The Daily Zeitgeist - Second String Spies? Mueller's Mad Men 4.5.19

Episode Date: April 5, 2019

In episode 364, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Johnny Pemberton to discuss how Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman possibly going to jail, Fox New's diner segment on the Green New Deal, Vic Berger's super cut of Joe Biden touching people, the Mueller Report being more damaging than William Barr revealed it to be, a top Marine General letting his internal emails leak, Chinese spies targeting Mar-A-Lago, the Justice Department backing Netflix in Oscars feud, Billy Ray Cyrus jumping on the Lil Nas X train, Kranch, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. Lori Loughlin And Felicity Huffman Will Reportedly Face Prison Time Even If They Accept A Plea Deal2. Don’t Lock Up Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman3. Fox's Todd Piro seems genuinely confused by a diner guest supporting higher taxes to fund the Green New Deal and fight climate change.4. WATCH: Joe Biden promises to be less HANDSY5. Some on Mueller’s Team Say Report Was More Damaging Than Barr Revealed6. Limited information Barr has shared about Russia investigation frustrated some on Mueller’s team7. Some on Mueller team say evidence against Trump stronger than Barr disclosed8. Marine general let memos leak to demonstrate border deployment hurt readiness: report9. Feds are investigating possible Chinese spying at Mar-a-Lago and Cindy Yang, sources say10. Justice Department Backs Netflix in Oscars Feud — But Is There Really an Antitrust Issue?11. Lil Nas X made a remix to "Old Town Road" with Billy Ray Cyrus, so your move, Billboard 12. Heinz Is Launching “Kranch” Sauce, A Combination Of Ketchup and Ranch13. Johnny Pemberton - Recorded For Quality Assurance14. Live To Tape with Johnny Pemberton15. WATCH: Hussle and Motivate - Nipsey Hussle (Official Video) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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a.k.a. Trill Donahue, a.k.a. Maury Yobich. Those are all courtesy of Christy Yamaguchi-Maine, and I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Pull up like Miles Gray. I got a show today It's all I'm trying to do Hustle and motivate Yeah

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in our third seat by the hilarious actor performer comedian Johnny Pemberton oh shit We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious actor, performer, comedian, Johnny Pemberton! Oh, shit!

That's octaves. There you go. Hitting the mic like a Pemberton of bricks. A ton of Pember. I'm a sender. Oh. Straight to the factory to be re-rendered. Oh, shit.

Born in the very month of November. Maybe. If I remember. Yeah, all right. Okay. Born in the very month of November. Maybe. If I remember. Yeah, all right. Okay. Don't want to activate that temper. All episodes. Hey, I'm tender. Oh, all right.

Okay. All right. You guys got a good beat on a nice lender? Uh, no. Can we keep this going? But have you seen my skate tape? Because I hit a sick ender. Oh.

Oh. I actually did watch it. And I'll tell you what. Splendor. Oh. Oh. I actually did watch it. I'll tell you what. Splendor. Oh, no. Wow. God. Did you notice our bathrooms and the lack of gender?

Oh, yeah. I did notice that because I was so hot in there. It was like someone is making a fire with tender. And some embers. Embers. A great place for breakfast. Could you imagine a podcast that was all this? Yeah.

You're about to hear it. Yeah, we're about to hear it. Rhymecast. But then everyone kind of looking around and being like, has someone else got something cooking in their brain? I think that might be an unending, rhymable word, right? Because there's so many things in with er. Yeah.

You could go to the dead. But we kind of got locked in with the ender kind of part. That's true. Yeah. Ender's game. Yeah. It's pretty hard to stop that one. Return to sender on that idea.

Address unknown. Johnny, how you been, man? Oh, I've been smooth and great and cool. Great. Awesome. Awesome. A little bit of funky. Yeah.

I mean, how does it feel coming back? You know, you were one of our first like four or five episodes ever. Yeah. Yes. You were part of our first, like, four or five episodes ever. Yeah. You were a part of launch week. It feels good. It feels great to be, you know. Coming back on top.

It's like, you know, when Mark Twain was born, when Halley's Comet arrived, and he died when it came back. That's right. Oh, shit. So maybe. That's commitment right there. Except I'm not going to die. Right. Oh, okay. You know, I don't know.

I don't know why I thought about that. Yeah. Well, that's fine. I think about it all the time, like, when Johnny comes back. We, okay. You know, I don't know. I don't know why I thought about that. Yeah, well, that's fine. I think about it all the time, like when Johnny comes back. We'll know. There'll be a comet coming by. Yeah. There's like some people in history who have just great commitment to dying on like cool days.

Like didn't Franklin and Adams die on July 4th? I'm not Dan O'Brien. All right. My bad. Ask him that shit. My bad. Ask him that shit. My bad. There's a man who has that presidential expertise. That is not me.

And he would tell you like this, and Franklin was... That's what he talks, right? Yeah. Dan O'Brien? Yeah, the hardcore history guy, right? No, that's Dan Carlin. No, that's Dan Carlin.

Oh, never mind. Dan O'Brien, no relation to Jack O'Brien. Or Dan Carlin, because that's not how names work. Ah, yeah. Well, Johnny, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to take our listeners through just a couple of things we're talking about today, such as the fact that Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman might be going to jail. We are going to check in with Fox News, see how their latest diner

segment is going. This is not a diner segment where they set up an entire diner in Times Square. This is they actually went to an actual diner to check in with Real America. And they were surprised by what they found. We are going to check out

a Vic Berger supercut, or at least recommend that you do, and treat it like real news, because I think it is. We are going to look at what Mueller's team, what people on Mueller's team are actually saying about the Mueller report, since we still don't have that motherfucker. We're going to talk about it. I got it, by the way.

Oh, you do? Yeah, I have it. Oh, shit. Is that what's on that USB drive you came in dangling in front of? Yeah, it's on Instagram. It's on my private account, so you just got to add me. Oh, shit. Is that what's on that USB drive you came in dangling in front of? It's like, ooh. Yeah, it's on Instagram. It's on my private account, so you just got to add me. Right, right.

You have to be my close friends group, and then you can see my stories. Well, speaking of the USB you came dangling in, we're also going to talk about the spies targeting Mar-a-Lago. Surprising. Absolutely nobody. But, yeah, there are a bunch of suspicious activities happening with Chinese nationals in the Mar-a-Lago vicinity, including USBs dangling. But first, Johnny, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are or where you are at this moment? Okay, I thought about this. And it's something where a lot of it is just embarrassing like stuff about wood

like learning about um embarrassing stuff the wood well for me like getting going down a wormhole about is treated wood safe to use in a garden bed uh-huh or pressure pressure treated it's just so unbelievably boring that i i deleted it because i it because I never look at my history. Just wood stuff. Yeah, wood stuff. What's going on with the wood stuff? Are you building something? I'm building a really big heavy-duty garden bed.

Oh, like a raised one? A raised bed, yeah. Oh, that's dope. With four-by-fours. And so it's not going to go anywhere for probably a long time. Nice. Is this carpentry new for you? Is this something you've been dabbling in?

I've been dabbling in this for a pretty long time. But this is the first bed of this type I've built. I think this is the best plan that anyone's ever come up with. I can't think of his name, but, oh, man, it's good. It's like made by 4x4s, and you do like a pinwheel style. So it's hard to describe, but it's really strong. Right. And you use, yeah.

And what do you plan on growing in this bed uh if i can get it in soon enough i'll probably do um probably some peas and uh probably a bunch of well for the summer i'll do a lot of okra and probably uh eggplant i love okra now is is los angeles gardening a seasonal? Like you can only get it done during – You can do 24 – 24 hours a day. The annual equivalent, whatever that is. You can do pretty much 24-7 gardening here. It's about indoor weed growing at that point. We have the second spring here, which is pretty cool.

Yeah. So you can grow all year round. You can grow pretty much – you can grow stuff here. It's unfair really. I always have to remember that when I think about it. Yeah. I talk about stuff, like gardening stuff on the podcast or anything. I'm like, oh, there's a lot of people who, they're in snow.

