to say, well, if the Senate directly asks you a question, you can't not answer it, right? You can be like, what? I like beer. What, bitch? Like, oh, my gosh. Do I what? Fuck you. What, bitch? Like, oh my gosh. Do I what? Fuck you.

What are you deadlift? Sherrod. That's a fucking, that's almost like Sharon, dude. Get out of my face with that shit. Next question. Lindsey, what? I love this Matt Whitaker character. He's great.

He's a fucking toxic bro. I mean, he looks like he's a fucking giant. Yeah. And like a former, I think, tight end or some shit at Iowa. He's a fucking hoss. He looks like one of the guys you fight in Mike Tyson's Punch Out, the original one. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

He's like meth butter bean. Yes. Yes, he is meth butter bean. All right. There was another mass shooting in Southern California two nights ago at a bar that, Miles, you used to frequent. Yeah, Borderline, which is wild. And I was telling you guys about that a few weeks ago,

about how I used to sneak into that place or go to, like, all-ages night. Because when I was in high school, that was, like, one of the few places around the city that was, like, lame enough to do, like, an all-ages night at, like, a club kind of thing. So we would go and pretend, you know, have our mom chop us up. Right. And pretend we're at the club, you know what I mean?

And, yeah, the shooting. I think you'd hide in the bathroom. Hide in the bathroom. Or you do the other thing, college night, you go in the bathroom, wait for them to clear out the minors, and then the regular night comes, you're already in the bar. That didn't always work, but we tried it. Right.

You know, Rapscallion. So, yeah, to find out about this shooting where you know 12 people were killed and the gunman so that would be 13 in total yeah it was a really kind of eerie thing i mean we talk about mass shootings basically monthly at this point on the show yeah and it's like not that i'm calloused about it or become jaded about the whole thing but this was sort of like it was very eerie for me because i'm like wow like it was one of those few places where i could i can actually put myself in that place yeah at a time and this was on college night too i think yeah there's a lot of

young people yeah and you had you know people in like amongst the the crowd who were like lived through the las vegas shooting yeah and yeah i think it's just someone to be in the like survive that shooting and this one is just like so eerily american in a way yeah that yeah it's i don't even know what to say anymore it's it's just really disheartening and i know we're gonna have people do the mental health versus gun control thing to come up and i think at this point we have to keep looking at it and just saying yes mental health is gun control thing to come up. And I think at this point, we have to keep looking at it and just saying, yes, mental health is an aspect too, but having guns is really, you know, it was a person with a gun. Yeah, it's the key differentiator between,

you know, countries where there are just as bad mental health issues that don't have, you know, there are 10.6 gun deaths per 100,000 people in the United States, Switzerland, 2.8, Canada, 2, Australia, 1, Germany, 0.9, the UK is 0.3, Japan, 0.2, you know, actual normal gun laws. So yeah, and those places all have mental health issues. It's just that when people break or, you know, have a really bad day or go off their medication in those countries, they don't own guns. quotes that I saw circulating in relation to the shooting was that the shooter was known by his neighbors to have terrible PTSD. He was actually a decorated Marine who had done a couple tours in Afghanistan, was decorated, but had really been struggling with PTSD. And they were all openly wondering how he could have gotten his hands on a gun. And the answer is he legally owned a gun. That's just what our laws allow for, is he was able to have a gun, even though he was struggling

with PTSD. And that's also often misunderstood. You don't really see that many things in pop culture where somebody who's struggling from PTSD like goes on a violent rampage like a sustained rampage but yeah people who are struggling with PTSD can basically black out for long periods of time and you know just do crazy stuff that they have no recollection of after the fact yeah well yeah and I hope this can also bring a little more awareness to mental health for veterans too, because this is part and parcel of, you know, there's a trend of veterans coming back and taking their own lives. You know, some estimates around 20 to over like 20 and 22 veterans take their own lives every day in this country. And that's a statistic that,

you know, it should be really frightening for people to think about and, you know, and have us, I mean, you'd think for all of the things, I know that in the last budget, they upped like the budget for mental health resources for the VA. But I think this is something that, you know, the United States has a really bad, like problem of not really fully taking care of the troops when they come back and helping them through all of the issues that come with being in active combat zones. Yeah. I wish there was a stronger rhetoric

that could be used because I think the best thing you could advocate for is common sense gun reform. And even that somehow clearly doesn't hold enough weight in the light of all this tragedy. So, yeah. You sound like a communist to me actually with that common sense gun control stuff. What's going on, Obama?

