The Daily Zeitgeist - SMH Jussie, All Hail The Margarita 2.22.19

Episode Date: February 22, 2019

In episode 334, Miles and special guest host Jamie Loftus are joined by comedian Blake Wexler to discuss Taco Bell's new Rattlesnake Fries, the case of Jussie Smollet, the white nationalist Coast Guard, interns being threatened with NDA's at the White House, the son of Republican congressional candidate Mark Harris coming for his father, Nielson ranking the most popular cocktails, a lame white lady round up with Miley Cyrus, Gwyneth Paltrow, Elizabeth Holmes, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. Taco Bell Is Unleashing Spicy ‘Rattlesnake’ and ‘Reaper’ Nacho Fries2. ‘Fox & Friends’ Fearmonger: Jussie Smollett Could Have Caused ‘Race Riots’3. Jussie Smollett’s bond set at $100,000, judge calls charges ‘despicable’4. ‘I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on earth’: A self-proclaimed white nationalist planned a mass terrorist attack, the government says5. Trump White House Is Forcing Interns to Sign NDAs and Threatening Them With Financial Ruin6. Candidate’s son warned father of N.C. political operative’s alleged tactics7. ALL MIXED UP: A LOOK AT COCKTAIL PREFERENCES ACROSS THE ON-PREMISE LANDSCAPE8. Miley Everlasting9. If You Sue Gwyneth Paltrow Over Skiing She Will Sue You Back10. Elizabeth Holmes Has a Husky Named Balto and Tells Everyone He Is a Wolf11. WATCH: Syd - Body Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Oh, hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 70, Episode 4, Quattro, Yon. What else can I say? Quatre. Chorse, in Armenian. Of the Daily Zeitgeist, the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness.

It's Friday, February 22nd, 2019. My name is Miles Gray, a.k.a. If I could talk about zeitgeist, do you think I'd be second rate? Oh, cause you know I'm the

guy named Miles with my co-host Jamie. Tonight. All right. Thank you, Ben Acosta, wannabe author at Jace of Spades for that A-K-A because I love Vanessa Carlton. Everybody knows that is not a secret.

And I am thrilled to be joined by, you know, this is just the new team now. You know her by her pseudonym, Lily Zamboni. Please welcome Jamie Loftus. Oh, I started it wrong. Ready? Okay, here we go. It's Jamie Lofty. Picks at the ice in a rink where Zambonis have been. Okay, here we go. It's Yamy Lofty.

Picks at the ice in a rink where Zambonis have been. It's all a scheme. Waits for the Zambone. Hiding her face as she creeps by a guard at the door. Who froze the floor? That's it. Oh, shit.

Wow. Drop a bomb on that one, shit. Wow. Drop a bomb on that one, please. Oh, okay, never mind. Yeah, thank you for that. Who was that by? That was fantastic. That was at JustTDZ, a.k.a. Oh, wow, yeah.

Yeah, they came through strong. Whoever that may be. Oh, well, thank you so much, Jamie strong Whoever that may be Thank you so much Jamie for being here You might know that maniacal laugh From past episodes It's one of our favorite guests At least one of mine Please welcome, I guess we'll call him

A philosopher I guess we can call him a theorist But I think we'll definitely call him A comedian That's fine, this is Blake Wexler A.K.A. Young Schultz, a.k.a. a.k.a. Honey, Mrs. Gore

is my mother-in-law's name. You can call me Tipper. And thank you so much for letting me be here. I'm very excited. Oh, wow. Next time, motherfucker, let me say your name. Don't just introduce yourself like that. I'm so sorry. I'm very insecure right now. That's a union like that. I'm so sorry. I'm very insecure right now.

That's a union job and I'm not in the union. So I apologize. Dream big. You in the union now? I am, huh? I'm a dirty scab. Wet scab or dry scab? Soaking wet. See, that's not the side history I'm on, but that's fine.

I'm a dry scab. I flake right off. I fly into the wind. I hear you. It's easier that way. I don't know about the great wet scabs v. dry scabs debate that has occurred on your show. It's deep. Where did you fall on that, Miles? I'm about dry scabs.

The question is, and this is, so if Beetlejuice could come, he would come scabs. That's not a question. Right, no. Or would they be wet or dry? That is the question. That is the question. And we'll be right back. Wow.

Wow, we should find Michael Keaton. I bet he would answer that question. He seems weird enough where he'd be like, hey, this is going to sound weird, but what did Beetlejuice come? What scabs are dry scabs? And then he'd be like, dry, obviously. He'd roll his eyes with how obvious it would be. Yeah.

And then pull off in his convertible. Into the sky. Yes. Yes. Before we get into everything, I just want to remind people on March would be. Yeah. And then pull off in his convertible. Into the sky. Yes. Before we get into everything, I just want to remind people on March 9th, Jamie, Caitlin, Jack, and I are going to be doing a collabo live show, Bechdelcast, The Daily Zeitgeist, talking about- The year. The year.

And the movie of the year, The Matrix. Yeah. Have we revealed that? I think they know from the poster. I think that they, yeah, I mean, we clearly, it's bad because we've done an episode on The Matrix before and I did not watch The Matrix. Right, I remember you saying this. So you will watch this time.

I will watch it this time. And come with a full slate of takes. So yeah, guys, please buy your tickets. The show's at Dynasty Typewriter in LA. So it's only for the LA Zeitgang and Beckgang, whatever y'all call your fans. Bechdel Heads. Bechdel Heads. Yeah, really creative.

Come out to the Dynasty Typewriter. Get your tickets now because they're going quick. Yep. And you know, maybe I'll hang out outside after like I do most of the shows and embarrass myself. So before we get into the show and learning a little bit more about Blake, I want to give you a preview of what we're going to talk about today. Taco Bell is out here with rattlesnake fries. We'll explain that in a second.

We'll talk about the shame of the country right now. And I don't even want to talk about it yet because we'll get into it. Amongst other things, you know, White House threatening interns with NDAs and financial ruin. We'll do some light father son voter fraud talk. Ranking the most popular cocktails in the country and then I think we'll check in with the weird problematic white lady department.

I'm the official correspondent. Congratulations. Okay, so Blake. Hi, how are you? I'll be just fine. Oh good. Hello Jamie. You were shaking when you came in. That happens from time to time. Yeah, I was like, does he come in crying before every episode?

They're like, yeah, this is his problem. Usually it stops before I get in. Well, it's weird because he comes in and immediately goes in the bathroom, doesn't realize the doors are so thin. We can hear all the crying and self-talk. Oh, yeah, from upstairs. No, that's just a weak stream is what you're hearing. It sounds like crying.

Actually, when I pee, it does sound like profuse weeping. Profuse weeping. It's just kind of like a thing. I keep saying, oh, you fucked it up again. I pee really low. If your pee doesn't sound like that to me, you're not living. Blank, you idiot. What's something from your search history that is revealing about who you are?

I would have to say pneumonia temperature. Yeah. Yeah. And it's... So who has pneumonia? I don't, apparently. I don't have it. Yes.

Yeah, I was just in Minneapolis and it was sick. If you just came in here and you were like, I think I have pneumonia. I'd be like, dude. It's like we're in a sealed room together. You're like, you know what?

I actually do have pneumonia. I do have pneumonia, by the way. My lungs are filled with goo or whatever it is. It's called, that's the medical term. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Medical term, goop. And that might be a tease.

Who knows? Who the hell knows? For tomorrow's episode, actually, because I think that subject got bumped. What do you mean? So what, you had pneumonia? No, I didn't. I didn't.

I was in Minneapolis walking around at night and it was negative two and I have asthma and I was asthma and I was worried that I would get pneumonia from it. So rather than run indoors, I Googled, uh, is that a temperature where like the municipality will be like,

don't go outside and breathe the air right now. It's too damn cold. Cause I know like when it was like, when it was like minus 30, they were like, please do not go and like do outdoor things. Right. That cold air during the fires,

they have unhealthy air warnings. I did not see that warning. But I haven't updated my app in a while, so it could have been there. Blake, what's something that's underrated? Underrated? I get nervous when I say this word. It was one word

I said it two seconds ago. Hulu. Hulu as a streaming thing. hulu oh hulu as a uh streaming thing to i think i'm gonna say as a religion as a religion hulu yeah as a father their churches of course i'm into the streaming churches myself it's easier to access despite the weak stream yeah thank you yeah actually because of um what is my grew up catholic sorry what's your Hulu show of... Sorry? What's your Hulu show of choice? We just started... Show of schwa.

