The Daily Zeitgeist - TDZ's Top 10 Episodes Of 2024: Dwyane Wade Trapped In CarboZeit

Episode Date: December 23, 2024

We are counting down the top 10 episodes of 2024, as voted by our listeners. Up first, #10: Dwyane Wade Trapped In CarboZeit 10/28 In this edition of Dwyane Wade Trapped In CarboZeit, Jack and Miles d...iscuss their respective weekends, Donald Trump's very racist MSG rally, Jeff Bezos killing the Washington Post's Harris endorsement, the Timothee Chalamet look-alike contest (feat. the actual Timothee Chalamet), Dwyane Wade's unfortunate bronze statue and much more! Ezra Klein On What’s Wrong With Trump Why Polls Might Be Underestimating Democrats (And The Consequences)  Profile of Trump and His Billionaire Donors Project 2025’s Project Esther Is Terrifying See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Oh, hey there, it's me, Jack. You've caught me unwinding, enjoying a large goblet of delicious eggnog, untangling my brain, gaining five to fifteen pounds of eggnog. While we unwind here at Daily Zeitgeist, in addition to publishing our normal year-end episodes, and Santa's University, etc., We've decided to take the opportunity to count down the top 10 episodes of the year published over the next 10 days. The 10 days that will be off Monday through Friday, two weeks in a row. How, Jack, how did you guys determine the top 10 episodes? They were all equally incredible. Well, we used a little something called democracy.
Starting point is 00:00:47 Ever heard of it? Depending on when you listen to this episode, that might not be such a rhetorical question. But anyways, we let you vote on the most listened to episodes of the year to see what you like best. And you're about to hear your answers. Just 10 bangers right in a row. Got a trending episode in the mix. We got a lot of good ones. And at number one, well, let's just say you'll find out, especially if this is the number one episode. We're putting the same bumper at the start of all 10. So we hope you enjoy it.
Starting point is 00:01:21 We hope you enjoyed listening to this year of TDZ as much as we enjoyed making it. And we will see you all in 2025. We hope you have a restful holiday. Hey, man. Look at the freaking Dodgers, bro. Hey, bro. I'm hoping for it. I don't give a fuck fuck my friends have a buddy of mine has game six tickets That he's like going with his dad Sorry didn't hear that cuz I was too busy putting my Dodgers hat on my winning Dodgers hat That was very fun. God. I love beating the Yankee I love seeing the Yankees lose almost as much as I love seeing the Celtics lose
Starting point is 00:02:01 It's so funny My my friend went with I have a buddy who went with his dad because like they're just big baseball fans and like, you know, they have a good relationship so they get to do stuff like that. You know, that's cool. But he was sending me their big baseball fans and I guess they have a good relationship or whatever. They like go do shit, like go to the World Series, but there is this one.
Starting point is 00:02:26 Took my boy out to the ballpark this weekend. Oh, yeah, sounds cool, man. Sounds great. Must be nice. But it's just so funny, like the people, just the back, like looking in the background of this one shot, he's like sitting at the game. I was like, this is the most Yankees ass fan I've ever seen. Oh, yeah, man.
Starting point is 00:02:45 Like, I am the New Yorker as a reader. That guy worked in finance dabbles and, you know, he advised the Obama administration and if you cheer too loudly against the Yankees, he'll tell you to act like you've been there before. Yeah, exactly. Hey y'all, I'm Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, host of Therapy for Black Girls, and I'm thrilled to invite you to our January Jumpstart series for the third year running. All January, I'll be joined by inspiring guests who will help you kickstart your personal growth with actionable ideas and real conversations.
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Starting point is 00:07:33 I don't know why I have a voice for doing that. I like that. I'm real strained there. My name is Jack O'Brien, that over there is Mr. Miles Gray. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Thank you, thank you. What's up, man? I'm just, look, I'm just a happy West Coast kid, a boy from LA, watching the World Series.
Starting point is 00:07:52 Who knows, it could go completely the other way, but I'm loving it. People are like, maybe we can just win, maybe they can lose one in New York, and we can win in LA. No, no, no. I don't care. Don't fuck around like that.
Starting point is 00:08:04 Crush them. And we do have control. We have control over that. So it is up to us to decide this. It depends on the angle of my fitted hat. Yes. And we are wearing it at the winning angle every game. So if I tilt it like Jay-Z, then the Yankees will win. I cannot do that. I have to wear it on the top of my crowd like a true Angelina.
Starting point is 00:08:24 OK. Yeah, I like it. All right. Well, this is the episode where we tell you some of the things that happened over the weekend. Some of the things that are trending on this Monday morning. First, we like to get to know you a little bit better. Oh, we like to get to we like you to get to know us a little better. Let's be honest. We don't care about you by telling you some things that we think are underrated. Some things we think are overrated miles. Do you want to kick us off?
Starting point is 00:08:51 What would you want to start with? Unders? Yeah, let's do under the world series, I think, is underrated for a very specific reason, which I just think it's it's just it's bringing, I think, for millennials of a certain age with a hip hop, love of hip hop, this feels like the most hip hop world series of all fucking time. East Coast, West Coast. Yes, this is literally, this is the Yankees hat versus the LA hat. And I know that there were, obviously when it was the Brooklyn Dodgers, some storied,
Starting point is 00:09:21 that was a storied rivalry as well with the Yankees. But this one specifically feels so, I'm like so in my West Coast bag I love it when ice cube came out for game two doing bow down west side connection well telling the fuck telling them to fucking bow down I'm like yes yes this is great and now I'm gonna back what's gonna happen in New York who do And now I'm so excited about what's going to happen in New York. Who do they have? I'm like, who's at that level of possibly rap in New York? What I'm saying is this was a conversation I was having is like, would Jay-Z come out? Jay-Z feels like too big to come out.
Starting point is 00:09:57 Yeah, yeah. Jay-Z is like short list for Super Bowl. So World Series is probably too tiny. But Cube has stature in the history of hip hop. You know what I mean? Like Gangster Rap, all that stuff that branches off from projects Cube was involved in. So I'm like, they have to come with like, is it Eric B. or Rock Him or something like that? Is that old for people or just like history?
