The Daily Zeitgeist - “SERENA” Is “QUEEN," Don McGone 8.31.18

Episode Date: August 31, 2018

In episode 224, Jack and Miles are joined by writer Amy Lam to discuss Serena Williams and her amazing outfits, attack ads against Beto O'Rourke by Ted Cruz, money laundering and Chris Christie, Trump blaming NBC for fudging  a taped interview, the top student loan official resigning, the dine-and-dasher finally being arrested, the reward for naming your child after the KFC Colonel, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. The Furor Over Serena William’s Catsuit Continues Tennis’ Policing of Black Women’s Bodies2. Texas GOP shares arrest mug shot to attack Beto O'Rourke for skipping debate with Cruz3. A Malaysian fugitive might have paid Chris Christie and a Trump lawyer with laundered funds4. The strange tale of Chris Christie, money laundering, a Jersey rapper and Donald Trump5. President Trump, without evidence, says NBC's Lester Holt 'caught fudging' taped interview6. APNewsBreak: Nation’s top student loan official resigns7. A serial ‘dine-and-dasher’ loved lavish meals and leaving women to pay for them, police say. He faces 10 felony charges.8. Name Your Baby Harland9. WATCH: Ghostface Killah feat. Jadakiss - Run Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Zeitgeist. Daily Zeitgeist. They're the modern second-rate pod see. From the town of L.A., it's a place right out of history. Let's ride with the Zeitgeist down the street. Through the courtesy of Jack O'Bee. When you're with the Zeitgang. Have a yabba-dabba-doo cast.

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Yes, it's Miles, a.k.a. Israel Jim, a.k.a. Grimeslay, a.k.a. Gray Slime, a.k.a. Grimy Eels, Remy is Gel, yes, Leg Rim. Those are all anagrams because after Caitlin Durante came on and killed it with the anagrams and all anagrams for a name, Latin Dancer UTI. Shout out to the Zeitgang for hitting me with anagrams of my name. I just couldn't bring anything that was so clearly inferior to Latin Dancer UTI. It's the best anagram of all time. And those come from the girl Michael, at the girl Michael. Who else, who else, who else? Oh, Kyle Grykoski and James McDonald.

But shout out to the people who worked on anagrams of my name. I'm going to use them at some point. Are there good ones? It's just like I need to forget Latin Dancer UTI. Just get that out of my mind because there will never be another Latin Dancer UTI. You're like Salieri. Right. Yeah, exactly.

You're not Mozart. Once I've seen Mozart, what the fuck? You're like, none of this shit matters. Well, in our third seat, we have the talent of writer and contributing editor and co-host of Backtalk Podcast at Bitch Media. She's a Kundiman Fellow and the John and Renee Grisham Fellow at the University of Mississippi. We're thrilled to be joined once again by Amy Lam. Hi. I don't have any of what you guys have. Any anagrams?

None. I only have like six letters. I only have six letters and four of them are the same letter. Llama. Wow. Yeah. Yam.

Llama Y. Yam Mal. Y Llama. Yam Alm. There we go. Like you're giving an alms for the four. That's a Yam Alm. And this will be the rest of the podcast.

Yep. All right. Let's do Anna's-alm. And this will be the rest of the podcast. Just breaking on the internet. All right, let's do Anna's name. All right, forget it. On with the show then, I guess. Amy, we're going to check in with you, get to know you a little bit better in a moment. But first, we're going to tell our listeners what we're going to be talking about today. We're going to be talking about Serena Williams' catsuit and her Virgil Abloh outfit that she's rocking at the U.S. Open.

We're going to be talking about, you guessed it, Jaden Smith's eyebrows. We're going to be talking about Beto O'Rourke and the attack ads that Ted Cruz thinks he's making about him. Not clear that they're attack ads. We're going to talk about the governor's race in Florida immediately going problematic. We're getting a clear picture of Trump's death spiral. We're going to- Yeah, how this might look. We're going to prognosticate about that. We're going to talk about just various people leaving

the Trump organization, the federal government, including the top student loan debt official. We're going to talk about this dude, Anand Giridharadas. Fuck. I apologize, Anand and Giri Doradas fuck I apologize Anand but he is releasing a book called winner take all that is basically he like went through all the elite class Aspen ideas festivals and you know all that shit and he's like he's a spy on the elites and he's telling us what they're doing to fake-fix the world and actually keep the system in place. We're going to talk about the Dine and Ditch Dater. He has been caught, arrested. Justice.

Michael Jackson just turned 60. We're going to talk about him, and we're going to talk about the ultimate KFC publicity stunt. Yeah. Getting people to name their baby after the colonel. But first, Amy, what is something from your search history that's revealing

about who you are? Well, recently in writing the story and there's a line where I talk about the male bowerbirds. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

They're the birds that like build these intricate structures to attract like a female bird so they would mate and then after they mate they like leave the lady and the lady has to like bring up the kid on their own

ending an hour no i don't i don't know i mean i think it's just it's like the thing that they create i thought it was a nest that's what i was like googling but it's just like oh it's like a cave it's like a decorative structure yeah and they're actually really beautiful and they often like collect scraps that are like um the same color and so it looks like a mosaic yeah it's pretty impressive works of art it's pretty wild and uh and i'm just like wow like i was like writing this line that i was trying to correlate to like men are trash because like he did does all this extravagant work to like build this structure and then like he fucks a lady and then like she lays eggs build this structure and then he fucks a lady and then she lays eggs and makes chicks and then he leaves her

to build another extravagant structure for somebody else. And the structure is also useless. It's just decorative. Yeah, it's purely decorative. So like a Trump building. Yeah. But more noble than that. Wow, they know how to finesse

these fucking twigs and shit. We've talked about the book Evolution of Beauty before on this podcast and just like how much of evolution is just purely decorative stuff just to attract a mate. And yeah, these birds. The guy who wrote that book is a ornithologist and a bird behavioralist and knows everything about that shit. There's some really compelling mating rituals. They don't call it peacocking for nothing,

man. Yeah. They sure don't, Miles. You said it. In the pickup artist community. Right. As I learned from Mystery. Yeah, aka ZyGang, the pickup artist community. That's who we cater to. My pickup artist side.

What's your story about? Are you allowed to release that information? Oh, I'm working on a novel. Oh, awesome. So it's literally just a line, and it's about family shit. Family shit. Family shit. I had to actually make an appointment to keep seeing my counselor at school

so that I could write this because I don't think I could write it without working out my own family shit. Oh, right, right, right. That's good. And I had an intake meeting so that I could get reassigned to my old counselor and this grad student was interviewing me

and I was crying during the intake and I'm like, man, I don't know if I can write this fucking book if I can't even do an intake interview without breaking down. Well, it sounds like you have a lot of truth in that book. A lot of trauma slash truth, yeah. Well, I think it

is a good thing. As your credits attest, you are a talented writer, a fiction writer. We'll see. We'll see. I tried to read the manuscript. It's just all tear-soaked ink pages.

