The Daily Zeitgeist - Sour vs Chocolate Candy, Trump Making Impeachment Profitable 10.7.19

Episode Date: October 7, 2019

In episode 489, Jack and Miles are joined by SpendWell founder Leah Rappaport to discuss Nickelback meme Trump posted, what is going on in Ukraine since the whistleblower complaint, the Trump sons, Trump spending money on Facebook ads to spin the whistleblower story for his followers, Trump's secret vault, the new Joker movie beefing up security at theaters, the best and worst Halloween candy, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. 'Ukraine Gas Exec' in Trump's Nickelback Meme Is Actually Just Your Average American Douchebag2. Explosive Texts Show U.S. Pushed Ukraine To Investigate In Exchange For WH Visit3. Owner of Firm Tied to Hunter Biden Will Be Subject of Ukraine Prosecutor’s Review4. Hunter Biden, the black sheep who might accidentally bring down Trump, explained5. Irony is dead: The Trump sons are doing everything possible to make corruption a major 2020 issue6. Impeachment Drives Trump, Pence to Spend Big on Facebook Ads: Democrats ‘Want to Take Your Vote Away’7. Trump cranks up grievance machine8. I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago. Then the Right-Wing Spin Machine Turned the Story Upside Down.9. CNN: Trump promised China he'd stay silent on Hong Kong protests10. 'Joker' hits movie theaters with controversy and extra security11. CANDY CORN TOPS WORST CANDY OF HALLOWEEN 2019 LIST, STUDY FINDS12. WATCH: Avelino - Belly of the Beast (Top Boy) [Official Audio] Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark vs. Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark vs. Angel Reese, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports.

Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark vs. Angel Reese. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke.

Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do what was that that was live audio of a woman's nightmare can k trust her sister or is history repeating itself there's nothing dangerous about what you're doing they're just dreams dream sequence is a new horror thriller from blumhouse television iheartHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Señora Sex Ed is not your mommy's sex talk.

This show is la plática like you've never heard it before. We're breaking the stigma and silence around sex and sexuality in Latinx communities. This podcast is an intergenerational conversation between Latinas from Gen X to Gen Z. We're your hosts, Viosa and Mala. You might recognize us from our first show, Locatora Radio. Listen to Señora Sex Ed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 103, episode one of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say, officially off the top, fuck Koch Industries, as in the Koch brothers, and fuck Fox News. It's Monday, October 5th, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. It's October 7th, Dan. God. He told you.

October 7th. It's a nice day, man. Anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I got energy. Coca-Cola energy. Tired of all the sugar trying to rob me of my energy Trying to take the wave

From O'Brien I can only fuck with coffee or else pray for O'Brien Yeah Drop the fucking ball At Matt Dick though I like how you go I don't know No that was good I don't think I was on beat, but.

Hey, man. Hey, man. I'm thrilled to be joined by you, though. I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. This is how we do it. Zeitgeist is who you choose. We got all those hot take views. We're saying fuck coke industry and fuck fuck snooze.

You see, the Jack's been good to me Everyth wait even through My love affair with Tuscany Out here with her majesty you've never Been to Italy you must simply go Y'all if you were From where I'm from then you Would know that's just the

Continuation of that song one of my favorite In a big black truck You can get Jones in a 6'4". Whatever it is, the party's underway. So tip up your cup and throw your hands up and let me hear the party say I'm kind of bugged.

My friend saw Montel Jordan in concert. That's it for Miles. That's what this show's going to be for now. He saw Montel Jordan in concert, and he played This Is How We Do It, Something for the Honeys, and then This Is How We Do It Again. And that was the set. A three-song set.

Three solid songs. Yeah. And shout out to the wonderful author of that, aka at JasonC1975. And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented Leah Rappaport. Hello. Hello.

Welcome. How are you? I'm great. You got mail. First timer. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

First time. First time. How do you like the studio? How do you like our lifestyle, podcasting? I mean, I feel kind of famous, not going to lie. I'm not going to lie to you either. You are famous. Yeah.

Now. This is a high point in my life, I think. Yeah. Everyone who comes on this show goes on to make unicorn apps. To meet the person they're going to marry. I'm here for both of those things. Here you're in the app game, huh? I am in the app game. I'm here for both of those things. Here you're in the app game, huh? I am in the app game.

I am the founder of SpendWell. We're making an app that makes it easy for people to donate money to charity. That is fantastic. Thank you. That sounds worthwhile. Yeah. That must be cool.

That's like a good thing. Yeah. It's not like, yeah, we make it easy to rent people's living rooms to smoke weed in. Right. Which is, I feel like everything's rentable now.able now right right and this is actually connecting people with charity yeah what's like what's the problem with give charitable giving that sort of you're addressing

well you're gonna hear more about this in my myth okay oh shit okay i came prepared let's let that cook organically yeah uh all right leo we're to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to talk about that. Look at this photograph meme, the Nickelback meme that the president used and misused, apparently. Yeah. Got a copyright strike. And we're going to just blow the whistle in general. Blow the whistle.

We'll look at all the ways the president is making money off of the impeachment controversy uh and we're gonna ask the question what else is in that secret vault server thingy uh we're gonna check in with the joker check in with the people's republic of china look at halloween candy as halloween it's It's Halloween candy buying season. There's a report on the takeout that you could get 90 airheads for $7. That, I

would take that deal. And I would, sadly, I could probably eat 30 in one sitting. Yeah. And then we're going to talk about San Francisco rents and restaurants and plenty more. But first, Leah, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? This morning, I was waiting for a plane.

I don't like flying. And I searched corgi puppies in Halloween costumes. Uh-huh. Okay. Everything was better. Everything was better. What was a good – like I think dog costumes always look good. Is there one that actually suited a corgi specifically that you're like, only a corgi

could pull this one off? Yeah. So there's this like genetic mutation of corgis that have really fluffy fur. And there was a fluffy corgi wearing a lion's mane. And it was the cutest thing I've ever seen. That was exactly my reaction. The verbal description is enough to get my heart fluttering. Yeah.

It was, you know, you can't be stressed when you're looking at a puppy, fluffy corgi. Unless you're one of these people who like doesn't like dogs. Right. Because there are people who are like, you know, honestly, like I've been around people who, you know, like videos go viral. They're like, have you seen the one with the dog and like the cat or blah, blah, blah. Like this does nothing for me. Right.

I don't know what's going on with those people. I worry about that. Yeah. You need love in your heart. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's what I say. That's what I would diagnose, heart without love.

Yeah, I think that's right. Okay, fantastic. I think those lion costumes are cruel. Oh, wow. To dogs. Whoa. Why is that? Because they have to be a different species?

No, my dog just hated it when I put it on him. Was it the one that's like the hood? Shaking his head. Full on hood. Yeah, it's just like a hood. You just give him a lion's mane. This was more of like a necklace of sorts. Oh, like a neck muffler?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's kind of what it was. He's just very, he doesn't like to be told what to do. He probably has a different spirit animal that he was wishing you would dress him up as that's probably he's a king charles yes have listed i think very regal attitude spirit animal is a british king um spirit spirit animals are problematic right his whatever his he is possessed by the spirit of a British king.

Oh, fantastic. Yes. That's what you should address him as. Yeah. What is something you think is overrated? Okay. Antony on Queer Eye. He's the food guy.

Okay. I have strong opinions. He's on a book tour right now, so he's like back in the news, even though there's not a new season coming out or whatever. He's supposed to be the food guy. Right. I watched an episode last week where he was like, I think you should make rotisserie chicken. And he drove the guy to Safeway and they bought a rotisserie chicken.

I'm so, okay. Wait. He's supposed to be teaching them to cook. How to cook, right? Yeah. He's supposed to be teaching them how to cook. Not to cheat. And he's like, go to Safeway and buy a rotisserie chicken and then serve rotisserie chicken.

Like, that's fine. I thought you were just going to say it should have been Costco. Because Costco does have the best rotisserie chicken. That is something. That is also another strike. Or Boston Market. Yep. Yep.

He could have gone anywhere else. But that's so odd, right? Because normally they're trying to give people skills to benefit themselves. Do you think he just thought this subject was- I can't even with you? Yeah. It was just sort of like, you're a mess. And the best you can do is just drive somewhere and buy something.

But he does that for everyone. Oh, really? That's just one of so many examples. A lot of shortcuts? There was one where he was like, it's a crostini. It was a piece of toast. Like you cut a piece of bread and put it in the toaster. That's not really like revolutionary cooking.