Starting point is 00:10:21 Yeah. I mean, baseball is for the historically minded, you know, it's a sport that really hasn't changed. No, you know, Nas would be fun. I was listening to Nas this morning. I was actually listening to verbal intercourse off of Cuban links. The Nas's feature on that very good this morning because I am old. Yeah. But anyway, I love series. Yeah, I love if anything, just for all the people watching
Starting point is 00:10:46 and what it brings out, because these are two big cities. Yeah. Yeah. The other thing I'll just say underrated the movie, The Craft, the 1996 can't be the girls become witches in the high school movie, The Craft. Fantastic Halloween watch. I love it. I haven't seen that since it was in movie theaters. And I was in high school oh yeah and for Rooza Balk oh my god I know just born to play that role character acting yeah oh love it oh oh you said about you Jack miles my
Starting point is 00:11:22 underrated is clothes that can go in the dryer. We have we have a single banister in our house that we dry clothes on and it feels that's your laundry rack. That's our laundry rack. And I don't know, I just need to like add a laundry line to the backyard or something. Is that banister? What is it metal? OK, I was going to say, yeah, yeah. It was what would be in trouble. Yeah, it's metal. OK, I was going to say, bro. Yeah, yeah. Oh, it was wood.
Starting point is 00:11:45 Disrespectful. Yeah, it's all wonky and shit and warped from some warps. It looks like it's in a Tim Burton movie. But yeah, more and more, I feel like clothes are just flat dry, hang dry to maintain the shape of your six year old sweatshirt. Yeah, I don't need my six year old sweatshirt. I'm like, I don't need my six year old sweatshirt to like always look pristine. But I do.
Starting point is 00:12:09 Oh, so you wanted to look like a crop, you wanted to look like a cropped sweatshirt then? Cause that'll happen if you put that shit in the dryer. Yeah. I don't know. It just feels like we have this wonderful device. We're making poly blends. Like all of the clothes that have to be line dried
Starting point is 00:12:23 are poly blends for the most part. It's like we've invented new fabrics and made it so you can't put them in the dryer. Which for all the plastic we're putting in and on our bodies that I'm sorry, the dryer. This is why I like some shirts. I just don't trust to not shrink. It's my biggest pet peeve is just shrinking some shit in the dryer. So by default, I've turned into like my like Japanese family, where just like everything I'm just like line drying in the sun.
Starting point is 00:12:52 I'm like, I can't risk it. I can't risk it. Yeah, but I don't know. It's just and I feel like this is just like it's not a complaint that is cool to make. And so the extra work happens behind the scenes so like they they have no incentive like it's actually cooler to like have clothes that are like a delicate little flower you know the right right now you have like treat perfectly and I'm just my brain is so appreciative when I come
Starting point is 00:13:19 across like one of my wife's t-shirts and it's like this can go in the dryer. Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Thank you so much. Granted, this could all be fixed with just like putting up a line in our backyard. I just am lazy and have to get it like you see this little rack right here. I got behind me. Then people are like, you are in your closet. I'm like, no, this is half sound baffling, half my own drying rack.
Starting point is 00:13:43 Ah, yeah. I guess I just need to buy invest. I just need to invest in the drying rack but anyways until I do fuck you and your Athletic to do all he blends that can't even go uni-co all day, bro. That's right. Easy dry What miles is something you think is overrated? I don't know how to put this. We overrate the lack of responsibility of white voters in an election. I don't know. I don't know how to put this. The emphasis, I've been saying this for the last couple of weeks. The emphasis is so much been about all Hispanic men do.
Starting point is 00:14:22 What will Arab voters do? What are black men doing? I'm like, look, I know everything's about the margins, but I wish in our discourse, there was more of an emphasis on the responsibility of American, white American people to also make the quote unquote right choice or wrong choice. It's very much like, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is all on you guys. the fucking, the Hispanic voter, the black voter, the Arab or Muslim vote. This is all on you guys. Now what are y'all going to do? Like that's what it feels like. And I fucking hate it. Just like with the shit that happened at the like Nazi rally at MSG and
Starting point is 00:14:59 Tony Hinchcliffe's joke about Puerto Ricans, there was a lot of stuff like, Oh, there we go. You poke joke about Puerto Ricans. There was a lot of stuff like, uh-oh. There we go. You poked the nest, Puerto Rico. There's 400,000 Puerto Rican voters and these swings, like, I, great. And they're like, you don't, look, what do you think they're gonna do now? I'm like, I wish I'm like, well, what about the people
Starting point is 00:15:17 who are equally just disturbed by hearing that kind of racist shit? What are they? Oh, we're gonna fuck it up again. Oh, no, no, don't ask me. Yeah, yeah, we're gonna. I'm fine with racism. The're going to fuck it up again. Oh, no, no, no. We're going to find with racism. The whites are going to fuck it up. We're like, yeah, that's implicit in all these stories. I know. And it's just so my like, just like that, that feeling of like,
Starting point is 00:15:35 that's how white supremacy is like will function in sort of the analysis of this. This election is to not look at they're like, you know, again, just this part was wild when they're talking about different gains that Trump and Kamala Harris have made, uh, you know, Trump's gains have been offset by, cause they're talking about how he increased support among Hispanic men. His gains have been offset by increased support for Harris among white women who favored Trump over Biden by 12 points in 2020, but now, but now lean Republican by three points. So their edge is still 3%.
Starting point is 00:16:11 They still have a 3% edge. That's a really big thing to talk about and dissect. And again, the other stuff about like we spoke with these black supporting Trump, these Trump supporting black voters. I just it it's so exhausting. And it I don't know. It's just I'm just like I'm at that point. I'm like, just shut up. Please talk about like these other massive blocks, like these massive voting blocks that have chunks of a huge ability to sway
Starting point is 00:16:39 rather than being like, well, Puerto Ricans be offended by Puerto Rican jokes. Right. Fuck you. Like, I'm just tired. I'm tired. And that also we need more character actors. The lack of emphasis on good character actors. Sorry. I saw for Rooza Balk in the graph.
Starting point is 00:16:53 I said unrelated. Yeah, yeah. Just just to tie it up. That also we need. I want more of those like really specific look character actors rather than all these like, you know, leading people that are impossibly beautiful. Yeah. I want character. I want something different. I want texture. Not everybody needs a six pack and no like, no.
Starting point is 00:17:13 Some people need like a freaky mouth and ears, you know, mouth and ears. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like where is our Steve Buscemi? You know, like, I don't know. They tried to claim that the two leads of challengers were like. Rat boys, but they're both just like really hot. Yeah, they could easily play really hot if they wanted to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, like, like there's like these guys are fucking freaks. Yeah, their symmetrical proportions are like, you know, five percent off of what
Starting point is 00:17:51 you would expect from from mathematical perfection. But that's fine. Somebody can handle the deviation. Yeah, it's just where is our where are our rat teens, our rat actors that actually they aren aren't like, again, our world is diverse. Not everyone looks like a chiseled faced rat boy. Some of us look like-
Starting point is 00:18:12 Where did all the rat face pucks go? That's right. What a jam. My overrated- Go on, something serious. Yeah. Keeping with the very serious and incisive political commentary.