What is something you think is overrated? Overrated. Oh, you know, like, these brands that really market towards, like, millennials, but they're kind of, like, not that, like. Cool. Not that lit. They're not lit AF. But, like, okay, so I'm thinking of a like top of my head like uh that luggage brand away you know like that has the battery in it so they're like oh this you

love this like i had i had a friend recommend it to me and i know she'll never listen to this but i was just like yo i'm like literally go buy an external battery pack on amazon for like ten dollars and you don't have to spend all this money on this stupid suitcase that you can get a ross for like 50 bucks also those suitcases aren have to spend all this money on this stupid suitcase that you can get at Ross for like 50 bucks. Also, those suitcases aren't even that great. They're not good. No. See, exactly.

That's what I'm saying. So Miles, I got the, they advertised on my previous lesser podcast, The Crack Podcast. Ooh, shots fired. You heard that, Schmitty? It was lesser when I hosted it. Alex made it better.

And now it's a great podcast. But they advertised. And so they sent us like the first edition of the Away bag. And then the TSA changed it. So you couldn't travel with the battery. But it wasn't a removable battery when they sent it to me. So I had to like get in there with a screwdriver. Right.

Like before I boarded the flight. I'm already trying to board the flight with like two babies. It's like such a pain in the ass. What's wrong with those babies, man? I know. They were so unhelpful. I don't know how to use a fucking screwdriver. They don't have motor skills. I'm like, give me a Phillips head.

I got one as like a promotional. Like it was a gift bag that everything came in one of those. I was like, oh, this is cool. It's got a little battery in it. And I had the first gen too where some some airlines they do allow you to go into the carry it on but usually can't check it because they don't want any fucking lithium ion nonsense explosions going on while they're in transit but yeah like i remember like getting the suitcase and i was like oh it's cool and then you actually start looking at it you're like this is just a

thin plastic shell yeah uh with a battery in it yeah okay i guess that works but they yeah the marketing is slick though it's so good and like there are other brands like uh there's like a cosmetic brand glossier and i've had products it's whatever and then there's like they remember that um under like that panties brand thanks for women like on their period i don't know yeah but like you literally are supposed to like bleed onto this pair of panties and i'm like you know i think for generations women have had period panties. They're just black panties that you bleed on and you wash. But I don't want a pair of panties that's soaked with my blood.

I don't even know how you launder that. That's disgusting. Super producer Anna Hosnier is our underwear expert. Yeah, resident underwear and menstruation correspondent. I'm currently wearing Thinks underwear. Whoa! Underwear and menstruation correspondent. I'm currently wearing Thinks underwear. It's an interesting thing because I'm not 100% behind them. I think it's an interesting thing. I do wear them.

Good branding. I Thinks. Me Thinks. It's an interesting thing because they're not 100% leak proof. you're thinking because they're not a hundred percent like you know leak proof i i wear them because i'm a lazy person and i'm also at the same time trying to like lessen my like waist so i've been like you know i'm just gonna do this for a while but they leak through but it is the same thing it just feels like you're wearing a diaper and then a part of that i'm also they're very tight they kind of make you feel like you're being held oh Oh. Like a thunder shirt for your feet. Yeah, exactly.

I think it was a thunder pad. Yeah. But I think they're good in the sense that you're not using tampons and pads and stuff, so you lessen your waist. But it is the same things. You're just kind of wearing black underwear and hoping for the best, that you don't leak through.

But sometimes I leak through, and then I have days where I'm like, why the fuck do I keep purchasing this technology? But if you have a really heavy flow it's a struggle so that's the problem it's not for everyone and that's what's so frustrating you're like why can't we just make a fucking pair of underwear that just absorbs everything and I am going crazy you know why because I'm sure there's there's too big of an industry to be like yo we can't just have people buying like one and done underwear like that.

True. But also the way I launder them, I have to hand wash them every day and hang dry them. Like I have a technique now where I have on my curtain, I have a bunch of my boyfriend right now is probably so happy that I'm revealing all this. He's so pissed. I just moved and I have our entire curtain is hanging with hangers that have underwear hanging off them like diaper looking underwear so it's like it's a process so he's just like I'm going to kill you but also when you're laundering them because you're like washing them in the sink right when you wring them out

it's all blood just shove a tampon in me I don't even want to do that it's a whole thing just in general for these like millennial products, it has to seem like a simple solution to a problem with a traditional. But then, yeah, it actually sometimes isn't a simpler solution. And also, all of their promotional material and the material that comes with it has to

be sleekly designed, very sparsely like pencil drawn helvetica right well because glossier is just trying to rip off the supreme logo aren't they yeah it's just like future a bold italic font and it's like glossier and i'm like wait i know oh that's that's the supreme logo for makeup wow is the product is there's nothing different it's just the packaging that has people being like oh yeah or the it's the marketing. Yeah, it's so sleek and it looks so good. Because I was interested in Away for a minute because I travel so much, but I'm just like, fuck this. Like, I went to Amazon. I found, like, a really greatly reviewed bag that, like, I guess, like, airline staff use, you know.

It's called Luggage Pro. I get no kickbacks on this. But definitely Google the – you guys can put a link in your footnotes or whatever an affiliated link no we're gonna bleep that name actually because they are not

giving us enough money where's the where yeah where the cake at exactly but I definitely recommend the rollerboard international size one

carry on because then you can carry on international not worry and I do not fuck with spinny ones those are like ridiculous a waste of space

rollerboards the way to go they're like you know fuck with spinny ones. Those are like ridiculous, a waste of space. Rollerboard's the way to go. They're like, you know, the spinny ones with the four wheels that you can walk. The spinners. Yeah,

I don't fuck with those. Wait, so what do you use? Like an old bindle stick? It's called a roller, the Craig Kermit's roller board. We're team bindle stick on the Daily Zeitgeist.

Yep, got my bindle stick walking in the thing. Hobo style. Yeah. And there's no respect for the Bindelstick. I agree with the four-wheel one, though, because then you have to carry it bolt upright, and it's just weird. No, no.

The only part is the two big wheels on the back, and you actually get more luggage space. No, I know. I'm saying I agree. That's better than the one that you have to carry upright like you're walking around with oxygen or something. It's just not how people move through airports. Anyways, we got to move on to your underrated, Amy. Coupons. Yes.

I love coupons. Love a fucking coupon. But only, this is the thing about coupons. Like you get super stoked because you get a coupon, but like don't fuck with coupons that you're not going to use or like for a product that you don't even like that much. Just because you could save 50 cents on it. You find a good coupon or a service or a product that you were going to use or like for a product that you don't even like that much just because you can save 50 cents on it you find a good coupon or a service or a product

that you were going to use like definitely remember the expiration date and use it before then obviously. And abuse the shit out of it. Yes. I really love a good coupon.

