The Daily Zeitgeist - Soda IS Bad? Mom, Twitter Is Deep Stating Me!! 3.20.19

Episode Date: March 20, 2019

In episode 352, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Sara June to discuss how soda is bad for you, Devin Nunes suing Twitter, New Zealand come down hard on their gun control laws, Fox and Friends hav...ing dumb opinions on everything as usual, MoviePass coming back, a check in with the GoFundMe homeless scam, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Study: Daily diet drinks linked to strokes, heart attacks, and early death2. Even a little bit of soda is a lot not good3. Fox News’ Judge Napolitano Dismisses Devin Nunes’ Twitter Lawsuit: ‘Novel Litigation’ to Get Attention4. ‘This was an orchestrated effort’: Devin Nunes sues Twitter, ‘Devin Nunes’ cow’ for defamation5. How to Buy a Gun in 16 Countries6. The mass shooting in New Zealand was designed to spread on social media7. Why court photos of the alleged New Zealand mosque shooter’s face are blurred8. On Fox News, a table full of wealthy and powerful white people agree that "all the cries about racism, et cetera" are just an "emotional" distraction to "change the subject" from the awesome Trump economy.9. Fox & Friends segment defends the thoughts & prayers response to mass shootings: "The power of prayer isn't about results, it's about an ongoing relationship with God and combating hate."10. Fox & Friends co-host says millennials' anxieties about arguing with romantic partners are really about their phones11. MoviePass, desperate to get back together, is bringing back the unlimited plan12. Woman raises more than $250,000 for homeless man who helped her13. Homeless man, N.J. woman accused in GoFundMe scam plead guilty14. WATCH: Wild Nothing // Partners In Motion (Official Audio) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:08 Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 74, Episode 3 of The Daily Zeitgeist! Yeah! A podcast where we take a deep dive into American shared consciousness. It's Wednesday, March 20th, 2019. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. There's no zeit too big no gang too small if you need hot takes just call
Starting point is 00:02:28 Jack and Miles podcast rangers Jack and Miles when there's danger uh yeah really supported that cheers are you the masked singer as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray!
Starting point is 00:02:49 And I will remember your miles of gray On the day you were judged by the Zeitgeist Cast And I will rejoice in your fray go takes With the cane to the sky like blunts shall pass Wow! None shall pass, a.k.a. A$AP Brock Thank you to Justin Brackett at Mr. 5-1 for that one. Yo, I love that instrumental.
Starting point is 00:03:07 I mean, the song's cool, but the instrumental really hits me. I don't think I know that song. Oh, man. But I really enjoyed your a.k.a. Yeah, I mean. My a.k.a. was courtesy of Samuel King at T-Man Reaver, for some reason, on Twitter. And we're
Starting point is 00:03:23 thrilled to be joined by the hilarious and talented comedian and podcast host, Sarah June. Thrilled. Absolutely. Thank you so much. Thrilled. Look. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:03:34 I have thrills going through my body. Thrills? Chills. Thrills. Chills. Later on, some spills. I got some AKAs. I got a little bit of-
Starting point is 00:03:42 Yeah, you got something written down there. I got Sarah Croft June Raider. Oh, okay. That fucking rules. Huh? I got a little bit of Super June. Okay. Super June is a public safety hazard.
Starting point is 00:03:52 Please don't try and visit the Super June. It's a super bloom. Oh, a super bloom. Miles is looking at me like he's really trying. Wait, is it a... Is it a public healthy? It is. Healthy saver?
Starting point is 00:04:02 At a healthy saver at Lake Elsinore in Southern California, they are, quote, Disneyland-sized crowds, and they have shut down Lake Elsinore. You are not allowed to drive there anymore. Just stomping through the fields? There's not enough bathrooms. Yeah. Yeah, there's just not enough. They weren't expecting that many fucking people.
Starting point is 00:04:18 Usually, they have way more flowers than people, and right now, they have about as many people. See, if you went like two years ago, you caught the wave. Yeah, you were right. Because back then it was like a few people bothered to go. And I think now people are this year like, is that thing going to happen from Instagram this year? It's the Instagram thing. And it's like, yo, if you don't go, what are you even doing? And for people who don't know, the super bloom, because California, Southern California specifically, we don't get any water.
Starting point is 00:04:40 That when it does, the poppies bloom in certain areas. And it's breathtaking. We have, I mean, by far, unquestionably the best state flower, which is the golden poppy, the California poppy. Shout out to the golden poppy. It's neon orange. It's beautiful and it grows in these, it's got like kind of blue green leaves and it grows in these huge swaths and it just looks like somebody spilled a bunch of orange dust
Starting point is 00:05:01 on the hillside. It's crazy. I mean, it's really, truly beautiful. When you said Super June, I thought you meant like the, what is it, the term of affection? No, no, in Persian they call you the June. Oh, June, yeah. Yeah, so I was like, oh, you're the Super June. I am the Super June.
Starting point is 00:05:16 Look at you, Super June. Yeah, that's me, sorry, June. Yeah. I also have a reboot of June starring Timothy Sarame. I went for it. There you go. And it worked. It worked.
Starting point is 00:05:29 Yeah, stuck the landing. All the risks you have taken have paid off. Congratulations. Thank you so much. It's so good to have you back. That's my moon shot.
Starting point is 00:05:37 It's your June shot. My June shot. There we go. Kids keep telling me. Yeah. Oh, that was like a slow bombing run on that one.
Starting point is 00:05:44 I thought that was me forping into the bike or something. That was a weird noise. So what have you been up to? How are you? I'm good. It's great to have you back. It is one more day. It is Chahar Shembe Suri.
Starting point is 00:05:56 It is one more day until Eid al-Nuruz, the Persian New Year, first day of spring. Oh. Favorite holiday, best holiday. Happy New Year's Eve. Thank you so much. Technically, this comes out tomorrow. Does that still hold up? That's what I'm doing it for. Oh, sorry. I didn't want to. No,. Best holiday. Thank you so much. Technically, this comes out tomorrow. Does that still hold up? That's what I'm doing it for. Oh, sorry. I didn't want to. No, no, no. Today,
Starting point is 00:06:09 Wednesday, March 20th, is the day before the spring equinox. And it's my favorite holiday because it's when the flowers come. Oh, yeah. You came in with flowers too today. I came in with flowers for Anna because she has her half scene going, which is like this table where you put all this stuff. And it's a bunch of different stuff that begins with S, you know?
Starting point is 00:06:27 Yeah. So like I'm on the table and I got other stuff on the table. You got like an apple, sativa, sara, you know, you got sprig, you got a sarlacc toy. Slaquah. Oh, dang. I put some quah on the table. Yeah, it's great.
Starting point is 00:06:43 It's really nice. Fantastic. Is that part of the tradition? Yes. Yes. It is seven items that begin with the letter scene. It's called haft scene. So my other, I mean, my really, my deep cut,
Starting point is 00:06:54 AKA was, you know, I'm the, I'm the hashstone scene on your haft scene. I'm the eighth scene, baby. Oh, hell yeah. That's right. That's for some scene, baby. Oh, hell yeah. Seep, sick, kiss, and jet, salmon, who saw raw. That's right. That's for some of you. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:08 Sounded cool. Shout out to all the Iranian Zay gang out there who caught that. Yeah, yeah. Well, we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things
Starting point is 00:07:17 we're talking about today. We're gonna talk about how completely fucked you are if you've ever had a single soda. Just one. We're going to talk about MoviePass being back for some reason. We're going to talk about Devin Nunez suing his mom. We're going to talk about how the Florida House of Representatives
Starting point is 00:07:36 is circumventing the bill allowing felons to vote. We're going to talk about New Zealand's response to the terror attacks and just the continued fallout from the college admissions scandal. Just generally, more like my, now that I'm paying attention to college admissions, just how completely fucked it is. Yeah, exactly. There's not going to be any college by the time your kids get older.
Starting point is 00:07:58 That's true. They'll just take a pill. Right. That's right. Everything's in pill form. They'll just vape an education. What do you want, a master's degree in philosophy here oh wait no mix that with this one yeah that's exactly what people would want to
Starting point is 00:08:10 make more practical getting a master's degree in philosophy yeah by ingesting it gosh if only i could have a philosophy degree you already fucking vape a master's degree in philosophy that's already the case yeah i don't know uh but first sergeant what is something from your search history that's already the case yeah let them know uh but first sorry jim what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are my search history you want to you want to know the real deal the real me what's in my real search history and not something that i came up with you know to do a bit a bit nah how to kill soil fungus wait i got a soil i got a garden bed and it's full of soil fungus and i had to find out because nothing will grow in it what's soil fungus can you see it
Starting point is 00:08:46 yeah it's like white stuff in the soil oh that shit looks like fungus yeah it looks like fungus and it grows in the soil so I have to like put a clear sheet over it and let it get super hot which you know is going to happen in two days and so I gotta get it really really hot in there to kill the fungi
Starting point is 00:09:02 they like it warm but they don't like it hot so just dealing with some soil problems over on Casa June I got to get it really, really hot in there to kill the fungi. Yeah. Okay. They like it warm, but they don't like it hot. Ah, exactly. So just dealing with some soil problems over on Casa June. Yeah. Do you normally garden stuff? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We talked about this.