I'm sure if you serve that to him, he would fucking read you for filth. I think so. He'd be like, oh really, CVS, rotisserie chickens, that's how we're doing it? Yeah,

and everyone gets upset about him because he put like sour cream or yogurt and guacamole once and everyone was like, you don't do that, blah, blah, blah. But at least he was cooking when he did that.

Right, right, right. Like combining ingredients, not just whatever's ready made at the store. Right, like I would literally expect him to be like, here's how you make guacamole, drive to Chipotle. Right, like combining ingredients, not just whatever's ready-made at the store. Right, like I would literally expect him to be like, here's how you make guacamole, drive to Chipotle. Right.

Right. That is at least a realistic, like I will never remember any recipe that I see on TV, but I will remember where to buy a thing. Oh, fantastic. Yeah. So maybe he's really going after an audience like you. Yeah, just like the completely hopeless, uncooking. Uncookable. Dum-dum.

Okay. All right. You've been read, Antony. What is something you think is underrated? Continuing on the food theme. Good food at airports. Oh, wow. There is nothing better than being like,

oh, I have to eat at an airport. It's going to be like, this happened at breakfast this morning. It's going to be like a gross yogurt parfait with that gross candied fruit or whatever. Yep. And then I found a place that had gluten-free everything bagels toasted with cream cheese.

What airport were you flying out of? SFO. Okay. Yeah. And my day turned around and it was just such a pleasant surprise. Yeah. Because you already do.

You either resign yourself to the fact that I will eat trash or I will eat overpriced trash. Well, it's trash either way and it's overpriced either way. Yeah. And it was overpriced good food, but it was good food. But at least it's good. Right. Usually it's like, well, I guess I can eat a 14-hour-old baguette sandwich for $19.

Exactly. Right. Whenever I fly through Houston, I always eat at Papa Doe in the fucking terminal. I will sit down for a meal there every time. What is Papa Doe? Oh. It's part of a larger family of restaurants, but this one is more Cajun, southern food oriented. And it's part of like a larger chain, like a family of restaurants. But this one is more like Cajun, southern food oriented. And it's delicious.

They have this thing called poncha train sauce. And then it comes on other things. Look, just if you're at the Houston airport, give Papadu a try. And I actually should at one point get out of the Houston airport and maybe experience Houston itself. You just stay there the whole time you're in Houston, right? Just love. Yeah.

Love the airport. Vacation stay in the airport. Do a little bit of a terminal-type vibe in there. People just think that you're sleeping on the benches because you have a flight coming up or something like that. I'm there for the papadeau. Right. And finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false?

That you have to be rich to donate money to charity. Go on. So there's this idea, and it's kind of the outdated model of philanthropy. Right. Where you write a huge check at the end of the year and you do it for tax benefits. And you have to kind of accumulate all of this wealth before you can give it away. First of all, Trump's tax changes made it so that you can't really write off donations to charity anyway. So that's out the window.

But the other piece is that a huge part of donating money to charity is getting in the habit of looking at what you have and sharing it with others in a way that you can. So you don't have to be Bill and Melinda Gates and donate millions of dollars to charity. You can say like, hey, this is a cause I'm going to really care about that I really care about. I'm going to donate, you know, five dollars a month. That maybe isn't going to change the world. But then I'm going to tell all my friends that I'm donating five dollars a month to this cause. And then they're going to donate to the causes they care about. And that, you know, continues rolling.

And then all of a sudden, if everyone donates five dollars a month, I'm not going to do the math in my head. But it's probably up there with Bill and Melinda Gates. Oh, easily. Triple that. Yeah. Yeah. And then the other piece of it is like getting in the habit, right? So if you wait your whole life to donate in like a, you know, when I die, give everything I own to a charity, then you're not really in the habit of donating. You don't really know like what causes do I care most about? Where does my money go when I donate to charity? So getting in the habit as you're starting to think about building up your savings account or starting to invest in stocks, like the third arm of that should be adding, you know, philanthropy into the

mix. Absolutely. I think I'm definitely before I was like in the mode of being able to find causes to give to, I had this very outdated idea of, well, what's, what's 10, I can't give just 10 bucks. I just can't give this or whatever. Like I want to be able to give like a hundred bucks. So I'll wait, put some money together and then do that versus like, yeah, I, I, it's like the same way you could just be like, you got a couple of bucks for some coffee or whatever. You can also just, you know, send a few dollars out at a time and you're still actually contributing

in a way that is meaningful. But I think we have this sort of weird idea that, you know, someone giving a million dollar donation, if you're not doing that, then it's not worth it. Right. Right. And we're seeing, too, people really want to give, like especially in the crazy 24 hour news cycle, people are reacting to things and wanting to give. And one piece that's really interesting is Facebook came out a few weeks ago. And I have a lot of issues with how Facebook runs their fundraisers that I won't get into. But Facebook fundraisers has raised a total of $2 billion. And $1 billion of that, that's a billion with a B, $1 billion of that is from birthday fundraisers. And I've donated to

birthday fundraisers, and it is rarely more than $10 Like it's really like, oh, I like this person. This cause seems legit. Like here's 10 bucks. Right, right. And that adds up. Damn. To a ton. Yeah.

Wow. Okay. So what we're doing is instead of the Facebook model where you just like randomly say, I'm going to donate $10 or whatever, and it's based on how you feel or, you know, how, whether you got paid that day. What we're doing is we're saying, every time you swipe your credit card, we're going to round up your transactions, put all that spare change into a donation pool. You get to say where it goes. You can pick any

nonprofit in the country. So it can be like the food bank in the tiny town you grew up in, or it could be- For like races or something. Totally. Yeah, donate to stuff that's going on at the border, right? Yeah. So it's any registered nonprofit in the country. Donate all your spare change. Every week we process a donation. And we're building in ways that you can share fundraisers with your friends and you can start communicating with the nonprofits helping the causes you care about.

And it ties into your credit card? Yeah, yeah. So it's all super secure. There's like third-party API fancy stuff that makes it so that we never see your credit card? Yeah. Yeah. So it's all super secure. There's like third party API, fancy stuff that, that makes it so that we never see your credit card number. There's no way that I could say like, Oh, I'm just going to go spend money on your credit card. Let me look in our user database. Yeah. Yeah. It's not, not doable at all. Super secure. It's the same technology that a lot of like the really big financial apps use. Right. Right. Right. That's really cool. Well, I think,

yeah. And that's such an easy way to, or you're not even have to be very conscious. Right, right, right. That's really cool. Well, I think, yeah, and that's such an easy way too where you're not even have to be very conscious. We're like, we're just going to round up or whatever. So yeah, all those little rounding up

will add up. That's exactly right. Yeah. That used to be like tip jar money that people would give back when cash was a thing. Yeah.

Before we got, yeah. Yeah. Made it hard for people who don't have credit cards too i i don't know where all the change that i ever had growing up went but like i think at a certain point i became responsible enough to start saving it up and go to a coin star but for most of my life i think that was just like donations to people's couches like it just ended up in people's couches i haven't made it to the Coinstar

part of adulthood yet. I still have like a jar in my apartment. There you go. Well, there you go. I mean, that's it. The jar is the responsible thing.

Oh, yeah. And if you start dividing it. Right. Woo! My mom got me in that habit as a kid where I was like, here's my quarter jar,

my nickel jar. Oh, wow. My quarter, man. When I filled that motherfucker up, I was like, we're making it a blockbuster night, motherfucker all right well let's talk about uh someone who who likes to give back and that someone is the president of these united states uh donald trump loves to give back to himself um and so a big story that i saw all over the place uh on the right was that there was this photograph of biden his son and two ukrainian gas executives on a golf course and they were like oh

and two Ukrainian gas executives on a golf course. And they were like, oh, we thought you weren't a... Well, there was one guy. There's one guy who just sadly doesn't even get a label. Well, no, they started labeling both of them. Oh, they did? As both Ukrainian gas executives? I saw versions that were both Ukrainian gas executives. Well, according to the, if we're going by Canon,

the Nickelback meme, when we looked at that photograph, as he asked us to. Yeah, that guy, it turns out, is not Ukrainian. He's American. And gas exec might be a bit of a stretch. Because that guy is named Devin Archer. Sounds Ukrainian. Devin Archer. Notorious Ukrainian oligarch, Devon Archer. Right. And, you know,

he used to like, he's like business buddies with Hunter Biden, like from all kinds of shit. So like, that's like a photo of like them just golfing rather than, you know, trying to mislead people to be like, this is what they do. You know how these people move, they close deals on golf courses. And that's the Illuminati, that's where the Illuminati really lives between these links. And the things that are true is that he was part of the Bursema company's board, like along with Hunter Biden. Devin Archer and Hunter Biden. Devin Archer, yes. But to say he was a gas executive is definitely misleading. He has really nothing much to do with the day-to-day operations.