I was like that and I always scan the supermarket ads that you get in the mail like the junk mail for any like deals on like meat. That's the other thing

I like to do. I'm like oh shit that rib roast. Yeah you gotta get the it's gotta be the expensive stuff. Oh yeah. The stuff that's the other thing I like to do. I'm like, Ooh, shit, that rib roast. Yeah. You gotta get the, it's gotta be the expensive stuff. The stuff that's expensive in the first place or like something where they haven't thought it through fully.

Like the dude who got lifetime supply of airline miles because there was like a pudding cup promotion. It's basically, they put this plot point in punch drunk love because it was like such a crazy story uh but the dude it was i think some type of pudding cup that gave away like free airline miles if you bought like a certain number of pudding cups and he was like oh all i need to do is spend like a thousand dollars on pudding cups and i can fly free for the rest of my life oh like his he could like from there they just multiply on top of each other?

Oh, beautiful. Didn't he buy for his family and friends too? I think he was just like, wow, I've maxed out. Let me get my gang gang in on it. I hope he didn't throw it all away or something. Yeah, good coupon. Get those

meat deals. Good meat deal. I'll make a prime rib next time that shit goes on fucking sale. Yeah, good coupon. Get those meat deals. Yeah, tell you. Good meat deal. Woo, boy. I'll make a prime rib next time that shit goes on fucking sale. There should be a company that just goes around to people who have just moved in to their houses and consolidates the Bed Bath & Beyond $50 coupons. Yeah, all the news. Like, hey, you just moved. Yeah, you just moved.

Here's the $50 coupon. The wave book. Yeah, that's my plan. Okay, perfect. That and Here's the $50 coupon. The wave book. Yeah. That's my plan. Okay, perfect. So that and find a big bag of money. That's a big announcement, guys. He's leaving HowStuffWorks to pursue this coupon book thing that he thought of. Good luck to you, Jack.

Thank you, sir. Amy, what is a myth? What's something people think is true that you know the do be false? I don't know if this is like a myth, but this is like a health tip, guys. Health corner with Amy. I've had this fucked up like pain in my left leg i think it's a sciatic pain or like an si joint pain and i went to see a doctor about it at my school and he was just like you just have to take these like pain meds for the

rest of your life and i'm like yeah i was just like and and there i mean they were good payments like the first week the first week i took them i felt like i was high and then actually the high wore off. And I'm like, this is not fun anymore. But I actually went and saw a good physical therapist this summer. And she got me working on my core, like these very specific exercises to strengthen my core so that it would help my pain. And it's immensely helping my pain. So I guess maybe the myth is you don't have to live with this pain.

There is solution. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And also on a good day, I have like a two to four pack now, which I've, Whoa. All right. Two packs should work.

Like one that you kind of have to like look at for a minute and then you see it. It isn't like a, yeah. In good lighting. Exactly. Then you take the eyebrow pencil and you just shade it a little bit. Yeah, but the before breakfast.

After morning pee one. Yeah. Take the wild shit. Don't eat breakfast. And you just. Yeah. No the wild shit. Don't eat breakfast. And you just. Yeah. No. The solutions to chronic pain being painkillers is an idea that is going out of style big

time in the pain relief community. And. Right. Yeah. I mean, work with a doctor, but also, you know, physical therapists and, you know, just exercises can really help in a lot of ways. And just being flexible. I remember when you sit down a lot, I get lower back pain.

And then people are like, your hamstrings are tight. Right. And I'm like, oh, shit. Okay. I read an article about how you can sit better. And it's about sticking your ass out. Yeah, it's your pelvic tilt, right? Yeah.

So I'm always sitting like this now. And I think it's helping. No, you're right. No, for real. Because I'm one of these types of sitters. Everybody's sitting straight. Everybody's sitting straight. It isn't about puffing your chest out.

It's about sticking your ass out. We just improved. But if everything, I sit with like rounded shoulders a lot. So I have to kind of. Everybody's sitting so flat. You just spontaneously improved the posture of 100,000 people.

So that's good. Yeah. Everybody sit the fuck up and yet tell your, it's all, it's really, it's not about your back because you could sit with a tilted pelvis and just try and sit up right but if you just change that angle a little bit the article said it kind of acts like you're

wagging like pretend you have a tail in your butt and you're like trying to wag it so you got to like stick it out to wag or if you're twerking just isolate right right because that's really like make it bounce make it bounce uh all bounce. Make it bounce. Arch that back. Arch that back. As we arch that back and make it bounce, we are going to get into the news of the day. As we're recording this, it is the second leg of the John McCain month-long memorial service. I think it just concluded. Joe Biden is getting a lot of attention for giving a good speech. And I just wanted to, we always keep our eye on the Google trends,

like what's trending, what are the most people in the United States searching for. And like numbers one and two for the past couple of days have just been people reacting at John McCain's memorial service. Like right now it's Joe Biden, Meghan McCain breaking down into tears was a couple of days ago. So this is, you know, still a thing that people are going through. And the reason why Trump brought the flag back up because he's like he was all getting mad that it was eating up so much news cycle. Right. It's like he's a president.

He said something to that effect. Oh, my God. Well, this is what happens when people have some shred of respect for you. I like my presidents who won. Yeah. Yeah. Who didn't give up. Anyway.

Serena Williams, there is, so the U.S. Open just kicked off, and the head of the French Open basically said he didn't like the way that she looked when she was wearing her cat suit at the French Open this past year, where she won the French Open. But she had a specially designed sort of form-fitting bodysuit that was designed specifically to help with the blood clots in her leg, which is like a huge health risk and can keep her from dying. His exact quote was, I think that sometimes we've gone too far.

It will no longer be accepted, her bodysuit. One must respect the game and the place. One must respect the game and the place. Was my French accent not good? No. One must respect. Non. Z.

Yeah, I like how it's just all because he's like, well, I don't like it. Right. Like, you couldn't point to anything else. I mean, aside from, you know, obviously patriarchy with women's tennis. Like, put on your mini skirt. Yeah. Okay? That's what we like.

And her body has been, like, policed and looked at, like, ever since she started. And, you know, something we talked about on a recent episode is the idea of, you know, black women's bodies being policed, especially, like, even in public schools. Right. Like, oh, you can't wear that hairstyle because it's disrespectful to our sensibilities. It isn't like the suits that fuck this game on it. Like, how is it disrespectful to the game? I mean, if it said that, I'd be like, oh, okay.

It's made you lots of money, but sure. I think it's just saying one must respect the status quo, basically, of the dated traditions of this sport. And the status quo is mini skirts. It's like, well, that's great for you, Well,

there's another woman, I think, at the US Open who, because it's so hot, she changed her shirt on the court. No,

it's because she had it on backwards. Oh, she had it on backwards and had to turn it around? Right. And had to take her shirt off and they're like,

oh, I have to give you a warning. Right. Whereas like, men straight up take their shirts off and put new ones on and it's like,

there's no problem. Well, me, but again, you know, they don't like to see a sports bra or just someone operating to make themselves more comfortable or fix their shirt. Right. But we'll warn them.