Starting point is 00:18:29 Pea stream water delivery techniques. Having the water that comes out of refrigerators, like the ice maker thing, be so much like an extremely strong pea stream is a weird decision to me. Like, I don't know. Well, first of all, it like splashes back. It's too strong.
Starting point is 00:18:50 Too intense. The streams too intense. Like we have to we have, you know, Matt's inside urinals to deal with that stuff. I have one in my drinking cup. You keep a urinal, your urinal. Yeah, but it would. I mean, the urinal. You're not taking it. Yeah, but it would. I mean, the urinal cake wouldn't know the difference. If you're putting it in one of those like ice makers, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:19:13 We we had water coming out of faucets for so long. It was fine. It's beautiful. So the fountains, I love a soda fountain. Oh, yeah. You know, I feel like those are designed to be like kind of soft yet forceful at the same time. Water fountains have this like graceful arc to them. Like turn one of those upside down. That should be fine. Even like the refill water bottle things on water. Yeah. At the airport or like, you know, it's come out like a faucet. It's
Starting point is 00:19:43 like, yeah, they've come out like a faucet. It's like, shhhhhh. Yeah, they come out like a faucet. They're great. I don't know why high-end refrigerators need to piss the water into our glass so strenuously. I think it's because of the filtration process. Yeah. Like they have to force it through. And I'm not, look, I'm not, I'm on your side, Jack. Yeah, sounds like you're Team Peastream, I don't know. No, I'm not Team Peastream. I'm not Team Pea- No, it's okay, sounds like your team peace stream. No, I'm not team peace stream. I'm not. How dare you?
Starting point is 00:20:06 How dare you? I'm team Pooh Street. Well, no, it's just you just plop out and just blobs. Yeah, viscous blobs into my cup. But yeah, no, I I definitely agree because it is also I have like bad water pressure, like in my kitchen. So it comes out real. It's coming out Green Mile style. It's is that an L.A. thing or is there
Starting point is 00:20:30 water pressure problems all over the place? No, because I went up the street to a friend's house and their shit was healthy. Healthy. I mean, our kitchen is healthy, but our shower in our bedroom will just turn off me like no hour That's you may you may want to talk to a plumber is that gang if you can you know? I'll also give Jack some tips. How can he just on his own maybe crank it up a little bit. You know I mean The p-stream no the the shower stream the shower. Yeah the beach or whatever you want. We've been working on it.
Starting point is 00:21:05 It's a true mystery. Yeah. Look, Brian, the editor also points out he hates how the fridge shivers and then sighs when it's done dispensing water. That's true. It is like a real like fucking they're fine. Yeah. And again, yeah, because you got Tom Hanks in the green mile attached to your fucking fucking I feel like this is a Tom Hanks in the green mile situation where like whoever designed the refrigerator Let me come in heel water delivery. I'll come and heal your refrigerator real quick Yeah, like John Coffey lay hands on it. Yeah, baby that thing over
Starting point is 00:21:42 You'll be crying you'll be cry Wasn't Tom Hanks crying at one point because it was coming out all crazy. What's that one shot of him peeing in the field? That is, so for people who don't know, Tom Hanks pees in all his movies and then it culminates in the green mile where his character's entire character motivation is that he has trouble peeing. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:22:05 And then John Coffee, initials JC, don't read anything into that, lays hands on his dick and ball area. And then that night he has to pee and is prepared for a very unpleasant peeing experience. Yeah. And then he runs outside, kneels down and it is Tom Hanks is like most he's acting so hard. It's like close on his face as he has the first comfortable pee in his life.
Starting point is 00:22:35 I guess the issue was kidney stones, like, but like probably permanent kidney stone. Yikes. And he just has, uh, this, this look look on his face and that's weird. I'm going to you know put out a fan theory about refrigerator water dispensing tactics that there's somebody who designed that who had like similar Hank's thing you know we can't control what's in our unconscious it's just you know it's there and Tom Hanks clearly has like something Urim related that, you know, league of their own. He has an extremely strong peace stream for his gum.
Starting point is 00:23:12 I gotta go pee. He uses pee after pee as an excuse in the burbs. And I think it saves his life and road to perdition if I'm not mistaken, but it all culminates. What movie is this? Is this Green Mile? This is Green Mile. Oh, like this is him kneeling down and having a vet.
Starting point is 00:23:31 This is before that his stream is healed. Yikes. That sound. Sorry, we're looking at guys. Look, Movember is almost here. Check. That's all about prostate health. Prostate health. Check out your check check out your, your, your plumbing. Check the state. Yep. The prostate. That's what I call it. State of the union. All right. Those are some of
Starting point is 00:23:54 the things that we think is overrated and underrated. We're going to take a quick break. We're going to come back and tell you what happened over the weekend. We'll be right back. Hey y'all, I'm Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, host of Therapy for Black Girls. And I'm thrilled to invite you to our January Jumpstart Series for the third year running. All January, I'll be joined by inspiring guests who will help you kickstart your personal growth
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Starting point is 00:24:49 who we can be. So a little bit of past, present and future all in one idea, soothing something from the past. And it doesn't have to be always an insecurity. It can be something that you love. All to help you start 2025 feeling empowered and ready. Listen to Therapy for Black Girls starting on January 1st on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Curious about queer sexuality, cruising, and expanding your horizons? Hit play on the sex positive and deeply entertaining podcast,
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Starting point is 00:25:50 And we are the Black Fat Film Podcast. A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. Ooh, chat, this year we have had some of our favorite people on, including Kid Fury, T.S. Madison, Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey show, Angela Carrasco and more. Make sure you listen to the Black Fat Fam podcast on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast
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Starting point is 00:26:43 past with your child. These are just a few of the powerful and profound questions we'll be asking on our 11th season of Family Secrets. Some of you have been with us since season one, and others are just tuning in. Whatever the case, and wherever you are, thank you for being part of our Family Secrets family, where every week we explore the secrets that are kept from us
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Starting point is 00:28:25 We are back. We are back. We're back. And so in advance of Donald Trump had a Madison Square Garden rally over the weekend. Democrats were like, you know, who else had a Madison Square Garden rally at one point was the what back then was called the pro American rally and it was a bunch of Hitler supporters and Nazis. Miles, I'm not going to lie.