And the fact that neither of them probably have much background in, you know, Ukrainian gas companies or, you know, managing Ukrainian energy markets is part of what's sleazy about the whole thing. It's just nepotism. But it's just nepotism. And it's not great. And it's a system that, you know, we're trying to have overthrown, which is why we don't want Joe Biden to win the nomination necessarily. But it's also not the thing that Trump is trying to make it out to be.

Yeah. Well, you know. It's also coming from the king of nepotism. Right. Yeah. We're going to talk about that a little bit. Right. Yeah, we're going to talk about that a little bit. I mean, he is being, we're going to, we have a couple stories later, both about like the fact that Trump and, first know, profiting off of the presidency of the United States. But he's just spending a ton of money on, you know, Facebook campaigns and just getting the message out that, you know, just going on the counter offensive and because he has way more money to spend and is way more aggressive about spending it on Facebook and for some reason is better at Facebook than Democrats. I think it's kind of gaining traction, this idea.

Like I guarantee if you asked most people two months from now, like in the middle of the country, like about the Ukraine thing, they would be like, well, there's that photograph with, you know. Maybe. I think that's going to stay. I mean, if the, I mean, again, look, more shit even came out. And it's only making things worse. So, yeah, maybe there will be a dip if like this sort of enthusiasm begins to sort of falter a little bit.

But I don't know. I kind of of like most people are hoping that maybe this is something logical enough and clear enough for people to just be like maybe yeah maybe this is bad yeah all right we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back i'm carrie champion and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese.

I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really hear them. Why is that? Just come here to play basketball every single day day and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire?

Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to the making of a rivalry, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese.

I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them boys. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.

Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better.

This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for

the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current, available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that.

I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session. 24 hours. BPM 110. 120. She's terrified.

Should we wake her up? Absolutely not. What was that? You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it. That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year ago.

We're not hurting people. There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back and it's time to blow the whistle the whistleblower saga fucking continues uh but i think it ended right i mean these texts should seal it yeah i mean god the even more damning fucking evidence comes out. You know, at the end of last week, Kurt Volker, who was the special envoy to Ukraine,

testified in front of Congress to talk about what was going on between the State Department and Ukraine and Rudy Giuliani and everyone's hand in that. And one of the biggest things is that he handed over these text messages that were between him and this other person who is the ambassador to the EU and Rudy Giuliani. And essentially, it completely nullifies their defense that there was no quid pro quo. Like, it's very clear through these text messages what the fucking deal was. the fucking deal was. And it was essentially, you will not get any aid or a visit to the White House to sort of visually strengthen our ties and our alliance unless Ukraine publicly announces an investigation into the 2016 election so they can have a counter Mueller report type thing and into Bursema, which is the whole Biden's son deal.

Right. And like the text. The whole quid pro quo, like that was their defense. Like, well, he didn't explicitly say this Biden thing. I will give you aid if you do. Like it wasn't made that explicit in the memo that is like supposed to be a transcript of that call. And so they were like, yeah, we're good then.

Well, this text from Kurt Volker to Zelensky's like top aide, right before, you know, the call that everything is centered around. So preparing him for this phone call, this envoy to Ukraine from the U.S. government says, this is the text he sends to President Zelensky's aide. Quote, heard from white house assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate slash and then he uses like uh quotes quote get to the bottom of what happened in 2016 and quote we will nail down a date for a visit to washington

so access to the president in exchange for politically expedient research yeah get to i mean the way it's even like put in quotes in the text just shows you what the fuck they're talking like this whole idea like because there was a lot of back and forth or they're like we're not really sure if we want to do this there was a aid to zelensky even pushed back to this envoy to the eu and volker basically saying like zelensky is very concerned that he's just going to be an instrument of a political fight in the U S and doesn't want to be used in that. Like he's just not interested in that. And they were pushing back like,

well, you know, we got to establish these relationships. Right. And then we'll figure it out. Like it was very much not even close to remotely understanding like how conflicted and awful this could be. Yeah.

And I mean, they specifically wrote a statement for them to make that was, we intend to initiate and complete a transparent and unbiased investigation of all available facts and episodes, including those involving Burisma and the 2016 US elections. Like they said that that had to specifically be in their statement in order for them to get the access that they were seeking. So it's I mean, so they're they're specifically bringing up the Biden thing. Well, yeah. Well, at first, the the Ukrainian officials are saying, can we just give a statement that says we're committed to investigating corruption and weeding out corruption in the government? And like Giuliani to even those guys from the State Department was like, absolutely not.

Like they need to specifically. Let me put my hand all the way up your ass and puppet you. Right. So that you're saying exactly what I need you to say. Hi, read this text out loud on TV now. Exactly. And then you can get your defense weapons to fight Russia. I believe that's a hostage video is what that they're technically looking for there.

But I mean, this is now also part of like why Trump is just even out there in the open, just saying like, well, yeah, I have to look into corruption. Right. Every day, it's like this really shitty thing for him, you know, poor Trump, where he's assuming that the press or the general public won't learn another damning detail. So the plan he has right now is fine according to the reality of the situation as it happens. And then a new detail comes out and then he has to further change his position. So now it's just going to be like, yeah, I'm looking into corruption. I think it's important. I'm the president. He's like, I made up this corruption and now I'm going to go look into it. Yeah. Right. It's like, which is crazy. You know, I, I gotta look into it though. You know, I'd be completely remiss if I were not to. But I mean, I read, so I read the

transcript of what, uh, Rush Limbaugh is saying on his show right now. And he's just totally buying everything and being like, this is why you got to love Trump. He totally doubles down and is like, you know, you, the mainstream media, don't want to believe or like won't report on the corruption around Biden. So I have to report it directly to the TV cameras. And like, I'm pure as the driven snow

because I made all my own money. And, but these people are all, you know, making their children billionaires by or millionaires by, you know, doing corrupt dealings like this. Like that's the that's how it's being taken elsewhere in the country. Well, that's the only way to defend against this. Again, if you're committed a crime and you're trying to say you're innocent, if you're the first thing out of your mouth is, well, what about this thing? Right. That's not a defense.

Right. That's you're just trying to distract people from your own wrongdoing and saying, well, I mean, I guess it's normal because what about this guy? So. Yeah. Are we sure we're calling those crimes? Right. It's crimes so meanwhile ukraine like is kind of in a weird no man's land because they're like wait so we do need to investigate them though

because like we still want the weapons like we still want the access to the levers of power well they i mean well the aid has already been you know signed off on right in september 11th they got it but i, future aid and just... Well, this is the thing, though. Zelensky had already said that he is going to go to the negotiating table with Russia to try and end the invasion or the war that's happening in Crimea. Right. So at a certain level, his long view is that, well, I won't need these defense weapons

because I'm just going to capitulate, allow like weird puppet state to be carved out of ukraine and just keep things moving but i guess this is where it's what's interesting because now the ukrainian government has said they are going to look into this gas company yeah they said the prosecutor general ruslan riabo shopka um who's like the new prosecutor general, said. Was that the name of the guy in the golf video? No, it was Devin Archer. Oh, my bad. I got those two confused.

He said he's looking to review 15 cases in all, including high profile investigations of wealthy Ukrainians, among them the owner of the natural gas company Burisma Holdings. So it's not even into necessarily the company. It's like the Ukrainian owner of the natural gas company uh burisma holdings so it's not even into necessarily the company it's like the ukrainian owner of it right um so it's weird i don't know on one level right because i think if you're thinking of it like as this triangle between ukraine russia and the united states it would almost make sense if there was now pressure from Russia for Ukraine to like, actually do this investigation, because then that would help Trump like at least legitimize his actions. Because in the,

in the end of the day, Putin does need Trump in office for anything remotely positive in terms of their agenda to occur. Yeah. And also just in general, he likes to see what like the Western world suffer and be torn down and lose influence and lose power. And the greatest success of his entire career in terms of accomplishing that has been the election of Donald Trump. Right. So you have to wonder if this will play into those Russian negotiations.