I think the fact that you brought up that he owned the gun legally was immediately adopted as a talking point for the right. Like, oh, like, look at this. Like he, you know, guns aren't the problem. I don't know. Right. It was just very there was just a lot of immediate arguing on on twitter and i yeah yeah i i do know no i know that like the right does say like oh i bet you want this to be an ar-15 but it wasn't it was a handgun

he owned it legally it's like yeah well that's fucking a problem that those are lost sadly a police officer even lost his life yes coming in there responding like you know very quickly but again and they can say well there needs there needs to be protection they had security there police showed up very quickly and this still happened because this is also somebody who has like training with weapons too this isn't just a person who got a hold of a gun and just started acting out some kind of violent urge or whatever. You know, this is someone who also has training who understands combat. And it's just a terrible, terrible thing. And, you know, it definitely hits close to home for me.

And seeing just sort of that CHP sergeant's body sort of move through the city and like all the people come out to pay their respects was, yeah, tough to see. It's really moving, but also completely unnecessary. Yeah. I think that even like at the time for mourning and the idea of suggesting a silver lining is maybe lacks like taste, but at least in the midterm elections, 27 NRA backed candidates lost, which is like a great sign. And yeah.

Yeah. And you'd hope, yeah. Like, sadly, I feel it. They don't know until it shows up on their doorstep. Yeah. For some people, they don't know until it shows up on their doorstep. Yeah. For some people. They don't know what the cost actually is, whether it's global warming or gun control. And you'd hate for people to sort of come to these realizations in this way.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, now it's time to talk about something we really need to be afraid of in America, guys, and that is witchcraft. Yo. I'm glad you're saying that. Good pivot. Thanks. Palate cleanse.

Thank you. Because, man, witches get stitches, huh? I mean, Yusong, you were pointing out earlier that Trump's response to a question about whether his talking points encourage racism, calling that question racist. This seems like his favorite thing to accuse other people of is that there's a witch hunt going on. And that the right is the victim of a witch hunt. But the right and powerful men in particular are the ones who are notorious for, you know, they invented the witch hunt. Or, you know, they invented the witch hunt. And that is actually something that they're literally bringing back on the right as of the Kavanaugh hearings and... Mueller.

Mueller. And there was a West Virginia candidate who the Daily Caller noted that she was a Wiccan. And they were like, she's a witch. And witches are anti-Christ, they're against Jesus. Therefore, vote for a Nazi. Right. Therefore, exactly.

So I don't know. It's a story that we touched on before, but it's being taken more seriously than I even thought before. So there was a group in New York who was saying, we're going to do a public ritual to hex Brett Kavanaugh, which- Didn't work, so let's calm down about the witches. Right. But the use of witchcraft by people, by women and people who don't have a lot of societal

power is common. That's where a lot of societal power is common. That's where a lot of the practices of witchcraft comes from. And a Catholic exorcist held a mass to counter that hex. In New York. Yeah, that makes sense. I like that. Right. Because that means they believe it.

Yeah. But you're like, yeah, we got a hex going. You might need to do a couple masses. Yeah, that means several people it. Yeah. I mean, that you're like, yeah, we've got a hex going. You might need to do a couple of masses. Yeah. That means like several people had conversations about like, what do we do about this hex? Right. No,

it seems like it's being taken very seriously. Well, I guess if you are, you know, and you know, not to knock anyone's religion, if you were really a person, I guess a Christian,

I feel like a real Christian person wouldn't get too worked up about people trying to prevent people from abusing power against the downtrodden. But if you did believe that there is devil powers at work in this world and then there are the powers of Christ, that, yeah, you would have to evoke those. But I don't know. It's just – there's something I just wish there were more like troll witches who would just keep these like exorcists so fucking busy all the time. We're like, oh, you know, we're doing Hex. We're doing about nine Hexes today. Yeah. So, you know, I don't know how you're going to counteract all these.

