The Daily Zeitgeist - SOTU: Tiffany Trump Gets It White, Millennials Killing Inequality Industry 2.6.19

Episode Date: February 6, 2019

In episode 324, Jack and Miles are joined by Billy Wayne Davis to discuss some internet ads coming up, Google searches from different VPN's around the world, Trump's State Of The Union, federal prosecutors looking into Trump's inauguration committee, more Howard Schultz crap, Fox News hosts being surprised that people would want to tax the rich, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. You sent me on a Google Search experiment. Same term in different countries (VPN is my entertainment saviour in Australia). “Watch people die” features but changes position…2. Guest list: Here’s who you’ll see at the State of the Union3. Trump's State of the Union address4. New York prosecutors seek records from Trump inauguration committee: Sources5. Federal prosecutors subpoena Trump inaugural committee6. Trump’s Inauguration Paid Trump’s Company — With Ivanka in the Middle7. Tiffany Trump wears white, the color chosen by Democrats as a political statement, at State of the Union8. Socially Liberal, Fiscally Conservative Voters Preferred Trump In 20169. Fox News Hosts Are Horrified to Learn Their Own Polls Show People Want to Tax the Rich10. WATCH: K, Le Maestro - Hatin On Me?! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar. Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 68 68 episode 3 of your daily zeitgeist the podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness it's wednesday february 6 2019 my name is jack o'brien aka he is jack o'brien no he is miles gray listen to Daily Zeitgeist every day. That was courtesy of Hannah Soltis, and I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. That is right. It's me, Miles Gray, a.k.a. Miles Piles of Scrabble Tiles Gray.

And shout out to the Riesmeister, Rich Ramey. He said, I just laughed laughed so it must be funny you know, I didn't think it was funny but I wanted to indulge you because you did and there's nothing better than laughing at yourself and my AKA was actually from at Jessica Hill but I'm just so

disappointed in Hannah Soltis for not coming up with it try harder Hannah and thank you Jay Hill. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious comedian and new father, Mr. Billy Wayne Davis. Oh.

Good morning. Wait, you had a child? Yeah. Oh, cool. I had one before, and now I have another one. Right. New father. I'm playing I Know About Billy's Life.

I messaged him. Yeah. For people who are concerned about our relationship. No, it's nice. new father I'm playing I know about Billy's life I messaged him yeah for people who are concerned about our relationship no it's nice um yeah I'm I've done that thing

where I've slept three hours at a time here and there for like four five days you have no idea what day it is it yeah

no I did have to ask when I got here I was like oh okay right and I also uh you know you get diarrhea

from just being awake? Sleep deprivation? Yeah. Yeah, your body just starts, like certain functions just start breaking down. I thought I was, like I got a flu shot, so there's like a, yesterday, I mean that's also how tired I am. I was like, I think I'm getting the flu. And then someone was like, I just think you need to take care of your body. So I was like, oh, that's probably the whole thing.

of your body. I was like, oh, that's probably the whole thing. Also, that's what, I also learned that's what Navy SEALs,

the first two days of Hell Week, they just give them a newborn. Is that true? And they all start ringing the bell. Yeah.

They're like, yo, I'm out of this buds class, bro. Nope. Thought we were gonna blow some shit up. So your new baby

was born on Friday. Congratulations, man. Friday night, yes. We're very happy for you guys. And is your child Zeitgang? Yes. That's the most important thing. Alright, man, we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna

tell our listeners what we're talking about today. It is the State of the Union special. We're gonna talk about not that at first, and then we're gonna talk about that that at first and then we're gonna talk about that uh but first billy wayne we like to ask our guest what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are let's just see right now let's see oh here we go defective ryobi batteries oh what you got a ryobi drill or something yeah and then well they those batteries

go out after a while. And I was like... The rechargeable ones? Yeah, and I just looked up, and you can fix them yourself. So that's what I'm going to do once I get some sleep. What have you been working on? That batteries went out. I was reorganizing my shop, and I was like, these don't work.

And that made me mad. Is that a good brand of power tool? It's an affordable brand, and it's bright green. Yeah, yeah, I know. They're like neon green. It reminds me you need to be careful with these. I feel like people are going to hop in the men's and be like, nah, man, you want a Makita.

I think, yeah, no, I'm sure that it's like the lesser brand. Yeah, well, because it's also the one that's like so cheap. I'm always like, yeah, maybe I should get this leaf blower. I have one. I have one. The battery-powered one? And it works fine. Great, yeah. Right. I have one. I have one. The battery powered one? And it works fine. Great, yeah.

Exactly. That is their trademark, right? Yes, yes. And it's for how often I use it. It's like it does the job. I'm not a professional, but it clears the grass. You're not starting a business

with their tools. Yes, it is fine. What is something you think is underrated? Oh, the North Mississippi All-Stars, which is... Is that a band? Yes, and I happen to be opening for them Thursday at the Roxy. Okay.

Oh, look at you. I think Luther Dickinson is one of the most underrated guitarists of all time. So what's their style? It's blues. They're from Mississippi. Two white boys. How many All-Stars? Just two of them?

The band's usually a three piece But it's two brothers Oh okay A drummer and a lead guitarist And it is It's special what they do Oh Yeah

You smiled as you said Yeah You really thought about it It is really special Yeah So It's always fun when they're like I don't even

Talk about price When they're like Hey we're gonna be Do you wanna I'm like yep Yep It's like a free show Right

They're like Yeah give him his hat So check them out Yeah they're like, hey, we're going to be, do you want to? I'm like, yep. Yep. It's like a free show. Right. They're like, yeah, give him his hat. So check them out. Yeah, they're amazing. What makes them different? Like, because I can, I'm looking at you and you're like, you have a good feeling about this band. What is so different about them that you're like, hmm? They're, I mean, they're just two dudes that really like blues music.

And you can tell. And it, that's what they play. And they play it really really really well are they from mississippi yeah their dad was a famous musician so their dad was like a producer and blues producer so they it's in them gotcha but when like i took my yeah i took my dad open for him in san francisco last year a couple years ago and i took my dad you know he's grew up in the 70s i was like he's gonna dig these guys and they started playing

and he was like, holy shit. Oh, wow. Yeah, so I was like, yeah. Speaking of all-stars, Purple Ribbon All-Stars

Kryptonite, I'm on it, is a great song that people should check out. I'm gonna throw my own underrated in there. I, I, I, I, I be on it. On it, on it.

That was what Big Boy came out to. i thought he was about to perform one of my uh favorite uh little known rap songs and then they had like exactly three seconds of that song and then went on to was just i i i i be on it on that man i'll be on it all day straight up and if you want me you can find me in the, hey, I'm on it. No, not even that. No, it wasn't. It was just enough.

It was literally three seconds. Okay, well. Did you think Andre was going to come out? That would have been amazing. Didn't you just keep, I was like, just do it. He's probably just too principled. He's like, nah, I don't want to be allowed to do that. I was just hoping for more than one verse from Big Boy, and that was.