Schwa. We just started watching... Me and my team, my representatives. My agents and I. My agents and I. Get in my bed every single night. They're very flexible. They...

Handmaidens. Handmaids. Handmaid's Tale. It's a big fan. Big fan. Yeah. Well, we started binge watching it's Tale it's a big fan big fan yeah well we started binge watching it

and it's one of those shows that's happened with Deadwood with me where it's so heavy that like it kind of affects your mood if you watch too many in a row

yeah I can't watch more than two in a row it's so dark and heavy I mean it's an amazing show but it's so heavy and depressing but yeah

I'm glad I'm on this comedy podcast and again I'm sorry why is Hulu underrated? oh cause people I feel like it's so heavy and depressing but yeah I'm glad I'm on this comedy podcast and again I'm sorry why is Hulu underrated? Oh cause people I feel like it's always Netflix or HBO like I don't know

too many people who pay for Hulu so you do it? Oh yeah cause Pimp 15 is out shout outs to the homies Maya and Anna my sisters

it looks really funny it's fucking amazing it's great also quick bit of tea the reason I promote that show so much, Maya Erskine, who's one of the leads in that show,

she is basically my sister. Our moms went to high school together in Japan. Wait, really? Yes. That's not how families work. Yeah, well, that's how minorities think. That's my cousin. That's fair.

That's my sister, whatever. That's very fair. Anyway, the character, it's her actual mom playing her mom in the show. And the name of the character is actually my mom's name. That's so cool. I told my mom, she's like, no, that's me. And I was like, yeah, mom's so intense.

Yeah. Well, cause my mom is like, she's short, but her fucking, her energy like could cut through granite. Like just her words. Oh man. When I was a kid and I used to like show off in frontite like just her words oh man when I was a kid and I used to like show off in front of

like my teen friends and shit and like be like whatever mom she would just be like in Japanese be like which is like

sort of like you're pissing me off and like that was enough for me to be like like just fix my face my friends like what happened

I'm like nothing dude just shut up man everything's fine everything is how it was just don't say anything until my mom drops us off at the mall, and then we'll fucking do it. What's something that's overrated, Blake? Cake.

Oh. The band? How dare you? Oh, the band. Oh, no, no, no, no. That's good, clean fun. Okay. Yeah, underrated, the band cake.

Overrated, the food cake. The food cake. Yeah, sorry. Sorry. I just experienced a birthday. Your own? No, a stranger's on the street. Are you cruising Griffith Park again

and trying to happen birthdays? I've been just blowing out candles, you know, shaking hands. Shaking hands, blowing out candles. No, my own. And I was given a cake and I don't like cake and it's been an issue throughout my entire...

By the way, gesture of cake, very sweet. But I think just find out what food they like. You know, like I think that's the only thing that people just, food that they assume that you like, you know, on what should be my day. Right. You know what I mean? I don't know if I love anyone enough to see if they don't like cake.

Is that bad? Interesting. No, I think that's normal. Yeah. I'm like, you probably do. Yeah, that's an interesting debate that like but should do we love someone enough to even bother to know if they don't like cake i don't know i'm thinking that's a litmus test for true love interesting so then the barrier of getting someone cake like that threshold is lower than like actually liking that person to

ask them you know what i mean? I don't know. No, I guess it's just, it's hard. And then there is the whole other situation of like, if you're surprising someone with a cake and then you're like, hey, you like cake, right? You like cake, right. And then you're like, actually, I'm more of a pudding guy. Am I getting promoted? Cool, cool, yeah.

The quicksand of cakes is pudding. And I've been saying it for 16 fucking years. Is there any cake that you like? Or you just don't like that generic sort of like Kroger sheet cake, you know, Kirkland Signature sheet cake? That's a powerful cake. I love that cake. Ah, see, I'm not about that cake. No, I'm not about it either.

I like, I'll have ice cream cake, but that's because it's ice cream with cake in it. Tis not a cake, sir. It isn't? I mean, I guess there's a bit of cake, but I've seen ones that are just basically straight, it's just a frozen circle of ice cream. That's great. That sounds great to me. It's ice cream.

Pizza cake. It's just like a pizza. You prefer ice cream? Or what's the replacement? I would like an ice cream cake or just like a different slab of food. Like candles and pizza would be nice. For you, it's not about a sugary dessert dish to celebrate the birthday. No, but if that, it can be. A pie could be nice. Oh, so you don't even, for you it's not about a sugary dessert dish to celebrate the birthday. No, but if that,

it can be. A pie could be nice as well. You're so hard to fucking nail down, Blake. Man, I'm an enigma is the word that the Washington Post's use. Jamie has a theory

about your name, actually. Please. Oh, yeah. I think that you've got a great, I think your name alone makes you a great candidate to be a serial killer. You're not the first person who said that to me.

Okay. And actually, it's been said about my personality as well, and I'm not doing it. Wow. Oh, I wasn't going to go that far. No. Hey, get your hands out of your pockets. Huh?

No, no, sorry. What are you concealing? You're right, there's sharp things in there. I mean, muffins. They're all thumbtacks. My thumbtacks. I just carry loose thumb tacks in my pockets. I'm so fucking dangerous. I have things to

fucking hang up. I have bills to post. Yeah, someone told me that I've been so genuinely nice to people that they will think that I'm a serial killer. Which is not what I've been going for. Such an indictment of our world. You're so nice. You're a serial killer.

You're going to take the lives of many. Do you have, I mean, I have an, I have a, like right off the top of my head, I can think of like one of my closest friends who I'm like, but I wouldn't be like,

he's so nice to everyone that where are the bodies? Yeah. Do you think it's a first syllable, first name, two syllable, last name thing? Like Ted Bundy. I don't even like using my name.

Ted Bundy. Let's not give it to Blake Wexler. It does go well. Jack Dahmer. Blake Wexler. Adam Gacy. No, that's not his name. John Wayne Gacy. That doesn't work. J-Dub. I mean, he's an outlier.

In every aspect. I don't know. A thought leader. If I heard in passing that there was a serial killer on the loose named Blake Wexler, I wouldn't flinch. Okay. Right. Because you're like, I was ready for that name to be a serial killer. Okay, good. Okay.

The world works the way. So if you're ever looking to pivot. I've done a major rebrand. Yeah. And it's going to cost me my life. I mean, I wonder how many serial killers have dabbled in stand-up. Oh, probably a ton.

Oh, yeah. It's the work ethic that makes the stand-ups not become serial killers. You know what I mean? They got into stand-up to do less. You don't need to kill

someone every single night to be a successful serial killer. Yeah, you just gotta kill it on stage. Yeah, yeah. Hell yeah. You can't see, but I'm doing a cool thing

with my hand right now. He's doing a shocker. He's doing a shocker. But not Hell yeah. You can't see, but I'm doing a cool thing with my hand. You're doing the shocker. He's doing the shocker. But not shocker. No, no, no. It's the hang tan. Blake is a pig. For all the island people.

Yes. Blake, what's a myth that people get wrong? That NBA All-Star weekend should be enjoyed by adults. It's for children. Oh, wow. I think that's a positive thing. Okay, go on. Now, you're saying that the NBA All-Star Game, as the collection of the league's finest talents,

on display for a bit of fun. A bit of fun. A lot of fun. In the middle of the season. I would say all fun. Is not for the adult viewer? Correct. Okay, go on.

Because I've been hearing a lot of fans being like, it's so boring. They don't even try. And it's like, it's not for you. It's for children to watch the best players and watch them play around and try cool dunks and shoot far shots. It's not for adults. Does someone say cool dunks?

Cool dunks! Now I'm listening. Hey, cool dunks. Now you're talking like a serial killer. Cool dunks, jamaroos. You know, b-ball, cool dunks. Yeah, with their long hands. You know, it's like, people don't talk that way.

Just J-shotting three-pees. Like, what? Like, yeah, that's my favorite part of that game. That's true because, yeah, as a kid, I can't remember. I fucking watched every single motherfucking all-star game until I got to college. Yes. Yeah, and then it was like, they're not trying hard enough. Well, they're not supposed to.

They're going to get hurt. I don't know. Maybe it was just like a gilded age for them. I don't know. Maybe it was just a gilded age for them. I don't know. I don't know what it was. Yeah. But I feel like the dunk contests are less enjoyable. There's dunk contests?

Oh, yes. Cool dunks. I might be the target audience of this. I don't watch any sports, but I would watch a dunk contest. Oh, then. Sometimes they jump over a Kia. Yeah. Exclusively a Kia.