Meanwhile, Serena responded by showing up to the U.S. Open in I think the dopest outfit ever worn during a tennis match. It was designed by Virgil Abloh. It's like a tutu thing that, I don't know, man. It's up there. It's part of the Queen collection that they're doing. Yeah, I mean, it's...

You know, for people who don't know Virgil Abloh, he has a brand Offway and he's now Louis Vuitton's creative director. And you might notice some of our merch look similar to some of his designs. Inspired by. Yeah. Or I would say maybe he ripped us off.

Yeah. But, you know. What came first, Off-White or the Daily Zeitgeist merchandise from last week? Yes. But I don't know. We don't know for sure. But, yeah, he also has, like, the dopest shoes out, like the dopest Nikes. Yeah.

And he's just been, yeah, put around this tutu and it has the yeah i just like how on her shirt though even her name is in quotes just like serena it's a logo here or brand name uh what what would you say miles and amy is the coolest like sporting event outfit like i i was thinking my favorites are probably michael someone on court yeah like an athlete while playing yeah if you were costuming them in a in a scene in a movie like michael jordan in his prime in his red bulls away jersey in the fours like oh the 88s wow okay And the fours with his 88 dunk contest. Jordan was probably like among my favorites.

And then the Fab Five. Actually, in the 88, he wore threes when he won the dunk contest. Oh, really? Yes. I feel like a fool. With Nike Air on the back. But that's okay. I'm not trying to pull your sneaker head card.

StockX, sponsor us. So my look, I liked when he started wearing the calf sleeve. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? And then Kobe ripped that off too. But you know, I thought that was a little, everyone was like, ooh, what does he need a compression sleeve on his calf for? And the Fab Five when they wore the black socks and the baggy shorts.

That was very important to me as a 12 year old. Yeah. Well, that was kind of bringing in a new style to basketball too, where it's like, yeah, that's how younger people are dressing on the court. And you're working with a base of really great uniforms with the away Bulls jerseys and the Fab Five. The Michigan uniforms are always among the best.

Let's see. I liked Kerry Kittles, a player at Villanova. He had one long-ass sock that went up to his knee, and then one short sock was an interesting look for me. And then, you know, people like as a kid, I thought Deion Sanders was you know rocking his bandanas and stuff like that and his earrings was cool yeah uh and andre agassi oh you know yeah doing it for the bald men you know he rocked that thin ass hair doing what for the bald men wearing a wig

but then he then he was like yo fuck this and took it off and went full Agassi. But yeah, I mean, that piece was something else. But when he was at his most stylish, like during the camera commercial Agassi, he had that wild ass wig on. Like Vivitar. Like probably one of the best wigs ever rocked, because nobody thought that she was a wig. And to be fucking competing in sports with a long ass wig on. So sweaty and hot. Yeah, one of the best ever. To be fucking competing in sports with a long ass wig on? So sweaty and hot.

Yeah, one of the best ever. Some say if he had just ditched the wig, he would have been greater than Pete Sampras. Yeah. You know, because they said the wig really limited him. Who the fuck remembers Pete Sampras? Oh my goodness. That's right, Sampras heads, come at me. I saw a really great costume by this gymnast.

Her name is Jordan Childs. She was at the 2018 Gymnastics Championships in Boston. So she wore a Wonder Woman leotard. Oh, really? Yeah, and she's like a young black woman wearing like a, and it's like beautiful. It's like really well done and sparkly when she did like her whole like floor routine in it. I was just like, wow, that's a look. Yeah, that's dope.

Yeah. They should like make the USA team wear that when they compete in the Olympics. I remember from the Winter Olympics, Medvedeva, that skater who was just crushing it, the Russian figure skater. Uh-uh. She wore a Sailor Moon outfit. Yes, I remember that one. Oh, it just passed you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I was like, oh, look at you. Okay. Yeah. Oh, also Michael Johnson when he came out in the tracksuit with the golden shoes on. Golden shoes. Those are dope. 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 unhearts the

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to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? I mean, the Boone County Rebels will stay the Boone County rebels with the image of the Biscuits. It's right here in black and white in print. A lion. An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I just take all the other stuff out of it. Segregation academies. When civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools,

these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot. You have to be ready for serious backlash. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And before we get into the serious news of the day, we just wanted to talk about Jaden Smith's eyebrows. They're nowhere to be seen. Eyebrows have always been something I've noticed on people's faces uh really you don't say well no like one time when i was younger i was like oh well whoopi goldberg doesn't have eyebrows

and people are like why why do you know that that's right why is that a conspiracy but yeah i eyebrows are a big deal and uh this dude looks wild without eyebrows I will say that because I had a really fucking early flight and I came to stay at my brother's house and I took a nap

before I came here and I was just like I gotta fucking catch this lift so I can get in the studio on time or whatever but I was like I need to put my eyebrows

on first like I legit penciled it I had to like fill in my eyebrows oh your eyebrows are filled in yeah I mean

I have pretty good eyebrows but I do fill them in so that they can look just a little bit you know there you go but like they're a big deal

of course just think about like in Arrested Development wasn't Ed Begley's character had the alopecia and he had the fake eyebrows and he just put them on wrong and they're like

oh you look surprised and he's like oh I must have put on my eyebrows too high and you just realize how much yeah the eyebrows do, they're the window to the soul. The window to the soul.

They're the frames of the windows to the soul. Window dressing. And if there's no window frames, broken window theory, then the neighborhood's a mess. Anyways. Sociology mixed with your eyebrow culture. Speaking of the face, Beto O'Rourke. So Ted Cruz has now gone into attacking Beto O'Rourke in some campaign ads.

And he's, I don't know. I just think Ted Cruz is so tone deaf to what is cool and charismatic that he is accidentally making Beto O'Rourke look good. Right. accidentally making Beto O'Rourke look good. Right. Because he had something about, they had a picture of Beto O'Rourke's mugshot after getting arrested for a DUI. Not cool drinking and driving,

but he looks so hot and cool in the mugshot. And just, I don't know. And they're like, oh, sorry, I had to go catch a gig or something like that. And it's like, so basically, this dude is super cool. Like a rock star, yeah. And you're like an annoying parent or something. Yeah.