Yeah. Right, right, right. Anything. Yeah. You're from Minnesota, right? Yeah. I lived in Missouri for a while when I was first getting my- Wits about you?

What do you mean? First starting to be a married man, like being a home owner in Missouri, and that shit is impossible to grow anything there. Oh, really? It's just rocks and dirt. I've only been there in the summer when it's hot and humid. Oof. It's tough, man.

I like it. Yeah, it's super hot. There's actually a really big seed company there. There's a company called Baker Creek Seeds. Yeah. I mean, it's probably easy for people who know what the fuck they're doing well they're space hippies oh yeah they have a cool they're like real space out there hippie dudes nice what do you mean by space like the cosmos like if you look at pictures that they they post of themselves and their whole crew it's like they live they're living in the 1800s, essentially. Oh. It's real, kind of like almost Amish style.

I guess the Amish did homegrown cocaine, which they probably do, actually. Yeah, they probably do. Simple times, simple times, with homespun clothing. I feel like that was the worst search history thing. The thing here I think is actually interesting is I looked at my YouTube history. I was desperately trying to track down a clip of flight when um that actor bruce greenwood says to benzo washington that that there's an executive buffet available oh and uh you remember that movie yeah i remember flight there's this thing that they said that i think about all the goddamn time out for a long time i thought was

tom scarrett but it's not tom scarkerritt. It's Bruce Greenwood, which I thought was... Wait, why do you want this clip? Because he says something that I repeat on my podcast all the time. I call it the executive buffet. Because it's like the dumbest word ever, right?

And he says it straight face. I was trying to hunt this down from flight, but I can't find it. But he's basically... You know, because Denzel, he gets in trouble with the Airline Pilots Association for talking to the press. And so he's the, Bruce Greenwood's the head of the Airline Pilots Association. He's trying to kind of butter up Denzel. And he's like, you should come.

We should talk. We need to talk about stuff. How are we going to present this to the media? And he says, look, there's, he's got that Southern accent. He's like, look, there's an executive got that southern accent he's like look there's a um there's an executive buffet downtown at the marriott this weekend like he just glossed over that an executive buffet yeah by the way bruce greenwood is tom skurrit uh is he really yeah no he's not no he's not but they they do look the same, right? You have definitely confused Bruce Greenwood with Tom Skirrett.

Those listeners who are not Bruce Greenwood have definitely confused the two of them. I feel so bad for Bruce because I've been saying Tom Skirrett for years. Yeah. He used to be Tom Skirrett without a mustache, but now Tom Skirrett has appeared in enough films without a mustache that they have become the same person. God, they look so similar. Pretty hunky, though. It's like Skerritt mixed with Bill Macy or something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess Skerritt does have kind of those wild teeth. Yeah. Call those teeth. He's got that horse front. Uh-huh. He's older, too. What have you found out about executive buffets?

Is that just like a thing, like a hidden room that the Marriott offers to top line executive class talent? I guess. I mean honestly it's one of those things where I have no idea. I heard that and still to this day I wonder like that can't be real. Yeah. That would be an amazing moment where like if you were at a buffet and someone goes excuse me

Mr. Pemberton. I would actually come this way. We actually have the executive buffet set up. Would you like access to the executive buffet, sir? Oh, wow. Anyone who works in hospitality, let us know.

How do we get the executive buffet? What is in the executive buffet and how do we achieve executive buffet status? We have premium tongs available. They're not plastic. They're stainless steel.

I think I even Googled executive buffet in quotes and nothing comes up. Oh, no. It's like those movie searches where it's like zero results. Yeah, or some henchman finds you at night in front of your house and be like, you're getting too close, kid. Leave the executive buffet shit alone.

No, go for this. What is something you think is overrated? Oh, I mean, almost everything, really, at this point. Okay, great. I think the news is kind of overrated, at least for me it has been. I've been taking a step back from the news in general. I think I wrote down, I think Purple Wisteria is overrated. Oh, hold on.

What? Purple Wisteria. Am I saying Wisteria? No. Wow. Okay, go on. I love Wisteria. I do, too.

And I just found out there's a version of it that's white. Ah. And I was like, oh, this is a cool turn on this. I mean, the purple wisteria is great, but it's just everywhere. It's just everywhere. Why not more other colors? I just think the purple wisteria is overrated. This is a tree that has purple flowers on it.

It's a vine. You see them a lot in LA. Yeah, you see them a lot. It's funny because two days ago I was at my friend's house and she has Wisteria growing and I was like,

wow, Wisteria's coming in real nice. And that's how I'm known. Only thing I know the word Wisteria from is Desperate Housewives. Really? Why? Is there a Desperate Housewife named Wisteria?

That's the street they live on. That's the street they live on. Wisteria Lane. Wisteria Lane. Okay, that makes sense. I can't believe they named a tree after that. Vine. What is...

Sorry. It's actually a vine. It's not a tree. Sorry about him. I'm sorry about him. What is something you think is underrated? Oh, I mean, probably tea and toast. Tea and toast.

Together? Having tea and toast together are really good. Okay. I always forget how good that is to have for breakfast. Like to have just two pieces of toast with butter and a big, like a huge cup of hot black tea. Okay. It's like a classic combo. I mean, sometimes if the tea's the right temperature, you can eat the tea with the toast at the same time.

Yeah. Oh, man. You're just straight butter, no preserves, nothing like that? I'll throw a little bit of apple butter on one slice. I like to have one slice that's just the butter and one slice that's just the butter, no preserves, nothing like that? I'll throw a little bit of apple butter on one slice. I like to have one slice that's just the butter, and one slice that's just the butter and the preserves. What kind of bread, may I ask? Oh, it's probably like some sort of sprouted crap,

something that's not like traditional. It's like a sprouted, sliced bread. Not Wonder. Not Wonder, no. This isn't barbecue. No brioche toast. Tea and toast, underrated. George Benson, underrated. Early B underrated. Just got an alert from the isn't barbecue. No brioche toast. Tea and Toast, underrated. George Benson, underrated.

Early B, underrated. Just got an alert from the Tea and Toast. Yep. Really? They've endorsed you. Yeah. Their stock just shot through the roof. Wow.

Oh, man, Pambitania. Goes to England once. No, but I do think there are certain things. Like, Tea and Toast is not underrated in England, but I think it's probably underrated in America because there's not a way to uh really capitalize it and like make a ton of money off of it it's just a very simple thing you can do at home and like it's easy to make and so i think things like that just tend to get buried in america and yeah it's good well i I mean, boiled egg and soldiers,

I feel like you could bring that over here. Hell yeah. People like little sticks of toast. And we are talking about putting baked beans on the toast, right? Because that's... Oh, I mean, I truly love... In South Africa, that's what I ate every day for breakfast for three months. Baked beans, eggs, and toast? I had two slices of toast with an egg on each

and a side of beans and three cups of black tea. Every day for three months. I fucking love baked beans for breakfast, man. Oh my God, it's so good. English breakfast. The full English over here. Yeah. What is a myth?

What's something people think is true you know to be false? That's something I struggled with a lot. I couldn't think of anything other than the fact that I just learned that a lot of times people mistake, people think that a septic infection is from a spider bite when actually it's not from a spider bite. Wait, what is it? It's just like because you have a cut in your skin and it gets infected, there's a lot of times where doctors will in the emergency room be like,

oh, that's a spider bite. It's like, where's the spider? Show me the spider. Like I told you, a shit-covered knife cut me. Yeah. Oh, no, that was probably a spider. That's probably this animal that we all hate, even though they're awesome. I love spiders.

So is this about advocating for spiders, really? Yes, it's for real. I'm a big spider advocate. Me too, man. Yeah. I fuck with spiders heavy. I do not. I'm a no-kill.