Depending on who's sponsoring. Depending on who the sponsor is at that very moment. Could also be a jug of Gatorade. Right, right. Well, that's a good myth exclusively a Kia. Depending on who's sponsoring. Depending on who the sponsor is at that very moment. Could also be a jug of Gatorade. Right, right. Well, that's a good myth. Thank you. Yeah, great. Thanks for that insight.

Any time. You know, it's usually the myth is a take that must be pushed back upon, but I agree. Thank you. Sounds like it's for kids. He's just talking to all the people who are like it's for kids yeah it's he's just talking all the people who are like what the hell is this yeah it's like it's an all-star game it's not like the finals right like people are gonna injure themselves going all out in the

all-star game it's the time to just throw up wacky lobs do some alley-oops you know but what you don't understand is that everything that is broadcast has to align with every person's individual right and if it doesn't then it's a big problem and people need to be having a discussion about it. Oh, I take it back. Yes, exactly. Well, let's get into some actual pressing news. Sure.

Because Taco Bell. Yes. Everything that's pressing for me starts with the sentence Taco Bell. Of course. They have announced a new menu item. And we were talking last week,, actually the beginning of this week, about the great French fry debate and how Taco Bell's fries were ranked

as a contender for a good, on the decent end of the fry spectrum. So they've kicked it up a notch and they have released steak rattlesnake fries. Fuck. I'm excited. Now, let me tell you what it is now.

They're fries. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Just like cheese sauce. Steak jalapenos and creamy jalapeno sauce, which seems a little redundant to have cheese sauce, jalapenos, and then a creamy jalapeno sauce. Well, let's be easy on it. Well, the cheese sauce is very rigid and solid is the issue.

It's just more of a slab. It does change forms pretty quickly. That's true. It starts as a liquid and quickly becomes a solid. It does. It turns into like caulk. Construction caulk. You hit the shit

out of that L and I respect you for it. I had to because people were going to be like, caulk, really? I know. Caulk. Immature.

Yeah, so I mean, they were test marketed or tested in the Columbus, Ohio area and now, hey, Friday. Hello. February 28th. Hello.

For a limited time only, they're going to have them and I think we're going to have to try them because, yo, I love Taco Bell fries. I like that this was advertised as they are, quote, once again challenging the fry paradigm. Yeah, which is from their email. Yeah. Fuck you, dad.

Right. I was like, holy shit. Yeah, that's me when I say something that my mom would disagree. I'm like, once again, challenging the Jill paradigm. Right. This brave, new, disgusting food I'm going to eat. I'm sure that email that had the challenging the Fry paradigm line in it began with, they said it couldn't be done.

Nay, they said it shouldn't be done. I present to you rattlesnake fries. And it also comes in a burrito form. Well, they just wrap that shit up in a tortilla. I like that. My only— Less mess. Interesting.

Yeah. Oh, yeah, because, like, cheese fries, you have to eat it with a fork. You have to. Or else, like, your fingers are just R.I.P. We'll be stained. Yeah. Yeah. P.O.D.

I am a little concerned about the steak. Scrape bands. I'm sorry, what? I am a little concerned about the steak, but I'm always kind of concerned about the steak at Taco Bell. Yeah, I would be fine with just whatever that crumbled meat substance is that's in a soft taco. Yeah, whatever the mystery meat, my system is fully capable of digesting. The steak, it's like, are we doing a lot? Can I get my fries medium rare, please?

Medium rare fries. And what cut of meat is that? Is it a rib eye? It's poo-poo. It's the poo-poo part of the... It's the poo-poo cut. Well, thank you so much for clarifying that.

Yeah. No problem. I am an official representative of Taco Bell. It's actually poo-poo. Oh, bless you. Well, before this show goes completely off the rails, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered.

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of this investigation to come to light, and that is regarding the Jussie Smollett hate attack that he alleged he was a victim of at the beginning of this month or at the end of January. And now it has come out that, you know, basically the police named him as a suspect for filing a false police report around his attack

because they believe that he orchestrated this attack against him. And the evidence is pretty significant, if not completely overwhelming. And as of today, he's turned himself in, correct? Yeah, he is in police custody. He may be out on bond now. But essentially, the police superintendent of Chicago PD confirmed, again, that they suspected him. That first, you know, the timeline in all of this attack stuff was that he

sent a letter to himself that was like with letters cut out of like magazines like just you know like an old school ransom yeah exactly which didn't hit in the news cycle really i mean i don't i don't remember right about that that said you will die black f word uh and it said about a week before his alleged attack and then apparently this was just an attempt to gain attention but quote when that didn't work he concocted the attack story uh so he found these two brothers that he was acquainted with uh it's not clear there's definitely connection with empire either one or both had been an extra on empire and either one or both uh were for a brief time was like his personal trainer they were the ones who were paid 3,500 plus like an additional 500 to play the roles of maga bros one and two and you know they

found all this footage of them buying the shit before the attack happened. And yeah, I think the whole point of this for Jussie Smollett was that he figured he could elevate himself to culture war hero status and thus raising his profile to get more money from the show Empire. And all I can say is you fucking disgraceful idiot. I hope that you are going through something and you didn't do this with a clear mind because this story has done so much damage than I think anyone can actually imagine because the right has been waiting for the anecdote they can always use to be like, oh, you know, hate crimes aren't real. Like, you know, MAGA people aren't racist. You know,

remember Jussie Smollett. I mean, he tried to set like smear the whole the right with this fake attack. And it's like as if it's not enough that every day there are people of color who are experiencing terrifying levels of hatred in their day to day existence or LGBTQ people who live in existential dread every day that you want to then be flippant and co-opt that fear to try and elevate yourself to get a bigger check. It's just, it's just shameful. It's just, it's a disgrace. I don't know how to say it. I'm really fucked up over this because it's sad, no matter which way you look at it. Like if it was in fact a real attack, yes, that's a terrible thing to happen. But then this version where you now have a man who is just sort of, again, where you now have a man who is just sort of, again, orchestrating this fake attack on himself to elevate his profile is just even more, it's saddening. That's all I can say. I don't know.

I mean, and it seems like the true damage, kind of like what you're saying, the true damage of this story, we won't know for a while because it seems like this is something that will be referenced over and over and over. And the damage of that, we can't even tell. But it ends up putting marginalized communities even more at risk, which is like the last fucking thing anyone needs. What made me, I was like thinking back to the first wave of press that the alleged attack got. And it seemed so as upsetting as it was to read the details of,

it did seem somewhat productive. Do you remember when the way people were writing out a headline was a big discussion of like some places? Right, that it was like a homophobic attack versus racist attack. But there was, well, just more the general conversation of like some press outlets called it a hate crime and others didn't. Right, right, right, right. And some press outlets course corrected and, you know, based on the evidence available at the time, they, you know, course corrected and they were like, this is a hate crime.

And we're not just going to call this like a random attack or something like that. And that seemed like a productive step in the right direction. And now all that work and so much more has just been completely undone. And there's also the risk here where like the first inclination that you should have is to believe the victim generally. And the fear here is that so many and obviously the right. But then there's a lot of people in general where they're first, you know, like innocent before proving guilty is what they'll point to but also just your first you know gut reaction should be let's believe the victim and then look into it yeah and like you both said you know now people are going to be like well you know

like why believe the victim we have this reason not to right you know what i mean and that's like it's really fucking scary well and it it buries a lot of news, too, that's been coming out over the last few days of, you know, the reports that there is an epic spike in hate crimes since Trump has taken office. There is a huge increase in the number of hate groups that have started to form. It's like the highest amount of registered hate. Record highs, yeah. It's insane. And amount of registered. Record highs. Yeah. And that is a fact. That's a fact that will get obscured in the GOP echo chamber because it'll just always be like, well, sure, we're victims, clearly.

I mean, look how this person tried to smear us. And it adds to their victim narrative. And it's again, I just you'd think that Jussie Smollett would understand what the real stakes are for people of color and people who are in the LGBTQ community, that he wouldn't stoop so low to just exploit that for his own personal financial gain. And it really it takes the wind out of the sails for a lot of different fronts. And, you know, on Fox and Friends, they were already basically just firing up, you know, the fear mongering

because they knew it's like, oh, here we go. We got our example. Now let's just like, let's just milk this thing for everything it's got. And I totally agree with you, Blake, about the impulse to not bully victims is already so strong, but it was something that was in the process of being course corrected through a number of different movements and a number of like,

no, you just have to look at the situation and now this will be another example of any, you know, like it makes me so sad. It's just like there's no – it's sad for everyone involved. Yeah. And it's sad for Jussie Smollett who felt that this was the right thing to do. Clearly was not. And again, I hope he was – this was not done with a clear mind.