Yeah, you still. They kept going back to Levine. You've been talking about this for a few days now. I'm not giving. Yeah. I was hoping for more than one verse from Big Boy. And that was asking for too much. You've been talking about this for a few days now. Yeah. Well, don't give that dream up. My theory, too, is they didn't realize that Travis Scott was a black guy. Because there's these old heads. They're like, who's this Travis Scott?

We've got Adam Levine. That sounds fantastic. And then this Travis Scott. That sounds like a Levine. That sounds fantastic. And then this Travis Scott. That sounds like a good kid. Yeah. We'll just let the- Travis Scott played lacrosse with my son. He's that country singer, right, with the long hair.

Now that's Travis Tritt. Right. Close enough. Must be similar. Why were there two raps? What is something you think is overrated? The NFL brass. Oh, come on, man.

I just think they're getting sloppy, and it feels like it's not even more than the NFL. I feel like there's a power transparency here. Right. That is weird right now. Where it used to be like you had to really look for what they were doing. Right. And now it's very transparent.

Right. No one's hiding it in a way, which is concerning. Right. That they just completely blackballed Colin Kaepernick and like weren't really trying to hide it. Yeah. And then had Roger Goodell go out

with famous civil rights leaders to be like, look guys., guys. Look, guys. I'm woke. Deeply uncomfortable watching that. Yeah. And I mean, when are white people going to realize this is my black friend thing not going to work as a defense? Right.

But it's always deployed every time. It worked for so long. Maybe it convinces white people. Right. Yeah. They're not trying to convince white people. Because people are like, okay. He's a good white, right?

He's a good white? He's one of those good whites. We all agree. Yeah, okay, Roger. Roger that. Roger Goodell is Satan. Oh my. Except Satan would be better at it, probably.

So he's just incompetent. Satan would let them do performance enhancing drugs. The New Orleans thing too. Right. Oh, yeah. That call was just, come on. You know what I mean? I don't like being that person and be like, hey, some of this stuff is rigged.

I don't like that. I don't like having to think that way. Yeah. But it's very clear when it happens that way. Right. Well, after Katrina, they won the Super Bowl and then on 9-11 after that year New England Patriots won the, you know what I mean?

And then the, it's just. Were the Saints that year not good? Like was there a conspiracy? They were fine, but do you know what I mean? It's like they haven't been good in a long time. Sure, sure, sure. But I think, I mean you can't be that terrible and fall backwards into the Super Bowl. No, I understand that.

Yeah, yeah. But what's funny, though, when Jack and I were at the airport when that Saints-Rams game happened, and when that call got blown, I looked at him and go, yeah, watch this. The fucking Rams are going to win and end up going to the Super Bowl off that shit. Yep. Sure enough. Anyway. What is a myth, Billy Wayne?

The X marks the spot. Yeah. Usually X is a trap. Wow. Huh. I haven't slept in a while, you guys. No example needed, I don't think. It's the trap.

X marks the trap. Thank you. That's what they should be saying. Right. Which I think is a 2 James line, too. All right, guys. Let's talk about what's going on. We are recording super late at night because we stuck around in the

Zeit cave to watch the State of the Union address and the rebuttal. Also watched the pre-buttle. The pre-buttle. The pre-pre. But before we get to that, there are just two images. We spent a lot of time also in the office just looking at bullshit on the internet. So one of the promoted stories that caught my attention, not enough to click on it, mind you, but the headline was- Wait, what website was this first?

I forget. i think it might have been 538 right okay yeah it was just like one of those tabula things ads by rev right content it's like at the bottom of a blog you're at and being like we're gonna try and pretend this is an article right and it says even doctors are concerned about baron trump's iq which is very strange it's the construction that's really interesting to me that makes me think even scientists don't understand this weight loss tip right exactly it's just like an algorithmic construction of like this expert group can't believe this or like these three child stars have changed yeah you won't believe number two yeah

and then the uh there was this weird Escher drawing thing on the front of Drudge Report all day where he screen capped the front page of Drudge because it said Teflon Donald. And he's like, yeah, that's right. And he screen capped that and tweeted it out. And then Drudge tweeted a screen cap of that. So the front page of Drudge Report looked like an optical illusion.

It was so fucking weird. You too have not slept for a long time. Yeah. Well, it looks like, yeah, Drudge-ception is what's happening there. The right and the president, I think, were feeling themselves again heading into this state of the union was the vibe I was getting. I'm kind of still curious about the baron trump thing like what that like article was about is there a uh a working theory are people like he has something wrong with him or is that is there like a not that i've

heard of theory out there gosh do i go to uh message boards on that subject every once in a while maybe you know by accident only and then I also wanted to give people a window into what the zeitgang is out here doing the watch P challenge guest Danny Fernandez talked about how if you type watch P into your search engine, into Google, the third top result, like auto complete is watch people die. And hers was first. Hers was first.

That's what she was like, whoa, right. The fuck is this? Yeah. Yeah. So a member of the Zeit gang used a VPN to change different locations to make the internet think they were in Australia or the UK. And it was like Watch People Die was, I think, fifth in Australia and seventh in the UK, third in California, and then first in Afghanistan.

I think everybody's just trying to watch people die, really. Right. In general. It's just a good window into who we are as a people. Well, I mean, look at what Netflix puts out. It's all serial killer stuff, and it's all that. Right. I mean, there's a whole channel called the ID channel.

Right. Which is just like murder. How do we ID this body? This time it was a different person that did murder. Right. All right, I'll watch it. Yeah. It's just interesting that people are that straightforward about it, that they're like, I want to watch people die.

Well, Faces of Death, do you guys remember that? Yeah. The VHS? I remember being 15 and renting Faces of Death. Oh, yeah, yeah. Me and my friend, the Secret Service agent, actually. Oh, yeah. Wow, you're gonna put that out there?

Okay, cool. Well, he knows. Okay. I mean, he knows he's in the Secret Service. Yes, and he's my buddy, so it's fine. And I've talked about it on stage, I think, too. But we watched Faces like we were 15, and I remember eating pizza as it started,

and then us having to stop the VHS to finish the pizza because we were like, oh, this is like a real thing. Yeah. It was weird that that was just some shit you could rent at a store, but I guess because it was fake. No, it wasn't fake. Yeah, it was fake. Faces of Death was fake.

It was fake. Oh, come on. Turns out. All of it? Yeah, I think all it was fake. Faces of Death was fake. It was fake. Oh, come on. Turns out. All of it? Yeah, I think all of it. How is all of it fake? I think it was. I don't know.

I was surprised, too. I thought for sure that it was... My core is shattered a little bit. You thought you had watched that many people die. I can still see some of the images from that. Right. Yeah, I can still see some of the images from that right yeah I can too that was some of the more formative experiences of my young life was watching which which are the ones that stick out to you might I mean and this is messed up but this is my dark

sense humor my favorite one is there's like a sorority one sorority fraternity people partying and they're gonna do a uh bungee jump i could do it yourself bungee jump off the building yeah but they forget that some buildings don't they remove the 13th floor oh so they're like we have exactly 13 stories worth of thing or whatever and then they they jump off and it's like and to me it's so funny because they're all like, yay, woo! And then you hear the guy jump, and everybody goes crazy, and then whack. And then you just hear, wah! And I remember us all laughing because we're like, that's so stupid.