Starting point is 00:09:14 Me and your mom. Oh, yes. Garden hose, garden bros. Garden hose before garden bros. Dude, my arugula is flowering. Oh. It makes these little white flowers. They're so pretty.
Starting point is 00:09:24 Oh, man. And we got kale. We got cauliflower. We got arugula is flowering. It makes these little white flowers. They're so pretty. And we got kale. We got cauliflower. We got arugula. We got radishes. I got some radishes going. I grew my first radishes. Very exciting times. Got a little taqueria going.
Starting point is 00:09:34 If you don't garden in Southern California, you're missing out. Wait, are you gardening? No. I do not garden. But if you don't, because shit just grows. The growing season is 10 months. It's crazy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:48 You just accidentally grow stuff. No, I grew stuff. I mean, I grew all this stuff over. I'm sorry for people who are in the polar vortex, but I grew this stuff in the winter. Yeah, right. But it's going to be 100 degrees for about three months. That rain, in addition to causing a super bloom, just causes everything to look like Hawaii now. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:06 It's weird to drive through this pulpit of past, especially, because normally that's just brown and dusty, and I'm like, where the fuck am I? The Northwest? Yeah. Wait, is this a garden in the ground, or is it like a bed? I have a raised bed.
Starting point is 00:10:19 I have two eight-foot-long raised beds, and I'm about to make some raised rows in my other garden. I mean, I should just have a fucking gardening podcast. Yeah. I just built a big compost pen. Wow. Yeah. And I cut down a whole bunch of shit in my yard.
Starting point is 00:10:32 I weeded and I put all the weeds in the compost because I haven't seeded yet. Don't get on my ass. Right, right. Compost people, you know. I don't know about compost squad out there. I went to Portland and they were like, you know, I tried to like throw away an apple core and the person I was staying with was like, oh, you know, we compost actually. And I was like, okay, cool. And she was like, I know it's like that Portlandia sketch where it's,
Starting point is 00:10:51 you know, here's where you put your plastic and here's where you put your paper and here's where you compost this and that. And I was like, bitch, I know what compost is. Like we have compost in Los Angeles. I'm down. I'm compost gang. I lived in Austin. Like I had a, in Austin, I had a guy bike to my home every week with a big bucket, pick up my kitchen scraps, take them to a community garden. That's how compost-friendly Austin is. You ain't shit
Starting point is 00:11:14 Portland. You ain't shit Portland. Damn. Wait for Compost Twitter to come for you. Compost Peddlers. Get it? Oh, shit. Yeah. And then do they peddle their wares to the gardens too? They take your kitchen scraps to a big community garden. But I'm saying, are they flipping that for money?
Starting point is 00:11:29 No. See, that's where they're missing out. Well, I mean, I pay them to do that. To take your shit away. Yeah, I pay them to take my shit away. And then they give me free compost. Well, it's not free. I paid for it.
Starting point is 00:11:37 Right, right, right. But you know. Oh, they'll take it. They make compost, bring you back some ready-made compost. Yeah. When they come by your house, do they ring a bell and say, bring out your dead? No. That's what I would do. I'm not dead.
Starting point is 00:11:47 I feel happy. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated? I just started watching Larry Charles' Dangerous World of Comedy and oh boy,
Starting point is 00:11:56 I can't believe no one told me to watch that before. Someone, one of our guests a few weeks ago said it. Was it Johan? No. Johan Miranda was on
Starting point is 00:12:02 Larry Charles' Dangerous World of Comedy. Oh, it was Otsuko. Oh, it was Otsuko. Oh, I love Otsuko. Yeah, Otsuko was like, yeah, it's really good. Dude, I got so high and I watched the first episode. And this isn't a spoiler. The first episode is about comedians in war zones.
Starting point is 00:12:17 Right. And so they talk to some comedians in Iraq. And they talk about these guys that ran a prank show in Iraq where they were like- Oh, my God. They tried to prank other Iraqi celebrities into thinking they were going to jail. And then they were like, just kidding. And then they go to Liberia. And I didn't know shit about Liberia.
Starting point is 00:12:36 And basically Liberia is the wild fucking West. Like it's just gangs fighting gangs and all these incredibly crazy warlords that are cannibalistic and they do ritualistic killings. Yes, and they have the wild nicknames. And so there's this guy named General Butt Naked. Yeah. So there's – General Mosquito Spray. It's pretty violent, but then on the show they verbally describe some even more horrific violent acts that they don't show you.
Starting point is 00:13:01 Sure. But the verbal description is so rough. Man, I did not sleep for a couple days. Like, Liberia is not anything to fuck around with. And there's comedians. There's women doing comedy in Liberia. Right. What's that like as a comedian when you're like, you're like, man, in Austin, they come
Starting point is 00:13:17 get your compost. And you're like, yeah, no, I'm like, oh, I got to step up because out here I'm like, I don't want to drive to the valley for a month. And then like these women are like, oh, yeah, you know, I saw like, oh, I got to step up because out here I'm like, I don't want to drive to the valley for a month. And then these women are like, oh, yeah, I saw some really horrific shit and all my friends died. And you just got to make people laugh because we're very lucky that we didn't get killed. So the premise of the show, for anybody who didn't hear the previous episode where we mentioned it, is Larry Charles is the guy who directed Borat and was the main person on Seinfeld. Also Religious Boo.
Starting point is 00:13:48 Oh, Religious Boo. Just a comedy luminary has done a documentary series where he goes around to other cultures and sees what comedy is in those different cultures, and a lot of them are very dark and violent places. Doesn't he interview General Butt Naked? Yes. Yeah, that's the one in the first episode,
Starting point is 00:14:06 the Lightbury episode. He is doing too much. He's doing Vice videos. I see General Butt Naked everywhere. He says he's reformed. Oh, okay. He's an ex-warlord. He talks about how he just like,
Starting point is 00:14:16 after killing literally hundreds of people with his hands, had a come to Jesus moment and was like, maybe I shouldn't kill humans anymore. Maybe I shouldn't kill children. Dang. Yeah, it's really intense.
Starting point is 00:14:30 And then the later episodes, he's got some stuff about, more like minorities in the US. LA comedian who I love, Johan Miranda, is on episode four. He's an undocumented immigrant. He talks about being
Starting point is 00:14:42 an undocumented immigrant on stage. He's like a DACA guy. So it was great to see him. I got real excited. I didn't know he was going to be on. I was like, are you on? Yeah, it's really good. You know, they talk to some like Muslim comedians and what that's like.
Starting point is 00:14:54 But, you know, stand-up is such a weird American thing. Stand-up is very American. In any other culture in the world, to go on stage and talk about your personal life and your family is considered embarrassing or dangerous right so like yeah so it's really cool to see like you know american culture is is america's an empire and we're a cultural empire too and like it's so weird to see like iraqis doing stand-up comedy you know like that's an american thing it's an american art form and it's very very cool to see other cultures uh like take on it basically very interesting so put that in your queue put that in your queue underrated larry charles's dangerous world of comedy what is something you think is overrated kathy griffin okay get out of here
Starting point is 00:15:33 done get the fuck out of here something new her kathy griffin so you know how like uh like this muslim girl at nyu that was like you know like at a vigil for the new zealand oh who pulled up to chelsea clinton pulled up to chelsea clinton and you know had strong, at a vigil for the New Zealand attack. Oh, who pulled up to Chelsea Clinton? Pulled up to Chelsea Clinton and, you know, had strong words for, like, an extremely rich woman. Essentially saying, like, because you hopped on the Ilhan Omar's comments or anti-Semitic, you're feeding Islamophobia by saying that.
Starting point is 00:15:55 Yes, which is, in my opinion, absolutely true. And Chelsea Clinton's like, Chelsea Clinton straight up hits her with the, I'm sorry you feel that way. I remember feeling, like, ugh. And she didn't lay hands on Chelsea Clinton. That's a saint, you know?
Starting point is 00:16:06 Yeah. But Kathy Griffin tweeted at that woman, at the Muslim woman, who was getting hate mail. She was getting all these hate emails, and she tweeted, she was like, you know, people are bullying me online. It's whatever. Kathy Griffin quote tweets her and is like,
Starting point is 00:16:20 you think this is bullying? I'll show you bullying. You fucking pussy. Kathy Griffin called this woman a pussy online. What? Kathy Griffin, out. Out. I mean, yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:31 One, it's like you took the wild risk with your decapitated head and effigy photo. And you cried in public. And you cried in public. Meanwhile, this woman is being like, 50 people were killed in a mosque. In two mosques. Today. Today. And we're combating Islamophobia
Starting point is 00:16:45 and people being disingenuous about people's commentary around Israel's policies saying that's anti-Semitic. Wow. Yeah. That's not, okay. Kathy Griffin out. No, I don't have the patience.