Because, I mean, he could just be a sociopath. You know what I mean? If you're going to go that far and be like, okay, let me orchestrate this hate crime against myself to get a bigger check, I don't know. That would be easier to understand than being able to fully rationalize doing something like that. Yeah. So, you know, we'll see. Again, like I said on Fox & Friends,

they wasted no time spinning this into some narrative about race riots. Remember what he said. Remember the potential if this had been true. Maybe even race riots in major cities across this country. It's not about him. It's about others that could falsely do this

and the ramifications. Now, you're a repeated victim of violent crime yourself. Now, just when it comes to Jussie, this easily could have been a race riot. When you talk about

they attacked me because I was black. They threw bleach on me. They attacked me because I was gay. This is on me they attacked me because i was gay they uh they said this is maga country you know there's people are already on the edge uh when they wake up in the morning all they need is something to set them off exactly how this could have blown up like you mentioned it could have caused riots no kidding okay so that is the

take of fox news where they're just fanning the flames of some kind of race riot without ever giving like later on. I mean, I know that was a clip of just sort of isolated moments where they mention it. They never actually try and give any kind of like evidence as to why they think that where there was a potential race riot going on. Kind of another thing. Yeah. But, you know, this is again, they have another anecdote to put in their quiver of shitty arrows to aim at us. So, anyway, I don't know.

It's just really, I'm so fucking sad. It's so sad on 18 different levels. Yeah. It really is. No one wins. Right. Nobody won from this. Except for the far right who got their.

And what a fulfilling win, you know, in their souls and hearts. Which is even more disturbing. It's like, oh, thank God. Right. This guy faked it. So now we can like disregard all these other real stories. For example, like this lieutenant in the Coast Guard who was recently arrested, who was essentially radicalized on the Internet and has become a domestic terrorist and was planning like the terror attacks of all terror attacks, essentially. I'm not even going to say his name.

But this man called for focused violence to, quote, establish a white homeland. And he said, quote, I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth. And this is in all these court records. last person on the earth and this is in all these court uh records the documents don't actually show like a specific plan date for the attack but the government says that this man was amassing supplies and weapons since at least 2017 had a spreadsheet of targets that included house speaker nancy pelosi and searched the internet using phrases such as quote best place in dc to see congress people end quote our supreme court justices protected, end quote. So again, this is the new environment that the Trump administration has brought out

when you constantly label people on the left as some kind of like, you know, these dangerous maniacs who are going to destroy the country or being the enemies of the people. You create an environment where this kind of thinking can flourish and what's really wild is like he also they found that he had a stockpile i mean not only just a stockpile of weapons and body armor but he was reading the manifest of that guy anders bravik who carried out that mass murder in norway in 2011 who was like had like his manifesto, sort of like a guide

to some kind of insane domestic terror attack, and also was stockpiling steroids and tramadol, I think. The steroids were meant to make him stronger because I think Breivik had also said in his manifesto that that would help them be more capable to carry out their attack. Cool. So he's just a psychotic, aspiring supervillain. Yeah.

Amazing. He was radicalized on the army. The authorities, they basically seized 15 firearms with long guns, rifles, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition. This was all in his basement. And was like, you know, writing, like they found drafts of emails that were really, really, really disturbing. And again, these are the kinds of things that like really need the attention of our leadership in this

country. And sadly, because Jussie Smollett is in, you know, the industry and it was like a big story. And now like all of the tension is taken away from stories like this or even as a super the chief i think of the chicago police saying like or shooting victims in chicago oh god yes like we're now all talking about this and it makes police look competent well i mean you know some law enforcement are and shout out to them because I would hate to see a headline where this deranged person actually you know makes good on his threats right and you it leads to just a disturbing loss of life yeah I mean this is absolutely insane I mean this this person does not deserve to have their name out there because that appears to be

exactly what they want. Yeah. But the fact that you can – I don't know. I mean every time I see something like this besides the fact that it's like, oh, yeah, the internet is poison and it is enabling every fucking horrible thing you can think to be thought to the fullest extent and you can find out that there's thousands of other fucked up people who feel the same fucked up way. thousands of other fucked up people who feel the same fucked up way right is that there like needs to be uh more comprehensive laws to be able to like figure out who's the like it's so when you read like google searches like that right you're just like there had to have been a way to catch that doesn't trip something up you know like where is pelosi's house yeah where do like congress people hang out and then you get into the whole like cyber security you don't want to be spied on by the government but it's like when you see stuff like this it's

I don't know I mean it always seems to be sort of the same type of guy who's googling the same type of fucked up shit and no one cares until you know like they're almost casualties as a result yeah he was apparently just they said like all these charges are sort of the proverbial

tip of the iceberg, as the feds put it. And they're saying that he was obsessed with neo-fascist and neo-Nazi views. Like they found like in his email address, he was saying something like, please send me your violence that I may unleash it onto their heads. Guide my hate to make a lasting impression on this world. Which is just bad poetry, honestly. Thank you. Jesus Christ.

Let's workshop that high school. Yeah, show up to the lounge with that shit. You ain't getting no snaps. Yeah, so, you know, again, domestic terrorist, which I'm sure Fox will love to just ignore so they can just harp on the fact that Jussie Smollett had faked that attack against him. So, yeah.

Anyway, let's move on to some White House news. Not really surprisingly. It's just a really fitting story for the White House. I mean, we already know that Trump always thinks like NDAs are enforceable. Of course. And especially like in the White House where like a lot of legal experts are like, Of course. And especially like in the White House where like a lot of legal experts are like, that's like legally dubious at best to be to have people sign NDAs who are working in the executive branch. Anyway, so because the White House is just a fucked up den of iniquity in a perpetual state of dumpster fire, it makes sense that he would want to have everyone try and sign an NDA because leaks just keep coming out.

And we all just are more and more just kind of like, you don't say. Of course, that's true. So now it's like even interns are being just having the shit scared out of them with NDAs. So they say this in the Daily Beast. It says upon orientation, the interns signed their very own nondisclosure agreements with the envoy of the council's office, warning them a breach of the NDA, blabbing to the media, for instance, could result in legal and thus financial consequences for them. Interns were also told that they would not receive their own copies. This is all a standard facet of the Trump intern orientation process billed as a, quote, ethics training underscored by implicit legal threats from President Donald Trump's in-house lawyers. Dude. Cool internship.

Are the interns paid? My assumption is no, they're not paid. And if you're not getting paid, NDA doesn't mean jack shit. Right. Anytime I'm underpaid for something, I'm talking shit to whoever will listen. Right, right, right. I'm leaking anything and everything. Oh, is that your sort of philosophy?

Well, I interned for fucking Antiques Roadshow. Holy shit. You did? Did we know this? Not to brag, but I did intern at Antiques Roadshow in 2012. This is very fitting for your brand. My God. That was a good year.

I mean, give us some Antiques tea. Honestly, everyone's very nice. There wasn't a lot of tea. They're really's honestly, everyone's very nice. Yeah. There wasn't a lot of tea. They're really sweet people. It was kind of boring. I was just logging a lot of footage. But I'm like,

like when I was in college, I'd be like, you know what? This is fucking bullshit. I had to watch rocking chair footage for six hours today. Now I'm not even fucking paid to do this. This is fucking ridiculous. The cafeteria food is good.

Like it was just. How do they edit the creaking out of the audio on that show? I mean, there was a lot. I would just transcribe, listen, next time you're watching Auntie's Roadshow, know that there's an unpaid teenager

logging that footage, writing down all the old people's comments. And sometimes the old people, you gotta be like, you can't include that because they had a bad take about Nixon. Or like, I've never heard that racial slur for an Asian person before.

Is that made up? That is new. I know a bunch of people who have a fear of antiques. This isn't a bit. Like they're haunted? I like how you immediately just looked at me like, this is not a bit. No, this is a thing that usually I'll set up. Don't make a joke about this.

Not even that way. Like, oh, i'm not setting you guys up for some bullshit um where people who have a fear of antiques yeah i know a bunch of people because that like dead people uh maybe four or five have you met anyone with that is it like that well i know i have like dead people sat in it or ghosts might be in them i have a close friend who is who is afraid of like dolls. There was that Post Malone haunted doll story. I feel like haunted dolls are very much... Is he a haunted doll?