But that is almost too perfect to be. I know. As I think of it now, yeah, it does seem fake as hell, but it was very funny. They say 40% is fake. There is some genuine footage. Oh, really? Yeah, well, there's a couple where it's just in the street. It's like a surveillance camera or like an ambulance hitting another, like a person crossing the street or something like that.

Right. Although I'm told that not all surveillance footage that you find online is authentic. He had a bad problem. Who is telling you all this stuff? You see the surveillance footage that you find online is authentic. He had a bad problem. Who is telling you all this stuff? You've seen the surveillance footage, man? Fucking Sasquatch. That's like a whole genre of faked videos.

Oh, yeah. Watch this person trying to clean a bar, and they fall through the window. Just like with the fake viral thing really hit offensive peak levels when Kimmel did the fake wall twerk one where she knocked the candle over and her apartment caught fire. Right, right. Oh, wow. That's when people were still, I think that's when in the mainstream people were like, wait, some people fake these videos for attention. Yeah, I worked on it.

I wrote for Ridiculousness for like like a season and that was a big problem wow which episode I don't remember oh man that's some good jokes man some yeah right um it was a lot of fun um a lot of fun because those writing sessions are a real nightmare because it's you can only say so many things about people falling down right because it's just a video of another person falling down is that the writer's room they're just like all right let's just a video of another person falling down. Is that the writers room? They're just like, all right, let's just pitch some stuff about this one. It's like what Rob would say. Right. But that was a problem they had on that show

was like they would have to scrutinize these videos. Right. Because at first they're like, you wouldn't believe how many of them are actually fake. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're like, that's an odd thing to think about. It's like most of them

aren't accidents most of these just jackasses like let's let's do a fake accident right right right right and then they do it and then they're like where's the money yeah exactly that's the that's the thing that never the people in rights and clearances at mtv offered us 500 blanket license in perpetuity across the universe poor anybody who ever tried to get paid by MTV. Me included. Yes. Yeah, that is not a good... Literally poor them.

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He's on the side of the children. He's against it. He's against the cancer with the children. Yeah. I mean, those were the main ones. Yeah. I mean, before we kind of really wrap our heads around that majestic thing, we should just mention that Kamal Harris had a pre-buttle. Right. Which was a little bit dry.

A little dry. Felt very rehearsed. Yeah, she looked like she could have used a couple sips of water. We're such bitches. We are fucking catty. And then, yeah, the State of the Union rolled along and, yeah, it really was one of those things where it was like, if you really

have no achievements to point to and you have no actual agenda going forward, just look at the past and point at things that we can all agree are nice and things that some can agree are bad. Right. It rolled along like a square-wheeled wagon. Right. It's just like, boom, boom, boom, boom.

It's clunky. What are you doing? That was my favorite part was watching even the GOP's faces a couple times. Like, on that side, where even they were like, I don't know what he's saying. Right. I don't. I mean, we should clap, I'm sure, for the loyalty part. Right.

They're like, it's fucking 1030. This is our guy, isn't it? Right. I guess this is kind of what he did at his first State of the Union is it was like a more pleasant speech than we're used to getting from him. Than we were used to, and he was on prompter, but he used that. I remember last year we talked about it was his menagerie of freaky immigrants. Right.

And it was all about trying to show all of the horrors of, whether it was North Korea, it was like the parents of like Otto Warmbier were there. Then it would be like a family who had a relative killed by an immigrant or something. And it was still kind of the same this year too. He had one of those, but that might actually be a record low for him. Like per minute of speech given, he only talked about one person murdered by an illegal

immigrant. Yeah. That's- Yeah. I guess that shows restraint. Yeah, that's a new low. I was a little disappointed, though, because, you know, the guest lists were something a lot of people were talking about. Like, a lot of the members of Congress were bringing someone along with them, usually as some kind of, you know, to send a message, to make a statement.

I think Chuck Schumer asked an air traffic controller to come. Schumer asked an air traffic controller to come. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had the activist Ana Maria Archila, who was one of the women who confronted Jeff Flake in the elevator during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. And then it kind of turned into every sort of person brought someone that either helped them look better or showed like that they're want that they achieve stuff like Cory Booker brought someone who like basically benefited from the criminal justice reform bill he passed, which is great. But again, he's running for president.

So he's like, and like, look at this guy that my work has helped. And which is, you know, that's your prerogative to bring who you want to bring. But my favorite, one of my favorites, like like on the right there were some people who just brought like real vanilla kind of guests like oh this is a a woman who has like a code company for like stem programs to like get young girls and women involved in stem programs right uh i forget someone from arizona she brought a 19 year old rapper was missing his job but was like a good advocate for child hospitals yeah it was almost like now that democrats have become like more authentically diverse the republicans immediately assumed the mantle of doing the completely empty gesture towards wokeness right like uh we brought

well it's like corporation right it's the same thing. That's who it is, is doing that. It's like the Super Bowl commercials. Right. Then instead of commercials, it was politicians bringing like that commercial next to them and being like, look at, it was to me, and I think I said this when we were watching it, it was like, it bothers me how clearly theater it is now. Yes. Where it used to be there was some kind of order and ritual, for lack of a better word,

to what it was and, hey, this is what we're doing as a country. And now everyone's playing to the media, for sure. Everyone's playing to the camera. It's just purely theatrics. So there's not, it's the politics of it. We didn't watch politics just then. We just purely theatrics so there's not it's the politics of it aren't we didn't watch politics just then we just watched theatrics right he and speaking of theatrics he did seem to be taking some details from like obama era democrats where he was saying

i think he specifically said uh victory is not winning for our party victory is winning for our country and you know that he wants to like have more bipartisanship and work together and but then he also uh said that you know he would work with the democrats if they stopped investigating him. Which is like a wild... That's a move my nine-year-old makes. Right, yes. He's like, hey, I'll do my homework if you give me ice cream. And you're like, nope, you're just going to do your homework. How about this instead?

Win-win, I think, for you. One of my favorite guests, I'm really surprised we never got to see this in the crowd. Right. Joshua? Well, no, we never got to see this in the crowd. Right. Joshua? Well, no. We'll get to Joshua in a second. Okay.

But speaking of white people having black guests to align themselves to seem less racist, who do you think Steve King brought from Iowa? Oh, I'm going to leave right now. The racist Nazi, very uncomfortable. I'm telling you, Billy, when I tell you, you will know who he invited. Like, this is not, this is not an abstract thing. Imagine someone in that world who would be willing to go with Steve King, person of color.