Starting point is 00:16:58 You know, this lady. I mean, she hasn't been doing much recently. You know, like, has she been a comedian for a long time? Yes. Like, does she need to be for a long time? Yes. Like, does she need to be bullying a woman
Starting point is 00:17:07 in mourning on Twitter? No, bitch. Get a job. Yeah, probably not. Probably not. What is a myth? What's something
Starting point is 00:17:14 people think is true you know to be false? Something that I think people think is true that I know to be false. Well, this is kind of a big one. I'm going to lay
Starting point is 00:17:24 a big one on you. I think a big myth that is, maybe used to be false. Well, this is kind of a big one. I'm going to lay a big one on you. I think a big myth that is maybe used to be true and is no longer true is that entertainment has to be controlled by huge corporations just because they're the only things we've ever known to make entertainment. Now that we have the internet, people are like, whoa, you can just make stuff
Starting point is 00:17:40 and people will watch it. Now that we have Patreon, we have all these independent creators. And what YouTube kind of used to be, which was like, just make your shit and if people like it then they'll give you money yep um but i think now that that's not really it's not true anymore that you need to be like a huge evil corporation to make tv and uh what i've been working on recently is i'm working with this uh channel to be called means tv that they like want to be an entertainment uh platform online, but it's not a corporation. It's a worker cooperative. It's a worker owned cooperative. And they want to like make the kind of shit that
Starting point is 00:18:13 you'll never see on Amazon because Amazon will never have a documentary about how Amazon is evil. And Netflix will never have a documentary about how like the billionaires that own Netflix straight up do not pay taxes. Right. Or underpay people. Or underpay people. Oh, this isn't traditional content. It's digital. Totally. So we're not going to pay you.
Starting point is 00:18:30 Yeah. And it's like, you know, where are you going to go for like entertainment and news of that kind? Like go to Vice? Vice has this weird alt-right thing. It's like really everything's got some crazy like shadow money behind it. So I've been, you know, working with this channel. They're a production company.
Starting point is 00:18:46 They made like all these campaign videos. They made the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign video. And now they want to make fucking TV shows. And I'm like, shit, yeah. Fuck yeah. And also probably way more sustainable than a corporation, which feels like they need to always like grow.
Starting point is 00:18:59 Yeah, I mean, the crazy thing is like Netflix is operating at a deficit. Hulu is operating. Hulu lost 1.5 billion last year. They're just getting that money from Disney. So Means is very cool. They're trying to raise money through, it's like a subscription-based thing.
Starting point is 00:19:12 And then they're also doing a fundraiser that starts on the 21st. So they're going to be releasing a bunch of content for like 10 weeks on my YouTube channel. If you like Nyan Cat, if you are subscribed to my channel, people don't know. You're going to start getting this propaganda baby. People don't know. Sara created Nyan Cat, if you are subscribed to my channel, people don't know. You're going to start getting this propaganda baby.
Starting point is 00:19:25 People don't know. Sara created Nyan Cat. My YouTube channel is home to, you know, internet fave Nyan Cat. Does it hold up? I'm going to say yeah. Can you describe Nyan Cat to people? Nyan Cat is an old meme. Nyan Cat is a meme from 2011.
Starting point is 00:19:40 It's like a gif of a cat, and it's, you know, dancing through space, and there's a song, and, you know. Rainbow, you know, dancing through space and there's a song and, you know. Rainbow, you know, your kids love it. You've seen it before. You know, Cosmo tried to cancel Nyan Cat.
Starting point is 00:19:52 Cosmo? Yeah. Tried to cancel Nyan Cat? Yeah, they said Nyan Cat is canceled. Cosmo the magazine? Yeah. Why'd they try to cancel Nyan Cat?
Starting point is 00:19:57 I don't know. They said very problematic. Is that true? Fuck me. Fuck you, Miles. I feel like it's some shit where people are like, have you seen Nyan Cat?
Starting point is 00:20:03 It does not hold up. I thought I was in it. Oh, I want to feel old. Right, like, have you seen Nyan Cat? It does not hold up. I thought I was going to get it. Want to feel old. Right, right. Just cut Nyan Cat with like a swastika on it. Holy shit. We didn't notice that. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 00:20:13 Nyan Cat started watching other YouTube videos. To real. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm very excited about that. That sounds amazing. That's kind of like my big thing. It's kind of like, it's a weird pitch, you know? No, but it's dope.
Starting point is 00:20:25 It's a weird pitch to people. It's like, what if Netflix wasn't kind of evil? Yeah. I'm excited about that, too. That sounds awesome. Check it out. All right, guys. Let's talk about soda, sody pop.
Starting point is 00:20:35 Pop. Finally. Depending on where you're from. What century. Because nobody calls it sody pop anymore, I don't think. But so SSBs is what we're referring to them As now Sugar sweetened beverages
Starting point is 00:20:48 Yes What about the carbonation part? What's anything? It's most They're not It's not just soda It's like the wild sugary drinks Okay so we're just
Starting point is 00:20:55 We're just talking about sugar water Sugar waters Gatorades even Right You know Gatorade? Wacky juices There's a lot of sugar in Gatorade
Starting point is 00:21:02 Yeah It's a sports drinks I mean it's not like as Oh you thought you were clean I brush my teeth with Gatorade? Wacky juices. There's a lot of sugar in Gatorade. Yeah. It's a sports drink. I mean, it's not like as wet. I brush my teeth with Gatorade. That's why I treat Gatorade as water. I know. Yeah, you take that mouth guard. You just put a little bit of Riptide Rush in there.
Starting point is 00:21:15 Jack's looking a little yellow. A little jaundiced. But yeah, dude. So this study comes out from Harvard. I think everyone had always known. Our parents had always been like, soda's bad for you. And if you had an immigrant parent, yo, they said that shit was the devil. My mom would never let me drink soda.
Starting point is 00:21:30 Same. Yeah. And I had to sneak off to my white neighbor's house to be like, can I have a Sprite? Right. Oh, you know when I got coke? Birthday. Oh, really? Birthday, that's it.
Starting point is 00:21:39 What, like an eight ball or just a gram? Pretty sick parenting. Yeah. Anyway, so this study comes out that basically was showing that like any, you know, depending on how many sodas you drink, the more you drink can increase your risks of dying from any cause, not just something specifically, just like in general, there's linking that to, you know, lower life expectancy. So they're saying, this is from this study says compared to drinking sugar sweetened beverages
Starting point is 00:22:05 less than once per month, drinking one to four sugary drinks per month, that was linked with a 1% increased risk. Two to six per week, 6% increased risk. One to two per day,
Starting point is 00:22:15 14% increased risk. Who's drinking one to two sodas per day in 2019? A lot of motherfuckers are. Really? Yes. So first question I had,
Starting point is 00:22:22 does this transfer to diet sodas? Okay, so cut to, there's a study from the American Heart Association that said- Those never go well. Drinking two or more of any kind of artificially sweetened drinks. So a caveat here is they've noticed that in the study that these drinks tend to affect women more than they do men. Oh, thank God. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:22:42 these drinks tend to affect women more than they do men. Oh, thank God. Sorry. Well, hold on to your butts, because just drinking two a day can increase your risk of a clot-based stroke or heart attack pretty significantly. Shit. Someone get me a damn 18-pack.
Starting point is 00:22:55 I want to die. Especially if you're over 50. So, again, these aren't, like, just saying, they're not saying to treat this as, like, a monolith, right? Like, everyone has different health situations, different exercise routines or whatever, but in general, they're just saying like, if you just let it rock and you're drinking wild sodas all the time,
Starting point is 00:23:10 then maybe it will wear you down. All I'm hearing from this is that this is a socially acceptable way to drink yourself to death. Yeah, exactly. Hell yeah. Yeah. You won't shit yourself in public. Yeah. You can go to work and drink sodas. Nobody says shit. Right, exactly. i'm like i'm
Starting point is 00:23:25 pouring coke in my whiskey bottle yeah right you're like more bad news for uh white people juice is also just sugar water it turns out uh do y'all not have moms is that what's going on do you guys just do americans just not have mom we just i thought i thought orange juice was just juice health it was just orange. It was eating orange in the liquid form. Yeah, health liquid. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's real bad for you.
Starting point is 00:23:50 I think also, though, too... I'm over here drinking a big glass of yogurt. I know. We've got the kefir, whatever. Kefir? Kefir? What do you call that? We still don't know.