Right. But it's just, yeah. The co-founder of the group Women for Trump went on NBC and listed the Hex on Kavanaugh as one of the threats Republicans are facing. Wait, is it like I don't want to deny anyone's, like, anyone's act of rebellion, but is it wrong to just not be, like, a little embarrassed by this? Like, as a person on the left? That they're doing a hex? I don't know that this, like, on the right you hear strong talking points, like the migrant

caravan, which evokes a lot. And the witchcraft, like, for me, I just want something more concrete than that. Like, as an act of rebellion and like spiritual rebellion. You want some John Brown shit, huh? I just want something like just like a good talking point for once. Like I don't think the left has anything to combat like GOP think tanks. You want to go to Tucker Carlson's house and kick down that fucking door and show his wife who's who. No, we're not a fan of that.

That's too far. Come on, guys. Don't ever make Tucker Carlson right about anything. Yeah. He has never been right about anything to this point. The dude has four kids. Like, let's not fucking go to his house and threaten his family's safety. I know what you mean.

Like, is the hex, like, really? And it was like a small thing. And I understand, look, if that's your practice, then it's like if someone did a prayer group for somebody to get through a sickness. But you bang with witches, so you do a hex. Right. Okay. I'm not saying we should put our entire 2020 budget into it, but I think like maybe 40%, 50% into witchcraft and witch hexing. Get all the Orishas, you know, from Yoruba.

You know, get fucking Ogun, Oshun, Shango. Get all these. Yeah, go do it, man. Get these people. Bed, bath, and beyond coupons. Have Ogun waiting for them. That's what they need to start doing. Be like, yeah, you want to come too?

I'll have Ogun waiting for you. Like the Cubans say. It is a funny thing, though, that they really do take it seriously. And I guess it's just something that works because the more and more the evangelical right just basically becomes the GOP, then that's your new immigrant boogie person. Pretty soon the boogeyman will literally be a fucking boogeyman for the right.

They're like, oh my God, the fucking boogeyman. The left is harnessing the power of the boogeyman. Of the boogie. All right. Hold on, Jack. Let's do a fake witch podcast where the people on the right think is real and everybody's like,

okay, let's do it. Let's get together this hex. Right. And just start blowing people's minds. And like backdate them so that it seems like we've caused things to actually happen. Go to squarespace.com

and use the code witchcraft. Yeah, there you go. Code hex for your discount. Eye of Newt. That's the closest I've got to knowing anything about witchcraft. It's Shakespeare. I don't know.

No big deal, guys. I think the first witchcraft things I could spell was when Tracy Ullman was the witch in Robin Hood Men in Tightss oh great great character bit there were also the witches in Princess Bride played by Billy Crystal and never mind all right we're gonna take a quick break and then we'll be back with some actual important news Oprah's favorite things Important news.

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favorite thing. Oh my god, thank you so much for having me. Anna, welcome to the show! And for this segment, I will much for having me. Anna, welcome to the show! And for this segment, I will have you be, you will call me Oprah-Anna. Oprah-Anna. Oprah-Anna, tell us.

So Oprah's favorite things come out annually, is that correct? Yes, that is correct. Every year around the holidays, you know, mid-November, Oprah drops a list that is so wild and so over the top and so like this is just for rich people that I lose my mind. Like truly, I am not above considering purchasing every item on this list no matter how far out of my price range it is. Yes.

And my price range is like $2 to $3. So like I consider, you know, I'll take a mortgage out of my home. A fifth mortgage out. No, I have nothing. Okay, I just wanted people to know. Owner. Stop lying. You can't do that.

Yeah, when we were looking through it together as an office earlier, I asked the question, is this a $50 muffin? No, you went, so this is a $50 muffin? The answer is yes. Yeah. I mean, it's a $50 fruitcake. That looks like a giant muffin. Yeah, that looks like a giant muffin.

Oh, is it a Stollen? Stollen. There is a gold-plated water carbonator. Oh, brass, my dear. It's brass. My bad. By Arki. It looks fancy as shit. Oh, no, my dear. It's brass. My bad. By Arke. It looks fancy as shit.

Oh no, it's beautiful, isn't it? I mean, when I look at Oprah's list, there's one thing you always know is there's always food shit and there's always flossy shit to be lazy in. So I feel like this list is really about how you can get diabetes in style and comfort. There is Russ and Daughters New York

Brunch, which is essentially bagels and lox for $140. Yeah, but Russ and Daughters is the jam. I love Russ and Daughters. That's what you guys have been saying. You ever left your house before, man? Russ and Daughters. You ever had their whitefish salad?