I'm glad. Oh, no. Go ahead. Diamond and Silk. I'm sorry, Miles. Only Diamond was able to go because Steve King can only get one ticket. One guest. So he made them do a fucking coin toss.

Right. To see which. And diamond one. So, yeah. It's just the emptiest of ways to protect yourself against claims of racism. You're a racist. Everybody knows it. Right.

And then like, here we go. Get the two. Your platform is I'm a racist. Right. That's the weirdest part I don't understand of like, Yeah. That move. Right. Right, right, right.

His racist supporters are gonna be like, what the fuck is this? And I understand like what this, the way this sentence I'm about to say starts, but let me finish it. It's like, if you're gonna be a racist, be a racist. Right. If that's your platform right don't be a

cowardly race that's it that's the thing yes yeah well you know the optics of of that i think he must have thought well my my re-election is in the bag yeah i think well i think he or this is a sign that he's like okay the trump way is like working, or at least the people around him have jujitsu'd him enough to be like, okay, we've got him to come around to this idea of at least paying lip service to the idea of bipartisanship, but they can't actually make him do anything that is in any way compromising. Do you want to keep your power?

And he'll be like, yeah, that's my favorite thing. that is in any way compromising. Do you want to keep your power? Right. And he'll be like, yeah, that's my favorite thing. And then they're like, well, you got to sit next to this black fella. And he was like, gah. Right. Okay. Shout out to whoever the pastor was in the front row who was leant all the way back with ankles crossed.

Fully reclined. And literally just sucking his teeth. I'm not a body language expert, but he has clearly said this is some bullshit. Right. One of the most entertaining things to watch in the background. But like he also paid lip service to, you know, pre-existing conditions, you know, like the things that the Democrats ran against him on and won on. And he's like, OK, I will take that. Right.

But all he has done his entire administration is to work towards you know fucking people over yeah eliminating those pre-existing conditions um the other thing yeah like when he also pointed to the fact that like the record number of women in congress it's like yeah off the back of your shitty like your presidency has motivated people in this country in such a way and And he was acting like he achieved something. That's pure. Rather than people got in there in opposition to him. Well, I think what happened was, didn't he say something about women employment being at an all-time high?

He said that at first, and then he pivoted to Congress. Oh, okay, got it. And the Democratic women were like, that's us? They were all looking on the right side of the chamber like, I don't wear the women on your show. But that's like the pure narcissist in him. Right. Where it's like no matter what, even if it's a negative consequence of his action, it's like, look what I did for them, though.

I did that because of my dumb. He's like, you started going to the doctor because I gave you herpes. That's exactly. And that's how you figured out you had athlete's foot. So what's good? And in that way i saved you exactly uh and the way drudge covered that interaction was trump winning over democrats with job gains for women uh so he just took a screen cap of the standing oh yeah and was like he's won over the Democrats. Because the narrative, again, we've talked about how the right goes into just events with a narrative they want to project.

They went into the Super Bowl with a narrative that it was going to be a woke fest that was going to offend them and take a side against them as red-blooded Americans. It didn't happen. They still wrote the articles. Well, this, I think they wanted, they had the idea because the White House said going into the State of the Union, this was going to be him taking a conciliatory, like uniting all American stance and they're just finding ways to portray it that way. And yeah, he also, again,

like threatened them to stop investigating him, said that he, we would definitely be in a bloody, bloody war with North Korea if he had not been elected president of the United States. He got some genuine laughs. He got laughs. That was a laugh line. Genuine laughs. I believe it.

Even Homeboy, who had the eye patch, who's a Republican congressman who had that thing with Pete Davidson, he was even smirking after that one like, okay, my man. My favorite is just the generals. That's how disciplined they are as human beings, just staring at that man. Yeah, well, because they can't have any politically motivated stances or whatever. So I guess the other side of that is like, I literally have to go in and shut my brain off for 90 minutes. Thank you, boot camp.

Although there were many moments where you could tell he was having some weird takes about military and things like that. And I was like, I think they're grinding their teeth. Oh, yeah. Without a doubt. Yeah. Trump did specifically say America will never be a socialist country, and that got the biggest like, hoorah, like from the right and all the mostly men on the right side. You know, amongst the guests, there was Joshua Trump, I think was his name, a young boy who was being bullied for his last name.

a young boy who was being bullied for his last name, I was hoping that Donald Trump would, you know, acknowledge him to get the attention of the house, of the chamber, to be like, and this boy, I know I just talked about people who have survived things like war or the, you know, police officer was shot during the synagogue shooting or someone who escaped a concentration camp,

but let me point you to this young boy here in school who's getting bullied because his name is Trump. Luckily, he didn't do that. I wonder if that got struck from the script. That does not compute for him. I'm sure he struck that from the script because everybody loves him in his version of events. There's the media and their version where people hate him,

but that's not the truth. So it completely punctures his reality that a kid would be actually bullied. Actually bullied. Because he just thinks the media hates him because they just have to play science. Well, he sees getting bullied as weakness, too. So he doesn't want, he's like, well, I don't want this pussy-ass kid here. Right, right. It's a stand-in.

It's just like some big dude. It's like, and this young man, can you believe he's getting bullied? Yeah. And then also, quickly, Buzz Aldrin. He had a lot of bracelets on. I was not ready for that. Buzz Aldrin looks like he got real Santa

fade out. Yeah, he did. He looks like he, yeah, like they tried to keep him sane at Los Alamos. Like, we'll keep a watch on him. This guy's a nut. Yeah. He just got loose and he's like, I bought a bunch of bracelets and so on. I punched a guy who said something about the moon landing.

I believe the over-under for number of bracelets that he was going to be wearing was zero. And he had like 15 bracelets. But I had to Google because some people were like, can we talk about his thumbs? His thumbs are so big. Yeah, look, this guy's been to the moon. Let's not be in awe of his hands.

Right. But when I'm looking at pictures, he's been rocking the bracelet look for at least a few years now. He watched Pirates of the Caribbean and he's like, I got this shit. Right. Can you imagine? He's like, this Jack Sparrow guy. This guy's got it figured out. This is a look.

Now, this is what I'm talking about. Fuck the leisure suits. Have you ever seen the video, the interview? I think I've talked about it before on the podcast when they first came back from the moon and they were all just they looked like they are just coming down off of acid like they're just so fucked up the that and his like turning into a old hippie uh make me think that he that that going to the moon is some trippy shit. I would think so. I would think that it's trippy as fuck

to be standing on the thing you've been staring at your whole life. And just be down here and be like, yo, I was on that ship. And then come back. Yes. I think that would be the weird part to get back in that ship and be like,

we're going back? Right. I just don't think it's gonna live up to this, you guys. Or just the anxiety of knowing what that journey is like to come back. Buzz didn't want to go back, and then Neil just whispered. He's like, but bracelets. Think about all the bracelets. Look around you.