I mean, that's all they got. Well, now it makes sense because they're nearly in a statistical deadlock on the polls. Or he's creeping. We'll see what happens. I think it'll eventually work. I think Ted Cruz is going to pull it out unfortunately but really i do i don't know man like the better work like now that i've started paying attention to i feel like a lot of people started paying attention to him but i mean people in texas have known about him and like he's getting

a lot of national attention but i feel like everybody's kind of known the story for a while in Texas, and it's not like he's going to experience this huge wave now. We'll see, dude. Surf could be up. Surf's up, bruh. Yeah, and you can't underestimate

what a cute mugshot can do for you. That's true. Like, look what he did for Hot Felon. Right. Yeah, exactly. He's out here making moves. Didn't he just marry a billionaire or something? Yeah, he married,

or he impregnated the heiress to I think Topshop or something yeah I was like damn you really put that seed in her I was like

living that and also he shot up the club but you know he had like a wife that was like with him throughout his whole ordeal

before that when he had kids with her I like went on her Instagram I really looked yeah that's really sad and went on her instagram i like i really looked yeah that's really sad and he left her for this like heiress obviously he is hot felon he's not a hot moral morally scrupulous man i know it's part of his appeal yeah he's a literal bad boy

it might work for beto you never know well and it might work out for hot felon and his ex-wife because now he's gonna be rich man but yeah there's another picture where they compared beto o'rourke and ted cruz around the same time like ted cruz looks like a fucking numpty like just like hey like i'm i'm smoking this cigar and i'm 22 and then better smoking a cigar at 22 yeah and then and then there's another one of uh like beto o'rourke he's like in the band he's like bass hanging on a sleeveless shirt. Yeah. It's fucking Beto, Brett. Yeah.

No, all the old pictures they're trying to pull of him just make him look super fucking cool. And who are they trying to convince, though, too? They're like, oh, wow, a mugshot. OK. Probably the older voters. But I mean, I think the idea probably with Beto should be that they're going to get the younger people who don't normally vote out. But Ted Cruz is just appealing to the people who usually vote in these elections, which are old ass people who are just like, you know.

What's next? Like probably a really poorly executed meme burn against Beto O'Rourke. Ted Cruz clearly doesn't know how a meme works. He's like, when you get arrested for a DUI. And DUIs aren't like that big a deal like so i live in a small town in the south and uh every few days the police department will tweet like their stats on what they did that weekend or whatever like how many duis yeah and i'm just like all these rich southern kids they get duis like nothing yeah so i don't know if these grandparents are gonna be they're to be like oh my god just like my grandson.

What a cutie. Right. They're like it reminds me of my grandson. Although young Zeitgeist listeners it's still bad to drink and drive. No we're not advocating

for drinking and driving. We're just saying I know what Amy was saying. She was saying everybody should go out and drink and drive because it makes you cool. Look if you're buzzed driving

and the cops pull you over refuse the breathalyzer test have them take you to the hospital because at that point, maybe your BAC goes down and you don't pop on the test. I don't know. That might be a tip. That worked for one person. That's worked for a couple people. Okay. Also, suck on pennies.

They'll make you pass the breathalyzer. Was that another weird hack? That's what I heard when I was younger. Back in my day, they didn't have no breathalyzer. Your breath smells like copper. It was probably put out there by cops just to be like and if somebody opens their mouth and change falls out they're probably hammered all right and then the governor's race in florida so uh there was an inspiring story of the democratic candidate who came from behind in the primary and is going into the general election and it's kind of a dead

heat. And the Republican nominee who immediately implored his listeners to not monkey this up. Yeah. Ron DeSantis. Yeah. And what's the Democrat's name? Andrew Gillum.

Andrew Gillum. Yeah. So I should have learned the names of the two main characters in this news story we're talking about. The two main characters. Yeah. And this is how we look at news. Yes. Exactly.

What's the third act of this? So the protagonist here is. Well, yeah. Ron DeSantis. We also found out that he is like an administrator of this Tea Party group on Facebook that like I think also Kelly Ward, the one of the senate candidates from arizona the one who lost and there's another senate candidate cory stewart they're all like admins on this page and like it's all just that dumb ass racist misogynist offensive facebook shit like you know the tea party still around well i think they probably like that was an early movement that they could gather around

like in 20 2009 2010 and then they probably just one of those things like, we'll just evolve the content. Why don't they rebrand? Because they don't know how to. That's right. I think their knowledge of American history, like it ends with the Boston Tea Party. So they're like, nah. I bet they're already rebranding. We just don't know what they are yet.

But I mean. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire crew. Like what? The Koch brothers were behind that shit all along and it was part of like a yeah they're astroturfing you can drop that that song in right now nick because but it but it's actually true yeah but that's true yeah okay so is all my conspiracy theories but yeah he on that group all the fucking like just really dumb stuff like saying you know they're protesting because you know they're overpaid ball chasers who kneel like ISIS.

Or saying that, like, you know, dumb shit about, like, you know, run-of-the-mill Islamophobia, saying Islam is a religion of, quote, pedophilia, sex slavery, rape gangs, and honor killings. So, you know, he's the admin on that group. Cool. He had to actually withdraw himself because it got hot for him when they're like not only do you say monkeying it up right but then we found you at the or the admin of the steamparty group yeah and apparently de santos is just purely a fox news duty he was on fox news 200 times so it's just like i am essentially a stand-in for trump vote for me like i'm trump right exactly and andrew gill actually, I think, tried to go to nearly every

county to try and court votes. Ah, but what's that gonna do? What's that gonna do? Who cares? What's my vote gonna change? Yeah. Let's talk about where the president himself is these days. What? Yeah. Really starting to see how this could all unravel. I mean, it's like

now you're starting to see the thing where, like, they're adding weights and they're adding more weight. And you're like, ooh, this could eventually make it all cave in. Because a few weeks ago, we found out that Don McGahn, the White House counsel, put in like 30 hours in the booth with hit producer Bobby Mueller cooperating with him. And the White House was like, no, that's all chill. Don't worry. Yeah, we were cool with that.

And he's not implicating us in anything. Right. Because we're not worried about anything. Right. Then earlier this week or the end of last week, we started to hear stories that McGahn was actually thinking about leaving soon, possibly in the fall after Kavanaugh is hopefully rejected, but maybe after his confirmation. And then the reports of him saying like he may or may not leave, like started irritating

Trump, apparently. So then he just fired off tweet not leave, like, started irritating Trump, apparently. So then he just fired off a tweet. He was, like, basically, like, see you later, Brett. Yeah. And even Don McGahn was like, oh, OK, I didn't know. Am I leaving? I guess I'm OK. I guess I'm leaving then.