Right. With Zelensky. Like Like if Zelensky makes Trump happy, Trump will tell Putin to make Zelensky happy. Right. Yeah, and again, that's what's, and we'll see what this whole, you know, these negotiations go, like where they go. And ultimately, if they do lead to the easing of sanctions on Russia, because that's really always the thing that Russia wants.

Like out of anything, it has always been, please relieve the sanctions because our economy is suffering. And people keep pointing the finger at me, Vladimir Putin, for what's going on. But, you know, we've talked about from the start that it is shady that Hunter Biden got a $50,000 a month position working for a Ukrainian gas company when he didn't really have the necessary background. It was probably, you know, trying to buy influence with Biden. And that's shady as fuck. And, you know, even Donald Trump's own sons went on Fox News to complain about just how shady all this shit was, like how how, you know, Biden and Hunter were like in running this scam.

So, uh, I thought it might be a good time to raise all the corrupt shit that this president and his family has been able to get away with. Um, like asking people to stay at all, all their resorts, sending his kids to India to close these big,

like real estate deals. There are foreign governments who are just buying blocks of rooms up at Trump hotels and not staying there? Right. It's just incredible. There's this article in Vox that's titled, Irony is Dead. The Trump Sons Are Doing Everything Possible to Make Corruption a Major 2020 Issue. And then subhead Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump really should sit this Hunter Biden the Trump sons are doing everything possible to make corruption a major 2020 issue. And then subhead Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump really should sit this Hunter Biden thing out. In Vox, we will link off to it in the footnotes. But it says, since Trump was inaugurated,

Don Jr. and Eric have been responsible for the Trump organization, about 500 business entities. And according to Trump generates about $9.5 billion in revenue. Uh, and they haven't like stopped doing that at all. Uh, Forbes reported that Eric and Don jr have sold more than a hundred million dollars of the family's real estate since the inauguration, including a $3.2 million deal in the dominican republic last year that they said is quote the clearest violation of their father's pledge to do no new foreign deals well in office so i mean he's just it's a pledge man it was a pledge okay wasn't a fucking legally binding thing okay it's just a thing as far as i know pledge is a surface cleaner right so you know do without what the trump

international hotel generates uh 41 million dollars in income last year alone for trump yeah well again this is i don't understand why they are so fucking focused on this specific dimension of like a hit job of corruption when they are, I mean, they have no fucking place to even point the finger in that direction. Right. And like, they're really hedging their bets where they're like, it's going to be Joe Biden. Right.

We're going to be running against Joe Biden. Let's just fucking triple down on this strategy of just trying to be like Joe Biden corrupt because then we can make it a binary choice between like what version of corruption do you want? Right. And they could have put literally anyone else up there to talk about the fact that this is all nepotism, but they chose Don Jr.

Right. Exactly. Like, oh, me? Yeah. I mean, but it's bad. I'm Don Jr. And I'm clearly benefiting from all of this. Yes.

And we'll see. I mean, that's- The fact that they brought up China is really galling because the New York Times detailed in August a $1.7 billion Trump organization project in Indonesia received a $500 billion infusion from a state-owned Chinese construction company. And Ivanka's getting all those trademarks in China. Ivanka's getting all the trademarks that she's been looking for for a while. Jared Kushner is getting bailed out from Qatar for his horrible real estate-

Was it 666 Fifth Avenue? Yep. Great, great address. Yeah. And also that's where Rudy Giuliani always goes to smoke cigars and rant and rave about his new podcast. Mitt Romney's out here making good points. He said, when the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated.

So you're going to impeach him? Yeah. than politically motivated. So you're going to impeach him? This is the thing, man. Like, they can keep talking all this shit about, like, you know, do the Susan Collins thing where it's very disappointing or very alarming or disturbing. But, like, come on then.

Don't just get the fucking quotes out there so you can just say something to maybe buy yourself five seconds. Like, you know, hopefully this dam will break. A lot of people suspect, though, too, that once the Republicans turn on him, it'll all happen at once. It's not going to be like one person, then another person. It's going to be like, OK, execute, you know, Operation Abandoned Orange Fuck. Abandoned Orange Fuck. Well, so he's actually profiting off of this.

He's actually profiting off of this. Our writer, Jay McNabb, pointed out that he's using his own impeachment to basically spend more money and raise more money than he has since his campaign was officially launched. His Facebook page ran nearly 2,000 ads to solicit donations since the democrats announced official impeachment proceedings he's asking his supporters to join his quote official impeachment defense task force uh what do they get a fucking free badge a plastic badge and a hat yeah basically wait oh god his anti-impeachment task force also seems like a euphemism for like some insurgent like armed militia right it's like you should join the anti-impeachment task force also seems like a euphemism for some insurgent armed militia. Right. It's like, you should join the anti-impeachment task force.

But he totally thinks this is a huge opportunity for him. Somebody was pointing out that he spent as much as $3 million on Facebook ads railing against impeachment and criticizing Democrats. Conversely, only about $703,000 was spent on pro-impeachment ads. That's conversely only about $703,000 was spent on pro-impeachment ads. So, yeah, he's going to dominate Facebook with his messaging. Well, yeah, I'm curious to know how much of that, like who that audience is, if it's just to keep his base in line, if there are enough independents on there that those ads are getting to that it could affect them.

Facebook is an incredible marketing machine. It's so good. Yeah, you can get to anyone. Yeah, it's better than any form of marketing we'd had prior to its existence. It's like I'm looking for half Korean women who grew up in the Midwest and are left-handed and love basketball. With that $3 million of spending, he made back $8.5 million in just two days

and got 50,000 new donors. And that's the thing. Like it's new donors that he's adding to his list. He's getting the people too who would be on the fence when all the other Republicans come out and say, we're against this guy. He's now built this anti-impeachment militia and they all have their badges and they're

going to come and say like now we hate mitt romney now we hate all the other republicans and we're our third party and we're going to re-elect trump yeah that's what's going to be interesting like at what point and we were talking about that last week it's sort of like what what does that look like if they do try and jettison trump off of the the ship that known as a GOP, like, are they really just creating another third party that they're going to have to fight? Is it going to just, and is that going to completely split the votes, that conservative ideology is just going to have a real hard time reestablishing itself over time? But-

I mean, that would be ideal. That's ideal, but- But I feel like more it's just going to be that that new party, whatever it is, that follows Trump is going to be the real powerful party because it's just appealing to everybody's most base, you know, hateful ideals. I mean, the merch, though, coming out of the Trump store is really quite beautiful. Yeah. Someone who really enjoys fine art yeah uh this poster that he's selling the donald j trump limited edition what they call fucking fine art poster yeah and it's him doing a fucking like superman through the air flying pose it's like a really terrible

illustration with his seismograph uh autograph on there terrifying. $24 for that fine art for $24. That's, you know, I like that he's democratizing fine art. Yeah. I mean, you say terrifying, I say inspiring. And the other way they're spending that $8 million that they made is on TV ads, spreading a conspiracy theory, spreading the Joe Biden and Ukraine conspiracy theory. But I know CNN refused to air it, I think. Yeah, well, I mean, that's the thing.

Which they should. Facebook is not refusing to run these ads. They could. They're not going to say no. And again, when you look at why Facebook fucking sucks and why Mark Zuckerberg is a fucking loser. Right. Like being open to like, yeah, dude, I fucking love money that I'm just so down to like gaslight people with these really misleading ads. Because, you know, it's a fucking $8 million spent.