How many bracelets do you see? How many bracelets do you see? But yeah, I mean, moon landing hoaxers are like, look. Look how weird they're acting. They wouldn't have acted that weird if they just got back from the moon. We don't really know that. Yeah, you don't know how they would act. Yeah, pull up to my house

after you've just got back from the moon. Right, exactly. Ah, right. Well, it sure was a State of the Union. It was on the longer side. We were closing in on the longest State of the Union ever given, even though I'm sure from a word count perspective,

it was on the shorter side, but because he reads slowly. there were also a couple moments that we should just give a shout out to where he like blended two sentences together but it wasn't like blending two sentences together it was he blent two paragraphs right is that is the i think that's what that is yeah blenting yes he blent yeah it was just like terrible pivoting Maybe there wasn't a break in his teleprompter Because he was basically ending an idea About something to do with border security

And then going into school choice Yeah Like out of nowhere Yeah But it is I was curious about Because the speed at which he reads that teleprompter Is very slow

And if you've ever read one of those things it goes pretty quick because that's how you're supposed to speak yeah right right and they want to get you know for segments and whatever yeah but like watching him that's what i kept thinking i was like whoever's doing the teleprompter is probably like manually manually like scrolling yeah or having to scroll back because he hasn't said stuff or he just stopped for no fucking reason yeah right it was about like every eight words was an applause break yes essentially like i'm curious to know what his longest string of words was before an applause break yeah i wonder if those are there because he's just not a great reader that's what i was gonna say he can't do

more than like gop strategy yeah it's like we're gonna have to clap a lot. A lot. Because... Wilbur Ross almost expired from all the clapping. Wilbur Ross does not look good. We thought he was... Well, he's got to lay on a rock. Right. To get his blood warm. Well, first of all, they're making him stand up and sit down so many times. That's like the most workout he's ever had.

He just looks like the bottom half of his face is rotted off. I like how they talked about food stamps. He said something about a record number of people aren't on food stamps anymore. They cut to him. He's so confused. Is that the way you send food in the mail? Mail food.

Food stamp? Okay. I'm bleeding. Lizard tongue. I'm bleeding lizard tongue on the wall he was he kind of both sides did tried to have it both ways at one point he was saying you know the people who voted for me voted for a wall and it hasn't

been built yet so I'm gonna build it but then he really backtracked because the thing that people voted for was a sea to shining sea wall that Mexico was going to pay for. Yep. And now he has. That was impenetrable. He has softened that wall to being just in places where it's needed.

Right. Which is what Democrats and everybody has. They've put it where you need it. Where it's needed. Which is kind of what we have. Right. Yeah. But, you know, he already he's in too deep because he said he was going to give him that motherfucking huge wall.

He digs deep real quick. So now he's like a character in a sitcom, except now he's trying to navigate. Like, but I told him this. Well, Dana Gould tweeted, I don't understand why he just doesn't say he's built a wall because his base believes anything he says anyway. Right. Yeah, that's a good point. So why doesn't he just say, hey, the wall's awesome. Yeah, shut the fuck up.

The wall's built. I think that's basically what he tried to do and then Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh were like, nah. Right. Yeah. Well, because he's now also saying like, oh, you know, there's new pieces going up constantly. It's like, that's not true.

Right. That's patently false. Yes. That is ver true. Right. That isn't, that's patently false. It is verifiably false. Uh, he did go full red meat for the base on abortion rights and, you know, claiming that Democrats are a bunch of baby killers.

Yeah. And in New York, they were literally just ripping babies out of the womb. Yes. And, and people were celebrating it and, uh, spiking the babies.

That part of the Upper East Side is rough though. Right. Right. I mean, did, did you encounter any of that liberal women trying to steal your baby? Yeah, it was downtown LA, and we had to go, there's a secret tunnel to get away from the... From the social Democrats? The abortionists. Right.

The abortionist. The nurses, right. But one side that Trump wasn't covering was Tiffany Trump, or as he knows her, who's that? Marla's daughter. Right. She was wearing white along with the Democrats. The Democratic Congresswomen were all wearing white in solidarity.

So was Tiffany Trump. Maybe by accident? Probably not. Hell no. I don't think so. She's like, fuck you dad you're gonna notice me you piece of shit right she's just making sure it's not hot for her after her dad is not the president that's smart yeah just be like yo i was that one i was trying i was out here

like fuck you dad you know what i mean so and wow i mean she really could turn that into a career yeah just if she has like a couple fire tweets at her dad. She could be on The View. She could be selling fucking books. Right. That's pretty smart. Tiffany is right there. Oh, shit.

That would be awesome. Her on The View against McCain. Right. And then, but like she's taking the other side and McCain is repping her dad. You need to wake up, Meg Han. All right. That's even how you spell her name. Can we talk about how they did the happy birthday thing?

Oh, yeah, that was cute. I didn't like it. Oh, I thought it was cute. It felt forced. It's just weird. Again, even when we were watching, I'm like, yo, I feel like we're in a TGI Fridays. It was weird. I think they were trying to out-adorable each other.

Right. Like, both sides. Like, we have a heart. Right. adorable each other right both sides and so we have a heart right and so i i don't know who started the happy birthday but yeah it was just them trying to be i don't know it was like a pep rally yeah it was like tgi fridaysing up the state of the union yeah between the usa and buzz aldrin with his wacky tie and bracelets the usa thing is amazing that people are still doing that and thinking that's makes me cringe well and not giggling right right yeah anything you would say you know

no they are like that shit gets scary in there when they start chanting usa like you there were a couple lines when he said something and you just heard like from the back of the room, dudes just being like, like just shouting gibberish, just overcome by the testosterone that they had just injected into their body. Yeah, I was going to say that's not natural. They're all low-T, low-T guys, but you know. The rebuttal, the official rebutts from Stacey Abrams, which was great. I think more than the content of her words, I think it was cool to see that they took somebody

who just lost a gubernatorial race and put a woman of color up there to give the official response of the Democratic Party. You know, because I think they're trying to, Democrats, they get what they're trying to present themselves as in 2020. She's very compelling. She has like good teacher energy.

Like when she smiles, I believe it. Yeah. And when she's serious, I believe it. She just seemed so much more human than like literally anyone else you had seen on TV. Yeah. Well,

luckily like, you know, you don't have like Chuck and Nancy going up there and be like, hi, fellow kids. Nancy was given some looks. She was serving some face during the, uh, stay of the union, but it was just, you know, she was mostly cheerful. Nancy was giving some looks. She was serving some face during the State of the Union, but it was just,

you know, she was mostly cheerful. It was what she, you know, had to do. She's a player. She knows the game. She gets her shots in

when the cameras are off. Yeah, she's playing politics. She's not playing the actress. She's like, oh yeah, honey, I love that. Clap, clap, clap.

And no to everything. Oh, and Melania wore a matching face to her president uh wow she was really yeah i want to go to vacation where she was at yeah that ut austin yeah hook them yeah she was the color yeah that's what that is that's burnt orange if she put yeah if she put a ut hoodie on you'd be like there, there's no face. Is that Mack Brown? Let's talk about the inauguration committee. We've mentioned before that there was some shady shit going on.