So you're starting to see that he's – Don McGahn has been the person who's been there for the beginning. Like, he was the counsel for, I think, much of the campaign and the transition was had a front seat to all this other, you know, things that are being investigated. The guy who threatened to quit when Trump tried to get him to fire. Yeah, exactly. So he's kind of been the brakes on the thing from fully going off the cliff. And I think it's an interesting sign that that person is leaving. And now you're starting to see even more unhinged behavior from Trump, like now really trying to sound the like, let's fire Jeff Sessions alarm and do all this other stuff. But you're starting to see like a world where he's pushing out all these like legal people that he'll need because the Washington post then had a story with

like 26 or something confirmed sources that are like within the administration or aides to the administration or people who consult with the administration who are all like, Hey man, he's not taking this shit seriously. Like if the house, if the house gets taken by the Dems, like he doesn't realize the kind of like legal jeopardy and not trying to lawyer up, have a game plan. Because like if all these subpoenas start hitting, like he's going to have to produce documents, all these other things, and he's just not ready. And I mean, that's when you're going to, I think, start seeing real problems too, because a lot of people don't want to be even associated with the administration, like in terms

of like they can't really hire worthwhile lawyers. They can't hire like worthwhile people to work in the administration. A lot of people have said if the blue wave crashes on the SS rat fuck Trump ship, that they're all going to bail because they all see like impending legal fees, too, from just being in the administration having to deal with stuff so i feel like his behavior is making more and more sense to me if you just keep in mind that he's a celebrity before anything else so like celebrities have entire companies built around them of people whose paychecks rely on them continuing to be the celebrity. Right.

So he has sycophants around him who are like yes men. A celebrity is just surrounded by an industry of professional yes men. So he's insulated in his own world where he never needs to learn to type for one thing. needs to learn to type for one thing, or just like to do anything and where his isolation from reality is actually good for the people around him because it makes him easier to manipulate. And, you know, every celebrity is basically a brand

slash small company who their role is to stay oblivious. Yeah. It's kind of like with like Nicki Minaj, like nobody was telling her, you need to chill with these tweets about Travis. But Trump is three tweets away from being like, listen to me

talk about it on Queen Radio. He's like, I'm going in. Ebro, get ready. Ebro and Rosenberg, get ready. I'm coming through to Hot 97. That makes a lot of sense because everything know, because they're just, everything about his mood and all the reporting about it

is like he's going apeshit and everyone's trying to do anything and everything to just keep him calm, including being like, no, no, no, that's not that big of a deal. That's not that big of a deal to the point where now he really thinks nothing is that big of a deal.

And when it all, when it all falls down, it's not going to be good. So thank you for that. And also, one other thing I want to mention, too, is even the people that are in his legal orbit, they are now being pulled into bigger fucking scandals like Mark Kazowitz and even Chris Christie and this guy Barry Birchfield, who was like the person they brought in to like oversee the Trump organization sort of like trust. So it's like, yeah, we're making sure that he's not connected to the day to day business. Like I'm the quote unquote ethics person.

These guys are now under investigation for being part of a legal team for this Malaysian business guy, Joe Lowe, who pulled off like they say,, one of the biggest financial frauds in history. $4.5 billion. Yes. And they're looking into Chris Christie and Kazowitz and this Birchfield guy because they're like, we think you're being paid with laundered money or y'all are laundering. Y'all are in some dirty money. It's just a mess. Right.

And this guy, Barry Birchfield, is someone there even floated as maybe someone who could replace Don McGahn as White House counsel. And they're like, yo, this guy can't even he doesn't even know where his money's coming from. And he's like, oh, well, we did our due diligence to make sure the source of the money was fine. But, you know, again, it's all dirty. It's all dirt, baby. And now Trump is tweeting Lester Holt got caught fudging my tape because so super producer

Nick Stumpf was pointing out that like who's talking about the Lester Holt interview to him right now is probably his lawyers explaining to him like what he said how fucked he is and like why he shouldn't do the Mueller interview and so now rather than dealing with that reality he's being like yo this is fake version of reality where they made up the lie about me even though the entire interview the unedited interview has been available on NBC's website since 2017 right so yeah but hey and he's also like thinking about impeachment because of his answers about like how the economy is gonna collapse so he's having to confront harsh realities and you know doing like what you would expect a celebrity to do yeah and look not dealing with and all the

rats and all the rats are just scurrying off the ship and that shows you other people who are scurrying off the ship the top student loan debt official has resigned he's been working with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since it was created in 2011. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the, you know, it was deregulated everything and is professionally there to tear the entire institution down. And so the AP somehow got their hands on a copy of this guy's resignation letter that he clearly just sent to them where he said, you've used the Bureau to serve the wishes of the most powerful financial companies in America. The damage you've done to the Bureau betrays these families, sacrifices the financial future of millions of Americans.

Like all these different things that were done to prevent, you know, to make it easier for people to pay back their college loans, to also make it harder for for-profit colleges like DeVry and like places like that to target people and victimize people. They're just deregulating all that shit. Yeah. So it's just it's a big profit party. Yeah. And yeah, especially with the predatory like sort of student loan industry.

I mean, fuck, man. It's huge. The game is set up now that you have to go to college to have any shot of getting into the middle class. Right. Like you or to stay. Theoretically. Yeah.

Right. Theoretically, because even then it might not even work. But, you know, like so they've already built in this new level of limiting people's social mobility. And then from there, then you have these fucking sharks who are just like, oh, and then I'm just going to fucking keep you locked in. Right. This debt.

Yeah. You'll just get into a never ending cycle. It's such a scam because because you're like 17, 18 deciding to sign away on hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for school. And you're a kid. You don't know any better. Maybe your parents don't know any better.

You sign it and then you hear these stories about people paying $50,000 off their loans, theoretically, and then they actually owe more on their principal because they've been paying interest the entire time. That's a fucking scam. Yeah, it's it just like capitalizes on you know young people and this notion that they have no other opportunities but to go to school and like i can't get over it yo i've been out of school a long time like more than a decade and i just finished paying off my student loan like i'm done but my student loan wasn't even that major i know

it wasn't that bad but i was just, I don't know how I would feel because I'm like a stress ball about money if like I had 300 Gs hanging over my head and like I don't know how I'll ever pay it. That's wild. Right, and it just ends up being things like, I'll just do the minimum payments. Yeah, you do the minimum payments

and then like by the time you're 50, you're probably double your principal of the loan or whatever, which doesn't make sense. That's not about helping students. Like this educational system and the way the loans work just aren't about the families, like this guy is saying.

It's about serving these institutions that give out the loans. A lot of these people, these career CFPB people, they got into it to be like, yeah, this is to basically protect the consumer, the regular person, from these fucking vampires who are just trying to suck the fucking life out of the country and yeah like there's the morale has just gotten lower and

lower with mulvaney there because his attitude is like all right nerds trying to protect shit yeah i'm trying to fucking deregulate knocking lunches out of people's hands he's the anti anti-warren g deregulate yes because even back back in the day when i was working in politics a lot of the work that we would do for a given industry, right, is to keep the Congress people, the senators, whoever, who are in positions on committees that would actually do any kind of investigation into any given industry, whether that's energy, for-profit education, you name it, manufacturing, you know, you want to keep those people in those positions. So like when there's grumblings on agreements,