I haven't run a no-kill shelter in my house for spiders i'm a no-kill spider shelter i protect spiders spiders unless they're too menacing i will try and just usher them away yeah i'll put them outside but if i see like a you know black widow or something i'm gonna i'm gonna have to take it down you'll kill it well i will take it down to the shelter take it down to the shelter. Take it down to the shelter, find it a good home. Bring it over. Yeah, okay, great. I didn't know.

I was like, what do I do with all these black widows? Yeah, bring them over. I got a wood pile in the back. They're thriving. I love it. It's a big old wood pile. Just go ahead and give me a log. It's a black widow reserve.

Oh, I'm sorry. That's the black widow preserve. Those aren't the burning logs. That's the black widow logs. That's the black widow logs. Sorry. You can't see them from here. You can't tell the difference between the piles i should really label them one is for burning the wood one's for the black widows to live and thrive just their arms are covered in black widows that's why you should really get on

uh i bought a like university of richmond basketball gear because they're called the spiders oh really so they have basketball jerseys that just straight up says Spiders. And I'm like, fuck yeah. And I have a shirt where like they were sponsored. I think they're still sponsored by Nike, but they did a run of shirts for college teams that had Nike deals. So it'd be like Hoyas, just do it.

Or Spartans, just do it. And I have one that says Spiders, just do it. What is it? University of what? Of Richmond. Wow. Yeah. Okay, I got to do that

because I love, there's this Instagram account, I think it's called Snake Insta Daily. Yeah. And they put out tons of t-shirts that are the most ridiculous shirts like, I'm a snake daddy. Snake daddy. I'm like, oops, don't forget your snake at home. It's stuff where it's unbelievable pandering to the snake people.

Yeah, the snake people. Or it's like, it's unbelievable you're like who is this for snake people yeah or it's like real men have snakes shout out to the snake daddies and mommies out there it's the greatest I mean look Johnny look right here

just the spider shop spider shop for all your University of Richmond memorabilia needs people hate spiders at a like spider

documentaries just watching spiders kill. They are amazing killing machines. They're the best. They might be better at killing than any animal is at any other thing. Or that one experiment where they put spiders on different psychedelic drugs to see how they made their webs and shit. Yeah.

That's another beautiful one. The LSD one was a trip. LSD is weird. And you can party with spiders, too. That proves everything. That LSD one was a trip. LSD is weird. And you can party with spiders, too. That proves everything. That's all I need to know. I like spiders. And I like snakes.

I want to get a snake. I was going to get a snake for our backyard because we had some mice. Right. And I was researching this about keeping a snake back there. A yard snake. A yard snake. Right. Because I was like, you definitely never want to poison what you call rats or anything like but having just like a, keeping a snake, a yard snake. Right.

Cause I was like, you definitely never want to poison what you call rats or anything like that because it's, you know, it can be bad. It gets in the whole ecosystem. And trapping them sucks cause it kind of doesn't really work. Right. So how cool would it be to have like a yard snake?

Right. That you just put out there. But will it stay there? Well, I was, my voice just cracked. I got so excited. Well, I looked up, I think it probably it stay there well i was my voice just cracked i got so excited when i looked up i think it probably might stay there i think i i read somewhere about this because i'm not the only person who's asked this question and i found some oh my gosh the funniest thing it's one of the

funniest things i've ever read chapman rice chapman rice that's the name of the woman who did the ak's i'm sorry i had just pulled it out right now. It came into my heart. I was right that it's a dope name. Yeah. Sorry. Chapman Rice. That's good.

Yeah. Very Southern. Very cool. God, there's something. I found a person asking this to some garden blog and a person answering it very seriously. They're like, I want to have, I've got a problem with rats and I want to get a snake out there. I got a big gopher snake. Basically, they totally shot it down and said it wouldn't work.

But the way he talks about it, he explains it so in depth about how- Just goes deep. Well, I think luckily in the Zyte gang, there are snake gang people in the Zyte gang. So please, if y'all have tips for how Johnny can use a snake as a just general, you know, rodent killer, please let us know. I can tell you it's not happening because other people who live in the house with me will have none of this. You don't say.

Yeah. It's weird how the second I brought this up to my wife, she was like, no, we're not having a backyard snake. It's like, why not? It's just going to be cool. It'll be out there. Put on a leash. Yeah. It's like, why not? It's the same. It'd be cool. It'd be out there. Put on a leash. Yeah.

Oh, I found the website. It's this website, Gardens Alive. And a guy goes, I have to read this. It just made me laugh so much. Question. I have rats eating my plums and would love to have snakes in my garden that would eat the rats. Many snakes are indigenous to my area and I have a wonderful blue-bellied lizard in

my garden, but unfortunately, no snakes. Would it be a good idea? Unfortunately. Would it be a good idea or a bad idea to buy a garter or, I just got an ad pop up, a garter or gopher snake from a pet shop and let it go in the backyard? That's amazing. I mean, are they that active where it's going to be like just patrolling for rats? I think that's the other thing they're counting on.

It's like, it's on rat patrol. What this guy explains is basically rats are really... Most snakes can't kill a rat because they're so big and so good at... Rats are really good at surviving. Rats are bad. And finding food. They're bad little guys. Yeah. Alright, guys.

Let's get into the news. The important news that does not involve snakes or gardening. Well, kind of. Yeah, I guess it does. Snakey-ass parents. Right. And administrators. So let's talk about Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman.

According to insiders that TMZ spoke to. Which could just be their own imagination. They are now entering the plea phase. Yeah, they might be. Actually, TMZ is pretty well-sourced. If anything, they'll just say shit before it's appropriate, if anything. But I've spoken to lawyers who are like, yeah, you can count on TMZ, actually. None of the other tabloids, but TMZ is lawyers the fuck up and very messy.

Didn't they break the- The messy zone. What's the Supreme Court justice who died? Didn't they break that? Oh, wait, no, no. Not his retirement. Oh, Alito. Scalia.

Yeah, they were the first people to break that, right? Yeah, yeah. No, they are on that shit. They're messy, and they have enough lawyers that they know not to report fake shit. Okay, well, before this turns into an ad for TMZ. And they're just, like, really ethical. There's something about the way Harvey Levin, you know, I get that he uses the straw because he doesn't want the coffee to stay in his teeth. Yeah.

But that's what I respect about him. You know, I've spoken to TV executives. They say it's the best show on TV. I heard it's the best. The best. It's the best place you want to be. Empirically number one. Well, back to the Operation Varsity Blues thing.

So a lot of the defendants were in court in Boston basically because, yeah, it's time to go to court for this. There's rumors that the prosecutors are, like, not looking to go easy on the defendants here. So even if, you know, if they're convicted, they could face up to five years. And even if there's a plea, there's a chance that they could go to prison. Right. They're trying to make an example of them or at least prove like the long arm of the law reaches all the way into your Hollywood man. Yeah. And I've been reading like more takes, you know, from criminal justice reform people who are just kind of being like, you know, we're kind of like at this place with like when it comes to crimes and stuff where they're like, well, if these people are in jail, then these people definitely need to be in fucking jail.

Right. You know, and of course, there is the principle of trying to be fair. And I think we're like a lot of criminal justice people are like, well, look, yes, you know, there's a woman, Tanya McDowell, who was in Connecticut. She lied about where she lived to get her son into a better public school. And she's doing 12 years for that. She's doing 12 years in prison? And a lot of people have been like, you see that? They should be doing that much.

When a lot of criminal justice people are like, maybe Tanya McDowell shouldn't even be in prison. Yeah. And we need to begin rethinking how quickly we are to be like, get them in prison. She's in 12 years of prison. Did she also punch the judge in the trial or something? No, just for like the fraud aspect of it. That's crazy. And, you know, so I think some people are like, you know, there are a lot of research

about how the factors that go into incarceration not only just affect the people that are incarcerated, but obviously the families, like it has a reverberating effect. And I don't think, you know, I'm not here to say like, Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are innocent, but it's interesting to see how like some people are so rabid for being like bury them in jail when it's like that actually, that kind of thinking kind of works against people who are actually trying to get out of prison for harsh sentences

and things like that. But either way, I say fuck these two parents. If anything, you know, like, is there a way to just publicly shame them, have, like, a bunch of parents and students who could have had those spots scream at them? Right. I think they've been pretty publicly shamed, but...