Starting point is 00:28:52 Heading into the event, I was like, they're really like, like, what if they don't do that? What if they what if the rally expectations? Right. Yeah. Like it just felt like the Democrats were like a little bit like over leveraged on the watch this shit. It's going to be just like Hitler's pro-American rally in 1939. And I was just like, maybe like we let people be surprised by that because like, there's not necessarily like they they could easily like change their messaging For a mainstream like New York media audience
Starting point is 00:29:30 but the Democrats know Donald Trump and the current Republican Party better than I did because They did you gave me a chance, huh? Did not disappoint yeah No, it was just too good. It was just all right there for them to be like, let's fucking do it. Let's just let them know. So he had actually spent a lot of the week leading up to it, stressing that he's not a Nazi loving fascist.
Starting point is 00:29:59 On Thursday, he denied that he had ever said positive things about Hitler during his time in office Including that he needed the kind of gem generals Hitler had I never said that Trump said in response to people questioning that Okay, there's so many people your bedside table, yeah, what's that book by your bedside table there it's a main camp F Main camp like chow main spelled the same way Me and camp F What's it about it's about a kid who's in a concentration It's my camp it's my camp so
Starting point is 00:30:47 the message of You know unity or I would never say that I thought Hitler did cool stuff Didn't really come across in the rally itself his childhood friend David Rem Opened things up by calling David Rem, uh, open things up by calling, uh, Kamala Harris, the anti-Christ and waving around the literal crucifix. Like he brought a prop with him. Like fucking carrot top. Yeah. Just big crucifix holding it up. Uh, Rudy Giuliani claimed that Hamas trains, uh,
Starting point is 00:31:20 toddlers to kill Americans during his unhinged speech. This guy's about to lose everything by the way also Rudy Giuliani He like lost of Donald Trump because of Donald Trump like he's gonna have to sell his like apartment and like sell all of his like knickknacks including his like prized World Series rings I think to like offset all the damages. He's liable for all his neck. No line most of his paddy wax Yeah, which but yeah, but that's all and he's got a lot of getting that and then Comedian in quotes Tony Hinchcliffe of the kill Tony podcast
Starting point is 00:31:54 Which like I've been hearing about this kill Tony podcast for a while Like kill Tony. Oh yeah, they do that. They do it in Austin, dude. It's all part of that Rogan shit, dude. It's really sick, man. Yeah. They're just really awful to people every now and then.
Starting point is 00:32:15 There might be a funny person, but yeah. Right. And so the titular Tony of Kill Tony took the stage and said things like these Latinos, they love making babies, too. titular Tony of kill Tony took the stage and Said things like these Latinos they love making babies too. There's no pulling out. They don't do that They come inside just like they did to our country And then he referred to Puerto Rico as a floating island of garbage Yeah, this is I think again really important to note that This guy is performing at what most people were like. Yeah, this is a Nazi rally
Starting point is 00:32:47 Yeah, and this joke this joke even like the people there are kind of like Audible groans. Yeah, which is weird I'll play it because I think it's important to hear that this was a thing that a guy wanted to say and other people like Yeah, yeah, this will be good. This will be good. It is absolutely wild times. It really, really is. And he looks he's looking like he's wearing his like my first communion suit. Yeah, he doesn't. His suit is he is wearing a suit and he is at a political rally.
Starting point is 00:33:20 That's important to note, because his response has been like, I'm just a comedian I'm just like up here riffing and doing now you look like you're like my mom told me I need to dress good if I'm Gonna meet Donald Trump president. Yeah, you know there's a lot going on like I don't know if you guys know this But there's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah, I think it's called Puerto Rico Okay, all right all right okay that's so that's not good no he does the guy's I don't normally follow the national anthem that's like his response is like come on I'm just a comedian up here he had like a real dude everything it was there's black jokes he's talking
Starting point is 00:34:04 about carving up watermelon watermelon in the audience. Yeah, he did. He was talking about Israel and Palestine about rock paper scissors. He's like Palestinians will throw rocks. He's like, and these are quote. And also we know Jews have a hard time throwing that paper and was like making it. It was so fucking hack and racist and offensive and just nonsense that it's just wild also to see the defenses of this shit because it was it was indefensible and then Tony Hinch because like some people don't like comedy or whatever he like retweeted he retweeted Rickles doing like an event for Ronald Reagan. And he was like, oh, edgy comedians don't perform in political things.
Starting point is 00:34:47 And it's like Rickles is like literally roasting every single person there. He's not going up there and he's like, hey, what do we think about Puerto Ricans? You know, like. Exactly, that's right. Like such a misunderstanding of what comedy is and what just racist bullshit like vitriol
Starting point is 00:35:03 masked as a joke is and this was a going to a room of republicans who you know are running on a racist platform in the name of fascism and telling a bunch of racist jokes that are like 50 years out of date is man so punk rock, man. Truth to power, brother. You really fucking told them, man. Um, yeah, just the punching down in a way that is, I guess, very comfortable for, uh, the Trump Vance ticket. And he, yeah, like you said, he keeps coming out and being like, this is just, uh, like one joke that they took out of context, watched the rest of the set. And like the rest of the set is
Starting point is 00:35:48 All so that and then Trump's senior advisor has come out and said like this joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign Which is a little tough to argue when it was said by someone in a suit standing at a Trump Vance podium Scheduled speaker he did not storm the stage and take a microphone by someone in a suit standing at a Trump Vance podium, a scheduled speaker. He did not storm the stage and take the microphone. This is what he does. Was this shit on prompter? I don't know if it was.
Starting point is 00:36:13 I mean, that would even be like, like, he loaded the teleprompter with this bullshit. Yeah. And it's also like, in addition to the entire, his entire entire set being that like they're acting like well The rest of our Nazi rally had a message of peace and love It did not know Stephen Miller came on my god and stated that America is for Americans and Americans only I know I've heard that. Oh, yeah. Germany is for Germans and Germans only great quote from A.D. Wolf.