Yeah. Nope. And lobster truffle mac and cheese, four servings for $62.45. Jesus. All right, I'm done. Those were just the things that jumped out to me as being super worth it. Now, let me tell you about a few of my favorite things. Right now, I'm looking at the Insta Shiatsu Foot Massager with air compression and heat.

Now, this thing, it's wild. You put your feet into it. It's like a little contraption. You put your feet into it and massage. It does deep kneading and rolling on your feet. It heats your feet up. It's amazing. It's everything you want.

I think it's, how much is it? It's expensive, isn't it? Let me look. I mean, these are all things that regular people can just do

with their own hands. No. It also looks like there's a chance. It's $1.99. There you go, $1.99. What did you say you said? It looks like there's a chance

that your feet could get, that it would hold your feet and break your shit. Until you like rescinded all your gods and only prayed to Oprah from now on. There's a chance that it, yeah. Pledge field you to Oprah. It definitely is giving the writers of Final Destination movies some ideas. They're like, oh, yes.

What if you put your feet in there and it's blended them shits up? For a high tech foot massager, $199? Yeah, I will say. Budget, you know, for your expensive as hell. Also, you got fucking hands. Right. You know what, Miles? I'm just saying, when I look at this, it's like shit.

You know, like Oprah is so rich. I feel like these aren't her favorite things. She has real things that like a person that chews your food. What you need to understand is brands spend all year sending Oprah shit. Like getting on this list, is that brands like, they're like, yes, we're doing the Super Ball halftime show. Like that's what these brands want. They want to be on this list.

They send her so much free shit for Oprah to be like, well, you know what? Don't mind this. I will say the automated massage technology, if you haven't sampled it recently, has gotten better since back in the day. My friend's dad has a space chair. I was like, come on, I'm not getting in there. I just ate, and they're like, get in there while you're digesting. I died in the seat. It was so good.

It's so great. The calf, it gets your calves. Really, then they're heated. I'm sorry, go on. My in-laws have one. calf they get your calves yeah right yeah and really then they're heated i'm sorry go on my in-laws have one and i just they're like jack really sleeps a lot when he comes here so i'm just in that chair just like i actually i have a friend who has one too and when i go to her house i just sit in the chair and i literally i'll like go to parties at her house just to sit in that

chair and i'll just get up and leave yeah like i won't talk to anyone like people will try and talk to me i'll be like sorry i'm kind of like in the middle of something leave. I won't talk to anyone. People will try and talk to me. I'll be like, sorry, I'm kind of in the middle of something. And then I don't talk to anyone. And then I'll leave without saying goodbye because I'm like, I got my time in. You put an eye mask on. You're like, can you put this blanket over here? It's funny because it's in the middle of the apartment or her house. So it's like, you have to go by me to go into this house.

Anyway, this one does seem like it might be worth it to me. The $199, still save up your money and just have a nonstop, always foot massager on call. Man, you get more foot massagers than me. My wife will not touch my feet. Oh, I massage Her Majesty's feet all the time. And I ask for one. She looks at me like I said, you know, go buy me a hit of crack or something. But she'll do that.

This episode brought to you by crack. By rock cocaine. I also feel like the massage technology, it's like the last time it was in, one was like five or seven years ago, and it was just like, this is, I get it. It's like the little plastic things inside

moving back and forth. But now I'm assuming they're like, they're way better. Yeah, they're like neat. Now they've designed actual hands that are just robots that just touch your feet. It's really wonderful. What's funny is like when I go through this, I'm like, this stuff is all dumb.

And then I see a thing that I've got before, and I'm like, that's right, I knew before Oprah. I'm like, this is so stupid. But yeah, Torres chips, the truffle chips, if you haven't had those, wow. Really? They're like $15 bags of chips. But the truffle flavor is amazing, and they also have an Iberico jamon flavor that, my goodness, you thought you were in Iberia. The Iberian Peninsula, Spain and Portugal.