But they don't... But the reporting's also like, they don't get what the big deal is. That's amazing. They should have to publicly drink their own urine. Yeah. I'd be down with that. Like, a big forum, like a hanging,

instead of hanging them, it's like you watch them urinate into something, they have to drink it. I think it's good that we're using this to publicize that Tanya McDowell is in prison. Like the media seems to be doing that. Like when you Google Tanya McDowell, her name comes up in all the stories about this.

Right. And a lot of people who are trying to find a solution for her case is like, is incarcerating her really the answer? Because it seems like really the way the justice system works is incarceration is always like the answer. Right. Especially when it's people of color. But advocates too, especially for criminal justice reform, are like, we're trying to make the justice system more forgiving and more you know just less reliant upon incarceration and also it's lumping tanya mcdowell in with these parents who are probably less easy to empathize with since they were gaslighting their children into thinking they were smart uh wow yeah but i don't think the universities have

just as much implication in it because they're the ones who are accepting these bribes. Yeah. And those administrators are also on the hook for all this too. It takes two to tango. Yeah. It takes three. It's administrators and some coaches of sports that were not the main sport. Yeah.

Well, and I think really even with criminal justice reform, I think we need to, we need real education reform too, because like at the way our system is running now, because it's become basically a thing that all people, or if you want to have a sort of easier entry point into the middle class, like you must go to college, but we're going to make it very hard for you if you don't have the means to do it. Right.

College. College. Fucking scared. Just waving the means to do it. Right. College. College. Fucking scared. Just waving your fist at the sky. Let's check in with Fox News. Let's see what they're finding out. They went to the heart of America, real America. A diner.

A diner, the most American place in the world, a diner in Missouri, to interview people about what they think about these libs out in Hollywood and their Green New Deal. They asked a dude named Jack, shout out to Jack's, about what he thought about the Green New Deal. And here's what that sounded like. Jack is an info specialist, and he really wants Howard Schultz to talk about climate change, specifically the Green New Deal, which you support. Why do you support it? Yeah, it's really important. We keep below two degrees Celsius of average warming. Otherwise, the consequences are

going to be devastating. How do we pay for it? Yeah. How do we pay for World War Two? At the end of the day, when something is this important, our economy is going to suffer if we don't pay for it. OK, but you do agree with the sentiment that this is as big a deal, climate change, that is, as World War Two. Yeah. I mean mean, a little over 400,000 Americans died in World War II and climate change is killing 150,000 people per year at least. Okay, let's talk about the money because that's a huge part of this. How are we going to pay for it? Yeah, yeah. So during World War II, for one thing, the government just pushed some of the cash up front and raised some tax on some folks. But at the end of the day, it stimulated the economy so much that everyone benefited.

Okay, so to review, you are in favor of raising taxes in order to support the Green New Deal. If that's the optimal solution the economists sort out, I'll go with that. Jack, thank you for your time. And finally... Damn. The dude could not believe what he was hearing. That was in the diner? Yeah, that was in the diner.

Yeah. not believe what he was hearing that was in the diner yeah that was in the diner yeah so just randomly they accidentally like asked somebody who's probably like a debate champion or something like that because and also like you know all these segments when they go to the quote diners and stuff are just sort of you know it's like echo chamber the restaurant right and it's like oh aoc honda green who do people oh yeah i mean socialism and then they get to this guy who's like yes i agree right well uh and then but the funny thing is the only sort of rebuttal they See, Honda Green, who did, oh, yeah, I mean, socialism. And then they get to this guy who's like, yes, I agree. And then but the funny thing is the only sort of rebuttal they have is that how are we going to pay for it? And he was like, OK, so let me tell you. So in World War Two, how do we pay for that?

He's like, so to get this straight, you want tax high for save Earth. Right. Yes. Right. Wait a second. Are you saying that World War II was a bad thing? Yeah, right, right, right. Are you trying to tell me that World War II is the same as the thing that it's totally different from?

Right. Wait a second. Are you trying to tell me that you don't care about veterans? Is that what you're saying? I'm sorry, no. Wait a second. If he was better at his job,

that's what he would have said. Wait a second. Are you trying to say something you didn't say? So I'm sorry. Are you saying the sun is as bad as Hitler? Okay, moving on.

Thanks, Jack. Yeah. So, all right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks.

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. or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jimei 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? Or, can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes. Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Sanner. The only difference between the person who doesn't

get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. 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. 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 boys. 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 vs. 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 boys 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. Angelese on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast and we're back and real quick i just want to recommend everybody check out vick burger's super cut of biden close talking because it was the first time that I got some. So Vic Berger, by the way, he does like.

He's like, I think started off as Tim and Eric's editor. Yeah. And just become, you know, he's a he's a resistance media maker. Right. Editor, rabble rouser, dude. And he makes very funny videos, edits of like, you know, news footage and and shit with sound effects and things manipulated. But this was kind of the first time that I feel like I got real texture on the Joe Biden close talking, like visuals on it that I was like, oh, that is wildly inappropriate.

There's some shit where he's like stroking the sides of, like both sides of the face of a child standing in front of him, like upward. It's like... That's a massage. That's a facial massage. It's very strange. Yeah, it's a lymphatic massage. If a child doesn't get that at a certain age, they'll be dumb.

Right. They'll be stupid. That's what he's doing. That's how you make a smart baby. He's saving the youth of tomorrow. But, yeah, I I mean Vic Berger has You know in addition to being funny Has a good eye for Details in like news And he zooms in on some moments

Of just like pure terror On the faces of Yeah these kids that are Just being you know they haven't Learned that oh you hide your Discomfort in the face of the vice president of like some of these kids yeah these kids that are just being you know they haven't learned that oh you hide your discomfort in the face of the vice president right right yet so like there's like some 13 year old young women or even like younger like yeah yeah just like get the fuck off of me dude uh so yeah i just had to give a quick recommendation for that uh video you'll

see that in the footnotes the The Jim Baker ones are really good too. Those are to me like the crown jewels. Those apocalypse buckets. Salvation buckets, whatever. So good. So we still don't know anything about the Mueller report in terms of

anything beyond what Barr released. At least on the record, officially we don't have anything but uh some of the people who prepared it some of the people on muller's team are now coming out and saying that they're a little bit frustrated with bar's summary right that uh you know they wrote a bunch of summaries themselves of the report that were, you know, far more thorough and actually reflected what was in there. And, yeah, basically they're implying that Barr's summary did not reflect what was in there. Yeah, there's been a few things like the Washington Post, New York Times and NBC all at the same time had different versions of the story of like the Mueller team.

People are not happy with the bar summary. And some people were saying that they're, uh, like specifically they were writing the report in a way that William Barr could have just taken the first paragraph of a section and just released that publicly because they were trying to write it in a way to get it shared as quickly as possible. That account has been disputed by another person NBC interviewed. So,

I mean, who knows about that? But the thing that is very consistent is that a lot of the people from his team have, quote, told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated. So that's from people who were, as they describe as sources, indicated so that's from people who were as they describe as uh sources familiar with their simmering frustrations yeah uh and then again on uh like washington post and nbc they went a step further they said muller's findings paint a picture this is how the team members or muller's associates are describing it as the findings paint a picture quote of a campaign whose members were manipulated by a sophisticated russian operation. So that makes sense. Which is in line with stuff we know to be true.

Yeah. Like based on reporting that hasn't been- Right. And I think a lot of people, they're not so upset about the collusion aspects of it than they are of some of the obstruction things. And some of the reporting seems to indicate that there was infighting on the Mueller team between the FBI people that were working on it and like the lawyers who are sort of not seeing eye to eye on how to exactly move forward with it. If it actually there was an actual charge they could put together, which is why they they're speculating, which is why Mueller kind of just left it open ended because they couldn't even sort of as a team unanimously come to a decision.