Starting point is 00:36:52 Hi, Tiller. Yeah, I think is how you say that. Yeah, that was a slow only for Germans was a German ethnocentric slogan indicating that certain establishments transportation and other facilities were exclusively for Germans was a German ethnocentric slogan indicating that certain establishments, transportation, and other facilities were exclusively for Germans. It was used during World War II. It was like a Nazi meme. It's like he forgot to write a speech until the morning of the rally and just started frantically Googling Nazi slogans. The energy too from Teenage Mutant Ninja Gerbils over here is also Wild like it again you watch this and you're like, oh they're they get their whole strategy is let's just let the mask come off We're fucking Nazis. This is it. Here we go
Starting point is 00:37:40 Sir, this is a Wendy's What? Yeah, the frosty machine is broken. I'm sorry the cartels gone. They're good. Okay, Jesus Christ Okay, who else do you want to expel from the country? It's for Americans and Americans only one more time America is for Americans and Americans only One man and that man ladies and gentlemen that man took a bullet for you he took a bullet for democracy. Yeah a self-inflicted one in the in his bunkers when the allies were closing in on Berlin. Yeah exactly good job. Yeah that might have been in the back of his mind. Of course, I'm talking about. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:26 And that poor dog too. Yeah. It's worth watching the like the actual video of his speech because it does like he is animated in a way that it's giving. I don't know. I forget where I've seen that. It's like in some black and white clip, but his whole Persona and hand gestures and energy is reminding me of something And then there was like a bunch of weird shit that
Starting point is 00:38:57 Made me feel like I'm in a coma right now and just like my brain is misfiring Dr. Phil showed up to claim that Trump isn't really a bully and criticized DEI. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it is. And I'm going to get torn apart for saying this. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:13 His whole thing. Oh my God. What did he say here? His one. I was going to say, well now wait a minute. It's come on. Isn't Trump a bully? And let me tell you why the answer to that question is no,
Starting point is 00:39:26 because I'm not a real doctor or should not be listened to. So fuck everything I say. Yeah. And then I think the, yeah, the one that really felt like it was in a bad dream is like Hulk Hogan tried to rip his shirt off and it like took him so long and he just like couldn't get it off and yeah you don't like it's just wild here he comes out on stage with like a feather boa raving his flag here we go oh come on rip it oh still can't rip it still looking at it still can't rip it. It's kind of looking at it. So get rid of time still ripping. Oh, he's in
Starting point is 00:40:07 He's still ripping. Oh, there's he's gonna have a fucking heart attack trying to see me sure Yeah, so there's like a lot of desperation and yeah, a lot of doing it with like the Energy that I have when someone's like a man your flies down, you know, yeah You're just like frantically like oh shit Also, and it ripped all weird like he couldn't rip it down the collar Someone's like, hey, man, your flies down, you know, you're just like frantically like, oh shit. Also, and it ripped all weird, like he couldn't rip it down the collar. So I think he ripped it at the arm Steve scene. So he's like, ah, look, the tanner is affecting me.
Starting point is 00:40:36 Alina Habba, who lost several cases for Donald Trump, took the stage to the sounds of all I do is win by DJ Khaled And then when Trump spoke it was just all the same shit same shit Yeah, they're fucking they can't pay for hurricanes because of migrants. They're shipping them in they're stealing your dreams just the just all just the same same same same shit and He's really he's like he's definitely in his like Wu Tang phase because this dude regularly now is showing up like hours after his slated appearance time. He's on his Warren Hill.
Starting point is 00:41:14 Yeah, easily. He's like, yeah, they'll wait. I haven't spoken in days. They'll wait. And then it sounded like there was some anecdotal videos of people kind of being like, all right, we saw the coherent racist speak. I don't need to hear Trump anymore. Yeah, we might as well. We've got to catch.
Starting point is 00:41:30 We got to catch the fucking, you know, we got to get back to Staten Island. You did brag about having a quote little secret about the house that wouldn't be revealed until after the election. So which chilling. Yeah. So the Hinchcliffe line is definitely the one that is kind of resonating. The most bad bunny endorsed Harris, as did Ricky Martin immediately after Florida Republicans are like scrambling to distance themselves, stating this rhetoric does not reflect GOP values.
Starting point is 00:42:00 So then what is it? Well, why? Why did it happen? What is this joke bombed for a reason? It's not funny and it's not true, said Rick Scott. Well, hey, it's an election year, baby. Yeah, you better not. I hope you're that. I hope you're smart enough to be like, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:42:17 It's kind of like a garbage island, even though it's part of these are American citizens. Yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. Tony Hinchcliffe defended his speech and was like, these people have no sense of humor, wild that a, cause, uh, Tim walls and, uh, AOC were like live reacting to the Nazi rally and, uh, he was critical of the jokes, which is shocking, but, uh but managed to hurt Tony Hinchcliffe's feelings. These people have no sense of humor. Wild that a vice presidential candidate would take time out of his busy schedule to analyze a joke taken out of context to make it seem racist. What? What's the context? I love Puerto Rico and vacation there. Get fucked. I hope the next time you're there, everyone shits on your mofongo, bro.
Starting point is 00:43:08 I thought that even you would eat that. You'd probably fucking subway or some shit. I would I would change that to the past tense vacationed there. I don't think you're going to be going to that energy this time. Yeah. So I don't know. The last part, too. I made fun of everyone. Watch the whole too. I made fun of everyone. Watch the whole set. I made fun of black people, Jewish people, Palestinians.
Starting point is 00:43:31 And it wasn't even like really cutting. I was just shitting on people. Then he said, I'm a comedian, Tim. Might be time to change your tampon. And so he says, I'm a comedian and then tells a very funny joke to prove it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, he's good. And everybody who told me that Kill Tony is funny should be very proud of themselves. Most comedians are were like, oh, it's it's great to see like the worst person in comedy just be on the national stage as
Starting point is 00:44:08 like a complete fucking hack. Right. And like have him being a hack like possibly affect the outcome of the presidential election. I'm sure sure this will all be forgotten three days from now. But yeah, with whatever the new thing is. But yeah, good job. Good job good job everybody no notes you did a flawless job of communicating to the world that you are a bunch of regressive racist freaks um great great um just a lot of kind of stories over the weekend that like the new yorker dropped a
Starting point is 00:44:42 profile of just trump's relationship to billionaire donors. A lot of them claimed that they were going to abandon him. And it's, it's just wild. First of all, like I didn't like, I know there were isolated stories at the time during his first administration where he was just like asking his friends from Mar-a-Lago to like be like, head up the VA essentially, right? Like, you know, just do all all this wild shit and just so he just like gave important jobs to
Starting point is 00:45:14 billionaires based solely on the fact that they're billionaires. And so they must be smart because smart people, he like literally says in the article, I don't want to hear from them if they haven't made a fortune. Yeah. Yeah. So they don't know how to actively exploit people, um, in the most fantastic ways. Yeah. I don't want that. Can't take them seriously. Yeah. And so, you know, now a lot of people who previously a lot of the billionaires who previously have
Starting point is 00:45:42 been like, well, we're not going to support this guy. He's a fucking sick person and bad for the country are now coming around. And there's a good quote that I just want to read. Sean Willant, a historian at Princeton University, offered another key distinction, Trump's billionaires, many of whom have made their fortune as hedge fund managers, activist investors and corporate raiders, tend to be highly motivated ideologues and individual operators. It's transactional, but their end of the bargain is a lot different than just having access to the
Starting point is 00:46:14 president of the United States. Willett told me they see Trump as their instrument. This is an investment for them to take power. And like that really, like, that's why I keep bringing up the business plot. Like the the time when I even had to bring it up because it was relevant when you were gone last week. That's how relevant this fucking piece of history is. But yeah, when the head like some of the richest people in the United States tried to stage a fascist overthrow of the
Starting point is 00:46:45 government. Like this is their chance and like all the rich. It's everyone's chance. Like when you look at the people who come out at this rally, it's not just it's billionaires who want to live in a world where they can sort of resist the tide of progress where people would potentially be taking some of their money to better the rest of the world. Yeah. There's a world where Dr. Phil is there because he wants to be in a world where he's still relevant, a world where Hulk Hogan is still relevant and not seen as like a racist fucking freak show. A world where Tony Hinchcliffe's shit like racist nonsense is considered quote unquote comedy.