Starting point is 00:23:58 I don't know, man. My throat is too clogged up. It's so fucking moist. You're so phlegmy. I'm so phlegmy from this kefir. I can't believe you guys have kefir in the office. It's so luxurious. We're out here. You know what I think it is, though? It's probably
Starting point is 00:24:10 like our parents not, like, growing up outside of the United States. They grew up, especially my mom, the U.S. has bombed the shit out of Japan, so they're like, what are they doing over there? Right. Like, soda? I don't know. Although now, yo, Japanese sodas are so fucking sweet. Yeah. It will, I, Japanese sodas are so fucking sweet.
Starting point is 00:24:25 Yeah. It will, it'll preserve your insides if that's a thing with sugar. Right. But they treat it as like a novelty, like KFC. Like it's not a daily staple of the diet. Well, you know, on a continuum, people are gaining weight there because more sugary foods and more, you know, like processed foods are entering the Japanese diet. But, you know.
Starting point is 00:24:44 But culturally, like that's not a, that's not a thing that you just like keeping your refrigerator. Well, there's a lot more like, there's a lot more awareness of basic nutrition in pretty much almost every other country. And a lot of that I think has to do with poverty, you know, it just has to do with like when you're poor and you only have a few things to eat, like you can't really fuck up, you know. Yeah, you're not going to be like, like oh let's get that fried cheeseburger and also you know like nutritionally speaking versus uh versus price
Starting point is 00:25:09 soda gives you like nothing you know it's just fun to drink it's sugar you know tastes good but like but i think soda companies target people like lower income communities with their marketing and yeah assume that there's like an information desert and a nutrition desert. So yeah, it happens in both ways, I think. Yeah, and that's why it's the rise of the seltzer waters, basically. But I honestly think that white Americans just having no sense of that juice is bad or that soda is bad is just like there's no tradition that they're latched onto. It's also why our juice is bad or that soda is bad is just like there's no tradition that they're
Starting point is 00:25:46 latched onto it's also why our food is bad it's like there's not a traditional yeah but everybody's eating unhealthy though i don't think white people own that yeah like solely but i'm out here thinking you know my grandma thought juice was good too right i mean juice is good like i mean it's delicious i mean if you're comparing juice to soda, obviously juice is better for you. But not that much better. Right. Well, it's like, you know, I feel like every other culture in the world is like, oh, yeah, fruit is candy. Fruit is candy.
Starting point is 00:26:13 And then you also have candy, which is made of sugar. Right. But I guess like white American culture is sort of like fruit is a vegetable and candy is a food. That's right. There you go. That's how I was raised and I'm sticking to it. We'll get into Fox and Friends later, because they were drinking milkshakes in Times Square at 6 in the morning. I cannot wait for conservatives to be drinking Big Gulps in protest of this cultural Marxism against soda.
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Starting point is 00:30:55 No, okay, sorry. I misread that. I guess I didn't do enough research on this story. He's suing Twitter for $250 million. Oh, okay, that makes sense. Yes, like magazine. Right. Because he thinks that Twitter was artificially holding him down.
Starting point is 00:31:13 Oh, he's tweeting because he got shadow banned? Yeah. That's what he claims, which is the most sensible part of his suit. The other parts of his suit are like, people were mean to me on Twitter. Oh, people tweeted at my mom. Well, no, no. So here's the thing. suitor like people were mean to me on Twitter. People tweeted at my mom.
Starting point is 00:31:25 Here's the thing. He's suing Twitter and then he's suing two anonymous Twitter users, at Devin Nunez mom and at Devin's cow. It's not my cow, dude. A political consultant her name's Liz Mayer, who's a Republican political consultant. All these accounts and this woman, Liz Mayer, he's suing them for
Starting point is 00:31:41 defamation and then accusing Twitter of shadow banning him and other conservatives. And then he's just saying like, oh, this is just the beginning. I am suing so many people. A lot of people are like, this is just a stunt because let's be real. This isn't going to hold up. Like it's the first person to sue Twitter. Right.
Starting point is 00:31:58 Exactly. And also for defamation, you think people like it has to pass the first thing where people would be like, oh, this is at Devin Nunes. Mom is actually at Devin Nunes. Mom says he has her face. I mean, and when you read the impersonating my mother, this is a dead on impression of my mother. There is no way. Right.
Starting point is 00:32:17 And so it goes on. You know, more specifically, he's saying that Twitter, quote, intended to generate and proliferate false and defamatory statements about him and influence the midterms was trying to intimidate him uh you know during his investigations blah blah blah everyone's just sort of laughing it off now like when you really look at some of the things right it's really absurd like Devin Nunes mom or Devin cow I can't remember one of the anonymous accounts posted like a meme of like a human centipede with Putin at the at the top then Trump then Devin Nunes and he was like oh this a meme of like a human centipede with Putin at the top, then Trump, then Devin Nunes. And he was like, oh, this is defamatory. They're like, are you actually, y'all hooked up in a weird medical experiment like that?
Starting point is 00:32:52 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then he points, there's like points to tweets like from at Devin Cow, sadly. It says, hanging out on the dairy in Iowa looking for the little treasonous cow poke is the bio of Devin Cow, which has 45,000 followers. And another one says, Devin's boots are full of manure. Oh, boy. God. You might go to jail, sir. Fox News might report that his boots are full of manure.
Starting point is 00:33:15 This other one, he's utterly worthless, and it's past your time to move him to prison. All right. That deserves being sued. That's bad. That's a bad one. So these people are anonymous, right? I don't think you got right. That deserves being sued. That's bad. Yeah. Well, so these people are anonymous, right? I don't think you got it. So it was move.
Starting point is 00:33:30 Does that change anything? Still terrible. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Lazy pun. So he's going on, you know, saying we got to, we have to figure out who's behind these accounts because like pretending to be my mother and my cow.
Starting point is 00:33:42 He says, because quote, the corruption of American democracy and society by intentional falsehoods, fraud and defamation must stop. So I'm so glad that the handle at Devin Nunez mom is making it into a court document. I know. But in the actual criminal complaint in the lawsuit, it says the identity of those behind these Twitter accounts is a matter of great public concern. Whether the accounts are controlled by wealthy Democrats, the Democratic National Committee, an opposition research firm such as Fusion GPS. Oh. I don't know. He's trying to connect us to the Steele dossier. The DNC is not this good at Twitter.
Starting point is 00:34:15 It's definitely not them. No. And then it says, or, quote, the Russians, or, quote, the Chinese, with quote, I don't know why it's quoted, or some other foreign government or non-governmental organization. The corruption, anyway, goes on, blah, blah, blah. So I like that he's even trying to be like, could be Fusion GPS.
Starting point is 00:34:31 I don't know, y'all. Yo, I don't know. I think the Koch brothers are tweeting at me. Right. It's really, really- So this is just a troll move, but it's a pathetic one. Yeah, and also like when you look at-
Starting point is 00:34:41 When he talks about, oh, you know, I'm getting shadow banned. Like, you know, when you actually look at at why the metrics are low for certain people, Twitter has an algorithm in the wake of all the bottery that was going on. When you interact with fringe accounts, what they consider fringe accounts repeatedly, they say, oh, that's someone who's interacting with sensational fake news and is probably like, this isn't the kind of user that it's, that's sort of a safe, a fail safe to be like, that's how we're going to try and curb it because you're interacting with accounts that are.
Starting point is 00:35:15 You couldn't just remove the Nazis. That would be crazy. No, of course. Oh God. Yeah. Right. They did real good at getting rid of all those ISIS accounts. So if you're interacting with bots, you get flagged.
Starting point is 00:35:23 And because so many conservative accounts are bots and because they are parroting the same shit. Or their followers are bots. Yeah, or retweeting bot tweets. Then they're like, oh, you're trying to amplify this user. You might be a bot. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:37 But avoiding even considering that and just being like, oh, I mean, look at what's up. We're getting deep stated. Yeah. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Jack Dorsey. How's your day going, Devin? Ugh, deep stated what's happening. We're getting deep-stated. Yeah. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Jack Dorsey.
Starting point is 00:35:45 How's your day going, Devin? Ugh, deep-stated again. Deep-stated again. Deep-stated, bro. Someone's pretending to be my cow, I mean. By the way. Someone's pretending to be my mom. My real cow is furious.
Starting point is 00:35:55 A journalist tried to look into, there was something with Devin Nunez's family claiming to be from California, but they actually own a dairy farm that they had moved to, I think, Iowa or Idaho. And a journalist tried to look into it and Devin Nunez's actual mom and his actual cow tried to intimidate this person and basically start talking to people in the town to tell them that they would be in trouble. It was very menacing.