It does now look like they have subpoenaed. Well, they're going to find out just what sort of shady shit was going on during the inauguration. Well, for the first off, when you look at it from the up, you know, 10,000 feet view, he raised twice, over two times what Obama raised for his inauguration. Right. So they're like, huh, that's a lot of money for one of these things. Right. So then there's a recording of like Michael Cohen. Remember there was like a story in the New York Times about how, I think it was Melania's friend,

who was like the party planner, was like, took some exorbitant fee for like being the organizer coordinator for this right and a lot of people were being like wait where the fuck did all that money go right so which is why now yes they're the DOJ is being like yeah hold on we need all of these receipts because this is there's a lot going on because right now right now, there are just investigations or lines of investigation around a few things with the inauguration. Like in D.C., they were curious about how this Ukrainian oligarch used a straw donor to buy tickets, and they're like, whoa, whoa. Is there any clean money left?

No. In this administration? Or just period? Dude, we are on the first weekend right now of this administration. This is the first day. That's within hours of him going like, I do. And I solemnly swear to execute the duties of the president.

Not really. He's already fucking up. Right. Also in Eastern District and Southern District of New York and Brooklyn and Manhattan, respectively, they're looking into crimes already. Right now, they're the ones who are really coming heavy with the subpoenas. They're saying like, look, we suspect there could be fraud, money laundering, corruption, just illegal foreign influence donation campaigns going on.

So, yeah, we need to see every single thing. And just because, you know, because they were a nonprofit, I think they only had to disclose like their top five vendors or something. So that only accounts for a little wee bit of money and they're saying like hold on there's a lot of other shit and also robert muller had an eye on it because there were so many oligarchs there right that they're like yeah fuck is this yeah people that call themselves oligarchs you're like okay that's i don't like that you guys are donating your money you're like yeah that's what we do that's our job we're like venture capitalists but for government right it's it's it's something else and then right now the the person whose name has been uh popping up is this guy imad zuberi who's

this venture capitalist you know business person developer i guess and he's donated a lot of money to and for politics like to Hillary to Obama I think just basically whoever the fuck is in power just like because again that's the game smart move yeah kiss the ring baby yeah and yeah when it came to Trump he gave like 900,000 like off the rip and they're like that's an interesting uh donation well that just feels like for someone that much money is just like this is just in case you you know it's like like an agency signing a bunch of yeah artists just in case they hit there was this sort of thing where michael cohen was dangling like infrastructure information in front of these people like yo if you give some money like i'll let you know what our infrastructure plans are

jesus you can try and get ahead of this right don't we have like the receipts for that with him just being yeah we have that stuff where we knew that that was a hustle that michael cohen had going right but they're claiming that that was specific to michael cohen but he was basically pulling like the thing from goodwill hunting where ben affleck shows up for the retainer yeah exactly yeah it was just such bullshit well the way that this specific person gets you know hazy uh is that we find out he has a lot of connections to qatar and the qataris have been qatari teenage riot they have been all over everything and to do with this investigation like i mean so many middle eastern country well mostly saudi arabia and qatar but like qatar especially because when you think about how the kushner family was out in the streets with their hat out, being like, we need money to bail us out of this disaster building.

Was it 666? Yeah. 666 Avenue. Park Avenue. Or whatever. 666 Fifth. Where he was like, we are going to take a bath on this because they're a billion dollars deep. The Qataris, they they were like they were trying

to get money from them the qatari said no we're not feeling it and then remember donald trump sided with the saudis with that blockade against against uh qatar right and then suddenly somebody came in with a little bit of money for the kushner family that like controlled about like somewhere close to two billion dollars of like the qatar government's like fund right qatar is awesome oh yeah i mean this in the worst and best possible right like i've been there i didn't know what it was before i got there you just you just i was on it closed your eyes on kayak well we went to dubai and then they're going to doha i was like sure yeah and then i got there and i learned what it was but But I think Qatar is fascinating because they've messed up the Middle East. There was like the Saudis were doing this thing.

They had their whole thing going. And then Qatar was like, hey, we got a ton of oil too. Right. Let's fuck some shit up. So they're playing their own game with those different countries. And then we've got us coming in there. And I think that just shows how little that this administration understands foreign policy

and what's really going on. Is that they went behind the Saudis back and were like, hey, can we have this money? And the Saudis were like, no, we don't like them. Oh, okay, we're on your team, blockade. But maybe not. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Like, we're on your team, blockade. Right. But maybe not. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Like a true grifter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where it's like, y'all gonna fuck up and they're gonna hurt you. Right. Because Qatar's the first place I've ever seen Russian MiGs. And then they were landing. And then two hours later, F-15s from America were landing. Right.

And I was like, oh, everyone has a base in Qatar. Oh, wow. Okay. I get how this, oh, everyone has a base in Qatar. Oh wow. Okay, I get how this works. That's wow. It's fascinating. So when that- So what were the bad parts? Was the food good?

Food was fine. I think it's one of those places where if you have some money, it's good. Right, right, right. And if you have no money, it's real bad. There's the open racism and there's slavery. So that was pretty bad. The slavery that killed people building World Cup stadiums.

When they had that asinine idea where like, yeah, we can do this in the summer here. And then they're like, yeah, no. It's going to have to be in the winter because the players could perish. And also no one can drink here except for in certain places. So we're gonna have the most drunk people in the world come here yeah i didn't think that through either no i had to get now the part they show you is amazing but i had a cab driver take me to the bad parts because he was

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last week uh 538 just came out with a poll that pointed out that in addition to being similar to trump and that they're both shitty white billionaire narcissists uh 538 says that people who supported his consolation of positions voted for Trump in 2016 for the most part. So chances are it might just give the secretly racist suburban assholes who voted for Trump somebody else to vote for. I don't think they're secretly racist. I think they're economically racist. Right, right. Okay.

I think that's a better- Unwittingly racist? Yes. Yeah. Well, it's like, I don't see color. I see income brackets. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, I just tweeted, Howard Schultz has given his rebuttal to the closing shift of the Soto Seattle Starbucks. I mean, as a CEO, he's pretty great. It's not getting the response it deserves. Right, right. They're all rolling their eyes. It's not getting the response it deserves. They're all rolling their eyes. They're just like, why is he talking to us?

All right, Miles, you have this thing about how millennials are out here. Wait, were we going to talk about how he wanted people to stop using the word billionaire? Like it was a slur? Oh, no. He said it's becoming a slur it's becoming a slur and you're like yeah because of your behavior right exactly i mean i just just to i don't there's a clip if we want to play it but i was just like that was one of the moments and i was like dude this fuck fuck this guy just out of touch i mean even in seattle like there's a bunch of billionaires

up there right so even like we've talked about this on the podcast before when i've been here it's like they play a different game yeah so they're he's playing a different game he's the people's billionaire i do like him as a ceo because his company does take care of its people yeah yeah but they it's also it's the way a drug dealer takes you know el chapo took care of a lot of his people too because your product is addictive yeah right and also if you're a billionaire you are by definition like hoarding resources for yourself from people who could definitely definitely use them better i just like that he was like let's just why don't we just refer to billionaires as people of means or people of wealth?