Yeah. And he actually said like we put politicians through a different approval process than your everyday advertiser. Right. Like they can say what they want. God, please. approval process than your everyday advertiser. Right. They can say what they want. I think there's some validity to probably holding

political speech sacred, but you got to, at a certain point, put your foot down and not let people... These are just lies. Tell lies know it's just as dangerous as like climate change denial because the effects of that are people are not paying attention to a crisis that is an existential threat to humanity right and this is a crisis

and an existential threat to our you know representative democracy yeah and to just be like yeah yeah fine you know fuck it just be like this thing that everyone has said has been widely debunked across just like across everywhere we're gonna still present that as fact to you yeah because they're spending enough money so i mean i think that's a fairly good summary of like where we were coming out of last week right Like it's, you know, the facts that are coming out are really bad for Trump. Trump is just using his, you know, giant social media imprint and huge. The fact that he has like more money than any presidential campaign ever to blast out lies. And they're sort of, you know, equaling each other out with slight movement and towards, uh, you know, people favoring impeachment. But in terms of where this thing could be headed, one of the questions I'm very interested in is what else is in that, uh, vault, that secret server thing where they, where they were holding this transcript and apparently other transcripts of

calls that the president had that were potentially damaging. Meetings, everything. Anything that they're like, we have to keep this secret. So that's conversations with Putin, conversations with Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. Those are things on there. and we also found out recently there was a conversation that trump had with chinese president xi jinping that was saying as they were like look this deal was i'll shut the fuck about hong kong as long as we keep these trade talks going because like i need to figure out like he needs a win so he's trading money or the the optics of a win in the economy

uh for people who are trying to fight for their own democracy yeah or some the some some semblance of a democracy whatever they whatever it ends up being in hong kong but it's you know when you consider how much normally the the stance of the united states is like we like to try and hold china sometimes ish i mean at least we would say something about human rights violations, not necessarily always do something about it. But this is just sort of like, hi, here's the deal. I'll fucking, you know, I'm not going to make it hot for you. Look, man, I'll suck your dick.

I'll suck your dick, please, man. Just need a win. I just need a win. So, again, when you look at how willing he is to reverse course on all kinds of established policies and norms for this government, you can only imagine what some of these other calls are. And if this is, you know, shit's still leaking out somehow. I have to believe Hillary's emails are in that vault, too. Right.

Just so he can continue to say that Hillary's emails are hidden in a vault somewhere. In Ukraine, I think. It was like his other thing, too, is like, well, what about that DNC server in Ukraine? And they're like, what? That was the DNC server that Russia hacked, but that was actually hacked by the Ukrainians. Right. And they're hiding the evidence somewhere in a vault in Ukraine, except we know where that server is. Yeah.

We have it somewhere in DC. You know, it's violent flailing. Yeah. So I don't know. It'll, it'll be interesting to see where things go from here. The foreign ministry in China came out and was like,

you guys solve that shit yourself. We're sure America can handle their own problem. Oh, the Biden thing? Yeah, yeah. Well, of course. Yeah, guys, go fuck yourselves. Keep us out of this. By tomorrow, there'll be fucking 800 other things to sift through.

Yeah. All right. We're going to take another quick break. We'll be right back. Another quick break. We'll be right back. I'm Carrie Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry.

Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really hear them voice. I just come here to play basketball every single day and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained?

This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to the making of a rivalry, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them. Why is that? I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black.

I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke.

This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman.

The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent, revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current. Available now with new episodes every Thursday.

Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project.

All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session. 24 hours. BPM 110. 120. She's terrified. Should we wake her up? Absolutely not.

What was that? You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it. That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year ago. We're not hurting people.

There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And while we're on the subject of the People's Republic of China, did anybody see the 70-year anniversary parade last week? Good? Oh, man, one of my favorite parades.

How were they dressed? What was the red carpet like? Was Snoopy there like in Macy's Day Parade? Unfortunately not. Was Winnie the Pooh? A lot of enormous like globe destroying missiles. I could have used fewer of those and more

Snoopy. Oh, it was just a big dick measuring parade? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And how big is it? Huge. Oh, it's huge? There were also some weapons uh that i had never seen outside of a gi joe toy box like there there was like a little like uh motorcycle helicopter thing it was like a two-seater little helicopter that didn't like you weren't inside of anything right yeah you were just like in an open helicopter thing. It was kind of dope.

That sounds awesome. I think the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade could use those. Yeah, absolutely. Like a little, I mean, I could use those. Just like a little golf cart helicopter. You could just be like, whee, take off. That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, but I'm here for it. I think Elon Musk is coming out with one next week.

Yeah, exactly. Flamethrowers and personal helicopters. It's powered by weed, you know, because we smoke weed now. There's also a slingshot hypersonic unmanned aircraft that looks like a stealth bomber, but like in a hang glider size. And it's designed to help aim weapons at u.s air aircraft carriers so wait what do you mean like it's just that's like people looked at it we're like oh so we understand what

this does and it's specifically designed to fight a war with us with the with the united states oh like considering our naval technology yes great uh and the other thing they said is that all the missile names are all written on the side of the weapons in English. And the Jalopnik editor who was kind of summarizing this was pointing out that that's because the real audience for the parade is us, the Daily Zeitgeist. Oh, fantastic. Yeah. Well, thank you so much. Yeah, thank you. All right.

Oh, fantastic. Yeah. Well, thank you so much, G. Yeah, thank you. All right. Joker, as we're recording this, appears ready to break a bunch of box office records while you're listening to it, probably already has. And so producer Anna Hosnier was actually at a movie theater last night,

so we're going to bring her in. But you were saying that it had sort of a different vibe than a movie going experience like you didn't see joker right you you wait what about joker why didn't you see joker why didn't you see joker dog come on what are you anti-comedy i thought you were a serious film goer um no hustlers are really good right yeah but you were saying that there was like a palpable police presence at the movie theater i didn't say police presence i said there were security guards around well so what did they look like just dudes in polo shirts that said security on the back looking on their phones disinterested there was one on his phone looking of course yeah i

mean i know security guards i was looking at him i was like wow you let you carry your phones huh yeah yeah i guess that makes sense. Shout out to Pro Stuff. Yeah, no, they were walking. Well, one, the parking lot was packed and the theater was packed. And I was like, wow, Hustlers is going to be really great if all these people get to see it. Oh, but it was for everyone for Joker? I guess so, because that's the big movie that was out, unless they came for the gold finch. I don't think nobody did. Nobody came for the gold finch.

But yeah, but they had security guards patrolling outside and in the theater damn oh like up in it like even in hustlers no no no like in the out not like in a movie theater like in the building just like walking down the aisles like what y'all doing over there yeah just standing under the screen with their arms crossed just looking at it well i don't know if you guys remember during uh when straight out of compton came out they had security guards sitting in the screen with their arms crossed just looking out at the audience. I don't know if you guys remember when Straight Outta Compton came out, they had security guards sitting in the theaters with people. Of course. Oh, right.

Yeah, because there's such a rich history of hip-hop fans doing that shit. Okay. Yeah, so there was definitely security walking around. It didn't look like they were ready to take action if something happened, but they were there. Probably just as much for

people who are the patrons of the theater to feel safe. I wasn't personally concerned because I live in a lower income area and I was like, they're not coming for us. They're coming for the whites if they really want to. I haven't read one good review of it. I don't know if that's because of all of the commotion

about it and todd phillips just like shooting off at the mouth and all these other things that it it just sort of poisoned the well so no one could watch it and feel good about it but i've not like the headlines have been like it's one terrible note played over and over again or like it's the worst thing i don't give a fuck about right yeah i'm still gonna probably see it because no i'm curious what people were so into in venice i don't know they're like the angsty young angry guy just looking at me and describing i don't know the story of the angry young. Oh, shit, bro. I don't know. He's not young, right?

Because he's like old like me. But he's like middle-aged. I'm not fully sure what they're trying to portray him as. But that story is so boring to me. It's like, oh, no, you're angry. Yeah. And you could watch 50-year-old J-lo yeah the hottest stripper of all time instead right that's a more interesting story i'm like i've seen the angry dude who's unhappy and it's

almost almost every joaquin phoenix movie but like i've seen that story so much it's not interesting to me i'm like yeah oh no right but then it's like oh a story of some strippers who hustles and wall street guys out of money because that's just more interesting. I'm sure I actually defy physics as she looks that good. Are you jealous? What? No, I look so young. No, I could probably look like that too if I really tried. But it's not one of my priorities. I wake up every day hoping that I look like a young 50.

Yeah, that's right. As a 29-year-old. day hoping that I look like a young 50. Yeah, that's right. As a 29 year old. Yeah. There is just something with people's fascination with this specific character. Is this his origin story? Yeah.

I guess. The first origin story that is specifically all about that. I don't really understand the timelines of these films. It's all just like one universe and they just hop around. Wouldn't he like much younger when he decided to become the joker or is it the actual i don't know the story very well is it that he became the joker late in life i haven't it's different i don't know i think it probably it's up to the the writer at that point

like how they want to portray it meaning based in fact i I mean, in the Tim Rob, or Tim. Burton. Tim Robinson. Tim Robinson. I think you should leave version. I want to see the Tim Robinson Batman, but the Tim Burton Batman, he didn't become Joker until he was in his 60s.