Starting point is 00:36:24 They were shadowing him everywhere and shit. So the stuff that, again, you always have to know whatever conservatives are accusing other people of, that is what they do. And bullying. That's why they're so sure you're doing it. He does that shit in real life. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:36:41 Yeah, and also when you think about that dairy farm, there's a lot of, they're like, they may be employing undocumented immigrants. Yeah, that was Yeah, and also, like, when you think about that dairy farm, there's a lot of, you know, they're like, they may be employing undocumented immigrants. Yeah, that was kind of the idea behind the story, is he was going to look... Oh, to look into the dairy farm. So this family just doesn't ever talk about the fact
Starting point is 00:36:55 that Devin Nunez is their son. It's just, like, removed from all their documents. And he was like, that's weird. No wonder his mom's ashamed. Yeah, so he went and looked into it and... No wonder his cat was doing all this shit. It's because he's, first of all, the family's not actually in California where he claims. And also his backstory about, like, being a pull-himself-up-by-his-bootstraps thing is bullshit. And also they employ tons of undocumented workers.
Starting point is 00:37:20 And that's the paradoxical, you know, world we live in where people on one hand are going to be like, oh, we've got to do something about this, and they're my employees. California Republicans and farm owners got a little bit of a bite in the ass from voting for Trump. They were like, wait a second. I thought you were going to take away the other
Starting point is 00:37:41 illegal immigrants. Not the ones that I... There's other ones. The ones at the border that are the rape ones. Huh? Not the worker. Not the... All my chattel. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:53 My chattel. It's really just... It's pretty funny. It's contradictory. I mean, it's a really good cell phone. Yeah. No, honestly, it is. And then just to see the response from his family to be like, we've got to keep this
Starting point is 00:38:04 under wraps. Don't tell anybody. I mean, nothing says, you know, I murdered Devin's brothers and buried them in the cow shed, like following around a reporter and being like, nothing's going on here. Why don't you just go? And if you talk, you're in trouble. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:18 Sorry, boss. Very normal family. So I wanted to just check in with New Zealand in the response to the terror attack. There's been some interesting stories. First of all, there's the face blurring at the arraignment that I had assumed was them trying to just cover the person who did the killing up so that he wouldn't get the publicity that he was clearly after. I mean, he fucking live-streamed the terror attack, but he... Parody is dead.
Starting point is 00:38:51 It's apparently they do that because they want to... Like, there's a New Zealand law that says they have to do that in order to give the person a fair trial, which doesn't really make sense because you still know who it is. You can see his arms.
Starting point is 00:39:06 Even though the face was blurred, I'm like, he looks like a redheaded white person. Right. White supremacist. But I'm curious what they would do if it was someone with darker skin. What good does that do? Because if people's bias is going to be like, how dark are they? Well, you also know his name.
Starting point is 00:39:20 Yeah, yeah. You know the story going in. No, but I mean in general, like in any other case, right? If it were someone, like if you're not fully obscuring you can still glean like so like everybody that makes it onto a jury knows what you did i mean what well the weird i mean look i think any any attempt to try and curb bias you know i think is commendable a good one by the way on the upside down thank you uh but oh the earth is round? Okay. Yeah, nice try.
Starting point is 00:39:46 Wow. Their prime minister, though, is not mentioning his name when discussing the terror attack because, you know, in kind of keeping with the idea that this is what he and his cause want is for people to rally around him. Right. So that's kind of dope. And I think we should consider- Yeah, and he was flashing the white power sign at his arra him. Right. So that's kind of dope. And I think we should consider- Yeah, and he was flashing the white power sign at his arraignment. Right.
Starting point is 00:40:09 Fuck out of here. Exactly. And then another kind of angle that people have taken in covering the attack is looking at gun laws because New Zealand has said, we're going to make our gun laws stricter. And so they've compared New Zealand's gun laws to Japan's and the United States. Oh, come on. That's cheating. Those are other countries.
Starting point is 00:40:29 They did like 16 different countries. And it's pretty wild. So New Zealand is basically the most lax besides the United States. And they have a seven-step process. Pass a background check. Provide a character reference. Authorities interview or advise in person your partner or next of kin. You pass a home security inspection that checks for
Starting point is 00:40:51 proper firearm storage, take a gun safety course, wait for approval for a firearms license, which could take weeks or months. And then number seven, you get to buy a gun. I think what's interesting though is in part of that background check does look at your medical and mental health history right whereas even like the u.s background check is like are you a criminal or immigrant right well you know that's kind of a like that's a to me a a gray area of gun law that i am like not really sure how i feel about it because it's like all right if you're just, you know, everybody who's ever had had mental health issues, you know, that's that's a health thing. Oh, sure. I don't think it's kind of skirts the the line for me of like policing what kind of
Starting point is 00:41:35 people can have guns and what kind of people can't. But I also see the sense in it. Absolutely. I think if you take it in like in its totality, right, it's like, oh, you have, you know, some kind of mental health issues with a history of domestic violence. Right. Ooh, that is- Yeah, but there's plenty of mental illness that doesn't involve, I don't know, maybe
Starting point is 00:41:52 not. No, I don't- Yeah, I know what you're saying. Not to just immediately be like, okay, just because of this, you may have suffered from depression or something, therefore. Right. But I think either way, I think because the US versionS. version, what, is just step one, pull up with cash, two, buy a gun.
Starting point is 00:42:07 Yeah. I'm anti-stigmatizing mental health, but I err on the side of police state when it comes to giving people guns. Funny you should say police because, I mean, that's like, you know, there are two ways to get a gun in the U.S. One, pull up, buy a gun. Two, become a police. Right. Like, you just get a gun. They just give you a gun. They, like, don't do shit, you know, there are two ways to get a gun in the U.S. One, pull up, buy a gun. Two, become a police. Like, you just get a gun.
Starting point is 00:42:26 They just give you a gun. They, like, don't do shit, you know? It's, like, really easy to, like, join ICE or whatever. Yeah, yeah. They'll just give you a fucking gun. American civilians own nearly 100 times as many firearms as the U.S. military and nearly 400 times as many as law enforcement.
Starting point is 00:42:42 Wait, wait, say that first part again. American civilians own 100 times as many as law enforcement. Wait, wait, say that first part again. American civilians own 100 times as many firearms as the military and 400 times as many as law enforcement. Power to the people. Yes. Getting some thoughts. Japan has a 13 step process that involves training and it's basically the equivalent of. Japanese civilians get more gun training than American police officers do. Right.
Starting point is 00:43:09 And also like it's on par with what you need to learn to drive, which you would- Makes sense. Firearm class. Boom. Get a doctor's note saying you're mentally fit and you're not a drug addict. Three, apply for a permit. Take firing training. Could take a month. Describe in a police interview why you need a gun. I Three, apply for a permit. Take firing training. Could take a month.
Starting point is 00:43:25 Describe in a police interview why you need a gun. I think that's fair. Yeah. Pass a review of your criminal history, gun possession record, employment, blah, blah, blah. Six, apply for a gun powder permit. Damn, you got to be like, yo, you need the permit for the powder too, Michael. Right.
Starting point is 00:43:38 Seven, take- It's like that Chris Rock bit. Yeah, right. Take a one-day training class and pass a firing test. Then obtain a certificate from a gun dealer describing the gun you want. Then, if you want a gun for hunting, apply for a hunting license. Then buy a gun safe and an ammunition locker that meets safety regulations. Allow the police to inspect your gun storage. Pass an additional background review. Then buy a gun. Yeah. Sounds pretty chill. But, you know, they have a lot of airsoft guns out there.
Starting point is 00:44:03 Really? So, oh, my man, as a kid, I was like, the Matrix came out. I was like, I need all these. No, my brother had an airsoft gun. Yeah. And then, like, I remember bringing him back. The TSA was like, what is going on in your luggage? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:16 Well, didn't. I'm like, it's a prop. There was a, who can remember, but there was a guy that was killed. Was it the guy in the Walmart? He was, like, carrying an airsoft gun around. was a black guy in a walmart carrying an airsoft gun and they just shot him in the back no airsoft gun like there's been a few problems here too because they had to like orange tip even like the imports that were coming from japan because too many people like they have real very hyper basically very realistic weapons yeah realistic what's
Starting point is 00:44:43 crazy is like i think they you know they try and make airsoft guns look more threatening because it's, like, for the game, but it just makes it look like you have a fucking gun. Yeah. And I think in Japan, because you can't really get firearms that easily, like, there's just, like, this secondary, like, culture of being, like, we team up, we shoot our little plastic BBs and shit. Right. And we play, you know, dressed up.
Starting point is 00:45:02 Yeah. We don't need real bang bangs. Right, right. Seems fair. It dressed up yeah we don't need we don't need real bang bangs right right seems fair it seems like i don't know well how do you guys feel about guns what do you i mean i grew up i grew up around guns and responsible gun owners who like drilled into me to respect firearms yeah so on one hand i definitely definitely understand people who use guns and own guns and are responsible with them are like, yo, I'm not one of these people fucking it up. And then on the other hand, I see many people who are going to have a high probability of using guns violently. Right. For sure.
Starting point is 00:45:52 I think as like a first step. You can then figure out, I mean, I don't know how you could possibly dearm the country. Like that's just not going to happen. I don't think that's going to happen. Jack, how do you feel? From a theoretical perspective, I think the idea of gun ownership drastically overestimates how mentally stable humans are. I don't think people should be able to have guns at the ready. Guns are just out of our technology. You should be able to go down to a clubhouse and talk to somebody and be like, okay, here's why I want the gun.