I think we need to look into how the, you know, the government or like what the benefit is to these universities or this source of energy. You want to have those people on those committees be like, nah, nah, we don't need to do that. Nah, dead that, dead that, dead that. Yeah. And then you can continue to just, you know, feast on the rotting carcass unbeknownst to everyone else. So there's a book out that I'm reading called winner takes all where it's about how

you know all these elite class you just basically can't trust any elite class solution to the problems of that our society has because they're all specifically designed by them to keep those people in power to keep the system and appease the people who are looking it's like when fucking pablo escobar put himself in jail right he's like that's exactly yeah i'm gonna build my own jail don't worry right i'm good y'all are good i'm gonna make my own jail and i won't bother anybody it's like fuck out of here bro we're coming for you they talk about the fact that like they're at this lean-in conference for you know women in business trying to be able to like balance like work life things and one of the women is

like well what if we took all this money that we're talking about and put it towards lobbying to get actual like maternity leave because that was what in europe showed like actually got women into the workforce at more representative levels and everyone just like looked at her like what the fuck are you talking about? Why would we do that? With public schools, actually letting all public schools be funded equally rather than based on the value of your parents' house,

everyone's like, shut up. We're doing charter schools, asshole. Oh, wow. Because it's all, you know. Yeah, they're like, no, no, no, you don't get it. Right. Unless the lobbying firm we use is my husband's. Right.

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? The Boone County rebels will stay the Boone County rebels with the image of the biscuits. It's right here in black and white in print. They lying.

An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I'd just take all the other stuff out of it. Segregation academies. When civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools, these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot.

You have to be ready for serious backlash. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back and on to some big news big news big news the dine and ditch dater has been arrested this is a story we've been following for a while. For a while. Do you know about this? No, I don't know.

Amy, what is wrong with you? Let me tell you a little bit about our man, Paul Gonzalez. He had a nasty habit of setting up dates on Tinder or wherever, just setting up dates and being like, and this was all in LA, near Pasadena and stuff. He was saying, yo, let's meet up for a date, blah, blah, blah. He would be at the restaurant. The woman would show up. She'd be like, oh, should we eat? He's like, oh, actually, I already ate. But yeah, let's meet up for a date blah blah he would be at the restaurant the woman would show up she'd be like oh uh should we eat he's like oh actually i already ate but like yeah

let's have something he would eat a meal with them and then like slyly sneak off to the bathroom and just run away and leave the woman there with the fucking bill like and sometimes it'd be like 90 bucks other times it'd be 250 and sometimes he would just be like no i'm not really hungry they'd talk for a second and she would be at the table and then he would just be like, nah, I'm not really hungry. They'd talk for a second and she would be at the table and then he would just use that as an opportunity to leave. Because usually what he would do is show up hours before, just eat fucking everything.

One meal he had four lobster tails or some shit. And he would just fucking, then the table would be cleared, person shows up, he runs off, they get the bill. So this person has been arrested and now he's looking at seven counts of extortion, two counts of attempted extortion, and one count of grand theft. And I think the bill's total up to somewhere near $1,000 or something like that. And if he's convicted, he could face up to 13 years in prison for that.

I had a friend who- Which, keep in mind, I think Paul Manafort was only looking at 8 to 10. I know. What the fuck? Whatever. They're making an example out of it. Let's all put that into perspective, too. Right.

They should take this guy and put him in charge of something. That's like a decent scam. Hey, you just changed that last name from Gonzalez to Manafort. Right. Exactly. Years roll back. Yeah. I had a friend who, she was going on lots of online dates for a while, and she's just like, it's so great. And she's a super feminist, but she's going on lots of like online dates for a while.

She's just like, it's so great. And like, you know, she's a super feminist, but she's just like, I haven't paid for a meal in like a week. She's like,

I think I'm going to do this for a while. I was like, okay, but this is, but that was like, you know, the, he flipped it on him.

Yeah. But like the people she went on dates with, like consented to paying and they were fine with it, but you just can't be like eating like that. No, no, no. But like,

they didn't consent to pay. that's what I'm'm saying but like to sit there for hours before the date and gets there and then she gets there and he's like that's so wild it's kind of genius i kind of respect that i mean it's a fucking finesse it's a scam it's a scam is it cute at least no he has a face how did he get so many people to swipe right on him? Well, he has like those eyes that you would be a little bit like, I could say this could be the last thing I see with someone's hands wrapped around my throat. Oh, yeah. But I get it. I mean, look, he's

got that kind of like those eyebrows. Those thick, thick, thick eyebrows. He got those thick eyelashes. He got that natural eyeliner look, you know what I mean? Blue eyes with real thick, dark eyelashes. He got green eyes. I really respect the hustle look because he's just like, you know what what i've already eaten like so he's kind of acting like he hasn't he's not hungry i know yeah but i can't imagine i went on date with him and then like he leaves and i'm saddled with like a 400 like for lobster tail check i would i would be

pissed oh hell yeah because also he's not even that cute. Right. Yeah. I didn't even get scammed by a cute guy. Well, that's probably because I was wondering why did he do the eating beforehand? Because then he's putting the risk in that they don't show up and he's stuck with the bill. Yeah. So he does the eating beforehand because he knows they might be disappointed when they show up. And so he needs to get out before they get out. Or he just feels like like or make sure that maybe he does a little research like what's your job she's like i'm a lawyer he's like oh

let's meet at mastro's for this date like i'm about to go in the thing was his move would be like oh my phone's dying and he's like and i got it and i'm waiting for my call from my mom about my aunt who's really sick i'm gonna go to the car to get the charger real quick. Scoot! How did they find him? I don't know. Well, I mean, they have pictures of him. They have his picture. They have his name.

So they just put it out there. I think eventually they probably were just like, oh, you live there. They maybe just waited for him and just nabbed him up. But he also skipped out on a hair salon bill too.

So they had a Tinder date at a hair salon? No, no, no. He does this shit of just going in there and dying in dash. Yep. Just fucking sliding on out of there. Well, respect to you, Paul Gonzalez. If only your last name was Manafort.

Yeah. Honestly, they need to have some lower level. The way that Catch Me If You Can, they took that dude who was the real life con artist and were like, we're putting you in charge of the FBI fraud unit because you're like such a scam genius. Scam lord. Like they should have some lower level version of that where it's like, this guy has like ingenuity.

Like they should put him into like some executive in training. Some weird version of Con Air or Suicide Squad. Low budget scammers. Yeah, because that takes initiative. There's plenty of people out there just being hungry. Led by Lacey Mosley. I actually want to be staffed on that because I have some ideas. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. I think it's the same thing where I feel like sometimes I would be a better detective than detectives are. I know how to read people. I know this person was shady from the jump. I feel like, yeah, I want to just be on the scam squad. I feel like we I would be a better detective than detectives are. I know how to read people. I knew this person was shady from the jump. I feel like, yeah, I want to just be on the scam squad. I feel like we have these skills. Scam squad. I don't think I'm a good detective.

I think I'm just good at thinking of ways to cheat systems. Yeah. I'm going to expose my parents, but when I was little, we used to go shopping. We used to do an SSI scam. You know what I mean? No. Oh, my God. No.