And that was Nicholson, right? Yeah, Nicholson. Yeah. I don't get it. He fell in a vat of acid. Right. Oh, so that's not the same origin story of like, I've decided that no one likes my comedy right yeah that is different and he's like what's the original story like sort of frustrated the desire to have a origin story by like giving you a different

explanation for how his face got scarred up like one one of them was the- Right, but we don't see his actual him becoming, he's already the Joker. Right. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. I mean, see, that's the beauty of this intellectual property.

You can rinse and reuse and make it seem like a different thing every time. Right, but there is an original comic book that is the official origin. No. Well, I guess the first origin story was when he was like not the Joker in Red Hood. Right.

In the 50s, when that was the first technical appearance of this character. So why should I respect any of this if there's no original? No, you made the right choice. Go hang with J-Lo and Lizzo. But I do think that's one of the things that's cool about comic book movies is you can endlessly go back and retell a story in a different way. Right. I don't think that that's,

that doesn't bother me about them. It just. That's the one thing I don't like. It's like, it's just never ending. It's like, what's the true story here? What's the fact? You're like, what's the truth? Yeah.

Is it a vat of chemicals or he's an incel comic? That's why it's like, yes, exactly. Like what, how did he get here? Where did we decide this was this isn't what it is that's that's what my problem with the spider-man movies is there's two there's too many and they all have like a weird concept going on and i don't understand what's frustrating me with i think spider-man was the one place that frustrated me because it felt like they all could be the same movie like there weren't that many differences about like the origin story.

It was just like a different like dude in high school, but until Into the Spider-Verse. But in his first appearance, he does fall into a vat of chemicals. The very first appearance. Okay, so that's the original concept. It wasn't a bad comedy career. Okay. But that's why I know these movies start getting you to question.

I thought he was a guy who had chemical burns. But as we've talked about with Miles's friends, that is a very real type of pathos that people deal with. Like the dude, the failed comedian, being somebody who ends up metastasizing into anger. It is a form of like i do oh you talking about the guy who i went to high school with who's dressing up like the joker right yeah didn't we talk about that on the show yeah we did and um i actually i asked around about him i think he works in reality tv now hell yeah he does he plays the joker no he he, yeah, maybe. The reality TV star would be a good comic book villain. Yeah, right? Just totally fucked beyond

recognition of plastic surgery. That's better. The YouTube, the evil YouTube star. Yeah, YouTube social experiment prank star is like the Joker. Oh, shit. It's just racism and murder, but he calls them pranks. And social experiments. And like offensive videos of dead people.

Oh, wait, that guy actually exists on YouTube. Yeah. I guess he is the Joker. Jake, is it Jake, or what's the other one? Jake, he's the Jake. Loke, Logan, Loke, Loco. I don't know what they are. It's all Jake-er and Loco, dude.

Jake-er and Loco, the original Jokers. Well, there's this one prank guy, quote prank guy, who like goes and like picks fights with black people and then is like, oh, shit. It's a prank. Yeah. Look how tight that was. Yeah, I remember it was like this dude.

I think, I forget who he was. There was one guy who was not white. He's Middle Eastern. And he would go around in New York and like step on people's Jordans and shit. Or like- Was that MBS? Or try to run off with their phone. And then they'd be like, he would go around in New York and, like, step on people's Jordans and shit. Or, like, try to run off with their phone. And then they'd be like, he would literally go, like, he's fucking around in the hood.

And he would have it filmed? Yes. And these people would beat his ass. Or, like, he would get swung. It was like, dude, it was a joke. It was a prank. It was a prank. It was a prank.

It was a prank. The prank would be like, hey, man, like, oh, is that, like, the new phone? And try to snatch it out their hand and run. And, of course, they're going to fucking put their hands on you but it was really like in the point where that's like when a lot of people were like these are not pranks like you're just fucking with people there's no prank involved because as far as they're concerned you're stealing from them i think trying to half assault the original and only prank show that really should have any respect is Candid Camera. Candid Camera, but before they did the reveal.

Did you ever hear about how the show was like a complete failure and then they started showing the reveal? But before that, it was just like people being fucked with and everyone was like, this is mean. I think I only watched during the reveal era. Oh, so there was no like relief for the victim of the prank? you'd be like what the fuck it just ended there seems like a mean social so she thought her baby was stolen right yeah what the fuck you're like i love this show right uh i feel like you're underrating punked yeah i feel like that was peak i think we're all but it was but yeah there's something about punking rich people that's not interesting I'm like oh no

well you'll be fine well I think it's really the ones are good is when you can make rich people sweat like what was the one where the phone he thought the house

was burning down or some shit oh I don't even remember that one I think it was just one of those people were like Justin Timberlake

was that Timberlake everything was being repossessed it also brings out the worst in people yeah kind of which is a good thing. I think that's great. You find out that somebody is a terrible person,

and then they're like, yeah, I'll sign off, sure. Yeah, expose them through pranks. All right, guys. Sorry. Anna, we have to talk about Sour Candy, and you're going to stay on mic for this one. Hustling. Sour Candy.

Sour Candy. So there is a story on, I think, the takeout that you can currently buy 90 Airheads for $7. They're just always doing ads on there. Yeah. Yeah. That's just a good deal. I mean, I love Airheads. I haven't had one in probably 16 years.

That's one of those candies that taste so good that it would like make my jaw hurt from like the salivation or whatever oh you mean just your the jaw joints being overworked yeah i remember what an airhead looks like but i'm trying to remember how you eat an airhead it was just like a big it was like a strip but is it like a chew on you chew on it just take a bite off of that thing chewy i couldn't remember if it was like a big lollipop or yeah no no just a flap of choo-choo and flap of choo-choo yeah flap of choo-choo uh and i remember the white mystery flavor was my favorite one which i think was just cherry or like white cherry or something but they called it mystery then there was blue raspberry and i'm trying to remember what else they sold in like the candy store in my great high

purple was great there's always purple. It was great. One of the worst flavors, I think, just in general. Fake grape. I loved it. Do you like fake grape in general as a flavor? No, not anymore. As a kid, though, I loved the fake grape.

Grape flavor. Yeah. So when I was growing up and trick-or-treating, I always felt like I was getting ripped off with anything that wasn't chocolate unless it was a blow pop. I think blow pops were also up there. Because there was at least chewing gum that your parents wouldn't let you normally have.

It was a multiple course meal. Yeah, exactly. And for me, Starburst, I was like, you missed me with that shit. Right. Where's the fucking- Even though I love Starburst. I love Starburst. Don't get me wrong but the excitement when i'm ranking like when i see what's going into the satchel that

i'm carrying around uh when i trick-or-treat to this day as a 35 year old man right um i really love to have the chocolate right you know the list there's been lists a lot of people been putting out lists this is the thing people love to do every year around this time, ranking the best or the worst Halloween candies. Candystore.com on their blog set off a list that a lot of people had takes on, on the best and the worst. I would just like to start off with the worst because I think I agree with many of these. The first one, candy corn. I do not like candy corn. I'm fucking done.

I used to really fuck with candy corn when I was a kid. It's my sister's favorite food, which I find- Her favorite just food in general? Her favorite food is candy corn, and it makes me not really trust her as a person. It's weird. What's your experience as you eat candy corn? I do the thing, and I'm sure I've said this over and over again, where I think somehow this will be the year it tastes different to me.

Right. And it's not. I gave up on it when I was 10. That's good. Good for you. You're smarter to me. Right. And it's not. I gave up on it like when I was 10. That's good. Good for you. You're smarter than me. Number two, circus peanuts. I mean, do people still give out circus peanuts?

I don't know, man. That's a candy? Yeah, they're orange marshmallows that are peanut shaped and they aren't good. Oh, those are... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought those were packing peanuts. So I've been eating those. No, I just never knew that.

Yeah, those like fake ass, like orange. Aren't they like orange and pink or whatever? Like they're mixed up in the bag? Yeah, I've never even tried it. I had no idea. Do you put those in your packages? I guess so. Yeah.

Dude, number three, peanut butter kisses. Yo, hold on. Are Reese's peanut butter cup, but given rebirth as a Hershey's kiss? I would fuck with that. That sounds amazing. Who the fuck said that? You know what? I think Reese's was always like my ultimate, especially if you got one of the pumpkins

or like one of the ones that's actually like- Oh, all right. Yeah. Okay, money bags. Wow. Didn't have that in my town. Yeah. That was next level.