Right. Of course, you got Trump, you know, tweeting right after about how it's all bullshit. Right. He says the New York Times had no legitimate sources, which would be totally illegal concerning the Mueller report. In fact, they probably had no sources at all. They have their fake newspaper who have already been forced to apologize for their incorrect and very bad reporting on me. Which is not true. Which is not true. Yeah. I think he's forced to apologize for their incorrect and very bad reporting on me. Which is not true.

Which is not true. Yeah, I think he's referring to a correction. A correction that they issued completely at will and not because they were being forced to do anything. What do they have to apologize about? I don't think they have ever had to apologize for anything. They never apologize. They never. But yeah, so we'll see.

We still don't know. So nothing. Nothing. It's never going to happen, is it? We're never going to find out. Why doesn't someone just leak it? That could happen. I know right now, I mean,

like in the House, like Democrats are, you know, gearing up to formally subpoena the report. How many people have read it at this point? Who knows? I mean. What's like a guess? Like 20?

Probably. I mean, well, so a guess? Like 20? Probably. I mean, well, so how big was the team that was working on it? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. I can't break it down by the numbers like that. Miles, as an intelligence expert. Yeah, let me tell you. So it's Mueller's team.

He had a team. Okay. So there are people in the financial crimes. That was seven people. Yeah, another 19. So I would estimate 63 people have read it. Okay. Yeah.

Someone just leak it and just like, that would be a cool have read it okay yeah someone just leak it and just like that would be a cool thing like I'm the guy who leaked it man fuck the NDA I just did it nah the main stage

of Coachella the guy who leaked the Mueller report after I get out of prison I'm gonna be to go to Coachella yeah you'd be like

what's his Manning you'd be like Manning or Chelsea Manning yeah that'd be like Manning or Chelsea Manning or something. Chelsea Manning, yeah. That'd be great. Did she go to Coachella?

I don't know if she went to Coachella. I think so. I haven't been to Coachella, but she could be there right now, actually. Who knows? Almost definitely. Let's keep our fingers crossed. Yeah, but the desire to have it leaked or for the report to be released is, you know, 80%. So a lot of even Trump loyalists are saying, you know, we're totally with the president. We believe him implicitly,

but we just like to see the report just, you know. Well, again, I, cause I think for the people who actually took what the white house said about the report as being true or the summary as being true are like, Oh hell yeah. So I can fucking throw it in my family's face. Or whatever. And even Chuck Grassley just tweeted very dryly, I support releasing the Mueller report. Like in one tweet.

But, I mean, let's be real though, he might actually think that the document exonerates the president. So, who knows where Chuck Grassley actually falls on that. I mean, if it does, fucking still release it. Oh, yeah release it oh yeah everybody deserves to read it let's get it out there release the secret weapon this little stack of papers all right top marine generals are letting internal emails leak they're doing they're doing the lord's work well specifically

uh general robert kneller the commandant of the marine corps they're reporting that he was behind They're doing the Lord's work. impact on the Marine Corps and their families as well. Just being like, this is so, this is just bullshit. Like it's affecting all these other things and pulling our budgets and directions. We don't need to as, as news week, look at them doing something good for once the letters underscore the fiscal challenges. The service is facing as it struggles to support security operations at the Southwest border while quote unplanned unbudgeted line items,

plague the general's fiscal agenda. And the general, like in these emails, asserting it's an unacceptable risk to Marine Corps combat readiness and solvency. And when asked why Neller would allow internal memorandums to leak to press outlets, one Defense Department source expressed bluntly because he didn't want the Marines and families at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina to get fucked. It's the fucking quote from this person, their insider. And what they're pointing to is the damage from Hurricane Florence in North Carolina. The base is still operating, but they have yet to actually secure the funding for repairs

and things like that. And because all this money is going to get troops to the border and things like that, it's affecting other military exercise and things like this. And they're like, yo, this is such a fucking distraction for nothing. They should build a wall around that base. Yeah. So they don't have to worry about the hurricane. Solves all your problems, man.

Solves all your problems. Hurricane wall. Fight the sea, man. Right. We're going to fight the hurricane. We're going to bomb it. I mean, that's basically. What are you feeling next?

Yeah. I got something for you, Hurricane. Like the Mexico wall doesn't sound that crazy to us at this point because we've heard it a hundred times before. Yeah. I can see him being like, we're building SAM sites along the coast to just fire rocket artillery at the storms. Well, I mean, that is a way to use the military-industrial complex to solve global warming. Moving on to Mar-a-Lago, as the president likes to do. There are spies targeting Mar-a-Lago.

I had seen a story that they stopped a woman with a bunch of data or malware. Rabbits. A bunch of rabbits. A bunch of rabbits. I just like the idea of a woman with a ton of rabbits trying to get into Mar-a-Lago. Holding them all too. These are for the president. I have rabbits for him. Or like Gangs of

New York style, the dead rabbits. Just a bunch of them on a stick or something behind them. Like, hey, I'm trying to you guys interested in these pelts or no? Are you from a time machine? Some of the presents that have been given to presidents are wild. Somebody gave the president a grizzly bear once. Like a wild one? I think it was a chair made of a grizzly bear, maybe.

Oh, shit. Wild shit. Anyways. Call Dan O'Brien right now. Yeah, I don't know why I'm in such a throaty Dan O'Brien mood. Drop some fucking kooky presidentBrien right now. Yeah, I don't know why I'm in such a throaty Dan O'Brien mode. Drop some fucking kooky president gifs right now. But so I hadn't like fully read into this until the past couple days. suspicious shit with multiple chinese nationals doing business in the area uh of mar-a-lago basically that they suspected were you know spying on behalf of the chinese government

um oh like the massage parlor owner well so then the miami herald as they started digging into the owner of the massage parlors where bob craft gets jerked off. They did a report revealing that she was actually selling access to the president to other Chinese nationals in the area and basically like, and also had weird ties to the Chinese government and potential spies. Right, because she was like working for some foundations that were like about like Chinese American business, something, something.

But all intelligence people were like, those are fronts to get the wealthy Chinese people under the auspices or the guise of being investors or business people. And she's all over the place in pictures with Trump. She's just constantly around him because- The woman who owns the massage parlor? Yeah.

Where she started the ones that then Bob Kraft, all the investigations went on to. She didn't own that when she used to and then sold it. Right. That's crazy. Yeah. Wow. You know, she's doing well.

Yeah. They do call her a massage parlor entrepreneur, which is dope. It's good. Get your money. But don't traffic humans. Right. You know? So earlier this week, another Chinese national was arrested trying to enter Mar-a-Lago with a bunch of malware.

Wait, is that clothing you wear at the mall? No, malware. Malware. I call it malware. I like that. Malware. Just like pictures. This is my malware.

Maybe at the Orange Julius. No, she was stopped, tried to enter the club with a bevy of electronic devices, including a thumb drive, infected with malicious malware. Ah. And she had like two laptops, four phones. This is a bad plan, it sounds like. I know. They're like, what's all this shit?

Oh, I'm a eSports thing. Yeah. Just make a cake with a bunch of drives in it or something. Right. Yeah. I'm playing League of Legends here. She was not good at whatever she was trying to do. I play as Vel'Koz.

She came and kept asking around, like, where's the Chinese-American party? And they were like, oh, there is no party. What are you talking about? And she had the stuff like in her hands and was not not a well executed plan but it just seems like every time to go back to gardening

it's like every rock they turn over there's some wild shit going on more roly polies underneath more roly polies wasn't the thing like she showed them ID and stuff, but then because her English wasn't good, they kind of felt awkward, and that's how she also got through

because they're like, her name kind of matches with someone that's a member. Right. I think she was asking specifically for another member, and so because she was asking for another member, they were just like, oh, well, they're both Chinese, so they probably know each other. That's that old trick when you call a place, like if I want to bullshit someone, I'll call up and I say, yeah, I spoke to Mike. Like, we don't have a Mike here.