Oh, really? Yeah. He's like, billionaires, like, do you want to hear what he said? Yeah. Teddy bears with money. Yeah.

The author of Winner Takes All sent in a question. He said, do you agree that billionaires have too much power in American public life? And it gets at the issue that AOC has been talking about. It gets at the issue that Elizabeth Warren has been talking about.

It gets at – Yeah, I – you know, the moniker billionaire now has become the catchphrase. I would rephrase that, and I would say that people of means have been able to leverage their wealth and their interest in ways that are unfair. And I think that speaks to the inequality, but it also directly speaks to the special interests that are paid for by people of wealth and corporations who are looking for influence. And they have such unbelievable influence on the politicians who are stealing. Okay.

Anyway, that's enough from you, Howard. That was rambling corporate space. What a way to just word salad, word poop your way out of being like, I leverage my wealth to be more money. Well, I think he was taking the populist stance and being like as a billionaire i know that people of means like you know have a have too much power and like have an in with politicians but we just tried that shit with a billionaire who was like i'm the one person who will not be corrupted by this system and And then he hired nothing but swamp creatures.

I think the actual swamp thing was one of the first cabinet appointees. I think Schultz has that thing that doctors get, that they're good at being a doctor, so they think they're good at other stuff. Yes, for sure. I think he has that. It's some effect or something.

But I think he has that because he left Starbucks. It took a little dive. Then he has that. It's something effect or something, you know. But I think he has that because he left Starbucks. It took a little dive. Then he came back and he saved them and they came back up. I think he's got that in his head that the country's taking a dive right now. It's like Starbucks. And you got to have a big ego to run a big company like that. So you're like, I'm going to save this shit. And I like that he came out and said it and everybody's like, go the fuck away.

Well, hold on. Hear me out. Pumpkin Spice Lattes. Hold on. Pumpkin Spice Lattes all year round. Oh shit, he's gonna win. Yep. And with that, I defeated ISIS. I'm sure he was completely blindsided. That's my favorite part of it. It was like how

quick everybody was like, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, that is not peace off. Because, I mean, just like, I mean, we talk in here about famous people, you know, not being around anybody who has said no to them or, like, told them the truth in a long time. Whether the people want to tell them the truth or not, they are also like, wow, you're famous. That's cool. Right, right, right. if you see the sort of people who hang around rich people who had success in business,

it's just like really lame star fuckers who are like billionaire fuckers who are just like, Oh man, you said it, Howard. You said it, man. This guy.

And then they tell Howard your golf game, man. They think it's like a magic that'll rub off on them and they get rich. Yeah. It's the same as a celebrity hanger. Like I'll get some of his fame or talent. Like that doesn't work like that. Most you get a celebrity hanger. Like, I'll get some of his fame or talent. That doesn't work like that. At most, you get a couple follows.

Anyway, fuck that guy unless he hurts Trump's chances of getting reelected, in which case, you know, more power to him. He's a genius. Let's talk about there has been some responses on Fox just kind of everywhere in the mainstream media and on Fox. just kind of everywhere in the mainstream media and on fox they just don't seem to be able to wrap their mind around uh the shift the political shift that is on in america the the fact that people are wanting to tax the shit out of the rich yeah like there's this headline that politico put up that was covered everywhere that was like uh soak the rich say people who 70 percent of the fucking country right so they found that 70 percent says all the poor people right 70 of the country is in favor of raising taxes on people who make 10 million dollars a year or more they seem legitimately surprised by that yeah i think we have a clip

on fox news they thought their own poll was some kind of fucking i don't know omen right and we've talked about how fox news polling is not as full of shit as fox news regular yeah well check this poll out right it's about uh how recent polling is showing that the american public is increasingly on board with raising taxes on the rich. As evidence, we pulled up this latest Fox News poll on the issue, whether Americans support raising taxes on the wealthy, on incomes over $10 million. Those that are in favor of that, 70 percent, Charles, over a million dollars in income. Sixty-five percent are in favor of raising taxes.

The idea of fairness has been promoted in our schools for a long time and we're starting to see kids who grew up in this notion that fairness above all uh and and now they're becoming voting age and they're bringing this ideology with them what are you saying hom fuck ideology wait fairness is the thing fairness above all they're teaching this shit in schools man sunday schools too is he talking about get the fuck out for real sunday schools are teaching them there's a good and an evil is he trying to like get it the trophy for everyone type thing i guess but that's not that's so completely different like fundamentally fairness is a great idea virtue i mean this is so mitch mcconnell the other day as we covered on a recent episode was like these people want everybody to be able to vote it's a power grab

right they're just openly acknowledging now that they're for unfairness. Again. Oh, essentially what it all boils down to is they don't give a fuck about equality in any motherfucking shape or form. Right. So if it's about equal voting rights or ability to vote, everybody has a level playing field to cast their vote. Fuck that. Wait, now people want to balance the scales out with their incomes. And what the fuck is this? Well, I think it's also fascinating, that clip is fascinating just from a broadcasting standpoint. It really is. Because it's like their producers are like,

let's watch them try to spin this shit. Right, right, right. Throw this out there to them and spin it on our side. And they're like, well, the schools have been teaching fairness for too long. And people are like, well, he fucking did it. I mean, I guess he said it. I said he, okay.

So something Scott Walker recently tweeted, Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax is like telling a straight-A student in high school that she has to give up some of her grades to the other students instead of stealing from her. Why don't we just help everyone else to do better? And I think that's sort of what they're trying to get at uh tom ryman cracked writer and host of a really good podcast you guys should check out called best worst movie yep just tweeted it's actually nothing like this unless you went to

a school where the straight a students got all of the books pencils and desks and the other kids had to sit on the floor in the hall outside the classroom and carve their homework into blocks of old wood um because yeah like that is what unfairness is and scott walker and the gentleman on fox news are acting like that is bullshit well i think it's because people are, like, finally waking out of the haze, right? For the longest time, like, millennials, I feel like we're the...

It's an abusive relationship. Yeah, we've never seen any of this quote-unquote American dream that motherfuckers are talking about. Right. Because we look at increasing debt for education, inability to enter the housing market. Well, you're supposed to go to college

to get a good job to make money. Right. And now you get out of college and you owe money. You owe money and then you can only get an internship that isn't paid because they're looking for somebody at an entry-level job who has 10 years experience. Right. Yeah. And it's like, what the fuck just happened?