Starting point is 00:46:26 Here's what I'm going to use it for. But to have it, just for suicide alone, people make rash decisions and end their life when if they had waited two minutes, they would have not ended their life. So I just don't think they should. We just got to press rewind. Yeah. Press rewind a little bit and go back to muskets. Practically speaking, I don't think there's anything we can do,
Starting point is 00:46:47 but from a theoretical perspective, that's where I stand. I don't think they should exist. Yeah, Pandora's box has been blown the fuck up. Especially when you read that stat, 400 times the weapons of the law enforcement. I don't know if you guys know this, but we have a pretty big military.
Starting point is 00:47:02 Yeah, I'm like, damn, still got it by 100 times? Yeah. It's always interesting to me when people compare how easy it is to get a gun in America than in other countries because America, as far as I know, is the only country within our charter. The right to own a gun is one of our founding values. I mean, we're a colony that rebelled, and we couldn't have rebelled unless we had a bunch of fucking guns and could shoot the government, you know? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:28 That was, like, how America became its own country. Mm-hmm. But I did not grow up with guns, like, I'm from California, you know? No, me too. I'm not from the country, and I didn't grow up with guns, I didn't know anybody who had a gun. Right. And then I moved to Texas, and everybody has five guns, and they were all their great-grandfathers you know right right and it was really interesting to see like you know
Starting point is 00:47:49 people that I would consider real normal like honestly not even people that were into hunting or anything like that um you know stuff that I'm not involved in hobbies that I don't have that involve guns just being like yeah you know like guns on the wall even. And it's like, so it was a, it was a real trip for me to see like how, how much guns are embedded in, in white American culture. Yeah. Particularly. And, you know, the idea that, that we should disarm everybody but the police is, is problematic to me because it's like, like I said, it's not that hard to become a police officer. So like if you if let's say it was like we passed strong gun control in America, which I don't again, I don't think is going to happen. But let's say we repeal the Second Amendment and everybody has to give their gun back.
Starting point is 00:48:35 And the only people that get to have a gun are the cops. Everyone that wants a gun is just going to become a cop, you know. Right. Again, it's not that fucking hard to become a cop. Like they'll just give you a gun you know people don't have guns the cops don't need guns that's the issue they can have tasers also be disarmed yeah no that's what i'm saying with the repeal of the second amendment yeah i mean in the uk and in like ireland like cops don't have guns well they do they just have like
Starting point is 00:48:59 there's like yo call there's like one constable richards right that thing there is a gun that you can get access to. But it's not like there's just rolling around. Well, recently, I mean, Japan was like that, too. And I see more and more people, the cops there have, you know, like little 38s on them. And it's not just about the availability of guns, but about the training. Because, like, police aren't, it's not just that police are armed. It's that they're trained to treat every situation like life or death.
Starting point is 00:49:23 Like life or death. Like it could turn super deadly at any time, which is why they're shooting people in the back. And, you know, seeing a guy pull out a cell phone and saying, well, that's probably a gun and shoot him, you know, 40 times. The most important book like for informing my position on guns is this book that has nothing to do with guns, but it's called like how the human mind works and it's like 90% of our like decision-making process happens in an unconscious part of our brain that we don't have access to. So like it's like you don't like nobody is as in control of their own thought process as they think they are.
Starting point is 00:49:58 A lot of the time we're just telling ourselves a story to explain like the shit that is coming out of the black box that is our unconscious mind. I got a gun in the black box. Right. Yeah, exactly. Manifested. All right. We're going to take another quick break.
Starting point is 00:50:13 We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks everywhere on the iHeartRadio app,
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Starting point is 00:54:23 They set up a nice folksy diner that was like from the 50s. The only thing that was missing was the whites only sign on the- And a roof. A little soda jerk bar and a roof. Yeah, they just like basically set up like a Disney style diner from the 1950s
Starting point is 00:54:41 in the middle of Times Square. Make America pops again. You should have seen it at like 6.45 in the morning. They were showing people sitting around tables or whatever. Everyone's bundled the fuck up because it's cold. Fucking freezing. And then they had those stainless steel malt cups in front of them. People drinking milkshakes at 6.45.
Starting point is 00:54:59 I love an ice cold milkshake at 6.45 in New York City. And people were so uncomfortable, but they like going around and be like, hey, we're just talking to the people, you know, getting some ideas. And man, they were doing a lot on Tuesday. I could, I was sort of, it was impressive what was going on. First up, you know, I think because in light of the terrorist attack in Christchurch, when attacks like this happen, the thoughts and prayers memes come out. And they're like, oh, it was good with your thoughts and prayers.
Starting point is 00:55:29 That's a good point. Did they, before they even started talking about, like, changing the gun laws, did they try thoughts and prayers? Well, you know, here's the thing. Like I said, they're backwards. They're going to pass the gun laws and then do thoughts and prayers. Might not work. laws and then might not work um so they had joel osteen on to again defend the power of prayer just listen to this whole thing we'll talk about it following a tragedy like the mosque attacks in new zealand our next guest explains why the power of prayer the prayer isn't about results it's about
Starting point is 00:56:00 an ongoing relationship with god and combating hate. So what do you make of people who say, you know what, in times of tragedy, like the horrific tragedy in New Zealand, if you pray, it doesn't achieve results, so what's the point? What advice do you give to people? You know, I believe it does achieve results. You know, when you pray, God gives you strength, he gives you peace, and, you know,
Starting point is 00:56:21 it moves the hands that I believe rule the world. So I believe that it is, you know, prayer. I've seen prayer in my own life, so I'm a believer in it. It's not about results. Right. It's about combating hate in an ongoing relationship. I'm sorry, is this a news channel still? Yeah, that's a news channel.
Starting point is 00:56:35 Are we talking about a news channel? This is a morning news show. We got Joel Osteen. Osteen. Osteen. The man who turned his back on people when they needed some shelter. Ola Steen. Osteen.
Starting point is 00:56:42 Osteen. The man who turned his back on people when they needed some shelter. On this morning news show, assuring viewers that prayer is not about the destination. It's about the journey. Exactly. Right. But also very disingenuous opening to that. Right.
Starting point is 00:57:03 The cynicism, like it's just a very cynical argument strategy where you assume the dumbest possible version of your opponent's argument. So you're like, well, when they say they don't want our thoughts and prayers, they're saying that God doesn't exist. Oh, that prayers don't work? Right. No, no, no. We're saying, sure, thoughts and prayers, but we need like substantive action legislation. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:21 No one's saying prayer doesn't make you feel better. Everybody agrees on that. Pray, meditate, and listen to the voice in your head telling you that you should change your fucking values. Fuck. I've never heard such fucking blasphemous bullshit in my life.
Starting point is 00:57:38 Again, but that's why they have those people on so they feel like they're unassailable. This man is an authority. Just watch the damn church channel. They have those people on so they feel like they're unassailable. Right. This man is an authority. Just watch the damn church channel. They have a channel. Yeah. Well, here, look.
Starting point is 00:57:49 That's not all they did. Okay. Then they got a whole group of wealthy white people together to just talk about kind of like- Again, finally. How powerful, like how Trump's just killing it with the economy and like- Absolutely. How like people on the left are really distracted or deflecting. Just listen to this one too.
Starting point is 00:58:07 When you have a booming economy and you have policies like lowering taxes and deregulating and all of these things being so successful to the American people and they can feel it, they can feel it in their pocketbooks. They can feel it at their dinner tables. How do Democrats say, you know what? No,
Starting point is 00:58:19 we want to flip all of that and do a one 80 and give you the exact opposite. How does that make any sense? Um, the way you run against it sadly put the coffee as you go after some of the more emotional issues right i mean you hear all the cries about racism etc that is exactly the tactics that they will use because i mean look yo welcome to my new store racismc., where we're horribly dismissive about real issues. We sit around all day and we just cry and cry about racism. I cannot, you know, somebody, people, every day I walk down the street, people are trying to give me money.
Starting point is 00:58:55 They say, my economy is booming. I am making so much money. Please take some. Please have a job. And I say, I cannot. I am too distracted by racism and emotional issues. Yeah. I have too much money racism and emotional issues. Yeah. I have too much monies, actually.
Starting point is 00:59:05 Yeah. But I'm also, again, it's a real, like, I think they were just trying to give their viewers, like, an update about, like, I know logic is telling you all these things are bad. Right. That you're hearing. Well, it's because they're, you know, I mean, I think it's because the left is making strides with old people who are a conservative grab bag you know
Starting point is 00:59:25 by saying uh wouldn't it be cool if you got medicare your whole life right you know if if people try to repeal social security or medicare which are the most popular social programs ever implemented in the u.s you know there's a lot of uh but bernie's campaign and is trying to compare him to fdr you know because they're trying to draw the Green New Deal is called the Green New Deal. You know, it's not called the Green New fucking Socialist Revolution. The Green Lit Plan. Yeah. The Green fucking Blaze. Like they're trying to like kind of rebrand the left as something that takes care of people and young people and old people, not surprisingly, are pretty into that idea of like getting shit for free and getting taken care of for the taxes you pay.