We have a – A Matt. Oh, yeah, Matt. Yeah, it was Matt. It was Matt. His brother, Mike's brother. Yeah, you're fishing. You're fishing for a little info.

Yeah, I spoke to Matt, definitely. He said that I wouldn't have to pay for installation. Yes. Wait, Matt told you that? Yeah, he told me that. I don't have a record of it. Oh, my God. Why are you accusing me?

I spoke with Matt just now. Look, I just want to get this installation done. I'm sorry. I have a sick kid and my... Okay, I understand, sir. It's just that Matt usually isn't authorized to give discounts. It's just curious for me to understand why. Look, I'm just telling you, this is what he told me.

I just have to get this done. Okay, okay. Okay, come on in. Oh, okay, fine. All right, come on in. Yeah, but she showed two Chinese passports, said she was there to go to the pool, then- With her four laptops?

Yes, and then at the next, like she had a pool bag with laptops and like all these electronics in it know what this honestly sounds like? This fully sounds like a homeless person. Right. This is like a person you see on the street. Like they basically just let in a critter, like a street critter. Yeah, it does seem like.

A bunch of laptops, a bunch of broken laptops in a bag. Multiple forms of identification. I think she's rocking my first spy duffel bag. Did her shoes not match maybe? There's probably a bunch of red flags that they missed here. Yeah. She's like, what's with that camera on your chest? Oh, it's not.

It's a necklace. Right. Made by GoPro. It does seem like there's a chance that she's not the top secret great spy that the headlines might have indicated that she might just be right. Somebody who got the wrong idea or just a meeting or something. Or she's like an old, you know, elderly person who's a tech hoarder. Right. And I could also see someone who's just like, what's malware?

I don't know. I found this thumb drive and I downloaded the app when the person called me and said I had a security risk on my Windows operating system. Yeah. But I mean, the intelligence community has been throwing out red flags like a scarf magician since 2016. So we know something's going on there. Or is the spy game just lower because our country is just like so out of whack and like the leadership is so dumb? It's like, well, I guess we use our our b-string spies now right there's just like a team this is like the level they've gotten to they're just like yeah bring your cousin yeah yeah whatever just whatever

does she have arms right i can carry a bag full of laptops and malware i mean the leaks are happening incidentally like people like you could use somebody as a source who's just like a dude from oklahoma who happens to be there all right we're gonna take one more quick break we'll be incidentally, like people, like you could use somebody as a source who's just like a dude from Oklahoma who happens to be there. All right, we're gonna take one more quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. 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? Or, can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes. Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do,

like resume specialist Morgan Saner. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it? Like you miss a hundred percent 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 4 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 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 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. And apparently the Department of Justice is getting involved with the Netflix v. Spielberg showdown over whether Netflix should be considered for the Academy Awards. Yeah. Well, because, yeah, the Academy, AMPAS of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy. Yeah. They are considering a rules change or were.

I don't know. It was being floated that they're considering a rules change because of what Spielberg was like. I feel like streamers shouldn't be allowed to get an award. Killer Spielberg was like, I feel like streamers shouldn't be allowed to get an award. Killer Spielberg? Yep. That's, you know, I think his voice is really boring. Anyway, so the Department of Justice basically was just sort of saying, you better not because this could be an antitrust violation.

So they said, in the event that the Academy, an association that includes multiple competitors in its membership, establishes certain eligibility requirements for the Oscars that eliminate competition without pro-competitive justification. Such conduct may raise antitrust concerns. And one of our writers, Jan McNabb, was just sort of like, kind of like, this is weird because usually antitrust things are about things that harm consumers. because usually antitrust things are about things that harm consumers. But I guess the Department of Justice was saying, if the rule is written in such a way that it could hurt the film's sales, then they could actually consider it a Sherman Act violation.

The Sherman Act. Doesn't a movie have to open in a theater to be considered a motion picture? It does, but it can open in like 10 theaters or something and then just go right to Netflix. But are any of those movies, did any of them actually open in any theaters? Roma had some. Roma opened in like

Oh, like a few? 20 theaters, yeah. I don't know, maybe more than that. But I think that's what it is is that Department of Justice, like William Barr is a huge fan of Roma.

Oh, Cuaron. Yeah, he's a big Cuaron fan. He has a huge gravity tattoo on his back. Oh, Cuaron. Yeah, he's a big Cuaron fan. He has a huge gravity tattoo on his back. It's pretty wild, but I mean, look. Hey, good film is good film. You know what I mean? It doesn't matter where you lie on the political spectrum. Yeah, but it's basically

so they're saying it would be anti-competitive for them to like suddenly start pushing Netflix type shit out of the anti-competitive for them to like suddenly start pushing Netflix type shit out of the yeah to just like circle the wagons and be like oh actually you can't participate in this thing as a

move to protect the existing powers to just get the awards or whatever doesn't the academy only like crap anyway so it's like it's one of those things where the academy is so terrible it's and it's amazing right how bad there's movies that have won best picture that five years ago you're like what movie was that I didn't see that no

one saw that but it's the best picture yeah yeah it's like it fits all the I know it's funny when they're like oh you weren't invited to this shitty party right you're like um I know I don't want to go, but, you know, FOMO. Yeah. It is what it is. I mean, we all can agree that King's Speech, you know, maybe at the time it didn't seem like it deserved it. But, like, we've all watched it so many times since then. We all know the lines by heart.

Yeah. The artist. The artist. Yes. Classic. When I want to have a relaxing afternoon i put on the artist i love to watch the artist yeah a silent black and white film do you know anyone who's actually been like i think the artist is good and i think crash is good

i'm sure there's people out there do you personally have you do you personally know anybody but you know I'm sure like there's some contrarians who have that take sure and a lot of old white men who vote on the Academy Awards but yeah anything that makes it seem like the power of motion pictures guys it's gonna save us all yeah like the artist. Or white people are going to solve racism. Those are the two steroids for movies Oscar hopes. We're just British people, I think.

Yeah, yeah. We're just accents. We should get the British out of the Academy in general. Yeah. There should be a year ban of British actors working in America.

They ticker jabs. Them and the Aussies in America. They took their jobs. Them and the Aussies, man. Get out of here. It's because they can act. There are generations of people who are getting into acting now who are just doing it for the shine. Yeah. They're also beautiful too. All the Aussies are just like, this perfect, beautiful person.

Yeah. They're the worst. Go back to Australia. They probably are in Australia still. Yeah, I think a lot of them. It's the best of both worlds. Australia, the greatest country in the world. You should start a new campaign, man. I'm going to have to move to Australia, I think.

Oh, take their jobs. Yeah. Okay, two can play that game. I just want to take the lifestyle. Right. Because you can't have Australia, California as a country. Right. Because you can't have Australia's California as a country. Yeah.

And you can also dominate our motion picture industry. Okay. From afar. Pick one. Yeah. Also, the spiders over there.

Ooh, boy. They got the red spider. See, I might feel a little differently about spiders if I lived in Australia. Yeah, well, them shits will fucking

literally take you away. That spider that eats a bird out of midair. Have you seen that shit? Yeah, the bird catcher. Yeah. God damn. That is awesome. You haven't seen that?

Oh, man, this is going to fuck your day up. I'm telling you. It's a big spider and a small bird, but still. Oh! Yeah. Oh! Yes. I'm sorry.

Yo, the Australian Goliath spider. Yeah. Woo! Look at it next to a human's hand. I know. I mean, I like spiders, but fuck out of here, Goliath spider? Yeah. Look at it next to a human's hand. I know. I mean, I like spiders, but fuck out of here, Goliath. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, mate.

You go to gory. I do like xenophobia where you're like, get out of our country. I'm coming. I don't want to come with you. Hey, get the fuck out of here. Can I come with you? You can't live here and enjoy here. Bring me with you.

Take me. Yo, shout out to bird-eating spider. Yo, the Goliath bird-eating spider is no fucking joke. Oh, also, please hit me with any cool spider videos, Zygang, because I will watch all of them, I promise you. Oh, man. There goes our day. I need someone to do this weekend.