Starting point is 00:47:22 Everyone has like a stake in this in some weird way. And and and by God, they've found a way to just wrap that all up into this like Nazi 2.0 thing. And everyone's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is I think this could be our shot to finally like, you know, flash freeze society into this moment. And I can just thrive in it forever. Yeah. And I think get it like what make I don't know I like this world where it's a kleptocracy
Starting point is 00:47:49 ruled over by oligarchs, you know, like the richest people are going to be so entrenched in power that after this administration if Trump wins like it just feels like I Don't know then like the brazen ways they're going to use it to enrich themselves at the expense of others. Like the, you know, the amount of power Elon Musk is going to have, he's going to have so much fucking power. He already has like, wait, like disturbing amounts of power, but if Trump wins, it's, it's going to be, uh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:23 My mind melting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah mind melting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And even like the billionaires who aren't overtly Trump supporters, openly Trump supporters, such as Jeff Bezos, are doing things to prepare for this new world. Okay, that's it. Last straw for me with Bezos. Now this was it. I thought this guy was cool.
Starting point is 00:48:43 There's so many people who are like, okay, that's it. Yeah. I'm done with Bezos. This was it. There's so many people who are like, okay, that's it. Yeah, I'm done with this guy. So fuck all of these people are fucking creatures of the night. But yeah, so earlier last week, we were talking about how Patrick Soon shong, who's the billionaire owner of the LA Times basically fucking put the kibosh on any endorsement from the LA Times for Comrairs. Then now I think we didn't we weren't able to record because the news broke on though like at the beginning of the weekend that Jeff Bezos basically then also said nope you're not doing any I don't care if you have a quote planned endorsement it's not happening and then so the Washington Post I've just like they reported on this and in the article they're even like yeah
Starting point is 00:49:26 He's this is a preemptive bending of the knee to Trump quote anybody who is as much a part of the American economy As Bezos is they obviously want to have a good relationship with whoever is in power It's an attempt to try not to be on the wrong side of Donald Trump. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I think this is this is a great preview of what we're going to be seeing because like they don't give a fuck except their own money about their own money. Yeah that's it. So everybody who's in power is going to be doing their best to fucking appease him. Like that's it's what it is really I don't know like it's the other version where like I feel like maybe in the like three years ago is like oh don't get on the wrong side of the consumer their values are X so we don't want to we don't want to transgress.
Starting point is 00:50:24 going fucking like no breaks on this thing, then yeah, I don't give a fuck about the consumer because they'll have to get in line because I'm going to make the most money and make sure I'm aligned with the autocratic beings that are going to be really dictating things like the government contracts that I so desperately need for all of my for all of my businesses like Jeff Bezos does. If you don't believe that Trump is going to be a fucking dictator like the Billionaires who have access to like way more information than the rest of us certainly seem to be acting like he's going to be a fucking dictator or they're just yeah They're just looking at it and they're like just because I'm sure with Jeff Bezos his strategy is like well just in case Trump wins I want to make sure I stay stay wealthy and if if common women's, what the fuck are they going to do? Yeah,
Starting point is 00:51:06 you know, it's kind of like, it's like, bro, I know it might look one way to you, but I'm fine either way. I'm fine either way. So I'm just gonna do this because, again, 2021 Amazon was awarded 10 a $10 billion cloud computing contract with the NSA. And like this is parts of like other many billions of dollars of deals that they do with the NSA. And like, this is parts of like other many billions of dollars of deals that they do with the Department of Defense.
Starting point is 00:51:28 Also, let's not forget Blue Origin, Bezos' space exploration company, they also are vying for multiple like billion dollar grants from the federal government. So he just, he can't have that money hose turn off. Like he even sued the Trump administration previously for like being like, I feel like we were on we were we missed out on this contract because I own the Washington Post that had just objective coverage of Donald Trump.
Starting point is 00:51:57 And I think that's not fair. So now you're doing your thing about like, well, we didn't say anything Trump. Give me the money. Yeah. But I mean, this is how dictatorships and authoritarianism works. And I do think like there's, it's like Ezra Klein had this kind of essay last week that was about, you know, the fact that the Democrats are like kind of attacking Trump in all these different ways. And he thinks they should be like more coherent about the idea that like the thing that is broken about Donald Trump is that he has no like executive control, no like editor, which is like what makes him like entertaining to people is that he will
Starting point is 00:52:38 just like suddenly talk about Arnold Palmer's dick or just like vibe out and play music. And it's also like what makes him really scary as a leader. And his point was that like the only... So Democrats in their messaging have kind of left this question dangling of if he's so bad and crazy, why wasn't his first administration more of a disaster? And the answer is, first of all, it was really bad. But second of all, he was surrounded by people who were actively working against him the whole time. You know, at various points, he wanted to like withhold aid from California during wildfires
Starting point is 00:53:18 because Gavin Newsom was mean to him. He wanted the military to start shooting George Floyd protesters in the legs. Since then, we found out that there were people actively working against him to undermine him. We know that, and Trump knows it, which is why we have Project 2025 and why that project is so scary. But like, because they're going after what made the first one go semi smoothly for society ish. Yes.