Number four, wax coke bottles could not agree more like what the who those wax candies the wax candies like in my mind like they sucked and i never enjoyed them but like they give me such a specific sensory memory of like childhood because maybe just because i haven't fucked with them since like or the lips like wax lips the wax lips yeah terrible wax lips, yeah. Terrible. I feel like the sensory memory is like a stomachache. Right? Yeah, yeah.

Necco wafers, obviously, we're anti-necco, or I'm anti-necco wafer. Sorry. It is what it is. Tootsie rolls? Nah, I don't fuck with Tootsie rolls. I mean, I don't think it deserves worse. Like, I feel like, look, you know. I think it does because it's such a serial offender.

People think they can get away with chocolate. With the Tootsie roll? With the Tootsie roll. And it's like, look, you know. I think it does because it's such a cereal offender. People think they can get away with chocolate. With the Tootsie Roll? With a Tootsie Roll. And it's like, that's not chocolate. That's chocolate flavored candy. Exactly. Or that's chocolate flavored gum. It's like when you're cutting cocaine with other fillers.

You're like, hold on, bro. This ain't the real deal. I actually prefer fruity Tootsie Rolls than I'd over chocolate Tootsie Rolls, personally. Oh. Yeah. Aren't we? Because they're like Starbucks. Number seven, Smarties.

I like Smarties. Now here she is. Wait, what? I like Smarties. They're on the worst list? Look, we're not saying this is based on any kind of fact or we should respect these opinions, because I like a Smartie.

I fucking ride or die by Smarties. I mean, that was the first thing I learned about you, was you were the Smartie lady. I fucking love Smarties. Yeah, you just rolled in. I used to go to Iran with so by Smarties. I mean, that was the first thing I learned about you was you were the Smartie lady. I fucking love Smarties. You just rolled in. I used to go to Iran with so many Smarties that my family members and children or people who are now my age, because we all grew up as that works. In linear time. When I would see them as children, I would give out so many Smarties in Iran that when I come back and visit as I get older, they still be like, you got the Smarties?

And I'd be like, no, I have to quit sugar because age doesn't do well. But damn, Smarties are the best. For my family, it's me being into sharks. Do you have that thing that you're known to your cousins as? Oh, yeah. My uncle,

they would always call me Brazilian. You're really into Brazil? No, because in the 98 World Cup, I would usually be in Japan in the summer. Whenever I wasn't in school, I was basically in Japan. So when World Cups would come around, I was in Japan. And that year was the emergence of Ronaldo, R9, the great striker. And ultimately, France won that World Cup, as we all know. Zinedine Zidane with an MVP performance.

But yeah, I was so obsessed with this Brazil team that they were like, oh, it's the Brazilian. It wasn't, you know, normally Japanese people do like to other half Japanese people, but it wasn't that. It was my devotion to the Brazilian national team. And that actually subsequently set off an intense obsession with Brazilian culture nice

love the music love the food yeah and there's a certain ginga you know as they say magic to it there's worse countries

and then look just to round out the 10 licorice good and plenty and bit of honey bit of honey what are those fuck that

I've heard of licorice I've heard of licorice good and plenty are just like they're like licorice also in a box the pink and white ones yeah pink heard of licorice. I've heard of licorice. Good and Plenty are just like, they're like licorice also in a box. Aren't they the pink and white ones? Yeah, pink and white, licorice flavored, like pill, pills.

Yeah, and then Bit of Honeys are just chewy with a little bit of, I don't know. That's very uninteresting. Okay, now let's get into what they are saying are the tops. Number one, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Hell yeah. Okay. Number two, Snickies. Snickies.

Okay. I'll put that upies. Snickies. Okay. I'll put that up there. Would you throw your Snickers into the freezer right away or were you a kid who would- No, I would just leave it. Did your parents let you eat all your shit that night? No. No. Oh, man.

I mean, but when I was a kid, no. But- I had to fucking, I would, my mom would put that shit above the refrigerator. Yeah. And in the middle of the night, I would wake up, get the stepstool, and fucking take that, like, just take a handful out. But I didn't have a garbage can in my room, like, when I was six. So, like, I would have it, like, in my pockets and shit.

My mom would, like, be like, what the fuck were you doing? You're just, like, dropping it out of your pant leg like Andy Dufresne out of prison. Right, exactly. I slowly dig my way out. Number three, Twix. Yeah, Twix is good. Not a fan. Oh.

No? No. Is it between left Twix or right Twix or just in general? I just don't like a Twix. Really? Yeah. What is it about it? The caramel?

It's not good chocolate. It's not good caramel. Wow. And then it's that tasteless wafer thing in the middle. Fantastic. Wow. So everything has to be good for you. Yeah.

Wow. There's like a bare minimum standard. Okay. Number four, Kit Kat. I love Kit Kat. I like a white chocolate Kit Kat. You have the green tea Kit Kat? Ever been to Japan?

Ever known anybody who's taken a trip to Japan? The matcha? That's good. Yeah. What was that one? Didn't I bring some shit back taking a trip to Japan the matcha that's good yeah what was that one I didn't I bring some shit back when I went to Japan the banana ones yeah I would oh yeah I brought banana Kit Kats back from Japan no they're really good interesting really good I know you

it sounds disgusting because normally fake bananas shit is not the wave wait was Kit Kat the one that was like give me a break give me a break break me off a piece of that Snickers bar. Whoa. Jesus Christ, man. We're both Snickers?

Way too much time together. We did the same stupid-ass punchline. The same terrible joke. Number five, M&M's. Yeah. Peanut M&M's. Peanut only. Yeah.

With the peanut, oh, peanut, not peanut butter. Peanut. Have you ever had the coconut M&M's? No. No, those are kind of good. And the pretzel M&Ms. I was saying they needed to make pretzel M&Ms before they made them, and now I've been disappointed in what they came up with ever since.

I got them because I feel like Rex Ryan, the football coach, was addicted to them, and there was a story about that, and I was like, I got to try these, man, because my boy Rex, I think he knows how to snack. The peanuts, I feel like, are the only candy that I could eat forever. Like in an endless loop. Reese's Pieces, I feel like that too. I remember I read an article once.

It was like a peanut M&M is a perfect snack because it's got sugar and protein. And it's talking about like eating six peanut M&Ms, right? And I'm like, cool. Get a king-sized bag and there's your lunch. Have six and move on with your day. Has anybody ever eaten six peanut M&Ms?

Absolutely not. The only time is when there were only six peanut M&Ms left in the bag. There we go. I had to stop eating them because I was so addicted to them. You were?

Yeah, I would always, every time I would go to a gas station, I'd always get a bag of peanut M&Ms. Yo, it's not, I mean, that's not a joke. They specifically engineered this shit. Would you ever do the move where you don't chew them, you let the candy shell dissolve in your mouth and then do that?

I don't know, I put it in my ears. Oh, wow. I used to do that. But I kind of like the crunch. I think it's got the right balance of it all. Hit it with a hammer, opened it up like a baby. I've been like, my baby's born. Wait, you'd hit a baby with a hammer?

That's not how babies are born. You would crack open the peanut, the peanut M&M, and like birth the peanut out of it? No. As Leah pointed out, that's not how babies are born. It's how like a dinosaur baby is born, you know? Right, right, right. Like that scene in Jurassic Park where like that robot arm is like slowly taking the show off.

Yeah, that's exactly it. And BD Wong is, well, we engineer all of them to be females in Jurassic Park. Number seven or number six, nerds. You know what? Nerds are good. This is actually one of the bullshit, like just sugars, candies that I like. Yeah, nerds. Nerds are good. This is actually one of the bullshit, like just sugars, candies that I like. Yeah, me too.

Because you could just put a mouthful in and let your teeth rot away. They all dissolve. Yeah, yeah. It's got a nice mouthfeel. Yeah. Oh, yeah. All about the mouthfeel.