Starting point is 01:00:08 And so I think I mean, I really think conservatives are feeling that hit because their viewers are in their own polls saying that they support higher taxes on people who have more than 100 million dollars. And Fox News is like, oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. Yeah. And think about this. Like you said, it's gaining traction with young people, like millennials, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:28 But they had another whole fucking segment where they wanted to dismiss millennials because we're way too stressed out about dumb shit. Listen to this. What are a millennial, Miles? What are a millennial? What are, if you were born, what is it, 82 to 98 or something? Something like that. I'm going to say born pre-9-11.
Starting point is 01:00:50 I think anyone born after 9-11 is Gen Z. Okay. That's my definition. That's fine. I mean, look, if you know Michael Keaton as the original Batman, you're an old-ass millennial. That's how I look at it. Now, so this is them just bringing up a really wacky poll. I've not heard of the people who ran this poll, but this is them being like, millennials are way stressed out.
Starting point is 01:01:11 And listen to their list of things that stress millennials out. Okay. Listen to this. Number one, losing your wallet or credit card. Number two, arguing with a partner. Number three, the commute. Number four, losing a phone. Five, arriving late to work.
Starting point is 01:01:24 Six, slow Wi-Fi. Seven, phone battery dying. Eight, forgetting passwords, credit card fraud, or forgetting your phone charger. It's all about the smartphone. Without the smartphone, they're not so smart. That's right. So, I mean, look, it tells me that we live in the greatest country on the face of the planet. If this is my generation's biggest concerns, then we're doing good.
Starting point is 01:01:46 Yeah, it's not climate change or mounting debt or not being able to enter the workforce or upward mobility or things like that. Or, you know, trying to GoFundMe all your medical bills or, you know, not having a job or not having an education or being crushed with student debt. Or, you know, systemic racism. It's slow Wi-Fi. None of those things. It's slow Wi-Fi that I truly crave. Yeah. No, it's just, like, again, that was their attempt, I guess, to try and be like, and see.
Starting point is 01:02:10 I mean, look at the people who are even supporting this. Like, they're the snowflakes who get freaked out because they lost their wallet. Right, right, right. They don't even know it's really at stake. Yeah, somebody take his wallet and phone away and see how stressed he is. Oh, he would fall the fuck apart. They would all fall apart. Everybody has a damn smartphone.
Starting point is 01:02:23 Like, this is, we've got a rate of technology. Like Like I don't think, sometimes I don't really know if old people understand how much technology they are simply not aware of that Gen Z and millennials have to deal with all the time. Cause like we're the, we're the young people. We're the ones that have to give a shit when there's a new app, you know, like we have to deal with this shit. Old people just don't, don't know. And they're like, it's so stupid that they care about their smartphones. It's like, you can't get a job without a smartphone. Of course I care about my fucking smartphone.
Starting point is 01:02:48 But also I drive a lift. I think too, but then like try and, you know, frame this list as somehow being indicative of what the values are of millennials to be like dismissive of it or be like, I mean, like the guy was like,
Starting point is 01:03:01 I mean, look, this shows you were the greatest generation. I mean, the greatest country of all time. I mean, if my generation, this is what they're mad about. I mean, Trump's, I mean, Trump's doing a great job. Yeah, look, this shows you were the greatest generation. I mean, the greatest country of all time. I mean, if my generation, this is what they're mad about. I mean, Trump's doing a great job.
Starting point is 01:03:08 Yeah. Essentially is what they're all trying to say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm so confused by the story because the top two things are losing your wallet, which would apply to everyone. Literally everyone. And arguing with your partner, which would apply to everyone. But then they try to like after this.
Starting point is 01:03:23 They also say credit card fraud and then they just kind of dismiss it right yeah the fact that everyone's stressed out by credit card for like that's a real thing yeah and after that clip cut off one of them was like well i think the argument with your partner thing is actually about them using social media right because like they don't have actual values or like they it was very confusing if that was a real list we're talking to real millennials, eating ass would be on that list. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:47 Yeah. Everybody knows that. Yes. That's gospel for this generation. Rumor spread that you're bad at eating ass. Yeah. Number three, for sure.
Starting point is 01:03:55 Being defamed on Twitter by my cow. Yeah. That is my number one concern. That's right. I'm a pray for Fox and friends. Yeah. Having a fire tweet go unnoticed. My goodness.
Starting point is 01:04:07 Movie Pass. Why? They're back. I don't know why. I saw the headline. I'm like, why? Movie Pass is going to outlive us all. Movie Pass is stressing me out.
Starting point is 01:04:17 Somehow. Thank you. That should be on the list. Movie Pass giving me anxiety. We got a new list. Movie Pass, number one. Fire tweet not going viral, two. Eating ass.
Starting point is 01:04:27 Number three. Number three. Devin Nunez cow talking shit about me online, number four. Anyway, so like they're coming back and they're doing the thing that got everyone in love with them, which is the unlimited plan. You know, see a movie every day. It's up to you.
Starting point is 01:04:41 Do what you got to do. Do what you got to do to get through. Yeah, we don't know what happened because last time we checked, Jack, remember there was that article that they were basically running out of a broom closet. A dentist's office, yeah. Here's the cool thing about MoviePass is whenever you read about
Starting point is 01:04:56 MoviePass, the story has to start out with admitting that money is fake. It's like, so you know how money is fake? MoviePass is back. These credits? I bet you know how like money is fake right movie pass is back these credits i bet you wondered how movie pass makes money well they don't but they're also very rich it turns out money is fake essentially well here's the thing you know like when you look at it right so they're doing for a whole year you could do 119 and you get the whole year free okay or 1495 month to
Starting point is 01:05:21 month but they still haven't really given details of how they're gonna avoid all the fuck-ups that happened last time remember like they're like oh uh y'all can't watch mission impossible fallout like they were like top movies they're like but you can see god excuse me you can see goddy starring chan travolta which i watched on prime video oh did you it's the bomb oh wow drop the bomb nick please god you. It was terrible. Now, so they say, like in this article, Navy Club said, the details remain vague for now, but apparently there will be no limit on how many 2D movies you can see.
Starting point is 01:05:55 When it comes to what movies will be available, see, that's where it gets tricky. In Business Insider, they write that the new unlimited plan could place restrictions on subscribers' title choices based on their location, day of movie, time of movie, title, and the individual user's historical usage. Sounds pretty limited. Yeah, so suddenly it's like, yeah, unlimited. But here's some little catfacts.
Starting point is 01:06:13 Here's what we're going to take into account. So to me, this sounds like a last-ditch effort to get a few more suckers on board before the full-on death spiral goes down. Yeah, it seems like we already learned what we needed to know about MoviePass, which is they are an unsustainable business, and the only ways that they're going to be able
Starting point is 01:06:33 to convince people to invest in them is either fucking people over, like by limiting what they can actually see, or by selling your data. Booming economy. That's what we got. Exactly. Boom, boom we got. Exactly. Boom, boom, boom.
Starting point is 01:06:46 I want you in my room. This sell is just too hard. Right. I can see all the shitty movies I want except I can't see any of the shitty movies I want and I have to pay $100 at once? Yeah. Oh, right. Because then they were seeing-
Starting point is 01:06:58 This is a great deal. They were tracking like they know you're going to the theater and then like through GPS they can know like what businesses you go after and they can start really building a profile. I'm like, oh, these are the habits of a movie viewer. Any time a deal seems too good to be true, it is. Now it makes sense. Now it makes sense. They don't make money on the movies.
Starting point is 01:07:14 They make money on selling your data to other advertisers who track you via GPS and see what stuff you go to. Well, that makes a lot of sense. Who knows if they have enough? But see, I think they were doing that already, but they didn't have enough money to keep it going. No, exactly. Well, they got to just sell more data.
Starting point is 01:07:27 Yeah. You know, they got to sell it to the point that people find out. Hey, Google, holler at them. They've made some change on the backend that you're not immediately aware of, but that we'll eventually find out about it after you've signed up.
Starting point is 01:07:38 If you do sign up, that is incredibly invasive and fucks you over in some way. Like that's the only way that this is happening. Yeah. That or that highlight reel of movies that they were showing around. That was my favorite detail. When the journalist went, he was like, oh, here, like, you know, we're revamping, we're trying to do MoviePass 2.0.
Starting point is 01:07:59 He's like, yo, show them the video real quick. And it was just this montage of just, like, moments from film, no explanation it's like dude remember titanic dude remember king of the world remember matrix and they're just like these like empty moments are these movies on movie pass no it's like oh just like to be like remember cinema movies are great yeah exactly movies are sick remember movies was there hey so can i sign you up man you got 20 million 20 million or what? They're like, what? Okay.