Starting point is 00:53:53 So this time is different because this time, you know, the people he's preparing to put in his government would be trying to execute on his vision and we're just going to get all gas, no break Trump brain, which is going to be like truly disaster. But also not just him, because at this point they're fully like sort of like with Bush to, there's a whole group of people who are like, man, bro, we can work this motherfucker to get what we want done. Like this, cause Trump doesn't have a policy brain. He just wants to be out of trouble.
Starting point is 00:54:30 And then just like how, you know, the heritage foundation was able to be like, Harry, why don't you try this stuff? He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't care. He's like, just make, make the money come in from foreign sources. Great. I love that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:42 That's what also makes it very scary because now you have other people being like, how do we get what we want out of Trump being in office? Because it's not like Trump has the fucking brain for anything except to sit in a chair and fart to the village people. Yeah. Also from the Heritage Foundation, Project Esther was Esther. Yeah. Esther. Yeah, was announced back early October. But I feel like again
Starting point is 00:55:06 This might be one that the Democrats should be kind of digging in a little bit more on but they're basically saying anybody who voices support for Palestinian rights or is critical of Israeli like military Zionism will be defined as anti-seemitic and you know treated as a terrorist essentially right and deporting people it's like are if you're one of these part of one of these organizations that's advocating for this yeah and you are foreign-born we will deport you if you're a educator you will be fired and blacklisted yeah this is like everything they're like if you're not if you're not
Starting point is 00:55:41 from here we'll deport you if you're from here will make your life impossible to live Yeah And that terms like social network analysis are used in the document to describe surveillance infiltration and disruption of social justice movements So they will be waging war on people, you know, try it try it Yeah, it will be very similar to the red, but just with regards to. Oh, so you'll be labeled anti-Semitic. So are what are what what of the consequences for like hate groups like neo-Nazis? Yeah, it does not mention neo-Nazis or the Ku Klux Klan.
Starting point is 00:56:19 They're not identified as possible. I thought it was about anti-Semitism. Wait, so now I'm sorry, we just use that as like cover to just sort of lock up dissenters. Sorry. And that's the sort of question that an anti-semitic terrorist might ask. So... I'm... No, I'm just saying these guys are like... Follow us. Follow us. No, Thanos snap. It's... And they're like, sir, you have no infinity gauntlet. Yeah, I don't know
Starting point is 00:56:47 This is just it's um, I mean look we got a week left the polls are Irrelevant because everything is basically within the margin of error and in most cases like we've said before Just heavily favoring Republicans just to be like, you can't, we cannot get caught out again being like, dude, they're, they're, they're Democrats, you're going to win this one. It's like very much neck and neck all the time, although many people who I think are like, you know, looking at the cross tabs of polls are like, these are being weighted very interestingly.
Starting point is 00:57:23 And also there's a lot of partisan polling out there that's shifting the weighted average. So yeah, I've been talking about Ed and Germantum, who's like making the argument that like Republicans are being kind of given some extra weight in polling. And he thinks like Kamala might be more ahead than people think based on the polling. And like his theory is basically just that everybody from the poll aggregators who are including these partisan polls to even the New York Times and like, I guess he says the New York Times has in 2022 was generally truthful, but a lot of the mainstream media seems to be obsessed with one thing and that is avoiding any overestimation of Democrats at all costs. Which makes
Starting point is 00:58:13 sense because it does seem like the fact that 2016 and 2020 there were these polling mistakes that overrated Democrats. They're like, all right, so we just need to assume that's going to happen again. He doesn't think that's going to happen again. I don't know. It's hard to say. But one point he's making is that there will be consequences to it. If the Republicans are being overrated in the polls, like we already know that Trump will declare himself the winner of the election no matter what. And in 2020, they were fully willing to like use trivia about, in his article he says, they were fully willing to use trivia about Bellwether counties and the predictive
Starting point is 00:58:57 power of Ohio to back up their claims that Trump won. This time they would be guaranteed to have an extensive list of pollsters showing Trump winning so I don't know I I get the like prisoners dilemma of them being like well we just can't show that Harris is like a favorite because if we're wrong again for a third time we're so fucked yeah well then so what you know maybe this fuck it like it's yeah, maybe. Maybe you should be. Yeah. Yeah, just at this. Yeah. Sorry. If you're not good at your job and you're too afraid of what the outcome is going to be, whether or not you can do it, you're in the wrong business or the the industry itself
Starting point is 00:59:37 needs a major rethinking and how we, you know, all this prognostication works. It seems like it does, Miles. It does seem like it does. It's big money, though. I'm telling you, man. It's fucking big money. Because it's like one of those things. That's how you justify your political spending.
Starting point is 00:59:54 Like you do a thing, like you go to a donor and be like, we need this much money to get this bill through, or an X amount of votes, or voters mobilized for this election. And then you're like, see, look, I got this, I went to a pollster, very renowned. I paid them an exorbitant amount of money and their talent, I got them to tell me the thing
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Starting point is 01:04:47 And we're back. We're back. And we got so we got a Dwayne Wade statue reveal. We got Timothy Chalamet lookalike contest that got weird and out of hand. Dude, it was funny when I was in New York, I saw that shit all through like lower Manhattan on like all the like I was I was gonna take A picture and send it to the group chat cuz I was like this shit is if like the most New York shit to me They're like Timothy Chalamet look-alike contest Washington Square Park and I was like this I loved I love New York I love that. This is blittered everywhere. Yeah, and it was a real thing. But yeah, so it kind of went viral
Starting point is 01:05:23 Already even before it started because of the aforementioned fliers that you saw it was organized by that youtuber who was also behind a Quote cheese ball binging stunt. What is that this year? See this is where I'm old man I didn't know about this, you know, I was New York's cheese ball man 1.7 million cool. Okay So he wears a yellow mask and eats a bunch of cheese doodle cheese balls. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah cheeseball man I think let's see how just where's like the boomer fucking potato salad, man They just wanted to watch people eat. He's just he ate a tub of cheese balls. Whatever balls whatever man look look these are brand new circuses don't yuck my yum I am into the cheese ball
Starting point is 01:06:09 binging though yeah yeah cheese ball mukbang oh yeah but yeah this is same guy same guy he knows how to get the city of New York you know his work from cheese ball guy does he have an IMDB page he should has anybody started making like the YouTuber IMDB? There are some, there are some people I feel like put their own shit on IMDB. I've noticed that. And they are heroes for doing that. It is movies.