Is that what the story was? No, I think he's being haunted by a doll. Tenses are very important. It's just about the idea that there's a bunch of old ghost energy. I was wondering if that was a common thing like old ghost energy, like in a old. Yeah. I was wondering if that was a common thing.

Like, I'm sure we'll get some tweets. That just sounds like a really weird way to rationalize that you're a snobby person. Oh, that's funny. You know what I mean? Like, oh, I don't like old stuff. It like gives me the creeps. Right. Right.

Like I like everything brand new. I have a dust allergy. I'm not sitting in there. I have a dust allergy. I have a ghost allergy. I have a. Oh, is it Herman Miller? I have a Victorian allergy. Yeah. Right. in there. I have a dust allergy. I have a ghost allergy. I have a... Oh, is it Herman Miller? I have a Victorian allergy. Yeah.

Anything Victorian, I just lose it. It's just not for me. The sneezes blow out of my nose. But I think this is a good tactic, though, for the White House. Back to the NDAs. We digress. Just because there's not anyone who lives more in a fear of financial obliteration

than an unpaid intern. Or President Trump. Right. Yeah. He's in total fear of that constantly. I mean, the only, with NDAs, a lot of what you're fearing is like losing paid work if you say something. Right. But if you're not paid, that really de-incentivizes.

Right, right. Like, I signed an NDA at fucking Antiques Roadshow, didn't have any shit to talk, but made, like, found shit to talk about anyways because I was just like, I hate having to be here for no money. Like, this sucks. Right. I'd imagine they're paid to some level, right? That White House? I don't know.

I'm not sure. It's also so crazy that the lies and, like, the dysfunction can permeate all the way down to intern. You know what I mean? Where there's so many filters and levels where if you're an intern at the White House, that's obviously an incredible internship. You clearly have an amazing resume. Demetri Martin was a White House intern. Is that true? That's funny.

He draws it on pads now. It was a very funny joke. It's just so interesting where it's so dysfunctional that even an intern, the person ahead of them, some coordinator, you see the stress and dysfunction there. It's a dream

job. Dress for the job you want. I'm honestly looking forward to those memoirs of Trump interns. Like angsty Gen Z kids who are like, ugh. They wouldn't even let me jewel. Tumblr comes back because of those.

President Mike Pence ate my jewel. He thought it was a fucking snack. Do you know Mike Pence swallowed... I told him it was mango flavor. Mike Pence swallowed 12 jewels before someone told him it wasn't food. Didn't even flinch. He said, mmm, yummy.

Let's get into some light- Pat at his belly. Yummers. Let's get into some light father-son voter fraud. Oh, jeez. So I don't know if some of y'all remember, there's a man named Mark Harris who was running in North Carolina who has been sort of in this weird limbo state because the board of elections there and just authorities in general are like, I think you cheated your way into

office based on all this voter fraud evidence we have. Now to the point where they've been having hearings about it. we have uh now to the point where like they're having they've been having hearings about it and uh yesterday his son his own son john harris who is an assistant uh u.s attorney in north carolina in raleigh uh basically blew up his dad's whole defense with his testimony like pretty spectacularly i mean he he says quote i thought what he was doing was illegal and I was right. You're just like, all right, John. I mean, he's not wrong. Yeah.

Because at first, like this whole thing, I guess the narrative that Mark Harris, who's technically a congressperson in North Carolina's ninth congressional district, was saying like, oh, yeah, I don't know. Like, I don't remember my son ever like raising any concerns about this consultant I was working with who was just basically stealing ballots, filling them out for me and then sending them in. Enter son. Yeah. And then the son's like, enter son. There's this email. Yeah.

There's this like email where he's like, dad, like this guy, like literally says like, I think this person is a shady character. I don't know how else to put it. And then the father's like, oh, yeah, I don't recall. Then the son even said, yeah, I even told him and his lawyer, please investigate what's going on. Because the way these absentee ballots are coming in in huge batches at a time suggests that someone's collecting them and just sending them off in batches. Which is a key indicator that someone might be up to some fuckery. Dead giveaway.

And then the lawyer was like, oh, I don't, I don't, like prior to that was saying, I don't recall ever hearing something that anything untoward was happening. So I don't know if like they, he just hates his dad or. I mean, or if he's protecting his career, is i mean he's 29 years old he can't be you know taking an l that big like he can't especially when you're a u.s attorney like that's not you're not just working for like jacobe and meyer's legal network right like ambulance chasing and this this is like yeah and i mean it was like uh wild like all the pictures from the court scene are wild like mark har Harris is in tears.

It's sick. He's in tears that his son did him dirty like that. But it's just like, well, like. I didn't realize he was sobbing whilst the testimony was happening. He was sobbing while his son was dunking on him. Like on the stand, which is, I mean. Getting jiggy with it. It's so weird that we can, you know, we've reached a point in history

where we can laugh about a stolen election and be like, this is so wild. He was like crying. Yeah, how silly is this? Yeah. Yeah, he only stole an election on such a lower level. You know, like he didn't steal it on the highest level. It's nice.

It's so bizarre. But yeah, it was a dramatic scene. But I mean, I'm team John Harris. He's got gotta live out the rest of his life like if my if my dad was uh talking shady shit on another podcast and then we had to go to court i would talk about him on a podcast i hope that'd be an open is that a one-to-one metaphor does that work i would say that's relatable relatable, but it's understandable. Quick poll of the room. If your father was on trial or facing serious legal jeopardy for some fuckery like this, are you telling the truth, or are you going to hold it down for your dad?

I'm probably going to hold it down. But here's my question. Blake Wessler. Because I call him dad, not father. Because if you call him father, you have a relationship issue with your dad. What if you call him Mike? Mike have a relationship issue with your dad. Right. But don't you- What if you call him Mike? Mike is fine.

That's best since you were four. What if his name's not Mike? That's even better, actually. Okay, good, good, good. Don't you not have to- Please correct me if I'm wrong. Don't you not have to testify against a family member, or is that just a spouse? No, I think it's a spouse.

Oh, okay. Well, he should have married his dad. He's a fucking idiot. Yeah. Perfect take. Oh, John, thank you. Perfect take. You moron. Thank you. Marry your he should have married his dad. He's a fucking idiot. Yeah. Perfect take. Oh, John, thank you. You moron. Thank you.

Marry your dad. What about you, Miles? What would you do? Fuck, I'm not going down for some dumb shit. I guess it depends, right? Depends on what legal jeopardy I'm in. Okay. You know what I mean?

Yeah. If I'm a lawyer and I'm in John Harris's position, I'll best believe I'm telling the truth like i have too many years to live to fuck that up yeah uh you know but look who's to say because this might affect a case that's actually being tried right now so uh my lawyers have told me to not comment on this story any further uh and with that we will take a quick break Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now.

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What? I mean, the show really went off the rails in between those. I mean, wow. People will never know. People will never know. Okay, so here's an interesting story. A little light. Let's look at the lighter side of life first.

Yeah. The Nielsen ratings people have come out with a ranking of the most popular cocktails in the country. We've all been waiting for this. Oh, we all have. Yeah. Well, it's interesting because it's like one of those lists, like it's definitive in a sense because the Nielsen people, like they know what they're doing and trying to take, you know, like polling stuff, at least when it comes to like just shit like this.

Like three TV boxes in the United States. Right. Exactly. They're pretty good at that. So let's just go through. They broke it down in a few different ways. They said best-selling cocktails in the U.S. in general, best-selling cocktails depending on each major market, and the best-selling cocktails in the U.S. by what part of the

day it is in. Great. Oh, sneaky. Let's go. I guess let's zoom out. Morning straight whiskey. Yeah. No, very good.

Thank you. You're completely wrong. It's actually tears. Best- whiskey. Yeah. No, very, very good. Thank you. You're completely wrong. It's actually tears. Best selling cocktail in the US? Know what it is? Margarita. Okay. That makes sense.

Followed by martini, then old fashioned, mimosa, then Moscow Mule. That feels right. The Moscow Mule, I feel like that's off the strength of the marketing. Oh, it's off the strength of the copper. Yes. That cup alone. I love the Moscow Mule, I feel like that's off the strength of the marketing. Oh, it's off the strength of copper. Yes. That cup alone. I love the Moscow Mule. Yeah.

And I remember the first time you see it, you're like, what are you drinking? Yeah. Excuse me? What do you have there? Copper pot. I want to look cool like you do. What could I do to be more like that? What's that old tech you're drinking?

Copper then? Wow. Interesting. It's really great for your energy. So a margarita, I guess I'm surprised by it. Although I don't know why I thought I had any sort of idea of what it would be. Margarita, I thought it would be. They serve those at Chili's.