All you do is put my brother's name on that. But you remember how back in the day, like this is a while ago, but like they didn't really do barcodes as much. Like the register person would like literally type in how much it cost. Cause it was just like a little sticker of the price. Oh, right, right, right. And my mom would like do the sly like sticker switch.

Not because she didn't want to pay for it, but she didn't think it was worth that much. Oh, I like that justification. Yes, and I was like, well, they're ripping me off. And so I just remember thinking that, being like, okay, this is okay then. You know, and how to do it slyly and get all the residue off or whatever. But we didn't do it all the time. It was just like things that-

Hey, you're not on trial. Don't worry. And also back before cameras were everywhere, what are they going to- They're not going to be able to prove that she switched it. No. That shit just fell off. I just remember it wasn't even like-

She wasn't even saving that much money. So I think it's also the high of the scam. Oh, yeah. Or you do the shit at the Nike Outlet store where you get the box and you put the other shoes in there for the cheaper shoes and you hope that they don't know what fucking shoe it is. They always open the box.

Yo, they didn't used to in the early 90s, mid 90s. They always open the box because of Miles. That's why they cut the lid off the boxes. They feel like they can just see right in there. Anyway. In other food-related news. Yo, Scam Squad, coming soon. You guys should start a scam podcast.

I want to get in on that. Oh, yeah. No, Lacey and I have been talking about that. Scamcast. Oh. Scast. Scastast that sounds weirder but yes sorry other news pressing news uh finally miles yes you wrote this up and you said all great people are virgos yes okay greatest uh beyonce michael jackson miles gray i am too colonel harland david sanders and yes and colonel harland david sanders also Colonel Harland David Sanders. Yes, and Colonel Harland David Sanders, also known as the KFC Colonel. And to commemorate this, KFC, they have a contest.

If you name your fucking kid Harland, and this child is born on September 9th, the Colonel's birthday, and if you legally name this motherfucker Harland, you can enter to win $11,000. In KFC. In just herbs and spices. Just herbs and spices. So you can do it at your own home. That's not even that much money. I know.

That's a kid's whole life. That's a scam. That's a scam. That's an advertising scam for sure. Well, yeah. I mean, you have to go through some hoops to be like, this child's name is Harland. Okay. And if you don't win, you're stuck with a motherfucker

named Harland. It's also not the worst name in the world, I don't think. It's like fine. It's like it could be a name. Yeah. It's not like they're asking you to name him like Bucket of Chicken or something. I thought the name was going to be Colonel Sanders. Colonel Sanders Tompkins or something. I don't mind

Colonel Sanders O'Brien. I don't mind the name Colonel. And this is my daughter, Colonel Sanders O'Brien. I don't mind the name Colonel. And this is my daughter, Colonel Sanders O'Brien. I mean, people are naming their kids, like white people are naming their kids wild shit. So like Colonel is not out of the question. What's the wildest name you've heard that you know of right now?

I mean, I just hear them like just a lot of like variations on like Aylans. Kaylin, Jalen, Jaden. Yeah. uh oh my god there was this one lady oh fuck she did this one of those gender reveal videos and it wasn't even that good and it went viral but it was like oh here i am with my four boys and her boys had the worst names and i can't remember them right now but they all had the k sound at the beginning one of them was like i swear her name was cut um but like she had four boys and the

reveal was like she opened this box and a bunch of like blue balloons came out and then at the end it was a pink one like oh my god i got a girl after all but i'm like all your children have trash names stop making babies yeah what would you name the child what's an acceptable name to you right now i'm not thinking like that right now like in general i'm not saying you have to think of your own child but you're like oh that's a that's a way for i think uh family names like like people like who are your ancestors, like great-grandparents or grandparents or whatever. Masaru.

Yeah, I think names like that are respectful and show history. My partner's grandfather's name was Ignazio. And I was like, that's a cute name. That is cool. Yeah, you can do Iggy, but I think it can also be called Ignazio. Or Nazi. Yeah. Yo, he a Nazi-o.

Because I guess his grandma used to call him Nyatz. Like Nyatz. All right. Ignatio. Yeah. I think like historical names are great. Yeah. Yeah.

Jesus Christ. One of my favorite historical figures. JC. Hey. The greatest, bro. Let me tell you guys about another community organizer. His name is Jesus Christ. With a story to tell. Let me tell you guys about another community organizer. His name is Jesus Christ.

With a story to tell. Yeah. Amy, it's been a pleasure having you. Where can people find you, follow you? On Twitter, I am Amy Adoyze. That's A-M-Y-A-D-O-Y-Z-I-E. That was a screen name, right? What's that?

Was that a screen name? No. You mean like a pen name? Yeah, or something. Didn't you say earlier that was from a- It's like, no, it was like when I was like a punk kid. You know how like punk people have like fake last names or whatever? So I wanted one and I was on a phone call with my best friend and he just like muttered something and that's what I heard.

A doizy. Yeah, a doizy. And like often like they're alliterations. Right. Yeah. And so I really fucked with it. And then I like signed it for my Twitter handle like a decade ago or something i just didn't think about it on that punk phase there you go and is there a tweet you've been enjoying oh yes uh i'm super into this tweet by user chief jalia

at chief jalia and it simply says brown nipples are the superior nipples. That's awesome. I didn't realize that brown... I used to hate mine. Really? Okay, obviously I knew I had brown nipples, and I had seen porn, and I was like, what the fuck are stuff with these pink nipples? What the fuck?

Who are these freaks? Who are these aliens? Mom! Right here. And often they were like, the areolas were massive because I think a lot of the brown nipples I've seen, the areolas are smaller. So it's just like this weird gelatinous pink. Oh, mine are massive.

Patty, really? Yeah. They're like dinner plates. Wow. Your chest isn't even like the size of a dinner plate. You have overlapping areolas? We have a, yeah, it looks like a Venn diagram. It's where my heart rests is the overlap.

But I really fuck with that because I think that we need more brown nipple visibility. Yeah, BMP, dude. Brown nipple pride. Miles. Yeah. Where can people find you? Oh, my God. I thought you would never ask me.

I'm on Twitter and I'm on Instagram at MilesOfGrey. And a tweet I like is from Elon Mustard, at NiceMustard. And it goes like this. Mr. Gorbachev, tear off my balls. I don't know why. I fucking love that shit. It's so stupid. But any sort of...

Mr. Gorbachev, tear. Tear. But any sort of... Mr. Horvathop tear? Yeah, any augmentation variation on that, I'm all for that. Tweet I've been enjoying is, you know why everything tastes like chicken? It is... Oh, Jesus Christ. Tweet I've been enjoying is, Freudian Slipknot,

carboys are just horse girls. Don't at me. And you can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter. 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

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You know who it is. It's Tony Stark. He's pretty Tony. Here we go. Ghostface Killa. Run! We're going to ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast.

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