Let's talk Lil Nas X. Yeah. Because since we talked about that song, that song has been number one on all the streaming services. I'm not going to take full credit, but I'm going to take most of the credit for us bringing it up. I'll take the remaining 80%. No, but obviously them kicking it off the Billboard charts

did huge, huge things for the songs. Oh, yeah. That's why I know about it. Right. Exactly. Because you're not on TikTok? I don't know what that is. Yeah.

That's what we're all talking about. Yeah. I mean, it caused great waves and many takes from across the internet. Most of the people were like, okay, y'all just did this because race. You felt like this trap song had no place there. Meanwhile, but they hid behind these like, oh, their country elements weren't there. And we played some of the things

that have been on the charts that I think you could also argue might be also lacking country elements, whatever. But then it also had support from like legit country musicians who were like, we like this crossover hit because it's good for the genre. It exposes people to the genre. And what the fuck is the problem?

Well, they are. Billboard doesn't have a real problem now because the remix of Old Town Road is about to drop. Uh oh. With none other than country legend Miley Cyrus's dad. Whoa. You mean Billy Ray Cyrus. Is that his name? Yeah, I just know that part.

I just know that part. But Miley Ray Cyrus' dad. Billy is his name? Yeah. Billy Ray, man. That's tight. Cool. BRC.

I know. Don't break my heart, Mike. Don't break your heart. But yeah, he's doing a remix with Lil Nas X for Old Town Road. So what are you going to argue then? I was hoping it was going to be Tim McGraw because you know he has that song Truck Yeah.

Have you heard that? No. The song Truck Yeah, I think it's Tim McGraw. And that's my fault for not having heard that. Yeah. Yeah, it's a great song.

The first lyric in that song is Lil Wayne bumping on the iPod. Oh shit. Okay. And that's like a, that's a number one country song from the guy. Lil Wayne bumping on the iP Country song Does the track even start

Like Lil Wayne track Where you hear the lighter flick Like It's not that cool That would've been tight That's like this dumb Country song about Like the lyrics

Are the most typical Obvious country songs ever Lyrics ever And he's talking about Lil Wayne He's name dropping Lil Wayne from the start of it Right

It's like the idea That like the country Is separate from hip hop Is so ridiculous Right. It's like the idea that the country is separate from hip hop is so ridiculous. Right. It's all the same. It's funny because Billy Ray Cyrus, he tweeted at Lil Nas X on Wednesday, said, at Lil Nas X, been watching everything going on with Old Town Road. When I got thrown off the charts, Waylon Jennings said to me,

take this as a compliment. Means you're doing something great. Only outlaws are outlawed. Welcome to the club. Wait. Oh, that's kind of cool. Wait. So, Achy Breaky Heart got bumped off the top rap charts?

Top rap song? It made it to number one on top? Yeah, yeah. It went right up against, I think, UNITY by Queen Latifah. No, I think, I guess, I don't know. Was Achy Breaky Heart took off the country things? I guess it was. I have no idea.

I just don't think you understand. It might be like some whack hip hop remix or something. He has done hip hop remixes before and they are not good. No wonder Miley grew up like this. I refuse to listen to this song until tomorrow or over the weekend. To save the space in your brain? Yeah, to save the space in your brain yeah to save the space in my brain let's let's call it that okay lil nas x is currently number 15 on the overall billboard top 100 well the song that i think is under two minutes yep good for him slap man

slap in the face to country music that's right that what did you think i was saying i don't know man let's talk about cranch. Miles told me today that Heinz was releasing cranch. I thought it was cranberry ranch. I looked at him like, what the fuck? So Miles, cranch is not cranberry ranch.

No, it isn't. And again, Johnny, you look very confused when we said this. Okay, because you know there was mayo chup when they mixed up mayo and ketchup. I don't know about a lot of things.

I don't know about that. That things. Okay, so Heinz. I don't know about that. That's okay. That's fine. Nor should. You're doing good. You have things to do. I actively try not to learn about a lot of things.

Great. I think that's a good American attitude. So they had mayo and ketchup bottled together as one thing. Right. Then they did mayo must, which is mayo and mustard mixed together in a bottle. Then they did mayo Q. which is mayo and mustard mixed together in a bottle. Then they did Mayo Q. This is Heinz? Yeah.

Heinz barbecue sauce and mayonnaise mixed up in a squeeze bottle. And that was where we left it. We're like, okay, I think we're fine with all the weird Hellspun mixtures. And now cut to Cranch, which is not Cranberry Ranch, but ketchup and ranch mixed together. All right. Let me just put it out there. They have the K-R-A in red. Like that is the Ketchup part.

Ketchup doesn't have an R-A after the K? Also doesn't have a... Well, they're just trying to balance it. Fuck off, Heinz. Oh, Jesus. You see? You've upset him. Because Jack doesn't like symmetry. He likes what's true. I want what. Oh, Jesus. You see? You've upset him. Because Jack doesn't like symmetry.

He likes what's true. I want what's true, man. It should be called can't or retch up. Yeah. It's called retch up. That's what it makes you do. Oh, put some retch up on the burgers. When do you ever mix?

I mean, up until now, I got the mayo must. I got the ketchup. I didn't really get the mayo Q. Mayo Q makes sense. I don't really get the mayo Q. Mayo Q makes sense. I don't mind that happening or whatever, like if it were on some kind of barbecue sandwich or something. Aoli? An aioli maybe?

Yeah. But the ketchup and ranch, I've never been like, yo, mix that ranch up with the ketchup. You have to be a serious ranch devotee, because that suggests using ranch as a sandwich topping instead of a salad topping right right oh yeah for people who are like ranch gang for life right i mean just a lot of people a lot of people would be like you ever try that shit dipped in ranch like pizza right ranch well then it wasn't there so i think hidden valley didn't someone put out

like the mix of like pizza sauce with ranch as a thing? Did they? Or I heard maybe rumors. See, I'm like in a fucking fever dream. No, yes, this happened because, yes, I remember Nathaniel Fernald, the writer, while I was somewhere at, and he basically brought my attention to this, brought it out, ranch-dipped pizza flavor. I don't even know what that is.

Pizza and ranch, the combo that inspires passion in everyone. Now that they're together in one rich, creamy dip, add a third thing. Oh, so it's a dip you use that evokes pizza with ranch. So it's sort of like when Lay's potato chips made the flavors that are just every flavor. Like Doritos did that flavor. This is buffalo wings chips. This is buffalo wings, chips. It's almost like somebody trying to make coffee that you brew that already has the cream in it once it's brewed or something.

It's like, yo, you're making us skip a step that nobody needs to skip. You just pour hot milk over the grounds, and that's how you brew the coffee? Yo, has anyone ever done that? No. I bet you could do it with oat milk or something that wasn't – I don't know, actually. I don't know. Has anyone ever brewed –

Into the beans? Like you pour over a hot non-water liquid over the beans to get your – Oh, I'm sure. Oh, that's my myth. What's that called? That was my myth. Yeah, you can't do that. It doesn't work to do milk as the is the thing uh what if all right just here

what if when you turned on the water in the faucet to get ice water ice cubes came out of the water faucet too man right because it's like their billion dollar idea right they're just heading off problems we don't need solved nobody needed that solved solved. That's what I love about, we go like a place, like an outdoor restaurant. Right. They have like that big thing filled with ice that you get the water out of.

Yeah. It's like, because it melts so you can get the water. Right. But they put ice in it. Right. Just put fucking water in it

and you can add ice. Right. I guess in LA, they count on like the sun melting the ice and then you get at least colder water rather than like hot. I guess in LA they count on like the sun melting the ice and then you get at least colder water rather than like hot.

I just can't stand the whole energy for a phase change you're not even gonna use. Right. Wow. What do you think about ice in the urinals?