Is it because of Chili's is what you're saying? Well, not only because of Chili's, but they serve that at like every place. Right, right, right. You can always get a marg wherever you go. And they're fun. Are they? They're like every place. Right, right, right. You can always get a Marg wherever you go. A Marg. And they're fun. Are they? They're fun. Okay. Yeah, they're cold. Unpack that. What's unpacked? They come in fun, big

chalices, you know? You can get salt on the rim. I love that. Which, what's more fun than NACL? I love that. Thank you. Wow. Thank you. Thank you. Chem God? Young Chem God. Young Chem God. Young Chem God over here. Let's talk about valence electrons in a bit.

So they'll talk about the way you get rid of bodies. You're the young Chem God. Yeah. Oh, of course. Blake Luxler, here we go. Let's move away from that. Sorry, go ahead. Back to Mark.

I'm sorry. Do you like a blended or on the rocks margarita? Let's go blended. Let's commit to it. You can get anything on the rocks. You can't blend together in old fashioned. But I bet it would be good. Oh, you should try.

I'm going to. All right. Any bartenders, mixologists out there, hit us with a... Why hasn't it happened? Imagine ordering a Manhattan and you have an idea of how it's made. They're shaking it up or whatever.

And then they just start walking towards a blender. You're like, what the fuck is that? Just pour it in there. Or you are. Imagine a martini blended. No. Dirty martini blended? A filthy, dirty martini.

That's like when I used to play hockey. It reminds me of the ice that would build up on your skates and shit. You just put that in a glass. I can't drink martinis. Oh, I love a martini. I can't. I love one. I spill them.

Oh, wow. Because of the glass. Yeah, it's like drinking off a plate. Yeah, sometimes I'll get in a tumbler. Like, if I'm three deep, I'm like, I can't control that stem wear. That's great. Will you ask? Oh, yeah, just be like, can you give it to me in a tumbler? Alright, nice.

I'll start doing that. Yeah. I'm serious. A little pro tip. Nice. Because everyone's like, oh, you're fancy, huh? And I'm like, I am, but I don't want people to know. Thank you. Honestly, yeah, I usually just get Mike's Heart, but they don't have Mike's Heart at the bar. I am like looking here. I don't think Mike's Heart made it

on this list either. Isn't that, what is Mike's Heart anyways? What is it even made out of? Soda. It's just like malt beverage, right? Is it just juice and poison? And yeah, some kind of 60% poison and 40% juice. That's the real Lachini's juice. I'm missing a percentage.

60% fingernail polish remover, 40% squirt. Oh, okay. That was the first alcohol I ever drank. I took it out of- Squirt? Spiked squirt. You just let it go bad. No, just keep that shit in the sun.

You ferment squirt. My house stunk. Yeah, it was in the sun. You ferment squirt. My house stunk. Yeah, it was mostly fermented squirt. Old squirt. I took like a Mike's Heart lemonade out of the fridge when I was like 16 and took a sip out of it. And it was so strong to me. I just threw it into the woods. You're just scared?

Like Lord of the Rings? Like you had to take it to fucking Mordor? It's too powerful. Yeah. Fucking Mount Doom, like, yo, I have to throw the ring of- A small thing, tried to grab it out of my hands,

and I'm like, you're an addict. You're gone for three days. Your mom's like, where were you, Blake? It's like, I marched to the heart of the woods to discard this Mike's hard lemonade. Back to Mike, Mike himself. Yeah. Your dad's hard lemonade.

My dad's hard lemonade. Let's move on, though, because the best-selling... I'm sorry. I just have to keep this show moving or else we're going to just rant and rave all day, which I love to do. But when daddy's away, the weirdos will play.

Jeff is so mad. Best-selling cocktails by major market. Okay, now, this is interesting. The Margarita was the top in every city, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Tampa. I don't know. Tampa's an interesting market to put there. And then... But the one major market that it wasn't the top was Chicago,

where it is actually not even in their top five. They drink old fashions as their number one. Okay, classy. Love it. Yes. Love it. New York, their list is margarita, martini, old-fashioned, Manhattan, classic mojito.

LA, margarita, martini, old-fashioned, classic mojito, flavored marita Martini Old fashioned Classic mojito Flavored margarita Which is interesting That they make that distinction I guess that makes sense though Because out here We have so many restaurants That are like

Just any flavor Like you want dragon fruit Margarita And I'm like You have that Fuck alright And then in Boston Number three is the

Espresso martini Yeah we gotta get places Okay Yeah is that the deal? I don't know. I don't know what the fuck that is. I'm fucking tired, all right? Fucking put it in the espresso.

I don't know. That sounds like it could be good. Who's drinking all of them? Yeah. Miami, margarita, classic mojito. That makes sense. Martini, flavored margarita, old-fashioned. And then Tampa, again, interesting.

Yeah, let's definitely get that in. Why two Floridian cities? Yeah, well, hey, look. It is what it is. This is the world we live in. It's 2019. Dinner, get out. Tampa's is Margarita, Martini, Manhattan, Sangria, and then Cosmopolitan.

What is in Cosmopolitan? Besides oppression of women? I don't know, sex in the city? Yeah, top 10 ways to please your man or whatever. Or is that Cosmo? Do anybody know? Super producer Anna Hosnia has handed me the ingredients. It is a one half ounce

of Cointreau, one ounce cranberry juice, half ounce fresh lime juice, and one and a half ounces vodka citron. Thank you so much. I just know it as a Sex and City drink.

And then also DJ Daniel, editor and producer today, also points out, yeah, this is definitely cocktails because of course it's not mixed drinks because that would probably just be what?

Vodka Red Bull, Jack and Coke. Jack and Coke, yeah. Vodka Soda. Vodka Cranberry. I'll do like Margarita Soda with lime. I like that one.

That's a quick and dirty one. Yeah. You know what I mean? And then let's get into best selling cocktails in the US by time of day. Morning, which they call 6 a.m.

to 12 p.m. Love it. Shout out to anybody who's serving at 6 a.m. I guess like 5 a. Love it. Shout out to anybody who's serving at 6 a.m. I guess like 5 a.m. is still night, technically, to them. Or if you're drinking at 5. I think that is somewhat the earliest. But when I would go to the pub to watch Arsenal matches live when they're in the U.K.,

I would be there at 4.45, and they're like, this shit was flowing. So who cares about that? I love drinking during soccer matches in the morning. It's insane. And then you walk out the bar, and then the brightness of the light feels like you feel like you're walking on the cursed earth from Judge Dredd. You take a nap at 7.30 a.m. Yes.

It's crazy. And you're all good. But yes, in the morning, mimosa, of course, Bloody Mary, margarita, Bellini, and Old Fashioned. That's all cheating, yeah. Yeah, afternoon, margarita, martini, whatever. Evening, margarita,ini Whatever Evening Margarita Martini Old fashioned

Moscow Mule Okay not even that And then night 12am to 6am Martini Long Island iced tea Uh oh Finally rears its ugly head

It's been waiting Because that My god I remember the first time I drank a Long Island iced tea I was like Seven Six

Twenty one And I was so off my face. I was like, yo, this is the tightest shit ever. And then as I got older, I realized how it was really just a disgusting, despicable combination that was poisoning my body. Yeah. I honestly try not to drink any liquor at all if I can help

because it just hits me so hard. Well, you've got to moderate. So that's why I'm a Mike's Hard gal. I just like to plug it again. Just for those of us that can't handle the real Lachini's juice. The Lachini's juice, yeah. Lachini's juice light is Mike's Hard. Jamie, you've been plugging Mike's Hard Lemonade a lot.

And correct me, have you seen it as well, Miles? It's almost as if- I haven't seen it. I've heard it, though. You've been counting money. Yeah, I got to say it. While you've been doing it. Five, six, seven? It's almost as if... I haven't seen it. I've heard it, though. You've been counting money. Yeah, I gotta say it. While you've been doing it. Five, six, seven times Mike's Heart Lemonade. What's all those lemon

logos on your bucket hat? Oh, yeah. What? Oh, these are just unrelated lemons. It says something inside of it. No, that'll get you close. I need my space. Miles' hair letter grade. Anyway. That sounds right.

All right. I'll take it. Yeah. All right. Let's get into the problematic White Lady Roundup with Jamie Loftus. So there are a few things we saw today that were very, very interesting. This was not planned as a part of the show, but then we just got a three for one right after the other.