Starting point is 01:08:27 Do you guys remember that? Remember when Trump came out with an action movie trailer about him and Kim Jong-un? Yes. Boy, time really flies. Time really flies. You know, it hasn't even been a fucking year
Starting point is 01:08:36 since that shit went down because that was in May, I think, of last year. I mean, it was, people were talking about it for maybe two, three days. That can't be true. No, it's true.
Starting point is 01:08:44 What do you mean? That was less than a year ago? The Singapore thing was in May. That seems like that was in my 20s. Yeah. Yeah, back in 2010. It all seems like it was in our 20s, Jack. Yeah, just the other day.
Starting point is 01:08:56 Oh, boy. Shit. Time, huh? Let's check in with some good old-fashioned scammers, guys. Do you guys remember the GoFundMe homeless scam? Oh, certainly. Oh, yeah, where the woman was like, I was stranded on the roadside.
Starting point is 01:09:09 Homeless guy gave me money. Homeless man came up and was like, yo, it's too dangerous out here. Let me go walk this gas canister and fill it up for you with my last couple bucks. And she posted that story.
Starting point is 01:09:20 That's the one we're talking about? Yeah, yeah, that's the one. Okay. And then they were like, GoFundMe for Johnny. He's a homeless guy, but he's one of the good ones. Right. And we would like to give him some money.
Starting point is 01:09:29 And everyone was like, yes. They raised over $250,000 from that. And then it got messy. And now Johnny is still poor. Sorry. Yeah. No, what was wild is essentially that was a scam where they're like, okay, let's set up this little moment. So was the guy in on the scam? They were in on it. No, what was wild is essentially that was a scam where they're like, okay, let's set up this little moment.
Starting point is 01:09:45 So was the guy in on the scam? They were in on it. So it was this woman, her boyfriend, and the dude who was like the good Samaritan, quote unquote. Oh, my God. And they put him up to be like, look at this man. He was so selfless. They're like, let's give him some money to get him back on his feet. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:09:57 Over $250K. So how'd they split it? No, see, that's the thing. They were sitting on it, and there was a dispute where the dude was like, yo, they're not giving me the money. And they were like, oh, we're afraid he's going to use it for drugs, so we're doling it out to him. But really, they were all in on it. And then he started blowing up the whole scam, being like,
Starting point is 01:10:14 yo, y'all just bought a new BMW. Like, what is this? Also, this was a scam. Right. And then also, it had to be like, yo, God, you're going to make me do it. Because if I can't get this money, then I'm just going to make this whole thing go down. You can't go in on a scam with someone and immediately fuck them over while people are still looking at you. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:10:31 Come on. That is, and now they're going to prison. Yeah. Is why we're talking about it. Well, yeah, because they have now had to plead guilty in court to conspiracy. So the man, his name is Johnny Bobbitt. Damn. Great last name.
Starting point is 01:10:43 That name is just making waves. Yeah, John Bobbitt. Damn. Great last name. That name is just making waves. Yeah, John Bobbitt. They're crushing it. Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. And then the woman behind it, Caitlin McClure, she pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. And they could see some 10, 20 years. 20 years for her, 10 years for him, respectively.
Starting point is 01:11:03 That's pretty wild. All for, yeah, because people want, that's the thing, you know, when you want to exploit people's, you know. I admire the hustle. I mean, that's, they're just, they're out here. They figured out a little thing to exploit. They should have figured out how to do it
Starting point is 01:11:18 I'm just glad that all of the shareholders of GoFundMe are making a sweet little 5% off of all of this scamming. They're like, how much do you want to give GoFundMe? Do you want to give 10? Do you want to give 5? Yeah, yeah. Just give more. It's for a good cause.
Starting point is 01:11:30 One of the hosts of Pod Save America is a shareholder in GoFundMe. He's one of the big investors in GoFundMe, which is really great because one third of GoFundMe is medical bills. And he's like, so I'm not totally sure about Medicare for all. What about Medicare for some? And everyone's like, you make money off people not having medical bills. And he's like, so I'm not totally sure about Medicare for all. What about Medicare for some? And everyone's like, you, you make money off people not having medical care and like straight up
Starting point is 01:11:50 crowdfunding. Right. Interesting. Oh, Dan Pfeiffer. Oh, so he was VP of GoFundMe. Was he really?
Starting point is 01:12:00 Until 2017. Dan Pfeiffer? Yeah. And then now he continues to have a financial stake in the company. I think. I have to look into this more. He does. Based off of just cursory research. Alright, Dan. GoFundMe is not, you know,
Starting point is 01:12:14 it works for some and they made, what was it, $52 billion last year? GoFundMe raised $52 billion. That's a lot of money. Yeah. So yeah, it's always a fun like, that's always a fun like that's always a fun point in the like uh you know how would we pay for like medicare for everybody how are we gonna pay for it it's like people are already fucking paying for it they're just doing it
Starting point is 01:12:33 through gofundme and giving dan five or five percent right oh dan oh dan yeah it's because they are i mean from the last few times i heard them talk about single-payer stuff to like push them back they're pushing well because when it was when it was just like a, you know, kind of a fringe issue, they were like, I don't know. And now like Kamala Harris is on board with it and stuff. And they're like, maybe they kind of they'll push for it sometimes. But then, you know, they've got their reasons for not like health insurance lobbyists affect every politician, not just Republican politicians.
Starting point is 01:13:04 Yeah. Some of them are., not just Republican politicians. Yeah. Some of them are. Some of them aren't. Yeah. It's a shame, too, because, man, there's so many times like GoFundMe, like it's a good place to actually help people. But it's like anything here. You caring is the same.
Starting point is 01:13:15 And, you know, there's like a bunch of funding sites like that. And it's like, yeah, there is the aspect of when you give the money to GoFundMe, you're trying to give money to your friend or your friend's dog or whatever the fuck, you know, like somebody who you think deserves it. You're not like trying to give money to the guy who made a website where they push money around. Someone who will wisely invest it like your friend's dog. Boom.
Starting point is 01:13:35 There you go. Sorry, June, it's been a pleasure having you, as always. It's been lovely being on the show, always. Where can people find you? People can find me on Instagram at HeySorryJune or you can go to HighPriestessComedy.com if you want to come to my comedy show in Los Angeles. It's Saturday, March 23rd at 8 p.m.
Starting point is 01:13:51 HighPriestessComedy.com. There you go. It's a great show. It's going to be super fun. High. Get high. Even. And then get your tarot read.
Starting point is 01:13:57 Oh, High Priestess. Or just hang out. Yeah, I get it. Is there a tweet or any active social media you've been enjoying? I'll just do two tweets. But is there a tweet or any active social media you've been enjoying? I'll just do two tweets. Both of them are from Raghav Mehta, who was a New York comedian who died this week. Not a personal friend of mine, friends with many of my friends.
Starting point is 01:14:16 Very big hit to the scene. And I just want to read two of his tweets. One, and this was his last tweet. Okay, but how do we know Penis CK isn't just a Martin Urbano character? That one goes out to Raghav Mehta. And the other Raghav tweet I really enjoyed is Nancy Pelosi
Starting point is 01:14:30 is Lena Dunham of Congress. Fucking cold. So that's my little RIP for a very valuable part of the New York comedy scene who is sadly no longer with us. God damn. Sorry to go out on a low note,
Starting point is 01:14:44 but his handle is at ACLU official, which funny baby still funny that's amazing uh miles where can people find you find me follow me on twitter and instagram at miles of gray um there was a tweet i liked it was sort of a reply to another tweet from the q anon anonymous podcast um where they talked about how there was a New York crime boss, Frank Calley, who was shot and killed in Staten Island. Last week, this dude at his
Starting point is 01:15:14 arraignment, he held up his hand and he had QAnon shit written on his hand. The guy who shot the mob boss. The guy who killed the mob boss. Outside of his front door. People were like, what's what's the motive here like because this isn't like a normal gangland anyway turn around and showed his ass that it was a pizza well anyway so that that story's still kind of ongoing but this reply
Starting point is 01:15:34 underneath someone just goes tags marvel goes hey at marvel i'd like to pitch a new series where the punisher spends 11 hours a day watching youtube videos. Oh, too real. And then this is from Chip Hinkleman, you know, who writes for Mike Huckabee. Or, you know, that's what he says. Mike Huckabee? But it's like a joke account. Anyway, but at Chip Hinkleman says, My office is inundated on a daily basis with dozens of renderings of Mike Huckabee in every position of a human centipede.
Starting point is 01:16:01 Unlike at Devin Nunes, we've decided not to take legal action and instead double down on our core mission to create wildly inventive A-plus goofs and gags. Sorry, Chip Hinkleman. That's really good. Great comedy writer for a great comedian. Oh, and also,
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