Am I in Iberia right now? You know, there's actually one thing I did immediately link to my boyfriend and sis-tee-bye for me right away, which he did because he knows who's boss. It's the Black & Decker Helix Performance Premium 5-Speed Hand Mixer. And I say that because I have actually been eyeing this mixer for a very long time I've seen it around I saw it at Home Depot which I was like well that's a sign if it's at Home Depot and it was showed up on this list

so I was like I need that and it's only $24 and it's a really nice mixer you guys do you like hand mixer it's a hand mixer not a DJ mixer no no no it's for when you know you're baked goods, you know.

Why did you say it like that? Are you making love to it? Are you using that mixer for mixing? Don't you just love to bake at home? I love baking. Why'd you suddenly turn into Kim Cattrall from Section of the City? Now I know why you lost that job in the cafeteria at that elementary school. I have a very intimate relationship with baking.

I love to do it. So I'm just like, ooh. Yo, easy, man. We're at work right now. All right. There are a couple other things, too. Again, I'm mad that these things are so nice. I mean, you know, come on, Oprah.

We can't afford the truffle burger kit by Urbani. It's pretty crazy. Or a 360 camera. There was like a velour snuggie robe, hooded snuggle lounger. Not above it. Hooded snuggle lounger. Not above it. Hooded snuggle lounger. Yo, it's like a long ass velour hoodie. Oh, man.

You know what? Actually, I did consider buying that. I put it on my wish list on Amazon. I'm going to forward that to my mom. There you go. Because I would love just a giant, just velour. Oh, you guys. Fuck.

You know, Jack, the wave should be we have the zeitgeist favorite things list so we can start getting on this shit. Tune in later this month. It'll be a can of Sprig soda and raw hemp wick for weed. That robe looks like the Handmaid's Tale meets the comfort. It's the snuggie. Yeah. It makes oppressive patriarchy so comfy. Yeah. There's also this really funny thing that I think is so strange.

It's a katana safety arc. It's a personal security system that attaches directly to your phone. Yeah, what that is? What? And so it has a little thing that comes down, and it's like a little wristband, so no one can rip your phone out of your hand. It's a little over the top, but it's kind of funny to me. It's $140.

But then it sounds like you also need a subscription to the system. There's a response center where you're like, my phone! What does it do? Does it electrocute them when they try to take it from you? It basically has a band that attaches to your hand, then it attaches to the back of your phone. And I guess no one can rip it out of your hand. And or it can immediately alert the system. I don't know.

So it's like a Nintendo Wii strap. Yeah, so no one can rip your phone out of your hand, I guess, if you're walking around with it just swinging around. Or if your wife's like, pay attention to your kids. It's like, shh. God, the game is on. One thing, do you guys eat peppermint bark? Peppermint bark?

Oh, yeah. Love a good pea bark during the holidays. That's chocolate and peppermint? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's on there. I mean, so many of this stuff, it's only, you know, for one day, I wish there could be some practical things, but I get it. This is like almost, it's aspirational, this list.

It's almost like training people how to be like, this is how rich people live, just so you know. It's a good mixture. There's some affordable stuff. Like there's that- Oh, yeah. $500 bed sheets? Yeah.

Yeah. Well, it's only if you have a queen and or full. The king is more expensive. I mean, I Googled- You don't sleep in a California king? I Googled the cozy earth top drawer bamboo bundle, which is the most expensive thing on here, assuming it was like some sort of sleep system bed. It's just sheets.

Those are just sheets. Jeez. Right. It's just sheets. Those are just sheets. For $570. I think the most expensive thing is that TV that turns translucent against your wall. It's just a smart TV that's over $1,000. But it's got that technology. When you turn it off, it just becomes translucent

and it's seamless. That's dope. But that is what we need. Because I'm tired of seeing my TV when I'm not watching it. What the hell is this? Wait, what the fuck? Why is the TV out? Get it.

Hide it. TV, disappear. It's not working. The one thing that is good is the truffle hot sauce. I've had that. That shit is pretty good. Even though the Instagram commercials they do are too much. Yo, Oprah's still on the truffle hot sauce. I've had that. That shit is pretty good, even though the Instagram commercials they do are too much. Yo, Oprah's still on the truffle wave.

She needs to move on. Oh, she loves truffle. I know. I was like, is this 2008? Come on, Oprah. I actually, and I kind of made a list of some of the more over-the-top things. There's a set of little Belgian organic St. Nick cookies for a set of two, $20. $20 for two small cookies that look like-

And they just look like those dry ass little cookies that are like- They just look like Saint something. Like ancient Viking runestones or something. They also don't look like Saint Nick. They look like actual paintings from the era of Saint Nick. Like Vikings. Yeah. They're like, we found this in Lindisfarne.