Starting point is 01:06:35 Anyways, this event, we got single Timothy Chalamet doppelgangers participating in a makeshift dating game. One guy was arrested and led away in handcuffs by the NYPD. We're not we're not sure. Disorderly conduct. I don't know what he did at a Timothy, Timothy Chalamet lookalike contest that he got hemmed up like that, but it can have been good. Couldn't have been good.
Starting point is 01:06:58 The host of the event got fined five hundred dollars. And the winner was a 21 year old student dressed as Wonka Chalamet who was presented with a giant novelty check for $50 which they said they would spend on candy. That's a nice costume. That's it. I mean it's not cheap. I guess it's not a cheap hobby trying to look like Timothy Chalamet like that. No man. That's... trust me. It's fucking killing me. Hey, what's all that stuff hanging on the wall behind you? It's nothing.
Starting point is 01:07:29 It's nothing. And I am talking about my Chalamet wear when I talk about needing things to be drier because like, you know, I'm, I'm doing costume changes all day and I need these things to be washed and cleaned and dried quickly. And then one of the attendees who's wearing a mask pulled off his mask and revealed himself to be the real Timothy Shalome. Oh, yeah. What exciting times we live in.
Starting point is 01:07:54 You should you should have competed. Like, that's the whole point of like going to your own lookalike contest. You compete with a second. He did. People just lost it. You know what I mean? Like, there's no way that would just be so funny. He goes and just a body, the Timothy Chalamet contest. Right. I like I was competing like, well, this is stupid, man.
Starting point is 01:08:12 Like, fuck you, Timothy. I'm out here trying to make my own identity based off of yours. And you're coming in here with your scruffy shaved head or short hair. And I paid so much money for these plugs to look like you, Timothy. Can you imagine I just get a wild hair plugs. I'm like, I'm there too. They're like, sir, that hair is of questionable provenance. Miles looks so good in the wig. We, we, we got to break out the wig for one of these video episodes.
Starting point is 01:08:41 I need a shallow may wig. I need a shallow may wig. Someone. Yeah. Send me a link to a shallow may wig because I need that. Someone who couldn't win a lookalike contest is Dwayne Wade if he was trying to look like the statue that the Miami Heat just revealed a bad, bad statue. What a sad, sad moment for Dwyan Wade Why ain't I still every time I type it I have to say it Dwyan
Starting point is 01:09:12 Dwayne in order to DW why why? Why does this motherfucker look like this didn't he say who's that guy? that guy? I don't know if he caught that during the speech. He was even like at the fucking unveiling for his own statue. This is him. That's crazy. I can't believe that. Who is that guy? Because he was involved in the design of the statue, apparently. So this is just one of those situations where like none of us look, none of us know what we look like, you know? We all have like distorted pictures of ourselves, not all, but maybe like,
Starting point is 01:09:53 I feel like I have this where I'm like, you know, get majorly focused on one thing or another, you know? And would unveil a statue of me that looks Absolutely, oh is that guy? Oh? Who is that guy? No seriously who is that guy? It's not great for considering how Look, I mean the statues outside staples look pretty good. I gotta say like they look like the people I was like where did they find these sculptors this yeah sculpting team did the Kobe? They did yeah, they did the Kobe and the
Starting point is 01:10:26 Jordan I think oh wow or at least a Kobe and a Jordan so what there they must be so they must be Lakers fans or something right they're like yeah yeah we'll hook you up Dwayne yeah yeah check this out I mean I said he looked like fucking Morpheus in the matrix when he's getting interrogated and he's all hooked up all that Those missus shit his face is screaming. Yeah I'm like that's that's what this looks like to me other people said it looks like when Dorian put on the mask in the mask Here's does his head is like all big and weird like he looks like an action figure that someone put in a microwave, you know? Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:11:07 It was made out of something that like puffs up when it's in the microwave. Paul Pierce texted Tony Allen a picture of the statue and he's like, oh, is this you? It does kind of it looks more like Tony Allen. So, yeah, I don't know. I mean, credit to Dwayne. I mean, a fantastic career. I hope he likes it. That's all that matters. Yeah, it's just a little odd. I don't know what it looks anything like him. It does. Yeah, Dwayne Wade, one of the most handsome men
Starting point is 01:11:36 you ever play basketball, I feel like. And they just went. Is it because they're trying to put the beard in? So it's adding a bit of thickness to his jaw line? And that's maybe yeah, it's like beard era. He did have like kind of a bit of a puppy beard. And so this just makes it look like he's has a jaw implant or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you got like tiny little eyes too, like where you know, they just really missed on so many levels. Yeah. Well look Dwayne you got a statue I don't so that's all that matters and it's it's wonderful. You're a good guy
Starting point is 01:12:11 So I think people it looks like people are going mostly easy on there I think they're going harder on the statue makers and they are being like Dwayne Wade, but oh, yeah for sure I don't I in no way blame Dwayne Wade Yeah, it also. I had no way blame Dwayne. I and this is and I my name is Jack O'Brien. I get out there ahead of it. Yeah. Wow.
Starting point is 01:12:36 It's a coward Bezos move you're making right now. And I don't blame Dwayne Wade. Thank you. I would not I will not endorse any kind of critique of his statue or I've also heard the gym teacher from Beavis and Butthead if you're familiar with that. Whoa, it kind of looks like that. Um, we had the buzz cut. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Coach, wasn't he called coach buzz cut? I think. Yeah, I think so. He was always asking, asking them to kick him in the Jimmy. Yeah. Yeah. It's it also captures him in a moment of celebration. So he's like screaming.
Starting point is 01:13:08 But because of the material that it's made out of, Brian, the editor points out he just looks like he's Han Solo, Trappin Carbonite. Yeah. Like if Han Solo was black. Yeah. Yeah. It's got the same like kind of arms sort of raised thing. Yeah. Yeah. And scream of anguish on face. Even though it's supposed to be scream of celebration and ecstasy. All right. Well, I think that's I think that's enough. I think that's enough. Yeah. I think that'll do.
Starting point is 01:13:41 We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Yeah, that's what it is What's that's from babe? That'll do what did what did you say? That'll do donkey? And do donkey Famous Shrek line that'll do donkey Damn that movie would have been so much better if the farmer was Shrek. Yeah. They thank you, Donkey. Thank you. Yeah. Yes, please.
Starting point is 01:14:07 Hey, you want I.P. Hollywood? It's right here. Just swap out babe Shrek and babe for donkey. Farmer. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, we know what we're saying. Yeah, it's early. We're back. No, I think you know, last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other.
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