It's like the entertainment industry or clubs being like, do you have any credits? And you're like, no. And they're like, well, can you get some? And then people are like, well, what? and then you go to get on tv there and they're like what other tv have you been on you're like one of y'all got to put me on first the point i gotta get in the fucking door first yes and i think because of that yeah younger people and also just people in general i think are starting to like wake up out of that like you can only fucking you know do this smoke and mirror show for so long because now a lot of people are feeling the fucking pain of this like terrible system that puts profits over people most of the time

actually all the time hose yeah and now they're like wait hold up what the fuck is this the hose are turning right now and the pimps are like whoa whoa whoa our minds aren't working anymore yeah no this isn't fair yeah that's i mean And I mean, there's economic anxiety on both sides, but as we saw recently, some of the people who voted for Trump who are suffering economically are kind of feeling, shit's coming home to roost

with them and their tax returns. Exactly. Straight up like tweeting, like angry tweets at this man. Yeah. Like there was one, so someone just like literally adding the president thanks to donald trump and at gop tax bill my family was just hit with the

largest tax increase in our lives by them getting rid of itemized deductions like mortgage interest on federal taxes i've been a loyal conservative voting republican since i could vote what a joke another person i had to pay two thousand more dollars in taxes what happened i voted for you and thought you were fixing this not making it worse i thought i would get money back this year like now because yeah you can only tell people like you're gonna love this you're gonna love this and when it gets there it's like you're gonna fucking pay me you're gonna love this three thousand dollar one-time bonus that your company gives you that's spread out over 52 weeks the companies that right and you know and again i think this is also a thing that the right really has to consider because while, you know, the Democrats are like really kind of trying to understand what the actual pangs of living in this American world are now, you know, the GOP is still doing this same old thing.

Because come 2020, I think two-thirds will be white in 2020. So for the first time, like, you're going to have one-third of non-white voters are going to be a significant block of voters and then you have people 18 to 29 in 2020 you're going to make up 25 percent of the population like yeah there are a lot of people who have some questions well that's why they're hoarding right no exactly they've looked ahead i mean these power hungry people they looked ahead they know what's coming they know the turns that are about to happen and that's why they're trying to take as much as they can right now. Cause they're like, well then I'll just buy

my own private security for us and that'll keep the people away from my property and then they can fight it out in the streets. Betsy, is your brother available? The boss? Right, right, right. Cause that's the private security. Yeah, Eric, yeah.

It's they're hoarding all the wealth. By the way, I have my weirdest. A lot of the wealth is an illusion anyway if we're being honest if we just went back to a gold system yeah there you go shit well now we have a currency backed by the threat of our army right i'm part of the know nothing party personally so i just yeah yo when i was in in uh school in college there was a history class where we're talking about the know-nothing party. And the professor could tell one of the kids was not paying attention.

And he goes, what about you? David. Let's call him David or whatever. He's like, tell me about the know-nothing party. And he's like, oh, yeah, man. They were the know-nothing party. And he's like, but, you know, expand on that. He goes, because they know nothing.

It was just like, that was it. That was just an aside for nobody. Right. By the way, Betsy DeVos looks like Marshall Applewhite, the cult leader who cut his dick off and killed a bunch of people. No, he didn't cut his dick off. He did. Oh, he cut his? He cut his dick off first and then got all his followers to cut their dicks off.

Okay, that's how you do that. And then got all his followers to take poison with him in order to catch a UFO that was riding on a passing comet. Hellbot. And we still don't know if it happened or not. Cut his dick off until the rest of us goes, hey, the water's warm. Hop on in. Yeah. Well, I came to that conclusion during the State of the Union.

So if nothing else, us staying this late got you that observation. There you go. Well, Billy Wayne, once again, it's been a pleasure having you. And once again, congratulations on your newborn. Thank you. And if I've been loopy, fuck you guys. Cool, man.

I had a baby, so. Yeah, I know. Can I promote something? Yes, please. I am going, yeah, i've been off the road a little bit because of the baby stuff but i'm going back out in march i'll be in eugene and then bend oregon and then i'll be in austin in april and a couple other places just bwd tour dot com yeah i bought a domain name there you go billy wayne davis someone bought it oh squatting on it

four or five thousand dollars for it i'm like oh you guys think i care about that's what you do you find the person's name who's squatting on your your url and let's say their name is like tony davis and then you say tony fuck tony davis.com is my website that's i just don't care yeah i'm petty i just went BWD tour and it's fine also man love Bend Oregon oh yeah I'm very

it's so there's something very peaceful about that place shout out to my friend Alex and Gwen who got a beard out there and they grow some

of the best pot in the world wow really you don't have to whisper well it's more fun when you're like it's so good

oh yeah and then like I'm gonna be in May I'll be in Dallas at the Caboo Festival. And then Houston at Secret Group and Oklahoma City at the Paramount Room. That's in May. It's all BWD tour.

It'll be up there. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yes. The one that cracked me up tonight was from Wanda Sykes. And it just said, this is fucking ridiculous. During the State of the Union? Yeah, I mean, or just period.

I mean, that's what it is. It just makes me laugh. Miles, where can people find you? And what is the tweet you've been enjoying? You can find me and Jack and Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus doing a collaboration live show. Yeah, Daily Zeitgeist and Bechdelcast. We're doing a live show at the Dynasty Typewriter March 9th.

That's a Saturday at 10, so let's get litty, y'all. And you can get your tickets. You know, just search it. Look at our links for that. But, yes, tickets, you know these are going to go fast. And even if you've been to our LA Live show, this is a whole other show. This is unlike any show you've seen. New year, new show, and we're doing a different year.

Yeah. Perfect. But yes, for me, you can find me on, what is that, Twitter? Yeah. And Instagram, at milesofgray. A tweet I like. There are a couple from Reductress. One of them says,

four gorgeous tombs that scream relationship goals. Yeah, the Taj Mahal will do that. And then this one is, a cute lesbian couple actually grow straight couple where the man has long hair. And then one,

Ana pointed out to me earlier, it says, wow, this black woman has had bad experiences with white people but never roamed the streets looking for one to murder. Liam. Yeah. I guess he was really trying to get points.

He's like, yes, but I didn't. Therefore, I am an ally. What don't you get? But it occurred to me this is probably bad. Yeah. Right. What you should have said was nothing Right A tweet that I've Oh Mike Scully had a good tweet

At Scully Mike Just tweeted a screencap From CNN that said breaking news Standing by for Trump to leave the White House And Mike Scully said what we're all standing by for And Paul F. Tompkins During the State of the Union tweeted

just a reminder that no woman is or has ever been moments from giving birth and decides you know what I want an abortion I forgot that was an option until now yeah that is always good to remember anyways you can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien you can follow us on Twitter at

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and then just kind of did a rough mix to it. And this song fucking bangs. Okay, so this is Kendrick Lamar, but it's like a bit of a flip of his own track. But this is called Hatin' On Me, and it it's by k lamai stro and you only gonna find this on soundcloud i'm pretty sure but anyway just peep that peep it guys the shit out of it peep it and let it that hits your eardrums peep it uh we are gonna ride out on that we will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast we'll talk to you then. At Billy Wayne Davis. At Billy Wayne Davis. up tell me who the bitch nigga hating on me jumping on my dick but the dick ain't free

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