She's also really into expensive, over-the-top, luxe blankets for your dogs. Wow. She has a $150 blanket for your dog, which if I spent that much on a blanket, my pet is not going near it. Yeah, you know what my pet gets? My old towel.

Fuck out of here. You can get a fucking blanket. If my dog would let me, or if I would let him, my dog would just roll around in his own or other animal's shit nonstop. So I don't think he's super sensitive. Oh, yeah. There's also-

He's easy to shop for then. Right. But have you considered the Harry Barker dog spa gift set for your dog so they can have a spa day. Oh, how much is it? It's thousands. No, it's $49.60. Oh, really? Yeah, that's actually good

because I could just get that for Sarah and just save some money because real spas cost a lot of money. No, no. Let me tell you what's actually happening. It's a bucket with a fucking dog robe and a brush and shampoo. Oh, it's not a gift certificate? This ain't Elizabeth Arden spa day.

I was picturing my dog with little cucumber slices over his eyes, which he would immediately eat. So, wait, you would get her a dog robe? Could you imagine if she opened that up? Like, why is this for a dog? Look, we can't afford. You sung, if there was a thing,

a very indulgent gift, what would you get yourself? Would it be in the food genre? Would it be a clothing item? Oh, I think it would definitely be food. I don't mean to sound so cynical about Oprah's

favorite things, because if I had any of these items, I'd be like, yeah, this is great. I don't even have a pet, but I still want the dog spot. But I think it was definitely

I did LA's restaurant week just like once or twice and I was like oh shit I want good food always I would definitely go for the food avenue yeah that's why you've just been non-stop trying to make that cheddar ever since question though

we're trying to find out what our financial plan was before we started recording trying to learn how stuff works budget would you take the grow your own christmas tree kit grow your own christmas tree some rich people should that is i think that is the most some rich people shit on the whole thing it's only 45 but it also assumes that you have enough land that you can just have a fir tree. To grow for 10 years. Because that's how, when you buy a Christmas tree at the lot, that motherfucker's at least 10 years old. Right.

That's why last year we talked about last year's trees were so expensive because of the crash. Yeah. That a lot of tree farmers did a smaller harvest to be more reflective of the market. So hopefully, a little tree speculating here prices will come down this year have you seen uh the helicopters that transport the christmas trees yeah those are dope it's a good good youtube video it's like the dude is just like pulling like fucking 180s in the helicopter you've just never seen a helicopter move the way they do i feel like if anyone got the grow your own Christmas tree,

that's like the smallest payoff on day one out of anything on that. Right. And now we wait. Like that's so, that's such a bummer. For 20 years. Just throwing that shit away after like how long? You know what I mean?

Yeah. Your house burns down, but you're like, well, can't move because I got this fucking Christmas tree that doesn't pay off for seven years. Whoa, I didn't realize there was this Carl the Drinking Chocolate Snowman by Kate Weiser Chocolate. $38.

Look, I did not need Oprah to recommend that to me. Yeah, babe, let me tell you about this, babe. What the fuck is that? It looks like a fucking weird snowman. Oh, that's cute. And I was like, what the fuck? Is it a cup or something? Apparently, it's like a bath bomb

for your pot of hot milk. So you drop this thing into a vat of hot liquid and that'll turn into a hot chocolate. That you can drink. Oh, yo, did you see Hot Cocoa M&M's? No, what? Yo!

I saw a picture of it. It's like Hot Cocoa flavor M&M's. That sounds amazing. When I saw it, I was like, wait, I love the taste of it. It's like hot cocoa flavor M&M's. That sounds amazing. Yeah. And I was like, when I saw it, I was like, wait, I love like the taste of like Swiss Miss and shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when I saw hot cocoa M&M's, I'm sorry, I digress, but it just reminded me that that's

a thing right now. Wow. No, I'm a child. I drink hot chocolates way too often. Do you? Is that what's in your cup right now? No, no, no. I only recently started drinking coffee.