Three stories just crashed upon our shores. Just three ladies really missing the point. Well, I guess let's go in order of quickest. I guess Elizabeth Holmes' story is probably the quickest one to get through. Yeah, Elizabeth Holmes. I am fascinated with Elizabeth Holmes. I do a whole fucking show about her. Oh, please explain for people who don't know who Elizabeth Holmes is.

So Elizabeth Holmes, she was the CEO and the founder of this company called Theranos. Oh, yeah. And basically marketed herself as a female Steve Jobs, wore the exact same outfit, pitched her voice

an octave lower so that people would, you know, confuse her for someone they could take seriously, which is not her fault and is actually kind of tragic. Anyways,

she's like one of the most high-level scammers in Silicon Valley history. The point of her company was that you could take a drop of blood and do every blood test on it, even though that's like a one-one-thousandth of what you need to do those tests, and was valued at $9 billion at one point. And the whole point of investing in this company is like, yeah, give us a billion dollars,

but don't ask us what we do. Because I guess that that's okay in Silicon Valley, but that's not okay if you're a health company. So anyways, she never had the tech ever. And it all fell apart. And it all fell apart. So now people have been kind of delighting in finding the smaller lies that she had at this time. And so the most recent one is that she bought a husky dog and told everyone it was a wolf.

So she bought in 2017, which is like peak, things are not going well at Theranos. She got a husky named Balto after, you know, the one. The one. The one, you know, the one. The one. The one. You know, the Balto. And she basically, she said he was a rescue and that his story mirrored hers. And then would just be like, you know, he's a wolf. Yeah.

She would just casually drop that he was a wolf. And then someone 23 and me, her dog, and they're like, he's a husky dog. Wow, how petty is that person? I like that. You can just look at it and be like, this ain't a motherfucking wolf. This thing's pretty chill. I don't know if it's a wolf. I just didn't want to eat this raw meat, this old squirrel I brought.

Right. Not a wolf. So from the Vanity Fair story, it would just say, in meetings at cafes, whenever anyone stopped to pet the pup and ask his breed, Holmes soberly replied, he's a wolf. Oh, boy. And, yeah, he also just unrelated, baltoed shit all over Theranos, the property. Oh, of course. It's one of those Silicon Valley companies that was always, like, two degrees inside, and there was wolf shitting everywhere.

Oh, also, speaking of wolf, there was a wolf shitting everywhere. So. Oh, also speaking of wolf, there is a really nice puppy in the studio. And Blake, this little dog's head is right by the wheels of your chair. So do not roll your chair back. Thank you. And you could cause a traumatic brain injury to this sweet little puppy. Consumer producer Anna Hosnier has got a new puppy. Flick it up one time.

Let me get that siren. Yes. What's the dog's name? Ace Biscuits. Well, shout out to Ace Biscuits. Next up on the docket, Gwyneth Paltrow. Oh, this is my favorite one. I love a little ski accident tea.

This is peak Paltrow. This is the classic savage Gwyneth Paltrow behavior that got her the Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. She's never going to do the best job, but she'll fucking kill you. So the story was a doctor sued her for like $3 million because he was like, she slammed into me, caused me brain damage. And left him for dead. Left me for dead on the slopes. Yeah, so his original thing that he said was that she got up, turned and skied away,

leaving Sanderson stunned, lying in the snow, seriously injured. So he's suing her for $3.1 million. But Mrs. Goop is not having anything to do with that. No, no, no, no, no. She countersued him for $1. Oh, hell yeah. Just for the flex. that he said he actually hit her

and that the 69 awesome year old man took her out from behind while she was skiing downhill and that she was having skiing lessons with her children apple, pear, grapefruit and all the other ones. And warm vanilla sugar. All bath and body.

And country apple splash. Warm vanilla sugar. Cornucopia. Sweet pea. And then Sanderson plowed bath and body and country apple splash warm vanilla sugar cornucopia sweet pea of course and then sanderson plowed into her back and hurt her um and according to her he apologized oh after right after that's what she says sorry dude but she also sold something called she was selling something called sex bark last year so we can't trust her no it's literally sex bark it's peppermint bark that's supposed to make you horny it was more of a sex whimper sex I just love that turn it's like this guy's swimming and she's like nah actually you

ran into me and then he's like I'm sorry right and then she's like okay give me one dollar like she's just fucking she's she's next level. Well, goop for her. Yeah. And finally, Jezebel just caught my attention with this one, because their headline was just, Miley Cyrus is tripping. And I was like, uh-oh. Peak Jezebel headline. Yeah, like, what is going on? And in it, they discuss this new Vanity Fair write-up that she's got,

where she's got really interesting takes on just marriage, gender, sexuality. And, you know, like we all know, the Jays on my feet songstress is who I look to for just really sort of thoughtful analysis. The most correct take, of course. Yeah. So this is her take on marriage, the convention of marriage being old-fashioned. The reason that people get married sometimes can be old-fashioned. But I think the reason we got married, she's talking about Hemsworth,

isn't old-fashioned. I actually think it's kind of new age we're redefining to be fucking frank what it looks like for someone that's a queer person like myself to be in a hetero relationship a big part of my pride and my identity is being a queer person what i preach is people fall in love with people not gender not looks not whatever what i'm in love with exists on almost a spiritual level. It has nothing to do with sexuality. Relationships and partnerships in a new generation? I don't think they have so much to do with sexuality or gender.

Sex is actually a small part, and gender is a very small, almost irrelevant part of relationships. Thank you. There's some truths in there. She gets like 35% of what she's saying right. By accident, by the way. She's accidentally getting it right. It's so unclear how much she's getting right on purpose.

I was completely baffled by this entire story. Whereas trying to rewrite the narrative of straight, like her straight marriage is actually pretty radical you're just like um no it's not i didn't realize she identified that she was queer i is that new when did she come out no i i vaguely remember that being a story like i think post bangers era my after mike will made it yeah she i mean she's i i don... Close relationship. I don't know the specifics of that. But being like, my straight marriage is actually pretty queer is just like, sure. Right.

Sure. Well, you know, more power to you, honey. I don't know. She has no problem stealing from cultures that aren't hers. So I never know what to believe what she says. Exactly. Right. She's like, well, I tried the hip hop thing.

I guess I can take from queer culture. We'll see. Then this is her talking about somehow the way Jezebel describes it says on getting married after her home burned down in which she literally quotes Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign slogan. Now, there isn't any mention of the home burning down. So it's just funny to think of this as being completely out of context answer. What was it like getting married after your home burned down? And the answer would be like,

yeah, without feeling like you're putting a bandaid on a bad situation and saying, oh, well, you know, now everything will be better because a lot of people use marriage,

I think maybe for a cure. But like my favorite woman in the world, Hillary Clinton says, we're stronger together. That'll make me get emotional. That's what she meant by it. Like who gives a fuck if he's a guy, if I'm a girl, or if he meant by it like who gives a fuck if he's a guy if i'm

a girl or if he was a woman who gives a fuck we really are stronger together one is the loneliest number i got the eye of the tiger whatever like i don't know again i'm interested i'm still having i'm still processing what that means i view view every Miley Cyrus news point I view them all differently and like there was a story about like when her house was burning down. Yeah. There was a story about her horses that warmed my heart. Right. And then like two days later she'll say something

and be like now fuck her and then it'll be like but her horses I don't know but her horses who knows. More horse stuff. Yeah more give me more horse content, less telling me how to live my life. And that's in general. In general, more horse content. Less directions. More horse content and less self-congratulatory bullshit.

So again, there was another part where there was an essay section of the article. I guess I'll read that part too. If you're going to make me, I guess I will. If we're going to do it because everything together just leads up to a great just overall story. Being someone who takes such pride in individuality and freedom and being a proud member of the LGBTQ community, I've been inspired by redefining again what a relationship in this generation looks like. Sexuality and gender identity are completely separate from partnership. I wore a dress on my wedding day because I felt like it.

I straightened my hair because I felt like it. But that doesn't make me become some instantly, quote, polite hetero lady, end quote. And then a parenthetical, P.S. Straight women are badass too, end parenthetical. Yes. My relationship is very special to me. It is my home. I feel less misplaced when we are in the same room, no matter where that is.

But just because something changes in my relationship doesn't mean something has to drastically change in my individuality. What Liam and I went through together changed us. I'm not sure without losing Malibu, we would have been ready to take this step or ever even gotten married. Who can say? But the timing felt right, and I go with my heart. Yeah. The second my house burns down I'm getting married

yeah that's to a horse wait didn't all your parents get married after the house burned down yeah obviously

yeah I mean it was what made them realize that they had to get married right yeah that's the thing we don't talk about

on this show because we burned down our own house how else are you going to pay for the marriage right and no seriously I mean

not to make light of the wildfires, which were horrible. Yes. I'm like, if you get anything out of Miley Cyrus saying something like this, great. Yeah. I don't know. Seems a little all over the place to me. It just sounds like a little bit like, you know, somebody who like was in high school and hung out with college students for a weekend.