You guys ever experienced that? I mean, I've worked bar gigs and you're just putting the fucking ice there to get rid of it. Is that what it is? I thought it was a thing

where it encourages people to piss on the ice. No, it's easier. It'll melt faster. It's like putting a Cheerio in to train a kid to pee in the toilet. Yeah, I thought it was that. Yeah, or I don't know. When I used to do manage bars at raves and shit at the Shrine Auditorium, we used to just dump ice at the end of the day.

You didn't want to flush it because then you didn't want to, like, whatever, deal with that. But if you put it in the urinals and people just piss on it, it'll melt. Right. I don't know. That's my experience. I've used to throw ice in there just to get rid of ice at the end of the day. But I don't know. Let's look it up.

Well, Zeitgang, let us know. I think it's like a... Because you saw it at raves. I've seen it at Chateau Marmont. They do it like always. There's always ice in there. Maybe it's like a drug thing. Maybe it at raves. I've seen it at Chateau Marmont. They do it like always, there's always ice in there. Maybe it's like a drug thing. Maybe it's a smell thing. That makes sense to me.

But maybe people who are on a lot of drugs like to pee on ice. That's my theory. I like pissing on ice. I like pissing on dirt. It's like, it's melting. It's interesting. Wow. Maybe I was just not realizing why people were doing it.

I was just throwing ice away in the urinal because I had seen ice in a urinal. And I think people were saying, like, it's easier because they use it as, like, a urinal cake. Because people will just pee on the ice, and it's cheap and readily available. And then when they urinate on it, the ice melts, and it'll just flush away the urine. Oh, there you go. Oh, so it's a flush. Take a free flush. Yeah.

Free flusher. Boom. There it is. Versus me just being high and cutting corners. Nevermind, Zach Gang. Classic life hack. Because I got yelled at by the security guard because I've dumped a bunch of ice out in the parking lot.

He's like, you can't put that there. Right. And I'm like, it's water, my man. And then so I started going to the bathroom and throwing it in there. Huh. Because I was using a visual reference to that thinking that's what it was. Anyway. Wow.

Look how we conflate our memories. There you go. Well, Johnny, it's been a pleasure having you, man. Pleasure. Yeah.

Pleasure. Pleasure is all mine. Pleasure. Pleasure. Oh. Where can people find you? You can find me on the podcast live to tape. Yeah.

Otherwise, you know, on the internet under my name. All right. It's on all those places. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yeah, I enjoyed a tweet from my friend Kyle Kinane. Just said something about LA stands for leaf blowers always.

That's something I get really frustrated with leaf blowers because for one, they are technically illegal. They are illegal, yeah. I just found that out when I was buying with leaf blowers because for one they are technically illegal they are illegal yeah i just found that out and there's when i was buying three leaf blowers on the black market yeah along with some yellow cake yeah yeah i just felt so good to have someone also be like oh yes this thing oh you're at home in the daytime yeah what are they supposed to wait how do you use a leaf blower legally you're not supposed to use within, I think it's 50 feet of a dwelling, which is basically impossible. Wait, why is that? Because it's a two-stroke motor that's really pollutant, and also the sound is terrible.

You ever walk by one of those? It's like walking past an old school lake. To me, it's like, oh, wind. Yeah. Yeah. Well, how the fuck are gardeners supposed to do their shit then? Well, I think people traditionally have been gardening for many thousands of years using rakes. Yeah, but leaf blowers are efficient, though.

They're not as efficient as you think. It just feels like they're fucking with gardeners. You know what I mean? I guess. Like, what, if they use the battery-powered shit then? Well, the battery-powered ones are less pollutant. They don't give off gas. So is that what they're supposed to do if you're out here

and they're trying to switch people to the battery version? They should. And also, they're not as loud. Right. Again, these are all, in my mind, yeah, lawnmowers always.

But also, the leaf blowers, they strip off a lot of topsoil that makes things more healthy. Oh, wow. And they stir up all kinds of pollutants, all kinds of atmospheric particulates. Yeah, they get shit in your eye. I've had shit in my eye all day

just from a leaf blower. No, don't lie. But your lungs. You were crying watching that Joe Biden video. No, I was just... It was a leaf blower, Miles. Did you cry about Biden?

Yeah, because he was... That was his guy. He's been doxxed. That was my guy. Doxxed? That's what I call doxxing. Miles, where can people find you? Find me on Twitter and Instagram at MilesTheGrey.

One is a good submission, actually, from Zeitgang, at Mean Old Baptist, Cranky Old Baptist, who's a legit Baptist minister who listens to the show, brought my attention to a Mike Huckabee tweet because, you know what? Mike, I kind of figured out a bit of a joke here. He said, so this is actually a Mike Huckabee tweet. It says, just heard MSNBC pays Rachel Maddow $7 million a year.

The average salary for a garbage truck driver is $40,000. Why is delivering garbage worth 175 times more than hauling it away? Oh, damn. Okay. See, that was a joke. Yeah. Is that the first joke he's ever written? I don't know. I don't know who wrote that. I don't know who wrote that. I don't know who

wrote that, but you know what? He's moving in the right direction. I mean, it's basic enough that I bet he could do it. I think he's been trying for a long time, actually. Yeah, he's improving. I think he's won for like 7,000 maybe? He's written like a lot of jokes that aren't jokes. I mean, I'm not going to lie.

I've been going on the road with some of his material. Right. Yeah. And I like that laugh. I'll be on the road too this summer. That reminds me. I'll be on the road July 15th and the 19th and 20th in Iowa, Chicago, and Minnesota. Check out my dates on my website, johnnypemberton.dog. Okay. July 15th and the 19th and 20th in Iowa, Chicago, and Minnesota.

Check out my dates on my website, johnnypemberton.dog. Okay. Is that really your website? Yes, johnnypemberton.dog. Someone stole my name. It's funny that I thought everything preceding that was the joke up until you said the website name. And I'm like, wait, it's all real. I had to make it a joke because otherwise I'm shamelessly self-promoting myself without being ironic. Oh, no, no.

It's fine. This is what the whole show is. Hey, check out my album. Yeah, what's your album called? It's an album of- Say you're a funny boy, so we don't know if it's real or not. It's an album of prank phone calls to corporations called Recorder for Quality Assurance. Available on iTunes and Spotify.

All phone calls with corporations. Oh, fantastic. This guy. What a nut. This guy, man. His jokes. Oh, fantastic. This guy, what a nut. This guy, man. His jokes. Hey, quit joking around, man. Call my bluff, asshole.

Dan, erase all this shit, man. I dare you, call my bluff. It's just a joke. Also, another tweet I like is from at Bobby. And it's just, okay, because look, Joe Biden, he's under the microscope now. So a lot of people have been finding pictures and things. If you recall the image from yesterday's show was him with a bunch of bikers with a biker lady in his lap. Oh, yeah.

Is this going to be the picture for our episode today? I don't know. I think we need it. Anyway, this one is a photo of Joe Biden with a family. And the caption just says, sir? But if you look closely, Joe Biden has this little. And the caption just says, Sir, but if you look closely, Joe Biden has this little young baby just by the dick.

By the fucking, gripped by the crotch. What the fuck? That seems like a thing where someone told him to do this and he's like, just mindless. It looks like he's shaking the baby's dick like it's a hand. He's like, put her there.

That can't be right. Sometimes you grip your own child that way because you need to hold on to something. That's one hand. I think that's why, again, my theory is I honestly think Joe Biden treats everybody like they're his grandkid.

You know what I mean? You wouldn't even do that to your grandkid. Like, that is a strictly parent-to-child interaction. I feel like that would be a funny-ass photo. Yeah. Like, my dad holds me like that sometimes. Right. To this day.

To this day. Jason O. Gilbert, tweet I enjoyed, is Jason O. Gilbert said, Everyone needs to cut Joe Biden some slack. He comes from a different time when you had to sniff a woman's hair to make sure it was not concealing a sword. And Casers at tweeted, We all know that the Joker's real origin story was that he worked as comedians, but that his edgy humor no longer played well on college campuses. Which is true, man.

Yeah, man. These college kids need to get less uptight. You can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can follow us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Good night.

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