I'm so embarrassed. I can't look anyone in the eye right now. No, I only recently started drinking coffee. I'd love to look I'm so embarrassed I can't look at anybody in the eye right now, but like Like even in my early like I it's all too familiar the the the practice of lowering your voice So that no one hears you when you order can I have a hot chocolate with almond milk? That's adult you're doing almond milk. Oh, yeah, I'd be like double the double up on the packet and use half and half Miles has you so I'm going to have my foot fall off by the time I walk out of here. Miles has YouSong

in a headlock right now. What's that almond milk, boy? YouSong, it's been a pleasure having you. Oh, this is so fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thanks for having me on. Where can people find you?

You can find me on Twitter, Y-U-S-O-N-G-L. I host a podcast called Worst Case Scenario and I produce the podcast Doughboys. Yes. Check those out.

Yes. By the way, what's your favorite fast food restaurant? Oh, yeah. My favorite? Oh, it used to be Tender Greens, but then they- No, come on. No, no. Drive-thru.

Some shits you drive through. Oh, boy. I think it was Five Guys. Five Guys was like the first- Some shits you drive through. Oh, okay. Whoa. Let's see.

Don't play with me. That is the closest, I also Uber Eats McDonald's like a, Yeah. Oh, you're a scumbag too? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all we were looking for.

I'm playing with you. Yeah, there we go. You tried that triple stack yet? No. Oh, yeah, yeah. Have you seen it though? Yeah, of course. Oh, God.

Yeah. You all right, man? Sorry. Is there a tweet you've been enjoying? It was the Beto O'Rourke drops an F-bomb in his concession speech, that tweet. And I know that's not the tweet itself, but more the video. But when I first read that headline, it sounded like it was something bad, like an accident or a mistake.

And then I watched it and was like, no, this is perfect. And I think I resemble a lot of the negative traits of the Democratic Party, of liberals in general, where where I was like I'm a sucker for idealism like I love this guy like I I love like the uh like the idea of fast and radical change versus slow bipartisan change and so like something about that was so just like energetic that I was like this is awesome I loved it and there was like the CNN people like the really like down the middle political reporters who are like well that's it for Beto's career it's just like come on man I'm sorry okay forget it

we don't have to tell you who the president is game over Beto Miles where can people find you? oh you can find me trying to get some hot cocoa M&M's probably and just you know doing red dead stuff but uh on twitter and instagram at miles of gray also check us out on the kind of dating podcast

uh jack and i went on a past guest natasha chandell's show uh and yo there's video if you want to see what jack and i look like when we talk i actually don't look at it i do not look at my posture's fucked up, and I look sick. Anyway, but check out Kinda Dating, because, you know, we talk about all kinds of stuff,

like fear and attraction and what turns us on. Ooh. Yeah. It's hot cocoa M&Ms. It's a strange moment. Okay, no, that's fine. I'm gonna holler at you later.

But yes, a tweet that I like is from, you know, I'm predictable, Reductress, and this one is, it's like a couple in bed with a woman looking very deeply into a man's eyes and says,

make him nuts so hard he is super naturally forced to lip sync Harry Belafonte's day-o. Oh, man. Shout out to Beetlejuice. Team Dry Scaps. A couple tweets I've been enjoying. Jamie Loftus, at Jamie Loftus Help, tweeted,

Ruth Bader Ginsburg may have my ribs, one, so that she is no longer in pain, two, so I can finally go down on myself. Thank you so much. Like Marilyn Manson. And then someone from the Zeitgang tweeted this as a nominee for my favorite tweet, and I did enjoy it. So well done, person who's not getting a shout out from me for some reason. At Benjamin Park, Benjamin E. Park said, I swear Florida could be voting between ice cream and a kick to the head,

and the results would be 50.5% 49.5 percent uh fucking florida elections you can follow me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can follow us at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on. You can also find that information in the show notes.

Choy notes. Choy notes. Miles, what song are we going to ride out on? Yeah, mate. We've got a bit of hip hop here from Snar Allegra featuring Logic.

This track is called Sometimes from the album Feels. Sorry. Choy. Put that in your headphones and listen to 30 seconds of that. And get down to that. It's a dope track. I like her voice. I like the R&B

vibes. And then Mr. 301, Area Code himself, Logic comes through first. Alright. We are going to ride out of the week on that. We will be back on Monday and we hope you guys have a great weekend. Bye. Bye.

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