Yeah. And then came back to their high school and like. I'm actually seeing things a whole new way. Yeah. And, like, actually, like, gender is, like, a construct. And then, but then can't really go beyond that, like, line. Okay, Xander. You know, calm down.

Some of it has generally okay views. Right. But then can't handle a follow-up question to save their lives. Yeah. Oh, yes. I feel like there was just one question. Like, the reporter was like was like hey how's your marriage and then she just spoke for 45 minutes right my favorite woman hillary clinton is like stronger

that makes me emotional uh okay uh last line she then talks about she's got new music coming out where she says quote there's psychedelic elements there's pop elements there's more hip-hop leaning records you know in the same way i like to kind of just be genderless. I like feeling genre-less. And then she then goes to say this. That's exactly the same. She goes on to say this, quote, every producer I'm working with on this new record is male. There's not a lot of female producer options for me, but it's fun to be the female in the room that has the most say. Okay, Edgelord. okay um hire some women there are plenty of women producers i hate that like well there's none but like it's cool that i get to do whatever i want like i mean good for you but also hire women if you're like standing on this fucking soapbox about

how good you are for women yeah i she could find female producers. Yeah, I know so many women who are producers, who are musicians that you could work with. If you need some suggestions, Miley, hit me up. Open up your DMs. We will send you recommendations. Yeah, I'm sure Lani will send you probably a lot better work than maybe some of the people you're working with now. Yeah, I mean, Miley, when was the last hit?

You know, maybe fire some of those guys. Yeah, and then again, she does go on that she says she's, quote, challenging the system as much as anything else I've ever done

to have a female pop writer that says, all right, I'm only going to write all my own songs. I don't want to share lyrics with anyone else. I just want to write

what I feel. Sure. So, you know, challenge the system, do your thing, Miley. Whatever. Okay, well, with that, let's just end the show there.

Listen, we're not going to top Ariana Grande on a Zamboni. No, we're not. Well, Blake. You peaked early. Yeah. Which is how the pros do it. Blake. No, and then one more thing.

Could you thank me, please? God, Blake. Can you just thank me? Blake, I want to be thanked. Thanks, Blake. Thanks, Blake. For fucking up the episode today. It's my pleasure. No, thank you for me, Blake? I want to be thanked. Thanks, Blake. Thanks, Blake. For fucking up the episode today. It's my pleasure.

No, thank you for joining, Blake. It's always a pleasure. When I knew Jack was going to be out, I said, yo, got to have Blake in here. You know what I mean? Because whenever we do the show, we take it to another place. I don't know why. I love it. The energy in the room is magnetic.

Yeah, it's electric. I mean, Anna's asleep. So it's just crazy. She's strung out. She's got got a new kid the dog is also asleep uh we're the only people awake in a very crowded room where can people find you and follow you uh at blake wexler uh on everything okay yeah and you put that on everything all at blake wexler everything and you put that on everything i put it on everything okay good to know i have to and bl to. And Blaking News too? Blaking News, yeah. I do like a one minute monologue about

the news each day. Are you going to put some art on your walls? We're working on it. Well, I'm using... Miles is worried. I'm worried. That's when she was like, I think he's a serial killer. I'm like, well, you know, he doesn't have art on his walls. I prefer to shoot directly into a dark kitchen. I learned that from M. Night Shyamalan, who's also

from Philadelphia, and he taught me that. Great. But one day an alien will walk by in the background. And someone will pass out. It'll cost me $100 million. Yeah. Did I tell you? I'm sure I've said this story on – I've told this story before.

I was at a sandwich shop, and the woman making my sandwich, I was talking about some M. Night Shyamalan thing. She's like, oh, my God. Have you seen Signs, right? Is that the one with the alien cup? Yeah. She's like, have you seen Signs? And I'm like some M. Night Shyamalan thing she's like oh my god have you seen uh signs right is that one of the alien cup signs like have you seen signs and I'm like yeah she's like no joke I passed out like it's so scary I passed out in the movie theater and I was like what happened it's like you know that part where they're showing the footage from the birthday and then the alien walks by I had a panic attack and I passed out. And they had to stop the movie. And she was like, yeah.

And then she's like, and then I got married to this guy the next day that I met in New Orleans. And I was like, whoa. She had a lot of, she had a wild, she's dynamic as hell. But it was the idea to me that you're so invested in signs

that when that moment happens, they just literally go, and just, like like you're done. I was afraid of signs. Yeah, but were you going to pass out from watching an alien go by in a grainy VHS tape? No, I was going to pass out from Joaquin Phoenix's young muscles.

Is that who that was? Yeah. It was Joaquin Phoenix. Yeah, there was that line that I want to get in a t-shirt. It says like tell Meryl to swing away and then later he hits the alien with the bat because there's a great there's a great uh dead wife trope in signs where she's crushed between cars his wife his wife uh his wife says hey tell joaquin phoenix to use a baseball bat in the third act of the movie and then he does i'm not here physically but i'm contributing in

this way i just i know that you don't know what my name is but i'm greg physically, but I'm contributing in this way. I know that you don't know what my name is. But I'm Gregnant. But I'm Gregnant. With an alien. And tell Joaquin Phoenix to use the baseball bat later. Goodbye, remember me. Blake, what is a tweet that you're liking, you're loving?

We spoke about NBA All-Star Weekend earlier, and Kawhi Leonard debuted a new sneaker, a signature sneaker with New Balance. Yeah, right. And it's like a fairly regular-Star weekend earlier, and Kawhi Leonard debuted a new sneaker, a signature sneaker with New Balance. Yeah, right. And it's like a fairly regular looking sneaker, but on the back in huge type, it just says Kawhi Leonard in very plain type. And this guy retweeted an image of it and wrote,

imagine getting dunked on by a dude in some Times New Romans. Oh, shit. Oh shit. Jesus Christ. It killed me. I like it. Jamie? Yes. Where can people find you

and follow you? You can find me on Twitter.com at Jamie Loftus Help. Instagram at Jamie Christ Superstar. Listen to Bechdel Cast. We released a new episode

on Romy and Michelle's high school reunion with Danielle Perez I also instead in lieu of a tweet today could I recommend two other podcasts I think are really fun I'd like to recommend two podcasts the first one is called Say More with New York poets

Olivia Gatwood and Melissa Lozada Oliva it's so funny they're great I may or may not be very good friends with them but but they're the best. Highly recommend. Full disclosure. You are. Full disclosure.

I love them very much. And then also over the weekend, Caitlin and I had a powerful meetup with other female podcasters. Ever heard of it? We went to the Magic Castle. Oh, that's why y'all were all dressed up and fancy at the Magic Castle? Yeah. I was curious what was going on. So there's like a dearth of female magicians,

but there are two performers at the Magic Castle who have a podcast about women in magic. Hell yeah. That's awesome. Called Shazam that is also really good. And that's from Carissa Hendricks and Kayla Drescher. Those are Jamie's hot racks. And my friend is also making a movie And that's from Carissa Hendricks and Kayla Drescher. Those are Jamie's hot wrecks. And my friend

is also making a movie about a queer female magician. That's amazing. Hell yeah. Female magicians, y'all out here. They're out here. All I knew how to do

was do tricks with a wizard deck. That was like the furthest I got into it. It's far enough. That's fine. It's far enough.

Yeah. Yes. And I'll leave it there. You can find me and follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. A tweet I'm liking is from Hype at The Hype. This is like a back and forth. It says, son, school just got canceled.

Me. Oh, shit. What'd it do? Thank you. Cancel culture is out here, y'all. All right. Oh, shit. What did it do?

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Zeitgeist we got a Facebook fan page we got a website www.dailyzeitgeist.com where you can find our show and our footnotes. Footnotes. Oh, thank you so much. As well as a song that we are going to ride out on. And, you know, everybody's working for the weekend.

I get it. So let's play a song by Syd, who is the front woman for the group The Internet. This song is called Body. Shout out to LA bands. So shout out to Syd. Shout out to The Internet. Shout out to LA bands. So shout out to Ciz. Shout out to the internet. Shout out to Zeitgang. And enjoy your weekends. We will see y'all Monday. Bye.

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