Great mouthfeel. Number seven, Butterfinger, of course. Oh, hell yeah. Butterfinger would be higher on my list for sure. What would you knock down of the Chacosos I'm trying to think probably uh Twix okay I would just flip-flop those uh number eight Sour Patch Kids yeah I like Sour Patch Kids a lot of people uh on this sour candy taxonomy that uh Marnie Schur did on the takeout uh she was saying that the sour patch kids are like she she only fucks with the uh sour patch watermelon but i actually so many people love

sour that's just is that a whole candy or that's just a flavor within the pack no no that's the whole candy they're like water lit they look like little watermelons yeah but i i actually fuck with the the kids themselves. I was put off by... All right, sorry. Loop that. Oh, boy. I was put off by watermelon candy from the jump

when I had Jolly Rancher's watermelon flavor. That shit just tasted like petroleum and sugar. Like the fake watermelon flavor in a watermelon jolly rancher oh yeah yeah you know what i mean yeah like light pink ones yeah like they were confusing to my mouth i was like this tastes so fucking weird and caustic it's like your cilantro or whatever it is that people yeah they're like here try this is this good or bad i know what your genetic type is uh number nine skittles i don't. I like the ones, what's the one in the blue pack? That's the-

The tropical one? Tropical. Yeah. I like those a little bit more. I like OG Skittles. You do? Yeah. Would you, again, another eating tactic,

would you dump the bag and then divide and conquer? It changes every time. Every time. Sometimes you just dip in, see what you get. Yeah. Other times you segregate them separate but equally. But when I don't eat them by color, I feel like a slob. Wow.

Just like putting it all in my mouth. Do you eat them one color at a time or are you like making smoothies? I go one color at a time usually. Oh. Wow. Huh. Interesting. By the way, the French, the Marnie Scher in this article, nice piece of information.

The French refer to Sour Patch Kids as very bad kids. Which I think is a good name. And the number 10 is the Hershey bar. Tried and true. Straight out of Hershey PA. Yeah. All the cookies and cream. So no Crunch bar on there.

No. Crunch. Crackle. You know, like when you get that mixed pack with the Hershey stuff. Mr. Good Bar. Payday. Hershey's Dark. Yeah.

You know what I mean? I love the dark chocolate. I didn't realize how much I liked that one. I feel like I would put Hershey's as like number two after Reese's. Wow. Yeah. Like just a regular bar. So you are all about the quality of the chocolate, it sounds like, Leah.

I am. What's the best? Okay, let's say you lived in a world where everyone was wealthy and they could import a chocolate from anywhere and that's what they handed out what would be a the chocolate that would bring you the most joy to be handed out regardless of what's normal for halloween like a 75 dark with sea salt holy shit okay refined thank you for that wow i just had recently a hungarian chocolate that has paprika in it and it's fucking good it's a dark it's a dark chocolate with a little bit of bite yeah you know

shout out to hungary good job hungary yeah european chocolate like i feel like the cadbury like they actually put milk in their milk chocolate yeah i love like an aero bar um kinder bueno right you know the little hippopotamus. But the Bueno. Kinder. Love the Kinder Bueno. Shout out to Cadbury. Bueno.

Shout out all chocolates around the world. That's my stance. Except Tootsie Rolls. Tootsie Rolls are not chocolate. You know what I mean? Wait, what is a Tootsie Roll then? It's what crack is to cocaine. Is it?

Yeah, man. They're fucking around. You start off with chocolate and then they stomp on it and make it some whole other product. Toblerone? Oh, wow. Haven't we been to Europe or on an airplane?

Tootsie Roll, they call it, when you look at the Wikipedia article where Tootsie Roll says, Tootsie Roll is a mildly chocolate flavored taffy like candy. Oh, it's taffy. Yeah, that's what it is a mildly chocolate-flavored taffy-like candy. Oh, it's taffy. Yeah, that's what it is. I guess that's where all those are, right? Taffy-like. Yeah. I don't fuck with taffy, period. Except for Starburst.

Cadbury Flake. You ever have that? Yep, had a flake. Yep, love a flake. I don't think I've had a flake. Oh, wow. You simply must. Flake gang. I'm excited. Okay, Jeff Flake. For all the Jeff Flake fans out there. Arizona Senator. Former.

Anybody fuck with mounds? Almond Joy. Almond Joy has nuts. Mounds don't. That's what she said. Anybody fuck with mounds? Anybody fuck with mounds? Yeah.

Hell yeah. I'll fuck with mounds then in that case. If it means I'm cool. Hey, is that a good thing? Then yes. That's the one that has coconut coconut and then like overpoweringly coconut yeah i don't mind now the only difference with almond joy is what it has an almond on top of the fucking coconut yeah it doesn't fundamentally

change much you know i mean like if you didn't like it you guys be like i'll take this one almond piece off the top those are my my favorite ads for candy is where they show you what's inside the chocolate and then they pour the chocolate over and be like, look at it moldy, perfectly molding over the chocolate. Oh, I love that shit. Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.

Almond Joys. They were really just all about telling you what specifically is in there. They're just like, Almond Joys have nuts. Mounds don't. That's what jingles are. That's your jingle, bro?

That's exactly what jingles are for. They're just telling you what it is in a fun way for you to be like, that's stuck in my head, so I'll think about it forever. There was some. You know, there's actually 14 verses to that jingle. Is there? No. And the fifth and sixth ones?

Super racist. Yeah, they're really popular. They're from back in the antebellum. A lot of the word use of oriental. Very, eesh. I'm sorry, what? Wait, I think Weird Al wrote this? Oh, boy.

Really? No. No. Or is there, because I'm on lyrics free. This is going to take the next day for us to fact check. Yeah, well, that's fine. Leah, it's been a pleasure having you. Great first time guest uh

where can people find you follow you engage with you engage supports you yeah so the app is spend well app.com um we're on facebook we're on instagram um i'm leah rapaport on twitter and instagram you will mostly see pictures of my nieces and nephew. If that's what you're into. Actually, if that's what you're into, please don't. That's just a more make with the nephew picks.

Spendwellapp.com we're releasing in November. So get on our mailing list and we'll let you know when you can sign up. Yeah. It sounds like such a great way to proportionately give whatever you can. Yeah, exactly. And feel good. So then you can, you know, buy Shell Gasoline. Yeah, yeah. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying?

Oh, there is. This is country music, colon, I'm going to live and die in my hometown, happy face. Pop punk music, colon, I'm going to live and die in my hometown happy face pop punk music colon I'm going to live and die in my hometown sad face

there it is that's at Joey Golger Golger wrote that G-L-L-G-H-R oh okay

I don't know that's how I'd pronounce it Golger yeah hell yeah Golger Golger sounds like a yogurt treat. Miles, where can people find you? Find me.

Follow me. Twitter. Instagram. Miles of Gray. Now, a tweet. Actually, not even a tweet. It came to me in the form of an Instagram direct message from the user DaleCollins331. You sent me a meme from something that's called the Batuta

Advocate, which I feel is like a sort of Onion-style account. And it says, sneakerhead co-worker surprises office by revealing he's also a massive Wu-Tang fan. Oh no. It's too true.

Also, if you're in the Chicago area October 16th at 7 p.m. at the Hungry Brain, you can experience firsthand the power, the magic, the majesty of Ethnically Ambiguous, the podcast that's hosted by our very own Anna Hosniate and Shereen Yunez. Pull up. Have a good time. It's going to be a good time. Do it.

And get your tickets at chicagopodcastfestival.com The tweet I've been enjoying. Let's see. Not just a bad day of Twitter, guys. Sorry. Try harder next time. Wow. Sarah Beatty tweeted, when I die, I want to be buried in a place that floods a lot so my corpse can still go on adventures.

You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on twitter at daily zeitgeist we're at the daily zeitgeist on instagram we have a facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes where we link off to the

information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on miles what's that going to be today this is a track from avalino okay this is more you know the top boy soundtrack has still been infiltrating my mind uh and this track is called belly of the beast uh the production is really dope um and i like his lyricism so check out avalino belly of the beast um and if you haven't seen top boy on netflix and you like uh uk gang thug shit check

it out because it's actually pretty well done. And the soundtrack, again, is amazing. All right. We're going to ride into the week on that. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for today. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast, and we'll talk to you guys then. Okay. Bye-bye. trying to get paid give a fuck about pagan do this for the money man i do this for the dough i'm in a safari man i'm shooting off the chrome

trying to get my cloak and so i'm never home alone i'ma run the game because i'm running out of dough someone give me something i could take for all this pain fighting for my freedom caught me in the rain i'm carrie champion and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game.

Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports.

Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts.

The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister or is history repeating itself?

There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Captain's Log, Stardate 2024. We're floating somewhere in the cosmos, but we've lost our map. Yeah, because you refused to ask for directions. It's Space Gem, there are no roads.

Good point. So, where are we headed? Into the unknown, of course. Join us on In Our Own World as we uncover hidden truths, navigate the depths of culture, identity, and the human spirit. With a hint of mischief. One episode at a time. Buckle up and listen to In Our Own World on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Trust us. It's out of this world.